A recently released survey reporting on the health of Somerville high school students showed that substance abuse among the city's youth dropped slightly over the past several years, pitting the city's level of underage drug use at lower levels than the state average.
The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), which runs through Sunday, last night kicked off a weekend's worth of film screenings, performances and workshops that highlight the Asian-American experience and feature Asian-American filmmakers.
"One sheep was blown up in the making of this film." This sentence, which announces the closing credits of "Four Lions," is a perfect way to wrap up this whirlwind of a satire. For the movie's 94 minutes, the audience is taken on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as director Chris Morris explores the lives of a fictitious, bumbling band of terrorists who call themselves the "Four Lions."
After falling to Middlebury in the NESCAC finals on Sunday, the volleyball team found itself on the outside looking in for a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Jumbos had entered the NESCAC postseason as the No. 4 seed with a 20−9 record, but failed to secure an automatic spot in the NCAAs.
Brian Eno has been just about everywhere in music in the past 40 years. He's pioneered ambient music, produced mega−albums like Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" (1980) and written pseudo−pop records that can go toe−to−toe with anything in the '70s pantheon. Now the maestro is well into middle age, but his ambition has hardly dulled: just listen to his latest album, "Small Craft on a Milk Sea," and see for yourself.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan delivered the keynote address on Friday at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy's symposium, titled ‘Nutrition Security: Challenges and Advances.' After the keynote, Merrigan spoke with the Daily about her efforts to aid local farmers in the United States. See Jumbo Slice at blogs.tuftsdaily.com for the full interview.
With the release of the iPhone 4, Apple has ushered in "The Future." The iPhone 4 is the all-singing, all-dancing smart phone that multi-taskers, technophiles and gadget nerds have been waiting for. For the rest of us, though, it might be a little overwhelming.
If the 2010 MLB season was the "Year of the Pitcher," the 2010-11 NBA season, at least through the first two weeks, can be characterized as the "Year of the Point Guard."
The closest thing to a universal collective security institution, the United Nations (UN) serves a very important role in international affairs. The Security Council, which is its primary peacekeeping arm, is arguably the most important and powerful organization within the UN. Made up of five permanent members with veto power and 10 elected rotating members, the Security Council has been a significant player in virtually every peacekeeping effort since World War II and its authority extends well beyond the members' borders.
The fervor to ban Four Loko, a popular alcoholic beverage and energy drink, has reached unprecedented heights. Just this Friday, the state of Michigan banned the item, citing its 12 percent alcohol content and colorful design, which legislators see as an appeal to the youth market.
When women are systematically raped as a weapon of war in the Congo, what does it have to do with you? When an estimated 45,000 people die each month in the Congo from famine, preventable disease, displacement, killings and sexual violence, what does it have to do with you?
Tufts received a ‘B' grade for sustainability and saw a decrease in its grades in several categories of the Sustainable Endowments Institute's (SEI) assessment of colleges and universities. The university had declined to participate in the independent surveys that the SEI had requested for its ranking process.
The Registrar's Office has assigned seniors studying abroad this semester with junior registration times in an attempt to streamline the registration process for study abroad students. Several seniors, citing a lack of sufficient notice from the Registrar's Office, assumed their registration times would fall in line with the rest of their class and were confused by the discrepancy.
Contrary to popular belief, the end of print journalism might not be all that imminent. A recent partnership between Boston University's College of Communication (COM) and The Boston Globe has let a new class of college journalists know that they should not give up hope just yet.
Once again, this time in Sunday's NESCAC Championship match, the Jumbos were unable to defeat the team that has bested them time and again this season - the Middlebury Panthers.
David Bendit wasn't about to let his past come back to haunt him. Not this time.
Danny Boyle, the Academy Award−winning director of "Slumdog Millionare" (2008), has done it again. The steady pulse of "127 Hours" never seems to slow down. An adaptation of Aron Ralston's 2004 account of his extreme sacrifice, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," "127 Hours" describes the several−day period when accomplished climber Ralston (James Franco) became trapped in Utah's Blue John Canyon and had to cut off his right arm to escape.
Stanford University biologist Drew Endy delivered the inaugural Knox Lecture in Engineering Ethics, sponsored by the Tufts Gordon Institute, in the Alumnae Lounge yesterday afternoon. Endy's work concerns the impacts of biotechnology on civilization.
The volleyball team has experienced a season of highs and lows this year, losing senior quad−captain Dawson Joyce−Mendive to an ACL injury in the preseason, then rattling off a 10−match winning streak before losing three critical conference matches, and finally rebounding to finish the season by winning its last three matches.
