The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to discuss a resolution and supplementary funding requests.TCU President Gauri Seth, a senior, started the meeting by briefly discussing the Turkey Shuttle, which will run from the Mayer Campus Center ...
According to an Oct. 21 email from Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser and Dean of the School of Engineering Jianmin Qu to Tufts undergraduates, recent changes in administrative responsibility within Dowling Hall and other departments concerning student life will expand or change ...
Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Provost Mark Brimhall-Vargas will be leaving his position at Tufts on Jan. 10 after a year and a half of serving in the role. He will assume the role of Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Brandeis University upon his departure.
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life held a “Post-Election Paper Project” last wednesday to facilitate dialogue around the presidential election results. At the event, the walls of Tisch College’s Rabb Room were covered in large sheets of paper on which students could write or draw their ...
MONDAY"Between the Headlines: Tufts Observer and sexual harassment, the election and related topics"Details: Faculty from the Department of Sociology will be holding a discussion on pertinent campus and national issues and where to go from here.When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m., Eaton ...
Some of Tufts University's investments have changed from commingled funds to a separately managed account, according to the Board of Trustees' Investment Committee Chair Steven M. Galbraith.A commingled fund has assets from multiple accounts, and a separately managed account is a professional ...
Tufts Student Action (TSA)'s #HaltTheHike campaign released a list of demands on Nov. 1, calling for a halt in tuition increases, greater financial transparency and better financial aid resources.According to TSA member Parker Breza, the group is responding to the 3.6 percent increase in tuition ...
Tufts Panhellenic Council, the organization representing Panhellenic sororities at Tufts, published a statement denouncing the “hyper-masculinity and structural misogyny” of Tufts fraternities, indefinitely suspending organized events between sororities and fraternities and sports teams until a ...
Approximately 75 Tufts students gathered on the Academic Quad last night to express their thoughts and feelings following Tuesday's presidential election results at an event titled "A Light on the Hill."First-year Pedro Lazo-Rivera, one of the event organizers, described the event as ...
Thousands of people gathered in Boston yesterday evening to protest president-elect Donald Trump's recent victory. The rally was organized by Boston Socialist Alternative and included several speakers from local progressive groups. Participants marched from Boston Common to Copley Square holding ...
Bombs away!The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Somerville Fire Department were called to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house after receiving a report that a fire alarm that had gone off on Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Students at the house claimed they had found a small, red ball with ...
Donald J. Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in perhaps the closest race since the 2000 election between then Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.In a redux to the 2004 presidential election, ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Tufts chapter sent fourteen students to serve as poll monitors at precincts where Tufts students vote, according to Brandon Katz, the organization’s president.Katz, a junior, said that the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's JumboVote Coordinator ...
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The U.S. Senate will remain held by the Republican Party after Tuesday’s election, with the Republicans holding 52 seats versus the Democrats’ 47 seats at press time,Republicans held their ground in most competitive races, staving off a Democratic wave that could have flipped control of the chamber. ...
With 47 House of Representatives seats competitively contested according to CBS, the Democrats faced a challenge in retaking the chamber. The Republicans entered the election with 247 seats and the Democrats held 188, giving the GOP a 59-seat majority. The New York Times currently expects the Democrats ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life's JumboVote initiative transported 68 students to and from polling sites in the Medford/Somerville area yesterday from 9 a.m. until polls closed at 8 p.m.According to Alison Aimers, a volunteer for the shuttle program, the shuttles primarily bused ...
Students expressed a combination of enthusiasm, hesitation and disappointment throughout the course of the evening over the 2016 presidential election at last night's Election Night Extravaganza in the Mayer Campus Center.The event was sponsored by the Experimental College, the Office for Campus ...
President Barack Obama rallied voters for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton yesterday at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center Arena. New Hampshire is considered a critical piece of the electoral map by both Democrats and Republicans, Obama said during the rally.“There ...
