A quick Google search of the terms “government shutdown” and “other countries” returns an excess of articles from the past five years with pretty much the same title: “Why don’t other countries have government shutdowns?” To me, the question is absolutely ludicrous. You mean the government ...
What’s a worse use of the word “random”? A girl, upon realizing she has the same name as the barista, saying, “OMG that is so random,” or a TSA agent motioning to a brown guy and saying, “You’ve been randomly selected”?The question matters in light of the recent Ahmed clock incident ...
Donald Trump, whose campaign for the presidency has been alarmingly successful thus far, has been a field day for CNN. They’ve run on average more than two articles a day since his campaign announcement on June 16. They’ve given him three hours of airtime a week and have dedicated half of their ...
Just over two weeks ago, the Obama administration launched a system by which prospective college applicants and their families may view a scorecard for each college and university in the country. These scorecards are intended to make it easy for applicants to make informed judgments about the value ...
Ask me whether I find someone attractive, and I’ll try my best to revert to my first impression of said individual. I will do this because I know that once you’ve crossed the border of objective physical appraisal and thrown in the external variable of personality, apparent beauty changes completely.
My grandfather always said that change keeps us young. For most of us, an appreciation for change is not fully adopted, if ever, until life becomes pedestrian and stagnant, when habits replace milestones and few opportunities for real change are left.Change is scary. Change forcefully removes us from ...
The Republican Party is split. Ever since Barack Obama was elected president, the GOP has advocated for a policy against big government, particularly in the fight against Obamacare. Unfortunately, this fragmented them -- and thus the Tea Party was born. Tea Party leaders like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz ...
Last week, the Daily published a special report on the ongoing investigations into the stabbing incident that took place at Tufts fraternity Delta Tau Delta (DTD) over the summer. On the morning of the attack, a blast e-mail was sent out by the Tufts Emergency Alert System telling the community to shelter ...
On Sept. 22, Pope Francis landed in the United States for his first official visit since assuming the papacy in March 2013 as the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Beginning his visit in Washington, D.C., he drew a crowd of 11,000 as he proceeded to the White House for a meeting with President ...
Many students, alumni and members of the campus sports community were happily shocked when the football team broke their seasons-long losing streak at their first home game last season. The football team's unexpected victory was not, however, the only much-talked about sports story last year. The success of the men’s soccer and women’s field hockey teams on the national Div. III level also received their fair share of on-campus attention.
Since arriving in the United States, I’ve spent most of my summers living at home, in a suburb of DC. However, this past summer was the first time I felt tuned into popular life in our capital city. I commuted early in the morning in cramped Metro cars with hundreds of others, frequented happy hours ...
It’s no secret that many students expect the four years they spend in college to be the most socially vibrant years of their lives. One doesn’t have to look far for the source of this expectation. Adults of speak longingly and fondly of the their college relationships, the media dramatizes virtually ...
Here’s a shocker: not every voter is particularly pensive about the quality of their presidential pick. In the words of Stephen Colbert (may his “Report” R.I.P.), these voters make decisions on the next leader of the free world not with their brains, but with their guts. It’s that command center ...
This Friday, the controversial film "Stonewall," directed by Roland Emmerich, will be released. It has already garnered appalling reviews. To give you a good idea of its reception thus far, Vanity Fair titled its review of the film, “Stonewall Is Terribly Offensive, and Offensively Terrible,” ...
With the amount of coverage surrounding the 2016 elections in the media, it can be hard to remember that polls do not open for another 14 months. Before that, two teams will have won the World Series, millions of babies will be born, and a similar amount will be added to our tuition bills. The United ...
Dear Tufts,I think it is time to acknowledge the elephant in the room: our dear Joey is no more. In a very sly and undercover move by the administration, Tufts has stopped using Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation in favor of A&A Metro Transportation. With this change brings cleaner and more ...
The "Live in the Moment” mantra has been preached so profusely that it induces a gag-reflex where it would have usually received some thoughtful nods and complete mental 180’s. Of course we live in the moment. We’re breathing this polluted air while we digest the political upheaval in the ...
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