Editorials
Harvard’s Protests Hit Day Six: The Editors React, From Inside and Outside the Encampment
Our editors contribute reflections on the encampment — from within and without — as it approaches its second week.
Punishment Can’t Be the Only Outcome of the Harvard Encampment
In the past week, the University has made it plenty clear that disciplinary consequences await the protesters. Here’s hoping that punishment isn’t the only outcome of their activism.
The Encampment is Safe and Peaceful. Harvard Must Keep it That Way.
The protestors have done their part; now, Harvard’s leadership must do theirs.
By Suspending the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Harvard Guarantees Chaos
Student groups aren’t above the rules. But the rules aren’t above the good of this campus. Harvard must choose the latter.
Dissent: Activists Broke the Rules. I’m Glad Harvard Enforced Them.
Harvard has rules. For the safety of our community, it must enforce them. Yesterday, the University made the right call.
Time for a Residential Advisors Union
All workers deserve to negotiate with their employers on an equal footing. That’s doubly the case when your employer is also your landlord. Vote yes on HURA.
In Support of a Faculty Senate
University governance is in desperate need of reform. A faculty senate could substantially improve how Harvard solves its problems.
To the HUA: Let Us Vote.
Our student government likes to claim a democratic mandate. Now is their time to earn it.
There Are Many Obstacles Facing Women’s Sports. Trans Athletes Aren’t One.
As enticingly clear as the rhetoric may sound, the science is far less conclusive.
The Return of Required Testing
Bringing back testing can be a step towards equity. But steps will not suffice in a post-affirmative action world: Harvard must begin taking leaps and bounds.
Interdisciplinarity Has Become a Buzzword. Here’s How to Course-Correct.
Slapping fields together at random isn’t interdisciplinarity. Conflating the two helps neither the University nor the prospects of worthwhile cross-disciplinary inquiry.
In an Institutionally Neutral World, Expect Students to Speak Up
With the same insidious form of doxxing from last semester yet again rearing its ugly head, Harvard must meet the moment with greater action.
This HUA Election, Vote Your Conscience
More important than who you choose is that you choose at all, and that your choice doesn’t represent your last engagement with student government this year.
Dissent: Harvard College Needs a King
There is no place better for an absolute regime to thrive than within Harvard’s prestigious walls.
NIL Collectives Aren’t Harvard’s Ball Game
While NIL collectives continue to reshape the college sports landscape, it would be unwise to let them transform athletics at Harvard.
The Editorial Board's Guide to The 2024 Board of Overseers Election
A Guide to the 2024 Harvard Board of Overseers Election
Down With Single-Family Zoning
With a new proposal to end single-family zoning under consideration, the Cambridge City Council has a chance to finally confront the housing crisis.
Keep Politics Out of the Houses
Harvard has thousands of undergraduates; it would be impossible to fit them into just 12 political homes.
Dissent: When It Comes To Free Speech, the Editorial Board Is All Talk.
Because the Editorial Board calls for unattainable balance in the name of ideological diversity and censoriousness in the name of neutrality, we dissent.
Garber’s Tenure, Two Months In: The Editors React
We asked our editors to revisit their January reflections, offering fresh thoughts on where Harvard stands today.
Critics Are Wrong About DEI at Harvard, but There’s Plenty of Room To Improve
There are two Harvard Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs: The one you read about in the press, and the one that actually exists.
Harvard’s Abstinence-Only Approach to Fun
Students have plenty of time to pursue presidencies and Nobel Prizes. For now, we hope the administration lets us enjoy our young adulthood.
How Harvard Can Build Better in Allston
Harvard is a university — not a general contractor, developer, or local landlord. At least, it should be.
At Long Last, They’ve Ruined River Run
Run safely, run wisely, run well, and may your milk jugs be full.
Harvard Must Learn Its Lesson. Institutional Neutrality Is Step One.
As an editorial board that has criticized the University for failing to make these statements more than perhaps any other entity, we mean it when we now say: It is time for Harvard to turn off the megaphone.