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Harvard prof. to challenge moral assumptions
October 31Michael Sandel, a prominent Harvard political philosophy professor, will on Wednesday ask Tufts students, "What's the right thing to do?"
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The Adderall subculture: Tufts officials see an increase in prescription drug abuse
October 31It's the day before a final. You haven't opened a textbook in weeks and your class attendance is spotty, but it's too late to drop the class. The pressure to do well is immense, but your stress and anxiety are keeping you from studying effectively. Good thing there's a pill for that.
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Survival experts equip students with wilderness skills
October 31About 80 students gathered in Braker 001 last Thursday to learn the basics of wilderness survival.
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Americans strive to define the Tea Party movement and its role in this year's midterm elections
October 31When the American colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773, they had no idea how their tea party would affect the course of American history. They could not have been able to foresee the role that conservative populist frustration would play in reviving their name — and ideals — to serve a whole new world of politics in 2010.
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Anna Christian | The College Survival Guide
October 27Halloween: When you're little, it's all about candy. My friends and I would trick-or-treat for hours, rush home and have a huge trade to balance out ratios of Reese's, Kit Kats and Almond Joys. In high school, Halloween started to become a little crazier — there was still candy, but there were also more suggestive costumes and some underlying tones of vulgarity. However, not until I reached college did obnoxious costumes reach their pinnacle. Fraternity parties and house crawls are plagued by girls and guys dressed to impress in extensive costumes or very little fabric at all — the latter primarily applying to girls. Of course, candy is always delicious and the ratio between chocolate, peanut butter and coconut never stops being important, but there are some rules that can maintain the sanctity of this American tradition while one is in college.
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Albino' squirrel to join Jumbo in Tufts' pantheon of taxidermied animals
October 27The day of reckoning for Tufts' favorite furry icon has come. The campus's unofficial mascot who scurried around the outskirts of Dewick Dining Hall for years — with its angelic white fur coat on display — is now gone from this Earth.
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Campus Republicans excited for next week's elections
October 27The Tufts Republicans have high hopes for Tuesday's midterm elections, though they have found little support from conservatives among their peers.
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Students, administrators attend violence forum
October 27Sophomore Namratha Rao, left, and senior Hameto Benkreira and sign in at the sexual violence community forum, held in the Metcalf Hall lounge last night. At the forum, attendees shared stories and experiences with sexual violence topics.
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Customized online advertising grows but some find it intrusive
October 26Online marketing has gotten personal.
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Samantha Jaffe | East Coast, West Coast
October 25An oft−heard refrain my freshman year: "Don't mind Sam. She only talks like that because she's from California."
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In the aftermath of recent suicides, Tufts LGBT community leaders reflect on bullying problems
October 25Under cloudless blue skies on Oct. 13, the Tufts community celebrated National Coming Out Day. Students, faculty members and friends crowded the Mayer Campus Center patio with rainbow−colored pins on their backpacks and pride flags poking out of their pockets. They listened, watched and cheered as speakers from across the Tufts community spoke about the importance of the day on campus.
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Tisch Library director to retire after 19 years
October 25Director of Tisch Library Jo-Ann Michalak will leave her position this spring after 19 years.
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Celebrity chef Ming Tsai lives the dream and adds Western flavor to Eastern dishes
October 25The wrinkles have started appearing and the hairline is receding, but 46−year−old celebrity chef Ming Tsai — rated number 16 on People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People" list 10 years ago — shows no signs of slowing down his career since his debut to superstardom in 1998.
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Wren RAs conduct charity auction
October 25Wren Hall residential assistants on Sunday auctioned themselves off as dinner dates at a philanthropic event held in the lobby of Carmichael Hall to benefit Jumpstart, a non-profit that works to prepare preschoolers in low-income communities to enter kindergarten.
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Stephen Miller | Counterpoint
October 24I was strolling across the quad on a crisp autumn day last week, when I reached a large group of prospective students. As I passed by, I couldn't help but pick up a bit of the tour guide's polished routine. He was mentioning something about how 635 percent of Tufts students go abroad junior year.
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Astronaut: As space program transforms, research still vital
October 24Astronaut Rick Hauck (A '62, H '07) is a former NASA space shuttle commander whose many accomplishments include leading the first crew into space after the Challenger space shuttle tragedy in 1986. He returned to Tufts on Friday to deliver a talk for Parents Weekend and to present senior Lauren Wielgus with the Astronaut Scholarship, an award given by the nonprofit Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to exceptional science and engineering undergraduates.
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Tufts participates in Medford emergency drill
October 24The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Medford Fire Department yesterday morning conducted an emergency response drill at Canal Street in Medford. Members of Tufts Emergency Medical Services participated as simulated victims in the exercise, while Tufts Department of Public and Environmental Safety officials attended to observe the drill.
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Stephen Miller | Counterpoint
October 24I was strolling across the quad on a crisp autumn day last week, when I reached a large group of prospective students. As I passed by, I couldn't help but pick up a bit of the tour guide's polished routine. He was mentioning something about how 635 percent of Tufts students go abroad junior year.
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Teachers who use red ink are likely to grade students' work more harshly, study finds
October 24If your less-than-desirable paper grade is circled in thick red ink, you may have more than just your own poor work to blame. Red ink encourages harsh grading, according to a study recently conducted by Tufts Department of Psychology graduate student Michael Slepian and Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at California State University, Northridge, Abraham Rutchick.
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