The 14th annual national Day of Silence, a student-organized event intended to draw attention to the silence, bullying and harassment endured by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, will take place this Friday.
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University's student newspaper, has sparked claims of censorship after refusing to publish an open letter that it deemed "too controversial" challenging the scholarship of Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar
−Philanthropist Doris Buffett founded the Sunshine Lady Foundation in 1996.
A clinical partnership between the Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital and Tufts Medical Center started last month with the intention of providing increased specialized care to the greater Brockton community. Efforts have been made to expand the connected departments and programs since the new clinical affiliation was announced in December, according to Deborah Wilson, senior vice president of ambulatory services and patient relations at Brockton Hospital. The community-based teaching hospital is the most recent partner of Tufts Medical, which currently has affiliations with a number of area hospitals, including Winchester Hospital in Winchester and Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. Brockton Hospital provides the first line of medical care accessible to its community members, according to Julie Jette, Tufts Medical's media relations manager. Tufts Medical differs from Brockton because as an academic medical center, it provides more specialized high-level treatment. The new partnership, which includes Tufts Medical's Floating Hospital for Children, is an extension of the existing long-term relationship between the two institutions, which have been affiliated for approximately 30 years. "We've had a teaching relationship with them for a very long time," Jette said. Jette explained that the partnership allows specialists from Tufts Medical to provide care to patients at Brockton, who will in turn consider future tertiary treatment at Tufts Medical should the need arise. "It is establishing a two-way partnership," Jette said. "We hope that we can provide a slightly more specialized level of care in the community and help the hospitals deliver that level of care, and when their patients really need high-level tertiary care, we hope that they will refer their patients to us." Wilson said this consolidation of medical services is useful to patients. "It avoids the time and cost of going into Boston, and it's beneficial to us because we can have further relations with the physicians from Tufts Medical Center as they're rotating through our site and taking care of our patients," Wilson told the Daily. Jette explained that this and the other partnerships Tufts Medical has formed are an embodiment of the Distributed Academic Medical Center model, which strives to keep medical care in the local area. The Tufts model differs from that of other academic medical centers, many of which attempt to use the model to bring all care to the hospital center. "We are really committed to enabling our partners to keep care in the community," Jette said. The Distributed Academic Medical Center model was a major impetus for the partnership, according to Wilson. "We decided that it was our desire to be a high-quality, low-cost, community-based hospital system," Wilson said. Jette added that other benefits of centralized and coordinated healthcare through such partnerships include stronger communication between institutions regarding patient care and lower costs. "If we're communicating very well within these networks, then we will eliminate repetition and waste," Jette said. "It's about creating a network of providers that will be able to work closely together to provide coordinated care to patients." Media and Public Relations Coordinator for Signature Healthcare Rachel Labas said that health care reform's effects on insurance policies also promote a larger network of care. As Tufts Medical is a larger institution, a partnership grants Brockton Hospital greater negotiation power with insurance companies. "Partnering with Tufts puts us in a better position to negotiate rates with insurance companies and make sure that we're paid fairly for all the services we're providing," Labas told the Daily. "Being able to negotiate the best rates helps out the organization as a whole." Jette said that Tufts Medical and Brockton Hospital are in the process of expanding their connected programs. "We brought Tufts specialists to Brockton for cardiac electrophysiology services, and then we also anticipate having sports medicines doctors come in May, and then pediatric, orthopedics and bariatric to follow in the summer," Labas said.
In high school, big words were prized possessions. Everyone had a few classics stowed away ("copious," "supercilious," "cantankerous" — you know the ones I'm talking about) that always seemed to prove surprisingly useful in counteracting the many run−on sentences in thesis−less essays about books we hadn't read.
On Sunday night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted down an appeal by the Media Advocacy Board (MAB) to fund a stipend for the public editor next year. This was a significant setback not only for the future of this position, but also for the entire Tufts community.
The 11 rising sophomores who have announced their candidacy for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Sophomore Senate last night gathered in Hotung Café to address the student body at the Candidate's Forum.
Editor's Note: This week's column is written by guest columnist Xavier Malina, who is a senior majoring in International Relations.
One of the 10 rising seniors competing for the nine available Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seats allocated to seniors yesterday dropped out of the race, leaving the Senior Senate race uncontested.
The eighth annual Tufts Relay for Life on Saturday night was the only event on campus that lasted until 6 a.m., running on its participants' energy and passion for the cause of fighting cancer.
Going out in Boston can be fun for students from Tufts and other colleges in the area. With so many young people craving a release from academic stress, however, club hopping can be an exercise in claustrophobia as well.
Even as two recent evictions this semester have raised questions about the maintenance of fraternity houses, one Tufts student is heavily lobbying for the passage of a U.S. Senate bill that could have a significant impact on Greek organizations.
Following the March 2008 departure of local bookstore McIntyre and Moore Booksellers from Davis Square, community members have organized a grassroots effort to attract another independent bookstore to the area.
This afternoon, members of the Tufts community will be able to see undergraduates from all academic disciplines display their research.
Boston Attorney Jacques Dessin speaking on Wednesday evening at Cabot Auditorium about his home country of Haiti stressed the need to focus on the actual process of rebuilding Haiti instead of appropriating blame.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's current deliberation over amending the role and rights of community representatives in the Senate is a much-needed reassessment of the system currently in place to give minority groups a proper voice on campus.
Micheal Flaherty (LA ‘90), co−founder of production company Walden Media, last night at a lecture in Goddard Chapel emphasized the importance of spreading literacy as a vehicle for social change.
Nadav Tamir, the consul general of the Consulate General of Israel to New England, last night at Hotung Café discussed Israeli politics and Middle East peace, among other topics. The event was sponsored by Tufts Hillel and also featured representatives from Israeli universities to talk about opportunities to study abroad in the country.
Two proposed constitutional amendments regarding community representatives on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate have been submitted for the TCU Judiciary's approval to be placed on the upcoming presidential election ballot for the student body to vote on.
At the "four−five−one" rhythmic clapping beat provided by dance instructor Mila Thigpen, 19 student dancers glide across the floor of the Jackson Gym dance studio, some with arms flailed out, performing whirlwind pirouettes, others swinging to the drums and saxophone riffs of The Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five."
