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3Oh!3 to headline Homecoming Concert

Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) announced at the Tuesday night event "TUSC Coffeehouse ft. Copilot" the artists playing at the Homecoming Concert. The artists will be 3Oh!3, Duckwrth and Melii.According to Mathew Peña, an organizer for the event and member of TUSC, the artists ...



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Social event registration policy expanded to suites

Suite residents, including those in Haskell Hall, Wren Hall and Latin Way, were notified by their residence directors in mid-September that social gatherings of 15 students or more should be registered and approved by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL).This registration process is the ...


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Police Briefs — Week of Oct. 2

On Sept. 24 at 6 p.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from a student who had misplaced their wallet at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on Sept. 22 and recovered it on Sept. 23. The student claims that there was $250 missing from the wallet, though the student's other ...





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Tufts implements new first-year Hall Council program

The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) announced online that it would be implementing a new system of Hall Councils in all first-year dorms, with positions to be filled by elected first-years with an overall goal of planning events and building community both within and across first-year ...



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Events on the Hill — Week of Sept. 29

MONDAY"Civic Life Lunch — True Identity: Intersex Activism and the Politics of Gender"Details: Tatenda Ngwaru, an intersex activist from Zimbabwe, will come to Tufts for a talk on gender politics. Ngwaru is the founder of True Identity, an intersex organization based in Zimbabwe.Where and ...



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TCA will attend Flood the Seaport in Boston today

Tufts Climate Action (TCA) will attend Extinction Rebellion's event, Flood the Seaport, today as part of continued climate protests following last Friday's global climate strike.The event is organized by the Massachusetts chapter of Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based organization that advocates ...


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Eco-Reps pilot new Tufts Meal Plan Takeout program

During the month of September, Tufts Dining piloted a new program called Tufts Meal Plan Takeout with the Tufts Eco-Representatives (Eco-Reps). This program allows students a limited amount of time to fill a reusable container with the food of their choice and then take it out of either Carmichael or ...


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Two former Tufts students embroiled in Epstein scandal

Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault. Tufts alum Bill Richardson (A’70, F’71), the former governor of New Mexico and MIT Media Lab founder Joichi Ito, who attended Tufts and received an honorary degree in 2015, have been implicated to varying degrees in the controversy surrounding ...


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Rove comes to Tufts amid controversy, met by protestors

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life brought former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff for former President George W. Bush Karl Rove to campus yesterday as the first speaker in its Distinguished Speakers Series.The discussion took place in the ASEAN Auditorium in Cabot Hall, with a packed ...


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Police Briefs - Week of Sept. 24

On Sept. 16 at 1:06 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) followed up on a theft that occurred over the summer in Blakeley Hall. After the victim provided a list of the stolen items, TUPD was able to identify the criminal as a temporary, subcontracted employee of the university. The individual ...




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Merchant to serve as Tufts' new Muslim Chaplain

Abdul-Malik Merchant has begun his role as the new Muslim chaplain for the Tufts University Chaplaincy. While at Tufts, he also will continue to serve in his current position as the Associate Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), a mosque and community center in Roxbury that ...



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IGL receives 5-year $100,000 grant from Cummings Foundation

The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) has received a $100,000 grant titled “$100K for 100” from the Cummings Foundation, one of the largest foundations in New England, according to the IGL September newsletter.The grant will fund an IGL project titled “Human Rights, Human Security and Preparing ...