Campus and Local
Who's Who In Next Year's TCU SenateEd. note: Please welcome Ard Ardalan '13 to The Quad as our new student government correspondent. In his first post, he lists the people with power in next year's TCU Senate, and provides some commentary. The TCU Senate conducted in-house elections ... The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Sunday, 9 May 2010 Read more |
Boil Water Notice In EffectUpdate 9:39pm: Boston's ABC station has aerial footage from earlier today of the leak in Weston. Update 9:29pm: Tufts announces that campus center will be open until 12 a.m. and Carmichael Dining Hall will be open until 1 a.m. for the ... The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Saturday, 1 May 2010 Read more |
A Few Notes About Public Safety at TuftsHere are some bullet points to know: > Tufts has its own police department, which is accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. It is located on the bottom floor of the Dowling Hall parking garage, uphill. Yes, they're real police ... The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Wednesday, 26 August 2009 Read more |
Tufts in the Summertime <3 Exams ended last week, and now Tufts is eerily empty. Most Jumbos are far away from the hill – starting internships on Capitol Hill, doing research around the world, going home to visit friends and family. It’s kind of a ... The Global Jumbo | Eileen Guo | Monday, 17 May 2010 Read more |
On Slander, Libel and The "Real World"I wanted to elaborate on my previous post based on some of the feedback that the issue has been getting in the comments section . There seems to be this illusion that somehow Tufts University is a sort of protective bubble ... The Public Editor | Shabazz Stuart | Sunday, 2 May 2010 Read more |
Tufts Goes TraylessThe following is a May 9, 2010 news release from Dining Services. - Tufts Dining is Going Trayless in the Fall MEDFORD, MA – As a result of a successful pilot program in March, Tufts Dining will go trayless at Carmichael and Dewick-MacPhie ... The Quad | Ard Ardalan | Monday, 17 May 2010 Read more |
News and Politics
China doesn't have to take it anymore China's rise to great power status is moving along steadily, and US policymakers are acknowledging it publicly. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the following comment at a June 16th Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommitee on Defense (in response ... Demagogues and Dictators | Jeff Schneider | Tuesday, 22 June 2010 Read more |
AmericaSpeaks national discussion of the budget and the economy AmericaSpeaks, a group that promotes public deliberations, will organize a national discussion about the budget on June 26, 2010. Americans will meet in large groups in up to 20 different cities, and also in online discussions and smaller community conversations. ... Peter Levine's Blog | Peter Levine | Wednesday, 14 April 2010 Read more |
More spending please By CreatureSixty percent of the public is game for more spending to help the economy, and the Dems can't muster the votes to do something. Of course, they're afraid that Rush Limbaugh will yell at them, so it makes ... The Reaction | Michael J.W. Stickings | Saturday, 19 June 2010 Read more |
Two posts on an overloaded national security strategy and China’s angering behav In back-to-back posts, Professor Dan Drezner talks about strategy. In the first case, Drezner talks about President Obama’s National Security Strategy, which last month was released and meant to detail everything that the president thought was a national security risk ... gringo lost | Billie Bender | Friday, 18 June 2010 Read more |
the changing politics of flagrant rights-violationsSenators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman recently introduced the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2011" (PDF). This legislation would allow the executive branch to name any person (citizen or non-citizen, whether in the US or overseas) as ... Peter Levine's Blog | Peter Levine | Friday, 19 March 2010 Read more |
Really, Really, High-Stakes Testing In college I spent a semester as a TA for an introductory course. My duties were to assist a student who was blind, taking notes for him on the visual aids shown during lecture, meeting with him to review ... Science Of Small Talk | Sam Sommers | Friday, 9 April 2010 Read more |
Sports
Peekaboo Way back when the ECCC season started at Rutgers nearly 3 weeks ago, most schools were beginning their spring breaks. Not Tufts. No, we Jumbos were busy taking exams and handing in papers. And even the next week, when a ... Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Monday, 22 March 2010 Read more |
NESCAC Football PlayoffsThe college football season kicked off last weekend and already we have witnessed some meaningful games that could have a major impact on National Championship hopes. Oklahoma had the balls to schedule a talented and experienced BYU team for its ... Jonathan Tatum's Blog | Jonathan Tatum | Saturday, 12 September 2009 Read more |
Building and Rebuilding In this sport, everything is about building and rebuilding in one way or another. When training, we are constantly breaking ourselves down with long hours in the saddle and hard, focused efforts in order to build ourselves up for our ... Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Thursday, 21 January 2010 Read more |
On the mend After some time off from any focused training thanks to my unfortunate affinity for making friends with the front of automobiles, I was finally able to get back to business this past weekend. I made it through a tough week ... Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Tuesday, 18 May 2010 Read more |
You'll never rain on my parade! I have this theory, a little hypothesis if you will, that I want to run by you. It's pretty simple, and I guarantee that you can test it out for yourself to prove me right or wrong if you feel ... Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Monday, 24 August 2009 Read more |
