There are plenty of times when you go out to a movie with a friend and never second-guess the just-friends status of the evening. Then there are those candlelit dinners with a certain someone that you would never doubt as being a date.
For the women's field hockey team, the second time was the charm. Appearing in the NESCAC championship for the second consecutive year, the Tufts squad's opportunity paid off with a NESCAC crown.
Jess Perkins, Field Hockey - Perkins got the Jumbos off on the right foot in Sunday's NESCAC championship, scoring her first of two goals just over a minute into Tufts' 3-2 victory over Trinity. Just 1:17 into the game, Perkins and Amanda Roberts combined for a nifty give-and-go, resulting in Perkins' slotting a shot past Trinity's goalie to give Tufts the early lead. Less than a half an hour later, Perkins would double that lead, this time from a penalty corner assisted by Margi Scholtes. The goals were the third and fourth of the season for the junior midfielder, who finished the game with three shots.
Students from schools across New England will come to Tufts' campus tomorrow to experience a new kind of environmental symposium, one featuring peer-to-peer learning focused not just on the perils of climate change but also on how to create social movements around environmental issues.
This article is the second in a two-part series that examines recent alumni and their experiences post-graduation. Denise Ozpinar (LA '09)
Voters kept incumbents in office with Tuesday's elections for Somerville aldermen and Medford city councilors who represent portions of Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus. The mayors of both cities also held their seats.
Hours before the late-night festivities of Halloween weekend began on Friday, Tufts officials reintroduced a "Bring Your Own Beer" (BYOB) policy for Greek houses hosting parties.
I'm a pretty vain guy. But only my closest friends have noticed how much I glance at my image in the mirror or how I'm meticulous about my hair or how I'm self-conscious about my body, especially my large nipples.
I am writing in response to the Nov. 3 cover story "Tufts celebrates Black Solidarity Day," but more especially in response to the event itself. I was only able to witness part of the rally behind the Campus Center patio on Monday, but what I saw does not correspond to the impression conveyed in the Daily, which quoted only proponents of the event and depicted a positive, unity-oriented celebration. Instead I heard several implicitly and explicitly racist statements, some of the most egregious of which elicited applause from those members of our faculty and fellow students in attendance.
From "Back to the Future" (1985) to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988) to "Beowulf" (2007), Robert Zemeckis has been bringing audiences fantastic stories and colorful characters for almost 40 years. With his latest movie, "A Christmas Carol" (2009), Zemeckis dabbles in cutting-edge motion capture technology yet again, giving new life to Charles Dickens' classic story. The Daily got the chance to speak to Zemeckis about his new film. Question: What inspired you to adapt Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843)? RobertZemeckis: When I was doing "Beowulf," I realized that [motion capture filmmaking] is a great form to re-introduce classic stories in a new way to a new generation of moviegoers. So with the case of "A Christmas Carol," you get a chance to realize the story in a visually modern way to capture the very spectacular and surreal way that Dickens wrote it. It's obviously a very familiar title, and it's a great story to be told in cinema, so I thought, why not? Q: "A Christmas Carol" is a timeless story. How do you balance ... the dual problem of adhering to a very traditional story but also creating a piece that is fresh, new and exciting? RZ: Well that of course is the challenge, and this is part of the reason we did it. We just attacked that problem head on. We said we're going to be extremely true to the underlying material, we're really going to extract all the elements that make it a timeless story, which are rooted in Scrooge's change and character development and in his story of redemption. The other thing, which made everyone very nervous at the studio, is I have everyone speaking in the language of the time, so we basically kept the tone that Dickens wrote in the original piece. Q: Is there anything in the Dickens' story that [has been] overlooked by past filmmakers that you highlight in your version? RZ: Past versions have not, for some reason, delved into the idea that Dickens' had great tension and great suspense, that feeling of foreboding and feeling of dread that you have in the first half of that story has been missing a lot. You have to realize that Scrooge is having this terrible nightmare, and I feel very strongly that you have to have the dark before you have the light. Q: How do you see the 3-D aspect as aiding in the telling of the story? RZ: Obviously the images don't aid in telling the story from an intellectual standpoint, but it aids in the telling of the story from an emotional standpoint. 3-D is a storytelling element just like the music is. You have the underlying intellectual material, and then you embellish it with music, with performance, and now with immersive 3-D image. It gives the audience another emotional handle on the story by immersing them in Dickensonian London.
