Boston University Professor of International Relations and Anthropology Augustus Richard Norton last night delivered a lecture on the Arab Spring, offering his assessment of the recent social and political changes in the region, as well as his prognosis for its future.
The women's club volleyball team's recent request for Tier II club sport recognition was put on hold due to constraints on staff and practice space, according to Assistant Director of Athletics Branwen Smith−King.
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), working with the wireless infrastructure company InSite Wireless Group, will finish extending cell phone service along the Blue and Green Lines of the T by the end of this month.
Trunk, Tufts' learning management system, was restored to service yesterday at 1:30 a.m. after being down for approximately 13 hours.
So it's the holiday season. You're enjoying the various holiday-themed parties across campus and waiting to go home so you can partake in whatever festivities your family and friends have planned. What about your sex life? Are you going to let it die down a bit simply because you won't be on campus? Hell to the no. You're keeping up your latest winning streak even when you're back home. Even if home means the middle of Oklahoma. Or the South. Naturally, we're here to share some of our favorite holiday sex tips so you can keep your break as festive as possible.
During a meeting yesterday with the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) agreed to offer Somerville businesses significant advertising discounts in order to prevent the Red Line shutdowns from negatively impacting local businesses, according to Chairman of the Somerville Chamber of Commerce Ronald Bonney.
Although popular opinion across the Hill indicates that students are passionate about asserting their rights to let it all hang loose on the Res Quad, the potential consequences for defying the ban on NQR are discouraging many from enacting forms of protest, nude or otherwise.
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Transit Police reported that this year the T crime rate has increased by nearly 16 percent, making this the second consecutive year that rates have increased since their record low in 2009.
Siblings and fellow Tufts students Claire and Conor O'Brien each won this year's New England Oireachtas, a regional Irish step dancing competition, earning places to compete in the 2012 World Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast, Ireland.
The Tufts chapter of Active Minds, inspired by the well−knownPostSecret project, is collecting personalized postcards that anonymously reveal students' secrets in an effort to destigmatize mental health issues.
Don't you just hate it when you prove yourself wrong? Or those times when, mid−sentence, you realize that you're only going to contradict yourself if you keep talking? Well, readers, this is my last column, and all I'm going to say is that this entire semester of column−writing has made me realize that I've done both of those things. This may sound extremely cheesy, but I have proven myself wrong. Turns out I didn't really hate that many things, after all.
OMG, can you believe it's already Dec. 5? Professors are cramming in the tests and papers for the last week of classes. Miller Hall has resorted to bringing in puppies to alleviate our pre-finals stress. My RA decorated the bulletin board with good places to study around campus and it was mad depressing. There are currently 14 people massed in my hall's common room, which is festively decked out with Christmas lights, trying to squeeze in some quality bonding time before we are all whisked away to our respective library cubicles.
Last night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted on 12 proposals for surplus grant funding, totaling $169,700. The body approved all but one of the requests.
Among the language programs at Tufts, American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the smallest. Over the past three decades, however, the program has been growing in popularity. Within the Department of Child Development, through which all three ASL classes are offered, ASL I is considered a high-demand course, meaning that students must take special measures to register. This semester has been ASL's most popular year at Tufts, with 40 students applying for the 20 spots available in the class, according to George Scarlett, the deputy chair of the Department of Child Development.
Bendetson Hall, Tufts University, Medford MA, 02155. It's an address burned into the mind of every aspiring Jumbo as they mail off their application materials and likely still, if they're lucky, when they arrive at the Hill and explore their new campus. From then on, it tends to serve as prime prospective student−spotting territory or a placeholder between West and Packard Halls.
Students filled the Mayer Campus Center on Friday for the third annual OneWorld Global Crafts Bazaar, which featured fair−trade crafts and products from around the globe.
As Dec. 12 approaches, the last day of class that no longer implies a frigid dash around the Res Quad public nudity may be on the mind of many Tufts students.
Tufts Medical Center and health insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts are back at the negotiating table after a tense month of contract negotiations. If negotiations fail, Blue Cross customers would have to find new doctors or insurance providers. The setbacks highlight faults in the state's healthcare system, according to Healthcare advocates.
Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, yesterday discussed ongoing conflicts in East Africa and means of effectively resolving them. The talk was held with Tufts' Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) class in Barnum Hall.
