Student Life
10 Harvard-Themed Halloween Costumes
Mid-October means the end of warm weather and the start of midterm season for most Harvard students—but that's no reason for distress. With Halloween right around the corner, now's the time take a break from studying or despairing about the cold to come up with the perfect costume idea. With that in mind, here are ten suggestions for Harvard-themed costumes that will help you showcase your school spirit. 1. John Adams, Class of 1755 If you have an old white wig lying around, now is the time to dust it off. 2. John Harvard's Boot Exactly like what it sounds like. Golden sheen is optional. 3. Jeremy Lin '10 Acquire a trio of Lin jerseys from his days with the Harvard Crimson, the New York Knicks, and the Houston Rockets, and go with a couple friends as the past, present, and future of Harvard's biggest sports star. Be sure to make jokes about taking your talents to Harvard Square.
Harvard's 2nd Sex Week Kicks Off With Spoken Word
“I wrote this poem immediately post-sex,” said Yazmin Monet Watkins, spinning playfully in a circle at the front of the room. “I don’t feel the need to dance around the issue. We’re talking about sex here.”
Yazmin Monet Watkins
Yazmin Monet Watkins performing a number of poems from her collection of stories on sexual identities for Sex Week's Love Without Limits on Sunday evening, October 21, 2012.
Harvard's Hova Problem
According to a recent article in Business Insider, Chanequa N. Campbell was clashing with Harvard administrators long before they knew her as one of two former undergrads with possible links to the Kirkland shooting of 2009.
Vegetarian Guide to Harvard Square
Being a vegetarian doesn’t mean you have to limit your diet to tofu and tomatoes. Follow this delectable guide to vegetarian cuisine in Harvard Square. Of course, meat lovers are welcome to hop on board as well.
Housing Problems, FAS Deficit, and Harvard Prep
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Four Ways to Ask a Professor to Faculty Dinner
Scared of rejection? Don't want to spend another Faculty Dinner eaten stolen d-hall cereal alone in your dorm room? Fear not! We've got your back with a few foolproof proposals to guarantee your professor won't say "no" (or "who are you?").
PBHA Honors Cortes for Service
The Philip Brooks House Association honored Co-Director of Industrial Areas Foundation Ernesto Cortes, Jr., on Friday for his work as a community organizer through IAF, which provides leadership development for the politically disenfranchised.
Shopping Envy at Princeton, Less School at Yale, and a Lyrical Cunundrum at Cornell
The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too). Though Tigers in years past have chosen to poke fun at Harvard students for our less-than-universal access to hot breakfast, they're not laughing anymore. Now, in fact, they wish they were us. A recent news story in the "Daily Princetonian" berated Princeton's lack of a shopping period at the start of the semester, listing Harvard as the primary example of a place that does it right. We may not get to eat pork rolls for breakfast, but who needs those when we can use all the money we're saving on add/drop fees and spend it on hot breakfast in the Square?
What Not to Miss this Parents Weekend
You can recognize them by the crimson buttons proudly displayed on their chests—parents have been flooding into the yard since early Friday morning. Freshman Parents Weekend is finally here. Many students may rejoice at the opportunity of spending some time with their parents, from whom they parted two long months ago. But for others, Parents Weekend signals a last minute room cleaning session and a low-key Friday night. Despite the rich compilation of events designed by the Office of Student Life, it might be hard to choose what to do. Here are five things freshmen and parents should not miss.
Five Reasons to Partake in Crimson Madness
This Saturday marks the official start of the 2012-13 campaign for the Harvard men’s basketball team. And for the second straight year, students can be a part of the first official team practice, as Crimson Madness takes over Lavietes Pavilion.
John Harvard, Late Nights at Lamont, and Condom Delivieries
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Venn Diagram: Midterms and Midriffs
Midterms and midriffs: Wish you could switch bodies to score well.
The Crimson Weatherboard's Weekly Weather Review
I’d stay home and babysit my sister while mother would go off and sweat on sad middle-aged men who weren’t my father. The sweat would bead like rain drops on a car window.
Harvard Sex Week: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
At the beginning of this academic year, every Harvard freshman received a flyer under his door inviting him to participate in the planning of this year’s “Sex Week.”
Harvard Students for Education Reform (SFER), a new program that started this fall, presents A Workshop with Fred Jones, author of Tools for Teaching and a leader in education teaching strategies. Jones addresses key strategies that teachers can use to help children learn on Tuesday at Sever Hall.
Outings and Innings Offers Cheaper Movie Tickets
Still miffed about the closing of the AMC Loews Harvard Square 5 back in July? Harvard's Outings & Innings office can help ease the pain of that five-mile trek to the AMC Boston Common 19 with their reduced-price movie tickets.
Harvard Students for Education Reform (SFER), a new program that started this fall, presents A Workshop with Fred Jones, author of Tools for Teaching and a leader in education teaching strategies. Jones demonstrates successful teaching methods by having audience members fold paper airplanes on Tuesday at Sever Hall.
Senior Committee Finalized
The Harvard Alumni Association announced the remaining members of the Senior Class Committee, a microcosm of the Class of 2013 that includes best friends, students who had never met before, and six HoCo co-chairs.
Students Discuss Mental Health Through Spoken Word, Dance, Conversation
In an effort to break the silence on an often-stigmatized topic, members of the Harvard community gathered to share experiences with mental illness through spoken word, interpretive dance, and candid conversations at Friday night’s second-annual “Words on the Mind” open mic night.
At Harvard, It's Getting Better
When Brandy A. L. Machado ’14 began her freshman year, she told herself she would never come out of the closet. It took Machado an entire semester to decide that she would finally share her secret.