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The Daily Newsletter: December 3, 2025

TCU to host town hall on tuition transparency: Your Tufts Daily Briefing

In Photos: Snowport brings holiday cheer to Boston

Winter has arrived, and with it comes the annual Snowport Holiday Market. Located in Seaport, the market is open seven days a week and features a wide variety of vendors selling everything from hot cocoa to poutine, as well as a stage for live music. 

Women’s basketball defeats Rhode Island College at home, 62–50

Coming into Sunday’s game with the memory of their recent nail-biting 74–77 overtime loss to Endicott College, Tufts women’s basketball held a record of 3–3, while Rhode Island College entered with a 5–1 standing.

Op-ed: Standing for Dialogue: Reflections on hosting Moumen Al-Natour

On Nov. 11, Tufts Friends of Israel, together with the Department of Political Science, hosted a conversation with Moumen Al-Natour, a Palestinian human rights activist who has spent years speaking out against Hamas. The Center for Peace Communications joined via Zoom to help translate and later share Al-Natour’s story with wider audiences. About 45 students and community members attended. Many told me afterward that they heard perspectives they had never encountered before. That reaction alone made the event worth hosting.

Letter to the Editor: Regarding “Tufts' Asian American Center: More than just a building”

To the editor,

A case against lazy AI use

This week, nearly one in 10 people across the world will use a tool that did not exist just a few short years ago — ChatGPT. According to a September 2025 working paper by economists and researchers at OpenAI, more than 700 million people actively use ChatGPT each week and that “for a new technology, the speed of global diffusion has no precedent.” The multifaceted benefits and costs of artificial intelligence have been fiercely debated, and this debate has been particularly passionate when it comes to the role artificial intelligence plays in student learning and education.

Consulting at Tufts: Prestige or passion?

Editor’s note: David Kim is a former executive photo editor for the Daily. Kim was not involved in the writing or editing of this article. 

TCU to host town hall on tuition transparency

The Tufts Community Union Senate will host a town hall early next semester to explain how tuition and fees are spent across the university as the overall cost of attendance continues to rise.

‘It Was Just an Accident,’ masterfully captures a generation’s boiling anger and mistrust

To discuss director Jafar Panahi's newest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” it is important to understand its origins. The Iranian filmmaker is known for his unique style of portraying the lives of everyday Iranians through revealing their hopes and struggles to the audience. He is responsible for several renowned Iranian films, such as “Taxi,” “No Bears” and “3 Faces.” Beyond Iran, his movies have received international praise, winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, perhaps the most prestigious film award to date.

Tufts Political Science professors publish new book on American political participation

Tufts’ current and former political science professors Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser and Deborah J. Schildkraut published their new book, “Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and Their Routine Political Lives,” on Tuesday. 

Op-ed: Israel and Palestine at Tufts/Fletcher: Erasing inconvenient facts

On Monday, Nov. 17, I attended an event at The Fletcher School entitled “Israel and Palestine: Assessment and Community Dialogue.” For the first time in my 36 years as a professor at Tufts University and Fletcher, I felt unwelcome as a Jew.

Crossword: Giving Thanks

Mini Crossword: Howdy

Somerville celebrates the unveiling of public art installation ‘Letters Rewoven’

Somerville celebrated the unveiling of “Letters Rewoven” on Nov. 8, a new public artwork by local artist Anna Fubini at Lou Ann David Park. The piece was created through the combined efforts of community members, who wrote messages on scraps of paper that were turned into a pulp mixed with wildflower seeds. The mixture was then plastered onto the sculpture’s panels and will eventually grow into flowers. The installation was supported by the Somerville Arts Council and will remain on display until spring 2026.

Somerville faces SNAP delays as households and local food providers brace for more instability

Many in Somerville found themselves among the roughly 1.1 million Massachusetts residents who were left in limbo when a federal government shutdown delayed the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The federal program provides monthly assistance to low-income individuals and families to help them purchase groceries. 

Sherlock Holmes wishes you a Merry Christmas

“Moriarty is dead, to begin with.” And after spending three years without his nemesis, master detective Sherlock Holmes is bored and depressed. No case in London tempts him, and he is estranged from his now-married friend Dr. John Watson, even refusing to come to his house for Christmas. Worse, he imagines that he sees Moriarty’s ghost around London. Gloomy, grouchy and very much not in the Christmas spirit, Holmes mopes alone on Christmas Eve — until a doctor asks him to investigate a mysterious death.

Can woke keep winning?

With the holidays approaching, I find myself bracing for accusations of being the ‘woke’ sibling — the one who has been influenced, if not wholly indoctrinated, by the radical ways of his liberal arts college. In all honesty, this may not be far from the truth. But rather than being radicalized by some higher-education agenda, I’ve merely found myself among peers having conversations that reflect political awareness, intelligence and urgency. This bloc embodies a hunger for institutional change and a willingness to actually take action that, I would argue, form the bedrock of our ‘American experiment.’

What’s up with the campus pub?

It’s a Thursday evening, and the normally cozy, inviting Hotung Café is blocked off from the rest of the Mayer Campus Center. Deep purple mood lighting fills the space. The counter that serves vanilla lattes and chocolate croissants by day is now a fully stocked bar serving alcoholic beverages to those 21 and older. The café’s glamorous alter ego that only comes out to play once a week from 5–9 p.m. is here: the Pop-Up Pub.

Letter from the Editor

Dear reader,

Jewish students, unfiltered

On a chilly spring evening in 2024, 150 student protestors placed their arms around each other's backs and gently swayed to avoid being broken apart by police. Tents where protestors had been sleeping for almost a month dotted the Academic Quad, where a large, makeshift wall constructed of plywood and paint stood tall. Despite the break from chanting “From the river to the sea” and “Apartheid kills, Tufts pays the bills,” the scene was tense. A mere two hours earlier, University President Sunil Kumar had issued a “no trespass order” to all students remaining in the encampment. Students anxiously waited to see whether their sleepy Massachusetts campus would erupt into the kind of violent confrontation between police and protestors seen at Columbia University and University of California, Los Angeles.