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Abilene Adelman


Features Writer

Abilene Adelman is a 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.

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Features

The power of transformation: Tufts’ annual ILCS Symposium

The Tufts literary community gathered in Alumnae Lounge on Feb. 6 to weather the cold with the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies’ annual symposium. This year’s theme, ‘Transformation Now!’, framed a morning of scholarship where speakers took turns sharing their theses, papers and research revolving around the topic of transformation.

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Features

TEMS: More than just Tufts’ alcohol ambulance

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.

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Theater at Tufts: A place of community, passion and so much love

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.

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Get to know Lee Edelman, English professor and pioneer in queer theory

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.

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