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(09/27/16 5:24am)
Since 2011, the world has seen the brutality Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is capable of — a capacity for destruction unparalleled even by his father, Hafez Al-Assad. Last year, we saw the image of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy, washed up on the banks of a Turkish beach. Just last month, we witnessed five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in the back of a White Helmets ambulance sporting a bewildered look on his face. The group, also known as Syrian Civil Defense, works indiscriminately to save lives from the rubble.
(09/27/16 4:26am)
The University’s current financial state is unsustainable, University President Ronald Liebowitz announced at an open meeting last Thursday. Despite an reported budget surplus over the past two years, the University’s actual finances have been declining and in need of attention for several years. “The status quo,” said Liebowitz, “cannot persist.”
(09/27/16 4:20am)
The University faculty will vote on whether to change Columbus Day to “Indigenous People’s Day” at the upcoming Oct. 7 faculty meeting. The motion was sent initially to the University Advisory Council, a board of faculty and administrators who advise the Provost, but the UAC chose on Thursday to send the motion to a full faculty vote.
(09/26/16 11:39pm)
Times keep getting tougher for the men’s soccer team. After two straight crushing double-overtime losses against Babson College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, respectively, the Judges were hoping to get back on track with a big win against longtime cross-town rival Tufts University. Unfortunately, the squad was unable to regain its footing at home, losing its third straight double-overtime contest and failing to net even a single goal. The team is falling fast after a strong start to the season, and its chances of postseason play appear to be slowly slipping away.
(09/26/16 11:35pm)
The women’s tennis team kick- started its season this weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Tennis Association regional tournament. The Judges were looking to improve from their mediocre 11-10 record from their 2015 campaign. Last season, the Judges struggled in the tournament, with only one player advancing past the first round when Keren Khromchenko ’19 was able to double-bagel her Smith College opponent. Aside from Khromchenko, the Judges were unable to slide past their tough competition.
(09/26/16 9:55pm)
This was a big week for Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello, who collected his league-leading 21st and 22nd wins of the season, which included a complete game against division rival Baltimore Orioles. With those 22 wins, along with a 3.11 ERA, 183 strikeouts and 5.0 wins above replacement (WAR), Porcello is having by far the best season of his career. He is putting himself in Cy Young contention a year after having perhaps the worst season year of his career.
(09/20/16 5:44am)
For the average college student, three months is the duration of a summer internship — but for Brock Turner, three months in prison is apparently all the time needed to serve after assaulting a young woman. Turner was released from prison on Sept. 2 after only three months.
(09/20/16 5:24am)
The third finalist for the new Chief Diversity Officer position spoke in an open forum with students on Thursday about how she sees her role and her experience as a current CDO at a university of around 7,000 undergraduates. The University is gathering student feedback on the four finalists — two of whom spoke on campus last week — through these open forums, with the final forum scheduled for next week.
(09/20/16 5:19am)
The City of Waltham is the 23rd safest college town in the country, according to a Sept. 7 SafeWise ranking of the top 30 safest college towns nationwide.
(09/19/16 10:20pm)
The women’s volleyball team split two games this week to put their record at 4-5 for the year.
(09/13/16 5:15am)
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(09/13/16 5:14am)
On Wednesday, Sept. 7, two IndyCars from the Boston Grand Prix were sold at an auction in an effort to pay back creditors after the company filed for bankruptcy.
(09/13/16 5:01am)
In a summer full of box office draws and flops, successes and failures, over- and under-rated movies, never would I have imagined that the best films of the season would be shown solely at the local indie theaters like our very own Embassy Cinema. My favorites were the polished and well-realized independent films rather than the financially successful but critically lacking big-budget “experiences.”
(09/13/16 4:59am)
This month, Britain and France will work together to build a proposed 13-foot wall in France on the road approaching Calais, a crucial French port. According to a Sept. 7 New York Times article, officials seek to address security concerns with this by preventing migrants — particularly those crowded in a camp just outside Calais — from reaching Britain, but critics like François Guennoc of L’Auberge des Migrants, an organization that helps migrants in the region, have called it a “bad way of wasting money.” What do you think of the proposed wall, and do you think physical barriers are suitable ways to address national security concerns?
(09/13/16 5:06am)
NASA launched space vehicle OSIRIS-REx Thursday evening, Sept. 8, 2016, in what is to become an epic instellar mission.
(09/12/16 9:48pm)
Allen Iverson, legendary NBA point guard best known for his 10-year career with the Philadelphia 76ers, was enshrined into basketball immortality on Saturday, joining centers Shaquille O’Neal and Yao Ming, and coach Tom Izzo in the 2016 class of Hall of Fame inductees. Iverson’s career was characterized by electrifying crossovers, jaw-dropping slam dunks and daily exhibitions of what it means to be competitive to one’s core.
(09/12/16 9:03pm)
The women’s volleyball team struggled this weekend as they dropped three of the four tough games they played.
(09/05/16 11:59pm)
This past year has been filled with almost daily terror attacks somewhere in the world, according to a July 15 USA Today article. However, for France in particular, there have been many tragedies, from a lorry running over more than 80 people — including children — on a national holiday to a priest who was stabbed in a Catholic church by two attackers.
(08/30/16 6:07am)
On Aug. 1, the Movement for Black Lives coalition of over 50 organizations and partners released a comprehensive manifesto designed to eradicate systemic racism and its destructive symptoms, including economic insufficiency and discriminatory policing. The manifesto, a culmination of racial activism, is meant “to articulate and support the ambitions and work of Black people,” according to the document.
(05/24/16 5:29am)
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