Just hours before the winter's first snowflakes sprinkled the Hill yesterday, students, alumni and local families gathered in Aidekman Arts Center to usher in the winter at the 20th annual Tufts Foster Children Holiday Party.
When then-seniors Casey Beck and Austin Blair (both LA '07) won a one-time $10,000 grant last year to study the effects of global warming on Pacific Islanders, which they presented in a project titled The Rising Tide: Kiribati," it seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators have been revamping their focus on freshmen. They held two forums recently and convened the first official meeting of the Committee on the First-Year Experience.
As final exams near and Jumbos become increasingly tense, one on-campus group has found a way to help its peers relieve stress. This week, students looking for a break from the library can trade in their pencils for paddles by entering the Tufts Table Tennis Club's (TTTC) annual ping-pong tournament.
A research team with members from Tufts and Boston Universities published a report linking low zinc levels to higher rates of pneumonia in nursing home patients.
Let's start by getting one thing clear: we in the Daily sports department are not big fans of the NFL Network.
There has been a marked increase this fall in the number of Tufts undergraduates caught with marijuana, according to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Captain Mark Keith.
The men's squash team faced off against Dartmouth Wednesday night and discovered why the Big Green are considered one of the best collegiate programs in the country.
What goes together better than drag and Germans, Nazis and nightclubs?
Decking the halls isn't the only thing to look forward to this holiday season. With summer and fall fashions in remission and a host of new looks to try out for the remaining winter and upcoming spring season, closets will most likely be getting decked as well.
While the Jumbo runners have been gearing up for the tough New England competition ahead, Tufts' field event specialists have also been hard at work.
Simon Rosenberg (LA '85), founder and president of the New Democratic Network, a national progressive political network, spent the day at Tufts yesterday.
Comedy sketches will get a little controversial tonight with Major: Undecided's biggest show of the semester, "Major: Undecided Refutes Evolution." Actually, the title has little to do with science, religion, or monkeys. Instead, group members chose the name because their first performance time conflicts with "Is God a Manmade Invention?" - a debate sponsored by The Freethought Society at Tufts.
The first 10 events of Wednesday's Tufts-Wellesley women's swim meet were evenly matched, but by the conclusion of the 12th, the Jumbos had sealed their seventh win over the Blue in as many years.
An Arts article in yesterday's paper entitled, "On World AIDS Day, Torn Ticket II invites you to "Cabaret,'" incorrectly identified the director of the on-campus musical "Cabaret" as Tufts junior Virginia Anderson. Anderson is actually part of the drama Ph.D. program through the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
For most Tufts students, trips to Boston's Chinatown are accompanied by sushi, sake bombs or long rides on the Fung Wah bus. But for Jumbos enrolled in Tufts' Building Bridges program, visits to Chinatown are part of a broad effort to improve and influence the community there.
You pick up the paper. You load up the Daily's Web site. You sit and blink as the text swims in front of your eyes.
Was God created by humans? Daniel Dennett and Dinesh D'Souza will offer up two different answers to that question tonight in the Cabot Auditorium during a debate hosted by the Freethought Society.
As much as it pains me to say this, the New York Knicks need to return to prominence immediately.
