Many more institutions will face the same difficult choice as Harvard in the coming four years. I urge them to consider this: Your money is only as valuable as what it buys.
The idea of “Personal Trash” can be both ambiguous and frustrating to Harvard students and Harvard staff, but it is also a classification that benefits both groups overall. A clean, working, and synergetic community requires maintenance efforts on both sides.
HGSU’s most recent contract offers many improvements for academic student workers at Harvard, but more is needed to best support the unique needs of undergraduates in these roles. What should be prioritized in the next round of bargaining?
Educational inequity has negatively impacted public schools in Massachusetts for decades. By implementing “controlled choice” and other initiatives, has the Cambridge public school system finally solved the problem?
Neo-imperialism — defined as the economic, political, and legal abuse by western nations over the global south — is also something that the CIA has successfully and dangerously facilitated on a routine basis, oftentimes with Harvard's help.
Through gentrification fueled by a land ownership monopoly and a tax-exempt designation, Harvard has contributed to the housing crisis that perpetuates the cycles of poverty, substance use, and systemic racism.
The killing of civilians, whether in Israel, in Gaza, or anywhere else in the world is an unfathomable tragedy, an indefensible crime. In failing to acknowledge this entirely, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, and all who stood by their statement, showed a disregard for the most fundamental principles of human rights.
