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In Photos: 38th Annual Cultural Rhythms Showcase

On Saturday, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations held its 38th annual Cultural Rhythms Showcase, featuring performances from 10 student cultural groups. The event also honored ...
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How Lesley University Descended Into Crisis

Nearly five years later and 15 months into Steinmayer’s “Better Lesley” plan, low-enrollment programs have been cut, a $100 million campus renovation plan to consolidate and sell unused buildings is ...
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Harvard Academics Talk Industrial, Technological Development in China at Dean’s Symposium

Panelists discussed Chinese energy policy, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and leader priorities at the fourth Dean’s Symposium on Social Science Innovations on Thursday. Titled “China in Focus ...
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MacArthur ‘Genius’ McMillan Cottom Talks Black Identity, Pop Culture, and Women’s Rights at Radcliffe Lecture

Author and 2020 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Tressie McMillan Cottom discussed Black identity, pop culture, and restrictions on women’s rights during a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for ...
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‘Stabilizing in the New Normal’: Harvard Square Adapts to Post-Pandemic Challenges

For Koushik “Babu” Koganti, whose South Indian restaurant Madras Dosa Co. opened just a few weeks ago in Harvard Square, the response from customers has been “tremendous.” “People started coming out a ...
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Harvard Golf Heads Into Weekend Hunting Ivy League Title

While the majority of Harvard students are hitting the books in preparation for finals, Harvard golf will be playing in its biggest tournament of the year at the Ivy League Championships this weekend.
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Harvard’s Old Presidential Model Is Dead. Here’s a New One.

Lorenzo Z. Ruiz ’27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, lives in Greenough Hall. President Claudine Gay has failed. Her resignation reflects that failure. Gay held two basic obligations as the executive of ...
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Read a Book! Write a Rhyme!

Mireya Sánchez-Maes ’24 is a joint concentrator in English and Theater, Dance, and Media in Currier House. Her column “Rhyme and Reason” appears on alternate Mondays. Rhymes can help us understand.
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Hoekstra Likely to Pick Arts and Humanities, Science Deans In ‘Next Few Months’

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra hopes to select two new divisional deans — in Science and in Arts and Humanities — within “the next few months,” she said in a Wednesday interview.
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Fifteen Minutes’ Top 15 Places to Cry on Campus

You know what time of the year it is — midterm season! Which never stops once it starts. It is also seasonal depression season, which, before you know it, blends into finals season ... you get it.
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An Autumnal Reflection

Note: All quotes used in this essay were written by Henry David Thoreau in his 1862 essay, “Autumnal Tints.” “October is the month of painted leaves.” Thoreau wrote this line in his famous essay, ...
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From the Beanpot to the Booth: Tripp Tracy ’96 Reflects on Harvard, Hockey, and the Hurricanes

Goaltender for the Crimson, victor of the Beanpot, and beloved announcer for the Carolina Hurricanes, Tripp Tracy ‘96 has seen it all. Now, beloved color commentator for the Carolina Hurricanes, host ...