Throughout my years at Tufts, I’ve consumed approximately 1,750 meals in the dining hall. My average dining hall visit lasts about 25 minutes, which means I’ve spent roughly 730 hours, or about 30 full days, eating in Dewick or Carmichael.Spending all that time has allowed me to gain some insight ...
Three small quadrotor drones execute a series of synchronized flips in the middle of a Gantcher Center tennis court. This performance, captured in a minute-long Youtube video uploaded last summer, showcases the work of Tufts’ Signal Processing and RoboTic Networks (SPARTN) lab. Since its establishment in ...
Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issue the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines include updated advice about calorie consumption and food choices to encourage healthy diet and physical activity for ...
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) continued its streak of recent successes this spring as it earned a bid to Nationals for the sixth consecutive year, according to TMT President and senior Nick Teleky.TMT’s road to Nationals began with the Regional competition, where over 600 different schools competed ...
I find it disturbingly funny when I hear people talk about rape culture like it’s this new phenomenon. As if rape didn’t happen 50 years ago, as if something about today’s youth culture (and their “hook-up culture”? Their “feminist culture”?) is conducive to rapes on college campuses, ...
In a letter sent to students in March 2014, the Department of Computer Science announced the initiation of new, restrictive registration policies, given a huge surge in demand for the department's introductory courses.“The proposed changes to registration ensure that we continue to serve the ...
I’ve thought seriously about to when in time I’d travel back if given the opportunity. A few decades come to mind – maybe the 1470s, so I could chill with Da Vinci while the Renaissance was in full swing, or perhaps 500 AD so I might see exactly how the Nazca Lines were made.I could probably ...
This February, Provost David Harris announced that, after a national search, John Morris has been appointed as the new Director for Tufts' Athletics and that current Athletics Director Bill Gehling will take a new role as Senior Advisor to University Advancement. On June 15, Morris will ...
The Tufts Rock Climbing Team has seen plenty of growth in size and participation over the last three years, which has culminated in a peak of about 50 members this season.According to captain Emmett Moore, the team has been officially recognized by Tufts Athletics as a Tier II Recreational Club ...
Whether through its ability to facilitate publicizing an event or cause to several thousand people at once, or through the ease with which it allows feedback on a product or idea to be gathered in great detail, social media has expedited the dispersion of information on a grand scale in recent years. ...
This January, TCU senate announced that it was removing funding for off-campus travel from next year’s budget. The treasury said that a gradual depletion of its surplus fund, which, in addition to money from the student activities fee, has been supplying clubs with supplementary (i.e. not budgeted ...
Most Tufts students seem to know by now that the word "slut" is bad. The anti-slut-shaming movement has become too big to miss. From “SlutWalks” in cities worldwide to events at Tufts such as The Vagina Monologues and sex-positive presentations by SexologistOh Megan, embracing the word ...
All that is left of the Mystic Reservoir that previously occupied 4.5 acres of Tufts’ campus is the muddy field known as the residential quad. But between 1864 and 1948, the reservoir was used as a water supply, a picnic spot, a swimming hole, an ice rink and the centerpiece for countless campus ...
When Tufts University's part-time faculty unionized in Sept. 2013, they were at the forefront of a growing movement for better working conditions for adjuncts across the Greater Boston area. By now, adjuncts at Boston University, Northeastern University, Lesley University and Bentley University ...
I watched “Napoleon Dynamite" (2004) not too long ago. At one point, as Napoleon’s grandma is preparing for a day of ATV shenanigans down at the dunes, Napoleon asks her what he can have to eat while she's gone. Frustrated, she tells him to make “a dang quesadill-a” if he gets ...
With an opening lecture from Calvin Gidney on the linguistic perpetuation of stereotypes in children’s cartoons, the Experimental College’s (ExCollege) “A Taste of Tufts” lecture series returned to campus on Friday, March 6.An associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child ...
It’s a February afternoon in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Tables ring the room, covered in reams of hand-drawn artwork, rows of brightly colored fur tails and paws and stacks of graphic novels.
While poets of the page may publish their writing in the Canon, Tufts' literary magazine, spoken word poets work outside and beyond the written word. Many write, practice and compete within the Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts (SWAT).
Since the early 2000s, Tufts’ sugar maple trees on the Medford/Somerville campus have been a local source for sap. In 2008, Groundwork Somerville, a local organization whose mission involves sustained regeneration and bringing the community together to enact positive change in the environment, took ...
Interest in computer science has been mounting at Tufts, to the extent that the Department of Computer Science made the decision last spring to restrict the number of students who could enroll in computer science classes to first-years and computer science majors and minors. Given the field's ...
