The incoming Class of 2014 might not remain on the Hill long enough to see plans to build a T subway station adjacent to Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus come to fruition, as new delays have pushed back the expected date of completion for the project by almost a year.
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Dining Services is on track to "go trayless" in both dining halls this fall and while some students have complained about the resulting inconvenience, most have reacted positively or with indifference, according to the initiative's proponents.
These are exciting times for The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with construction vehicles at work, steel beams on the rise and the museum's new addition beginning to take shape. This expansion project, which is already well under way and will add nearly 70,000 square feet of new space, marks the museum's most ambitious undertaking since it was originally constructed in the early 20th century. Once completed, it will represent a significant enhancement to one of Boston's most unique cultural icons.
If you're reading this, you've probably either asked or been asked this question all day: "How does it feel to be done?" It's harmless — filler, almost. Everybody involved knows that you are too shell-shocked and petrified to really be able to analyze your emotions, and probably too hung-over to articulate them anyway. It's just your average stumped-for-conversation adult's go-to query for a brand-spanking-new college graduate.
The outgoing Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate this year undertook many initiatives to improve student life — particularly in the realm of enhancing students' academic and intellectual experience — and saw tangible progress and results.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has taken a very active role in the Tufts community this semester, enacting or proposing numerous programs to improve everyone's experience while at Tufts. Though some of the programs have been controversial and others were met with a great deal of criticism, the Senate has unquestionably had a positive effect on the quality of life at Tufts and has succeeded in fulfilling its purpose of advocating for the student body in front of the administration.
The real world is a lot wider than the 150 acres of Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus. As senior Jumbos step off the deep end, prepare for life after graduation and adjust to the world beyond campus boundaries, the "Jumbos for life" mantra emblazoned on their 2006 orientation T-shirts still rings true.
Over the last few weeks of the semester, a gradual change comes over the campus. As the stress levels of students rise with looming final exams, the weather warms, the flowers bloom, and spring returns to Tufts.
In the spirit of monumental events, I ask you to take a moment to share your nachas with two slang words that are now also approaching new stages of life.
When a planned career in baseball did not work out, University Professor Sol Gittleman turned to teaching. For several decades, he lived and breathed the inside of a college lecture hall and became one of the university's most recognizable faces.
When we set foot on this campus almost four years ago for matriculation, we laughed and fidgeted in our seats, full of the same nervous excitement on the brink of "the future." I remember sitting in the sea of 1,200 other freshman, worrying about whether I would fit in and how to get to know the people sitting around me.
Following a vote full of complications, including three date changes, Tufts students passed two competing referenda concerning hotly debated reforms to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's community representative position, necessitating a revote in the fall.
Sometimes I imagine myself sitting down for lunch with John Montagu, also known as the fourth Earl of Sandwich, the possible inventor and at the very least the namesake of that beautiful creation we call a sandwich. I am not sure exactly what the Earl looked like, but in my mind's eye, he wears medieval garb and hefty, brown spectacles.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on May 2 held in-house elections for the body's Executive Board, Allocations Board (ALBO) and committee chairs for the 2010-2011 academic year.
For all students and their families, graduation is an event steeped in tradition. But as some Jumbo graduates walk across the stage, they will be literally following in their relatives' footsteps.
With its May 2 receipt of official charter from the Delta Tau Delta (DTD) national organization, the Beta Mu chapter — the Tufts chapter of the fraternity — returned to the campus as an official fraternity after a six-year absence.
Visitors to the Expo 2010 Shanghai (also known as the Shanghai Expo) this summer and fall will find a Jumbo among the guides at the USA Pavilion. Senior Nick Burns will be working as a student ambassador at the Expo, which opened on May 1.
Ferris Bueller once waxed poetically, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." OK, OK, I'll save my favorite clichéd movie lines and general college sappiness for my FOCUS kiddies and sophomore friends who mistakenly ask me about how it feels to be graduating in less than a month.
