“This performance is not suitable for children under the age of 16…and includes references to genitalia, sexual abuse, homelessness, and abortion.” Covering the bottom third of the promotional website for Spring Awakening, the content warning for the show reads like the text at the end of a pharmaceutical advertisement. I walked into the main stage […]
A good journalist knows when to use a quote. Joan Didion, Harvard class of nineteen ninety-never, wrote, “The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.” 1. The Newsies “Ummm, […]
Dear Harvard Independent Readers, As conversations surrounding the conflict in Israel and Palestine continue to escalate on campus, we must recognize our positions as both Harvard students and human beings, and the role we play in public discourse. Over the past decade we have reported on students organizing with respect to Israel and Palestine. Our […]
We wanted to publish some nice love poems for Valentine’s Day. But we realized we are all journalists and are crap at writing poems, so we got ChatGPT to do it for us. After some thorough prompting and manipulation, here’s what our new favorite lovebot came up with. The Feet Poems My love for you […]
The upcoming midterm elections on November 8th have generated increasing national buzz around the increasing extremism of conservative politics and the progressive pivot to issues in the culture war. Nonpartisan pollsters predict that Republicans are favored to win the House, while the Senate is expected to be extremely close. At the Indy, we wanted to […]
Shopping Week was killed by an administration more concerned with Teaching Fellows’ schedules than students, and now students’ schedules are suffering. Last spring, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to end Harvard College’s long-standing flexible week of class registration known as Shopping Week in favor of a far more opaque and restrictive pre-registration […]
Twenty-five degrees fahrenheit, a slight easterly breeze, and the season’s first snow: auspicious conditions for a nude lap. With gates agape, Harvard Yard welcomed hundreds of students and dozens of voyeurs for “Primal Scream.” This bi-annual tradition originated in the 1960s as a gathering at the end of reading week in which repressed Harvard students […]
This summer, one pair of shoes changed my life: the “Nike x Sig Zane ACG Deschütz+” sandal. The name is a mouthful, but after saying it over a hundred times it rolls off the tongue. So without further ado, the Arts Editor of the Harvard Independent declares the “Nike x Sig Zane ACG Deschütz+” the […]
Harvard offers 50 concentrations, yet food or cuisine or cooking do not make an appearance in any of their titles. However, some alumni have leveraged their Harvard educations to enter careers in cooking. The Independent spoke to a trailblazer of modern American cuisine, Chef Jeremiah Tower ’66, GSD ’69, and famous internet food entertainer, Nick Digiovanni ’19, to learn how Harvard impacted their journeys into the world of cuisine.