The Office of Sustainability (OOS) is celebrating Earth Month by partnering with numerous healthy and sustainable living groups and organizations over the course of the next two weeks to present a series of events called "Be Green, Be Healthy!"
The Union Square post office, located a few miles from Tufts, holds both cultural and historical significance to the Somerville community. Recently, the United States Postal Service has decided to close the post office and put it on the market. Though the post office is not yet officially closed, Somerville residents are concerned about the decision to sell the property and worried about the future of the historical mural housed within its walls.The post office is just one example of a recent increase in sales of postal service properties across the country. Since 2006, a federal law has required the USPS to pay some of its employees' retirement benefits in advance, creating an additional yearly cost of $5.5 billion. This, combined with a steady decline in the American public's use of the postal service, has left the USPS in dire financial straits.Located on 237 Washington St., the post office opened in 1936 and was placed on the national register of historic places in 1986. The building is home to a historically significant 1937 mural by artist Ross Moffett entitled "A Skirmish between British and Colonists near Somerville in Revolutionary Times." The work was commissioned under the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression, according to a March 12 article published in The Somerville Times.Chris Poteet, a Somerville resident who is investigating the sale of the post office, explained that many public murals, like this one, were commissioned in the New Deal era."The post office murals are a really great thing," Poteet said. "They were put in post offices all across the country in the 30s during the Roosevelt administration, and they're really national treasures."Poteet added that the Somerville mural was not created solely for aesthetic purposes, but also has a historical function."[Murals were] usually painted to tell the story of the town they were located in, and Somerville always had a tremendous resource, having this 1930's mural in [its] post office," Poteet said. "I've never felt like it was as promoted and celebrated as it should [have been]."While the Somerville Historic Preservation Committee has played a large role in the debate over the mural's future, Poteet described his own efforts to help preserve the piece."The first thing I did was go and find out what protections were in place [for the mural]," Poteet said. "I found out that there's a process that's really a part of federal law on how to deal with historic post offices and historic New Deal artwork. It was then that I found that these processes were never followed in Somerville."Poteet is referring to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which provides a series of guidelines to protect historic properties. It requires that the federal agency responsible for the sale of the property in question consult with appropriate state and local officials, as well as members of the public, when making final project decisions. Poteet explained that the community was taking action to ensure that there was transparency during the post office sale. "The sale was supposed to have stopped back in January," Poteet said. "The [Somerville] advisory council for historic preservation has an open investigation about the Somerville post office sale."Somerville Alderman At Large Bill White said that a public hearing was held in March to discuss the future of the mural, only after the post office had already been on the market for months."The historical preservation commission basically held a hearing just to take testimonies, to sort of compile the concerns of residents," White said. "Then, they themselves will send ... a report to the postal service to address how that mural should be handled when the post office is sold."White described general disapproval among Somerville residents about how decisions regarding the sale of the post office were made."The concern that some people have is whether the [USPS] has followed federal law with regards to the way this post office has been closed and put [up] for sale," White said. "We've asked the city solicitor to look on that, to review that issue, and he has not gotten back to us yet on that."A federal spending bill passed by Congress this January includes a provision that supports blocking the sale of post offices until both an inspector general and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) have issued reports on the building in question. White, however, reiterated the importance of including the public's opinion in this process.12
According to an April 14 safety alert from TUPD, a non-Tufts affiliated male was the victim of an aggravated assault on the corner of Capen and Winthrop Streets, near the bottom of the steps that lead from Wren Hall toward Boston Avenue.
Tufts Dining Services recently changed the hours of late-night dining at the Commons Deli and Grill on Fridays and Saturdays, after receiving reports of rowdy student behavior.
The Tufts University Entrepreneurial Leadership Program on Tuesday announced the winners of its $100k New Ventures Competition.
Seven members of the Tufts community, including students, a professor and an alumnus, delivered short presentations on their unique ideas as part of the fifth edition of the Tufts Idea Exchange .
