Columns
The Bandaids on a Pedagogical Bullet Hole
Both attendance requirements and “flipped classrooms” are bandages on the festering problems of lecture-skipping and a lack of engagement.
Harvard Cannot Save Us From Ourselves
If a publication prints something offensive, the answer is speech, not sanction. If a chant crosses a moral line, the answer is argument, not discipline. Students should not call for an intifada nor should they quote Hitler. It’s our job to say so, not the Dean’s.
I Want More of a Voice in AI Policy — We All Should
We may not be able to change the stress of midterms, but we can voice our thoughts on AI in the classroom and expect Harvard to listen.
Harvard’s Nanny State Is Putting Campus to Sleep
Time and time again, the Harvard administration has shown nothing scares it more than its students having fun of their own design.
The Great Feminization Has Come to Harvard
If there is a silver lining in these estrogen-encrusted times, it is that the bros are on their way back, baby. Boy am I excited for the dawning era when he-men will once again run our institutions. I simply adore the way they do things.
If Cambridge Wants To Spend, It Has To Build
In order to deliver on expensive candidate promises, Cambridge desperately needs extra income. Building is the way to get it.
Visit The Harvard Archives
Our University’s history is far more extensive than buildings and statues. The direct experiences and ponderings of its founders, most notable alumni, and more are at our finger tips.
Harvard Students Aren’t Responsible For the Nation’s Flaws
Students have become walking emblems of everything people think is wrong with higher education.
Ethicist, Should I Date My Comp Director?
I feel like something is forbidden about it because he's my superior, and I'm also not totally sure I'd actually want to date him, to be honest. What should I do??? —Signed, Dubious Debbie.
History 10 and the Fear of Facts
Harvard’s History Department should make History 10 a modern world history survey course that includes map quizzes, sit-down exams, in-class essays, and (gasp) even some date memorization.
This Indigenous People’s Day, Look to HKS as a Model
Harvard, both deliberately and not, has consistently marginalized indigenous communities. If Harvard is to live up to its founding mission, it must offer more resources supporting those that it spent centuries harming.
Trainings Can’t Stop Religious Bigotry. Here’s What Can.
If Harvard wants to teach students to identify religious bigotry and respond with empathy, it must integrate religious literacy — an understanding of diverse faith traditions and their histories — into its required curriculum.
Harvard Square Needs More Local Businesses
Or if you really can’t live without your Pumpkin Spice Latte, there’s always the other Starbucks just around the corner.
Harvard Cannot Be Neutral On Hate
Affiliates are right to fear University censorship of student publications, and to instead encourage students to respond to the hate peddled by the Salient as they see fit. But University administrators have a role to play in shepherding dialogue in a positive direction.
Want to File a Discrimination Complaint? Good Luck.
If the College is not going to pursue an investigation into the Salient’s vile speech — even when they are aware it occurred — without a complaint being filed, the University needs to substantially revise its procedure for filing those complaints.
