Around 200 people gathered on the Tisch Library patio and steps midday yesterday, decrying hate crimes and bias incidents against all groups and demanding that the administration take substantive action to prevent racism and hatred from continuing to pervade the Hill.
Amid the economic crisis, job prospects are looking slim for many -- and the prospect of acquiring internships is no different. Scraping and scrambling to build their résumés, some students are even going as far paying for unpaid summer internships.
Professor of English Deborah Digges died Friday night in an apparent suicide at the University of Massachusetts, Amhert. Digges, a celebrated poet and award-winning author, was 59.
Search online. A good place to start your search is Tufts Career Connect — a job and internship database specifically for Tufts students. Establish a list of potential employers within the targeted fields you have identified from your research. Directly contact employers to inquire about summer internship opportunities. Think about ways your education, skills and abilities could match well with the needs of the employer. Take advantage of networking opportunities. Students can contact alumni for advice about finding internships in various fields through the Tufts Career Network and can also speak with faculty, advisors, family and friends to gain advice and information pertinent to their internship search. Attend campus events. Alumni speak on career panels and employers host information sessions during the academic year. Go to career fairs and internship events. Speak with people to obtain information about organizations and possible internship opportunities. Use the Career Resource Library in Dowling Hall. Books, periodicals, videos and other reference materials are available to assist with internship searches. —compiled by Christina Pappas from the Career Services Web site
As unionization efforts gain traction on campus, administrators have kicked off a decisive campaign to convince targeted employees to reject collective bargaining.
Almost 80 percent of college students have had sex, according to a report by the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Institute. Nearly three-fourths have had it within the past 12 months. Countless errant thoughts are devoted to it. Whether you're doing it a lot, have never done it or want to be doing it more, sexual intercourse is a normative aspect of college life.
For the Elections Commission (ECOM), the second time was most certainly not the charm.
Students returning from Davis Square will soon have a new way to plan their trip back to the Hill. The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate is installing a JoeyTracker screen in J.P. Licks that will be up and running by next fall.
Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, expressed optimism in an address Friday evening about U.S.-Russian relations and the possibility of the two countries cooperating on issues relating to nuclear weapons, terrorism, economic stability and development of democracy.
Editor's note: This piece is adapted from a speech that Matthew Shapanka delivered at the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting on April 5.
A late-night scuffle in a downhill dorm has led to allegations of racism and an orchestrated response on the part of dozens of members of culture houses and student groups on campus.
The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) on Friday reported a mugging and an attempted burglary that occurred near campus last week.
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As the 2009 baseball season approaches, many would say that the AL East is going to be the best division in baseball. Featuring the only team to win two World Series this decade in the Boston Red Sox, as well as the very young and still rising Tampa Bay Rays and the recently revamped New York Yankees, the league seems inevitably strong.
Taekwondo is strictly a club sport, but at a national competition held at Brown University from March 21-22, there was no shortage of fierce competition. Tufts was right in the middle of it, sending 13 competitors to the 34th National Collegiate Taekwondo Association (NCTA) Championships, with eight of them coming away with medals.
Hip hop for social change festival hits campus today
The day I left for college, my older brother pulled me aside to have a final chat before I departed. He's a lot older than me, the only child from my dad's first marriage. When I was little, most of our conversations consisted of me trying to impress him with stories of kissing girls under the monkey bars and beating Super Mario World in unprecedented time. I idolized my older brother, Seth. So when he approached me to have the final chat before I started on my college adventure, I was expecting the Alan Arkin "f--k a lot of women" talk from "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006). That seemed like the standard advice from a 30-year-old guy who, admittedly, was planning on living the next four years vicariously through me. But instead, Sethy just said three words: "Respect crunch time."
After winning its first two NCAA Tournament games by an average of 33.5 points, the UConn Huskies looked every bit like the class of women's college basketball in 2009, well on their way to a national championship that appears increasingly inevitable with each lopsided victory its adds to its still unbeaten ledger. But if the remaining teams in the field are indeed just playing for second, they will at the very least be in for an interesting race.
Entering the winter offseason, the women's crew team knew it had the potential to reap great benefits from a few months off the water.
