Making it through the winter months is difficult for every Jumbo, but students who hail from warmer climates face the additional obstacle of transitioning from sunshine 12 months a year to living in the harsh New England chill.
You remember those orientation−week rookie mistakes during freshman year: traveling in hordes to random off−campus parties, signing up for Friday 8:30 a.m. classes, trying (and failing) to navigate though the South Hall maze.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted Sunday to co-sponsor the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL)'s 25th Annual Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium following a heated discussion.
Tufts had one of the highest voter participation rates in the 2008 elections, according to recently released data from the Campus Votes Challenge that highlighted the importance of student votes.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's decision Sunday to allot $7,500 from its surplus fund to the annual symposium of Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) has raised controversy over who may — and should — receive TCU Senate funding. The Senate came to the decision to draw money from the surplus when Director of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) Sherman Teichman appealed for funding to allow Tufts undergraduate students to attend the symposium this February free of charge. The difficult nature of the decision was evident in the 12-11 split in the Senate's vote.
This has without a doubt been the longest semester of my college career. For the fated few of us on the Daily's managing board, it's become standard to call it an early night if we get to head home before 2 a.m.
In May 2001, the Internet bubble had burst, and the economy looked somewhat like it does now. Tufts alum Melissa Broder had just graduated with a major in English but was struggling to find a job that would incorporate her lifelong passion for writing. With no jobs to be had, Broder decided to enroll in a publishing program in Denver.She embarked on a road trip across the country. Upon completion of the program, Broder drove to San Francisco for a job interview. Though she didn't get the position, she decided to stay, job or no job. Broder's journey to the West — and the two years she spent living there — ultimately fueled many of the poems in her new book, "When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother," to be released by Ampersand Books on Feb. 1, 2010.
Members of the student−based environmental group Leadership Campaign are in warm beds tonight after nearly six weeks of nightly sleepouts. Their activites resulted not only in a bill to push for clean energy in Massachusetts, but also in a number of court dates for trespassing on public property.
A number of Tufts students who are members of the inter-collegiate Student Health Organizing Coalition (SHOC) last Thursday testified at the state legislature on behalf of a bill proposing an overhaul of the student health insurance system.
After numerous delays that have significantly pushed back the unveiling of recently renovated Oxfam Café, new owner Tufts Student Resources (TSR) plans to reopen the eatery's doors at the beginning of next semester.
Six faculty members who received tenure this year were honored for the achievement at a Tisch Library reception last month, along with several other professors who were promoted.
Criticizing the actions of their college or university's administration has been a common practice among students across the United States for decades. But for Jess Zimmerman, a junior at Butler University in Indianapolis, doing so landed him not only in hot water with his school's administration, but with a lawsuit as well.
Junior Sam Wallis has resigned from his seat in the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, he announced publicly last night.
Tufts Hillel has added to its ranks this year Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg as its senior Jewish educator, a new position that is part of a nationwide initiative to engage more Jewish students on college campuses.
Local religious leaders from the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist traditions will discuss the intersection between religion and homosexuality at a panel tonight.
Several weeks ago, a Daily reader by the name of Stanley wrote to me about my rather strong negative opinion regarding the misuse of "literally." Stan (can I call you that?) himself didn't seem to have much of a problem with the non-literal application of the word and pointed out that while getting all riled up about poor language usage, I failed to make mention of an important related point — that language evolves along with society and that, moreover, may not be such a bad thing.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley last night won the Democratic nomination for the late Edward Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat, beating three other contenders in an election marked by paltry voter participation.
Even as Tufts takes the top spot as the priciest college in Massachusetts, students may not be completely down for the count. Finance magazine Kiplinger ranked Tufts No. 22 on its list of best values in private universities.
