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In defense of the butterfly effect: Resurfacing
By Hayley Oliver-Smith | September 28So many important things happened this week.
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Off-campus student workers get to meet the neighborhood
By Fina Short | September 28While many students explore Davis, Teele and Union Squares for the food, shops and occasional festivals, some students take a step further into knowing the Medford/Somerville area they call home for a transient four years.Various students who work off campus, as well as some business owners, shared their ...
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Eat Your Heart Out: Whoopie pies
By Benjamin Corey | September 27For generations, my family has worked in restaurants. My grandparents even ran their own for several years. What I have learned from this background is that it’s vital to create your own takes on foods that are already familiar to your patrons rather than solely trying to reinvent the wheel. My family’s ...
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Far-flung homes: Khaliun Narangerel on growing up in Mongolia
By Sean Ong | September 27This is part one of a three-part series centering the experiences of students who are the only ones from their home countries to be at Tufts.For many students with an international upbringing, home is often a faraway place. As of last fall, more than 12 percent of the university's total enrollment ...
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Failing Big: Trust me, I'm a trustee (rep.)
By Kristen Moran | September 26Last week’s column ended on a high note, with hope for the future. As someone with nothing left to lose, putting myself out there can only set me up for success. My Year of Why Not is just beginning, and it’s already a rollercoaster.
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CAFE discussion group supports interfaith identity, social change at Tufts
By Kenia French | September 25Upon entering Goddard Chapel at 8 p.m. last Wednesday night, a small group of students was sitting on the plushy carpet by the altar, arranged around a bucket of individually wrapped twizzlers. This group is an interfaith discussion organization called CAFE, and they have gathered to discuss the ...
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The Weekly Chirp: Beautiful Bowers
By Henry Stevens | September 25The frantic pace and chaos of urban life has, among other things, strained the dating lives of adults around the world. No one has time for things they consider to be unimportant and not urgent like dating, and as a result long-weekends in the White Mountains have been replaced with punctual dinners ...
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Eat your heart out: Chocolate cream cheese cupcakes
By Benjamin Corey | September 21I remember coming home from elementary school and every so often finding baked goods waiting for me in the refrigerator. This phenomenon always took place on Fridays, when my folks were able to leave work early. It made for a great start to the weekend, especially in the days before homework and job ...
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In defense of the butterfly effect: Life cycles of a digital dream
By Hayley Oliver-Smith | September 20My dad sometimes says to me something along the lines of, "Every act, no matter how large or small, will enact some kind of change in the universe. Whether or not that act is significant is a possibility whose full potential isn’t extinguished once the moment is over."He says it's from Carl ...
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Tufts students convert traditional needlework hobby into a unique business
By Kenia French | September 20You may not find a cream-colored crocheted bikini top or an embroidery hoop with "f--- off" artfully etched into it at your grandma's house, but you may start seeing them around Tufts. In a time of two-minute power naps and mass production, three Tufts students have reclaimed a seemingly ...
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Failing Big: A year of why not
By Kristen Moran | September 19College applications love to ask about failure. Your first failure, your most recent failure, even your worst failure, and how you dealt with it. This question is meant to show growth and perseverance, how failing made you stronger. Two years ago, when I was applying to colleges, there was only one problem: I had never failed at anything before.
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Tufts Labor Lab works to improve countries’ working conditions, serves as place for female empowerment
By Michelle Kwon | September 18Disclaimer: Ana Antolin was previously a columnist at the Daily. She was not involved in the writing of this article.While the Tufts Labor Lab conducts research on working conditions in developing countries around the world, the lab's physical space is confined to one office in Braker Hall. ...
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The Weekly Chirp: First-years and flamingos
By Henry Stevens | September 18A returning Tufts student may arrive on campus with many thoughts, feelings and desires, many of which differ greatly from the year before. But alas, one experience of our fall beginnings will never change: the mass congregations of first-years. The seniors, juniors and even some sophomores have found ...
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Somerville Flea market offers shopping, live music, visual displays
By Grace Yuh | September 15Located on a stretch of road along Holland Street in Davis Square, it’s hard to miss the Somerville Flea. A live band performing near the back of the market adds to the chatter of vendors and shoppers. Varieties of furniture, each collection eclectic in its own right, are proudly on display. A staple ...
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Q&A: Political Science professor talks whiteness, Charlottesville, Tufts' role
By Fina Short | September 13In the wake of white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, some have been left with questions about how the country got here. Deborah Schildkraut, the chair of the Department of Political Science at Tufts, authored the book "Americanism in the Twenty-First Century: Public Opinion in the ...
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R.E.A.L. students take an unconventional path to a degree
By Constantinos Angelakis | September 11Like many other Resumed Education for Adult Learning (R.E.A.L.) students, clinical psychology major Hanna Solomon, who will graduate the program in 2018, commutes from nearby. She drives to Tufts from her home in Boston with her husband, who is also a student in the R.E.A.L program. While R.E.A.L. students ...
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Tufts Career Center launches Handshake, replaces Jumbo Jobs
By Ilana P. Goldberg | September 7Tufts' switch from Jumbo Jobs to Handshake, a new job/internship database for students, has been recognized as a much-needed improvement in user experience and job search capabilities. Jumbo Jobs faced significant criticism from students and frustration from the Career Center's staff.Gregory ...
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BostonBRT aims to transform bus travel in Greater Boston
By Sean Ong | August 29The bus might not be Boston commuters' first choice for transit, but future plans for dedicated travel lanes, off-board fare collection and priority at traffic signals might change that.Bus rapid transit (BRT), incorporating those features and more, is a system that according to some transportation ...
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RAYSE index tracks youth civic engagement through data
By Alex DeBellis | August 29A May 16, 2016 NPR article proclaims millennials to be a rival political force to baby boomers — each generation makes up about 31 percent of the overall electorate. Political potential, however, is distinct from political influence — the same article notes that millennials "have the lowest ...
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Tufts memes page navigates students' opinions
By Jessie Newman | August 29Disclaimer: Peter Lam is a graphics editor and former executive graphics editor for the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article.During a conversation at late night dining in Carmichael Dining Center last spring semester, sophomores Leo Mandani, Mary K. Kelley and Peter Lam created Tufts ...
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