With 10.9 million jobs created since President Barack Obama took office, this year’s Commencement would seemingly be expected to be filled with more sunshine than dark clouds for current seniors. However, the high level of millennial unemployment still accounts for approximately half of the national ...
My dear Catherine,I’m sure you have heard about what happened at Penn State, at Vanderbilt and at countless other schools. And if it’s happening at one, I’m sure some version of it is happening at all of them. My friends and I have been talking about it a lot lately: How could over 100 students ...
It’s that time of year again. Spring break has ended, finals anxiety is building, the snow is melting (well, not really) and soon we’ll find out who our Spring Fling headliners will be. As always, rumors began early this year. If Yik Yak and Tufts Confessions are any indication, students are extremely ...
Tufts University has some performance issues. It’s not that Tufts can’t get it up – in fact, the sheer size of Tufts’ membership in groups that encompass all kinds of theater, music and dance is astounding.However, the performing arts at Tufts are often dismissed as unnecessary or not important ...
It is undeniable that apartheid has entered mainstream discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Jimmy Carter penned his book “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2006. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others who experienced South African apartheid have described Israel as an apartheid state. Even Secretary ...
While many Tufts students were enjoying spring break in less snow-covered locales, a small piece of history was made on March 15 at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston when two gay rights groups were allowed to march in the parade for the first time ever. After Mayor Marty Walsh refused to march ...
As students, we are constantly told that college is an invaluable investment in our futures. Current societal expectations tell us to sacrifice whatever we can to attend college because it will be worth it in the long run; but this isn’t always correct. The college experience is often laden with ...
St. Patrick’s Day 2015 is a special day not only to the Irish, but also to Israelis. I say so because come March 17, Israelis will go to the polls to select their new government.Though I generally wish the Israeli right wing wielded less power, Israeli elections are pretty fun on the whole. The advertisements ...
This week, a video depicting students from the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter singing an obscenely racist chant surfaced on the internet. The response to this disgusting display of racism by the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) president David Boren should be praised for ...
Correction: In a previously published version of this article, the word "gentrifying" was removed from the piece during the editing process. The Tufts Daily would like to apologize to the author for altering his editorial voice, and the word has since been replaced.
Earlier this week, a man who was sentenced to death for partaking in the Delhi Rape Case released a statement blaming the victim for her death. The man, Mukesh Singh, stated that "A decent girl won’t be roaming about at nine o’clock at night." Now, I don’t think I need to go into what ...
In a move that came as a surprise to many members of the Tufts community, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has removed off-campus travel funding from next year’s budget. While the Senate has emphasized that this change will not necessarily be permanent and that they will assess the situation ...
I have never wanted to join a Greek organization.Obviously, I am not alone in this -- plenty of people make it through college, Tufts and elsewhere, without having much of anything to do with fraternities or sororities. Given the rising numbers of students joining the ranks of the various Greek organizations ...
Dec. 28: 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn.Jan. 5: 23-year-old Eylül CansinFeb. 11: 19-year-old Melonie RoseFeb. 15: 15-year-old Zander MahaffeyFeb. 26: 16-year-old Ash HaffnerThe five names listed above have two things in common: They were all transgender people, and they all took their own lives. These are ...
I came out to my parents when I was 12. I’m pretty sure they thought it was a phase at first -- because, really, who knows that they’re queer when they’re not even a teenager? But they were supportive, assured me that they loved me no matter what and moved on with their lives. Despite growing ...
Last week, The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that they would be phasing the use of elephants out of their shows in response to a growing public sense of discontent about how the animals are treated.This decision, if not entirely controversial, was a difficult one, as these ...
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