Shamelessly ripping off VH1, Features has decided to do our own "Best Week Ever" in honor of all the sordid and stupid goings-on here at Tufts. Don't get offended; just be smarter next time.
This week, President Bush met with the Red Sox and received a Boston jersey from pitcher Curt Schilling. Thanks, Mr. President - we didn't have enough bandwagon fans here already. (P.S. Nice try. No one in Massachusetts would ever vote for you.)
Uh-oh. Gotta be careful with jokes like that above one. Good thing we're not professors, or we might be reported for having ideological bias under the new Tufts Academic Freedom Project (TAFP) resolution. Hooray for self-censorship!
In Monday's Daily, sophomore Marc Sittenreich wrote a Viewpoint proposing a "Sober Social Group" on yahoo.com, asking the non-drinking Tufts community to be more "vocal" in order to make "weekends on campus livelier." We just don't understand. Isn't "lively" a synonym for "drunk"?
Tufts Research Professor Dr. Paul Kirshen, a climate change expert, told the Daily that as climate change progresses, water level increases will place an insupportable strain on Boston's drainage systems. Never fear, though: he added that he thinks "people will adapt to changes in climate." Phew - if the dinosaurs can do it, so can we! Oh, wait.
Senior Sarah Kimball, who was profiled in Wednesday's Daily, said that "teaching is a profession that is not really respected ... and it deserves the most respect." Funny, that's what we always say about stripping.
In yesterday's Daily, a review of the documentary "Inside Deep Throat" said that "attitudes towards sex in this country, according to both 'Kinsey' and 'Inside,' seem to suffer from a certain 'pendulum effect.'" Pendulum effect? Ohhh, so that's what you call it when it swings back and forth. Good to know.
- Alex Dretler and Rebecca Dince
