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Give the Land Up — Or Shut Up

Any institution indulging in this nonsense should put its money where its mouth is: Either return the land that it occupies to whichever Native American tribe that it stole it from, or spare us the hollow, meaningless acknowledgements.


What Good Is a University Without Students?

Even if Harvard is too invested to stop building new facilities now, it must take a hard look at its priorities and ensure that its educational mission remains intact. Harvard’s future is built on the minds it nurtures — buildings are great, but they need people to fill them.


Harvard Stole Brazilian Land. It’s Time To Make Amends.

Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions. Transparency isn’t enough: Harvard must make reparations to communities impacted by its land grabs.


Freshmen, Embrace Your New Home

Housing Day is not just about being assigned to a building, it’s about gaining a family. It is a transition from being a new student trying to find your place at Harvard to becoming an integral part of a long-standing tradition.


So You Got Quadded?

To my newest neighbors: Though Riverites will tell you that Quad pride is delusion, Stockholm syndrome, or rationalization, it isn’t. Even though you’ll be pitied and pooh-poohed by those placed into houses admittedly flashier and more recently renovated, stay the course.


This Housing Day, Dename Winthrop House

As soon as Winthropians stormed my dorm, I started praying the house would be renamed before I graduated, maybe to DuBois House, Winthrop (Perkins Boynton) House, or even Adams House II.


Dear Harvard Men, Stop Hating Women.

So to all Harvard, but especially all male affiliates, regardless of other identities you may express — hold your peers accountable for gender bias in all of its forms.


All Concentrations Are Created Equal

At Harvard, every student — regardless of how comparatively difficult or easy their concentration may be — has the potential to enact meaningful change. It would serve us well to remember that.


Allston Is All Labs — And That’s a Problem

Roche’s announcement is only the beginning. As Harvard wraps up its ongoing life sciences construction projects, housing market pressures will only increase, and the current housing crisis will worsen.


Should Harvard Admit More Rich Kids? Actually, No

While admitting the children of donors might have some financial benefits, this blatant preference is unjust and undermines both Harvard’s educational mission and its stated admissions policies.


Free Speech Is Alive and Well at Harvard. Why Aren’t Media Covering It?

If the media under-reports controversial conservative speech, it risks letting some ideas spread under-the-radar, preventing the full and robust dialogue that occurs only when the conversation is open to all.


Harvard Students Must Stand for Their Beliefs

Whether we like it or not, people pay attention to what happens on our campus, and Harvard students can make a tremendous impact if we decide to stand up for the things in which we believe.


I Study Uyghur. Here’s Why You Should Too.

As I learn the words my people are being punished for speaking and recall the histories that are being rewritten and erased, I am reminded that beyond simple words, language is identity, memory, and resistance.


Bring Jury Duty to Harvard

If the College were to permit students to volunteer to be on the Ad Board, it would play an inconceivably treacherous game. My idea is hardly revolutionary: Let Harvard College students accused of wrongdoing go before a jury of their peers — and most importantly, an impartial one at that.


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