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The Tufts Daily reports on a protest against the school's decision to squash the annual nude run across campus.

Tufts Daily reports it took five campus cops to remove a 65-year-old Andover man standing in the middle of the Jewish organization's center yelling about Jews, the university president and the university president's wife.

KDKA in Pittsburgh may have received the U.S.'s first commercial broadcast license, but Tufts University boasts its 1XE station was on the air and doing daily broadcasts before the Pennsylvania upstarts. Also:

Tufts has clear title to the claim of first commercial station in greater Boston, and remained one of the few area broadcasters in the 1920s. The station offered a smorgasbord of programming, including church services, boxing, and, on at least one occasion, an address by Boston mayor James Michael Curley. One of the most beloved programs was a half-hour show during which the “Story Lady, ” Eunice Randall, read children’s books. The station played both recorded and live music, including the song stylings of a local act called Hum and Strum. Even more popular, surprisingly, was a lecture series by Tufts professors. As many as 100,000 listeners tuned in to hear talks on dramatics, athletics, or bridge building.

Via Boston Radio Interest.

Mayor Curtatone better watch out on Homecoming Day. The Tufts Daily reports Somerville health officials shut the Delta Upsilon frat house at Tufts for a variety of health and safety concerns after firefighters responded to an alarm that went off in the middle of a party:

"So, we were having a party Saturday night; at some point during the party the front door came off its hinges, which was obviously a bad sign," he said. "Later, someone from another fraternity pulled our alarm; when that fire alarm got pulled, some of the fire department people came to make sure everything was alright."

Rumors have surfaced that an Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) brother pulled the alarm at DU and that the fire alarm that went off at the AEPi house later that same night was pulled in retaliation. Ross declined to comment further on this.