Why do we read? For pleasure? For intellectual gain? To become "cultured"? To explore the depths of human imagination and mentally push oneself out of one's comfort zone? Clearly, each individual's answer involves a mix of these, so the better question for this week might be: what is the best reason to read in an era when there's so much less strenuous stuff to do?
Each spring, members of the Tufts community eagerly await the announcement of the commencement speaker and Honorary Degree recipients - major selections that have come to reflect the university's culture and values. Since 1858, Tufts has sought to honor recipients who represent the ideals and beliefs of the school, and has also encouraged the community to voice its opinions throughout the selection process.
As I'm sure you're aware, April 6 marked the return of one of television's most anticipated shows, "Game of Thrones" (2011-Present). To be honest, there's absolutely no excuse for you not to know that; the amount of excited tweets, Internet memes and overall talk of the show makes ignorance quite difficult, unless you actually do live under a rock (and if so, how are you getting this paper delivered?). If you're one of those people who doesn't watch the show (a questionable choice at best), I'm sorry for you, because you're absolutely missing out.
After taking two of three in its series against the Trinity Bantams, the baseball team climbed to the top spot in the NESCAC East division with a 3-1 record in conference play. The No. 18 Jumbos are now 19-2 overall and hold the highest national ranking of any NESCAC team.
Tufts Democrats hosted their ninth annual Issues of the Future Conference in the Alumnae Lounge Friday evening, which focused this year on hunger in America and federal assistance programs.
All people are created equal, but all leagues and teams are not. Over the evolution of professional sports, certain teams have shown the extent to which they are willing to outspend the competition. Others outsmart the field - they don't have the resources of the rich. And this is a good thing.
Approximately 60 students participated in the sixth annual Field Exercise in Peace and Stability Operations (FieldEx) simulation, which took place in a Weare, N.H., paintball field last weekend.
Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) and the Lewis Hall duty team last Friday hosted EarthFest, an afternoon of eco-activities on the Academic Quad followed by a music festival outside Lewis Hall.
Over the next five years, the Green Line will extend into Somerville, ending on College Avenue. Two of the planned stops -- at Washington Street and in Union Square -- are scheduled to open in 2017. City planners are discussing the changes, analyzing the ways in which the plans advantages and disadvantages ...
Sometimes you think you know something. You would bet money on it. But, in the end, you would lose that money if you did. While writing a paper on Paul Gauguin, I realized halfway through that I had been spelling his name wrong the whole time. This type of mistake is a relatively small problem, but still something that has the ability to shake the foundation on which you have built your life.
You're the not-so-average educated Joe, mean muggin' the formless, intangible blur that is your future. Before you know it, it's time to grab onto that lingering blur and to form it into what you will. You're pulling up your bootstraps just like everyone else, or so it seems. The problem is that as much as you wish to blend in with the masses, invasive thoughts of ineptitude plague your mind as you inevitably realize that, even though the straps on which you pull perfectly match the ones that belong to your fellow neophytes to the left and to the right you, your boots are of a different brand than theirs. They stick out like a sore thumb in a surrounding sea of what you perceive as sameness. In other words, it just so happens that you're a black man in a not-so-black world. Try painting your boots to fit in, and the ephemeral layer simply dries up and withers away.
I've had a handful of sports heroes. Usually, it's the best player of the moment on my favorite teams: Mike Piazza (went as him for three straight years on Halloween), Allan Houston, David Wright. They were great players and seemed like pretty decent human beings.
As Wednesday's "It Happens Here" event approached, many of my friends asked me if I would be there. I told them that I wouldn't, but only because I would be in Atlanta for a conference. I wish I could have been there, however, to witness the remarkable resilience and courage of my peers as they shared their experiences with sexual violence on campus. I was wholly unprepared that in the lead up to the event, online and in-person, many of my friends who have been at Tufts much longer than I have would share their own personal experiences. The sheer number of familiar faces not only shocked me, but frightened me at the very same time -- how many other people did I know are battling this fight, far too often left to heal and make sense of the violence and subsequent injustice waged against their bodies alone?
The Development Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at Tufts is working to develop an iPad and Android application that teaches young children coding basics.
Construction projects on each of the university's three campuses have recently been completed, while others are underway or in the planning process, according to Director of Project Administration and University Maintenance Rudi Pizzi.
A few weeks ago, there was an article in The Atlantic, titled "Must Every YA Action Heroine Be Petite?"
When you think of the United States, what comes to mind?" the teacher asked. "Justin Bieber!" one student exclaimed.
Last weekend was supposed to be a jubilant celebration for Red Sox Nation. After taking two out of three from the Baltimore Orioles, the Olde Towne Team returned to Fenway Park for its first home series of the season and, more importantly, its World Series ring ceremony. Not one, not two, but three giant red banners were unfurled over the Green Monster during Friday afternoon's festivities, reminding Red Sox fans that their baseball team has had more championships this millennia than any other. (Five other banners were unfurled as well for the team's five championships prior to and including 1918.) Then, the first-place Sox took the field to rousing applause - the sun was shining, spring was in the air. Baseball was back.
Anne Sauer (LA '91, G '98), the former director of Tufts Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) and university archivist, last Monday joined the staff of the Cornell University Library as director of the rare and manuscript collections. A double Jumbo, Sauer earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees, both in history, here on the Hill.
