The Daily yesterday reported Tufts' announcement to raise tuition and fees by nearly four percent to $61,000 for next semester, meaning that Tufts will be the second most expensive college in Massachusetts.
The women's squash team entered the 2014 spring campaign with high hopes after a promising fall season. Although the team secured solid wins in the NESCAC, it was unable to achieve its larger goals, as it failed to win its division at the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships.
What is it about the word "tourism" that makes so many of us cringe? Why do some visitors shy away from doing the more traditional activities because they are afraid of being a fanny pack-wearing tourist?
Everything about Beck Hansen's current position usually signals disaster, or at least disappointment, for a musician. He is just emerging from a six-year absence, after having settled down with all the comforts of happy family life and immense commercial success. Needless to say, the odds were stacked against any kind of creative innovation in the eclectic performer's 12th studio album.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution on Sunday to create a $5,000 fund to assist students, who are on financial aid and in TCU-recognized organizations, with the cost of off-campus excursions.
When it comes to snacking, you can't get much trendier than frozen yogurt. In my small hometown alone, which has too few people to support any restaurant for over a year, there are two frozen yogurt shops. These shops follow the typical fro-yo model: they are brightly decorated, always playing upbeat music, and feature unique chairs because apparently hip people cannot cope with ordinary seating options.
Sports scandals in the United States fly well under the radar, dwarfed by baseball's perplexing and interminable performance-enhancing drug (PED) fiasco. For a sport whose participation nationwide surpasses one million, its pantheon - both those who still reside and their counterpart fallen angels - garners little scrutiny.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its Feb. 16 meeting passed a resolution calling for the establishment of an outdoor volleyball court.
The final tune-up for the men's track and field team, before the NCAA Championships, consisted of three meets over the weekend, during which athletes from around the country hoped to post qualifying marks.
Kanye West is no stranger to controversy. But the in last couple years his stay in the public conscious, and tabloid headlines, has revolved around increasingly outlandish actions. Rants at concerts and on radio shows, fights with paparazzi, his marriage to Kim Kardashian and his highly polarizing album "Yeezus" (2013) have proved that no one really does it quite like West. Among the recent headlines, it's easy to forget the height of his past controversies ("Imma let you finish," anyone?). Overshadowed by the controversial sounds and reaction to "Yeezus" is the public debate that once swirled around West's fourth studio album, "808's & Heartbreak" (2008). At once acclaimed and derided, the auto-tuned electro experiment is platinum album that sold almost a half million units in the week after its release. Yet among many music circles, the album was attacked as "soft," derided for not truly being hip hop - and drew comparisons to Common's failed experimental album "Electric Circus" (2002). However time has proved that "808's" was one of West's most important and influential albums.
Over the weekend, members of the women's track team competed at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships (ECACs), held at the Reggie Lewis Center on Saturday, and the Tufts Last Chance Meet, held at the Gantcher Center on Thursday. There were tangible goals for the meets, as the Jumbos looked to either end the season on a strong note or improve their seed times to qualify for the NCAA Championships, held next weekend in Lincoln, Neb.
Whether I'm crafting a birthday card, maintaining an acceptable GPA or dueling a shark with legs, lungs and an attitude, I'd like to consider myself a mostly motivated person. I want to appreciate friends, impress parents and slay mutant cartilaginous beasts almost as much as I don't want to fail - especially when failure implies death ... even academic death.
Tufts International Club hosted a well-attended Parade of Nations this weekend in Cohen Auditorium, according to club president Jaime Sanchez.
Vice President of Sustainable Development at the World Bank Rachel Kyte (F '02) led a discussion on the controversy surrounding renewable energy, fossil fuels and development to open the 2014 Tufts Energy Conference (TEC) on Saturday morning.
There are many ways for writers to show that a couple is compatible. They finish each other's sentences, they keep on running into each other, they scheme together and, sometimes, they sing together. In this particular trope, musical compatibility equals personal compatibility: the couples that sing together are meant to be.
To the extent that I ever have any semblance of a clue what I'm going to write for this week's column before I actually sit down and write it, I was vaguely planning on writing about spring break. It was actually going to be a bit of a change from my usual doom and gloom/raging diatribe/sarcastic lists. The unadulterated happiness and sincere sweetness of my intended topic would have added a much-needed dash of sugar to what's been an undoubtedly spicy column as of late, but - alas! - then something else to vent about came along, and that brings us back to my personal brand of tongue-in-cheek satire that we all know and (hopefully) love.
For an artist whose heyday was in the late 1980s, Neneh Cherry has made quite a comeback with her newest album, "Blank Project." One would think that being out of the alternative/electronic/punk music scene for such a long time would put a damper on the brash effectiveness of Cherry's earlier work, but in her latest project she returns with an assertiveness that not only rivals the initial shock value of her 1989 debut, "Raw Like Sushi," but also places her on the forefront of female-driven punk music.
What if I told you that we were going to celebrate mediocrity? The worst hospitals get the first pick of doctors. The lowest ranked schools choose from the best applicants. In fact, this is the attitude that professional sports encourage.
