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Harvest Food Week promotes 'locavore' movement

Tufts Dining Services will this week celebrate the university’s annual Harvest Food Week, serving locally grown dishes and holding interactive events to educate students about the value of buying local.


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Students find outlet for sustainability work in specialty housing

Joining the 15 other special interest housing options this year, the sustainability suite in Latin Way houses 10 students looking to catalyze sustainable change on campus and create a welcoming space for the environmentally conscious to gather, discuss and live.



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Student-founded Dexterity Global achieves international recognition

Hodgdon Hall is listed as the global headquarters of one of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Most Innovative Social Enterprises for the Next Century. Sophomore SharadVivekSagar came to Tufts last year to study international relations and economics, with the added intention of expanding his company, Dexterity Global, Inc., as a Boston corporation.


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Mail Services manages backup

After a backlog of unprocessed mail, Tufts University Mail Services completed scanning the 14,154 packages they had received in the last month.




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Stop & Shop shuttle returns due to student interest

   The Stop & Shop shuttle, which offers transportation from campus to the market's Fellsway Plaza location, is back for a second year after the supermarket chain determined there was enough student interest. 


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Candidates compete for Markey's vacated House seat

Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is getting comfortable in Congress after winning the special election on June 25 to fill now Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated seat. Markey gave his first speech on the floor of the Senate this Wednesday, making promises to improve legislation on clean energy, Internet privacy and gun control, according to an article published in the Boston Herald on Wednesday.



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Tufts Divest rallies before Massachusetts State House

Members of Tufts Divest For Our Future attended a rally and spoke at the Massachusetts State House on Sept. 10 in support of legislation that would require Massachusetts’ divestment from fossil fuel companies within five years.



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Filmmaker Ken Burns receives award during live webcast

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his colleagues received the annual Constitutional Commentary Award during a live webcast in Ballou Hall's Coolidge Room yesterday as part of a presentation from non-profit think tank The Constitution Project (TCP).




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Another fire hits Somerville

The Somerville Fire Department responded to its fifteenth fire call in Somerville since June 27 yesterday afternoon. The incident, at 486 Medford Street in Somerville, is part of an ongoing arson investigation south of the Tufts campus.


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Students engage in debate at forum

Seven candidates competed for spots on the Tufts Community Union Judiciary and the Committee on Student Life (CSL) during last night’s TCU Senate Candidates’ Forum held in the Hotung Cafe.



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Pinkberry opens Davis Square location

After multiple failed attempts to secure a permit for the location, frozen yogurt franchise Pinkberry on Sept. 6 opened a new branch in Davis Square, joining two other frozen yogurt restaurants in the vicinity.


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Reitman assumes new dean position

Bruce Reitman (A '72, AG '83), who has been in the Tufts community for 30 years, began the transition into a new position as the first dean of campus life and student leadership on July 1, after serving as the dean of student affairs since 2001.