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Little innovation in new 'Workaholics' season
March 12Nearing the end of an unusually long twenty episode season, the bros of Workaholics don't have much to show for it. At face value, the episode list for this season seems ambitious and wild, but it is these same ridiculous situations that ultimately cripple the result of this season.
Baseball | Jumbos bring back young core in spring season
March 12Few college teams have the luxury of bringing back all but two starters in the field and three in the rotation. But few also have had to deal with the struggle of starting so many underclassmen, like the men's baseball team did last year - a season in which the Jumbos went 22-12, but only 4-8 in conference play.
Tufts mechanical engineering professor wins Fulbright Distinguished Chair award
March 12In todays world, oil remains a large and serious political, economic and environmental issue particularly American dependence on foreign oil. While easy solutions to these weighty problems seem scarce, one Tufts professor is becoming involved in changing the face of oil through his upcoming work to ...
Temple Bar brunch convenient, delicious
March 11If you are looking to add some extra spice to your normal brunch routine beyond Soundbites and Ball Square Caf?©, look no further than Cambridge's Temple Bar. Offering sophisticated New American charm and - most importantly - a divine brunch menu, this contemporary restaurant sits just a half a mile from the Porter Square T stop. Even the walk to the restaurant itself is extremely enjoyable, peppered with enticing trinket and vintage stores and trendy coffee shops.
Zen teacher discusses importance of meditation
March 11Well-known Zen teacher Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, sensei abbot of the Mountains & Rivers Order in New York, spoke yesterday about the path towards a better, more peaceful life through Zen meditation to over 50 attendees at Distler Performance Hall.
Craig Frucht | Axes to grind
March 11There you sit, five years from now, in your parents' basement drinking Crystal Lite out of a Mason jar and using your beat?up MacBook Air to scour the Internet for nonexistent jobs where your ability to write a gendered analysis of "Moby Dick" or debate the merits of Rousseau's definition of sovereignty make you a coveted candidate. Meanwhile, your best friend, a former biomedical engineering major who owns three houses, has already invented a new vaccine delivery system that's saved enough lives to populate a small island off the coast of Guam - which she also owns.
J Street U speakers urge two-state solution to Israel-Palestine conflict
March 11American Task Force on Palestine senior fellow Hussein Ibish and Americans for Peace Now director of policy and government relations Lara Friedman, spoke yesterday during in a discussion hosted by the Tufts chapter of J Street U, held to explain the group's support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TCU Senate Update
March 10The Tufts Community Union Senate addressed at its meeting yesterday campus alcohol culture, as well as potential changes to next year's Winter Bash and Fall Ball events. Programming Board co-chair Mayan Lendner, a senior, spoke during the meeting's open forum about the need for a change to next year's Winter Bash event after more than a dozen students were treated for excessive intoxication at this February's dance. Fall Ball is also pending review after similar alcohol-related incidents.
Jonathan Green | Drug Justice
March 10From Capitol Hill to online blogs of all political persuasions, it seems that the whole country has caught drone fever. Those flying robots, often armed with cameras and sometimes with missiles and munitions, are increasingly swarming American skies, launched by certain local police and sheriff's departments.
Annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference continues
March 7The 2013 Association of Writers & Writing Programs' (AWP) annual conference is now well underway, and many would argue that the best is still to come. The conference will continue through Saturday, March 9, having begun on Wednesday.
Danielle Jenkins | Greenwise
March 7Halfway through freshmen year I became a "vegetarian." Let's be honest - I still eat fish on occasion, so I'm not really a full?blown vegetarian, but who likes labels, anyway? Now, don't mistake this column for an ode to vegetarianism or an attempt to convert all of the meat?eaters in the world. I'm not into that. This is merely intended to enlighten all who may not have seen the meatless?meal light. Speaking of the light, it took a lot for me to make the transition from carnivore to herbivore. Before I fully committed to it, I watched my friend Karen enter the world of vegetarianism our freshmen year. She made the switch look effortless, not even realizing she was doing it until one day someone asked her about her vegetarianism, to which she replied, "I'm not - oh, I guess I haven't eaten meat in a while."
The Artsy Jumbo | Freshman Imogen Browder embraces theater opportunities
March 6The daughter of two actors, freshman ImogenBrowder came to Tufts looking for a break from the theater. Throughout high school, she participated in numerous theater productions in addition to creating some of her own and starting a student theater group.
Men's Track and Field | Indoor Nationals preview
March 6All the hard work has paid off for the men's track and field team.
Predictability aside, 'Jack' is fun adventure
March 6"Jack the Giant Slayer" - a re?imagining of the classic "Jack and the Beanstalk" tale - is Hollywood's latest attempt to adapt a classic fairytale into film. Some adaptations turn their source material into something darker - think last year's "Snow White and the Huntsman" or this year's "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" - while others keep things light, as with the other recent Snow White movie, "Mirror Mirror" (2012) or "The Princess and the Frog" (2009). Instead, "Jack the Giant Slayer" opts for the middle road, maintaining a tone that lands somewhere between the seriousness of the "Lord of the Rings" series and the simultaneously medieval and self?aware fairytale humor of "Shrek" (2001).
