Opinion

Cartoon: My plan for Marathon Monday

Op-Ed: Why I'm leaving Tufts

For the past 11 months, I have been the Director of the Women’s Center. At 32 years old, I am the first Queer Gender Non-Conforming Afro-Latinx person in this position and the youngest hire. At this moment in time, Tufts University was particularly special as the Women’s Center and LGBT Center were ...

Op-Ed: 'Next year in Jerusalem:' Reflecting on Israeli Apartheid Week

Some of you may have seen students munching on funky-looking crackers last week in the dining halls. What you saw was students eating matzah, the “bread of affliction,” in celebration of the Jewish festival of Passover.For those wondering the reasoning behind such a tradition, Passover commemorates ...

Cartoon: God gets ghosted...

Red Star: Cities for the people

America is ugly. Every ruling class built the world anew in its own image. The American ruling class produces art that reflects a sterile, technocratic, inhuman class.Buildings and public spaces should be humane and beautiful. You shouldn’t have to buy something to have access to a bathroom.The neoliberal ...

Looking Out: Power of diaspora

In Arabic, the root word shatata is to scatter and the word for diaspora, shataat, is literally the scattered. Today, many communities live in this way, scattered across the globe from wherever they originated. Some returning often, others never. Some retaining their culture and passing on languages, ...

Cartoon: April: Experience every season in one short week!

Editorial: On-campus social groups should all be Green Dot certified

Content warning: This editorial discusses sexual violence.April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As events like It Happens Here spread awareness through stories of sexual misconduct at our university and beyond, we must re-examine our campus culture to address these issues head on. We encourage ...

Cartoon: The summer struggle

Anita's Angle: Let Kullman speak, let's listen

This May, Tufts alumna Ellen J. Kullman (E '78) will send off our seniors at commencement, and in true Tufts fashion, her appearance on campus has already sparked debate. The university’s enthusiasm about her speech conflicts with the popular sentiment among students right now that she is an unworthy ...

Editorial: Support the unionization of dining hall workers

There are few aside from friends and family who devote the entirety of their time to our well-being and growth. Often, we take for granted the voluntary care of our parents and friends, yet this is the support that sustains us. Likewise, at Tufts, we are surrounded by an "invisible family": ...

Cartoon: Go No's

The 617: Patriots' Day

On Monday, April 16, the state of Massachusetts will shut down its schools and offices. While many of us simply appreciate the day off, there is a reason behind our marathon-watching and lounging around. Patriots' Day is a holiday celebrated only in Maine and Massachusetts (although Maine's ...

Cartoon: Spring is here!

Op-Ed: A call for community engagement this April

Come April, Tufts students kick into high gear. There are performances every weekend, all the work we’ve been procrastinating all semester comes to a head, and of course Quidditch Nationals overshadow all other athletic endeavors. TCU Senate elections for the next academic year also take place in ...

Red Star: Defending the indefensible

Some have spent the last few years attempting to make solidarity with Palestine a crime. But any time a democracy bulldozes villages, unjustly imprisons teens and plans to deport refugees, one has a right to protest its actions.Of course, you can bomb apartments, shell civilians and violate international ...

Editorial: Ellen Kullman is a bizarre choice for commencement speaker

The 2018 Commencement Ceremony features Tufts Alumna Ellen J. Kullman (E ‘78). Kullman is renowned for her tenure as the CEO and Chair of DowDuPont Inc., formerly known as DuPont, the world’s largest chemical corporation. She appeared in Fortune Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” ...

Cartoon: Spring is here!

Looking Out: Statues

On High Street, above the entrance of Oxford's constituent college Oriel, there is a detailed, life-size statue of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes is a notorious racist, imperialist and colonizer who personally brought anguish to millions in Southern Africa, most of all in Rhodesia, a colony that bore his ...

Editorial: TCU Senate should not vote on student compensation resolution

On April 8, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate will hear "A Resolution Calling on Tufts to Compensate Student Leaders."The proposal aims to make student leadership roles more accessible to all students by expanding the scope of the current stipend system. While making leadership roles ...