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  • Students call for sexual assault policy reform

        Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) and the Consent Culture Network (CCN) released an online open letter to university administrators on April 29 proposing reforms to the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policies. According to John Kelly, one of the co-writers of “An Open Letter on Policy and Institutional Reform” and a member of both ASAP and CCN, the letter is part of a yearlong endeavor that involved many student contributors.

  • Dean Bosworth retires after 12 years at Fletcher

      Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy dean Stephen Bosworth, a former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, at the end of the academic school year retired from his position at the Fletcher School after 12 years of service. Admiral James Stavridis, former commander of the United States European Command and supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will succeed Bosworth as the new dean on July 1.

  • Faculty approves American Sign Language for Part I of foreign language requirement

      Tufts faculty members on May 8 officially passed a proposal allowing School of Arts and Sciences students to count American Sign Language (ASL) courses toward Part I of the foreign language requirement. Over 150 students signed an online petition in support of the initiative before the faculty meeting earlier this month.

  • Janitors’ union to enter contract negotiations

      The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on May 21 will renegotiate its contract with UGL Unicco, Tufts’ campus-cleaning contractor, and push for better working conditions for janitors. The current contract began in 2010 and was set to end in 2012 but was extended for one year, according to Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) member Josephine Herman.

  • Amanpour talks career, international journalism

      Chief International Correspondent for CNN and Global Affairs Anchor at ABC News Christiane Amanpour discussed her career, modern journalism and the role of women in her field to a crowded Cabot Auditorium on Friday for the 18th annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism.

  • Sackler Parkinson’s researcher among business competition winners

      The ninth-annual $100K Business Plan Competition last Wednesday selected winners from a pool of 13 finalists, the largest in the competition’s recent history. Sponsored by the Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELS), the competition awarded first place prizes to Cinzia Metallo, a fifth-year graduate student in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and Eileen Guo (LA ‘11) in the Classical Business Plan Competition and the Social Entrepreneurship Competition, respectively.

  • Spring 2013: Semester in Review

    TCU Senate updates   The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate began the semester by adding a Women’s Center Representative and passing two resolutions condemning the Committee on Student Life’s ruling last semester, which allows student religious groups to apply for exceptions to the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

  • Stanford psychologist to deliver commencement address

      Stanford University School of Education Dean Claude Steele will deliver this year’s Commencement speech on May 19, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.  “We are honored that he will give this year’s commencement address,” Thurler told the Daily in an email.

  • CMS associate director to retire after 21 years

      Susan Eisenhauer, associate director of Tufts’ Communications and Media Studies (CMS) Program who has throughout her tenure developed strong relationships with current students and alumni and grown the program’s internship component, will retire at the end of the academic year.

  • Office of Equal Opportunity set for move from Ballou

      The Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) will relocate this summer from the first floor of Ballou Hall to 196 Boston Avenue, with the intention of increasing meeting space and the privacy of the office. The off-campus move will also accommodate the expansion of the OEO staff, including the hiring of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) specialist, according to Director of Public Relations Kimberly Thurler and Director of the OEO Jill Zellmer.

  • Diversity report reveals lower percentage of students of color

      The President’s Council on Diversity released a progress report April 11 with findings that show a decrease in diversity at Tufts over the past several years and delivers recommendations to the university regarding the undergraduate experience.  “Since 2001, [the percent] of Black, Hispanic, Asian undergraduates at Tufts has consistently decreased or plateaued,” the report states.

  • TCU Presidential Election guidelines

      Voting for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) presidential election started at midnight today and will conclude tonight at 11:59 p.m. Students can vote through Tufts WebCenter by selecting the “Election Online” button from the drop down menu. Students can rank the order in which they prefer the candidates, including up to three candidates on their ballots, and the ranking will come into play if no candidate reaches a simple majority after all votes are tallied.

  • ResLife to ban RA-resident relationships next year

       A new Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) rule will prohibit Resident Assistants (RAs) from dating residents from the residence halls for which they are responsible starting next year. Though they can date other students who live on campus, (RAs), Academic and Community Engagement (ACE) fellows and academic residential tutors cannot be in an “intimate relationship” with anyone who lives in their building, Director of ResLife Yolanda King told the Daily in an email.

  • TCU approves funding for Tier II club sports

      The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on April 16 signed an agreement to allocate Senate money to Tier II club sports teams for the first time. According to TCU Treasurer Matthew Roy, Tier II sports had not received funding in the past because there were not enough funds available to support both Tier I and Tier II.

