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Bottom of the Ninth: Who has the most to lose?

By Dylan Tanouye | April 21

Welcome back to Bottom of the Ninth! We’re now almost a month into the 2026 MLB season, and we’re starting to get a clearer picture of which teams are contenders and which are pretenders. While 25 teams still have playoff odds above 10%, some have more to play for than others. Keeping with the theme of this column, a large reason for this disparity is the looming potential of a 2027 lockout. With some teams reaching the end of their contention windows, this season may be their last chance to bring home a World Series ring with their current core of players. This week, I’ll discuss the teams facing the most pressure to deliver this season before their windows close.

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Boston Bookcrawl: Tisch Library

By Emily Sullivan | April 21

Welcome to the final installment of Boston Bookcrawl! I have loved recording my bookstore expeditions and thoughts on literary spaces in the Boston area over the past year. I hope you have been able to visit some of these stops or found others I didn’t write about for your own personal bookcrawl. There is truly an amazing number of indie bookstores in this area for you to explore and support.

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MLS Between the Lines: Messi league soccer

By Ben Brecher | April 17

This is now my third column piece and it feels impossible to talk about Major League Soccer any further without mentioning the greatest player to ever play the game: Lionel Messi.

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Worth Going Broke?: Mimosa-ified Mexican food

By Eloise Bernstein | April 17

My friend Maddie tends to spend a lot of time with my roommate Lucine and me — either wedged into a chair in Tisch Library where we take turns locking in while the others spiral into meaningless conversations, or sprawled on our floor scrolling while Lucine and I stay half-buried in our beds pretending we’re about to start our work. She’s always welcome to let herself in.

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Through Indigenous Eyes: Slowly but surely

By Sorsha Khitikian | April 16

This semester, I have tackled relevant, breaking news stories as they have occurred. From the Bad Bunny Superbowl Halftime Show to the horrific acts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the immediate issues of the day have been my major focus. While I believe this coverage is vital, I also recognize that the vast majority of Indigenous issues lie beneath the surface because they have remained issues for years, decades, even centuries. Progress on these issues happens in spurts and often is covered through a non-Indigenous lens. As this is my last column for this semester, I want to bring attention to one of those issues: NAGPRA, or the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act.

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Get Souped Up: Soup forever

By Arghya Thallapragada and Emily O'Hearn | April 16

Our last soup column is finally here. Since this is a special occasion, we decided to change up our soup selection process: Instead of choosing the soup of the week ourselves, we passed the decision onto you, the people! Arghya put out a poll on the Daily’s Instagram story (which we’re sure is flawlessly democratic) along with our fire graphic (literally). When asked to choose between French onion soup, carrot ginger soup, corn chowder or another soup of their choosing, our readership chose French onion.

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The Death of Education: The death of vocational education

By Evan Wang | April 16

I’m sure for a wide variety of students my age, our high school experience was dominated by a never-ending focus on preparing for college applications. The endless SAT tests, AP credits and college counseling all tell us there is only one real path forward after high school: college or university. But there has always been other choices. One of these choices, which has increasingly disappeared from the public eye, is vocational education.

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Beyond the Sidelines: You should go to a Tufts lacrosse game

By Anjali Mishra | April 14

Tufts men’s lacrosse is the best, and it’s not even close. In the national championship last year against Dickinson College, Tufts won 25–8 — a display of clear, untouchable dominance.

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Serve & Survey: The cost of forgetting

By Jaylin Guzman | April 10

Welcome back to another week of “Serve & Survey.” This week’s poll came from a conversation that started off casually but quickly turned existential, as most good conversations tend to do. While talking with a friend about memory loss and what it really means to ‘lose yourself’ (inspired by a late-night episode of Full House in which someone loses their memories, altering the way they interact with their loved ones), we kept circling the same question: How much of who we are is tied to what we remember? And, maybe more importantly, can you even separate the two? After all, certain memories play out the way they do because of how your personality pushes you to respond in the first place.

