Content warning:This article discusses violent crime and sexual assault.Tufts published its annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Monday, which gives statistics of reported criminal offenses on each of the Tufts campuses: Medford/Somerville, Boston Health Sciences, Grafton, Talloires and the School ...
Somerville may finally be getting its first recreational cannabis dispensaries three years after Massachusetts voters legalized marijuana in 2016. Somerville City Council President Katjana Ballantyne, in her capacity as acting mayor on the issue, announced that she would approve host community agreements ...
Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) announced at the Tuesday night event "TUSC Coffeehouse ft. Copilot" the artists playing at the Homecoming Concert. The artists will be 3Oh!3, Duckwrth and Melii.According to Mathew Peña, an organizer for the event and member of TUSC, the artists ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life announced the creation of the Tufts Campaign School, a pilot program that will offer participants an experience to learn about the inner workings of political campaigns. The week-long curriculum, which will take place from Jan. 5 through Jan. 11, will immerse ...
Suite residents, including those in Haskell Hall, Wren Hall and Latin Way, were notified by their residence directors in mid-September that social gatherings of 15 students or more should be registered and approved by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL).This registration process is the ...
On Sept. 24 at 6 p.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from a student who had misplaced their wallet at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on Sept. 22 and recovered it on Sept. 23. The student claims that there was $250 missing from the wallet, though the student's other ...
Responding to the recent spike in vaping-related lung diseases, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declared a public health emergency on Sept. 24, banning the sale of electronic cigarettes and vaping products. The ban will last through Jan. 25, 2020.The declaration comes on the heels of a spate of ...
Tatenda Ngwaru, a Zimbabwean intersex activist and asylum seeker, spoke about her life and work yesterday at a Civic Life Lunch hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. In 2013, Ngwaru founded True Identity, Zimbabwe’s first organization for intersex people.At the lunch, Ngwaru was accompanied ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) announced online that it would be implementing a new system of Hall Councils in all first-year dorms, with positions to be filled by elected first-years with an overall goal of planning events and building community both within and across first-year ...
Former Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Nandi Bynoe (LA'09, AG'16) was named the new associate dean of diversity and inclusion at the beginning of this school year. The Diversity and Inclusion division, of which Bynoe is a part,encompasses the Group of Six, which includes the Africana Center, ...
MONDAY"Civic Life Lunch — True Identity: Intersex Activism and the Politics of Gender"Details: Tatenda Ngwaru, an intersex activist from Zimbabwe, will come to Tufts for a talk on gender politics. Ngwaru is the founder of True Identity, an intersex organization based in Zimbabwe.Where and ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate heard presentations by Nancy Thompson, dean of student affairs and chief student affairs officer ad interim, and Joe Golia, director of the Office for Campus Life, about their work on campus last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room. Senators then shared ...
Tufts Climate Action (TCA) will attend Extinction Rebellion's event, Flood the Seaport, today as part of continued climate protests following last Friday's global climate strike.The event is organized by the Massachusetts chapter of Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based organization that advocates ...
During the month of September, Tufts Dining piloted a new program called Tufts Meal Plan Takeout with the Tufts Eco-Representatives (Eco-Reps). This program allows students a limited amount of time to fill a reusable container with the food of their choice and then take it out of either Carmichael or ...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault. Tufts alum Bill Richardson (A’70, F’71), the former governor of New Mexico and MIT Media Lab founder Joichi Ito, who attended Tufts and received an honorary degree in 2015, have been implicated to varying degrees in the controversy surrounding ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life brought former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff for former President George W. Bush Karl Rove to campus yesterday as the first speaker in its Distinguished Speakers Series.The discussion took place in the ASEAN Auditorium in Cabot Hall, with a packed ...
On Sept. 16 at 1:06 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) followed up on a theft that occurred over the summer in Blakeley Hall. After the victim provided a list of the stolen items, TUPD was able to identify the criminal as a temporary, subcontracted employee of the university. The individual ...
Tufts announced a change to the drop and withdrawal deadlines in an email from the Associate Deans of Undergraduate Advising on Sept. 4, The deans moved the drop deadline for first-year students forward from the 10th week of the semester to the fifth week starting next semester and adjusted the withdrawal ...
Tufts’ construction of eight new squash courts — a 13,500-square foot addition to the Gantcher Center — is about a third of the way complete, according to Gretchen Von Grossmann, director of capital programs. ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, a Boston-based architecture firm, designed the ...
Abdul-Malik Merchant has begun his role as the new Muslim chaplain for the Tufts University Chaplaincy. While at Tufts, he also will continue to serve in his current position as the Associate Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), a mosque and community center in Roxbury that ...
