This past Wednesday, the rejection of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), a bipartisan bill, struck a major blow to six years of advocating for children's rights.
A Tufts professor is about to get knighted.
The men's cross country team came into Saturday's NESCAC Championships with its top five intact for just the second time this season and with recent experience on the Williams course that hosted the event.
Max Bemis and his group of crazy band mates came out with their second album last week. Say Anything's new album, "In Defense of the Genre" is a monster; it consists of two discs and 27 new songs.
While the Jumbo women's soccer and field hockey teams continue their impressive runs this fall season, there are several non-Tufts storylines that unfolded in Sunday's first-round action. Wesleyan had a rough day, Middlebury moved on in all three sports and three hosts enjoyed their first-round bye.
W hy is it that we're all so keen on utensils? In Ethiopia, hands become utensils as they pick up "injera," a flatbread, to scoop up everything else on the plate. We eat bread with our hands too, so why all the fuss about fingers?
Heroin use by Somerville residents has spiked over the past several years due to the drug's low price and easy availability, according to Gail Enman, the executive director of the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (CASPAR).
For Brendan (Dashiell Eaves), the protagonist and titular character of Ronan Noone's new play, alcohol and a prostitute named Maria are two of the best things he has going for him.
While the Stephen Colbert presidential campaign may be no more than a joke or publicity stunt, at the least one group is taking it seriously.
Juana María Rodriguez discussed queer adoption last night in Sophia Gordon Hall during the Fifth Annual Queer Studies Scholar Lecture.
A week ago, the football team was undefeated, on top of the NESCAC all alone, and looking to pull away. Now, after a rude awakening from their 8-0 dream, the Jumbos are just trying to stay in the hunt.
All students breathe easier when they enter college and think the days of standardized tests and assessment exams are long gone. But don't put away those Kaplan review books just yet, Tufts.
During 2006's NESCAC Championships, the men's cross country team finished a disappointing eighth out of 11 teams.
Over the course of five novels and a collection of short stories, Tom Perrotta has laid claim to the prime real estate of upwardly mobile suburbia, hilariously probing its leafy, soccer-obsessed, McMansion-lined streets. No component of life here is safe; crime watches are as ripe for satire as is social one-upmanship. Perrotta has skewered politics, parenting, the educational system, marriage and sex, the sacred cows of family life unspared by his sardonic insight and incisive humor.
Alpha Phi held its Charity Denim fundraiser yesterday at the campus center from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tufts' Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center will serve as an inspiration for a new creative arts building at Brown University.
So you're determined to abandon your couch-potato ways and have joined a gym. But now, trying to decide what to wear to your workout sends your heart rate soaring faster than sprinting for 30 seconds on a stairmaster.
Let me tell you the story of how I got 30 sorority girls to hate my guts within 15 minutes.
