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Harvard After Roe: Untouchable, or Not Quite?

With Roe overturned, there is a growing divide in abortion access nationwide. But legal and healthcare professionals have a message: no one should take their rights for granted.

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In February 1981, a senior living in Lowell House walked into the university’s infirmary holding a positive pregnancy test. She had been having protected sex with a long-term boyfriend, but her contraceptive pills had failed. “I remember being totally freaked out,” said the alumna, who wished to remain anonymous. She was not ready to have […]

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Overflow(ing) Housing

Harvard’s temporary solution to student housing looks increasingly permanent.

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The housing process is a hallmark of the Harvard experience, connecting students to a new community that will remain constant for three years. But many sophomores are now getting shuffled into side buildings with separate communities, forced into the college’s ever-growing overflow housing. To accommodate the large number of students in the Class of 2026, […]

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Reporting in the Real World

Clean copy, clear questions, and conviction: lessons from my summer immersion in journalism

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“What’s your headline?” a voice asked me from a rectangular Zoom window during a 10 AM editorial meeting for a daily New York City newspaper. I had only prepared a pitch—how the overturning of Roe v. Wade would impact college students’ abortion access—not a headline. Our meetings didn’t run that way at the Harvard Independent. […]