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On the agenda this weekend | HONK!

September 29

    What with all the wild and wacky characters Jumbos can find just wandering around campus, it's easy to miss the rampant quirkiness to be found in Tufts' own Somerville backyard. Need a weirdness fix this weekend? The sixth annual HONK! Festival, a so-called "festival of activist street bands" tooting their horns in the name of working against violence and oppression, will be in and around Davis Square on Saturday and in venues near Harvard Square on Sunday.

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Campus Comment | Tufts reacts to the end of the Boloco era

September 29

Boloco announced this month that it will likely shutter its location at 340 Boston Ave., drawing both ire and indifference from across the campus. This isn't the first time that the burrito restaurant has sounded the alarm, but now it seems like they may be serious. Here's what Tufts had to say.

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Occupy Boston gathers crowd, pushes for grassroots social change

September 29

Four hundred people converged on the Boston Common Wednesday night to express their discontent about American society's financial and social inequalities, among other issues.

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Two Jumbos lead local ROTC units

September 28

Between classes, extracurriculars and all that active citizenship, most Tufts students have enough on their plates to fill 18−hour days and produce the manic, out−of−Tisch−Library−at−4−a.m. glazed look we all know so well. Seniors Brittany Trimble and Patrick Cassidy know it as well, and as students on the Hill, they make the trek uphill and downhill just like your average Jumbo.

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Green Line Extension Project delayed to 2018

September 27

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) this summer announced that its project to extend the T's Green Line, a project chronically plagued with delays and funding complications, will again be pushed back.

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Boston Avenue Boloco restaurant to close

September 27

Boloco will likely close its Tufts branch on Boston Avenue when the restaurant's five−year lease expires on Nov. 30, CEO and founder John Pepper told the Daily.

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In Memory of Linda Loury

September 27

Professor of Economics Linda Loury died on Sept. 23 at her home in Brookline with her husband and two sons by her side. She was 59 and had been battling cancer for some time.

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New department to plan space use more holistically

September 26

Responding to a longstanding need to better manage the university's facilities, Tufts created the Department of University Space Management and Planning to oversee the allocation and management of space on all three Tufts campuses.

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Hodgdon eliminates plastic bags, water bottles

September 25

Hodgdon Good-to-Go this semester stopped selling single-serving beverage bottles and cans and offering plastic bags to shoppers in an effort to cut back on the amount of plastic waste generated by Tufts Dining Services, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos.

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300 students volunteer with Reach Out! Day

September 25

The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) and Repair the World, an initiative run through Tufts Hillel, teamed up to send over 300 students to perform community service in the greater Boston area through Reach Out! Tufts Service Day on Friday, according to LCS co-President Kevin Huang.

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Hannah Furgang | The Tim Tam Slam

September 25

Oh hey, stranger. That's a lot of my face you've got there.

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Community Day draws 2,000 area residents to campus

September 25

Despite a discouraging weather forecast, approximately 2,000 community members trekked to the Hill yesterday for the ninth-annual Community Day at Tufts, according to Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.

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Monaco meets with U.S. congressmen

September 25

University President Anthony Monaco on Sept. 21 met in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), among others, to discuss issues relevant to the university.

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Without a director and lacking support, women's studies pushes forward

September 25

As an educational institution, Tufts strives to promote the importance of an interdisciplinary academic experience. In addition to requiring students to fulfill distribution requirements in the humanities, sciences, mathematics and arts, Tufts also offers a variety of majors and minors that cross academic boundaries.

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Economic historian Niall Ferguson comes to the Hill

September 21

Renowned economic historian Niall Ferguson, who was among the few to accurately predict the financial crisis of the late 2000s, will next month deliver the 15th Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture.

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Chelsea Stevens | Loud Noises

September 21

Ahh, fall at Tufts. It's the perfect time to grab a flannel and enjoy the numbered days of tolerable weather. If you're like me, you've been awaiting your return to the Hill since mid-June and couldn't be happier to be here. If you're really really like me, you spent every cognitively functional moment of summer at work and are actually looking forward to class as a refreshing change of pace from seemingly luciferian customers. And if you are exactly like me, you're still coming down from your endorphin-induced high from the realization that, miraculously, your adjacent Wren suite isn't full of guys that have groped you on various frat dance floors. Needless to say, this year is off to a promising start.

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Alison Williams and Sarah Gottlieb | Generation SEX

September 20

It's late on Friday night, and this guy in your French class has just convinced you to go back to South with him for some deep one−on−one"conversation." You two are hooking up and things get pretty heated, and you can't wait to tell your roommate later about the ridiculously good sex you're about to have with a guy this attractive and who must last long in bed, right? You're finally getting it on and feeling great when out of nowhere he finishes and proceeds to check the time. In your drunken haze you wonder how long you've been there only to give yourself a "Well, f−−k" in horror as you realize the amount of time you've been going at it — less than a minute.

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Fletcher starts program for undergraduate applicants

September 20

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy announced the launch of the Map Your Future Program last month, which will allow senior undergraduate students to reserve a space while they gain professional experience.

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Somerville to launch iPhone app for service requests

September 20

The City of Somerville last month made available an iPhone application that allows residents to report public−work problems and submit service requests directly to the city while on−the−go.

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Tufts student hit biking across intersection

September 20

A Tufts student biking across the intersection at Powder House Blvd. and Packard Ave. was hit by a car yesterday. The student was transported to Mount Auburn Hospital and treated for minor injuries.

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