One word can be used to describe the college hoops games that have gone down over the past week: jaw-dropping. The annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge had some amazing games in addition to a battle of the titans between UNC and Kentucky.
Whether uphill or downhill, off-campus or on-campus, abroad or not, the Boston Red Sox rise to the World Series Championship caused excitement for most Tufts students, either through joy or through pain.
A barrage of diverse speakers coming to Tufts in this highly politicized semester, urged students to open dialogue on issues ranging from the Middle East to obesity to bioethics.
A lively crowd of Fletcher students, faculty, and undergraduates crammed into one of Cabot's auditoriums last night for a highly charged discussion of climate change and U.S. energy policy.
Gays, straights, and everyone in between found something to take offense at this semester, as LGBT issues caused affronts on all sides.
Starting with this semester's freshman orientation, Tufts' fraternities have experienced continued restrictions from the school and Somerville administration.
Rumor has it that the first nude scene in a movie appeared less than a year after the Lumiere Bros. premiere public screening of a film in 1895. Since these first flickering flesh-images, movies and nudity have gone together like quads and running.
Boston-area physicians have recently turned their attention to the problem of malnourishment among poor residents, since eating healthily on a very low budget is an increasingly challenging proposition.
The women's squash team showed its resiliency this weekend, bouncing back from a 9-0 loss to Trinity on Friday to win both of its Saturday matches at Wesleyan. The Jumbos defeated Middlebury 5-4 and Hamilton 7-2 to close out the weekend.
As winter break nears, Tufts students pack into Tisch to cram for finals, hug goodbye to friends they won't see for the next four weeks and figure out how to hitch rides home, but what does the break mean for the population of professors and instructors on campus?
Tonight, Tufts student filmmakers in Roberta Oster-Sachs' class, "Producing films for Social Change," will debut their films, created through a semester of what Oster-Sachs refers to as "journalism bootcamp." Students, many with little to no experience with broadcast journalism, must make a film and it's not a simple task.
A recent article ("Fletcher terrorism course looks at crisis management," 12/03) implied that the Metropolitan College of New York offers one class on emergency management. In fact, the school offers a Masters degree in Public Administration in Emergency and Disaster Management.
Tufts School of Medicine graduate Arijit Kumar Chowdhury, 36, pleaded guilty to federal charges of loan and scholarship fraud Monday before U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro in Boston.
While most of the student body is looking forward to the upcoming five-week winter break, many winter athletes' time away from Tufts will be cut short, as teams will return to Medford early to train for the upcoming NESCAC schedule. Athletes on the men's and women's basketball, swimming and track teams will spend the first two weeks of the break at home, only to rejoin their teams for the remainder of the holiday season for practices.
The holiday season offers a sojourn for college students: they get a month off from school to sleep for 10 hours a day and watch reruns on MTV and BET. Before relaxing, however, many tackle the task of shopping for the holidays, which can be stressful and time consuming. Nevertheless, Tufts students have made their holiday shopping lists and have begun their search for gifts.
If pre-finals madness has you feeling worn and weathered, skip the club on Saturday, go on down to Cohen Auditorium and let the Tufts Dance Collective bust the moves for you in their latest show, "Traffic Jam." This year, the production consists of 18 different performances from TDC, featuring guest groups including Turbo, BEATS, and Sarabande.
When I began writing for the Daily my freshman year, the ever infamous Elliott Wiley, a grizzled veteran writer, imparted the following words of wisdom/warning upon me:
In this age of racquetball, leather pants, and multi-colored dildos, it's sometimes difficult to relate to plays written before indoor plumbing.
As the holiday season rolls around, families across the country look forward to celebrating and spending time with friends and loved ones. For many, however, this year's celebrations will empty as those close to them are overseas, fighting in the longest American military engagement since the war in southeast Asia. The chill of winter and the approach of the holidays should remind us of those in uniform serving overseas longer and in greater numbers than would be necessary had our leaders planned better.
Rabbi Jeffrey Summit can now add 'Grammy nominee' to his titles of executive director of Tufts Hillel and associate professor of music and Judaic studies.
