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Students start campaign to collect socks for the homeless

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 ...


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Police Briefs

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. ...


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Cause Dinner tonight to support Tufts Timmy Global Health

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 ...


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TCU Senate update

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 ...


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Barry Shrage speaks on Israeli security at J Street U conference

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 ...


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Food for Thought launches campaign against McDonald's marketing

With a workshop on Nov. 4, Tufts Food for Thought officially kicked off its Retire Ronald campaign to end McDonald's use of mascot Ronald McDonald as a marketing practice that targets children.Sydney Giacalone, a Food for Thought member who led the initiative on campus, explained that the campaign, ...



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Visiting the Hill this week

MONDAY"STEM Lecture Series -- Allan Collins"Details: Alan Collins, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, will present as part of the Tufts Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Lecture Series.When and Where: 3 - 4 p.m., Halligan Hall, Room 102Sponsors: ...


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NYT columnist discusses Germany's position in world affairs

Roger Cohen, author and journalist for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, gave a lecture titled "Germany: 25 Years After the Berlin Wall" on Thursday in the Crane Room. His talk focused on the current state of Germany in world affairs to commemorate the 25th anniversary ...


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Cage Rage sees popular headliner, lower ticket sales

The fifth annual Cage Rage concert, featuring headliner MS MR and openers STRFKR and Gentlemen Hall, was held at Carzo Cage in Cousens Gymnasiumthis Saturday evening.According to Concert Board Co-Chairs Matthew Marber and Kathryn Gibb, about 1,100 tickets were sold, as opposed to 1,350 tickets sold ...


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Tufts Eco-Reps to host annual symposium this weekend

Eco-Reps from a number of Northeast universities will gather at the Aidekman Arts Center this weekend for the fifth annual Eco-Rep Symposium.The event, which will be hosted by the Tufts Eco-Reps, brings together students interested in campus sustainability to exchange ideas and talk about related ...


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SAPAC hosts inaugural event for Tufts Kashmir Initiative

Taking place on the Tisch Library roof and featuring a guided historical tour of Kashmir, a postcard diorama and a candlelight vigil, the South Asian Political Action Committee's (SAPAC) first event of the semester was well-received by the campus community.The event also included live poetry recitals ...


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Nobel prize winner discusses economic policy in Eurozone

Sir Christoper Pissarides, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, gave a presentation yesterday afternoon on the current state of affairs in the Eurozone for the Department of Economics' 2014 Wellington Burnham Lecture. Pissarides' lecture began with an overview of the ...


Award-winning screenplay writer Jennifer Burton gets into character as "Rachel Carlson" and joins the cast of characters as she directs "Half the History" inside the Crane Room at Tufts University.
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"Half the History" uncovers the lives of historic American women

Professor of Practice in the Department of Drama and Dance Jennifer Burton and the students of her Advanced Production Seminar are working to bring under-told stories of American women to light through a multimedia project called "Half the History." The goal of the production, which combines ...


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Venezuelan journalist speaks at Tufts about press freedom

Boris Muñoz, Venezuelan journalist and 2010 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, spoke yesterday about the freedom of the press in Venezuela.  The event, titled "Freedom of the Press in Latin America: A Conversation with Boris Muñoz," was hosted by Tufts ...



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Greek community forms anti-sexual assault task force

Independent of the university-wide Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force, Tufts Inter-Greek Council (IGC) held its first Greek Life Anti-Sexual Assault Initiative Task Force meeting on Oct. 31, with a second meeting planned for Friday. Members from seven of the 17 Greek organizations at Tufts ...


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Tufts MC to conduct follow-up study on bipolar disorder

The Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center (MC) will soon launch a full follow-up study to examine the effects of a new therapeutic treatment for bipolar disorder -- Bipolar IN Order -- after completing a pilot study last year.The Bipolar IN Order treatment begins with an eight-week online ...