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Romy Oltuski | Word Up
May 22In the spirit of monumental events, I ask you to take a moment to share your nachas with two slang words that are now also approaching new stages of life.
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Veteran professor reflects on life experience for Commencement address
May 22When a planned career in baseball did not work out, University Professor Sol Gittleman turned to teaching. For several decades, he lived and breathed the inside of a college lecture hall and became one of the university's most recognizable faces.
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Emily Maretsky | Nice Shoes, Let's Date
May 22When we set foot on this campus almost four years ago for matriculation, we laughed and fidgeted in our seats, full of the same nervous excitement on the brink of "the future." I remember sitting in the sea of 1,200 other freshman, worrying about whether I would fit in and how to get to know the people sitting around me.
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Community rep reform put on hold until fall revote
May 22Following a vote full of complications, including three date changes, Tufts students passed two competing referenda concerning hotly debated reforms to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's community representative position, necessitating a revote in the fall.
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Ben Kochman | Between the Slices
May 22Sometimes 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.
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Senate elects new leadership for coming academic year
May 22The 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.
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Some seniors are brown-and-blue blooded
May 22For 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.
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DTD officially recognized as fraternity on campus
May 22With 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.
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Seniors in the Spotlight
May 22Visitors 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.
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Emily Maretsky | Nice Shoes, Let's Date
May 2Ferris 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.
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Letter calls for president prioritizing diversity
May 2Three-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.
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Sol Gittleman speaks with students at After Hours
April 29Alice 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.
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Tufts moves to make more dorms handicap-accessible
April 29A 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.
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Despite health risks, fake tanning a growing trend
April 29Even 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.
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Use of fax machines declines among students
April 29For 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.
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Sam Wallis elected new TCU President
April 28Studying 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.
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New alumni trustees elected to serve on board
April 28Tufts 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.
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Students study abroad - at Tufts
April 28On 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.
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Course evaluation reform on hold as faculty debate opt-out policy
April 28The 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.
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Teach for America increasingly chosen over teaching colleges
April 28The 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.
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