The Welcome Project, an immigrant advocacy and education organization for the Somerville community, last week announced that it is selling a $10 YUM Restaurant Card that offers a year-long 10-percent discount on orders of $25 or more at nine immigrant-run restaurants in Somerville. The card promotes ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Feb. 2 hosted its third annual leadership dinner at the Winthrop Street Function Hall in an effort to foster partnership between student groups.
Tisch Library last month added five iPads to its supply of technology that is available for out-of-library lending in an effort to support technology literacy and availability to the Tufts community.
The photocredit in the Feb. 29 News article "MCAT to implement revisions in 2015" was incorrectly given to Scott Tingley. In fact, the photo should have been credited as Andrew Schneer for The Tufts Daily.
The Tufts Black Men's Group last Friday hosted its second-annual End of Black History Month celebration, highlighting the central roles of black male pioneers throughout history.
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and reigning National League MVP, recently underwent the most damaging trial of his career. Sure, he escaped punishment, but he'll go into the record books with an indelible asterisk by his name.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently announced that, for the first time since 1991, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will undergo several substantial changes beginning in 2015.
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.
It is with a heavy heart that I begin writing this op-ed, but the time has come to call a spade a spade. Seeing the word "apartheid" next to the word "Israel" might come as a punch in the face to some students. As a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine, I would like to explain how we — a diverse group of Jewish, Palestinian, American, and international students — came to the consensus to draw the campus' attention to the unfortunate reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine. We are organizing the ongoing "Israeli Apartheid Week" at Tufts as a message of solidarity and love for the Israeli and Palestinian people. We also see ourselves as part of the global nonviolent struggle against the pervasive and institutionalized racism that Palestinians have suffered through for far too long.
TUESDAY"Black History Month? In the Caribbean"Details: Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian language and culture lecturer at Brown University and Harvard University, will lead a discussion on how Haitian and other Caribbean people fit into Black America.When and Where: 7:30 p.m.; Sophia Gordon Hall Multi?Purpose RoomSponsor: Caribbean ClubWEDNESDAY"The Transnational Study of Race and Social Identity Discussion Series"Details: Fatima El?Tayeb, an associate professor of African?American literature and culture and associate director of critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego, will give a lecture on "Dimensions of Diaspora. Black Europe, Africana Studies and Queer of Color Critique"When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Barnum Hall 008Sponsors: The Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the American Studies Program, the Women's Studies Program and the Office of Intercultural & Social Identities Programs"Hamlet on the Barricades: Shakespeare and Arab Revolutions"Details: Margaret Litvin, an assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Boston University, will discuss how Shakespeare's tragedy has turned into an Arab political text.When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Tisch Library Room 304Sponsors: The Anthropology department, the English department and the Middle Eastern Studies departmentTHURSDAY"Groundfishing in New England: Have the Manager"Details: Peter Shelley, vice president and senior counsel with New England's Conversation Law Foundation, will speak about the New England groundfish collapse of the 1990s.When and Where: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm; Lincoln Filene Center Rabb RoomSponsors: The Environmental Studies Department and Tufts Institute of the Environment
Trekking uphill on a daily basis ranks among Tufts students' top complaints about life on the Hill. A new campus mobility survey seeks to not only take complaints like these into account, but to gather information on how to improve campus transportation and infrastructure.
Pinker is one of nine recipients of this year's Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, an honor that is traditionally presented at the EPIIC symposium to individuals who have demonstrated the values of scholarship, research and teaching in order to solve global issues.
President Barack Obama announced on Feb. 9 that ten states, including Massachusetts, have been waived from the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001.
Alcohol and drugs play an undeniable role in the college lifestyle, and when the use of these substances goes too far, there are consequences. Tufts' probation system aims to curb and eliminate dangerous drinking, as well as uphold the federal and state laws surrounding substance use.
At high−cost universities like Tufts, tuition is often a deciding factor in whether students attend — an issue that President Barack Obama is attempting to ameliorate. Students and faculty on the Hill, though, doubt that Obama's ideas will bring about positive change.
Few countries pride themselves on a concrete and stringent set of values in the way the U.S. military has since its founding. That is not to say that those values are not breached within its borders, while they are consistently and strongly advocated outside them. Yet ethics are neither absolute nor enduring, as is exemplified by the phenomenon of technological advancement in the context of war.
