The Daily sat down with Jon Poll, director of the new film "Charlie Bartlett," at Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore to discuss his directorial debut and his experiences while creating the film. "Charlie Bartlett" is the story of a privileged boy who starts attending public school and resorts to dispensing prescription drugs to gain popularity.
Though the state of Tennessee may be the current capital of the college hoops world, the success of the Big 12 conference has many turning their attention to the heartland. While teams such as the Kansas Jayhawks historically have been powerhouses, only in the last decade or so has the Big 12 shed its reputation as purely a football conference. This year, the league's firepower and depth make it one of the most impressive in the country.
With the days of Facebook.com's exclusivity to college students long gone, the site's increasing accessibility has left many professors and parents following the initial swarm of preteens in creating social networking accounts.
For high school movies, the 1980s were a golden age. Ferris Bueller terrorized the streets of Chicago, the Breakfast Club ruled Saturday detention, and various transformations of Molly Ringwald typified the star-crossed teenage lover. But where is the cinematographic representation of our generation's suppressed high school memories?
Get your togas ready, Tufts! "Dido and Aeneas," the Opera Ensemble's first full-length opera performance, will play tonight through Sunday in Distler Performance Hall. Two talented casts will sing the opera, written by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, during this four-show run.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has offered this year's Light on the Hill Award to Jeff Kindler (A '77), the chief executive officer and chairman of the major pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
I am not a political science major. I have no history of interning on Capitol Hill, nor have I canvassed for a state rep, and I do not wear pajamas pants emblazoned with donkeys.
As it currently stands, Tufts is 17th in per-capita recycling among schools participating in the nationwide recycling competition "Recyclemania." With your support, we can step up our efforts and improve on our 16th place finish last year. Furthermore, whether we win or lose, we'll be helping the environment.
Though the Daily has no qualms with Jon Stewart, we think it's about time the Academy gets a little more creative with its selection of Oscar hosts. Stewart has now hosted two of the last three ceremonies and, if he follows in the footsteps of Whoopi Goldberg, he will soon be slated for two more. This system of repetition, though simple, leaves too many talented people out of the running. To help with the selection next year, the Daily has compiled this shortlist of 10 possible hosts the Academy should consider.
February is one of the worst months for professional sports. Football is over. Basketball is in the middle of its drawn-out, meaningless season (I mean, half the teams make the playoffs. Half!). Baseball games that count don't start until April. One might even call it the "sleepy" part of the sports year.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate hopes to bring the campus center's top floor up to par with the new and improved Hotung Café, according to junior Antonella Scarano, the senator who is supervising the ongoing renovation project.
After a season marked by milestones, senior tri-captain Jake Gross looks to make one more splash in the world of college squash. Riding a 17-2 mark this season, Gross will travel to Navy tomorrow for the College Squash Association Individual Championships.
Interested in a dumpling dinner for four, a personal magic performance or salsa lessons for two?
After a semester of hibernation, the Boston Bus Shuttle is back to transport Tufts students to and from Beantown on Friday and Saturday nights.
As freshmen struggle with their first housing lottery and upperclassmen go off-campus house hunting, college students are joining people across America who are worried about housing.
Monday's matchup between the LSU Tigers and the UConn Huskies in Baton Rouge, La. was a chance for the Tigers not only to dethrone the Huskies, but the Big East as a whole. Alas, the Huskies' five-point victory on the road did neither, and UConn now stands atop of what is undoubtedly the nation's strongest collection of teams.
For the Bowdoin men's basketball team, the path to the final weekend of the NESCAC Tournament has been guided by one principle - play each game like it's your last. Because for the Polar Bears' three captains, any game could be.
After impressive performances at the NESCAC Championships last weekend at Wesleyan University, three members of the women's swimming and diving team - senior diver Kendall Swett and freshmen swimmers Megan Kono and Maureen O'Neill - earned all-conference honors yesterday. The selections are awarded to the top three finishers in each event held at the conference championships.
