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Harvard Professors Demand Stronger Administrative Response Amid Graduate Student Strike
At a Tuesday faculty meeting, professors voiced frustration over Harvard administrators' response to the ongoing graduate student strike. | By Pavan V. Thakkar By Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan, Crimson Staff Writers Professors voiced frustration about Harvard administrators’ response to the ongoing graduate student strike and its effects on faculty and students at a Tuesday faculty meeting. Members of Harvard’s graduate student union have been on strike since Oct.
One Week Into Strike, Graduate Student Workers Rally at University Hall, Urge Deans to Intervene
More than 200 members of Harvard's graduate student union rallied outside University Hall Tuesday, calling on University leadership to help secure a new contract amid their second strike of the year. | By Pavan V. Thakkar By José Luis Ortega Castro, Crimson Staff Writer More than 200 members of Harvard’s graduate student union rallied outside University Hall Tuesday, delivering a letter urging deans to push the University toward a contract settlement one week into their second strike of the year.
Wintersession Is a Waste of Time
240 hours, or 10 full days. That’s how much time the Harvard College calendar gives each student between the end of winter recess and the start of the spring semester. This period — called “Wintersession” — can be spent however each undergraduate pleases. When combined with the later half of winter break, January feels like a liminal waiting room until the start of a new semester, a tradition that seems hollow in purpose compared to its scale.
Dissent: The Editorial Board Oversteps Its Mandate
By Victoria L. Dolan, Heidi S. Enger, Henry F. Haidar, L.A. Karnes, Rohan Nambiar, and Catherine E.F. Previn, Crimson Opinion Writers Victoria L. Dolan ’28, an Associate Editorial Editor, is an English concentrator in Kirkland House. Heidi S. Enger ’27, a Crimson Editorial Chair, is a Social Studies Concentrator in Eliot House. Henry F. Haidar ’28, an Associate Editorial Editor, is an Applied Math concentrator in Lowell House.
On Harvard’s Birthday, Remember Our Other Founder
By Matthew R. Tobin, Crimson Opinion Writer Matthew R. Tobin ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Social Studies and Economics in Winthrop House. Happy birthday, Harvard. Who’s your daddy? Today, October 28, is Harvard’s 390th birthday. Anyone who has heard about the “statue of the three lies” knows John Harvard wasn’t the University’s founder — so who was?
Harvard’s New Climate Concentration Faces Staffing Challenges After FAS Layoffs
Harvard's new Energy, Climate, and the Environment concentration welcomed its first official cohort of students this fall, but faculty say summer staff layoffs have complicated the program's launch. | By Pavan V.
Platitudes Won’t Cure Toxic Masculinity
The discourse surrounding the recent allegations of assault at Cornell seems to be engulfed by a trite platitude: Men, in particular, need to “speak up.” Two Middlebury students argue, for instance, that “young men need to understand how to intervene when they witness sexual misconduct — and it shouldn’t be that hard.” Likewise, The Crimson’s Editorial Board that “men need to hold other men accountable.” But this clamoring for intra-male confrontation is counterproductive.
In Photos: The 61st Head of the Charles Regatta
Beginning on Friday, vendors lined the river in front of Lowell House, attracting customers to shop. Supporters of Harvard Radcliffe Rowing filled the dock of Weld Boathouse. Harvard’s men’s heavyweight top boat set the pace mid-competition, ultimately winning the Championship Eights Collegiate Division. The Harvard men’s lightweight 8+ prepares to launch, later securing its fifth consecutive win.
Fifteen Questions: Jason Rubenstein on Pluralism, Reflection, and Leadership Through Crisis
By Caroline G. Hennigan, Crimson Staff Writer Jason B. Rubenstein ’04 is the Executive Director of Harvard Hillel, as well as a graduate of Harvard College. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You said that your time at Harvard Hillel as an undergraduate had a profound impact on your life, including meeting your wife, Arielle. Can you share the story of how you met and what Hillel meant to you during those years?
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