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Palestine, Israel and Birds

In June of 2013, Audubon magazine published an article on a cooperative bird conservation project between Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian schoolchildren.An Israeli zoologist partnered with organizations and schools to bring children together to enjoy nature and local birds and learn about conservation. ...



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Biden his time

I remember seeing a Hillary Clinton campaign general interest meeting (GIM) poster just a few weeks into last year; it’s when I really knew I was at college. Instead of focusing on a critical gubernatorial race that the party ended up losing, factions of Tufts’ Democrats got “ready” for a candidate ...


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My students, our future

In the bilingual Texas classroom where I first became a teacher, cultural celebrations were a regular part of our curriculum. My third and fourth graders loved sharing stories of their families, their traditions and the communities that made them who they were. But every year, when Hispanic Heritage ...


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Israeli-Palestinian conflict: myths and facts

Editor's Note: The printed version of this op-ed incorrectly listed Hannah Hoang as the author. The piece was in fact written by Chad Kramer. The Daily apologizes for this error.Our buzzword culture continues to thrive.Through its advertisement in theTufts Disorientation Guide, Tufts Students for ...


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False checks

We are no longer in the 1780s. That is clear. Yet for some reason, a significant portion of American political rhetoric still functions as if we were. Portions of the American political spectrum retain the understanding of the United States as a federalist entity. A popular interpretation of the Second ...





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Upfront and free

There will always be that one person that begins a conversation and lacks the social awareness of knowing when to end it. A friend of mine, Alexis, travelled this summer to Colombia. He endured a 10-hour flight in the company of a socially inept Colombian woman with a disproportionate fear of cold weather. ...


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Jeb! (?)

Few things in the world annoy me more than those Buzzfeed articles about being “a '90s kid.” Seeing some kid wax poetic about "Full House" (1987-1995) or "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996) despite being born years after those shows ended is just infuriating. And ...


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Editorial

Tufts, too, must contend with nation of guns

Last Thursday, Americans faced a disturbingly familiar news report: there had been another shooting, this time at a college in Oregon. A white man, potentially driven by hatred, nihilism or a desire to see his name in lights, was able to acquire 13 guns legally, according to NBC. President Barack Obama ...


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On-campus revolution

The Daily Arts section has a mission this semester: to grow its coverage of the Tufts arts scene. This may come as a surprise to some, since the mission seems so obvious; of course Tufts’ school paper would cover the plethora of artistic and cultural events going on across campus. Yet over the past ...



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Columns

Shutdown, for what?

A quick Google search of the terms “government shutdown” and “other countries” returns an excess of articles from the past five years with pretty much the same title: “Why don’t other countries have government shutdowns?” To me, the question is absolutely ludicrous. You mean the government ...


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A clockwork random

What’s a worse use of the word “random”? A girl, upon realizing she has the same name as the barista, saying, “OMG that is so random,” or a TSA agent motioning to a brown guy and saying, “You’ve been randomly selected”?The question matters in light of the recent Ahmed clock incident ...






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The art of personality

Ask me whether I find someone attractive, and I’ll try my best to revert to my first impression of said individual. I will do this because I know that once you’ve crossed the border of objective physical appraisal and thrown in the external variable of personality, apparent beauty changes completely. 


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