Oh, curling, how I have missed thee. Four years we've been apart, each day more difficult than the last. You, curling, are the most magnificent sport on G-d's green Earth. On one Zamboni-smooth sheet of ice you give us grace, strategy, skill. Oh, curling, where hast thou been?
The three Trustee Representatives on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate delivered a mock presentation of their venture projects in Eaton 203 last night, in preparation for their upcoming meeting with the Board of Trustees this Friday.
You've all been waiting for it. After much anticipation, I can now proudly announce that the Recyclemania 2014 competition has begun. Tufts Recycles! interns have been busy with preliminary grades for each dorm and house, but now it's time for the real fun. You're bound to run into an intern snooping through your trash to see if you separate paper from plastic, and glass from trash, in the next eight weeks. So consider yourselves warned that your trash is most definitely being watched.
In case you were wondering, that is how some of us Africans would pronounce the word "consider," although, in reality, there are hundreds of different kinds of African accents. Tell that to the characters of the classic comedy, "Coming to America" (1988) - starring Eddie Murphy, James Earl Jones and Arsenio Hall - who all utilize so-called African accents that, one, don't match each other even though their characters are supposed to be from the same place, and, two, don't necessarily resemble any particular African way of speaking.
The Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF) recently awarded $19,300 in grants to local causes near Tufts' Medford, Grafton and Boston campuses.
As Valentine's Day will soon come flying around the corner, I wish I could tell you that this week's column is about being a hopeless romantic in a social media-dominated world, or something snuggly and soft like reflections on broken hearts and how I got back up again. Sadly, this is not that column, my dear friends. This is "Politically Erect" and thus, there is nothing flaccid about the conversations here. However, if you'd like to talk about my love life some other time, feel free to chat me up when you see me next.
I'll begin with a description. Imagine an angst-filled sophomore in high school, face acne laden and palms in a perpetual sweat - a total hobbledehoy. A boy about as physically and socially awkward as that word I just used to describe him. Mental picture prepared? Think Neville Longbottom (pre-maturation) and you're halfway there.
I only very recently gave in to the Kardashian franchise. For the longest time, I had no interest in America's most infamous family, and couldn't even tell Khloe from Kendall (gasp). But, when news of Kris and Bruce Jenner's divorce was released and every social media site that I'm on collectively panicked, I became curious. Seemingly everybody was very concerned about what to me was just another Hollywood divorce scandal. So, I decided to end my distance from the Kardashian crew and give into the fandom. Lucky for me, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" is streaming on Netflix, just waiting to be binge watched.
The women's squash team competed at the NESCAC tournament in Hamilton, N.Y. at Colgate University over the weekend, coming in 10th place out of 11 teams. The tournament saw the team rebound from a difficult first-round loss to Bowdoin with a win over Connecticut College in the first consolation round, before ultimately falling to Colby 7-2 in the second consolation round.
When Anthony "Top Dawg"Tiffith tweeted, "WE RAN 2013 WITH OUT DROPPING 1 ALBUM. I WONDER WUTS GONE HAPPEN IN 2014 WHEN I DROP 6," he was hinting at the so-called TDE Takeover - a phrase that has become a slogan of sorts among fans of the record label. With artists like Kendrick Lamar on its roster, Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) has become a driving force within hip-hop, and it has positioned itself to dominate the genre this year.
As Parks and Recreation goes on hiatus for the month of February to accommodate the 2014 Winter Olympics, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her fellow Pawneans bid farewell to two central characters as Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) and Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) drive off to seek unwedded baby bliss in Michigan.
On Jan. 28, 2014 The Tufts Daily published an article on the computer science department struggling with course over-enrollment, and having been a teaching assistant I want to provide the graduate student perspective. My name is Michael Shah and I'm in the Ph.D. program in the computer science department.
When Danielle Weisberg (LA '08) graduated from Tufts, she didn't expect she would be her own boss just four years later. In July of 2012, however, she did just that when she co-founded theSkimm, an online newsletter that sends daily news updates to its subscribers. theSkimm breaks down the most important national and international news, delivering content in a witty, easy-to-read way.
Having already notched a first and second-place finish this season, Tufts hosted a two-day competition in the Gantcher Center, beginning Friday and concluding late Saturday morning.
Ethical and other dilemmas run rampant within the NFL. The Super Bowl, however, perhaps given its stature as a de facto national holiday, annually proves impervious to them. A day-long reprieve from the crises relentlessly - but rightfully, to be sure - besieging commissioner Goodell and his cronies. The Super Bowl barely qualified as such this year and does not lend itself to being written about in a profound manner.
The men's squash team played four matches in as many days this week, losing to cross-town rival Boston College before playing in the NESCAC Championship.
Some quick Google searches (the source of all momentous research) about the decline of pleasure reading reveal some doomsday-like headlines: "The Decline of the American Book Lover," "America Closes the Book on Recreational Reading," etc. According to a recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts, these claims are at least partially substantiated by statistical evidence. To quote a 2007 NPR report on the study, "On average, Americans spend two hours a day watching television and seven minutes reading." Ouch.
A record-high of 308 students participated in this month's formal sorority recruitment. This number is an increase from the 185 girls who registered in 2012 and the 172 who registered in 2011, according to Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Su McGlone.
Our second trope is one that starts off many classic love stories: love at first sight. Two strangers' eyes meet across a crowded room, or on a train or city street, and their fate is sealed with one glance. It's as beloved by the makers of Disney movies as it is maligned by legions of online commentators. In our current era of virtual connection - where it's possible to discover Google and be disappointed in a new crush all in an hour - why does the idea of love at first sight linger on? And how can the dedicated scholar of love tropes best dissect it?
