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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Joey campus shuttle service will be replaced with a new shuttle program this fall, switching from Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation as a provider to A & A Metro Transportation.
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 ...
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 ...
According to a Tufts Labor Coalition press release, student activists have decided to end a weeklong hunger strike, which began at 3 p.m. last Sunday, May 3.In the release, TLC said the protesters will continue to work against proposed cuts to at least 20 janitorial staff members, with a sixth ...
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 ...
Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) met with members of the Tufts administration at 12:00 p.m. today -- the fourth day of a five-student hunger strike -- to further discuss the proposed restructuring of Tufts’ custodial staff. The meeting was the second in as many days and resulted in a proposal from the ...
University administrators and representatives from Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) held their bi-weekly meeting in the Mayer Campus Center today to discuss the university's plans to make cuts to janitorial staff. The meeting took place in the midst of a five-student hunger strike in protest of the proposed ...
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.
"DTZ and Monaco are sitting at their desk and they don't understand," Castillo said. "The workers support the students striking; no one has done this for them before."
Several Tufts students were arrested today during a march against planned cuts to janitorial positions at Tufts. A total of seven protesters were arrested, according to a release from Service Employees International Union 32BJ, which organized the protest.According to Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Students and supporters from the surrounding area gathered outside Ballou Hall today at 12:00 p.m. to show solidarity with protestors -- mostly members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) -- who began a sit-in in University President Anthony Monaco’s office on Wednesday, April 22.
