What if I told you that we were going to celebrate mediocrity? The worst hospitals get the first pick of doctors. The lowest ranked schools choose from the best applicants. In fact, this is the attitude that professional sports encourage.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate discussed the possibility of adding an International Community Representative to its ranks during its weekly meeting last night. The idea, which was proposed by freshman Senator Gauri Seth during the open forum period, was supported by several senators who argued that the international community needs a representative to help students with marginalization and cultural adjustment.
How should one go about finding new books and authors to read? Literary reviewers? Blogs? Those websites that match you up with a good read, eHarmony style? Ambling about Tisch and choosing stuff arbitrarily?
Tom Bourdon, director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center, will leave Tufts on March 14 to become the president of Greater Boston Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
After just a nose separated first- and second-place finishers Mucho Macho Man and Will Take Charge in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., the two horses are geared up for an exhilarating rematch this Saturday in the Santa Anita Handicap. This year, the Big 'Cap, as it is commonly referred to, has one of the most thrilling fields of horses running since its creation in 1935. A mile and a quarter in length, the race is for horses who are four-years-old and over, and boasts a purse of $750,000. It is also a Grade I, the highest level of competition in horse racing. The race will be covered live at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports 1 on Saturday, March 8.
World renowned biologist J. Craig Venter will speak about genetics during this year's President Lecture, scheduled to take place Monday, March 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the ASEAN Auditorium.
Nine Tufts students were arrested alongside 389 others in Washington, D.C., on Sunday as they protested the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration may approve for construction.
You can't go backstage without an escort." This is blurted out of the mouth of a man wearing an oversized black suit standing by the stage door. You have got to be kidding me. The last time I saw Brett play was at a small coffee shop in my hometown wearing flip-flops, and his feel good music was barely audible over the espresso machine. There were no stage doors and no bouncers. I guess we have come a long way. I'm living in a world away from home and he's playing to hordes of happy plaid-wearing people singing along to every word of every song. I hadn't seen him in many moons and the transformation was palpable. It was like when a movie cuts to 10 years in the future and the characters' lives are completely upside down from where they were when the movie started. It's not every day you get to see someone become the person they always wanted to be. But when you do, and when they become a person making art for large groups of people, it's an exciting feeling.
Tufts University ranked ninth among top medium-sized schools that produce Peace Corps volunteers, up from 15th in 2013. Twenty-four of Tufts undergraduate alumni are currently serving abroad with the program.Many students and officials have attributed the high number of Tufts volunteers to the focus ...
It's a lot easier for people with power to deny a reality than for those who live that reality. With class, racial and familial privilege comes the power to irrevocably deny what on the surface seems obvious to many people. As time progresses, I am finding myself more and more obliged to detect people wearing these goggles and a) ask them to take them off for just a second (like in this column) or b) attempt to smack them off of their faces (in conversation). The later one gets me a bit more heated than the first but nevertheless, helping people see the possibility of becoming more "politically erect" instead of the mindless, meme-ing politically correct young Americans we've been trained to be is something that keeps a pep in my step and a venom on my tongue that I'm not letting go of anytime soon. On a college campus like Tufts,' where people's presumed liberal politics translates into at best inaction and complacency and at worst an appropriation orgy that commandeers conversations to benefit the wearers of denial goggles, some of us find ourselves tasked with snatching them off. It's a matter of dignity.
Paul Robeson, a commonly overlooked figure in the grand scheme of African American history, was the epitome of a Renaissance man. He distinguished himself in professional football, political activism, singing and acting. Robeson's powerful and robust, yet uniquely smooth bass timbre propelled him to the national limelight where he enjoyed an illustrious, albeit ephemeral, reign as a Hollywood actor and singer. One of the highlights of his film career is the well-known "Showboat" (1936), made famous by his unforgettable rendition of "Ol' Man River." In the dozen or so movies he appeared in, Robeson's acting roles were fairly limited to archetypal roles reserved for big black males. Yet, his 1936 film, "Song of Freedom," temporarily released him from such confinements by providing him with the effective political voice that he had been yearning for by that time in his career.
If you thought the biggest baseball move of the offseason was the Mariners' signing Robinson Cano, think again.
It is now time to think what a true "scene from Spain" is. The only issue with this rather broad title is that Spain consists of a fair number of regions, each with its own unique scenes, foods, dialects and climates. Regions like Andaluc?a the south of Spain include the cities of Sevilla (its capital), Granada and C??diz - one of the oldest cities in Spain. This region includes both mountains and beautiful beaches, along with places to surf, ski and watch daily bullfighting and flamenco shows.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted to support the establishment of an undergraduate education major in a 22-0-0 vote last month. Now that the resolution has passed, TCU President Joe Thibodeau said the next step is sending it to faculty to discuss how to proceed.
Believe it or not, language is old. People have been talking to one another for quite some time now. There are a lot of weird, colloquial uses of language that trip up many language-learners. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of language that is not very kind to women.
Hamilton Pool will reopen today after the university repaired cracks discovered during winter break maintenance.
A group of about 50 to 60 students purchased nearly all the alcohol in Hotung's mini-fridge on Jan. 24 to illustrate the need, and desire, for a space on campus for those of legal age to drink. Currently HotungCaf?© is the only place to "get a drink" on campus.
Once upon a time people couldn't instantly see the photos they took. They couldn't adjust the brightness or add a filter. They couldn't immediately crop out randos in the background, and their friends had to wait until the photos were developed to decide whether or not they approved of them. It was a scary time. And, on top of all that, once people had their non-filtered photos, there wasn't all that much they could do with them. Pictures went into albums and occasionally frames, and were pulled out every now and again to show visiting family members. But, for the most part, the only person who really got to see photos was the person who took them.
Every chartered Tufts Greek organization will have a house next year, as the Sigma Nu (SigNu) fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) sorority will move into 90-94 Curtis Street together.
I present some highlights and takeaways from a busy week in hip-hop that included a number of releases from big name artists. Without further ado:
