Massachusetts state Rep. Carl Sciortino (LA '00) last night drew on his experiences in politics and as an undergrad on the Hill in denouncing California's recently passed Proposition 8.
"This crisis is a wake-up call," Robert Wade said of the global financial downturn last night as he accepted the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
When Grant Stoddard arrived in Portsmouth, N.H., in 2003 to have sex with a columnist for Nerve.com as a prize for winning a contest, little did he know that he would also be joined by a Filipino porn star, a limousine driver and the woman's husband.
Erin Brockovich filled Cohen Auditorium with charisma and humor last night as she pushed a two-pronged message: Help the environment and believe in your ability to stand up for change in the face of deceit.
While most of her colleagues were occupied giving lectures or grading midterms over the last few weeks, Math Professor Marjorie "Molly" Hahn was tied up in a different kind of pursuit: competitive international tennis.
The opening two weeks of the 2008-09 NBA season have seen the resurgence of many teams that have not poked their heads above the .500 mark for much of the past decade. The Atlanta Hawks are leading the pack, and after years of disappointment and a plethora of first-round draft picks, the franchise seems to have finally turned the page. Although they have dropped their last three games, the Hawks opened their season in at impressive fashion at 6-0, beating the Orlando Magic and the New Orleans Hornets on the road before losing to the defending world champion Boston Celtics by just one point. The Hawks' recent success can be tracked back, ironically, to their failures across the last 10 years. Since going 50-32 in 1997-98, the Hawks have not had one full winning season. In fact, between 2003 and 2006, they weren't able to even break the 30-win mark. But the prolonged period of poor performance had a bright side, as it allowed the Hawks to acquire a slew of top lottery draft picks, which in turn led to the end of their long-term suffering in the NBA's cellar.
A female student was robbed at knifepoint on Leonard Street on Sunday night, according to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), which posted safety alerts about the incident in dormitories.
Medford residents joined many other Massachusetts voters in calling for action against global climate change with a ballot question on Nov. 4.
National Student Partnerships (NSP) hosted a panel last night exploring hunger and homelessness in Somerville and poverty across the nation.
As our generation starts to assert its influence in the world with a landmark presidential election, Torn Ticket II revisits the angst and trials of Generation X with its staging of "Tick, Tick... BOOM!" Jonathan Larson's one-man, semi-autobiographical tale of a struggling composer, set in 1990, comes to Tufts as an energetic three-actor production.
With 1:49 remaining and the score deadlocked 1-1 in the field hockey team's duel with The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), senior tri-captain Brittany Holiday had the chance to either prolong her collegiate career or watch it inch perilously close to its end.
out, so she started going higher, even just this past week or so, in practice," McDavitt said. "She's just so calm and she's so poised, and she just knows where she's going ... It was quite fitting for her to have the game-winning goal."
Tal Zide is not your typical filmmaker. A recent graduate of Reali High School in Haifa, Israel, her short film, "A Few More Hours" (2007), is about the death of her cousin during the Second Lebanon War. On the verge of enlisting in the Israeli army for the next two to three years, Zide made a documentary that carries a special resonance for her and her classmates who assisted with the film as part of their senior thesis project.
The Hill's two most successful fall teams began collecting postseason accolades yesterday when the NESCAC announced all-conference awards in volleyball and field hockey. Tufts was prominently represented, as a total of eight different players were honored. In addition, the Jumbos earned two of the top awards in each sport: Coach of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. A list of Tufts' honorees: Volleyball Coach of the Year: Cora Thompson Defensive Player of the Year: Natalie Goldstein - Sr. First Team: Dena Feiger - Jr. Natalie Goldstein - Sr. Second Team: Kate Denniston - Sr. Dawson Joyce-Mendive - So. Field Hockey Coach of the Year: Tina McDavitt Defensive Player of the Year: Margi Scholtes - Jr. First Team: Tamara Brown - So. Margi Scholtes - Jr. Second Team: Brittany Holiday - Sr. Amanda Roberts - So.
Craig Robinson, the new coach of the Oregon State Beavers, knows a thing or two about how to turn a long shot into a winner. As the brother of soon-to-be First Lady Michelle Obama, Robinson watched as his brother-in-law made the transformation from a little-known senator into a political phenomenon. And as he gears up for his first season in the Pac-10, Robinson knows his own challenge awaits him this winter.
Elizabeth Foster, a professor at Bates College, drew on her research and expertise yesterday in telling the Department of History about the impact of religion and French colonialism on Senegal at the turn of the 20th century.
For most, the collegiate life embodies an exposure to an array of new experiences: learning a new language, living in a new location, developing a new set of comrades.
Boston-area college students rallied in Cambridge on Sunday against Proposition 8, the voter-approved California ballot question that banned same-sex marriages in that state.
