The Crimson Staff
To Rebuild Trust, Hammonds Must Resign
Since Hammonds provided misinformation regarding the highly sensitive issue of email searches, and since she violated clear policy regarding those searches, her presence at the helm of the College stands as a roadblock to rebuilding trust between students, faculty, and the administration. For the good of the University, Hammonds must resign.
Concussions at Harvard: Multimedia Feature
In recent years, the Ivy League and Harvard have made preventing and treating concussions a priority. But despite policy and culture changes, student-athletes still risk an injury that could jeopardize their futures every time they take the field for the Crimson. Because once athletes take the field of play, Harvard can’t stop people from getting hurt. And every year, the concussions keep coming.
Dirty Harry
In drafting a bill for the consideration of the full Senate, Reid stripped out the assault weapons ban promoted by Obama, reasoning that it had no chance of passage thanks to the filibuster.
Whole Milk Marriage
Today, gay couples are barred from pursuing happiness for no reason but bigotry. Tomorrow, we hope all citizens will be free to live, love, and marry as they choose.
A Misguided Choice
It is an absolute shame that College Events Board has chosen an artist whose songs feature little more than hate speech against women.
Rape Culture and the Media
CNN’s coverage of the Steubenville trial stirred outrage last week, focusing as it did on the guilty verdict’s effects on the rapists.
Recruit Diversity
Of high-achieving high school seniors, only 34 percent of those in the bottom quartile of the income distribution applied to selective college and universities as compared to 78 percent of those in the top quartile. Within this talented pool, there are 15 high-income student applications for every low-income student application.
End Cruelty for Cosmetics
A ban on animal testing for cosmetics comports with a basic sense of dignity.
A Win for Us All
Harvard rarely gets the chance to be the plucky underdog, but we certainly found ourselves in that role with our 14-seed team facing off against three-seed New Mexico.
Building a Better Housing Day
Yet it also reflects a failure to create community. Beyond Harvard-Yale—and excepting the recent historic men’s basketball run—Housing Day is one of only times this college, its social life diffuse as it is, comes together in a celebration of school spirit and tradition.
Gender, Prestige, and Something Amiss
We should ask ourselves why traditions of male ascendancy are still related to perceived prestige.
Shaken Trust
The email searches raise issues far beyond questionable email search policies and failed communication. It cuts to the core of what trust and community means at Harvard
Plague on Our House
We strongly encourage Harvard to adopt the preponderance of the evidence standard while revising its policies on sexual assault. Harvard simply owes its students better.
We Stand with Rand
We commend the senator for raising the alarm on this important aspect of civil liberty, and we fault the administration for its intransigence in clarifying its own policies.
Viva Oprah
Her extraordinary story of determination in the face of adversity, her progress in advancing the status of women and members of ethnic minorities, and her role in abating prejudice against LGBTQ Americans all make her more than qualified to speak on life’s challenges, success, and living a meaningful life in front of Harvard’s graduating class.
