"Ladies and gentlemen, we are the Police and we are back!" Sting shouted, kicking off the 49th Annual Grammy Awards last Sunday night. The Police took the stage for a reunion performance and started the show with a rendition of "Roxanne," proving time has not diminished the band's talents.
Every morning, I sit down with a delicious Dewick breakfast, coffee and the Daily. As of late, every morning, I make it to the Viewpoints page and read a heart-warming article about tolerance, diversity and community. Then every morning, I roll my eyes, shut the Daily and reach for a newspaper from the real world. This morning, after reading that not enough white people came to the town meeting and that intro-level English classes should be turned into race relations classes, I have had enough.
So much for the dangers of youth and inexperience.
If nothing else, the past few weeks in sports have been streaky. Roger Federer has won his third-straight Grand Slam, Duke has lost four straight ACC men's basketball games, and the Celtics have lost (and no, this is not a typo) 18 in a row. Where do these streaks stack up against some of the most memorable in sports history? Well, to be honest, they don't even compare. These are 10 that will never be forgotten.
This weekend proved to be another difficult one for the women's squash team, as it lost a heartbreaker to William Smith, 5-4, before getting pummeled by Cornell, 9-0, at the Cornell Round Robin tournament on Saturday. The Jumbos have now dropped five of their last six matches, moving them to 7-13 on the season.
On the door of an office on the third floor of the Olin Center, a nametag reads, "Gloria Ascher: German and Judaic Studies." Underneath the official sign, a handwritten piece of paper has been added to say, "Scandinavian" - a remarkably accurate representation of the teaching career of a woman who thrives off her students' enthusiasm for an array of esoteric disciplines.
Controversial figure Lawrence Summers is due to speak at Tufts next month. The question is, will anyone listen?
I think that All-Star contests are one of the dumbest parts of sports. I find them so boring that they're nearly unwatchable, and this is coming from a guy who has read the NBA collective bargaining agreement to better understand the mid-level salary cap exception.
The men's squash team's efforts to stay above .500 at the Cornell Round Robin tournament this weekend were futile.
I live next door to a McDonald's. After years of taking French classes, struggling with the mishmash of tenses and forms in this convoluted but elegant language, writing countless compositions on French greats like Racine and Voltaire, and beating the embarrassment out of myself to perfect an acceptable accent, I perhaps expected a more authentic beginning to la vie parisienne.
It seems almost every college kid I've run into starts out just plain awkward: at Tufts, here in D.C., wherever. For some, it just wears off. For others, it lingers like a bad Cialis commercial (see your doctor if awkwardness lasts for more than four hours).
An update on academic strategy, a campus center for Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and endowment transparency were on the agenda at Tufts' Board of Trustees' tri-annual meeting, which took place Thursday through Saturday of last weekend.
Don't believe "Behind the Music." Washed-up musicians have great lives. Inexplicably, in the 15-minutes-of-fame world of quasi-celebrities and out-of-work TV stars waiting tables to make ends meet, the concert-going public has a long memory for and firm allegiance to musicians that used to make them smile.
Residents of South, Hodgdon, Carmichael and Lewis Halls will be looking over their shoulders as they walk to class for these next few weeks. Starting last Saturday at 5 p.m., the dorms began a new round of Assassins - a dorm-wide, role-playing game where the only weapon is a clean pair of socks.
When Spanish soccer club Real Madrid formally declared on Jan. 11 that it was releasing international superstar David Beckham to Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy, the announcement sparked worldwide media frenzy. The question on everyone's mind now is how Beckham's presence in the United States will affect American soccer.
The Asian Community at Tufts (ACT) raised a record amount at its fourth Annual Charity Service Auction last night.
History Lecturer Abby Zanger gave an open lecture entitled "War, Shame, and Sex in Early Modern Europe" yesterday evening in Tisch 314.The talk, sponsored by the history department, dealt with political allegories and French caricatures of the Spanish during the 17th century at the time of the Thirty Years' War.
In the basement of the Wang Theatre, Sarah Wroth is talking about frat parties. "I went to fraternity parties when I was 19 years old!" she exclaims. In a world in which going to college may be perceived as wasting the prime years of a dancer's life, Wroth represents at least one happy success story of a young artistic professional who also possesses a university degree.
Looking to get some action this weekend? Then you should reserve a ticket to the Walsh Brothers' final shows at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater (JTOB). "You will get laid - you can hold us personally responsible," say Chris and David Walsh, Boston's home-grown comedic duo. Fresh off their performance at the HBO/Aspen Comedy Festival, the brothers are doing three final shows at JTOB in Davis Square before heading west to the Los Angeles comedy scene.
Killington, Vt. was teeming with racers this weekend as the mountain hosted the last event of the regular ski season. Both Tufts alpine ski teams entered the weekend second in the Thompson Division standings, hoping to maintain these positions and solidify their places in regionals, but the weekend had mixed results.
