Opinion
Feminism, relationships and the power of the BuzzFeed quiz
By Alexandra Dorfman | February 16There was a point in my life, sometime last year, when I didn’t know what BuzzFeed was. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to that point in my life. I hate BuzzFeed. I think it’s dumb, I think it’s basic and I think it’s useless. But the worst part of Buzzfeed is that when I am trying to write ...
Fanatics in movements must not be seen as representatives
By The Tufts Daily | February 16Last Tuesday, a 46-year-old man named Craig Stephen Hicks murdered three Muslim college students: Yusor Mohammad, age 21, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23 and Razan Mohammad, 19. The details of what actually occurred leading up to the attack are still foggy, and we are just as far from understanding Hicks’ ...
Remembering the Chapel Hill victims
By Shaan Shaikh | February 16Indifferent. That’s how I would describe my initial reaction to the Chapel Hill shootings, in which three innocent Muslims were shot and killed in their own home. Indifferent – a terrible way to feel about any death. I quickly skimmed through the news on my laptop. “A couple Muslims killed over ...
A time to break eggs
By Zach Shapiro | February 11For all his idiosyncrasies and egotism, I’m confident that Tyler Durden, of “Fight Club” fame, would have made a formidable military strategist. His musing that “If you want to make an omelet, you’ve gotta break some eggs,” aptly characterizes grounded, honest realism. It is exceedingly relevant in the age of ISIS, ISIL, or whatever it is we choose to call them today.
Stewart leaves politics better than he found it
By Jamie Neikrie | February 11After 16 years, Jon Stewart is departing from “The Daily Show.” Since taking over as host in 1999 from Craig Kilborn, Stewart turned the late-night satire show into a source of scathing wit, a place of social and political commentary and a cultural phenomenon. Stewart announced his plans to depart ...
University must double down on in-class alternatives
By The Tufts Daily | February 11There is no doubt that a snow day once in a while can be quite exciting; it can be nice for both professors and students to have a day off and enjoy the snow or just relax with a cup of hot chocolate. After five snow days in very close proximity, however, it comes time to re-evaluate the basic definition ...
Small steps toward gender-inclusivity
By The Tufts Daily | February 11Even though the Tufts community is often viewed as quite liberal, the measures that the University itself has taken to comply with its own non-discrimination statement are still inadequate to ensure an inclusive living and learning environment for students who fall outside the gender binary. Transforming ...
50 shades of fear
By Madeline Bacchus | February 11Trigger warning: This article contains references to sexual abuse and relationship violence.The sexually explicit novel that rocked the nation, "Fifty Shades of Grey" (2011), has been adapted into a movie and is scheduled to premiere this Friday, as in Friday the thirteenth. While the producers ...
Freedumb?
By Adam Kaminski | February 9Last week I tackled the question of whether or not I’d melt like a belieber clutching the Biebs when meeting my own teenage crush, Cyborg the Teen Titan (given that, of course, Cyborg could crush just about anything).
Letter to AEPi National Organization, former brothers of AEPi at Tufts University
By Benjamin J. Cohen | February 9As a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity (1954 Initiation) and a former Chapter Advisor (Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation 1995) to AEPi at Tufts, I was greatly disturbed to read the Jan. 30 article, “A Message to the Tufts community from the former members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity,” in the Tufts Daily. As the late Larry Glick, a well-known Bostonradio station WBZ personality used to say: "There is always a story behind the story." That being said, I think that the leadership of AEPi at Tufts University owes an explanation to both its former members and the Tufts community as to why it has undertaken such a drastic step.
Low voting numbers at Tufts must be fixed
By The Tufts Daily | February 9On Wednesday, Feb. 4, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election to fill several empty seats. Students elected representatives for one seat on the TCU judiciary, one on the Committee on Student Life and others on Junior Class Council, Junior Senate and Sophomore Senate. However, ...
Letter to the Editor
By Robert Joseph | February 9I would like to make some very important corrections regarding the article that was published about the uncertain future of TuftsLife in last Thursday's Daily. When I was first contacted by the story's author for information about the story, I responded with an email containing background information ...
LMS <3
By Henry Jani | February 8Dear Facebook groups,I’ve been thinking about you a lot recently. One of my friends from home decided to join the Tufts 2018 class page recently, tagging me in posts left and right. For example, he decided to advertise the information that I was auctioning off a ticket to Winter Gala. The many people ...
We are what we eat, we should know what we eat
By The Tufts Daily | February 8On Thursday, Feb. 5 the Tufts Friedman Justice League, in collaboration with the Fletcher Food Policy Club and a few other supporting organizations, hosted a screening of the documentary “Food Chains.”The showing was followed by a panel discussion with four experts in food justice, including one ...
Breaking down the heteronormative barriers in Greek Life
By Alexandra Dorfman | February 8When my dad found out I was rushing, he said, “Alex, maybe you’ll meet someone!” Confused, I told him that I was rushing a sorority, and since a sorority is made up of girls, it wouldn’t be conducive to meeting my future husband.“No, at a date party or a mixer,” he clarified. Although he ...
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