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ASAP and BARCC discuss future plans, resources, #MeToo campaign
By Emma Rosenthal | November 17Content warning: this article mentions sexual assault
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Longtime activist Heather Booth teaches Tufts how to organize
By Ameenah Rashid | November 16Activist, advocate, fighter. There are many words one could use to describe Heather Booth. However, the one term that perfectly describes her career as a strategist for over 65 campaigns and life of activism is “organizer.”At the age of 71, Boothhas spent over 50 years fighting for several ...
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In defense of the butterfly effect: The basics of solidarity
By Hayley Oliver-Smith | November 16A butterfly flutters alongside the road and a watchful eye catches it swirling in the air.
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Inaugural cohort of Tisch dialogue fellows promotes critical discussion, lived experience, activism
By Kenia French | November 15In response to the need for students to discuss important, difficult and divisive topics that grip Tufts campus, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life has implemented a new Tisch Dialogue Fellows Program.
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Eat Your Heart Out: Peanut butter fudge
By Benjamin Corey | November 15As Thanksgiving approaches, I feel compelled to share a holiday tradition for this week’s recipe. Every year, for as long as I can remember, I have had the pleasure of indulging in my aunt’s peanut butter “dream” fudge. What I find interesting is that this particular recipe has seen many different ...
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Students with less visible disabilities struggle for accommodations
By Grace Yuh | November 14The unforgiving incline that divides Tufts campus into uphill and downhill is a part of students’ everyday lives and most of the time it is something they grow used to. But for several members of the Tufts community who identify as being physically disabled or physically differently abled, the physical ...
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The Weekly Chirp: Wondrous waterfowl
By Henry Stevens | November 13With temperatures finally dropping down to the low 30s last week, it appears the transition from autumn to winter is upon us (but shout out to climate change for those extra couple of warm weeks). Cold winds and gloomy, gray skies provoke several behavioral responses in humans, but mainly a marked shift ...
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Tufts students, professors discuss North Korea nuclear situation
By Jessie Newman | November 13This summer, the North Korean regime claimed to have launched a successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, leading intelligence officials to project for a North Korean ICBMs with nuclear capability by 2018, according to a July 27 CBS article. This information has been circulating for the past couple of months, escalating both regional and global fears. Countries and individuals vary in their perception of this conflict, but a common trend holds true: the future cannot be predicted.
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In Defense of the Butterfly Effect: Daily fallout
By Hayley Oliver-Smith | November 9The other day, a friend of mine read some poetry out loud that he was learning for an Italian class. One didn’t have to know what the words meant in order to appreciate the expressions and experience how beautiful they sounded together, the blended “r” and emphatic “l” of the language dancing ...
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Eat Your Heart Out: Raspberry cream cheese cake
By Benjamin Corey | November 8Every summer my family would travel to the local farms to pick our own berries. It was a tradition for us to pick gallons of fruit, which we then used to make our own jams. As such, we created recipes which incorporated our jams. This recipe for raspberry cream cheese cake falls under that category. ...
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Opening of Wegmans offers a new grocery option in Medford
By Rebecka Henrikson | November 7At least three meals a day, seven days a week, plus midnight snacking, study-break snacks, coffee runs and pre-party food — it's clear that access to good meals and frequent snacks is an important part of the college student experience. The variety of options provided on campus as well as at ...
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Hurricane Maria affects Puerto Rico, Tufts' Puerto Rican students
By Ana Maria Samper | November 6Hurricane Maria is classified as the 10th most intense Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, hitting Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, according to a Sept. 20 article on Weather.com. Hitting two weeks after Hurricane Irma, it has created a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. The official Puerto Rican death ...
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The Weekly Chirp: Massachusetts birding
By Henry Stevens | November 6Time to shift gears this week and give you all some details about the birding world that surrounds Tufts. And yes, it is indeed known as “birding,” not “birdwatching” — a common misconception made by non-birders, or as birders call them, “the less fortunate.”The state of Massachusetts, ...
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Tufts, Northeastern students aim to increase diversity in technology through startup TechSpark
By Fina Short | November 3Sophomores Kingsley Udoyi and Timi Dayo-Kayode are not your average computer science students. In just three semesters, the two have launched, pitched and gained funding for their business called TechSpark. This multi-branch startup aims to reduce bias impacting marginalized students in science, ...
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How do Tufts Democrats, Republicans, Left Unity Project fit into CIVIC's two-party debate?
By Emma Damokosh | November 2Tufts CIVIC held a debate between Tufts Republicans and Tufts Democrats in ASEAN Auditorium at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy on Oct. 26. The debate covered U.S. foreign and domestic policy, which included everything from legislation regarding reproductive health to how to best deal with ...
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In defense of the butterfly effect: Not the last resort
By Hayley Oliver-Smith | November 2Though perhaps counterintuitive given the university setting, it is true — student contact with professors, advisors or anyone in the administration can be as infrequent as one prefers. The scale of interaction changes depending on the individual student, but obligation remains low. Many aspects ...
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New Tisch initiative explores social-emotional learning in the Tufts classroom
By Sean Ong | November 1Emotions are often hidden away from the college classroom, even when discussing emotionally charged or sensitive topics. A new Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life initiative, funded by alumnus David T. Zussman (A '53) and his family through the Zussman Fund for Social and Emotional Learning, ...
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Eat Your Heart Out: Apple crisp
By Benjamin Corey | November 1Like me, my mom often uses recipes from our family when baking. The act of recreating a recipe that others have written down makes you feel like you’re transported back to an earlier, more nostalgic time in life. Part of the fun of baking, however, is to experiment with your ingredients and to tackle ...
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The Weekly Chirp: To mock a mockingbird
By Henry Stevens | October 30The undergraduate experience brings numerous changes to a student’s life, like living away from home and having a beer for the first time upon reaching the appropriate legal age. A perhaps less conspicuous change that occurs throughout our college years is an alteration in our verbal vocabulary. Coming ...
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Financial burdens, lack of diversity influence two students' decision to leave Tufts
By Ameenah Rashid | October 30For some students, it was just a year ago. For others, it was two, three or even more. Deciding where to go for college is often a stressful part of the high school experience, but a final decision on where to attend may not be so final. For former Tufts students Yash Gurditta and Michael Lee, when ...
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