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The Tufts Community Union Senate voted to add the new Indigenous Center community senator seat and heard supplementary funding requests in a meeting on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.
On the day of its publication, author Martha S. Jones, joined by Nikole Hannah-Jones, discussed her new book “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All” (2020) in a Harvard Book Store virtual event on Sept. 8.
The Tufts Drama Departments first production of the semester, Welcome to Arroyos, is debuting tonight in the Balch Arena Theater. Not only will the play showcase the acting and stage work of the student cast and crew, but it also promises to be a highly interactive and engaging performance for audience members.
Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is getting comfortable in Congress after winning the special election on June 25 to fill now Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated seat. Markey gave his first speech on the floor of the Senate this Wednesday, making promises to improve legislation on clean energy, Internet privacy and gun control, according to an article published in the Boston Herald on Wednesday.
The special election to fill John Kerrys now-vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts is fast approaching and Tufts Democrats is mobilizing. The group, which enthusiastically campaigned in November for current Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and President Barack Obama, has revived the campaign for Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.).
Members of the Tufts community gathered on the Mayer Campus Center's lower patio Monday to celebrate Black Solidarity Day with a rally organized by the Pan?African Alliance. The event brought together black Tufts students, their advocates and interested passers?by, as well as guest speakers like famed blogger, poet, scholar and author Brandon Lacy Campos.
Active citizenship on the Hill
Though elections to the Senate will not take place until November, campaigning has long been underway. With this in mind, a number of Tufts groups are getting involved with campaigns and debates. More educational and collaborative than competitive, these groups are primarily interested in raising political awareness.
The Office of the Provost this year has allotted money to the Provost's Open Access Fund, a grant given to Tufts faculty members for the purpose of encouraging open access publication and digitization of research and scholarship.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Oct. 26 announced changes to federal student loan programs that seek to facilitate student loan repayment.
Excuse the title of "Martha Marcy May Marlene." It is confusing, longwinded and conjures images of haughty avant−garde cinema at its worst. A film's title is supposed to lure in the viewer — it is a brand name — and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" reads like a list of grandmothers. So roll your eyes and shake your head, but then get over it quickly, because if you can look past the title, you will be rewarded with one of the best films of the year.
Ah, summer. Time to dust off those books that have been sitting on your nightstand all semester and read more than three pages before passing out at 1 a.m. Whether summer means leisurely days on the beach, long international flights to glamorous places or a lengthy commute on the T, a good book is your best friend. We took a look at many of this summer's literary releases and are here to tell you how you should be spending your time when you don't have to worry about Blackboard readings or response papers.
Journalist and author Bob Woodward will give this semester's Richard E. Snyder's Presidential Lecture today in Cohen Auditorium. Woodward began his career as a journalist for The Washington Post in the early 1970s, where he gained acclaim for his coverage, alongside fellow journalist Carl Bernstein, of the Watergate scandal.
By a slim $50 margin separating it from first place, Tufts this year ranks as the second most expensive school in Massachusetts, according to a report released last month by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The words "fraud" and "embezzlement" bring to mind former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay or Martha Stewart's five-month imprisonment resulting from insider trading charges.
The women's soccer team went 12-3-2, rattled off eight consecutive wins in the middle of its season, grabbed a No. 2 seed in the NESCAC Tournament behind the nation's No. 6 team, and nabbed one of 18 at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament.