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Housing Horrors

Housing Horrors

Between mattress fires and delayed storage lockers, some students are still moving in nearly two weeks after arriving on campus

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Flaming hot mattresses, last-minute switch-ups, and missing boxes: campus move-in this year was replete with complications, handing students troubles and trifles as they moved into their dorms last week.  On August 22, a truck filled with the Harvard Student Agencies’s new bed-extending service, BiggerBeds, struck fire and delayed the delivery of many students’ mattresses by […]

Convocation, Corrupted

Convocation, Corrupted

PCS’s protest at Convocation last week added fuel to the anti-Israel flames taking hold of campus

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Amid speeches, song, and instrument, the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) gave a performance of their own at Convocation Ceremony last week. “Veritas? Here’s the real truth: Harvard supports Israeli Apartheid,” exclaimed a banner held by members of the student group as they chanted “free Palestine.” This demonstration corrupted a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many freshmen, […]

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Too Cool For School

The confusion around who gets AC and who deserves AC continues.

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Moving in is painful. Students get everything out of storage, wait for their boxes from HUA, rearrange furniture for maximum space (and try to hide the hole you made in a wall from your bedpost). With different rooming situations and different House layouts, the one constant you will always see is sweat. This year, Cambridge […]

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Asian Americans in College Admissions: Plaintiffs or Pawns?

Asian American students at Harvard are fighting to preserve race-conscious admissions

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“The primary victims” of race-conscious admissions “are now Asian Americans,” claims the Students for Fair Admissions in a supplemental brief filed to the Supreme Court in December asking the high court to ban colleges that consider applicants’ race from receiving federal funding. However, a growing number of Asian American students at Harvard are spearheading efforts […]

The Pursuit of the Presidential Successor

The Harvard community has high expectations for Bacow’s replacement.

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Since Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced his decision to step down from his five-year post next June, community members have advocated for a leader that will not only maintain Harvard’s role as a global leader, but also ignite change on campus.  President Bacow’s announcement accompanied the official departure of three other University board […]

Seven First-Years You Need to Meet

Boasting education activists, acclaimed artists, and Air Force veterans, the Class of 2026 is more interesting than ever.

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On August 25th, 1,950 first-years began to burst through Johnston Gate. They represent a record-low number of admitted students—3.13 percent of all applicants—featuring record-high numbers of women, Asian Americans, and first-generation college students. After facing a series of disruptions to the college application process, including Harvard’s decision to make standardized test scores optional, “the Class […]

Out with The Old, In with The New

“Say yes to everything,” advises the Class of 2022 to the Class of 2026.

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On Thursday, May 26th at 6:45 AM, the Class of 2022 flooded through the formidable gates of Harvard Yard and entered the packed Tercentenary Theater for one last time as undergraduates. The atmosphere was frenetic as Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow commemorated each student for earning their undergraduate degrees. Under crimson flags bearing crests […]

Harvard After Roe: Untouchable, or Not Quite?

With Roe overturned, there is a growing divide in abortion access nationwide. But legal and healthcare professionals have a message: no one should take their rights for granted.

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In February 1981, a senior living in Lowell House walked into the university’s infirmary holding a positive pregnancy test. She had been having protected sex with a long-term boyfriend, but her contraceptive pills had failed. “I remember being totally freaked out,” said the alumna, who wished to remain anonymous. She was not ready to have […]

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