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Second, there is a political issue to consider. In recent years, the Boston and Cambridge city councils—both strongly Democratic and pro-union—have passed living wage resolutions. In doing so, they have repeatedly asked Harvard (and other local colleges and universities) to follow their example...
“The city had no backup plan, and people just got forced out of the city,” Iskovitz says, adding that the City Council did not do enough to offset the upward pressure on rents that followed the abolition of rent control.
The sad truth, however, is that Summers was overly optimistic. Not only do many Harvard students lack the necessary literacy in the natural sciences, students can and do graduate from the College without encountering either Shakespeare or Kant—and without a basic understanding of or exposure to many...
As the science curriculum is revised, the humanities cannot be left behind. Though the abolition of the Core and its replacement with a distribution requirement would be a significant step toward improving undergraduate education at Harvard, it should not be the only step. It is entirely possible to meet all...
Although we have become accustomed to Harvard standard-issued bathrooms of white porcelain bowls, institutional black seats, and the need for shower shoes to protect us from those communally transferable infections which may be lurking in the grout of our showers, there exists to this day a haven of tranquility...