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Ryan Buell | This Week in hip-hop

September 22

With the rap world losing its collective mind over the leak of Drake's highly anticipated "Nothing Was the Same," I figured I would dial it back a bit this week and focus on a lesser known project. Originally released as a free mixtape back on Aug. 20, Rapsody's critically acclaimed "She Got Game" recently got a facelift with a deluxe, for-purchase version. The deluxe version is DJ-free (meaning none of those obnoxious DJ Drama promotions) and swaps out a couple guest verses in favor of new verses from the aspiring emcee. The deluxe version also comes with two new bonus tracks and two instrumentals from the original mixtape.

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Adjunct faculty to vote on union rights

September 19

Part-time lecturers of the School of Arts and Sciences will this week cast their ballots in an election determining whether adjunct faculty will form a union under Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Adjunct Action campaign, which aims to improve benefits, job security and pay for part-time professors at universities. 

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Ross Dember and Alex Schroeder | Five-feet nothing

September 19

I'm Ross. And that's Alex. And together, we're five-feet nothing. We're switching off every week taking you on a walk down memory lane to the glory days of our sports-playing youths. I'm kicking off the semester this week.

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Lily Sieradzki | Media Junkie

September 18

Like many other liberal-minded, progressive-leaning, global citizen-aspiring Tufts students, I try to follow the news. I read the New York Times and the Washington Post as much as possible - that's what my parents read, and they are smart people, so those must be the best, I figure. I also like the Atlantic, the Guardian and the Boston Globe (gotta keep it local), with slight dabbling into The Huffington Post. (News, blog or both? It's pretty entertaining either way.) When I'm driving my dad's Subaru Forester around suburbia when I'm at home, I almost inevitably have NPR on.

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Letter to the Editor

September 18

Dear Editor,   Your recent story "Tufts Emergency Alert System updates software" published in the Tufts Daily on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, stated that our former emergency alert software, Send Word Now, was replaced due in part to improved reliability provided by the new software. That ...

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Tufts among top Teach For America colleges

September 18

Tufts ranked sixth among medium-sized colleges and universities with the most graduates participating in Teach For America (TFA), a national non-profit organization that employs college graduates to teach in underprivileged schools.

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Adam Kaminski | The Cool Column

September 18

For every student name I remember from my first few days on campus, I've surely made a plethora of awkward, unsightly introductions. The script reads something like this: "Hey, I'm Adam Kaminski. I'm from Arlington, Mass., and yes, I live in South. Be jealous." Easy? Yes. Worthwhile? Hmm...

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Tyler Maher | Beantown beat

September 18

Week 2 of the NFL season kicked off last Thursday night with the New England Patriots' home opener. The New York Jets, their division rivals, were in town. Both teams had been victorious (barely) in Week 1 and were looking to remain undefeated. On paper, it looked like the kind of matchup that would yield an entertaining, competitive game of football.

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Nimarta Narang | Hello U.S.A

September 17

Miss, you haven't left any tip!" A waiter stops me outside the restaurant as I'm beginning my journey back to the hotel. This is a strange occurrence. "But isn't it optional and included already?" I ask what, in retrospect, seems like such an ignorant, yet overly na??ve question. "You always have to leave a tip..." he replies. With that, I grudgingly remove three $1 bills from my wallet. I think the waiter regrets stopping me in the first place.

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Steve Locke takes on new exhibit

September 17

Walking into the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is like entering an entirely different world. This world is an apt representation of contemporary art and the socio-cultural trends of our time. Amongst the vast array of paintings and installations is a corner that contains a small, yet distinct, collection. This corner, much like the rest of the building, reflects the sentiments of a local artist from Boston: Steve Locke.

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Ben Zuckert | Straight Out of the Bible

September 17

Have you ever wondered, "Is the Bible still relevant?" Neither had I, until this semester when I did the unthinkable: I enrolled in the "Introduction to the Hebrew Bible." I'm not really sure why I'm taking the class, but it gave me the idea for this column, so I think it'll be worth it.

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Inside the NFL | AFC Anomalies: Ravens and Pats have serious problems to address

September 17

After Week 2 of the NFL season, the primary storyline that has emerged is the inconsistent play of many of the perennial powerhouses in the AFC. Specifically, the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots, traditionally two of the strongest teams in the conference and AFC Championship contenders for the past two seasons, have struggled due to glaring weaknesses in the fundamental makeup of each team.

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Aaron Leibowitz | The Fan

September 17

Sometimes I regret not going to a big-time football school. What could be better than a Saturday inside the Big House at Michigan, or the Horseshoe at Ohio State, surrounded by 100,000 screaming fans? One hundred thousand people create quite an atmosphere. They also generate quite a lot of money.

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Bhushan Deshpande | Words of Wisdom

September 17

Hi all!

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Sharewood improves prenatal care with new grant

September 17

The Sharewood Project has made important strides in providing free prenatal care after recently receiving its second $10,000 payment of a three-year $30,000 grant. Sharewood is a free volunteer-run clinic affiliated with Tufts that provides unscheduled health care to the medically underserved.

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Megan Clark | Where's The Craic?

September 16

Where's the craic?" is an Irish slang phrase that translates roughly to "What's up?" or "Where's the fun?" While the spelling of "craic" (pronounced crack) suggests an ancient Gaelic origin, it is actually derived from 19th century English and Scottish usage. At the time, it was spelled "crack" and usually meant "gossip." It was not until the 1950s that "crack" entered Irish parlance and was used to refer to gossip, news or fun. In the last few decades, the spelling of "crack" has evolved into the pseudo-Gaelic "craic" and is now culturally and conversationally ubiquitous.

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Eloise Libre | Frankly Candid

September 16

Admit it. Tufts students tend to enjoy a nice brag about how many hours they've been spending in the library. Often, it feels like we participate in some sick, ongoing competition, vying for the title of Most Hours Spent on Homework. But how many of those hours are spent actually focusing on school, and how many do we waste chatting away with friends, downloading music or Facebook-stalking the cutie who bought you Moe's on Saturday night - all from the guise of a Tisch cubicle? Whatever the excuse, we spend a ridiculous amount of time in libraries and other workspaces pretending to be productive, just for the bragging rights of that "hard-worker" label. But let's be honest - where you choose to "study" dictates exactly what you're doing and what your motives are.

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EPIIC to explore issues in Middle East, North Africa

September 16

This year's Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) colloquium will focus on the future of the Middle East and North Africa.

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Jordan Bean | Sacked

September 16

Welcome back to year two of Sacked! For anyone new to the column, I sift through a week's worth of sports stories to pick out those which I deem most worthy of being 'sacked' and give you, the reader, an in-depth analysis and ways to improve the situation. Over the course of the summer, ...

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Petar Todorov | Lab Notes

September 16

Mad-eye Moody's eye can peer through walls and Invisibility Cloaks. Tony Stark's heart is safeguarded by the Arc Reactor that powers his Iron Man suit. Deus Ex's Adam Jensen is crushed and burned before receiving augmentations that make him exceed human capabilities. In fiction, characters are often nearly obliterated, only to return better than new. In reality, we humans are much more fragile than we'd like to believe. Despite our most recent advances, we're much more difficult to repair.

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