Tufts Students for National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), a university-based chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, was formed at Tufts this fall to focus on political organization and on-campus activism for women's reproductive rights.According to junior Samantha Berg, president ...
TUESDAY"Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution"Details: Award-winning Egyptian-American feminist writer and commentator Mona Eltahawy will be speaking about Egypt, the Islamic world and women's rights.When and Where: 6 p.m., Room 104, Barnum HallSponsors: Center ...
Members of the Somerville community gathered for the annual Domestic Violence Vigil outside the Somerville Public Safety Building in Union Square last Wednesday evening.The vigil, held to remember those who lost their lives to domestic violence, included a candlelit parade through the streets of Union ...
Tufts was one of five colleges and universities that received this year’s national New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, along with $20,000 worth of scholarships in an internship program. University President Anthony Monaco and Alan Solomont (A'70), the dean of Tisch College ...
History Professor Daniel Mulholland has returned to Tufts as an adjunct professor this semester to teach a history course on Marxism, following his retirement in spring 2014, in order to fill what he perceives as a missing niche in the Department of History.Mulholland, who began teaching at Tufts ...
Dr. Helen Boucher, director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Tufts Medical Center, was named to President Barack Obama’s newly established Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.According to Boucher, who is also an associate professor at Tufts, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate had a full schedule at its meeting last night: they met with three administrators, held elections for the Allocations Board (ALBO) and tackled supplementary funding requests.TCU President Brian Tesser, a senior, opened the floor for three administrators who ...
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 ...
