Many students' cell phones were abuzz yesterday afternoon with calls from their parents or guardians. Other Jumbos checked their inboxes and were greeted by not just an email from Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman but also one sent by a concerned — or in some cases, amused — parent or guardian.
Smoking is bad. These days, it's almost impossible to escape this truth.
After a female student was assaulted near campus over the weekend, Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) sent an email alerting the student body of a series of similar nearby assaults that appear to have been committed by the same attacker.
Tufts students likely have huge amounts of their data stored on remote servers because having physical possession of all of one's private information is an impossible task in the digital age.
Among some of its more notable alumni, Tufts can claim former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (LA '70), J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (LA '78), eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (LA '88), and "Wicked" (1995) author Gregory Maguire (GSAS '90). Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass., LA '81) is also on that list.
Less than a week after the high−profile acquittal of Amanda Knox, Italy is once again making international headlines.
Rick Perry doesn't believe in man-made global warming, and he thinks the federal government should play no part in protecting the environment against it. So how does he reconcile his own beliefs with the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community that global warming is real?
President Barack Obama yesterday announced a plan to cut the national debt by about $3 trillion over the span of a decade. The initiative, much like the jobs plan introduced last week, is no doubt part of Obama's effort to keep his own job come next election.
Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) earlier this semester submitted a proposal to the administration for the creation of gender-neutral housing at Tufts. The proposal, titled "Recommendations for Gender Neutral Housing at Tufts" outlined an "option in which two or more students may share a multiple-occupancy bedroom, in mutual agreement, regardless of the students' sex or gender."
I have now spent three days digesting the news of Manny Ramirez's retirement, and my feelings on the subject remain conflicted.
On Tuesday, March 8, The Tufts Daily published an article, "Senate backs more lenient marijuana policy," in which sophomore Alex Baskin, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), adamantly fights for ... well, what exactly was it again? The right to smoke weed? You have a better chance of being disciplined for talking after quiet hours than you do for smoking marijuana outside. In the article, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman was quoted as saying that he did not believe anybody had been disciplined for marijuana this year. Yet SSDP garnered the support of 500 students who would like to challenge the policy and "reduce" it to a fine. Choosing an enforceable fine over an unenforced policy is hardly sensible.
Tufts' janitors are in limbo as a new contract negotiation could either ensure the security of their futures at Tufts or put their jobs in jeopardy. Tufts is in the midst of searching for a new janitorial services provider following the expiration of the university's contract with ABM Janitorial Services over a year ago. The university's justification for finding a new provider is to update the current contract and come up with one that is "more efficient," according to Dick Reynolds, vice president for operations.
State Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville) and State Rep. Michael Moran (D-Brighton) on Jan. 25 introduced legislation called the Higher Education Transparency Bill that would require private universities in Massachusetts to increase their financial transparency. The new legislation, which would apply to colleges and universities with holdings of over $10 million, calls for the disclosure of individual conflicts of interest of trustees and directors, information about staff members who earn over $250,000 and information regarding financial arrangements over $150,000 with outside parties.
WikiLeaks began on Sunday the process of releasing a cache of over a quarter-million U.S. diplomatic cables to the public. In anticipation of the leak, the U.S. Department of State warned foreign governments of the impending release, and world leaders braced for an embarrassing diplomatic fallout.
The Office for Institutional Diversity (OID) was created in the spring of 2006, upon the recommendation of the university president, the provost and other members of the Tufts community. The office was officially established in January 2007 with the appointment of Lisa Coleman as its executive director.
The Tufts Community Union Senate on Sunday adopted a resolution that urges the Board of Trustees, the administration and the faculty of the School of Arts & Sciences to start transitioning the Africa in the New World minor — currently affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies — to an Africana studies major. The resolution says this should be accomplished by increasing the number of related courses offered and goes on to call for the creation of an Africana studies department as soon as it is financially possible.
Following the recent implementation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA)Performance Complement provisions, WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio this semester must begin paying $500 annually to a non?profit that distributes royalties to owners of sound recording copyrights.
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