Columns

The Daily Drip: Girl Grass

By Dylan Fee | March 12

We are breaching no jacket weather, the snow has melted and it’s finally getting dark later than 6 p.m. You know what that means? Getting a Sink drink and sitting on Prez Lawn for hours when you should be studying for midterms. At least that’s what I’m doing as I review this week’s Sink nature drink: Girl Grass.

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Tufts’ Derby Entrepreneurship Center takes dorm room dreams to startup success

By Tanya Dev | March 11

To cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, the DEC offers a range of resources designed to help students think and work like entrepreneurs. One of its key offerings is the entrepreneurship minor, which allows students to take six courses, many of which are taught by award-winning entrepreneurs and investors. These classes provide valuable insights into innovation, problem-solving and business development.

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Hearts on the Hill: Reconciling with (s)ex

By Julia Carpi | March 11

We are at a turning point in the academic year. Today we are experiencing weather above 60 degrees for the first time since fall, and spring is officially 10 days away. If you’re starting to feel a looming sense of the passage of time, you are not alone. Perhaps I am projecting my own reality. As someone 10 weeks away from graduation, I’m choosing to distract myself from that fact by immersing myself in the complex and fascinating details of your love lives.

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A Jumbo’s Journey: One goose, two goose, red goose, blue goose

By Ben Rachel | March 7

This past week, one of my future housemates gave me a challenge for this column. She texted me (ignoring the very important text I had previously sent her) to say that I should make this column about “Tufts geese s-------ting up a storm all over campus and then like to draw some sort of moral parallel to that.”

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Freebites app makes free food a click away

By Dylan Fee | March 6

College campuses are responsible for around 22 million pounds of food waste every year. On Tufts campus, a group of students is helping to lower that number by making free food one buzz away with their mobile app, Freebites, which launched on Oct. 15, 2024.

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Hubbub Studios’ newest episode brings urban planning research to life

By Elizabeth Zacks | March 6

Hubbub Studios is home to a videoseries that explorescurrent and pressing urban environment research and issuesin order to distill them into easy-to-follow videos. Hubbub is led byProfessor Justin Hollander of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in collaboration with some of his students.They areoffering new content that presents research in a fun, engaging and accessible way.

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Boston Book Crawl: Narrative

By Emily Sullivan | March 6

If exams, papers and projects are consuming all of your time during this midterm season, and a trip to one of Boston’s many bookstores is not feasible, then I have great news for you. There is still a way to have this author’s recommended dose of bookstore browsing at a lovely shop right here in Tufts’ backyard.

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Sage Advice: Cliques on campus

By Matthew Sage | March 6

As usual, I would like to thank you for writing to Sage Advice to ask for support. As I prefaced in my first column, I’ll do my best to speak from personal experience and give you some semblance of an answer to the perennial problem of “toxic cliquiness.”

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Columns

Hey Wait Just One Second: The Powder Alarm of 1774

By Max Turnacioglu | March 5

Boston is a city of stories. The regal names of squares and streets, the faded bronze plaques nestled within brick facades, the rivers decussating its low hills; Boston is a composite of many, many stories. Once I began to notice the whispered stories etched into the cobblestones beneath my wayward feet, I could not help but find that my whole world was suffusedwith like whisperings. There is the story of my life — the narrative of my perception and those who vie for control of it — and there is the rich, boundless story of my world. And one, invariably, speaks to the other.

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Escape the Library: bōm dough

By Olivia Bye | March 4

As we tackle midterm season in the midst of these cold, dreary months, I often think about what could possibly cheer me up during a long afternoon spent studying. The answer? Matcha, of course! Matcha enthusiasts and bread lovers alike will be pleased to know that in the heart of Cambridge sits bōm dough, a Brazilian cafe featuring a robust assortment of matcha drinks, pastries and breads in addition to a variety of brunch items. Their menu ranges from traditional to experimental items, offering matcha drinks with flavors like maple and peach.

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The Oxford Comma: Reputation, reputation, reputation!

By Grace Nelson | February 28

Hi everyone! Welcome back to The Oxford Comma. For today’s column, I want to explore the old-time question that William Shakespeare’s Juliet once mused aloud: “What’s in a name?”

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Features

An adventure at Alewife

By Sarah Firth | February 27

Ah, Alewife, the only stop on the Red Line that is outbound for Tufts students, a place you pass through rather than visit. But don’t let that fool you — it’s got a lot to offer, even if it’s not the most glamorous spot on the map.

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Perú Publicado: Introductions

By Chrystal Coleman | February 26

¡Hola hispanohablantes! Mi nombre es Chrystal Coleman y bienvenidos a mi nueva columna: “Perú Publicado!” Van a aprender todo sobre mi semestre al extranjero en Perú en el programa de Globalización y Personas Indígenas en la Escuela para Entrenamiento Internacional. Hey English speakers! My name is Chrystal Coleman and welcome to my new column: “Peru Published!” You’ll learn all about my semester abroad in Peru in the School for International Training’s Indigenous Peoples and Globalization program.

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How does the Daily stay financially independent?

By Olivia Bye | February 25

In the spring of 1988, then-Tufts studentsJonathan Larsen (LA’88) andJulie Beglin (LA’89) set up a meeting with theTufts Community Union Senate, determined to achieve one objective: making The Tufts Daily no longer reliant on funding from the university. Nearly four decades later, the Daily continues to be financially independent as a result of the tireless work of its staff. Why did the Daily put so much effort into becoming financially independent at the time, and how does it remain independent today?

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On this day in Daily history: TARC’s newspaper archive

By Katie Galligan | February 25

The date is Feb. 25, 2025 and you are reading the Daily Week edition of The Tufts Daily. But, have you ever wondered, ‘what were students reading on this day decades ago?’ On Feb. 25, 1986, the Daily reported that the trustees had increased Tufts’ undergraduate tuition by 6.8% to a total of $15,960 –– if only they knew! A year later, the front page of the Feb. 25 edition in 1987 reported on a march against prejudice and violence at Tufts and beyond.

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The Tufts Daily Magazine creates new chapter for the Daily

By Claire Wood | February 25

Regular Daily readers may have been surprised to see magazines in our newsstands at the end of last semester — for 45 years, the Daily has regularly published a traditional tabloid newspaper. But on Dec. 5, 2024, the Tufts Daily Magazine made its debut.

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A Jumbo’s Journey: Do midterms think about me as much as I think about them?

By Ben Rachel | February 24

Well, well, well. It’s like déjà vu. We are back to our favorite time of the semester: midterm season! It’s a beautiful and wonderful time for all Tufts students — spending hours in Tisch cubicles, fighting fellow students for a table outside of Kindlevan Café and crashing out in the Tisch basement (a nod to my past article). For my dear, loyal readers, you can already tell how midterm season is going for me with this delayed publication. I hope you all were able to get through the weekend without my profound insights and comedic tone to guide you.

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