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 ...
A Tufts chapter of the nonprofit Petey Greene Program, an organization focused on supplementing education in local correctional institutions with the help of graduate and undergraduate students, will make its debut on campus this fall. Amanda Borquaye, who hopes to open conversation about the ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of its M.D./M.B.A. program later this year.Harris Berman, the dean of the School of Medicine, said the M.D./M.B.A. program began in 1995 as a way to recognize the need for physicians who were going to be managers in ...
The fourth annual Tufts Century Ride brought together approximately 70 students, faculty and alumni from the Tufts community on a bike ride last Friday.This year's ride was organized by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and his office in collaboration with the Tufts Cycling Team and ...
A new prayer room has opened in Curtis Hall this fall to provide a space for ritual Muslim prayers during weekdays.The space's proximity to other academic buildings makes it easily accessible, allowing support for student practices and rituals, according to Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim.“It ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night to tackle its first set of supplementary funding requests from student groups.Senior Brian Tesser, president of TCU Senate, opened Sunday’s meeting by welcoming the three newly elected trustee representatives and updating the Senate on general ...
Early on the morning of May 31, the university’s emergency alert system notified the community about a stabbing in the fraternity house of Delta Tau Delta (DTD). Since then, the house has been vacant and information about the incident and its investigation has been scant. According to DTD president ...
Hopeful candidates for open TCU Senate seats will turn in their candidacy petitions today in order to become verified as official candidates and begin campaigning for next Wednesday's election.The available positions include seven seats for first-year Senate representatives, five seats on the ...
Members of the Tufts community gathered yesterday afternoon to commemorate the life of James G. Ennis, a longtime Tufts sociology professor, at the Granoff Family Hillel Center.The memorial ceremony was officiated by university RabbiJeffrey Summit.Ennis, who was 62, passed away unexpectedly after ...
