When President Bush proposed reforming Social Security in 2005 by privatizing accounts and decentralizing the system, he received unanimous criticism from both sides of the aisle. Members of the older population fought hand-in-hand with interest groups like AARP to harpoon this conservative leviathan. Yet since then, no one has touched the problem. Ignoring the issue will not make it go away.
Fellow Jumbos: For some reason, the Daily has picked me up for another semester to talk politics.
It's late Friday night, and after partying for several hours, fatigue sets in. For some college students, this dilemma causes them to turn to one of the newest additions to the party-hard lifestyle: mixing alcohol and energy drinks.
Ask women's swimming and diving head coach Nancy Bigelow what she considered the biggest highlight of the past month, and she'll bring up the team's Senior Day victory over MIT last Saturday. What she won't mention is the prestigious award she received on Jan. 20.
Every generation, at some point, develops a sense of its own significance. In "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's lumbering epic of a play, it is 1985, God has abandoned Heaven, and phantoms arrive to warn that "history is about to crack open." No matter that it is 2008, the apocalypse has not arrived, and no Reaganite majority has taken permanent hold of social discourse, this work still presents itself as significant in virtually any context.
President George Bush last month signed a budget bill for 2008 lowering the maximum Pell Grant and slashing spending on academic research.
Tufts' Office of Admissions is already operating under a need-blind admissions policy, but a lack of residual funds is preventing the department from finalizing the policy, according to administration officials.
The performance of this season's most highly touted freshmen can be described with the immortal and profound words of Dennis Green: "They are who we thought they were!"
"Champion" might be the second album by Chicago pop-punk outfit The Audition, but it definitely does not sound like a sophomore attempt.
As we approach Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, it's becoming clear that Americans are looking for a change in Washington and that they believe government is fundamentally broken. Over and over, Washington politicians have told Americans that they would end illegal immigration and secure our borders, that they would make health care affordable for all Americans and that they would end wasteful pork-barrel spending. They told us they would live by high ethical standards, fix social security and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series examining the potential development of club sports programs on campus. The second installment will appear one week from today.
If the sports world as a whole could unite behind one resolution for the new year, it should be this one: Close the book on the anticlimax of 2007.
Article: "Tufts protects student confidentiality, even when parents are footing the bill" (Jan. 29)
Coach Geno Auriemma certainly has his Connecticut Huskies firing on all cylinders of late. The 19-0 Huskies, the only undefeated team remaining in women's college hoops, reign atop the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, receiving all 50 of the first-place votes in the AP Top 25 and all 31 in ESPN/USA Today.
After entering winter break having lost eight straight contests, the fencing team enjoyed a bounce-back of sorts this past weekend, splitting its matches 2-2 at the Wellesley Fencing Invitational and bringing its overall record to 4-10.
One week after winning its first home meet of the year, the men's indoor track team continued its strong season at the BU Terrier Invitational on Saturday. The meet, which included no field athletes, is one of the toughest on the Jumbos' schedule, and so the team took along only a limited squad.
