Opinion

Cartoon: Telestration

Looking for life, destroying life: Why should you care about global health?

Last semester,I wrote a column that explored the pitfalls of the American healthcare system while simultaneously taking Global Health (CH-0056), a course offered by the Department of Community Health. After taking this class, my understanding of health was fundamentally altered. It might seem rather ...

Editorial: Equal opportunity must mean equal access

Colleges are institutions where students of radically different backgrounds come together to learn, progress and grow to become leaders in society. Every student that attends university should have equal opportunity to experience the ordinary and extraordinary, whether that is going to the dining hall ...

Letter from the Opinion Editor: We encourage community commentary

Dear Tufts,The news published in the Tufts Daily impacts all of us and cries out for active conversation. The recent investigative report on Saudi involvement with this institution is shocking. Commentary about legacy admissions prompts questions about the future of our university. A compelling and ...

Gray Areas Matter: Athletic preference in college admissions

Recruiting athletes to selective universities is a tricky issue. Opponents of the practice claim that the system unfairly gives advantages to students who possess no differentiating academic talent, or worse — are less qualified than their non-athlete counterparts. Proponents cite the high rate of ...

Cartoon: Back to School Moods

Editorial: Sensitivity is necessary when mandating instruction in diaspora cultures

Editor's note: Since its publication, the Tufts Daily has retracted this editorial due to its conflation of identities and cultural gatekeeping. The Daily deeply regrets this error. A full apology can be found here. Tufts University prides itself on diversity, and when it comes to classes in ...

Op-Ed: Your vote matters

With this year’s elections for the Tufts Community Union coming up on Sept. 19, I look back at my own experience running for Senate for the very first time last year.When campaigning for Senate began last fall, I was stumped. In a completely new environment, I had no platform. Student government ...

Editorial: Miller and Houston renovations left students in unbearable conditions

Throughout the past year, Tufts has renovated many underclassmen dorms. Given these recent renovations, it is apt to surmise that Tufts values safe and comfortable student living spaces. Though these projects resulted in beautifully modern dorms, last year, students lived through the renovations of ...

Editorial: TUPD, stop infantilizing students

The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) recently posted images of a mock swearing-in ceremony on its Facebook page. Chief Kevin Maguire, right hand raised, is pictured facing a stuffed toy elephant in police uniform. “Officer Jumbo,” the post reads, “joins us from the field of 3 ring entertainment ...

Editorial: First-Year Legacy Reception highlights Tufts' elitism

The Tufts Class of 2023 matriculated into Tufts University on Aug. 28, and while the majority of the newly minted class spent time after the ceremony attending various seminars and bidding farewell to family members, a select group of new students and their families walked down hill to the Science and ...

Editorial: President Monaco, open your door

Dear University President Anthony Monaco, Each semester you open your door to the Tufts community for office hours. You’ve written that “Office Hours serve as an opportunity for members of the Tufts community to participate in an informal open discussion.” Unfortunately, your door is only open ...

Op-Ed: Recognizing the Red Zone

The responsibility of preventing campus sexual violence falls on our entire community.More than 50% of campus sexual assaults take place during the first 10 weeks of the school year. This time period is known as the Red Zone. It is especially dangerous for first-years, who are two-and-a-half times more ...

Editorial: Hate on our doorstep

Saturday’s Straight Pride Parade, hosted by a group of far-right agitators called Super Happy Fun America (SHFA), was controversial, hateful and grim. Led by John Hugo and Mark Sahady, both from Boston, SHFA announced plans for the parade in June,shortly before Boston’s annual Pride Parade. SHFAcontinued ...

Op-Ed: Can Blood and Water Flow Together?

I am an Indian national, I traveled to Pakistan to research a water-sensitive topic.The summer of 2018 brought me an invaluable opportunity: the privilege to visit the Pakistani cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore. Growing up in Lucknow, India, I was raised on the stories of an undivided India. ...

Editorial Cartoon: Continuing Conversations

Editorial: Welcome Home and Welcome Back

Class of 2023: Welcome home. Welcome to Tufts University, to a community where — not to sound like an admissions brochure — you can truly be yourself. We’re doers and fighters, artists and entrepreneurs, athletes and poets, activists and scientists and much more. It’s into this community which ...

Op-Ed: A Tribute to Sam Lobley

It is May 14, 2019, the day that I turn 21, and the day that President Monaco emails the news that Sam Lobley passed away from complications related to cystic fibrosis (CF). As another Tufts student with CF, reading this email makes me feel guilty. It makes me feel lucky. It makes me wonder: Why not ...

Letter from the editor to the Class of 2023

To our newest readers,I’m probably not the first to welcome you to campus; that was the responsibility of your pre-orientation leader, or your FYA or whoever wrote your acceptance letter when it made its way into your mailbox. But I hope that does not make this welcome seem any less genuine. I am ...

Op-Ed: Real justice in Israel

On April 5, 2019, there was an op-ed published in the Daily called “Real justice in Palestine” that attempted to portray Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as hypocritical for hosting a drag show as part of its “Deadly Exchange” campaign. It engaged in quite a lot of victim-blaming ...