Contrary to popular belief in the post-Anchorman world, diversity is not an old, old wooden ship used in the Civil War era, but rather a condition of heterogeneity or variety.
Monday night was host to one of sport's biggest events, and it separated the winners from the losers.
Physics Professor David Weaver passed away the evening of Tuesday, Apr. 4, shocking the Tufts community.
Freshmen have had an enormous impact on a number of Tufts teams this spring, but the first-year wave isn't a Medford phenomenon. There have been a number of athletes starring in their first collegiate seasons throughout the NESCAC.
At approximately 3 p.m. on Apr. 5, an equipment malfunction in a contained Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory caused the breakage of a tube containing a milligram of botulism toxin, exposing five school employees to the substance.
At a school that houses virtually no natives of Sri Lanka, a collection of approximately 100 students, professors and others gathered yesterday to hear a Sri Lankan diplomat, parliament member and a professor discuss the civil war that is currently plaguing the nation.
Just over a decade ago, Maryland freshman Kristi Toliver's three-point shot with 6.1 seconds remaining in Monday's NCAA women's basketball championship game would have sparked only peripheral interest in most Boston sports fans.
Though yesterday's online Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, Committee on Student Life (CSL) and Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary elections went smoothly overall, those seniors and sophomores who rose early in the morning to vote before their 9:30 classes were greeted by an error
A second-place finisher in the Boston marathon, a future president of the NCAA, a four-time Olympic shot-putter, and the tackler responsible for the career-ending football injury of a future American president - all extraordinary athletes, champions, and leaders in their sports. And all Jumbos.
Tuesday's News article ("McKissick receives teaching award," Apr. 4, 2006) incorrectly stated that the Professor of the Year Award is voted upon by the entire student body. The award is chosen through a University-wide nomination process and ultimately selected by the TCU Senate Education Committee. In the same article, Michael Eddy was misidentified as a junior. He is actually a sophomore.
After three years in the dark, fans of the NYC rock collective Yeah Yeah Yeahs finally have something to sink their teeth into. After various deceptions regarding the nature of their new record and its title (specifically one rumor that hinted that the project was to be a concept album about lead singer Karen O's Chilean pet cat), their sophomore effort, "Show Your Bones," hit the shelves last week. But don't worry; it's not of a feline nature.
This letter is in response to the editorial published in the Daily on Thursday, Mar. 30, 2006 ("Stop the kangaroo court"). Several factual errors were made in the editorial regarding the TCU Judiciary (TCUJ), the Advocacy Program and the operations of the University disciplinary system.
The men's and women's crew teams hit the water for the first time since late October in the spring season's openers, which were held at home on the Malden River - and yielded mixed results.
While some of the most popular courses at Tufts involve fields such as international relations, English, economics and biology, a new psychology course currently taught at Harvard University has the potential to change this trend.
So any chance of a perfect season for the Sox has been dashed. Big deal. One night, sports talking heads argued whether David Ortiz or Curt Schilling would be World Series MVP this year, and the next they were cringing over Josh Bard's inability to catch Tim Wakefield.
"I am a kind of baby boomer. I realize we sort of have a bad image in your generation - the majority of us went on to just become George Bush - but there were just enough of us, not everybody, but enough to make a difference, and I was part of that 'just enough,'" says Ronna Johnson, a lecturer in the English and American Studies departments, as she recalls her days as an undergraduate at Boston University (BU).
David Weaver, a professor of physics, passed away on the evening of Apr. 4.
One of my favorite products in the grocery store is One-Pie. It's a pumpkin pie filling left over from the golden age of easy-to-prepare canned foods, and its labeling looks like it hasn't been updated since the first can had the top sealed on.
Many Tufts students seem to be busy from morning to night. But what about those of us who aren't triple-majoring, training for a marathon or tutoring underprivileged children in Latin and just don't know what to do with our spare time?
Many credit Dashiell Hammett with the creation of the hard-boiled detective archetype in 1930 with the publication of "The Maltese Falcon." Ten years later, as the genre of film noir developed, the cynical private eye was transported from the novel to the silver screen, where he encountered femme fatales and corrupt policemen, all the while searching for truth in a seemingly endless cold and rainy night.
