Flying high from their top-four finishes in the Thompson Division standings, the men's and women's ski teams traveled to Waterville Valley, N.H. for the Eastern Collegiate Ski Conference Regional Championships, hoping to earn top-five finishes and bids to Nationals.
It might be considered heresy in the basketball world, but I'll say it: something's up with LeBron James.
Fresh off his Australian Open title earlier this year, world No. 1 Roger Federer took the court yesterday for the first time since his Jan. 28 victory in Melbourne to compete in the Dubai Duty Free Men's Open and beat Denmark's Kristian Pless in three sets.
I've been letting my hair grow out. It wasn't a conscious decision on my part, but it stemmed from my own general laziness.
Ask Assistant Professor Caroline Cao what department she studies in, and she might have a hard time answering.
In a four-hour tribute to the glory and majesty of Hollywood, there are many things that can completely ruin a viewer's experience, and not seeing people get the awards they deserve is one of them. At the 79th annual Academy Awards, there were a few minor mistakes in the choice of winners (of course), but only one huge, glaring error.
It goes like clockwork. Just as I'm finishing up my last class of the week on a Thursday evening, I feel a little twinge in my throat. I look at the girl sitting next to me who's been coughing on my desk for the past 50 minutes and glare at her. She looks like death in a pair of Ugg boots.
About 50 people gathered in the ASEAN Auditorium yesterday for the final panel in a four-day-long symposium on China and India's emergence as global powers.
Italy's prime minister and leader of The Union, the government's ruling center-left coalition, Romano Prodi turned in his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano last week. His decision to do so came after the senate vote on his planned foreign policy program failed to pass by only two votes.
On Valentine's Day I made the mistake of walking through the campus center.
When senior Julia S. Goldberg was growing up in her Arizona home speaking English, Spanish and Portuguese, she didn't realize how unique or important her language skills would be.
President Bush's highly touted proposal to boost federal aid to students has been met with criticism both on and off the Hill due to cuts to other funds the plan would entail.
When the dust finally cleared in Brunswick, Maine yesterday, the scene was no different from last year - or the past six for that matter.
With the team-related portion of the season completed and a majority of the men's track and field squad starting to prepare for the imminent outdoor season, only a handful of Jumbos were still competing this weekend at the Open New England Championships, held at Boston University. But those individuals did not disappoint, turning in season-best performances.
It was a record-breaking weekend for the Tufts foursome of senior tri-captain Sarah Crispin, and juniors Kaleigh Fitzpatrick, Katy O'Brien and Cat Beck. On Friday, the group combined to set a New England record for all three divisions in the distance medley relay at BU's Open New England Championships.
There is a very clear, though rarely articulated, reason why people like the Independent Spirit Awards: they simply are not the Oscars. Everything that is wrong and awful about the Oscars is completely absent from the Independent Spirit Awards, and this year's were an excellent example.
Ahh, college: a time to get away from the choke-hold parents have on every aspect of student life, from parental permission slips to Parent-Teacher night to report cards. The relationship between students' parents and their instructors was important, maybe even overwhelming. But all that changes after high school graduation, right?
After four seasons, Fox aired the final episode of The O.C. last Thursday. Unlike the monotonous, nine-lived "7th Heaven" with its last-minute series renewal, this teen California dream soap may have seen its final episode. Despite one's personal feelings about the sincerity and quality of a program like "The O.C.," the pop culture phenomenon has had undeniable influence.
W hen I asked two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof about his guiding moral doctrine, he hummed, hawed and ahhed for a few seconds before he offered this line: "I don't think I have any sort of, you know, particularly unusual or even sophisticated moral doctrine. I think it is more a matter that I try to push people to care equally about injustices that are a long way away versus those that are next door."
