When watching a swim meet, it's commonplace for spectators to think they could jump in the pool and swim the 50-yard freestyle race. After all, it's only two minutes of swimming.
When riding the Joey back from Davis Square, it's hard to miss the new music building.
Hot off a narrow 69-66 win over the then-No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks Feb. 3, the No. 6 Texas A&M Aggies downed the No. 25 Texas Longhorns 100-82 Monday to maintain their command over the Big 12 with a conference-best 8-1 record.
When Friday rolls around and their peers are cheering "TGIF," some Tufts students are cursing their alarm clocks and their common sense as they wake up for early morning classes. Though early morning and late-evening classes are typically undesirable for students, some have no option but to enroll in them.
With her record-breaking three-pointer in Friday's 61-50 win over Middlebury, senior Valerie Krah grabbed the NESCAC spotlight, earning her team's third NESCAC Player of the Week recognition this season. Junior Khalilah Ummah was selected for the award on Dec. 11 and Jan. 15.
Every year, Tufts students put on a production of "The Vagina Monologues" organized by an independent student group working through the Women's Center.
"Some people said we overreacted, but if we didn't do what we did and something went wrong, I would have my head on a platter," Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told a political science class at Tufts yesterday.
It has been over nine years since Chris Farley's death and David Spade is still working. What a country!
Sunday night was agonizing for me. It took me a while to figure out why.
Nonie Darwish, the Arab-American founder of Arabs for Israel and author of "Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror," spoke to approximately 50 students in Barnum Hall last night.
After a flurry of activity over the past few months that ended with a vote supporting the appearance of an amendment on the 2008 ballot to end same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the status of the proposed amendment is still in limbo.
Before her address last night, Nonie Darwish sat down with the Daily to discuss the role young people can play in mitigating the conflict in the Middle East.
I have to put this out there, because the people need to know. Yes, the rumors are true.
The Primary Source controversy seems to have died down a little. Perhaps the sky is no longer falling on Tufts. Perhaps it's time we started compiling a list of "lessons learned" in time for the next End of the World. Here's a start.
The Tufts Democrats will fulfill a long-time goal by publishing the first edition of their new, as-of-yet unnamed magazine at the end of March.
Almost four years removed from the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the United States finds itself in an unacceptable position.
With homework starting to pile up and the semester's first exams looming in the distance, many students accept the extreme pressure they face - and its effects on their mental and physical health - as a fact of life at an academically demanding university.
Approximately 25 Tufts students attended a film screening and discussion of the documentary "Invisible Children" last night in Pearson Hall.
After Chicago-based Fall Out Boy's apparent overnight success with their 2005 hit "Sugar We're Going Down," the band has ruled over what's left of the pop-punk genre with an iron fist. Beyond record sales and popularity, the band has developed, somewhat ironically, a huge cult following that idolizes bassist Pete Wentz as the immaculately conceived prophet of "the scene."
The women's swimming and diving team had one final chance to prepare for NESCACs this weekend, racing in a non-scoring meet at the MIT Zeigler Center on Friday and Saturday.
