As the temperature slowly reaches 50 degrees, the spring holidays are upon us. This past weekend, Christians and Jews celebrated Easter and Passover.As many know, Passover is about retelling a story we have heard a lot, thanks in part to Charlton Heston’s portrayal of Moses in a dated Hollywood epic. ...
Tufts students everywhere look up at the sky as the clouds open. “When will this accursed pestilence end?” they murmur to each other as the snow begins to fall.OK, nobody actually talks like that, with the potential exception of drama majors, but this is absurd. It’s practically mid-April. I’m ...
This year's 10th annual Murrow Forum titled “Who Can You Trust in the 24/7 Multimedia News Cycle?” opened with comedic tones in the form of video references to "Friends" (1994-2004) and Michelle Bachman getting stumped on national television. However, this soon gave way to a much ...
The other day, when I was at the gym, I accidentally caught a glimpse of myself in the reflection of the blank TV screen on the treadmill. What I saw was, well, a bit terrifying. My hair was pulled back in a ponytail that was anything but smooth. Right on top of my head were two giant bumps of hair ...
The increasingly popularity and necessity of attending college has gradually transformed the professional world, and as a result, the college degree has become a tremendous marker of inequality. Today, college degrees provide the basic standard for employers to make hiring decisions. This dominating ...
It hasn’t been a great week for Indiana. The state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act effectively gives a green light to anti-LGBTQ* discrimination and has been inspiring outrage for days, resulting in an endless parade of think pieces, sound bites and backlash. At the same time, ...
Yesterday, I wrote an op-ed documenting the outrage and controversy surrounding Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The law prevents the government from impeding a person's religious rights unless it has a compelling government interest and is acting in the least intrusive way ...
Few issues unite the Tufts University student body quite like the housing lottery. One might imagine that, at a school where the majority of the undergraduate population is made up of full-time, non-commuting students, the system for finding housing would be nearly perfected by now, or, at the least, ...
Indiana’s religious freedom continues to create controversy and draw outage across the country. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), signed into law by Indiana governor Mike Pence on March 26, prevents the government from impeding a person's religious rights unless it has a compelling ...
Usually, I love reading my friend Zach Shapiro’s wonderful op-eds. However, I can’t help but disagree with the conclusion reached in his most recent article, “A new Iran strategy.” That piece argues that Iran cannot be trusted, that deterrence is a superior strategy and that there are few strategic benefits to a deal. This leads to the piece's conclusion: that the U.S. should end negotiations and take military action against Iran.
One of the most controversial news stories in this past week was Indiana Governor Mike Pence's decision to sign into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which enables individuals or corporations to cite serving LGBTQ* individuals as damaging to their religious freedom and essentially deny ...
As the Obama Administration misses yet another soft deadline in its negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a number of contrarian voices emerge at the forefront of debate.Back in 2008, then-presidential candidate John McCainquipped, “Have you heard that old Beach Boys song? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb ...
Last Saturday, March 21, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Judith Shulevitz titled “In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas” -- naturally, several adults in my life immediately and gleefully passed it along to me.Essentially, Shulevitz argues, in a rather condescending manner, that students today ...
Early Saturday morning, the Tufts community once again found itself victim of an incident of anti-Semitic graffiti. This time, the vandalism took place behind Theta Delta Chi Fraternity (more commonly known on campus as 123). According to an email sent out by the Tufts University Department of Public ...
Trigger warning: This article discusses sexual assault and rape.Dear Survivors,On March 1, a concerned brother wrote about his love for his sisters.On March 24, a concerned mother wrote a letter to her daughter about safety on college campuses. Both of these articles had authors who hoped to protect ...
A testimony to the efficiency and ubiquity of the information network on a campus as small and interconnected as Tufts, not a student could be found who hadn’t caught wind of Kesha’s anticipated performance at Spring Fling 2015 a mere hour after the news was released.As is expected of any major ...
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