October is my favorite month because of its famous last day. You can bet that I have Halloween on my mind once the foliage changes color and the air grows cold. I daydream about the thousands of costume ideas floating in my head, search frantically for Nicktoon Halloween specials on YouTube and eat way more candy than I should.
A new approach to combating the issue of climate change is springing up on campuses all over the country. Campaigning to divest university endowments of their investments in the fossil fuel industry, Students for a Just and Stable Future (SJSF) teamed up with a new student group, The Responsible Endowment Collective (REC) to spearhead the initiative on campus.
Tufts faculty are debating the direction of the university's 23 interdisciplinary studies programs following an external review that began last March and suggested major changes in the university's curriculum.
Though the annual spring Boston Marathon is over six months away, members of the Tufts Marathon Team (TMT) are already well into their 30?week training regime. The team, now in its tenth year, will for the second year in a row consist of 100 runners, half the size of the 2010 team.
The annual rush of sophomores and juniors looking to secure off?campus housing has already kicked off, more than seven months before the leases that students are signing would begin. The housing search in recent years has begun significantly earlier than in the past.
Corey Shemelya (EG '10) and Dante DeMeo (E '08, EG '11), both fifth?year Tufts engineering Ph.D students, won the $10,000 grand prize in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Awards this year for their five?year research project titled "Harvesting Heat - Changing Waste Heat into Usable Electricity."
Absentee ballots are out, people. Early voting has started. Joe Biden's about to hit the lectern. It's go time. Before you check those boxes on your ballot, I have one last plea.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies this fall is offering its first exclusively undergraduate Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course due to persistent academic interest and flexibility in the operating budget, according to Barbara Parmenter, a lecturer of GIS courses in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
For many students, the beginning of each academic year brings more than just new classes, new professors and new living spaces. It also adds the weight of tens of thousands of dollars in student debt. Student loans are a crucial tool in the face of huge and rising tuition prices, but the inevitable outcome substantial debt creates a crippling financial burden on large numbers of young people.
