5:47PM: Zeenia Framroze here at the Kennedy School’s Forum featuring a public address by The Honorable Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil. The event looks packed – tickets were lotteried amongst the Harvard community, and it looks like everyone who got a ticket has shown up. I’m here with Sarah Siskind, who will be analyzing the … Read more
When Harvard announced that Army ROTC would return to campus, joining its Navy counterpart, the campus seemed to give little notice to the news. Granted, even the protests against the Naval ROTC program’s return had been quite tepid, especially compared to the raucous building occupations and protests that occurred in 1969. Yet, it seems that … Read more
HPR Staff Writers discuss the possibility of a partnership between Harvard and India. Other topics include the state of India’s education system, and the country’s efforts to build an innovative, knowledge-driven economy. [powerpress] Further reading: Harvard Says, “Namaste!” by Zeenia Framroze The Case for Harvard Abroad by Sam Finegold
Students and community members gather at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, to protest for Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old teenager who was killed on Feb. 26. By 6:15 p.m., over 100 protesters assembled at the Harvard Square T stop. A student from Tufts University shares her family’s experience with racial profiling in south Florida. … Read more
A few weeks ago, I got an invitation from the Harvard Undergraduate Research Association to join the Science Table. The table bills itself as a “revolution against procrastination.” Students can simultaneously check their problem sets and eat—not wasting precious moments of the day on non-instrumental activity. Still, HURA’s homework table is actually not much different … Read more
Joshua Lipson is the Senior World Editor of the Harvard Political Review. He and Beth are co-presidents of Harvard Students for Israel, writing on behalf of the group. The Harvard Political Review is a nonpartisan political review and a platform for student writing at Harvard. Watch this space for a letter of response from the … Read more
A response to the following article by two of the Race Relations Tutors in Kirkland House can be found here. Harvard University prides itself on its ability to foster a vibrant community of students spanning countless racial, ethnic, and national groups. University President Drew Gilpin Faust outwardly aims to make Harvard an institution where … Read more
Special Note: This response has been written by and is being posted on behalf of Sa’ed Atshan and Scott Poulson-Bryant, Race Relations Tutors in Kirkland House As the Kirkland House Race Relations Tutors, we are writing to correct the factual inaccuracies written by Naji Filali in his recent Harvard Political Review piece, “When Political Correctness is … Read more
The Winter 2011 issue of the Harvard Political Review took on a topic often overlooked by the mainstream media: the Constitution. Despite forming the framework for what goes on in Washington, the Constitution incites little discussion as a gateway to some of the solutions. This past Thursday, the HPR invited Professor Lawrence Lessig, Director of … Read more
My mother insisted I wear my Harvard sweatshirt on the flight home to Bombay. “If you get lost, which you probably will, people will know you’re a college student and help you!” she had said, beaming. So, clothed in crimson, I waited along the aisles to disembark at the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport. A boy … Read more