I've been pretty pissed off lately — maybe it's the cold Boston winter getting to me, with its howling winds and rainy nights. The steep walk up the President's Lawn to Olin Hall for my 9:30 a.m. German class hasn't helped either.
When senior Bronson Kussin was a freshman, he enrolled in an Experimental College film class. As a first-year student at Tufts, he was amazed that he was being taught not by professors or lecturers, but by Tufts upperclassmen. Kussin ultimately enjoyed the class so much that he decided he'd teach a class himself.
The 25th annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) International Symposium focusing on South Asia kicks off tonight with its first panel, marking the first time in 23 years that EPIIC is concentrating on a specific region.
The recent series of attempted robberies involving Tufts students on and off the Tufts campus has some students questioning their safety. Some wonder if these incidents are normal, given the open campus' location in an urban environment, while others believe the town−gown tensions between students and residents have contributed to making Tufts students targets of crime.
Students are closer to having a new and improved campus center as plans for the potential renovation of the Mayer Campus Center lobby are progressing steadily, with drawings slated for completion in the next two months.
Even at the ripe age of twentysomething, we have all had to make some important decisions by now. Choosing a major is no easy task (I still don't know what ILVS stands for), nor is choosing a roommate or what shirt to wear as a dress on Saturday night.
University President Lawrence Bacow and his wife Adele Fleet Bacow delivered a toast to the Class of 2010 at Friday's celebration in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center. The event commemorating the 100-day mark until the seniors' graduation was sponsored by the Senior Class Council.
Tufts students are no longer alone in facing harsher measures targeting alcohol abuse, as Dartmouth College's local police department has unveiled a new enforcement strategy to combat a perceived rise in underage drinking on campus.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has struggled this year with the question of how best to represent minority students' interests. Currently, four community representatives from different cultural groups sit in on Senate meetings and vote on matters not related to the allocation of funds. These four representatives -- who stem from the Asian American Alliance, the Queer Straight Alliance, the Pan-African Alliance and the Association of Latin American Students -- were appointed after their respective groups petitioned for representation, and they were subsequently approved by the student body. The community representatives model is beneficial in that it pushes the Senate to consider the specific needs of minority groups on campus, but given the manner in which they are currently appointed, community representatives currently do not fully represent the range of diversity at Tufts. The system of community representatives on the TCU Senate has to be standardized and broad-based to represent the various minority interests on campus.
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy graduate Dr. Stephen Flynn (F '90, '91) became the sixth president of the Center for National Policy (CNP) in January.
Entrepreneurship society DartBoston came to Tufts last night to feature senior Michael Kuznetsov and his new business Syllaplus in its weekly online TV talk show. The event was coordinated by junior Jason Nochlin, president of Young Entrepreneurs at Tufts.
Over the past few years, foodies across the country have witnessed the incredible rise in popularity of TV shows like "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," a Food Network program that features celebrity chef Guy Fieri visiting renowned casual eateries across the United States.
Engineering Week returns next week for its second year at Tufts, bringing with it an expanded repertoire of events and activities to unite the engineering community in friendly competition.
An ongoing study by Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy researchers has shown that many frozen dinners and restaurant side dishes are underreporting the amount of calories in their foods by an average of 18 percent
Crime rates on Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) property have fallen to their lowest level since 1980, the MBTA Transit Police reported at the end of January.
What do you get when you mix orgasmic moans, humorous rants and serious accounts of domestic violence and rape? These varied subjects all make up the provocative collection of stories known as "The Vagina Monologues."
Usually busy with people streaming in and out, Hotung Café was virtually silent for 10 minutes aside from the voice of senior Sebastian Gillen. Gillen was speaking at the Feb. 3 Relay for Life kickoff event about childhood cancer and the need to raise funding for cancer research. Gillen, a pediatric cancer survivor himself, devotes his free time to raising awareness of the disease at fundraising events.
Overall applicant pool for the Class of 2014 is 15,436, the third largest pool in Tufts history and a three percent increase from last year. This is the sixth year in a row in which the number of undergraduate applicants has been above 15,000. The Early Decision (ED) pool increased by six percent. The School of Engineering received 2,333 applications, a five percent increase from last year, marking the fourth consecutive year of record applications to the engineering school. Engineering applications have, in the last five years, increased by 31 percent. The number of African American applicants rose by 14 percent, setting a new record.
National student-run think tank the Roosevelt Institute last night officially launched its new Tufts chapter at an event featuring Lecturer of Political Science Katrina Swett.
In the wake of one of the most devastating economic downturns of the last several decades, Tufts administrators and admissions personnel have begun to prepare themselves for what could be one of the largest groups of students requiring financial aid in recent memory.
