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Tufts to acccept Coalition Application starting with Class of 2021

Starting with the upcoming admissions cycle for the Class of 2021, Tufts will be accepting the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success application, in addition to the QuestBridge application and traditional Common Application.Susan Ardizzoni, director of undergraduate admissions, explained ...



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Mickey Toogood to leave role as judicial affairs administrator

Mickey Toogood left his position as judicial affairs administrator in September after two years in that capacity, according to an email announcement to faculty from Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon on July 12.Toogood has continued to work remotely from his new home of Seattle, while Senior ...


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Somerville initiatives advance carbon-neutral goals

The City of Somerville has been making progress on several of its initiatives to achieve its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by the year 2050 and has assessed which sectors and technologies could be used in the future to create policies that would reduce further environmental damage.Somerville Director ...


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Events on the Hill

WEDNESDAY"Ellen Harvey Artist Talk"Details: Ellen Harvey, Brooklyn-based artist specializing in video, painting, performance and installation, will be giving a lecture on her work as part of the Visiting Artist Series.Where and When: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Anderson Auditorium, 6:30 ...


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Community celebrates Indigenous People's Day on Monday

Community members gathered on the Academic Quad on Monday evening to celebrate Indigenous People's Dayfor the first time at Tufts.The celebration included indigenous food and musical performances from different indigenous groups native to both the New England region and Latin America, as well ...



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Deepa Iyer discusses race, inclusion in post-9/11 America

Activist, writer and lawyer Deepa Iyer gave a public talk in Cohen Auditorium on Oct. 5 about her book, "We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future," and what it means to be living in a post-9/11 United States as a person of color.Titled ...







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New group Damsels to provide supportive platform for women writers

Damsels is a new student club this fall that aims to create a comfortable, affirmative space for women writers at Tufts and beyond.The club creates a community and platform for women writers to share their stories by providing resources that expose women’s voices to broader communities, according ...


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LGBT Center restarts Queer Men's discussion group

 The LGBT Center restarted the Queer Men's Group, now the center's seventh discussion group on campus, last week, according to LGBT Center Director Nino Testa.The open group will meet weekly for sessions facilitated by Nick Whitney (LA '16), graduate coordinator at the LGBT Center. "Hopefully, ...


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Police Briefs - Oct. 3

Tea TimeTufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Somerville Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at Richardson House on Sept. 28 at 5:22 p.m. The cause of the alarm was an electric teapot with a plastic base that was left on the stove for too long. The base melted and the teapot began ...



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Events on the Hill this week

Monday"From Bush to Obama and Beyond: Learning and Not Learning the Lessons of Iraq and Warfare in the Middle East"Details: Rami Khouri, senior fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government's Middle East Initiative, will be giving a lecture assessing the United States' ...



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TCU Senate holds first meeting of the semester

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate convened Sunday for the first time this semester as an entire body in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room.After beginning with roll call attendance, Director of the Office of Campus Life Joe Golia, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Chris Rossi, Senior Associate ...


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BlaQ(ueer) Magic event draws full house, aspiring poets

Tabias Wilson(LA '13) returned to campus to speak about his book, "Godless Circumcisions: A Recollecting & Re-membering of Blackness, Queerness & Flows of Survivance," where he was met with a full room inside the Granoff Music Center on the evening of Sept. 29. The event, titled, ...