Opinion
Letter from the Editor
March 4In addressing the paid advertisement entitled Faces of Islamic Apartheid that appeared in yesterday's issue of the Daily, Id like to clarify and apologize on behalf of the Daily for the editorial oversight that led to the ads publication. It should be made clear that any ads that run in the Daily, including this one, do not in any way reflect the views of the paper, nor do they reflect the views of any member of the papers masthead. On a personal level, I would be deeply disappointed if anyone at Tufts truly supported the Islamophobic and violently offensive ideas this ad and the organization that purchased it promote.
Privileging Balance over Truth
March 4Growing up, I paid little attention to what was happening in the Middle East. I was born the year the Oslo Accords were signed, and to this day, my mom has the newspaper from 1993 with Arafat and Rabin shaking hands. I was seven when the second Intifada began. By that point it had been told to me, as a fact, that my heritage was special. I embraced it in about the same manner I embraced being lefthandedI never thought about it unless someone asked me to define myself.
Time to reconsider universitys alcohol policy
March 4The Tufts Community Union Senates unanimous vote last week to add a Good Samaritan and Medical Amnesty Clause to the universitys alcohol policy confirms the sentiments of the vast majority of students on this campus. Such a clause would effect a much-needed change in drinking culture and better-enable community members who need help to receive it.
Craig Frucht | Axes to grind
March 4President Obama, who came to Washington vowing to change the "inside baseball" nature of our political system, more often than not finds himself mired in it instead. "Washington," he confessed last summer, "feels as broken as it did four years ago."
Spring Fling headliner choice uninspired
March 3Concert Board has announced that this year's Spring Fling will be headlined by hip-hop recording artist Nelly, with opening acts by psychedelic pop band Yeasayer and DJ 5 & A Dime. The choice came after months of deliberations, in which members of the Board considered cost, popularity, and availability ...
Walker Bristol | Notes from the underclass
February 27Trayvon Martin a 17-year-old black student, visiting his father in a gated Florida community was murdered on Feb. 26, 2011. The racial injustice of this incident was not merely in the act, nor just in George Zimmermans profiling a black, hooded teenager. It was not just the gated communitys perception of Martin, nor the smear campaign initiated in his wake. It was the fact that these prejudices and reactions were not unique, and black teenagers are killed upon being suspected as criminals revoltingly frequently. It was that those with power either implicitly support or do little to combat this entrenched anti-blackness and Tufts University, in its elite, wealthy standing, upholds this violence just as well.
Craig Frucht | Axes to Grind
February 25For the last two years, Americans have lived in what feels like a constant state of looming economic destruction. And everyone has started to feel very meh about the whole thing.
Tenure: it takes a village
February 25Today's article regarding tenured professorship brings attention to an often?overlooked issue: the difficulty of receiving tenure and, thus, job security in higher education. Tenure is an important milestone in the careers of many professors, and a critical steppingstone in gaining access to future research opportunities and advancing in higher education. Without it, professors are severely restricted in both their ability to conduct independent research and realize their earning capacity either at Tufts or elsewhere, which ultimately affects the quality of the education we as students receive.
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