These days it really seems that all everyone talks or thinks about is the insane amount of snow that Boston has received so far this winter. And you can’t blame them, as the snow has become an all-consuming monstrosity, taking a toll on all activities, classes and work. Here in the Boston area, ...
A study from 2007 shows that women who are regular attendees at frat parties are at higher risk of sexual assault. Besides measures to regulate the drinking scene at frat parties, many students from different colleges have suggested that sororities should be allowed to host parties at which alcohol is served in order to reduce the risk of sexual assaults, which are some of the most under-reported crimes on college campuses. However, the reason that sororities should be allowed to host such parties does not stem solely from sexual assault prevention efforts, but also from the need to reverse an inherent double standard that exists in Greek Life today.
Last Tuesday, a 46-year-old man named Craig Stephen Hicks murdered three Muslim college students: Yusor Mohammad, age 21, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23 and Razan Mohammad, 19. The details of what actually occurred leading up to the attack are still foggy, and we are just as far from understanding Hicks’ ...
There is no doubt that a snow day once in a while can be quite exciting; it can be nice for both professors and students to have a day off and enjoy the snow or just relax with a cup of hot chocolate. After five snow days in very close proximity, however, it comes time to re-evaluate the basic definition ...
Even though the Tufts community is often viewed as quite liberal, the measures that the University itself has taken to comply with its own non-discrimination statement are still inadequate to ensure an inclusive living and learning environment for students who fall outside the gender binary. Transforming ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election to fill several empty seats. Students elected representatives for one seat on the TCU judiciary, one on the Committee on Student Life and others on Junior Class Council, Junior Senate and Sophomore Senate. However, ...
On Thursday, Feb. 5 the Tufts Friedman Justice League, in collaboration with the Fletcher Food Policy Club and a few other supporting organizations, hosted a screening of the documentary “Food Chains.”The showing was followed by a panel discussion with four experts in food justice, including one ...
After gaining admission into and enrolling in Tufts, there was one last crucial form to fill out before we could matriculate: We had to show proof we had been vaccinated. For many students, getting vaccinated was something routine that we probably gave little thought. It’s just one of those things ...
In a pattern of events that has become disturbingly familiar, Islamic State militants have executed yet another hostage. On Saturday, the kidnappers posted a video that appears to show the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. Goto, who had been missing in Syria since October, was in the country ...
With grave blizzard weather forecasts came worried advice from parents and families to “buy milk and eggs” and “stock up on cereal and canned soup”— warnings warranted by the blizzard, Juno, which all but debilitated the city of Boston and the surrounding area for nearly two days. But what ...
Almost two years after the Boston Marathon bombing and the resulting chaos, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial is finally approaching. The trial, which is expected to last for months, will be a trying time for this city; some of our most painful memories will be brought back as the events of those awful April ...
Before the inarguable ubiquity of the internet, things were done a bit differently — clothes were tried on and bought in stores, final papers were submitted in plastic report covers and graded with a red pen and communication, in all of its ways, shapes and forms, took place in person, in print or ...
Less than half an hour after 10 p.m., an avalanche of voices and perspectives on the State of the Union had already flooded social media and become a major topic of discussion on Tufts campus. This can be either a dividing factor or a chance for the Tufts community to embark on a journey toward, as ...
On Thursday Jan. 15, many commuters saw their morning drive severely disrupted by a highway protest in the Boston area. #BlackLivesMatter activists aimed to maximize disruption by chaining themselves to cement barrels and forming a barricade on Interstate 93, causing massive traffic jams with delays ...
Since the horrific attack on the offices of Parisian magazine Charlie Hebdo, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has become hugely popular as a representation of solidarity and support in France’s time of grief. While the hashtag is certainly a catchy way for people to express their outrage, as the initial ...
Few student organizations garner as much attention on campus as Tufts Climate Action (TCA), formerly known as Tufts Divest, and with due reason. The cause for which they fight fervently -- to push the administration to divest from fossil fuels -- is one that involves every member of the Tufts community and ...
“Where there used to be a YMCA for Chinatown … that is now a parking lot for New England Medical Center for Tufts,” Director of the Masters in Public Policy Program and Community Practice at Tufts’ Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department Penn Loh said. Gentrification is a general ...
The Tufts administration has, in the past months, become increasingly unwilling to release information to student reporters. This trend comes at an especially trying time for the Tufts community, which is working through last semester’s revelation of the administration's failure to meet federal ...
