Dearly Departed Dean
Dean Rakesh Khurana is set to complete his tenure as the Danoff Dean of Harvard College in June 2025.
Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, the longest-serving Harvard College Dean in more than a century, will step down at the end of the 2024-25 academic year, marking the end of his 11-year tenure. Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, announced Khurana’s decision to depart his deanship on […]
A New Democratic National Convention
Harvard students reflect on the Harris-Walz ticket and the newfound patriotism at the DNC.
From Aug. 19 to 22, Chicago welcomed 50,000 delegates, volunteers, and attendees to the Democratic National Convention. The DNC occurs every four years in the midst of the election cycle, serving formally as an opportunity for delegates to elect the Democratic nominee and informally for the party to share its message with the American public. […]
Atom and Eve
Using faked self importance to combat mansplainers in physics.
“The more you know, the less your ego is. The less you know, the greater your ego,” said Albert Einstein. While I would never dare go against anything said by the god of all physics, I must admit, as a woman in this field, there are times I have found faking self importance as the […]
Summer Horror Recap
A guide to the several spooky films that came out this summer.
There’s nothing quite like watching a horror movie in theaters. Even if it’s the tenth entry in a worn-out franchise or a film filled with lazy jumpscares, there’s a special communal feeling associated with sitting in a dark room alongside a bunch of strangers, united by the goal of getting scared. Fortunately, this summer saw […]
Sports Spotlight: Lauren Scruggs
Going for gold in all aspects of life.
Olympic gold medalist Lauren Scruggs ’25 would not have been a fencer had it not been for her older brother. His obsession with Star Wars led their mother to sign him up for a local fencing club in Brooklyn when Scruggs was eight. Despite an initial desire to quit, her brother stuck with the sport […]
Kristen Faulkner: From Portfolios to the Peloton
How Kristen Faulkner ’16, two-time Olympic Gold medalist, left her conventional Harvard graduate career to pursue professional cycling.
Kristen Faulkner ’16 won two gold medals in Road and Track Cycling at the 2024 Paris Olympics, contributing to Harvard’s 13 total medals at this year’s games. She is an impressive athlete with stage wins at the Giro d’Italia, the Vuelta D’Espagne, and a PanAm Championship gold medal—already decorating her athletic resume before this Olympics. […]
How To Become A Harvard Superfan
Fall sports games you don’t want to miss.
Between the start of class, comping clubs, and being back with friends, fall is certainly an exciting time at Harvard. As everyone arrives back on campus, there is a select group of students who have already been hard at work since as early as Aug. 8: fall athletes. After strong pre-seasons, several fall teams are […]
Indy Sportsbook: NFL 2024-2025 Season Preview
Longshots and locks for the upcoming year.
As the 2024 NFL season approaches, savvy bettors should look to futures for a chance to make an easy profit. We at the Indy Sportsbook have taken it upon ourselves to provide our readers with our favorite bets entering the 2024 NFL season. With a mix of high-risk, high-reward bets and safer player props, bettors […]
What’s on at the HRDC?
A preview of the HRDC fall 2024 theater season.
Receiving the Harvard theater season announcement at the end of each semester is an extremely exciting moment for the theater community and theater-goers alike. We are all dying to know what productions have been in the works. These are the shows we will join, audition for, play music for, and eventually enjoy in the theater—for […]
Summer Culture: From brat to Demure
brat and demure as case studies for parsing the difference between cultural movements and TikTok trends.
It’s no news that the trend cycle moves fast. Yet the whiplash somehow never fails to surprise me, as the internet somehow moved on from being “brat” to being “demure,” and left me behind. As I kept scrolling, the word demure was everywhere—undeniably the new hottest trend that everyone seemingly had to be a part […]
