The Tufts Equestrian Team currently leads the competitive Zone 1 Region 4, where the No. 1 spot has historically belonged to Stonehill College. The Jumbos earned a new sense of pride after competing at BU over the weekend and vaulting themselves into first place.
Tufts Hillel tonight will host a discussion aimed at bringing the genocide−marred history of Rwanda and its revitalized culture to Tufts.
Senior Eliana Sigel-Epstein, director of Pen, Paint and Pretzels' (3Ps) fall major show, "Uncle Vanya," is the first to admit that the play is of a very different mettle from, say, a James Cameron movie. "Not much happens in this play," Sigel-Epstein said. "It's pretty much a day in the lives of [the main characters]."
Columbia University Professor of International Relations Jack Snyder tonight will offer students atypical routes to promoting human rights efforts internationally.
By a slim $50 margin separating it from first place, Tufts this year ranks as the second most expensive school in Massachusetts, according to a report released last month by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Excessive alcohol consumption is undoubtedly a contributing factor to the dreaded "freshman 15" — but at what point does compensating for those liquor calories become a full−blown eating disorder?
Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos will tonight present the Inaugural Haber Professorship Lecture.
Miriam Arbeit, a child development doctoral student at Tufts, has been elected to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's (DESE) AIDS Advisory and Materials Review Panel.
Massachusetts authorities are moving to restrict sales of alcoholic beverages containing caffeine and other stimulants, which includes Four Loko.
A former Palestinian negotiator and a Jewish activist spoke in Sophia Gordon Hall last night about human rights in the Palestinian territories, the viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the future of the Middle East peace process.
Forget Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas. It's college basketball season, the time of year when Duke's Cameron Crazies bust out the face paint, when the "eRUPPtion Zone" bubbles over at Kentucky and when Kansas' Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk puts together random nouns to form a student section brimming with passion.
In September 1968, David Kelley received orders to ship off to Vietnam. He had just graduated high school and had enlisted in the army with five of his best friends, all of whom were uncertain of what they wanted out of life and how they ought to be spending their time; the army seemed like a good temporary path.
Every Nov. 11, American veterans are honored in a variety of ways. While 43 percent of Americans think our current military involvement in Afghanistan is a "mistake," 76 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the military as an institution, according to a Gallup poll from August. Matthis Chiroux, a veteran who spent five years in the service and received an honorable discharge in 2007, thinks that this confidence is dangerous.
Associate Professor of Psychology Sam Sommers yesterday afternoon explained the effect of everyday situations on human nature, in a lecture in Barnum 104 titled ‘Situations Matter: Understanding How the World Pulls Your Strings.' The event was sponsored by the Freshman Class Council.
I've gotten complaints recently that this column is far too California−centric. To this I respond, yes, it is, but that is because a) it's where I'm from, b) it's where a ton of Tufts kids are from, and c) it's the best state in the Union.
Tori Amos once sang, "I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars."
On Friday, I came close to drowning amid a sprawling sea of plaid with no foreseeable end in sight. In a moment of clarity, I realized I was surrounded by rows upon rows of grandpa-inspired sweaters, brown leather purses, ironically large black-rimmed glasses and upturned noses. It was, as advertised, the Sufjan Stevens concert of Nov. 11, but it was also the unspoken, unofficial Boston convention for indie music snobs.
Tuesday's front−page article on Tufts' sustainability ratings highlighted many of the great ways the university works to build a sustainable community. However, the article seemed to focus on the flawed methodology of the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) in creating their College Sustainability Report Card.
