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Red, White and True: What does the future hold?
By Alec Whipple | May 21“Never make predictions, especially about the future.” - Casey Stengel
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Senior Profile: Isha Patnaik
By Elie Levine | May 21Whether writing and performing sketch and stand-up comedy for Tufts comedy groups or working to make the community a better place through service work, graduating senior Isha Patnaik works toward fostering inclusivity and engagement.Patnaik grew up in the Bay Area as the daughter of Indian immigrants. ...
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Senior Profile: Conor Ward
By Hermes Suen | May 21As a dual-degree student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and the School of Arts and Sciences, graduating senior Conor Ward has spent much of his time at Tufts traveling between the Medford/Somerville and Fenway campuses. Out of everyone Ward has known during his college experience, the ...
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Senior Profile: Drew Latimer
By Becca Leibowitz | May 21Graduating senior Drew Latimer may be a Greek and Latin major, but he has also been taking many different courses outside of the Department of Classics. Having been a member of the Tufts Debate Society since his first year, Latimer has worked to broaden his knowledge base while in college through ...
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METCO and the desegregation of Boston public schools through the years
By Jessie Newman | May 21Disclaimer: Caleb Symons is a sports staff writer for the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article.While the Jim Crow era will forever be etched into American history of the South, the racial segregation prevalent in Boston public schools has received far less attention on the ...
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Senior Profile: Neli Tsereteli
By Constantinos Angelakis | May 21When Neli Tsereteli was applying to colleges as a student in the Republic of Georgia, she knew she wanted to attend school abroad. After a Google search and some online research, she found her way to Tufts.Tsereteli said that, although there is now another Georgian student at Tufts, she was the first ...
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Tufts by Numbers: What data knows
By Rebecca Redelmeier | May 21Digging through data this semester, I tried to expose stories that can usually only be found buried under covers of complex databases and meaningless numbers. By parsing data on topics like college tuition cost, class waiting lists and the illusive Tufts snow day, I hope that I provided an opportunity ...
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On Queer: On protest, on police
By Rainbow House 2016-2017 | May 21Monday, May 1 marked May Day 2017. May Day has for a long time played a strange, dual role in Western society. Some people view it as a celebration of spring, with maypoles and flower festivals. For others, it is International Workers' Day. This day of dedication and protest has existed since 1886, ...
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Senior Profile: Tafari Duncan
By Jake Taber | May 21"I've involved myself in everything I could juggle," Duncan said. "When I was graduating high school ... I remember multiple teachers came up to me and said, 'Tafari, you can't be this involved in college or else you just won't be able to get anything done,' and I assume I've done my best to prove them wrong."
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On Queer: On space
By Rainbow House 2016-2017 | May 1Recently, we’ve come to realize that Rainbow House is quite small. Situated in Hillside Apartments, our apartment comes with eight bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a common room. We are not wheelchair-accessible, and we have to sit on tables if we all want to meet in the common room.But we didn’t ...
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After over 10 years, Moe's BBQ Trollys offers late-night food, friendly conversation
By Emma Rosenthal | May 1Moe’s BBQ Trollys is an iconic part of Tufts’ nightlife on weekends, feeding students whether they are party-hopping or studying late at night. Dave Stuart, nicknamed "Moe," operates the truck and is a native of the area, having grown up near Harvard and then moving to Somerville. He has been in the food industry for his whole career, a career that has taken him through a variety of different positions.
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Tufts.io: An archive for student websites, computer science projects
By Kevin Lombard | April 28When senior Richard Kim interned at Google last summer, he was fascinated by one of the features of their Wi-Fi network. According to Kim, a computer science major, the “go/” feature at Google allowed interns and employees to create web pages for one another that exist only on the Google Wi-Fi network. Pages such as “go/imstarving” would yield nearby places to eat, while “go/help” would send users to a help resource.
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Tufts by Numbers: Graduation inequalities
By Rebecca Redelmeier | April 27Whether in mere weeks or many many years, the days of test-taking, essay-writing and finals will end for each and every Tufts student. Graduation will come, and we’ll put grades behind us. This week, in anticipation for this big, exciting, scary day, I took a look at graduation rates at Tufts and ...
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Mind the Gap: Defining whiteness
By MJ Griego | April 26I recently wrote a column on being mixed race, which received one comment: "If you look white, you ARE white. White can also be multiracial. Stop the whining." The commenter then linked to an article that argues that people of color perpetuate the one drop rule. I was glad to see this ...
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SURGE hosts symposium, provides space for conversation about China-U.S. relationship
By Grace Yuh | April 26Disclaimer: Yuan Jun Chee is a sports editor at the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article. As China continues to ascend on the world stage, Tufts Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE) aims to inform and engage students in conversations about China. More specifically, SURGE focuses ...
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In Ginn Library, Wish Tree symbolizes hope, community
By Ilana P. Goldberg | April 25Fletcher students returned from spring break to find a blossoming tree in the entrance of the Edwin Ginn Library. With tassels of cloth hanging from its limbs, the tree rests in a corner across from the circulation desk bearing the inscribed wishes and dreams of students, faculty and passersby.The ...
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Red, White and True: The two-party system: Where does it go from here?
By Alec Whipple | April 25“Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.” - Roy Barnes
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On Queer: On coming out
By Rainbow House 2016-2017 | April 24I never stop coming out to new and old friends. Every time I converse about my weekend or about romantic or sexual adventures, I contemplate the terms my peers and I mutually understand. Most of the time, I can get away with saying “partner” and leave it at that.However, more often than not, there ...
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Activism at Tufts Part I: As campus activism intensifies, tensions between student groups and administrators grow
By Liam Knox | April 24Editors notes: This series was reported by The Tufts Daily’s Investigative Team. Reena Karasin and Cathy Perloff contributed reporting.This is the first segment of a four-part series exploring the past, present and future of activism at Tufts.Tufts made national headlines in May 2015 when students ...
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Q&A: James Stavridis on his new book 'The Leader's Bookshelf'
By Constantinos Angelakis | April 21Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy James Stavridis, a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the Supreme Allied Commander at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), co-authored "The Leader's Bookshelf" (2017) with R. Manning Ancell. Published in March through ...
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