On Monday, Tufts Cooperation and Innovation in Citizenship hosted its annual debate between Tufts Democrats and Tufts Republicans, focusing on the issues of immigration, the economy and gun violence, with the upcoming general election coming in just a few weeks.
After Tufts’ Graduate School of Arts and Sciences paused its Master of Public Policy earlier this year, local community members have mobilized in support of the Neighborhood Fellows Program, which annually selects up to five urban leaders to participate in the masters program. The leaders come from underrepresented groups and have experience working in urban communities within the Boston area.
Medford residents will vote on three local ballot questions on Nov. 5, in addition to the five state-wide questions. The first of the three, Question 6, asks voters to approve a debt exclusion for a new fire headquarters that will replace the current one at 120 Main St.
Tufts Engineers Without Borders is continuing to develop its mobile greenhouse, which opened in May 2024. Members of the club hope to give hands-on engineering experience to children from local elementary schools, Medford and Somerville residents and Tufts engineers. The club is a chapter of the worldwide organization Engineers Without Borders, which works with professional and aspiring engineers to construct projects within communities in need.
Tisch College hosted a conversation with Nic Sheff, an author and advocate who writes about his experience with addiction and recovery. The Oct. 16 event was part of the Tisch College Solomont Speaker Series.
The Delta Upsilon fraternity held its third annual speaker series on Thursday, centered on building leadership skills in nonprofit organizations. The event, which focused on sports, featured a three-person panel: Jay Calnan, a Tufts alumnus and co-founder of Team IMPACT, which matches disabled children with college sports teams; Lily Siddall, the head coach of Tufts women’s rowing; and Chris Nowinski, the co-founder and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, which fights neurological diseases common in combat sports.
Sunday’s meeting of the Tufts Community Union Senate covered club funding requests, a new campus pub and their long-running effort to increase syllabus access.
Union Square in Somerville, Mass. is among 38 neighborhoods named in Time Out’s 2024 list of coolest neighborhoods in the world. Locals and business owners in the area seem to agree. From those who have been in Union Square for the majority of their life to those who have moved there in recent ...
Around 130 people protested in solidarity with School of Museum Fine Arts professors of the practice, School of Arts and Sciences full-time lecturers and School of Engineering graduate workers on Oct. 9. The three groups, all represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 509 union, are engaged in contract negotiations with Tufts for pay increases, among other demands.
Eaton Hall, which has been undergoing a complete renovation since November 2023, is set to be completed by the spring 2025 semester. The building, which first opened in 1908 as the university’s main library, has most recently housed the anthropology, classical studies, religion and sociology departments.
After over two years of discussion, a room in West Hall will be opened within the next few weeks as a community space for Southwest Asian and North African students to study and socialize.
Rent prices in neighborhoods surrounding Tufts are rising rapidly, raising concerns for Tufts students and local residents alike. In Massachusetts, a minimum wage worker must clock 120 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom rental home.
The Student Garden Club, Sustainable CORE Fellows, TCU Senate and the Tufts University Social Collective collaborated for the third annual farmers market, which was held at the Campus Center on Oct. 4. The market featured local produce and student artwork, along with educational tabling regarding environmental justice and food insecurity at Tufts.
“Grilled Cheesus” and “Tufts Crepes,” the popular, unofficial student groups hosting food vending events around campus, plan to continue functioning despite intervention into Grilled Cheesus’ operations from Residential Life staff and changing business plans.
Following the completion of a social probation issued in April 2023, the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau will resume hosting social activities starting this fall, while remaining under disciplinary probation.
In less than a month, Massachusetts voters will vote on a range of issues from psychedelic drug legalization to rideshare unions in the form of ballot questions. Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis, engaged Tufts students and community members in a discussion about this year’s state ballot initiatives during an event on Oct. 9.
The Somerville Central Library resumed its regular weekday schedule on Oct. 2, following over a month of reduced hours aimed at combating violent and disruptive behavior by some patrons. Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne announced the reopening, along with “updated safety measures” put in place to create “a safe and supportive library environment.”
Tufts Health Service has begun to provide medication abortions, a method for terminating pregnancies up to 11 weeks.
At least 200 residents gathered in the Somerville Community Baptist Church for a meeting on public safety in the Seven Hills and Davis Square area on Oct. 9. Amid rising concerns about homelessness and public drug use in these communities, Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, newly-appointed Police Chief Shumeane Benford and other city leaders tried to balance public safety concern with compassion for unhoused individuals struggling with addiction.
Students marked the anniversary of Oct. 7 with memorials and demonstrations on Monday. Some organizations held an evening vigil for lives lost to Hamas’ attacks, while a group of students convened to protest in solidarity with Palestine.
