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De-densifying of Harvard’s Campus: the International Student’s Perspective Following the College’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic, international students faced unprecedented challenges in making it home in what was, for some, their last week at college. BY MIMI TARRANT On Tuesday March 10, the Harvard College campus was shaken by President Bacow’s and Dean Khuranas’s […]
The Invisible Hand Serving a college town with no students, restaurants in Harvard Square search for patrons By MARISSA GARCIA A string of burnt-out lights It was a Friday night, maybe a Saturday morning, and time felt like sand as I met my close friend, a senior, for her final twilight in Harvard Square. Three […]
Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever HUDS’s internal communication breaks down as dining halls adjust to an emptier campus By MICHAEL KIELSTRA Every day, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) serves three meals to the vast majority of students on campus, as well as plenty of professors and staff and, sometimes, Dean Khurana. They estimate […]
HUECU-Dot-Org HUECU, and its members, go mobile By MICHAEL KIELSTRA The Harvard University Employees’ Credit Union operates in a sort of limbo between Harvard and not-Harvard. It is a separate organization, and the Harvard Management Corporation cannot order it to do anything, but all its employees have @harvard.edu email addresses. Technically, as Tom Montilli, executive […]
Zoom’s Doubt An email interview with Professor Matt Saunders Interview by MICHAEL KIELSTRA As Harvard goes online, there is an assumption that most if not all courses can easily be delivered over a video-link. After all, you can watch a professor online and take notes just as easily. Some classes, however, don’t translate as well […]
Brain Break Goes Remote How the spirit of off-brand cereal can maybe prevail, thanks to Harvard ZoomHop By MARISSA GARCIA The transition to virtualizing Harvard College appears deceivingly simple: download Zoom, click the link, and mute yourself so your cat meowing doesn’t reverberate across your PS11 lecture. Some courses had already begun to transition to […]