“I never felt a connection to Radcliffe, and I was a feminist,” Jill Abramson ’76 prefaced in her interview. Abramson was among the first class of women to live in Harvard Yard as a First-Year in 1972. Even though she lived at Harvard, she was still technically a student at Radcliffe College, which only three […]
On December 3rd, over 80 people gathered at the steps of Widener Library to remember Uyghur victims and protest the Chinese Communist Party’s mistreatment of minority groups in crisis. On November 24th, 2022, a deadly fire ravaged an apartment block in a primarily Uyghur neighborhood in Ürümchi, the capital of East Turkistan, also known as […]
For many current students, Harvard was their absolute dream school. However, it may not have been the only school to which they applied. While Harvard and Yale are competitors on the football field, they also compete when it comes to admissions. Many students applying to Harvard also apply to Yale, as the schools are comparable […]
Correction: In the teaser for this piece, I incorrectly referred to the “nine” apex predators of the American legal trophic pyramid, otherwise known as the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are in fact only eight. As aforementioned, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a guppy, for now. But these things have […]
After more than a decade without universal hot breakfast across dining halls, students and staff are taking a stand. Armed with a petition of over 2,000 student signatures, and backed by unionized Harvard University Dining Hall workers and Harvard Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), members of the Harvard community are ready to put up a […]
The housing process is a hallmark of the Harvard experience, connecting students to a new community that will remain constant for three years. But many sophomores are now getting shuffled into side buildings with separate communities, forced into the college’s ever-growing overflow housing. To accommodate the large number of students in the Class of 2026, […]
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey visited the Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last week, two weeks before the midterm elections, to discuss the role of youth in American democracy. As the clock ticked down, a collection of undergraduate and graduate students, business professionals, and local residents filed into the room eager to hear […]
On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum held their most attended event since the pandemic, according to Forum Co-Chair Hannah Bottarel ’24. With three filled floors of attendees and many still standing, an excited buzz filled the conference room: America’s doctor was about to speak. Dr. Anthony Fauci, […]
October 21st commenced the Head of the Charles Regatta, marking the beginning of the 57th annual gathering along the Charles River. The world’s largest three-day rowing event transformed the Cambridge area into an agglomeration of athletes, tourists, and spectators from all over the world. 200,000 combined attendees of the regatta overflowed the city to partake […]
Halloween typically signals a time for candy, costumes, and spooky rituals, but for members of Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, a Mexican social, cultural, political, and professional organization on campus, the holiday is not the only thing to celebrate in the coming week. On November 1st through November 2nd, Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the […]