Tufts

The long arm of the law reaches for the light switch

adamg — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:01:07 +0000

Tufts Daily reports on a dorm-room standoff over whether a light should be kept on around 3 a.m. on March 16:

Following the intervention of two TUPD officers, the roommate agreed to turn the light off.

Sober, calm, partially naked students protest end of drunken, rowdy fully naked run

adamg — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:49:39 +0000

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

Tufts to naked students: Put some clothes on before you freeze to death

adamg — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:49:55 +0000

School ends support for naked student run; cites risk of death.

Report: Anti-semitic screamer goes berserk when police try to get him out of Tufts Hillel

adamg — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:22:42 +0000

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.

Tufts cops wrestle with naked students; arrest one

adamg — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:09:25 +0000

Tufts Daily reports it was not all fun and games at the school's annual running of the naked students on Friday:

In one instance, according to witnesses, officers pinned a naked male student to the ground; Reitman said the individual "had punched an officer in the face." When the officers were not paying attention, the student ran away, witnesses said.

KDKA? Hah! Tufts claims dibs for first daily radio station

adamg — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:36:17 +0000

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.

Police baffled by mini-outbreak of nakedness

adamg — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:56:09 +0000

Tufts Daily reports campus police responded to a report of six women standing around with no clothes on:

"I have no idea why, I have no idea," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said. "They put their clothes back on," he said, "and were sent on their way."

Delta House shut down after wild party

adamg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:26:57 +0000

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.

The reality of a reality show

adamg — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:03:27 +0000

Tufts Daily interviews a couple members of the Beelzebubs, the Tufts a capella group that went pretty far on "The Sing-Off:"

... On the plus side, Flynn's shirt includes real buttons. For the show's live finale, the Bubs donned shirts and ties attached with velcro — things they could change out of quickly during commercial breaks.

You had to be like Superman and rip out of it," Flynn said. ...

Diplomatic solution to sidewalk defacement in Somerville

adamg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:26:04 +0000

Tufts Daily reports cops didn't have much trouble convincing a student at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy they had the goods on her for vandalizing some freshly poured sidewalk cement:

"Kind of easy to catch when you write your own name in there," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.

Fortunately for her, the cement had yet to set, so she was able to smooth it out - under the watchful eye of campus police.

Tufts students asked not to burn down dorms while power is out

adamg — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:59:05 +0000

Among the electric customers to lose power due to the exploding manholes of doom today is Tufts University. Students are being asked not to light candles and to walk in groups if they have to go outside at night if the lights still aren't back on. The school says lights could be out for another eight to ten hours.

The artist who hates Shephard Fairey even more than Boston Police do

adamg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:47:04 +0000

Tufts Daily reports a performance artist teaching a course at Tufts considers Fairey such a hypocrite that he had his students make up posters with the express purpose of pasting them over a mural Fairey had put up at the student center.

The postings came about as a result of a project in an Experimental College course on performance art. Since their discovery and partial removal last Tuesday, they have sparked a Tufts University Police Department report and an investigation by Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. They have also provoked ongoing dialogue over free speech, the institution of marriage and about how the greater Tufts community engages and views issues pertaining to social justice.

Via Geoff Edgers.

Swindler's List claims another local victim

adamg — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:58:37 +0000

Tufts lost $20 milllion in the Madoff scandal.

Naked as a jaybird on the coldest night of the year

adamg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:01:20 +0000

Wicked Local Somerville provides its annual coverage of the annual naked-student run at Tufts, held last night. With video showing some Tufts students actually dressed appropriately for the weather, along with, of course, some naked butts.

An inspiring story that gives us hope

adamg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:04:24 +0000

Jay Fitzgerald is loving the story of that $272 million bequest Tufts and Lesley will split, in part because it comes from the sale of a company few people had heard of:

... Think of everything that could have gone wrong over the past 40 years and how patience pays big dividends. Think also of all those other seemingly obscure Massachusetts companies quietly and competently doing their job. ...