WMFO, Tufts University's radio station and one of the oldest college stations in the country, is run by both students and community volunteers. Radio broadcasts run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and in recent years, student DJs have brought new energy to this long-running radio program.According to the Tufts Digital Archives, the radio station began broadcasting from Curtis Hall on Feb. 6, 1971 as a daily AM radio station. According to the WMFO website, the first song ever played was "Here Comes the Sun" (1969) by The Beatles.A few years later, the radio station in response to local interest from the Medford/Somerville community made the switch to the FM band. In 1973, WMFO was able to expand to broadcast coverage of the local elections.With funding from the Tufts Community Union Senate, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day in 1974, and created the freeform format that remains in place today. Despite suffering a large fire that destroyed most of the WMFO studio in 1977, it was quickly rebuilt and the station has remained on the airwaves ever since.Two student DJs are rejuvenating WMFO's longstanding freeform style by exploring Tufts history for their listeners every Friday from 3 to 4 p.m. on their segment "Age before Beauty." Juniors Michael Maskin and Sam Zollman decided to start their show in the fall of 2012."We were at the homecoming football game when we got the inspiration for the show," Maskin said. "We saw these two old alums walking around wearing Tufts paraphernalia, and it was just so funny to see them reliving their glory days.""Age before Beauty" features Maskin and Zollman performing as two fictional members of the Class of 1953. Maskin plays DJ Horace Hildabran, a fictional Tufts alum who has a bachelor's degree in international relations, and Zollman plays DJ Jasper VonSiegfried, who has a bachelor's degree in economics."We don't take ownership of the characters," Zollman said. "It's as if these people are actually DJs hosting the show, and the music they play is what we believe these characters listen to." Because the characters graduated in the 1950s, the show's music serves as a tribute to that era, featuring the hits of artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. The show also features singing from the show's DJs."We start out every show singing about 'our dear alma mater,'" Maskin said.Maskin and Zollman typically play tracks from various genres that were popular in the 50s, but also take suggestions from listeners and incorporate their own commentary as Horace and Jasper."It is ... a pretty even [ratio] of talking to music," Maskin said. "The banter is all adlib and improv."In the show, the two elderly DJs reminisce on their days at Tufts, discussing among other things their favorite places on the campus and their relationships with other fictional characters, such as a student named Bowen with giant lips their explanation for the kissing tradition behind Bowen Gate."In one segment we had a public service announcement about webcam language," Maskin said. "Horace and Jasper didn't understand how the NSA could fit into their computer, and another time one thought that their great-grandnephew actually had a band in the garage, instead of the computer program GarageBand."While the characters and their plotlines are all made-up, the show's creators adequately researched the time period, in order to present their characters through an accurate historical context, Maskin said. "We [also] want to make it clear that we're not [trying] to be mean or ageist in any way," Zollman said.Maskin and Zollman were both involved in theater in high school, and became friends when they both joined Tufts Traveling Treasure Trunk. Like many DJs on WMFO, however, they were new when they began their radio show. 12
Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, spoke with students and faculty yesterday about the evolving role of women in government decision making, particularly in those decisions involving conflict.
Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor delivered a keynote lecture on the importance of forgiveness yesterday as part of the Cummings / Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education.
Tufts Technology Services recently introduced a digital web conferencing tool, Cisco WebEx, which will allow members of the Tufts community to coordinate classes, meetings and other collaborative events online.
