Yesterday was my 22nd birthday. It also marked the 2-year anniversary of when I took control of my anxiety. Anxiety disorders are by no means the same for every person, but I would like to discuss my specific experience in order to contribute to the destigmatization of mental health issues. I also ...
Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris left the world in shock. In the heart of one of Europe's foremost cities, a living symbol of the aspirations of democracy and multicultural liberalism, concert-goers were taken hostage, Friday evening diners were gunned down and soccer fans were terrorized. ...
After the first few Republican debates, I learned my lesson. Getting ready for some fireworks at last Tuesday’s debate, I grabbed a cold drink, muted my stream of the Celtics game and sprawled on a couch in Carmichael Hall. After all, with a slimmed down field of eight, it could surely only mean ...
*With Purchase of Three Full-Price Speeches. Terms and restrictions apply.Breaking News: A group of students has been offended. Allegedly, they were stereotyped by an individual, prompting them to alert campus authorities. Speaking on the situation, TUPD officer Guy Hoosreal said, “I wasn’t surprised ...
I write in response to the Tufts University Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs Committee (CECA), which has published Halloween costume guidelines. Their piece begins by trying to be relatable, but then, to me, it feels as though they begin to proscribe and mock privilege, coming off as superior ...
It’s funny how we let others affect us. Our moods are surprisingly contagious. And if they are not contagious per se, then they are at least strong conductors of rather incendiary or equally intense changes in those of others. Moods travel through us and between us, kind of like electric tentacles ...
This past week, President Barack Obama’s administration announced it would reject the proposal to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ending a long-running debate. Ahead of the world’s most important climate talks in years, it is an agenda-setting move.The pipeline would have further connected ...
President Obama finally vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline project on Friday after keeping it on the table for the past seven years, bringing an end to nearly a decade of activist and political drama. The move demonstrated a turn in Obama’s growing pro-environmentalist leanings as he prepares to enter ...
Today marks the 62nd day of the "Red Zone." The Red Zone is a term coined by the media to describe "a period of vulnerability for sexual assaults, beginning when first-years first walk onto campus until Thanksgiving break," according to a Sept. 10, 2014 BusinessInsider article.When ...
For a Republican primary debate, last week wasn’t much of a show. Suffice to say it was far from the most interesting debate. Perhaps it represents the broader staleness of the Republican primaries, despite many claims that the race has never been so unpredictable and exciting. Either way, some rightly ...
College students have played a unique role in catalyzing social change in our country. In the 1960s, thousands of students participated in Freedom Rides, boarding buses across the country to travel to Southern states and register to vote African-American adults who faced institutionalized disenfranchisement. ...
If you’re a first-year, you’ve probably already heard a lot about sexual consent. If you’re a senior, maybe less so. That’s because in the last three years, the ways in which consent is taught and viewed on university and college campuses has changed -- a lot. Much of this change is due to the ...
On Oct. 24, the White House released its Testing Action Plan, a document that discusses "Principles for Fewer and Smarter Assessments." As national discourse about the amount of time and funding spent on standardized testing in K-12 education gains more and more of the media spotlight, this ...
A couple months ago, I was sitting at Mike’s in Davis Square, and there was a baseball game playing on the TV set. It was the middle of the day, and a few customers (plus the cashier) were watching it. It took me a couple of minutes to realize these adults were yelling at a game played by children ...
As of the end of last year, the burden of excessive student loan debt was affecting 40 million American students, whose debt totaled $1 trillion. Student debt is also the only type of consumer debt that has actually risen since the Great Recession, increasing by 84 percent between 2008 and 2014, ...
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