To some people, a blind date sounds like a miserable proposition, but who better to set you up than a friend who says, "I know the perfect person for you!"
Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO) is known as one of Tufts' most popular programs for incoming freshmen, but trying to get on TWO's support staff is just as competitive a process, if not more so. Jumbos occasionally go to great lengths to stand out.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs (CECA) Committee has decided to expand its annual culture event, known in the past as Culture Fest, to a weeklong event with the goal of increasing campus awareness of diversity.
The Tufts Panhellenic Council last week kicked off a fundraising campaign for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) with a series of bake sales in the Mayer Campus Center.
The Tufts Energy Conference, which originally began as a duo of panels five years ago, will next month be bigger than ever, spanning two days of speeches, panels and workshops.
A brand new student publication recently appeared on the Hill this semester, but if students didn't pick up a copy within a day or two of its release, they might not have known. The demand for Breakthrough: Tufts' Undergraduate Science Magazine, which covers both Tufts and worldwide scientific news, outstripped supply so greatly that the 500−copy print run of the first issue vanished from the usual student publication repositories almost as quickly as it appeared.
The Medford Historical Society on April 14 will host "The History of Tufts University," an event featuring a walking tour of campus led by Kyna Hamill (G '06), co−chair of the society's programming committee, and a lecture on Tufts' early history.
No, the kids climbing all over the yellow and orange equipment and futzing around in a sandbox in the small, fenced structure on Powder House Boulevard are not Tufts students indulging in the latest trendy piece of ironic nostalgia. They are, believe it or not, actual children, utilizing the Tot Lot, a little−known feature of the Medford−Somerville campus for more than 30 years.
Tufts on Feb. 26 was given the Outstanding Community Partner Award by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) for its ongoing partnership with Medford public schools.
Mayor of Somerville Joseph Curtatone and Executive Director of the Somerville Public Library Nancy Milnor last month announced the city's upcoming launch of the "One City, One Book," campaign, which encourages the community to collectively read a selected book.
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee's (SAAC) Help Haiti Dodgeball Tournament on Friday raised over $500 to aid relief efforts in Haiti.
It was in kindergarten that I made the mistake of joining the Pen 15 Club. My induction was relatively harmless — I was offered membership by a fellow classmate, accepted the invitation with excitement and arranged to have the club's name tattooed onto the back of my hand in thick Sharpie marker later that afternoon. But alas, it was too good to be true; when spoken aloud, the club was advertised to me clearly as "Pen 15," but scribbled in semi-permanence on my skin it read — unmistakably — "penis."
During sophomore year, I was briefly involved with a guy that my friends affectionately still call "Sketchy Mike." I had just gone out on a good first date with him, and when I returned to Bush Hall later that that evening, I excitedly recounted our dinner to my friends.
The first Senior Pub Night of this semester, held Thursday night at Hurricane O'Reilly's, was a success, according to C.J. Mourning, the Senior Class Council's vice president of social programming.
Héctor Martínez Morales yesterday gave a presentation on traditional Latin American music. He sang and also played and explained a number of different instruments. The event, "La música del folklore latinoamericano," was sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages, Toupin-Bolwell Fund, the Department of Music, the Latin American Studies Program, the Latino Studies Program and the Latino Center.
Professor of Economics George Norman last evening warned that the recent bank collapses could occur again due to persisting structural problems in the financial industry.
The International Law Society (ILS) at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy today kicks off a week−long capstone event intended to facilitate conversation on how to promote a culture of peace.
Adjusting to the American collegiate lifestyle is difficult for any arriving student, but for some international graduate students, the adjustment can be quite a challenge.
Mixed martial arts is emerging as a popular sport across the country, and Tufts is no exception to this trend as members of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) club are working to increase recognition of the sport on campus.
