Tufts' LGBT group sponsored a showing of "Keep Not Silent: Three Orthodox Lesbians' Individual Extraordinary Struggles for Love" last night that was followed by an intimate discussion with the film's director, Illil Alexander.
With spring just around the corner, the men's tennis team is getting down to business.
Fraternity and sorority presidents met last night to begin setting goals for improvements to the Greek system.
Tufts enters the 2006 season looking to erase the cloud that hung over the end of last spring's 27-8 campaign, in which the Jumbos' season-long league dominance was rendered moot by two tournament losses to Williams. Williams pitcher Clara Hard did what few had been able to do all season when she silenced the Jumbos' booming bats. And she did it twice on the same day, ending Tufts' promising season short of a NESCAC title or an NCAA appearance. In the teams' first postseason meeting in the NESCAC tournament, then-junior Hard held the Jumbos to a single hit, a long ball by senior co-captain Courtney Bongiolatti, after which Hard retired the next 19 batters to end the game in five innings. After the Jumbos beat Trinity in the losers' bracket to force their way into the afternoon title game, Hard took the mound again, handing the Jumbo offense its first no-hitter of the season. The Williams bats backed her up, and the Ephs earned their second straight NESCAC Championship with a 9-0 thrashing of the Jumbos. "Clara Hard is a huge part of their success," sophomore pitcher Erica Bailey said. "She has a tremendous rise ball, so we as hitters need to stay in control and not help her out by swinging at her rise." With this season still to go, Hard holds the Williams record for most strikeouts (338) and lowest career ERA (1.26). She led the league in appearances last season with 27, recording a second-best 1.06 ERA, was named NESCAC Pitcher of the Year, and earned a spot on the NCAA Regional All-New England Tournament team. This season, she will be joined once again by one of the league's biggest offensive threats. Senior Alana Frost, a 2005 First-Team All-NESCAC and All-New England selection, brings her league-leading .413 batting average and 45 hits into 2006 as Williams looks to three-peat as NESCAC champions. The Ephs and the Jumbos were a cut above the rest of the NESCAC crop in 2005, jockeying with each other in the regional rankings throughout the season and finishing three-four in New England, with Williams on top. They finished the regular season with matching 7-1 league records, the Jumbos on top of the NESCAC East and the Ephs heading the NESCAC West, each responsible for the other's only loss. In the stat book, they led the league in all but two offensive categories, and most by a hefty margin. But it was the Ephs' 3-1 record against the otherwise impenetrable Jumbos that earned them the NESCAC crown, the NCAA berth, and the enmity of the entire Tufts roster. The rivalry, far and away the most intense in NESCAC softball, goes back further than Hard's heroics. For the first three years of the tournament's existence, the Jumbos defended their regular-season dominance and took home the trophy. But in 2004, Tufts coach Kris Herman- who had steered the Jumbos to five league titles and seven straight NCAA appearances from 1997 to 2003 - moved to Williamstown, and the Ephs won the NESCAC crown in that year and the next. If that chain of events has not signaled a new dynasty, it certainly has been a loud wake-up call to the old one, and the Jumbos are anxious to respond. "Oh, my God," sophomore Heather Kleinberger said. "They had better be ready. We've had our last year of getting beaten by Clara Hard."
Opposites attract. This fact is often a governing principle in relationships, as well as the magnetic properties of certain minerals. But is it true for musicians as well? Can two seemingly dissimilar artists successfully unite to create compelling and melodious music? When the combination consists of former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan and former Belle and Sebastian cellist/vocalist Isobel Campbell, the answer is an easy yes. Their latest release "Ballad of the Broken Seas" is proof enough.
Sheriden Thomas is in her fourth year as an instructor with the Tufts Drama Department. She has directed students in plays including "A Piece of My Heart," "Hay Fever" and "The School for Scandal." But she's also done some acting of her own - 30 years of it, in fact.
In a city like Boston, where it's about as easy to find an Irish pub as it is difficult to find the nearly magical four-leaf clover, the choices of O'restaurants and Mcpubs can be overwhelming. This St. Paddy's day, the Daily has found the pots o' gold. But paddy posers, beware - these pubs promise more than just green beer.
The death of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic last Saturday, apparently caused by a heart attack, marks the end of an arduous and groundbreaking era for international criminal law and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
We here at Arts look pretty striking in green, so we're naturally excited when St. Patrick's Day rolls around. In honor of St. Patrick chasing the snakes out of Ireland (seriously), we thought we would honor the other Irish (and Irish-American) men and women who have made our Irish eyes smile over the years. (And to the Sports department, we promise we came up with this idea before you ran yours!) Here's our list, from most to least Irish:
In the final installment of the Daily's Battle of the Sexes series, we explore males' and females' differing - and sometimes disturbing - approaches to keeping their houses clean.
Success continues to roll in for the Tufts cycling team.
With visions of Spring Break dancing in their heads, most Jumbos aren't aware that this weekend marks another celebration, one that will take place halfway around the world from Fort Lauderdale.
On Mar. 7, Larry Johnson, Visiting Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, was appointed United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He will assume the position on May 1.
In the United States, there isn't a better place to be on St. Patrick's Day than in the Boston area. Our basketball team is called the Celtics, and I think Saint Patrick himself actually grew up in Medford and attended Tufts.
The US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has named Tufts sophomore Catherine Beck its NCAA New England Div. III Female Track Athlete of the Year. Wednesday's announcement came on the heels of Beck's 13th-place finish in the 5000 meter race at NCAA Div. III Nationals held at St. Olaf College in Minnesota last weekend.
In a Mar. 2 viewpoint, "Why the Greeks are in demise," Mr. Kenneth Kitchin attacked my description of the Tufts social scene and Greek system. For the purposes of this viewpoint, I will ignore the column written by Ben Bell as I refuse to respond to sarcastic and unintelligent discourse - clearly, the only purpose of Mr. Bell's Viewpoints column has always been to promote Ben Bell, hence his title: "Spare Me." Well, Mr. Bell, I will spare you. Instead, I will respond to Mr. Kitchin's viewpoint, which, although off-point, intelligently develops an argument that merits a response.
On a blustery Wednesday not too long ago, the four main stars of the upcoming teen flick, "She's the Man," a very loose adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night," met up with some other reporters and myself to, ostensibly, discuss the film.
After having watched almost every single inning of that 176-game miracle season in 2004, I barely watched a quarter of that in 2005. So heading into this season, the Red Sox are still World Series Champions in my mind, even if the title officially belongs to the pair in black.
Erin go bragh! Happy St. Patrick's Day. Boston was the first city in the colonies to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day (1737), so the Lush urges all of you to go out tomorrow and enjoy a pint of Guinness (or seven) at one of the city's many fine pubs - just don't forget to wear your green.
