Surrounded on all sides by academic forerunners in life sciences research, the city of Somerville is determined not to be outdone.
While most Tufts students are worrying about getting called on during a lecture class, senior Scott Merrick sits among a group of 400 people whose average age is 56.
Piggybacking on Will Herberich's column in Monday's paper, we at the Daily Sports Department got to thinking about athletes' names. What's in a name, really? Was talent pre-programmed into the Mapp brothers-Majestic, who had a healthy hoops career with the Virginia Cavaliers, and his slightly less-talented but equally well-monikered brother, Scientific? Was Swin Cash just playing out some predetermined plan when her Detroit Shock won the WNBA Championship in 2006?
26 and 1: two numbers never to be used in the same sentence in Boston. As a senior, this is one of the many pieces of advice I can give incoming students when interacting with Red Sox fans.
The trend of the month seems to be complaining about Facebook. But personally, I think everyone's missing the big joke. So, dear reader, divert your attention from whatever class you're in and join me for a little conspiracy theory. I call it, "Mark Zuckerberg knows exactly what he's doing. And I love him for it."
In cross country, the majority of the season is spent preparing for more important November meets, and the team usually works to get their runners to hit their stride in the postseason.
There are three men running in the hotly contested gubernatorial race: Chris Gabrieli, a venture capitalist; Deval Patrick, a corporate lawyer; and Tom Reilly, the current Attorney General and former District Attorney of Middlesex County. Reilly has the experience as well as the strength of character to be the next governor of Massachusetts.
From the title alone, it is nearly impossible to guess what Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman" is about. The "Pillowman" sounds like he could be related to the Pillsbury Doughboy, the marshmallow man, or the Michelin man, but his job is far more grisly than most would expect. The New Repertory Theatre's production of this off-Broadway play touts itself as a "viciously funny" black comedy; this one is as dark and biting as it gets.
Due to a production error, quotation marks were missing from several comments made by Tufts professor Michael Goldman in a four-paragraph section of yesterday's Features article entitled, "From Bill Clinton to Bloomberg ... radio, that is."
At today's state-wide primaries, Republican hopeful Samiyah Diaz will be asking for the support of an unlikely group: the Democrats.
Outwit! Outplay! Outlast! More than 17 million viewers tuned in last Thursday night to watch the premiere episode of "Survivor: Cook Islands." Within the first moments of the program, castaways were put to the test, gathering all that they could from the main ship in only thirty seconds.
MIT and Harvard freshman cadets from the Army ROTC's Paul Revere Battalion practice new battle tactics skills during the new cadet orientation held Saturday. Though Tufts does not yet have any freshmen cadets, the event was planned and led by Tufts seniors Kyle Hiatt and Sean Pezzini.
The former Tufts Catholic center, located at 58 Winthrop Street, will soon become a joint space for the Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic ministries on campus. The building is currently undergoing renovations, expected to be completed in time for the spring semester.
Class gets out and you have 15 minutes before your next lecture - what's a Jumbo to do? According to a survey published last spring by AOL, the Associated Press, and Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61 percent of young Americans (18 to 29-year-olds) use their cell phones to fill up their free time.
Are Americans becoming more peaceful? One Tufts professor thinks so, and attributes the trend as much to the Vietnam War as to any of the recent conflicts in the Middle East.
For most students, the college experience involves more than just academics. Students also learn to deal with different kinds of people, think in new ways, and adjust to a life of independence away from their parents.
Tufts football fans may have been distraught when they heard that Monday Night Football was moving from ABC to ESPN - a channel that today's Tufts students had never enjoyed.
Grizzly Bear's sophomore album, "Yellow House," opens up with lead singer Ed Droste crossing the threshold into the house of the title, telling a silently exasperated companion that he knows, "the doors won't close/ the pipes all froze/ just let it go." He knows it doesn't look like much now - it's what real estate agents would refer to as "a real fixer upper" - but let him show you around.
