One of the most controversial news stories in this past week was Indiana Governor Mike Pence's decision to sign into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which enables individuals or corporations to cite serving LGBTQ* individuals as damaging to their religious freedom and essentially deny ...
Early Saturday morning, the Tufts community once again found itself victim of an incident of anti-Semitic graffiti. This time, the vandalism took place behind Theta Delta Chi Fraternity (more commonly known on campus as 123). According to an email sent out by the Tufts University Department of Public ...
A testimony to the efficiency and ubiquity of the information network on a campus as small and interconnected as Tufts, not a student could be found who hadn’t caught wind of Kesha’s anticipated performance at Spring Fling 2015 a mere hour after the news was released.As is expected of any major ...
Only a third of Bostonians support a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to recent polls. Boston 2024, the group that organized the bid, is now pushing for a statewide referendum on the issue. This unexpected move has spurred debate regarding the importance of public opinion with respect to ...
With 10.9 million jobs created since President Barack Obama took office, this year’s Commencement would seemingly be expected to be filled with more sunshine than dark clouds for current seniors. However, the high level of millennial unemployment still accounts for approximately half of the national ...
It’s that time of year again. Spring break has ended, finals anxiety is building, the snow is melting (well, not really) and soon we’ll find out who our Spring Fling headliners will be. As always, rumors began early this year. If Yik Yak and Tufts Confessions are any indication, students are extremely ...
While many Tufts students were enjoying spring break in less snow-covered locales, a small piece of history was made on March 15 at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston when two gay rights groups were allowed to march in the parade for the first time ever. After Mayor Marty Walsh refused to march ...
As students, we are constantly told that college is an invaluable investment in our futures. Current societal expectations tell us to sacrifice whatever we can to attend college because it will be worth it in the long run; but this isn’t always correct. The college experience is often laden with ...
This week, a video depicting students from the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter singing an obscenely racist chant surfaced on the internet. The response to this disgusting display of racism by the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) president David Boren should be praised for ...
In a move that came as a surprise to many members of the Tufts community, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has removed off-campus travel funding from next year’s budget. While the Senate has emphasized that this change will not necessarily be permanent and that they will assess the situation ...
Last week, The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that they would be phasing the use of elephants out of their shows in response to a growing public sense of discontent about how the animals are treated.This decision, if not entirely controversial, was a difficult one, as these ...
Last Thursday, social media blew up with an image of a simple striped dress. Group chats, Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, tumblr blogs, BuzzFeed and more were littered with posts about the now infamous dress that sometimes appeared to be blue and black and at other times appeared to be gold and white. ...
The recent events at Wesleyan University, in which a dozen people apparently overdosed on the drug Molly -- a form of the more widely know Ecstasy or MDMA -- has reignited debate here at Tufts and at other NESCAC schools on how to handle drug use on campus. With four Wesleyan students arrested (they ...
After decades of frustrating inaction, the issue of sexual assault on college campuses is finally getting the attention it deserves. At Tufts, groups like Action for Sexual Assault Prevention work to encourage a campus culture of consent, while events such as It Happens Here force us to confront the ...
Tufts, like any other institution that wants to remain profitable and in business, is focused on efficiency. A university that caters to over 5,000 students – to say nothing of the faculty – obviously buys things in bulk, which is fine. In addition, it's not that hard to see why offering free, ...
It is a natural phenomenon that debate strengthens discourse. Imagine how dull conversation would be were it not spiked with a variety of opinions and plenty of arguing. The limits of free speech, however, have reached the forefront of social issues being discussed today. Much of this began with the ...
One of the old Bostonian memes says that “the MBTA is the nation’s oldest mass transport system … and is still running like one.” Indeed, riding the T is like traveling to the past. Some subway cars date back to the 1960s and are old enough to deserve exhibition spotlights at one of the many ...
Although Columbus Day may be several months away, a debate over changing the name of the holiday is underway at Tufts. When we celebrate Columbus Day, we blindly pay homage to a long history of genocide and colonization. Rather than honor a man who played an instrumental role in initiating centuries ...
Lawmakers in 10 states are vying for the passage of bills that would permit the carrying of concealed firearms on college campuses, arguing that likely victims of sexual assault -- female students, as they are so predominately defined by these lawmakers -- would be safer if they were allowed to have ...
