On March 5, 2019, the Tufts Dining Action Coalition’s (TDAC) picket in support of dining hall workers made Tufts history. With over 1,200 students, workers, faculty, community members, and staff from Boston’s food service and hospitality workers union, UNITE HERE Local 26 in attendance, the demonstration was the largest ever seen at Tufts. In the
Author: Sasha Hulkower
As I’m sure many Tufts students did, I spent the majority of my winter break with my family. While family time is something I’m always grateful for, it also means spending a lot of time and energy arguing with my family members whenever topics of social or political importance come up. During one of many
On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, members of the Tufts community gathered around the cannon to listen to the words of survivors of sexual assault. Organized by Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), Survivor Speak Out was an open event intended to center the voices and experiences of survivors, providing a platform to share their
A few weeks ago, news feeds and front pages nationwide filled with images of supermodel Kendall Jenner smiling coyly as she hands a can of Pepsi to an attractive, unarmed policeman. The image is a still from Pepsi’s quickly-pulled ad depicting a protest for an ambiguous cause, in which throngs of beautiful, racially diverse young
3/21/14 2:01 AM: I fell asleep at 6 and didn’t wake up until 11, which is essentially a full night’s sleep. SO I watched t.v. for several hours and now am going to watch a movie and go to sleep. I really wanted to hang out with people tonight since I agreed to babysit
8/12/07: I can’t wait to go back to school! Middle school already? I can’t wait to see all my friends! I recently stumbled across this exclamation towards the back of my pink and gold tiger print journal. This section lay buried between sentence after sentence of non-sequiturs before the entry ended mid-word as I
First night at camp! It really is like we never left. Grilled cheese for lunch. Sitting across from one of my best friends last weekend as she ate a peanut butter and provolone sandwich (“not cheesy enough”), this quote from my 2010 journal felt more relevant than ever. We hadn’t spent more than two
5/25/07: For the long weekend we’re going to CT! We’re gonna see El and Har and see Shreck 3! 5/26/07: This weekend we were supposed to go to CT, but then Daddy got a really bad stomach flu, so we couldn’t go. Sigh. 5/28/07: We got to go to CT! We stayed over night at
I spent five uncomfortable minutes last week Facetiming my Dad as he located all my childhood journals. I felt like I was letting him in on a dangerous secret as I instructed him to look behind books on the overstuffed shelves in my room, beneath piles of stuffed animals, behind boxes under my bed, assembling