The chatter is everywhere these days. Female representation in American cinema behind the scenes has been lacking for years and the hunger for equality is ravenous. The Celluloid Ceiling: Hollywood’s special name for the Glass Ceiling, is more prevalent and noticeable than ever before.
Mornings are early, nights can be even later. Sometimes its vice versa. One day on set, another one in the office. Piles of scripts, files of rough cuts; hours of reading, editing, analyzing and by that time your sipping a fourth cup of coffee. Likely even a fifth. Off the phone to be on it again. Hours of research, meetings, people managing and teamwork. Finding the resources, financing the ideas and bringing to life the story that’s never been told.
And this is just some of the magic that goes into film and television production.
Of all things people could be thinking about, math isn’t often one of them. If anything, math is a subject often pushed by the wayside once it’s no longer an academic requirement. It becomes a dead and irrelevant skill to a great deal of people at a certain point.
Julie Sarama, however, an acclaimed mathematics professor, researcher and program developer, claims math is something that matters far more that we think it does.
Take hockey and remove the cheering crowd, the ice skates, and the division one athletes. Insert sneakers, sweatpants, and screaming college kids with very little coordination. Lose the puck and replace it with a small orange soccer ball. Instead of three, twenty-minute periods, there are two, eighteen-minute halves. Five people on the ice per team. One sixty second halftime and no timeouts.
This is broomball.
There is no denying the fact that our world is warming at an alarming rate. The 2010s were recorded to be he hottest decade in the past 800,000 years. It is one of the biggest battles our generation has to solve, but how do we tackle a giant this tall?
The MFJS Reporter -- Winter 2020 T-R 