Top Muffin The Independent ventures out into the Square to determine where you should enjoy muffins on National Muffin Day By MICHAEL KIELSTRA, GRAHAM WALTER, LUCY HAMILTON, and JILLY CRONIN Days celebrating random objects or actions are a dime a dozen. As you would expect from an internet used to making the same old jokes […]
Four Ways to See a Party Finding love at the Adams House Valentine’s Day party By MICHAEL KIELSTRA Iwent to Chocoholica, the annual Adams House Valentine’s Day Party. Those are the facts. The rest is a story which, depending on where I center it, I could tell in any one of a hundred […]
The Many Hats of Deborah Jo Gehrke The life and times of a beloved Quincy House Dean By KILEY ALLEN “Deb’s only goal was to make sure other people were happy,” said Elizabeth Jacobsen, a current Dean’s Aide in Quincy House. Eli met Deb when she started living in Quincy House her sophomore […]
Thropping Hearts Winthrop students express their love for their interim Faculty Deans By JEN EASON More than a little heartbreak was felt in Winthrop House when Dean Khurana officially announced two weeks ago that the College would soon begin the search for permanent Faculty Deans. The announcement encouraged Winthrop residents to participate in the […]
Power Couple: Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein By ELEANOR FITZGIBBONS Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein epitomize the power couple. Sunstein, a professor at the Law School, and Power, a professor at both the Kennedy and Law Schools, have been married for about eleven and a half years. From the moment their relationship began on […]
68th Annual Beanpot Tournament Hockey teams from Harvard, Northeastern, Boston College, and Boston University compete at annual competition By GRAHAM WALTER and EMILY RYAN For sports fans growing up in Boston, nothing quite compares to the Annual Beanpot Tournament, a competition among four college hockey teams to which every Bostonian, in one way […]
Waving Through a Farkas Hall Window Ben Platt, star of Dear Evan Hansen and The Politician, is celebrated during the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 54th Man of the Year ceremony By MARISSA GARCIA On February 7, 2020 at Farkas Hall, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2020 Man of the Year Award to Ben […]
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 […]
The Whole Kit and Kaboodle Julius Wade’s senior thesis performance of Mac Wellman’s ‘Terminal Hip: American Dream in HD’ By JILLY CRONIN On February 7 and 8, Julius Wade ’20 held his one-man performance of Mac Wellman’s play Terminal Hip: American Dream in HD in the Naumburg Room of the Harvard Art Museums. The […]