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@thecrimson
The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Breaking: The government has agreed to rescind DHS and ICE rules barring international students attending online universities from staying in the U.S., per a hearing this afternoon in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the agencies.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday morning against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
BREAKING: Harvard classes will move online starting March 23 due to a growing global coronavirus outbreak, University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced in an email Tuesday morning. The University has asked students not to return from spring break.
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The Harvard Crimson
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While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Mayor Michelle Wu canceled an event at Harvard after nine student organizations withdrew from sponsoring the talk over her decision to send police to end a pro-Palestine encampment at Emerson College. Madeleine A. Hung and @azusalippit report.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
Harvard's Undergraduate Council is demanding the University investigate allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted at least three women before allowing the judge to return to campus to teach this winter.
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The Harvard Crimson
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BREAKING: GAY IS 30TH PRESIDENT Harvard University announced that Claudine Gay, the dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, will serve as its next president. Gay will be the first person of color to hold Harvard's top post. Follow live coverage at
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
BREAKING: Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow has tested positive for coronavirus.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
ICE will revert back to the guidance it issued in March that allows students taking online courses to reside in the United States on F-1 visas.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
Breaking: Harvard's student government has demanded the University investigate allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted several women before allowing him to return to campus to teach.
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The Harvard Crimson
5 years
While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
For the first time in the Harvard Law Review's history, its incoming class of editors is majority female.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
Rodrigo Ventocilla Ventosilla, a 32-year-old Harvard Kennedy School student from Peru, died on Aug. 11 while in police custody at a hospital in Denpasar, Indonesia. His family alleges he was mistreated and discriminated against by police.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23, who United States border officials turned away ten days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time for the start of classes Tuesday.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
Harvard Law students are calling voters in key states this week and urging them to ask their senators to vote against Kavanaugh.
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The Harvard Crimson
5 months
#BREAKINGNEWS : University President Claudine Gay will remain in office with the support of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — according to a source familiar with the decision. @mherszenhorn & @claireyuan33 report.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Raquel Coronell Uribe ’23 will lead The Harvard Crimson’s 149th Guard, becoming the paper’s first Latinx president in its 148-year history.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Harvard College students will be required to move out of their dorms no later than March 15 at 5 p.m.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
From @CrimsonOpinion Editorial Board: “Palestinians, in our board’s view, deserve dignity and freedom. We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means to achieving that goal.” Read the staff editorial here.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Harvard University will receive nearly $9 million in aid from the federal government through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the Department of Education announced last week.
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The Harvard Crimson
1 year
Members of a neo-Nazi group harassed and threatened residents in Cambridge Sunday, lunging and shouting at people across the street from Quincy House.
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The Harvard Crimson
5 months
The Harvard Alumni Association Executive Committee expressed its unanimous support for Harvard President Claudine Gay and asked the University’s governing boards to publicly back Gay in a letter sent Monday. @mherszenhorn and @claireyuan33 report.
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The Harvard Crimson
3 years
From @thecrimsonarts : "Although 'Queendom' may not feature the experimentation and creativity that marked Red Velvet’s past work, it still has sparks of what makes the group unique and promises more to come from these five queens of K-pop."
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The Harvard Crimson
4 months
SPECIAL EDITION: GAY RESIGNS
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The Harvard Crimson
3 months
More than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike Friday in solidarity with students at Brown University pressuring the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel. @mnamponsah and @AzusaLippit report.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Harvard Economics professor Michael R. Kremer ’85, one of the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, is leaving Cambridge to direct a new Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago.
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The Harvard Crimson
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More than 10 people have declined offers to serve as the keynote speaker for Harvard College’s annual Class Day, leaving the Harvard Alumni Association scrambling to find a speaker with less than two weeks left. @AzusaLippit and @camsrivastava report.
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The Harvard Crimson
3 years
BREAKING: After a decade of public pressure from campus activists, Harvard will move to divest from the fossil fuel industry, allowing its remaining investments to expire.
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The Harvard Crimson
10 months
An FBI affidavit linked a Kentucky resident arrested July 11 on a firearms charge to an alleged conspiracy involving the theft and sale of human remains from a Harvard Medical School morgue. @neilhshah15 reports.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
From Opinion: What’s at stake for Kavanaugh is not conviction of a criminal offense. It is whether or not he is promoted to a lifetime appointment on the foremost judicial body in the country.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
BREAKING: Harvard will move to remote operations during the first three weeks of January, keeping most students and workers away from campus over winter break as Covid-19 cases rise.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 months
Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University's history, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. From @HaidarEmma & @cam_kettles
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The Harvard Crimson
3 years
"As Gorman speaks, faces in the crowd edge between tears and laughter. She’s five-foot-one, afro included, but her presence on stage is larger than life." From @crimsonFM , the story of Amanda S.C. Gorman '20, who spoke at President Biden's inauguration.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
Chanting "Pharma greed kills," protesters walk out of Martin Shkreli's #Harvard event. "Nobody cares, goodbye," he responds.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
BREAKING: #Harvard professors were arrested at a protest of Donald Trump's decision to end DACA.
