Josué Pérez is the Daily’s executive news editor. He is a junior studying sociology, and you can reach him at josue.perez@tufts.edu.
Canvas shut down early Monday morning due to an ongoing failure of Amazon Web Services. Piazza, a forum utilized for out of class questions between students and professors, is also out of service.
Eat Out in East, a new initiative led by Somerville Ward 1 City Councilor Matthew McLaughlin, intends to get residents to support local businesses — many of which are immigrant-owned — in East Somerville. The program comes amid increased activity from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Massachusetts, particularly in Somerville.
With just 27 days left before the municipal elections in Medford and Somerville, several events have been organized to give candidates for city council, School Committee and mayor an opportunity to share their platform with prospective voters and face off against competing candidates.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration had illegally used the threat of deportation to silence noncitizens in higher education who protested the war in Gaza in support of Palestine. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William G. Young reiterated evidence and information surrounding the government’s decision to revoke several F-1 student visas, including that of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk.
The Starbucks located in the Joyce Cummings Center is set to close this Saturday. Employees were informed Thursday before their shifts that the Starbucks would be closing just two days later.
University President Sunil Kumar announced Wednesday afternoon that the university will adopt a position of institutional pluralism after nearly a year of considering a position of institutional neutrality. Tufts’ Institutional Neutrality Working Group made its final recommendation to the Board of Trustees, which affirmed the statement in August.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III transferred a motion to restore Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk’s Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record from Vermont to the District of Massachusetts.
The Boston City Council passed a resolution supporting the professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts on August 6. Negotations for the SMFA PoPs’ first contract began in April 2024. The resolution represents the most recent attempt to address prolonged negotiations and build support for the PoPs.
In an American Association of University Professors lawsuit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the administration’s deportation policy, Peter Hatch, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency official, testified that ICE used Canary Mission for leads in its investigation of noncitizen pro-Palestine student activists.
Professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts were notified throughout March and April of several changes to the school’s administrative structure. According to an open letter from the union, these changes include revising the structure of deans at the school and consolidating SMFA’s four studio departments into two. The two new department chairs would not be eligible for union membership.
