Op Eds
Evaluating Affirmative Backlash
Affirmative action is by no means a comprehensive solution to addressing racial or gender inequality, but it is an important element not because it gives “unfair” advantage to one demographic but because it takes away “unfair” advantage from another.
Why Immigration Reform Needs to Happen Now
With over 11 million undocumented immigrants providing crucial labor to the American economy, particularly in agriculture, our society’s pursuit of a policy of family-disrupting deportations simply to enforce widely ignored, ill-thought-through laws is unconscionable.
Us and Them
It does not take a genius to understand that photographing a group of Harvard students in a staged act of charity next to a homeless person, as if he were a prop, is wrong.
Visiting Students as Campus Commuters?
Asking the VUS to pay for housing would suit both Harvard´s need for funding and fulfill the wishes of VUS to become full members of the community.
For Dallas, a Day of Reflection
Yes, our city bears responsibility for tolerating political extremism in the early 1960s, and we've coped with the deepest form of regret and ambivalence for five decades. But Dallas has become a city of great diversity and in many ways is emblematic of our country's future.
Letter to the Editor
Respectful dissent is welcomed; indeed, it is through it, and not through accusations of racism, that we show the civilized nature that we as Americans and Harvard students have.
Concentration: Are You Ready?
As the deadline for declaring concentrations loomed, my uncertainty grew, and by the time email reminders were being sent out about plans of study I no longer had any inkling what I wanted to do with my life, let alone my time at Harvard.
Dawkins Is Not Great
Modern atheism suffers from the same problem. Once its visionary founding father, Richard Dawkins has now far outlived his usefulness to the atheist movement. In fact, the continued presence of his firebrand anti-theism is hampering and damaging our movement.
Why I Don't Party
Parties are the most obvious arenas for socializing, but they aren’t the best places to cultivate a friendship.
Closing the Gates and Opening the Conversation
Two years out, many former Occupy Harvard participants challenge the notion that Occupy “failed.”
The Crime of Wanting a Better Life
Along with the many seen, there were many unseen sacrifices my parents made to come here—their communication with family, their livelihoods in Mexico, their careers, their friendships.
Torture and the Harvard Man
The United States Senate recently produced a massive report assessing the merits of “enhanced interrogation”—America’s euphemism for torture—which sits classified and unpublished in a Capitol Hill vault.
Support Gender-Neutral Housing
In 1970, Harvard finally committed to gender integration of the Houses. Forty years later, we’re still fighting for the right to choose our roommates.
Give Me a Head With Hair
But, broadly speaking, self-acceptance is not my style—I prefer slowly and painfully to analyze (and hopefully eliminate) my flaws.
