Tag Archives: tufts
Primary Farce
Last Thursday, Tufts’ “Journal of Conservative Thought,” The Primary Source, published its annual Christmas issue. Within hours of the magazine’s distribution an uproar arose over the “Christmas carol” section of the publication, a yearly holiday feature that tends to focus on disparaging the Tufts Daily but has also run racially offensive tunes in the past [...]
Freedom from Religion, Freedom of Religion, and Faith at Tufts
A few things have been happening all over campus this past week. There’s a lot to report, and if you find yourself lost, then I highly recommend you head over and read this post. I’m going to give you facts, then a few opinions from colleagues, and then a general thought. Oh, also, if you want [...]
Tufts Gets Kinky
When I asked the obvious question about what the Tufts Kink club does, you know, for fun, founding member Anschel Shaffer-Cohen ’15 offered this reproach: “I should hope it’s obvious that the fact that we share a sexual identity doesn’t mean we all have sex with each other.” That is kind of what I assumed, actually. [...]
Tufts Strips Lance Armstrong of Honorary Degree
On November 19, Tufts University President Anthony Monaco announced to the school via e-mail that Lance Armstrong, by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees, had his honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters revoked in light of the recent evidence regarding his use of performance-enhancing drugs by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and [...]
Ways to make a Thanksgiving dinner awkward in the most ‘Cac-y ways possible
Here at In the ‘Cac, we know that we have a lot of awkward information hanging out in our brains. Sometimes, returning home after spending weeks discussing race, analyzing frat parties, and trudging around in the cold to see an obscure speaker can set you apart from your other non-’Cac friends. We’re here to tell [...]
Timeflies To Release New EP
Tufts alums Cal Shapiro and Rob Resnick ’11, aka Timeflies, have been teasing their 111,518 Twitter followers and now 100,000 FB fans with details about their new EP. Titled ‘One Night,’ the 6 track release is sure to please the loyal masses responsible for selling out their college shows. We’ve talked up their app, their [...]
Jumbos Field Hockey Heads to NCAA Final Four
The Tufts University Jumbos field hockey team has advanced to the NCAA Division III Championship semi-finals. The jumbos, coached by Tina McDavitt’s team (17-2), will be playing DePauw University (21-1) on Saturday at William Smith College’s McCooey Field. The game is being broadcasted online, beginning at 11:00am, on the NCAA site. Furthermore, five team members [...]
Inter-Cac Diablog Models Peaceful Israeli- and Palestinian-American Discussion
To Hani Azzam’s cousins in Lebanon, his friendship with Noam Waksman is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause. You see, Noam is an Israeli-American dual citizen, while Azzam is a Palestinian-American, the grandson of a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. They befriended each other at Wellesley High School, to no surprise to you and I, but [...]
