Alcohol-free events abound around campus on weekends

It’s Friday night, and there’s plenty to do and see, from sports to music to movies and more. Wisconsin Week photographers Jeff Miller and Stephanie Judge captured a sampling of activities Nov. 17.

Students indulge their Wisconsin-bred passion for bowling, throwing balls under the black lights at Union South’s games room.

Elsewhere in the games room, alumnus Brian Sprain takes careful aim in a game of billiards.

Meanwhile, it’s shirts versus skins at the Shell, where a group of students play a late-night game of basketball (even later, you can find students huffing and puffing at SERF and the Nat, which stay open until midnight to give students another no-alcohol outlet).

Over at the Memorial Union craft shop, Lisa Spalding shows off her pottery in progress to fellow Mini Course student Todd Brown.

At Club 770, Union South’s smoke- and alcohol-free dance club, Milwaukee rockers, Benjamins, tear up the eardrums. The dance club operates into the wee hours on Fridays and Saturdays.

In Memorial Union’s Great Hall, the gatekeepers for the Ten Percent Society dance, Jeremiah Allen and Aaron Gordon, accept admission fees and deliver the requisite hand stamps. The union hosts activities of dozens of students groups during the course of a week.

And at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, students, faculty and community members mingle at the opening reception for the Harvey Littleton glass art retrospective.