The Tufts-owned warehouse at 574 Boston Avenue is currently undergoing renovations that will result in the creation of a new functional and social space for university members.
Tufts Department of Biology may move from Barnum Hall, the departments base since the late 1930s, to a new space at 574 Boston Ave. in coming years.
The fall kickoff event for the sixth annual China-U.S. Symposium was held yesterday in the Terrace Room of Paige Hall. Panelists and audience members discussed the rise of China as an international power.
Linda Bamber, an associate professor in the Department of English at Tufts, is turning heads with her latest book, Taking What I Like. A collection of short stories drawn from classic literature, six of the eight stories are based on Shakespeares works. Theres a twist, however: The stories take place in modern society, making for an inventive, contemporary spin on original texts.
Tufts volleyball finished its regular season on a high note by winning both games of Saturday's doubleheader, against Colby and Simmons, at Cousens Gym.
Students gathered in the Crane Room last night to discuss the Tufts Prism Run, hosted on Oct. 27 by Theta Chi, after the event sparked controversy about religious and cultural appropriation.
A Tufts student sustained minor injuries after being struck by a Joey shuttle around noon on Friday at the intersection of College and Talbot Avenues. According to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Sergeant Robert McCarthy, officers received an emergency call at 12:02 p.m. on Friday alerting them that a female student on a bike had been involved in an accident. Both TUPD and the Somerville Police Department responded to the call. One student, who wished to remain anonymous, explained that he had been onboard the Joey at the time the cyclist was struck and called 911 following the collision. I was looking out the window ... and as we got to the intersection of Talbot Avenue and College Avenue, I saw a girl on her bicycle coming close to the Joey, and she wasnt wearing a helmet, he said. The driver realized, I think, at the last second that [the cyclist] wasnt stopping, so she slammed on the brake.Before the Joey could stop, however, the vehicle collided with the cyclist and knocked her to the ground. According to the source, the cyclist hit her head against the windshield.Luckily, the Joey was already moving relatively slowly as it approached the cyclist, according to the witness. After hitting the student, the Joey driver opened the doors, and the witness, along with others, ran out to help the victim. After putting a coat over the cyclist as it was raining and discovering that she was conscious, the witness called both Somerville police and TUPD, he said. We stayed with her until they came, and then I waited until the ambulance took her away, he said. Although the victim seemed to have only a minor scrape on her hand and tried to stand, the students insisted that she stay on the ground while waiting for medical assistance in case she had a neck injury. According to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, the student will be okay. Her injuries were minor, and we are most thankful for that, Maguire said. The anonymous source added that the female student returned to campus a few hours after the accident. TUPD officers stated that the accident is currently under investigation by Somerville police. Somerville officers did not respond to interview requests before print time.According to the student witness, reasons for the collision seem unclear. What I think happened is that [the cyclist] thought that the Joey driver was going to stop and the Joey driver thought [the cyclist] was going to stop, and so she kept going in front of the Joey, he said.This incident comes in the wake of two motor vehicle accidents involving pedestrians last year, including one student who suffered major injuries when a car struck him at the intersection of Powderhouse Boulevard and Packard Avenue. The student witness said that, despite these other accidents, he is hesitant to conclude that this incident indicates an ongoing threat to student safety, as a number of specific factors may have contributed to the collision. There were cars parked on the side of the road, so it was difficult to see the turn, he said. It was also raining out, so there was low visibility.Student-TUPD liaison Becky Goldberg, however, said she believes there is an issue of pedestrian safety which students, drivers and university members must work to combat. Its a really big problem, Goldberg, a junior, said. Even though, yes, were on a college campus and people driving through this campus should be wary of the fact that this is a college and people are walking, as students we dont feel like these are real streets, but they are. Goldberg, who helped host Safety Awareness Week last year in order to promote pedestrian safety, said she plans to bring the event back this year as well. Through partnering with Medford and Somerville, Tufts has begun a number of projects to improve pedestrian and crosswalk safety that will continue into the future, Maguire said. These projects include repainting crosswalks, replacing crosswalk signage with ones made of highly reflective material, pruning foliage that inhibits crosswalk and sign illumination and fixing broken street lights. The university has also made changes to intersections such as the one between Powderhouse Boulevard and Packard Avenue by adding four-way stop signs and adding a speed table.In order to reduce the number of incidents involving motor vehicles and pedestrians in and around campus, we continue to engage in a concerted effort to improve pedestrian safety using engineering, education and enforcement, Maguire said.While College Avenue has not been a source of issues in the recent past, Maguire said that the street was identified as a problem area for pedestrian and bike safety in two surveys conducted by the university. As part of a project to improve walker and biker accessibility to the to-be-renovated 574 Boston Ave. warehouse, a traffic engineering firm will also visit College Avenue and other surrounding streets in order to make recommendations about making the area safer.12
