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TCU Senate Update

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its first meeting of the academic year last night, which began with with a brief introduction by TCU President Brian Tesser.Tesser, a senior, talked about the upcoming elections for first-year senators and the trustee representatives, which will take place ...


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Fletcher School professor named Mexican ambassador to US

Miguel Basáñez, former professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, will begin his first day in office today as Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States.Basáñez, who has been at Fletcher since 2008 as the director of the Judicial Reform Program and an adjunct professor, succeeds ...


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Tufts Medical Center names dining pavilion after former trustee

Tufts Medical Center (MC) officially named and dedicated its new dining pavilion to former Tufts MC Trustee and Governor A. Raymond Tye in a ceremony on Aug. 26.The newly constructed dining pavilion, located on the first floor Atrium of Tufts MC, was funded by the contributions Tye made to Tufts MC ...


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Labor Day rally sustains opposition to janitorial restructuring

Janitors and students continued their fight against janitorial staff cuts this Monday at 10 a.m. with a rally organized by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ and Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC).Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) blocked vehicle traffic as marchers walked from Powderhouse ...


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Chinese House moves to Curtis following Sigma Nu suspension

The Chinese House will move this fall to Curtis Street, where it will share a house with Kappa Alpha Theta. The move follows the university's decision to suspend Sigma Nu (SigNu)'s charter at the end of the past academic year, leaving space in the 90-94 Curtis St. house open.Mingquan Wang, ...


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Film and Media Studies major to be offered this fall

The new Film and Media Studies (FMS) major will be open to students this fall as an expansion of the Communications and Media Studies (CMS) minor.According to FMS Co-Director Malcom Turvey, all of the courses offered in CMS are still available in the 12-course FMS major.The major will include core ...




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Alpha Gamma Delta joins Greek community

This fall, Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) will join the Tufts Greek community as the sixth sorority on campus.Informal recruitment for AGD will begin during the fall semester, which will result in a charter class. That class will then participate in formal recruitment in the spring, according to formerPanhellenic ...


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Torn Ticket II loses access to drama department resources

The Drama Department has banned Torn Ticket II from using the Balch Arena Theater and other resources for its major fall theater production, following a safety violation committed by two students in the spring. The incident involved members of the student-run musical theatre group operating a power ...



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Tufts undergraduate unexpectedly dies on Saturday

Tufts undergraduate HyunJae Kim died unexpectedly on the morning of Saturday, May 9, according to an email sent to the Tufts community by University President Anthony Monaco. Kim, a junior studying biomedical engineering, hailed from Seoul, South Korea.Junior Haylee Rosenblatt, executive director ...




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TLC occupation site fenced in as hunger strike continues

University officials have erected a fence around the occupation site of Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) protesters as the five-student hunger strike in protest of proposed cuts to janitorial staff continues. As of this evening, Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and Tufts administrators will only allow Tufts students to enter the fenced-in site, which is located between Ballou Hall and Goddard Chapel.




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Susan Koegel named TCU Senate's Professor of the Year

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has selected Susan Koegel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology, to receive this year's Professor of the Year Award.“It’s a huge honor," Koegel said. "From what I understand it’s selected by students, so that’s kind of the biggest ...


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TCA, administration agree to discuss divestment further

After a three-day sit-in, Tufts Climate Action and university administrators reached an agreement regarding divestment from fossil fuels, according to sophomore TCA member Shana Gallagher and Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler. Executive Vice President Patricia Cambell, Gallagher and fellow TCA ...


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Education to be offered as secondary major

Beginning next fall, Tufts' Department of Education will introduce a new education major in addition to the minor currently offered. The new major, which was voted in on April 15, will be a secondary major, according to Chair of the Department of Education David Hammer.Secondary majors, unlike ...