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Oliver Adler

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Review: Yves Tumor’s Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Yves Tumor’s new album is an esoteric mixture of evocative nostalgia and visions of the future.

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Image Credit: Pitchfork, 2023 Sean Bowie’s musical career has been characterized by change and experimentation, a hard break from the 2000s Knoxville, Tennessee in which they grew up. Bowie told Dazed in 2018 that the “very conservative, racist, homophobic, sexist environment…wasn’t very constructive growing up and trying to be creative.” Instead of experimenting with drugs […]

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Taking a Walk on the Wild Side

Mount Auburn Cemetery is a place for reflection on my own history.

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Months after starting to write for the Independent last spring, I learned from my mother that my father had once written for the publication. Searching for his work among the yellowed pages of the Independent’s archives, I found his article from 1979: “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” a plea to his fellow students […]

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Athletic After COVID-19

Recovering in the wake of an infection with the virus is going to require more than just the body.

When I discovered that I had tested positive for COVID-19, I was preparing for my first competition for the Harvard Cross Country Team in Princeton, New Jersey. Fortunately, I was alone when I opened up the test results immediately after receiving them, as I had made a habit of doing. Minus the few hours spent […]

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Mask Confusion

Harvard’s messaging on campus life this fall has students reining in their excitement about a return to college normalcy. 

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Students have concerns about the implementation of Harvard’s plans for this fall semester. 

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Oh, the Places You Could Go!

Despite “having options,” Harvard students tend to make the same choices after graduation.

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Options. People always say that after college, you have options. At Harvard, however, it seems that students choose to pursue a narrower range of paths than the world offers. At the end of each academic year, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) asks graduating students to take the Harvard College Senior Survey. The statistics from […]

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Weight-Room Madness

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Pictures comparing the vastly different weight rooms for the men and women basketball players at the  NCAA’s March Madness Tournaments recently sparked controversy. Here’s how I imagine a few potential scenarios that led to this difference, ranked from least likely to most likely:  #1: Some of the athletes in the women’s tournament advocated for there […]

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Meet McDermott

The AD Launching Harvard Athletics Into the Next Decade

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Erin McDermott had big shoes to fill when she took the position as the John D. Nichols ’53 Director of Athletics in May 2020. She replaced Robert L. Scalise, who had held the position since 2001. But the Hofstra University basketball star was unfazed. For the nine years before stepping into her Harvard role, McDermott […]

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Counter/Point: Cancelling Spring Sports

Rationalizing the Cancellation of Spring Sports

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On February 18, 2021, the Ivy League Council of Presidents announced that the Ivy League “would not conduct conference seasons or conference postseason events in any spring sports.” If public health conditions “significantly improve and if permitted by an institution, local non-conference competition may be allowed,” according to the joint statement released by the Council.  […]