Contributing writer
Christopher Schwarting
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Harvard Families Arrive on Campus for Family Weekend
Family members of Harvard College freshmen and juniors traveled to campus this past weekend for Family Weekend, an annual event that brings relatives from around the world to catch a glimpse of student life at Harvard.
Harvard Researchers Link Early-Life Adversity in Dogs to Lasting Fear and Aggression
A new study on canine development found that dogs exposed to adversarial events, including abuse and abandonment, in the first six months of their development have higher rates of aggression and fear as adult dogs.
Open Sesame: Students Celebrate Grand Opening of PopUp Bagels with DJ, Merch
Even though Cambridge newcomer PopUp Bagels just opened in Harvard Square last Friday, students and Cambridge residents already see the store as a “staple” of the Square. The chain celebrated its grand opening to a welcoming crowd — after seven months of anticipation — when workers opened their doors early Friday morning. Customers streamed in and out of their 1440 Massachusetts Ave. storefront as a DJ blasted music from inside the store.
Eight International Students at Harvard, Watching America Close Its Doors
A freshman debate champion wakes up to news of his peers marching the streets of Nepal. A trio of friends become high-profile activists. A sophomore from Jakarta searches for the America she idealized as a child.
Who’s Got Queer Cinema?
There’s some unspeakable beauty — the existence of gay relationships, and their existence as high art — in “Queer” and “Call Me By Your Name.” Films like these romanticize this queer becoming. For the lonely, closeted teen, they offer a potential queerness that is inheritable, learnable, engageable.
An Aviation Paradise
“Traditionally, you don’t think of aviation as necessarily an interest or topic because you would write someone off as an avgeek,” he tells me. “You just embrace the identity. I mean, I love planes.”
Everybody’s Gay
From Annenberg to Instagram, queerness becomes an object of close-reading, our eyes trained on the if of inner identity.
Roaches and Fliers and Ants, Oh My! A Guide to Handling Your Dorm Room Pests
When you see a roach, take hold of your nearest hammer-like instrument and go crazy. I am a big fan of shoes — specifically, the Chelsea boot. Who knew that my new fashion statement could deliver such a satisfying crash against the floor?
“So, Are You Gay?”
That evening, we neglected our future concentrations and dorm situations. That evening, we talked about my gayness.
Parsing the Past of Our Present in History 10
The new gateway course, which aims to expose students to different ways of doing, practicing, and talking about history, was advertised on Canvas under the headline: “Not your high school history class!”
Is the Bio Lab a “Nobel Incubator?”
To Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Richard M. Losick, an intense culture focused on scientific excellence had resulted in the Bio Labs becoming a “Nobel incubator." But colleagues of his disagree.
