Three Tufts students were allegedly assaulted by a 23-year-old Somerville resident outside the Zeta Psi fraternity house during the early morning of Oct. 3. The suspect, Jorge Palacios, is now facing charges of home invasion, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, possessing a burglarious instrument ...
Trigger warning: This article discusses sexual violence.The university released the results of last spring's confidential Tufts Attitudes About Sexual Conduct Survey in an email to the Tufts community last week.According to the Sept. 30 email, approximately 14 percent of undergraduate respondents ...
This year, Tufts became one of approximately 80 schools that have joined the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a free alternative college application platform that will go into effect for the 2017 admissions cycle. According to the Coalition’s website, the new application platform ...
TuftsLife, which served as the virtual bulletin board for student groups and their events for the past decade, has re-launched this fall after an eight-month hiatus.Inactive since Feb.1, TuftsLife announced its return on Oct. 6 with a post on its Facebook page that read, "Hello[,] World. ...
The Office of Student Affairs and Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) have recorded 24 noise complaints leveled at students by residents of Medford and Somerville this past month.According to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, the number of noise complaints began to increase ...
The annual National Coming Out Day Rally, which gives students an opportunity to discuss their personal experiences with gender and sexuality is taking place on the Lower Campus Center Patio this afternoon.According to Abigail Mendez, a Team Q Peer Leader at the LGBT Center, today's rally will ...
Fletcher School alumnus General Joseph Dunford (F '92) has begun his new role as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military officer in the country. Dunford succeeds General Martin E. Dempsey, who officially retired on Oct. 1.The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Dunford ...
Three students from Tufts Climate Action (TCA) met with university administrators and trustees on Monday to discuss climate change and to push for the Tufts endowment fund to be divested from fossil fuel industries.The meeting follows a three-day TCA sit-in lastApril that demanded fossil fuel divestment, ...
Approximately 100 Tufts students joined over 20,000 people at the rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Boston last Saturday.Tufts for Bernie and Tufts Democratsorganized a meet-up for students to travel as a group to the rally, which was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition ...
The 13th annual Community Day was held on the Academic Quad last Sunday afternoon to provide free food and entertainment to the public.The event, which Tufts co-sponsored with the cities of Medford and Somerville, ran from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and featured music and dance performances from student groups, ...
Around 360 people attended Kappa Alpha Theta's (Theta) second annual Thetathon, a live music event, to raise money for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) last Friday night in the Alumnae Lounge.Ticket sales for the event put Theta on track to meet the intended goal of $10,000 for CASA, ...
The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS),Tufts' community service umbrella organization, held its 20th annual LCS Vegas event for studentson Oct. 2 in the Armory in Somerville.Senior Skyler Bast, co-president of LCS, said all proceeds from tickets, which amounted to roughly $1,200, along with food ...
Tufts Health Service will provide free flu vaccinations for students on the Medford/Somerville campus in two sessions this season.According to Kathleen O'Dea, the clinic manager of Health Services, the flu clinic sessions will be held on Oct. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Oct. 15 from 2:30 ...
The newly established local Tufts fraternity Pi Delta is adjusting to its place on campus after disaffiliating from the national fraternity organization Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) last winter.Former AEPi members voted unanimously to disaffiliate and finalized their decision through the Office of Fraternity ...
Computer science has become the most popular undergraduate major at Tufts, ahead of international relations, which had been the biggest major at the university for the past decade.There were 466 declared computer science majors in the spring of last semester -- slightly more than the 464 declared ...
The Area Residence Director (ARD) system implemented last year by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) has run into staffing issues as it transitions away from the former Residence Hall Directors system.Under the new system, four full-time ARDs have replaced 10 part-time Residence Directors ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held an election yesterday to fill five openings on the Freshman Class Council, to select seven first-year senator seats and to fill three Community Representative positions.According to Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Paige Newman, 44.88 percent of the ...
The Student Judicial Process, which holds students and student organizations accountable for violations of university and local policies, was revised over the summer recess by the Student Affairs Office.According to Judicial Affairs Administrator Mickey Toogood, most of the process has remained the ...
On-campus housing has approached maximum capacity this semester, putting many first-year and transfer students in overflow housing and nontraditional first-year housing.Yolanda King, Director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), said there are currently 12 available beds on ...
Journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad spoke about her career and the creation of the Tehran Bureau, a Boston-founded independent news organization covering news on Iran and the Iranian diaspora, in the Rabb Room last night.The talk, "Tehran Bureau: Beyond Crisis Reporting," was sponsored by Middle ...
