The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding requests and hear an appeal.After TCU Senate President Gauri Seth opened the meeting, Vice President Shai Slotky then took the floor to ask for committee updates and general ...
Kevin Kraft was recently hired as Tufts' new director of community standards for the Medford/Somerville campus and started working on Feb. 13. Kraft's new position is similar to the role of judicial affairs administrator, which was held by Mickey Toogood before he moved to Seattle and became the communications and media specialist for the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.
MONDAY"White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide"Details:Emory University Professor Carol Anderson will discuss her book, which documents the roots of systemic racism in the United States and how it is fueled in part by white backlash. The event is this year's Africana Studies ...
The Department of Philosophy hosted Evan Mandery, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, for a lecture on Friday about the 1987 Supreme Court case McCleskey v. Kemp, which was a seminal ruling that found that evidence of racial discrimination could not be used to overturn the death ...
"This ordinance does not deter them from living in the City," Feltch told the Daily in an email. "It provides an inventory of where students are living and acts as a precautionary measure for dwellings that the students are inhabiting."
Despite recent changes to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA)/New England Conservatory (NEC) shuttle, a number of Tufts-SMFA dual-degree students feel that the shuttle service between the SMFA and the Medford/Somerville campus, which also services the NEC, still has significant room for improvement.In ...
Leaving a MarkTufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers were called to Tisch Library on Feb. 18 at 1:50 p.m. after a report of graffiti on the walls in the restrooms. Pictures of the graffiti were taken, and the Facilities Services Department was notified to clean it up. The graffiti appeared ...
The Fulbright Program, an international exchange program for college graduates run by the federal government, has awarded scholarships to 10 Tufts students in the past year, according to Tufts Program Specialist for Scholar Development Anne Moore.Out of the 60 total Tufts applicants, there were 22 ...
“People come to the center with all of [these] different needs and experiences; there isn’t just one reason you want to go to the LGBT Center, and I want it to be a place that’s mindful of all the intersectional identities at Tufts,” Testa said in a 2014 Daily article.
A piece of decorative plaster molding above the suspended ceilings in Eaton Hall fell through the ceiling onto the floor over the weekend before Valentine's Day, according to Senior Facilities Director Steve Nasson. As a result, four classrooms in Eaton Hall with the decorative molding were closed ...
Medford City Council unanimously passed the University and College Accountability ordinance yesterday, which requires Tufts to provide the city with an anonymized list of all student-owned, -leased, -rented or -operated properties in Medford. The list of addresses must be provided on a per-semester ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's Community Research Center (TCRC) has awarded $25,000 in seed grant funding to two organizations this year: Medford Conversations, a series of community dialogues regarding community issues, and Shape Up Somerville, a group focused on community health ...
Tufts is establishing a university-wide faculty senate this semester. The senate, which has been approved by the faculty of all eight of Tufts' branches, will include representatives from each school who will come together to advise the administration, according to The Fletcher School of ...
A roundtable discussion entitled “The Opioid Epidemic: What Happens Next and Who Will Decide?” was held yesterday in the conference room of the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center, as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's Civic Science Roundtable series.15 people reserved a spot ...
Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, spoke about American citizens' obligation to combat the overwhelming presence of child poverty in a mostly full Cohen Auditorium on Monday evening.
Tufts opened a multifaith meditation and prayer room, or musallah, inside the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy earlier this month. The room is intended for use by Tufts' Muslim community, but is open to use by people of all faiths and was organized by a group of both Muslim and non-Muslim ...
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MONDAY"Merrin Moral Voices Keynote: Marian Wright Edelman"Details: Children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman will speak as part of the annual Merrin Moral Voices series. Edelman is the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, the founder and president ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding requests and an appeal.After TCU Senate President Gauri Seth opened the meeting, Vice President Shai Slotky asked for committee updates.Diversity and Community Affairs Officer ...
