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Trunk service disruption due to human error

Trunk, Tufts' learning management system, was restored to service yesterday at 1:30 a.m. after being down for approximately 13 hours.

Alison Williams and Sarah Gottlieb | Generation Sex

So it's the holiday season. You're enjoying the various holiday-themed parties across campus and waiting to go home so you can partake in whatever festivities your family and friends have planned. What about your sex life? Are you going to let it die down a bit simply because you won't be on campus? Hell to the no. You're keeping up your latest winning streak even when you're back home. Even if home means the middle of Oklahoma. Or the South. Naturally, we're here to share some of our favorite holiday sex tips so you can keep your break as festive as possible.

MBTA offers ad discount to Somerville businesses

During a meeting yesterday with the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) agreed to offer Somerville businesses significant advertising discounts in order to prevent the Red Line shutdowns from negatively impacting local businesses, according to Chairman of the Somerville Chamber of Commerce Ronald Bonney.

Despite NQR nostalgia, students reluctant to face consequences for rebelling against ban

Although popular opinion across the Hill indicates that students are passionate about asserting their rights to let it all hang loose on the Res Quad, the potential consequences for defying the ban on NQR are discouraging many from enacting forms of protest, nude or otherwise.

MBTA reports crime rate increase of 16 percent

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Transit Police reported that this year the T crime rate has increased by nearly 16 percent, making this the second consecutive year that rates have increased since their record low in 2009.

Inked up: Tufts gets creative with tattoos

Tufts students qualify for Irish step dancing world championship

Siblings and fellow Tufts students Claire and Conor O'Brien each won this year's New England Oireachtas, a regional Irish step dancing competition, earning places to compete in the 2012 World Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast, Ireland.

Active Minds uses PostSecret to destigmatize mental health issues

The Tufts chapter of Active Minds, inspired by the well−knownPostSecret project, is collecting personalized postcards that anonymously reveal students' secrets in an effort to destigmatize mental health issues.

Kacey Rayder | Insult to Injury

Don't you just hate it when you prove yourself wrong? Or those times when, mid−sentence, you realize that you're only going to contradict yourself if you keep talking? Well, readers, this is my last column, and all I'm going to say is that this entire semester of column−writing has made me realize that I've done both of those things. This may sound extremely cheesy, but I have proven myself wrong. Turns out I didn't really hate that many things, after all.

Hannah Furgang | The Tim Tam Slam

OMG, can you believe it's already Dec. 5? Professors are cramming in the tests and papers for the last week of classes. Miller Hall has resorted to bringing in puppies to alleviate our pre-finals stress. My RA decorated the bulletin board with good places to study around campus and it was mad depressing. There are currently 14 people massed in my hall's common room, which is festively decked out with Christmas lights, trying to squeeze in some quality bonding time before we are all whisked away to our respective library cubicles.

TCU Senate | Senate grants 11 surplus fund requests, including Charles Tufts statue

Last night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted on 12 proposals for surplus grant funding, totaling $169,700. The body approved all but one of the requests.

ASL program grows, works for recognition

 Among the language programs at Tufts, American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the smallest. Over the past three decades, however, the program has been growing in popularity. Within the Department of Child Development, through which all three ASL classes are offered, ASL I is considered a high-demand course, meaning that students must take special measures to register. This semester has been ASL's most popular year at Tufts, with 40 students applying for the 20 spots available in the class, according to George Scarlett, the deputy chair of the Department of Child Development.

Once behind the judging table, now the judges

Bendetson Hall, Tufts University, Medford MA, 02155. It's an address burned into the mind of every aspiring Jumbo as they mail off their application materials and likely still, if they're lucky, when they arrive at the Hill and explore their new campus. From then on, it tends to serve as prime prospective student−spotting territory or a placeholder between West and Packard Halls.

Bazaar encourages socially responsible consumption

Students filled the Mayer Campus Center on Friday for the third annual OneWorld Global Crafts Bazaar, which featured fair−trade crafts and products from around the globe.

University plans to use state public nudity definition in NQR ban enforcement

As Dec. 12 approaches, the last day of class that no longer implies a frigid dash around the Res Quad public nudity may be on the mind of many Tufts students.

Tufts Med Center and Blue Cross continue contract negotiations

Tufts Medical Center and health insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts are back at the negotiating table after a tense month of contract negotiations. If negotiations fail, Blue Cross customers would have to find new doctors or insurance providers. The setbacks highlight faults in the state's healthcare system, according to Healthcare advocates.

Alex de Waal sheds light on humanitarian intervention

Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, yesterday discussed ongoing conflicts in East Africa and means of effectively resolving them. The talk was held with Tufts' Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) class in Barnum Hall.

Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences

Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience in the United States.

YouTube star discusses social media for change

Shirtless sensation, gay rights activist and YouTube celebrity Davey Wavey last night explored the role of social media in creating positive change and promoting greater acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community during a lecture hosted by Tufts' Queer Straight Alliance.Wavey's ...

Ladies hit the gym tonight for Girls Night Out

Balance Your Life (BYL), a healthy lifestyle campaign run by Tufts' Department of Health Education, will host Girls Night Out At The Gym tonight in an effort to encourage female gym attendance and raise awareness of the importance of self−maintenance through exercise and healthy eating, according to BYL President Samantha Carle.