Editorials
The Skeletons in Summers’s Closet
If Harvard wants to quash the culture that allowed Epstein and Summers to operate with impunity, it has to demonstrate that even its most decorated figures aren’t untouchable.
Harvard’s Finances Are Dire — But We Can’t Cut Our Academic Mission
In a time of crushing financial pressure, cuts will always draw blood. But it’s hard to see how Harvard can claim to safeguard its teaching and research mission while letting go of staff who formed its backbone — especially when other corners of the University seem more ripe for clipping.
Free Laundry Has a Price. Let’s Make It Worth Paying.
With the new SAF, we glimpse a better student experience on the horizon. Fewer fundraisers, cheaper tickets, more art, more speaker events, better free food — and yes, better concerts. If a little bit of that SAF change goes towards booking a better Crimson Jam headliner, we’ll be even happier to fork over the cash.
Harvard Shouldn’t Leave Its Workers Behind
As Harvard limps through its fight with Washington, it risks leaving its own workers behind.
The Faculty Senate Should Have a Say
Through the storms the next few years will surely bring, we hope Harvard lets our educators get close enough to the wheel to correct course when it is needed.
We Hate to Admit It, But Dean Claybaugh is Right
Harvard students should be here to learn — not get a 4.0. Based on the College’s recent efforts, it appears that dream may someday be achieved. For the time being, we’ll have to content with giving the administration an A. For effort, of course.
What Harvard Won’t Let Interviewers Say
But given the headwinds of higher education, the disappointing change isn’t unexpected. Harvard and other universities are moving to inaugurate colorblindness as the standard for discussing race, scrubbing identity with the hope that “intellectual vitality” or “viewpoint diversity” can take its place.
Harvard’s Latest Speech Controversy
For the sake of Harvard’s intellectual community, University employees should be able to articulate their personal beliefs without fear of retribution.
Dissent: The Editorial Board Cannot Whitewash Hate
House resident deans shouldn’t advocate hate towards anyone — full stop. To do so prior to their appointment should be disqualifying; to do so while they are supposedly supporting their students’ wellbeing should result in resignation.
Don’t Let Diversity Die At the Starting Line
Household wealth plays an enormous role in applicants’ lived experiences; considering it will create a less homogenous campus and contribute to a more enriching college experience for all — all while turning Harvard into a more equitable engine of social mobility.
The Challenge Harvard Faces Goes Deeper Than Funding
Still, as long as Harvard is, well, Harvard — the peak of an unpopular ivory tower — its funding will make a useful political football for lawmakers hoping to score points with the public.
HMS Can’t Regulate Grief
When discomfort discussing Palestine extends to a disallowance of grief, Harvard descends into a true den of iniquity.
College Students Study Less. Harvard’s Just Honest About It.
Diminished focus on academics is real — and a legitimate cause for concern. But behind the headline lies a far broader story: Declining focus on coursework is a national problem.
Harvard Must Choose Engagement Over Censorship
Using rhetoric that echoes Hitler is vile and unacceptable — full stop. Still, a University move to punish the Salient would set a dangerous precedent of policing student publications.
Reload Ethical Entrepreneurship at Harvard
In the modern attention economy, aspiring entrepreneurs are rewarded for creating the most disruptive, flashy, and viral projects possible.
