Charles R. Lawrence III and Mari Matsuda argued in favor of affirmative action in the ASEAN Auditorium last night for an event entitled "We've Been Here Before: Hate Speech, Affirmative Action, Structural Inequality."
Hodgdon Good-To-Go will have a new layout and menu by the time that students return to Tufts in the fall.
Nicholas Kristof's speech about the horrors occurring in Darfur addressed a huge problem in the world today. The genocide and gang rapes that occur there are inexcusable and among the most terrible crimes the world has ever seen. He also highlighted the Tufts community's affinity for active citizenship and its familiarity with the Darfur tragedy. It is, however, what he did not address that should be the central concern of our students, and those across the country.
Tufts senior Casey Beck was selected yesterday out of five student finalists as the recipient of this year's Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship based on her ability as a speaker and her devotion to public service.
This Spring Training has only reinforced the idea that baseball players are typically the victims of the most bizarre injuries to ever afflict athletes. Just before the Reds opened camp, Ken Griffey, Jr. revealed he broke his left hand in December while wrestling his children on his family's yacht during a vacation in the Bahamas. Meanwhile, Kerry Wood missed a few days of Spring Training after slipping in his hot tub, causing him to bruise his ribs. But as these ailments are hardly the most peculiar injuries baseball has seen, here is a look at the 10 strangest ailments to afflict America's pastime over the past decade (with a couple recollections from a Yankee fan):
There's just no two ways about it: TV on the Radio is awesome. In time, their studio work - an organic, rhythmic mass of barbershop vocals, woozy melodies and perfectly textured production - will prove to be the missing link between the musical avant-garde and mainstream rock, which most certainly is a good thing. But their reputation as one of the best studio bands around has obscured the fact that they are as good - dare I say better - in a live setting than on record.
With the winter squash season drawing to a close, the men's squash team sent one player, sophomore Chris Delaney, to CSA Nationals, held at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend.
Tufts alumna Robin Smalley (J'77), a Hollywood producer and non-profit activist, offered her inspirational story and career advice to Tufts students yesterday afternoon.
Ask a group of sports fans who the most dominant athlete in professional sports is today and you'll get a variety of answers: Tiger, LeBron, LaDainian Tomlinson, Kobe, maybe a Sox nut or two offers up Big Papi.
With her first-place title in individual competition at the New England Championships on Feb. 24, senior sabre captain Louisa May Zouein carried on a family tradition for a last time. This year marks the end of a five-year run that has seen two of the most elite fencers in Tufts' history - Louisa May Zouein and her older sister Katherine Zouein (LA '06) - capture the top spot at the meet.
Don't make the mistake of calling English Lecturer Dave Valdes Greenwood "Professor" or "Sir." Whether or not he's teaching, Valdes Greenwood is just "Dave." Between holding essay conferences with his students at Brown and Brew and giving them candy while they watch "Run Lola Run" (1998) on Valentine's Day, Valdes Greenwood likes to treat his students like he would treat his friends.
Those who haven't seen any puppets since watching "Sesame Street" and "The Muppets" might be in for a surprise upon seeing "States of Grace." The play shows that not all entertainment starring characters made out of felt, cloth and cardboard is geared toward third graders.
While the average person might see signs of spring as motivation to hop
Senior co-captain Greg Bettencourt has booked his ticket for Houston, Texas, and will be representing the Jumbos at the 2007 NCAA Div. III Men's Swimming and Diving Championships on March 15-17.
As spring training baseball kicks into full gear in the first week of March, the game's best hitters leave little to the imagination. Everyone knows that the top sluggers - Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, and David Ortiz, to name a few - will produce.
On Saturday night during a panel in the ASEAN Auditorium about corporate responsibility, a question and answer session highlighted tensions regarding a chemical company connected to a massive industrial disaster that occurred over 22 years ago.
Brooklyn-based septet !!! (pronounced "chk chk chk" or any three repetitive sounds) is back with a third album, "Myth Takes," showing that they are still the coolest band to use punctuation for its name. For those new to !!!, they take a little disco freak from Chic, pump it up with some of Liar's "They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top" (2002) punk and use '80s house sound effects for good measure. Their music generally goes well with strobe lights, fog machines and throwing up in the bathroom in the back of a club.
In a not-so-subtle gesture, the Dallas Mavericks waited until Nov. 6, when former coach Don Nelson returned to the Lone Star State with his current team, the Golden State Warriors, before celebrating the Western Conference championship the Mavericks won last season without him.
The Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) are teaming up to offer an active citizenship program for first-year students starting this fall.
