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This week, justArts spoke with Maria Kulchyckyj ’20 and Liv Molho ’20, the coordinators of the ’DEIS Impact event, “Rise Above: An Exploration of Dance and Body Culture.” They performed in the dances and choreographed them.
The University must put more consideration into what role its emeriti professors play in academics and administration, faculty and staff members asserted during Friday’s faculty meeting.
Though chess enjoys worldwide acclaim as one of the oldest and most popular strategy games for people of all ages, competitive chess remains a heavily male-dominated sport. Susan Polgar, a five-time Olympiad champion and the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster through tournament points, is seeking to change that.
At the non-scoring Tufts University Cupid Invitational, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams participated in several events, allowing each athlete to work individually on their skills without the pressure of needing to secure a win for the team. On the men's side, Brandeis performed well in the 200-meter dash and the 1000-meter run. On the women’s side, the top events were the 200-meter dash, the 400-meter dash and the high jump. Additionally, the University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week was awarded on Jan. 31 to Brandeis runner Emily Bryson ’19 for her superb performance in the mile run. Bryson currently holds the best time in the nation for the mile run with a time of 4:52.18 in the National College Athletic Association Division III.
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.
This week, justArts spoke with Victoria Richardson ’20, the winner of the Slam that took place at Chum’s this past Saturday.
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.
In a Jan. 21 interview with Variety Magazine, comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler blamed the Kardashians for President Trump’s success. She cited that the media treated Trump’s campaign as a reality show, not reality. The reality show is a phenomenon that the Kardashians have popularized. Though seemingly ludicrous, her claim may actually be valid if we consider just how much people have become engrossed in social media. The Kardashian clan is the logical endpoint of this digital age, the most apt illustration of the people we have become. The sisters are famous for their reality television, which has enjoyed high viewership ratings for all 11 seasons. The show has popularized in some of the public the need for private lives to be documented and altered so as to appear glamorous. Isn’t this what some of us do when we Snapchat outings with friends? We are a culture more engrossed in the representation of our lives than in living our lives. So it is understandable that Trump has become the 45th president of the United States. Indeed, pollsters made errors and Hillary Clinton’s campaign was poor. However, our being out of touch with reality is partly to blame for how much we underestimated a Trump win.
Soulja Boy, Lil Yachty, Usher — what better way to spend your Saturday night than raging to these icons?
The year the indies triumphed. Not one blockbuster, enjoyable as some exceptions were (“Captain America: Civil War,” “Deadpool,” “Rogue One”), managed to reach my top ten favorite movies of 2016. The year’s movies averaged out a B- grade, but the following films were all at minimum an A-. They outweighed the duds that were “Suicide Squad,” “War Dogs” and “Magnificent 7.”
In his most recent press-related tantrum, President Donald Trump called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth” in response to their inauguration crowd estimates, according to a Jan. 21 New York Times article. While White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s insistence that Friday saw “the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” despite evidence otherwise, seems almost laughable, the president’s continued attacks on press credibility and his ever-growing vendetta should be more cause for concern than laughter.
Through a series of spoken word, poetry, and dance performances, as well as speeches by student scholars and visiting guest performers, the University’s 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial celebrated “Black Girl Magic” and brought to attention Black women identity and the historical leadership of Black women revolutionaries last Monday.
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At the start of this semester, this board issued President Ronald Liebowitz a challenge. We called on him to avoid “the trope of the dispassionate establishment leader,” in an Aug. 30 editorial, and asked him to communicate clear stances on a number of issues for the University community to really learn who their new president was.
The world seemed headed on a very different path in August 2013, when I first entered Brandeis University. Barack Obama was in his fifth year in the White House, Edward Snowden had just become a household name, Ted Cruz was an ascendant standard-bearer and Nate Silver was an unbeatable poll-watching god.
The sting of the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting has not been forgotten; its impact still exists in the minds and hearts of not only those directly affected by the shooting and the LGBTQ+ community but also students and activists across the country.
Aging is a topic of growing importance. In current society, ageism is rarely discussed in relation to prejudice. Students to End Alzheimer’s Disease helped to address the lacking presence of this issue in society and provide a better understanding of the stigma regarding aging at their coffeehouse held last Thursday at Cholmondeley’s Coffee House.
Back from a semester abroad, Daria Fogan ’17, Ashley Simmons ’17 and Oyemen Ehikhamhen ’17 discussed the observations they made about race and identity as Black women in new cultural landscapes in a talk on Friday.
With President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to deport three million immigrants, students across the country are petitioning their colleges and universities to designate “sanctuary campuses” in order to protect undocumented immigrants. Now, a group of Brandeis students, faculty, staff and alumni have followed suit with an open letter to administrators.
Brandeis’ Adagio Dance Company showcased its multifaceted talent in the Levin Ballroom Thursday night at its “Keep Calm and Dance On” dance exposition. Along with Brandeis performers, there were also performances by Simmons College, UMass Lowell and Bentley University.