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Senate candidates address key issues

March 31

Candidates for next year's Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate gave speeches and answered audience questions at a debate in Hotung on Monday, their only public appearance before this Thursday's campus-wide vote. Ten of the 12 candidates for the seven sophomore seats, and six of the eight candidates for the seven junior seats participated in the event. Candidates for the senior senate seats, the TCU Judiciary and the Committee on Student Life - seven students for each category - did not participate because none of their elections are contested.

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Selig-Prieb discusses her past

March 31

At 40 years old, she is the second-youngest CEO of a professional baseball team, and the only woman holding such a prestigious position. Since her appointment to this high-ranking position in 1998, she has been hitting nothing but home runs.

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Elliot returns to stun the sports world

March 31

In a comeback that defies all odds, San Antonio Spurs' forward Sean Elliot is about to finally make his historic return to the NBA. Elliot is scheduled to return tonight when his team hosts the Atlanta Hawks, returning after a seven month absence in the wake of a kidney transplant.

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Senate makes the new 'TCU Meetings' mandatory

March 31

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate approved a proposal to transform the current Leadership Alliance into new "TCU Meetings," creating a system of mandatory meetings for leaders of all TCU-funded organizations. The Leadership Alliance was designed as a method of helping leaders of student organizations coordinate with each other. The two differ greatly, however, in that the Senate has decided to make attendance to the new TCU Meetings mandatory for all TCU-funded groups and to set guidelines of monetary penalties for missing meetings.

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Final Vienna Table meeting this Friday

March 31

This Friday, March 10, members of the class of 2000 are invited to the provost's house for the last Vienna Table gathering of the year, an annual series of events hosted by Provost Sol and his wife, Robyn. The Gittlemans have been hosting Tufts seniors in moderately sized groups for the past few weeks at their house on Professor's Row, next to the campus center.

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Fans in Washington no longer facing any Capital punishment

March 31

Two years ago, the Washington Capitals took their underdog status in stride as they surprised playoff prognosticators by making it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals. There, the Caps were promptly splattered on the windshield of the Detroit Red Wings, who were steamrolling their way through the playoffs on the way to their second consecutive Cup title.

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Jumbos come back from two-goal deficit to forge 3-3 tie with UMass-Dartmouth

March 31

On Saturday night, the hockey team slid into second place in the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Northeast Division after a 3-3, overtime stalemate against UMass-Dartmouth at Boston College. The Jumbos, now trailing first- ranked Fitchburg State by a mere point, look to garner wins this week against Plymouth State and Wentworth College.

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Over the Hill

March 31

The argument that won't end should finally rest in peace today, when the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) hears (and hopefully rules on) Hill vs. ELBO, Round III. After ten months of bickering and public grandstanding over semantics, Ralan Hill will finally be allowed to represent himself before the TCUJ as he attempts to overturn ELBO's determination that last April's cabinet amendment passed.

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EPIIC, TILIP symposiums kick off with ping pong tournament

March 31

Ten students from China and dozens of Tufts students challenged one another to ping pong and discussed US/Chinese diplomacy on Sunday evening at the kickoff event of the annual Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) symposium, Global Games: Sports, Politics and Society. The competitions and debates with such a far-flung group were possible only because the Chinese students were already on campus, attending the Globalization and Modernization in China symposium, a correlated event sponsored by the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective (TILIP).

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Strange combinations and lots of variety

March 31

Movie: American Psycho

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Five finalists for the Wendell Phillips award are announced

March 31

Five important and influential campus personalities will present their thoughts in April as the group competes for the 2000 Wendell Phillips Award and the chance to speak at Commencement in May.

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Don Quixote' fun but overdone

March 31

"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"

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Tracksters defend home turf

March 31

Both the men's and women's track teams outdistanced their competitors this past weekend in a Quad Cup meet, as the newly-enshrined Gantcher Center played host to its second intercollegiate meet. The women's squad finished with a total of 192 points, outlasting NESCAC foes Colby (128) and Bowdoin (125.50). On the men's side, the Jumbos claimed top honors with 205.50, close to 70 points ahead of second-place Bowdoin (136.50).

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Chair works to better English department

March 31

Professor Jonathan Wilson, one of Tufts' most dynamic and esteemed professors, is currently enjoying his second year as the head of the English Department and his 18th as a professor at Tufts. During his career with the University, he has successfully established himself within the literary realm.

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President and Provost reject Mixed Gender Housing plan

March 31

University President John DiBiaggio and Provost Sol Gittleman met with student leaders in Ballou on March 15, where they announced that they have no intention of approving the Mixed Gender Housing Pilot Program proposal, or any similar initiative that involves male and female students sharing rooms on campus. Tufts' Transgendered Lesbian Gay Bisexual Collective (TTLGBC) Co-coordinator Carl Sciortino had been working with other students and administrators on the proposal for several weeks before he discovered that the initiative had been rejected by the President and the Provost.

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Wilde's famous comedy comes to Works Theater in Davis Square

March 31

The Works Theater in Davis Square provides an intimate setting for the staging of British playwright Oscar Wilde's hilarious play, The Importance of Being Ernest, which will delight audiences from April 6-23. Delight audiences, that is, who are willing to overlook the shortcomings of two main characters and a mundane set design.

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Somerville Mayor Kelly Gay speaks on town-gown relations, politics, feminism

March 31

Somerville Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay addressed a crowd of 25 Tufts students in Ballou Hall this Tuesday, sharing her experiences as a politician and discussing key issues concerning the Tufts community. Kelly Gay was invited as the second annual keynote speaker for the Lincoln-Filene Center's Guest Speaker Series.

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Science fantasy shames the motion picture industry

March 31

Every now and then, America needs a good dose of cheesy science fiction. Films like Armageddon and even Independence Day have answered the call in the past, grossing hundreds of millions of dollars. This spring, director Brian de Palma (Scarface, Mission Impossible) attempts to answer the demand for a little sci-fi with his latest offering, Mission to Mars, and falls very, very short. We've all seen our share of bad movies, but make no mistake: Mission to Mars is not worth two hours of your time.

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Where hunting, drinking, and cooking meet in your kitchen

March 31

There comes a point in every college student's life when Ramen noodles and Ellio's pizza no longer cut it. If you are looking for a way to expand your repertoire in the culinary arts, it is probably a good idea to pick up a few cookbooks. Instead of your grandmother's boring Betty Crocker style recipes, it might be fun to try out something a bit more exotic, something that will turn heads, something that features recipes with alligators and squirrels.

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Lax drops two NESCAC games

March 31

After moving into the ranks of the top 20 Division III teams in the country, the women's lacrosse team fell to two teams that reside in the top ten in the past week and a half. In two games sandwiched around a win over Babson, the Jumbos lost to Bowdoin last Tuesday and Williams on Saturday to drop to 4-3 and 1-2 in the NESCAC.

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