Four Tufts freshmen on March 27 launched a new smartphone application, WeParty, which allows Tufts students to view locations of various parties and social events on and off campus.Co-founder and Co-CEO of WeParty Kofi Asante explained that he and three friends decided to create an app after struggling to find events on campus."Coming here as freshmen, we got discouraged pretty quickly that you could never go to one specific place to figure out what was going on any given night," Asante, a freshman, said.Co-Founder and Co-Developer Jared Moskowitz said that he and Co-Founders Asante, Richard Kim and Denis Bravenec have each spent upward of 700 hours working on the app."Jared and I didn't know how to use [operating system] iOS, so we didn't sleep for 100 hours and just learned it," Co-Developer Kim said.While Moskowitz said the team did not reach out to faculty for help, they did receive support from many members of the Tufts community."We got a lot of input from fellow students always asking our friends, 'What do you think we could do better here?'" Moskowitz said.According to Co-CEO Bravenec, the team utilized as many resources as they could in order to create an app that would specifically appeal to Tufts students."We met with a lot of people that have created things on this campus, like [iJumbo developer junior Amadou Crookes] and people in web development and app development," Bravenec said. "We worked on becoming technically literate. We started understanding the social scene by doing the research and seeing what the social scene is like."Being aware of the social scene is crucial, according to Asante, if the group hopes to bring WeParty to other schools that each have their own unique social culture."We want to customize this to each university, so what we went through here in terms of understanding the social scene [is] the same process we want to do in each university," Asante said.Kim said the process of creating WeParty involved downloading hundreds of other apps and looking at what features they liked in each, as well as looking into the suggestions others had sent them."We really kind of thought of each individual person who [had] tried to use it," Kim said. "The best design is when it feels good. It's been truly humbling to see how many people are willing to give their time. ... I think it's upwards of 100 people that have helped us out."Moskowitz said that since the app is currently only for Tufts students, a Tufts email address is necessary in order to use it. Once you sign in, a list of events, ranging from fraternity parties to a cappella shows, appear."You [log into] the app, and the first thing you see is a list of events for this week and beyond. ... You can also see your own private events, which can be events from the public chart. You add to it by clicking the plus button, and you can create your own event and invite people," Moskowitz said.Another feature of WeParty is the Munchies section, according to Asante, which was added when the creators realized that many students wanted to know what restaurants were open late at night."You can call in on an Android or iPhone and ask for the WeParty discount at some of the restaurants we partner with," Asante said.According to Moskowitz, these food outlets include Sweet Idea, Pizza Days, Pranzi's, Yoshi's and Golden Taste."It's about creating win-win situations for everybody," Asante said. "The restaurants get to specifically advertise to the audience they're targeting, and on the user side you get discounts from the restaurants you love and it's all in the same place."Kim said that in order for a group to have a hosting account, they must follow rules about maintaining quality events. Bravenec also said the group enjoys meeting personally with students who wish to set up a hosting account."This app is created by students and for students," Bravenec said. "When we give these hosting accounts, ... we want to meet with [the hosts] and say thank you, and we hope they post all their quality events. This is a business, but we want to keep that student feel."Bravenec hopes that WeParty will grow so that students can connect with events around Boston and, ultimately, around the globe."We want to connect students across the world," Bravenec said. "So say you were a Tufts student, and you're doing a study abroad program in Barcelona. We want you to be able to connect with all the local students and be able to see where all the local students go. Right now, we want to take over Boston."12
While Tufts is known for its emphasis on "active citizenship," a growing number of students and faculty are wishing to bring "entrepreneurship" closer to the forefront of the university experience. The Gordon Institute, founded in 1984, seeks to assist inspired Tufts students as they bring their ideas to life through a variety of educational programs and annual competitions. The $100K New Ventures Competition, sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELP) and the Gordon Institute, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Additionally, this year marked the first Tufts Idea Competition, which helps sponsor student's business ideas in their early stages.The competition selected three winning proposals, each of which received a $1,000 cash prize for their business strategy. Trapsaver, presented by seniors David Leibenberg and Willem Sandberg from the School of Engineering, was one of the winning ideas. The product would assist fisherman in recovering sea fishing traps.Thormika Keo, a clinical associate at Tufts Medical Center, and Diana Winston, a clinical instructor at Tufts Medical Center, also won for their Hadori Catheter proposal, a device that would aid physicians in visualizing colonoscopy procedures. The third winner, Syria Bicycle Company, was presented by Fletcher School graduate student Ely Teitsworth as an enterprise to employ displaced Syrians through bicycle manufacturing.James Barlow, director of the ELP, discussed the wide array of applications to the Idea Competition. "If you think about how a lot of those [business plans] have more than one team member, there's a significant number of people working on cool and interesting projects across the university," he said. "It was a really hard job to whittle down the finalists of the Idea Competition. To be honest, if we had greater capacity, it would be amazing."This year, the Tufts Idea Competition featured roughly 135 experienced applicants, according to Barlow. The competition has offered budding entrepreneurs and future leaders the opportunity to exchange business ideas and strategies. This growing sense of entrepreneurial leadership, however, was not always as prevalent in campus culture, according to Barlow. "When I started at Tufts a few years ago, the Business Plan [100K New Ventures] Competition I felt was somewhat under representative of the entrepreneurial capacity at Tufts," he said. "This is why I joined. We had 18 submissions to the Business Plan Competition [that year], and I was fairly convinced that we had the capacity of getting a lot more entries and a lot more involvement from the student body at Tufts."According to Barlow, applicants were not required