The importance of mental health on college campuses has increasingly led students around the country to take action, and Jumbos are no exception. This year a new student group, the Tufts chapter of the Active Minds organization, was created in order to ra...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has had a troubling last two weeks, mourning the death of graduate student Kabelo Zwane. Another graduate student, Guangtau Cong, went missing last Monday but has since been found. A sophomore from Swaziland...

 As part of an ongoing effort to create healthier food options for Tufts students, Dining Services has reduced the sizes of entrées offered in dining halls in recent years. “We think of it as ‘right sizing,’ quite frankly,&rd...

Most students probably do not arrive on the Hill their freshman year expecting to be enveloped in religious fervor. Indeed, popular perceptions of college hedonism don’t seem conducive to quiet spiritual reflection, and students suddenly confronted ...

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone decided to reconvene the five-person Financial Advisory Committee (FAC) last month in hopes of addressing the effects of state budget cuts and the continuing economic downturn. Curtatone created the FAC in January to addr...

The Department of Economics has expanded its graduate program options, and next year will offer two degree opportunities — one focused around class work and the other based on research. Under the department’s new plan, the current one-year Mas...

Nick McDonell’s latest novel, “An Expensive Education,” weaves together several tales as the most recent entry into the spy-thriller genre. McDonell has been critically acclaimed ever since he released his first novel, “Twelve&rdqu...

For nearly a decade, Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba has managed to keep his emo lyrics and singing interesting and relatively fresh. Dashboard’s new album, “Alter the Ending,” finds Carrabba’s old emo style, packed ...

What do Tufts, Judi Dench, Carnegie Hall and horses all have in common? The answer: notable Tufts alumna and Renaissance woman Karen S. Davis (J ’76). Many Tufts alumni pursue successful careers in the arts and media, but few can say they’ve s...

“Synchronicity,” the immaculate coincidence of movement, a perfect harmony of action, is a rare occurrence that happens either by chance or through exacting efforts. Incredibly, Tufts’ repertory dance ensemble Sarabande’s show, &ld...

There’s something about being on a TV set that incites disillusionment. Up close, sets are two-dimensional, three-walled artifices that are too colorful and sterile to be lived in. When you’re standing on set with four cameras, two boom mikes ...

Cheap shots, low shots, head shots. None of these are hockey plays — and that’s why they should all be penalties. Cheap shots generally result in interference or roughing penalties, while any check below the knees qualifies as a clipping penal...

In a season marked by debilitating injuries, a lack of offensive production and numerous close losses, the Tufts football team produced a 2-6 record, its worst performance since 2005. Still, in the midst of the aforementioned problems, the Jumbos were wit...

After the most successful season in its history, the women’s swimming and diving team is looking to continue its outstanding successes this year, with five all-conference swimmers and one diver leading the way. Last year, the team finished a best-ev...

Despite a valiant effort, the volleyball team dropped a four-set decision to heavily favored Hope College in the national quarterfinals yesterday afternoon in University Heights, Ohio. The setback ends the Jumbos’ historic 2009 season with a mark of...

Coming off of a season in which a young squad may have overachieved, a more experienced men’s swimming and diving team is ready to break out and compete for both NESCAC and national supremacy. Last season, the Jumbos went 6-3 in dual meets but deliv...

Looking back (NOVEMBER 15) | New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts It was already billed as the best game of the year thus far, but once the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts actually hit the field Sunday night, they delivered on that sent...

When a coworker of mine gave me the idea for this column, he did so with the stipulation that I use the line “Bill Belichick is playing chess while every other NFL coach is playing checkers.” Now I can’t endorse that statement in good co...

A month from yesterday marked the 50th birthday of El Salvador’s relatively good-for-the-people president, Mauricio Funes. With 43 people murdered that same day, it also marked the “bloodiest day of the last decade,” according to El Salv...

General George S. Patton summed up the American psyche quite well when he wrote, “After each of our wars, there has always been a great hue and cry to the effect that there will be no more wars, that disarmament is the sure road to health, happiness...