Throughout the month of February, members of the Geneseo Student Senate have begun to address the issue of students missing important mail due to a lack of notification of when paper mail is delivered to their on-campus address. The senate members, as a response, have proposed for the mailroom to send students notifications of paper mail in addition to notifications of package deliveries.

On Feb. 6, Kristen Fisher officially became the new director of community mental health services after being approved by the Livingston County Board of Supervisors. As a mental health professional with an impressive resume and optimistic goals, Fisher is enthusiastic to step into this role and advocate for mental health services in Livingston County. 

Friday, Mar. 24 will mark the return of one of Geneseo’s most revered events, the Insomnia Film Festival. The festival, which takes place of 24 hours with the goal of creating an original short film, was a staple for nearly a decade before the pandemic; its founder, Geneseo’s senior instructional designer, Joe Dolce, eagerly anticipates the event’s return.

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, SUNY Geneseo faculty and staff held a transcribing event in honor of Fredrick Douglass’s chosen birthday. During the event, which took place on the Geneseo campus and at various locations globally, people transcribed the letters of Mary Ann Shadd Cary —an abolitionist activist, journalist, and newspaper editor.

On Saturday, Feb. 4, a Chinese balloon spotted flying across the United States was shot down by the U.S. Federal Government.

Geneseo staple Crickets had a grand re-opening recently after moving from Main Street to Center Street. Crickets has been a staple restaurant in Geneseo for years, with students frequenting their quaint café for years. 

On Tuesday Jan. 24, Associate Professor Kodjo Adabra of the Geneseo French Department published his memoir, The Power of an Untamed Mind. Through the careful detailing of his life experiences, Adabra cultivates a compelling text that he is ready to share with the world—and, more specifically, with the Geneseo community. 

During the week of Jan. 30, the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, also known as Crows, hosted their annual Deep Freeze fundraiser event. This is an annual event that takes place every year at the beginning of the spring semester around Jan. or Feb. This year, the organization for which the fraternity was raising money was Foster Care to Success.

On Tuesday, Feb. 7, Chief Diversity Officer Robbie Routenberg and professor of communication Meredith Harrigan hosted the Cultivating Community Series, an opportunity for students to discuss diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) on campus. According to the SUNY Geneseo website students and faculty gathered to discuss “What does equity-centeredness look like, sound like, or feel like to you?” 

February is National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) month, and is more largely recognized at the end of the month with NEDA Week. This year, NEDA Week will take place from Feb. 20-26. 

On Thursday Feb. 2 at 6 p.m., Geneseo’s Advisory Committee on Campus Safety led its annual campus safety walk—an event that, each year, aims to address safety and accessibility issues on Geneseo’s campus. The review is run in late fall or early winter during the evening in order to easily identify lighting issues. Spanning across half of the campus each year, this year’s review focused on North Village, Central Village, and parts of the academic quad.

On Nov. 17, SUNY Geneseo reported that the campus received recognition for student voting from the All In Campus Democracy Challenge. This organization, which seeks to promote student participation in elections, included Geneseo among campuses nationwide in their 2022 list for Most Engaged Campuses. 

On Saturday, Dec. 3, Geneseo Peace Action participated in the Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace (GVCP) rally for buying peaceful toys. The intentions of the event were publicized by GVCP in a flyer promoting the event:

SUNY Geneseo has announced the decision to partner with several New York state colleges to offer paid internships for history majors over the summer. The internships will provide a variety of opportunities for Geneseo students through working with local historians for projects pertaining to town histories.

As the Geneseo campus community prepares for finals week, students from Professor Lytton Smith’s Sustainability and Literature: Black Poetics course are working to spearhead Geneseo’s first campus-wide book exchange. The exchange is on track to take place in the MacVittie College Union from Dec. 9 to Dec. 19. 

In Nov. of this year, SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Webb published an article titled “A Ru(II)-arene-ferrocene complex with promising antibacterial activity” in the scientific journal Dalton Transactions. The article examines the antibacterial properties of organic ruthenium complexes and explores the possible medical applications that could result from the discovery. 

On Saturday Dec. 10 the Geneseo Cookie Stroll will take place on Main Street. The event will be a culmination of winter festivities, including music, shopping specials, and of course, cookies.  

In Oct. 2022, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emeritus Eugene Stelzig published True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays, a series of 24 autobiographical essays focusing on Stelzig’s life and many experiences. The assortment is divided into three parts: “Austrian Roots,” which addresses Stelzig’s childhood, “Adult Branchings,” surrounding his transition to America and developing identity, and “Falling Leaves,” a reflection on aging. Geneseo’s Department of English News described the essays as “a kaleidoscopic collection of…attempts at different modes of self-reflexivity.”

This week has been Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, and the Food Security Advocates have been holding events this week to address food insecurity on campus and in the community. This week, they have held a farm-to-table potluck dinner on Nov. 12, a food forest workshop on Nov. 15, and a Student Association (SA) food drive in which all SA-funded organizations are encouraged to donate non-perishable food. 

On Nov. 5, the Geneseo Pride Alliance hosted their annual Second-Chance Prom, an event where students can have the traditional prom experience and fully express their queerness in a safe and supportive environment. Many queer individuals did not have a safe space in high school when they and their friends were going to prom, and the second-chance prom provides them a chance to make those same memories without worrying about being judged for their expression.