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 ...
This past Thursday, I went to see "Not Your Mother’s Monologues." The performance was made up of 19 unique pieces, and I was thoroughly impressed by how powerful each woman’s performance was. I, for one, can barely speak at a normal rate in front of my Spanish class when I’m just giving ...
Only a third of Bostonians support a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to recent polls. Boston 2024, the group that organized the bid, is now pushing for a statewide referendum on the issue. This unexpected move has spurred debate regarding the importance of public opinion with respect to ...
I’m sorry to say that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s tenure will continue. Despite considerable Israeli and American surprise at this news, this victory was to be expected. This election is being characterized in a number of different ways, most prominently called “The Referendum on Bibi.” I prefer to call it a de-facto “Referendum on the Israeli Left.”
On March 21, Judith Shulevitz, a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times, published an article titled “In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas.” In this article, she discussed the various actions students on college campuses have taken against speeches and published writing that they have ...
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