How about a beach volleyball court or two on campus? most other schools have at least one. plenty of room on the res quad, fletcher field or even lewis beach

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I do have to say, that doing this trip in June of 2001 was the best experience I have ever had. Given the opportunity, I would do it again!

"In the manner that Yelp is an extremely good site for finding good restaurants because there are so many reviews...."

the same Yelp that prioritizes negative over positive reviews for businesses that do not advertise with them? not an association i'd make.

"Weise, who worked at Dewick during her freshman year, said that when it was time for the student workers to be elected for supervising positions, all of the students who were elected were white males, and she was not given an equal opportunity to be elected."

Jesus Tapdancing Christ, I can't wait to get out of this school. Correlation≠Causation. Basic rule of social science. Maybe you weren't elected because you were a nutcase who alleges discrimination everywhere, even when it doesn't exist. Stuff like this makes people take legitimate instances of discrimination less seriously. Go home and read the Boy who Cried Wolf.

really matty, it needs to stop? this happened 4 years ago, before you ever came here, are you the one keeping it up?

This story is factually inaccurate as far as the student supervisors go. As a former employee at Dewick and someone who is familiar with the student manager hiring process, that position is reserved for seniors. There has also been a number of female and minority student managers at Dewick in the past.

Has not a single one of our federal officials traveled to The Netherlands and observed that the coffeeshops are NO BIG DEAL? The federal marijuana prohibition is BAD law that makes kids LESS safe!

States that have passed medical marijuana laws have seen a 9% drop in alcohol-related traffic fatalities. We can save a LOT of lives by giving people the right to substitute marijuana for alcohol.

Marijuana has repeatedly been proven to NOT cause cancer, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease, emphysema, or any other significant health issue, and its addiction potential is about on par with coffee. We mustn't wait until a loved one has been harmed by alcohol before demanding that our legislators legalize adult marijuana sales!

"As a mechanical engineer, I felt very limited in the amount of hands-on experience I've gotten at Tufts, so I thought [a welding class] would be a great way to learn about the fabrication process," Richmond, a sophomore, said.

as a double MechE jumbo, i could not agree more - there was a staggering lack of hands-on opportunities at tufts for us to learn how to use industrial machinery. if we're going to design parts, we need to know how to make them....

This is absurd. You didn't get chosen to be a student supervisor in the dining hall and now you're wasting valuable time and money for the University to investigate itself looking for imaginary discriminatory practices? Cry me a river.

Most Prohibitionists eventually get to experience utter loneliness, also known as "the sadomoralist condition" - a form of existential despair as they begin to finally realize the utter futility and destructiveness of their life's work. This is ultimately compounded by the deep realization that it's simply not possible to prove any of the nonsense they've been zealously propagating for many decades. It's this type of loneliness that often turns their attention to a higher power, and one that usually comes in liquid form. This is a serious terminal affliction and not one that a psychologist, philosopher or priest can help with. Eventually they become trapped in a very dark place where they have literally nobody left to relate to. In such situations it is our civic duty, and moral obligation, to point them to the nearest bridge.

Imagine if we were to chop down every single tree on the planet as a response to our failure to prevent tree-climbing accidents. That's what our misguided drug policy looks like. Isn't it time we all stood up and told the government we're tired of being beaten and jailed so that pharmaceutical companies can poison and kill us for obscene profits?

Prohibition Prevents Regulation : Legalize, Regulate and Tax!

Great Job Caroline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I admire your writing a lot! You do a fantastic job with writing for "The Verve," and now the "Tufts Daily." Keep up the good work! Keep writing, you are an excellent writer, and you bring the story's you write to life! :)

This is sick, and needs to stop. I think that students and facility need to show ID, because if they continue like this, problems like this will continue. I feel so sorry for the female students that were exposed to this. This shouldn't happen anywhere let alone a public place. I think Tufts NEEDS to change their ID policy, and it will prevent future incidents like this one to occur.

