Halfway through November, many male students have put their razors to rest to participate in the first "No Shave November" contest held by Tufts Relay for Life (Tufts RFL). The contest is a play on the larger movement during the month of November, sometimes called "Movember," that ...
Circle of Friends" (1995) follows three young women living in 1950s Ireland as they leave their small town and enter college, navigating the spheres of sex and love and adulthood for the first time. Bernadette "Benny" Hogan (Minnie Driver), the film's protagonist, and her best friends, Nan (Saffron Burrows) and Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), grew up together in Knockglen, a fictitious town just outside of Dublin. Nan, the self-styled sophisticated friend, has already moved to Dublin when Benny and Eve join her to start school at University College Dublin, the Catholic counterpart to the predominantly Protestant Trinity College. In Dublin, the girls fall in love and push the boundaries of their strict Catholic upbringings.
Let's just go ahead and assume the New York Giants will win five of their next six games, steal the NFC East from the Eagles, plow through the playoffs and reach the Super Bowl in front of their home crowd at the Meadowlands. Let's also assume they will defeat the Patriots, in the snow, on a 99-yard, last-minute drive to take the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaking as a college student, there are few things more precious in this world than sleep. In fact, I'm having trouble coming up with a single one. While a sleek Audi A8 or a timeshare in Hawaii may initially seem like a better offer, everyone has reached that point - seven hours into a marathon study session at Tisch - where they would give up almost anything for just a little shut-eye. You've all been there. In the end, sleep trumps anything. That's a normal thing to say, right? Well, apparently not. If you turn to the Internet, as I have just done, you'll find that you, too, may be addicted to sleep.
In a vote of 23-0-0, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room approved a resolution urging Tufts University Dining Services to offer late-night dining options to students. The resolution reflected results from the recent Senate survey and called for the university to leave either Carmichael Dining Hall or Hodgdon Good-to-Go open from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
With the fall season effectively over for many of the Tufts sports teams, all-conference teams have been picked, and 12 Jumbos across four teams have thus far been selected for first and second teams. Field hockey picked up a league-high five spots across the two teams, the most across the Tufts teams as well. Women's soccer each had three players named to the two teams, while volleyball and men's soccer each had two.
The No. 11 men's cross country team traveled back to the University of Southern Maine, the site of its first invitational of the season, to compete for a spot in the national championships at the NCAA Div. III New England Regional Championship.
If you read my column, know me, have spoken to me or maybe just bumped into me, you will know what I hold a special place in my heart for Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve. The former Princeton economist took control of the most important bank in the world in early 2006, when both the American and global economies consistently made headlines for growth and prosperity.
I was recently having a conversation about OutKast, one of my all-time favorite hip-hop groups, when someone interjected to talk how much he also loved them. He quickly attempted to prove his knowledge, insisting that "Hey Ya!" (2003) is a great song. My face dropped.
I appreciate a nice luxury car. I'll be the first one to stare at the Lamborghini blazing down the highway. I'll dream that someday I'll be the one behind the wheel. But I would never drive a Lamborghini in a New England winter. Nor would I risk taking it out in a rainstorm during the summer.
For many student-athletes, hearing classmates cheer them on from the sidelines is a major plus. The men and women who travel up to an hour away to represent the Jumbos in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) tournaments do not get such fan support, but they don't let it get them down. They have a long-standing tradition of supporting each other and a championship record to rival any other team at Tufts.
"Eurydice," the major theater production of Pen, Paint and Pretzels (3Ps), debuted last night in Balch Arena Theater.
Few rowing enthusiasts, in the United States at least, attend a regatta eagerly anticipating the sculling events. They go to watch the eights and, in the typical American fashion, admire the sheer explosive power and speed of the big boats. Singles and doubles sculling are merely offshoots of rowing - the sideshows. But women's crew coach Brian Dawe would like to see that image changed.
Tom Vandervelde, a John A. and Dorothy M. Adams faculty development professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received a $1.5 million Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will allow Vandervelde to build a multi-chamber molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system, used to produce semiconductors.
If there's one signature food on campus that's as much a part of the Tufts culture as Jumbo himself, it's the late-night calzone. Whether you're studying into the wee hours of the morning or ending a long night out, there's nothing quite as fitting as going ham on one of these folded pizzas. Eating your first Blue Zone is practically a rite of passage here.
As someone who thoroughly enjoys writing lousy columns, I didn't think my commitment to the Daily would extend beyond this goofy, useless babble. I imagined becoming happily snared to Op-Ed and willfully trapped in this column until my four unproductive years came to a sudden halt. It would feel a lot like being trapped in a theme park, only the theme is vague, inconsistent and basically irrelevant.
Enough stories of organized, high-stakes middle and high school sports that often end in embarrassment and disappointment. Alex here, and I'm back to talk about the real gold from our childhood competitions: backyard sports.
Former Vice President of Patient Care Services at the Tufts Medical Center Terry Hudson-Jinks became the center's new Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) on Oct. 31 after serving there for 28 years.
Sex and the City" (1998-2004) certainly has its virtues. It's pure glamour: New York City, fashion, dating and romance. It offers real talk about women's experiences of sex, which is unusual in the mainstream media, and refreshing. In the show, women actually have agency when it comes to sex - they know what they want and how to get it.
The Medford Police Department and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the identification of those responsible for numerous graffiti incidents around Medford over the past year.
