Opinion
Editorial
Sam Wallis for TCU president
April 26This year's campaign season for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president has seen a great deal of controversy surrounding the candidates' questionable campaign techniques and practices. Numerous students have criticized junior presidential candidate Sam Wallis' campaign for using spray chalk to advertise, as it resembles spray paint, and some believed that his campaign team had vandalized the campus. Meanwhile, members of junior candidate Lauren Levine's campaign have undergone criticism for using the TCU Treasury's signatory e-lists to promote her campaign, which would constitute a violation of Tufts Elections Commission's (ECOM) policies. Most recently, Wallis has also been engaged in an appeals process to contest ECOM's ruling that his decision to fly back from Israel — where he is studying abroad this semester — for the remainder of his campaign was a violation of spending limits.
Opinion
To address the real issues, vote no on 3 and 4
April 25You will be asked to vote next Monday on a couple of different proposals for changing the community representative system on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate — the system that provides guaranteed representation to certain communities on campus. Currently, four minority communities, through certain student groups, have such representation.
Opinion
Return to Title IX's original policies commendable
April 21Vice President Joe Biden's speech at George Washington University on Tuesday announcing the repeal of former President George W. Bush's policies regarding Title IX was significant step forward by the federal government. Title IX, the federal gender−equity law enacted in 1972, monumentally impacted women's opportunities to play sports in schools, colleges and universities. In the years following the institution of Title IX, Americans watched schools make enormous leaps toward establishing gender equality in sports. The number of women in high school sports increased from 294,000 in 1972 to 2.8 million in 2001. Participation by women in intercollegiate sports has made similarly impressive strides: reports show a 456 percent increase from before Title IX to after its inception.
Opinion
Elisha Sum | Our Genderation
April 21Tori Amos once sang, "You can keep the house … and the bank accounts, 'cause boy, I bring home the bacon."
Opinion
The future of the Democratic Party
April 21With the recent passing of the health care bill, one might ask, what is next for the Democratic Party? In January 2009, President Barack Obama entered office with a large vision that went well beyond health care reform, including improving our nation's lagging economy, regulating Wall Street and big business, protecting the environment from the effects of global warming, empowering minorities and overall creating an America that will continue its strong leadership well into the future. There is no doubt that this is a huge task, so where is the Democratic Party focusing its efforts for the upcoming November elections and the future?
Opinion
Potomac tokes and t'oughts
April 20I've been in Washington, D.C. this semester and I could probably give some insight and perspective into what's going on down here. But really, I am so ridiculously tired of talking about Washington politics. So, I'm going to write about the legalization of weed. Where to begin? Oh man, I feel like so much is going on in the world of cannabis legalization that it's hard to catch you up. Rather, I would like to stress to you my confidence in a prediction that I made in the beginning of this school year. I had said that I thought cannabis will be legalized before 2010 is over. It seems clearer now than it ever did. Still skeptical? Well, read on.
Opinion
Insurance changes not fully reflective of student needs
April 20The Tufts health care insurance plan has recently undergone several significant changes that will take effect for the upcoming academic year. These amendments will make the plan more effective at providing both undergraduate and graduate students with the coverage that they deserve.
Editorial
Guest policy changes will still not see compliance
April 19Last week, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate proposed several important changes to the guest registration policy. These revisions, if approved by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), will make the policy more practical and realistic. Even with the proposed changes, however, guest registration is likely to remain low. ResLife should therefore consider alternative means of achieving the goals for which the policy was created.
Opinion
A response to 'Response to 'Israeli insubordination''
April 19In the April 5 edition of the Tufts Daily, Ariella Charny wrote a response to a column written by Teddy Minch regarding U.S.-Israeli relations. While this article is not meant to be in support of Mr. Minch's article, it is in part a critique of some points made by Ms. Charny in her article and, in part, a brief analysis of some of Israel's foreign and domestic policies.
