The men's track and field team capped-off its season Friday and Saturday, racing to a second-place finish at New England Div. III Championships held at Bates in Lewiston, Maine.
For the fourth time this season, a Jumbo player has been named NESCAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week. This time the nod went to Jumbo senior co-captain Laura Jasinski, who had a monstrous first-round of the NESCAC tournament, with a season-high 17 points, nine rebounds, and four steals in the Jumbos' 65-50 win over seventh-seeded Middlebury at Cousens on Saturday.
With the United States' attention still focused on a rabid debate over how to win in Iraq, it seems far too defeatist to call Iraq a "failed state." However, the U.S.-based Fund for Peace is doing just that.
If you have ever wondered what communist Russia was like, you should visit the University of Paris VII Jussieu. Imagine hulking, government-financed buildings in the architectural style of what people in the '60s thought the future would look like. Imagine a "quad" consisting of a vast plain of concrete and cigarette butts, devoid of any trees or grass. Imagine hallways that look like subway stations and smell curiously like horse stables.
Senior Julia S. Goldberg gained national recognition for her intellectual endeavors and leadership by being named a USA Today College Academic All-Star.
Valentine's Day has been responsible for the purchase of movie tickets to both good and bad romantic flicks since their conception. This February, couples and friends alike were lucky that they were offered at least one cute and entertaining flick. Marc Lawrence, who directed the 2002 Hugh Grant/Sandra Bullock romantic comedy, "Two Weeks Notice," has created a new film that succeeds where his last failed - this one is actually funny. Like his last film, though, the somewhat hackneyed plotline is supported by the chemistry and charisma of its cast.
Last week, the picture at the top of this column was not of me. As expected, I got hundreds of e-mails wondering what I really looked like. I usually answered with, "A better looking version of Rex Grossman," to which many replied, "How can two people who look so similar perform so differently?" Anyways, onto the main point of this column.
Ada Baskina, a professor of journalism at Moscow State University, provided insight on some of the differences between Russian and American cultures in Olin yesterday in a lecture titled "American Culture from the Outside: A Russian Perspective."
They're concoctions of letters that younger generations know all too well, thanks to instant messages and cell phone texting: "ur," "b4," "cya," "2night."
It's now official. Barry Bonds will be back with the San Francisco Giants this season. After signing a reported $15.8 million, one-year contract, the Juice Man himself will get yet another shot at cracking 22 home runs to finally surpass Hank Aaron's career record of 755. As everyone knows, Bonds has never admitted to knowingly using steroids, but it doesn't take a grand jury (which is already investigating him) to know that it wasn't flax seed oil he was rubbing on himself.
Almost 65 years to the day after then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order #9066, Vietnamese journalist and activist Tram Nguyen spoke last night about the injustices and prejudices that immigrants have faced in a post Sept. 11, 2001 society.
Ana's Mitchell joins Ani DiFranco and Andrew Bird on Righteous Babe Records with her label debut. Unfortunately, she does not quite follow in her acoustic guitar-toting predecessors' footsteps. "The Brightness" is a disappointment, especially coming from a record label with such prestigious releases. It is an album littered with bad poetry, unimaginative imagery and tedious guitar.
After having spent their entire careers finishing behind the Williams Ephs, the seniors of the men's track team are hoping to start a new trend at the Div. III New England Championships, which kick off this afternoon at Bates College.
After more than a semester of work, the School of Arts and Sciences launched a new Web site last Friday.
The men's basketball season is winding down, and with three exhausting months of play behind them, the Jumbos can finally set their sights on the playoffs. With five wins in NESCAC play this season, Tufts' record is good enough for a six seed in the conference tournament, and all systems are go for a trip to Williamstown tomorrow.
Dr. Miranda Xafa, the alternate executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), spoke about the imbalances between the U.S. economy and the economies of many developing countries last night.
It may not be March yet, but the madness begins tomorrow for the Jumbos and their NESCAC counterparts.
The Chicago Cubs pitchers and catchers began their workouts yesterday with Mark Prior, Carlos Zambrano, and Will Ohman among others throwing 30 pitches off the mound 100 percent healthy. The only thing missing was Kerry Wood. The Cubs right-hander started his season off in typical Kerry Wood fashion: by getting hurt. Wood fell out of his hot tub, bruising his ribs and preventing him from throwing for four to five days.
When freshman Caroline Carollo came to Tufts, she didn't imagine herself joining a sorority.
