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As part of ’Deis Impact, the University’s annual festival of social justice, the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance opened BPArt: Pluralism and the Arts on Friday. The exhibit, located in the Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery, is compiled of submissions from the Brandeis community meant to demonstrate interpretations of pluralism and social justice.
Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega, was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday night, winning the coveted crown against four other finalists in the Miss Universe pageant. Miss USA, Nia Sanchez, won second place. Businessman Donald Trump owns the annual beauty pageant, which features young women from over 80 countries. However, this year’s pageant has not been without controversy. Miss Israel 2006 and Miss Lebanon 2006 stirred up the drama after appearing in an Instagram photo together. The photos reminded people of a similar incident in 2006, where Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon appeared in a photo together during the time of the Israel-Hezbollah war. Although the pageant represents women around the world, it is hard to forget the political and foreign affairs dynamics that impact it.
The latest installation of student art Dimensions 2: Work from classes in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking opened this past week in Spingold Theater Center’s Dreitzer Gallery. Open until Feb. 6, the show consists of student works from the Fall 2014 semester from the Beginning and Intermediate Painting, Beginning and Intermediate Drawing and Printmaking classes.
By most accounts, this was a slow week in the news. After the excitement of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the headlines mostly turned to analyses of the speech, continued coverage of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and its international response and a national scandal over whether or not—shock and horror!—a football was slightly deflated at an important Patriots game. This story has huge consequences for the football community, but for those of us who couldn’t care less one way or the other about sports, it was a rather ho-hum time to be browsing Google News. The front page stories of Sunday’s New York Times, for example, focused on tax policy shifts being proposed by eight Republicans, an exploration of the Vatican’s current stance on divorce, new evidence in a 50-year-old murder case and something headlined "North Korea’s Forbidden Love? Smuggled, Illegal Soap Operas."
Since the Rose Art Museum’s fall exhibits closed on Dec. 22, museumgoers have awaited the day the Rose would reopen to present its spring art selections. The museum’s four new exhibits span several different disciplines, bringing deserving artists into the spotlight this semester.
PAINTING BLIND: Frank Auerbach is one of the artists featured in the upcoming Painting Blind exhibit. Featured above is his work from 1987, “J.Y.M. Seated.”
The men and women’s fencing teams cruised in strong weekend performances against regional opponents at the second Northeast Fencing Conference meet on Saturday, going a combined 10-1 on the day. The men’s squad clinched a share of the NFC title—their first since 2009—with a 5-0 record on the day while the women fenced to a 5-1 record and sit at 9-3 in NFC meets this year.
’DEIS Impact is a festival of social justice taking place Friday through Feb 9. This week-long festival will consist of more than 40 events hosted by clubs, students and academic departments. The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Student Union sponsor this annual event. Just Features sat down with Heather Spector ’17, the vice chair of ’DEIS Impact.
Members of the Brandeis community gathered Monday night in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater for the University’s 10th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which included various performances and featured a keynote address from Dr. Roy DeBerry ’70.
Alyssa Avis, management assistant to the Theater Arts Department at the University, noted the range of subjects and shows in this semester’s theater line-up for the Company in an email to the Justice. “There’s quite a variety: a movement piece created by Brandeis Professor Susan Dibble, a new play addressing the 2010 BP oil spill, student driven thesis and professional clowns!” wrote Avis. Check out the performances in order of their showing:
'The Tech Project'
“Took the long way home but it wasn’t long enough,” one video game starts. The point of the game is not to escape from the cops or to accomplish a robbery. The point turns out to be much more poignant. Long Time Coming: A Game about Pointed Conversations by Sagan Lee and Nadie Lessio is about coming home to your boyfriend, trying to avoid letting on about being unfaithful.
Former Director of Student Rights and Community Standards Dean Gendron departed from the University on Sept. 25, and in the four months since, the University has yet to fill the position. The lack of a Community Standards director is only one of the many current concerns with the University adjudication process, as highlighted in recent weeks. This board urges the University to appoint a replacement for Gendron as quickly as possible and to resolve the issues within the student Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
On Jan. 7, two gunmen, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, in response to cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad. Among the 12 killed are the magazine’s editor, cartoonists and a police officer. Vigils were held on Jan. 7 in Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, New York and Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. The cover of Charlie Hebdo’s newest edition features an image of the prophet shedding a tear and holding a sign that says “Je suis Charlie,” as the headline reads “Tout Est Pardon,” or “All is Forgiven.” Do you think that Charlie Hebdo responded appropriately by publishing the newest edition of the magazine with the image of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover?
A Features article titled “Universal Language of Discovery” incorrectly stated that the Taiwan Strait is six miles wide, when it is actually 81 miles wide. (Jan. 13, pg. 9)
We, as Brandeis students, may think of Waltham as the boring suburb of Boston where we are all forced to reside for four years. There are Pini’s Pizzeria and Baan Thai to keep us satisfied, but to most students, Waltham probably isn’t the University’s most enticing feature. But hidden on 144 Moody Street, there is a studio that looks like it has been transplanted out of Hollywood. The studio is where Sondra Celli, dress designer and star on TLC reality shows My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, Gypsy Sisters and Bling It On, creates her masterpieces.
Due to a lack of cable and spare time, my budget for new television shows is relatively slim. However, I did find time to check out NBC’s newest comedy Bad Judge starring Kate Walsh as Rebecca Wright, a discombobulated and questionable criminal court judge. I am drawn to the show because Wright doesn’t care about the system or expectations—she does whatever she wants while still serving as an excellent judge. Her antics are amusing and liberating—the show proves that just because she does not behave like your stereotypical judge, does not mean she is bad at her job.
The 72nd Golden Globe Awards made their annual television appearance this past Sunday night and it was a competitive race to the famous golden globe statuette.
Michelle Wexler ‘16 (left) created the major of Social Justice Social Change, and she plans to pursue further study in social work after graduation.
Julia Moffitt is the program coordinator for the Independent Interdisciplinary Majors.