Funerals were held on Sunday in the hometowns of slain Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson. The girls were killed in unrelated fatal shootings last week.
Last week, former Phoenix Suns guard Kevin Johnson announced that he would run for mayor in his hometown of Sacramento, Calif. The three time All-Star point guard, who teamed with Charles Barkley to lead the Suns to the 1993 NBA Finals, is hoping to shake his city out of a deep economic funk. Note to KJ: the Suns Gorilla would make an ideal running mate.
Dissatisfaction persists in the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Diversity, as the group's members hope to square their goal of publicizing more of the Board of Trustees' endowment investments with the Board's view that investments must largely remain private.
After finishing last season with a 7-7 record, with six losses against NESCAC teams, the women's lacrosse team is looking to improve on last year's performance.
For the women's lacrosse team, the 2008 season begins with putting the past behind them and preparing a clean slate for a new campaign.
Project Iraq, a subcommittee of the student group PANGEA, will raise money at Carmichael and Dewick-MacPhie dining halls tonight for its project to put water purification systems in Iraqi schools and hospitals.
University President Lawrence Bacow was among the many panelists who spoke about college affordability and financial aid on Feb. 29 at the first in a series of forums dedicated to the affordability issue.
The men's tennis team entered Saturday's match looking to open up the spring portion of its season on a high note with a win over an unranked opponent. No. 21 Tufts, however, came up short against Colby 5-4 on the indoor courts in the Gantcher Center, dropping the Jumbos to a 2-1 record while Colby advanced to 2-0 on the season.
An ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure, but an ounce of Purell hand sanitizer could be what is most effective for keeping diseases off campus.
Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took the first contest after Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) major victories last week. He won the Wyoming caucus, the least delegate-heavy election in the Democratic primaries.
Upsets. Every sport has them, and they are what make soccer so exciting. For Manchester United and Chelsea, however, upsets left them with packed bags and disappointing trips home from the FA Cup. Stunning performances by Barnsley and Portsmouth ousted two of the Premier League leaders from England's most prestigious tournament.
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) recently purchased and installed a sculpture by the artist Josiah McElheney, titled "Endlessly Reflecting 20th-Century Modernism," into its West Wing lobby. The piece, located near the stairs going down towards the cafeteria, at first appears to be no more than a mirage or a mistaken perception. It is a box almost entirely cased in highly reflective aluminum, so rather than having a monumental presence, the sculpture melts into the background and mirrors its surroundings. Drawing closer to the piece, viewers will see a few windows into the box, shelves filled with reflective hand-blown glass vases.
Just when one thinks, "My TV repertoire is noticeably missing a romance-reality show that combines 'The Newlywed Game' with 'Survivor,'" the programming geniuses at ABC have surprised audiences with "Here Come the Newlyweds."
Last week, freshmen filtered into the Gantcher Center to participate in the Tufts Housing Lottery, a process historically mired in uncertainty for Jumbos. In a recap of the 2008 lottery, the Daily takes a look at the experience of six freshmen with widely varied lottery numbers and dormitory choices.
As mentioned last term, I planned a trip around a pun and spent Thanksgiving in Turkey. But that joke was only one of the many joys one of my favorite cities, Istanbul, gave me.
The Black Crowes, a name that is strangely familiar to nearly everyone these days, have been one of the biggest names in post-Allman Brothers Southern rock for some time now, having released seven albums (and seven live albums) over their 20-year career. The band's future was in serious jeopardy in 2001 when lead singer Chris Robinson and his guitarist brother Rich Robinson butted heads (? la the Gallagher brothers of Oasis) and, for the sake of their sanity, decided to take a break.
Graduate student Max Kardon was robbed at knifepoint early Friday morning as he tried to stop a man from assaulting a female undergraduate at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard.
