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 […]
Forgotten in the attic for 103 years, artifacts from Harvard’s sordid past open a discussion on its responsibility to social reparations In these past couple of weeks, it is very likely that you have become passingly familiar with the phrase, “Free Renty.” Perhaps you saw it in the subject line in one of the many emails […]
Would HUHS be prepared? Students weigh in perspectives on mitigation of coronavirus outbreak at Harvard, which has coincided with the return to campus after winter break
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 […]
Scoring Shots, Taking Shots: How Student Athletes Balance the Demands of their Sport and Social Lives By ELIZABETH GUMMER Juggling the identities of college student and varsity athlete can be challenging. On the one hand, your team and coach rely on you day in and day out to maintain and improve upon a […]
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 […]
New Indy Podcast, TIDE, Investigates the Climate Crises Student protests against the fossil fuel industry marks a resurgence of countercultural grassroots movements By CHARLES XU & MARISSA GARCIA “Which side are you on, now, which side are you on?” sung Divest Harvard protesters outside of the Smith Campus Center on November 15th. In this oil spill […]
A Home away from Home: Examining the unique culture of the Dudley Co-op By CHIDAMBARAM “CID” THILLAIRAJAH The Dudley co-op is situated in two warmly appointed Victorian houses. The main building bears a sign proclaiming it The Center for High Energy Metaphysics in large friendly letters. The common spaces eschew the impersonal décor of […]
What it is to be “Counterculture” By TUSHAR DWIVEDI Counterculture in modern culture has often been associated with the notion of subversion, making using a set of notably distinct values or beliefs to drive change in an existing system. The seemingly rebellious nature of counterculture appears embedded in the name itself; the […]