to know all of the tenents of business models in order to participate in the competition, but had to develop a great idea. He discussed the ELP's efforts to organize the competition."I'm thrilled about the changes that came with the competition and the things we've done to help generate ideas [like hosting] workshops and better outreach to really plug ourselves into what's happening in the dorm rooms and the coffee shops in and around campus," Barlow said. Ely Teitsworth, one of the three winners, said her idea was inspired by the time she spent living in Damascus from 2010 to 2011. "The inspiration for ... [Syria Bicycle Company] came from a Skype conversation I had a couple of months ago with a Syrian friend," Teitsworth told the Daily in an email. "He mentioned to me that the fastest way to get from my old neighborhood to his current neighborhood would be to walk this shocked me both because that would require walking for several hours and because it used to be a fairly quick trip on the microbus."Teitsworth attributed Syria's transportation issues to increasing fuel costs a phenomenon that has affected social mobility for those aspiring toward a greater education or career change."There are so many Syrians both inside and outside the country who have been struggling to find ways to use their time productively and move forward with their lives at a time when they face so many constraints." Teitsworth said. "It has been difficult to watch the consequences of the conflict in a place I had come to feel so connected to, and the huge number of young Syrians who have had to put their education and career aspirations on hold seemed like one area in which it might be feasible for me to act." Teitsworth said she firmly believes that bicycles are the solution to the transportation problem, and believes that her venture will make them more affordable and accessible to Syrians, while simultaneously creating more employment opportunities. She said she plans to use her prize money from the Tufts Idea Competition to study bicycle frame and wheel building, in order to aid in the company's manufacturing process.12
Last fall, University President Anthony Monaco named sexual assault as one the most important issues on campus, and created a university-wide sexual assault task force to address and prevent sexual misconduct at Tufts. Currently, the university is in the process of hiring a Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist, who will work to develop sexual assault prevention programming. In conjunction with these recent initiatives, Tufts students are hosting a variety of programming this April as part of campaign for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. On Wednesday night, students came together to share their experiences with sexual violence at It Happens Here (IHH), an event that provides a forum for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories.IHH was founded at Middlebury College in the fall of 2011 by Middlebury students Luke Carroll Brown, a current senior, and Margo Cramer, a recent graduate, and has since spread to a variety of colleges.I knew [sexual assault] was happening, Cramer said. My friends had experienced it, and I had experienced it. And there was just no conversation about it -- at least at Middlebury. We had a feminist group on campus that didnt address it directly ... There was just general silence around the issue.Cramer said that she and Brown took several weeks to decide what format would work best for a campaign about sexual violence awareness and opted to focus on initiating dialogue on campus through storytelling.We started collecting stories, she said. Sharing stories in a thoughtful manner seemed like one really important step in getting people to see this issue as an important one ... What we really wanted to do was attract a variety of submissions so that we could represent a bastion of experiences.In its third year at Middlebury, IHH has since taken off as both an online and spoken campaign. According to a Dec. 4, 2013 article published in The Middlebury Campus, the IHH campaign is currently working to establish programming at six other colleges across the country. This year, IHH was successfully launched at Tufts with the help of several sororities and the Action for Sexual Assault Prevention group.Tufts has, over the last few years, struggled with its footing in the movement of sexual assault awareness and prevention, Katrina Dzyak, a sophomore and one of the planners of IHH, said. There is a lot lacking on the administration side ... [and] it has become [the] role [of] students, of course, to create spaces that are safe and to create programs that the university has not offered or is in the process of creating, but [that havent] come to fruition.Annie Goodman, a junior who helped organize IHH, formed a small team of students and started planning for the event in February.I think this issue has really picked up a lot of national attention in the last year, Goodman said. That visibility has really started accelerating. This moment right now is a really good opportunity to push forward ... Were at a point where ... people are more familiar with the language surrounding the issue.IHH called for story submissions of any length -- from 15 seconds to 15 minutes -- and form, in order to amplify the survivors voice about a problem that is one of the largest in American universities, according to the IHH website.Some of [the stories] are merely reflections, some of them are a sentiments of reactionary emotions, but they are all very, very important, Dzyak said. A few of them critique how weve gone about publicizing the movement, and how the activist community on campus has operated and maybe excluded people. But those are very important conversations to have.Goodman also noted that there was significant variety in the submissions to IHH, which were all anonymous.I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of male submissions, she said. I think its really important for the movement as a whole to recognize that sexual violence is not just something that happens ... [to] a woman being attacked by a stranger at night. It takes on so many forms that can have equally damaging repercussions for the survivorCramer explained that the flexible structure of the event allowed for stories to be read either by their actual author or another speaker. However, it was never specified if the stories were the readers own. One of the really cool things about the event format, and something that Tufts has done a really great job with developing further, is giving people more power to decide how their story is shared, she said.IHH also featured a keynote speaker, Wagatwe Wanjuki, a Tufts alumna who started a blog called Raped at Tufts University, which works to generate awareness of sexual assault by publishing first-hand accounts of survivors stories. Since graduating, Wanjuki has become a nationally recognized sexual assault activist, with her work featured in Ebony Magazine and Feministing.com.12
Tufts Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning last Friday hosted a conference on the future of city planning in Quebec and New England.