Blue Is the Warmest Color (originally titled La Vie dAd?le) is possibly the best film of 2013. Having won the Palm dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, it has already achieved remarkable acclaim for its director, Abdellatif Kechiche, and its two lead actresses, Ad?le Exarchopoulos and L?a Seydoux. Its release into mainstream theaters has been highly anticipated and was well worth the wait.Three hours long and rated NC-17 for graphic sex scenes, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a brutally intimate film, sparing absolutely no aspect of its protagonists emotional or physical life. The film is composed almost entirely of close-up shots of Ad?le (Ad?le Exarchopoulos). Throughout the film, the viewer sees every blemish and stain on her face: splatters of pasta grease left un-wiped on her chin, tear tracks and snot streaking into her mouth and slick strands of hair framing her face. Watching her take a drag from a cigarette, viewers can practically feel the smoke seeping through her teeth as she exhales. The overall effect of this stylistic choice leaves the audience feeling almost like they know Ad?le. Any shot that contains a background or even Ad?les whole body feels like a deviation a breath of fresh air from the claustrophobic focus on the films protagonist. The film accomplishes this in other ways, as well: the sound, the lighting, the acting everything is tailored to familiarize the audience with Ad?les life.Ad?le is a 15-year-old high school student who aspires to become a teacher. One day she passes a blue-haired art student named Emma (L?a Seydoux) and becomes inexplicably enamored with her. From this moment on, the film traces the rise and fall of Ad?le and Emmas relationship. One of the movies most shocking elements is its graphic depiction of Ad?le and Emma having sex. Nothing is left to the imagination Ad?le and Emmas first sex scene alone is a nearly 10-minute marathon of contorted limbs, full-on nudity and a medley of pants and moans. Still, even through this, the film maintains its signature proximity to its characters faces and mouths one of the most controversial aspects of the film. The inclusion of such explicit scenes has prompted several critics to ask whether this is a legitimate demonstration of the characters humanity or simply glorified pornography.In any case, it would be difficult to discount the rest of the film based on these assertions alone it is simply too well done. The dialogue is natural, understated and always poignant. Indeed, nothing the characters say is trivial or cliched you wont hear any refrigerator magnet quotations here. Their lines build meaning slowly and subtly from one exchange to another, relying heavily on innuendo and facial expressions.In this and other ways, the film is effortlessly subtle. Throughout the movie, a series of thematic milestones are introduced through culture, art, philosophy and literature. Classroom scenes depicting literary discussions indirectly mirror the turmoil of Ad?les life. Yet, the movie never throws these moments in the viewers face. Instead, it allows them to linger in the background. There are no a-ha! sequences; no labored epiphanies the thematic resonance is fluid throughout the film, played out from conversation to conversation.One of the most satisfying transitions in the film occurs when Ad?le finally becomes the teacher. In her first grade classs basic lessons, the importance of spelling a word correctly illuminates just how deeply rooted our notions of correctness and normality really are (a concept that is even more resonant in French, where words are notorious for containing letters that remain unpronounced when spoken).While Blue Is the Warmest Color deals with queer issues, it never preaches about them. Ad?les struggle is not solely with her sexuality rather, the movie is about a relationship. The power of the film lies in its genuine treatment of the two girls it never detracts from the dignity of its characters. It fully acknowledges both the underlying and obvious pressures a gay relationship faces within a heteronormative society without indulging in excessive sympathy or judgment. Unflinchingly candid, Blue Is the Warmest Color regards a marginalized perspective with humanity and complexity. The triumph of the film is the universality it demonstrates within such an intensely personal struggle.12
The Tufts Labor Coalition is co-sponsoring a rally on Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in Davis Square to support a campaign called Raise Up Massachusetts which intends to raise the minimum wage and ensure earned sick time for workers. Raise Up MA is part of a national grassroots movement to ensure a livable minimum wage for Americans.
