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9.18.20: Masked on Campus, NewsLeave a comment

Beer With A First-Year

Graham Walter

Beer with a First-Year What being a first-year on a de-densified campus is like  By GRAHAM WALTER   This is a joke. For legal and social-distancing reasons, of course we didn’t get literal beer with a first-year. But so much of what we’ve lost from the pandemic is the chance for spontaneous conversations, wherein we would catch the pulse on campus life. “Beer with a First-Year” strives to do just that. In a casual interview style, much like chats in the Queens Head, we are hoping to find out what first-years think about campus life in the midst of the …

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9.18.20: Masked on Campus, ForumLeave a comment

On the Outside Looking In

Alaya Ayala

On the Outside Looking In  My experience being on a leave of absence during quarantine By ALAYA AYALA   On March 10, 2020, I was sitting at home on my couch when I first learned that Harvard wasn’t letting students return to campus after spring break. I heard it from a friend on Snapchat first, their face streaked with tears and voice cracking in a 15-second video that I had to replay to understand what they were saying. I hadn’t looked at my college email inbox for about a month, but I logged into it that day to read the …

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05.30.19: The Commencement Issue, ForumLeave a comment

To Myself, Prior to and in Becoming a Ghost of Harvard’s Past

Ariana Akbari

To Myself, Prior to and in Becoming a Ghost of Harvard’s Past By ARIANA AKBARI The Harvard campus has shifted tectonically since I first matriculated in 2013. Incoming students will have no memory of the now-ancient relics that defined a significant portion of my own Harvard Square past – places like the Holyoke Center, Cafe Algiers, Wagamama, and Crema Cafe are all gone now. Many of the administrators and professors who influenced my own Harvard experience have met a similar fate. A great majority of my student peers have scattered across the globe and are well on their way to …

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12.07.18: 'tis The Season, ForumLeave a comment

Getting In

Sambuddha Chattopadhyay

By SAMBUDDHA CHATTOPADHYAY   When I was twelve, I saw a little Asian girl in a pink dress play Meditation from Massenet’s Thais. It was the most beautiful thing. As the melody rose and fell like the crests and troughs of an ocean wave, I felt mesmerized. After the music stopped, a hush fell over the crowd that had gathered around the screen. Suddenly, an imperial voice, a voice full of authority, sounded out of the crowd. “Well, that sounded nice. But it felt fake. She played the right notes in the right places, but there’s clearly no passion there. …

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11.29.19: On the Hook, ForumLeave a comment

Your Goose Is Cooked

Aidan Fitzsimons

It’s time to publicly shame our peers. By AIDAN FITZSIMONS   This article is going to ruffle some feathers.   The Ivy League Meme page is full of memes poking gentle fun at wearers of the Canada Goose jackets which are so ubiquitous at places like Harvard when it gets cold. These memes indicate a general understanding of how ridiculous this phenomenon is, yet they also normalize it. As a community, Harvard still supports the wearers of these $1000 jackets. We talk to friends every day who wear them, and say nothing antagonistic. After all, these are our friends. We …

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02.23.17: The Junior Parents Issue, 02.23.2017: The Junior Parents Issue, SportsLeave a comment

Streaks and Losses

Tushar Dwivedi

Harvard Squash at National Championship.   Before attending Harvard, I knew very little about the sport of squash. I’d heard the name, knew that some people, somewhere played it, but had never really spent much thought on it; that was before I met Saad. We connected over a common dorm, Holworthy, and right in the middle of sharing more about his background from Egypt, he casually mentioned squash. Little did I know that Saadeldin Aish was one of the top squash players in the entire world and was soon to be Harvard’s #1 court player.  And thus, in my first …

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02.09.17: Practically Speaking, ForumLeave a comment

Act Like It

Hunter Orchards

Harvard urged to take responsibility as a political actor. By HUNTER RICHARDS With the 2016 election and changing of power, Harvard students called on their university to provide support in resisting potential policies that would hold negative consequences on a larger scale. While student groups of all kinds have been taking cause to heart on the political front for years, the University has typically chosen to refrain from being a political actor. However, as one of the most prominent and powerful institutions, Harvard has social and political power and influence that cannot be ignored. Immigration Only recently have community members …

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02.02.17: All Things New, SportsLeave a comment

Winter Games

Tushar Dwivedi

Harvard Varsity teams continue play over break and into spring. By TUSHAR DWIVEDI While many of us visited family and home, traveled, worked, or learned, it is easy to forget the number of students who represented Harvard in winter athletics over break. These athletes, such as Holworthy resident Zeth Dean, stayed in what effectively became oversized singles, while continuing practice and competition for their respective sports. For Zeth, that meant wrestling. According to Zeth, “One thing I realized was that staying over break really helped me focus all of my time on wrestling and allowed me to improve. I also …

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