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Aaron Fischer ’15 writes, acts and directs for the Undergraduate Theatre Collective and loves watching Woody Allen films. He has participated in a handful of Brandeis clubs, ranging from Swing Club to Debate Society. He often wears a purple shirt.
The concert started with a loud cry of poetry from Faith Conant as she beat on the lead drum, prompting the rest of the group to join in on their instruments. Playing on drums and other percussion instruments in a semi-circle were the students from Conant’s “Fafali: Music and Dance from Ghana” class, joined by a few special guests. As the first piece, “Gahu” went on, beats reverberated off the walls of the hall, filling the whole room with powerful, intense rhythms.
A screening of Judith Wechsler’s ’62 27th film, The Passages of Walter Benjamin—a documentary detailing the life and work of German cultural and literary critic Walter Benjamin—was held last Tuesday in the Mandel Center for Humanities.
JustArts: What motivated you to join the production of Art?
The Boston Bruins welcomed two of the NHL’s top teams to TD Garden this past week and were on opposite ends of shutouts against the St. Louis Blues and Montreal Canadiens. The Bruins netted a pair of goals in a 2-0 victory over the Blues last Tuesday, but were shut out by the same score when goaltender Carey Price and the Canadeins came to Boston on Saturday afternoon. The team was also on the road Friday night, when they defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets in a hard-fought affair, 4-3.
The University is operating on a surplus for fiscal year 2015, as University President Frederick Lawrence announced the faculty meeting last Thursday.
Last Thursday, the Faculty Senate announced that Students Taking Action Now in Darfur had presented an electronics policy procurement change and received 13 votes in favor of Brandeis implementing policies opposing using conflict minerals in electronics. STAND at Brandeis is one of many college groups which have joined the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative that fights against the use of conflict minerals. This board applauds STAND in organizing students and beginning to implement changes to address this global problem.
Hafiz Karmali, an acclaimed international theater director and resident director at the University this semester, spoke on Islamic performing arts on Wednesday afternoon. He discussed various art styles, including theatre and dance, and how he incorporated them into his version of Jean-Claude Carriere and Peter Brook’s production of The Conference of the Birds, which premieres this weekend.
JustArts: What motivated you to join the production of Spring Awakening?
The women’s basketball team entered the quarterfinals of last year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament as underdogs against Emmanuel College, seeded eighth in the eight-team tournament and matched up with the top seed. Looking to secure a winning season, the women upset the top squad 64-55 and clinched their first winning record since the 2009 to 2010 season.
The New England Revolution advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night in emphatic fashion, routing the Columbus Crew 7-3 on aggregate.
ON A HIGH NOTE: On Saturday night, the Lydian String Quartet, joined by new violist, performed three quartets to a full house.
If you’ve turned on the TV lately, chances are you’ve come across a superhero. Superheroes are not restricted to the movie screen. New additions Gotham and The Flash have joined current hits Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season.
justArts: What motivated you to join the Lydian String Quartet?
Yesterday evening, William J. Leahy, a former Massachusetts public defender and a former adjunct professor in Legal Studies at Brandeis, asserted his conviction that “the death penalty is always and everywhere morally indefensible” at a talk he gave as part of the 30th anniversary Joshua A. Guberman Lecture series.
The first official Board of Trustees meeting for this academic year began on Oct. 29. One issue was at the forefront of discussion from students and trustees alike. On Wednesday, a group of students participated in the Carry That Weight day of action, a national event showing solidarity with Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz. Some demonstrators gave University President Frederick Lawrence a sign stating why they participated. The Board of Trustees meeting was at the same time that the demonstrators planned to give Lawrence the sign, so the demonstrators used the opportunity to ask trustees for support of their cause.
Whether or not you are a fan of Top 40 radio, it’s pretty remarkable that in today’s digital culture, we still have radio stations that the majority of people tune in to on a regular basis. Yes, many of us stream our favorite stations on the Internet now, but the concept of the radio station still seems to be the same.
Brandeis hosted the 17th annual Heskel Gabbay Award Lecture, titled “Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9,” yesterday.
A large crowd flocked to Slosberg Music Center on Sunday evening to honor the late Erwin Bodky, the first professor of music at Brandeis. An erudite teacher, composer, pianist and musicologist, this concert featured mostly his own compositions, interspersed with speaches about his work as a teacher and a lecture about his life. Spurred by an interest in the late professor’s compositions, Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS) set forth the idea for this concert, inviting pianist and fellow faculty member Prof. Evan Hirsch (MUS) to join him in performing this long forgotten work.
PRESSING AHEAD: Defensman Josh Hacunda ’16 joins the attack during the Judges’ win over Carnegie Mellon University on Friday.