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Environmental Engineering lab to open this month

Sustainability council to examine all three campuses

While the Campus Sustainability Council, the university-wide body proposed in September by University President Anthony Monaco, is still in the process of being formed, its first meeting will likely take place early next semester, according to Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell.

Elizabeth Warren may be newest face for Democratic party

Although the primaries to determine Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) opponent in the 2012 elections won't be held until September, a small group of liberal students at Tufts have already thrown themselves behind someone they say is worthy — Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren. 

Fall 2011: A semester in review

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.