Last year, national media coverage focused on several cases of unrest, largely in the form of protests in which activists called the world’s attention to police brutality -- particularly excessive force and the targeting of black bodies in the United States. This call for justice, policy changes and ...
Dear Parents and Family Weekend,One of my favorite ideas in life is that "everyone has a story." I feel like whenever I’m able to keep that in mind, the world becomes a better place. People become discoveries waiting to happen, and I’m put in a mindset that urges me to try and understand ...
In April 1992, when Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammed, the special assistant to Nation of Islam leaderLouis Farrakhan, came to Tufts to talk about the relationship between Israel and South Africa, a rally of over 200 people from Tufts Hillel, Tufts Israel Network and other members of the Tufts community ...
"The smoke-free initiative would benefit the Medford campus by reducing exposure to secondhand smoke and the necessity to clean up cigarette butts," Ramatowski said. "However, the initiative should provide services to help current smokers curb the habit. If we were to ban smoking without these support measures, Tufts' smoking population may turn to other substances, which would have a different set of health consequences."
“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship ...
Fifty years ago, Tufts brought four graduate students to Tübingen University in East Germany to take part in Tufts’ first study abroad program. This past weekend, the Tufts-in-Tübingen program, which later expanded to focus on undergraduates, welcomed back to the Medford/Somerville campus 120 ...
Jon Danilowicz, the newly appointed U.S Department of State's Diplomat in Residence (DIR) for the New England area, has spent 26 years working as a foreign service officer and is now based at Tufts. According to the State Department website, "[DIRs] are career Foreign Service Officers and ...
I began freshman year with a mix of self-loathing, contempt, depression and a dash of delusion. I was working eight-hour shifts at a café nearby because I wanted to support myself, and thus felt that everyone else was childish and entitled. But we all know that game. I call it “cool, aloof girl that doesn't know how to express feelings.”
Keren Ladin, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, recently published a study in the "Milbank Quarterly," a health and public policy journal. Ladin, who has been researching organ donations since 2007, finds that ...
Dear Graffitists in the Tisch Bathroom,During my first major Tisch study session of college, I found myself in the first stall of the first-floor bathroom. My head was whirring with calculations of how many pages of reading I had left, how long my French homework would take and whether or not I had ...
In its 10th year, with 28 bands traveling in from all over the country and abroad, the annual HONK! Festival brought music blended with activism to a variety of free events in Somerville, Cambridge and Boston this past weekend, from Friday, Oct. 9 to Sunday, Oct. 11.HONK! has more than doubled the number ...
Woodenadjective\WOOD-un\Definitionmade or consisting of wood;lacking ease or flexibility : awkwardly stiffMy elementary school playground was a splinter palace. Our wooden, monolithic jungle gym decorated the entire front façade of the school, an obvious remnant from the yesteryears of the school’s ...
Christopher Rossi officially began his new role as assistant dean of student affairs on June 1. In his new role, Rossi concentrates on connecting with first-year students in order to assist them in their adjustment to college life. Prior to beginning work at Tufts, Rossi worked both as the assistant ...
I remember when I first learned the term gentrification. I was a small child sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car on our way to Central Park, and my dad was trying to convince my teenage sister that the neighborhood where he lived was safe.“It used to be that you couldn’t walk around here at ...
Tufts students and Somerville/Medford residents anticipating the public transportation update promised by the Green Line Extension Project (GLX) may have even more waiting to do; Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) officials announced on Aug. 21 that the project will cost between $700 million ...
Dear Introverts,I am one of you. For those of you reading this who aren’t introverts, let me clear up what being “introverted” means. “Introverted” does not mean shy, socially awkward or anti-social. It doesn’t mean not enjoying people or never wanting to talk.Scientifically, being introverted ...
The Career Center is offering a new resource to make itself more accessible to first-years and sophomores this semester. As part of the newly launched Career Fellows Program, five undergraduate students will promote the Career Center by offering advising services and engaging in campus outreach. Director ...
This morning, I devoted a half-hour to crafting my physical appearance for the day. In the back of my mind throughout these 30 minutes was the thought that I was wasting my time with vain, superficial activities -- that I should’ve slept longer or gotten a head start on coursework or talked with ...
Recognized by the faculty as the basis of a liberal arts education regardless of one’s major, two semesters of college writing holds its essential place as one of the three Foundation Requirements for College of Arts and Sciences students. Even though this requirement is generally completed in the ...
“I wanted to take a little bit from TWO, take a little bit from FOCUS and develop the group-bonding aspect of Global Orientation," she said. "I wanted to create...events that foster group relationships.”
