Tufts QSA, an acronym which formerly stood for “Queer-Straight Alliance,” has recently changed its name to “Queer Students Association” and altered the group’s organization to better meet the needs of queer students on campus.
After a lifetime of living in and out of Japan, two first-years, Shunta Muto and Yuta Okada, have decided to bring their unique perspective to the blogosphere. Their blog, Tufts Samurai Jumbos, was launched in February, and aims to educate Japanese high school students about the daily experiences ...
The people and ideas I’ve encountered at Tufts have made me much more aware of nuances. I’ve become more cognizant of the problems that come with generalizing and lumping together groups of people who, between themselves, possess incredibly broad ranges of experiences and backgrounds -- of lumping ...
The Tufts-based DevTech Research Group's lab, located in the Eliot-Pearson Children’s School building on College Ave., is in the business of creating unique learning experiences for kids. Currently, the lab focuses on creating developmentally appropriate technologies for young children. According ...
According to the Tisch College's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), U.S. youth voters -- those in the 18-29 age range -- are consistently less likely to vote in elections than older constituents, especially in midterm elections. 64.8 percent of Americans over 25 cast their votes in the 2012 elections, compared with 41.2 percent of 18-24-year-olds. Only 21.5 percent of youth voted in the 2014 midterms, and their votes comprised just 13 percent of the total counted.
Assistant Professor of Music Stephan Pennington’s most recent research studies structures of cultural appropriation in the music industry. He describes three phases of cultural appropriation, by which the appropriated sound or style is taken farther away from its roots in steps. Pennington sat down with the Daily to explain these phases, point to past and present examples and talk about ways in which cultural exchange can be accomplished without appropriation or erasure.
In my experiences attending a predominantly white university in the Western world, environmentalism is often presented as a western concept. My professors frequently cite Henry David Thoreau as one of the first environmentalists, who lived in a secluded cabin in New England and wrote about nature. They ...
Nationally, one in five women are sexually assaulted while at college. But does a statistic like that hold true here at Tufts?Social Tufts Data (Tufts STD) was started in October to help address that question. It was started by sexual misconduct prevention specialist Alexandra Donovan, whose job ...
At a rally for Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ) on April 7, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin announced an undergraduate admissions policy change to welcome applications from undocumented students, a result of the group's continuous effort throughout the past year.UIJ PresidentZobella ...
Swiping into a dining hall for breakfast costs me $6.82. Eating breakfast at home costs me about 90¢, depending on how good a deal I get on my cereal and whether there’s a banana in it or not.But eating at home is way less fun. If you’ve ever paid attention to a cereal advertisement, you know ...
Today, most believe film projectors are relics of a bygone era. The pace of technology and the difficulty of acquiring film means that, over the years, theaters have dropped the analog format one by one.
While many science laboratories enforce a strict “no food in the lab” policy, Assistant Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe’s lab almost always contains at least one kind of food: cheese. Wolfe studies how microbial communities assemble, and he often uses food in his lab, especially cheese, which ...
Sophomore Umar Shareef stands in the main room of the Interfaith Center on on the afternoon of Friday, March 27. Behind him, four rows of men -- comprised of both Tufts students and community members -- stand shoulder-to-shoulder, barefoot on the red carpets that cover the floor. Two rows of women, ...
In previous columns, I’ve talked about whether feminists should make it a priority to cater to the interests of men to promote their feminist worldviews, ultimately concluding that it isn’t feminists’ jobs to make men feel comfortable.I still feel this way, and I still believe that no one should ...
Over the past three decades, the Institute for Global Leadership’s interdisciplinary EPIIC program has explored foreign policy, global politics and security from a different angle each year. The 2013-14 and 2014-15 symposiums focused on the Middle East/North Africa and Russia, respectively; previous topics included oil and water, the politics of fear and the future of democracy.
On a single night in January 2014, 21,237 people experienced homelessness in Massachusetts, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. In an attempt to lower this number, the Somerville-Arlington Continuum of Care (CoC) coordinates ...
For me, watching "Shrek" (2001) is a spiritual experience. Fairy tales and fantasy aside, I can identify with a lot of themes in the movie, like not judging a book by its cover, understanding that people are like onions and so on.But there’s a particular moment that always resonates with ...
Currently, students looking to study Community Health (CH) can only declare it as a secondary major, meaning that students have to select another, "primary" major to study simultaneously. Next fall's undergrads, however, will be the first to be able to pursue a primary CH major without being ...
Tufts first-year Harry Paul presented his invention, intended to ease the lives of children living with congenital scoliosis, to President Barack Obama and other White House officials earlier this month. Paul has been working on the device for three years and recently submitted it for a patent. The ...
When the nonprofit TED was first initiated in 1984, its goal was to act as a conduit for powerful ideas via live and video-recorded speeches. It was created as a medium to make ideas even more accessible to anyone. It was in this same spirit, with the desire to lend a platform to those worthy of ...
