With the 112th Boston Marathon rapidly approaching, it seems that Tufts' fitness focus has turned to running. In fewer than two weeks, more than 200 runners are set to compete with the Tufts Marathon Team, ramping up long treadmill lines and hopping up and down at intersections as they anticipate a traffic light's switch from red to green.
Tufts has received $136 million, the largest gift in the university's history, after charitable trust funds set up almost 50 years ago by engineer and businessman Frank Doble (E '11) were dissolved.
We Googled "Boston, food, restaurant" on a whim, and went straight from there to the South End's Masa.
After a pair of one-run victories over NESCAC rival Williams Sunday, the baseball team found itself on the wrong side of a one-run game against Brandeis yesterday.
Pieter-Dirk Uys does drag. Donning wigs, heels and more makeup than an aging Avon saleslady in a "Cirque du Soleil" show, the 60-something South African man transforms into a variety of different women over the course of two hours. As he sashays around the stage in high heels with a grace that most women can only envy, it's obvious that Uys has had a lot of practice. He began performing in South Africa during apartheid, using his characters to satirize the government. Now, 14 years after South Africa's establishment of democracy, Uys is still using humor to critique politicians and the people they govern.
John Baronian (A '50), a Tufts alum and longtime supporter of the university, died on April 5 at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 87.
The weather may have been gloomy, but the women's crew team shined brightly against Mt. Holyoke, Vermont and Tulane on the Medford River this past weekend.
Bob Knight: everything that's wrong with college basketball since 1959.
Politics is an ugly game. Intra-party disputes like primaries can get pretty nasty.
Congratulations! The power to decide the fate of an entire nation has been vested in you!
The Jumbos picked up a pair of weekly NESCAC awards yesterday, courtesy of women's lacrosse freshman Amanda Roberts, softball sophomore Stefanie Tong and freshman Pat O'Donnell in baseball.
Showtime Network has always been known for pushing the boundaries of television, first with "The L Word," a show focusing on the intertwining lives of lesbians, then "Weeds," a show about a widowed housewife selling weed to support herself, and most recently, "The Tudors." Now in its second season, "The Tudors" is loosely based on the early reign of King Henry VIII. The first season began with Henry's negotiations with Francis I of France and ended with the death of the previous Chancellor Wolsley and the first seduction of the king by Anne Boleyn.
After a four-match winning streak that lasted from March 15 to April 1, the men's tennis team has dropped three in a row to NESCAC rivals to fall to 6-5 overall and 2-4 in the conference. This weekend, the Jumbos fell to a pair of Maine powerhouses, dropping 7-2 matches to both Bates and Bowdoin.
A recent study released as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported that nearly a quarter of teenage girls are infected with a sexually transmitted disease. The study, which was covered widely by a variety of media outlets, surprised many with the prevalence of four sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in particular: human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes and trichomoniasis.
TV executives behind shows like NBC's "The Office," and the ABC Family's "Greek," were ecstatic last January when Nielsen Media Corporation announced that it would begin mapping the television-viewing patterns of college students and factor college residence halls into its annual programming tally.
"Let's not do the wrong thing and I swear it might be fun."
The Tufts University Department of Public and Environmental Safety recently modified the policies of Tufts Emergency Medical Service (TEMS), requiring that an ambulance accompany medical technicians on all alcohol-related calls, regardless of the
Tufts students gathered on the Tisch Library roof yesterday morning for the fifth annual Culture Fest event, a celebration of diversity and community on campus. The event included a variety of ethnic foods and performances from various campus groups.
When the Minnesota Timberwolves changed their marketing slogan from "see what they can do" to "let's build it," it was clear what the higher-ups meant: "This team is God-awful. Let's see if we can sell some hope to distract the fans."
