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How bizarre, how bizarre
March 31O.M.C.'s song How Bizarre doesn't seem all that weird to me. Whoever wrote it must live a life much like mine.
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SWM, 21...umm, help me out here
March 31So I'm headed down to Cancun in a week, but from what I've heard, apparently everyone attractive down there has some sort of contagious rash from dancing naked in waist-high foam. Or they have the clap. So, it's probably not the best place to meet women.
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Gore brings invaluable experience to the presidency
March 31"Arguably no vice president in history has come before the electorate better prepared for the job." - The Boston Globe
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O'Leary publishes new book
March 31Although Father David O'Leary's tenure at Tufts has lasted less than two years, he has already made his mark. Jumping right into religious programming and writing a new book, he has become an integral part of the community.
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US policy all too consistent in Latin America
March 31While I was glad to see Professor Tony Spanakos point our attention to human rights atrocities, governmental abuses, and historical US complicity in Latin American authoritarianism ("Crisis management: The best foreign policy towards Latin America?" 4/13), there is no getting around the fact that his account remains both na??vely understated and highly misleading.
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Men warm up to outdoor season
March 31Men's track coach Connie Putnam got his first chance to witness the Tufts outdoor team in action this past Saturday at the Snowflake Classic, held at Ellis Oval. Since most schools were coming off spring break and taking part in their first meet of the season, Saturday's non-scoring meet had a relaxed atmosphere as Boston College, Umass-Lowell, Colby, Worcester State and many more came out to perform. The meet also contained independent performers and members of the Greater Boston Track Club and Boston Athletic Association.
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Tufts Veterinary School doctors and students help community
March 31As undergraduates, we rarely think about what goes on at the grad schools, especially at the Tufts Veterinary School. Located in the town of Grafton, on Tufts' Grafton campus, it is removed and seems relatively unrelated to what goes on here at the Medford campus and in our surrounding community. However, this is not the case. Work done at the Vet School is not only connected to work done here, but it is also intermingled with the community at large.
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Gong Show set to display 'talented' students
March 31Tonight is going to be no ordinary night at Hotung Caf?©. The room will be filled with students who have prepared a variety of acts for the first-ever Tufts Gong Show, which is sponsored by the Pre-Vet Society.
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A failure six years in the making
March 31What can you accomplish in six years? In the last six years our world has changed drastically. The Internet, once an esoteric nerd word, is now a staple of our everyday lives. In the last six years we have brokered peace accords in Ireland and Israel. We have cloned animals. In 1994 the St. Louis Rams could not win a game and now they reign as Super Bowl champions. In the last six years we have impeached and acquitted a president. Six years ago Brittney Spears was a Mouseketeer. Michael Jordan retired, returned, and won three championships before retiring again. Six years ago we were in the eighth grade, still marveling at the idea of high school, let alone college. And, in the last six years, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) has accomplished nothing.
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Accomplishments overlooked
March 31This past Thursday, I was disturbed when, flipping through the Daily, I saw three Viewpoints denouncing the Senate and one, in particular, calling for my impeachment from my position as president. Upon reading Choo Pin Ang's piece ("Impeach Larry Harris," 2/17), I found that the majority of it discussed the behavior of two Senators at last week's Tufts Community Union Judiciary and Senate debate - a debate which I didn't even attend - but made little mention of anything that I had done to warrant my impeachment. The "facts," as they are presented in Ang's piece, attempt to link those senators' actions at the debate with my performance as president; a connection which I think is very unfair. There was not one mention of any constitutional violation or illegal activity performed on my part and yet here was a student entitling his Viewpoint "Impeach Larry Harris." The only charge made in the entire piece was that I have conducted "personal politics" during my tenure as president. I'm not sure what evidence Ang has to back up that assertion, but whatever it is, it certainly wasn't in his Viewpoint.
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Dean Reitman: the obvious choice
March 31Ballou has a help wanted sign hanging in the front window. And as a result, students may be soon losing one of the best administrators we have. For the last year, Bruce Reitman has been the "Acting" Dean of Students. While Dean Reitman has been meeting with students and working to improve student life and communication between students and the administration, the Ballou higher-ups have placed classified ads in journals of higher education around the country.
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Tufts Society for Creative Anachronism goes medieval
March 31According to its official website, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is, "an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history," and not, as many think, a club for people who like to play word games.
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Give peace a chance - even if you have a boyfriend
March 31Last year, the United States refused to ratify the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. It seems we'd rather remain on-guard, perpetually primed for attack. If we couldn't engender enough of a climate of trust to do away with nuclear testing, then what hope do we have of ever shutting down the most dreaded weapon of all... the Automatic Boyfriend Response System?
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Abrasive trucker rock leaves listeners exhausted
March 31After listening to just a few verses off the first track of King of the Road, the latest release from Southern California rockers Fu Manchu, cartoonish, obvious images immediately came to mind. This is trucker rock, I figured jokingly. Beer drinkin', 18-wheeler drivin' kind of stuff. But pigeonholing an entire album from a few repeated buzzing chords and grating vocals would just be wrong. Let's give it a chance, I thought.
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Insensitivity plagues dental school
March 31My father passed away on July 1, 1999. A year before, he had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth and throat. For the months in between, there were countless tests, treatments and drugs. Each one, however, seemed to take more life out of him than it restored. In fact, his last few months might have been more comfortable without those grueling, so-called therapies. The only real results modern medicine seemed to have produced was an unpleasant end and a medical bill in the neighborhood of $200,000.
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Camels light up Jumbos in crucial NESCAC battle
March 31The men's basketball team went into its biggest weekend needing to play almost perfectly to knock off NESCAC-leader Connecticut College. The Jumbos were not up to the challenge, as they were whipped on their home court Saturday afternoon 87-54.
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Stop marking everything up
March 31I sure am glad that I don't have to wait until "Writer's Month" to have people read my columns. I continually find it bizarre that women, blacks, Asians, Outer Mongolians, and other large portions of the human race apparently have to wait until a designated time of the year for people to notice that they're people.
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