Tufts volleyball finished its regular season on a high note by winning both games of Saturdays doubleheader, against Colby and Simmons, at Cousens Gym.
Collins Players, a Tufts Childrens Theater group for students in grades seven through 12, has once again begun rehearsals for the 2013-2014 academic year. The children and young adults in the program will showcase their work with a full-length performance of Willy Wonka Junior this March.
The 10th annual Break the Stage competition, an intercollegiate step dance contest organized by the African Student Organization (ASO), will take place this Saturday at 7 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium.
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee this past Saturday launched Step UP!, a program meant to promote pro-social and bystander intervention behavior among student athletes, at the Fan the Fire event held in Cousens Gym.
A plaque commemorating the Jackson Jills 50th anniversary was recently installed on the steps leading up the Presidents Lawn to Ballou Hall.
The Tufts Community Union Senate assembled in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room last night for its weekly meeting.
Due to technical issues with the Common Application (Common App), the Office of Undergraduate Admissions this year decided to extend its Early Decision I deadline and accept the Universal College Application (UCA) in addition to the Common App.The university made these changes in order to help high schools and applicants struggling with the Common App, which previously served as the universitys sole medium for application, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin. This years Early Decision I (ED1) deadline, originally scheduled for Nov. 1, has been extended a week to Nov. 8, Coffin said. The deadline for Early Decision II and Regular Decision will remain on Jan. 1.Coffin noted that although the extended ED1 deadline will put pressure on the admissions office, he hopes it will help alleviate tension among applicants.The Common Apps glitches began this past summer, when a new version of the application, known as CA4, was launched on Aug. 1. Coffin said that this update immediately posed issues for Admissions. We werent able to import and upload the applications, which is a significant problem, he said. We are now able to do that, but it took from August to about three weeks ago for the tech team at Tufts to be able to reprogram [the Common App].Coffin noted that Tufts was not alone in its problems with the Common App, as almost all of the colleges using the application experienced similar issues. Even with Tufts reprogramming efforts, however, high schools and applicants have continued to contact Admissions regarding difficulties with the Common App. What we are hearing now, with lots of phone-calls and emails, is that the high schools are having a hard time uploading the transcripts, guidance counselor letters and teacher recommendations, and the students are having difficult times with logging on to the Common App, saving their work [and] submitting their application fees, Coffin said. According to Moira McKinnon, director of College Counseling at Berwick Academy, a private high school in South Berwick, Maine, the Common Apps slow loading times have created anxiety among many students.The link between Naviance [an online college and career planning tool] and the [Common App], which allows teachers and counselors to send recommendations and transcripts, slowed to the speed of a slug, McKinnon told the Daily in an email. Wait times to upload a one-page PDF were 12 hours or more, and then ... it stopped altogether. This obviously was a major problem for anyone trying to meet a Nov. 1 deadline. Coffin explained that after Princeton announced in early October its decision to accept the UCA as well as the Common App, Tufts began to consider the option as well.Best case scenario, the Common App is working, and we have a second way for students to apply, he said. Worst case scenario, the Common App remains flawed, and we can point to a second place and say: Same application, different vendors. The decision to also accept the UCA was relatively easy to make, Coffin said, as the format of the UCA does not differ at all from that of the Common App. The UCA was founded about five years ago, when former Common App programmers created their own alternative college application. Competition between the UCA and the Common App, however, reduced the new applications impact. Before this years issues with the Common App, Harvard University was one of the few colleges that offered applicants the option of using the UCA, according to Coffin. Historically, not many places have signed up [to the UCA] because the Common App was fine, it was working and there was really no need for a second one, he said.Admissions is still considering the possibility of using a Tufts-specific application, Coffin said. Prior to the Common Apps launch in the 1970s, every college, including Tufts, utilized its own application. This practice died down when the Common App became successful, leaving Georgetown as the last major school to use its own application. In light of the Common Apps recent failures, however, there may be reason to revive the old Tufts application, he said.Has technology advanced to the point where college-specific applications are not as onerous as they were [before the Web]? he said. I dont know. I think thats a big question. On the other hand, Coffin emphasized that shifting back to school-specific applications would also likely shrink the size of the application pools, which have grown dramatically since the 1980s due to the ease of applying to multiple schools though the Common App. 12
The Tufts Community Union Senate assembled in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room last night for its weekly meeting.
