Disciplinary Impasse: Tufts’s Response to Off-Campus Misconduct
On October 7, 2025, a pro-Palestinian rally in downtown Boston turned violent. Two Tufts students were among 13 attendees who were charged with crimes related to the damage of police vehicles and assaulting an officer. Four months later, Tufts appears to have not brought the case to disciplinary review. Tufts students Roder Atwood and Benjamin […]
Latest Insights on Rumeysa Ozturk’s Detention and Activism
As of the writing of this letter, we still don’t know what exactly Rumeysa Ozturk is accused of doing. What we do know is that prior to her detention by ICE officers on March 25, Ozturk’s sparse record of public activism included co-authoring an opinion piece for The Tufts Daily, in which she called on […]
Understanding the Financial Landscape of Tufts University
In location and influence, Ballou Hall stands atop Tufts University. Most students will graduate without penetrating the well-secured doors protecting administrative arcana. Inside Ballou lie administrators whose tenures and decisions will last far beyond the four-year stay of the average undergraduate student. Despite the seclusion, the administration and its decisions are often mentioned in labor […]