Student Life
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?
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.
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.
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.”
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
