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Recentering Academics Demands a Revolution
As students seek an avenue to respond to the turmoil before them, Harvard’s curriculum must adapt – or risk becoming obsolete altogether.
By Ignoring Race, Alumni Interviews Erase Reality
This policy may satisfy Trump, but it betrays Harvard’s own principles. The College cannot claim to value diversity while systematically erasing the identities that make its community diverse in the first place.
In Defense of the New Housing Day
The importance of Housing Day isn’t the exact day of the week on which it falls, but the fact that it happens in the first place. Instead of lamenting the loss of a random Thursday before spring break, students should welcome the change.
I Didn’t Deserve To Be Admitted To Harvard
Can Harvard’s admissions office actually determine who deserves an acceptance letter? Probably not.
Who’s Going To Do Claybaugh’s Dirty Work?
Instituting grade deflation requires a whole lot of manpower that we don’t have.
The Cost of Classroom Kindness
Professors should also be encouraged to critique boldly, constructively, and honestly. Harvard attracts students not because we fear difficulty, but because we seek it. If this University believes in our potential, it must trust us enough to demand more than comfort. Let discomfort return to the classroom.
Changing Grades Won’t Fix the Humanities — Here’s What Will
The humanities are serious disciplines — it’s time for academic programming at Harvard to treat them as such.
What Grades Can’t Measure
A Harvard education isn’t defined by the hours spent in Lamont. It’s defined by how we learn to balance ambition with curiosity. Administrators can change the grading curve, but the real learning happens when students decide what matters to them.
Ethicist, Should I Let Go of My Zionist Friends?
At the end of the day, a friendship built across disagreement does not demand that you hide or abandon your beliefs. Sustaining conversations across ideological and moral divides might require that you strengthen your convictions.
The Fun You’re Missing Is in Lavietes
Harvard's women's basketball team is winning and making history — all while playing to half-empty bleachers.
Harvard, Stop the Handholding
When it comes to building a real family at Harvard, less parenting from the College is better.
Independence Isn’t Cheap, but Harvard Can Afford It
Talk is cheap, and in our case, inaction far too expensive. It’s time to put our money where our mouth is — that starts with the endowment.
Does Community Input Speak for Cambridge? According to the Data, No
That’s not to say Cambridge shouldn’t listen to its residents. But when public comment becomes a ritual stage for a tiny, unrepresentative minority, it’s worth asking whom that process really serves.
Institutional Neutrality Is Impossible. Harvard Must Accept That Fact.
For Harvard, institutional neutrality is a convenient cop-out. In the face of intense public, political, and financial scrutiny, urging the University to pick a side, it can remove itself from the equation entirely. Meanwhile, Harvard’s partisanship lurks in the decisions it inevitably has to make.
