Today marks the beginning of a new frontier in Harvard education. Starting today, Harvard offers CS50x: Intro to Computer Science and PH207x: Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research, to anyone in the world for free. Over 70,000 are registered for CS50x, set to complete eight problem sets, two quizzes, and … Read more
A coalition known as Students for a Just and Stable Future (SJSF) has called for the Harvard Management Company to divest from fossil fuel companies. Citing concerns about the environment and the energy industry’s outsized lobbying influence, they’ve started a campaign known as “Divest for Our Future.” Their goal is to persuade university endowments to wind … Read more
5:30 – Members of the audience are being welcomed by the chairman of the IOP’s Forums Committee. He encourages everyone to join the Twitter conversation at #Harvardsuukyi and silence all cell phones. The gathering crowd eagerly anticipates the address of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy Party. 5:31 … Read more
“How can you be a Republican vegetarian?” It’s a question I get asked a lot. And since the two do not seem that discordant to me, I find it difficult to answer. It’s like trying to answer “Why are you an arachnophobic Jew?” I hate spiders and I was bat-mitzvahed. By the way, I also … Read more
Graduation was quickly approaching, and after Will Leiter ’10 completed his thesis, no immediate threats loomed on the horizon. Though he wanted to enter politics and return to northern California, beyond that the future was uncertain. Leiter, currently a legislative aide for a California state senator, tells the HPR, “I’d counsel current seniors to not … Read more
Welcome Pre-Frosh. Do you feel psychologically inadequate or weak? Then Harvard University might be the perfect place for you. If you wish, you can go weeks or even months without reading a national newspaper, engaging in a political discussion, or talking about anything but that one Crimson editorial entitled, “On Grinding.” Perhaps you have come … Read more
As a philosophy concentrator, I have come to learn that philosophical discourse is characterized by clarity, precision and the search for truth. Many who are not interested in philosophy may find it quite pedantic to adopt such substantial focus on clarity and precision. After all, most people get the point anyway, right? It may be … Read more
Alright, prefrosh. You’ve picked up Dispatch, and in doing so have given away the fact that you’re politically inclined. At this point, it’s over. Upperclassmen from the Institute of Politics, the Harvard Political Review, the Dems, the Reps, the Independents and the issue campaigns, are all going to mob you to offer advice. Just smile, … Read more
There are two universal truths everybody knows (or thinks they know) about Harvard. The first is that people who go here are “wicked smaht,” while the second, albeit not by much, is that people who go here are wicked liberal. Even individuals who know nothing about the Ivy League, New England, or college in general … Read more
There’s been much said about the restructuring of the Harvard University Library system recently. Most campus debate and media coverage has focused on the administration’s plans to reduce the size of the library workforce. Of course, the university has a responsibility to reach a sustainable solution with its workers. However, we should not let these … Read more