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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, ...






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Alpha Gamma Delta sorority no longer coming to campus

Despite efforts to bring an Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) chapter to campus last fall, the sorority is no longer establishing a Tufts chapter, according to Meaghan Annett, president of Tufts Panhellenic Council.Annett, a senior, said that AGD representatives came to Tufts during the fall of 2015 to ...


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Debate Watch Party draws full house, highlights student contingent supporting Clinton

The Department of Political Science hosted a Presidential Debate Watch Party on Sept. 26 from 7:45 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium. The screening of the first presidential debate of the 2016 election — between the Democratic presidential nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — was preceded by a panel discussion. Moderated by Chair of the Political Science Department Deborah Schildkraut, the panel consisted of Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser, Associate Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj, Professor of Political Science Jeff Berry and former "Meet the Press" host David Gregory. 


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Visions of Peace hosts bereaved Israeli, Palestinian parents

Tufts Visions of Peace hosted "It Won't Stop Until We Talk" in Goddard Chapel on Monday night with representatives from The Parents Circle - Families Forum, an organization advocating for peace in Israel and Palestine that is made up of people who have lost family members to the conflict.The ...


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Women's Center welcomes new interim director this fall

Bryn Gravitt began her tenure as interim director of the Women’s Center on Aug. 22 of this year, following the departure of former director Steph Gauchel in February for a position at the Harvard Divinity School. Gravitt will serve in her capacity until Feb. 2017, or until a long-term candidate ...


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Police Briefs - Sept. 26

If You Can't Take the Heat...A Carmichael Dining Center employee cut his right hand on Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. while preparing food for dinner. Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) and the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to the incident. The wound was bandaged and the employee ...



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Events on the Hill this week

MONDAY"It Won't Stop Until We Talk"Details: Visions of Peace is hosting a discussion with The Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization of families who have lost loved ones throughout the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speakers will focus on how to work through grief by communicating with ...


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South Hall renamed Harleston Hall, honoring former dean

South Hall was officially renamed Harleston Hall during a ceremony held outside of the building on Friday, Sept. 23.The building is named after former Professor of Psychology Bernard Harleston, who was Tufts' first African-American tenure-track faculty member and a former dean of the faculty of ...



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Advocacy efforts increase for more all-gender bathrooms on campus

Chief Diversity Officer Mark Brimhall-Vargas and LGBT Center Director Nino Testa are creating a new campus committee to discuss all-gender bathrooms, according to Jill Zellmer, director of the Office of Equal Opportunity. Zellmer told the Daily in an email that she will also serve on the committee, ...


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"Senior Pub Night" cancelled, Senior Night to take new form

The Office for Campus Life (OCL) has discontinued the practice of transporting students to a nightclub in Boston for Senior Night, colloquially known as "Senior Pub Night," in response to disruptive behavior at past events.According to the Senior Class Council, also known as Tufts University ...


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ENVS program introduces new environmental humanities track

Starting this semester, the Environmental Studies (ENVS) program at Tufts is offering a new track to students called environmental humanities. The track focuses on how ideologies have influenced humans' interactions with the environment, according to the program's website.Harriet H. Fay Professor ...