For college students, issues of identity, origins, and the future are, admittedly, sensitive subjects.

Students of various genders, races, and cultural backgrounds gathered last night to discuss questions of queer and ethnic identity.

The Harvard Foundation named multi-platinum artist Wyclef Jean the 2010 Artist of the Year during its 25th annual Cultural Rhythms show on Saturday.

When Greta M. Solinap ’13 was applying to Harvard last fall, she asked her classmate’s older sister, Diana C. Robles ’10, for advice. They had overlapped for a year at Nogales High School in Nogales, Ariz. and had kept in touch sporadically since then, but Solinap did not know Robles was the Mexican-American coordinator for Harvard’s Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program.

The college’s Educational Policy Committee has just approved a new Secondary Field, one for which students have been advocating since ...