Rules of Engagement, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, is not the most original movie. It uses big name actors in war scenes and culminates in an exciting military trial, a kind of Saving Private Ryan meets A Few Good Men.
For the past week, Tufts has played host to ten Chinese students as part of the second phase of the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective (TILIP) 2000. After a busy schedule packed with activities, the students' visit culminates with a symposium entitled Globalization and Modernization in China, which began Sunday.
Almost a year has passed since the Columbine shooting and our representatives in Washington, D.C. continue to bicker, reluctant to pass any substantial gun control legislation. Now, in his last year in office, lame-duck President Bill Clinton has proposed an ambitious initiative to license all handgun owners.
It is a known fact: Americans fear dentists more than any other profession. Everyone remembers the excruciating sound of the drill, that sharp metal tool that dentists probe your gums with, and the sucking tube that always sticks to your tongue whenever you try to talk. For these reasons, most people develop a fear of dentist office visits at a very young age.
The honor of being the only undergraduate to speak at graduation was bestowed upon senior Keshia Pollack late last night as the Committee on Student Life (CSL) announced her as their choice for the 2000 Wendell Phillips Award.
When then-fencing coach Sherman Teichman asked the University if he could teach a half-credit, six-week Experimental College class on terrorism and political violence in the fall of 1986, he could never have guessed that his idea would eventually become the now-famous Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC). The idea came to him in the midst of the TWA flight 847 hijacking crisis, which occurred just on the heels of the US embassy crisis in Tehran, Iran. Fencing was only a small part of Teichman's vast expertise - his background included experience with operations in Israeli security, counter-terrorism, and an extensive knowledge of foreign policy in the Middle East. As an Israeli native, Teichman has more personal experience with terrorism than many of his peers in the United States.
The Museum of Science in Boston has recently expanded its exhibits and programs to incorporate new technology. Since this expansion, computers have been integrated into several exhibits and more high-tech displays have opened.
It might soon become more expensive for international students to attend Tufts, if a proposed regulation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is enacted. If approved, the regulation will impose a $95 entrance fee upon international students studying at American universities.
As Tufts students, we often take food for granted. Carmichael is far from exotic. Even the Chinese take-out from Hodgdon isn't very different from the mystery meat of Kee Kar Lau - and Hodgdon is definitely not open the latest in town. Furthermore, the gross majority of you who have a kitchen use it to do little more than store beer and make ramen noodles. This sad situation drives us poor Tufts students off-campus to eat more often than our budgets can usually handle.
Waiters came out of their restaurants to gawk. Tourists clutching shopping bags and Starbucks cups slowed their steps. And suited men and women gazed down in wonder from the windows of the Hynes Convention Center, where the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention had just begun on March 26.
The Los Angeles Lakers have garnered a lot of headlines for their tight-knit race with the Portland Trailblazers thus far on the season, but it was a different sort of story that stood out during the team's six-game east coast road trip that culminated last night in Cleveland. The first four games of the trip comprised a tour of reunions, as the cities of Chicago, Charlotte, Orlando, and Philadelphia all fell at the hands of a former friend and current Laker.
Hell days are born in February. The freezing weather, the flu, exams, darkness falling at 5 p.m. - small wonder that most breakups I've been through happened in February. For the shortest month, it's also the cruelest (forget what T.S. Elliot said about April). I mean, look at February's holidays: Groundhog Day reminds us winter is here to stay. President's Day seems to have been invented by car dealerships and appliance stores just so they can make stupid commercials where Abraham Lincoln says "Four score and seven years ago, I had never seen such savings!" We shan't even discuss Valentine's Day.
Working in conjunction with Harvard University, Tufts brought experts from around the world to campus this weekend for an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the Venezuela's future under its new president. The conference, organized by Latin American Politics Visiting Lecturer Tony Spanakos, gathered many noted speakers to explore the broad spectrum of forces at work in Venezuela, from political and economic issues to specific questions of administration and public sector reform and constitutional change.
The women's squash team ended its season two weekends ago with a third place finish in Division C of the 2000 Howe Cup at Yale, sealing its final record at 11-12 in the process. The Jumbos, who were seeded third going in, went 2-1 on the weekend, topping Smith and Wellesley and falling to Hamilton.
People don't usually ask me about the size of my turds. But last Wednesday one man did, and although it was a little disconcerting, it was not completely surprising. This was not the first sign that things would be a little different, that day. I had already been asked to pose for photos with complete strangers and had even been offered a large bucket of peanuts.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, will speak to media-savvy and socially aware students today as the next segment of the weekly class "Community Forum on Leadership for Active Citizenship."
Wednesday, February 16 and Tuesday, February 29
Greatest hits compilations make up some of the most degrading musical releases. By taking only the songs that people have heard on the radio and breaking them apart from their albums, they destroy the artist's vision of a complete work, and deprive the listener of many otherwise-unknown pieces.
While the Boston Marathon was winding down in the city yesterday, the Tufts baseball team was engaged in its own "Jumbo marathon" at Huskins Field. The Jumbos, who jumped out to a early commanding lead over the UMass-Boston Beacons, barely survived a bitter cold, 4-hour brawl with an eventual 14-12 win.
The men's basketball team won its fourth game in a row Saturday afternoon at Bowdoin College, topping the Polar Bears, 78-75 in the regular season finale. The win pushes the Jumbos' final record to 18-6, and likely assures them of home court advantage for the opening round of the ECAC Tournament. The seedings are scheduled to be announced today, and coach Bob Sheldon's crew expects to be hosting an opening round game on Wednesday night in Cousens.
