U.S. Representative Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) discussed the upcoming census cycle and its policy implications with Tufts Census Action (TCA) in Cohen Auditorium last night, as part of a talk moderated by TCA's President and Founder Caroline Wolinsky and Community Outreach Director Anton Shenk, ...
Disclaimer: Hannah Kahn is a former executive audio producer at the Daily. Hannah was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary election on Tuesday with 25.7% of the vote, followed closely by former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South ...
Members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) rallied yesterday ahead of today's day of action by activists from over 50 colleges across the U.S. to demand that their universities divest their endowments from the fossil fuel industry.TCA activists gathered outside of the Mayer Campus Center during open ...
Constant callerOn Feb. 7, around 1:30 p.m., a student reported that for the last two days, they had been receiving numerous calls from a number without a caller ID. The content of the calls were not reported. The student reported on Feb. 8 that the calls were still ongoing and persistent.TUPD recommended ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) told lead resident assistant (RA) applicants by email on Jan. 31 that they would be eliminating the lead RA role entirely, and therefore would not be interviewing any candidates to fill the position next year. This announcement came at the end of the ...
Last week, The Tufts International Center contacted students from three of the countries recently added to the Trump administration’s travel ban to clarify the updated ban’s provisions and to offer a number of travel and counseling resources.The expansion of Presidential Proclamation 9645 to bar ...
A portion of plaster in room 202 of Eaton Hall came loose and fell through the ceiling over the weekend of Jan. 25 to 26, according to Director of Building Operations in Medford Jeff McKay.There were no injuries as a result of the plaster falling, as there was nobody in the room at the time, according ...
As part of a deliberate reorganization, Student Affairs administrators Kevin Kraft, Lindsay Ferguson and Laura DaRos assumed new positions within that division last month, according to Dean of Student Life and Engagement Chris Rossi.Rossi stated that planning the reshuffling of administrators in Student ...
The Tufts University Alumni Association will soon send ballots to Tufts alumni to select the candidate who will fill one open seat on the Board of Trustees. The voting period will run from Feb. 17 through April 12, with the result to be announced at the Alumni Council meeting on April 25, according ...
Verna DeLauer, an associate professor specializing in natural resource management at Franklin Pierce University, led a talk titled “Being Seen, Feeling Heard: Designing Intimate-Scaled Spaces on Urban College Campuses” as part of last week’sDepartment of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning ...
Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a lecture on feminist history and politics, "Long-After the Suffrage: Gender Differences and the Quest for Citizenship," in Barnum Hall on Friday, Feb. 7.The event, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate considered proposed changes to its bylaws and heard 10 supplementary funding requests from student organizations at its meeting on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room.TCU Parliamentarian Finn McGarghan led the body through the proposed amendments ...
MONDAY“O V, Where Art Thou? A New Approach to Diatonic Set Theory"Details: Jessica Fulkerson, a lecturer in the music department, will lead the next installment of the Department of Music's Colloquium Series. Fulkerson will present on medieval music, focusing on the applications of a new ...
First-years Jenna Kaplan and Valerie Infante and sophomore Max Miller were elected to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate following special elections originally planned to fill only two vacancies on Wednesday.Elections Commission (ECOM)Chair Matt Zachem wrote in an email to the Daily earlyThursday ...
Correction: A previous version of this article placed a quote by David Watts out of context. The article implied that Watts was referring to junior and senior housing assignments when he was, in fact, referring to housing assignments at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). The article has been ...
Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn was officially sworn into office last month, after oustingtwo-term incumbent former Mayor Stephanie Burke by a margin of 645 votes to become the City of Medford’s 32ndMayor.Lungo-Koehn, the owner of a real estate brokerage and a local attorney specializing in family ...
Down to Discharge (DTD)On Jan. 30 at 10:10 p.m., a fire alarm was activated in the basement of the Delta Tau Delta house at 98 Professors Row, Medford. The Somerville Fire Department (SFD) and Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded. At the scene, they concluded that a discharged fire extinguisher ...
Collective bargaining negotiations between Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone’s administration and one of Somerville’s police unions remain deadlocked on the issue of body cameras, which the mayor supports and the union opposes.Curtatone says that body-worn cameras for police are his “top priority” ...
Eight faculty members at the Tufts University School of Medicinesued Tufts over the medical school's revised compensation plan and research space allocation guidelines, which they allege violate their lifetime work contracts and threaten to force them out from the school.According to the official ...
Chinese students at Tufts have been working with other students across campus and different colleges to organize aid efforts following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the Hubei province of China.Haitong Du, who is working to mobilize students at Tufts, spoke to the importance of action.“As students ...
