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Women's swimming | Swimmers eye top five finish at league championship
February 16The long weekend starts a day early for the women's swimming and diving team.
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Squirrels, screams, streaking
February 16Running around the Res Quad on the last Friday before finals with ice on the ground - but no clothes on - may be the craziest Tufts tradition.
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Men's track | Tufts ready for face-off against Williams, 15 other schools
February 16When the fastest men in New England all gather in one place, something is bound to happen.
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Malden resident travels to Guantanamo
February 16Malden resident Tom Feagley was part of a dramatic stand on U.S. foreign policy.
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Foosball on Tufts' dime?
February 16In the coming years, students may see gym equipment, ping-pong tables and foosball tables appearing in campus residence halls.
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Sophomore chosen as finalist in Boston Globe's Big Gig contest
February 16Winning the "dream" internship would be many students' fantasy - and sophomore Sari Haime is in the running.
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Compatability of activism, airwaves discussed
February 16When "Dateline" on-air correspondent Edie Magnus and attorney and women's rights advocate Wendy Murphy spoke last night in the ExCollege's "Producing Films for Social Change" class, the provocative and well-known female speakers provided some sharp commentary on the challenges of effecting social change through the news industry.
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Inside the Olympics | White and Teter lead Team USA to sweep top four halfpipe medals
February 16The men's and women's halfpipe teams delivered a one-two punch over the weekend, sweeping two of the three podium spots and confirming the United States' dominance in the sport it created and enhanced over time: snowboarding.
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They're kind of a big deal: Two seniors named to USA Today's Academic Teams
February 16In an impressive showing, two Tufts seniors were named to USA Today's Academic All-America teams on Tuesday. Mauricio Artinano and Robin Liss, who made the Academic First and Third Teams respectively, were among 600 nominated applicants.
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Ice hockey | Tufts needs to sweep final weekend to clinch a playoff berth
February 16With two games left in what can only be described as an emotionally draining season, the Tufts men's ice hockey team can at least take solace in the fact that it controls its own destiny.
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Ben Swasey | From Way Down Town
February 16Despite the snow and ice of the Winter Olympics, the sports world offered concrete evidence of spring's coming as Major League Baseball's pitchers and catchers reported for Spring Training to begin the 2006 season.
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Staff Top 10 | Presidential performers
February 15As Tufts students are well aware, we have Monday off. What they may not know is that the reason we have this three-day weekend is so that we may quietly sit in reverence of our beloved Commanders-in-Chief of years past. Since all we care about in the Arts section is fiction, we've compiled our list of our favorite fake presidents (and one real one playing a professor!) in movies and television. Andrew Shepherd, we'd vote for you if we could.
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Inside Fitness | Remember to stretch before working out
February 15I know it's important to stretch when you work out, but I'm unclear as to when I should be doing it. Some of my friends say I should stretch before I workout to warm up my muscles, but others say it's better to do it afterwards so that I don't get sore. When is the best time to stretch?
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Sound and fury, signifying nothing
February 15That Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot his hunting buddy in the face on Saturday is a lot of things, depending on how you look at it and how well victim Harry Whittington's recovery goes: alarming, surprising, a little bit funny.
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Trustees take a look at Student Life
February 15The Tufts University Board of Trustees convened last weekend for the second of its three annual meetings last weekend, focusing its discussions on student life.
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Carnaval Brasileiro promises plenty of food and Samba
February 15When this week's unseasonably warm temperatures drop into the 30s on Saturday, Boston will stay hot with Carnaval Brasileiro, the Brazilian equivalent of Mardi Gras. Intense samba beats, flamboyant costumes and body paint-bedecked people will conquer the Castle at Park Plaza starting at 8 p.m. for the festival's debut.
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Daily Townie | Medford and Somerville have hot spots, too
February 15Hi, my name is Pete McKeown... and I am (gulp) a Townie. That's right, I'm one of the few who are from Medford or Somerville and attend Tufts. I'm also proud of it.
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Weekender Interview | Amy Milan
February 15With all the talk of flames and burning things on Stars' third full-length album, you might expect 2005's "Set Yourself on Fire" to be something of a death metal concept record about Prometheus' return to Earth to inform humankind of the glories of human combustion. Not so much.
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Recruitment numbers for Greeks show slight drop, but holding steady
February 15With the Greek recruitment period ending Feb. 4 and the organizations having chosen their bids, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs has released current "new member" statistics. The numbers do not show a significant jump or drop in pledges.
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Consultant's report on Greek life in final stages of review
February 15A private consulting firm hired to work with Tufts' fraternities and sororities last semester is putting the finishing touches on its evaluative report, which has not yet been made public.
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