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Rogers Smith, professor of political science at University of Pennsylvania speaks at an event hosted by Tufts Center of Political Thought in Barnum Hall on Feb. 7.
Tufts Community Union Senate holds its regular meeting in the Sophia Gordon Hall MultiPurpose Room on Feb. 9.
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Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a lecture on feminist history and politics, “Long-After the Suffrage: Gender Differences and the Quest for Citizenship,” in Barnum Hall on Friday, Feb. 7. The event, which was hosted by the Center for Political Thought at Tufts University, a partner program of the Jack Miller Center, facilitated a space for discussing gender disparities and how political perspectives have shifted since the beginning of the feminist movement. Smith, who attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate, earned his PhD in political science at Harvard University, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s website. He served as a professor at Yale University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, focusing his research on issues such as citizenship and gender within the fields of constitutional law, American political thought and modern legal and political theory. Political science professors, undergraduate students and Fletcher students gathered to hear Smith discuss the impact that feminism had on policy, going as far back as the earliest feminist leaders.
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Malcolm Zuckerman, a history major, viewed the lecture as an opportunity to understand how an expert leverages history to approach policymaking. “I’m hoping to learn more about ways in which history has repeated itself and how it will affect our future social policy,” Zuckerman, a sophomore, said. Smith was introduced by Tufts political theory professor Robert Devigne, a longtime friend and former graduate student of Smith’s. Devigne spoke about the experience of being Smith’s student during his few years at Yale. “[Smith] led a tremendous class—one of the best I’d ever been in,” Devigne said. “It focused on different, complicated scholarly and political organizations, and it would not have been possible for class to stay together without Rogers as he helped us see what was valuable, what could be deepened and what we were missing.” In his talk about civic equality, Smith gave a view of how civil rights were won over time, and how that has affected the way policy is created and implemented by modern standards. “Women activists have done much to shape policy in regard to gender equality, but they have also done so on many diverse points of view,” Smith said. see SMITH, page 2 For breaking news, our content archive and exclusive content, visit tuftsdaily.com @tuftsdaily
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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate considered proposed changes to its bylaws and heard 10 supplementary funding requests from student organizations at its meeting on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room. TCU Parliamentarian Finn McGarghan led the body through the proposed amendments to its bylaws. McGarghan, senior, proposed an amendment regarding student organization funding, which would place the responsibility of reviewing funding requests by large umbrella organizations with subgroups, such as the Leonard Carmichael Society, on the TCU Treasurer rather than the Allocations Board (ALBO). This measure would ensure that the responsibility of reviewing the complicated requests would fall upon an experienced member of the senate, according to McGarghan. The TCU Senate passed the amendment with 27 senators in favor and none opposed. McGarghan also proposed two amendments concerning the student trustee representatives on the Board of Trustees. The first amendment stated that the TCU senate vice president would be able to appoint a TCU senator to attend a committee meeting of the Board of Trustees as the undergraduate student representative, in the
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event that the corresponding trustee representative position is vacant, no Executive Board member is available to attend and the TCU Senate is not able to hold an application process to fill the vacancy. Such a measure would be necessary because the TCU Senate would not necessarily be able to hold a full application process to replace the trustee representative before a given meeting, according to McGarghan. The second stated that should the Responsible Investment Advisory Group convene at any point during the year, then the student representative sitting on the Board of Trustees’ Administration and Finance Committee should serve as the undergraduate student representative for that group. The TCU Senate passed the amendments with 26 senators in favor, none opposed and one abstaining. TCU Treasurer Sharif Hamidi led the TCU Senate in reviewing the supplementary funding requests, one of which had been tabled at the senate’s previous meeting. The TCU Senate first discussed the tabled request by Tufts Friends of Israel (FOI) for lodging costs to attend the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. FOI revised its initial request for two double occupancy rooms and two single
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