Content warning: Descriptions of an anxiety disorder By March of my first year at Tufts, I was convinced I had sustained a total of 12 concussions and at least a little bit of irreversible brain damage. I had gotten the first concussion in early November when I sat up in the middle of the night
Author: Lena Novins-Montague
The theme of this semester’s last issue of the Observer, growth, lends itself exceedingly well to what I hope to articulate in this letter. For me, growth evokes my favorite color of forest green, the tapestry I bought at the beginning of my first year at Tufts, and of course, the three and a half
On September 17, 2019, students received an email in their inbox from Tufts President Anthony Monaco with the subject line “A message to the Tufts community.” The email reported that two days prior, a Jewish student had returned home to his dorm room and found “a swastika affixed to his door.” Monaco condemned the incident
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For this year’s inaugural issue of our beloved Observer, we’ve selected history as our theme. It feels like a natural starting point because as any good liberal arts student knows, we cannot appreciate the present until we understand the past. So, here is some Lena-centric history for you. I joined the Observer as a spry
Two years ago, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. What has followed has been a mad dash to understand precisely why this happened. The American media, both an enemy and an ally of Trump’s, has since turned inward to reflect on its role in the tumult of the past two years. Katherine
On July 23, 2018, Tufts announced a reconfiguration of the pricing of its on-campus housing system. Starting with the 2019 – 2020 school year, the University will move forward with tiered costs for on-campus housing, which will stratify different types of accommodations based on “variations in room configuration, kitchen access, and amenities,” according to the
The international student presence can be felt on all fronts of the Tufts campus, from parties at the International House to the events put on by the culture clubs and the many different languages that students speak. In fact, 15 percent of the Tufts student body is composed of international students from 60 different countries.
When the Spring 2018 semester comes to an end, Tufts will officially adopt a semester-hour unit system in place of the current one course, one credit system. Under the current structure, the vast majority of classes are worth one credit. But under the new semester-hour unit configuration, credits are intended to be proportional to the
When Dr. Oscar P. Cohen worked at the Lexington School for the Deaf in New York City, the school’s theatre program put on a production of “The Sound of Music,” but they called it “Without the Sound of Music.” The school held a prom every year with DJs, and between the wooden floor and the
When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, “it was viewed as being farfetched,” according to the novel’s author, Margaret Atwood. Today, the book’s plot of a theocratic dictatorship taking over the United States and stripping women of their civil rights is resonating once again with audiences. At the Women’s Marches in January, protestors held
Sophomore Liam Knox sees a fundamental flaw in the Tufts Tobacco Free Initiative, a new policy that will make Tufts a tobacco-free campus sometime in the foreseeable future. He is bothered by the lack of communication between Tufts Tobacco Free and the student body. He commented, “I don’t think any attempt was made to gauge