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 […]
The Harvard-Yale Rivalry, Beyond Football Competition between Harvard and Yale pervades other athletic teams, including volleyball, softball, and hockey By ELIZABETH GUMMER Though the largest manifestation of the Harvard-Yale rivalry is seen in the annual meeting of the two school’s football teams, the original matchup was not on the field but rather on […]
Setting the Record Straight: The Origins of “The Game” By CHIDAMBARAM THILLAIRAJAH In 1852, as spring became summer, the students of Yale issued Harvard a challenge. The recently formed Yale rowing team had invited the even more recently formed Harvard rowing to come test the superiority of their oarsmen. A gauntlet had […]
How Switching to Sustainable Dining Really Looks: The advent of sustainable dining is a story of many food laboratories By MARISSA GARCIA ANNENBERG HALL, THE TABLES Annenberg Hall on a weekday morning is nothing short of bustling, hands juggling plates stacked with pancakes and bacon along with bowls abound with oatmeal. It’s Annenberg’s […]
Making the Game Your Own: A Guide to Harvard-Yale Style By GRACE TWOREK There are a lot of things that may come to mind when the words Ivy League are thought of. Whether it’s old, brick buildings or the immense history that makes up the eight Ivy League institutions that line the east […]