WK 8 Mar.10-16

Beware the Ides of March

Monday, March 10

- 12:00 PM // Pathways to a Career in International Relations // Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building (map) // ROSHNI
- 1:30 p.m //  Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom // "Through a Glass Darkly: What the Future of Higher Education Might Be." //  room 1005 of the Beckman Institute //  LINDA

- 6:00pm - 8:00 pm // Community Gamelan // School of Music, Room 1188, 1114 W. Nevada Street, Urbana (nearest entrance on Oregon Street) // KELLY

Tuesday, March 11

-12:00pm// Institute for Genomic Biology Seminar// 612 Institute for Genomic Biology// Free// JOEY
- 4:00 pm// Cultures of Law in a Global Context- Yu// Presentation Room, Center for Advanced Study; 912 West Illinois Street, Urbana// Free// JOEY
- 5:00 pm // vascular education event // Presence Covenant Medical Center in Urbana// ALEX
- 6:00pm-7:30pm //  Burger, Fries, and a Milkshake ($15 members- $18 non-members) // ARC Instructional Kitchen// CHRIS

- 6:30pm // European Movie Night: Štěstí (Something Like Happiness) - Czech Republic, 2005 // Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building //  CATE

-7:00pm // WATERLIFE // The Art Theater Co-Op, 126 West Church Street, Champaign // BRIGITTA

Anne: The most shocking part of this film was that there are theories that a certain chemical is changing male frogs into female frogs, its still very new but I just thought that was so strange that a chemical in the water can change the sex of an animal.

Maggie: My favorite quote from one of the “rednecks” being interviewed was “they’ve knocked beers out of my hand before”, in reference to an Asian Carp doing its normal activities.

-7:00pm // AsiaLENS Screening of "High Tech, Low Life" // Location Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL // Free // CATE

Brigitte: Zola, a vegetable seller, types, "I used to be a nobody until I discovered the internet". Facebook and many other sites, including Zola's blog, are blocked in China. However, by switching the DNS route his site can be looked at. He documents and takes videos of people being forcibly removed from their homes by the government seeking to build apartment complexes.

Jill: He was quite a wise and funny man. When referring about the news he stated that, "we’ve all been brainwashed. I have listened to lies for many years’”. This was a driving force of why he became a reporter. To show the public what the government and news tries to cover up.

Chris: The movie focused on two Chinese reporters, Zola and Tiger Temple. These two men were self proclaimed citizen reporters, some of the first of their kind in China. Zola focused on reporting about a rape/murder that was being covered up by the Chinese government. Tiger Temple was reporting on farmers in China who were living in terrible conditions, and had parts of their land seized.

Wednesday, March 12

- 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm // Startup Cafe: Glenn Shimkus // EnterpriseWorks and Research Park // LINDSEY
- 3:00pm // Bibliophilia to Bibliomania // Room 346 Library // SEANO
- 5:00pm // vascular education event // Presence Covenant Medical Center in Urbana// ALEX

Thursday, March 13

- 4:30 p.m //  David Yager: “The Case for an Unusual Collaboration: Artist-Designer, Physicians, and Nurses”  //  Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St. //  LINDA

Cate: One day these two guys were walking around the hospitals and they noticed how unbelievably loud it was in the NICU. All of this noise was from the machinery necessary to keep these preemies alive, yet at the same time these babies haven’t developed a filter in their ears and the sound is literally going straight to their brains. So you’ve got these already sick and distressed babies that are surround 24/7 with incredible amounts of noise. These guys go to work and create hats to filter the noise but they don’t stop there. They add the sound of their mother’s heartbeat and voice and even sometimes music.

- 6:00 pm // National Nutrition Month Cooking Event ($15 members- $18 non-members) // ARC Instructional Kitchen// CHRIS

- 7:00pm-9 pm // Film Screening: Girl Rising // Women's Resource Center, 703 S. Wright St., 2nd Floor // BRIGITTA (double posted by Cate)

- 7:00pm // CU Astronomical Society meeting // Staerkel Planetarium // SEANO
- 7:30 pm // IUB Drag Shpw // Illini Union I-Rooms // JILL

 

Seano: The experiences that happen outside their body and how those are interoperated by (and for) the experiences within creates the individual. To become the truest person, the truest to yourself that you can possibly be, by this definition means that one must open themselves up to the most experiences they can possible expose themselves to. I think its true.

