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UEP relaunches Urban Studies minor

The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) this semester relaunched the Urban Studies minor, which was previously housed in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS).


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Brian Williams discusses career, election season

NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams discussed his career, entertainment journalism and the upcoming elections in front of a packed Distler Performance Hall yesterday for the seventh annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism.


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TCU Presidential Election

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) presidential election began today at midnight and will continue through 11:59 p.m. tonight.


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Senate passes resolution backing fee waiver

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on April 15 passed a resolution (15?7?1) supporting a financial assistance program and fee waiver for student parking passes as a way to address the high cost of the passes.





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Students turn to variety of sources to keep up with changing face of media

A flashbulb memory is a long?lasting, vivid recollection of a significant moment in history. It's the reason why people can remember exactly where they were on Sept. 11 or when Osama bin Laden was killed. However, many people heard about both of these events, which occurred a decade apart, in very different ways.


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Introducing the Candidates: Logan Cotton

If he wins tomorrow's Tufts Community Union (TCU) presidential election, Senator Logan Cotton, a junior, plans to bring change to the Senate for the benefit of the Tufts community, he said.


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Students, faculty reflect on a year with Trunk

When students returned to the Hill in September, they encountered the newest member of the Tufts community - not University President Anthony Monaco, but Trunk. The learning management system (LMS) made its debut amid much debate, with both students and faculty unsure of how to approach the transition.


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Tufts promotes sexual assault awareness

Tufts' Department of Alcohol and Health Education this month is hosting Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), which features various organized events and programs scheduled on campus throughout April.




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Author Sayed Kashua discusses life as Israeli-born Palestinian

The event, titled "Second Person Singular," was held at the Granoff Family Hillel Center and was sponsored by the Arts and Sciences Diversity Fund, the Center for Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Fares Center, the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures, the International Relations program, the Judaic studies program and the Middle Eastern studies program.




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Kashua event removed from I-Week schedule

Tufts Friends of Israel (FOI) was criticized last week both within and outside the Medford/Somerville community when an on-campus lecture to be given today by SayedKashua, a prominent Israeli-born Palestinian author and journalist, was listed as part of its I-Week schedule.


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Karl Rove to visit the Hill

Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, a prominent Republican political analyst who served under former President George W. Bush, will visit Tufts next week to give a lecture sponsored by Tufts Republicans, according to the group's president Sinclair Stafford.


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Facilities to renovate South Hall this summer

The Department of Facilities Services will renovate parts of South Hall this summer to provide more rooms that meet the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board (MAAB) accessibility requirements. They will also update the building's furniturelight fixtures, according to Director of Project Administration and University Maintenance Rudi Pizzi.


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TCU Senate Update

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its final meeting of the semester Sunday night passed six resolutions, approved two buffer fund requests and voted on its nine council budgets for next year.


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Tufts ranks first among NESCAC schools in recycling

RecycleMania, an eight-;week long competition that measures and compares collected trash and recycling for more than 600 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, last Friday released the results of the 2012 recycling competitions.