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Debating Divestment
Faculty advocates of divesting Harvard investments in the production, distribution, and combustion of fossil fuels presented their case during the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 1—a prelude to a debate expected to take place at the …
Football 2017: Harvard 10, Rhode Island 17
On Saturday , two things were established at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island, concerning the 144th edition of Harvard football: 1.) The Crimson would not go undefeated. 2.) There would be no Ocean State sweep, as there had been in the previous two …
“Class Cluelessness”
Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election spawned a maelstrom of finger-pointing and soul-searching within the Democratic Party. How could the party of FDR, LBJ, and, for that matter, Bill Clinton, have lost touch so thoroughly with the …
Issue: July-August 2017
Fueling Our Future
Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for lights, refrigeration, computers, and televisions; gasoline and diesel for our cars and trucks. Fossil fuels …
Issue: May-June 2006
President Obama Urges Criminal-Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review
Barely two weeks remaining before he’s due to leave office, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, has written an emotional plea for criminal-justice reform in the January 2017 edition of the Harvard Law Review , arguing for the role of the presidency in …
Gender Agenda
Even as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) intensely debated the College’s proposed rules sanctioning student participation in single-gender final clubs and similar social organizations, which are not officially recognized by Harvard, an outcry arose …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017
Mise en Scène
A professor once advised me that I shouldn’t have possessions until I have tenure. “Then,” he said, “you can start to collect books.” I’ve given away so many of my books over the years. The Harvard Advocate ’s library gets replenished every spring because …
Issue: January-February 2017
Dining Workers’ Deadline
Harvard might soon find itself dealing with its largest labor battle in more than a decade, when in 2002 its lowest-paid workers fought for, and won , the right to earn a living wage. Yesterday, the University’s dining hall workers voted 591-18 to …
The Parkland Generation
I spent my July Fourth listening to fireworks instead of watching them. I had opted for a nighttime walk through Danehy Park, just a few blocks north of the Radcliffe Quadrangle. During the school year, it had given me refuge during all manner of academic …
Issue: September-October 2022
Adulting, Interrupted
At the start of the fall semester, my childhood best friend, Tara, and I decided to take a walk together every week. Our incentive was twofold: the Tucson weather was finally beginning to slither into the 80s—a refreshing change from the brutal 110-degree …
Issue: March-April 2021
Learning About Teaching Now
This year’s Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, the seventh annual iteration, held on September 21, highlighted new leaders’ new priorities, widening community interest in improved teaching, and the continuing challenges of …
The Cell’s Power Plant
When Vamsi Mootha arrived at Harvard for medical school and found that New England weather was like nothing he’d known growing up in Texas, he was unhappy. Hoping to raise his spirits, his father’s cousin invited him to dinner at her apartment in …
Issue: November-December 2018
Finding Their Way
One day last fall , Kit Metoyer, AnnMarie Healy, and Shilpa Tummala —the three seniors on the Harvard women’s basketball team—were sitting on lawn chairs in Harvard Yard, staring intently at their laptops. The scene seemed odd to Madeline Raster, a …
A Common Underground
The place I remember most from freshman fall won’t show up on Google’s map of Harvard. I took a class whose questions permeate my studies to this day: “Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition , ” taught by history professors Vincent Brown and …
Issue: January-February 2021
Life On a Tabletop
Bend, a solo performance by theater artist and puppeteer Kimi Maeda, tells the story of her father, who crossed paths as a boy with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi at a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. (Robert Maeda later became an Asian …
Issue: November-December 2015