Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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The academic section is the most popular section of the yearbook. After all, if it were not for academics, why would we all be here? Our decision to at¬ tend Tufts did not result from a desire to spend the next four years of our lives serving the Tufts Community Union Senate or the Leonard Carmichael Socie¬ ty. We are here because of the fine offer¬ ings of outstanding departments and their many unique professors. We all came to Tufts with a great many expectations but first and foremost, to learn. To learn about the histories, philosophies and theories that made this world what it is today, and help shape all 20 of us into what we will be. We chose Tufts because we would receive one of the best possible educations in this country by such renowned professors as: Nobel Prize winner Allan Cormack of the Physics dept., Hugo Bedau of the Philosophy dept. — one of the most outspoken men in the country on capital punishment, Drama Prof. Pierre Arnott — whose works have appeared around the coun¬ try, Music Chairman T. J. Anderson whose first full length opera “Soldier Boy, Soldier,” was premiered in 1982, and of course engineering design pro¬ fessor Percy Hill — inventor of the in¬ famous Reach toothbrush. Granted, an education at Tufts does not come easily (with tuition priced at $11,711 for the ’82-’83 school year), but it is profitable, producing such notables as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Malcolm Toon, William Hurt, and most recently, our own Scott Brown, who parlayed his well-rounded education into a centerfold with Cosmopolitan, and a number of com¬ mercials and advertisements. With such exciting and unique pro¬ grams as Tufts in Talloires, the newly created Quebec student exchange pro¬ gram and Tufts in Washington D.C., our students have the opportunity to broaden their academic experience. Below: The Postman always rings twice.

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Is Good Cabot s Lodge I’m waiting for the omnibus. Paper Ch ase — Saundria Chase

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1 . I Fetch!! Boxed Where else could one learn about the Geneva Peace talks by attending them, or go hang-gliding with President Mayer over Le Lac Annecy Talloires, France. One of Tufts most popular programs — Tufts in Washington offers those in¬ terested in politics a chance to view Con¬ gress while it is in session. Proof positive that a Tufts education is truly unique, is the relationship between faculty and students. Professors make it a point to be accessible to the student body beyond their office hours, which creates a close, less formal association. Students, professors and administrators often become friends, in class and out. It is the norm for professors to make available their home phone numbers for questions and problems. Beyond the classroom, it is nothing to ask Sol, Kathy or Robyn to lunch. One can always depend on Bruce or Jim when there’s a problem in a dorm, and we musn’t forget those nighttime calls from Don, “I hope I haven’t called too late?”, Bobbie, who always enjoys coming over to the dorms to bake some of her apple pies with the residents and of course our beloved President, who is “Jean” behind his back. If one were to ask, what is Tufts? Hopefully the answer would be a simple statement, enlightening. We would all like to believe that we are scholars, but we aren’t. This does not mean we do not have the potential to be scholars. Poten¬ tial is what Tufts is all about. It is an in¬ stitution which provides a means to self improvement, both socially and academically. To all who walk the paths of the Academic Quad, or through the halls of its many buildings, and into the classrooms of its outstanding faculty, Tufts offers a key to the future, education. Buzz