Opinion

Cartoon: Shaking things up

Op-Ed: Housing as a window into white privilege

I have been teaching U.S. Housing Policy in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy (UEP) here at Tufts since 2013. Every year I’ve changed the course a bit. However, I’ve always tried to create a course that would support future planners and community change-makers in their ...

Editorial: Support dining workers' demands

Tufts has not yet negotiated a contract with the dining workers' union, almost nine months after workers voted to unionize. It is time for the university to do the right thing and respect the requests of its employees.Trisha O’Brien, who has worked for Tufts Dining for 30 years, said in an interview ...

Cartoon: When the start of the new semester mirrors the end of the last one

Op-Ed: A Farewell to Tufts

Dear students, faculty and staff,Thank you so much. I have been deeply touched by all the well wishes I have received over the past few weeks. Now it is my turn to say thanks.It has been an honor to serve you. My conversations with you -- at community gatherings, late night office hours or informal ...

Letter from the editors

We, the spring 2019 managing board of the Tufts Daily, are writing to introduce ourselves and welcome you back to another semester at Tufts. As you flip through the pages of the first issue of the semester, we hope you keep in mind the importance of independent campus journalism and the compelling stories ...

Cartoon: Well-rounded

Anita's Angle: What opinion means to me

I have spent almost four years in the Daily’s Opinion section, sharing my takes with the Tufts community. This week, I started wondering why it matters, after a friend of mine shared with me that he doesn’t normally read opinion writing. He prefers data, numbers and objective information from which ...

Letter from the Managing Board

Dear Daily readers,Since 1980, it has been the Tufts Daily's mission to bring clarity to conversations, balance to issues and fact to debates. In our semester as the Daily's Managing Board, we hope that we've upheld our values and principles as promised to you, our readers. We have been ...

Cartoon: That one course that we all successfully enrolled in

Op-Ed: Introducing the SLUSH Fund

We’ve all heard it: “Tufts isn’t the same place it used to be.” We write this as a group of TCU Senators spanning all four class years at Tufts. While we’ve all spent our time at Tufts in different ways, we recognize that there is so much potential to make Tufts a place we’re more proud ...

Red Star: Building socialism, Part 2 of 2

American health care is a catastrophic failure because it makes care a commodity and suffering a source of profit.Medicine cannot be commodified as exchange rests on contractual relations among informed consumers. These relations cannot exist in medicine. Socialized medicine makes it possible to ...

Cartoon: Apathy

Pretty Lawns and Gardens: What is it with 2050?

Time horizons should never be conservative, generalized or arbitrary, but ambitious, specific and planned. This is why attempting to make our world economy carbon-neutral and green by 2050 bothers me. Why 2050? It’s a long way off, it’s clearly arbitrary and it’s hardly ambitious. But perhaps ...

Editorial: A call for a more equitable course registration process

As enrollment time creeps closer, you can feel tensions rise. Every Jumbo knows that 15-minute scramble right before you hit the "Enroll" button, and that horrible feeling when the class you desperately needed to take is full -- and so is the wait list. Senior year is a time to fill all those ...

Cartoon: Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Op-Ed: Trump administration's proposed anti-immigrant rule hurts children

Overlooked in the weekly political chaos, a regulation has been quietly proposed by the Trump administration that will deny green cards to any lawfully residing immigrants who access key “safety net” programs.These programs — which include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental ...

Takeaways: Looking

In his landmark work "Orientalism" (1978), Edward Said unpacks statements and works of many Europeans who say outrageous, hilarious or downright racist things about peoples of the Middle East among whom they see no need to distinguish.Of these, one quote stood out to me enough that I still ...

Cartoon: Mental health

Letter from the Editor

Dear Daily readers, With the busy lives we lead on this campus, it is all too easy to forgo our mental health. Approaching deadlines, exams and adulthood forces us to put aside our feelings, our pain and our sorrow for later. We learn to ignore it. We learn to tell ourselves it's not a big deal. ...