Crimson staff writer
Henry P. Moss IV
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Don’t Renovate Away Harvard’s House Community
At Eliot, keep the decorative wood and iron railings, the wood-paneled library annex with a spiral staircase, the old stone steps, and the weirdly-curved hallways.Don’t erase the small, unique features that have long distinguished our houses from the rest — and remind me that I am home.
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.
Free Speech is Dead at Harvard. I Doubt It’s Returning Anytime Soon.
Unless Harvard makes serious changes to the campus environment, nothing will change. The University will remain overwhelmingly liberal, with the most extreme voices — those that are most interested in silencing any dissent — dominating the discussion.
The Ivy League Needs To Stop Handing Out Participation Trophies
Without a conference championship game to determine which team earns the right to call themselves the best of the Ivy League, (almost) everyone can be a winner. That needs to change.
I Voted for Harris. Harvard’s Reaction to Her Loss Was an Embarrassment.
In the wake of Election Day, my peers played right into the hands of the right.
It’s Not Massachusetts’ Job to End Legacy Admissions. It’s Harvard’s.
No state should interfere with the core functions of a private university simply because they don’t like how it chooses to operate.
Harvard Needs To Let Its Athletes Cash In
In many cases, Harvard’s prestige is not enough to attract athletic talent.
A Palestine Exception to Consequences
The protesters’ argument that they’re faced with a double standard makes little sense to me — if they broke rules, they should get punished — but, more than that, it’s unclear that they’re being treated unfairly at all.
Dissent: Intellectual Vitality for Me, but Not for Thee
If Harvard is actually serious about intellectual vitality, it must solve the root of the problem first: the school’s political makeup.
The Next Dean of Harvard College Needs To Be Fun
The repeated failures of attempts to impose on the social lives of students offers a lesson to the next dean of the College that they would be wise to heed: Show us you care but don’t overbear.