The college basketball offseason is generally a quiet time for the sport. A new class of highly touted recruits arrives at campuses nationwide to replenish the supply of talent lost from players that graduated and/or moved on to the NBA. Some teams take international trips in order to begin practicing early without violating NCAA regulations.
Young race drivers like Michael Simko would give almost anything to be featured on ESPN's "SportsCenter" or CNN.
Dr. Shelby Steele, a conservative race theorist, delivered the fifth Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture yesterday afternoon in the Balch Arena Theater.
Conservative journalist Robert Stacy McCain condemned corruption in the Democratic Party and stressed importance of the coming November election in a Tufts Republicans event last night.
Isn't it wonderful how the weather seems to know that school is now in session and accordingly drops the thermometer a good 20 degrees suddenly? No? Fortunately, we can comfort ourselves with the bounties of autumn, which is now well upon us.
This year, about 80 students got lucky with Tufts housing: they have two closets, two beds, and the space of a double all to themselves.
Oh, Madonna. Remember the good old days when she was considered edgy?
Before his address yesterday, Shelby Steele sat down with the Daily for a brief chat on race-related issues in recent news.
I showed up late to table for the Activities Fair. I thought it was just bad news, but it turned out to be a stroke of luck: All the choice spots on the open patio were taken, so I tucked myself and the Daily sign-up sheets into a little nook under the bookstore awning.
I'll be the first to admit it: Sunday night's Pats-Broncos game was just dreadful.
The Africa in the New World minor is leading a new "study tour" to Ghana this winter, tour leaders Professors Edward Kutsoati and Pearl Robinson said at a meeting Monday.
In Saturday's season opener, freshman safety Alex Perry came out of nowhere to emerge as a key member of the Jumbos' defense, and was rewarded with a NESCAC Rookie of the Week nod in his first collegiate game.
New student demand and limited classroom space has resulted in scheduling and overcrowding conflicts in modern language classes this semester.
As more than 1,400 sophomores start choosing housemates, finding sub-letters, scouting locations, and arguing with landlords over repairs this winter, half of them may have another angle to consider.
Sunday night's game was supposed to be the chance for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady to prove that last year's playoff-ending loss to the Denver Broncos was a fluke, that Jake Plummer and Mike Shanahan got lucky against the injury-plagued New England Patriots' defense last season.
Prepared both mentally and physically for the extended rigors of the first championship-length, 6K race, the women's cross country team took to the slanting hills of the Jumbos' home course in Grafton.
In honor of this week's ten Days of Awe in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Daily sports department is keeping kosher, as we bring you the top ten Jewish figures in the world of sports.
As students returned to campus at the beginning of fall last year, there were some noticeable changes - loud beeping and machinery noises replaced alarm clocks, formerly popular pathways were blocked off by construction barriers, and portable bathrooms were lined up on the Residential Quad and Lower Campus Road.
