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College funding plan a start, but incomplete

The President's commitment to make college more affordable through the expansion of the federal Pell Grant program is laudable but sadly incomplete. In expanding the Pell Grant program, some students are aided while others are left behind.


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Grassroots to riches

The new Democratic governor of Massachusetts is learning that he cannot cruise through the next four years on charisma alone. His first self-admitted "screw up" in office put Deval Patrick in the limelight this week, and the publicity was not positive. As Republican critics and various media sources questioned Patrick's excessive spending - from the roughly $12,300 spent on new office draperies to a $72,000 yearly salary for his wife's new aide - the governor apologized for some, but not all, of his expenditures.


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Parade is not the same old song and dance

The culmination of Intercultural Week, Parade of Nations makes its annual return this weekend. Always well attended, this event allows students to enjoy a variety of ethnic foods, performances, sights and sounds and to bask in the glow of multiculturalism.


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Give students a reason to go Greek

Former Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Todd Sullivan may be missed on campus, but the Greek system has learned from his tenure. This semester's low recruitment numbers aside, fraternities and sororities at Tufts have avoided the destructive scandals that marked the past few years.


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Not another Iraq

On Aug. 22, 2002, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, Vice President Cheney said that there was "no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."




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Faust breaks Harvard's glass ceiling

The appointment of historian Drew Gilpin Faust as Harvard's next president is a historic first. As the esteemed university's first female president, Faust takes over an office that is older than the Presidency of the United States and matched by few in its public profile.


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Town meeting is just the beginning

Yesterday a town meeting was convened in Cohen Auditorium to discuss race relations and stereotyping. Speakers including psychology professors Sam Sommers and Keith Maddox, Dean Robert Sternberg, Professor Jean Wu of the American studies Department, and Lisa Coleman, executive director of the Office of Institutional Diversity were on hand to describe both the underpinnings of racism and the possible steps to combat it.


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The Mooninites strike; Menino loses

We can only hope that the soon-to-be-released "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie will be as entertaining as the fracas which has surrounded its promotional publicity. By now, most Tufts students are familiar with the marketing/terrorism scandal which put Boston's mayoral office and its security forces into a complete tizzy.


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Public holds journalists accountable

In the aftermath of the Primary Source carol, the TCU Senate continues to flirt with student publication regulation. Last Sunday the Senate considered a resolution that would create a panel of administrators, TCU senators, Tufts students and publication heads who would convene to foster a journalistic standard for all campus publications.


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In the big business world of private universities, Tufts is not only holding its own, but it's climbing to the top. And by some measures, it has already arrived.


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Here's to a happy, more tolerant new year

As the last seconds of 2006 ticked away, many were eager to put an end to the year. The ravages of war, suffering and intolerance left deep impressions across the world. While the onset of 2007 affords the opportunity to renew and forge ahead, we should not simply forget the past; instead, we should take the opportunity to take a stand on the issues that divided us on this campus to start the year with a new direction.


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Carol went too far, but censorship goes further

By now, many in the Tufts community have read and expressed justifiable outrage at The Primary Source's "Christmas carol" entitled "O Come All Ye Black Folk." Unquestionably, the carol crosses the line. The Source's characterization of African-American admissions policies is flatly incorrect.


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Hoilday cheer

The season is upon us, boys and girls, to deck the halls, hang the mistletoe, and wage an all-out, blood-spattering hoo-hah of a war on Christmas.


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You don't have time to read this editorial

Listen up, administration (students, go back to the library while it's still open!). There are two key things you can do to drastically improve the end of semester experience for students: end classes on a Friday, and provide later and greater night study space.



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Opportunity in Latin America

This past week in Latin America saw many disparate events that are poised to shape the future of individual nations and Central and South America as a whole. More important to us at home is how the United States reacts to a changing Western Hemisphere.


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A matter of rhetoric

From the people who brought you the "struggle against global extremism" and the "struggle against the enemies of freedom and civilization" comes a new and exciting term: "sectarian violence perpetuated by the enemies of freedom."


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Sex, lies and red tape prevent political openness

Although talk of civil liberties, evil countries, nuclear weapons and capital punishment sounds especially pertinent in 2006, these are some of the same issues that plagued the United States in 1953. In his lecture, "McCarthy Era: Lessons for Bush's America" Robert Meeropol, son of executed Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, discussed the parallels between the two periods. It takes only a brief glance at Tuftslife.com to infer that although things today may be politically analogous to the situation the Rosenbergs faced, much has changed both culturally and socially in the past 50 years.


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One small step for housing

The TCU Senate and the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) have made it clear that the University's older dormitories will not be left by the wayside in the wake of Sophia Gordon Hall.


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