Claire Wood is the Daily’s production director. She is a sophomore studying art history, Spanish and mathematics, and you can reach her at claire.wood@tufts.edu.
Between 25,000 and100,000people gathered from Boston Common to City Hall Plaza on Saturday for the “Hands Off Massachusetts! Rally/March.” The rally was one of over 1,200 taking place as part of the “Hands Off!” movement across the country and abroad. In Boston, demonstrators began in Boston Common and marched down Tremont Street toward City Hall.
Anthony Yu, a Tufts senior studying international relations and economics, grew up watching his mother, Elaine Yu, run marathons around the world. This year, they’ll run the Boston Marathon together — his first and her 22nd.
In the wake of the detainment of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, we would like to emphasize our commitment to the safety of our writers and reaffirm our values as a publication.
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.
If you are a college-aged student, you probably grew up reading Wendy Mass’s children’s books. She wrote “A Mango-Shaped Space,” “Every Soul a Star” and “11 Birthdays,” to name a few. Having published 31 novels, Mass is an incredibly prolific children’s author and has been named to ...
Here’s some of the sights that Daily photographers captured while away from campus.
When Deke Sharon (LA’91, NEC’91), a renowned a cappella arranger and instructor, joined the Beelzebubs in the late 1980s, a cappella song selection was limited. “Everybody was singing ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy.’ Everybody was singing ‘For The Longest Time’ by Billy Joel. Everybody was singing … whatever songs were already very a cappella or very close harmony, and they just converted them,” he said.
Professor David Proctor is famous among Tufts undergraduates for his barbecues, three-piece suits and popular history courses. But behind the name is a teacher and member of the Tufts community, who was once a devoted student.
