Dr. Carol Swain was initially shocked to find out that former Harvard University President Claudine Gay had been accused of plagiarizing her work. “I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt,” she said in an interview with the Independent. Dr. Swain, a political scientist and educator from southwestern Virginia, began researching the […]
From the start of her Presidency, Claudine Gay’s critics have cast aspersions on her qualifications to hold the position as Harvard’s first Black and second female president. 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ’07 compared her to other Harvard faculty, stating on X that “Harvard Prof Roland Fryer published more in a single year than […]
Growing up in Philadelphia, many snow days were scheduled all throughout elementary and middle school. My day consisted of hot chocolate, snowmen, and sleeping in, giving me some of my fondest childhood memories. The death of the “snow day” is another one of the many long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The once-beloved snow days […]
Rescinded job offers, public outcry, and doxxing. After a joint statement was released by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) and the Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine in response to the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and co-signed by over 30 other student organizations, the Harvard community and its students have been increasingly under […]
Taking time off can seem like an unfeasible task. While four years of college can be overwhelming, many students attempt to juggle classes, clubs, and work with no breaks, often in fear of falling “behind.” However, this consistent grappling for a work-life balance may lead many students to feel academic or social burnout, or struggle […]
Note: To protect her privacy, the student referenced throughout the article wished to be anonymous. In the article, she is referred to by the pseudonym “Annie” or by her pronouns. Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide and eating disorders. “Everyone in my life…including the [resident] Deans, were telling me ‘You need to go get help,’ but […]
“This is a tragedy, but it is not the end of the story,” Wasan Rafat ’27 exclaimed to a crowd that gathered around the steps of Memorial Church to mourn the over 10,000 recent victims of Morocco’s recent 6.8 magnitude earthquake and Libya’s devastating floods. The vigil on Tuesday, September 26th, was a joint effort […]
Note: The account owner of Harvard State wished to remain anonymous to continue the “mystique” of the movement. Throughout this article, he is mentioned as “Harvard State” or by his pronouns. Harvard State’s origin story began in the fall of 2021. “It was Harvard-Yale Week. I realized that the school didn’t have as much school […]
“We’d have issues that had the [Students for a Democratic Society] in one article and the Young Republicans in another,” said James Vaseff, 1984 Harvard Graduate School of Design LOEB Fellow and early contributor to the Harvard Independent. Vaseff used photojournalism to further one of the Indy’s foremost missions: to deliberately provoke university-wide commentary and […]
“Affirmative action for the privileged.” U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s June 29th tweet following this June’s overturning of affirmative action by the Supreme Court brings up a both necessary and unprecedented question. Calling out Harvard’s legacy admissions process in her post, a practice which the Justice Department recently launched an investigation into, Cortez seemingly equates the […]