"We go to school for so many years and delve into rich and complex texts, yet there is no course on one of the most basic, and most mysterious, human needs: the female orgasm," senior Chelsea Toder, co-President of VOX, said.
So apparently the weather gods decided that, since the NFL instituted a new third game this year in addition to the traditional Lions and Cowboys games, I should be punished this Thanksgiving without the annual family football game.
It's already Wednesday, almost a week since Thanksgiving. Third day back from break, and the memory is fading fast. Just a couple more weeks left in the semester, then Christmas and winter break, and then all the junior class goes away until fall.
Three weeks after Democrats swept the elections, not much has changed for the Republican Party in Massachusetts.
Amidst hip-hop's incessant braggadocio, few rappers have as thoroughly earned their right to talk as Jay-Z. Journalists have made careers out of chronicling Shawn Carter's now 10-year tenure as an artist, from the hustler wordplay of the still-astounding "Reasonable Doubt" of 1996 (still one of the best debuts in hip-hop history) to his 2001 opus "The Blueprint" (still one of the best records in hip-hop history).
Yesterday's Viewpoint "Turn off the tap!" mistakenly referred to author Tai Dinnan as "he," when in fact, she is a female Child Development major.
Originally, this week's column was going to be about Christmas specials or something. Then last week hit. And faster than you can say, "David Blaine will get to Target by 6 a.m.," a lot of pop culture had gone real bad, real fast.
The words "midseason replacement" often spell failure for a new series; it's rare that one of these ill-fated shows takes off. There are the exceptions, of course: "All in the Family" and, more recently, "Grey's Anatomy," but generally, it is difficult for these shows to find their fan base.
Tomorrow is International AIDS Awareness Day. The theme this year is accountability. Those of us who attended this summer's International AIDS Conference in Toronto heard a good deal of discussion about accountability which we're anxious to share and which, clearly, is of interest to fellow Tufts students. Again and again we're asked, "What can I do?"
Last season, NBA commissioner David Stern finally got his age limit. A player now needs to be at least 19 years of age or a year out of high school before being eligible for the NBA Draft.
Looking Back (Nov. 22-29) | Men's Ice Hockey: Tufts 4, Southern New Hampshire 1
After long semesters of translation, oral quizzes and subtitled movies to fulfill Tufts' heavy requirements, many students have had more than their fill of foreign languages by the time they graduate.
John Dunham's place at the helm of Trinity men's hockey predates even its first days as a varsity program. His tenure as head coach has spanned the Bantams' first winning season, its first NESCAC title and its first trip to the NCAA Div. III Frozen Four. And now, after 32 years, Dunham will see the program move into its first true home.
Let me begin by saying something that probably won't surprise anyone one bit.
A coordinated effort aimed at strengthening the ties between students and alumni is currently underway.
As I get older, I'm realizing that we live in a culture where vanity is somewhat unavoidable, and of course, by culture, I mean my own egocentric persona.
Incorporating fish into the diet may cut the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by nearly 50 percent, according to a study recently published by Dr. Ernst Schaefer of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA).
When the NESCAC winter sports season kicks off every year, Tufts proudly displays 10 varsity teams, including basketball, swimming and diving, track and field, men's ice hockey, squash and fencing. But there remains one conspicuous absence in the Jumbos' winter team lineup: Tufts does not field a varsity women's ice hockey team.
