For most students, a day off from school is a godsend. It means sleeping in, spending the day with friends and having more time to fend off the never−ending schoolwork. Columbus Day is no exception. However, a day of Tufts students lounging on the quad and playing Frisbee holds a different type of significance for some people.
T he return of many alumni for Homecoming was an illustrative reminder of the community that lives on after graduation. The wave of collective pride felt across campus blossomed into a welcomed instance of camaraderie at a university that often suffers from a deficit in school spirit.
A note before I begin: For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to the international corporate and financial system that is the target of the movement Occupy Wall Street simply as "Wall Street." The actual, geographical entity Wall Street does not consist entirely of unscrupulous corporate entities, nor does it encompass the entire group of corporate entities in question. However, since it is a common and widely known symbol, I will use it to represent the entire system in this article.
Like all of you, I am swamped with midterm exams and papers. And like most of you, I spent this weekend not actually studying. My biggest vice: movie trailers. It's the perfect three−minute deferral. It's like tapas−style procrastination!
Probably one of the best things about freshman year is my Resident Adviser (RA).
Probably one of the best things about freshman year is my Resident Adviser (RA).
I have to be careful writing these Daily articles for VOX. The last one I wrote talked about my ex−boyfriend's failed attempts to make me orgasm. My mom read it. Hi, Mom. So, in an attempt to reveal fewer personal factoids about myself, I'm going to reveal some that you readers admitted to. How, you may ask?
One underground Democratic Voice of Burma reporter laments to another in the award−winning film "Burma VJ" (2008), which chronicles a series of protests against the brutal military junta in 2007, "No matter what we do, everything just stays the same." His colleague counsels, "Don't be too sure."
Plenty of Jumbos are among the hundreds of frustrated protesters who have descended on Boston's Financial District in the past weeks to express their discontent with the country's economic and social status quo. As Boston police arrested scores of occupiers −− including at least one Tufts student, according to reports −− debate over the legitimacy of actions on all sides has flared. Here's what Tufts had to say.
There is the case of police abruptly cracking down on a protest to silence it, as happens in many parts of the world less free than the United States. Then there is the case of a group intentionally provoking law enforcement officers into making arrests in order to make a newsworthy scene. What happened during the early hours of Tuesday morning was the latter.
"It can't happen here." The title of the Sinclair Lewis novel (1935) resonates for a reason: It is difficult to imagine "it" — whatever the crisis might be — happening in our own backyard, or in our own bodies.
Among some of its more notable alumni, Tufts can claim former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (LA '70), J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (LA '78), eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (LA '88), and "Wicked" (1995) author Gregory Maguire (GSAS '90). Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass., LA '81) is also on that list.
Less than a week after the high−profile acquittal of Amanda Knox, Italy is once again making international headlines.
In this newspaper and in countless others, "Occupy Wall Street" and its offshoots have received much criticism — we hear constantly that the Occupiers are too unclear in their goals, that there's no leadership. Where are their specific demands? Why don't they have concrete solutions? Surrounded by the ineffectual world of American politics, it's easy to nod in agreement with the barrage of cynicism, but I urge you to take a look at the truly magnificent social movement that's growing in front of us.
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