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0-Double-digit scorers on either team in the women's basketball team's second-round NCAA Tournament win over Mount St. Mary College Saturday. Despite not having a breakout offensive performance, the Jumbos still managed to handle the Blue Knights 54-38 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen this weekend, where they'll take on Mary Washington at Messiah College.


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By the Numbers | Tufts' endowment spending

The Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Tufts on Jan. 24 requesting detailed information on the school's endowment, tuition costs and financial aid spending. President Lawrence Bacow reported the following



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Inside Men's College Basketball | The bracket-busting continues

ESPN analyst Joe Lunardi can say what he wants, but the first time college basketball fans will have any real idea of what the NCAA Tournament bracket will look like will be moments before it's officially announced, once all the conference tournaments have ended.





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Inside Women's College Basketball | UConn, Tennessee, UNC take home conference championships

With Sunday's much-anticipated rematch of the LSU Tigers and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers in the SEC title game, a great deal of the attention in the women's basketball world was focused on the battle between these title contenders. Yet elsewhere, with conference tournaments wrapping up, this past weekend and the upcoming few days will make for huge moving and shaking all across Div. I women's basketball.


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Congress, universities clash on endowment spending

University President Lawrence Bacow issued a letter on Feb. 28 condemning the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's suggestion that national colleges and universities should be forced to spend five percent of their endowments every year.



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Study finds college crime rates are decreasing

While the e-mail sent by Tufts' public safety department last Friday alerting the students of an armed robbery may have startled students, recent studies show that campus crime across the nation has decreased over the past decade.


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Tales of Travel | Spring Break

Come one week from now, the girl who sits next to you in economics may be ditching her Jumbo sweatshirt for a bikini, while the boy to your left may be trading in his sunglasses for a pair of ski goggles.




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Gill Lecture Series concludes

In the final installment of the Gerald Gill Lecture Series, Professor Leslie Brown of Washington University in St. Louis spoke yesterday evening in Ballou Hall. Her lecture was entitled "The Beginning of the Long Civil Rights Movement with 'Plenty of Opposition.'"



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Flogging Molly sticks to its formula in its latest release

To say that Flogging Molly's songs all sound the same is essentially correct, for better or worse. But is that same-ness necessarily a bad thing? On their latest album, "Float," the Celtic punk rockers try something slightly new, but their call for change goes unanswered.