Many wealthy students feel the need to seem less wealthy, especially when in financially diverse environments — but Canada Goose continues to saturate Harvard’s winter closet. How do we explain this discrepancy?
It is clear that the Freedom Trail sweeps non-White, non-male, non-affluent areas under the rug — ignoring areas like Beacon Hill that house much of the city’s Black and women’s historical landmarks.
As students, we’ve seen “Veritas” crest everything we do. Meaning “truth” in Latin, the word takes its place within the Harvard laurel, letters scattered...
Through Cover-Up, we hope to provide a space for the conversations that those in power try to avoid and challenge the narratives we believe and perpetuate about government, business, society, and ourselves.
There are, clearly, stark differences between the lives lived on each side of the Harvard gates, and there is much more work that needs to be done to help our neighbors without homes. What can be found on both sides, however, is love, hope, and faith; faith that a better world is possible for all of us.
My high school English teacher once told me something I didn’t understand until last year, after living through the unifying challenges to well-being posed by pandemic life: “Wherever you go, there you are.”
From the point each of us checks into the political arena, we are vulnerable to political nihilism: the feeling of bleak, insurmountable hopelessness. But how can this virus be cured?
Even now, as I frenetically fumble with the keyboard, typing what I’m sure will turn out to be a directionless flow of consciousness, I still find it difficult: difficult to decide that what I’m writing is worth an initiation, let alone a conclusion.
Sarah Jaquette Ray is a Professor of Environmental Studies and the Program Leader of the Environmental Studies Program at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Her work focuses on modern climate justice advocacy and trauma studies.
