Crimson opinion writer
Lucas T. Gazianis
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Addressing Harvard’s Attention Crisis
There is an attention crisis — one that threatens to rob us of many of the benefits of a Harvard education.
The Market for Gems: How Harvard Courses Got So Easy
It’s not easy to fix the pernicious cycle of grade inflation and the market for gems it creates.
Careerism, Curiosity, and Concentrations
Given all that Harvard has to offer, we should also be wary of the mindset that the future comes before the present.
The Missing Link
Letting students link is important — undoubtedly more for some than for others. But it’s also important to raise the low bar for transparency to which Harvard seems to hold itself.
Housing Day Midterms and the Culture of Non-Fun
Housing Day is a venerated tradition — and one that entails a really fun morning. That won’t be the case for two of us this year, as we’ll be in class, taking midterm exams at 10:30 a.m. At Harvard, with its near-constant slog, why must we sit for exams on one of the singularly most fun days of the year?
Herschel Walker Shows a Political Incentive Problem
Don’t take Herschel Walker’s candidacy as a fundamental indictment of Republican voters or the state of Georgia. Instead, focus on the system that transformed an awful candidate into a legitimate and likely choice for the Senate.
In Trust We Trust
If we can move away from the notion that those in our lives with seriously different views are bad people, fundamentally incompatible with us in civic and social life, we can both reinvigorate our political discourse and more fully realize the benefits of our diversity.
Rank and Add Voting: Do it Right, UC
The New York City Board of Elections decimated public confidence in instant-runoff voting by running a sloppy, incompetent mayoral election. The UC should avoid doing the same for Rank and Add.