This letter was written in response to the Dec. 6 installment of the Arts section series, "The Artist's Experience," in which the writer was found to have directly plagiarized several paragraphs from Leonard Shlain's 1991 "Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light."
Perhaps it's when the opening track fails to present anything remotely coherent or, for that matter, anything remotely musical, that the Wolf Parade fan begins to have doubts about this album. Or maybe the realization sets in later, as the disappointed fan flicks off the last track in disgust and returns to the straightforward and familiar ground of "Apologies to Queen Mary" (2005).
What is better than a free night of theater? A free night of theater times 10! Tomorrow night at the Balch Arena Theater at 8 p.m., Bare Bodkin Theatre Company presents "Play by Play," a series of 10 student-written scenes for the stage. Teaming up with Prof. Laura Harrington's "Playwriting" class, Bare Bodkin aims to showcase the original work that 10 students generated this semester.
After an eruption of outrage and controversy this past weekend over a satirical "Christmas carol" printed in The Primary Source, Tufts' journal of conservative thought, on Dec. 6, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate hosted an open forum discussion on the contentious piece last night in the campus center.
1906: British company Joseph Crossfield and Sons attains patent for technology of partial oil hydrogenation
The Tufts Coalition Opposed to the War in Iraq (TCOWI) held a demonstration in front of Tisch Library on Nov. 15, which displayed 119 pairs of empty boots to commemorate the loss of New England soldiers in the increasingly unpopular war.
This is a distressing time for our campus. As a community, we are struggling to understand and come to grips with biased incidents, the most recent being The Primary Source's racist Christmas Carols.
With the semester winding down today and winter break fast approaching, freshmen will soon have a chance to reflect back on their first semester at Tufts. Many are enrolled in large introductory courses, the detrimental sizes of which are supposedly compensated by accompanying recitations.
After students fight through a tedious week of studying and finally finish their exams, many will have an equally daunting responsibility waiting for them when they get home: holiday gift-shopping.
Don't look now, but the Boston Bruins resemble an NHL hockey team. As the league creeps toward the All-Star game in Dallas, it seems that the patience of GM Peter Chiarelli has paid off: the once struggling Beantown club has found a groove.
For the men's basketball team, emerging from Wednesday night's game against the Keene State Owls with a win was anything but easy. The two teams struggled from the opening tip to the end of the third overtime, playing one of the most physical games in NCAA history.
The Tufts University Web site proclaims proudly that the university prepares students for "a wide range of professions."
Artificial noses, fiber optic arrays, and silk-based artificial ACL tissues may not appear to have much in common.
In the wake of last week's debacle of a column, I feel like I should make some revisions to my "USC rules, and the Gators suck" premise.
Tufts' seven graduate schools are stepping up efforts to promote diversity, coalescing with the creation of the Graduate and Professional Student Admissions Recruitment Committee.
On Tuesday, New York City's Board of Health effectively banned artificial trans fats in restaurants throughout the city. By July 1, 2007, fried foods will be trans fat-free, and by mid-2008, baked goods will also lose their trans fat. According to the Boston Herald, Boston is considering a similar move, with a decision coming in February 2007.
Though the weather is only just beginning to turn cold, the fashion world is buzzing with excitement over upcoming trends for Spring 2007. At the major fashion weeks in New York, Paris, Milan and London, designers gave us a taste of what we can expect to be wearing when warm weather finally hits. And what better way to get through exam period than to daydream about upcoming fashions?
The women's basketball team didn't disappoint in its 2006-07 home opener last night.
Chile, China, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, London, Madrid, Oxford, Paris, T??bingen and Talloires: Jumbos have a wide array of Tufts study abroad programs to choose from.
Tufts Dance Collective (TDC, to the savvy undergrad), the largest dance group on campus, will hold its biannual show, this semester entitled Garage Sale, Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium.
