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As December falls and the month-long winter break approaches, a quarter of Tufts' students' dreams of Costa Rican vacations are overshadowed by the impending reality of graduation and entrance into the "real world." Many members of the Class of 2005 are using the winter vacation to apply and interview for jobs.
College smokers are likely to be a Caucasian, non-religious member of a fraternity or sorority who drinks, according to Edith Balbach, director of the Tufts Community Health program. This survey, based on national data that is not Tufts-specific, also found that smokers also tend to be dissatisfied with their education and non-athletic.
Dan Winslow (LA '80) claims that he is someone who is "used to adversity." This characterization is fitting considering his position as senior advisor and former chief legal counsel to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in which he was responsible for acting as the governor's judicial representative as well as overseeing a unit of 830 lawyers in the executive branch agencies.
@bodytext: When asked to describe the process of transferring to Tufts, junior Alex Lauritson-Lada summed up the experience with one simple phrase: "It's easier than you think."
On the 10th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the United States refused to join 85 heads of state in signing a statement that endorses a 10-year-old United Nations plan to ensure women's rights. In a letter to the U.N., the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan stated that the U.S. was committed "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
Easily accessible residence halls, predictable schedules and limited campus security makes the Tufts campus a prime area for stalking and
Perhaps you know him as the unkempt, fast food-looting leader of the underground resistance in "Demolition Man" (1993). Or maybe you remember him as the down-on-his-luck police detective - who manages to both lose Catherine Zeta-Jones and come off as less appealing than the real bad guy - in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999).
Although there are those who feel that Alcohol and Drug Prevention Services at Tufts is just about stopping students for drinking, according to the director, it actually targets harm more than usage itself.
Derek Jeter is the greatest player in the history of the world. He's the best player in baseball. He should be the league MVP every year. He built the Eiffel Tower.
While each student's path through Tufts is marked with different activities and different courses of study, the goal of almost every graduate is the same: success on the professional level.
Graduate students at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy packed into ASEAN auditorium to watch Senator John Kerry challenge presidential incumbent George W. Bush in a debate at the University of Miami on Thursday evening. Bush and Kerry took up most of the 90-minute debate, which centered around national security and foreign policy, arguing over the war in Iraq. Kerry said he believes Bush made a "colossal error of judgment" in invading Iraq and that he has a better plan to fight the "war on terror." Bush retorted that Kerry cannot be a leader because he constantly flip-flops on the issues. The Fletcher debate crowd was clearly partisan, as cheers for Kerry and contempt for Bush resonated throughout the room. The majority of the audience laughed at Bush's facial expressions and frequent long pauses. "Bush seemed weaker as he [went] on, but [I am] not sure if it was because of the environment I was watching this in," second-year Fletcher student Gillian Cull said. Many students agreed that the laughter directed towards Bush was disrespectful and that the focus should have been on his message, not the manner in which he presented it. "Kerry was much more academic, while Bush was much more for America. The world is one thing, but Bush goes for America," first-year Fletcher student Gregory Dimitriadis said Saudipan Bagchi, a graduate student at Boston University and a strong Kerry supporter, was disappointed with the debate. "I am appalled [that] the American public has not woken up yet. Kerry needs to drill in the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. He needs to go into hard detail on Iraq policy; he needs to not tip-toe around his Senate record," Bagchi said. "This is the most important debate in the history of the world." Professor Tony Smith, the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts, agrees that Kerry erred during the debate by not pushing harder at openings Bush offered, but believes Kerry was much more effective than his opponent. "The President was more repetitive, less detailed, and broad in his grasp of matters relying more on sloganeering, and simply less articulate with bad body language," Jackson said. "By showing Kerry was so serious, he automatically undid a part of the negative image the Republicans had projected. Kerry came across as presidential." "To close the deal, Kerry must do equally well, or Bush must do as poorly, at the final two events," said Lecturer of Political Science Michael Goldman, a well-known political analyst. Goldman has served as counsel to many Democratic campaigns, including Michael Dukakis' bid for the White House in 1988. Pew Research Center polls have shown that the public's confidence in Bush to handle the war in Iraq dropped six percent between Sept. 11-13 and Sept. 22-26. His poll numbers on handling the economy also dropped seven percent. Despite these drops, the same Sept. 22-26 poll shows Bush leading Kerry 48 percent to 40 percent among registered voters. "As incompetent as people [perceive] Bush to be, Kerry [is] not a viable alternative," Goldman said. Still, the debate was a "watershed moment" in this year's presidential campaign according to Goldman. "Despite what most people believe, a sizeable portion of the people who will vote Nov. 2 saw and heard John Kerry for the first time at that 'joint press conference,'" Goldman said. "Prior to that joint appearance, $90 million in negative advertising had totally defined the political persona of Kerry," he said. The second presidential debate will take place Friday and the third will occur on Wednesday, Oct. 13.