  • Health plan expands to include gender reassignment surgery

      The university’s student health insurance plan starting next academic year will offer new benefits for transgender students, expanding coverage to include both hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgery. This will make Tufts the 38th college or university in the country to cover hormones and surgeries for transgender students, according to Senior Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler.

  • TCU Senate: A year in review

      Despite internal conflict, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate concluded its dramatic 2012-2013 session last month with a number of accomplishments under its belt.  Former President Wyatt Cadley, a graduating senior, noted the impact made by a number of Senate resolutions passed this year, including one that precipitated the May 8 vote of the faculty of Arts & Sciences to include American Sign Language in the set of languages that satisfy the first half of the School of Arts & Sciences foreign language requirement.

  • Monaco discusses finances, diversity, CSL ‘justified departure’ policy

      As his second year at Tufts comes to a close, University President Anthony Monaco sat down with the Daily to discuss his views on a range of topics including diversity at Tufts, the divestment movement, the university’s financial situation, the Tufts: The Next 10 Years (T10) strategic plan initiative.

  • Primary Source loses TCU recognition

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      The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary last month derecognized the Primary Source due to the conservative publication’s inactivity and low membership this year. The journal has also been reported to the Dean of Student Affairs and the Office for Campus Life for submitting a membership list for re-recognition that contained the names of students uninvolved with the Source, according to Judiciary Chair Adam Sax.

  • Community health director concludes 15-year tenure

      Director of the Community Health Program (CHP) Edith Balbach, a senior lecturer known for her unique ability to simultaneously amuse, engage and inspire students in her 200-person Introduction to Community Health (CH 1) class, will retire this spring after fifteen years on the Hill.

  • Nearly 3,500 Tufts degrees to be awarded today across university’s schools

      During today’s commencement ceremony, the university’s 157th, Tufts will award 3,445 degrees to students from across the university.  The ceremony will take place on the Academic Quad between Bendetson and Ballou Halls and runs from 9 to 11 a.

  • Alcohol Task Force revives push for medical amnesty

        Tufts’ Alcohol Task Force on Wednesday submitted a proposal to a university-wide steering committee to introduce a Good Samaritan policy and a modified medical amnesty policy in response to suggestions provided by the steering committee. Former Tufts Community Union Senate President Wyatt Cadley, a senior, explained that the steering committee brought these policies to the attention of the task force to ensure that students have full incentive to seek medical attention in the case of intoxication.

  • Tufts to honor university staff with reception

      The university will next Tuesday host a staff appreciation event in the Alumnae Lounge of the Aidekman Arts Center to thank its employees for coming in to work during incidents that otherwise shut down the school this year, such as Hurricane Sandy, winter blizzards and the recent Boston Marathon bombing.

  • Engineering professor wins grant for embryonic research

      Catherine Kuo, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering this semester received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to study how tendons form in the embryo.  The $400,000 award will fund her research, which began in February and will last for five years, according to Kuo.

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    Donenfeld seeks improved student-Senate connection, simple solutions

        Joe Donenfeld, a junior, is running for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president on a platform of increased Senate accessibility and transparency that he hopes would enhance campus communication and unity. Donenfeld has been a senator since the fall of his freshman year and was a member of Allocations Board where he chaired Council IV, the group that provides funding to campus religious groups.

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    Maciejewski touts experience, dedication

      As a candidate for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president, junior Christie Maciejewski brands herself as a strong administrator with a long history of using her position on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate to generate immediate, tangible improvements to student life.

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    Thibodeau supports diversity, increased student input

      Joe Thibodeau, a junior, is running for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president with a plan to create a community that better reflects students’ needs and desires. Thibodeau, who has served on Senate since September of his freshman year, is currently abroad in Madrid but has continued to participate in Senate activities.

  • Tufts Hapa celebrates Loving Day, supports interracial love

      Tufts Hapa, a Tufts student group for part-Asian students, presented its first-annual Loving Day Rally on the upper patio of Mayer Campus Center yesterday afternoon to celebrate the 1967 Supreme Court decision for Loving v. Virginia, which declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional.

  • | Former public health commissioner talks racial disparities in healthcare policy

    Former Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach spoke yesterday in Cabot Auditorium on the politics of public health policy, highlighting health disparities between racial and ethnic groups, as part of Tufts’ annual Healthy Week. “One of the issues that always came to the top was this notion of racial and ethnic disparities,” Auerbach said.

  • ExCollege to revise Perspectives program

    The Experimental College (ExCollege) on March 25 officially announced its expansion of the Perspectives program to include a wider variety of topics related to media culture, as opposed to focusing on just film−based courses as the program has since its creation 20 years ago.