“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 ...
Tufts recently entered negotiations with DTZ, the contracting agency for its janitors, to revise its plan of operations for its janitorial staff.The new plan would likely include significant cuts to the janitorial staff -- a move that is ethically unacceptable and shockingly inconsistent with the standards ...
The Tufts administration has promoted the new Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program a great deal over the past year. The program allows incoming students to take a gap year through the Tisch College to work in locations ranging from Santa Catarina, Brazil to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for one ...
Dear Tufts,We are writing to you as Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ), a student group dedicated to supporting immigrant rights on campus, in Massachusetts and nationally. As Tufts students, one of our most important and immediate goals is to push for equal opportunity on our campus for undocumented ...
In a crucial step to provide institutional support for undocumented immigrants applying to college, Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed United for Immigrant Justice’s (UIJ) "Resolution to Establish Equal Opportunity for Undocumented Students" on Sunday in a nearly unanimous vote. The ...
There is one essential word that has been lacking from recent dialogue at Tufts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This single word is the greatest question on the minds of Israelis and Palestinians: peace. What everyone -- students, activists and governments -- must ask is how do we achieve peace?Recent ...
Walking through the Mayer Campus Center, one would typically see the usual cast of characters: group project assemblies merging tables near Hotung Cafe, bundled up crowds waiting for the Joey away from the cold and ambling students standing in line for their caffeine fix from The Rez. This past Thursday ...
The First Generation Student Council's effort to create a support network and community for those on campus who identify as a first generation college student is an important step in developing additional resources for these students. The Higher Education Act of 1965 considers a student to be ...
On Sept. 2, 2014, the river Jhelum, which winds its way through the Kashmir valley, began to swell.For the past 65 years, since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Kashmir has been a region of international territorial dispute. The Indian and Pakistani governments both believe that the ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 5, I woke up at 5:00 a.m. in the basement of a Washington D.C. church and made my way to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) offices with a group of about 50 protesters. There we blockaded the three entrances to the building with our bodies. We held that blockade ...
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson declared that Nov. 11 was the first celebration of Armistice Day. The inspiration for Armistice Day came from the Allied forces’ agreement with Germany to end military engagement in World War I. The celebration associated with Armistice Day was multi-faceted. People ...
By no means does SJP aim to "silence" anyone’s speech. It has not asked, nor never will ask, for the metaphorical ripping out of Shamir-Borer’s tongue and of those who propagate similarly violent ideals. Free speech is an essential right at Tufts and in the U.S., a right not often afforded by Israel to Palestinians and others who criticize its policies. Tufts must therefore take all possible steps toward leveling the discourse that surrounds Israeli aggression, not exacerbate its grossly asymmetrical nature. Nor can we deny or understate the weight of any university and its institutions in connoting discourse. Wrapped in the protective blanket of the Fletcher School, Shamir-Borer suddenly seems much less “IDF” and much more “impartial," an adjective that distorts his background and his positions long before he arrives on campus. SJP bases its call for cancellation neither on Shamir-Borer’s religion nor his nationality. Rather, the group has targeted his lecture because of his position as the IDF's legal advisor during Operation Protective Edge. Shamir-Borer explicitly represents the institution of the IDF, and giving him a platform at Tufts legitimizes and normalizes its war crimes.
You are working out at the gym. You hear a loud noise. The person on the treadmill next to you has collapsed and is lying on the floor. You are the first to the man’s side and you realize he is unconscious, not responding to your calls. Would you know what to do next? When this happened in the spring ...
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