Politics
The State of the Union
Students gathered in Canaday's common room last night to watch President Obama's State of the Union address.
Coakley Supporters Stand Guard
Volunteers carry signs in Harvard Square to help Mass. Attorney General Martha M. Coakley’s campaign for the Senate seat.
Senate Race Heats Up Campus
When Senator-elect Scott P. Brown visited the Harvard Republican Club last spring, Rachel L. Wagley ’11 did not know that less than a year later she would be volunteering for Brown’s campaign to attain a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Republican Brown Wins Mass. Senate Seat
In a surprising upset, Republican State Senator Scott P. Brown was elected yesterday to fill the United States Senate seat formerly held by liberal Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, making Brown the first Republican Senator from Massachusetts in over 30 years.
Some More Wine, Mr. (Former) Senator?
Readers of the Cambridge Chronicle—the other Cambridge newspaper—may have noticed a rather strange placement of a sticker advertisement on this week's front page.
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Original Publication Date: January 21, 2009 Because of the changes to the Jan. 20 final exam schedule—including moving Government 1540: “The American Presidency” to a week earlier and pushing up the time of the morning exams—many more Harvard undergraduates were able to celebrate the inauguration of President Obama.
Harvard Dems
The Harvard College Democrats work on posters to support their Citizen School trainees while watching the results of the Senate primary elections. The Citizen School encourages civic engagement among middle schoolers.
Barrios Speaks on Anti-Homophobia Activism
Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, criticized what he regarded as pervasive homophobia in a lecture yesterday at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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Jarrett Tomas Barrios, current president of GLAAD, speaks pationately his personal experience with gay rights activism and the legacy of movements like Act Up.
