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Last year, Emma Phillips, a junior, realized that she needed to graduate early. “I was on the phone with my parents discussing finances, and they said we probably couldn’t pay for the last year here,” Phillips said. She knew that she had enough Advanced Placement (AP) credits from high school that taking five classes each
When you see the police, what flashes through your mind? Do you see their uniforms, badges, cruisers, and guns as tools to uphold your security? Does their presence give you a feeling of safety, as though they can ward off danger? When I see the police, news clips flash through my mind, and I’m
Last year proved to be a difficult one for this campus. To deny the Observer’s central role in this would be injudicious. While there are many lessons to be learned from the events that unfolded, one of the things it chiefly revealed to me was the power and responsibility we hold as a magazine. This
President Obama’s decision to begin the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was monumental; after more than 15 years of debate, young, undocumented immigrants finally had a program that could temporarily halt their fears of deportation. President Trump’s decision to repeal DACA was—perhaps catastrophically—just as monumental. He recently reversed his position after meeting with Chuck
The thick slab of window muffles the outside sounds. In the back, the kitchen produces an orchestra of clanking equipment set to life by rushing commands, and in the front of the coffee house, sundry voices mix with deepening essences of toasting butter and brewing coffee beans that seep out from the kitchen. But these
Around a-year-and-half ago, Judy Pratt* noticed an old tree stump in the front yard of her Powder House Boulevard apartment in Somerville and decided to do something with it. She carved a smiley face into the stump, decorated it with a pattern of small rocks, and placed a poetry box on top. “We would
Taylor Swift’s comeback has been all about her reputation. It’s the title of her new album and the underlying theme of her single, “Look What You Made Me Do.” The singer has written songs about feuds with Kanye West and Katy Perry and breakups with John Mayer and Taylor Lautner; she has started Twitter fights
I was never meant to find out that I was undocumented. I stumbled upon my status during my first year at Tufts, after speaking to a staff member at the International Center. My visa paperwork had been processing for over six months, and despite the usual lag that comes with bureaucracy, this was abnormal. With
Opinion8 Comments on Moving Beyond Capitalism: Assessing the Lack of Intellectual Diversity in Tufts’ Economics Department
In recent months, we’ve seen professors at universities like Tufts step up to speak about and organize around threats to the safety of marginalized students by the Trump administration. In the weeks after, professors organized a teach-in connecting various struggles against systems of oppression, and since then, many departments have brought speakers to campuses to
“Harvey didn’t discriminate, but [as] with most tragedies in America, people of color and the poor were hit the hardest,” John Peavy reflected. Peavy, a Black Tufts senior from Houston, Texas, returned to campus just days after leaving his family, friends, and neighbors still grappling with the aftermath of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey. “Fortunately
No words, just lips and teeth Crescents and puckers, dimples and wrinkles Morning breath and mussy eyebrows We stretch into the cotton-blend coziness of our quietude * No words, just lips and teeth. Gritted and pursed, gnawing a fleeing truth Twisted fingers and averted eyes We wrestle with the ropes of our reticence