Students can now check their e-mail in Brown and Brew thanks to the new e-mail station set up last Thursday and donated by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary.
Due to a reporting error, the article "Clinton recommends U.S. foreign policy shift" (Nov. 11) incorrectly stated the estimated audience of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's speech. It was 5,000, not 2,300.
Arts and Sciences (A&S) faculty members voted last week to tighten the requirements for Latin honors since over half of last year's graduates received them on their degrees.
So it's almost Thanksgiving. We have a good idea who will be playing for the national championship in college football (Oklahoma or Auburn and USC), we've watched an NFL season characterized by its' league parity, and we're enjoying an NBA that has had a complete makeover. College basketball, with great teams like Wake Forest, Kansas, and North Carolina, will be reinvigorated this season. But something feels like it's missing in the world of sports. Where's hockey?
The men's cross country team ended the most successful season in school history with a school record sixth place finish at the NCAA Div. III Championship meet in Eau Claire, Wis., on Saturday.
History has a tendency to repeat itself.
By no fault of our own, sometimes we miss the point of life. We're too busy looking ahead to the future and searching for the meaning of life to stop and realize that life is all around us. Life is right here.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution at last night's meeting to support a reduced tuition program to encourage second semester seniors to stay on campus.
Due to an editing error, an article last week ("Gittleman publishes book on Tufts history," Nov. 19) incorrectly stated the schools which were begun under the tenure of former Tufts President Jean Mayer. He was president during the opening of the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, not the School of Medicine.
Dan Winslow (LA '80) claims that he is someone who is "used to adversity." This characterization is fitting considering his position as senior advisor and former chief legal counsel to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in which he was responsible for acting as the governor's judicial representative as well as overseeing a unit of 830 lawyers in the executive branch agencies.
The theme of today's column is missed opportunities. Life is full of them. For example, let's say that one morning you want to wake up and go to the campus mini-mart to buy Baked Lays and low fat French onion dip. But let's also say you wake up too late to go, and the campus mini-mart is closed (it closes at 10 p.m.). You've just missed your opportunity to eat some delicious Baked Lays and low fat French onion dip. Instead you're forced to eat the stale Triscuits that have been sitting on your counter for weeks with absolutely nothing to dip them in.
When Elizabeth Edwards announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer on Nov. 3, she became one of the 215,990 U.S. women who the American Cancer Society (ACS) predicts will be diagnosed with the disease in 2004.
*PLEASE READ CORRECTION FOR THIS ARTICLE BELOW*The Board of Trustees has announced a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the 2005-06 academic year, which will bring tuition rate to an all-time high of $31,562.
Junior Becca Ades represented the women's cross country team on Saturday at the NCAA Div. III Cross Country National Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
It won't be the food. It won't be the immaculate mass transit. It won't even be the way everything comes wrapped in unnecessary amounts of cute packaging.
In Week 13 of the college football season, we were treated to greatest rivalry in all of college football.
We all know by now that no one ever actually landed on the moon. We also know the puffy white trails that planes leave when they fly across the sky are really sedatives that the government is filling the air with so the people don't get all uppity. But what many of us have yet to discover is the conspiracy going on right here at Tufts University. This may sound crazy at first, but read on and you will become convinced that Tufts is not a college, but a new reality television show.
A news article is shaped around its sources. Everything from the mundane to the scandalous is based on a reporter calling someone up, and asking for comments on a certain issue or event.
Vinyl. It's everywhere: on the outside of your houses, in your clothes and in your hairspray. It's America's most popular and second fastest-selling plastic. You probably don't give it much thought, after all - it's just another one of those cheap and easily adaptable materials.
In music, an aria da capo is a composition with three movements. Movements one and two are independent of each other, while the third is a variation of the first.
