Archive for December 2006
Tufts suicide.
A campus-wide email from Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman is excerpted below:
Dear Members of the Tufts Community,
It is with great sadness that I write to you about the passing of Lily Diana Karian, member of the Class of 2010. Lily was found dead in her room in Bush Hall this morning at approximately 1 A.M., an apparent victim of suicide, although this can not be confirmed until the medical examiner completes an investigation.
Lily is from Sudbury, MA., where she graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School last year. Lily leaves her parents, her twin brother Peter and her sister Lauren.
What terrible news. I feel for her family and friends.
Racism at Tufts.
The Primary Source, which bills itself as “Tufts’ Journal of Conservative Thought,” has found itself in a shitstorm of controversy.
In its recent holiday Christmas issue, The Source published a collection of Christmas carol parodies mocking those crazy liberals, with their feminism and Naked Quad Run. Not particularly clever, but pretty harmless.
It was this parody, which has since been removed from the Primary Source website, that caught everyone’s attention: Continue reading »