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Near Misses
They each had their shot. After a season that yielded some strong wins but also unfortunate losses for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, both came up just short of reaching the NCAA tournament. For the men, the shot at the NCAAs was literal: with …
Issue: May-June 2018
Gender and the Academy
The April 6 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education ’s opinion section, The Chronicle Review , is devoted entirely to the theme of “The Awakening: Women and Power in the Academy,” featuring essay responses from women academics on that theme. Here …
Vogue Meets Veritas
Though the early April night is freezing cold at 10 p.m., a line of 600 people, mostly students, waits more than 40 minutes to enter Annenberg Hall. They are another sellout audience for the annual Identities fashion show at Harvard. Four thousand more …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Pleasure of Noticing
At the Harvard Film Archive , the staff called it V-Day: the date of Agnès Varda’s arrival in Cambridge, for appearances at screenings of Faces, Places (2017) and Vagabond (1985), and for her 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema the next week. When the French …
A Championship Tune-up
After going 5-10 in non-conference play, the Harvard men’s basketball team appeared a long shot to win the Ivy League championship. Not anymore. Harvard defeated Cornell 98-88 in double overtime on Friday and throttled Columbia 93-74 on Saturday, avenging …
Steering Softball
Head softball coach Jenny Allard, who has led Harvard’s team for more than half of its existence and ranks among the Ivy League’s most successful coaches, doesn’t want this to be a story about her. “Write about the team,” she says. “Write about what …
Issue: March-April 2018
Crimson Campaign Consultants
Like many Harvard students in their senior spring, Nathán Goldberg ’18 and William Long ’18 had big ideas for their future as they prepared for graduation. Both had a background in Big Data. Both were brought deeper into national politics as the 2016 …
Personal Information in the Digital Age
Do people behave differently when they think they are being watched? When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance of American citizens in June 2013, the question suddenly grew in importance. Can the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Off the Shelf
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education, by John Palfrey ’94, J.D. ’01 (MIT, $19.95). The author, previously Harvard Law’s vice dean for library and information resources, now head of Phillips Academy, Andover, plunges into …
Issue: January-February 2018
Harvard Endowment Rises $4.4 Billion to $32 Billion
Highlights: Endowment valued at $32 billion as of June 30, up $4.4 billion (16 percent) from $27.6 billion a year earlier. Harvard Management Company records 21.4 percent investment return on endowment assets during fiscal year 2011. All asset categories …
How Buildings Move People
The museum gallery is a space designed to be in permanent flux. In 2008, artist Michael Asher sat down with 10 years of exhibition blueprints from the Santa Monica Museum of Art, reviewing the designs of 44 shows that had gone up in the main gallery. He …
Issue: May-June 2017
Ballet’s Geometry, Torqued
In an overheated basement studio at Barnard College, a dancer twirls with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, looking like Olympic swimmers warming up poolside. They’re …
Issue: May-June 2017
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
On Monday night , students clipped on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves to witness unfathomable horrors. In Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, around 150 Harvard affiliates …
A “Players’ Coach”
When the final buzzer sounded last November in the game that won the Harvard men’s water-polo team its first conference championship—and clinched a spot in the NCAA tournament (another first), where the Crimson would go all the way to the Final Four …
Issue: March-April 2017
Trends in Harvard’s Hiring and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty
With a possibly contentious debate over the College’s current policy sanctioning student members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations averted , the main focus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on February 7 was a report on the hiring …