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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

In This Issue

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General Announcements

· Artist Presentation

· Drawn To Diversity

· Student Senate Meeting Agenda 10/26/2011

· Think B4 You Speak: 4 > 4

· Emrys Westacott Booksigning Thursday, Oct. 27

· 'Two Are Better Than One,' SoAD Visiting Art Lecture Series

· Calling All the Fashionistas!

· Halloween Bash sponsored by SOMA-AMA

· Women's Conference 2011 Register Today

· Equestrian Center

· Sign Up for Siblings' Weekend! Nov. 4-6

· New Issue! Inamori School of Engineering Newsletter

· HP Ink Cartridges

· Daylight Savings Reminder - 'Fall Back'

· Intra-Office Phone Trees

What's Happening?

More Events...

TODAY

11:00 Think B4 You Speak: 4

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1:00 ***Walk-In Hours***

- Career Development Center

7:00 Campus Sustainability Day

10/26 - Volleyball Away at Houghton - 7pm

Sculptor’s Talk 8:00 Theatre Produciton:

Death to The Book Club with Guest Director

·Exhibition of Beijing Opera Costumes

·The Art Behind Chinese Opera: Costume and Makeup

TOMORROW

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12:10 Bergren Forum - Honor Codes in Sport

1:00 ***Walk-In Hours*** - Career Development Center

5:00 ’Two Are Better Than One,’ SoAD Lecture Series

6:30 10/27 - Women's Soccer Away vs.

Morrisville - 6:30pm 7:00 Swimming Dragon-

style Tai Chi Class 8:00 Theatre Produciton:

Death to The Book Club with Guest Director

FRIDAY

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12:00 St. John Fisher College MBA Program -

Information Session 12:20 Chemistry Seminar

Speaker 4:45 Yoga Club!

7:00 Saakumu Dance Troupe from Ghana 8:00 Theatre Produciton:

Death to The Book Club with Guest Director Film: The Help 11:00 Film: The Help

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Artist Presentation

ROBERTO VISANI, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m., Room C, Binns Merrill

Visani is Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of Art at John Jay College, CUNY, NYC.

As a sculptor, Roberto Visani is well versed in the use of many different materials and techniques including traditional West African lost wax bronze casting. He has been living, working and exhibiting in New York City the past 12 years as a practicing artist and educator. Over the past two years he has been intermittently creating cast work in iron based on cardboard forms generated through the use of computer software.

He is internationally recognized, and has received many awards such as the NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ARTIST FELLOWSHIP, SCULPTURE, PSC-CUNY RESEARCH AWARD, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND A FULBRIGHT GRANT, FOR RESEARCH IN GHANA.

For more info please visit www.robertovisani.com

Link: http://www.robertovisani.com Submitted by: Coral Lambert

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Drawn To Diversity

Come help us with Drawn to Diversity, and help us explore the fields of diversity, equality, and artistic expression. The program begins at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26 and meets in the Knight Club.

If you are interested contact us at [email protected].

Submitted by: Christopher Romanchock

Student Senate Meeting Agenda 10/26/2011 Student Senate Meeting Agenda 10/26/2011

Attachment: Student_Senate_Meeting_Agenda_10.26.2011.doc Submitted by: Student Senate

Think B4 You Speak: 4 > 4

Think B4 You Speak returns this year by recognizing that 4 > 4. What does that mean? It is our belief that there are four, four-letter words (Love, Self, Life, and Here) that are far more valuable and powerful than another set of four, four-letter words (Hate, Pain, Hurt, and Gone).

The Think B4 You Speak program is a campaign to highlight the power of speech. Your words can and do change lives. To participate in the program, we ask you to simply be mindful of what you are saying. Are your word building someone up, or tearing them down?

Too many lives are lost due to bullying and words used to cause pain. We will be giving a bracelet to anyone who wants to help in the fight against bullying and hate speech. By wearing the band, you will

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Visit our table on the 2nd floor of Powell Campus Center or in the lobby of Ade on Wednesday, Oct. 26 through Friday, Oct. 28 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to pick up a bracelet and/or to learn more.

Be a life guard; Think B4 You Speak.

Submitted by: Craig Arno

Emrys Westacott Booksigning Thursday, Oct. 27

Emrys Westacott will be delivering the Bregren Forum Thursday, Oct. 27. There will be a booksigning immediately following the forum. His recently released book titled "The Virtues of Our Vices" is available at the AU Bookstore and at the signing.

