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Senior Profile: TCU President Amma Agyei reflects on her student government leadership

By Abby Stern | May 22

On the night of the 2021 Tufts Community Union Senate presidential election, Amma Agyei waits at the phone, surrounded by her friends, anxiously anticipating the outcome of her campaign.The phone rings and Amma answers, listening to the call with a blank expression.With all eyes on her, she hangs up the phone and promptly screams with joy.Agyei has now become the first Black woman to be elected TCU president.

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Senior Profile: John Lazur fosters ‘radical hospitality’ through interfaith leadership, academic research

By Mark Choi | May 22

Growing up in a Unitarian Universalist Humanist congregation in Minneapolis, Minn., John Cioci Lazur was fascinated by the diversity of religions and faiths early on. 

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Senior Profile: Claudia Guetta reflects on involvement with TUPIT

By Kayla Butera | May 22

Going to prison — as a class — ended up being a life-changing experience for Claudia Guetta. 

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Kate in Paris: The end

By Kate Seklir | May 22

Endings, as I am sure we have all heard or felt ourselves, are often bittersweet. There is sadness in closing one chapter and knowing that things will likely never be exactly as they once were, and there is apprehension in the thought of what might come next. Will it match what came before? Did we make the most of the time we had when we had it, before it was gone?

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4 years of friendship: Class of 2022 roommates since 2018

By Elizabeth Zacks | May 21

The Class of 2022 was the first class at Tufts to have randomly assigned first-year roommates, and, despite whatever discomfort that might have caused at first, some seniors decided to live with their first-year roommate all four years. 

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Senior Profile: Emma Downs inspires change at Tufts through JumboSwipes, theater

By Mark Choi | May 21

As soon as Emma Downs discovered that Massachusetts had the nation’s highest increase in food insecurity rates during the pandemic, she knew something had to be done.

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Talking Transit: Transit funding is on the ballot this fall — please vote for it

By Chris Duncan | May 21

You’ve (maybe, hopefully) voted before, and you may have come across specific questions on your ballot asking whether you want a certain policy to pass. There are tons of examples of big-deal ballot questions from places like Massachusetts and California, states where many Tufts students come from. 

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2 generations of Jumbos: Faculty with children at Tufts

By Miriam Vodosek and Sam Dieringer | May 20

For the children of Tufts professors, Tufts University has played a central role in their lives. Now, many of those children have become Tufts students themselves. 

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Potty Talk: The wide world of bathrooms

By David Wingens | May 20

In honor of commencement and the last ever Potty Talk, I have decided to turn my attention briefly away from Tufts University and toward everywhere else. In these next 500 words, I will attempt to review all of the world’s bathrooms that are not on Tufts University’s campus with my four-metric scale that some have called infallible. I can already hear the complaints of people who think that the earth has too many bathrooms to review them all in one column, but folks, I’ve probably spent more time reviewing bathrooms over the last two semesters than I have doing readings for class — I think I can handle this.

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In Pursuit of Eggcellence: The finale

By Julia Appel | May 20

For my birthday this year, my mom got me an egg cup that is shaped like a knight. It has a little spoon for a lance. You take off the helmet, whack the eggshell with the little spoon until it opens, and eat the egg out of the suit of armor like a ravenous dragon. I highly recommend the experience. All I need now is a hoard.

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The Sidechat storm: An anonymous social media application takes over Tufts campus

By Kaitlyn Wells | April 29

Sidechat is arguably the hottest online development to have struck Tufts' campus this year. It is asmartphone application where users can post short messages and images completely anonymously in a domain accessible to anyone with an active Tufts email account. 

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Innocent Pleasures: Nature's poetry

By JoJo Lee | April 29

Spring: The flirt of the seasons, in turns coquettish and bold and shy, is now upon us — at long last! Though loath to be disparaging of any such earnest enthusiasm (and respectful of the very real impacts of seasonal affective disorder), I cannot number myself among those rejoicers. 

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Students, faculty discuss geopolitical implications of South Korean presidential election

By Layla Kennington | April 25

On March 9, Yoon Suk-Yeol won the South Korean presidency. Along with domestic social movements and housing policies, foreign policy existed as a central voting consideration in the presidential election. Most notably, South Korea’s role in the international sphere is shaped by its complex relationship with the United States, its only treaty ally, and China, its largest trading partner. Yoon, a former graft prosecutor with limited political experience, inherits the responsibility of a nation tasked with juggling these opposing forces.

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Kate in Paris: On my own

By Kate Seklir | April 25

This week, while I am on my Tufts-in-Paris spring break, I have found myself with five whole free days to spend in Paris, ones which I am trying to use to soak up the remaining time I have left in this incredible city.

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Student filmmakers thrive at Tufts

By Maya Katz | April 22

The Film and Media Studies program has seen significant growth during the past few years. 

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Kolumn: Making reconciliation the zeitgeist

By Koloris Wu | April 22

Last Friday night, I gave myself a study break and went to see “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) at the Somerville Theatre.

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Potty Talk: The chosen potty

By David Wingens | April 21

In honor of Passover, the Jewish festival of digestive problems, I have taken it upon myself to review the bathrooms of Tufts’Jewish community at Hillel.

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The ABCs of grade inflation at Tufts

By Kaitlyn Wells | April 20

If the letters ‘ABC’ send a chill down your spine, perhaps you’re a Tufts student and currently in the middle of midterm season. As Tufts becomes an increasingly competitive institution, here we will take a look at grades at Tufts in the national context of grade inflation.

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Talking Transit: An ode to cargo bikes

By Chris Duncan | April 20

I want to take today to continue last week’s trend of positivity and talk about one of my favorite developments in car-free living: cargo bikes! 

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Gap years promote personal growth, transformative experiences

By Kendall Roberts | April 15

With the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many students were forced to reconsider their plans as schools shut down, internships were canceled and lockdowns were implemented around the globe. From Medford to Dubai, many Tufts students took gap years to gain professional experience, to prioritize their own physical and mental health and to explore passions outside of a classroom setting.

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