Scrutiny
Raceless Like Me
At some point, every Harvard applicant is asked to check a box, choosing between five racial identification options; but what if one of the options was “none”?
This week's Scrutiny: Racelessness
Zoe A.Y. Weinberg '13 writes about racelessness in this week's scrutiny.
Check Out FM's Scrutiny About Love and Sex at Harvard
Our Fifteen Minutes Magazine took a fresh approach to their Scrutiny this week. Check out "Stay, Don't Go"—an interactive graphic narrative about love and blackened hearts on Harvard's campus.
Stay, Don't Go: A Scrutiny on Sex at Harvard
How hard is it to find love or sex at Harvard? How pervasive is the hookup culture? We take a look, in graphic narrative form.
Exams Interrupt Jewish High Holidays
This year, Rosh Hashana—the date of which is determined by the Gregorian calendar—occurred later than usual and coincided with a spate of exams and paper due dates.
HBS Introduces New Gen Ed for Undergrads
Led by Business School professors Joseph B. Lassiter and Mihir A. Desai, the new General Education course is the first to be offered exclusively to undergraduates at the Business School.
TFA: A Corporate Approach
Teach for America's recruitment structure simultaneously appeals to students’ altruism and more selfish concerns: earning something competitive, and also commendable. At Harvard, where recruitment is even more aggressive than at most colleges, students are taking the bait.
Nuclear Cambridge
Unless you read the yellow caution signs on the walls, the high-ceilinged chamber would appear to house a couple of ...
Katharine Woodman-Maynard '08
To call conversation with Katharine Woodman-Maynard ’08 animated is strikingly appropriate, and it is hardly surprising that she discusses her ...
Going Up: Fifteen (and a Half) Harvard Alumni on the Way to the Top
Forget Mark Zuckerberg and Yo-Yo Ma. Meet the next generation of movers and shakers: these young Harvard grads are on the verge of breaking through.
Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04
For those who don’t know him, it might be surprising to hear that the preferred extracurricular activity of Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, author and M.D., in college was “sleeping.” But evidently, he would need his rest for his future literary and medical pursuits. Since graduation, Iweala released “Beasts of No Nation,” his 2005 novel exploring the world of a child soldier in a fictional African country, and received a degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
