A round-up of upcoming events around campus OTHER: A Multiracial Student Gallery Amanda Mozea ’17 created OTHER: A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery as a way to start a conversation on how people conceive of race, especially when it comes to multiracial and multiethnic students. The exhibit features fifty-eight students of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi comes to Harvard. On October 10, 2014, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced a joint Peace Prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. They called it “an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against […]
How to combat the autumn blues at Harvard. Autumn sneaks up on students every year. The transition from shopping week to the fifth Monday is as subtle as the changing of the leaves, but the realization can be daunting. One doesn’t quite notice the receding green until the trees are all reds, yellows, and oranges […]
Attending Boston’s Bernie Sanders Rally According to my laptop stickers, I’m currently endorsing three candidates for president in 2016: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Selina Meyer. If Selina was real, she would be my top choice right now, as Julia Louis Dreyfuss just slays (if the Emmys last month didn’t show that). Wait no. I […]
A burgeoning field and its place on Harvard College’s campus. By DANIEL UM Akshar Bonu ‘17, who launched his iPhone app Masquerade on September 1st, says he was “pleasantly surprised” by the overall campus receptiveness to the app. However, he is not the only Harvard undergrad to find app success. With its low cost and […]
The Indy explores a competition for bad science ideas. The crowd roars with laughter as Daniel Harris explains that the reason we can’t hear our own heartbeats is that they’re too catchy, and we wouldn’t have survived because we can’t ignore a funky beat. This is not your average comedy act. This is BAHFest. Properly […]
It is safe to assume that Harvard may not be the safest place for female and gender non-conforming undergraduates. 31.2% of female Harvard College seniors who took the sexual conduct survey this past spring reported having experienced some form of “nonconsensual sexual conduct,” including sexual touching, attempted penetrations, or completed penetrations. This was a good […]
Interview with 2nd Senior Class Marshal Jessica Barzilay. While most seniors are currently stressing over what they will be doing after graduation, there are a few who already have life-long commitments to Harvard. The Class Marshals for 2016 are among the latter. Reylon Yount, a resident of Lowell, and Jessica Barzilay, current resident of Dunster, […]
Everything you need to know to sound informed about the Divestment movement at Harvard. By ADITYA AGRAWAL What is the aim of Divest Harvard? 1) Harvard should immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuel companies. 2) It should immediately divest direct holdings (currently $19.6 million) from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies […]
BY SHAQUILLA HARRIGAN The seemingly silent restructuring of the BSC. Over the last several years, the College has made several major decisions without consulting the same undergraduate community that the decision impacts. Need I remind anyone about the Stillman Infirmary closing debacle? One would think that after so much student blowback and activism on campus, […]