Julia A. Karabolli
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Harvard Halts House Crew, Recreational Sculling After Longtime Director Retires
Harvard did not hold House crew last spring and has put its recreational sculling program on hold, leaving the future of intramural rowing uncertain after the longtime director of both programs retired last fall.
‘Six or Seven’ Shuttles: Harvard Announces Limited Transportation to Harvard-Yale, Official Tailgate at Fenway
Harvard will run only “six or seven” shuttle buses to Fenway Park for this year’s Harvard-Yale Game and the College’s official tailgate will take place inside the ballpark, Associate Dean for Student Engagement Jason R. Meier said.
New Donor Fund Aims to Ease Costs for Harvard’s Club Sports Teams
Harvard Athletics announced in August the creation of the Community Through Sports Fund, a two-part gift that will provide both endowed and immediate-use support for the University’s 50 club sports teams.
Harvard Adds $20 Hourly Fee for Tennis Court Reservations, Drawing Frustration From Students
Harvard has begun charging students $20 an hour to reserve tennis courts at the Beren Tennis Center and the Murr Center — the University’s varsity tennis facilities and the main venues for recreational play on campus.
Harvard Built an AI Academic Adviser. Here’s How It Fared.
The Crimson tested Harvard Student Compass, the College's new AI advising chatbot, and found it handled straightforward policy questions well — but that limits became clearer on the nuanced questions that usually send students to human advisers.
Decker, MacKay Race Goes More Than Three Hours Without Polling Update
The race between state Representative Marjorie C. Decker and Evan C. MacKay ’19 remained unresolved past midnight Tuesday, more than three hours after the last reported vote tally.
Markey Defeats Moulton in Democratic Primary
Incumbent Senator Ed J. Markey (D-Mass.) secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, beating Representative Seth W. Moulton ’01 (D-Mass.) after a campaign centered on generational turnover.
Harvard College Has Built Out Its Conservative Outreach. The Reception Is Divided.
Harvard College has spent two years trying to engage conservative undergraduates through new events, policies, and outreach — but students remain split on whether the effort is substantive change or just administrative damage control.
Mychal Threets Tells HGSE Graduates Their Stories Matter
Mychal Threets, a literacy advocate and newest host of Reading Rainbow, urged Harvard Graduate School of Education’s graduates to recognize their own power as educators, telling them their stories, and the ones they help tell, matter.
Alumni Physicians Pushed Harvard to Educate Athletes on CTE Risk. The University Hasn’t Responded.
A group of former Harvard athletes who are now physicians and scientists pitched the University’s sports medicine team last summer on disclosing the risk of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy to contact-sport athletes. Nearly a year later, the group says they have heard nothing back.