Abilene Adelman is a contributing writer for the features section of the Daily. She is a sophomore who is majoring in English and Environmental Studies and can be reached at abilene.adelman@tufts.edu.
For many new students at Tufts, the idea of living on their own for the first time is intimidating. They are now responsible not only for their studies, but also for laundry, meals and even their own physical health. One thing that can be particularly frightening to experience while away from home is a medical emergency.
Ben Platt opened his intimate “An Evening with Ben Platt” show held in the Granoff Music Center on Oct. 11 with a cover of Billy Joel’s “Vienna,” seemingly singing directly to the place that he was inhabiting — a college campus full of students always in need of a reminder that there is more to life than their upcoming midterm.
When Lee Edelman — a professor in the Department of English at Tufts and Fletcher professor of English literature — was a child, he wanted to become either a cartoonist or an architect. His career as a longtime professor at Tufts and a respected scholar of queer theory diverges from those early ambitions, but his path has been just as creative and carefully constructed nonetheless.
