The Scoop
Cambridge's Housing Crisis, Explained*
*Is “explainer journalism” obnoxious? Basically, we got a bunch of people who know way more about this topic than we do to explain it to us, so we can tell you about it.
Contra Contrary to Norms
It is beautifully ironic that the gender-free contra-dance—a rebellion against tradition and norms—takes place in an 18th-century church.
House Hunters: Grad Student Edition
“That’s one of the bad things about being a grad student,” Jamison reflects. “It’s one of the few jobs where as a young professional with an advanced degree, you’re not in a position to accumulate wealth or invest in a 401k or in the equity of your home.”
Unionized and Priced Out
Very few of Harvard’s unionized employees live right in the shadow of the university’s campus. Housing around the Square, like retail space, is at a premium. Even if a worker were to secure local housing, some say rental prices would be unsustainable even for the most frugal resident.
Free To All
“These weren’t superheroes, these were people who wrote letters to each other and changed the course of history."
Transportation, In a SNAP
I clutch at my brakes, desperately trying to avert crisis. It is already too late: my front wheel impacts the first ridge at full speed, and I jolt forwards, nearly launching over the handlebars.
Out of the Shadows and into Stardom
From injured baby groundhog to world-renowned meteorological superstar, kind of.
Spring Forward… Forever? Massachusetts Considers Atlantic Standard Time
Recently, a commission established by the Mass. state legislature voted 9:1 to approve a report that weighs the benefits and drawbacks of DST. Their report recommends that Mass. switches to the Atlantic Standard Time zone, meaning that the state would effectively keep DST all-year round.
Unheard: Deaf Culture and ASL at Harvard
“No one will speak up, and you don’t want to be that one person who speaks up, because it’s something that a lot of people with hearing loss are self-conscious about.” Many professors, she added, do not record their lectures or provide transcripts.
#Unfiltered
Participants often describe struggles with racial identity, sexual orientation, and mental health—topics they usually wouldn’t discuss publicly online.
Twizzlers, Texts, and Betsy DeVos: the Making of a Protest
Demonstrators hoped to decry DeVos’s policies and highlight what they saw as Harvard’s complicity in legitimizing them—but they also wanted to “reclaim the narrative” of peaceful protest in the United States.
‘Education Not Deportation’: Professors Under Arrest
“There weren’t a lot of question marks,” a professor says. “People knew what to expect.”
'Party of One': Diversity and Isolation in Harvard's Faculty
These stories provide a window into what it’s like to be an underrepresented minority professor at Harvard, an old and powerful institution that has openly struggled with faculty diversity in the past and present.
Every Minute Counts: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic in Cambridge
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 33,000 people died from overdoses involving pain-relieving narcotics, known as opioids, in 2015. Of those, 1,751 were in Massachusetts.
