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The National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament continued this past weekend with the Sweet 16. While the tournament has been both entertaining and surprising, this stage featured some of the best moments of March Madness thus far.
I was very troubled to see the Justice article titled “Task force engages talk on campus free speech” on the front page of the March 14, 2017 edition of The Justice. For those who did not see the article, it featured a photograph of a person of color, speaking on the lack of diversity at an open meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Free Expression. The speaker kindly asked not to be photographed. In response, the paper brandished her photo across its front page. Perhaps your paper can publish what it wishes, but the tone and disrespect shown to other Brandeis students is unbecoming of a student newspaper, and makes me wonder if your staff has any inkling that not everyone lives the same lives that they do.
With its new residence hall — set to be completed in summer 2018 — the University will be emphasizing aesthetics and eco-friendly features, according to Vice President for Campus Operations Jim Gray.
Imagine the notion that not all philosophers have beards! This seems simple, right? Philosophy would disagree. Such an assumption is an example of implicit bias (in this case, that men are more academic than women). Natalia Washington of Washington University in St. Louis discussed issues like this at the Brandeis Philosophy Department‘s Sixth Annual Spring Conference, for which scholars from all over the country came to discuss this concept.
In light of International Women’s Day on March 8, it is important to reflect on how the portrayal of women in mainstream media has dramatically changed over time. For example, detergent commercials of the 1950s — which usually showed women in domestic settings like kitchens and laundry rooms — have now been replaced by those that feature men as homemakers. One can argue that the mainstream media, particularly with its marketing strategies, has embraced the feminist movement by daring to depict women being successful in fields usually dominated by men, such as business or sports. However, as much as they should be praised for beginning to teach young girls that their sex should not define their path, they should also be critiqued. The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino wrote a scathing indictment of how mainstream media and major corporations engage with the feminist movement. In her Feb. 8 piece titled “The Case Against Contemporary Feminism,” Tolentino argues that “feminism has become a self-serving brand popularized by CEOs and beauty companies.” What Tolentino means is that in their advocacy for the equality of the sexes, the mainstream media is not sincere. As Richard T. Craig’s “African Americans and Mass Media: A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership” points out, their end may not necessarily be the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. Their end may be profit.
One day, Composer and Fluxus artist John Cage sat in front of Minimalist artist Robert Morris’ “Box with the Sound of Its Own Making” (1961), enamored by its pure genius.
A night that celebrated Korean culture with food, games, dancing and pop music galore, “Welcome Home,” this year’s Brandeis Korean Student Association culture event, proved to be quite a hit. The packed Levin Ballroom was filled with students and fun activities throughout the whole night.
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.
Students Jenny Ho ’20 and Julianna Scionti ’20, representing the Brandeis Drawing Club, came before the Senate for club recognition. Ho and Scionti particularly highlighted a desire to supply art materials to students who face financial barriers in affording studio art course fees. Their organization is a revival of a previous studio art iteration, the Figure Drawing Club. When asked by Student Union Vice President Paul Sindberg ’18 how the club will avoid a decline like the one seen with the Figure Drawing Club, Ho and Scionti responded that they will focus on well-rounded recruitment of successive class years. In a unanimous vote, the Senate approved to recognize the Brandeis Drawing Club.
As the Task Force on General Education finalizes its proposal for new curricular themes, members of the library staff and faculty met in an open forum on Wednesday to discuss how the library might fit into the proposed requirements.
The opening vamp of Justin Timberlake’s song of the summer “Can’t Stop the Feeling” started to play. Dancers dressed like average Oscar-goers began to dance in flash-mob fashion. Timberlake appeared and began to sing. Thus began the 2017 Oscars, or, as I like to call it, Justin Timberlake’s opening for a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
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.
Almost twenty years after the first Brandeis University website launched in 1997, the University has unrolled a new, mobile-friendly, redesigned version of its website’s homepage and most frequented pages, Interim Senior Vice President for Communications Judy Glasser announced in an email to the community yesterday.
