Article: "Editorial | Outsourcing the war and forgetting its costs" (Dec. 3)
Posted by: Joe Brassard
Comment: It's rather ironic to see an editorial deploring the disconnect between civilians and the military, while this university (and the editorial staff who wholeheartedly support them) continue to obstruct those few Tufts students who choose to serve their country by joining the ROTC.
It's not enough to simply banish ROTC from campus; the university has to make sure not a single class ROTC students take at MIT is worth Tufts course credits.
Article: "Walt decries influence of Israel lobby" (Nov. 28)
Posted by: Jeremy Robbins
Comment: There is no "Jewish lobby" that shapes U.S. foreign policy toward Israel or anywhere else. Nor is there a taboo on discussing the United States-Israel (special) relationship which is in the interest of both countries.
This is the figment of Professor Walt's anti-semitic imagination.
Walt is peddling a new version of the old canard that the Jews have too much influence.
Article: "Study finds college students lead unhealthy lifestyles, but Tufts health officials disagree" (Nov. 29)
Posted by: Daniel Hurwit
Comment: I was at the the town meeting the other day, and Dean Reitman said that the results from the Tufts Longitudinal Health Study indicate that while college students may live healthier lives than the general public (which I attribute to the fact that, hey, since we can afford college, we probably come from families that afford healthcare, good food, etc.), college students at Tufts on the whole tend to enter at a certain level of health and then show declining health year after year while at school. This poor health often continues after college, too.
However, what was really crazy is how Reitman (or it may have been Bill Gehling) said that the health study was even finding that girls, from freshman to senior year, were actually, in many cases, losing bone mass. That is really, really bad.
Let's be honest: Most of us don't sleep enough or on regular schedules and drink, smoke, eat irregularly and often survive on pizza or other random non-nutritional stuff.
