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 ...
“Where there used to be a YMCA for Chinatown … that is now a parking lot for New England Medical Center for Tufts,” Director of the Masters in Public Policy Program and Community Practice at Tufts’ Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department Penn Loh said. Gentrification is a general ...
The Tufts administration has, in the past months, become increasingly unwilling to release information to student reporters. This trend comes at an especially trying time for the Tufts community, which is working through last semester’s revelation of the administration's failure to meet federal ...
“There’s inevitably going to be some negative reaction, and it’ll make for good TV,” cautioned President Obama in his statement on the Ferguson grand jury’s decision. The mainstream media immediately confirmed Obama’s premonition by streaming images of "riots" in which people ...
The events in Ferguson, Mo. over the past few months have made it clearer than ever that our justice system is failing people of color in this country. The Missouri grand jury’s failure on Monday night to indict white police officer Darren Wilson for his shooting of black unarmed teen Michael Brown, ...
A typical Thanksgiving celebration brings up images of watching football, gathering with families and friends and over-eating homemade turkey, pies and mashed potatoes. From a young age, we are taught that Thanksgiving commemorates a celebratory and collaborative feast in which Native Americans taught ...
Two weeks ago, a group of Tufts students protested prior to a lecture of an Israeli legal officer at the Fletcher School. They called for human rights and spoke against killing innocent civilians.However, like in other similar lectures, none of them exploited this opportunity to ask the Israeli officer ...
Multiple times a week, Tufts students receive mass emails from one campus office or another, outlining policy changes, announcing important events and offering congratulatory remarks for student and faculty accomplishments. Last weekend, students received an email from the Office of the President ...
Whether it’s trekking to the nearest grocery store to supplement dining hall food with extra snacks or traveling into Boston to escape campus for a day of exploration, Tufts students need to travel. Fortunately, we have a variety of transportation options, from the red line to local bus routes ...
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