As Harvard grapples with the fallout from responses to the Oct. 7th attacks against Israel, the campus has become a microcosm of global discord. The recent months have been tumultuous, marked by Claudine Gay’s resignation as University President, the controversial exposure of pro-Palestinian students’ personal details, and relentless advocacy from both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian factions. […]
In the pages of last year’s Love Issue in The Harvard Independent, Layla Chaaraoui ’26 argued that the frenetic flurry of semesterdom—the “Harvard bubble”—serves for too many students as a shield against the myriad of crises, tragedies, and catastrophes happening everywhere in the world. She asserted that we ought to leverage the power of our […]
