While Students Panic, the Gazette Praises

The courtyard in Harvard’s Eliot House, one of the 12 residential houses that undergraduates must vacate by 5:00 p.m. on March 15. Like most Harvard students, I receive an email blast every morning from the Harvard Gazette, the university’s official news source and mouthpiece. I don’t usually read it, but this morning, the email’s subject … Read more

The Demise of the Virtual Caucus

In Iowa, the first stop on the presidential campaign trail, finding a candidate is easy. Registering a preference for one is harder. Instead of casting ballots at primaries, Iowans attend precinct caucuses, which will be held this year at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 3. At these lengthy, crowded meetings, political party members gather to … Read more

Online Fever: The Subversive Social Media Activism Movement

In June 2019, Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum was rattled by a violent government crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Security forces killed and wounded hundreds of activists and protestors, most notably in the invasion of a protest camp. One 26-year-old activist, Mohamed Mattar, was reportedly shot and killed while protecting two women during the violence. In … Read more

Prisons: The New Asylums

Joshua Francisco was a construction contractor and father of two living in Missouri. In 2010, his family first observed differences in his behavior: he was manic, speaking in tongues, and not sleeping — signs of bipolar disorder, with which he was later diagnosed. As his condition worsened and his family tried to convince him to … Read more

Good Protestor, Bad Protestor

“Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!”  Anyone who has attended a protest will be quick to recognize those lines as a fixed feature of any demonstration, whether it be the Women’s March or Black Lives Matter. “The right of the people peaceably to assemble” is enshrined in the First … Read more

“Broke Kids Don’t Go to Harvard”

Last month, I made a joke on social media about wanting a discount on a product because I’m a “broke college student,” as the expression goes. By the next time I checked my phone, I had received several replies: “you look like you’ve never worked a day in your life,” “daddy’s money pays for your … Read more

Which Shows Must Go On?

Left, the sign announcing the cancellation of the remaining run of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, some of many arts events cancelled on campus. Right, the Harvard Men’s Basketball team takes on Yale on Saturday, March 7. At around 5 p.m. on March 6, the staff of Harvard’s Memorial Hall told us the news: Our spring … Read more

Performance Art as an Activist Tool

“Everything is political.” This statement is both an acknowledgement of the inherently political nature of existence in a hierarchical world and a direct quote from every person interviewed for this article. “Everything is relational, and everything has a power relation,” Amy Elizabeth Alterman, a PhD candidate in Culture and Performance at UCLA, explained in an … Read more