Over 30 people gathered to hear Avner Gvaryahu from Breaking the Silence (BtS) speak about his experiences as a former soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the occupied West Bank. The event, hosted by J Street U Tufts, featured Gvaryahu’s presentation, titled “Understanding the Israel ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas spoke to an audience filled with Tufts and Boston area college and high school students on Thursday during "Activism and Social Change: An Evening with Jose Antonio Vargas," co-sponsored by the Social Justice Leadership Initiative, the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer and the Dean of Student Affairs. In his speech, Vargas, who also directed, wrote and appeared in a documentary entitled, "White People," connected his own complicated identity to issues of race and immigration in the United States.
About 40 students gathered on the Lower Patio of the Mayer Campus Center yesterday afternoon to rally, calling on Tufts to stop using non-unionized building trade workers on the Medford/Somerville campus. During the rally, which was organized by the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC), supporters marched through the Mayer Campus Center, past Tisch Library and the Cannon, up to Ballou Hall.
Students who are registered to vote in the state of Massachusetts headed to the polls yesterday to cast their ballots in the state's primary election. Massachusetts was one of 13 states and one territory to hold primaries and caucuses on the day known as "Super Tuesday."In Massachusetts, former ...
Linda Abriola, former dean of the School of Engineering, has been named director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), a role that she will assume on Sept. 1.TIE is an interdisciplinary, university-wide establishment that promotes education and research for building a sustainable future ...
The Academic and Community Engagement (ACE) Fellow program will expand the number of fellows from seven to 10 for the next academic year. This program, which places student leaders in residence halls to offer academic and social guidance to first-years, will also shift its approach to focusing ...
Stolen Jacket TheftA student called the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 5 p.m. on Feb. 18 to report that her 3/4 length black Canada Goose jacket with a fur hood had been stolen the previous night when she was at an off-campus event. Her house keys, iPhone and wallet were in the jacket ...
This week, Steph Gauchel officially left her position as the director of Tufts Women's Center. Gauchel, who had held the position for the past seven and a half years, relinquished the position to accept a job as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the Harvard Divinity School. She begins ...
TUESDAY"7 Days in Syria” Screening and ReceptionDetails: There will be a screening of "7 Days in Syria," which follows the journey of Newsweek Middle East Editor Janine di Giovanni, also a Fletcher student in the Global Master of Arts program, throughout war-torn Syria. Di Giovanni ...
Late Night Dining was available for the first time in Carmichael Dining Center on Friday, Feb. 26, following the announcement from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate during its Feb. 15 meeting. In addition to the late night meal services at the Commons Marketplace at the Mayer Campus Center, Carmichael ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night to discuss supplementary funding requests and project updates.TCU Senate President Brian Tesser opened the meeting with a recap of the expansion of Late Night Dining program at Carmichael Dining Center. He also reminded TCU senators that he had ...
The university is considering making changes to its current printing services that would go into effect this fall, amid negotiations for a new student printing contract when the current contract expires on June 30. Part of these negotiations include a survey emailed out to the student body by the Print/Copy ...
Various university offices have received multiple reports from Tufts students who were "approached by non-Tufts affiliates falsely representing themselves either in person and/or through social media dating sites as Tufts students," according to a Feb. 9 email to Tufts students. This phenomenon of online misrepresentation is also known as “catfishing.”
As the admissions process for the Class of 2020 continues, the Office of Undergraduate Education is gearing up for the next group of Jumbos with the creation of a new committee this spring tasked with handling the management of the Undergraduate Orientation program.The committee first met to discuss ...
The Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted yesterday afternoon in favor of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day in the university's academic calendars. The vote, which passed with one objection and two abstentions among approximately 60 faculty members, took ...
Students packed Cohen Auditorium for the third annual "It Happens Here" event last night, where students gathered to listen to the personal stories of their peers with sexual violence on campus. The program, which was organized by the Consent Culture Network (CCN) at Tufts, began at ...
Approximately 72 students were infected with Norovirus last week, according to Margaret Higham, director of Tufts Health Service. She noted that the number of cases is decreasing and that she did not expect to hear of new cases emerging.Higham explained that this approximation may be an underestimation ...
After conducting a survey earlier this month to gauge student interest in major and minor programs, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Education Committee is working to use survey results to advocate for the creation of new major and minor programs for undergraduate students.According to Rati ...
Max Finberg (LA '92), director of AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), spoke about his experiences in anti-poverty and anti-hunger work during a discussion yesterday afternoon in Dowling Hall. The event, sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public ...
The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) is holding its Winter Blood Drive with the American Red Cross starting from today until Friday, from noon to 5:30 p.m. daily, at Carmichael Hall. This drive is one of three blood drives that the organization holds during the school year — two that take place ...
