Having held arguably the best position at the Harvard Independent, it is no surprise that Couper Samuelson ’02, former Indy Arts Editor, has gone on to make waves in the artistic world. Now President of Feature Films at Blumhouse Productions, the former Indyite has helped produce some of the biggest horror films of the last […]
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 […]
College admission reaction videos never fail to make me cry. When I was applying to college, I would watch them surreptitiously in the dark of my bedroom, as if pressing repeat on the shaky glow of my phone screen would will my own acceptance into existence. Even now, it’s cliché, but I find them cathartic—in […]
On the last Saturday night of the summer, hundreds of first-years clustered outside Sanders Theater, poised to cheer on their classmates at the annual first-year talent show. The show, hosted each year by the Crimson Key Society, brought together the Class of 2026 for a night of poking fun at Harvard. Bobby McCarthy ’23 and […]
“Fashion is instant language,” Miuccia Prada wrote. Not every member of the Class of 2026 may speak the language of the head designer of Prada, but they know that what they wear is how they immediately present themselves to a new campus. While some first years have aspiring fashion goals, and others are simply looking […]
In February 1981, a senior living in Lowell House walked into the university’s infirmary holding a positive pregnancy test. She had been having protected sex with a long-term boyfriend, but her contraceptive pills had failed. “I remember being totally freaked out,” said the alumna, who wished to remain anonymous. She was not ready to have […]
Last semester, as I was talking to a super senior about her time at Harvard, a notable void emerged where her experience and mine misaligned. Reminiscing about first-year year traditions, she recounted opening days and reveled in the nostalgia of all the classics: Berg, Love Story, the Yard, the Igloo — Wait, the Igloo? That’s where […]
On April 4th, an audience of students and graduates, Lampoon members and outsiders, shuffled around Science Center C to hear “A Writer’s Room of One’s Own,” a panel of female Lampoon graduates who lead successful careers in print media, film and television, from The New Yorker to Saturday Night Live. The panelists—many of whom knew […]
“It’s like bread and butter, like ham and eggs,” says David Ritz, ghost-writer of Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.” He isn’t talking about breakfast foods. He’s talking about music and sex. Making music is an act of bringing people together, just like having sex, Ritz claims. “Yearning for union is what I think underlies the sexiest […]