While Tufts experienced a record-breaking 108.6 inches of snowfall and five snow days last winter, Feb. 8 was the closest Tufts came to a snow day this year. However, for a specific subset of the Tufts community, including the commuting faculty, staff and students at Tufts, a snow day can wreak ...
At the intersection of finance and social consciousness at Tufts is the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund (OTMF), which gains profits from investing in small businesses and uses the money it earns to help Tufts offer endowments for various initiatives such as support for university faculty, financial ...
A little known (or well known, depending on how well you know me) fact about me is that my internal compass (due North? Is that what the rest of you use?) points to gluten. This special talent has made me privy to the very best places to buy your breads, pastries and other baked goods in the Boston ...
Even though the T is a perpetually cash-strapped authority, the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) curiously lacks the motive to innovate. Why, for instance, have they not built a taller facility for its one-story Red Line station entrances at Davis Square, when surrounding buildings ...
Raising money from Tufts employees and choosing local charitable organizations to award grants of varying sums each year, the Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF) provides supports for organizations where Tufts volunteers work at. This year, TNSF awarded $18,500 to 38 programs and projects in the four neighborhoods where Tufts has a major presence: Medford, Somerville, Grafton and Boston's Chinatown.
This article is the second of two in a series about students pursuing charity work. View part one here.When not guiding tours, serving as the president of Tufts Chabad, working in admissions, doing child development research or teaching Hebrew, junior Hannah Steinberg has managed to add running a non-profit ...
This article is the first of two in a series about students pursuing charity work. "Day 28:Casualty: one inner tube, one tailbone.Gains: more suffering under the belt."That is how senior Zhuangchen "JJ" Zhou wrote about his 28-day bicycle ride of 1,650 miles down from Boston, ...
“I have a secret. I am addicted to a good narrative … It’s funny because video games aren’t the first place you would expect to find any resemblance of a balanced and well executed narrative. Its very name, game, suggests something trivial, something purely for entertainment. In fact, I have ...
The road to the White House has been filled with angry rhetoric on both sides of the aisle. Amid the mudslinging and escalations are media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Rachel Maddow providing strongly ideological election commentary, a media scene called "the ...
When the temperature is lower than your age and the ice patches outside of your dorm seem just a little too slippery, going outside isn’t really in the cards. Besides, it's warm and cozy indoors, and with a few tricks (and a micro-fridge) you can make a dinner so delicious you won’t even miss ...
It's probably accurate to say that most Jumbos don't really think about the ground beneath their feet, unless they're cursing the Hill as they trek from South to Mail Services. The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS), however, is trying to change that.EOS Professor Grant Garven ...
When it comes to transportation infrastructure, Massachusetts--and in particular, the Boston region--is far from progressive. Yes, the T is underfunded, perhaps partly because of a persistent stigma against public transportation in America, and its connection with race, class and suburbanization. ...
Chaplaincies in American universities have long been associated with just a few major religions. Tufts was founded by Universalists and used to host the Crane Theological School. Since its early days, Tufts has gone on to expand the University Chaplaincy to include several religious traditions. ...
Critics of gaming culture complain that games are egoist because the player directly controls events through the proxy of the protagonist. I generally take issue with this, but this is especially untrue of That Dragon, Cancer. You can rock Joel to sleep, explore the colorful hospital with him. You can try to escape the room in a small rowboat as it fills with water, as the doctor explains painfully that the prognosis is terminal. The water overtakes the boat, and eventually you lose Joel in the waves as the game’s controls fail. You can’t save him.
You know those people who run into Carm and haphazardly sling a few scoops of cereal into a bowl and splash milk on top? Or those who grab a slice of lukewarm pizza and shovel said “meal” down their gullets while balancing their plates precariously on top of an economics textbook, desperate ...
By January 2015, about 17 percent of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past month, a figure that has risen from nine percent in 2008, according to an April 2015 report by Pew Research Center. This trend in audio storytelling has also come to Tufts, as students enroll in courses on radio journalism ...
It’s winter again in Boston. Anyone who was here last year knows what that means - our ability to move about the city could come to a screeching halt in the blink of an eye. The MBTA (or the “T”) completely shut down last winter after repeated large storms, stranding thousands of travelers and ...
Three times a week, sophomore Chase Troxell climbs to the very top of Olin Hall and, along with five other classmates, crowds into a tiny room with an excellent view of the Residential Quad. They all file into the seats in front the row, awaiting the professor, who walks in, looks up and greets the ...
Now-a-days, it’s cool to hate Disney World, as it’s cool to hate anything from childhood. Why would you want to travel to a theme park? Wouldn’t you rather save up for a trip abroad? And even if you wanted to go on some rides, Disney’s rides are for children and are hardly illicit thrills. ...
As the spring semester kicks into gear, so begins the process of creating next year's activities budget, a task handled by the Allocations Board (ALBO) of Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, which includes nine members.Each year, ALBO distributes the proceeds from the Student Activities fee — $328 ...
