2015 has already been an interesting year for late-night comedy.I’m not talking about the end of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, though I will miss them. I’m talking about Jon Stewart’s lesser-known counterpart, Bassem Youssef.Originally a doctor, Youssef rose to prominence after a web ...
On behalf of the Non-denominational Christian Fellowship (NCF), the Vision and Planning Team would like to announce that NCF received TCU recognition as an undergraduate student group at Tufts Medford Campus. NCF is a new student group excited about providing a space for people of different spiritual backgrounds to come together, share perspectives and learn from each other. The student organization is exclusively lead by Tufts undergraduate students for the Tufts community.
It is a natural phenomenon that debate strengthens discourse. Imagine how dull conversation would be were it not spiked with a variety of opinions and plenty of arguing. The limits of free speech, however, have reached the forefront of social issues being discussed today. Much of this began with the ...
Louise Steingood is a first-year who has yet to declare a major and can be reached at louise.steingood@gmail.com; Leah Muskin-Pierret is a junior majoring in international relations and can be reached at leah.muskin_pierret@tufts.edu contributed to this article; and Hannah Freedman is a sophomore majoring in American studies and can be reached at hannah.freedman@tufts.edu.
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli ambassador born in Jaffa and educated in Tel Aviv, and today he is one of the rising stars in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If he were to hear that next week Tufts is going to have an “Apartheid Week” which conflates South Africa under Apartheid to today’s ...
This past Valentine's Day, an organization called the Love and Fidelity Network launched its #BringDatingBack campaign. When I first heard of it, I didn’t think the idea of "bringing dating back" sounded too horrible. Or, at least, I figured there could be value in putting more emphasis ...
One of the old Bostonian memes says that “the MBTA is the nation’s oldest mass transport system … and is still running like one.” Indeed, riding the T is like traveling to the past. Some subway cars date back to the 1960s and are old enough to deserve exhibition spotlights at one of the many ...
“I’m the biggest hypocrite of 2015,” Kendrick Lamar began, and it only got more honest from there. Just hours after winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song, Kendrick released “The Blacker the Berry,” a song that palpitated with rage and self-loathing. Just months before, Kendrick ...
In what we hope will be the first full week of classes (fingers crossed), we want to first say how ecstatic we are about the discourse on campus this semester. This past year, with a completely new web-first workflow, website, social media team, graphics team, marketing team and, most recently, several ...
Although Columbus Day may be several months away, a debate over changing the name of the holiday is underway at Tufts. When we celebrate Columbus Day, we blindly pay homage to a long history of genocide and colonization. Rather than honor a man who played an instrumental role in initiating centuries ...
My first reaction to the Tufts Hillel initiative to bring Trayvon Martin’s parents to campus for a discussion on gun violence was that it is unremarkable. Not in the sense of being unimportant, but rather that it is exactly what I expect from an organization that “walks the talk” in its commitment ...
After the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the military support of eastern Ukrainian rebels, Russia has risen to the top of the international political agenda. Today some experts compare Vladimir Putin’s regime with the totalitarian expansionist power of Josef Stalin or Adolf Hitler. There are a lot ...
Tufts' course selection and evaluation processes are in desperate need of improvement. A significant percentage of students every semester do not complete evaluations of the courses they take. When choosing classes, students effectively have to rely on the knowledge of their advisor and word-of-mouth. ...
My grandmother’s wartime experience was similar to that of any other young American woman who lived through World War II. She sold war bonds at her university. She worked at an airfield. She volunteered at a hospital. She served on the home front while three boyfriends, several friends and countless ...
A recent op-ed entitled “Kiev: a case against arms” by Sam Berzok argues that the United States should reject proposals to arm Kiev’s government in its war against Russian-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine.A number of arguments lead the author to this conclusion. First, targeted economic ...
Trigger warning: This article contains references to sexual abuse.I am no longer surprised when my friends disclose to me. Isn’t that a horrible thing to say, or to be true?We live in a world where violence seems to be the norm.Most recently, it was a friend who referred to her assault as “that ...
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