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The men’s basketball team notched its first two victories of the season last week, taking the consolation game of the New England Big 4 Challenge on Sunday afternoon and defeating Framingham State University last Thursday. The Judges sit at 2-5 overall with the pair of wins.
On Sunday afternoon, the selection committee for the inaugural College Football Playoff announced the four playoff teams.
With the start of the new year, Boston will see a new lineup of concerts that you won’t want to miss. Whether it’s at the TD Garden or more intimate venues like the House of Blues Boston, the city always hosts the biggest concert tours of the year.
Many artistically-minded students choose Brandeis for its breadth of theater opportunities, performances and productions. Brandeis Ensemble Theater’s production of Quickies, a series of student-written one-act plays and sketches, definitely falls into these ideas of opportunites and inclusive theater productions.
In the Senate Log, Senator-at-Large Brian Hough’s ’17 last name was spelled incorrectly. (Nov. 18, pg. 2)
The Intercultural Center hosted an event yesterday called “Ebola: It’s Our Crisis,” which focused on the recent epidemic in Western Africa. The speakers also looked at the social epidemic of stigmatizing those from the countries or continents with infected populations as automatically being infected by the virus as a result of being from a country afflicted by it.
On Nov. 7, Brandeis’ International Business School announced that it received a $2.5 million dollar donation from Alan Hassenfeld—the great-grandson of one of the University’s founding donors, Henry Hassenfeld—and followed up this week with an announcement about how it plans to use the gift. Thanks to the family’s donation, IBS will be unveiling the new Hassenfeld Innovation Center soon.
This past week Jon Stewart appeared on one of the final episodes of his former writer and good friend Stephen Colbert’s show The Colbert Report. The interview was naturally full of levity, stereotypically Republican criticisms of Stewart and Stewart-esque rebuttals grounded heavily in Jewish culture. As a white, Jewish, politically conservative male at Brandeis, naturally I found the segment to be hysterical.
The music, colorful costumes and overflowing energy of MELA 2014 could be felt before stepping into a packed Levin Ballroom on Saturday night. MELA, which means “celebration” in Sanskrit, is an annual student-run cultural show.
Tucked away in the corner of the stage sat a plain brown desk. With the houselights up, an actor in a dark brown suit calmly wrote at the desk as the audience filtered in. People slowly took stock of his presence, but the actor kept his eyes trained on his writing and did not acknowledge the audience. As the house lights dimmed, the play began; the man at the desk (Jose Castellanos ’18) introduced himself as the narrator and established the structure of the play.
Pumpkin spice lattes have given way to peppermint mochas and gingerbread men. Holiday decorations are out in full swing, and you can’t escape the Christmas commercials on TV. It’s officially holiday season, and it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. This year brings the usual crop of holiday television and songs, with some 2014 updates.
Most Frida Kahlo exhibits focus on the artist’s work as a reflection of her life, but curator Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art and art history at Tufts University, has taken a different approach in her upcoming exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The exhibit, which will run from May 16 to Nov. 1 2015, instead views Kahlo’s art through a botanical lens, focusing on the nature and plant aspects of her prolific work. Zavala spoke to a group of Brandeis colleagues and students last Thursday as a guest lecturer for Prof. Gannit Ankori’s (FA) class on Frida Kahlo this semester.
Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine held and sponsored a screening of Israeli director Lia Tarachansky’s 2013 documentary On the Side of the Road last Wednesday. A question-and-answer session with Tarachansky followed the screening.
The International Business School will be the home of the Hassenfeld Innovation Center.
The men’s basketball team opened its season with two close defeats this week, falling to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 78-76 on Wednesday night at home and at Rhode Island College 66-60 on Saturday night.
Many people associate musicals with random dance numbers, toned-down dialogue and happily-ever-afters. Brandeis’ latest musical challenges this assumption, touching on sensitive issues like sex education and abortion overs its two acts. Tympanium Euphorium’s production of Spring Awakening debuted on Thursday evening in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater. The show was directed by Rachel Liff ’16 and stage-managed by Rachel Josselsohn ’17. It focused on two German teenagers, Melchior Gabor (Jason Theoharis ’17) and Wendla Bergmann (Sarah Steiker ’17), who break the rules of their restrictive society. The show’s program bills it as a play about “everything we don’t talk about,” which is pretty accurate. Featuring sex, abortion and corruption, the play highlighted the darker parts of German society in the late 1890s. The production appeared to be cognizant of this fact and included a resource guide for sexual assault survivors and bystanders in its playbill.
The lights went dark; a drum roll-like thunder sound came out of the speakers and MAGIC!—the Canadian reggae-fusion band—came out on stage to perform their first piece, “No Way No.”
This week in music: Lorde continued to prove her dominance with her new track “Yellow Flicker Beat” and some epic covers, Eminem released a freestyle rap with offensive lyrics and Nicki Minaj apologized for her new music video that features Nazi imagery. What else is new?
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism screened Resistance, a 2014 documentary that discusses the evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria as a result of overusing antibiotics, on Thursday.
From left, J Street U Brandeis Head of Communications Shani Abramowitz ’14, and J Street U Brandeis co-presidents Yaakov Malome ’15, Talia Lepson ’16 and Zachery Anziska ’15.