Opinion

Cartoon: Winter 2016 and Climate Change

Reform the Oscars--and the Studios

One of the most anticipated events in cinema will take place in a little over a month. The Academy Awards this year include films like "The Revenant" (2015), "The Martian" (2015), "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) and "Carol" (2015),  a familiar allotment of obscure ...

On Writing Op-Eds

Dear readers,When I first took on the new role as an Executive Op-Ed Editor, my first challenge was recruiting new staff for the Opinion section. I was worried that not a lot of students would want to apply to be regular writers. Why sign up for more deadlines on top of our unceasing flow of assignments ...

Cartoon: SIS suggestions

You Can Call Us

You found out about us while you were sitting in a bathroom stall. You saw our name on a flyer in the Campus Center or in the stairway of your dorm. We gave you our phone number and our AIM. You may have taken note of our rhyming name—Ears for Peers (E4P)—and our tagline: “Here to listen.” However, you ...

Sean Penn, El Chapo, and Journalists in Danger

The allure of Hollywood is, for some people, overpowering--sometimes to a fault. The world’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is no exception. El Chapo became a figure larger than life in the media after his escapes from prison and eventual recapture became national and international ...

Letter from the Editor

Welcome back to the Hill, Tufts! We hope all of you have had a restorative holiday and are ready for the semester ahead of us. I am so excited to spend my last semester at Tufts with the Daily, working alongside tireless and brilliant individuals, many of whom spent winter break working on projects ...

The Gun Law Loophole

On Jan. 5, President Obama announced a series of executive actions to address gun violence in this country. The President’s actions reflect his frustration with Congress, which continually fails to act despite the horrific number of gun murders every day. As Obama announced his series of actions ...

Our candidates and the problem of climate change

The earth is on fire.Well, it's not actually – but it may as well be. According to preliminary data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the globe experienced its warmest year on record in 2015, eclipsing the old record set in 2014. Indeed, 2015 was nearly 0.90 degrees ...

Cartoon: SMFA becomes part of Tufts

Congressmen set personal tetris records, do nothing about guns

The New York Times addressed America’s gun epidemic this week in an editorial posted on the front page of the paper [ahem…front page…cough, cough managing board]. The paper called our country’s gun laws “a moral outrage and national disgrace.”But New Jersey Governor and man whose last ...

In class and in coffee shops

This past semester, perhaps more than others, I have felt more American than ever before. The holidays mark my seventh year anniversary in the country. I came to Washington D.C. with my parents almost seven years ago this winter. Now, I am the only representative of the Fabre-Perez de Vargas family ...

Editorial Cartoon 12.9.15

The sadness of things

Okay. Enough is enough. As the son of parents who were uprooted from their homes on the West Coast and made to live in an American concentration camp in Wyoming, I want to stand up and say that Donald Trump and his supporters should reflect a bit more on the consequences (and the premises) of their ...

How others see us

The role society plays in how we see ourselves and how we see the world is incredible. Many of us profess having this brick-wall exterior that renders us exempt from society’s claws. We don’t give a damn about how others perceive our haircuts or our frayed jeans. We are impervious to criticism or ...

The New York Times front page editorial is more than just opinion

"End the Gun Epidemic in America."On Friday, The New York Times published a front page editorial, its first since 1920, under this unequivocal headline. In the article, the paper's editorial board called for American politicians and policymakers to take concrete action to end the mass ...

A plea for filling out course evaluations

Under the old system, it was simple. An instructor would set aside the last 10 minutes of a course’s final session and distribute a two-sided paper evaluation form. The instructor would then leave the room, and an appointed student would collect the completed forms and deliver them to the departmental ...

Cruz control?

November was an awful month for turkeys, the Philadelphia 76ers and perhaps most of all, Dr. Ben Carson. He went from top in the polls to 15 points behind Donald Trump in all of three weeks. Referring to Hamas, the Palestinian political organization viewed by the United States as a terrorist group, ...

Trump feels terrorism in his gut; turns out to be gas

Four days after the Paris attacks, Donald Trump explained to a crowd in Tennessee that he has an uncanny ability to see terrorism coming. He pointed to the fact that in his 2000 book, he described Osama Bin Laden as a “shadowy figure.” His unique ability to identify villains is the reason no ...

Editorial Cartoon