Last night at 9 p.m. EST, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced the Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson. Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man on Aug. 9. ...
Tufts Off-Hill Council, which is headquartered at Hillside House (Commuter House), hosted its first-ever Fall Fest on Saturday afternoon, with activities and food for Tufts community members.The event featured activities including horse-drawn hayrides, cornhole, an ugly sweater contest and a potato-sack ...
Speaker and storyteller Donna Edmonds Mitchell, also known as Minoweh Ikidowin (Cloud in the Wind), presented a lecture on Thursday evening in the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center about identity and colonization in North America, titled “Thanksgiving and the Native American Genocide: an Evening ...
The Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) hosted a teach-in on the events, context and implications of this summer's conflict and the ongoing situation in Ferguson, Mo. in the Terrace Room on Friday afternoon. The event was broken up into three panel discussions, featuring both ...
MONDAYChris Maddox: "How I Launched my Acting and Writing Career"Details: Actor and writer Chris Maddox (LA '00) will lead a workshop and discussion about his experience in the entertainment industry.When and Where: 12 - 1:30 p.m., Aidekman Arts Center, Balch Arena TheaterSponsor: Department ...
Tufts Relay For Life hosted its biannual JumBonnaroo music festival on Nov. 21 and 22 to raise money for the American Cancer Society (ACS).The musical performances, which took place in fraternities Theta Chi and ATO of Massachusetts, featured Tufts bands Rollersnakes, Waldo, Market Basket and Shark ...
Updates to the class search function for Tufts’ Student Information System (SIS) are scheduled to go live around March 1, 2015, according to Tufts Technology Services (TTS) Associate Director of Student and Alumni Services Linda Snell.These changes will provide students with a more user-friendly and ...
Concluding a fundraising effort called the Steps for Change challenge, health technology and device companyWithings donated $10,000 yesterday to ChildObesity180, an organization located at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy that serves to facilitate research about childhood obesity ...
Members of the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) hosted a teach-in session last night to a full audience in Alumnae Lounge, providing attendees with information on potential janitorial layoffs on the university's three campuses.According to TLC member Anissa Waterhouse, a first-year, the event's ...
A group of Tufts students has come together to launch a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the Hill, hosting a general information meeting (GIM) on Nov. 12. The ACLU, founded in 1920, is an organization that works to protect the individual rights granted by the Constitution by acting ...
The League of American Bicyclists listed Somerville as the city with the highest share of bicyclists in the East and the fifth highest share of bicyclists in the nation -- with 7.8 percent of the population commuting by bike -- in its 2013 annual report released earlier this fall.“The City of ...
Frederick Hauck (LA '62),former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut and retired United States Navy captain spoke Tuesday night about the history and future of space exploration, as part of the last formal installment of the Experimental College's (ExCollege) year-long ...
Tufts Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honors society on campus, kicked off its first-ever Thanksgiving Food Drive at the beginning of the month in support of Project Share Our United Pantry (SOUP), a food pantry affiliated with the Somerville Homeless Coalition.The society is collecting non-perishable, ...
On Nov. 13, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Student Outreach Committee hosted its sixth annual Student Leadership Dinner, which brings together the leaders of student organizations across campus, at 51 Winthrop St.The aim of the dinner was to generate dialogue about what student groups ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service announced in October the selected locations and organizations for its 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program, which was officially unveiled last February. The program will allow up to 50 new students to participate in a year-long ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (Reslife), the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) and Tufts Hillel have partnered to bring the "Knock Knock Give a Sock" donation campaign to Tufts this semester, with donation boxes available on campus until Dec. 1.The Knock Knock Give a Sock organization ...
Visitor from a Strange LandA student reported to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) on Nov. 6 at 1:45 p.m.that an unknown man had entered her apartment on College Ave. on Nov. 1. The student stated that when she woke up, she encountered an unknown college-age male standing in her bedroom. ...
Tufts Dining Services and the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate will tonight host their biannual Cause Dinner in support of this year's selected organization, Tufts Timmy Global Health. To participate, students will donate a meal swipe in Carmichael Dining Center or Dewick MacPhie Dining Center by ...
In a nearly four-hour meeting Sunday evening, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution urging the university to establish equal opportunity in admissions for undocumented students and hosted Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist Alexandra Donovan for a discussion on the sexual ...
Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, addressed a crowd of almost 200 students attending J Street U’s East Coast Regional Workshop in Barnum Hall this Sunday.To begin the event, moderators Tali deGroot, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
