Dear Super Bowl viewers,The biggest day for sports enthusiasts in America is soon upon us. Beer. Wings. Yelling. Butt slapping. Nothing brings the nation together better than this annual event of pure hedonism and steadfast rivalry. Except for people who have no idea what the hell is ever going on during ...
Tufts University Dining Services, as always, has done us a great service for the past two days, with Carmichael and Dewick Dining Halls remaining open despite the doomsday snowstorm. Students have expressed their gratefulness on the Facebook page as well as on Yik Yak and Twitter.Tufts Dining (TUDS) ...
As graduate students in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts, we join the national call by Ferguson Action, to make 2015 our “year of resistance to state violence against Black lives,” and we invite graduate students and others across Tufts University to join us.The police killings ...
Facebook has been quickly dominating the social networking world a few years after its appearance in 2004. Its simple registration process and connection processes with other people resulted in more than 50 percent of all Internet users signing up, according to Ian Maude from Enders Analysis.When we ...
Before the inarguable ubiquity of the internet, things were done a bit differently — clothes were tried on and bought in stores, final papers were submitted in plastic report covers and graded with a red pen and communication, in all of its ways, shapes and forms, took place in person, in print or ...
Hi folks! Whether you know it or not, today's a very important day. It is the last day before a giant blizzard obliterates New England. Set your affairs in order.It also marks the first week we go daily! From now on, every day we have school, there will be a brand new, shiny Tufts Daily waiting ...
Less than half an hour after 10 p.m., an avalanche of voices and perspectives on the State of the Union had already flooded social media and become a major topic of discussion on Tufts campus. This can be either a dividing factor or a chance for the Tufts community to embark on a journey toward, as ...
To the Editor:We were extremely disappointed to read the large number of errors, inaccuracies and misrepresentations in an article characterizing Tufts Medical Center’s relationship with the Chinatown community (“Boston Chinatown’s gentrification linked historically to Tufts Medical Center’s ...
On Thursday Jan. 15, many commuters saw their morning drive severely disrupted by a highway protest in the Boston area. #BlackLivesMatter activists aimed to maximize disruption by chaining themselves to cement barrels and forming a barricade on Interstate 93, causing massive traffic jams with delays ...
Since the horrific attack on the offices of Parisian magazine Charlie Hebdo, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has become hugely popular as a representation of solidarity and support in France’s time of grief. While the hashtag is certainly a catchy way for people to express their outrage, as the initial ...
Every college to some extent has departments that are rendered near-useless by the endless bureaucracy involved in managing higher education. According to my friends at other schools, however, one particular branch seems to be almost universally labeled incompetent. The Tufts variant, as you may have ...
Trigger Warning: This article discusses rape and sexual assault.I finally told someone.In truth she was far from the first person I’ve told about being raped. Very far from it. But my new doctor might as well be the first ‘grown up’ I’ve ever told. To be clear, I’m not a child. I am a 21-year-old ...
Since its founding in 1852, Tufts has embraced a campus culture that encourages the free and unfettered exchange of ideas. It is what defines us as a university in pursuit of discovery and knowledge, and it is what prepares our students to take on the complex challenges of our times. We cannot have ...
Hello, Tufts! Welcome back to the Hill. The last few weeks provided some much-needed rest for Daily editors, writers and photographers, but while, as individual humans, we may have been lounging around in our pajamas sipping cocoa, the paper itself has not been resting. The renovation and re-launch ...
In the post-2015 world, we are looking forward to previously unimaginable advances. With leaps in technology, communication and medicine, the breakthroughs that we will celebrate will outshadow our innovations of the past. Yet given these revolutionary achievements, it is shocking that there is still ...
Dear Deans,This letter has been written in response to your message “Protests and Final Exams: A Message from the Deans in Dowling Hall.” There is a long history at Tufts of university administrators disrespecting student activism and invalidating student’s lived experiences, and we find that ...
Few student organizations garner as much attention on campus as Tufts Climate Action (TCA), formerly known as Tufts Divest, and with due reason. The cause for which they fight fervently -- to push the administration to divest from fossil fuels -- is one that involves every member of the Tufts community and ...
While I may still have three semesters left on this campus as an undergraduate student, and while I will most definitely be working for our student newspaper in some capacity during that remaining time, I cannot help but feel nostalgic for the Daily knowing this is our last issue of the semester. As ...
Compassion and altruism are two traits we are taught to strive toward from a young age. But what happens when corporations and institutions capitalize on that same sense of active citizenship? No matter where we turn, we’ll see signs or products telling us to be “green and sustainable.” However, ...
Many people view top surgery as a transformative experience from which a new person emerges. While top surgery will impact my life tremendously, I do not view the procedure as a transformation at all. As a gender non-conforming identified person, I acknowledge the experience of living a sexual and gender ...
Op-ed submissions are an integral part of our connection with you, our readers. As such, we would like to clarify our guidelines for submitting op-eds and what you can expect from the process.
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