The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met for the first time this semester in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night. At the meeting, senators discussed housing updates and various committee projects.Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) Director Yolanda King, Director ...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will speak at Tufts as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’sDistinguished Speaker Series this semester. Baker’s speech will be on Feb. 23 in Distler Performance Hall. The event will be free for Tufts students to attend, though it may be ticketed, ...
Hundreds of protesters convened in Logan International Airport on Saturday night to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's recent executive order on immigration.The protest was organized in the wake of an executive order signed by Trump on Friday that suspended the United States' refugee ...
Students gathered for a panel discussion on sanctuary cities and immigration law in Tisch Library Room 316 on Monday night. The event was hosted by Tufts Democrats and featured six panelists who have direct ties to immigration policy and activism in the Boston area.First to speak was Tufts Democrats PresidentBen ...
Starting this semester, Tufts will begin transitioning to a mixed recycling system, a change from the previous dual stream recycling system, according to Director of Campus Services Gary Hill.Over winter break, Facilities Services began the transition on the Medford/Somerville campus by placing new ...
Water FallThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and Somerville Fire Department responded to a fire alarm activation in the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center at 10 p.m. on Jan. 8. The alarm was triggered by water in the pipes. Although the exact cause is unclear, it was likely caused either by the ...
Content Warning: This article discusses sexual violence.The 2017 Tufts Attitudes about Sexual Conduct Survey (TASCS) opens online today, with the goal of anonymously gauging the prevalence and current climate of sexual misconduct on all Tufts campuses.This is the second iteration of the survey, with ...
U.S. Senator and 2016 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine (D-VA) reflected on last year's presidential election and gave his prognosis for the future of the Democratic party, speaking in a mostly-full Cohen Auditorium on Monday morning.The talk, which was part of the Jonathan M. Tisch ...
Tufts' annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. was held on Monday afternoon in Breed Memorial Hall. This year, the event was organized as a symposium, and more than a dozen speakers and panelists discussed King's legacy under the theme of "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"The ...
The City of Medford is forming the Go Green Medford Coalition to coordinate activities among active environmental groups in the city. Mayor Stephanie Burke announced the coalition on Jan. 3 in a press release, and several public meetings have been held to lay groundwork for the collaboration.The ...
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the nation's capital last Saturday to demonstrate against the administration of President Donald Trump, as part of the Women's March on Washington.More than 500,000 people are believed to have attended the march inWashington, D.C., according to the ...
Tens of thousands of people marched through Downtown Boston for the Boston Women’s March for America on Saturday, in protest of President Donald Trump’s inauguration the day prior. The march, according to its website, was inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, with the mission of “[uniting] ...
Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States last Friday at noon, on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.His inauguration was the first time a total political outsider, who has never served in public office or the military, assumed the nation's highest ...
University President Anthony Monaco announced the appointment of a Student Life Review Committee to examine the culture of undergraduate student life on the Medford/Somerville campus in light of recently-exposed issues with the university's Greek life system in a Dec. 22, 2016 email sent to ...
Trigger Warning: This article discusses sexual violence.According to a Dec. 23 Boston Globe analysis of colleges and universities in New England, the number of reported forcible sexual offenses on the Tufts University Medford/Somerville campus increased from 14 in 2014 to 25 in 2015, the most recent ...
Senator and 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine (D-VA) will speak at Tufts on Jan. 23 at 10:30 a.m. in Distler Auditorium, as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series.Tickets will be available for free starting Jan. 19 at the Mayer Campus Center ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met for the last time this semester in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room on Sunday, Dec. 11 to discuss a resolution, supplementary funding requests and its Strategic Plan.The meeting opened with TCU Senate President Gauri Seth welcoming everyone to the ...
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s recent threats to block funding from sanctuary cities, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone reiterated the city’s commitment to remaining a sanctuary city in an open letter released on Nov. 21.“Somerville will stand with you regardless of your race, creed, ...
Tisch Library, Edward Ginn Library and Eaton Hall will each be offering extended late night study hours during reading period and finals week this semester. Tisch Library: began Dec. 11, ends Dec. 22 at 5 p.m.Sunday: general hours 10 a.m. to 1 a.m., extended study until 6 a.m.Monday-Thursday: general ...
Students, faculty and community members held panel discussions and workshops focused on activism, particularly in the wake of the election of President-elect Donald Trump, as part of a teach-in in Paige Hall over the weekend.The teach-in, which was sponsored by the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, ...
