It looks like the proverbial phrase summing up my freshman housing situation, “home is where the WiFi (doesn’t) automatically connect," is going to be replaced next fall by something even more frightening than tufts-secure’s wrath: “home is where the…strangers live.”Housing season ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate announced this week that after much deliberation between its members and university administrators, Late Night Dining at the Commons will be preserved, and the service will be extended further to Carmichael Dining Center. According to a Feb. 16 story in the ...
Pooja: Rebecca has often compared herself to Cher, not only to the artist but also the fictional character from the 1995 film "Clueless." There are many reasons to draw a comparison between the two, but the most important would be their shared love of matchmaking. Rebecca loves to matchmake, ...
This week, I was worried I would have to dip into my “articles I can use when nothing is happening” reserve, as there were no primaries on either side of the aisle. On Saturday, however, this crazy election year got even crazier with the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The country’s ...
When the Harvard Graduate School of Education published its report “Turning the Tide” last month, a much-needed national conversation regarding college admissions reform erupted. The report, which has been endorsed by more than 80 of the nation’s most elite academic institutions,calls for a holistic ...
Dear readers,I am really thankful for my close friends who have patiently put up with my existence at Tufts since August 2014. Besides my rapturous sense of humor and my profuse sarcasm, which are hard not to love, I am a complainer. Those who know me well can testify to that. Sometimes, I am sorry ...
As the president’s term slowly approaches its end, some call U.S.-Iran relations the most urgent of the Obama Administration’s shortcomings.The Saudi government has been exceedingly critical. Saudi complaints make sense, especially given the reality that they are directly threatened by Iran’s ...
The butt of many jokes, the Green Line Extension project (GLX) is nevertheless a substantial infrastructural undertaking with considerable repercussions on the Boston Metro Area. The project has been in the planning stages since the 1990s, and construction finally began in 2012—four years ago. The ...
We each play a role in our families. Your grandma drags everyone to church on Easter, your uncle recounts his tour in Vietnam every Thanksgiving and your dad orders you to make your bed each morning even though, well, you're in college. In my family, I'm known as the environmentalist and the ...
In today's issue of the Daily, there are two op-eds — one for and one against the university officially changing "Columbus Day" as an academic holiday to "Indigenous People's Day" to celebrate indigenous peoples. There has been significant support of this change in the ...
After being bombarded with advertisements and door-to-door canvassing, the people of Iowa finally got to cast the first votes in the process to find America’s next president. For all the pre-caucus hype, Iowans didn’t disappoint.On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton edged out Bernie Sanders (who ...
This summer I had an amazing opportunity to travel to Peru for the first time. As a Peruvian-Bolivian student my childhood was filled with songs from the Andes, zampoña flute lessons and Peruvian and Bolivian cuisine. I was overjoyed to finally be able to visit my father’s homeland, but unsure of ...
As a kid most of us can remember hearing at one point or another: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Younger students of 2016 and beyond, however, might find themselves remembering Columbus in a more negative light as a mass murderer in the likes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. While ...
Even though I’m currently studying abroad in London, I’ve been keeping apprised of news regarding the 2016 presidential campaign. In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a subtle war between my Tufts friends who support Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination and those who support former ...
Rebecca: This is our last New York Style Dehli. Pooja and I have been giving advice to the Tufts community for two years now and by that we mean our housemates who take advantage of our anonymous Google doc. Yes, Neva, this was about you. It has become scarily apparent that this could be the last year ...
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