Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Photo S. Wilner . . : ’ t J additions to the Medford campus held a great deal of significance for they continued to foster the on-campus activities and events which com¬ plemented academic life at Tufts. A careful study of economic developments in the 1980’s is not complete without noting the effects of the computer age. Throughout our country, the role of computers grew in impor¬ tance and prevalence, and this new phenomenon reached the Tufts administration. Instead of waiting in long, tiresome lines in Cousens Gym to register, we were assigned to appointments with the computer who efficiently scheduled our course requests. Rather than learning to type on typewriters, classes were conducted on personal computers so that students would be prepared for the imminent presence of computers in all aspects of life. Throughout the country, there were charges that the rise of the computer had replaced interpersona l contact. While this may be true elsewhere, computers at Tufts did not prompt the sacrifice of the intimate relationships between administration, faculty, and students which is the backbone of Tufts University.