Ginny C. Fahs
Learning From Occupy
This year's student activists, many of whom participated in Occupy Harvard in fall 2011, say they have a complicated relationship with the old movement. They have simultaneously exploited the consciousness and connections that emerged on campus as a result of Occupy Harvard while trying to improve on the shortcomings of last year’s activism. In doing so, they have gained what Occupy Harvard never could—the support of students and administrators.
A Cultivated Partnership
In January 2014 Menino will step down from the Boston mayorship, a post he has held since 1993. The city’s longest-serving mayor, Menino has collaborated with Harvard through four serving presidents, land purchases in Allston, and the rise of online education.
Classes In The Yard By Day, Music In The Square By Night: Tom Rush '63
It started with a ukulele. Tom Rush ’63-64 was ten when his cousin Beau taught him how to play. Rush says that his prior five years of piano lessons had been torture, but on the ukulele, he had fun. Soon, Rush graduated to the baritone ukulele, an instrument that “felt pretty manly” compared to its predecessor, and before long he was strumming a guitar.
Assessing the Outrage: A Comparative Approach to Mental Health at Harvard
Responding effectively to questions of mental health necessitates an in-depth, comparative approach. Programs and policies implemented at peer schools, in addition to input from mental health experts across the nation, shed light on the status of Harvard’s own mental health practices.
Compline
Compline: root, Latin: complentorium; the completion of a working day. The chapel opens its mouth to believers, flinging open its cavernous sanctuary to usher in the night and its children for worship. And the children come: faces glowing and slanted down, boots knocking on the wooden floor with each step
Spring Break Postcard: St. Patrick’s Day in Boston
The MBTA worker who sweeps the platform at the Andrew T stop is dressed for the occasion: He wears a ...
10 Questions with Melissa Block
On March 11, FM sat down with National Public Radio journalist and host Melissa J. Block ’83 before her lecture, ...
A Letter to the Class of 2016
The memories of Housing Day morning can only be contained in blasts of experience. You’ll wake to discordant chants around the John Harvard statue. You’ll watch triumphant Houses taking laps around the Yard.
Can Harvard Women Have It All?
In 2013, the national debate regarding the equality of women in the workplace still rages.
Modern Love: My Secret Admired
I have always wanted a secret admirer. In high school my friend Millie had one. As we were assembling our ...
The Cost Of Becoming A Real Woman
It’s day 29 of being home for winter break, and I am starting to get a taste of what it’s going to take to become a real woman living in the real world. I have high hopes of eventually being employed someday. If it happens, it will be magical.
Tibet Freedom Vigil
6:35 p.m. An old man sits and hums to himself in the Pit by the Harvard T-stop. Resting on his ...
For Alumni in Atlanta, A Kwanzaa Party
On Thursday evening, the Harvard Club of Georgia and the Harvard Black Alumni Society hosted the Kwanzaa Party, an annual alumni event that organizers say is unique to Atlanta.
