Julieta Grané is the Daily’s editor in chief. She has previously served as managing editor and opinion exec. Julieta is a junior studying biology, and you can reach her at julieta.grane@tufts.edu.
The Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College of Civic Life held its Community Conversations Dinner on Nov. 14. The event featured TUPIT students and welcomed community partners to learn more about the work being done by the Tufts Education Reentry Network, or MyTERN, program.
The Tufts Beelzebubs debuted their 33rd studio album release on Oct. 11. With a run time of 39 minutes and featuring 11 songs, “Delirium” is a project two years in the making. The Beelzebubs, also known as the Bubs, are a nationally acclaimed a cappella group founded in 1963. In addition to live performances on and off-campus, the Bubs produce an album roughly every two years.
The Tufts Latinx Center and Mexican Culture Club held a Día de los Muertos celebration with the Tufts University Social Collective on Saturday. The event in Curtis Hall featured food, live mariachi music and dances by Ballet Folklórico. Guests could place a photo and ofrenda on an altar to honor the memory of loved ones who have passed.
Thirty-four Senate seats are up for grabs today. Democrats currently hold a slim majority in the Senate, where they sit in seven of the nine most competitive seats. Democrats must win seven of these seats and the presidency in order to achieve a majority.
From Oct. 15–17, the Tufts Dance Program hosted an artist residency in collaboration with several other departments, including the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Maria Bauman, a multi-disciplinary artist and director of the New York-based dance company, MBDance, held three different events over the course of the three-day residency.
Boston-based movement artist Miranda Lawson performed in the Jackson Dance Lab for Tufts Dance Program’s Dances at Noon series on Friday. The series is put on by the Tufts Dance Program, a part of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. In 2013, Senior Lecturer Daniel McCusker founded Dances at Noon as a way to connect the dance program to the larger Boston area dance scene.
My name is Julieta Grané, and I am honored to welcome you to Tufts. As is traditional of the editor in chief, I would like to use this space to introduce you to The Tufts Daily.
Amid a national wave of encampments for Palestine on college campuses, Tufts students have set up tents on the Academic Quad to demand that Tufts divest from Israel and that charges against student protesters across the country be dropped.