The TCU should not be funding these private religious groups. They can certainly exist, but, if they're going to make limits like this, must fund themselves.

i get its cool to talk about sex now that you're liberated women in college and stuff, but yeah this sucks. also, what exactly is wrong or funny about living in oklahoma or The South? plenty of kids at tufts do..

This should be how the school resolves all issues. Bad grades? SUSPENDED! Caught with a beer at age 20? SUSPENDED! Caught with a beer at age 22? SUSPENDED! Noise violation? SUSPENDED.

Then we will be left with a school of the best and brightest minds (read: dripping with sarcasm)

"Real Time with Bill Maher] for the first time, and I was like 'Wow, that lady is absolutely brilliant.' So I've kind of been following her ever since..."

I learned out about her through Real Time with Bill Maher as well. I still remember I said to myself, "wow, this is the kind of people I want to govern me."

sounds an awful lot like Giant Man, circa res quad 1994. why did the daily not ask such a probing question?

www.collegeotr.com/tufts_university/the_legend_of_giantman_9528
www.prx.org/pieces/438

I also hope the club sports committee reevaluates their decision. The girls volleyball team is asking for practice space for two days a week! It is shocking and quite frankly disappointing that an institution the size of tufts cannot accommodate such a request. I question whether the decision on the part of the athletics department is truly based on space and personnel constraints, or on laziness from the staff. As an alum, I really enjoyed my time participating in club sports, but I was constantly disappointed by the lack of support from athletics. It is frustrating that the athletics department gives club sports such a lack of support when so many people at Tufts have a great time participating in these activities. I strongly believe that our school should ENCOURAGE people to participate in athletic endeavors, and not discourage them. Girls Volleyball - good luck with your season and I hope everything works out in your favor!

The students and community Occupiers who are demonstrating are lawfully assembling and petitioning for redress of grievances in the finest American Patriotic tradition. As is the Tea Party.

Enough already. Occupy an employment agency

Impartial,

I don't believe that we need full articles, but a tiny box; a score. So that people can see scores somewhere. And it wouldn't be twice a semester; these teams compete every weekend. No one knows how they do because that information is not available, perhaps not because no one would care to see it.

I attached my name to my letter. I was also polite. I'm afraid the same cannot be said for you. So yeah, I'm a sophomore who thinks he deserves some respect...more respect that an anonymous troll deserves, anyway.

Alum, thank you. I'm hoping to work with the Daily to start helping the student body have access to this kind of information, and to help foster more of a sense of Jumbo pride. If anyone you know is interested in helping, by all means.

Cheers.

I'm sorry, are you trying to strengthen the bond between Tufts and Somerville or are you trying to "let the world know" about how banks operate? This is so stupid. Have you ever been in that Bank of America? The people were always so nice. "I hope they behave responsibly." No you don't. You want them to start spraying you with pepper spray so that you can keep whining. I'm disgusted I went to the same school as you kids. What a waste of time and brainpower.

I've also heard that TCF/IVCF enforces another policy that leaders must refrain from romantic involvement with "non-Christians," equally outrageous ans discriminatory. This and such discrimination based on sexual orientation completely contradict Tufts' non-discrimination policy, and frankly reflects badly on Christianity. I'm in complete agreement, and the fact that these policies have remained in place for so long is inconceivable.

way to be an ass to a guy simply asking about some very simple reporting. no need to go out of your way to denigrate his polite letter, which was very carefully parsed so as not to make the comparative transgressions that you allege. you could have simply suggested the features section instead of creating your own self-validation project in attacking him.

