The Price
The Price By Remedy Ryan The tourists trampled the sunflower field for the perfect Instagram shot The field reduced to useless, golden ruins Remember when we were born? Our mothers cried for us then Little fools To think that beauty could exist Without pain One winter night we rubbed each other’s hands […]
Untitled I
Untitled I By Jose Forgive me, Gentle paramour, For showing you how Soft lead remains yet lead And how iron at a distance Appears liable to indention, Welcoming a hand to an altogether Unpliable surface. My deceit made so similar By unwilling nature of the thing, I hope you are merciful enough to realize […]
Cuff Me Harder
Thoughts on sex and relationships during the holidays By: ALAYA AYALA As the holiday season rolls its way into Harvard’s campus, I find myself wondering how different the holidays will be for me now that I’m dating someone. I already know that the whole shopping-for-presents thing has suddenly gotten three times harder. How does […]
A Truly Once in a Lifetime Opportunity
by Tushar Dwivedi This morning, Harvard hosted a ceremony for new members of congress, allowing a limited number of Harvard students access to the nation’s leading politicians and business leaders. In a different venue, and seemingly a different world, Travis Scott (aka La Flame), an industry leader in his own right, made his presence […]
Students Mobilize to Oppose Title IX Changes
BY SEGAN HELLE In a joint effort with Know Your IX and the Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT), Our Harvard Can Do Better is leading a sit-in at Boston City Hall Plaza, this Thursday, December 6 at 1 PM in protest against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s proposed changes to Title IX rules. The sit-in […]
Lawsuits Filed Against Harvard Over Social Group Sanctions
BY SEGAN HELLE This Monday, December 3, two lawsuits were filed alleging that Harvard’s sanctions against single-gender social organizations violate sex-based discrimination laws on the federal and state level. The first lawsuit, filed by two Greek organizations in Massachusetts court, alleges that Harvard’s sanctions violate the Civil Rights Act and Massachusetts Constitution […]
Finding Larry
By Ana Luiza Nicolae On Thursday, September 27 and Monday, November 19 at 3pm, President Bacow held office hours to give students a chance to meet him. However, these opportunities to get to know our new president, unfortunately, were not taken advantage of by most students. And while this may have been because the announcement […]
Crashing the Boards: Women’s Basketball
By JP VIEIRA Coming in on a 2-game win streak, the Harvard women’s basketball team was hoping for a hat trick in their home game this week against Quinnipiac. In an extremely close game, which saw both teams playing in double overtime, Harvard led Quinnipiac 32-30 at the end of the first half. As the […]
Getting In
By SAMBUDDHA CHATTOPADHYAY When I was twelve, I saw a little Asian girl in a pink dress play Meditation from Massenet’s Thais. It was the most beautiful thing. As the melody rose and fell like the crests and troughs of an ocean wave, I felt mesmerized. After the music stopped, a hush fell over […]