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Massachusetts, Make Our Hours Happier
Repealing the Massachusetts happy hour ban could breathe new life into Boston and Harvard Square alike. Boston is a vibrant, young city teeming. It deserves a social scene to match.
Guest Speakers Improve Campus Discourse. Here’s How to Invite Them.
After a year of calling for more discourse, Masoud’s speaker series offers a dose of optimism and inspiration. But until University culture changes, initiatives like these will remain few and far between.
Harvard Is a School. We Need To Go to Class.
It’s significantly in its classrooms that Harvard trains the future leaders of America. Let’s make sure we show up to them.
Harvard-Yale Weekend Was Good. Here’s How to Make It Great.
If we hope to avoid repeats of the Royale ripoff, the College administration must ease on-campus social restrictions. Only then can our student organizations take the reins of campus social life and make Harvard-Yale fun.
Faculty Governance Must Not Die in Committee
So let’s call the faculty council what it is. It’s a good, albeit slightly flawed implementation of faculty governance — not the faculty senate’s replacement.
Harvard Must Act to Save Jewish Studies
At a time when studying Judaism has never been more crucial, the University must act decisively to find highly qualified individuals to fill the vacancies — the future of Harvard’s Jewish studies program depends on it.
What Does Interdisciplinarity Even Mean Anymore?
Look no further than our University’s foray into the medical humanities — an emerging field that applies humanistic insights to the study of health and wellbeing — as an indication that the interdisciplinary hype has gone too far.
Harvard’s Feeder School Addiction
Until Harvard puts in more effort to find diamonds in the rough, legions of feeder school resumes — hand-edited by highly-paid admissions counselors — will continue to fill our classes.
Harvard’s Conservatives Have to Stop Hiding
There’s no reason to sequester conversations about Plato and the good life to an ideologically homogeneous — some might say, ideologically extreme — group named after a founding father.
Garber Is Right: The Ad Board Is the Problem.
As it turns out, a 325 page report can illuminate a lot about administrative dysfunction.