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Specialized labs let engineering students develop practical skills

A student plays notes on a digital piano as a peer looks on, trying to discover more about each keystroke he makes. As part of their senior electrical engineering project, seniors Erik Formella, Calvin Hopkins and Charlie Powell spend several hours in one of the Halligan Hall labs every day, experimenting with how quickly a computer can recognize when someone plays a note on the piano and attempting to make the computer process this faster.

Deans, advisers walk line between privacy and parental involvement

Helicopter parents face a dilemma. While they believe they should be allowed to check on their college student children, these children are also college students, and the university also treats them as independent adults. Tufts is therefore required to protect their confidentiality if parental interference is undesired.

Occupy Somerville plans rally, protest of Bank of America

Members of the Occupy Somerville movement, including Tufts students, will hold a rally tomorrow in Davis Square in protest of the business practices of Bank of America Corporation and other major financial institutions.

| Trunk service disruption due to human error

Trunk, Tufts' learning management system, was restored to service yesterday at 1:30 a.m. after being down for approximately 13 hours.

The statue decision in context

"How dare the [Tufts Community Union] TCU Senate spend $25,000 on a statue?"

BU professor discusses ramifications of Arab Spring

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.

Women's club volleyball Tier II status request put on hold

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.

Cell phone service to extend to Blue, Green Lines this month

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 service disruption due to human error

Trunk, Tufts' learning management system, was restored to service yesterday at 1:30 a.m. after being down for approximately 13 hours.

Alison Williams and Sarah Gottlieb | Generation Sex

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.

MBTA offers ad discount to Somerville businesses

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.

Despite NQR nostalgia, students reluctant to face consequences for rebelling against ban

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.

MBTA reports crime rate increase of 16 percent

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.

Inked up: Tufts gets creative with tattoos

Tufts students qualify for Irish step dancing world championship

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.

Active Minds uses PostSecret to destigmatize mental health issues

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.

Kacey Rayder | Insult to Injury

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.

Hannah Furgang | The Tim Tam Slam

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.

TCU Senate | Senate grants 11 surplus fund requests, including Charles Tufts statue

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.

ASL program grows, works for recognition

 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.