Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students John Barker announced last Friday, June 14 that current Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman will fill the new position of dean of campus life and student leadership at Tufts.
Reitman’s new position will place him among the university’s top administrators. According to Barker’s email, the new role represents the administration’s continued desire to improve student experiences and address the needs of the Tufts community.
“By increasing resources and services, we hope to strengthen the student affairs administration in ways that benefit our community and especially, our students,” he said in the email.
Upon assuming his new role, Reitman’s primary responsibilities will include working with Barker to manage student life policy issues and improving communication between students and Tufts employees, Barker said. Barker praised Reitman’s commitment to students’ well-being in his 30 years working for the university.
“Students, parents, faculty and staff have consistently valued Bruce’s dedication to the quality of life in our community and often commented on his personal warmth, concern for students and his unflagging energy for making Tufts the best it can be,” Barker said.
Reitman, who has served as dean of student affairs for more than a decade, will begin the transition to his new position on July 1. Administrators will also begin the search for the next dean of student affairs, Barker said. This new dean will focus on overseeing student judicial procedures, as well as expanding programs related to limiting alcohol abuse, improving sexual climate and enhancing campus life for underrepresented and low-income students. Both students and faculty will participate in this search.
Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris announced last Thursday, June 13 that the university has selected Alan D. Solomont (LA ‘70), the U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra, to serve as the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citzenship and Public Service.
“I look forward to working with Ambassador Solomont and the Tufts community to build on the substantial progress that Tisch College has made in recent years,” Harris wrote in an email to the Tufts community.
According to Harris, Solomont will assume his duties as dean on January 2 of the coming academic year, succeeding Interim Dean Nancy Wilson. Solomont’s appointment comes two years after Rob Hollister, a co-founder of Tisch College, stepped down as dean and initiated the international search to fill the position.
In his letter, Harris highlights Solomont’s long relationship with Tufts and with Tisch College. An alumnus of the university, Solomont graduated with a degree in political science and urban studies. Both his wife, Susan, and daughter, Becca, also attended the university. According to Harris, Solomont provided important service as a member of the Board of Trustees, serving as Chair of the Tisch College Board of Advisors. He also taught a seminar on the American presidency that helped to attract political figures to the school.
Harris commended Solomont’s professional achievements outside of the university. According to the US Department of State website, President Clinton, and later President Bush, appointed Solomont as a member of the bipartisan Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Solomont was later elected chairman of the CNCS Board in 2009. During that year, President Obama nominated Solomont to his current position as US Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Solomont has also served on the boards of several non- and for-profit organizations, including the Boston Medical Center, Israel Policy Forum, The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation and the WGBH Educational Foundation.
Tufts is back on top. The softball team clinched Tufts’ third-ever Div. III national title — the first for the program — with a 6-5 win over SUNY Cortland in Eau Claire, Wisc. on Monday afternoon.
The Jumbos capped their undefeated run throughout tournament play with a thrilling, come-from-behind victory to notch Tufts’ second national title this year. Though head coach Cheryl Milligan sent rising junior ace Allyson Fournier to the hill — coming in sporting a 24-1 record and sub-1.00 ERA — Cortland drew first blood with a lead-off home run to open the game.
Despite the setback, Tufts fired right back in the bottom half of the frame, tying the score at one on rising senior catcher Jo Clair’s home run. The Jumbos then took the lead in the second when rising junior first baseman Kris Parr smacked a solo shot, later extending that lead to 3-1 in the third when rising junior outfielder Bri Keenan scored on a wild pitch.
After cutting Tufts’ lead to one in the fourth, Cortland surged ahead with a three-run fifth inning. Trailing 5-3, the Jumbos answered with three runs of their own in the bottom half to pull ahead. Another rising junior outfielder, Michelle Cooprider, knotted the score at 5-5 with a two-run double before rising junior second baseman Gracie Marshall put Tufts on top with an RBI single.
Though faced with her biggest test all year by far on Monday, Fournier took it from there, retiring the final seven batters to cap off the win, in which she surrendered 12 hits and five runs while striking out eight. A 46-3 Tufts squad concluded its title run with 19 consecutive victories, and to the surprise of many, all but three players are set to return and compete for another title next season.
Chloe Feinberg ('96) with her children Ava, Charlie and Oliver eating the frozen treat. Credit Tim Lienhart
It was hard to miss the line around the frozen yogurt machines when walking into Dewick last Monday and Tuesday. Herds of people gathered to sample Dewick’s new frozen dessert feature, Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit. People were even heard in class commenting to each other on how long they waited on line to try this stuff. But what was it? A unique concoction of fruity deliciousness coming out of a frozen yogurt machine that looked like frozen yogurt, but it wasn’t.
Trigger Warning: this post discusses sexual assault and rape.
ASAP posted testimonials inside the Campus Center.
In the face of national incidents such as the Stuebenville rape cases, the Tufts community has come together to speak out against the rape culture on college campuses across the country.
Students may have seen the testimonials of sexual assault survivors in the Mayer Campus Center, and others may have heard the so called “consent vigilantes” outside the buses before they departed for Winter Bash.
Some of the leading voices in this educational and activist movement have been members of Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) and the Consent Culture Network.
“We’re really trying to be a pressence for consent, promote awareness of it, and promote awareness of the resources on campus,” said freshman Bruce Bausk, a member of ASAP, told the Daily.
As quickly as she set foot on campus, Abby Setterholm, a junior at Tufts University, set her eyes on the Balch Arena Stage and got involved in student theater.
“I always performed in high school,” said Setterholm. “I chose to attend Tufts, because the theater opportunities were so available.”
Since freshmen year, Setterholm stage-managed six productions, most recently Pen, Paint and Pretzel’s (3P’s) spring major “Alice in Wonderland.”
After their last nights dancing on the Cohen Auditorium stage, the seniors Spirit of Color (SoC) dance group were emotional and nostalgic. Take a look at their ’senior dance’ one last time and hear about their favorite moments dancing over the last four years:
This is the ninth installment of Madeline Hall’s column “Weird Love” which discusses the many oddities of affection as they appear in the year after the world didn’t end.
The first time I fell in love with someone was also the first instance that I lost love. I was just shy of 12, and I had fallen in love with a gap-toothed kid with a bowl cut, an aesthetic combination that I hope he grew into or out of. If anything at all was true in the world, it was that I loved him. This knowledge existed in tandem with the understanding that no one else would understand, though. I knew that. I knew that no one could take this blistering feeling seriously, despite its very real burn.
But I didn’t have physical proof that I loved him until my heart broke into perfect halves the day he moved away. It wasn’t until that moment that I understood the extent of my devotion, young as it was. So goes the story of the day I learned that absence made my heart grow fonder – February 27th, to this day, conjures faint shadows of the lamentation I entertained all those years ago.
Jennifer Burton has already made an impact during her first year on the Hill, teaching courses ranging from fairy tales to film production. Hear a little bit more about her background at Five Sisters Productions and her latest project, ‘Old Guy.’
Spring Fling in 1990 featured The Band and Barrence Whitfield and the Savages. According to the original Daily article by Janine Billy, The Band’s music was “cool and soothing, but warm and soulful.” Photo by Karl Schatz (LA ’92)
