The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Sunday passed a resolution calling on the university to follow the lead of the state in assigning relatively weaker penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
Administrators hosted a discussion forum last week with the aim of enlisting male athletes in preventing violence against women.
There are few things in the Daily that receive more attention than the Jumble or crossword. But when sex columns grace the pages of this paper, the puzzles get pushed aside. Students writing about sex get noticed — and whether they earn applause or simply raise eyebrows, it seems that sex columnists in student newspapers are here to stay.
Anthony Everett (LA '83), host of WCVB−TV Channel 5's "Chronicle" has watched his career bloom for about 30 years now, the lessons from which he is sharing with students this semester while teaching "Multimedia Journalism for the 21st Century" in the Experimental College. Yet though he has been awarded a Boston/New England Emmy Award in each of the past three years, he says that his journalistic passion can be traced all the way back to Medford, when he was an undergraduate at Tufts.
The Office of Residential Life and Learning's (ResLife) housing registration process, conducted for the first time online, last week finished out its first rounds for apartment, suite and special housing selection. Despite some technical glitches, administrators deemed the process overall a success.
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will next month make the trip from one Hill to another, taking a break from her duties as Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives to address Tufts on the subject of public service among students.
Tufts Mock Trial last weekend emerged successfully from the Regional Mock Trial Tournament in Worcester, Mass., earning spots at the American Mock Trial Association's Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) and a chance at the national tournament.
The Athletics Department's proposal to build the three-story 42,000-square-foot Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center seems to be moving forward, according to an e-mail from the Office of Special Events to alumni announcing a groundbreaking event planned for April 12.
A leak yesterday afternoon in a pipeline in front of Miller Hall caused large amounts of steam to emit from a pipe. The leak began yesterday afternoon and continued through the night. The Department of Facilities Services plans to fix the leak on Saturday, but Vice President of Operations Dick Reynolds ensured in an e-mail to uphill residents that normal heating and hot water services to uphill dorms would be maintained. "We have identified the problem and the repairs necessary," Reynolds said.
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Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Tomas Garcia, a junior, has introduced a project in the Senate for a resolution that would encourage the university to provide an alternative to its off−campus noise violation fines, designed to help students who are facing financial difficulty or who receive financial aid from the university.
Tufts' new associate director of pre−professional advising has eased into her position with an eye to making her personal expertise in the law and health professions valuable to Tufts undergrads.
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.
For cash?strapped students across the country, financial aid can often make or break the ability to go to college. The already thorny issue may become even pricklier if the Senate passes the proposed changes to federal aid in President Barack Obama's 2012 budget plan, which was already approved by the House of Representatives last month.
In less than two decades, the majority of Americans under 21 will be non−white, with the largest non−white groups being Hispanic and African−American. But the achievement gap between racial groups perseveres. According to The New York Times, only 12 percent of black fourth−grade boys were proficient on a national reading test, in comparison to 38 percent of whites.
I know it's hard to picture beneath all the snow, but come spring the Res Quad will once again be a great place to read, sunbathe and play Frisbee. In a month or two when all the igloos have finally melted, you can expect to find me stretched out on a blanket in the sun, pretending to study for exams and thinking about the fact that if I had tried to do this a century ago, I would have been underwater.
Penning menus for two award-winning restaurants, writing opinion pieces for The New York Times, giving talks for innovation group TED and lecturing at a Harvard University food-science course are not typically activities of a celebrity chef. But Dan Barber (LA '92) is unlike your everyday Bobby Flay or Ming Tsai.
After having some trouble sleeping, I decided to forgo the suggestions most had given me — sleeping pills, exercise, fewer all-nighters — in favor of one I thought I could more realistically take on: feng shui.
