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A trip to Teele Square

By Sarah Firth | December 10

As Porter is to Harvard Square, Teele is to Davis Square. Though it is often overshadowed by its surrounding areas, Teele Square offers plenty of fun places that Tufts students should experience.Teele Square sits on Clarendon Hill, one of the seven hills in Somerville, at the intersection of Broadway, Holland Street and Curtis Street. Easily accessible by foot, Teele Square is even closer to the Tufts campus than Davis Square and is a great choice for students looking to take a quick trip off campus.

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Hey Wait Just One Second: Wonder

By Max Turnacioglu | December 10

This column is sponsored by wonder. Use promo code “HWJOS” at checkout to get 10% more annoying every time you start telling your friends about something random and beautiful you noticed the other day.

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A Jumbo’s Journey: I’ll lasso the moon for you

By Ben Rachel | December 10

I am writing this column in the middle of a packed Tisch, surrounded by stressed students and working off of three Yerba Mates (I’m shaking). Even the reading room is full; I had to share a cubicle with a Fletcher student. It feels like finals season brings everyone out of their dorms to shotgun energy drinks and complain about their workloads.

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Munching with Max: Bagels

By Max Druckman | December 9

There are a few things that I never envision myself doing: skydiving, wearing a Yankees cap, building a chicken coop. These are experiences I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. Until a few weeks ago, I would’ve included eating a bagel in Massachusetts on this list.

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Take a walk down the Somerville Community Path

By Sarah Firth | December 6

Davis Square is a popular hangout for Tufts students, but some may not have taken the time to check out the Somerville Community Path, one of its best attractions. Here are a few interesting stops to check out along the way from Davis to Lechmere, in order as you pass by.

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T Time: Haymarket but there’s no hay…and no market

By Jeremy Bramson | December 6

To be perfectly honest, the title of this week’s column is a bit of a lie — the no hay part is true, but there is an actual market at theHaymarket station, just not when I visited. Anyways, I braved the cold this week and took a quick and easy trip toHaymarket station. For those interested in visiting, you can hop on theGreen Line at the Medford/Tufts station and take it all the way toHaymarket. As someone who commuted to the station nearly everyday over the summer, I can verify that it takes exactly19 minutes to get there. Not 20 minutes, 19.

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Martha Friend’s Somerville home is a canvas for her found object art

By Dylan Fee | December 5

Take a small detour from the community path near Magoun Square and you may stumble upon “The Emerald City” — an intricate art installation made out of green glass, metal and other materials. This piece, along with many others, surround the house of Martha Friend, a found object artist who has lived in Somerville for almost 30 years.

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Wanderlust: The balancing act

By Carmen Smoak | December 5

A week and a half remains in my study abroad experience. More than ever, time doesn’t feel quite real. The days are long and the weeks are all too short. I now stand where there is far more to look back on from this experience than to look ahead to. And so, now is the time to reflect on one of the most whirlwind experiences of my life.

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Minutia Matters: No worries if not

By Leo Deener | December 5

Here’s a text I recently sent to my roommate, who I’ve known since freshman year and spend every day with: “Hey wanna get dinner, NWIN.” I have a serious case of the “no worries if not” disease. I catch myself saying it throughout the day in conversations with friends or in emails with professors, and I’ve come to hate it. “NWIN” has even become a part of how I text my friends along with “WYA” or “LOL.”

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The Daily Drip: Oblivion

By Dylan Fee | December 5

You know what they say: Save the worst for last. Be prepared for some heart palpitations from this week’s Sink nature drink — the Oblivion. The name for this drink is quite fitting. As next semester and a new slate of columns fast approaches, these weekly reviews may drift off into oblivion ...

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A professional ballet dancer’s journey from curtain call to college hall

By Sarah Firth | December 4

After performing with two of the world’s top ballet companies, Drew Nelson found himself trading pirouettes for problem sets and embarking on an entirely new journey as a student at Tufts. Following a full career with both the Royal Danish Ballet and the Boston Ballet, he has made an impressive transition from stage to scholar.

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The Oxford Comma: Term 1 (almost) done!

By Grace Nelson | December 4

Hi everyone! I’m currently in the library of the Faculty of Classics trying to write up my final essay of the term, so I’ll keep this column short and sweet (in case you’re curious, it’s a 6000 word paper on the Brontё sisters — wish me luck!)

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Meet the man behind Tufts’ classic history courses

By Claire Wood | December 3

Professor David Proctor is famous among Tufts undergraduates for his barbecues, three-piece suits and popular history courses. But behind the name is a teacher and member of the Tufts community, who was once a devoted student.

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Hey Wait Just One Second: Sunday comics

By Max Turnacioglu | December 3

Almost every Sunday, I used to strip. Of course, I mean this in the comic sense — that is, I comic stripped. Clad in pajamas, bedraggled and in desperate need of orange juice, I pored over the funny pages. These were literal pages in my youth, but later were the webpages of The Washington Post. Over Thanksgiving break, I observed the remnants of this weekly routine: Tomes and volumes of comic strips still litter my room, including the complete “Calvin and Hobbes,” “The Far Side” and “Garfield.”Moreover, the catalogue of “Peanuts” holiday specials continue to hold cultural sway over many Americans, including myself, bizarrely relishing the pathetic lamentations of Charlie Brown as he mopes through every festivity. As this print medium enjoys its tragic decline, among its brethren in physical artwork, where do the comics still lie in our consciousness? Is this goodbye, Charlie Brown?

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Hey Wait Just One Second: Eyes

By Max Turnacioglu | November 26

Look me in my eyes. Admittedly, this may be quite an ask, given that through this newspaper column, my identity is somewhat abstract. If you could look into my eyes, maybe they really would tell the full story. Eye contact improves cognition and attention, after all. For the time being, please look me in my Is, as I elucidate that endlessly entrancing, palindromic organ: the eye.

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A Jumbo’s Journey: Crashing out in Tisch basement

By Ben Rachel | November 26

Like many other Chicagoans, I am a fervent Chicago Bears fan. For those of you who do not know, the Chicago Bears are an American football team located in, you guessed it, Chicago, Illinois. Those who have followed the NFL this year will understand where this anecdote is going. 

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Red state students navigate post-election politics, belonging on a blue campus

By Dylan Fee | November 21

This year’s election granted Republicans leadership over the presidency and both chambers of Congress. However, a majority of Tufts students reside in blue states, where the majority of residents voted for candidates from the Democratic party. Students from red states, who will experience more policy changes amid a Republican sweep of the federal government, hold a smaller space on campus. Three Tufts students from different red states —Ashton Dudley, Alice Estrada and Clare Eddy —discussed their post-election feelings with the Daily, their varying conservative cultures and how their home states affect their place in the Tufts community.

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Medford, Somerville local history: Remnants of the Revolutionary War preserved near Tufts

By Arielle Flaherty | November 21

On Sept. 1, 1774, a critical event transpired just minutes from the Tufts Medford-Somerville Campus — an event that some argue altered the course of United States’ history. British soldiers’ seizure of gunpowder from the powder house in Somerville sparked a false alarm that the Revolutionary War had started. Ultimately, this false alarm was a crucial turning point and contributed toward the formation of the Minuteman soldiers and the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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Daily Drip: Blossom

By Dylan Fee | November 21

Is life moving too fast and you don’t know if you can keep up? Stop and smell the roses with me as I review this week’s Sink-nature drink: The Blossom.

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The Oxford Comma: Tutorials 101

By Grace Nelson | November 20

Hi again! It’s Grace, your favorite American in Oxford. Today, I’m going to talk about what many consider to be the main attraction of Oxford: the famous tutorial system.

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