While we spend next week vacationing on the beach, the mountains, or our couch back home, most of us will forget a very important date: Mar. 20 marks the first day of spring, not to mention my birthday - sorry, but I had to throw that in there.
Intellectual curiosity permeated Ballou Hall's Coolidge Room on Friday afternoon as undergraduate students presented their research to students, faculty and family.
"...one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
If you thought college life in the sixties was a psychedelic era all about wild sex and drugs, you're wrong. Well, you might not be wrong, but don't expect that to be the central focus of Zeropoint Production's "Moonchildren," featuring Tufts alumnus George Rausch (LA '05). As it turns out, there were important issues going on.
It was three years ago this month that President Bush ordered the initial air campaign against Iraq. Shortly after the intense bombardment, a general invasion led by the United States commenced. The fall of Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime soon followed. Things couldn't have gone better.
Even though it seems to be happening against all odds, free trade pacts and policies in Latin America have made some small but important gains over the last months. As recently as November of last year, the Summit of the Americas utterly collapsed, after Hugo Chavez announced that he had come with a shovel so that he could bury the proposed free trade agreement. Since then though, important progress has been made.
In the center of Seville, La Giralda towers over the city as a constant reminder of Spain's Muslim history. From 750 C.E., when Abd al-Rahman escaped the slaughter of his entire family by the rival Abbas family and fled to what was then known as al-Andalus, until 1492, when Fernando III conquered Spain and moved the capital of Andalusia to Seville, Spain was an Islamic country. As the story goes, Fernando climbed the mosque's tower on horseback after conquering the city to look over everything he had just claimed.
Wal-Mart is maligned for being the epitome of corporate greed. Critics of the company say it spreads through small-town America like wildfire, leaving mom-and-pop stores crushed in its wake. This is all true.
The pharmaceutical industry mainly markets its products through direct-to-consumer advertising and direct marketing to doctors - and lately, both types of marketing have come under fire.
A new budget bill recently passed by Congress has significantly modified the classification of institutions of higher education. The bill has nullified the "50 percent rule" that required colleges to deliver at least half of their courses on a campus, instead of online, to qualify for federal student aid. The rule was enacted by Congress in 1992 after investigations revealed that some for-profit trade schools sold diplomas without delivering an education. The bill also abolished the "90/10 rule" that previously required for-profit colleges to obtain at least 10 percent of their revenue from funds that do not come from federal student aid programs. The Daily sat down with Associate Economics Professor David Garman to discuss the bill and its implications.
When it comes to off-campus living, which sex is the superior one? The Daily's Features section took numerous polls and even held two battles (see tomorrow's and Wednesday's papers) in an effort to examine the prowess of upperclassmen living off the Hill. Today's article centers on money management, one of the four topics investigated.
In the array of colors and uniforms at the 2006 Div. III Men's Track and Field Championship, there will be more brown and blue than ever.
There is a reason why NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue is so highly regarded among his peers. There is a reason why New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones are known as consensus-builders, and there are 30 reasons why the NFL has a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and six more years of labor peace.
U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Matthew Bogdanos used a compelling combination of photographic slides, poignant anecdotes and literary quotations last night to discuss his experiences investigating the looting of the National Museum of Iraq, which experienced extensive looting during the confusion and destruction of the April 2003 invasion of Baghdad by U.S. troops.
Sex and politics get people's attention.
Along with the hours they spend in class, many college students endure several hundred of pages of course reading per week.
When Ben Rubinstein (LA '05), a Theta Chi brother, lost his father to heart disease, he began raising money for the American Heart Association (AHA), the charity in which his father had been involved.
Last weekend's Ford Championship at the famed Doral Golf Resort proved that in the world of golf, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
On the night of Mar. 8, the Committee on Fraternities and Sororities (CFS) met with all campus fraternity and sorority presidents to discuss the future of the Tufts Greek system.
Through a commission established last fall, the Bush administration is exploring whether universities should be subject to federal standardized testing.
