The volleyball team's regular-season NESCAC title hopes hit a speed bump this past weekend in a dramatic 3-2 loss to Amherst. It slowed them, but did not stop them, as the Jumbos recovered with a 3-0 victory over Middlebury.
Behind a diverse ground attack and resilient defense, the football team rolled over Bowdoin 16-6 on Saturday in Brunswick, Maine, and got their best start to a season since 2003.
In the opening number for the showstopping new musical adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling book "High Fidelity," leading slacker Rob and his record store friends belt out "The Last Real Record Store," in homage to Rob's proudly independent, anti-corporate business.
The female Jumbo likes to be tan. In September or May, you will spot her sprawled out on a beach towel just a few feet from Tisch, trying to soak up whatever rays might have made it all the way to Medford, Mass.
The premiere for the new ABC drama, "The Nine," is nearly everything its cheesy promo tagline suggests. Nine complete strangers inadvertently meet at the location of a bank robbery, which snowballs into a SWAT-storming, 52-hour hostage lock-down. With two hostages dead, the nine survivors "are now banded together like an unlikely family" as they try to deal with problems of the past, present and future.
Forty-six thousand, five hundred dollars. According to the Tufts admissions Web site, that is the jumbo-sized bill landing annually in the mailboxes of Tufts students and their families. The price of tuition has risen by $2,087 since last year.
Tufts University Health Services is in its second week of offering Gardasill, a newly approved vaccination for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
For Tufts football, Saturday afternoon's showdown with the Bowdoin Polar Bears isn't the only thing marked on the calendar for this weekend.
In its first fall season home match in years, Tufts handily defeated Babson 7-2, finishing out its fall dual meet schedule with a 2-0 record. The loss dropped Babson to 1-2 on the season.
Twelve minutes of basketball morphed the Portland Trail Blazers from a powerhouse into a laughingstock.
Like it or not, ladies, size does matter. Muffin top, plumber's butt, back cleavage, armpit boob ... not a day goes by that you don't see way more of another woman's body than you want to. Why aren't modern women wearing clothing that fit them? How can you even tell if an article of clothing looks like the designer intended it to? Have no fear, the Fashion Informer is here!
Boston fans, listen up: there's more to your favorite team than you think.
Firstly, the couple thousand dollars that fund these student groups come nowhere near being large enough to make a significant contribution toward so great an endeavor as making Tufts 100 percent need-blind. If you want student activities fee funding to matter towards making Tufts need-blind or increasing faculty salaries, it would take the entire student activities fund to even contribute - never mind the fact that activities fee money is for student activities, not grand, university-wide initiatives.
These days, winning the NCAA Basketball tournament two years is a row is no simple feat.
By all accounts, it was a tough loss to forget. On Oct. 8, 2005, the Tufts and Bowdoin football teams, both perfect on the young season at 2-0, squared off at Zimman Field.
Watching the Carolina Hurricanes hoist the Stanley Cup last June prompted the big question: what the hell happened?
The Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) at Tufts University yesterday awarded the 2006 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Dr. Juliet Schor and Dr. Samuel Bowles.
A couple weeks ago, this fearless, yet tragically accident-prone reporter traveled into Boston to sit in on a roundtable interview with Todd Phillips, director of the newly released "School for Scoundrels."
Let's face it: Hooking up has become a staple of the college culture around the nation and here at Tufts. And, over the past three years, I feel I have become an expert in awkward hook-ups.
