After a summer-long conversation with the Harvard Undergraduate Association regarding equity efforts in Harvard’s student administration, Primus, Harvard’s First Generation Low Income student association, posted on Instagram on Sep. 19 stating that the HUA had “rejected PRIMUS’s plans for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Primus members were responding to the HUA’s vote against their proposal for […]
After exposing inaccurate reports from his own school, Columbia mathematics professor Michael Thaddeus ignited the fall of Columbia’s rankings in the annual US News and World Report. Earlier this month, Columbia’s ranking on the annual list fell from #2 to #18 after Thaddeus’ divulgement of the university’s inaccurate reports of financial data, terminal degrees, graduation […]
While most students at Harvard live out their years beyond the Yard in the House they were assigned to first-year spring, there are a select few that opt to switch Houses. With a notoriously low acceptance rate, the inter-house transfer process is easy to apply to, but infamously hard to find success in. For how […]
You’ve probably seen the ads in your email, thrown under your dorm room door, or stamped on the walls of the bathroom stalls: Harvard wants to find you a match. Harvard matchmaking sites offer ways for you to connect with fellow students of similar academic interests, sense of humor, and experience on campus. It’s Harvard […]
Without Shopping Week, choosing classes has become an endless process of My.Harvard searches for Gen Ed and concentration requirements, applications, Q guides, syllabi—and all the while searching for a class that won’t add to the stress of your week. We propose a new course search criterion: professor name. You may not be aware of these […]
When every extracurricular club promises that its community and mission are the best, it is hard for students to determine which clubs are actually the right fit for them. Are you looking for a future management consulting career, a breath of fresh air on a hike, or a creative escape? The diversity of clubs almost […]
With his typical zeal and poignant analogies, Professor Larry Summers took to the JFK Jr. Forum’s stage at the Institute of Politics on Thursday, September 15th. In an hour-long conversation guided by Linda Henry MC/MPA ’21 and questions from a probing audience, Professor Summers presented his candid analysis of the current state of the American […]
Top Ten Red Flags Here at the Big H, you undoubtedly will rub shoulders with some budding students: future politicians, Nobel Peace Prize winners, acclaimed artists, and maybe the next Mark Zuckerberg. But your Crimson classmates undoubtedly have red flags, too… 10. They live in the Quad – Kya Brooks ’25, Theo Taubman ’26, […]
The Harvard Institute of Politics holds that former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio will be an asset to the institute this fall. But some students are doubtful, citing his contentious political record. As part of the IOP’s Visiting Fellow program, de Blasio is required to visit for a short but intensive period during […]
The broad majority of Harvard students live in one of the twelve upperclassmen houses they were assigned to freshman year, but another housing option exists beyond this traditional structure, which some students call home, and others have never even heard of: The Dudley Co-op. The Co-op is part of The Dudley Community, which is equivalent […]