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Harvard’s Plan to Freeze Custodian Wages is Cruelly Hypocritical

By Charles M. Covit
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Harvard’s solving its financial challenges on the backs of low-wage, likely largely minority custodial workers would be wrong in any case. But when one considers how Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy has exploded in recent years, their treatment looks cruelly hypocritical.

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Harvard’s Fall Calendar Is Failing Students

By L.A. Karnes
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A chaotic calendar produces shallow understanding, rushed work, and an academic culture driven by survival instead of curiosity.

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The Need for a Harvard Sandwich Guy

For a campus that prides itself on innovation, we’ve failed to innovate where it matters most: meeting people's basic everyday needs. Harvard needs a student-run service economy — not startups chasing VC funding, but rather small, informal businesses run by students, for students.

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Sober Up, Harvard

Sober people should party more — and party people should try being more sober.

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  1. The Editorial Board's Guide to The 2024 Board of Overseers Election
  2. Allston Is Gentrifying, but Harvard Isn’t To Blame
  3. Harvard Must Learn Its Lesson. Institutional Neutrality Is Step One.
  4. We’re Really Sorry About That Antisemitic Cartoon, Guys
  5. Harvard Admissions Should Be More Meritocratic

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What’s the Point of a Survey Without Results?

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At the end of the day, the HUA and Election Commission should be in the business of responding to the student body’s views — not trying to cover them up.

The Skeletons in Summers’s Closet

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If Harvard wants to quash the culture that allowed Epstein and Summers to operate with impunity, it has to demonstrate that even its most decorated figures aren’t untouchable.

Harvard’s Finances Are Dire — But We Can’t Cut Our Academic Mission

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In a time of crushing financial pressure, cuts will always draw blood. But it’s hard to see how Harvard can claim to safeguard its teaching and research mission while letting go of staff who formed its backbone — especially when other corners of the University seem more ripe for clipping.

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Institutional Neutrality Is Good for the Left

Institutional neutrality is riddled with contradictions, unfairly applied, and frequently breached. Left-wing critics are rightly frustrated by these inconsistencies. But if institutional neutrality disappeared tomorrow, they’d miss it.

The First Epstein Report Ignored Summers. Harvard Must Do Better.

How could Harvard have allowed this production of Hamlet without the Prince? And will it now commit to a practice that will not protect the elite among us, while shaming those not quite elite enough?

Affordable Housing is Not Optional

Unhoused people, and those who have experienced homelessness, are a real part of our community. We have an obligation to support and defend their access to housing, even more so when it comes so callously under attack.

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Public Opinion Won't Save Harvard From Trump

What will kill us is having half the country’s political establishment treat eliminating Harvard as a defining political mission — especially since the public won’t be coming to the rescue any time soon.

When Harvard Cuts from the Bottom to Protect the Top

The image of a working class fighting for basic support from the richest university in the world bears an eerie resemblance to a century-old scandal: Harvard is more than willing to sacrifice the most vulnerable members of its community, trading the livelihoods of its workforce for its own bottom line.

I Was In the HUA. The Election Commission Is Breaking the Rules.

Democracy depends on accountability and transparency. It’s the minimum standard for legitimacy. As long as the Election Commission withholds the survey results, the student body is right to withhold its trust.