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Faculty profile: Get to know Professor Slodden

By Navya Singh | February 10

Nothing is more fundamentally human than death — yet it remains one of the most uncomfortable topics to discuss. Trained in medical sociology, Professor Caitlin Slodden strives to ask the tough questions and explore why something so evident in everyday life remains taboo. At Tufts, she teaches the course “Death & Dying” in which students examine death as a social and cultural process.  

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AMPT: Tufts’ very own mixtape

By Maia Goldman | February 10

The Association of Mixed People at Tufts is a student organization that creates community for students with mixed backgrounds to bond over their unique experiences. AMPT Co-Head Event Planner and senior Chrystal Coleman emphasized that AMPT serves as a space for anyone who identifies as multicultural in their own way.

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Bring Jumbo home: 2 Tufts students lobby administration to bring Jumbo’s skeleton to campus

By Olivia Bye | February 5

Senior Jack Wilan was digging through records of Tufts history in the Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) last fall when he became fixated on the story of Jumbo the Elephant. Wilan wasn’t looking to learn about Jumbo, Tufts’ beloved mascot who was once one of the most famous circus attractions in the world. Instead, he was looking for information about class year distinctions in the 1900s, the topic of his research project for the archival research seminar “Tufts in American History”. But after coming across Jumbo story after story dating back over a century, Wilan quickly latched onto the mascot and its significance to Tufts’ history.

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TEMS: More than just Tufts’ alcohol ambulance

By Abilene Adelman | February 5

For many new students at Tufts, the idea of living on their own for the first time is intimidating. They are now responsible not only for their studies, but also for laundry, meals and even their own physical health. One thing that can be particularly frightening to experience while away from home is a medical emergency.

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Boston Bookcrawl: More Than Words

By Emily Sullivan | February 2

Welcome back to my bookstore review column! I hope my brief, semester-long hiatus gave you enough time to explore the last few stops on our book crawl and that you are now itching for your next bookstore recommendation. The good news is that I’ve returned to give you my keen evaluations of the various book-buying experiences that Boston offers us.

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Worth Going Broke?: Hot or cold?

By Eloise Bernstein | January 30

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I had the pleasure of giving a friend of mine, Sae, a tour of Tufts. It was a perfect day to tour campus since it had snowed the night before, blanketing everything in a shining layer of white. The tour went great, but by the time we got back to Mayer Campus Center, we were both frozen to the bone. In a moment of genius, I pulled her onto the shuttle to Davis Square, promising her warm food just one bus stop away. With faces bundled into scarves and hands shoved into gloves, we made the trip to Yume Ga Arukara.

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A Jumbo’s Journey Abroad: Hungry, tired, hungover, saying yes

By Ben Rachel | January 28

For those who are wondering if I’m still alive, I can confidently say I think I am. I’m going on my third full week in Barcelona, and my stats have been pretty crazy: 10 nights out past 3 a.m., 50 bocadillos, 100 cafés sin leche, 574 Google Maps searches and one Instagram post (on my spam, because I’m still thinking up a caption for my real account).

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Jumbos research around the world with IGL trips

By Pranya Taurani | January 26

Research trips offered by the Initiative for Global Leadership give Tufts students opportunities to apply their academic studies in real-world settings. The IGL, a resource housed within the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, offers these programs during spring break or the summer through Tisch College–affiliated student organizations such as Women in International Relations, Latin American Committee and Middle East Research Group.

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Tufts professor Rani Neutill publishes first memoir, exploring familial past and a complex mother-daughter relationship

By Olivia Bye | January 20

In 2015, Tufts English professor Rani Neutill received a message from her cousin, urging her to bring her estranged mother whose health was rapidly declining from India to the U.S. Neutill, who had not spoken to her mother for a year, suddenly found herself in her mother’s hometown of Kolkata, India after 48 hours of travel, forced to confront a complex and turbulent past while caring for her mother in the present.

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New cannon repainting policy leaves students confused, conflicted

By Sanya Bandekar | January 15

Between Goddard Chapel and Ballou Hall, overlooking President’s Lawn, stands the Tufts cannon. This piece of history is constantly adorned with political, cultural and prideful messaging painted by student groups, making it a centerpiece of free speech on campus. Yet, at the start of the 2025–26 academic year, the decades-old tradition of ‘painting the cannon’ embraced a new policy.

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Tufts Carillon: Musical history hidden in the Goddard Chapel bell tower

By Katie Galligan | January 15

In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class. Goddard Chapel had not yet been built, and a single bell rang atop Ballou Hall. This bell’s historical record is wide-ranging, even including a memorable prank from the 1880s in which Tufts students tied a calf to the bell rope so the bell would ring for hours.

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How to lose seasonal depression in 10 days

By Sera Kwon | December 5

As a California native, I made the bold — and perhaps regrettable — decision to apply to colleges somewhere with seasons. My idealistic 17-year-old self had a vision: a fall of cable-knit sweaters and orange leaves crunching beneath my feet like in “Gilmore Girls” (2000–07), and magical snow blanketing my historic college town in the winter.

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Almaty: The city of lovers

By Max Turnacioglu | December 4

As my homesickness began to reach its peak in conjunction with the start of the holiday season, I found myself recalling even the most inconsequential details of my life back home in the U.S. with some sympathy. Even Washington, D.C.’s infamous Beltway called out to me with its siren song of car horns and exhaust, and I was instantly brought back to the iconic “Welcome to Virginia” sign underlined by the state’s travel slogan: “Virginia is for Lovers.”

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Consulting at Tufts: Prestige or passion?

By Navya Singh | December 3

Nowadays, every college student and their mother seems to be talking about how up-and-coming consulting is, or how much they want to be a finance bro. Indeed, attending a top university has become a common avenue for entering into these high-status roles, as schools often host various recruiting events and other networking opportunities for their students. 

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FTR: Tisch Library Exhibitions

By Isabella Jin | November 25

Sitting next to the lush greens of President’s Lawn is Tisch Library, a building we all know and love that serves as a center of academic learning and scholastic research at Tufts. Students utilize the library for a wide range of purposes, which include creating in the Digital Design Studio, meeting group members in Tower Cafe and finishing a last-minute homework assignment in one of the reading rooms. 

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