Exclusions May Apply How our modern culture’s obsession with commercialization curtail inclusivity on Valentine’s Day By MIMI TARRANT As the month of February begins, so does the build-up to one of the most secretly controversial days of the year: Valentine’s Day. Revered by some and dreaded by others, Valentine’s Day continues to […]
A Piece of Politics The election of a new House Committee Co-Chair By MICHAEL KIELSTRA The HoCo meeting started late. Outside, in the courtyard, raindrops flung themselves against the bare oak trees. The gamblers on the other side of the JCR filled out prediction sheets or brackets for some event or other. Up for […]
Culture, Without A House An experiential intrusion into forgotten lives at Harvard By ANA LUIZA NICOLE Harvard’s campus gets swallowed into oblivion at its very epicenter: Harvard Square. Students, visitors, and residents alike eschew its central trigon with careful steps. They trudge about it with syllabus-leaden feet from Yard to Coop. They make erratic late-night […]
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation The unexpected warm welcome upon arriving in London By MICHAEL KIELSTRA One of my earliest memories of travel is that of a younger version of my father telling me what HSBC stands for. The adverts have been plastered on the airbridges at London Gatwick and London […]
Shopping Week Personalities: Which One Are You? The Indy has conducted an investigation on the shopping week personalities, and you are likely to feel called out By MIMI TARRANT In December 2018, the Undergraduate Council voted to preserve shopping week, a Harvard quirk as much as it is a tradition. Everyone has their […]
Knock or not? A case in negotiating with Professors By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE You expected it all. The sweating, the shaking, perhaps even the urge to flee. This is a high-pressure situation. And any way you trip up may have distorting consequences on that A-clad image of your transcript come May. Welcome […]
Christmas Drinks: The Who, What, Where and Why From eggnog to mulled wine sangria, the Indy offers both traditional and alternative drink recommendations By MIMI TARRANT It may have only been Thanksgiving a week ago, but in true American style, Christmas is choosing not to hang around. Christmas-themed drinks may have been […]
You Can’t be Counterculture at Harvard: Thoughts on How the College Experience Subverts Cultural Norms By ALAYA AYALA To be perfectly blunt: Harvard College has a culture of weirdness. My experience of the college has been one full of diversity – of experiences, beliefs, appearances, of pretty much anything you can think of […]
Harvard as Moloch By AIDAN FITZSIMONS The political-economic structures of power in society form the bones and tendons of “culture.” The fact that “counterculture” has itself been folded into our general culture signifies the failure of its motivating politics. The narrativized Sixties were not really about flower crowns or tie-dye or even […]
Making the Game Your Own: A Guide to Harvard-Yale Style By GRACE TWOREK There are a lot of things that may come to mind when the words Ivy League are thought of. Whether it’s old, brick buildings or the immense history that makes up the eight Ivy League institutions that line the east […]