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A Jumbo’s Journey Abroad: My big fat Jumbo community

By Ben Rachel | April 9

I’ve met so many people here in Barcelona. I’ve made friends with people as close as UMass Amherst and as far as the Netherlands. And while it is amazing to meet all of these people, I miss the people at Tufts. I miss my Jumbo community.

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The Bigger Picture: Nostalgia for a life never lived

By Linda Huang | April 9

I haven’t ugly cried from watching a movie in a very long time, but something about sad Chinese drama movies always makes it impossible for me to hold back my tears. And that was my activity last Tuesday night: alone in my room, crying about emotions that I couldn’t pinpoint in the moment.

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Moments ‘til Madness: Michigan on top

By Owen Short | April 8

A champion is here. For just the second time in school history, the Michigan Wolverines are the last team standing in the NCAA Tournament. And looking back, this was a team that always felt destined for this moment.

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Sharper Advice: Forever friendships?

By Harper Stone and Sophie Penenberg | April 8

Q: I’m still figuring out my friend group. Some people seem nice, but I’m not sure if they’re actually going to be my ‘forever’ friends. How can I tell the difference? I don’t want to get too invested in people who might not stick around, but I also don’t want to miss out on friendships that could actually last.

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The Bright Side: The courage to look at the hard things

By Sera Kwon | April 8

Has anyone else ever dealt with the niche kind of shock that comes from watching the “Frozen Worlds” episode of “Our Planet?” One minute David Attenborough’s soothing British voice is showing you the cute penguins as they reunite with their families, and the next you’re watching walruses fall off cliffs to their deaths due to rising sea levels taking over their habitats.  

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Bottom of the Ninth: Revaluing the trade market

By Dylan Tanouye | April 7

Welcome back to Bottom of the Ninth! We are now almost two weeks into the 2026 MLB season, and for many fans, including myself, overreactions are running rampant. With over four months to go until the postseason, it’s important to remember that there’s a lot of baseball left to play and plenty of time for your favorite team to turn things around.

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Beyond the Sidelines: Professional surfing’s full circle moment

By Anjali Mishra | April 7

The World Surf League’s 2026 Championship Tour has embarked on its regular season, taking the best surfers around the Pacific, the United States and even a stop to the United Arab Emirates. Its first stop: Bells Beach, Australia, from April 1 to 11.

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Evanescence and the beautiful foolishness of things: The blue-green sky after April rain

By Isabella Jin | April 7

As Boston enters April, though there are hints of warming weather, a more significant change is rain replacing the continuous snow. While we trek through the muddy paths uphill and contemplate whether to bring an umbrella to class, the sky overhead is shifting through different hues. Ancient East Asian potters noticed these nuanced changes and incorporated them into their works. So today we’ll be observing the celadon glaze widely used in East Asian ceramicware, which is reminiscent of the purity of jade and the mistiness of April rain. 

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MLS Between the Lines: The new laughing stock of MLS?

By Ben Brecher | April 3

Just months after achieving the best record in club history, which earned them the 2025 Supporters’ Shield (a trophy awarded to the club with the highest total points in the regular season), the Philadelphia Union find themselves at rock bottom of the league table.

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Another Bites The Dust: The Timothée Chalamet backlash really isn’t that deep

By Jachin Lam | April 3

With the Oscars closing out the awards season earlier this month, one of the most heated controversies leading up to the ceremony was Timothée Chalamet’s infamous comment about ballet and opera. I stumbled across his statement in the many clips and videos cut from his Variety & CNN Town Hall conversation with Matthew McConaughey. There were thousands of comments and online discussions about his remarks, with the majority criticizing Chalamet. However, upon taking a closer look at the video, as well as Chalamet’s Oscar campaign for his film “Marty Supreme,” I feel as if the internet’s reactions toward him are coming from a place other than simple criticism.

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Worth Going Broke?: Millennial bagel spot

By Eloise Bernstein | April 3

My roommate hears it far too often. It usually comes sometime after midnight, when I’m in bed, scrolling instead of sleeping. When I blurt it out, she tends to either laugh at me or immediately agree, blaming me for the suddenly developing craving.

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