The Hooked on Tap show marks a semester and a half’s worth of rehearsals, planning and effort. While most dance groups on campus hold their recitals sometime in April, Hooked on Tap is the exception. The nature of HOT’s mid-semester spring recital means that after Sunday’s hour-long show in the Shapiro Campus Center, Brandeis’ most avid tappers will put away their shoes for the year. Although some students will perform with HOT in the Adagio Dance Company’s April spring show, for many students, and seniors especially — who might not continue dancing after graduation — their dance season ended Sunday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m.
When one thinks of the word “art,” one typically associates it with famous paintings and their creators, such as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Da Vinci. As time has gone by and artists have evolved, so too has the technology used to create spectacular works of art. In the early twentieth century, photography grew into an art form in its own right. No longer could art only be defined as a visual form using a type of drawing instrument or clay.
At each seat at each of the round tables inside Levin Ballroom was a little red envelope filled with goodies like chocolate coins and candy, typical of Lunar New Year tradition. The Brandeis Chinese Cultural Connection (BC3) club, host of the 2017 Chinese Lantern Festival, also provided refreshments for each table and a complimentary dinner at the end of the event with delicious plates of rice, sauteed string beans, Kung Pao chicken and more Chinese dishes.
The storyline that captured the National Basketball Association’s attention the entire offseason has continued into the halfway point of the season: the surprising departure of Kevin Durant from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Golden State Warriors. The saga continued Saturday night as Durant made his much-anticipated return to Oklahoma City, as the Warriors battled the Thunder. The much-hyped matchup did not disappoint, as Durant put up big numbers against his former teammate, and now rival, Russell Westbrook. The last nine years of the Durant-Westbrook chronicle have been entertaining and constant. As teammates for the first eight of those, the young duo took over the league together. For much of that run, the two were undisputed top-10 players in the league as they decimated opponents with their unprecedented 1-2 scoring punch. The Thunder became a powerhouse in the NBA, going to four Western Conference Finals, as well as making one NBA finals appearance.
M. Night Shyamalan used to be somebody. In 2002, after the smash successes of his first three feature films, the writer-director found himself on the cover of Newsweek. The caption, with no uncertainty, read “The Next Spielberg.” Hindsight is 20/20, and Shyamalan would spend the next fifteen years destroying his positive reputation. His first three outings, “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable,” and “Signs,” were all critical and box office successes, but from there, Shyamalan’s films started getting worse. Then, in 2008, he made “The Happening,” a truly awful movie about Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel running away from killer ferns. And what did he make to follow that trash fire of a film? A whitewashed mockery of one of the most beloved cartoons ever made, “The Last Airbender.” But was Shyamalan done? Nope; his crescendo of garbage only hit its final note in the scientology-filled, Jaden Smith-starring “After Earth,” which saw Will Smith playing a character named Cypher Rage. Somewhere between the billion dollar budgets and complete creative free reign, Shyamalan lost his ability to tell believable, interesting stories. But with his latest film, “Split,” Shyamalan proves that he just might be worthy of a second chance.
What is progressive television? Are we really making progress? And how can the trend toward inclusive entertainment be continued and solidified. The ’DEIS Impact Festival hosted a screening of the Emmy award-winning Amazon Prime show “Transparent,” followed by a discussion panel featuring ’DEIS Impact keynote speaker Rebecca Walker. Other panelists included Dr. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (AAAS), Brie McLemore M.A., Alex Montgomery M.A. and Ruth Galaviz ’17. Walker is a renowned champion of third-wave, inclusive feminism and progressive television. Including her creative involvement with the development of “Transparent,” some of her recent television projects include “One Mississippi,” “Black Cool” and “Black, White, and Jewish.” The screening and paneling explored and discussed the importance and impact of progressive and inclusive television.
With progressive technological developments in genetic screening and gene therapy on the horizon, four students from the University’s Master of Science in Genetic Counseling program discussed the perceptions and ethical concerns regarding their profession as part of ’DEIS Impact on Thursday.