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Lester Holt to speak at 12th annual Murrow Forum by Joe Walsh
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Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, will speak at Tufts on April 12 at noon as part of the annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism. Admission to the forum will be free. Further details on ticketing and location for Holt’s talk will be announced in March, according to Jen McAndrew, the director of policy, planning and strategy at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Holt has served as the weeknight host of NBC Nightly News since 2015, when he succeeded Brian Williams. NBC Nightly News regularly ranks as the most-watched evening news program in the United States, with more than 9 million total viewers two weeks ago, according to TVNewser. In addition, Holt moderated the first presidential debate
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between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last year. Before being named host of the weeknight Nightly News, Holt anchored the show’s weekend editions, as well as the TODAY Show on weekends and newsmagazine Dateline NBC, according to his biography on the NBC News website. Holt will visit Tufts for the 12th annual Murrow Forum, which is sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program, the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World and Tisch College. This year, the event will be organized in partnership with the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series. Last year’s Murrow Forum featured CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, and previous speakers have included Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour and former CBS Evening News host Dan Rather.
Tufts alumni create summer internship fund for students interested in service by Roshni Babal Staff Writer
The Bruce-Griffey Leadership and Diversity Internship Fund, an alumni-organized grant to help students afford the financial burden of unpaid summer internships, was offered for the first time last summer. The alumni who created the grant are looking to continue and expand the fund for this summer, according to fund Co-Chair Francesca Freeman-Lujan (LA ’93). The fund — named in honor of the late Lena Bruce (E ’92) and Anita Griffey (LA ’90) — is intended to promote diversity, according to the Tufts Career Center website. Preference is given to applicants who receive financial aid, are involved with the Africana Center
and are interested in leadership, diversity and service, the website said. The fund is offered alongside several other internship grants through the Career Center, all of which award students $3,500 for the summer to help defray expenses, according to the website. Last summer, seniors Cayla Brown and Andrade Hendricks became the first two recipients of the grant. Through the grant, Hendricks and Brown were able to immerse themselves in their work over the summer with less lingering financial pressure, they said. Hendricks worked at New England Biolabs over the summer, where she see INTERNSHIP, page 3
TCU Senate discusses tobacco-free campus proposal, supplementary funding requests by Vibhav Prakasam Senate Correspondent
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding requests and hear a proposal to make Tufts a tobacco-free campus. The first order of business was a proposal for a tobacco-free campus. It was brought forward by a group of community health majors, most of whom were seniors, who took on this initiative at the end of their Introduction to Community Health class in their freshman year. The policy has already been supported tentatively by some Tufts administrators, according to the students who proposed the policy. However, it will not be enacted until there is a thorough amount of information on the potential challenges for its implementation, how it should be implemented and possible resources that could be utilized. They also raised questions about how various student groups, particularly LGBTQ students and socioeconomically-disadvantaged students, would be affected. The policy would not include direct repercussions for violators, unless
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The TCU Senate is pictured during their weekly meeting on Oct. 16, 2016. an individual is consistently not adhering, they said. Another aim of the policy is to provide cessation assistance at Tufts University Health Service for people looking to quit smoking. The policy would apply to Tufts faculty and staff as well as students, they said. The group came to the meeting to ask for input on these issues and for
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ways to promote and enforce the policy. There were several questions from the body about how research on the issue had been conducted, how it would affect certain marginalized groups and various other concerns. Following this, TCU Senate Treasurer Chris Leaverton took the floor to discuss supplementary funding requests.
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Requests were discussed from the Queer Students Association for a speaker honorarium to hold a workshop on polyamory and collective living, the International Club to attend the Third Culture Kids conference at Clark University, the Chinese Students Association to reserve Breed
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