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“Invisible” No Longer
“You’re going to see a lot of diversity in the room,” Cassandra Fradera, A.L.M. ’17, co-president of the Harvard Latinx Student Alliance (HLSA), said on the phone last week. She was explaining what to expect on Tuesday at the third annual HLSA-sponsored …
A Satisfactory Split
With a little over 53 seconds left in Harvard’s game at Cornell on Friday night and the Crimson trailing 71-70, freshman guard Bryce Aiken had the ball at the top of key, and the Big Red’s Jack Gordon was staring intently at him. Understandably so. …
Football: Harvard 28, Columbia 21
It was the week the Cubs won the World Series. So why not add to the weirdness by having Columbia beat Harvard? For one half at Harvard Stadium this past Saturday, such a bizarre outcome seemed more than possible. Sacking Crimson quarterback Joe Viviano …
Football: Harvard 31, Georgetown 17
“The game was not as close as the score might indicate.” The most extreme case of this often jocular athletics adage occurred this past Friday night at Harvard Stadium. On a dank, sometimes rainy evening before a small, hardy assemblage, Harvard pushed …
House Renewal Gains and Challenges
Two days before Commencement, the College quietly published the summary of a “Strategic Assessment Report” on House renewal, the $1-billion-plus “first-phase” program to modernize the eight Neo-Georgian undergraduate residences along the Charles River …
Issue: September-October 2016
A Fast Start
In April , sprinter Ngozi Musa, approaching the end of her freshman season on Harvard’s track and field team, was telling a story about the time she set her starting blocks incorrectly at the world junior championships in Eugene, Oregon. It was 2014, her …
Issue: July-August 2016
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
Despite the race to deploy vaccines, two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 that are more transmissible than the prevailing strain are poised to amplify spread of the pandemic worldwide, complicating control efforts, and changing the prospects for a return to …
“Going Through the Fire”
In November 2007, in just his sixth game as Harvard’s coach, Tommy Amaker and the men’s basketball team faced off against Providence College, a traditional power from the more-prominent Big East Conference. The matchup provided an early barometer of …
Football: Penn 35, Harvard 25
Gone, gone with the wind. At gale-swept Harvard Stadium last Saturday, the Crimson’s 22-game victory streak was blown away by a Penn team that used big plays on offense and an opportunistic defense to win 35-25. The defeat—Harvard’s first since a 51-48, …
The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
Had anyone asked me a year ago about my biggest pet peeves, I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of humidity). It was not entirely surprising, …
Issue: September-October 2015
A Faculty Motion on Divesting Fossil-Fuel Investments
As reported , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its regularly scheduled meeting on December 3 formally considered a motion directing the Corporation to shed any endowment assets invested in further discovery or [ Corrected December 5, 2019, 8:50 …
The Method to (March) Madness?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The exchange began plainly enough. Shortly after noon on Saturday, October 25, an attendee at the Harvard men’s basketball coaching clinic asked Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker why he allows his …
To Catch a Crawdad
During exam week, a time normally spent frantically watching lecture videos late into the night, I instead found myself driving a 16-foot, mustard-yellow moving truck through a spring snowstorm in Pennsylvania. As I white-knuckled the steering wheel and …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout
The coronavirus pandemic , which has caused U.S. GDP and employment to drop at unprecedented rates, left economists and policymakers blind at a moment of enormous strain for millions of workers, businesses, and government officials trying to cope with the …
Off the Shelf
The Inside Game, by Keith Law ’94 (Morrow, $28.99). Absent baseball games , fans fall back on books . In his latest, a senior baseball writer for The Athletic suggests he is pursuing larger prey (the subtitle talks about “what baseball behavior teaches us …
Issue: July-August 2020