02.29.24: Leap Day
My Classroom, My Rules?
Harvard University leadership and professors have been forced to update their protest and dissent policies after campus controversy.
Note: Students interviewed for this article were offered anonymity for privacy protection. They are referred to by the pseudonyms of Ryan, Alex, Charlie, and Avery. Harvard has a history of using campus protesting as a means of public expression. Ranging from demonstrations to die-ins, student activists have used protesting to express grievances or demand action […]
In the News: Antisemitic Cartoon, Degree Devaluation
Latest campus controversies lead to legal backlash.
On the evening of Feb. 20, Harvard University Interim President Alan M. Garber ’76 released a statement “unequivocally condemning the posting and sharing” of an anti-semitic cartoon by the Palestine Solidarity Committee and African American Resistance Organization. The cartoon, which was part of a newsletter circulated during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, depicts […]
Time and Place
The First-Year Formal falls flat after awkward scheduling.
Picture this: You are a Harvard student sitting in your dorm, post-everything shower, in formal attire and dress shoes. This time, to your surprise, you actually do have plans, albeit arranged by the First-Year Social Committee (FYSC)—the First-Year Formal. A Great Gatsby themed endeavor, the Committee transported students back a century as they draped Annenberg […]
A Walk Through the Fogg
Must-see masterpieces at the oldest of the Harvard Art Museums.
In an inconspicuous building on 32 Quincy Street lies the University’s hidden gem: the Harvard Art Museums. Simply walking into the building is an enchanting experience—the courtyard itself is a work of art. But walking through the museum is an enriching engagement with some of the most important artists and works of art history canon. […]
Indy Sportsbook: Betting on the Next Harvard President
The earliest prop bets for Harvard’s presidential search.
Since former Harvard President Claudine Gay stepped down from her post, the debate on whether or not she should resign has shifted to one concerning her successor. Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 has stepped in to fill the interim role until the search committee decides on a long-term replacement. While no sportsbook currently allows […]
Sports Spotlight: Rémi Drolet
A profile on NCAA Champion and Canadian Olympic Nordic Skier.
Rémi “Rem-Dog” Drolet ’24 is the captain of the Harvard Nordic Ski Team, sporting his iconic man bun as a crown. In his first season of racing for the Crimson on the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Circuit (EISA) in 2020, Drolet had several outstanding performances within the conference, qualifying him for the NCAA Championships (which […]
Naked Data
Sungjoo Yoon ’27 exposes anonymized Rice Purity Test scores to underscore risks of Big Data.
Sungjoo Yoon ’27 has been recently referred to as the “Datamatch hacker,” but he’d rather you call him “bernie marx,” the pseudonym under which he published his Feb. 25 website, styled “the data privacy project.” It describes security vulnerabilities in the nationwide college matchmaking app Datamatch, which caused an uproar amongst Sidechat contributors and campus […]
There Are 366 Days in a Year
A partially true short story that is partially about the leap year.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, incidents, emotions, thematic revelations, etc. are products of the author’s imagination (that she will hopefully one day sell and capitalize upon). Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. (By purely we mean truly, thoroughly, nearing 100%, downright asymptotic!) […]