On January 21, the former managing director of the Harvard-owned timber company Scolopax SRL was detained on charges of money laundering and corruption in Romania. According to Romanian prosecutors, Dragoș Lipan Secu and his wife accepted bribes including a Crysler Sebring, a vacation to the Canary Islands, and $1.3 million in exchange for purchasing forest … Read more
For the HPR’s photo essay of the demonstration, click here. Sarah Cole ’16 serves as one of the core organizers of the Diversity Report, a campus-wide movement that organized a demonstration called “We Are Here” in the Science Center Plaza on April 27, 2014. Harvard Political Review: What motivated you to organize this demonstration? Sarah Cole: To give … Read more
Newton North High School’s March production of the play “Thoroughly Modern Millie” sparked controversy throughout the Greater Boston community over what some saw as insensitive racial stereotyping. Many Asian members of the community were particularly hurt and offended by the play. The responses to the controversy were varied: some students at Newton North defended the … Read more
Alright, prefrosh. Upperclassmen from the Institute of Politics, the Harvard Political Review, the Dems, the Reps, the third parties, and the issue campaigns have all mobbed you in efforts to recruit you to their organization. Listen to their spiels if you’d like, but know that you are holding what is indisputably the most accurate guide … Read more
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart.” While this famous saying may unfairly mock a young conservative’s ideology, it reflects a widely-accepted truth: young people, by and large, are liberal. And young, educated people—college students—are the most liberal of all. This raises the question: what happens to local government when you … Read more
No less than one hundred and sixty thousand hectares of land in Northern Columbia are treeless due to neighboring coal mines, Freddy Lozano from the Colombian National Union of Workers in the Coal Industry told me last weekend. In West Virginia, three-fourths of the water is unfit to swim in due to heavy metal poisoning. … Read more
As the push for fossil fuel divestment gains momentum across the country, most institutional decision makers are resisting the call to sell off investments in coal and petroleum (though there have been several brave exceptions). Harvard President Drew Faust wrote an open letter last week reaffirming her administration’s position against divestment and promoting weaker routes … Read more
I am just a freshman here at Harvard, and one of those poor inductivist freshmen that have nothing but a few months of college experience to look back to when they attempt to make sense of what is going on around them. Nevertheless, it is no overstatement to say that a lot has happened just … Read more
Since 1982, women in the United States have earned close to ten million more college degrees than men. Graduating with close to 60 percent of all associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the United States each year, women appear to have conquered the obstacles that once loomed over their educational pursuits. Yet despite these … Read more
What is it like to work for Harvard? Thanks to successful worker-initiated and student-supported campaigns, workers here on campus have generally secured strong unions, living wages, and impressive contracts. Yet at the Harvard-owned and Hilton-managed DoubleTree Hotel just across the river in Allston, workers have reported chronic pain and debilitating injuries from overwork, poverty-level wages, … Read more