MONDAY"Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Bangalore's Queer Nightlife"Details: Kareem Khubchandani, assistant professor in the Department of Drama and Dance and a faculty member of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will speak about LGBTQ rights and protest in India, focusing ...
Nearly half of the members of the Delta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) left the sorority on Oct. 14, according to Kristin Reeves, the former president of the chapter.Reeves, a junior, said she stepped down as president on Oct. 5, following continued correspondence with the AOII international organization regarding ...
Four Tufts faculty members gathered in the Alumnae Lounge last night for the America's Women Panel, where they discussed the ascension of women into the political sphere.The event, organized by Kappa Alpha Theta and the Panhellenic Council, featured panelists History Professor Virginia Drachman, ...
Tufts janitors voted in support of a new contract Thursday, with 132 janitors voting in favor and three against, thereby establishing the contract as the official workplace agreement for the next four years, according to 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Regional Communications Director ...
Claudia Mihm and Anna Sossenheimer of the Class of 2018 were elected to Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate in a special election yesterday. Three candidates -- Mihm, Sossenheimer and Justin Will -- ran for the two open junior class senator seats.Both Mihm and Sossenheimer said they are excited about ...
Tony Affigne, professor of political science at Providence College, spoke on Wednesday about the effect of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign on the Latinx electorate in a lecture titled “Building a Wall or Digging a Hole: Donald Trump and the Latinx Electorate.”The lecture, ...
The Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series hosted a discussion last night with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (LA ’70) and former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush Andy Card, focusing on the transition of government after the election, the civic responsibilities of young voters and the speakers’ own experiences with national elections. The talk, which was held at 6 p.m. in the Alumnae Lounge, drew a full house of attendees, including Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke and former Ambassador to Belize George Bruno.
Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center Nino Testa (G ’13) will be leaving Tufts on Dec. 16, after having served in the role for the past two and a half years.
Take Back the Night (TBTN), a "glow walk" across campus to raise awareness about community sexual assault, took place on Nov. 1 on the Academic Quad.The event stems from the national TBTN organization, with similar events taking place on campuses and in communities across the country, ...
About 50 people gathered to listen to Nik Gowing’s lecture "Thinking the Unthinkable" on Tuesday evening. The lecture, which took place in the ASEAN Auditorium and was hosted by the Institute for Global Leadership, lasted from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and focused on the inability of global leaders ...
The Tufts Risk Management Assistance Team (RMAT), founded by the 2015-2016 Interfraternity Council (IFC), is undergoing changes to expand its reach and to improve its ability to keep students safe at Greek events, according to IFC President and RMAT co-founder Alex Spring.RMAT is opening its membership ...
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ and Cushman and Wakefield (C&W) Services reached an agreement on Tufts janitors’ contracts two hours before the negotiating deadline yesterday evening. The agreement avoided a strike that janitors had voted to authorize and would have likely ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) convened on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to consider a resolution, a pair of project approvals and club funding requests.TCU Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel took the floor to introduce a resolution which called for the university to revise the faculty ...
Approximately 400 people gathered in Paige Hall this past weekend for the Standing Rock Teach-In, which took place on Oct. 28 and 29. The teach-in centered around the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota and featured ...
Four leading supporters and opponents of Question 2 on the Massachusetts Ballot regarding charter schools met in a public forum in the Cabot Intercultural Center on Oct. 27 to debate and discuss increasing the cap on the annual addition of new charter schools to 12.Approximately 50 people attended ...
Early voting in Massachusetts began on Oct. 24, and a kick off event at Medford City Hall on Oct. 26 allowed student voters to cast their ballots for the 2016 Presidential Election in advance. Early voting is new in Massachusetts and will continue until Nov. 4.This year, for the first time, the ...
Gayatri Gopinath, associate professor from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, gave a talk titled “Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora,” as part of the annual Queer Theory Lecture Series on Oct. 27 at the Alumnae Lounge. The event was co-sponsored ...
Tufts janitors voted to authorize a strike if necessary as negotiations with Cushman & Wakefield (C&W)Services near the contract expiration date of Oct. 31. Voting began on Wednesday and continued through Thursday afternoon's final voting round in Tilton Hall, in order to include each ...
Tufts Dining has recently received 3-star certifications at all of its campus locations from the Green Restaurant Association (GRA), a nonprofit organization that recognizes food service providers for their work in becoming environmentally sustainable, according to the GRA website. The GRA rates food ...
Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), spoke at the Tufts health sciences campus as part of the Tufts Social Impact Network’s annual kickoff event last night.Spencer discussed the role of national and local community service in U.S. politics ...
