There's a huge problem with "The Sopranos," and as we swiftly approach the very end, it's looking increasingly like this problem will not get solved. It's very unfortunate.
As a Jew in the Tufts community, I feel it is my personal responsibility to make all those not blessed with this robust identity aware of a particular phobia that has been affecting so many of their classmates during the past week: chametzophobia.
Members of Pangea erect one of the several tents that were put up outside of West Hall yesterday. Last night, students slept in them as part of a "Symbolic Refugee Camp." The night in the tents was part of a three-day campaign meant to draw attention to the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons around the globe. The event continues today and tomorrow, though students will not be sleeping on the quad again.
The tourists are coming. Each week, I hear more and more English on the metro. Middle-aged couples in fanny packs and shorts are multiplying like bunnies, along with a large smattering of dirty hippy types with their massive backpacks, (camera) trigger-happy Japanese and increasing numbers of strapping German families who look like they've been taking growth hormones.
The softball team breathed a sigh of relief after Monday's 7-2, 9-6 doubleheader sweep of Bridgewater State yesterday afternoon.
Judging by the number of ironically mustachioed people with folded arms, notepads and goofily oversized digital cameras, last week's show by experi-metal supergroup Battles at Great Scott will be well-chronicled by the hip, indie-scenester press.
Heading into this season, the Toronto Raptors had gone 52-87 since Dec. 17, 2004, when then-general manager Rob Babcock traded superstar swingman Vince Carter to the New Jersey Nets for virtually nothing in comparable NBA talent and two first-round draft picks. A 2-8 start to the Raptors' 2007 campaign did little to build confidence that Toronto had successfully transitioned from the Carter era, which saw the franchise's only three playoff berths.
There has always been a solid reason to feel sort of guilty about watching "Entourage."
Two different men's crew teams showed up to race on the Malden River two weekends ago - one, the group that emerged triumphant over BC and Vermont on Saturday, March 31, and the other, the squad that faltered against Tulane the following afternoon, losing the weekend's final race by nine seconds.
I am writing to respond to Paul Szerlip's Viewpoint, "Applaud the pre-meds ... applaud the problems," published March 29 in this newspaper. As a former competitive premed student (c-pres), I have a different opinion of these people and their take on competitiveness, grades and volunteer work. I also argue that the issues of bioethics underlying medical decisions and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry are more complex than what Mr. Szerlip makes them out to be. In summary, let me say that I am honored to know premed students and have them in my classes. These c-pres will be our physicians and medical leaders of the future and I am happy to support the best of them.
Cancer is an overwhelming disease. There are so many different forms and it is so widespread that it is hard to find someone who doesn't know anyone who's had some type of cancer at some point in their life. Personally, I found out in February that one of my high school friends - a 19-year-old - had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of cancer in the lymph system. My friend found out in the worst way possible that cancer is not an "old person's" disease, and it's not something that college students don't need to be concerned about.
Marty Martinez, a 2001 graduate of Tufts' Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is hoping to make it through a preliminary election today for a vacant alderman at large seat.
I mean the cherry blossoms. Here in D.C., they are kind of a big deal. I don't know if you've heard of them; people flock here just to see them.
When somebody asks me, "So what do your parents do?" I like to answer that my dad Mark is an amateur golfer who moonlights as an anesthesiologist. He certainly spends more time on the links than in the operating room; as he points out, it's a good week in his book when the number of rounds of golf that he plays exceeds the number of cases that he works.
"News is something the public needs to know [but] that someone, usually in a powerful position, doesn't want them to know," Dan Rather told a group of Tufts journalists from the Daily, TUTV and The Observer before he spoke at the Edward R. Murrow Symposium yesterday. "That's news. All the rest is just advertising."
To the shock of even this diehard Yankee fan, Alex Rodriguez is proving that his tenure in the Bronx won't be entirely marred by failure and ineptitude. A-Rod has indeed delivered countless memorable moments over the past four years (even one in the playoffs!). A look at the top ten New York moments of a much-maligned third baseman:
Approximately 100 students will participate in a sleep-out on the academic quad tonight as part of a three-day event organized by Pangea focusing on the plight of refugees around the world.
The seven-team field at Saturday's Coast Guard Invitational was quickly whittled down to a two-team competition between the host Bears and the visiting Jumbos. In the end, however, Tufts pulled out the victory, taking first at its second outdoor event of the spring season with 224 points.
The newspaper you're currently holding in your hands may be obsolete within the course of a few decades, according to three-time Emmy winner and Experimental College Lecturer Glenda Manzi.
Fans of narrative bending tales like "Memento" (2000) and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) will likely be enamored with the equally unconventional, non-linear musical "The Last Five Years." The musical, written by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown, will be performed as a minor production by Torn Ticket II.