Tufts Bikes last week added 12 new bicycles to its school bike-share program, bringing the total number of bikes in the program to 30.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions released its remaining admissions decisions last Friday, which include a record-low 17.4 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2018. With 19,075 applications for next years freshman class, this is the third record-high pool Tufts has received in the last four years, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin. The numbers are particularly notable for the School of Engineering, where the number of applicants increased by 17 percent from last year. This is the eighth year in a row the school received a record-breaking applicant pool. Thats the untold story, the explosive growth in the School of Engineering, Coffin said. I think its ... partly because of a national trend and its partly a continued expansion of the visibility of the School of Engineering at Tufts. While the number of applications to the School of Arts and Sciences did not notably increase, Coffin said the combined acceptance rate for both undergraduate schools has dropped by 10 points in the last five years. I think some of it is the success of the undergraduate admissions website, he said. We went live in the fall of 2011 and the [applicant] pool is up almost 17 percent in the two years weve had an online recruitment platform versus a more traditional print based system ... The admissions blogs [are] a really significant draw. This years acceptance pool includes students from all 50 states, two more than last year. In particular, there has been a tremendous growth in the number of applicants from California. Tufts received 2,417 applications from this west coast state, compared to 2,441 from Massachusetts. It would not surprise me next year to see California become the number one state in the applicant pool, Coffin said. That is a function of the web. I think we have eight different admissions officers that recruit in California. Weve spent more time doing programs in the state. The admissions office also saw continued growth in applicants from outside the United States, Coffin added, in large part due to increased travel from admissions counselors and increased visibility of the school. According to Coffin, standardized test scores for the Class of 2018 remained relatively consistent with last years record scores. The mean SAT critical reading score remained unchanged at 728, and the math was at 732, slightly down from 735, but still higher than it has been for classes within the last decade. The average ACT score also remained at 32. Ninety-three percent of accepted students ranked in the top 10 percent of their class. However, Coffin noted that this statistic excludes the many students who come from high schools that do not use ranking systems. Unlike last years class, which included slightly more female students, almost an equal number of male and female students were accepted this year, according to Coffin. Approximately two-thirds of this years pool applied for financial aid a consistent number from last years applicant pool, Coffin said. The goal is to continue to raise resources to make Tufts successful, Coffin said. There is never going to be an admission cycle where that eases up. Tufts Admissions also accepted a record 342 first-generation college students this year, an increase over the 295 admitted last year. Im really proud of the increase in the first-gen community at Tufts, said Coffin, who was a first-generation college student himself. There were 3,315 total students accepted for the Tufts Class of 2018, a number that has also decreased in recent years as larger numbers of accepted students decide to attend Tufts, according to Coffin. Admitted students will have until May 1 to submit their deposit. As it has annually, the school will host three Jumbo Days on April 17, 18 and 25. Coffin encouraged current students to sign up to host the most recently accepted Jumbos.
