By Lina McDonald   Faculty, staff and students gathered at the University’s Budget Task Force open session on April 9, where the committee released its proposed operating budget for the next fiscal year. After several turbulent years following the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the University was operating at a deficit, the new proposed budget will minimize this gap.  The projected 2026 fiscal year expenditure base is currently set at $94.6 million. This budget assumes a tuition and fee revenue of $68.6 million, which is contingent on the number of students that...

By Albert Chang-Yoo   On the evening of March 26, Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was walking outside her apartment, getting ready to break her Ramadan fast with friends. Without warning, she was approached by multiple masked, plainclothes ICE officers and apprehended. Since then Öztürk, a Turkish PhD student and Fulbright scholar on a legal student visa, has been held in a Louisiana detention center. In defending the arrest, Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled Öztürk as a “terrorist sympathizer” and a national security threat.    By all accounts, Öztürk was not...