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The tragic shootings at Virginia Tech last year were a wake-up call to college students across the country. But in Medford, we could at least take some level of comfort from the fact that Tufts is really not that similar a university to Virginia Tech.
The hum of everyday life penetrates the halls of Wren and South Halls alike; feverish video-gaming cries, muffled keyboard punches and the familiar screams of Red Sox fans bring comfort to a typical college environment.
College campuses are host to a variety of easily spread illnesses, among them the common cold and influenza. While these short-lived illnesses come and go in a given population over time, the human papillomavirus, commonly known as HPV, is consistently widespread.
The Arts, Sciences & Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted yesterday to restrict teachers' access to student transcripts, addressing concerns about privacy violations and legality raised by the current access policy.
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As someone who describes herself as,"just an ordinary person,"Tufts' Muslim chaplain Shareda Hosein is pushing the boundaries of what ordinary can be. Working to unify and support the Tufts Muslim community, Hosein is also fighting a battle with the United States Military to become its first female Muslim chaplain.
When students transition to collegiate life, the line between a comfortable student-parent relationship and an overbearing level of parental involvement can become blurred. This is the first in a two-part series examining students' privacy rights, school confidentiality policies and the relationship between universities, students and their parents.
Students who shed their clothes to run in the annual Naked Quad Run (NQR) last month got more exposure than they had anticipated.
When the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) hired new administrative assistant Thomas Amos, he wasn't subjected to a criminal background check. Amos was hired at the beginning of the semester to replace Kenneth Hall, who was convicted as a sex offender in June.
For most Tufts students, trips to Boston's Chinatown are accompanied by sushi, sake bombs or long rides on the Fung Wah bus. But for Jumbos enrolled in Tufts' Building Bridges program, visits to Chinatown are part of a broad effort to improve and influence the community there.
The Recording Industry Association of America's aggressive campaign against college students could take a hit soon. Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly recently expressed skepticism about the industry's ex parte subpoenas and gave its lawyers until today to justify their policies.
The Arts, Sciences and Engineering (ASE) faculty will consider a resolution next week that would restrict their access to students' information on Tufts' online Student Information System (SIS).
Jodie Nealley, recently fired from Tufts for allegedly embezzling around $300,000, will mount an affirmative defense should she go to court, according to her attorney Howard Lewis.
Wander through the halls of a Tufts dorm on any given night and you are bound to see at least a few students huddled around a computer or a TV ensconced in a video game.
Flash back to 1960, a time during which only three or four out of every 10 college students in America were women, or even further back, when higher education was reserved strictly for men.
After boasting a series of awards and Golden Globe nominations for an exceptional cast and equally phenomenal production, the creators of the primetime drama "Nip/Tuck" have made a bold move in an effort to compete with up-and-coming shows.
Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation on Monday has elicited an enthusiastic response from Massachusetts' all-Democratic Congressional delegation, with the only complaint being that he didn't step down sooner.
Heroin use by Somerville residents has spiked over the past several years due to the drug's low price and easy availability, according to Gail Enman, the executive director of the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (CASPAR).
Over the course of five novels and a collection of short stories, Tom Perrotta has laid claim to the prime real estate of upwardly mobile suburbia, hilariously probing its leafy, soccer-obsessed, McMansion-lined streets. No component of life here is safe; crime watches are as ripe for satire as is social one-upmanship. Perrotta has skewered politics, parenting, the educational system, marriage and sex, the sacred cows of family life unspared by his sardonic insight and incisive humor.
It's 4 a.m., you've got a paper due, and instead of working on the introduction you're checking your e-mail for the fifth time in 20 minutes. Allowing the Internet to devour precious time is no longer the exclusive domain of procrastinators.