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GC in DC: Tales From the Swamp: GC’s not-so-declassified food survival guide
By Guillem Colom | March 7If New York is the city that never sleeps, Washington, D.C. is the city that always eats.
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For the Culture: Hip-hop evolves through experimentation
By Paul Osmond | March 7Hip-hop is dying. Well, ‘traditional’ or ‘real’ hip-hop — at least, to many hip-hop critics, media outlets and fans — is dying. Yet, Killer Mike won the 2024 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song over artists like Travis Scott and Metro Boomin, pioneers of melodic, modern trap rap.
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Moments ‘til Madness: Who’s getting the automatic bid?
By Owen Short | March 6It’s officially conference tournament time. On Monday, the Athletic Sun Conference already had their first-round matchups. For the next two weeks, we’ll have a plethora of great games to watch to get us ready for the Big Dance. The ASC can be almost as unpredictable as March Madness, but here are my best attempts at who will be getting an automatic bid from the Power 6 conferences.
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Cover My Treks: Iconic sandwich stores you didn’t know you needed
By Alice Fang | March 6Touring Europe during your time abroad and craving an affordable meal away from tourist traps? Here are two sandwich shops that I still think about. Thank me later.
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From Classroom to Clinic: Is medicine a calling or a job? Why not both?
By Deeksha Bathini | March 6This week, I attended a Grand Rounds lecture centered around Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum’s New England Journal of Medicine piece titled “On Calling — From Privileged Professionals to Cogs of Capitalism?” In this paper, Rosenbaum highlights the intergenerational shifts occurring in medical training wherein medical trainees are viewing medicine as a job rather than a calling.
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Confessions of a Cooking Fanatic: Navigating Neighborhood Produce
By Elizabeth Foster | March 6Ball Square’s Neighborhood Produce is Tufts’ best-kept secret. A block away from 574 Boston Ave., Neighborhood Produce somehow has exactly what you need for a week of meals. To allow you to repeat my grocery shopping process for the week, I’ve documented my approach.
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Tok the Talk: The emergence of tradwives
By Annika Pillai | March 5“I chose the trad lifestyle because I believe that women have drifted far from our roots,” Estee Williams, a Tiktok creator and self-described “tradwife,” recently stated. Taken from the name “traditional wives,” “tradwives” are the latest Western aesthetic involving a subculture of women who believe in advocating for ‘traditional values.’
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Brown and (Usually) Blue: The power of ‘Lagaan’
By Ishaan Rajiv Rajabali | March 5Since the institution of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, only three Indian movies have ever received nominations. The first, “Mother India” (1957), is a classic, interweaving political commentary with a narrative of a determined farmer. The film follows a rural woman named Radha and her struggle to nurture her family, village and land. The piece uses her resilience as a marked metaphor for an Indian nation in the aftermath of independence.
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Dorms, Dishes and Delicacies: Hill Hall
By Katie Hankinson | March 4Think of one first-year dorm at Tufts. Picture it in your mind in great detail — the outside, the common room, the bathrooms, all of it. What dorm were you thinking of? I am willing to bet money that you did not just picture Hill Hall (unless you are a current resident).
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Extra Innings: 2024 MLB award picks
By Henry Blickenstaff | March 4These are my thoughts on who will win the MVP and Cy Young awards in each league, as well as some dark horses to watch out for. National League MVP My pick: Mookie Betts, Dodgers
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The Casual Death of Education: Lots of children left behind
By Evan Wang | March 1Imagine that you are a kid in middle school, and you are struggling with algebra. You go in, take a midterm and score a C. Not bad, but also not great. To improve your next test score, you’re hoping to receive some extra attention from the teacher and maybe some out-of-class tutoring. Now imagine if none of those things happen. Instead, your school is closed, your teachers have been fired and you must move to another school. Unfortunately, this isn’t an imaginary situation, it is the reality being lived by millions of American students and teachers at this very moment.
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Weekly Wellness: All about adaptogens
By Katie Pflieger | March 1Among the Erewhon enthusiasts and holistic health junkies alike, a new profound interest in adaptogenic herbs has peaked in recent years. These powders and supplements contain various dried plant and root substances with supposed calming effects on the body and mind.
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Harmonies in the Limelight: The waltz, the tragedy and the craze of ‘Annette’
By Ethan Essner | March 1There’s a satisfying exhale one makes when they experience something that differs from the artistically cliché. With musical cinema, the accepted, and rather trite, notion of what such a film should look like has developed and transformed immensely in the 21st century. Nowadays, there is an infinite ...
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The Bookmark: ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ by Gabrielle Zevin
By Natalie Bricker | February 29Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (2022). Welcome back to “The Bookmark,” your go-to column for book reviews! Last week, I featured the famous science-fiction masterpiece “Dune” (1965). This week, we’ll be returning to contemporary ...
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Ukraine at War: Two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion
By Mariia Kudina | February 29The past weekend saw the two-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Earlier last week marked 10 years since the beginning of the illegal annexation of Crimea.
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Munching with Max: Boston bites
By Max Druckman | February 29Since 1630, Boston has stood strong. Many, from the British Redcoats to the Los Angeles Lakers, have tried and failed to conquer this great city. However, it has taken until 2024, some 394 years, for Boston to meet its greatest foe — Max Druckman. Yes, the cuisine czar, master muncher, yours truly, has finally taken his taste buds to the streets of the “City Upon a Hill.”
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For the Culture: Why do some rappers promote violence?
By Paul Osmond | February 29As Tufts’ artist-in-residence, professor of the practice and activist Dee-1 has poignantly noted, the promotion of violence in hip-hop is overwhelmingly common. According to Billboard, at the end of 2023, at least four of the five top rap artists incorporated violent lyrics in their discography. Recently ...
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In the Crease: Jack Adams Award predictions
By Zachary Gerson | February 29This week’s focus is on the Jack Adams Award, which is awarded to “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success.” Each year, one coach is honored as the season’s best coach.
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A Jumbo’s Journey: A day which will live in infamy — lotto numbers
By Ben Rachel | February 28The infamous housing lottery numbers: they can tear apart friendships, induce murderous plots and force students to contemplate transferring. For months, the first-year class has heard rumors and stories about these numbers. And, of course, we’ve heard about the laudable 10-person Latin Way suite. Wow. Even after numbers have dropped, I still get butterflies whenever someone mentions Latin Way.
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Confessions of a Cooking Fanatic: Substitution secrets
By Elizabeth Foster | February 28My journey with substitutions began when I was a senior in high school. I was planning to visit one of my dearest friends in college and decided to bring her a batch of dairy-free chocolate chip cookies, made with coconut oil. Then one of my closest friends in college didn’t eat eggs, so the chocolate chip cookie recipe evolved to include a flax egg.
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