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Somerville for Bernie hosts campaign kick-off event

By Yunan Zhang | February 1

On March 1, registered voters in Massachusetts will go to the polls to select their party's candidate for the 2016 presidential election. With this date rapidly approaching, Somerville's Bernie Sanders supporters, headed by a group called Somerville for Bernie, kicked off their campaign to help elect the Independent Senator from Vermont on Jan. 19 at The Uniun in Somerville.

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As social media expands, Tufts admissions avoids examining applicants' profiles

By Coral Yang | January 29

As social media becomes an essential part of modern life, college admissions offices have started to use it in the college application process. While prospective students' Twitter and Instagram accounts are not being examined by Tufts admissions officers, the admissions office is actively ...

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Tufts students' crossword puzzle published in New York Times

By Constantinos Angelakis | January 26

Duncan Kimmel's fascination with crosswords began during his long commute to high school, when he would pick up a local paper and do a crossword puzzle to pass the time. Soon, he said, he got pretty good at them, so he started working on the New York Times puzzles, and later ...

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Overbudgeted Green Line Extension remains a vital project

By Jake Taber | January 25

This article is the second of two parts. Read the first part here. 

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Green Line Extension project under review until May, Somerville may be asked to pitch in

By Jake Taber | January 20

This article is the first of two parts. 

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Incorporating computer system, Mail Services aims to provide efficient operations

By Will Kenneally | December 10

"It’s a very efficient process," Chisholm said. "Before...we had a manual system, and we just don’t know how we did it with the manual system."

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Flashback Friday: Squirrel wreaks havoc with Tufts power lines, 1989

By Kendall Todd | December 10

On Oct. 23, 1989, the Tufts campus and parts of Medford and Somerville lost power for 45 minutes between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. According to an Oct. 24, 1989 Daily article, 8,764 people were affected by the blackout, and several classes at Tufts were forced to cancel midterms. The culprit? A squirrel.The ...

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Ecofeminism for All: Reflections before I'm shipped to Paris

By Miranda Willson | December 9

In December 2013, I joined more than 150 students from Boston-area schools to march from Harvard Square to the Charles River, calling for fossil fuel divestment. I remember the excitement I felt upon realizing that the movement was not solely confined to the roughly 30 members of Tufts Divest, now ...

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Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter: The DOD and the 'Force of the Future'

By Nina Joung | December 9

In an exclusive interview with college student reporters on Dec. 1, the Dailysat down with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter as he discussed today’s increasingly tech-savvy society, the Department of Defense's (DoD) modes of modernization through Carter's initiative “Force of the ...

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Adjusting content, management, Compass Magazine transforms from Tufts Traveler

By Yunan Zhang | December 8

This semester, former Tufts Traveler staff members junior Lindsay Atkeson and sophomore Lorenza Ramirez transformed the student publication into the Compass Magazine, hoping to appeal to a broader audience and to produce issues of higher quality.The Traveler was a student-produced travel magazine ...

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The second one about just being yourself

By Emma Arnesty-Good | December 8

This column was only ever, sort of, about hair. But apologies, yet again, if you were expecting a gender theory to explain it all. So here it is: The Last Hairy Woman Column, And It’s Not About Hair (getting away with two headlines).

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An open letter to Anywhere Off Campus

By Clara Wagner | December 7

Dear Anywhere Off Campus,This letter goes out to Demet’s Donuts, the beach out in Revere, the Brown Elementary School, coffee shops downtown and the random locations of cross country meets. I have you to thank for my sanity. Don’t get me wrong, campus is a wonderful place filled with beautiful trees, ...

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Professor Sujey Morgan from Tufts Dental School engineers life-saving prosthetics

By Diane Alexander | December 7

This past spring, the Tufts Dental Medicine magazine published an article about maxillofacial prosthodontics, or life-changing prosthetics for people who have gone through traumatic disfigurement, external or otherwise. Many of these prosthodontics help patients regain the ability to perform basic ...

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How Tufts stacks up

By Nicholas Pfosi | December 7

"We continue to expect approximately $15 million in annual savings while the cost to implement TEAM is expected to come under budget," Campbell wrote in the update. "While much of the annual savings will be reinvested in programmatic priorities, we expect about $4.5 million of those savings will fall to the university’s bottom line."

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Educational Policy Committee members describe course evaluation process

By Coral Yang | December 7

 At the end of each semester, students are given the opportunity to evaluate courses' strengths and weaknesses using student evaluation forms, provided by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC).According to its website, the EPC aims to "initiate, receive, review, and enact policies or recommend ...

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Biannual Cause Dinner supports Justice for Janitors Community Fund

By Emma Rosenthal | December 7

The biannual Cause Dinner, hosted by Tufts Dining Services and Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate and sponsored by Tufts Freethought Society, raised $3,513 for the Justice for Janitors Community Fund on Nov. 17. Students who attended the Carmichael and Dewick Dining Centers between 5 p.m. and 9 ...

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The Scandy way

By Henry Jani | December 6

Webster’s Word of the Day: etymologynoun\eh-tuh-MAH-luh-jee\-the history of a word or phrase shown by tracing its development and relationshipsWhen I do homework, I listen to Swedish radio. I don’t speak Swedish, don't personally know any Swedish people nor have I even ever visited Sweden. Nevertheless, ...

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Outsourcing in Higher Education

By Nicholas Pfosi | December 3

The company from which Tufts contracts its custodial services, DTZ, formerly UGL Unicco, has had a business relationship with the university since 2011. While custodians, union representatives and students demanded that the university make no cuts to the janitorial staff, members of the administration defended the decision to reallocate custodial labor and said that the terms of the reorganization were to be determined by DTZ alone.

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Jobs for whom?

By Miranda Willson | December 2

This summer, I wrote an article for a small newspaper about natural gas extraction and production in Chautauqua County, N.Y., interviewing at least half a dozen people from local industries, governments and activist organizations. Natural gas is an influential yet contentious industry in this rural, ...

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Tufts Janitors: A History

By Nicholas Pfosi | December 2

Throughout the last year, Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) has been organizing in support of DTZ custodial employees who work on Tufts’ campuses. Students, faculty, staff and members of the custodians’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ, held demonstrations in opposition to a reorganization of the staff, which was originally estimated to result in 35 layoffs and was projected to save the university $900,000 annually. After the restructuring was implemented earlier this year -- ultimately displacing 18 custodians, seven of whom are no longer working with DTZ -- efforts have turned to fundraising in support of those workers who were affected.

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