Submitted by: Marcy Bradley

'Two Are Better Than One,' SoAD Visiting Art Lecture Series

This Thursday will mark the first lecture of the 2011 School of Art and Design's Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The series, titled "Two are Better Than One," will present two or more guests at each lecture to help to compare, contrast, and question the ideas presented.

Join us at 5 p.m. in Harder Hall to welcome Lize Mogel and Stephanie Rothenberg as they present a lecture titled: Global Geographies of the Physical and Virtual.

Engaging a broad range of media and strategies, artists Lize Mogel and Stephanie Rothenberg will present projects which map the effects of globalization on both territory and people. Mogel's counter- cartographic experiments connects the real history and collective imaginary about specific places to larger narratives of global economies.

Rothenberg's interactive installations and participatory online artworks explore new models of

outsourced global production incurred through digital labor. Together their work exposes the underlying systems and invisible hierarchies of globalization, mapping a socio-political circuit of both physical landscapes and virtual worlds.

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural

geography. She creates and disseminates counter-cartography-- maps and mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. She has mapped public parks in Los Angeles; future territorial disputes in the Arctic; and wastewater economies in New York City. Lize is co-editor of the book/map collection "An Atlas of Radical Cartography".

Stephanie Rothenberg is an artist and educator using performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. In 2009, Stephanie co-founded REV-, a non-profit located in NYC furthering socially-engaged art, design and pedagogy.

To learn more about the artists, visit their Web sites at http://www.publicgreen.co...??(Lize Mogel) and www.pan-o-matic.com? (Stephanie Rothenberg).

Link: Lize Mogel

Submitted by: Michelle Illuminato

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Calling All the Fashionistas!

Fashion Forward, AU's only fashion-oriented club, will be meeting every Monday at 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Suite, PCC.

We welcome new members.

Submitted by: Nickelina Noel

Halloween Bash sponsored by SOMA-AMA

SOMA-AMA is hosting its 3rd Annual Halloween Bash for children in the Alfred/Almond Community after Trick-or-Treating is over from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Monday, Oct. 31.

This event will be held at the Alfred Fire Hall. Come join the fun with games, face painting, costume contests, a pinata, coloring, and more!

E-mail [email protected] with any questions.

Submitted by: Jessica Seyfried

Women's Conference 2011 Register Today Improve your health. Improve your life.

Sessions topics include: Nutrition, Acupuncture, Zumba, Meditation, Rising to the top and many more.

Sessions will be led by terrific speakers from both the Alfred community and surrounding areas.

$10 for AU Student $15 for non-AU student

Charge it to your student account by stopping by the Women's Leadership Center.

Full day event includes CATERED LUNCH as well as morning and afternoon snacks.

LIMITED SPACE so register today at the attached Web site!

Brought to you by the members from the Women's Leadership Academy Link: http://people.alfred.edu/~wc2011

Submitted by: Ronja Ogrodnik

Equestrian Center

Come to Equestrian Center and help kids explore the Equestian Center, meet riders, and horses. The program begins at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27 and meets in the cyli office (myers 339). If interested contact us at [email protected]

Submitted by: Christopher Romanchock

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Sign Up for Siblings' Weekend! Nov. 4-6

From Friday, Nov. 4 through Sunday, Nov. 6, siblings are invited to stay with their AU student. If you sign up with the Center for Student Involvement ahead of time, you and your sibling will receive free Nevins movie tickets to "The Smurfs."

Also happening that weekend are an R&B/hip hop performer, a comedian with extreme flexibility and goofiness, and a sleepover lock-in in the Knight Club with tons of games and activities.

Please register with [email protected] if you would like your brother or sister to join you that weekend.

Submitted by: Nancy Banker

New Issue! Inamori School of Engineering Newsletter

The new issue of the Inamori School of Engineering Newsletter is now available online at http://engineering.alfred....

This issue focuses on research, new and expanded research and processing capabilities, and welcomes our new faculty!

Submitted by: Deborah Clark

HP Ink Cartridges

Scholes Library has several color combo and black Officejet 88 ink cartridges to give away.

Please contact:

Rosalie Mulhollen [email protected]

Submitted by: Rosalie Mulhollen

Daylight Savings Reminder - 'Fall Back'

Remember to set your clocks back one hour on Nov. 6, 2011.

Submitted by: Cherise Haase

Intra-Office Phone Trees

All campus offices should consider maintaining an intra-office phone tree in the event of an

emergency. Please consider gathering information on each employee like: home, cell, and emergency contact numbers. Employees may choose not to supply the information. This is just for your office.

Submitted by: Cherise Haase

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