Dear Editor,I continue to grapple with Miranda Willson’s Thursday, Oct. 2 column entitled “The Limited Lens of IR.”It is perfectly fine to make claims about the flaws and biases of modern international relations theory. But, all due respect to Ms. Willson, challenging a thousand-year old academic ...
The Office of Campus Life (OCL) recently announced that it will be taking its vans out of service. The OCL vans have been used in the past by campus clubs, academic departments and other organizations for their activities. While many students may call discontinuation of the rental vans a bad decision, ...
The Daily would like to thank Title IX Coordinator and Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) Director Jill Zellmer and Dean of Student Affairs for AS&E Mary Pat McMahon for their clarifications on last week's editorial about Judicial Affairs Officer Mickey Toogood. Many of the corrections pointed ...
I love Tufts. And I love its student body. I love that so many of my peers are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about certain issues, and I love that they are often incredibly opinionated about these issues. I love that so many of those around me are not content with merely liking the Facebook page of a ...
Over the weekend, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law “Yes Means Yes." The law redefines consent in sexual activities as being given with an explicit “yes” that can be revoked at any time. It has received national attention in light of the Department of Education’s investigation ...
While sitting in Tisch in the early recesses of the day (read 10 a.m.), I received an intriguing message from my friend from high school who currently attends Colgate University. She is part of a group called the Association of Critical Collegians (ACC) that, like many organizations on our campus, ...
Dear Editor,On Sept. 22, the Tufts Daily ran an editorial about the appointment and responsibilities of Tufts' new Judicial Affairs Administrator Mickey Toogood. That editorial included some significant factual errors. Given the critical importance of the issue of sexual misconduct prevention to ...
According to Justin Levitt, author and counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, “it is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.” In spite of numerous reports, including Levitt's paper, that ...
The Scots have voted no to independence -- thus say all the headlines here for the weekend. Thus reverberates the clarion call of the union down to the next generation that would attempt to break things off. Thus a 10 percent margin ends the parliamentary career of Alex Salmond.Dramatic, I know, as ...
Parties and the drinking culture that surrounds them are undeniably part of the quintessential “college experience.” Even at a school like Tufts University, which does not consider itself to be particularly centered around Greek life and its connotations, it would be quite a feat to avoid fraternities ...
The Obama administration this week declared that it had begun its yet-to-be-named expanded operations against ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The administration’s new military action, which consists of more airstrikes and increased aid for Iraqi armed forces and Free Syrian Army forces, ...
In his interview with the Daily, Mickey Toogood discussed how he would make the handling of judicial processes more efficient as the new judicial affairs administrator. Among several important issues at Tufts -- alcohol and substance abuse and academic integrity -- Toogood should also focus on Title ...
I will never forget the morning of Dec. 3, 2013. Five days before completing the research I began that September in the Netherlands, I awoke to several phone calls from my siblings that changed my life forever. “Dad died,” my sister said. “I’m so sorry, but you have to come home.” I did not ...
The campus was absolutely buzzing on Saturday, Sept. 20. No, there was no controversial speaker being brought to stage, commanding the protesting attention of opposing viewers. No, there was no anticipation of a Tufts tradition -- Fall Gala had passed, and pumpkins wouldn't be placed at precarious ...
Hello again, Tufts!We now have three weeks of classes under our belts, and this week marks our first week of full production. That means the Daily is really "daily" again! We're firing on all cylinders and ready to bring you up-to-date content five days of the week.In addition to the ...
Wagatwe Wanjuki is one of the most influential former Tufts students, but she does not have a degree from this institution. No, she didn’t choose to leave to pursue her activism full-time, though her success may lead you to believe that. Instead, Tufts forced Wagatwe to withdraw. It is time that we ...
Dear President Monaco,On Sept. 11 you sent out a long email to the entire school going into much detail and covering a wide spectrum of topics about things that have been going on around campus and future plans for our school. What you failed to mention was anything related to the 13th anniversary of ...
When former President George H.W. Bush prepared to leave office in January 1993, he asked his successor, Bill Clinton, to protect federal funding for his signature program, The Points of Light Foundation. Clinton would later say he made a similar request eight years later, asking President George W. Bush to protect the AmeriCorps program he had launched.
Since I was a young girl, I would visit my parents’ homeland of Pakistan, traveling to the cities Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Islamabad as well as my village that was three hours away from Lahore in the Punjab province. I absorbed the land with wide eyes and amazement, listening to my relatives gab away in a loud mix of Punjabi and Urdu. Sometimes, I even tried to join the conversation. As much as I tried to get used to it, I would always long to return to the United States, a place I could understand and where I felt accepted. As much as Pakistan is close to my heart, it was not my home. Nevertheless, my family returned there every two years and I would notice shifts in the landscape. It became colder and harsher, and as a woman, more unsafe. Pakistan was changing.
"Until the lions have their historians, the tale of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." This proverb carries an important sentiment for those studying history to bear in mind throughout the course of their education. It is an unfortunate truth that an in-depth study of "world history" is so often taught through the lens of Western society. As a result, the narratives of peoples and countries that have fallen victim to a past of imperialism continue to be pushed to the very margins of academia. Tufts, however, is taking an important step to combat this bias by introducing a new minor in colonialism studies.
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