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  • Senior Pub Night to run next semester

    Posted in: News November 2009 11/9/09 3:29 PM
    The Senior Class Council announced today that the administration has canceled any pub nights planned for this semester, but will allow two pub nights to run next semester. The future of Senior Pub Night remained in jeopardy after rowdy and inappropriate behavior at the...
  • Small stock of H1N1 vaccine expected by next week

    Posted in: News November 2009 11/3/09 12:12 PM
    Tufts' Health Service expects about 50 doses of H1N1 vaccine to arrive within the next week and will distribute them to students who are pregnant or have serious medical conditions. In an e-mail to the Tufts community early this morning, administrators stated that the university had yet to receive...
  • Tufts’ fees highest in Massachusetts

    Posted in: News November 2009 11/3/09 1:30 AM
    Tufts ranks as having the highest price tag in the state this year, according to a report Sunday in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The university’s tuition, fees and room and board, $51,088 in total, mark the highest of all higher education institutions in...
  • Medford house catches on fire

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/24/09 8:31 PM
    Medford Fire Department responded to a call at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Friday of a house on fire on the corner of Main Street and Sylvia Road in Medford, about a half mile from Tufts' Gantcher Center. Firemen found the lights were flickering, and then located the fire in the wall, according to...
  • Medford house catches on fire

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/24/09 8:31 PM
    Medford Fire Department responded to a call at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Friday of a house on fire on the corner of Main Street and Sylvia Road in Medford, about a half mile from Tufts' Gantcher Center. Firemen found the lights were flickering, and then located the fire in the wall, according to...
  • Update on H1N1 notes recent spike in illness

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/22/09 3:43 AM
    Administrators from Tufts' three campuses announced yesterday  in an e-mail that approximately 130 students over the past six weeks have suffered from influenza-like illness (ILI), and vaccines for the H1N1 influenza will likely arrive considerably later than anticipated. Of the infected...
  • Power restored to campus early this morning

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/17/09 6:34 PM
    Power returned to campus early this morning, restoring the university's heat and electricity and ending a long day in the dark for Tufts students. A university alert at approximately 5:30 a.m. this morning announced that power was restored, over three hours after announcements last night estimated...
  • Power goes out across campus

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/16/09 11:23 AM
    A power outage has blanketed the Medford/Somerville campus since late this morning after an underground cable failure caused an electrical fire in downtown Medford, affecting most of Medford and the university. The fire began at approximately 10:30 a.m. this morning across from 127 Main St. in...
  • TCU special election candidates announced

    Posted in: News October 2009 10/1/09 1:30 AM
    Tufts' Elections Commission (ECOM) announced yesterday the candidates for a special election to fill a recently-vacated Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seat and an open seat on the Committee on Student Life (CSL). Among them, freshman In-Goo Kwak, the student now known for posting a...
  • New illness notification process announced

    Posted in: News September 2009 9/29/09 5:02 PM
     Dean of Undergraduate Education James Glaser and Health Service Medical Director Margaret Higham announced yesterday a new system for students to report class absences to professors due to short-term illness. In an e-mail to the Tufts community, Glaser and Higham said the new illness...