While many Americans were preparing for holiday festivities, the nation's lesbian, gay and bisexual community had another reason to celebrate: President Barack Obama on Dec. 22 signed into law the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), the policy barring service of open homosexuals in the United States military.
The Africana Center on Wednesday announced the winners of its first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. MLK Reflections Contest in an event leading up to Monday's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
The new university-wide learning management system (LMS) set to replace Blackboard in the fall will be named "trunk," University Information Technology (UIT) announced Wednesday at an event in Hotung Café.
Students attending tonight's Winter Bash, the annual school-wide event to be held this year at the Copley Place Marriott Hotel, will find some slight changes from last year's format, according to organizers of the event.
Two media powerhouses will make their way to Tufts this semester, as entertainer Bill Cosby and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric take center stage at separate major events.
Approximately one quarter of Tufts' student body — nearly twice as many as last spring — participated in the fall 2010 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Survey.
Literary circles have been stirred to endless debate recently over editor Alan Gribben's forthcoming edition of Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," to be published in February by NewSouth, Inc., in a single volume with its oft-companion "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." In a radical effort to tone-down the classic tale, Gribben's version will replace all 219 appearances of the N-word with the word "slave," in addition to ditching the dated word "Injun" for the less racist "Indian."
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT), an extinct program as recently as eight years ago, has established itself as a regional force after a remarkable string of victories in the fall following an appearance at the elite American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) National Championship Tournament last April.
School of Engineering Dean Linda Abriola was recognized as one of 500 influential 20th- century women in the sciences with an entry in a recently published encyclopedia.
Sophomore Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Tabias Wilson announced his resignation from the TCU Senate yesterday in an e-mail to the body citing personal reasons, according to TCU Historian Tomas Garcia.
Facilities Services over winter break installed two new Brita Hydration Stations on campus in an attempt to encourage the use of reusable water bottles.
The Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF) program this month announced the recipients of $18,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations.
A number of students who attended last month's Naked Quad Run (NQR) have called into question the administration's assertion that police officers who broke up the event earlier than in the past did not initiate physical force.
Do you often have trouble mixing Facebook and studying? The pilot web−based program Mixable was designed to help students at Purdue University do just that. Created by the Information Technology department, Mixable is a free application that Purdue students can add to their Facebook profiles, providing them with a variety of ways to integrate their academic and social lives.
It doesn't take more than a couple of weeks at college to realize that people respond differently to alcohol consumption. Recent research, however, has come up with a new answer as to why — that is, why some people become tipsy after a small intake of alcohol while others only feel an effect after heavy drinking.
Last month's Naked Quad Run (NQR) ended with the arrest of a student, prompting accusations by students that the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) inappropriately used force in an attempt to break up the event earlier than usual.
A number of students who attended this month's Naked Quad Run (NQR) have called into question the administration's assertion that police officers who broke up the event earlier than usual did not initiate physical force.
The student arrested at the end of last Friday's Naked Quad Run was charged with two counts of assault and battery of officers and with resisting arrest, according to the Tufts University Police Department's (TUPD) public crime log.
A national directive put forth by Tufts Hillel's national parent organization discourages co-sponsorship of campus events between Hillel and the Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), according to Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Tufts Hillel's executive director.
Given that this is my last college-survival guide of the semester and my last column this year, it feels odd to merely give advice on one single thing: How to survive NQR? Wear a hat. How to steal food from the dining hall? Be quick. What's the best way to deal with housing? I still have no idea.
