On December 21, 2017, Student Life sent out an email notifying the Tufts community of a change to the credit hour system. Starting in the summer of 2018, most 1.0 credit classes will be assigned 3 semester hour units (SHUs). Courses that were 0.5 credits under the old system will be reassigned 2 SHUs, ...
Editor's Note: Aneurin Canham-Clyne is a former News Editor at the Tufts Daily.Over the past two years, the Tufts left has frequently lost when we ought to have won. Abolition of Greek life? An abject failure. The "Students Advocating for Students" free speech incident? It got national ...
In a democratic society, citizens not only have the obligation to make daily decisions that influence their neighbors but also the power to make change. Every day, we see examples big and small of people using their voices to force those in power to listen. Recently, the collective voices of hundreds ...
Last week at the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Budget Transparency Town Hall students had an opportunity to hear from administrators about the state of finances at Tufts, specifically as they relate to tuition affordability and the deficit. Empty rhetoric about budgets being “too complicated to understand ...
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy prides itself on breaking conventional assumptions and prejudices by exposing its students to diverse perspectives and experiences. When we learned that Fletcher offered only two spring break treks to foreign countries during our first year, we took it upon ourselves ...
The Daily has a proud history of speaking truth to power. Now in our last issue of the semester, we, the managing board, can only hope that we’ve upheld that legacy to the best of our ability.The Daily talked to Anita Posadas, who had been injured on the job and mistreated by Cushman & Wakefield ...
We, the managing board of the Daily, believe that our editorials this semester were outstanding. We strive to maintain a fair perspective on all issues. This piece, however, featured insufficient details on the nature of Tufts' actions and input from the Athletics Department. Football is a complicated ...
Slavery still exists. The treatment of humans as property is not over. The world was reminded of this disgusting reality when a CNN video surfaced in November, showing a slave auction in Libya, a failed state in an on-again-off-again civil war. The sheer lawlessness of Libya allowed for slavery to go ...
Disclaimer: It has been brought to the Daily's attention that sections of this op-ed and the op-ed entitled "Israeli academic treks: single narrative at the service of occupation" by the same author from the Nov. 15, 2017 issue of the Daily were plagiarized from sources referenced in ...
A question was raised today by students- Why was the International Center (I-Center) not included on the Letter to the Editor (12/6/2017) from the Group of 5 Center Directors? It was not intentional that the I-Center wasn’t included in the Daily’s Letter to the Editor. In fact, the I-Center staff ...
Although Tufts students are notorious for disagreeing on campus issues, most students agree that tuition should not increase at its current rate. The widespread interest in and pushback against tuition hikes, and the questions as to why they keep happening, have led many to demand increased transparency ...
Among other ideas of the alternate universe in which our president’s Twitter feed resides is the concept that by his merely being in office, the stock market is roaring and jobs are appearing out of thin air. In truth, he has had almost nothing to do with the record highs we are seeing across equity ...
A Community Coalition of Students at Tufts recently petitioned to make the Asian American Center an accessible and welcoming center for students, faculty, staff, and guests. “As long as Start House serves the dual purpose of being a residential hall and a Center,” the petition states, “the ...
The recent class registration period had students scrambling to fill distribution requirements and major prerequisites. Tufts students have the privilege of advising programs that span throughout their undergraduate experience. However, as students take on more ambitious schedules, add majors and minors ...
Like many of my peers at Tufts, I explore my identity through the multitude of religious and cultural groups on campus. For me, the Italian Club and Catholic Community at Tufts represent two important aspects of who I am. Additionally, I participate in and organize interfaith events on campus. Over ...
In a Nov. 15 op-ed, Fletcher student Mohamed Nabil Bennaidja calls out the “single narrative” he claims exists on Fletcher’s Israel Trek, yet demonstrates clearly that his lack of understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is exactly why such a trip exists.The recent 100th anniversary ...
Dec. 18 will mark 152 years since the formal abolition of slavery in the United States. For many, that watershed event marked the beginning of a long and convoluted process, including the continued unlearning of racial prejudice, and the reformation of structural inequalities throughout our judicial, ...
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