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 ...
Last Thursday, social media blew up with an image of a simple striped dress. Group chats, Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, tumblr blogs, BuzzFeed and more were littered with posts about the now infamous dress that sometimes appeared to be blue and black and at other times appeared to be gold and white. ...
“It is obvious here that the agents of government speak the language of pure force. The intermediary does not lighten the oppression, nor seek to hide the domination; he shows them up and puts them into practice with the clear conscience of an upholder of peace; yet he is the bringer of violence into ...
It has only been a hobby for a few years, but I can’t stop following soccer. It makes for a lot of fun when it overlaps with Middle East politics.It seems they have found a strange intersection in Qatar. Otherwise known as the beautiful game, soccer now plays a key role in the new Qatari grand strategy. This ...
We write this op-ed as Jewish Tufts students who went on Taglit-Birthright Israel. In sharing some of our experiences, we hope other students may begin to question Birthright. Birthright exposed us to the facts on the ground in Israel/Palestine and forced us to confront and reject the Zionist ideologies ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to speak in front of Congress -- without a Presidential invite -- in the middle of his own campaign at home is worthy of admiration only for sheer boldness. In every other sense, Netanyahu’s decision to intervene in American politics to benefit ...
The recent events at Wesleyan University, in which a dozen people apparently overdosed on the drug Molly -- a form of the more widely know Ecstasy or MDMA -- has reignited debate here at Tufts and at other NESCAC schools on how to handle drug use on campus. With four Wesleyan students arrested (they ...
The tournament director peered across the room, his reddish beard crinkling as he grinned. “Where are the Jumbos of Tufts University?” his voice boomed, amplified by the microphone. Three hundred competitors turned in their seats to look at us. “Jumbos,” he said, “Do the elephant thing you do!” We glanced at each other, laughing nervously. We stood, and in a low whisper, “Ready? Jumbos on three. One, two, three … BPPRHHHFF!” Students and coaches from around the nation cheered as we trumpeted.
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