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Policy changes should focus on reducing harm
October 3In our Features section today, the article "Changes to student programs reflect fluctuating social landscape" examines the changing face of campus traditions. Over the past few years, the Tufts community has seen many changes in administrative policy on certain social events, ranging from Spring Fling going dry to the end of the Naked Quad Run to an altered Tufts Wilderness Orientation to pared?down Tufts Dance Collective shows.
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Craig Frucht | Road to November
October 1Tomorrow marks the beginning of presidential debate season. But before I get into that, I want to talk about a debate I got into last week. It took place over Facebook.
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The road not taken
October 1At last week's U.N. General Assembly, Egypt's first democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi warned that, "[the] acceptance by the international community of the principle of preemptiveness, or the attempt to legitimize it, is in itself a serious matter and must be firmly confronted to avoid the prevalence of the law of the jungle." Although implicitly referring to Israel's belligerent verbiage towards Iran, Morsi's analogy actually encompasses the broader contemporary Middle East during this period of tumultuous change.
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Neena Kapur | The IT Ambassador
September 30Science fiction novelists and filmmakers have exposed us to the futuristic world where robots and humans coexist. We have seen robot takeovers in "I, Robot" (2004), docile cleaning robot mice in Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," and now we are seeing robots in our very own real?life world.
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In U.N. address, Obama's disposition contrasts starkly with Romney's
September 26President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations on Tuesday, Sept. 25, touching on a number of subjects in recent international discourse, ranging from the Syrian crisis to Iran's nuclear program. His speech focused on the implications of the death of the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, after protestors, some of whom were armed with small arms, attacked the American consulate in Benghazi.
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