Opinion
Elisha Sum | Our Genderation
April 14Tori Amos once sang, "How a lion becomes a mouse by the woods."
Editorial
Syracuse should embrace Dimon speech
April 14Syracuse University's (SU) recent decision to have Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon (LA '78) as the keynote speaker at its Commencement ceremony has raised a significant amount of controversy within the university's community. Students, alumni and members of the SU community at large have formed a group - Take Back 2010 Syracuse University Commencement - to protest the choice. The group has collected over 900 signatures on an online petition protesting Dimon as this year's speaker.
Opinion
State budget transparency is citizens' right
April 13Massachusetts has been given an invaluable opportunity to address its current serious lack of government transparency. Many Massachusetts state representatives, including Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville) and State Reps. Carl Sciortino (D-Medford/Somerville) and Denise Provost (D-Somerville) are sponsoring a state budget transparency bill with the goal of making information about the financial matters of state agencies available to the public. The legislation, which would establish one Web site with comprehensive, detailed records of all of Massachusetts' revenue and expenditures, is a vital step in enhancing public accessibility of knowledge about the state's management of its fiscal resources.
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April 12Imagine a woman who weighs only 75 percent of the normal body weight for a woman her size. She is anorexic, and when she was hospitalized, she weighed only two?thirds of the normal body weight. However, because of her insurance company's narrow definition of anorexia, at 75 percent body weight she no longer qualifies for in?patient care and may have to be discharged long before her doctor's treatment plan would dictate. Because of health care guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders, this dangerous situation has occurred for millions of Americans with eating disorders.
Editorial
Eating disorders need inclusive insurance coverage
April 12Imagine a woman who weighs only 75 percent of the normal body weight for a woman her size. She is anorexic, and when she was hospitalized, she weighed only two-thirds of the normal body weight. However, because of her insurance company's narrow definition of anorexia, at 75 percent body weight she no longer qualifies for in-patient care and may have to be discharged long before her doctor's treatment plan would dictate. Because of health care guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders, this dangerous situation has occurred for millions of Americans with eating disorders.
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April 12Imagine a woman who weighs only 75 percent of the normal body weight for a woman her size. She is anorexic, and when she was hospitalized, she weighed only two?thirds of the normal body weight. However, because of her insurance company's narrow definition of anorexia, she no longer qualifies for in?patient care and may have to be discharged long before her doctor's treatment plan would dictate. Because of health care guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders, this dangerous situation occurs for millions of Americans with eating disorders.
Editorial
Supreme Court nomination should not be politicized
April 11Friday's announcement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' retirement has raised somewhat of a dilemma for Republicans whose seats will be contested in the coming midterm elections. With the minority party gunning to regain Congressional seats and possibly the majority it lost in the 2006 elections in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, many current Republican members of Congress are torn between opposing President Barack Obama's forthcoming selection on principle, thereby appealing to their more conservative base, or avoiding the political fight that would ensue and confirming the nominee — who is predicted to be centrist — as long as he or she does not seem to hold views that veer toward the left.
Opinion
Elisha Sum | Our Genderation
April 7Tori Amos once sang, "Yes, I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr. Ed?"
Opinion
Crutches on campus
April 7As I'm writing this, it is 11:28 p.m. on a Friday night. Miller Hall is quiet. I've already seen my friends off to their various social engagements, and anyone else who might be left behind is silently studying. But I have not made the choice to stay in this weekend for responsible reasons like catching up on schoolwork and sleep; it's just that the social scene, and really the whole campus of Tufts, is just not friendly to someone on crutches. It's something you don't really think about until you are "temporarily handicapped" (which I actually think is a bit of an overstatement — people seem to forget that I still have the use of my arms). Once you are handicapped, suddenly everything becomes an obstacle: the two flights of stairs you have to walk up to get to your friend's room, the distance between fridge and bed. That's really what it boils down to. Trying to go to a frat just seems foolish.
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