The Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) last week hosted its first annual Israeli Apartheid Week, an international initiative aimed presenting Palestinian narratives, examining Israeli policies toward Palestinians and fostering discussion among the Tufts community.
Both students and members of Tufts' Department of Facilities Services report enjoying an easier winter due to reduced snowfall in the Boston area this year.
Tufts last Thursday through Saturday hosted the third annual Barack Obama and American Democracy conference, which focused on national and global dialogue about issues of race, civil rights and democracy.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its meeting last night passed a resolution (25-1-0) calling for a comprehensive plan to lower the cost of attending Tufts University.
Promoting active citizenship is often cited as one of the major assets of a Tufts education. But few courses provide students with the immediate knowledge and the financial resources to be active citizens in the surrounding communities. The Experimental College course "Experimenting with Philanthropy" breaks that mold and gets students involved immediately.
After winning the biggest game of their college lives, the women's basketball players were, understandably, a bit giddy.
Exposure, a photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights student group sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), is working to produce a documentary called "Our Day" that will highlight the diverse experiences of the Tufts community through one-minute video submissions.
International alumni will gather on the Hill this weekend to commemorate an important year in the history of Tufts' international community. The 60, 40, 20 Anniversary Celebration Event marks 60 years of the International Center, 40 years of the International House and 20 years of the Oliver Chapman Award.
The City of Medford earlier this month was chosen for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's (MAPC) new program dedicated to helping communities build long-term efficient energy plans.
The Tufts National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) on Feb. 17 won $1,500 from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-USA in its fifth-annual online engineering video scholarship award competition for highlighting the creativity and problem-solving nature of engineering.
The headliner act chosen for this semester's Spring Fling will not be one of the five acts that students voted on in the fall survey, according to a Concert Board press release emailed to the Daily on Tuesday night.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Feb. 12 passed a resolution to join United for Undergraduate Socio-Economic Diversity (U/FUSED), a network that encourages discussion and cross-collegiate participation in raising awareness and finding solutions for issues of socioeconomic inequality, according to TCU Sophomore Senator Joe Thibodeau.
Tufts Mock Trial spent the weekend attending its second and final regional tournament of the season at the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston, according to Officer of External Affairs for Tufts Mock Trial Brian Pilchik.
Each Jumbo on the Hill paid 296 dollars −− the Student Activities Fee −− as a part of the tuition expenses for the 2011−2012 academic year. Despite the seemingly clear intentions associated with the fee, the actual handling of the funds is rather ambiguous. The budgeting season for the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY2013) has already begun. Those not involved in the process, however, should consider how the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Treasury disburses nearly 1.5 million dollars.
With the 2012 elections just around the corner, voter dissatisfaction running rampant and a Republican primary that leaves most feeling anything but happy with American politics, many fear that college students won't bother voting at a comparable rate to 2008. By not voting, college students rob themselves of their most powerful tool for creating change. In the past, conventional wisdom has said that losing the senior vote will cost a presidential candidate the election. But as we saw in 2008, the first African−American President was elected without wooing the majority of this voting bloc. Then−Senator Barack Obama (D−Ill.) lost the over−65 vote to Senator John McCain (R−Ariz.) but, interestingly enough, won the 18− to 29−year−old vote by a two−to−one margin. Young people are now emerging as an important facet of the electorate. While most young voters can't offer tremendous financial support to a candidate, they can offer their time — a valuable commodity in campaign season — and their vote.
The $80 million Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line construction project, which since November has halted Saturday and Sunday service on the Red Line north of the Harvard Square station is on schedule for its March 4 completion date.
Tufts Health Service next month will launch a campaign that will focus on raising student awareness of the importance of sleep and educating the community about good sleep habits, as well as the physical and emotional repercussions of lack of sleep.
The Tufts Democrats on Saturday hosted the College Democrats of Massachusetts (CDM) annual Winter Summit for the second consecutive year.
Two student groups' buffer funding requests were approved at Sunday night's Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting.
Maybe I'm six years old, but the words "banana" and "gasser" make me giggle. Put them together, though, and that could be your job description! What exactly is a banana gasser? You may well ask. As the name implies, you flood bananas with gas — specifically ethylene — to control the ripening process.
