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Tipsy' gene affects response to alcohol, researchers find

It doesn't take more than a couple of weeks at college to realize that people respond differently to alcohol consumption. Recent research, however, has come up with a new answer as to why — that is, why some people become tipsy after a small intake of alcohol while others only feel an effect after heavy drinking.


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Student arrested at NQR, charged with assaulting officers

Last month's Naked Quad Run (NQR) ended with the arrest of a student, prompting accusations by students that the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) inappropriately used force in an attempt to break up the event earlier than usual.


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Administration's account of NQR is questioned

A number of students who attended this month's Naked Quad Run (NQR) have called into question the administration's assertion that police officers who broke up the event earlier than usual did not initiate physical force.


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Student arrested at NQR for assaulting officers

The student arrested at the end of last Friday's Naked Quad Run was charged with two counts of assault and battery of officers and with resisting arrest, according to the Tufts University Police Department's (TUPD) public crime log.


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Tufts Hillel says it will not co-sponsor events with SJP

A national directive put forth by Tufts Hillel's national parent organization discourages co-sponsorship of campus events between Hillel and the Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), according to Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Tufts Hillel's executive director.


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Anna Christian | The College Survival Guide

Given that this is my last college-survival guide of the semester and my last column this year, it feels odd to merely give advice on one single thing: How to survive NQR? Wear a hat. How to steal food from the dining hall? Be quick. What's the best way to deal with housing? I still have no idea.



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Cybertherapy: The next trend in psychology?

The treatment of psychological ailments like post−traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has moved beyond the therapist's office and into the digital realm, allowing patients to face their fears from behind a computer screen.


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CJ Saraceno | Ban Together

My favorite scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994) is during Forest's impromptu running campaign, when a group of reporters chases after him to find out why he's running. "Are you doing this for world peace? The environment?" They ask. Innocent Forrest's motives were much simpler: He "just felt like running."


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Hillel members sell latkes for charity during Hanukkah

Junior Matt Davis and sophomore Liz McGarry prepared latkes at Tufts Hillel last night. They will sell the latkes in the Mayer Campus Center today to benefit Solar Electric Light Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides solar power technology to developing countries.



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The evolution and definition of the hipster

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.


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ResLife: $100 fee for remaining over break

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.



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Online courses play growing role in higher education

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.



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TUPD officers join students for game night in Metcalf Hall

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.


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WMFO marks 40 years in operation

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.


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Group suggests racist role in security alert

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.


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Psychologist, students: Meditation an effective path to stress-relief

    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.