Crimson opinion writer

Matthew R. Tobin

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It’s My Right To Pull an All-Nighter, Canvas.

As we recover from our fifteen hours without Canvas, we should reflect on how sites like these affect our lives and those around us — for better and for worse. All I ask is this: Professors, please extend a little compassion to us students and give us back our evenings.


Losing (It): The Small Spectacle of Student Government

We relegate our classmates to mere voters, pawns in our political games. We debate in front of a nearly nonexistent audience for an election where most students don’t even vote. The emperor doesn’t know he wears no clothes.


I Was Wrong About Denaming Winthrop. Here’s Why.

But in the meantime, perhaps the silver lining of Winthrop’s “non-denaming denaming” is that we can each remember what Harvard used to — and still chooses to — honor.


With Discipline Changes, Harvard Listened to Trump — Not Students

Harvard’s discipline problem starts with who’s missing from the room. Until students win seats at the table and presidential decree is swapped for participatory governance, inconsistent justice simply becomes consistent injustice.


When They Go Low, We Go DEI

Unless Harvard is willing to say that it does not care, it must act to support DEI. But until our University makes its support public and concrete, we shouldn’t assume it does.


This Housing Day, Dename Winthrop House

As soon as Winthropians stormed my dorm, I started praying the house would be renamed before I graduated, maybe to DuBois House, Winthrop (Perkins Boynton) House, or even Adams House II.