Columns
When A Game Is Not Just A Game
The real matter at play here is the mob mentality that Twitter can encourage. When managed properly, a Twitter account is an incredible resource. Several times a day, I find myself scrolling through the endless stream of content at my fingertips. But a low barrier to entry has its drawbacks.
Setting Off
Over the course of the semester, I will interview students from across our university’s wide-reaching immigrant community, loosely defined for the purposes of this column.
My Phone, My Lifeline
Out of options, I searched online for “free phones”, only to run into an article about “Obama Phones.” Having woken up at 9 a.m. the previous year to vote for the guy, I figured he owed me something in return.
“Are You Clean?”
There’s a broader trend in my adolescent confusion: the notion that sexuality is and can always be a form of self-expression; that it is and can always be something chosen; and that there are some more-or-less legitimate forms of it separated from the axis of consent.
Long Live the Queen
Yellen has the ability to strengthen the outlook of multiple currencies at the same time.
Extra Ordinary
A fear that first struck me during shopping week freshman year now gnaws at my mind at the open and close of each semester. I am average. I am ordinary.
Pfister and Gus
Early this semester, the administration announced that Interim Dean Donald H. Pfister will step down in July. Although Harvard fungi have probably been celebrating non-stop in anticipation of Daddy’s return, most of Harvard’s non-tremella-fuciformis-beings have expressed sadness at the approach of his departure—myself included.
Innovation Entering the Library
I applaud the library for taking steps to alleviate the massive delays experienced at closing time in Widener and virtually every hour, on the hour, during class sessions in Lamont.
A More Benign Intoxicant?
We might do well to experience the graces of a plant thought widely to combat stress, increase empathy, and spur creativity.
A Son of Liberty
President Obama’s much-anticipated speech on reforms to the runaway National Security Agency began with a bad history lesson and only got worse.
Children in the Stacks
Institutions and their rules take a long time to change, and it will be generations more before Harvard has shaken off all the remnants of many centuries of patriarchy.
A Phony and Her Boy
Certain of my friendlessness and mired in self-pity, I came home for break last year and pulled Catcher off the shelf immediately.
Pope and Change
That the world has eagerly turned to papal admiration amidst a seemingly inexorable secularization also showcases the bare desire for genuine morality in the institutions that purport to purvey it.
The Many Strains of Affluenza
We need to remember the end result of a life of ignoring the consequences of our self-absorption is deadly.
Whither the Liberal Arts at Harvard?
Not offering an accounting course somehow seems to prove our university’s commitment to the liberal arts. We will teach economic theory, not practical applications, in our classes.
