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The Bonob[r]o
Professor Martin Surbeck is spending time away from Harvard’s campus to study one of humans’ closest relatives.
Having conversations about people’s future plans, and realizing just how impressive they are, is a quintessential Harvard experience despite our awareness of the impressiveness of professors and students alike. Such is the case with Professor Martin Surbeck, from the department of Human Evolutionary Biology, who will be spending much of the winter and spring semester […]
Naked and Unafraid
People come watch nude students. It’s more normal than it sounds.
Twenty-five degrees fahrenheit, a slight easterly breeze, and the season’s first snow: auspicious conditions for a nude lap. With gates agape, Harvard Yard welcomed hundreds of students and dozens of voyeurs for “Primal Scream.” This bi-annual tradition originated in the 1960s as a gathering at the end of reading week in which repressed Harvard students […]
West Side Story: One Good Review, One Bad One
Spielberg Strikes Again
West Side Story is one of the most recognizable American works: it’s been placed in the National Film Registry, has had more than a handful of Broadway and West End reboots, and now has two film adaptations. Composer Leonard Bernstein and lyricist Stephen Sondheim worked together to create a riveting, modern-day take on Romeo and […]
“Unmoored From Reality”
Students’ opinions on university COVID-19 policies this semester, and fears for the next
Color kits, nose swabs, sets of eyes above blue disposable masks. These sights were defining features of campus life this fall. Though most students were compliant in wearing masks indoors and completing their weekly testing, more students disagreed with Harvard’s COVID-19 policies this semester than one might expect. And as the surging omicron variant renders […]
Ready to Rock
After a pandemic without performance, EVAN GIIA appears in a headlining show at the Sinclair
Two years ago, in the midst of a looming pandemic, EVAN GIIA’s headline tour came to an abrupt end. But on October 22nd, the singer-songwriter performed at the Sinclair music venue a mere walk from Harvard Yard. Just as the beat of her hit song “Westworld” makes you feel, GIIA says she is “ready to […]
Hot Commodities
Exploring the proliferation of scooters on campus
As you walk through Harvard Yard, head down and exhausted from the mental exertion of a two-hour lecture, you’re suddenly startled by a student zipping past, just barely missing you. Taking a glance up, you find a stream of two-wheeled motor vehicles zooming by. Why are scooters suddenly everywhere around campus? Students depend on their […]
Hold the (Racing) Line
A coxswain’s role at Head of the Charles
Never is the prominence of crew at Harvard so clear than during the Head of the Charles Regatta, the largest rowing event in the world. 2,231 boats competed this past weekend from 619 rowing clubs, attracting . 200,000 spectators and the business of hundreds of vendors. Yet some of the race’s most important members may […]
“Reality is for those who lack imagination”
The eerie, anonymous wisdom found in the Adams House basement
In 1988, members of the Adams House Committee joined House Master Robert Kiely in formulating a plan to paint the tunnels of the House basement. Back when Harvard’s Houses were largely organized by “personality,” Adams thrived with artists. One weekend in January, while the superintendent was away and without the Dean’s approval, artists living in […]
Review of JULIA (2021)
An interview with co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West and reflection on the film
BY KATE TUNNELL ’24 AND CAROLINE HAO ’25 Many hit films and TV shows have sought to capture Julia Child, an American chef and television star who rose to fame in the 1960s. But none have portrayed the culinary titan quite like JULIA, a documentary that aims to reconcile her career and legacy. The Independent […]