Tufts' annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. was held on Monday afternoon in Breed Memorial Hall. This year, the event was organized as a symposium, and more than a dozen speakers and panelists discussed King's legacy under the theme of "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"The ...
The City of Medford is forming the Go Green Medford Coalition to coordinate activities among active environmental groups in the city. Mayor Stephanie Burke announced the coalition on Jan. 3 in a press release, and several public meetings have been held to lay groundwork for the collaboration.The ...
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the nation's capital last Saturday to demonstrate against the administration of President Donald Trump, as part of the Women's March on Washington.More than 500,000 people are believed to have attended the march inWashington, D.C., according to the ...
Tens of thousands of people marched through Downtown Boston for the Boston Women’s March for America on Saturday, in protest of President Donald Trump’s inauguration the day prior. The march, according to its website, was inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, with the mission of “[uniting] ...
Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States last Friday at noon, on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.His inauguration was the first time a total political outsider, who has never served in public office or the military, assumed the nation's highest ...
University President Anthony Monaco announced the appointment of a Student Life Review Committee to examine the culture of undergraduate student life on the Medford/Somerville campus in light of recently-exposed issues with the university's Greek life system in a Dec. 22, 2016 email sent to ...
Trigger Warning: This article discusses sexual violence.According to a Dec. 23 Boston Globe analysis of colleges and universities in New England, the number of reported forcible sexual offenses on the Tufts University Medford/Somerville campus increased from 14 in 2014 to 25 in 2015, the most recent ...
Senator and 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine (D-VA) will speak at Tufts on Jan. 23 at 10:30 a.m. in Distler Auditorium, as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series.Tickets will be available for free starting Jan. 19 at the Mayer Campus Center ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met for the last time this semester in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room on Sunday, Dec. 11 to discuss a resolution, supplementary funding requests and its Strategic Plan.The meeting opened with TCU Senate President Gauri Seth welcoming everyone to the ...
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s recent threats to block funding from sanctuary cities, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone reiterated the city’s commitment to remaining a sanctuary city in an open letter released on Nov. 21.“Somerville will stand with you regardless of your race, creed, ...
Tisch Library, Edward Ginn Library and Eaton Hall will each be offering extended late night study hours during reading period and finals week this semester. Tisch Library: began Dec. 11, ends Dec. 22 at 5 p.m.Sunday: general hours 10 a.m. to 1 a.m., extended study until 6 a.m.Monday-Thursday: general ...
Students, faculty and community members held panel discussions and workshops focused on activism, particularly in the wake of the election of President-elect Donald Trump, as part of a teach-in in Paige Hall over the weekend.The teach-in, which was sponsored by the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, ...
David Simas, special assistant to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, spoke to a group of about 25 people in Dowling Hall yesterday during the last of the semester’s Civic Life Lunch events sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of ...
Disclaimer: Aneurin Canham-Clyne is a staff writer at the Daily. He was not involved in the production of this article.Tufts Democrats held a symposium entitled "The Future of the Left" to discuss why Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not win the 2016 election cycle and ...
Admiral James Stavridis, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, met with President-elect Donald Trump yesterday at his office in Trump Tower in New York City, according to Fletcher School Public Relations Specialist Juli Hanscom.The meeting has fuelled speculation that Stavridis, who was ...
Somerville educational nonprofit Sprout & Co., working with Somerville Public Schools, plans to open a new high school, Powderhouse Studios, on Broadway Avenue in 2018. Powderhouse Studios will occupy the currently-vacant Powder House Community School building and plans to enroll around 200 ...
Speaking IllTufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers and Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) responded to a student who reported not feeling well at Olin Language Center on Dec. 1 at 8:30 a.m. The student said she had a headache and felt generally ill. After being checked by TEMS, members ...
The resident assistant (RA) position will be replaced with two new roles, first year advisor (FYA) and community development advisor (CDA), next fall. This is one aspect of a larger change in the housing program, as Latin Way Apartments, Sophia Gordon Hall, Hillsides Apartments and Richardson House will all have in-house CDAs beginning next fall, according to Area Three Residence Director Julie Kennedy.
The City of Somerville sent out letters of non-opposition to four medical marijuana companies interested in opening locations in Somerville, according to an Oct. 6 press release from Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone. These letters clear the way for the companies to begin the permit process to open ...
Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified Kelly Sims Gallagher as discussing Tufts’ observer status at the UN climate change negotiations, the importance of Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE)’s participation at COP 22 and the opportunities for networking Fletcher students had at COP 22, when it was Nitsan Shakked, associate director of TIE who said this. The Daily regrets this error.
