This is the second part of a two-article series on activism in Boston Chinatown. To read part one, “Asian American Activism’s Roots in Boston Chinatown,” click here. One year after graduating from Tufts in 1967, now-retired Boston public school educator Stephanie Fan received a call from a classmate who worked at Tufts-New England Medical Center.
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Over the past five years, Tufts University has rapidly expanded their video surveillance system. Now, a TUPD operator can access hundreds of high-definition live video feeds at any given time of day. On Barnum Hall, a camera with the capability to zoom in on details up to 40 times has been installed at eye level,
Incoming college students react to the newfound freedom of living alone in a variety of ways: that girl with overprotective parents now leaves her bong out on the desk every day; that guy who shared a room with his two other siblings and lived in a constant state of messiness has now become the biggest
In the late 1950s, Michael Liu played with his neighborhood friends in the rubble of their demolished homes on Albany Street in Boston Chinatown. By the time Tufts Medical Center began expanding into Chinatown in the late sixties, major developments had already displaced hundreds of Chinatown residents. Liu was 10 years old when the state
Each academic year, Tufts Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS) works with over 25 percent of the undergraduate student body on both the Medford/Somerville and Boston SMFA campuses. Another 8 to 10 percent utilize local community-based mental health providers. According to the Task Force on Student Mental Health Report that was released earlier this month,
History may remember it as a hub for the Abolitionist Movement, but New England must claim its violent history of slavery. While slavery in the South mostly consisted of large-scale plantation labor, the practice in the North often took the form of domestic servitude, due to the unique economic, social, and geographic conditions of the
Tufts University, like most institutions of higher education, prides itself on equity and diversity. However, in a study published by the Eos Foundation in September of last year, Tufts ranked 87th out of 93 in a report on gender parity. The Eos Foundation, established by Andrea Silbert in 2007, was created with a mission to
The narrator is a group of survivors speaking under ‘I’ as a single voice CW: Sexual assault I was first raped almost ten years ago, and again just last semester. The pain is still raw and ever-present; I can barely sleep, eat, handle seeing my rapist around campus, or walk past the place where I
CW: Sexual assault, suicidal depression, mental illness Grace Talusan (A’94) is author of the memoir The Body Papers and winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction. She was born in the Philippines and came to the US with her parents at age 2. She has published essays, longform journalism,
How often are narratives from non-student community members of Somerville and Medford centered in our discussions of displacement and housing justice? For the few thousand Tufts students who live off-campus, there are another few thousand community members being actively pushed out of their homes and neighborhoods. Tufts students are not necessarily responsible for the scope
In 1978, over 30 years after FDR signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, more than 2,000 Japanese Americans rode National Guard buses, trucks, and cars from Seattle to the old grounds of the Puyallup Assembly Center. Advertised as A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, the event gathered over 2,000 attendants to
Note: the following personal narrative details events that, ironically, occurred during the weekend of Japanese Culture Club’s Day of Remembrance (DOR) events. The author has included this narrative to be printed alongside an account of JCC’s DOR in this week’s Observer’s issue in order to further readers’ understandings of the historical depth of anti-Asian racism