My historical education in many of the Latin American countries where I've lived focused on pre-Columbian Latin America and its colonization until I attended the sixth grade world culture class in Bogota, Colombia. In primary school in El Salvador, I painted pictures (and stuck cotton balls ...
An Open Letter to Tufts University President Anthony Monaco and the Board of TrusteesAt its best, Tufts University contributes to its Somerville and Medford host communities by opening events and exhibits to the public, hosting the annual Community Day, permitting use of some facilities to local groups, ...
Right wing: JOHN BOEHNER IS BAD!Democrats: Yeah, cool, I think we’re on the same page on this one.Right wing: DOWN WITH BOEHNER!Democrats: Yeah! Down with him!Right wing: A REAL REPUBLICAN INSTEAD!Democrats: Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Nevermind. We take it back. Boehner is fine. Guys?Right wing: TOO ...
On Oct. 13, a Jumbo Beat blog post called “The Perks of Dating a Foreign Student” was published. It has since been removed due to its offensive content.This piece exoticized whole portions of Tufts' student body. It was blatantly exclusionary in the audience it sought to address -- namely, ...
Last Thursday around noon, my phone buzzed. “Nine people killed by school shooter at community college in Oregon," a CNN alert glowed at me. I read the headline, internalized it and, sadly, felt very little. I have seen this before, countless times before. Too many college students have had ...
A predicament we face today is the menace that our wrinkle-count will one day supersede what we can count on two hands. Breaching the geriatric gates is now comparable to waltzing into one of Dante’s circles of Hell. "Waltzing" is too kind of a term. "Dragged by the undaunted claws ...
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. ...
Last week, national news outlets reported that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) had dropped out of the race to replace Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) after Boehner announced his resignation from Congress on Sept. 25. McCarthy, tipped to be the next Speaker ahead of other ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earlier this week, a group of protesters rallied outside the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. The protesters were not gathering, however, because of an offending exhibit or speaker, but rather to express their dislike for the esteemed French impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Among ...
On Thursday, the Senate took an important step toward ending America’s uniquely unreasonable system of mass incarceration. Republican and Democratic senators came together to put their support behind a bill that would make prison sentences more effective in a number of ways, including reducing mandatory ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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