Hipster — a word vague enough to be discouraged from use in the New York Times by the paper's standards editor but sufficiently offensive to be insulting when hurled at disheveled, bespectacled English majors who don flannel shirts and tightly clinging jeans.
Students remaining on campus over the 10-day period after the end of finals on Dec. 22 will this year be charged a $100 winter housing fee, the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced in a Nov. 15 e-mail to international students.
Uploading videos to YouTube, drawing comic book strips and imagining a world in which Joan of Arc is trapped at a desk job are not exactly the type of tasks that one typically associates with college applications. At Tufts, however, these are exactly the kinds of topics on which applicants are routinely evaluated.
Imagine waking up two mornings a week and, instead of walking to Cohen Auditorium for your Biology 13 class, opening your laptop and watching the lecture from the comfort of your room. This might sound like an unlikely scenario on the Hill, but streamed lectures are becoming more and more of a reality at private and public colleges alike.
University President Lawrence Bacow will next year join the Harvard Graduate School of Education's (HGSE) Higher Education Master's Program as its president-in-residence, a position that gives students the opportunity to learn from former university presidents.
Metcalf Hall on Thursday night hosted a game night with members of the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) to promote bicycle and laptop registration as well as enhance relations between students and members of the police force.
WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio on Friday celebrated its 40th anniversary, showcasing its newly updated facilities at an open house event in its Curtis Hall studios.
In response to Thursday's false alarm regarding a report of an armed man on campus, a group of students, outraged by what they perceived to be racial undertones prompting the incident, organized a poster campaign.
College students turn to a long list of activities to relax and blow off steam — working out, socializing, playing sports — the list goes on. But Christopher Willard, staff psychologist at Counseling and Mental Health Service (CMHS) and member of the board of directors at Boston's Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, recommends they add another, more exotic activity to that list: meditation.
Junior Jibade Sandiford won a special election to fill a vacant Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seat, the Elections Commission (ECOM) announced this morning.
As the new documentary "Waiting for ‘Superman'" — which argues for the need for public school reform in the United States — continues to draw national attention, Medford High School (MHS) seems to be bucking the national trend of student dropouts.
The legitimacy of Wikipedia, the popular online user-edited encyclopedia, as an academic resource has long been doubted; citing information from the website on a research paper would likely result in derision by one's professor, if not a flat-out F.
Matthew Alexander, a former senior interrogator and U.S. Air Force officer, delivered a lecture yesterday evening in Braker 001. Alexander is the author of ‘How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, not Brawn, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq' (2008) and an upcoming book, ‘Kill or Capture.' Amnesty International at Tufts sponsored the event.
Members of the Class of 2012 are scheduled to vote today in a special election to fill a vacant Tufts Community Union Senate seat.
For some reason, it has become acceptable — even commonplace — for the typical college student to go out during the week. Tufts does Tuesday and Thursday, my friends' schools do Wednesday and some schools even do Sunday and Monday. Generally speaking, this behavior is neither healthy nor acceptable, but the concern doesn't seem to deter many students come nine o'clock. It's a way to break up the week; nothing seems further away from Monday morning than Friday night, and who really wants to wait that long anyway? However, going out and going to class the next day has students paying the price — it's amazing how so many of us schedule our week around a class-free Friday just to avoid this cost.
The Tufts chapter of Let's Get Ready (LGR) last night held a "graduation" ceremony at Somerville High School to celebrate a successful semester of college prep.
Although former President George W. Bush left office nearly two years ago, with the recent release of his memoir, "Decision Points," he is back in the public consciousness. It looks as though he aims to stay and that many Americans are happy to have him back. His favorable rating has gone up four points from when he left office to 44 percent currently, according to a recent Gallup Poll, and his memoir has sold 1.1 million copies. Many parts of his legacy, however, are still being written.
Before I admit my inability to supply Tufts' activists with their next villain, I offer an abridged list of some topics that never gathered enough popular support for me to dedicate an entire column to them:
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, author of the best-selling book "Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business" (2008) and CEO of business consulting firm The Roosevelt Group, spoke last night as part of a six-week tour around the United States and Canada promoting the documentary "Doing Virtuous Business" (2010). Malloch, a research scholar at Yale University, is showing a sneak preview of the film at several universities, hoping to receive feedback before its release. The documentary focuses on how firms can promote virtue in the business world.
The controversial vaccination for the most common sexually transmitted virus, human papilloma virus (HPV) — which has been available for girls' use since 2006 — is once again becoming contentious as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) debates whether it should recommend that boys receive the vaccine as well.
