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T HE T UFTS DAILY Thursday, February 16, 2023
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BREAKING: Hodgdon Food-On-The-Run to close for renovations, temporarily relocate to Dewick by Aaron Gruen
Executive News Editor
Hodgdon Food-On-The-Run, commonly known as “Hodge,” will close for renovations after March 9, according to Patti Klos, director of dining and business services at Tufts. The popular dining location is set to be revitalized with a new layout designed to minimize overcrowding and streamline the grab-and-go system. “Especially since we introduced mobile ordering during COVID, we find that the way we designed that space back in 2007 no longer really meets our need,” Klos said in an interview with the Daily. While Hodge is closed, dining services will open a “mini”
version of Food-On-The-Run in the lobby of Dewick-MacPhie dining hall, offering a selection of grab-and-go options as well as hot food beginning on March 27. “We’ll have breakfast sandwiches and the bagel bar in the morning, [and] we’ll have a rotation of popular items at lunch and at dinner,” Klos said. The pop-up version of Hodge and the Dewick dining hall will remain open until 10 p.m. on certain days, and according to Klos, “General Gao’s will be [available] more often.” Klos said that construction on Hodge will take around 20 weeks and is expected to consee HODGE, page 2
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Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run is pictured at night.
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Faculty split on using ChatGPT as Students, community university prepares to confront AI boom members protest military industrial recruitment at career fair
by Ethan Steinberg News Editor
A surge of new artificial intelligence tools is stirring concern among some faculty while others embrace it as university administrators move to address the new reality marked by chatbots capable of spitting out code and writing assignments in mere minutes. The emergence of so-called generative AI, exemplified by
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has spurred some instructors to modify their syllabi this semester to defend against cheating. Others, however, see the sudden popularity of human-like chatbots as an opportunity to rethink their pedagogy and engage students in a fresh way. “I think with these technologies, like others, there’s opportunities to use them productively, and there’s also opportunities to short-circuit
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learning designs,” Milo Koretsky, a professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, said. Koretsky studies engineering education with a focus on engagement and the development of disciplinary practices in the college classroom. Koretsky has yet to play around with ChatGPT, but he said he imagines one way to use it would involve querying the program before having students critically analyze its response. The tool’s near-mastery of declarative knowledge — like facts that students memorize — could prompt educators to shift away from educational models that emphasize rote memorization, Koretsky said. “Whenever you have a situation where you set up rules that people benefit from breaking — that’s a delicate system,” he said. “So in one sense, these technologies like ChatGPT might provoke a crisis within the education system, which leaves us to reconsider how things are taught.” see CHATGPT, page 7
by Henry Chandonnet Staff Writer
Students and community members gathered outside of the Gantcher Center on Feb. 10 to protest student recruitment at the career fair by military-industrial organizations. Sponsored by the Tufts Career Center, the fair featured booths from defense organizations like The MITRE Corporation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the U.S. Army New England, among other non-military organizations. The protest began outside with a crowd of more than 30 protesters chanting, before moving the demonstration inside Gantcher. Maya Morris, who graduated from Tufts in 2022, is a leader of the Revolutionary Marxist Students Group, the protest’s primary sponsor. Morris gave her own speech at the start of the protest and led a variety of chants.
“A lot of us got together because … we want to oppose the university’s relationships to these companies, government agencies, think tanks [and] entities in general that have a relationship to the military industry,” she said. The organization claims to have over 200 signatures on their petition to end on-campus recruitment by companies with ties to national defense. “Tufts university, and many alike, are organs of the ruling class, serving it’s imperialist interests in several ways,” the petition states. “We further condemn the University’s role in encouraging us, the students, to take part in organizations that perpetuate and sponsor systematic violence against the people.” Donna Esposito, executive director of the Tufts Career Center, said that employers’ presence at a Career Center event see PROTEST, page 7
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