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Clyve Lawrence
Crimson opinion writer

Clyve Lawrence

Clyve Lawrence ’25 is a Government concentrator in Adams House and an editorial board columnist for the fall of 2022. His column “Our Transportation Crisis” appears on alternate Mondays.

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Harvard Finally Stood up to Trump. Our Organizing Is the Reason Why.

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

Principled student expression can strengthen, rather than undermine, Harvard’s commitment to academic and moral leadership — but only if the University works with us. In moments like this one, we join generations of students testing the boundaries of what a university can be. It is time to join that legacy.


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We Need a Paradigm Shift in Our Approach to Street Safety

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

These crashes are not tragic anomalies, but indicators that something preventable failed — and crucially, can be fixed. Through measurable and outcome-based transformations, we can reshape the streets themselves and create mobility justice.


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Will Mahmoud Khalil Make Harvard Liberals Reconsider Palestine?

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

If Harvard truly values free speech and justice, those values must be applied universally, not with hesitation but with confidence and conviction.


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Dissent: If Moderate Conservatives Are Quiet, It’s Not for Lack of Space

This isn’t to say that our campus speech culture is perfect, but the distinction here is important: Whether students want to participate politically is a completely different issue from whether they are free to do so.


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The T Is Working Again. Leaders, Don’t Hit the Brakes.

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

Great transportation creates great cities. By pursuing an affordable, sustainable, equitable, and stable MBTA, we are pursuing a future where everyone can truly enjoy what Boston has to offer.


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Opinion

Harvard Produces Political Losers

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory proved, once again, that our liberal institutions desperately failed to meet the moment.


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Vote Evan MacKay Today to Bring Bold New Leadership to the State House

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

When leaders refuse to support things we need, like housing and functional public transportation, we deserve bold new leadership.


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A University Police State Is Forming. Harvard Can’t Be Next.

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

We are facing a dangerous return to an era where we treat nonviolent demonstration as criminal activity.


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Opinion

Do Not Delay on Safe, Sustainable Mobility in Cambridge

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

We are facing a transportation crisis in Massachusetts, etched onto our streets with each tragic incident that unfolds.


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To the Editor: Joan Pickett is Not a ‘Transit Activist’

By Clyve Lawrence  • 

A “transit activist” would want to promote transit as an alternative to private vehicle usage. Joan Pickett, for all her posing, does not do that.

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