Between concentration requirements, grades, extracurricular activities, and the general malaise that comes from being a college student during the plague years, it can be easy to develop academic tunnel vision. Even at the best of times, it can be difficult to get involved with anything that falls outside the gravitational pull of your primary field […]
On Monday, October 5, Harvard University started the phased opening of campus social spaces of Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center. As of the partial reopening of the campus for the fall session, social spaces have been, by and large, closed in an effort to reduce large-scale socialization. In the face of the […]
A wide variety of clubs at Harvard focus on supporting the greater Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Certain student organizations encompass broad areas of interest, such as the Asian American Association, while groups like the Asian American Dance Troupe may celebrate more specific areas of interest. These groups have been foundational, but there […]
The Modern Cupid’s Arrow The Indy sits down for a conversation with Datamatch’s Supreme Cupids By CHIDAMBARAM THILLAIRAJAH Each February, as classes start to heighten in intensity and the most dreaded of Hallmark holidays rears its head, Datamatch returns to provide a welcome reprieve. This enigmatic dating website has long been shrouded in mystery. […]
Forgotten in the attic for 103 years, artifacts from Harvard’s sordid past open a discussion on its responsibility to social reparations In these past couple of weeks, it is very likely that you have become passingly familiar with the phrase, “Free Renty.” Perhaps you saw it in the subject line in one of the many emails […]
A Home away from Home: Examining the unique culture of the Dudley Co-op By CHIDAMBARAM “CID” THILLAIRAJAH The Dudley co-op is situated in two warmly appointed Victorian houses. The main building bears a sign proclaiming it The Center for High Energy Metaphysics in large friendly letters. The common spaces eschew the impersonal décor of […]
Setting the Record Straight: The Origins of “The Game” By CHIDAMBARAM THILLAIRAJAH In 1852, as spring became summer, the students of Yale issued Harvard a challenge. The recently formed Yale rowing team had invited the even more recently formed Harvard rowing to come test the superiority of their oarsmen. A gauntlet had […]
Harvard’s history with the Supernatural By CHIDAMBARAM “CID” THILLAIRAJAH Harvard is old. Properly old in a way that very few places in this country are. Three hundred and eighty three years is plenty of time for all manner of strange things to happen. The occasional macabre event is bound to occur from […]