On Monday, prolific film scholar David Bordwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered a lecture about experimentation in storytelling techniques in 1940s Hollywood films. The talk, titled "The Switcheroo Tradition: Narrative Innovations in 1940s Hollywood," was held in Olin Hall ...
Just under seven years before Edward Snowden made internet privacy a topic of national conversation, AOL found itself embroiled in its own alarming — if less massive — personal data scandal. As part of a research initiative, the company collected search information from over 650,000 of its users for three months, yielding roughly 20 million queries. Each of these searches included information about who conducted them, when they did so and which websites they visited immediately afterward. While the text files that contained all this data were never supposed to leave AOL's systems, one researcher — out of negligence or insubordination — made them available to the general public. AOL deleted the files quickly, but not quickly enough — they were downloaded and copied by a number of internet users almost immediately, and all of the information remains easily accessible today.
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On Oct. 13, a Jumbo Beat blog post called “The Perks of Dating a Foreign Student” was published. It has since been removed due to its offensive content.This piece exoticized whole portions of Tufts' student body. It was blatantly exclusionary in the audience it sought to address -- namely, ...
After another very fast summer, we're all back on campus for another very fast year. For many of us, myself included, it's the last year we'll spend at Tufts, so there's a fair amount of pressure to make it count. For me, making the first half of my last year count will mean doing ...
Every now and again, I’ll hear somebody say, “You learn something new every day!” In general, this exclamation follows the transmission of an interesting but ultimately useless kernel of information. The last time I used the expression, for example, was when I learned that snakes don’t have eyelids. It’s a saying that often seems to treat knowledge like a set of possessions to be accumulated and tucked away. It suggests that knowledge is matter rather than energy, and robs learning of its capacity to bend, move and erase, as much as add.
Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) met with members of the Tufts administration at 12:00 p.m. today -- the fourth day of a five-student hunger strike -- to further discuss the proposed restructuring of Tufts’ custodial staff. The meeting was the second in as many days and resulted in a proposal from the ...
Dear members of the Tufts community,
