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Sex Week Opening 2021
Around Town

What Is Harvard Sex Week Trying to Teach Us?

It’s difficult to generalize Sex Week’s programming from its promotional materials alone: On its Instagram, a Canva graphic publicizing a discussion on religion and sexuality sits near a photo of a beaming student holding an Ass Stroker from PeepShow Toys.

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Conversations

Meet Nina Howe-Goldstein, the Real Hater of Cambridge, Mass.

When Howe-Goldstein transferred to Harvard, she expected to find a rigid academic environment. Then she heard about the $30,000 HUFPI scandal. “I thought to myself, ‘Wait, this place is a complete freak show, but I’m gonna have so much fun here,’” she says.

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Introspection

A Hurricane From Here

When the news announced that Hurricane Milton’s landfall would be “catastrophic,” I was far from the storm. I’ve never worried much about incoming hurricanes, and I’m still not sure that I do.

Whistling Society Cover
Around Town

‘In Deep Aeolic Infinitude’: Catching Wind of the Harvard Whistler’s Society

“For too long, whistling has been sort of a maligned art form, underappreciated in comparison to other forms of music-making,” Tyler Heaton says. “We figured it was high time to put our foot in the door.”

The Scoop

Parsing the Past of Our Present in History 10

The new gateway course, which aims to expose students to different ways of doing, practicing, and talking about history, was advertised on Canvas under the headline: “Not your high school history class!”

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Endpaper

Holding Space

No one tells you how to cope with a modern-day lynching.

Panopto 2x Speed
Levity

The Eleventh Habit of Highly Successful Harvard Students

The world falls away, and it’s just me and Panopto, reaching full human potential as one.

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Around Town

Lovestruck in Cambridge: A Romance Bookstore Comes to Harvard Square

Rachel Kanter is taking her relationship with romance to the next level – opening Lovestruck Books, a bookstore in Harvard Square specializing in romance novels.

Annenberg Dining Hall
Around Town

An Annenberg Stakeout

A month into school, are people in Annenberg still sharing meals with strangers? An FM freshman spends a day staking out the dining hall to find out.

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Endpaper

Acceleration

I am afraid to carry the weight of other bodies, of other lives, with unflinching speed.

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Endpaper

Noteworthy Passion

My notes collection became something new: proof that I care.

Central Rock Gym
Endpaper

Stripping on Sundays

At the beginning of my sophomore year, I was on the phone with my grandmother when she asked me if I’d gotten a term-time job. “Yes,” I answered her. “I’m stripping at CRG.”

Fish funeral grave
Levity

I Went to a Fish Funeral.

“Fish Funeral Friday,” read the flier, which was black. Finally, I thought. A community event that’s up my dimly-lit alley.

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The Scoop

Want to Become a Lorax? A New Course Rethinks Environmental Rights

In their new course, “The Rights of Nature,” visiting Law School professor James Salzman and American History and Harvard Law School professor Jill Lepore investigate a burgeoning American legal movement known as the Rights of Nature. The movement argues that granting legal personhood to wildlife and natural features could help stave off environmental destruction.

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Commencement

The Academic Policing of Academics on Policing

In 2022, professors Christopher Lewis and Adaner Usmani argued that to reduce violent crime, the U.S. needs to drastically shorten its prison sentences — and increase its police force by half a million officers. Their ideas soon become a flashpoint of online discourse.

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