Some of Tufts University's investments have changed from commingled funds to a separately managed account, according to the Board of Trustees' Investment Committee Chair Steven M. Galbraith.A commingled fund has assets from multiple accounts, and a separately managed account is a professional ...
Tufts Student Action (TSA)'s #HaltTheHike campaign released a list of demands on Nov. 1, calling for a halt in tuition increases, greater financial transparency and better financial aid resources.According to TSA member Parker Breza, the group is responding to the 3.6 percent increase in tuition ...
Tufts Panhellenic Council, the organization representing Panhellenic sororities at Tufts, published a statement denouncing the “hyper-masculinity and structural misogyny” of Tufts fraternities, indefinitely suspending organized events between sororities and fraternities and sports teams until a ...
Approximately 75 Tufts students gathered on the Academic Quad last night to express their thoughts and feelings following Tuesday's presidential election results at an event titled "A Light on the Hill."First-year Pedro Lazo-Rivera, one of the event organizers, described the event as ...
Thousands of people gathered in Boston yesterday evening to protest president-elect Donald Trump's recent victory. The rally was organized by Boston Socialist Alternative and included several speakers from local progressive groups. Participants marched from Boston Common to Copley Square holding ...
Bombs away!The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Somerville Fire Department were called to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house after receiving a report that a fire alarm that had gone off on Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Students at the house claimed they had found a small, red ball with ...
Donald J. Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in perhaps the closest race since the 2000 election between then Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.In a redux to the 2004 presidential election, ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Tufts chapter sent fourteen students to serve as poll monitors at precincts where Tufts students vote, according to Brandon Katz, the organization’s president.Katz, a junior, said that the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's JumboVote Coordinator ...
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The U.S. Senate will remain held by the Republican Party after Tuesday’s election, with the Republicans holding 52 seats versus the Democrats’ 47 seats at press time,Republicans held their ground in most competitive races, staving off a Democratic wave that could have flipped control of the chamber. ...
With 47 House of Representatives seats competitively contested according to CBS, the Democrats faced a challenge in retaking the chamber. The Republicans entered the election with 247 seats and the Democrats held 188, giving the GOP a 59-seat majority. The New York Times currently expects the Democrats ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life's JumboVote initiative transported 68 students to and from polling sites in the Medford/Somerville area yesterday from 9 a.m. until polls closed at 8 p.m.According to Alison Aimers, a volunteer for the shuttle program, the shuttles primarily bused ...
Students expressed a combination of enthusiasm, hesitation and disappointment throughout the course of the evening over the 2016 presidential election at last night's Election Night Extravaganza in the Mayer Campus Center.The event was sponsored by the Experimental College, the Office for Campus ...
President Barack Obama rallied voters for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton yesterday at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center Arena. New Hampshire is considered a critical piece of the electoral map by both Democrats and Republicans, Obama said during the rally.“There ...
Tisch College’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) conducted a new poll of millennial voters from ages 18 to 34 between Sept. 21 and Oct. 3, demonstrating that while millennials have a high interest in the election, less than 30 percent have been contacted ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its weekly meeting in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to discuss the current state of TCU as well as to discuss supplementary funding requests from several student groups.TCU PresidentGauri Seth opened the meeting with her State of the TCU speech, ...
Approximately 100 students gathered to watch two Tufts Republicans and two Tufts Democrats argue on behalf of the opposing side’s party platform in Tufts CIVIC's "The Last Debate" on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the ASEAN Auditorium.First-years Robert Whitehead and Bennett Brain of Tufts Republicans ...
Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to vote on four ballot measures on Election Day this Tuesday. Somerville residents will have an additional fifth question on their ballots concerning a tax hike to fund a new high school. Questions on the Massachusetts ballot range from a new slots parlor ...
With the battle for the upper chamber coming down to the wire, there are seven Senate seats that will decide which party assumes control.1. North Carolina: When Democrats failed to land a major recruit to challenge Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Deborah Ross was originally written off by many political ...