Puja: I would say a lot of interesting things were happening during the show in regards to challenging traditional gender roles, sexual orientation, etc. However, I don’t know if I walked away with a clarified or heightened sense of society after I witnessed that. What I do know is that it just reinforced the idea that we live in a complex world, but that it shouldn’t deter us from one another.

- 7:30pm // Sudden Sound improv jazz // KCPA // SEANO

Friday, March 14

- All Day between 9AM-4:30PM // U.S. Poverty Simulation // Business Instructional Facility Atrium // PUJA

- All Day, see schedule below // Approaches to the Study of the Middle East and the Mediterranean: A Symposium in Honor of Paul Vieille // Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St // ANNE

- 12:00 pm // Dr. Susan M. Rosenberg (Baylor College of Medicine) "How Bacteria and Cancer Cells Regulate Mutagenesis and Their Ability to Evolve" // Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL) // Brian
- 12:00pm-1:00 // Pi Day Celebration & Networking // EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive Champaign, IL 61820 //  LINDSEY
- 12:00 PM // Conversation Cafe: Is America Really Diverse? // Women's Resources Center // PUJA
- 12:30 pm // The Diversity of Integration in a Multi-Ethnic Metropolis: What do Whites, African Americans, and Latinos Imagine? // 3111 Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright Street, Urbana // Brian
- 4:00 pm // Social Meaning and Social Justice // Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum // ANNE
- 9:00am-4pm // engineering Open House // Engineering Quad // SEANO
- 7:00 pm // Phoenix Improv Comedy Show // Illini Union Food Court //JILL

- 9:00PM // March Illinites: Mardi Gras // Illini Union // CORIE 

Saturday, March 15

- 9:00am-4pm // engineering Open House // Engineering Quad // SEANO
- 9:00am-3p (anytime) // Supercomputer tour // South side of campus // -   
- 10:00 AM - 1:00PM // Exploring Community Identity and Building Bridges // English Building 150 // ROSHNI
- 10:00 am // Jupiter String Quartet: Bagels and Beethoven // Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall // MAGGIE

- 7:00PM // Yaadein: Memories for a Lifetime // Foellinger Auditorium // $5 // ROSHNI

Roshni: This year the annual show was about four students (emcees) reminiscing about their four years in college. Each memory the emcees would talk about would lead into a dance performance that told the story. There were different styles of dance showcased such as bhangra (dance from Punjab, India), hip-hop, contemporary, bharatanatyam (classical dance from south India), bollywood (Hindi film dancing

- 7:30 pm // Mark Morris Dance Group // Krannert Center, Tryon Festival Theatre // MAGGIE

- 9:30pm// Afterglow: The Bad Plus// Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 (Main lobby I think)// Free// Joey (extra)

Joey: The Bad Plus served as something like "cool dads" of music, playing music that is well respected among music professors and adults, but admired and really dug by the younger generation. I immediately recognized parallels between them and some of my favorite "math rock" bands, and I was absolutely blown away by their instrumental talent.

Sunday, March 16
- 3:00 pm // Concerto Urbano // Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall // $4-10 // KELLY
- 7 pm // CU West Coast Swing Dancers 3rd Sunday Monthly Dance // Pizza M, Urbana // ALEX (post)

Alex: They encouraged us to dance with the regulars, but i was far too sober to take anyone up on that. Instead, Megan, Kate, and I took turns dancing with each other and trying out the moves that we were shown. I expected to be embarrassed because all 3 of us were terrible, but everyone was just happy to have some new people to experience.

- 7:30PM // Illinois Brass Quintet // Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall // CORIE 

Lindsey: The quintet serves as a faculty quintet in residence of the U of I and are ambassadors to schools, universities, radio statues and colleges. They have been around since 1955. The members have performed with the LA Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Brass, Wynton Marsalis and Arturo Sandoval.

Corie: I also enjoyed a piece by Anthony Plog, “Animal Ditties VII”. This piece is created for a quartet, and the fifth person of the group is narrating. It is a humors piece; the musicians are playing noises that mimic the animal and the narrator is describing what is happening in the scene.