Intramurals in playoffs

Hello and welcome to this, the last intramural update of the semester. Since Christmas is right around the corner, it is a good time to think about what that means to us as readers of these intramurals articles (i.e. Daily editors, members of the Bennett family, and some of my roommates).

Most of the intramural champions have been decided. The one that has not yet appeared in this space is the regular volleyball championship. The Isotopes came away with the victory, defeating HNRC to take the title. In the "So wait, they run around the quad naked?" league, T1 proved to be the best group of coed freshmen volleyballers in the group.

Four teams remain in the indoor soccer playoff bracket. The Screaming Butterflies advanced to the semifinals with a 5-4 upset of the previously undefeated Revolution. They play Tappa Kegga, which notched a 7-5 win over Bombshell. I-House advanced with their 6-0 whitewashing of the Halligan Hooligans. Their opponent in the other semifinal is the 357 Tigers, the tournament dark horse with a regular season record of 5-3-0 who advanced by taking a forfeit against the Greeks. The semifinal games will start on Thursday at 8 p.m., with the finals taking place on Monday at 9 p.m.

Basketball is also in its playoffs. In the co-ed division, the playoffs opened with three tight games. The No. 1-seeded Joel Aronson Project narrowly escaped the eighth-seeded Remmies 49-42. The No. 4- seeded Big Guns dispatched No. 5-seed Special Sauce by a score of 47-42. Finally, third seed Fletcher 2 scored another close victory over the sixth-seeded Hanging Chickens 56-49. In the Women's league, such parity does not exist. The No. 1-seeded Staff team croaked Balla Status 58-35 while the Shooting Stars dispatched with the Lady Malds 50-33. Nemotada aced the Troops 53-39 in the final playoff game on Monday.

Things change so fast in our fast-paced world of fast cars, fast computers, and fast food. It's good to know that there are traditions that we can hold on to in order to keep life looking familiar. Traditions that are festivals of who we are, who we were, and who we are destined to be. At Tufts, we live by traditions such as these. One tradition in particular stands out as particularly appropriate and timeless. I am speaking, of course, about the Naked Quad Run.

The Naked Quad Run is an intramural event of sorts, with a large percentage of the student body participating and watching. As the parade of pasty bodies charge by, whooping and hollering, those in the audience cannot help but lift their Steel Reserve bottles in a toast, knowing that the time is coming when somebody will take a buttock-shredding tumble while rounding the first curve. It is the human community at its purest.

Thanks are also due to the entire staff of the Tufts intramural program. Coach Talon and all of the commissioners have done a good job spearheading a program that has many scheduling and equipment issues to contend with.

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. Have the Patriots ever lost a challenge? I mean ever?

2. Which is your favorite paragraph of this article? Explain.

3. Take the Naked Quad Run alongside Commencement. What are the differences? What are the troubling similarities?

What did we learn this week?

-Only champions sleep at this apartment. SF kicker Jeff Chandler: 2-2 FG 6-6 XP

-Nothing else really.