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Monday, September 25, 2017

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General Announcements

· Health Department Flu Clinic

· Business Office Trainings

· $2 Tuesday Movie Night

· Gallery Talk

· Who is Freedom and Why Should We Speech? Theatre Production Opens Thursday

· Saxon Racing Meeting

· Special Women's and Gender Studies Roundtable - Concert

· Looking for presenters on What about Wednesdays? Talk series.

· Ceramic Search Candidate #3 Presentation

· Muslim prayer space

· Introduction to Thriving Health Nutrition

· Original AU sports jerseys for sale @ AU Bookstore

· Attention All Airgas Users

· Gallery Talk

What's Happening?

More Events...

TODAY 5:20 Yoga Class

TOMORROW 12:00 Gallery Talk 4:30 Ceramic Search

Candidate #3 Presentation 7:00 Men's soccer at

Rochester

8:30 International Folk Dancing

WEDNESDAY 4:00 Women's tennis vs.

Houghton College 4:30 Eva Hild

5:00 Women's soccer at Houghton

Eva Hild 5:20 Yoga Class

7:00 ASME Weekly Meeting Volleyball, vs. Geneseo

Health Department Flu Clinic

The Allegany County Health Department will be holding a flu clinic open to students, faculty and staff from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Monday, September 25 in the McNamara room in Powell.

Submitted by: Amanda Khodorkovskaya

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Business Office Trainings

The Business Office will be offering two separate trainings in the Banner Training Room at the end of September and again at the end of October. For all faculty and staff who travel, or those who prepare travel forms on behalf of others, we encourage you to join us for one of the sessions on Travel Policy

& Procedures. For faculty or staff who manage departmental budgets, we encourage you to join us for a session on Budget Process & Review.

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Thursday September 28 - Travel Policy and Procedures 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.,Thursday September 28 - Budget Process & Review 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Friday October 27 - Travel Policy and Procedures 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Friday October 27 - Budget Process & Review

Please contact Jodi Howe howe@alfred.edu to register for any of these sessions.

Submitted by: Jodi Howe

$2 Tuesday Movie Night

Every Tuesday movies at the Spotlight Theater in Hornell. $2 covers your transportation and admission to the movie. Visit auconnect.alfred.edu to get the most up to date information about what movies are being run.

Link: https://auconnect.alfred.edu/events

Submitted by: Eliza Ordway

Gallery Talk

12:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 26 in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery Cost: Free

Sponsored by: FNG, School of Art and Design

There will be a gallery talk at the Fosdick-Nelson with artists participating in the Alfred/Dusseldorf MFA in Painting exhibition. The School of Art and Design celebrates the launch of the new MFA Painting program with this exhibition featuring works by painting faculty: Jutta Haeckel, Heidi Hahn, Stephanie McMahon, Kevin Wixted, and visiting professors, Peter Hirstoff, Stefan Kurten and Driss Quadahi. The exhibition will run through October 19.

Submitted by: SOAD Events

Who is Freedom and Why Should We Speech? Theatre Production Opens Thursday

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Malina, will open Thursday September 28 thru the 30th at 7:30 p.m. in the C.D. Smith Theatre of the Miller Performing Arts Center. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling 607-871-2828 Who is Freedom and Why Should We Speech?

A Devised Piece About Free Speech and the First Amendment NOTES from Dara Malina, visiting director:

Over the past few weeks, the group of students you will see onstage created this performance piece from a prompt, teamwork, and a lot of creativity. We have constructed a fractured response to this complicated and difficult topic as the current debate around Free Speech continues to grow and change every single day in the United States.

This year, as our country has become more divided and fractured, we're asking: how did this happen?

In a post-logic world where facts are feelings and news is fake and institutions and ideals are being dismantled, how do we construct meaning?

I came to Alfred knowing I wanted to make something with students that felt inspired by our current politics. When I visited back in the Spring for a weeklong workshop, the students and I fully jumped into a post-logic state, using Dada and nonsense as the driving inspiration to create a collaged piece of American politics where nothing seemed to make sense anymore. It was a hysterical response to feelings not yet processed.

Instead of looking at the world around us as discombobulated nonsense, we're now asking pointed questions: How did we get here? What are American values? What are the tenants on which our country was founded and how are they affecting our contemporary moment? Should Free Speech be protected? Should Free Speech be limited? Why?

We invite audiences to consider the topic, our performative response, and have a conversation.

-Dara Malina, Guest Director

Submitted by: Lisa Lantz

Saxon Racing Meeting

Saxon Racing will be having a meeting every Thursday in Seidlin 114 at 9:00 pm starting 8/31/17. New members are always welcome!

Link: http://www.saxonracing.org

Submitted by: Cameron Martineau

Special Women's and Gender Studies Roundtable - Concert

Peggy Lynn, a nationally recognized songwriter and singer, will be presenting on "Music of the Suffragettes," a topic of expertise for Ms. Lynn. The roundtable will be a combination of information and performance and will be held from 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m., Friday, September 29, in Howell Hall.

The roundtables are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Submitted by: Sandra Singer

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Looking for presenters on What about Wednesdays? Talk series.

The Institute for cultural Unity is looking for presenters for our "What About Wednesdays?" discussion series. If you are interested in presenting a discussion or workshop topic related (in any way) to Diversity, Culture, Social Justice, or Activism, contact us at ICU@alfred.edu, contact Itan Chait at ic3@alfred.edu.

Link: ICU AuConnect page

Submitted by: Institute for Cultural Unity

Ceramic Search Candidate #3 Presentation

Artist Lecture: Candidate #3 for tenure track position in Ceramic Art with emphasis in integrative design

4:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 26 Nevins Theater

Cost: Free