Columns
My New Tutor Is ChatGPT. Here Are My Concerns.
With my ChatGPT tutor, any basic conceptual question I have is reliably answered in a couple of seconds. I am concerned by this change.
The Next Dean of Harvard College Needs To Be Fun
The repeated failures of attempts to impose on the social lives of students offers a lesson to the next dean of the College that they would be wise to heed: Show us you care but don’t overbear.
Housing a Happier Harvard
Harvard freshmen should be happy to call their dorms home. That happiness is worth the investment.
Harvard Students Should Stop Taking Extracurriculars So Seriously
Extracurriculars at Harvard must change. We all deserve a hobby.
‘Zionist’ Is Not a Slur. Harvard Students Need To Stop Using It as One.
Zionism — the movement for self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland — should not be a dirty word.
Admissions Statistics Aren’t Very Revealing. Here’s What To Look At Instead.
Look beyond attention-grabbing statistics and continue to engage this issue at the depth it requires. History will remember fondly those of us who do.
How We Got the Admissions Data Juuust Right
Today, though, I emerge from my long hibernation to run damage control on the admissions data that you all have been so eagerly awaiting.
Harvard, It’s Time for You To Explain Yourself
Harvard, I call on you to be explicit. There is still an opportunity to rectify the gaps in transparency and provide us with answers.
Say Goodbye to the Harvard Intro
Tell me anything! But please do not ask for my house and concentration.
MDs in the Ivy League: A New Prescription for University Leadership
A notable shift is unfolding within Ivy League universities: Three recently appointed presidents hold medical degrees.
One Step Forward, and the Luddites’ Risk: Generative AI at Harvard
Those who resist change play a treacherous game. The future is here. Have the courage to embrace it.
Protest Is Intellectually Vital
What are Harvard’s “normal operations,” and when does protest become an unwarranted disruption of these operations?
FSJP Blocked Me on Instagram. Are They Really Free Speech Warriors?
Now, more than ever, we must engage in conversations about the existence of antisemitism at Harvard. I can only hope that our professors will not shut us down.
Expand Legacy Admissions, Now.
There’s no doubting that Harvard’s legacy admissions system is detestable. But since administrators have shown little interest in scrapping it entirely — I say we make legacy bigger.
Bring Back Real Frozen Yogurt
They say time heals all wounds, but as a new semester begins, I am far from alone in saying I still feel this one, and the stakes are higher than mere preference.
The Irrational Progressives: Complicit in Self-Righteous Activism
Are we really gonna burn the whole thing to the ground tomorrow?
The Kind of Diversity Harvard Doesn’t Care About
Harvard’s commitment to diversity seems to stop short of ideology.
Harvard, Release The Data
Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Dudley House and an organizer with the African and African American Resistance Organization (AFRO).
Embrace Intellectual Vitality, Don’t Dismiss It
College is the time for us to refine our personal, unique beliefs on the world. Let’s embrace these years with best intentions, good faith, and exploration, rather than closed mindedness.
GenEds Have the Right Idea. Here’s Why We Should Abolish Them Anyway.
There’s an even better place to find a myriad of diverse, specialized courses: the rest of Harvard’s course catalog.
To Be a Harvard Man
It shouldn’t be so difficult to say “I write about transgender issues at Harvard.” But as simple as they sound, these seven words make a whole world of difference.
Clubs, Classes, Houses: When Survivors of Sexual Assault Can’t Avoid Their Assaulters
Students shouldn’t have to trade the clubs and Houses they love for safety and peace of mind.
Sections Are Way Too Big
Our sections are too large, and students lose a lot of learning as a result.
If It Rights the Ship, Harvard Can Inform a New Renaissance
There are two kinds of people at Harvard: The people who help earn its reputation, and the people who live off it. With a combination of grace and grit, we can all be the former.