"Dirty South Memphis bit*h what! South Memphis what!" Simultaneously shaking her head and stomping her feet, the flushed and bright-eyed freshman shouted the lyrics to one of her favorite hometown songs.
The recent success of Morgan Spurlock's documentary film "Super Size Me," as well as books like Eric Schlosser's best-selling "Fast Food Nation," have
Reverend Chris Fike, the University's new associate Protestant chaplain, arrives in hopes of bringing "a sense of openness and possibility to campus" and helping students "grow into their faith, experiment, and take the next step," she said.
High school seniors hoping to slack off once they have been accepted to college could be in for a rude awakening.
High school students across the nation are bulking up their course schedules, putting new meaning into the "old college try," but are they leaving enough on their plates for their actual college years? As college admissions officers put greater emphasis on high-level coursework, students have reacted by piling on Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. Fifty years ago, only about 1,000 students took the annual AP exams. At the time, those exams were nearly exclusively for the top "college-prep" students in high school. Today, AP courses have been assimilated into the mainstream high school setting and over 1.1 million students took AP tests last year, according to the Associated Press. Indeed, one out of every three high school graduates has taken at least one AP test. Such classes are becoming an unavoidable hurdle on the path towards acceptance into top colleges, though the admissions process often places a greater emphasis on course loads than on the exams themselves, explained Lewis Stival, Dean of College Counseling at Blair Academy in New Jersey. "Many students can't even submit scores in time for admissions review when they take exams their senior year," Stival said. "Instead, the real importance is that higher level courses indicate to admissions [boards] that a student is taking the most challenging course possible." At Tufts, the number of entering freshmen who have taken AP, IB or foreign diploma courses increases every year. Tufts awards different acceleration credits based on how students score on their final course exams. But it is questionable whether college-prep courses in high school are actually equivalent to college courses. "There are people like me who [because of exemption as a result of AP courses] don't have to take English 1 or English 2 and still aren't quite sure how to write a good paper," sophomore and IB graduate Carrie Davis said. And though college-prep achievements can place students out of introductory courses at Tufts, the high school learning environment is often completely different from that at college. Comparing her high school classes to Tufts' courses, Davis said "the information is basically the same, but the way in which we learned it was different. Take psychology, for example. I had [a class of] 20 people every day compared to a 300-person lecture meeting twice a week," she said. "Learning study habits for a college class is something we didn't get in IB." Still, AP credits have helped Davis in the sense that she could skip immediately to higher-level courses in subjects she found most interesting at Tufts. "I got credit when I did well in the classes I liked [in high school], such as English and French." Additionally, high schools use different methods to prepare their students for college, raising issues of fairness. "I know some schools will encourage their kids to take AP classes, but my school didn't do that," sophomore Eli Hackel said. "But of the 20 percent that make it into our AP classes [after applying], 90 percent will get fives on the exams." One result of the college-prep course proliferation may be that students entering college have more advanced skills than before. Assistant Professor of Political Science Jeffrey Taliaferro said that over his past seven years of teaching, each entering class has been better at writing than the last. Tufts currently offers credits for high scores on a variety of AP tests ranging from Computer Science to Hebrew to Psychology. A student scoring a five on the AP Biology test, for example, receives one course credit and placement into either Bio 13 or 14. Tufts also allows students who have earned four to 7.5 AP or IB credits to obtain one semester's advanced standing and those earning eight credits or more to obtain one year's advanced standing. As a result, some schools have started de-emphasizing high-school course credits and exemptions for economic reasons, Stival said. "Basically, colleges and universities have started losing money as a result of credits and exemptions," he said. "It used to be that a student could save up to a year's worth of tuition" by receiving high scores on AP exams. Students at Tufts are not eligible to receive their credits, however, until they have completed two years on the Hill. High scores on college prep course tests also can fulfill Tufts' course requirements. A four on the AP English test, for example, can be transferred into one Tufts credit and an exemption from one semester of the school's writing requirement. Tufts' policies on awarding credit are nearly identical to other colleges in the area. Benchmark schools such as Georgetown University and Brown University are also very specific about credit offered for AP scores, allotting credit for only certain advanced high school courses. Whether or not they are truly beneficial, the current government seems to find college-prep courses a success: President George W. Bush has expressed his wish to double federal spending on the Advanced Placement program to $51.5 million. The additional spending will expand course access for poorer school districts and will increase teacher training. Stival noted that the importance of scores vary a great deal from university to university.
Many Residential Assistants, through both confusion and deliberate action, are ignoring the University's alcohol policy.
America's number one goal needs to be protecting America. To that end, we spend in excess of $400 billion a year. We should not and cannot afford to worry what other countries think about our policy when American lives are at stake against enemies out to annihilate us -- that forms the basis of the oath the president swears to.
The recent public debates over difficulties in the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) have raised concerns for many of members of the Tufts professional and administrative staff. We would like to share a few of our thoughts.
As the semester winds down, Residential Assistant (RA) frustration with the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) may have reached a boiling point.