Just the things you ought to know. With this year’s Game approaching, The Indy wants readers as informed as possible about the oldest game in college football. And with The Game being played almost every year since 1875, it is difficult to keep track of all the history, tomfoolery, and revelry that surround the rivalry. […]
Some reflections on the latest Republican debate. The fourth Republican debate occurred on November 10, and with it, the American people once again had a chance to see candidates argue about who is the best option to take on the Democratic nominee (also known as Hillary Clinton — sorry Bernie). The major change from the […]
An unathletic athlete’s take on injuries. I would never really consider myself an athlete in the traditional sense of the word. I live for sports. I want to pursue a career in the sports world. But I have never been particularly good at any of them. Upon arriving at Harvard, it appeared that my athletic […]
Women’s volleyball begins to turn season around. Volleyball entered the weekend of the New England Challenge with a lot of pressure on their performance. The prior weekend, the team had the incredible opportunity to play at the Pentagon. After winning their home opener against Rutgers, the Crimson hobbled to Virginia looking to bounce back from […]
Why Rugby Sevens will soon sweep the nation. By SEAN FRAZZETTE The springtime is finally here and with it is the usual confusion when students find out that rugby is played in both the fall and spring at school. Notably, what our women’s rugby team has chosen to do this year is focus the fall […]
BY SEAN FRAZZETTE My winter session in Costa Rica. The week before classes started, while Cambridge was a mixture of freezing temperatures and snow, eleven members of the Harvard community and I traveled down to the warm and sunny city of Liberia in northern Costa Rica to build a house for PBHA’s Habitat for Humanity. […]
BY SEAN FRAZZETTE Women’s Rugby starts season with a tough loss. Last season, in their first every season as a varsity program, Harvard’s Women’s Rugby cruised through the Ivy League with little difficulty, eventually winning the conference championship and qualifying for the National Tournament. Coming off such a high-octane season has placed high expectations on […]
BY SEAN FRAZZETTE My gripes with Harvard’s shopping week. Move-in days can be stressful. Hundreds of students are carrying bags, boxes, futons, sheets, clothes, and a number of other items this way and that, crashing into walls, trying to prop doors, and wallowing in sweat and exhaustion. When move-in ends, however, everything should be up […]
BY SEAN FRAZZETTE Strong and together, a city that never faltered. A year ago from Tuesday, on Marathon Monday — a day more important to Bostonians than can be explained in words — two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly tried and succeeded to a degree in degrading the special day. Using bombs placed near […]
BY SEAN FRAZZETTE Why I decided to change my concentration. Coming into college — actually, since freshman year of high school, I would say — I knew that I would be an English major. Every year of high school, all of my science and social studies courses seemed to be thrown into the backseat when […]