I should preface this column by saying that I am a complete nerd, and I have no delusions of being anything but. I resigned myself to this fate a long, long time ago; I'm well past the point of no return.
As midterms pass and finals loom just over the horizon, many seniors are busy trying to secure jobs and living arrangements.
After months of arduously training for the spring season, it seems as if all that hard work paid off in the women's crew season's first contest back in competitive waters. Both the first and second varsity boats defeated Wellesley this past weekend.
The Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers: at least one of these teams will not make the playoffs. So who is going to be left out?
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" proclaimed Henry David Thoreau in 1848, as industrialization and capitalism were sweeping across the United States. His exhortation now holds more validity than ever. We live in a vapid, consumer-oriented society where buying mass-marketed goods satiates a "need" temporarily, yet leaves us strangely empty.
Mayor Michael McGlynn reads to children in a corner of Carzo Gym. New England Patriots football player Stephen Neal also read to carnival attendees during the day's events.
The Champions' League is the context for one of the highest forms of soccer competition in the world. Every year, each European country sends its best teams to bring the tournament title back home. Thirty-two teams fight for the honor of being the best in Europe, and now only eight teams remain.
Sophomores Lorrie Barnett and Jessie Borkan help children at the Tufts Literacy Corps postcard station. Many student groups, including a number of fraternities and sororities, ran booths at the carnival.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) will receive upwards of $70,000 from this weekend's sixth annual Tufts Relay for Life fundraiser, according to junior Zachary Parris, co-chair of the event's planning committee.
Momo Davis, a Medford resident, came to Read by the River with her two children, Mariah, 9, and Kendelle (pictured), 7.
As a high school senior in Long Beach, Ca., David Sall decided he would come to Tufts and eventually pursue a law degree.
"The kids seem to be having a lot of fun," said Patrick Bibbins, whose son Gavin (pictured), 7, played at a booth featuring a life-sized board game. Gavin said that station was one of his favorite of the day.
Medford resident Bill Thompson said that the literacy carnival was a great success as he watched his 8-year-old daughter Jenna have her face painted.
Brussels is like New Jersey. And I mean that in the best possible way.
When actress Zooey Deschanel and singer-songwriter M. Ward worked two years ago on the film "The Go-Getter" (2007), an indie film about a young man's soul-searching journey, not much more than they were met with glowing reviews at Sundance. But when Deschanel, who starred, and Ward, who wrote the score, collaborated on a song for the movie's soundtrack, they planted the seed for a promising side project. Deschanel and Ward harmonized on Richard and Linda Thompson's "When I Get to the Border," and she eventually confided to him that she was a closeted songstress who secretly recorded original compositions on her computer. They parted after the brief movie collaboration, but Deschanel sent Ward a demo that impressed him so much he invited her to his Portland, Ore. studio, and the duo "She and Him" was born.
Sophomore Dan Stebbins was stabbed by a local resident during an altercation in front of the Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity at 2:45 a.m. Saturday morning.
Executives, academics and other experts on clean energy came together on Saturday to discuss business' role in helping the environment during the third annual Tufts Energy Conference.
Following a successful indoor season, the men's track and field team got its outdoor season underway on Saturday by hosting the annual Snowflake Classic.