Maryanne Wolf, director of the Tufts University Center for Reading and Language Research and professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, is combining neuroscience and education to develop solar-powered tablets that will help improve the literacy of children in remote Ethiopian villages.
The Tufts European Center in Talloires, France was this year named one of the top branch campuses by the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators and TheBestColleges.org.
![The Jumbos have held a lead in all four of their games. They have scored first three times. They are 0-4.Tufts' opponents have made the plays that count. Saturday's homecoming contest against Trinity, the top-ranked team in New England, was a case in point: The Bantams, after a sluggish start, made one big play after the next until the game spiraled out of control.First, Tufts forced a three-and-out and drove 99 yards to take a 7-0 lead. But Trinity scored the next 43 points to win 43-7, a turnaround reminiscent of Wesleyan's 52-point barrage in the season opener.After the Jumbos pulled ahead, Trinity sophomore Ian Dugger returned the ensuing kickoff 99 yards to tie the game. Then came another special teams lapse, as the Bantams recovered their own kickoff at Tufts' 30-yard-line.On its next possession, Trinity drove 55 yards to make it 14-7. Tufts responded by moving the ball to the goal line, but Trinity denied diving freshman Chance Brady on 4th-and-1. It was a golden chance to tie the game. The Jumbos would not get another. Junior Jack Doll attempted a screen pass on the next drive; senior defensive lineman Michael Weatherby tipped it, caught it and rumbled 30 yards to the end zone. Trinity led 21-7.After 19 minutes of play, the Bantams had scored a special teams touchdown, an offensive touchdown and a defensive touchdown. Freshman Ben Rosenblatt followed with two short field goals, the latter coming late in the half after the second of Doll's three picks, and Trinity entered the locker room leading 27-7.The Jumbos had more total yards of offense than the Bantams at halftime, including 106 yards rushing and a touchdown from junior Zack Trause. But the scoreboard indicated a blowout.We felt like we were the better team in the first half, but we made some mistakes," Trause said. "We all knew that if we just played our brand of football, we could have closed the gap. But we didn't come out as strong in the second half, and the score showed."In the third quarter, Trinity returned Doll's third interception for a touchdown, effectively putting the game out of reach."You can't expect to win games that way," head coach Jay Civetti said. "When [you make two mistakes] on special teams and you throw three interceptions, two of them for touchdowns - regardless of how well the defense played, it doesn't matter at that point."For a team that has now lost 27 straight, turnovers and missed opportunities told the story. Civetti said he expects better."We're evaluating everybody's job on this team right now," he said. "We've got to find guys who are in positions to help us be successful." With Tufts trailing 34-7, freshman Liam O'Neil replaced Doll for the final five possessions and completed four of eight attempts. According to Civetti, Doll knew coming in that if he did not protect the ball, he would not stay on the field. "I told him, 'You're starting the game, but if I feel like you're putting things in a place where you're not doing your job, I'm going to find somebody who will do what we're asking of them,'" Civetti said. "There's a handful of positions where I could say that," he added.The typically pass-heavy Jumbos took to the ground Saturday, racking up 251 yards rushing, including career highs of 114 from Trause and 78 from senior Jon Sobo. They finished with 69 yards passing. The 99-yard drive to open the game was masterful](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ttd/6cf2433b-02b7-407d-8fb2-835a356caca2.sized-1000x1000.?w=1500&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
Looked at one way, these are 17 advertisements, 17 declarations of loyalty. The function of a logo is to advertise, and these are established images, familiar and eye-catching and effective.
