To Tufts, Hurricane Sandy meant power outages, a day off from classes and minor flooding. Nationwide, the storm's effects were much stronger, devastating areas of New Jersey and New York. The storm also disrupted the presidential election.
In the fall of 1978, back when Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center moonlighted as a pub several nights a week, when housing issues forced 300 unlucky Tufts underclassmen to shuttle back and forth every day from their residence at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Harvard Square and when the University President, nutritionist Jean Mayer, gave speeches with a sharp French accent, a handsome, shaggy-haired sophomore known to his friends as Scotty Brown once scored 35 points in a home game against Bowdoin, carrying the Jumbos to a 92-78 win.
Oftentimes, I think of Tufts history as beginning in 1852, when the University was founded. However, Tufts' tree history - treestory, if you will - began as early as the 1600s when the first colonists set foot in Massachusetts.
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) is off to a strong start this semester, with a second?place finish at Pennsylvania State University's Happy Valley Invitational two weeks ago.
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Tufts' campuses and surrounding areas suffered only minor damage from Hurricane Sandy on Monday, in part thanks to abated storm conditions and advance preparedness of administrators.
The Women's Center will celebrate its 40th anniversary this weekend with an archival exhibit, dinner, alumni brunch and symposium.
Following a brief hiatus, the Office of Residential Life and Learning's (ResLife) Shorts Film Competition will return for the third time this spring due to the appointment of a new contest administrator.
Tufts students want to have sex more than five times per week according to OkCupid, a popular online dating site. In 2011, OkCupid took data on college tuitions from U.S. News & World Report and then remixed it with their own data collection. The chart displays college tuition versus how many times a week students would like to have sex. OkTrends, its official data blog, detailed, "generally speaking, the more your parents are paying for your education, the more horny you are." The private institutions were noticeably higher than public ones in how often students wanted to have sex per week.
The Tufts University Art Gallery made its way into students' email inboxes last week with an online survey meant to gain a better understanding of the gallery's presence on campus.
The Sustainable Action Squad (SAS), a branch of the Tufts Sustainability Collective, is currently working on a proposal for the creation of an Environmental House on campus for the upcoming academic year.
The day after President Barack Obama's historic declaration of support for marriage equality in May 2012, a 51?percent majority of Americans supported the President's decision, according to a poll conducted by Gallup. This was not the first survey to show popular support for same?sex marriage - a CNN/ORC poll from August 2010 initially presented this change in opinion as well. These striking numbers point to a growing movement to improve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and the importance of LGBT issues in the minds of many Americans this election season.
Tufts Votes, a non?partisan, student?run organization, has concluded its voter registration campaign and is moving into the final stages of the get?out?the?vote effort.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is closing the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard Stations on four upcoming weekends, including Thanksgiving weekend, to continue repairs that began in 2011.
Over 200 students last week participated in the Leonard Carmichael Society's (LCS) annual five?day blood drive for the American Red Cross.