A Beginning and An End I'm sure that my long absence has lost me any faithful followers I may have once had, but for those of you still interested enough to reading this, hello again!It would be a waste of time to recap the past ... Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Tuesday, 19 January 2010 Read more |
Arts & Culture
How To Destroy Angels FREE EP How To Destroy Angels, the collaboration between Trent Reznor, wife Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross, have released their much-hyped debut self-titled EP through their site for free, as well as in several different other priced packages. The EP boasts six ... The Whole Shebash | The Whole Shebash | Friday, 11 June 2010 Read more |
Pop Criticism: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of 3Oh!3's "Don't Trust Me" [Preface: This piece was something I wrote last summer while in severe essay-writing withdrawal (yes, that exists). It occupies that tenuous space between parody of a genre and actually being a genuine attempt - in this case, film criticism. ... Pop Culture Gone Bad | Devin Toohey | Monday, 29 March 2010 Read more |
Rain The marsh and beach in Revere ... Ian MacLellan's Blog | Ian MacLellan | Thursday, 25 February 2010 Read more |
Lady Gaga- "Alejandro" VIDEO I apologize for how long it's taken TWS to post this video, because to me it is one of her most interesting choices. She has reached a stage in her career where her videos have become ubiquitous, and after ... The Whole Shebash | The Whole Shebash | Friday, 11 June 2010 Read more |
xx remembered the stroke of your beard inside my thigh high before the ... emerald carter | emerald carter | Wednesday, 24 February 2010 Read more |
Science and Technology
Failing Gracefully in Complex Systems: A Note on Resilience Macbeth’s castle, Act 1, Scene VII. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are plotting Duncan’s death. Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: Then we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail. Complex dynamic systems tend to veer towards c... iRevolution | Patrick Meier | Saturday, 10 April 2010 Read more |
Book Chapter: MangaIt isn't entirely a new paper, but my paper "Japanese Visual Language" is now published in the anthology Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives now out in paperback. A brief description of my chapter: Over the past two ... The Visual Linguist | Neil Cohn | Thursday, 29 April 2010 Read more |
Burning your BridgesI was just reading an article about something totally unrelated, but they mentioned the old saying "don't burn your bridges" and it got me thinking. I was just teaching in my HF course about decision making and how we ... Human Factors | Marc Resnick | Wednesday, 9 June 2010 Read more |
Hagel on FloridaYou can't do better than reading this. When one brilliant forward thinker reviews the book of another brilliant forward thinker, you get two for the price of one. And when he posts it on his blog, the price ... Human Factors | Marc Resnick | Tuesday, 15 June 2010 Read more |
The iPad vs. The Book Have you ever considered buying a Kindle? Or an iPad? With annual sales of so-called e-readers in the millions, it seems as if the book - the paper paged, front-to-back thing - may soon be a thing of the past. What's the bi... Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Thursday, 8 April 2010 Read more |
Evidence Suggests Volcanoes on Venus Are ActiveThis week, researchers revealed the possibility that Venus is geologically active. The authors of a paper published online in Science used findings based on evidence from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission. Observations of hot spots by the Visible and ... Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Saturday, 10 April 2010 Read more |
Stories from Abroad
Annnnd I'm back! Like many of my other friends who are abroad and blogging, it appears as though I have fallen into a blogging slump. It may be partially due to the fact that I am busier with school work (where are all ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Saturday, 27 March 2010 Read more |
The Great Wall, Scorpions, and the Birds Nests (Part I of II) What do all of these have in common? They can all be found in Beijing, China! With only two and a half weeks of classes left, we are all really starting to feel the pressure of classes, group projects, finals, ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Friday, 9 April 2010 Read more |
Urgent Blog Post Dear Loyal Readers, If you are tempted to ask any of the following questions in the coming days or weeks…1) Josh, its 85 degrees outside, why are you wearing a hat2) Josh, haven’t you worn that hat all week?3) Josh, everybody ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Tuesday, 16 March 2010 Read more |
Buses, Bridges, Waterfalls, and Elephants So I know I may have gotten a little distracted from my blog over these past few weeks, but rest assured I have not forgotten my vow to keep you updated on all of my adventures, big and small. So ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Friday, 19 March 2010 Read more |
Little Thieves! Today I have reached another landmark day in my travels: Halfway! Of the 144 days that I am going to spend abroad, today is day 72. It is absolutely amazing to think that just two and a half months ago ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Saturday, 13 March 2010 Read more |
From Hiking to Biking Friday, January 15 to Saturday, January 16, Before I start I just want to apologize for my lack of blogging over the past week or so. It’s not that I haven’t had interesting experiences to talk about, but I’ve just had ... 720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more |
