Tufts Daily

Collection

Call Number: UP029

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains issues of the Tufts Daily, the daily, student-run newspaper of Tufts University. The Tufts Daily covers university news, sports, and events as well as national and international news taken from wire services. It also includes editorials, announcements and calendar items of events (primarily on the Medford campus), and nationally syndicated comics.

Each volume covers one semester, except for volume 7, which includes the entire calendar year 1983. Individual issues are often mis-labeled on the masthead. The mistakes can include incorrect volume, number or date statements. Issues until Spring 1994 are bound. Reference copies are available in the Archives reading room. A headline index is available electronically (from 1985) and in a card file (from 1980) in the archives reading room.

The collection also includes web crawls of the paper's web site.

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Dates

1980 -- 2021

Creator

Tufts Daily

Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Digital Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. Copyright to all materials created by Tufts University employees in the course of their work is held by the Trustees of Tufts University.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into series by year beginning with 1980, in addition to having a series devoted to web crawls.

Related Materials

UP057, Today Tufts, DCA

Extent

72 Linear Feet

25 Volumes

3812 Digital Object(s)

1 Web sites

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

The Tufts Daily, founded in 1980, is the daily undergraduate student newspaper for Tufts University. Its mission is to provide a source of news for the Tufts community, a forum for the exchange of ideas, and a means for students to gain experience in journalism. It covers university news, sports, and events as well as some national and international news. It also includes editorials, a calendar of events, and syndicated comics. Published and distributed free of charge on class days during the academic year, the Tufts Daily is student-run and receives no financial support from Tufts University.

Particularly valuable are the Tufts Daily photographs documenting campus life - the people, places, events, and activities of Tufts University.