Speculation arises about Spring Fling performers

by thetuftsdaily on March 12, 2010

The Tufts online community has recently been abuzz with rumors about possible Spring Fling performers.

While many listings about Drake’s college tour schedule have for a long time shown him playing at an undisclosed location in Massachusetts on May 1 — the date of Spring Fling — a recent announcement by Francis and the Lights has only intensified students’ speculation.

The announcement states that Francis and the Lights will be touring with Drake and K-OS for five weeks. The part of this announcement that has sparked off most discussion is the listing for May 1, which specifies Medford as the location of the gig.

Concert Board is in the process of finalizing contracts with performers and will make an official announcement once this process is completed.

- Ellen Kan

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Safety Alert: Armed robbery on Curtis St.

by thetuftsdaily on March 3, 2010

Full text of an email from the Tufts University Police Department regarding a robbery that took place this morning on Curtis Street, Somerville:

On Wednesday March 3 at approximately 5:55am Tufts Police received information of an Armed Robbery on Curtis Street, Somerville. The victim, a male Tufts employee, advised that two male suspects approached him from behind. One suspect held his arms behind him, while the second suspect placed a knife by his cheek and demanded his money. The second suspect then removed money, an ATM card and I-Pod from his pockets. During this time the victim received a minor laceration on his cheek. Both suspects fled toward Powderhouse Blvd. A search of the area by Somerville and Tufts Police proved negative.

The victim described one suspect as a white male around 20yrs old, wearing blue jeans and white sneakers. The victim could not provide any description of the second suspect.

See today’s Daily for an article on the recent spike in off-campus crime.

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Bacow appointed to Obama advisory board on black colleges

March 1, 2010

University President Lawrence Bacow was on Feb. 26 appointed as a member of President Barack Obama’s reestablished President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Obama signed the Executive Order reestablishing the Board of Advisers which was originally initiated in 1981 to advise the President and the Secretary of Education on how best to [...]

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University trying to contact students in Chile

February 27, 2010

In the wake of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile this morning, university officials are attempting to establish contact with Tufts students in the country.
The epicenter of the quake is 200 miles southwest of the capital Santiago, where the Tufts-in-Chile study abroad program is located.
For the full text of the announcement, see http://inside.tufts.edu/announce/?t=id&id=791
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Search committee for A&S dean announced

February 19, 2010

Provost Jamshed Bharucha today in an e-mail to the Tufts community announced the search committee for the new dean of arts and sciences.
The committee, which Bharucha is chairing, is made up of faculty, staff and students. It is tasked with finding a replacement for Robert Sternberg, the current dean, who announced in December his intention [...]

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Senate debating on-campus housing commitment fee

February 17, 2010

The Tufts Community Senate (TCU) Senate will consider the merits of raising the commitment fee for on-campus housing/
Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman on Monday asked the Senate at their meeting to consider raising the fee, which he said is currently too low to prevent students registering for rooms they do not intend to live [...]

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Tufts Medical Center nurses protest cost-cutting plan

February 12, 2010

Nurses from Tufts and Boston Medical Centers yesterday held a protest against the hospitals’ new cost-cutting plans.
Tufts Medical Center say the new plan will improve nursing care while reducing the high costs that are typically involved. The plan involves using technicians to carry out more unskilled tasks while raising the number of patients each nurse [...]

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New public editor named

February 9, 2010

Chair of the Media Advisory Board (MAB) Scott Silverman last night informed the Daily that junior Shabazz Stuart has been chosen as the Spring 2010 public editor.
Stuart is currently one of the three presidents of the Tufts Roundtable, a student-run media group that publishes the non-partisan Tufts Roundtable Journal of Political Discourse.
He takes over from [...]

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Judiciary and Senior Senate seat uncontested, two will compete for Sophomore Senate seat

February 5, 2010

Two of the three open student government seats were filled at last night’s special election candidates meeting because they were uncontested.
The open seat on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary and the open TCU Senate seat allocated to seniors were both uncontested. Freshman Adam Sax was elected unopposed to the judiciary seat and Cory Siskind [...]

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Special election to be held Tuesday

February 3, 2010

Tufts Election Commission (ECOM) announced that the special election for the three open student government seats will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
There is  one open seat on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary and two seats on the TCU Senate. The Senate seat vacated by sophomore Joel Greenberg, who resigned earlier in the semester, [...]

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