Last night the Tufts Democrats hosted their end-of-year symposium in the Crane Room. The keynote speaker of the symposium was Alla Lefkowitz, deputy director of affirmative litigation at Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization that advocates for gun control. According to Tufts Democrats President ...
Faculty and administrators are proposing to cancel the peace and justice studies (PJS) major, retaining the PJS minor but replacing the major with a new civic studies program. PJS has been under continued review since last semester, when the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences considered canceling the ...
The Tisch Summer Fellows (TSF) program, which provides Tufts students with 10-week summer internships, is diversifying its placement options in summer 2018, according to Jennifer McAndrew, director of communications, strategy and planning at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, and Maggie ...
Raftr, a social network for campus groups and events co-founded by Sue Decker (E '84) and developed by her company Tripledip, officially announced its partnership with Tufts in the Jumbo Digest on Oct. 15. Tufts is serving as a pilot school for the app, according to Mickey Toogood, communications ...
The Tufts Women's Center has initiated biweekly POC Circles, which are dedicated to "community care, solidarity and intentional coalition building" for people of color, according to their first Facebookevent. The first POC Circle was hosted on Sept. 14 at the Women's Center ...
In the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Tufts students have launched a series of hurricane education and fundraising campaigns to help support victims in impacted areas.Jumbo Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort is one such initiative. Houston natives Joseph Caplan and John Peavy launched the effort ...
Editor's Note: Khuyen Bui, a columnist at the Daily, is cited in this article. He was not involved in the production of the article.Voices of the Hill student group will host "The Gap," its first monologue event, this evening at 8 p.m. in Breed Memorial Hall. At the event, Tufts students will ...
Meaney said that it took a couple of months to develop the project, but the print team, with aid from Tufts Dining, was able to implement the policy just before classes started in January. The money should show up on each student’s JumboCash account, designated specifically for printing purposes so that students cannot use it for other items, Meaney said.
The orientation process for incoming first-year students will undergo changes beginning with the Class of 2021's orientation in August. Orientation Leaders (OLs) will share responsibilities with First-Year Advisors (FYAs), who will perform the role of Resident Assistants (RAs) in first-year housing ...
Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified Kelly Sims Gallagher as discussing Tufts’ observer status at the UN climate change negotiations, the importance of Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE)’s participation at COP 22 and the opportunities for networking Fletcher students had at COP 22, when it was Nitsan Shakked, associate director of TIE who said this. The Daily regrets this error.
