Posts tagged as:
Spring Fling in 1990 featured The Band and Barrence Whitfield and the Savages. According to the original Daily article by Janine Billy, The Band’s music was “cool and soothing, but warm and soulful.” Photo by Karl Schatz (LA ’92)
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
by Denis Amisal
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Not ready for Monday and all of the stress from the new week? Watch this review of all of the biggest news from weeks past, including features on the Lunar New Year Lantern Festival and Dylan Saba, the newest member of TCU Senate.
Want to read more on the stories mentioned? Here’s links to the articles on Spring Fling, the new sexual assault and medical amnesty policies, as well as making American Sign Language fulfill a language requirement.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
MCT
A new resolution by the TCU Senate calls for more students’ rights advocacy in sexual assault policy.
Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have strong ends to their seasons, while lacrosse is just about to start up this weekend for NESCAC schools
The Office of Continuing Education at the School of Medicine receives high honors in accreditation process from Council for Continuing Medical Education.
Participation in Boy Scouts and its affect on young boys to come under scrutiny by new research by Child Development professor Richard Lerner.
Resolution by the TCU Senate calling for American Sign Language to fulfill the language requirement gains traction while reigniting old debate, and support in The Daily’s editorial today.
Nick Pfosi for the Tufts Daily
Psychological thriller ‘Stocker’ achieves cinematically in Korean filmmaker Chan-woo Park’s Hollywood premiere.
The cannon, Bowen Gate, Tuftonia’s, the candle lighting, ‘pumpkining,’ NQR, and Spring Fling events: an in depth look into Tufts traditions and how they permeate the Hill.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Oliver Porter / The Tufts Daily
For second year in a row, Women’s Basketball advances to Division III Sweet 16. Let’s go Jumbos!
Grammy-award winner Nelly to headline Spring Fling, with EDM and indie rock openers to start off the show. The Daily may think it’s a little “uninspired,” but check out a video of the announcement here and decide for yourself!
Former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson returns to the Hill to deliver keynote address underscoring innovation at Tufts Energy Conference.
After an author talk at Tisch last week, Sociology Professor Sarah Sobieraj’s book “Soundbitten” looks into the media side of social justice and the flaws of the current social movement strategies.
E-Week Day crams many events into 24 hours, ending with live gameshow ‘Date an Engineer.’
Mary Davis, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, merges economics and environmental health to assess work hazards in her Taste of Tufts presentation last Friday.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Concert board co-chairs Mark Bernardo and Julia Stein announced at the end of Theta Chi fundraiser Tufts’ Best Dance Crew that Nelly will be the headlining act of the 2013 Spring Fling concert.
Flickr Creative Commons via Reebok2008
Along with headliner Nelly, Bernardo and Stein announced the two opening acts mashup 5 & A Dime and indie band Yeasayer. The announcement comes after a petition for a female headlining artist received over 250 signatures online. Neither the creator of the petition nor the Concert Board were available for comment.
Check out a video of the announcement:
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Check out the latest edition of The Tufts Daily’s broadcast news program for a closer look at the week’s top stories.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Today is the last day for undergraduate students to get free tickets to Spring Fling. Free tickets will be available online at www.tuftstickets.com until 11:59 pm tonight, after which any remaining tickets will be sold at the Campus Center information booth for $20. This year’s main acts will take the stage at 1 p.m. with Lupe Fiasco, followed by White Panda at 2:15 p.m. and Guster at 3:45 p.m.. More information about Saturday’s event can be found here.
Lupe Fiasco
{ 0 comments }
Tufts Concert Board announced today that Philadelphia-based hip-hop group The Roots will be headlining this year’s Spring Fling on April 30. DJ/electronic musician RJD2 will open the show.
The Roots puts unique spin on hip-hop, relying on a full band rather than a backing DJ. The group was founded – originally as The Square Roots – in the late ‘80s by Tariq Trotter (aka Blackthought, the group’s main MC) and Ahmir Thompson (aka ?uestlove, drummer), and has been producing hit albums (this past year saw the release of their ninth and tenth studio albums (“How I Got Over” and “Wake Up!,” respectively).
The Roots can currently be seen performing nightly on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on NBC as the show’s house band. While the band has been around for a while, and doesn’t currently have a hit on the Billboard charts, they’re well known for putting on high-energy, raucous live performances.
RJD2, the concert’s opening act, is a DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Columbus, Ohio. His work, though hard to fully pigeonhole, is most a blend of hip-hop beats and electronic music. RJD2’s best known work is “A Beautiful Mine,” which is used as the opening theme song for AMC’s “Mad Men.
Look for further details and full coverage of this announcement in The Daily on Monday morning.
{ 2 comments }
