Mara Aspinall (J '83) delivered a speech entitled "Having Fun While Finding Success" to a crowd of about 60 students and professors in Ballou Hall last night as this semester's Lyon and Bendheim lecturer.
Jumbos love controversy.
Anyone hoping to catch the end of the volleyball match after their 7:00-8:15 class missed quite a show.
Fall Fever has hit Boston (and it's not because of the Red Sox). An abundance of students are strewn across the quad, lounging under the vibrant foliage. While hurricanes and tsunamis may devastate the rest of the world, Beantown, thus far, has not felt any real detriment from climate change.
All good things must come to an end.
Yesterday evening, the Tufts Women's Center, VOX, or Voices for Choice, and the Tufts Feminist Alliance hosted a discussion on Plan B, the emergency contraception (EC) drug.
As October begins and brings with it the first round of exams at Tufts, a good proportion of Tufts students have additional worries besides their studies. Before too long, the school year will be over, and seniors will enter the demographic of recent college graduates that labor economists love to study.
We've all been there before; we've all had tough weeks with hundreds of pages to read, papers to write and marathon Tisch sessions. All we're looking for is a chance to escape for a night, maybe run into that cute girl who sits in front of us in math class and get away from that awful droning voice that we hear at 12:45 ("The library will be closing in 15 minutes ...").
Like many top-level sports organizations, the realm of elite youth soccer is a very small world.
Facebook.com has wormed its way into college life, linking students to others in the their classes, putting faces to names, and allowing students to share pictures and advertise events.
What could sk8er boi's, Dave Matthews Band, six year-old girls, and the Tufts Daily possibly have in common? Believe it or not, the answer lies in the artist behind that adorable, if random, umbrella-toting bunny perched on the right-hand corner of the front page of the paper in your hands.
Tufts' endowment grew more rapidly over the past year than that of any other Massachusetts university, according to the Boston Business Journal.
Steven Tyler's recent announcement of his Hepatitis C infection got the Daily thinking. While we certainly sympathize with local boy Mr. Tyler's ailment, we would be lying if we said that we were surprised by a rock star's contraction of a highly contagious disease associated with, well, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll (and of course, Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson).
Last season, both the Tufts men's and women's cross country teams won automatic bids to Nationals with strong finishes at the Div. III New England Regional Championships.
On paper, it didn't look like much of a series.
Heroes inevitably fade, but once in a while you get to honor them before they go.
Malik Mufti, Professor of Political Science and International Relations program director, met with two dozen students in the Crane Room last night to discuss Middle Eastern politics in the context of the 34 day war between Hezbollah and Israel this summer.
In a new series, the Daily sits down each week with a Tufts faculty member and poses a controversial question about art and culture.
What's most disappointing about Comedy Central's newest animated series, "Freak Show," is that, despite its talented creators and producers, the show is not as good as it should be. In many respects, it's just like the League of Nations and the Big Dig.
With its white roof, generally bad acoustics, and hanky-waving fans, the Metrodome has long been hailed as one of the toughest ballparks for visiting ball clubs.
