Opinion

Cartoon: Halloween regrets

Jumbo Steps: My Halloweekend

“Forget the pirate eyepatch, mime makeup and superhero cape. I’ll be something out of the ordinary this Halloween,” I told myself in the days leading up to Halloweekend. I was undertaking an arduous task — figuring out how to be something novel and unprecedented was definitely going to be hard.I ...

Op-Ed: #HaltTheHike: A Call for transparency, accountability and accessibility in our community

 An email was sent to the undergraduate student body on April 12 by Dean of Arts and Sciences James Glaser and Dean of Engineering Jianmin Qu with the subject line “2016-2017 Tuition Update,” notifying students for the first time in recent history of a 3.6 percent increase in tuition, room, board ...

Editorial: Supporting janitors' contract negotiations now, in the future

Following weeks of unresolved negotiations and the prospect of a strike, the bargaining committee of the 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) finally reached a contract agreement with Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) Services over Tufts janitors' contracts. While details of the ...

Editorial: Why Tufts should continue to encourage gap years

Ten years ago, the notion of taking a gap year may have seemed like an entirely foreign concept in the United States. Nowadays, Malia Obama is just one of a growing number of students who have chosen to take time off before they begin their undergraduate education. According to the American Gap ...

Op-Ed: A response to FOI's Taste of Israel event

We -- Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) -- are writing in regards to Tufts Friends of Israel’s (FOI) Taste of Israel event planned for today, Oct. 27. According to the Facebook event, Taste of Israel is meant to "showcase the foods that make up Israel and the cultures it represents.” ...

Campus Comment: Gap years

The following quotes were given to the Daily by undergraduate students in response to the question, 'How did taking a gap year affect you both personally and academically?' "Academically, taking a gap year kept me from burning out and left me excited for college rather than dreading it. ...

Jumping Hurdles: The problem with clubs

When I was a freshman, I was sure that college would be a time where I could totally reinvent myself. I played violin growing up, but decided to leave the orchestra geek in me behind and try something new when I came to Tufts. After all, I had come to Jumbo Days and seen firsthand just how many clubs ...

Cartoon: A year of planning

Editorial: In support of safety and inclusivity on Halloween

Greek life writ large has drawn criticism nationally for lacking inclusivity, perpetuating insensitivity and contributing to rape culture on college campuses. Last week, Tufts' four Greek councils (the Inter-Greek Council, Multicultural Greek Council, Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic ...

The Echo Chamber: Is college worth it?

We’ve tackled the costs of college and the merits of a vocational education, but we haven’t yet tackled the big question — is college even worth it in the first place? To find out, let's take a step outside The Echo Chamber. For many, college has always been the obvious choice — almost 70 percent of ...

Cartoon: Trumpkin

Jumbo Steps: Parents and Family Weekend: just a first-year thing?

You may have noticed a few changes around campus these past few days as the remaining bunch of Parents and Family Weekend visitors said their last goodbyes. Firstly, the median age on campus is now back to 20-something. Secondly, and more seriously, first-year students (whom this annual event primarily ...

Editorial: Cultural competency training could be transformative — so long as it's truly comprehensive

Two weeks ago, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed a resolution requiring cultural competency training for all faculty and administrative staff. As the resolution explains, research has shown that cultural competency for instructors leads to better outcomes for students, both in terms of feelings ...

Letter to the Editor: In response to Senator Jehlen's discussion on Question 2

To the editor:Judging from your recent story, “State Senator Pat Jehlen discusses Question 2,” Senator Jehlen may have left Tufts students and your readers with some misconceptions about Question 2, the ballot question that would lift the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts.First, there’s ...

Cartoon: Ghost

Cartoon: Accessibility at Tufts

The Arena: Majority rule

Short of slapping a baby or some crazy WikiLeaks scandal, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton looks a pretty good bet to close out this election. Recent polls give her a better chance of winning Alaska, where a Democrat has not won since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, than Republican presidential ...

A statement from Students for Justice in Palestine

We will not be silent. Earlier this week, posters appeared on this campus produced by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a hate group. Using McCarthy-like tactics, these posters named and intimidated Tufts students and a faculty member with the aim to end our organizing using wildly offensive language ...

Letter to the Editor: The new semester-hour system

The editorial in last Monday’s Daily characterizes the move to the semester-hour system as an “ideological shift” which could undermine our identity as a liberal arts college.  The editorial also suggests that the administration has not thought about the effects the semester-hour conversion will ...