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Local nonprofits weigh impact of proposed budget cuts

A Congressional vote to cut $61 billion from the federal budget could threaten nonprofit service organizations that serve the Medford and Somerville communities and engage many Tufts student volunteers and graduates.


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Fans await return of 'America's pastime'

Nature is taunting. As the mounds of snow melt away to reveal the semi−green of Tufts' campus, spring seems imminent. Though a few more bitterly cold days will probably keep the sunshine at bay for now, certain students on campus — baseball fans, to be exact — are already following spring training and gearing up for the 2011 season.


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Tufts Student Fund to head up third year of campaign

The Tufts Student Fund (TSF) campaign on Wednesday will kick off its third year of collections with a larger online presence, more student involvement in the fund's committee and features like a "text−to−give" function and a new slogan.




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Rise of Google Art Project begs the question: Can an online work replace the real thing?

The recent release of Google Art Project, the web application designed to provide users with high−resolution photos of famous works of art and a street−view−like experience of the world's major art museums, is only the latest in a long line of efforts aimed at digitizing and making public the world's cultural experiences. Although it follows in the footsteps of services like Google Books, providing free and public access to singular works of art sparks an entirely new debate on the societal, legal and scholarly implications of the practice.



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Street Smarts: Tufts' sartorial scene

Ever notice the Jumbos on campus who put more into their wardrobes than a momentary thought about which pair of sneakers doesn't clash with their sweatpants? We have, and some of their sartorial styles caught our eye in particular. Now that spring is beginning to show its face, those with Fashion Week fresh in their minds know it's time to get playful and add some body to their wardrobes. These fashion enthusiasts did so fabulously.


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Engineering Week brings competition, camaraderie

Tufts' third annual Engineering Week kicked off Tuesday with a series of activities designed to encourage awareness of engineering in society and to foster camaraderie among the university's various departments in the School of Engineering.



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Nuclear proliferation experts kick off EPIIC symposium

Speakers at last night's "Religion, Ethics, and the Bomb" panel initiated the 25th Anniversary Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium with a discussion of the intersection of nuclear weaponry and the spheres of religion and ethics.


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Alanna Tuller | The Archives Addict

Imagine this scene: You're walking across the Academic Quad on a brisk autumn day in October 1954. You hold a copy of the Tufts Weekly in your hands, eagerly scanning an article that has made big news on campus. In fact, this news is so big the Weekly was moved to declare this "the first time that such liberal rules have been put into effect in any men's college in the East. We have set a precedent." What headline, you may ask, transformed Tufts into such a radical institution?


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Winning the future': What, if anything, do political slogans actually mean?

Anyone who watched, read or heard about last month's State of the Union Address came away with a knowledge of at least one new goal on America's political to−do list: Win the future. The public reception of the term was less unanimous. While some named President Barack Obama's newest slogan as just the morale boost the country needed, others reduced it to an acronym: "WTF."






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Romy Oltuski | The Dilettante

I feel the need to preface this next adventure with a disclaimer. For those of you who like sports, I wholeheartedly welcome you to the Features section. This is the first step toward realizing that the paper doesn't actually open right to left and that this isn't page 16, 11 pages after the Sudoku, but in fact page 3, two pages before it. Mazal Tov! But now I'm about to alienate you right back to page 1 (or 16) because this manual does not cater to people for whom enjoying football consists of simply tuning to ESPN on Sunday afternoons and relishing.