It was a rip-roaring affair, involving no small amount of revelry, carousing and even, I've heard, some sports. School-wide events like homecoming are always real red-letter days, allowing one to meet everyone and anyone that you have ever had the chance to meet at Tufts.
Tufts lights up on these sorts of occasions. Every advantage and benefit that the University gives to its students seems to be on display for one day, making it no wonder that Homecoming is one of the biggest days for alums to return to campus.
And the alums are a part of the world of Tufts University as well. From donations to on-campus speeches, alums try to give a little back to their alma mater. The Daily is starting to tell these alums' stories through our Features series "Onward and Upward," which continues today with a profile of Bob Meyers, vice president of primetime at CNBC on page three.
We think that students and alums want larger coverage for this sort of thing and, as always, the Daily aims to please. Relive the day that many of you probably don't remember with our Homecoming photo spread on page 22. Sports sent out its reporting staff across campus on Saturday to cover everything from volleyball to field hockey to give them a huge section today.
Working on the Daily, you spend your days trying to "find" stories across campus, implying that the stories are not actually there until the Daily deigns to put them into print.
But during special events like Homecoming, I am reminded that the Daily also has an integral role as the University's record keeper. The stories from Homecoming are what current students will go to tuftsdaily.com for five years after they live Tufts and start to think back on their time here.
This idea of being one of the University's record keepers is being helped by the Tufts Digital Archives' ability to search back through images of every Tufts Daily issue since it was created in February, 1980. Given the rapid turnover that, by definition, the four-year college experience in all aspects of student life, it is important to have a record of this sort. Unlike the histories compiled by non-students, the Daily is history recorded as it happens, by members of the student body.
