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Social media has changed the American teen girl experience, and not necessarily for the better, author Nancy Jo Sales said in a lecture at Brandeis on April 6.
The University hosted its first Taiwanese art conference on Tuesday, marking one of the few conferences held across the nation in this field. Scholars from 12 different universities and three different continents came to partake in the discussion.
University of California Davis’ Dr. Kristie Koski joined the Brandeis Chemistry Department on Wednesday for a discussion of innovative chemistry approaches in two-dimensional materials. The event, held in Gerstenzang Science Library, was part of the department’s colloquia series.
“I will dance here or there, I will dance everywhere!” Adagio performed the spring semester show in Levin ballroom at 8 p.m. on Saturday night. The room was filled with parents and students, all there to support the dancers and to watch some well-performed numbers. The show consisted of 22 dances, mixed with contemporary and freestyle dancing, with some hilarious commentary introducing each performance according to the theme for the night, Dr. Seuss. The theme tied into each transition from dance to dance and how they titled their performances. As the show was first starting, there were what seemed to be unsettled rumbles from the audience as they were uncertain what they were there to see, but, as the show got going, each member of the audience was on the edge of their seats, either raving about the last performance or anticipating the next one.
The men’s and women’s track teams had solid showings at the University Athletic Association Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by the University of Chicago this past weekend. Both teams were able to secure a bundle of top-five finishes on the day, with multiple top-three finishes mixed in.
The Boston Bruins clinched the win over the Dallas Stars at the TD Garden on Thursday, March 30 to end the month with a fighting chance. The Bruins did not play an orderly game on Thursday, failing to execute clean plays and fumbling pucks over and over. Some of their poor moves allowed the Stars to gain some advantage in the first period.
Jordan Peele is a name most people associate with comedy, satire and the title of the witty show “Key and Peele.” Since then, the duo has split off to do independent projects. You’ve most likely seen Keegan-Michael Key in past projects such as “Why Him” and the underrated “Don’t Think Twice,” in both of which Key was the stand-out.
The Judges took off at their first outdoor meet of the regular season, hosted by Bridgewater State University this past Saturday. The men poured in a number of top-10 finishes on the day, while the women took home multiple bronze medals in the non-scoring meet.
The Brandeis Judges men’s and women’s tennis teams had a rough outing this past week against Middlebury College. The men lost in a 2-7 battle, while the women managed only one win in a difficult 8-1 thrashing.
The least common of all National Basketball Association centers is the playmaker. Only a handful of these mystical beings exist, but when they do it’s a sight to behold. These players possess the unholy combination of big-man size, the skills of a six-footer and a knack for the creative. With shockingly solid handles, unexpectedly smooth jumpers and eyes in the back of their heads, the offense runs through these gods among men. Instead of looking to score when they get the ball in a half-court set, they look to facilitate the action, often getting the ball with pin-point precision to teammates curling on the wing or cutting to the rim. In a lineage that goes back to Bill Walton and Arvydas Sabonis, the torch of the playmaking center has been carried proudly for the past half decade by Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol. While other excellent players like Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Pau Gasol are also models of this kind of center, only Marc Gasol has finished in the top four of all centers in both assist percentage and assist-to-turnover ratio in every one of the past five seasons. Statistically, the younger Gasol is putting up a career year, but his reign as the gold standard of playmaking centers is facing an unprecedented challenge. The challenger? NBA twitter and hipster darling Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic.
Thursday and Friday were days full of promise for many. On Thursday, everything went according to plan, as the only upsets were from 12th-seeded Middle Tennessee State University and 11th-seeded Xavier University knocking out the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland, respectively. On Friday, highly favored Southern Methodist University was upset by the University of Southern California in the last seconds of the game.
This past Thursday, the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts debuted its production of Deborah Zoe Laufer’s “Leveling Up,” directed by Prof. Robert Walsh (THA). Ushers welcomed theatergoers into the Laurie Theater, seating them on three sides of the in-ground stage. The in-the-round seating style of the relatively small venue provides a closeness and intimacy between the audience and the performers, ideal for a very human, relatable piece such as this story of college-age friends at the edge of adolescent gamer culture and the real world.
To celebrate its reopening for the 2017 spring season, Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum invited the community to peruse its latest exhibits. The museums also provided delicious treats such as complimentary hot chocolate — apt for the harsh weather — and trendy food truck waffles. Both art and waffles proved to be aesthetically pleasing works. These brand new exhibits featured innovative, beautiful and chilling pieces. Opened on Feb. 17, they will publicly be on display until June 11.
The women’s basketball squad had a tough weekend, dropping both of its two games and extending their losing streak to three games in a row. The women fell 74-56 against Carnegie Mellon University on Friday and 71-68 versus Case Western Reserve University on Sunday.
Two mirrors leaned against the edge of the Levin Ballroom stage, close enough to the four rows of chairs that the audience could almost see their reflections. “Rise Above: An Exploration of Dance and Body Culture” is one of the many ’DEIS Impact events this week. Maria Kulchyckyj ’20 and Olivia “Liv” Molho ’20 enlisted fellow dancers Emily Cohen ’17 and Joanna Martin MA ’18 to help dance and choreograph works that express ideas about body culture. Kulchyckyj and Molho choreographed the first dance, Martin choreographed the second, and all the dancers assisted in the third.
While society may hail celebrities for bringing awareness to important social issues, their passion for the causes may be one side of a double-edged sword, according to Prof. Michael Strand (SOC). Strand opened up his class, Sociology of Celebrity, to the University community and local high schoolers as part of ’DEIS Impact College, which places emphasis on incorporating social justice into the classroom.
The women’s tennis team opened up its second half of the season with a narrow 4-3 win over Bryant University.
The men’s and women’s fencing teams were in exciting action this past Sunday at the Eric Sollee Invitational, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The men’s side performed admirably, winning exactly half of their six matches against an elite variety of competition. The women’s team recorded an even more impressive result, claiming victories in four of the six matches.
Brandeis freshman Jack Rubinstein ’20 put together a final slam, hosted by Dean of Student Life, Jamele Adams, in Cholmondeley’s Coffee House, this past Saturday evening. An end to a series of slams from last semester, the night was a competition for slam poets on campus, allowing those who scored highest to compete in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. While the competition resulted in a single winner — Victoria Richardson ’20 — the five top scoring poets now make up Brandeis’ newly revived Slam Team. Many of the slams struck the crowd silent with pressing themes and dramatic presentation, contrasting with Jamele Adams’ comedic interlude between performances in the coffee house atmosphere.
For many students, college is a time to explore new subjects while rediscovering old passions. It’s a time to find yourself. The panel “Exploring social justice in the Brandeis classroom and beyond: courses, internships and careers” met on Monday at noon in the Hassenfeld Conference Center and featured 5 student speakers who each detailed their own Brandeis journey. The presentation itself was co-sponsored by the Health: Science, Society and Policy Program and the Social Justice and Social Policy Program and was part of ’DEIS Impact.