Five ways to become a beast at small talk
(04/24/14 7:24pm)
Talking to people you don’t know is the worst. You know the feeling — you’re stuck in a room with someone, and you have nothing to say. Awkward silence ensues.
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Talking to people you don’t know is the worst. You know the feeling — you’re stuck in a room with someone, and you have nothing to say. Awkward silence ensues.
This past Saturday, April 5, former president George W. Bush launched a public exhibition of his paintings at his presidential library in Dallas. Bush’s paintings include everything from cats to world leaders produced in large, clunky brushstrokes on a variety of solid-colored backgrounds.
As I’m sure many of you are aware, this past week the Baker Institute Student Forum and the Federalist Society teamed up to host an event featuring controversial scholar Charles Murray. As many students have correctly pointed out, Murray is well known for contentious statements he made in his 1994 book The Bell Curve, in which he forwards some blatantly racist and sexist notions. Let me be clear –– I find these viewpoints outrageous and despicable. However, this does not mean BISF or the Federalist Society were out of line for bringing him to campus.
The stable mystery in social networking is whether the latest iteration will be a “fad” or a fundamental new institwution that others will build upon. In a type of Darwinian competition, sites compete for inclusion in the latter category.
Brown University has Emma Watson, Northwestern University has Chet Haze and Rice University has Michael Groth. Groth, a Baker College freshman, succeeded in attaining over 1.75 million views within a year on his self-created video “How Old is Ash Ketchum?”
This spring break, I admittedly did more than my fair share of Netflix binge-watching. I started slowly with HBO’s “True Detective,” then, hungry for more, proceeded to chew with rapid speed through both seasons of Netflix’s “House of Cards.”
First off, we want to start by saying we are not attempting to represent all populations at Rice, and we know our point of view can't be generalized to every individual. However, our conversations with many Rice students have demonstrated that others have shared similar experiences to us in terms of Rice dating culture.
Hermann Park is undergoing a quite unconventional transformation. A giant, beautiful maze constructed from saplings seems to have recently sprouted out of the ground near the Japanese Garden. By the Museum of Natural History, a 13-foot-tall red orb appears to hover elegantly a few inches above the ground.
With the Oscars around the corner, it is time to start debating which films, performances and cinematic crews deserve our praise. While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may get to give out awards live from a prestigious theater jam-packed with celebrities, I believe it is important to recognize those films that we truly believe to be the best. If the Oscars have always seemed a bit politicized and arbitrary to you, then read on to find a critique and analysis of the Academy's selection process. At the very least, you will be armed with some points to convince your friends that when it comes to films, you know better.
This spring, Rice University will host its first annual Diversity Film Contest. The competition, which is meant to feature films that address what diversity looks like at Rice, is open to all Rice students, faculty and staff to reflect the complexity of the Rice community.
On Thursday, April 18, the Rice Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts hosted it's 50th annual undergraduate exhibition.
This weekend and next, the Chao Center for Asian Studies will be hosting the long-anticipated TITLES2, a film festival celebrating some of the best efforts of experimental Indian filmmaking. The event will include five contemporary feature-length films, a package of short films curated by the Bangalore Queer Film Festival and a retrospective consisting of four films by the late prominent filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.
This month, the Rice Media Center has been taken over by an eclectic blend of film and sculpture. The exhibition, open until April 4, includes a living structure composed of over 100 rectangular jars, two perspective-altering short films and even a 6-foot-tall phallic wine decanter, among other things.
Last Sunday, students from all majors gathered in the Sewall Hall sculpture room to participate in the first-ever Art Lab workshop. In this event, students learned collage technique and were given the opportunity to create their own scenes with a variety of graphical materials.