Tufts alerts students of swine flu case

5/28/09 9:14 PM

Tufts sent the following e-mail to students, alerting them of a confirmed swine flu case in a recent graduate. For more information, see today's story on the matter. --- from: Announcements@tufts.edu to: announcements-all@elist.tufts.edu date: Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM subject: H1N1 Influenza Confirmed in Recent Graduate To Members of the Tufts Community: Today we learned from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that a flu sample submitted on Tuesday, May 19, by Tufts' Medford/Somerville Health Service tested positive for H1N1 influenza, or swine flu. This is the first such case confirmed within the Tufts community. We are glad to say that the affected individual, who graduated from Tufts on May 17, is recovering well at home in Somerville. To date, most H1N1 flu...

Israeli photo contest features NQR photo

5/3/09 10:49 PM

A photograph of a student at last year’s Naked Quad Run recently wound up in an unlikely place: as a finalist in an Independence Day photo contest on a popular Israeli Web site. The photograph, of a student wrapped in an Israeli flag, was taken by a Somerville Journal reporter during the 2007 run at Tufts. It appears among 10 photographs that made it to the final round of voting in a Mynet.co.il photo contest celebrating Israel’s 61st anniversary, which took place Tuesday. The photograph is entitled “The Flag is Naked” and was submitted under the name of "Shimon Pecker." The Journal reported that it was stolen. As part of the contest, Mynet.co.il asked users to submit photographs that represented Israelis and life in Israel. Mynet.co.il is...

In e-mail, Tufts condemns racial incident against Korean Students Association

5/2/09 3:42 PM

In the wake of last week's news that the freshman accused of harrassing members of the Korean Students Association has admitted to the allegations and signed a disciplinary agreement with the group, University President Lawrence Bacow and a group of Tufts' top administrators yesterday sent an e-mail to students condemning the incident. In the e-mail, the administrators wrote that the incident had posed a challenge to the university, and that broader action is needed to address the underlying issue of racial attitudes on campus. "Our goal is to make Tufts a safe and welcoming environment for all our students, faculty, and staff," the e-mail reads. "It is clear that we still have work to do." In the past several years, several racially charged incidents have...

Constitution forces TCU Senate to keep Student Outreach Committee; Special Projects Committee is cut

5/2/09 3:15 PM

Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Edward Chao will chair the TCU Senate's Student Outreach Committee, not the Special Projects Committee, as previously reported. Senate members had originally instructed the Elections Commission (ECOM) to dissolve the Student Outreach Committee. They elected Chao, a sophomore, as the chair of the Special Projects Committee, which would have taken on the responsibilities that have traditionally fallen under the purview of the Student Outreach Committee. But the the Student Outreach Committee cannot be dissolved; it is one of five committees specifically named in the TCU Constitution. The Constitution does not mention the Special Projects Committee, however, and it can be dissolved. After senators and ECOM realized the mistake, the Special Projects...