Activists should not present their goals as a necessarily conjoined front that can potentially undermine their case without tactful messaging, and solidarity can quickly become stifling if it is used to shame people into supporting a cause rather than inspiring them.
Unless digital activism proves to be more effective at overcoming its issues with connecting to the Harvard student body, activist efforts could be stunted for the next semester and possibly longer. College activists have persisted through momentous challenges before, but it remains to be seen if they will successfully adapt to the realities of a global pandemic.
When it comes to ethnic studies, Harvard is behind many of the other universities in the United States. If it is to uphold the promise it has made to its students, the university still has a long way to go.
The suspension of Bernie Sanders’ campaign in early April crushed many young voters who believed he was the only candidate who represented their ideals....
Harvard administrators are trying to make students believe that online classes — bad as they are — are a workable alternative. It is up to us to tell them that we won’t stand for a decision that downplays the vast inferiority of Zoom University.
For months, Harvard students had demanded a milestone of their university on the 50th anniversary of the celebration: divestment. Instead, the University insufficiently committed to decarbonize its endowment over the next 30 years, relegating itself to a special class of impotence and scientific myopia.
At Harvard, students and faculty similarly cannot trade logic for data in their research. While saying that we are making "data-driven” decisions may sound good in theory, these approaches can be disastrous in practice.
The workers who are being exploited, the students who were abruptly cut off from the tenuous lifeline of Harvard’s on-campus support system, and any other allies must unify to stand against the university’s laser focus on its corporate interests. The conflict here is simple. This is class war.
If young people are to fulfill their potential to sway the 2020 election in the time of COVID-19, we must ensure that newfound structural barriers to voting don’t depress our turnout rates even more.
