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 […]
“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 […]
Donald Yacovone’s research has led him to argue an unconventional conclusion: the northern part of the United States, not the south, has had a larger role in keeping alive racist ideologies and producing texts which perpetuate racism. “The most damaging volumes were written by northerners,” he said. Yacovone, author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic […]
“Make yourself at home.” Harvard’s Residential Life page boasts the housing experience here on campus, professing “cozy reading nooks” and “sun-kissed lawns.” Arguably one of the most exciting and integral parts of the Harvard experience, housing assignments and the subsequent demonstration of house pride is somewhat of a rite of passage for all Harvard students. […]
“ERA YES.” “Stop the Pipeline.” “Dissent is Patriotic.” Throughout history, political and social movements have utilized buttons as a way to voice their agendas. Easily worn and displayed, buttons effectively distribute a variety of messages to a mass audience. A current exhibition at Harvard Kennedy School called “Political Buttons” features buttons collected from the 1960s, […]
Harvard claims diversity is essential to maximize learning and will go as far as taking issues to the Supreme Court, such as the 2021 Affirmative Action case, to ensure it has a diverse student body. The current annual report of Harvard’s Faculty Demographics suggests this philosophy only applies to diversifying the student body, as 73% […]