Most people can appreciate a day off, and usually professors can condense their lectures and adjust their syllabi to compensate for missed class time; however, a total of six university closings so far this semester — five of which were class days — has meant that this semester has had a particularly ...
Due to the recent successes of Tufts’ sports teams, athletes are becoming more well-known on campus. However, not many students know about Matthew Govostes or Joli Vega, two children who were “drafted” to the men’s and women’s soccer team (respectively) though an organization called Team ...
For approximately the first seven years of my life, I didn’t realize the significance or limitations of gender. I knew that I was a girl because I was told that I was a girl. I even thought that being a girl was better than being a boy because we were allowed to wear both dresses and pants, and could ...
Professor Sol Gittleman began his time at Tufts over 50 years ago. Since then, he has become one of the most enduring and respected members of the school's faculty and holds the title of Tufts' longest-serving provost. He has taught a number of undergraduate courses, and his Intro to Yiddish ...
Condiments act as punctuation marks for food. Like an apostrophe or a semicolon, you might easily leave one out. But condiments, like commas, can radically change the environment they inhabit. This week, I wanted to leave you guys with a few simple things to mix, drizzle and glaze on your regular dishes ...
Each year, about half the members of Tufts’ incoming first-year class begin their college experience not on the first day of mandatory All-University Orientation but with the optional pre-orientation programs the previous week. In August 2015, a fifth pre-orientation program called CAFE (Conversation, ...
Tufts Divest, a student, alumni and faculty-comprised coalition that advocates for Tufts' divestment from fossil fuels, is starting a new chapter this school year under a new name: Tufts Climate Action.Senior Evan Bell, a physics major, is one of the club coordinators and has been a leader in ...
The International Relations (IR) program at Tufts is one of the most respected in the country. Until recently, however, one thing that the interdisciplinary IR program lacked were classes of its own. That changed this semester with the introduction of INTR-92, Quantitative Research Methods.
Last weekend, our group went on a short excursion to Normandy, home of cider and World War II history. We stayed in a town called Caen, which was much quieter than Paris and splendidly picturesque. With two or three Gothic churches and a huge medieval castle on a hill, we had plenty to explore.Saturday ...
Dismissing Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles, the United States Olympic Committee announced earlier this month that it had selected Boston as its official candidate for host of the 2024 summer games. In assembling their bid package, members of the Boston 2024 executive committee ...
Just as antisemitic feeling has seen somewhat of a recent resurgence in Europe and elsewhere, its marks have also begun to emerge on Tufts’ campus over the past year. According to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on Bello and Spicer Fields in 2013 and ...
Leading a group of current Tufts Mountain Club members, John "Whitey" White is ice climbing at Flume Gorge, at the southern end of Franconia Ridge.The ice is fairly wet today on account of the warmer weather. The group climbs all day, Whitey always there to give someone a belay or show ...
Many of my high school history teachers taught watered-down versions of political theories and concepts. In particular, I remember one history teacher who was fond of “fill-in-the-blank” note sheets. When he taught our class about capitalism, we completed the following phrase in a handout: “Adam ...
Michael Glennon is a professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His most recent book, National Security and Double Government (2014),explores the true relationship between America's "visible" institutions, and the ones that really manage national security ...
Jumbo is finally on his way. The new bronze statue of Tufts' unique mascot, a 2012 donation by Tufts alumnus Richard Reynolds (LA ’67), was supposed to join the Tufts community last fall. After a long wait and extensive preparations by sculptor Steven Whyte, Jumbo is scheduled to arrive this ...
While many students flocked to Tisch Library last reading period, about 20 members of the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) left their books behind to hold a 33-hour sit-in in Ballou Hall, demanding a stop to impending job cuts for janitors. A group of other students, both TLC members and nonmembers, along ...
A Tufts research team, working with more than eight community partners, has found a relationship between air pollutants emanating from highways and cardiovascular health in surrounding communities, and has also explored ways to mitigate exposure at the levels of policy and practice.
The Tufts Debate Society, the only official student-run competitive debate team at Tufts, is coming off a strong semester in which it hosted a tournament and competed at the World Universities Debating Championship. According to senior Noah Kirsch, the team's president, the team's membership ...
This spring, students from various health and environmental fields will take part in a new course, brought to Tufts as part of a global initiative known as One Health, that hopes to compel them to think along interdisciplinary lines.“One Health is the idea that human, animal and environmental ...
Late on the night of Monday, Nov. 24, junior A.J. Enchill was watching the news following the Missouri grand jury’s non-indictment of white police officer Darren Wilson, who shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9. Hundreds of people in Ferguson, Mo. were pouring into the streets ...