I guess you don't know much about newspapers. I can't hold it against you for wishing you received more coverage so that Mock Trial and Ballroom dancing get the cred they deserve, but I can hold it against you for not being very thoughtful here. First of all, there is a sports section in the newspaper. Articles are written about the sports teams and are published in the sports section. Don't try to compare Mock Trial to a sports team. It just doesn't work. So the next question is what section your once or twice-a-semester Mock Trial or Ballroom article would go. Well, in a small daily newspaper, there is not much space. Generally the Arts and Features section publish non-time-sensitive pieces, so I think your best bet would be the news section. Well, a lot of stuff happens on a weekend, so to ask that an article about your team's weekend performance--which has undeniably succeeded--be placed in the Monday paper is surely a misguided hope. Maybe later in the week. But typically the Daily has to make some choices about what to put in Monday's paper, and I'd bet they usually choose the pieces that will get read. Hate to break it to you, but the Jumbo community barely supports its sports teams, and they have an entire section in the paper. The only people that are going to read or care about an article about Mock Trial or Ballroom are the people on those teams. So I think most of your letter to the editor is more about narcissism/validation of your accomplishments by seeing it in the paper. In reality, if you want exposure to the Jumbo community, your best bet would not be to ask for a Monday news article about your specific performance that weekend (again, nobody would read) but instead to talk to the Daily about writing some big feature in the Features (!) section about your team, its history, its recent successes, etc where it could be spun into something more interesting then "Mock Trial Team Wins Mock Trial Invitational."

I guess my larger point here is, STFU and stop whining, there are tons of groups on campus that feel they are underappreciated and under-covered in the Daily. I was friends with a lot of the Daily kids and know that it's not easy to accomodate the requests of all the overzealous sophomores who think they deserve some respect.

Well they're certainly free of western influence now.

Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and their ilk evidently prefer the Iranian or Somalian approach to good governance Good luck with that.

I hope the Club Sports Oversight Committee eventually decides to give this amazing team club status. As an alumni and former member of the Women's Club Volleyball Team, I believe this group of girls has the organization and commitment dispersed throughout each class to continue strongly as a team. The club level provides the commitment and expectations much higher than IM sports, but with much less of a time commitment than playing at the Varsity level. This team was my favorite extracurricular activity at Tufts and I hope that it is able to continue.

For the last two years the team managed to survive and develop both its team unity and player strength. We did this without a coach or status as a club team. We practiced in Cousens twice weekly and rarely found that it inhibited the use of the court for others. I think the team really brightened up the environment in Cousens, especially with the occasional themed practices. I'm sad to hear that the girls are no longer able to practice on campus, but wish them the best of luck in achieving the recognition from Tufts that they truly deserve.

Barf. You guys suck. Please don't write this again next semester

for the most part there is not 'colorism' in the african american community. this would be the legacy of the one-drop rule which defined anyone with any african ancestry as just 'black' or 'colored' or 'negro', with no sub-categories like we have in latin america. the ODR was used to isolate blacks from white society, but it also had the side-effect of uniting african americans across the color spectrum. and is actually seen as a good thing by many blacks due to its unifying effects.

You are young student, and sorry, I don't think you really watching House from the beginning. House md was a big in the first 2 o 3 years when the quality was suberb, House md was a medical mistery whit the patience in the center of the plotlines. After that he become a ridiculous and unconvincing soap opera whit the first interests for the showrunner is ''who goes to bed with who''? Sorry but they loss all their credibility, big awards and rating succes many years ago. That's it.

Way to go T Squash!

In Pennsylvania (where I'm originally from), indecent exposure includes the requirement: "that this conduct is likely to offend, affront or alarm." A girl there got in trouble for participating in a similar tradition, but the judge decided that anyone who was in that part of campus, in the middle of the night, on that particular night, knew exactly what they were getting into. Since there was no one to "affront or alarm," she, and several others, got off.

I doubt the state law mentioned in the article would hold up in court (at least for this instance).

So, running around in a thong is acceptable?

ensure, not insure

Hey, folks -

It's worth checking out the full, unabridged version of this piece that Calvin posted to facebook. Let me know if you need any help tracking it down!

- John-Michael

meh, you can always get drunk and streak it.

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The whole point of the public accommodations section was bathrooms. Companies shouldn't be left vulnerable to suits because they don't want to spend hundreds of thousands on constructing gender neutral bathrooms so that a tiny subset of the population can use them. Just use a stall, and it doesn't really matter

This oped battle has gone on long enough. Everyone involved in this needs to just lock themselves in a room and battle to the death until only one remains. Samuel Murray, you are an idiot, and your continuous responses just keep proving it, while also making you look really petty.