Sometimes I imagine myself sitting down for lunch with John Montagu, also known as the fourth Earl of Sandwich, the possible inventor and at the very least the namesake of that beautiful creation we call a sandwich. I am not sure exactly what the Earl looked like, but in my mind's eye, he wears medieval garb and hefty, brown spectacles.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on May 2 held in-house elections for the body's Executive Board, Allocations Board (ALBO) and committee chairs for the 2010-2011 academic year.
For all students and their families, graduation is an event steeped in tradition. But as some Jumbo graduates walk across the stage, they will be literally following in their relatives' footsteps.
With its May 2 receipt of official charter from the Delta Tau Delta (DTD) national organization, the Beta Mu chapter — the Tufts chapter of the fraternity — returned to the campus as an official fraternity after a six-year absence.
Visitors to the Expo 2010 Shanghai (also known as the Shanghai Expo) this summer and fall will find a Jumbo among the guides at the USA Pavilion. Senior Nick Burns will be working as a student ambassador at the Expo, which opened on May 1.
Ferris Bueller once waxed poetically, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." OK, OK, I'll save my favorite clichéd movie lines and general college sappiness for my FOCUS kiddies and sophomore friends who mistakenly ask me about how it feels to be graduating in less than a month.
Three-hundred-and-thirty-four students have signed a letter to the Presidential Search Committee calling for members to prioritize finding a new university president committed to diversity issues.
Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Sol Gittleman last evening spoke in Brown and Brew about the history of aggression and violence and the possibility of future change. Gittleman was speaking in the final installment of the Tufts Community Union Education Committee-sponsored After Hours informal lecture and conversation series, meant to foster intellectual life on campus.
A master plan to make Tufts' housing more accessible to individuals with disabilities is in the process of being finalized and is awaiting formal approval from regulatory authorities.
Even though it is only just getting warm enough for students to sunbathe on the residential quad, for some Jumbos who just can't seem to get enough of the sun, there's always the option of tanning beds and spray tans to get that bronzed look.
For students who struggle to remember a time without the Internet, the prevalence of fax numbers listed on websites and directories might seem like a superfluous piece of information. But even though e-mail and similar technologies might mean fax machines are no longer cutting-edge technology, they still hold some essential uses in the professional world, even if their personal use has declined.
Studying abroad on a different continent did not stop junior Sam Wallis from becoming the new Tufts Community Union (TCU) president in the early hours of the morning.
Tufts University Alumni Association (TUAA) on April 14 announced that Alison "Sunny" Breed (J '66, G '72) and David Rone (LA '84) had been elected as the newest alumni trustees and will sit on the Board of Trustees for a five-year term.
On move−in day for freshmen, Margaux Roberge, Irène Fossé and Pierre−André Clément, three French students from Sciences Po, a university in Paris that has an official exchange program with Tufts, arrived at Tufts to begin their year−long studies on American soil. Looking to improve their English, explore the United States and enjoy the American college experience, the trio said they selected Tufts because of its picturesque campus and proximity to Boston.
The Educational Policy Committee (EPC) at an April 14 Arts, Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) Faculty meeting presented a resolution addressing changes to the course evaluation system, which was eventually tabled due to unresolved debate about some of its provisions.
The state of New York on April 20 approved a new pilot allowing programs such as Teach for America (TFA) to grant masters degrees in education, something that has long been the exclusive prerogative of universities and teaching colleges.
As with most Americans, my familiarity with the Polish fast-food genre is not anything to write home to your matka about. I have, from time to time, enjoyed a flavorful kielbasa, or Polish sausage, with mustard at a barbeque. I have also dabbled in the consumption of pierogi, which are basically the Polish version of a dumplings or potstickers.
While this is a rebuttal to the election endorsement of junior Sam Wallis in yesterday's Tufts Daily, we cannot agree more with the assertion that we must move beyond petty analysis of campaign strategies, dispense with preconceived notions and focus on the candidates themselves. That being said, we would like to remind readers that those who wrote that endorsement are no more qualified to assess these candidates than you or us, and they are, despite being unidentified by the guidelines of editorial writing, students just like us.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) is facing an intensifying gubernatorial race with a two-way challenge from Republican Charles Baker and Independent Timothy Cahill.
Students logging in to WebCenter shortly after midnight to cast their vote for Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate president also found on the ballot four referenda that were slated to be voted on in a separate election on Monday, May 3.
