The Fellows & Study Groups (FSG) program has been a cornerstone of the Institute of Politics (IOP) since 1966. In essence, fellows are professionals—public servants, activists, and more—who travel to Harvard to live on-campus and impart specialized knowledge to the community at large. Harvard’s Institute of Politics has unveiled the Spring 2023 cohort of six […]
The chatter dies down in The Ex, the intimate black box theater housed in the Loeb Drama Center. The atmosphere is clinical: two metal hospital beds, creaky-wheeled and almost rusty under the fluorescent lights, occupy center stage. The screen reads, “The experiment is about to begin.” Finally, the performers enter. There are only four roles […]
Plastic spiderwebs hang from the rafters, and patrons and barkeeps flit around, masquerading as witches and clowns. It was Halloween at Shay’s Pub in Harvard Square. It was also the first installment of a new column in The Harvard Independent, “Talks on the Rocks”—in which three members of our editorial board converse over drinks with […]
“The primary victims” of race-conscious admissions “are now Asian Americans,” claims the Students for Fair Admissions in a supplemental brief filed to the Supreme Court in December asking the high court to ban colleges that consider applicants’ race from receiving federal funding. However, a growing number of Asian American students at Harvard are spearheading efforts […]
What’s the difference between friendship and romance? Should your partner also be your best friend? Can you be friends with your ex? We spoke with Dr. Love—er, Dr. Holly Parker—to find out. Dr. Parker isn’t just a self-professed “love expert” who writes quizzes for Cosmopolitan. She has a Harvard Ph.D. in experimental psychopathology, is a […]
Your New Year’s resolutions are worthless. Okay, maybe not yours personally, but most people’s at least. How can resolutions hold any weight when nearly 80% of them are abandoned by February? (Forbes). If you are anything like the majority of Harvard students, this is an unsettling statistic. Harvard students are ambitious. We are goal-oriented and […]
You’re a First-Year at Yale. It’s a typical Friday afternoon. In between classes, you and a few friends decide to stop at Payne Whitney Gym for a quick workout. None of you are checking your school emails. Why would you? Most of the emails you receive are just fodder anyway. Suddenly, you see a text […]
It’s not your typical Thursday at the Harvard Dance Center. Audience members swarm the double-doors, grateful for any respite from the chilly November night, and they are more than delighted to witness the first in-person performance of the Harvard Ballet Company in over a year. Jackets are shed, seats taken, and phones turned off. All […]
Though much of the first semester has already gone by, students are still guaranteed to ask the most typical beginning-of-the-year question—what classes are you taking? This attempt to get to know each other through our course load has become the new how are you? To forge connection, we naturally look for overlap. Bonding over shared […]
You know when someone opens their mouth, and you can just tell the bullshit they are about to spew will piss you off? He saunters over and shoulders his way into my conversation. If he had thought for only a moment about his target demographic, maybe he would realize how my talk of bisexual pride […]