Hip-hop artists Brother Ali and the Cool Kids will perform at Concert Board's annual Hip Hop Show on Nov. 12 — and they'll have a bit more breathing room than previous acts.
A Medford resident was arrested last week for breaking and entering into a Tufts student's home on Sunset Road, according to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Sgt. Robert McCarthy.
The imperfect crime A Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officer was advised on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. that a student was defacing public property on Curtis Street near Chetwynd Road. Wet cement had just been put down there, and a student was writing her name in it. The person who originally reported the incident told the officer that the student had entered a nearby house. The officer went to the house and spoke with the perpetrator, who turned out to be a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She came outside and smoothed out the cement. "Kind of easy to catch when you write your own name in there," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said. Spiderman, Spiderman ... TUPD received a call at 11:40 p.m. on Oct. 28 of a male student passed out in the men's restroom in the campus center, sitting on the floor next to a toilet. The student was woken up, said he was all .right and refused medical care. He had consumed several shots of alcohol and was planning to travel on a bus leaving from the campus center for the Senior Club Life celebration in Boston. The student was wearing a Spiderman Halloween costume at the time. Trick or treat or pass out in the street TUPD officers found at 12:06 a.m. on Nov. 1 an unconscious female student lying down at the corner of Curtis Avenue and Whitfield Road. As the officers arrived, another student approached them and reported being with the student when she fell to the ground. The first student was transported to Somerville Hospital. Getting slugged, as easy as 123 TUPD received a call at 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 1 from two female students who said they had been beaten up earlier that night at a party at the Theta Delta Chi house at 123 Packard Ave. The students said they were dancing in the basement of the house when one of them bumped into an unidentified female who they believed was a student. That person then turned around and hit the student in the face, below her eye. The hit student fell down, and when her friend came over to help, the unidentified female and five or six of her friends started to hit her, too. Fraternity brothers broke up the fight and removed the unidentified female and her friends from the house. There is an ongoing investigation on this, McCarthy said. Road head: the even more dangerous kind TUPD and Medford police officers responded to a call at 9:23 a.m. on Nov. 3 of a cyclist who hit a moving vehicle at the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue. The cyclist, a student, attempted to make a left turn onto College Avenue when he hit a car. He hit the windshield, and the helmet he was wearing cracked the windshield glass. The student was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Medford police are conducting an investigation.
Tufts has seen an increasing number of students with influenza-like illness (ILI), particularly on the Medford/Somerville campus, over the last few weeks.
On Saturday, Oct. 10, while most students were attending Homecoming weekend celebrations at Tufts, getting ready to go out in the city or taking part in the HONK! Festival Parade and Oktoberfest in Davis and Harvard Squares, a group of students found themselves in a conference room celebrating the second meeting of Estudiantes Venezolanos en Boston (Venezuelan students in Boston).
Tufts ranked as one of the top producers of Fulbright students among research institutions nationwide this year, reflecting a larger trend of increased interest in the selective international exchange program as students react to an uncertain job market and increased interest in international issues.
Much has changed for women since Sept. 16, 1910, the day that Bessica Raiche, a 1903 graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and one of the first female OB/GYN specialists in the United States, went down in history.
The Inter-Greek Council hosted its annual Greek block party on Friday afternoon in an effort to offer the student body an opportunity to interact with Tufts' sororities and fraternities.
A student-run Halloween event for seniors ran smoothly on Wednesday, with few instances of the excessively drunken behavior that marked the semester's inaugural Senior Pub Night.
