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Jumbos will be in Boston for St. Patrick’s Day

Prepare to be pinched. For the first time in recent history, Tufts will be in session for St. Patrick’s Day, meaning that students can take advantage of one of Boston’s favorite holidays. “It’s always spring break so it’s exciting we finally get to be in Boston,” senior Lisa Tse said. Full story

Tufts students hope to engineer a drinking water solution for Ugandan village

Clean water is something most Tufts students take for granted, but for the residents of Shilongo Village, Uganda, it’s a constant concern and just one of many quality-of-life issues that a group of Tufts students hopes it can help improve. This May, members of the Tufts branch of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) will be making the trek to Shilongo Village to assess the most pressing issues of the community and assess potential solutions.

Students hope new science publication will be a ‘Breakthrough’

A brand new student publication recently appeared on the Hill this semester, but if students didn’t pick up a copy within a day or two of its release, they might not have known. The demand for Breakthrough: Tufts’ Undergraduate Science Magazine, which covers both Tufts and worldwide scientific news, outstripped supply so greatly that the 500−copy print run of the first issue vanished from the usual student publication repositories almost as quickly as it appeared. 1 comment

For professors, giving easy grades can mean receiving good ones

A recent Kaplan Test Prep survey showed that almost half of college students use Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com to select classes that are rated as easy, which may be a factor in grade inflation at colleges across the nation. Jeff Olson, vice president of research at Kaplan Test Prep, said that the effects of professor rating sites have been underreported in the analysis of grade inflation over the past two decades.

St. Patrick’s Day events around town

House of Blues 15 Lansdowne St., Boston The Irish rock group Dropkick Murphys will be performing. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Paradise Rock Club 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston The music club will be hosting a 10th Anniversary celebration of the 2000 cult classic “The Boondock Saints,” featuring comedy and music performances.

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