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No, America isn’t becoming Nazi Germany

Within the past few weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have threatened to invade Greenland, referred to a U.S. citizen killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a domestic terrorist and released a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama. In the past few months, the administration has threatened universities with federal funding cuts, grabbed thousands of people off the streets and engaged in trade wars with dozens of countries. Within the past year, it has pulled out of over 60 international agreements, pardoned those with  Jan. 6 related convictions and purged federal websites of information Trump deemed ‘DEI.’ This paragraph barely covers the overwhelming actions of Trump’s second term, and doesn’t even cover anything he did in his first.

Daily Newsletter: February 12, 2025

TCU Senate hosts transparency town hall with senior Tufts administrators: Your Tufts Daily Briefing

The science behind Olympic snow: Climate change and industrial snowmaking

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, fewer freezes and shorter snow seasons have led to an estimated 85% of competition surfaces in the 2026 Olympics requiring artificial snow. The two host cities this year have created massive artificial reservoirs to provide sources of water for snowmaking. Cortina d’Ampezzo itself has experienced a 3.6 degrees Celsius increase in average February temperature and 41 fewer freezing days annually since they first hosted the games in 1956.

Crossword: A Colorful Performance

Moments ‘til Madness: An abysmal year for the Big East

Coming into the 2025–26 college basketball season, the Big East was projected to earn five to six bids in the NCAA Tournament. With about a month remaining until the conference tournament, the league is now projected to receive just three. Last year, the Big East had five teams in March Madness and appeared relatively strong compared to the rest of the Power Five. This year, however, the conference is rated comfortably last among the five in most metrics. What happened to the so-called ‘basketball-first’ conference?

Women’s basketball narrowly defeats Amherst, falls to Hamilton

Tufts women’s basketball played two tough home games over the weekend, narrowly beating Amherst 49–44 and suffering an 81–64 loss to Hamilton. The results brought Tufts’ NESCAC record to 4–5, with one conference game remaining in the regular season.

Tufts Professor Lisa Freeman wins inaugural Canine Health Discovery of the Year Award

Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most common cause of congestive heart failure in some large dog breeds, including doberman pinschers, Saint Bernards and Great Danes, and is often inherited. DCM causes thinning of the heart muscle, leading to a weakened heart with arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, and fluid buildup, that can ultimately result in heart failure. However, another form of the disease — diet-associated DCM — can affect many breeds of dogs and cats regardless of genetics.

A Jumbo’s Journey Abroad: Turning around

My initial idea for this publication was going to be me complaining about the heinous weather out here in Barcelona. I’ve been here for a month now and it’s only been over 60 degrees, like, five times! It’s been getting pretty cold, with last night dropping to the high 40s. I’m not sure what it’s like back at Tufts, but I bet it’s better than here!

Graduate students complete first semester of new AI master’s degree, undergraduate student groups grow

A group of students in the Tufts Graduate School of Engineering completed their first semester as the inaugural class of the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence. The new program comes as student interest in AI continues to grow, sparking the creation of undergraduate student organizations.

Love, hookups and dating at Tufts — oh my!

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and there is no doubt that love is in the air for some students here at Tufts. And there’s no better way to understand love and relationships than with a Qualtrics survey. This one was shared from Jan. 29 to Feb. 9 on social media, Slack and through personal connections, leading to a total of 69 completed responses. A quick disclaimer: The generalizability of this data is questionable, and the results are more entertaining than truly scientific. After all, who are we to try to pin down the mysterious force of love with non-validated surveys and scales?

TCU Senate welcomes new senators, considers push to add voting information to syllabi

Editor’s Note: Gunnar Ivarsson is a former chair of the Daily’s Ethics and Inclusion Committee. Ivarsson was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.

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TCU Senate hosts transparency town hall with senior Tufts administrators

The Tufts Community Union Senate hosted a Tuition Transparency Town Hall on Tuesday to break down how the university allocates its budget amid rising tuition costs. The event featured several senior university leaders, including Provost and Senior Vice President Caroline Genco, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer ad interim Thomas Malone, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Bárbara Brizuela and Dean of Engineering Kyongbum Lee. Approximately 60 students attended.

Catch up on 'The Fall-Off'

On Feb. 6, J. Cole released his seventh and final album, “The Fall-Off.” This double-disc project is a self-reflection of Cole’s life and career as a prominent rapper in the music industry. 

From GNX to DtMF: A defining Grammy night

The 68th annual Grammy Awards showcased veteran artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and others taking home multiple Grammys, alongside new artists like Olivia Dean making their mark on the industry. The Grammys, held on  Feb. 1 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.

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The Death of Education: Follow Mississippi

As the spring semester picks up, it’s important to remind ourselves that the average National Assessment of Education Progress scores in math, reading, science, civics and U.S. history for students in the United States are now back to what they were in the 1990s. This decline in student performance has been occurring since 2013; it has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic inability to curtail chronic absenteeism. Presently, 74% of tested countries outperform U.S. students in science, and a staggering 86% outperform them in reading.

Daily Newsletter: February 11, 2026

Students feel largely unsupported by TCU Senate, want more transparency, survey finds: Your Tufts Daily Briefing