In cross country, the race is against the clock or, occasionally, other runners. This weekend, the Tufts men took on the elements.
I've decided to recast some of my favorite movies using famous athletes. Why? Because I'm given six hundred words every Monday to write about almost anything, and this seems as good a topic as any. So without further ado, let's rewrite some movie history:
From the outside, 37 Sawyer Ave. looks to be just like any other house in the Medford/Somerville area. But upon walking through its doors, an unsuspecting visitor would be in for a surprise: the colorful walls are covered in pornography.
The Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) brought its own version of "Fear Factor" to Tufts on Friday. On the academic quad, 11 contestants competed in three different tasks to try to win $100.
Reading Mr. Sy's viewpoint (10/24/06, "Iran: Much ado about nothing"), I was overcome by the extraordinary naivet?© of his extremely optimistic assessment of Iran's current attempt to enter the world's growing nuclear club.
In Arnold Schoenberg's great unfinished opera, "Moses und Aron," God's forceful yet ineloquent prophet Moses faces his people and declares, "All-powerful One, the omnipresent One/ Invisible, inconceivable/ Demands no offerings from you./ He wants not a part/ He demands the whole."
In Miner Hall, there are diabolical plans being hatched yet again.
The volleyball team closed out its regular season this past weekend, playing the best and the worst of the NESCAC in a two-game weekend at Hamilton.
Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is still waiting for the green light on the construction of a regional biosafety lab that would work with infectious diseases.
Q: I like to use artificial sweeteners in my coffee and baking. Are these "fake sugars" harmful to my health?
When the Jumbos take the field tomorrow against Conn. College, they need a win to have a chance at home-field advantage on Sunday in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament. But they will also need the cards to fall just right, in the form of a win of their own over the Camels, a Trinity loss to Middlebury, and a Williams win over Amherst.
"All of us will be paying for this war for decades to come," Iraq War veteran Andy Sapp told students and faculty last night at an "Iraq War Community Forum" that was co-sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies program and the Tufts Democrats.
I love NBA basketball. I grew up on the classiness of the Blazers in the early '90s. During the few games that weren't televised in the days before the Internet, my little brother and I hunkered around the kitchen radio to catch scratchy snippets of Bill Schonely's play-by-play. The Blazers were the NBA version of the Oakland A's: a small-market team with a fairly low payroll that always flamed out in the playoffs.
Epitomized by the mass anti-Vietnam demonstrations on American college campuses in the 1960s and 1970s, political activism has long been the domain of the university sect.
Reviews are supposed to be critical, so typically, even if something is well made, reviewers' alleged "discerning tastes" force a highlight of all imperfections. What makes the second season of VH1's "Breaking Bonaduce" a difficult show to review is that there is little one can say about the main character that he will not himself say. He is basically an alcoholic womanizer with a highly addictive personality and a violent jealous streak frequently manifesting itself in uncontrolled rage and a manic temper. Ironically, this is what makes him a hero for our times.
The sailing team has quietly sailed under the radar of the Tufts spotlight, cruising to one of the more impressive seasons in the program's history.
The first commandment of Tufts volleyball: No visiting team shall walk out of Cousens Gym with a victory.
Another weekend, another huge NESCAC game.
Bogged down by midterms? If you're feeling too lazy to go into Boston this weekend, you just got lucky. Davis Square's own Somerville Theatre is hosting two concerts, both part of the World Music/CRASHarts performance series.
