In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, colleges and universities across the country have been shocked into reevaluating their security policies and focusing on preventing, or if need be responding to outbreaks of violence.
For every generation, a few horrible events remain forever in memories. Our grandparents remember Pearl Harbor. Our parents know exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was shot and when the Challenger exploded. Most of us will always remember when we heard about Sept. 11 (9th grade Spanish class) and maybe when the war in Iraq started (hotel room in New Mexico on a spring break ski trip) or Katrina (packing before moving to Tufts for the first time).
Former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor Dr. Chuck Freilich offered his thoughts on the current state of the Middle East last night.
The playful cover art depicting a four-legged girl playing tennis announces the coyness of Blonde Redhead's seventh full-length album, "23," even before the first listen. The 10 tracks are more accessible than the band's last album, "Misery is a Butterfly" (2004), and their 13-plus years of experience in the music business shows. Help from some of the industry's top indie artists comes through in this polished yet wistful album.
For some seniors, the final spring semester is a chance to finally take that math or world civilization course they'd been avoiding for the past three years, or maybe to squeeze in a few GPA boosters. But a few ambitious Jumbos graduate mid-year, jumping head first into "the real world."
When he came out of retirement in April 2002 to take over as the Memphis Grizzlies' director of basketball operations, Jerry West hoped to turn around a floundering franchise that had never made the playoffs and whose best season maxed out at 23 wins.
While most of us were either just waking up or still sleeping in on Monday, tens of thousands of intrepid souls prepared to run one of the most famous marathons in the country. The biggest concern was how wind and rain might impact the 26.2-mile race. If only the weather had been the only condition to mar a normally brilliant day for Boston.
Joel Silver, producer of the new film "The Reaping," has peddled in the film industry since the '80s, producing some of the most intense, groundbreaking films of the last two decades. Most known for his work with "The Matrix" (1999) and "Die Hard" (1988), Silver discussed in a conference call his success in the action/horror industry and his thoughts and wisdom on the topic, also revealing his curious link with the creation of the sport Ultimate Frisbee.
I have been in some pretty bad occupational circumstances in my many years in Medford. I stocked meat and milk in a gigantic freezer for a deli, while swiping rogue pieces of chicken cutlet from the kitchen.
This was written in heartfelt response to the recent events at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. I make a sincere request to all of you to please read this, to share it with those around you, and to carry it in your hearts.
It's hard being a third wheel, but being in a relationship is often more difficult. "Company," this season's third major production from the drama and dance department, combines acting, music and dance to explore the pros and cons of married life as well as humanity's innate desire for significant relationships.
Over the past few days, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman estimates that he has received around 100 phone calls - mostly from concerned parents - about the Virginia Tech shootings.
Students and professors will join together today for a protest, eschewing their academic obligations to voice their opposition to the war in Iraq in a campus-wide walkout.
With the Campus MovieFest upon us, we can't help but think that there are some great opportunities for movie plots that are being missed. But don't get us wrong: we're sure there are going to be tons of great student-made films. It's just that there are so many campus groups and personalities who won't have their voices heard at the MovieFest. The possibilities for their movies are endless (especially if you just take the titles or plots of other, more famous movies).
There comes a time when we must truly examine what lies beneath the surface of our activism, when we must examine whether the knowledge or understanding of a situation that gives us a platform on which to operate as an activist is really that sound.
After a narrow 5-4 April 7 loss at the hands of Bowdoin that saw several players go down with various ailments, the men's tennis team bounced back 10 days later to overcome the Wheaton Lyons 5-3 on the road Tuesday.
I'd be lying if I told you that I spent 10 days in Nicaragua and came back a new person. Outwardly, I am exactly the same as I was before I boarded a plane with 11 other Tufts students last winter vacation, a bit hesitantly, bound for Managua, Nicaragua.
The NHL playoffs have been as unpredictable as ever in the Eastern Conference, in which two of the top three seeds could face an opening-round exit.
This spring, from April 20 to May 6, the Boston Cyberarts Festival will once again take over our city with a network of new media art, music and dance performances, speakers, panels and exhibitions. The festival, a biennial occasion that started in 1999, is a celebration of what has become something of a taboo in avant-garde art: digital art. Digital art, or new media art, combines advancements in technology with the creativity and ingenuity of artists, creating a hybrid that is both refreshing and challenging to the art world. From video installations to interactive digital projections, new media art is something everyone can enjoy.
The Daily talks to sophomore Nora Chovanec about working on her Tisch scholar project with a Somerville school and community-based art.