In a widespread effort to increase the use of new media forms, the video sharing website YouTube is being used by a wider variety of organizations in the Tufts community than ever before. Tufts University Television (TUTV) premiered their latest web-series Jules and Monty on YouTube last month, while an Experimental College (ExCollege) course this semester titled YouTube: Business and Creative Success has specifically geared its curriculum toward the use of the social media website. Additionally, Tufts Community Union presidential candidates reached out to potential voters with campaign videos posted on YouTube last year.With more than one billion distinct users visiting per month, YouTube has found a unique niche in the landscape of modern media. YouTubes accessibility, combined with its ease of navigation and widespread use, has allowed the Tufts students to explore video production both creatively and academically.YouTube, as a system, is a great equalizer, Kyle Shurtleff, instructor of YouTube: Business and Creative Success, said. The fact that it is completely free to use for both consumers and creators is a great benefit to anyone just starting or very well established.A senior engineering psychology major with over 85,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, Shurtleff designed his course in an effort to motivate and teach others who might not otherwise have the opportunity to use YouTube as a creative medium. Shurtleff has published over 250 gaming videos on his YouTube channel with a combined total view count of over 10 million.His course aims to provide the tools necessary for achieving YouTube success by encouraging students to be creative with a medium that they may not know how to use effectively. Shurtleff described some of the aspects on which his course seeks to focus. One of the things I like about YouTube is the fact that it incorporates lots of skills beyond just pure video making, he said. Theres lots of marketing, promotional skills [and a lot] of recording, technical, [and] writing skills. The goal [of the course] is just to enable people to learn some of those [skills] and to up themselves when they otherwise might not.Shurtleff also described some of the entrepreneurial and financial aspects of the course. Compared to other forms of media ... [YouTube is] very easy to monetize, [and] starting to make even a small income from it is as easy as checking a couple boxes, he said.Shurtleff emphasized how YouTube allows users full control over the creative process, a freedom not common in many other kinds of social media. This creative freedom has also been captured by TUTVs latest web-series Jules and Monty, a modern adaptation of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet (1597). The show is the brainchild of sophomores Imogen Browder and Ed Rosini.We all know the stories of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (1603) and [A] Midsummer [Nights Dream] (1605). I want to see how artists can take those well-known stories and breathe new life into them, sophomore Evelyn Reidy, the shows artistic director, said.Identified by TUTV as the groups medium of choice, YouTube gives the shows creators the platform to recreate these works with TUTVs own spin for a huge audience.I think [YouTube is] extremely effective because [it] is something that everyone uses and everyones used to, sophomore Claire Brodie, Jules and Monty assistant cinematic director, said. I think its the easiest way for reaching people without spending any sort of money. So TUTV actually used to have channel that would be broadcast over campus and that stopped, I believe, in the 90s. YouTube [however] is good because its really easy to share.Reidy discussed the goals of TUTVs newest show, which has been posted in a serialized episode format on the groups YouTube channel. Episodes range from about five to eight minutes long, and feature several Tufts students.I hope that Jules and Monty has a two-fold purpose to provide the Tufts community with original, engaging content and to show Tufts what our artistic communities are capable of producing, Reidy said. I think the series really showcases how impressive an all student-made production can be, both from an acting and technical standpoint.With only seven episodes released and view counts for many episodes reaching more than 1500, students and the public appear to have significant interest in TUTVs latest large-scale production. According to Brodie, broadcasting via YouTube and regularly promoting the show on Facebook has made the dissemination of the show to an audience easy and effective.Shurtleff pointed to the various uses of YouTube around campus, from promotional videos produced by the Tufts Undergraduate Admissions Department to educational and tutorial videos used by professors in the classroom. Tufts admissions applicants even have the choice to submit a video as their optional supplement, and many students have taken advantage as an opportunity to show their creative sides. The beauty of YouTube is that anyone can do the same, according to Shurtleff.12
The brothers of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity will host a Tufts Gives Back event this Friday which will consist of a bone marrow registration drive and a used book sale and donation drive.
Wilson House will be home to transfer students for the 2014-2015 school year, according to Director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning Yolanda King. King explained that the university several years ago housed about 10 female transfer students in 92 Professors Row today the home of Sigma Phi Epsilon - but since that time has not had a dedicated home for transfers.
Duke University Professor of Economics Rachel Kranton spoke yesterday about the ways in which people act on their self-interests in group contexts when making economic decisions.
