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Harvard Can’t Fight Dirty if Its Hands Aren’t Clean
Trump has been itching to embarrass Harvard and defund the country’s oldest university. Harvard must be wise enough to put its house in order. Otherwise, Washington will tear it down.
Harvard Students Don’t Need To Work Harder. Administrators Do.
While the College has needlessly zeroed in on making the academic realm inordinately demanding, it does so at the expense of the other — arguably more important — transformations.
Give the Land Up — Or Shut Up
Any institution indulging in this nonsense should put its money where its mouth is: Either return the land that it occupies to whichever Native American tribe that it stole it from, or spare us the hollow, meaningless acknowledgements.
What Good Is a University Without Students?
Even if Harvard is too invested to stop building new facilities now, it must take a hard look at its priorities and ensure that its educational mission remains intact. Harvard’s future is built on the minds it nurtures — buildings are great, but they need people to fill them.
Harvard Stole Brazilian Land. It’s Time To Make Amends.
Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions. Transparency isn’t enough: Harvard must make reparations to communities impacted by its land grabs.
Harvard Has To Make Up Its Mind About General Education
In either case, the Gen Ed and divisional distribution system needs a change, because, as of now, it occupies an annoying middle ground; too weak to be relevant, too strong to be innocuous.
An Open Letter to Campus Republicans
If Republicans want esteem on campus, you must recognize that words have consequences. Disagreement will make us stronger. But it must be informed, honest, and respectful.
Harvard Could Learn a Thing or Two From Femininity
Your Harvard education can be leveraged beyond your career: in parenting, teaching, volunteering, and relationships. Revaluing traditional feminine values is step one.
Will Mahmoud Khalil Make Harvard Liberals Reconsider Palestine?
If Harvard truly values free speech and justice, those values must be applied universally, not with hesitation but with confidence and conviction.
This Housing Day, Dename Winthrop House
As soon as Winthropians stormed my dorm, I started praying the house would be renamed before I graduated, maybe to DuBois House, Winthrop (Perkins Boynton) House, or even Adams House II.
So You Got Quadded?
To my newest neighbors: Though Riverites will tell you that Quad pride is delusion, Stockholm syndrome, or rationalization, it isn’t. Even though you’ll be pitied and pooh-poohed by those placed into houses admittedly flashier and more recently renovated, stay the course.
Freshmen, Embrace Your New Home
Housing Day is not just about being assigned to a building, it’s about gaining a family. It is a transition from being a new student trying to find your place at Harvard to becoming an integral part of a long-standing tradition.
Dear Harvard Men, Stop Hating Women.
So to all Harvard, but especially all male affiliates, regardless of other identities you may express — hold your peers accountable for gender bias in all of its forms.
All Concentrations Are Created Equal
At Harvard, every student — regardless of how comparatively difficult or easy their concentration may be — has the potential to enact meaningful change. It would serve us well to remember that.
Allston Is All Labs — And That’s a Problem
Roche’s announcement is only the beginning. As Harvard wraps up its ongoing life sciences construction projects, housing market pressures will only increase, and the current housing crisis will worsen.
