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Sylvia A. Langer

Sylvia A. Langer ’28, an Associate Editorial editor, is a Molecular and Cellular Biology concentrator in Currier House.

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Opinion

The Robber Barons Are Back

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

When the AI bubble finally bursts, the Harvard dropout will have nothing to worry about. But what will happen to everyone else?


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Opinion

Dissent: Give the HUA a Chance

Yes, the HUA is in need of deep, substantive reform to consistently uphold its ideal. But abolishing the HUA, without an alternative, sets student interests back.


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Elitism Is Eating Harvard Alive

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

The ivory tower is crumbling. Instead of scrambling to pick up the pieces, let it fall.


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When Harvard Cuts from the Bottom to Protect the Top

The image of a working class fighting for basic support from the richest university in the world bears an eerie resemblance to a century-old scandal: Harvard is more than willing to sacrifice the most vulnerable members of its community, trading the livelihoods of its workforce for its own bottom line.


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Recentering Academics Demands a Revolution

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

As students seek an avenue to respond to the turmoil before them, Harvard’s curriculum must adapt – or risk becoming obsolete altogether.


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Institutional Neutrality Is Impossible. Harvard Must Accept That Fact.

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

For Harvard, institutional neutrality is a convenient cop-out. In the face of intense public, political, and financial scrutiny, urging the University to pick a side, it can remove itself from the equation entirely. Meanwhile, Harvard’s partisanship lurks in the decisions it inevitably has to make.


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Harvard Has Lost Its Moral Compass

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

Harvard could have remained steadfast in the fight for a brighter future, but instead chose to prove its own intellectual fragility. It caved to the current political moment, rapidly reorienting its beliefs to best serve its own financial interests.


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What the Empty Basement in Canaday Says About Harvard

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

While the quiet dismantling of the Women's Center and other spaces might sound like mere bureaucratic restructuring it reveals an unspoken yet potent truth: Harvard couldn’t care less about its own students.


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Opinion

Where Did All the Radicals Go?

By Sylvia A. Langer  • 

As a university renowned for intellectual discourse and cutting-edge research, we should not exist as an isolated echo chamber or apolitical island, but rather an institution that actively engages with our local community and our world.

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