When it Feels Wrong to Love Your Home
Keeping a name such as “Winthrop” causes a moral dilemma for students.
“Make yourself at home.” Harvard’s Residential Life page boasts the housing experience here on campus, professing “cozy reading nooks” and “sun-kissed lawns.” Arguably one of the most exciting and integral parts of the Harvard experience, housing assignments and the subsequent demonstration of house pride is somewhat of a rite of passage for all Harvard students. […]
Indy Sportsbook: Working for the Weekend
Highlighting the most exciting things in gambling for your days off.
Throughout the entirety of Indy Sportsbook’s (albeit very short) history, we have prided ourselves on our commitment to each issue’s theme. Whether we are making puns about love and sex or examining how gambling can fit into the counterculture, we strive to make our degenerate musings a worthy inclusion. For the first unthemed issue of […]
Independent Thoughts: Vol 2
Indy staff members’ recommendations—and criticisms—of the week.
Earbuds Supremacy It seems that recently we’ve been turning fads that were shameful into things that are both “trendy” and “fashionable.” We blinked and suddenly the New Balances worn generations ago are the new shoes selling out. This recycling of styles has taken the ear accessory department by storm. Now, it seems that headphones are […]
Review: Yves Tumor’s Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Yves Tumor’s new album is an esoteric mixture of evocative nostalgia and visions of the future.
Image Credit: Pitchfork, 2023 Sean Bowie’s musical career has been characterized by change and experimentation, a hard break from the 2000s Knoxville, Tennessee in which they grew up. Bowie told Dazed in 2018 that the “very conservative, racist, homophobic, sexist environment…wasn’t very constructive growing up and trying to be creative.” Instead of experimenting with drugs […]
The End of the Fucking World Is Not As Bad As You Think
A review of an undeniably binge-worthy TV show
The End of the F***ing World is the twisted romance you never knew you needed in your life. It is a darkly comedic coming-of-age story that was first released on Netflix in 2018. The limited series follows two misfit teens, James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden), as they embark on a road trip in […]
Kleztronica: How Techno Raves Modernize Traditional Jewish Music
Student producer organizes Jewish techno raves and starts a new music genre.
“I think that there’s something really special about rave, and something that’s made it such a center for queer and black people throughout the last fifty years or so,” said Kaia Berman Peters ’23-24, who goes by Chaia. “It’s the fact that it’s like a space of pure joy. …It’s only positive, only vibing with […]
A Broad Abroad, Vol 3
Well, my loyal fans, I’ll have you know I got a whole two texts asking where my column was last week. Where was the Broad Abroad? Well, fear not, she’s back and with more content than ever. As a college student without a dining hall, I’ve been doing a lot of cooking. So domestic of […]
One Hour with Agnes Callard
A Conversation of Commitment, Love, and Philosophy.
Philosophy, in its endless array of abstract concepts, can often seem removed from personhood and physical reality. Discussing the theories of a select number of ancient men can be repetitive, overly conventional, and downright boring. I find myself asking, why should I care? For Agnes Callard, perhaps it is her unconventional choice in marrying her […]
Sour Butter, 300 Years Later
How Harvard’s dining created rebellions, elitism, and the most equitable place on campus.
The nation’s first-ever student protest sparked from rancid dairy. According to the Harvard Gazette, a decade even before the American Revolution, Harvard’s “Great Butter Rebellion” of 1766 was perhaps the first sign of America’s spirit as united in civil disobedience—and it started from a Harvard dining hall. Despite the strangeness of this origin story, student […]
Bracing for the Summer at Harvard
Harvard Students’ Take on Summer Recruiting Process.
The word “summer” often garners a variety of emotions. While for some Harvard students, the word might represent sunbathing on beaches and surfing on beautiful blue waves, for others, the word “summer” comes with a much more daunting connotation: internships. When it comes to internships, certain fields of interest require recruitment processes that vary heavily […]
