Weekday evenings between 4 p.m and 10 p.m are rush hour for study territory on campus. Where to go to inspire prime productivity is at the height of most students' needs from Sunday night to Thursday night.The Mayer Campus Center and Tisch Library serve as the two prime central study spaces for ...
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the concept of romantic love. Growing up with a strong single mother and a combination of anxiety and low self-confidence, I didn't have any model to base my definition on. Having few experiences seeing people in conventional romantic relationships outside ...
On Jan. 18, the New York Times published an article titled “Some Colleges Have More Students from the Top 1 Percent than the Bottom 60,” in which Tufts University was ranked 10th in the United States on the list of colleges with the highest wealth disparities.The Times piece showed that this lack ...
The moderate Republican is a dying breed. Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker represents one of the last and most powerful proponents of this ideology. Recently, Baker, an anti-Trump Republican, has taken a lot of criticism despite his opposition to the current administration. Merely by being in the same party as President Donald Trump, Baker must stand trial for many of the administration’s decisions. However, Baker cannot completely oppose his own party and so must tread a thin middle line. A moderate in the truest sense of the word, Baker’s socially liberal and fiscally conservative policies deliver high approval ratings. However, there are those on the left who think Baker should be doing more to oppose the Trump administration, such as more strongly supporting the many protests in Boston since the inauguration. On the right, people criticize Baker for being far removed from his fellow Republicans. Although many people will likely support a Democratic candidate for governor in the next gubernatorial election, it would be better for the state to have a Republican governor in office during the Trump administration’s time in Washington.
Among the coffee shops and other caffeine options available on campus, the Rez in the Mayer Campus Center seems to have a particularly strong hold among students. While the student leadership of this café changes from year to year, the existence of the café itself spans back in recent Tufts history.Although ...
This past week, Tufts students dressed in heels and suit jackets walked (willingly! hopefully!) into a big black hole of data: internships. At Tufts’ career fair last Friday, hundreds of students milled around, hopeful to become one part of the invisible statistics of internships. But shaking hands ...
The Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program may be new at Tufts, but it is quickly gaining traction among students who are eager to learn more about this emerging field.In spring 2016, the program began offering an undergraduate co-major and minor in STS. Currently, the program has three tracks ...
Though climate change is a global issue, local municipalities in the Boston area, along with dozens of other communities in Massachusetts, have been working together to take several adaptive, mitigative and proactive steps toward renewable energy usage.One such effort near Tufts is Somerville’s ...
In the past few years, a mindset that acknowledges mental illness has become more prevalent in the mainstream: Self-Care Culture. In communities where many people suffered on a daily basis, dialogue arose reminding people to take breaks or do something to make themselves feel better in times of struggle. ...
“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” --George Bernard Shaw
Associate Professor of Political Science Kelly Greenhill, who specializes in international relations, was awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in December 2016 to finish research for her ongoing book, "Extra-Factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation ...
The rhetoric surrounding the Dorito-in-Chief has been intense and varied since the beginning of the end a year and a half ago. His racism, xenophobia, misogynistic views, sexual perversion and downright ineptitude have been plastered front and center on nearly every protest sign and late night talk ...
At this moment in Tufts’ institutional history, the future of the Greek life system hangs in the balance. According to a message that the Office of the President sent to Tufts students on Feb. 6, the Student Life Review Committeepersists in its evaluation of Tufts' culture and aims to provide ...
As Tufts students prepared to submit their new semester schedule, many were met with Tuft’s Student Information System's (SIS) website’s dreaded error message, which led to them being placed on the waitlist -- or worse, shut out -- of classes in which they had planned to enroll.For the current spring ...
While Tufts offers a wide array of available classes on the Student Information System (SIS) during course registration, some inevitably end up getting cancelled each semester due to low student enrollment. The process of course cancellation depends on a variety of factors, including the tenure ...
We’ve all been there before: writing the whole paper the day before it’s due, scrambling to review material seconds before the exam, juggling extracurriculars. This university is full of opportunities that seem unending at times. Throughout our time here, especially during freshman year, there ...
“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established... are the two sheet-anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1823
Confession time: I’m terrified of sex. As much as I love being intimate with other men (my friends can attest, I am very gay), thoughts of sex immediately turn into concerns about my body, or sweating, or how my hair looks ridiculous when disheveled, or an overwhelming lack of confidence in my own ...
Donovan explained that he chose Davis Square as the location for Oat Shop because of the interesting combination of traffic from residents, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuters and the Tufts community, all of which lead to a very interesting culture that drew him to Somerville.
Editor's Note: Part of the information in this article is based on the observations of the writer, who visited Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey between Jan. 3 and Jan. 16, 2016.As of fall 2016, Turkish students form the fourth-largest international student group in the Tufts community, with 55 students ...
