The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected a new executive board, Senate committee chairs and Allocations Board (ALBO) chairs during in-house elections conducted last night.
Although nearly half of the junior class at Tufts opts to take a respite from the Hill to study abroad, those with disciplinary issues typically have to think otherwise.
In addition to the $136-million gift from Frank Doble (A '11), many other recent donations have helped the Beyond Boundaries campaign in its quest for $1.2 billion.
Endings are always bittersweet. With summer vacation close enough to taste, today is a day to balance our excitement over finishing the year with our sadness at the prospect of leaving our fellow Jumbos for four months - and for some of us, at the reality of leaving Tufts' comfortable bubble for good.
The Middlesex District Attorney's Office is still investigating former Director of Student Activities Jodie Nealley's alleged embezzlement of the student activities fund.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Elections Commission (ECOM) announced yesterday that a referendum featuring three amendments to the TCU constitution had passed, despite an appeal.
With Frank Doble's (A '11) posthumous donation of $136 million earlier this month, Tufts' Beyond Boundaries capital campaign surged ahead of pace and is now set to reach its goal on time.
After the success of its breakthrough 2003 album "Page Avenue," Story of the Year has struggled to define its identity in the strange rock scene of the day. The band's sophomore release for Maverick Records, "In the Wake of Determination" (2006), charted poorly, failed to spawn a successful single and, even worse for fans, strayed from the band's screamo-rock roots to a more metal direction.
This month, the world once again commemorates the 1915 mass killings and deportation of over two million Armenians by the Young Turk regime of the Ottoman Empire. Ninety-three years after the first genocide of the 20th century, the United States and the international community should, at last, compel the leadership of Turkey to seek a real and sustainable solution to the Armenian Genocide issue by ensuring that the country comes to terms with its past, as well as adopts some much-desired changes in its policies toward Armenia.
When Tufts sophomore Julie* made a visit to her doctor in her home state of New York last summer to take care of a wheezing cough, she didn't anticipate the long string of bills and phone calls that would ensue.
I like to think that as I've grown older I've become more comfortable with myself and my entire family.
The theater goes dark. The audience grows quiet. After what seems like an awkwardly long time spent sitting there, unable to see, praying that coming to the show wasn't a mistake, the audience hears a voice from the stage saying, "I hate theater."
The men's track and field team did all it could, but came up just short of a NESCAC Championship Saturday, coming in second at the event held at Hamilton College.
The April 23 news article "JumboCash won't affect students' financial aid, administration says" said that, under Tufts new dining-points system, students on financial aid who do not purchase the most expensive meal plan will receive a check for the difference between the cost of that plan and the cost of the plan they purchase. In fact, the difference between the amount they spend on their dining plan and the cost of the most expensive meal plan will be deducted from their overall bill from Tufts.
Amongst the hullabaloo of traveling from country to country, at times I almost forget that there's quite a lot to see in my home base country, England - and not just in London.
The women's lacrosse team scored perhaps the biggest win in program history Saturday at Bello Field, toppling national powerhouse Middlebury 15-7 in the regular-season finale. A look inside the numbers:
I'd like to thank all my readers in the greater Tufts community for viewing this heartwarming column each week. This week, we'll quickly visit a dog-loving athlete and then head to Dallas and never look back.
As far as "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" goes, the movie would have been far better if it aimed for nothing more than the mood set by the opening sequence: Louis Armstrong softly croons "What a Wonderful World" while Harold Lee (played by John Cho) daydreams in the shower, only to be interrupted by the extreme flatulence of Kumar Patel's (Kal Penn) gastrointestinal system, the revolting result of downing too many burgers.
It seems as if spring has completely skipped over Medford and the season has jumped straight to summer.
