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Health Service to hold three flu clinics
October 4Tufts Health Service will offer flu vaccinations to all graduate and undergraduate students during three clinics this season.
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Let's support the 'Occupiers'
October 3Several articles, op−eds and an editorial have appeared related to Occupy Boston. I went down to Occupy Boston Sunday afternoon. I ran into another Tufts faculty member and an alumnus. It wasn't easy to find other Tufts people among the several hundred encamped there. I know some of you were there.
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Pathway by cannon closed for renovation
October 3The Department of Facilities Services this past weekend closed off the path around the cannon and the back of Goddard Chapel for curb replacement and new planting, according to Vice President for Operations Dick Reynolds.
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Tufts-in-Chile program on track despite strikes
October 2Amid widespread student strikes in Santiago, students participating in this semester's Tufts-in-Chile program have been able to take classes at Chilean universities and are scheduled to complete the program on time.
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Wittich Symposium to showcase research
October 2The Wittich Energy Sustainability Research Symposium will tomorrow showcase new findings in sustainable energy. The event, hosted by the School of Engineering, presents research that is supported by the Peter and Denise Wittich Family Fund for Alternative Energy Research.
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Somerville introduces new ticket laws
October 2The City of Somerville last week began issuing $50 parking tickets to vehicles with expired registrations and inspections.
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Occupiers' struggle to define goals
October 2Being an unemployed Tufts alumnus, I cannot help but find the Occupy Wall Street movement appealing and even attractive. After all, the protests that have flared up in downtown Manhattan and now Boston and elsewhere typify everything Tufts students love: active citizenship, exploiting the right to protest and bringing people together for the sake of progress. But as much as I want to spend my otherwise pathetic, purposeless days camping out near the center of world finance with a sign that expresses my outrage at corporate greed in a costume that mocks the hypocrisy of our synthesis of capitalism and democracy, I cannot bring myself to do it.
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On the agenda this weekend | HONK!
September 29What 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 29Boloco 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 29Four 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 28Between 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 27The 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 27Boloco 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 27Professor 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 26Responding 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 25Hodgdon 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 25The 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 25Oh 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 25Despite 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 25University 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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