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Massachusetts, Make Our Hours Happier

Repealing the Massachusetts happy hour ban could breathe new life into Boston and Harvard Square alike. Boston is a vibrant, young city teeming. It deserves a social scene to match.

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Guest Speakers Improve Campus Discourse. Here’s How to Invite Them.

After a year of calling for more discourse, Masoud’s speaker series offers a dose of optimism and inspiration. But until University culture changes, initiatives like these will remain few and far between.

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Harvard Is a School. We Need To Go to Class.

It’s significantly in its classrooms that Harvard trains the future leaders of America. Let’s make sure we show up to them.

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Harvard-Yale Weekend Was Good. Here’s How to Make It Great.

If we hope to avoid repeats of the Royale ripoff, the College administration must ease on-campus social restrictions. Only then can our student organizations take the reins of campus social life and make Harvard-Yale fun.

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Turkeys and Gratitude: What Our Editors Are Thankful For

In the spirit of gratitude, we asked our editors to reflect on what they feel thankful for at Harvard.

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Faculty Governance Must Not Die in Committee

So let’s call the faculty council what it is. It’s a good, albeit slightly flawed implementation of faculty governance — not the faculty senate’s replacement.

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Harvard Must Act to Save Jewish Studies

At a time when studying Judaism has never been more crucial, the University must act decisively to find highly qualified individuals to fill the vacancies — the future of Harvard’s Jewish studies program depends on it.

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Dissent: Medical Humanities Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Harvard has a responsibility to prepare its pre-med students for the complex interactions they will be called to manage. Pure humanities courses just won’t cut it.

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What Does Interdisciplinarity Even Mean Anymore?

Look no further than our University’s foray into the medical humanities — an emerging field that applies humanistic insights to the study of health and wellbeing — as an indication that the interdisciplinary hype has gone too far.

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Harvard’s Feeder School Addiction

Until Harvard puts in more effort to find diamonds in the rough, legions of feeder school resumes — hand-edited by highly-paid admissions counselors — will continue to fill our classes.

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Harvard’s Conservatives Have to Stop Hiding

There’s no reason to sequester conversations about Plato and the good life to an ideologically homogeneous — some might say, ideologically extreme — group named after a founding father.

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Garber Is Right: The Ad Board Is the Problem.

As it turns out, a 325 page report can illuminate a lot about administrative dysfunction.

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Whether Study-Ins Are Protests Doesn’t Matter. Whether They’re Disruptive Does.

Harvard has faced a host of genuinely difficult questions about how to navigate protest this past year. Responding to students and faculty silently studying in the library isn’t one of them.

Former President of the United States Donald Trump Speaks at Arizona Rally in August 2024
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Trump Is Coming for Higher Ed. Harvard Must Fight Back.

With Trump’s reascension to the presidency, higher education is staring down the barrel of a gun, and — despite its new institutional voice policies — our University cannot remain silent.

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Fear, Tears, Rage, Reckoning: The Editors, on 4 More Years of Donald Trump

Yesterday, former President Donald Trump became future President Donald Trump, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Today, our editors react.

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