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Travis R. Kavulla
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‘International’ Education Has Blinkered Students’ Minds
In my first days as a freshman, I happened across refuse of the previous year’s Cornel West–Larry Summers feud: a
Kwong’s Vision of Conservatism Is Completely Absurd
To the editors, For many years, there has been a détente between ideological conservatives on campus and the Harvard Republican
Internationalism Everywhere
Several weeks ago, I found myself in the company of Mukesh “Mark” Mehta while on Christmas Break in Montana. Mark’s
Harvard Square’s Waning Days
Nostalgia has a broad constituency at today’s Harvard. Some of us yearn for the days when social gatherings were more
Show-Down on the Potato Farm
KALISPELL, Mont.—As many as 500,000 Montanans will vote today in an election that has, in Montana-speak, grown far too big
Being Serious about Sudan
All the major news outlets with correspondents still in Sudan—that’s three by my count—report that Darfur’s genocide is entering a
Faith and Only Faith
With the Task Force on General Education’s proposed Reason and Faith requirement, the administration has commendably recognized the importance that
Wanted: Self-Aggrandizement
Few things could be more hilarious or timely than Yale student Aleksey Vayner’s desperate attempts to find himself employment on
Dressed Up, Acting Up
On the weekends, Harvard’s student body is as fashionable as it’s ever been with garb that contrasts markedly with students’
A Women’s Center, but Why?
It’s a safe bet that most Harvard students—including women—will never step foot into the well-funded Women’s Center that now occupies
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
NAIROBI, Kenya—It is my third visit in as many summers to sub-Saharan Africa. I now realize being even slightly bright-eyed
Good Works, Here and There
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Blame Canada. For it was a half-dozen daft nationals of that northern land who caused me
The Dilemma of Empowerment
“Take Back the Night” (TBTN), the well-intentioned campaign against sexual violence, necessarily begs the question, who is the night being
A Fanciful Right
I don’t have a problem with opt-in co-ed housing, that young men and women might live together in the same
The Case for History 10a
Unlike the sciences and much of the humanities, there is only one lecture course which all history concentrators must take