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Harvard is taking advantage of our desire for the freshman experience we imagined as we applied to college, arbitrarily sacrificing our first year to scour for room and board fees like a kid flipping couch cushions for loose change. Harvard knows the Class of 2024 is starved for a crumb of normalcy
Complaints about Harvard's massive endowment are common, but that ire is misdirected; a shift in focus would better actualize any changes student activists want.
The new ICE policy is misguided and harmful to international students, but there is hope that Harvard can find a way to ensure that all can learn despite these trying times.
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.
