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The No. 28 Brandeis women’s tennis team performed admirably against tough top-10 competition this past weekend. The tournament, hosted by Middlebury College on Friday and Saturday, featured singles and doubles matches against Middlebury, Williams College and Amherst College.
Sketch comedy group Boris’ Kitchen delighted a packed Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room last Friday night with their annual “Old Shit Show”.
The men’s tennis team returned to action this weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Invitational. This marks an unusual feature of the tennis season relative to the other collegiate sports, which normally run continuously through a series of months in one particular season. Tennis, however, is year-round, stretching from September to April, and also contains a four-month interlude from October to February between official matches. This unique schedule presents opportunities and challenges for the team. On the one hand, it allows the team to get a sense of how they stack up against other top ranked teams, which allows them to make adjustments to specific problems. At the same time, however, such a long layoff has the potential to zap any semblance of momentum generated from a strong start.
What a week for visuals! When it comes to movies that I anticipate to have stunning visuals, I find myself purchasing an IMAX ticket. This week’s entries did not disappoint. “Deepwater Horizon,” directed by Peter Berg, stars Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, John Malkovich and Kurt Russell. Russell is having a renaissance of his own a lá Matthew McConaughey with his recent hits “Bone Tomahawk” and “The Hateful 8,” as well as the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.”
On Friday, Oct. 7, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end a half-century-long civil war. While recognition of his effort is laudable, it represents a missed opportunity to shed light on one of the worst — if not the worst — humanitarian crises our world faces: the displacement of 65 million people, 21 million of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn countries.
When it comes to race and gender policies, presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fall short, a panel of scholars and public figures argued on Tuesday.
The men’s soccer team continued to struggle offensively this past week, resulting in a series of relatively disappointing finishes. Though the Judges managed to pull out one victory on the week, their inability to score cost them in their three other contests. The squad has slipped significantly in national polls, and it remains to be seen whether or not they can turn things around in time for an National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament berth.
As smartphone popularity has increased, so have instances of and casualties from distracted driving; in 2015, distraction-affected fatalities rose by 8.8 percent from the previous year, according to an August 2016 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.
Since 2011, the world has seen the brutality Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is capable of — a capacity for destruction unparalleled even by his father, Hafez Al-Assad. Last year, we saw the image of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy, washed up on the banks of a Turkish beach. Just last month, we witnessed five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in the back of a White Helmets ambulance sporting a bewildered look on his face. The group, also known as Syrian Civil Defense, works indiscriminately to save lives from the rubble.
This week, justArts spoke with Orli Swergold ’18, a participant from the Brandeis in Siena program this summer whose work is featured in the “New Work” exhibit.
The women’s soccer team barely kept its undefeated season alive this week, on the road, by defeating Babson College 1-0 on Tuesday and recording a close draw against rival school Tufts University on Saturday evening.
The men and women’s cross country teams ran at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday, with the women taking home the gold title, while the men came in fifth out of 33 competitors.
A crowd of students, faculty and members of the public sat in Pollack pointing at a screen up front and laughing on a Sunday afternoon. This was not a stand-up routine or a movie showing. Rather, the audience was cracking up in the Pollack Fine Arts Teaching Center with David Shrigley. Shrigley’s artist talk was full of sardonic punchlines. Many art talks delve into artistic theory and interpretation. Shrigley mentioned these themes — mostly to make ironic, humorous jabs — but in his own words, “much of this talk is about nothing in particular.”
Hillary Clinton calls out Donald Trump for being a bigot; Trump goes meta and suggests that Hillary Clinton’s accusation of bigotry is itself bigoted. Beyond looking at what each candidate actually said — as it is somewhat exhausting to spend one’s entire day finding and following credible press coverage of each presidential candidate — there’s a pretty easy litmus test to help cut through the noise. Assuming that bigotry involves taking advantage of minority communities in America, ask yourself, “Which side makes it harder for those same people to vote?”
Within days of President Barack Obama’s statement calling climate change “terrifying,” a Sept. 12 Public News Service article reported that America’s two main political parties have “never been farther apart” in their stances on climate change, according to an Aug. 25 study out of Oklahoma State University.
Art fans young and old sauntered into the Rose Art Museum,alongside students clad in Urban Outfitters tank tops on Friday night for the opening of this year’s Fall Exhibitions. The show was new Rose curator Kim Conaty’s first fall opening, and it was a resounding success.
Chakaia Booker’s art, which is featured in the Kniznick Gallery at the Women’s Studies Research Center until Nov. 4, speaks volumes about current issues by using old tires and wood slabs as sculptural creations. Booker is known for innovatively upcycling materials in order to convey societal messages — most notably, commentary on race, gender and the environment.
With summer weather heating up the dorms, many students are turning to open windows and small fans to keep their rooms at a comfortable temperature. However, due to a contractor error, residents have only been able to open their windows two inches, and many students are now complaining of overheated rooms.
Next weekend, the Rose Art Museum will welcome a host of exhibitions as part of its Fall Exhibition featuring artists such as New York-based Sarah Sze and Scottish artist David Shirgley. The Rose Art Museum has been an integral part of the University since 1961 and has served as a permanent fixture on campus for artistic education and the exhibition and collection of contemporary art. In 2009, under President Jehuda Reinharz’s administration, the University attempted to sell the museum’s prized collection valued at $350 million in an attempt to respond to a substantial budget crisis. The sale was later prevented after Rose supporters sued the University, according to a July 1, 2011 Boston Globe article.
At the party conventions this summer, viewers were treated to an extraordinary amount of flag waving as the candidates wrapped themselves in red, white and blue. From barbeques on the Fourth of July to the obligatory election references to the founding fathers, Americans are not afraid to demonstrate their patriotic spirit.