Little girls around the world are bestowed a fragment of destructive wisdom—if you play dumb, he’ll probably like you more. And there it is, the beginning of our problem. Women everywhere are encouraged, no, programmed, to believe that if we shield our intelligence in the face of a man, then he will like us more. […]
In response to this summer’s Supreme Court decision rejecting race conscious admissions, Harvard has dutifully committed itself to image-building and damage control. From President Gay’s reassurance that Harvard will continue to commit itself to diversity to administrators affirming that Harvard must always be “a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had […]
“As women have entered more and more spaces and fields that have been historically male-dominated, you find there aren’t many considerations that have been made to accommodate women entering those spaces,” said Dina Kobeissi ’24, president of the Harvard Arab’s Women Collective. Kobeissi’s sentiments represent the all-too-common theme that many Harvard women exemplify: females in […]
At Harvard, the social dynamic between first-years and upperclassmen is stark. Compared to other universities, this culture of first-year-isolation is deeply embedded—first-years all live together in the yard and eat every meal in the same dining hall, upperclassmen are seldom found at majority first-year parties, and most organization structures strictly separate new compers from staff […]
The nation’s first-ever student protest sparked from rancid dairy. According to the Harvard Gazette, a decade even before the American Revolution, Harvard’s “Great Butter Rebellion” of 1766 was perhaps the first sign of America’s spirit as united in civil disobedience—and it started from a Harvard dining hall. Despite the strangeness of this origin story, student […]
“Essentially, it was a social club,” said Sean McGann, decade-long employee and current manager of Leavitt & Peirce. For much of its history, the tobacco shop was not just integrated, but a central part of Harvard campus; students living in the Hilton Block passed through the shop—occupying the dorm’s first floor—each day. Billiards tables lined […]