While many students see Geneseo’s Court Street apartment complexes such as Ambassador and the Meadows as either the easy or logical choice for their post-sophomore year living situations, many choose a less obvious, but perhaps more enjoyable, experience on Center, Second, North, Elm, Chestnut and even Oak Streets.

While many students view summer vacation as a break from campus, classes and perhaps even Geneseo, Orientation Advisors are hard at work during what could be their busiest, most exciting part of the year.

Every year, the Geneseo campus undergoes new improvements, additions and projects. While often funded by the college's budget, there is one benefactor group that often goes overlooked – the senior class.

Before Thanksgiving break, the sisters of Sigma Delta Tau sorority and the brothers of Phi Kappa Chi fraternity came together to host a tournament of Geneseo's most deadly sport – dodgeball.

On Thursday Nov. 10, the French club held its second annual French Spelling Bee in Sturges Auditorium. Part of Geneseo's National French Week, the event brought in over 30 contestants willing to try their hand at spelling in the language.

Bonjour, mes amis! National French Week is commemorated from Nov. 7 to Nov. 14 at Geneseo and on college campuses across America.  

Senior Anne Beinetti threads soccer balls through defenders as deftly as she wields a paintbrush. A member of the women's varsity soccer team, Beinetti is a studio art major with a painting concentration who transferred here after two years at Monroe Community College.

At my first orientation as an incoming freshman, my student orientation advisor spoke of Court Street in less than endearing terms, going so far as to suggest that it was the most unsafe place in Geneseo. Never having seen Geneseo or the surrounding area before, I could all but imagine some type of fraternity-row area, one part crime and one part hostility towards green newbies like me.

On Friday Sept. 30, No Laugh Track Required put on its first event of the semester, filling Sturges Auditorium with both a huge crowd and a ton of laughter.

While wonderful weather is not especially newsworthy, the members of Habitat for Humanity and a few other campus organizations were especially thankful for it this past Saturday, while they busied themselves building shacks in Sturges quad for sleeping in that night.

Alumnus Ian Szalinski '10 started Muesli Fusion – an organic cereal company based in Rochester – after learning about the potentially harmful chemical called acrylamide, found in most popular cereals.