Tufts University received both a higher volume and higher quality of external news media coverage during the 2005-06 fiscal year, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.
If ever there were a movie to do so, "Copying Beethoven" might actually justify two separate reviews. On one hand, the movie is a visually stunning, enormously powerful visitation of the brilliance of Beethoven's music. Yet at the same time, it's an acutely boring, poorly written and bombastically directed mess of a film that leaves you feeling ripped off and toyed with, like a kid who just lost his dollar to a man wearing a funny hat behind a booth at the fair.
Ah, sauces. One's thoughts turn instantly to French haute cuisine: white linen tablecloths, lit tapers and impeccably tiny portions centered on monumental plates, veiled with a delicate drizzle of some exquisitely prepared liquid condiment. All this will have you believe that the secret to making a good sauce yourself involves obtaining a copy of Larousse Gastronomique and memorizing the chapter on sauces, paying special attention to all the esoteric italicized phrases.
"You cannot bomb an idea, and there are some ideas that are too well-entrenched," Fletcher School doctoral candidate and ex-Pakistani official Hassan Abbas said in his lecture on Instability in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Areas last night.
Both administration and faculty agree that Tufts' biology department needs a new home.
Eminent historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam presented an innovative approach to Portugal's exploration of Asia during an afternoon speech at the Fletcher School yesterday.
When I started this column, I kind of began with the assumption that everyone knew all about sex and was comfortable discussing even the stickiest and most uncomfortable topics. It's like when an avid football fan tries to describe the excitement of Monday Night Football to a non-English-speaking European soccer fan.
Senior Kim Nguyen describes herself as a "hometown girl," but her research and travels over the past year prove otherwise. This Jumbo from Dracut, Mass., is best known by her friends, acquaintances and professors as the treasurer of her sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi and as a member of the women's intramural hockey team.
TCOWI, the Tufts Coalition Opposed to the War in Iraq, is organizing an installation on campus for this Wednesday, Nov. 15 and Thursday, Nov. 16 to protest the ongoing occupation of Iraq. The 119 pairs of boots we will have outside the Tisch Patio will serve as a representation of the 119 New England troops who have thus far been killed serving in Iraq. Hopefully, every student on campus will get an opportunity within these two days to personally confront this poignant reminder of the war's cost in human lives.
The Nov. 1 issue of "The Primary Source" in its "From the Elephant's Mouth" section finally begs the important question, "Are we finally free to think of the average Muslim as an illiberal putz?"
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Lieutenant and 27-year-veteran officer Domenic Pugliares of the Tufts University Police Department offered a snapshot of an officer's typical weekend evening at Tufts when he took this Daily reporter along with his nighttime patrol last week.
If last week's annual preseason tournament, known as "The Big One," is a preview of the 2006-07 fencing season, then the year certainly looks promising for the Jumbo squad.
Junior forward Jake Weitzen is much more than a sixth man, and he's ready to prove it.
Nearly 150 students from a dozen schools arrived at Tufts this weekend to participate in a debate tournament. Contestants, competing in two-person teams, flexed their rhetorical muscle on hundreds of topics ranging from ethical science to transgender rights.
Two years after Tufts acquired the Lorin Low Dame School building, renovation is well underway to provide office space for several administrative offices now scattered across campus.
This year, Tufts' Professor Kyongbum Lee of the Department of Chemical Engineering was awarded the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Best Paper Award on Oct. 4 at the Metabolic Engineering VI Conference in The Netherlands.
Tufts prides itself on being a socially conscious university whose students care deeply about global issues. Recently, however, an activist group has questioned whether or not Tufts practices what it preaches when it comes to how the university invests the money in its endowment fund.
Fans at Cousens Gym might be doing a double-take this weekend. Starting at center in the Tufts lineup will be Brian Fitzgerald - last year's senior tri-captain.
