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Report: Gender Skew Persists in Student Organizations

More than half of student organizations on campus are skewed towards single-gender leadership, according to a recent report on gender in leadership at the College. The report defines skewed leadership boards as those which are at least two-thirds male or two-thirds female.

Columns

From Seneca to Selma to SCOTUS

The crusade for gay rights is another stage of our nation’s journey toward fair treatment under the law.

Crime

Sexual Assault at Harvard

Harvard is currently conducting an ongoing review of its sexual assault policies across its various schools and has recently hired its first ever University-wide Title IX coordinator, who begins work this month. Still, some students feel that these efforts are not enough. They say that changes in the way administrators handle cases of sexual assault at the College level are progressing too slowly, and are not sufficiently responsive to student concerns.

Music

What Happened to Harvard Square's Music Scene?

Decades after the folk revival that helped make the Square a musical hub, new musical venues are opening and old ones continue to succeed. But what has changed over the years, and what’s to come?

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College

Mock Eviction Flyers Incite Debate

A campus debate has flared up over mock eviction notices posted on students’ doors as part of a postering campaign organized by the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee.

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Commencement

Oprah Winfrey To Deliver Address at 362nd Commencement

Media mogul and billionaire philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will speak at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement in May, the University announced Monday.

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Music

A Dark Weekend for the 'Party Shuttle'

This weekend, when students climbed aboard Melvin Washington, Jr.’s evening shuttle bus that travels back and forth between the Yard and the Quad, they were not greeted by the customary strobe lights and thudding music, but rather an entirely party-less shuttle.

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Visual Arts

Robert X. Fogarty's 'Dear World' Photography Project Exhibits Harvard Members' Individuality

With messages written in bold characters on their arms and faces and a host of diverse stories to recount, students and faculty members gathered at Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to partake in the photographic project “Dear World” of artist Robert X. Fogarty.

Religion

Student and Faculty Researchers Reflect on Trip to Hindu Festival

Last month, more than 50 Harvard researchers traveled to Allahabad, India, to study the Kumbh Mela, a two-month-long religious affair that attracts tens of millions of visitors to a rotating location in India every three years.

Scrutiny

The Fall of Academics at Harvard

Government 1310 scandal has been treated by some administrators as the unfortunate exception, an isolated incident whose case has now been closed. But as academic integrity dances uncertainly through a campus whose gates and walls are engraved with a motto of truth, Veritas is at stake.

Columns

Keep the Brightest at Home

To start, the bill is plain good economics for the country. It is an indisputable fact that technology and human capital drive long-term economic growth. However, despite the United States’ dominance in high tech industries, the country’s education system falls behind other nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in STEM graduates.

Books

Behind the Pages

The centuries-old art of bookbinding has kept the volumes of Widener library in good health for years. But what else can the restorative craft do in the age of the e-book?

Men's Basketball

Men's Basketball Holds Off Yale, 72-66, To Complete Weekend Sweep

The Harvard and Yale men’s basketball teams' Saturday matchup—a 72-66 Crimson victory—was a chippy affair from start to finish.

Student Groups

Scherzinger Receives Award, Roses at Cultural Rhythms

Sporting a Harvard sweatshirt over a black and white dress, singer Nicole Scherzinger accepted the 2013 Artist of the Year Award before a lively audience at the matinee show of the 28th annual Cultural Rhythms festival Saturday afternoon.

Alumni

Matt Birk '98 Retires from NFL

Just like Ray Lewis, Matt Birk ’98 has decided to go out on top.

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