In last week's column, I briefly mentioned the Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy before quickly fast-forwarding seasons and discussing baseball's spring training. While trying to come up with a topic for this week, I realized that these current Winter Games will be the only ones I will view while at Tufts, and that therefore I should probably say something about them.
The Tufts campus is awash in political and social activism. The 200-meter stretch of concrete between the academic quad and the library illustrates this fact. It's home to a rainbow display of flyers and posters plastered to the stairway walls, advertising the daily functions that revolve around a range of social, political and cultural issues.
Pei Liang takes a sip of his coffee and rubs his eyelids before he begins to instinctively take tickets and load passenger bags. For the Fung Wah bus driver, this process is routine: He makes the trip three times a day, three days a week.
Students are disappointed that many courses taken through the Experimental College cannot be counted towards political science major requirements, and have begun petitioning for change within the political science department.
On Feb. 22, Christina Hoff Sommers decried the influence of the popular work "The Vagina Monologues."
Tufts President Lawrence Bacow has set the tone for Tufts' capital campaign, a University-wide effort to raise money set to begin in November 2006.
After a 9-0 rout at the hands of No. 7 Brown University on Tuesday, the women's squash team now looks ahead to this afternoon's first-round match of the Howe Cup against No. 21 Franklin & Marshall at Harvard.
On Monday, Feb. 13, the NHL began its two week hiatus to allow its players to participate in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.
Access to on-campus computers these days requires more than the click of a mouse.
Tufts students getting financial aid through work-study jobs may have reason to worry: The government has recently made it more difficult for students to get work-study jobs by decreasing the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program at many universities by about 20 percent.
Between various court appearances stemming from a steady stream of drug charges, ex-Libertines frontman Pete Doherty found the time in 2005 to put out an album in the UK with his new band, Babyshambles.
It's time for a confession. While the Arts Department is decidedly un-sporty, one thing we LOVE is the Olympics. Accordingly, we were completely delighted when we realized we had our very own Shaun White at Tufts in sophomore RJ Phannenstill. Our glee was compounded by RJ's resemblance to ANOTHER star, the Harry Potter movie series' Rupert Grint (better known as Ron Weasley). We found RJ somewhere between the halfpipe and the Quidditch field and quizzed him about his two almost-clones.
At 5:15 p.m. yesterday, students gathered in the Mayer Campus Center's large conference room for what was billed as "an interactive lecture" aimed at broadening their understanding of the upcoming Mar. 28 Israeli elections.
With Wednesday's trade between the Orlando Magic and the New York Knicks, Stevie Franchise will be joining his third.
When high school students apply to Tufts, one of the first selling points that attracts them is the school's proximity to Boston, as it should be. Boston is an amazing city with an array of colleges in the area, making for a truly fun college experience.
Just when you thought you couldn't take one more day of the freezing cold or biting wind, a surefire sign of spring has been sighted on the horizon: three weekends full of red-hot culture shows.
There is nothing special about Elbow. Perhaps this is why they have been dropped by both Island and EMI as they were just starting out, likely due to their lack of an identity within the wave of late '90s British melodic soft rock. Overshadowed by such groups as Coldplay and Travis, Elbow managed to survive on the independent circuit until their more recent and lasting contract with V2 Records.
Harvard University president Lawrence Summers announced his resignation on Tuesday. He is leaving the post after a tumultuous five-year tenure.
For three Tufts students, the long weekend involved a long trek to Texas.
Get excited, all you nerdy music types. Fire up those latte machines, dry-clean those turtleneck sweaters and bust out the Kleenex boxes: Pop music is coming to town.
