Opinion

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Spaceship Earth: A coup against the climate

As the world continues to warm, serious action must be taken in order to prevent oil from being pumped out of the ground and burned into the atmosphere. As the coup in Venezuela progresses, we must understand the international motives and its potential environmental consequences. As of 2014, Venezuela ...

Editorial: Tufts should stop encroaching on neighbors

Tufts' housing policies hurt our relationships with our neighbors. Somerville City Councilor for Ward 1 Matt McLaughlin told the Daily in a phone interview that Tufts is undoubtedly contributing to gentrification in Somerville.Because Tufts students live in hundreds of rental units throughout ...

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Repeal and Replace: Tilton Lane

Dear Fellow Students,Tilton Lane needs to go. The paved area between Hodgdon, Lewis, Tilton, Bush and Haskell Halls is a disaster waiting to happen. The constant flow of traffic swirling through tight spaces and around multiple blind corners presents a clear and present danger to the unobserving students ...

Editorial: It is time for a new dorm

Tufts should attack the housing crisis head-on by building a new dorm. Tufts is only able to house 63 percent of undergraduates and is increasing enrollment. The administration has implemented plans that include the displacement of faculty, 28.8 percent rent increases for many students and forced ...

Op-Ed: Yemen is Raytheon's war, Raytheon is coming to Tufts

After more than four years of activists speaking out and despite almost no coverage from corporate media, by now most people in the United States have at least a vague understanding that there is a brutal war happening in Yemen. This House-of-Saud-led siege war that the UN calls "the world's ...

Peripheries: Nationalism, a problem for right and left

In 1899, when India was still under British rule, Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote:         "Keep watch, India        Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul        Build God’s throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty      ...

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America is dying: Opioid addiction

The opioid epidemic has pervaded American life. This public health crisis began when physicians over-prescribed this highly effective painkiller, not knowing its addictive nature.Efforts to decrease opioid prescriptions caused many to turn to purchasing substances such as heroin and fentanyl, which ...

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Editorial: Shadow grading will ease the first-year transition

The transition from high school to college is daunting. Students often have to move away from home for the first time, participate in new extracurriculars and find a new network of friends. Academic competition, financial pressures and obsession with grades add to the stress. Many first-years are unsure ...

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Editorial: Changes to lottery system are welcome but insufficient

On Nov. 28, 2018 ResLife announced a number of changes to the lottery system, changing the application process for Tufts housing. While the changes to the lottery system make it fairer and less stressful, Tufts should be doing much more in order to make it easier for students to live on campus.For ...

On this Spaceship Earth: Commotion in the oceans

Typically when one thinks of oxygen production on Earth, one pictures luscious trees in rainforests like the Amazon or the Congo. However, less than a third of the Earth’s oxygen is made on land; instead, a much more significant amount of the oxygen (approximately 70 percent) is produced by phytoplankton ...

Repeal and Replace: Hotung Café

Dear fellow students,I’ve never been a big fan of Hotung Café. It’s dark, the aluminum chairs make a terrible noise, the food isn’t unique enough to justify another Tufts Dining establishment next to the Commons Marketplace and I can’t use my meal swipes. Can’t we do better? Let’s repeal ...

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Editorial: Tufts' expansion of Entrepreneurship Center benefits students

Tufts is expanding the scope and course offerings of its entrepreneurship minor. This expansion compensates for the lack of a formal business major program, while maintaining Tufts' status as a liberal arts school. The newly expanded minor, offered through the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center (TEC), ...

Editorial: The silence of forgetting

How much is lost if we do not try to remember the past? On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, we must think about the transience of memory. It is easy to get caught in the rush of the everyday, if we aren’t reminded to step back and reflect. At Tufts, it was easy to forget this day, ...

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