Election Day 2009 came and went, and, while for most people this meant local elections for mayor, alderman, or county executive, something much more important
Finding off campus housing is often more stressful than picking a roommate- after all, you want to live someplace in which you feel comfortable and
“Howdy, friend! How’d you like to be neighbors? Come join me in FarmVille, where you can grow delicious fruits and vegetables on your very own farm!”
As the impending season rides in on a tide of increasingly cool November winds, some in the Tufts community may experience feelings of mourning for
Paris may be one of the most iconic cities of the world, and, in the eyes of many, it has become inseparably intertwined with certain
In recent weeks, the Obama Administration, in conjunction with Congress, has been debating the merits of a military surge in Afghanistan. However, our efforts and attention are better served on a different front. While the dangers of Afghanistan can potentially affect millions, climate change is a global issue that carries ramifications for billions.
The tar from
this road
clings to our souls
And by the way
you’re the greasiest saint
I’ve ever seen
She lived in the apartment upstairs, and sometimes we rode the elevator together and talked about the economy going to hell or how we both loved Billie Holiday or the weather when we really couldn’t think of anything. Her hair was cut short around her chin and I liked that about her. Lots of girls can’t pull it off but I think she had the right bone structure or skin color or something because it looked good. I only saw her sometimes but it was nice when I did—she seemed clean and pleasant and wore good clothes that weren’t too stylish but not frumpy, either. Girls who wear too many fancy clothes with the purses and those shoes with the heels and their mascara are always hiding something, if you ask me. They seem so shiny and glowy with their long, long endless legs and then you meet them and you realize they hate their dad or their first boyfriend hit them once, hard, in the backyard and told them not to tell and they didn’t or they’ve got some mom who’s always telling them they’re fat. But Cat wasn’t like those girls so I thought she probably was different, better somehow. I imagined that really she didn’t walk so much as floated because she didn’t have all the heavy things weighing her down like the rest of us since she lived in the apartment upstairs and wore clean, tasteful clothes and sounded smart when I talked to her in the elevator for the minute or so it took to get from the lobby to the seventh floor.
With all the crackdowns on graffiti in Boston, it’s a wonder that artists are still out on the streets covering buildings, dumpsters, and trains with their work. While anti-graffiti programs have cut the amount of it in the Boston area to the point that many view the once-thriving Boston graffiti scene as “dead,” the city is far from being graffiti-free.
As Tufts students prepare for graduation, they have a lot of things on their minds. Most of the time, they’re not overly concerned that they
Rows upon rows of tender skins, resting fragile. Light within hardened crates we sit while watching lines crawl by — streets smothered in hot oiled
The rain splattered all over the open book in his hand in large drops, wrinkling the pages into an almost an unrecognizable shape and causing the ink to blot and twist the solid world into incomprehensible smudges. The book had been pretty awful anyway. Skill-building, they had told him; it would take a while to fully recover from the accident, and it would only set him back farther if he didn’t complete the therapy assignments. He sighed and fingered the large scar barely hiding beneath his dark cropped hair. Having forgotten his hat on the train, he was certain that everyone who passed was staring at the disfigurement.
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