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 […]
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 Modern Cupid’s Arrow The Indy sits down for a conversation with Datamatch’s Supreme Cupids By CHIDAMBARAM THILLAIRAJAH Each February, as classes start to heighten in intensity and the most dreaded of Hallmark holidays rears its head, Datamatch returns to provide a welcome reprieve. This enigmatic dating website has long been shrouded in mystery. […]
Athletes’ Village Beginning in early January, the first students arrive back to campus, and they’re not always thesis writers By ELIZABETH GUMMER Many students filter in and out of campus during Wintersession in order to participate in a wide variety of programs hosted by the College. While most undergrads streamed back onto campus […]
Mariachi Veritas de Harvard A Faculty Dean’s reply to an email on the Lowell House listserv allows for a unique discovery By GRAHAM WALTER It is my personal initiative this semester to explore the diverse area of arts at Harvard, and, whether I am critiquing a show, or highlighting the underbelly of Harvard’s […]
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 […]