A Tufts alum, single and working as a copy editor in New York City, discusses her collegiate education and describes her illustrious alma mater as her personal "safety school."
While Div. I's Selection Sunday is 11 days away, the madness begins a little sooner for Div. III programs.
Tufts maintains a general commitment to the values of free speech, free thought and pursuit of truth. These goals make us descendants of John Stuart Mill, whose writings founded many of the intellectual rationales for these practices, which are integral features of the best universities. By thinking about Mill's philosophy for a moment, I believe we gain insight into the recent controversy raised by some professors on campus over whether Larry Summers should speak on higher education at Tufts on March 14.
Are the United States and other developed nations doing all they can to help alleviate poverty in the developing world?
For Div. I basketball teams, the next two weeks serve as a big audition, culminating in the most anticipated day of the season: Selection Sunday.
Members of the Tufts faculty are proposing to broaden the scope of graduate education by offering new doctoral programs in philosophy, economics and political science.
Following a weekend that saw one upset, a bid for another foiled, and a national power continue its winning ways, the NESCAC men's hockey tournament heads into the semifinal round Saturday with three squads vying to knock off three-time defending champion Middlebury and claim their first-ever conference title.
Despite coming off of their first break from weekend competition this semester, the Jumbo fencers showed no signs of rust at Saturday's New England Championships held at MIT.
Marc Chun is not afraid to play with matches, having concocted a play composed of five people's nonlinear, one-sided dialogue. Sound like a way to scorch your theatrical fingers or get lost in avant-garde smoke?
Precipitation and cold weather have been plaguing the campus for the past weeks, bringing with them a variety of problems. Specifically, ice from the last storm and heating problems in Wren Hall have left many students chilled.
I could be using my little area in the Daily this week to say nice things about the solid Chin Up Chin Up/Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin indie pop double feature that AppleJam put together in Oxfam Caf?© last Tuesday. However, as I hate bunnies, rainbows and God, I thought instead that I'd use my column to report a chilling, tragic bit of live-music news I unearthed while visiting friends in Vermont this weekend: Middlebury is paying Guster tens of thousands of dollars to headline their spring concert.
Many noteworthy streaks came to an end this weekend, including Tiger Woods' seven-tournament winning streak, Amherst's run of NESCAC Men's Basketball Championships, and Martin Scorsese's Oscar-less drought. Still, many remarkable streaks are still intact.
The Aidekman Arts Center basement reopened yesterday, ending over two weeks of frustration for arts students whose classes and rehearsals had been relocated due to flooding that left some areas submerged under more than four feet of water.
Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have quite a reputation. Both have been active in the Boston, New York and London indie rock scenes for close to 20 years and have contributed to a plethora of celebrated bands, the most notable being lo-fi outfit Luna.
The type of person who studies abroad in Paris is often admittedly a Francophile - someone who greatly appreciates and is interested in the French language, culture, history, cuisine, whatever. It would be a lie to say that I haven't fantasized about living here since my first language courses in high school.
The men's swimming and diving team made the most of the culminating event of the season, sweeping one event, breaking a team record, and recording seven NCAA B-cut times.
"Your coming is a blessing," Kunle* says to me. We are standing in front of the Badgary slave port, one of the last to be shut down in the late 19th century.
Giuliani, Clinton, McCain, Obama, Romney, Edwards and Richardson - just to name a few. Though the 2008 presidential election is nearly two years away, an initial surplus of candidates already has thrown activists, pundits and politicians into campaign mode earlier than usual.
As this spring's deadline for sophomores to declare their majors approaches, students still in limbo about their future academic careers will have the opportunity to learn more about Tufts' departments over the next several days as part of Majors Week.
