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Green Line Extension project under review until May, Somerville may be asked to pitch in
By Jake Taber | January 20This 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 10On 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 9In 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 9In 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 8This 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 8This 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 7Dear 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 7This 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 7At 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 7The 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 6Webster’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 3The 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 2This 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 2Throughout 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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The history of underarm hair-removal
By Emma Arnesty-Good | December 1Well, we’ve certainly veered from the topic of body hair. You must be thinking, "Using the column to persecute spandex-stealers?! How dare she wield her power (?) and fame (?) for non-hair affiliated pursuits!"
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Fletcher School panel discusses recent elections in Myanmar
By Constantinos Angelakis | December 1On Nov. 8, Myanmar held elections that resulted in the victory of the nation’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Convening to discuss recent developments regarding these elections, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy held a panel called "Myanmar in Transition: ...
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New mentorship program aims to strengthen sense of belonging among students of color
By Sophie Dasinger | November 30According to a report of the Council on Diversity released in December of 2013, minority students reported experiencing a significant deficiency in faculty mentorship while at Tufts. To address this, Tufts has started a new mentorship program, aiming to improve the experience of underrepresented students ...
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Spic 'n' span
By Henry Jani | November 29Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day: Dyed-in-the-wooladjective\dyde-in-thuh-WOOL\thoroughgoing, uncompromising I’ve been reflecting a lot lately. About my friends and family, how I’ve matured over the years and if all my life has actually led up to me becoming a monk in the Great Smoky Mountains ...
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