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The neocon obsession

Surely you must remember where you were when you first heard about the secret neoconservative plan to take over the world. Remember how someone mentioned a Jewish professor from the University of Chicago named Leo Strauss and then someone else might have chimed in with the name Paul Wolfowitz (current president of the World Bank) or Robert Kagan (author and academic), or Irving and William Kristol (father-son tandem associated with The Public Interest and The National Interest among other neoconservative publications)?

Over guns, an 'ancient' but 'fresh' debate

Students gathered in Anderson Hall on Mar. 1 to work through what Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), described as "a debate as ancient as mankind and as fresh as today's newspaper."

Report: Language education essential, but lacking in U.S.

Students grumbling about fulfilling the extensive Tufts language requirement may want to reconsider.

Awards Briefs

Hoyt named NESCAC Coach of the Year

From philosophy to journalism... and back

After Associate Philosophy Professor Nancy Bauer took her first philosophy course as an undergraduate at Harvard, she quickly decided that philosophy was not her calling. These days, however, Bauer teaches classes at Tufts that cover film, feminism and ethics - all in the Tufts philosophy department. "Looking back, I know that I was always interested in the big theoretical picture, and in the big philosophical questions," Bauer said. "But the way that the course I took was taught just didn't work for me."

Skiing | Benson earns Tufts' first-ever skiing bid to Nationals

For the first time ever, Tufts will be represented at the U.S. Collegiate Skiing Assocation national meet.

City briefs

Planned Parenthood comes to Somerville

Why the Greeks are in demise

In his viewpoint "The sorry state of social affairs at Tufts," Mr. Ari Allen contributed nothing the least bit persuasive or original to the ongoing campus discourse regarding the health of the Greek system at Tufts. In fact, the tenets brought fourth in his poorly argued viewpoint only perpetuate the internally-generated collapse that is the state of the Greek system at Tufts.

Theater preview | 'Midsummer' proves love conquers even homophobia

Perhaps your last memory of Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" involves Michelle Pfeiffer and Calista Flockhart prancing about in the woods somewhere. But maybe your last experience with the play was less pleasant - take someone whose name shall not be mentioned (ahem, Meredith Brown) omitting an entire soliloquy in an eighth-grade performance, for example.

Tufts bond ratings holding strong

Tufts is currently $363 million in debt, but Vice President for Finance and Treasury Thomas McGurty is not losing any sleep over it.

The Daily's Oscar picks: 'Brokeback' cowboys will be happy campers on Sunday

Best Actorin a Leading Role

Standalone | Giving up Es for Lent?

No spring transfers this year

Tufts' Medford-Somerville campus is completely devoid of new transfer students this semester.

Kristy Cunningham | Out of Thin Air

In a true representation of America's beef-stew society, this year's diverse U.S. speed skating team broke away from tradition in the ethnically vanilla world of winter Olympic sports. The speed skaters, however, represent just one small part of an Olympic team that remains largely composed of a white upper- and middle-class majority.

Emergence of 'the tough Jew' discussed

Most of the big names in American gangsterdom are all Italian. But according to University Professor Sol Gittleman, it was Jews who did the dirty work for such famous figures as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano.

How about a mural with those Dewick chicken dippers?

Progress is being made on a project that will brighten up Tufts' Dewick-MacPhie dining hall.

Jumbo-Laya raises money for Hurricane Katrina relief

Floats, catfish and jazz singers all transformed the mood at Tisch Library last week as the library held various Mardi Gras-themed events to raise funds for the Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO) library, which was mostly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina last August.

Tufts Feminist Alliance talks porn

The Tufts Feminist Alliance (TFA) held a discussion on pornography last night in Paige Hall's Crane Room. TFA co-heads Anna Gollub, a sophomore, and Melanie Clatanoff, a senior, prefaced the chat with an informal agenda that included defining porn, the ethics of porn and the sex industry.

Women's fencing | Jumbos battle to third overall at NIWFA

Even without two of its top members, the women's fencing team took third overall at the NIWFA Tournament last Saturday at the Gantcher Center.

Theater review | New show provides a nice revue before mid-terms

Finally, here's a show that can entice your theater-loving and Broadway-hating friends alike. And if the "Special Victims Unit" part reminds you of "Law and Order," there's a reason for that.