Over the course of this semester, this column will explore inhumane aspects of the criminal legal system, sometimes proposing alternatives and sometimes just bearing witness to these practices and spreading awareness of them. I hope you will join me.
As we proceed with our first full semester on campus, we must consider what we owe to those who did not make it. Be compassionate. Wear a mask. Stick to your testing schedule. Don’t just do it because it’s required — do it for the people you may never meet, in hopes that they, too, might make it. It’s what we owe to those that didn’t make it.
There must be solidarity between Harvard student workers and their peers. Consider laying down your laptops and joining your fellow students on the picket line.
Though progressive education can sometimes feel hyper-idealistic from the outset, the movement represents a necessary reimagining, revitalization, and reprioritization of postsecondary education.
If there are clubs whose missions we disagree with, we should be inspired to speak up, or start our own organizations. At the end of the day, the decision behind who gets to talk and how is just one big balancing game — and the scale should never fully tip to one side.
Now, amid a pandemic, student mental health presents an increasingly alarming crisis. How the university, the people within it, and the culture inhabiting it respond to this crisis holds great consequences for the wellbeing of our student body.
The conversation around critical race theory has been manufactured for the benefit of conservative activists and their ideals. It is a dangerous endeavor that will lead to censorship of true American history and further a narrative of American exceptionalism in classrooms and beyond.
In today’s environment of strict partisanship, academic campuses should be looking for every opportunity to invite a diverse range of speakers, and they should be encouraging openness and dialogue, not censorship and one-sidedness.
The pandemic proves to be a time that corners the arts in a hitherto unseen predicament. While the duration of the pandemic’s effects remains unknown and unpredictable, arts education must work around its technical and physical limitations, shifting the emphasis of its teachings from traditional repetition and performance to active engagement with society, and creating new opportunities for the future.
In an effort to accurately survey the political beliefs of Harvard College students, the Harvard Political Review collaborated with the Harvard Open Data Project and sent out a poll to the undergraduate body in mid-March. Over 235 responses were collected.
