Harvard Police Blotter | Week of 10.8.17
Below is a selection of incidents on campus from 9/30/15 to 10/5/15. With one exception – dates from 10/1/15 were not available to the public. If you would like the entire report (without our commentary), click here. Please note that in printing this information, we are merely republishing data that is already available to the public on HUPD’s […]
Straight Outta SWUG-dom
I didn’t choose the SWUG Life; I just chose sweatpants. Being the loyal Harvard Independent readers that you are, I’m sure that you remember the article I wrote last year about my transformation into a JWUG (junior washed up girl). Well, I have leveled-up (or perhaps fallen?) into SWUG-dom. I am a full-fledged, wine-glass-toting, sweatpants-wearing […]
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
Preview to a new production in Agassiz Theater. The Hyperion Shakespeare Company of Harvard is putting on the first of its two shows of semester in the Agassiz Theater this Friday. The play, Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, is directed by Allegra Caldera ’17, produced by Garrett Maron ’16 and Connie Yan ’16, […]
Final Clubs TBT: ‘Clubs Debate Women, Alcohol’
The Indy goes back 30 years to look at the Final Club debates of yore. By CLARA BINGHAM’85 This week, the Harvard Independent is bringing you an article from our October 18, 1985 issue. Apparently the final clubs have debated whether or not to invite women to punch for over thirty years. Amidst the festivities […]
Harvard Polo: Back on the Farm
The Polo Season Review & Preview. After a successful summer of travel and competitive play, the Harvard Polo Club returns home to begin its fall intercollegiate season. One of the highlights of this past summer is the annual intercollegiate Intervarsity Polo Tournament held at the Metropolitan Polo Club of Tianjin, China. The Harvard team enjoyed […]
Harvard Football: Let Them Play
A look into the postseason ban on Ivy League football If you’ve seen enough sports movies, you are bond to have run across one where the climax of the plot is the big bad rules committee stopping a kid or team from playing in a gam. The familiar cheer of “Let them play!” rings out […]
Harvard Nights: The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
Typical Harvard Nights The night when you have too much work This is one of the saddest nights a Harvard student can experience. Every once in a blue moon, the stars (or p-sets) align, and you realize that you have so much work that there is no possible way for you to go out. Your […]
Double Tap for Boston Bites
Boston Bites: The Instagram where pictures are worth 1000 calories. It’s a Friday night, and you are hoping to find a delicious new restaurant with your friends (although we all know how difficult it is to turn down HUDS Swai fish). Where does one go to look for new options? Zagat and Yelp can sometimes […]
Boston for Bernie
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 […]
10.8.15 Blotter
30-Sep Assist Cambrdige Police 1:20Am 1360 Mass Ave Officer dispatched to take a report of past suspicious activity. 30-Sep Loud Party 2:39Am Soldiers Field Park Officers dispatched to a report of a loud party. Officers arrived and adviced occupants of room 203 to keep noise down. 30-Sep Trespass Warning 5:27Am Quincy House Officer while on […]
Reconstructing the Final Clubs
A response to The Crimson’s ‘Don’t Dismantle the Final Clubs.’ Dear Mr. Dong, I hope this letter may serve as some reading material as you continue to sojourn in your favorite armchair within the Fly. I’m writing to you because I have a few points I’d like to make in response to your article […]
Man Down
With Siyani Chambers out, the Crimson’s future remains uncertain. In early September, the Harvard basketball team received some devastating news: they would be losing senior point guard and co-captain Siyani Chambers to an ACL tear. Chambers will take the 2015-2016 year off both academically and athletically to recover from the injury, retaining his last year […]