For the average college student, the five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are not characterized by playing in the snow, baking cookies or attending holiday parties but rather by group projects, term papers and final exams.
So, after five days back home in L.A., I am beyond stoked to be back at Tufts. However, not even the colossal number of burritos, quesadillas and fajitas that I consumed in my time at home will be able to prepare me adequately for the complete and utter lack of good Mexican food in the Boston area.
In an effort to curb what is considered by administrators to be a dangerous drinking culture on campus, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate is designing a social norms marketing campaign to reduce binge drinking among students.
MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (MWRTA) buses will soon accept fare payment from riders using the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority's (MBTA) CharlieCard, just one of several new revamps to the Boston area mass transportation network.
In light of the announcement by U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader John Boehner (R−Ohio) earlier this month that House Republicans will ban congressional earmarks when they take control of the body in January, Tufts and its surrounding communities are bracing for an even greater tightening of the belt.
The University of Oxford's Professor Anthony Monaco has been selected as the next president of Tufts University.Monaco, a geneticist and the pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at Oxford, will succeed University President Lawrence Bacow in the university's highest position when Bacow ...
Being a Jumbo has never been pricier — and one student-run initiative is revamping its attempts to alleviate the cost of a Tufts education for one Jumbo.
While Tufts Student Resources' new initiative grants up to $10,000 to student entrepreneurs to cover the initial costs of founding a business, there's a lot more than money that goes into running a startup from your dorm room. While the reward, for some, is worth it, Jumbos who take on the task themselves are forced to juggle commitments in a way that full-time business people simply do not have to.
The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy will launch three new online certificate programs beginning this January. Each consists of three 14-week courses offered consecutively and takes one year to complete.
A fire early Friday morning damaged the second floor of an off-campus house inhabited by Tufts students and a family of four, requiring a fire department rescue and forcing residents to seek alternative housing.
On a typical weekday, Jim Boyd, a junior, wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to work on homework, drives 40 minutes to Tufts from his home in Needham and arrives just in time for his sociology course. He grabs a quick lunch at the Mayer Campus Center before his Spanish class at noon and then works in the library for a few hours before heading back home for dinner.
Worried about putting on the freshman 15? Or trying to stay fit under your winter parkas for those midriff−baring parties that are bound to crop up even in the sub−zero months? Worry no more — Cousens Gym trainer and baseball team shortstop David LeResche has designed three different workouts for the average Tufts student trying to step up their fitness this winter.
Tufts' Global Development and Environment (GDAE) Institute on Nov. 10 announced Martin Weitzman of Harvard University and Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics as the 2011 winners of its annual Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last week released its fall semester survey gauging student opinion on a variety of Senate projects.
The Nov. 12 article "Jumbos work to build a solar?powered birthing ward in Haiti" incorrectly stated that Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at one time contributed funding to the Sustainable Energy Access for Haiti trips but later pulled the funding. In fact, EWB never contributed funding for the trips.The caption of the photo accompanying yesterday's article "Guster drummer and Tufts alum Rosenworcel talks about his journey from Bush Hall to stardom" incorrectly identified the individual in the center as Brian Rosenworcel. In fact, the individual was Ryan Miller.
Sophomore Demi Marks plans on majoring in children's entertainment — and she will be the first to do so at Tufts. Marks is one of a small number of students on campus who have decided to design their own interdisciplinary studies major through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS).
Israeli journalist Gil Hoffman yesterday afternoon offered a positive take on Israel's future in a discussion that addressed the Israeli−Palestinian conflict.
Children have dreamed for decades of growing up to be astronauts and traveling to the final frontier — fantasies that, for most of these children, were brought to an end by adolescence. But the sky is no longer the limit for customers willing to pay the price to travel to Earth's stratosphere as once−inaccessible outer space becomes just another space for commercialism.
Even some of the most treasured landmarks need a facelift, and if we're speaking in terms of magnitude, this Saturday marks the opening of the Heidi Montag of transformations for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
This week's "Ban Together" is going in a new direction. Columns like the last one on Four Loko are not connecting with Tufts readers. State officials thought they got the message right when they announced plans to restrict the drink earlier this week. However, I didn't actually want a ban on Four Loko. Realizing the power of my column to destroy cultural icons, I am dedicating this column to a disenfranchised group that must be preserved.
