Op Eds
Harvard Should Follow Its Own Lead and Engage with the Protesters
We are the four Harvard Law students who participated in the 2001 sit-in during the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. It would be sensible and strategic for the University to act in good faith again today.
We Occupied the Harvard President’s Office. We Didn’t Face Involuntary Leave.
When we occupied Mass. Hall, we got awards. When today’s protesters occupied the Yard, they got suspended. Harvard should stop the double standard.
Is Garber Treating the Encampment Fairly? 11 Former Harvard Activists Weigh In.
As the University has taken more and more stern action against the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine protesters, many members of HOOP’s coalition have asked: Is this fair? History can offer an answer. In this special package, we present four pieces from organizers of protest movements across the decades at Harvard reflecting on how their activism — and the administration’s response — compare to today's demonstrations. —Tommy Barone ’25 and Jacob M. Miller ’25
Harvard, Do Not Punish Calls for Justice
Harvard, do not punish your students for standing up for justice, peace, and equality — values that Harvard professes and has followed in the past.
The Past is Present: Four Decades of Anti-Apartheid University Struggles
Backlash against student actions calling for divestment from Israel is a testament to their importance. Let us remember that the protests against apartheid succeeded.
1985 Commencement Protest Arrest
Graduating protester led away by police at 1985 College Commencement.
35,000 People Dead; Harvard Suspends Students Instead
No disciplinary consequence will stand between us and our commitment to a liberated Palestine.
Navigating Speech Across Different Roles
My hope is that our students might both choose to prioritize their student roles by voluntarily departing the camp and reconsider how they exercise their civic duty.
The Case Against Negotiation
Those who urge the president to negotiate with the “encampers” seek instead to circumvent all of these institutions, effectively replacing them with a wholly unaccountable and unrepresentative ad hoc committee composed of individuals invited to the “meaningful dialogue.” The consequence would be to disenfranchise the vast majority of our community who would be excluded from these negotiations.
What Have We Taught? Harvard Courses Are Academic, Not Ideological.
Harvard faculty and students are divided on many issues facing the University today. Yet despite these divisions, I hope we can always unite around an unwavering commitment to intellectual integrity, academic rigor, and good faith dialogue — foundational values for all research institutions.
We are Harvard Alumni. We Stand in Solidarity with Harvard’s Liberated Zone and a Free Palestine.
We are organizers with Harvard Alumni for Palestine appalled by the University’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people and its repression of pro-Palestine, anti-war student voices.
Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Have to Stop Weakening Their Cause
I believe Israel is committing atrocious war crimes in Gaza, but the pro-Palestine coalition has managed to make itself so incredibly difficult to support.
Suspending Student Protesters Would Be a Palestine Exception to Free Speech
A good case can be made that the latest generation of student protesters have been unusually restrained. And yet only today’s student protesters face a mass suspension.
Why Harvard Faculty Should Reject a Faculty Senate
Let us not be seduced by a slogan or model for which there is at best weak evidence of general efficacy — much less any evidence of clear suitability for an institution of Harvard’s well-earned and time-tested preeminence.
Have Harvard Students Become More Progressive? I Used Data To Find Out.
Students — at least, those who write opinion articles for college papers — have, in fact, become more progressive along almost every possible axis.
Harvard’s Mental Health System Is Dehumanizing
When Harvard treats students as liabilities, it sends a clear signal to those who need care: There may not be a place for you here.
What To Do When People Use Free Speech Poorly
The biggest mistake of all is when we assume that speech protections mean there is nothing we can do about permissible but bad speech.
From a Former FAS Dean: It’s Time To Rethink Harvard’s Governance
Few corporate boards would survive such performance.
I Grew up Near Columbia. Harvard Cannot Repeat Shafik’s Mistake.
To President Garber, my message is simple: Remember Black and brown Cambridge and Allston in your decision making.
For Our Sake and The Middle East’s, Harvard’s Protesters Should Stop Grabbing Headlines
Every day that the headlines focus on the antics of Harvard students is a day that they do not focus on Gaza.
Not All Permissible Speech is Good
Just because you can say it doesn’t mean you should. Whether our campus relationships are healthy depends on choices we make about how we advocate our views.
The Case for Leaving Protesters Be
Coercive force will not make anybody happy because it will not accomplish anyone’s goals, even those who most want to see the protesters gone.
Antisemitism at Harvard Is Real. That’s Why It Needs Jewish Students.
Antisemitism at Harvard is not a new phenomenon. It is rooted in our institution.
How Dare You Reinterpret Our Religion for Us?
Let me be clear: You can’t tell Jewish people how to be Jewish.