The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Medford Police Department are currently investigating an incident in which non-university-affiliated persons in a motor vehicle shouted racial slurs at a group of Tufts students on Nov. 2.
With the New England Patriots coming off a bye week and their season more than half over, it feels like a good time to take stock in the team's current standing. They're 7-2, leading the AFC East and likely postseason-bound. In that sense, it's been a typical Patriots season.
A panel of local environmental leaders met in Cabot Auditorium last night to discuss Massachusetts' role in the fight against climate change.
[Trigger warning: This article mentions sexual assault.]
Display the depth: These were the key words for the Jumbos this weekend at the Div. III Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship meet, held at Colt State Park in Bristol, R.I. this weekend.
Do you find it to be a huge adjustment now that you have to use forks and spoons?" someone asked me once while we were having lunch at Dewick.
Breakfast on Pluto" (2005) follows the life of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a young trans-woman living in a small town just south of the Republic-Northern Ireland border. The film was written and directed by Neil Jordan, who also wrote and directed "The Crying Game," (1992), which I reviewed last week and which similarly explores gender identity. While I was somewhat conflicted about "The Crying Game," I wholeheartedly love "Breakfast on Pluto."
The Tufts volleyball season ended with a 3-0 loss to Williams College in the NESCAC Championship semifinals on Saturday. The fourth-seeded Jumbos saw their eight-game winning streak come to an end, as they suffered their first loss since Oct. 12, finishing the year with an overall record of 20-8.
A cappella has exploded as an iconic collegiate symbol over the past several years, and Tufts is no exception. With a cappella's long history on the Hill, there is much to celebrate on campus. The Tufts Beelzebubs marked their 50th Anniversary on Nov. 2 at the New England Conservatory Jordan Hall for the Intercollegiate Sing, in which the Bubs and six other collegiate a cappella groups gathered to celebrate the relationships they have formed over the years.
Dinosaurs occupy a special place in the mind of every kid who grew up in the 1990s. Jurassic Park brought them back from the dead. Michael Crichton, who wrote the original novel, is often praised for making this process believable. Until recently, most people, including scientists, would have stated that cloning an ancient life form from preserved tissue would be theoretically possible, albeit in the realm of science fiction. We may have even expected it until MortenAllentoft of the University of Cambridge noted that DNA has a half-life of about 500 years; as a result, DNA from 68 million years ago when dinosaurs walked the Earth is long gone. But there is hope for other animals.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner spoke about his work at the New York University's Stern School of Business last Friday in the Cabot Intercultural Center.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its weekly meeting last night passed a resolution calling for the school to run a shuttle service into Boston on Friday and Saturday nights. The proposal suggests that the service would operate at later hours than Boston's public transportation.
It's no one's fault that the NFL as we know it will be extinct in 20 years. The players are just now starting to learn the full extent of the game's dangers, and for most of them, the money and fame and ability to play a game for a living are too much to pass up.
I have a theory that if you have an unusual name, you are more likely to be successful in life. I have no empirical evidence of this, nor do I have any background in statistical research. As an observant layperson, all I know is that the Eccentric Name Theory is overwhelmingly supported and true.
Envision this: students taking yoga classes around campus, performing scenes from plays, body painting and much more - naked. While it may sound impossible, it's not. These activities all took place during "Sex Week" at Brown University, sponsored by the school's student-run Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council (SHEEC) last month.
Roughly 30 Tufts students showed up at Bello Field to try out for the men's Tufts University Football Club (TUFC) on Labor Day weekend in 2011. In line with the intramural philosophy, all 30 made the squad. That semester, the team was winless in all of its league games against other schools in the Boston area, finishing with an 0-5-1 record.
For the past few weeks, Alex and I have been discussing the beautiful, embarrassing pain that comes from organized youth sports. What has been overlooked so far in this series is organized youth sports' soul mate: middle school gym class.
Holocaust survivor Moshe Baran spoke at Tufts Hillel last night on his experience during Nazi occupation of Poland as part of the Cummings / Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education.
Tom "Satch" Sanders, 13-year Celtic great and eight-time NBA champion, visited Tufts last week as part of Jan Volk's "The Business of Sports: A Study of the NBA" Ex-College class. Satch holds the third most Championship titles in NBA history behind teammates Bill Russell and Sam Jones.
Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia for the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke in Barnum Hall yesterday as part of the Frank C. Colcord Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Political Science.
