With almost a year of online school under our belts, more and more couples, both at Harvard and long distance, have experienced the trials of life at home or being stuck in a dorm room. The all-too familiar side effects of Zoom fatigue and restricted social gatherings are preventing students from meeting new friends and […]
Ah, April Fools’ Day! It’s the one day of the year on which many of us fully embrace our inner court jester, proudly embodying it for the rest of the world to experience and, hopefully, enjoy. A day filled with pranks and tricks, laughter and mirth, carnivalesque tomfoolery, and above all, humor. When most of […]
When people think of social life at Harvard, the image that comes to mind is often not-so-positive. Many of the social organizations with real estate scattered around Harvard Square are exclusive at best and at predatory at worst. This image is largely a product of the history and practices of men’s-only fraternities and final clubs. […]
Harvard Housing Day is notoriously loud. As members of each House storm the Yard, first-years’ excitement of finding out where they will live for the next three years bubbles up into a conglomeration of chanting, screaming, and celebrating. After all, there’s seldom a more unique time in your Harvard experience than discovering one’s next point […]
On Friday, March 12th, at approximately 11:15 AM EST, the Harvard College Class of 2024 logged on to Zoom to discover, either to their chagrin or pleasant surprise, what building and community they will live in for the next three years. First-years gathered—whether virtually on FaceTime with their soon-to-be blockmates or illicitly indoors in each […]
For the first months of its existence, the Harvard Graduate Student Union, HGSU-UAW, had a simple goal in mind. “What do we want?” members of the union members chanted, placards raised high around the John Harvard statue. “A contract! When do we want it? Now!” On July 1, 2020, “Now” finally arrived, and the new […]
Alabama has recently made national headlines as the future home of two CoreCivic mega-prisons. CoreCivic is the leading constructor and owner of private prisons and detention centers in the United States. Each of the top five owners of CoreCivic has links to Harvard University via employed alumni, and two of those five employ high-ranking executives who also serve as Harvard faculty members.
If you’ve ever rushed to CVS to buy a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day, you’re part of a generations-long, world-wide chocolate obsession. The impulse is not your fault: chocolate manufacturers massively marketed chocolate into a household staple and transformed the way people expressed love. To help unravel this history, the Independent spoke to a […]
Professor Elisa New and Larry Summers are very different people. “Larry is an extrovert and I’m an introvert; he likes sports and competition and I do not,” New tells the Independent. “We are in many ways a dramatic illustration of how opposites attract.” Summers was President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. He served […]
The Independent asked you, Harvard students, to start off your week by answering the over-simplified question: what is love? There was, however, a caveat: your response could only be one word. To answer this question, respondents had to ask themselves a multitude of other questions first: what does it feel like to be loved? What […]