Imagine 105 people cleaning up after more than 7,000 students and faculty, keeping our whole campus clean every day — with only 21 percent of them working 40 hours per week. It sounds impossible to me, but that is what Vice-President of Operations Linda Snyder expects from janitors at Tufts, as ...
Dear President Monaco, Dean Glaser, Dean Qu and the Board of Trustees,We, the student leaders signed below, are writing to express our concern over the recent tuition hikes announced via the email titled, “2016-2017 Tuition Update,” sent to the undergraduate student body by Dean James Glaser and ...
The Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC), a group of students working closely with janitorial staff members and advocates, protested Jumbo Days last Friday, earning the group significant criticism on Yik Yak, in line with past criticisms of protesters. Posts on the infamously anonymous app accused the group of ...
Thanks to recent primary victories and an enormous shift in momentum, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is back in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. However, Sanders has recently come under attack for one of his most important policy proposals: the implementation of a single-payer healthcare ...
I recently discovered political markets. Predictit.com is a website that allows users to buy and sell shares in a given political event — occurring or not occurring — with the expectation of a payout. On PredictIt, if an event occurs, like Hillary Clinton winning in New York, “shareholders” ...
The state of Massachusetts is currently facing a watershed moment regarding its position on the status of transgender individuals. While the 2012 Transgender Equal Rights Act prohibits discrimination against transgender people in their access to public education and jobs, loopholes in the law have ...
Pooja: Lately I’ve been watching a lot of "One Tree Hill" (OTH) (2003-2012) — and by a lot I mean I just got to 100 episodes. It’s definitely a bit strange to start watching now, seeing as most of the songs and references are circa 2002. However, watching OTH lets me live through the ...
This Op-Ed is written to frame the zine Whose Birthright, accessible at https://issuu.com/tuftsjvp/docs/sejda-3kl.On the last day of Birthright, I trek through Mt. Herzl National Cemetery, accompanied by 40 other young Jewish-American peers and a handful of Jewish-Israeli soldiers. We walk past headstones ...
No issue has roiled this year's Democratic presidential contest more than free trade.At a debate last week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) charged that during her tenure as a senator former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “voted for virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which cost ...
(Spoiler: it’s Brian Tesser.)I bet more of you than you’d like to admit struggled with that question. After an election in which Tesser ran without a single opponent and still managed to scrape together barely the votes necessary, it’s clear that the disconnect between the Tufts community and ...
The time has come again for the student body to make the decision of who will be the next Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate president and who the student body believes can help lead Senate in making necessary change on this campus. Both of this year’s candidates, juniors Gauri Seth and Ryan Johnson, ...
The hallway walls leading into my and my roommate’s room has been recently adorned with two new masterpieces. We can’t really tell if the portraits we drew of each other look Picasso-esque, or if they seem like the product of a three-year-old’s after-school art project.But that’s precisely we ...
I want to start this op-ed by talking about why it is important for you to read this and why I am writing. As I was reading through Gauri’s platform, it hit me how much my life at Tufts is affected by decisions that the TCU president makes, along with the rest of TCU Senate. I have several close friends ...
Several single-gender final clubs at Harvard University refused to become co-ed and comply to gender-neutral membership policies last Friday, April 15. The six all-male social clubs, or “final clubs,” at Harvard are well-known as exclusive and secretive. From the Phoenix Club’s appearance in ...
On Apr. 1, I saw on one of the most beautiful things I've seen in Tufts — the transformation of a place often thought of as the epitome of paperwork and bureaucracy into a place for genuine connection and inspiration.When we shared with our friends that the Art in April kickoff event would take ...
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