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Thursday, October 24, 2024
VOLUME LXXXVIII, ISSUE 8
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Tufts Engineers Without Borders opens mobile greenhouse project
Hannah Rajalingam Contributing Writer
Tufts Engineers Without Borders is continuing to develop its mobile greenhouse, which opened in May 2024. Members of the club hope to give handson engineering experience to children from local elementary schools, Medford and Somerville residents and Tufts engineers. The club is a chapter of the worldwide organization Engineers Without Borders, which works with professional and aspiring engineers to construct projects within communities in need. Despite already having two ongoing international projects in Malawi and Nicaragua, members of Tufts EWB aspired to create a project on Tufts’ campus that would allow them to give back to the local community. “The whole Tufts community and the local community is
impacted by our project because it educates people on how global engineering is actually implemented. People often don’t even know what engineering is, so to be teaching about it and teaching about how to do it in an ethical sense is also really important,” junior and co-Project Lead Adda Hennessey said. The greenhouse, located near the Tufts student garden, involved many moving parts. There are eight engineering projects inside of the greenhouse, including a compost bin built by the club’s members, a solar panel and lighting and water distribution systems. “The whole structure was engineered by a group. The whole interior was engineered by a group. There are tables and education interactives. There are a lot of different engineering projects inside of the greenhouse that
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Medford ballot Question 6 proposes debt exclusion to fund new fire headquarters Josué Pérez Assistant News Editor
Medford residents will vote on three local ballot questions on Nov. 5, in addition to the five state-wide questions. The first of the three, Question 6, asks voters to approve a debt exclusion for a new fire headquarters that will replace the current one at 120 Main St. The current fire headquarters was built in the 1960s. The fire and police departments shared the building up until 2019 when the police department moved to a new, separate headquarters built at 100 Main St. Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn explained the need for a new fire station. see BALLOT, page 3
see EWB, page 2
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Nic Sheff, author of ‘Tweak,’ discusses addiction, recovery during Tisch College event
Olivia Bye
Contributing Writer
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life hosted a conversation with Nic Sheff, an author and advocate who writes about his experience with addiction and recovery. The Oct. 16 event was part of the Tisch College Solomont Speaker Series. Sheff is known for his 2007 memoir, “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines,” and for being the subject of the 2018 film “Beautiful Boy,” which stars Timotheé Chalamet as a young version of Sheff. The event was moderated by Tufts senior and Harm Reduction Education for Drugs and Alcohol activist, Sarah Lotsoff. Lotsoff began the discussion by asking Sheff about how his life has changed in the years since releasing “Tweak.”
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He noted that one of the most significant changes has been his ability to stay sober. “When I finished ‘Tweak,’ it ends on the note of … ‘I’m in treatment, and maybe things are going to get better.’ But I still really didn’t know that it was possible to live a full, happy, beautiful life in sobriety, because I just hadn’t had that experience yet,” Sheff said. “I always thought that getting sober was gonna mean having to live this second-tier, consolation prize life … and 15 years later, I can say that that’s not the case at all. I love my life today. I love being sober.” Sheff touched on the impact “Tweak” and “Beautiful Boy” had on his relationship with his father by allowing the pair to reconnect and forge a deeper understanding of one another’s struggles.
Nic Sheff, subject of “Beautiful Boy,” is pictured talking to moderator Sarah Lotsoff (LA’25) as a part of the Tisch College Solomont Speaker Series on Oct. 16.
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Galactic Grcevich goes global
Attractiveness assails age
Editorial’s endorsements
Men’s soccer sees stalemate
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