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Vet school begins construction on long-awaited bio complex
September 25Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine has begun construction on the first building in its new Grafton Science Park.
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Devin Toohey | Bangers and Mash
September 25There are things that everyone thinks of when they hear "study abroad."
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Let the speaker speak' - why?
September 25As Tufts University students, we ought to take pride in our institution's commitment to global leadership and active citizenship. Therefore, we should be embarrassed by and ashamed of the spineless rhetoric evinced by the Tufts Daily's staff in their editorial "Let the speaker speak" (Sept. 25).
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September 25The Sept. 24 front-page box entitled, "Former student offers to match donations dollar-for-dollar; challenges others to donate to the Gerald R. Gill Fund," erroneously stated that Tufts alum David Rone (LA '84) is one of the CEOs of the Colonial Athletic Association. Rone is in fact one of the CEOs of Creative Artists Agency Sports, based in Los Angeles.
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Campus Comment | How do you feel about plans for the Library roof?
September 25"I'm an art history major, so I'm always towards putting up more public art."
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Some local legislators are skeptical about Governor's casino proposal
September 25Since Governor Deval Patrick announced his proposal earlier this month for three casinos to be built throughout Massachusetts, it has been met with uncertainty by government officials in Medford and Somerville.
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Inside College Football | Michigan gets back to .500 after squeezing by Penn State
September 24It was a Saturday of upsets, near-upsets and recovery from past upsets.
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"Red Star" side-scrolls to 2D awesomeness
September 24Since the end of the 16-bit era and the decline of the American arcade, quality 2-D games have been increasingly hard to come by outside of handheld consoles. Two-dimensional scrolling shooters, beat-'em-ups and fighters have all but disappeared from current generation hardware, much to the dismay of old-school gamers.
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Gill's memory should inspire Tufts to take action
September 24Yesterday's remembrance ceremony for Professor Gerald Gill could have been a repetition of this summer's memorial service, a time during which Professor Gill's family, friends, colleagues and students gathered on short notice to mourn the loss of a beloved member of the Tufts community.
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Erratic plot ices promising premise of 'December Boys'
September 24"December Boys" is one misleading movie. Based on the trailer, one would expect to see a movie about four orphans coming of age on vacation in 1950s Australia. These kids would laugh and learn together as they fight for the attention of a young couple seeking to adopt.
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Community remembers Gerald Gill at packed memorial service
September 24Words of honor from University President Lawrence Bacow and Provost Jamshed Bharucha, musical tributes by professors and students, and an emotional retrospective speech from a graduate student echoed through a packed Cohen Auditorium yesterday.
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Jumbos hit the road today to continue winning ways
September 24After a long homestand, the women's soccer team plays its first away game in over two weeks this afternoon, traveling to Wellesley, Mass. to take on Babson. The Jumbos have won three straight games heading into their midweek contest with the Beavers, including a recent 1-0 squeaker over the Amherst Lord Jeffs Saturday. The Jumbos then return to NESCAC play with another away contest, at Bates this coming Saturday. They are currently 3-0 in conference play, tied with the Williams Ephs for first place atop the league standings.
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New pop-punk album lacks sufficient forward 'motion,' but delights loyal fans
September 24Motion City Soundtrack released their third album, "Even If It Kills Me," last Tuesday to millions of screaming alterna-power-punk-pop fans across the globe. This album follows the 2005 success, "Commit This to Memory," and the band's debut, "I Am the Movie" (2002).
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Mike Adams | Shanghai on Life
September 24This is not really an abroad column. I'm not here to shock you with my witty cultural anecdotes.
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Top Ten | Dubious Record Holders
September 24This Sunday, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard struck out for the 195th time this season, tying the all-time single-season mark set by Adam Dunn in 2004. Earlier last week, nine-year-old Puerto Rican mare Dona Chepa lost her 125th straight race, a streak that spans all the way back to Valentine's Day in 2001.
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Jumbos' off-campus behavior strains town-gown relations
September 24Town-gown relations centered around student behavior have been deteriorating this year, according to Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.
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Men in togas are still funny after all these years
September 24A pair of young lovers, a pair of old lovers, a pair of children stolen by pirates, a pair of twin courtesans and a pair of Roman slaves add up to a night of laughter at Boston Theatre Works' "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
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Responsibility belongs with those responsible
September 24The Daily seems to have forgotten that it is comprised of students, in publishing "Grow up, Tufts!" in the Sept. 24 issue. Many of us were offended that our peers would have the audacity to lecture and admonish the rest of us as if we were foolish six-year-olds, caught with our hands in cookie jars.
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Penn's film documents 'wild' life of Christopher McCandless
September 24Christopher McCandless is a character so fantastic he'd almost have to be a figment of one's imagination. Surprisingly, Sean Penn, director of "Into the Wild," didn't dream him up.
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