Too often in modern Shakespeare adaptations, the real heart of the story gets buried under excessively complicated stagings or unnecessary shifts in setting. Pen, Paint and Pretzels' new production of "Much Ado About Nothing," however, comes prepared with refreshing dashes of creativity and ingenuity.
When a member of the U.S. Senate resigns, there are set procedures in place for a new senator to be appointed and special elections are held so that the transition is as smooth as possible. But when a senator resigns from a small student government, the sudden need to replace an absent member can be a bit more jarring.
Poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry Peter Cole led a crowd through what he referred to as a "mediation" yesterday, dealing with the questions of ethics that come up in the process of making sense of translation.
The men's tennis team returns to action this Saturday after emerging from a brief fall schedule that saw the team go 2-0. And right off the bat, the Jumbos will be faced with a crucial matchup against Colby tomorrow.
While an enormous high-definition screen is a dream of football fans and film buffs alike, the newly inaugurated Tufts Center for Scientific Visualization has implemented such a display in the name of a different field: science.
The Reverend C.T. Vivian, a Baptist minister who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement, will give the keynote address on Saturday at the fourth annual Emerging Black Leaders Symposium.
As a promotion for "Semi-Pro," Will Ferrell used his comedy Web site Funnyor Die.com to start a tour for a few colleges and other arenas. Ferrell had Will Arnett join the tour as an announcer for a week, and the two of them sat down with the Daily and a few other college reporters at the Boston College stop of the tour.
Senior Alex Pryor has won this year's Wendell Phillips Award, an annual prize that recognizes an upperclassman of noteworthy speaking ability and public service.
Many students graduate high school with little expectation of ever having to repeat the college application process. But students may be surprised to encounter many of the same rigors of admission when entering the market for summer internships.
For the sixth consecutive year, the NESCAC men's basketball championship was decided on Western Massachusetts soil. For the first time, the plaque was shipped elsewhere.
The women's basketball team's program-best season earned it every one of the NESCAC's top four honors when the all-conference teams were announced yesterday.
In a previous column-life, your Lush expressed a great distaste for giant group dinners. They annoy the servers, someone's meal inevitably comes later than the rest, and you can't hear 80 percent of the conversation at the table.
In a little more than a month, an eleven-foot, sound-emitting gazebo will sit on the Tisch Library roof as part of a sound experiment that over 100 people have come together to create.
We are only a week into NFL free agency, and already the makeup of every team is looking different. None are more notable, however, than the two Super Bowl contenders.
This is a column that I haven't been looking forward to writing.
Apparently RomneyCare just hasn't fixed all of Massachusetts' health care woes.
Unsurprisingly, Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) campaign is touting a "major victory" in the March 4 primary contests, where she won three out of four, losing only Vermont (and probably the Texas caucus, though she narrowly won the primary). So it may seem an odd time to call for her to exit the race.
