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Students at Tufts University experienced two “incidents of hate” last week, one involving racist, anti-Asian remarks and the other an act of anti-Semitism, the university’s president said Sunday.
In a letter to the school’s community, President Tony Monaco wrote that several Asian students were “verbally assaulted with hateful anti-Asian rhetoric from the occupants of a passing vehicle” as they walked along Professors Row.
Monaco also wrote that members of one of the school’s sports teams found “a large swastika painted on the Bello Field shed.”
“Let me state as clearly as I can: Acts of anti-Asian hate and anti-Semitism such as these are unacceptable and violate what we stand for as a community,” Monaco wrote. “I acknowledge the significant harm that these incidents can have on the Asian and Jewish communities, respectively. All of us have a responsibility to speak out against such bigotry.”
Updated: 2:57 PM EDT May 2, 2021 The president of Tufts University announced that two acts of hate happened on campus in the past week.In a letter to the Tufts community, President Tony Monaco says several Asian students were walking along Professors Row when they were verbally assaulted with hateful and anti-Asian rhetoric from people in a passing vehicle.In the second incident, Monaco says members of a Tufts athletic team found a large swastika painted on the shed at Bello Field, which is also used by local community sports organizations.Monaco denounced the anti-Asian and anti-Semitic acts and stated that all in the Tufts community have a responsibility to speak out against such bigotry. Unfortunately, these anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents are part of a larger trend in the United States. Our campus has not been immune to this trend as complaints of bias to our Office of Equal Opportunity have increased significantly over the past several years. This is not accepta
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Review of Jonathan Marks,
Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Defense of Liberal Education. Princeton University Press, February 2021, 232 pages, $27.95.
Jonathan Marks, Professor of Politics at Ursinus College, has written an important and timely book that should interest anyone, left, right, or center, concerned about higher education in general and the campus anti-Israel movement in particular.
Following incessant anti-Semitic harassment, Tufts student calls on university to intervene
March 5, 2021
(JNS) A Jewish student at Tufts University who claims that he has been the subject months-long campaign of anti-Semitic intimidation, harassment and discrimination is calling on the university to intervene.
Max Price, a junior who is a member of the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ), which is tasked with fact-checking and removing bias student government legislation, has been outspoken against an SJP proposal to include its “Deadly Exchange Campaign” referendum in the student election ballot.
“Mr. Price has been subjected to anti-Semitic harassment targeting him on the basis of his ethnic and ancestral Jewish identity,” stated a letter written by Price’s lawyers to Tufts University president Anthony Monaco, Tufts general counsel Mary Jeka and Tufts provost Nadine Aubry.