All student government candidates campaigning for seats on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary and the Committee on Student Life (CSL), as well as rising sophomores vying for seats on the TCU Senate presented their platforms and responded to questions at the newly re-opened Hotung Caf?© last night as part of the lead-up to Wednesday's elections.
Famed journalist, former CBS News anchor and father of a Tufts alumna Dan Rather led a panel discussion in an almost full Cabot Auditorium yesterday that set out to focus on the press' role in covering war and conflict.
The boathouse on the Malden River might be new this year, but the women's crew team has been racing like it's in its comfort zone.
It's hard to leave a legacy when you don't have support. President Bush came back to one of his pet issues, immigration, in a speech he gave yesterday in the border town of Yuma, Ariz. While the President seems clearly able to understand and articulate the extent of the immigration problem, he's not offering the country any clear-cut solutions.
The Experimental College has extended the deadline for students to apply to become leaders of Perspectives and Explorations programs for at least the next several days with coordinators searching for a few more last-minute applicants.
Though there are many international students at Tufts, sophomore Constantin Sabet D'Acre stands out in a crowd.
When I questioned the need for bias awareness on Tufts' campus and the effectiveness of other similar activist groups (in the March 13 Viewpoint, "What's the point of bias intervention anyway?"), I expected a wave of hostility complete with alienation, death threats, and a protesting Facebook.com group. Instead, the flood of compliments and praise for the article made me realize that nearly everyone is sick of phony activism. I am too.
Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate President Mitch Robinson spent part of his Saturday afternoon licking the remnants of pies off of his face.
It's been my dream to go to Opening Day at Fenway Park since I was about six years old.
By the middle of Saturday afternoon, the baseball team was riding a 10-game winning streak, its longest streak in five years. Three hours later, that streak was over.
Aaron Gillespie, a person foreign to most, is one of the biggest heavyweights in the hardcore/screamo scene. As the drummer and melodic singer (as opposed to screamer Spencer Chamberlain) of the band Underoath, he makes the band accessible to a larger audience with his catchy choruses and pounding beats.
Tufts' Concert Board hosted its annual Battle of the Bands and announced this year's Spring Fling performers at a packed Brown and Brew on Friday.
Based on the results of a recent study, the construction of a new hotel in Somerville may be on the horizon.
If you're anything like me, you've spent the last few days frantically tied to your computer. Or perhaps your registration time is a little later and you are soon to undergo this harrowing experience. Let me describe the situation.
There seems to be quite an uproar around a certain Viewpoint written by Paul Szerlip on March 29, "Applaud the pre-meds ... applaud the problems." Many people seem to have the impression that Szerlip was simply lashing out at pre-meds in general, and Hayley Marcus and Brian Schurko even wrote Viewpoints of their own in angry rebuttal of Szerlip's opinion.
Looking to continue its winning ways in the NESCAC after a 5-4 upset victory over No. 11 Trinity on Tuesday, the men's tennis team narrowly lost to the No. 16 Bowdoin Polar Bears 5-4 on the road Saturday, dropping its record to 6-3.
On March 23, 15 British sailors and marines were taken hostage by Iran. Accused of entering the territorial waters of the Iranian regime, the hostages were paraded and humiliated on Iranian television and have since been released. Americans, as well as the British, watched with apprehension, as the fate of these brave men and woman was uncertain.
"Go Jumbos!" shouted actor-singer Peter Gallagher (A '77) yesterday from the stage of the Cohen auditorium, where he received the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's 2006-2007 Light on the Hill Award.
Tufts Webmail received an upgrade of jumbo proportions last week.
