Editorials
A Courageous Career
The first U.S. ambassador killed in over two decades also led a career that should stand as a model for idealism and success in a public service career.
Dining Delight
HUDS’ expanded vegetarian options and soymilk dispensers are thus not just beneficial to vegetarians. A reduced dependence on animal-based foods helps all students protect the Earth, eat more healthfully, and expand their palates.
Crack Down on Rape
The Harvard University Police Department, the CPD, and—most importantly—the wider Harvard community should focus their energies more on preventing rape and harassment than on a fruitless attempt to head off underage drinking.
Conducive to Cheating
We ought to ask ourselves what circumstances, contexts, and pressures are most conducive to dishonest behavior, so that we can diminish them.
An Even More Exciting Fair
We wish first-years the best of luck in their search for student organizations to join—and hope that you all discover, sooner rather than later, that you should really just comp The Crimson.
Talk, Seek, and Offer Help
Each member of the Harvard community should feel comfortable discussing and seeking help for any mental health issue they face.
Clinton and the Facts
Clinton’s approach is exemplary of the kind of honesty that our discourse needs. This is not the phony moderation adopted by so many pundits who crave a veneer of credibility at the expense of factual accuracy, but rather a robust, honest, and, yes, political defense of his party’s vision for America.
My, Oh My.Harvard
As online technology becomes an increasingly greater part of student’s lives, Harvard has an obligation to keep its resources up-to-date and user-friendly.
Red and Undead
By challenging the status quo when the situation demands it, student journalists can have a real and positive impact over the world they are a part of.
The Death of Data
The proliferation of think tanks, policy organizations, and other quantitative-heavy institutions has given rise to a torrent of new research beholden to a specific ideology.
Release the Statistics
Our administration is woefully tight-lipped when it comes to providing the community with critical information on sexual assaults, especially location.
Delineating Dishonesty
The definition of collaboration has become increasingly nebulous, and the difference between acceptable and unacceptable collaboration even more so.
Emerging from the Shadow
With the events of September 11 now more than a decade behind us, it seems at times as if the wound has scarcely healed.
Expanding Education
Harvard has attempted over the course of the last year, more seriously than before, to use the Internet to make its prodigious resources more widely available.
A More Uncertain Future
While we are all conscious of the deep, visible psychological effects felt around us and our families by the Great Recession, it is a point less often made that the Class of 2012 has had a rather unique experience with economic crisis.
