Two Hundred Computer Scientists and One Rat In the week before move-out, courses take different stances on social distancing By MICHAEL KIELSTRA and JULIO V. PARDO On Monday, March 9, the day before students were told that they would be moving out early, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were already recommending that people […]
What’s In Your GroupMe? The Independent explores the abyssal depths of everybody’s least favorite app By MICHAEL KIELSTRA, JEN EASON, and MARISSA GARCIA Upon arriving on campus for your first semester, you’ll quickly learn that GroupMe is as required as the meal-plan. You may have toyed around with toggling off notifications, but let’s be real—as […]
When Disparity Becomes Deadly Is COVID-19 only a biological threat, or also a distraction from the social inequalities in the US today? By MIMI TARRANT From the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming figures have emerged on the relative prevalence of cases and deaths among males and females within communities. Initial analysis suggests […]
Mission Visitas-ible The pre-frosh we met at Visitas By MICHAEL KIELSTRA, JEN EASON, and MARISSA GARCIA Ryan Nguyen would like to be a human rights lawyer, but you wouldn’t immediately know it. He doesn’t talk about capital-I Injustices or concrete plans for getting to law school. Rather, when I ask him why he applied to […]
Mask Heroes HGSU-UAW provides masks for custodial workers By MICHAEL KIELSTRA “I’ve heard that, for a while, you weren’t receiving adequate personal protective equipment from Harvard for your job,” I said. “Is that correct?” “Yes.” Doris Reina-Lamdaverde, Harvard University custodian, is a woman who wastes no words. I was introduced to her by Mark Wright, […]
HeadspUCe The UC partners with Headspace to offer undergraduates a flexible mental health resource By JEN EASON We’ve all been receiving a lot of bad news lately. The best thing I’ve read this week was a meme about Toyota commercials. So, Noah Harris ’22, the Treasurer of the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC), decided to bring […]