The Scoop
Quincy house aides photo
In Quincy, house aides bake in bulk for the faculty deans’ famous open houses, cook for events such as “Feast and Film,” and organize Quincy’s Junior Family Weekend.
House or Home? Recent Grads’ Strategies of Stickin’ Around
No more than four rooms in the dorms or in faculty deans’ residences of each house are earmarked every year for these people who love Harvard so much that they stay, simultaneously building community and operating in the shadows.
Resurrecting Film Photography in the Eliot House Basement
When Elmer and Social Studies lecturer Bonnie Talbert stepped into the position of Eliot’s faculty deans earlier this year, they wanted to bring a piece of themselves into House life. So Elmer decided to resurrect the abandoned Eliot darkroom and teach a House seminar on film photography.
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.
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.
Should Harvard Red Light or Green Light the Blue Lights?
For how important they are to Harvard's discussion of safety, and despite their prevalence and accessibility, Harvard's emergency phone system is not something most Harvard students think about day to day. Dotting the grounds like glittering blue breadcrumbs, Harvard’s 530 blue light phones blend in with streetlights and gates and other doodads, becoming just another thing on campus.
Right to Read Exhibit
At the Harvard Law School library’s latest exhibit, “Challenging Our Right to Read,” controversial books, formerly resigned to the shadows, are once again on display — right beside the objections raised against them.
The ‘Necessary Evil’ of Computer Science 124
Most students aren’t taking Computer Science 124: Data Structures and Algorithms for pride. They’re taking it to fulfill the computer science concentration’s Algorithms requirement. Hence the course’s description as “a necessary evil” in the Q Guide.
Blue Lights Photo
Students expressed mixed feelings about the blue light phone system, with some saying they view them as deterrents to crime and others saying they likely would not use them in a real emergency.
Do We Have the Right To Read?
“Do we, as a society, have an ethical obligation to create safe spaces and boundaries for particular groups of people?” asks Jocelyn Kennedy, one of the curators of the Harvard Law School library exhibit, “Challenging Our Right to Read.”
Armaan Tipirneni and Pranav Ramesh
In the span of three or four days, Ramesh and Tipirneni created Classiq.red, choosing to collaborate on the project because they had known each other for a while and trusted the other to be up for the challenge.
