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Tufts Student Action holds rally to protest tuition hike

On the afternoon of Monday, April 2, about 20 students gathered on the lower patio of the Mayer Campus Center as part of a rally to protest the raise in tuition for the 2018-2019 academic year.The tuition increase was announced in a March 29 email from James Glaser, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, ...


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Events on the Hill — Week of April 1

MONDAY“Stephen Koltai: Global Entrepreneurship”Details: TAMID at Tufts is hosting Stephen Koltai, the managing director of Koltai & Co. LLC and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, to discuss the entrepreneurship initiatives he has spearheaded in the Obama administration and his experience ...


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TCU Senate hears committee updates, matches funding requests

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met today in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear committee updates, a presentation about a new template to help TCU Senators better complete faculty Tenure and Promotion (T&P) evaluations, discuss possible upcoming resolutions and hear funding requests.TCU ...



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Gun scare prompts TUPD investigation Thursday afternoon

Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) investigated a report of a person walking through campus carrying a handgun near Richardson House on Professors Row Thursday afternoon.According to an email TUPD sent to the Tufts community at 10 p.m. on Thursday, TUPD identified the person and determined ...


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Faculty urge Tufts to divest from assault weapon manufacturers

Tufts Arts, Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted 50–0–4 yesterday to urge the Board of Trustees and Tufts administration to divest the school’s endowment from companies that produce, distribute or sell military-style assault weapons to the public. This vote comes in response to ...




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Cecile Richards optimistic about reproductive rights activism

Outgoing Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards discussed the state of reproductive rights in America in a packed Cohen Auditorium yesterday.The event was hosted by Merrin Moral Voices, a Hillel initiative, with support from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Richards was introduced ...



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TCU Senate to hear resolution on compensating student leaders

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senateannounced on its Facebook page yesterday that it will hear a resolution "calling on Tufts to Compensate Student Leaders," most likely on April 8.TCU Treasurer Emily Sim, a junior, is the lead author of the resolution. Other authors include First Generation ...


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Peter Chronis discusses the state of U.S. cybersecurity

“How is this code going to be broken? How can someone hack this system?" he said. "My challenge to you as engineering and policy folks is to think through, as you're creating systems, as you're creating stuff, how is somebody going to break in? How could somebody abuse this? I think we need more of that.”   


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Faculty to vote on new primary major in environmental studies

A new primary major for Environmental Studies (ENVS) may be available to students beginning in the fall 2018 semester, pending a vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May, Dr. Colin Orians, Director of the Environmental Studies program and professor of biology, said. According to Orians, this ...


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Ellen Kullman, former CEO of Dupont, to speak at Commencement

Former DuPont CEOand Tufts alumnaEllen J. Kullman (E ‘78) will return to her alma mater to deliver the commencement address to the Tufts University Class of 2018 on May 20. Kullman served as the CEO and chair of the board for DuPont, the world’s largest chemical company, for seven years. She was ...


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Police Briefs — Week of March 26

Someone's playing with fire, but not getting burnedOn March 13 around 1 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report that someone had stolen all the fire extinguishers from the lower campus garage. TUPD searched the area for the missing fire extinguishers and the fire marshal ...



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Events on the Hill — Week of March 26

MONDAY“Civic Life Lunch — Against Invisibility: Chinese America, History, and the Family Album”Details: Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University Robert Lee will discuss Against Invisibility, a digital project that explores Chinese Americans’ use of photography to investigate ...