Dr. Maryanne Wolf, a professor of child development and the director of Tufts' Center for Reading and Language Research, will speak about her research on literacy and the brain at the Dean's Faculty Forum tonight in the Coolidge Room at 5:00 p.m.
In Friday's News article, "Clearing up misconceptions," Hawazin Naseef was noted as a sophomore. He is a Fletcher student.
Ahmed Elewa, the outreach coordinator for the Muslim American Society's Boston chapter, spoke to an audience of around 30 people last night in Pearson 104. Elewa was joined on a panel by sophomore Hawazin Naseef and junior Shirwac Mohamed during the event, which was sponsored by Tufts' Muslim Students Association (MSA) and entitled "Islamic Awareness Week Revisited - Misconceptions about Islam." The event featured a speech from Elewa and a question and answer session during which he and the two student panelists fielded inquiries from the audience. Tufts' original Islamic Awareness week was at the beginning of the month, but sponsors felt that more discussion-especially related to myths about the religion -was needed, according to sophomore and MSA Co-Chair Nayema Khan.
It is high noon, and sophomore Laura Patterson is sitting in the sun on the Campus Center patio with a cash box and a large sign that keeps falling over in the wind. "Buy a button," she shouts to passersby. "Help a child read."
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected a new batch of leaders during its in-house elections last night.
Aceh is a tropical paradise that attracted thousands of tourists per year until a devastating tsunami struck Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004. The concomitant death and destruction is well known. Also well documented in the world press has been the slow pace of the clean up operation, which affects the recovery of the tourist industry - the mainstay of the province's economy.
To many of Tufts' thousands of Arts and Sciences students, Anderson Hall is strange, uncharted territory. A freak recitation or a wrong turn on the way to Brown and Brew might bring a non-engineer into this building, where they would find the walls adorned with mysterious equations and photographs of intelligent-looking graduate students.
As the new Editor-in-Chief of The Primary Source, I must express strong disappointment and criticism of President Bacow's April 24 viewpoint in the Daily. In his ongoing campaign to vilify The Primary Source, Bacow has condemned our publication for being intolerant and unfair in our depiction of the problems in modern Islam.
The Committee on Student Life (CSL) will hold a hearing today to address two complaints against The Primary Source.
There's something funny and familiar about the last day of school; it's never too unusual, but each one remains unassailably unique in what it represents. At the Daily, the last day of school marks our last issue of the semester, a time for us to stop (finally) and to reflect before we jump into our Commencement issue that hits the Hill the weekend of May 20.
I'm writing this column from Colton, Calif., which is outside of San Bernadino. My friend and I are here to see Rage Against the Machine play the Coachella festival on Sunday, but we've spent two days hanging out with my cousin and her fianc?© in Colton.
I wish to applaud President Bacow for taking time out of his busy schedule last week to write a rebuttal to "Islam - Arabic Translation: Submission," The Primary Source's latest piece of controversy. The President used common sense logic to demonstrate the ways in which the article, with its one-sided lens and total disregard for historical context, so obviously mischaracterized an entire student population. I expected no less from the president of Tufts University.
It hasn't been long since the Arctic Monkeys laid claim to the title of best nearly-mainstream high-energy indie rock band. After these Brits gained global acclaim from last year's "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" and its singles "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down," it would be natural to think that the band could coast on their success for longer than just a year, taking time to polish and admire their best album awards from Time Magazine, New Music Express and the Brit Awards.
It was a long-time coming, but the Jumbos finally did it.
In writing this semester, a few people have approached me about the title of the column: "Wealth and Hellness." They say they get the hellness, but where's the wealth? Shouldn't I be discussing financial issues?
Lupe Fiasco performs on the President's Lawn for a crowd of Tufts students at Spring Fling on Saturday. T.I., Spoon and campus band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons also played at the event.
It took a day longer than expected, but the baseball team eventually took care of business.
