Do you often have trouble mixing Facebook and studying? The pilot web−based program Mixable was designed to help students at Purdue University do just that. Created by the Information Technology department, Mixable is a free application that Purdue students can add to their Facebook profiles, providing them with a variety of ways to integrate their academic and social lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary is exploring the possibility of ending the practice of subgrouping, according to Judiciary Chair Beth Doyle.
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.
