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Cher coughs up a good show

March 31

Like it or not, pop music dominated the charts and radio waves last year. Much was as sweetly maudlin as sugar cane, but there were some enjoyable and ultra-fun mainstream grooves. Two of the most successful ditties were definitely freshman Lou Bega's "Mambo #5" and, in one of the most phenomenal comebacks, Cher's "Believe." So the pairing of the two on a tour, which stopped at the Fleet Center on Friday, March 3, made more good economic sense.

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Cat Power brings some classics of blues up to date

March 31

On 1998's Moon Pix, Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, gave us an album that ranked among the decade's best, a shimmering dream of music. Marshall sprinkles her new LP, The Covers Record, with the same magic dusk dust, but this time out her blues style is even more personal (humorous considering the album's title gives away its content: all covers). On The Covers Record, Marshall strips away the backing that fleshed out Moon Pix, using only guitar and piano as her accompaniment, and chooses to highlight specific elements of songs rather than their complete original form.

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Senate elects general board, ALBO chairs

March 31

In the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's final action this year, the body held in-house elections for its general board, which consists of the executive board and the committee chairs, as well as the Allocations Board [ALBO] council chairs. Out of 17 positions up for grabs, only four were contested.

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Parting words: What do you get out of college?

March 31

Life is change.

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Bad Boy stumbles again

March 31

Black Rob's debut album Life Story comes out at an interesting time for his label, Bad Boy Records. In years past, Bad Boy, owned by media star Sean "Puffy" Combs, has ruled the rap scene. Propelled by catchy pop songs and the lyrics of now-slain rapper Notorious B.I.G., Bad Boy grossed mo' money than any other hip-hop label in history. However, after the death of Biggie, Bad Boy's fortunes have fallen. Two other key members of the label, the Lox and Mase, have left, and the label's new albums have failed to catch on without the reputation of Biggie to back them up. To top it all off, another rapper, Shyne, and Puffy himself have been involved in a double murder inside a nightclub that may land both men in jail.

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Fines put towards financial aid

March 31

Absentminded Tufts students who misplace their identification cards are well aware of the $5 fine that Dining Services charges them to gain access to the dining halls without their card. What many of these students are not aware of is that Dining Services is donating that money to the Senior Fund, a division of financial aid.

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Resignations plague TCU government, hurt system

March 31

Craig Waldman's resignation as Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) Co-chair on Monday night was only one in a series of resignations that have plagued the TCU government over the past two years. Eleven TCU members have now resigned this year.

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Students show true colors, fight for Uwa

March 31

People stereotype Americans as ethnocentric and apathetic, insensitive to issues outside of their immediate spheres. I beg to differ. On Sunday night, about 100 people found a connection between a group of 5,000 indigenous people in the cloud forests of Colombia and their own lives and culture. They took an evening out of their weekend to hear the President of the Uwa, Roberto Perez, speak about the Uwa's struggle against Occidental Petroleum, a US-owned company that wants to drill for oil on their land.

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Meal plan over religion?

March 31

It's hard to resolve my problem in an environment where everyone forwards me to someone else, and at the end of the vicious circle I am directed back to where I started.

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Crimes and misdemeanors

March 31

How quickly they fall. We revere them, endear them to our hearts, and look to them to be beautiful, moral, and relatively intelligent. America has made Hollywood celebrities and pop stars its royal family. However, unlike the royal families of Europe, we do not keep our royalty on pedestals when they screw up. If Prince Charles has 15 bastard children with Camilla, he's still the future King of England. But if the American public hears that Bill Cosby might have had even one kid out of wedlock, we castrate him for a week before we hear it's not true. It's the double-edged sword of fame.

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Goodbye to a legend

March 31

It's Valentines Day, the most loving day of the year. However, a little piece of my heart is down today. I have an image of a little boy and his dog waiting at the mailbox. They are sad as well, because they know what I know: Yesterday was the end of an era, the end of a legend.

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Hotung changes soon complete

March 31

Chicken wings, mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers, nachos, and chicken quesadilla rolls will all be available for student enjoyment in Hotung Caf?© beginning early next week as part of Hotung's renovation into a sports-style pub.

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Peace and Justice Studies internships available for the summer

March 31

Still looking for an internship for this summer? The Institute in Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence is offering internship opportunities - some with a $1,000 stipend - at several institutions around Boston for the summer as a part of their collaboration with Tufts' Peace and Justice Studies department. Below is a sampling of some of the available positions for program participants during the summer:

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Psychedelic melodies aplenty

March 31

When discussing the Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, there's a joke that is very appropriate: two guys sit near the back of the club listening to Gorky front man Euros Childs talk, and one guy says to the other, "What'd he say?" The other responds by saying he doesn't understand Welsh. The punch-line is that Childs was speaking English the whole time. And such is the story for Gorky's, the supremely talented psychedelic folk-pop outfit which played last Wednesday at the Middle East.

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Presidential election is today

March 31

Senator David Moon and Senate Vice President Moira Poe will be holding their collective breaths today as students cast votes on their choice to lead the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate next year. The vote is the culmination of over a week of campaigning, as well as several years of work on the Senate.

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Jumbos ground Falcons for second straight victory

March 31

The men's lacrosse team kept its postseason hopes alive yesterday, hanging on for a decisive 15-13 victory over the Bentley College Falcons at Kraft Field. After going 0-4 in the first two weeks of April, the Jumbos have now won back-to-back games and are primed to close out the season at their peak.

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A Valentine's Day guide made just for the completely clueless

March 31

So you've got a date for Valentine's Day, now what? Choosing a thoughtful, yet appropriate gift for your special someone is not easy to do, since giving someone the wrong gift could ruin the entire evening. To alleviate some of the pressure, I have done some extensive research by polling at least a dozen college students, and checking out a handful of gift-related websites.

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Heat catching fire in Atlantic

March 31

The New York Knicks and Miami Heat, well on their way to what could become an ugly Atlantic Division race, met for a rather interesting contest this past Monday. With the Knicks out two key players and the Heat playing without their best player, the game did not end up as many would have expected.

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Shades of Purple' too sweet to swallow

March 31

The candy box that has housed pop music for the past year is a variety pack, whose contents have ranged from the tart 'n' tangy belly-baring nymphets turned sex symbols, to the uniformly sweet, yet different flavored Skittles quality of the five-boy formula. Now Norway's M2M has entered the mix with their new CD Shades of Purple, but in a different form. They're straight-out, electric pink, sugary-sweet cotton candy, and as innocent as the circuses and carnivals where such treats are found.

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Enigma has become the 'Puff Daddy' of new age

March 31

Sampling has become the clich?© of modern rap/hip-hop music. Puff Daddy takes big hits from the likes of Sting and Led Zeppelin, adds a new beat, raps clumsily for a few minutes, and calls it a new song. The Notorious B.I.G. recycles Diana Ross and lands a number one single. Mase resurrects an old Gloria Estefan track and is declared innovative. And then there is perhaps the biggest offender of them all: Will Smith. Whether you are Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, or even The Clash, you're no match for Mr. Smith, as ALL of his big singles since "Men In Black" have essentially been re-creations of hits from the past.

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