One would expect a team that had yet to complete tryouts or name a captain to be in disarray. But the Tufts golf team overcame such hurdles with ease last weekend when they won the Bowdoin Invitational.
The candidates for all levels of student government gathered in Hotung Caf?© last night for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) government's candidates' forum.
Well, after a six month hiatus during which I was abroad in moldy England, I have returned to Tufts, ready to continue doing what I love: dispelling those asinine fitness myths that have propagated themselves thanks to cheap infomercials and idiot personal trainers at local gym chains.
High school seniors hoping to slack off once they have been accepted to college could be in for a rude awakening.
After months of hard work under a constant fear of failure, members of Tufts' Pangea organization anxiously awaited news of the arrival of an exceptional visitor to Chicago yesterday.
It is not uncommon for either the administration or TCU Senate to pursue well-intended policies with negative unintended consequences for the student body. It is rare, however, for these organizations to cooperate, particularly so early in the year. Even rarer is collusion in such an irresponsible way to actually place a large segment of the student body in physical danger. Miraculously, such a confluence occurred at this year's Fall Ball, where, due to a lack of responsible planning, monitoring and common sense, a safety disaster was narrowly averted thanks to pure chance.
Before Maine native Amara Nickerson left in July to spend her junior year studying abroad in Chile, much of her summer revolved around bike riding.
Mira Nair's latest cinematic endeavor, "Vanity Fair," is a sumptuous feast of colors, textures, and cleverness. Filling the screen with fantastic costumes and excellent performances, "Vanity Fair" provides a strong start to this fall's hotly anticipated film season.
With the first bite, pure elation flows into your taste buds. The chicken jumps around on top of your molars, the cheese runs its course between your two front teeth, the rice weaves its way around the bicuspids, gently grazing them as they run by, and the salsa does the salsa in circles around your uvula.
It was a weekend of mixed results for the Tufts sailing team in its first full schedule of the fall season.
While the unanticipated large attendance of this weekend's Fall Ball may have been "a welcome surprise to the event's organizers," ("Fall Ball extends a hearty welcome to 3,700 students," Sept. 13) many of the attendees felt unimpressed and even terrified as they entered the building.
Boston Red Sox fans are starting to get anxious, thinking this is finally their year. New York Yankees fans think every year is their year. Although there may not be as many of them, die-hard Minnesota Twins fans could surprisingly be the ones celebrating come October.
With five freshmen making their Tufts debut, the 2004 volleyball team expected to see some new faces in new places as it opened its season at the Coast Guard Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 11.
The Tufts political scene may get a little livelier with the addition of a new on-campus branch of the national Socialist Alternative organization, which hopes to educate people about socialism and provide the student population with the option of a third national political party.
There's more than one way to spend a summer vacation. While some grab flip-flops and suntan lotion and head for the waves, others burrow into their books to lighten their fall course loads. Some students, however, do both.
In a speech that focused on the tangled terrorist threat America faces from the Middle East, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former South Asian correspondent for the Washington Post Steve Coll opened with an anecdote. In 1999, Osama bin Laden went falcon hunting near Khandahar, Coll told a nearly-full house at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ASEAN Auditorium Monday night. Afghani CIA agents tracked bin Laden to this remote location, and relayed the precise coordinates back to the United States. According to Coll, this was one of three or four clear-cut cases in which the United States had an unparalleled opportunity to kill bin Laden, and declined to act, in part due to questions surrounding the reliability of the tracker's information. Coll used this story as a backdrop to pose several difficult questions that America must ask itself on the war on terror - "Who is the enemy? Who can be considered a true ally? What risks are we willing to accept in this war on terror?" Using Pakistan as an example, Coll described how the United States has used many countries as allies in the short-term, only to breed less devoted - and more powerful - enemies in the future. In the 1980s, the United States gave Pakistan billions of dollars to fight invading Soviet forces. Although U.S. leaders were aware of Pakistan's proclivity towards Jihadist and anti-American sentiments, they deemed it necessary to help fund the country's efforts against the impending Communist threat. Coll proceeded to describe the role that Osama bin Laden has played - and continues to play - in the evolving terror structure in that region. Born in 1957 to a Saudi billionaire, bin Laden quickly strayed from the luxurious and privileged life that many of his 54 half-brothers chose to enjoy. Instead of reveling in his $1 million yearly allowance, bin Laden studied under extremist Islamic professors at Abdul Aziz University. Coll described bin Laden as "not a vicious man" in the sense that he never executed people around him, as many militant Middle Eastern leaders are prone to do. "He has always led by persuasion rather than fear," Coll said. He proceeded to discuss what impact the capture or death of bin Laden would have on the war on terror. "Osama bin Laden is certainly the most important symbolic leader of the al Qaeda movement," Coll said. "His capture today, however, would not make a big technical difference in al Qaeda operations." The precise manner in which bin Laden would be captured or killed could also affect the event's effects. "[Bin Laden] being captured and relatively humiliated as Saddam Hussein was would have a positive impact against al Qaeda," Coll said. "Bin Laden sacrificing himself in a hail of bullets on Arabic television would, however, project a very different message." Before delving into a lengthy question-and-answer session, Coll described how the war in Iraq has not progressed as the Bush administration had originally hoped. "There was a strain of thinking in the Bush administration that a war in Iraq would be a long-term strategic advantage for the U.S," Coll said. "Well it hasn't evolved that way, at least not so far." Coll's lecture was followed by a book-signing promoting his new book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. His speech was jointly sponsored by Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) and the Tufts Program in International Relations. EPIIC's theme this year will be "Oil and Water."
Dr. Henry Childers, a long time instructor and volunteer at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has been elected president of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).
If Plato could have foreseen how his theories would have been interpreted throughout the ages he would be out of his Greek skull to see how "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" perverted his ideas about gender.
For all the jokes and allegations surrounding Barry Bonds, it is time to stop and acknowledge his achievements this week. The San Francisco Giants slugger broke his own single season walks total, became the first player with 200 or more free passes in a season, and was also on a quest to be just the third player ever to hit 700 homeruns -- a feat he sits on the brink of reaching.
Recent questions raised about President George W. Bush's National Guard service have revived heated debates over whether the current president did, in fact, serve completely and honorably during his time in the Texas Air National Guard.