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The Harvard Crimson
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The Cambridge City Council passed a resolution urging Harvard, MIT, and the Cambridge Police Department to respect the right of pro-Palestine students to protest during a Monday meeting. @ayumi_nagatomi reports.
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The Harvard Crimson
1 year
INVESTIGATION: A Harvard Student Org's $30,000 Dispute Shortly after the conclusion of her term, former president of the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative transferred approximately $30,000 from the organization’s bank account to her own.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
We made a mistake: 30.3% of surveyed Harvard freshmen are legacies, not 41.8%.
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The Harvard Crimson
5 months
From @CrimsonOpinion : I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay’s Getting off Easy. 🖋: An Undergraduate Member of the Harvard College Honor Council
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Breaking: First-year international students will not able to come to Harvard’s campus this fall as the recently reversed ICE regulations do not apply to newly admitted international students seeking F-1 visas.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
NEW: Harvard holds the human remains of at least 19 individuals who were likely enslaved and almost 7,000 Native Americans, according to a draft University report obtained by The Crimson.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
"Grad students are organizing and I stand with them," Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote in a statement to The Crimson.
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The Harvard Crimson
8 years
Athletes and students applaud #Harvard 's actions to cancel men's soccer team's season.
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The Harvard Crimson
8 years
“Harvard Athletics has zero tolerance for this type of behavior,” #Harvard Athletics Director Robert Scalise wrote.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
A fifth of #Harvard seniors reported that the election altered their post-graduation plans.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 years
BREAKING: Harvard will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate student union, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday.
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The Harvard Crimson
3 years
Two decades before their careers converged as activist hedge fund managers, @BillAckman ’88 and Paul Hilal ’88 were arguing about everything. The Lowell House roommates came to invest billions together at Pershing Square Capital Management.
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The Harvard Crimson
6 months
BREAKING: Roughly a dozen students with the group Harvard Jews for Palestine have occupied University Hall, demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Harvard University Police have restricted access to the building. This story will be updated.
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The Harvard Crimson
8 years
Opinion: "The sad reality is that we have come to expect this kind of behavior from so many men."
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The Harvard Crimson
3 years
Harvard students launched a tool Friday for Georgia residents to monitor their voter registration statuses ahead of next month’s contentious Senate runoff elections in the state.
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The Harvard Crimson
1 year
Everyone at 14 Plympton Street has been touched by @raquelco15 , by her grace not only as a leader but as a person. Thank you, Raquel, for sharing your story with all of us: We are sending all of our love and we wish you the smoothest recovery ❤️
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Raquel Coronell Uribe
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In December I celebrated 5 years of finishing cancer treatment — a milestone that meant the cancer was unlikely to return. Last week, I learned the cancer is back. I tried to write about what it’s felt like.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Breaking: In a reversal, Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf announced he would name human rights advocate Kenneth Roth to a fellowship after previously vetoing his appointment.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
NEW: Massachusetts’ highest court ruled that an emotional distress claim against Harvard brought by Tamara K. Lanier — who claims photos of enslaved people housed by the Peabody Museum depict her ancestors — can proceed.
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The Harvard Crimson
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BREAKING: Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria A. Ressa will serve as the principal speaker at Harvard’s 373rd Commencement ceremony in late May, the University announced Tuesday. @HaidarEmma & @cam_kettles report.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
The IOP may have stripped Chelsea Manning of her fellowship, but that did not stop her from meeting with students.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
The co-founders of a slavery reparations advocacy group filed a defamation lawsuit against Harvard University over a retracted research article that was published by a journal affiliated with the school.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
Long before he was nominated to the Supreme Court, Merrick B. Garland ’74 was a pre-med student in Quincy House.
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The Harvard Crimson
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U.S. Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley (D-Mass.) said pro-Palestine student protesters should not face disciplinary action during an unauthorized visit Friday afternoon to the Harvard Yard encampment. @AzusaLippit reports.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
Leer en Español: Rodrigo Ventocilla Ventosilla, un estudiante peruano de 32 años de la Harvard Kennedy School, murió el 11 de agosto bajo custodia policial en Denpasar, Indonesia. Su familia alega que fue maltratado y discriminado por la policía.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony S. Fauci discussed COVID-19 vaccine progress and the United States’ response to the pandemic in a talk at the Harvard Medical Grand Rounds on Thursday morning.
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The Harvard Crimson
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More than 180 Harvard faculty urged interim University President Alan M. Garber ’76 and interim Provost John F. Manning ’82 to end the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard in an open letter. @tillyrobin and @neilhshah15 report.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
BREAKING: The fall semester will begin online for incoming students at Harvard Medical School, per an email from HMS Dean Daley. The school plans to offer on-campus research and training for returning students and hopes to have everyone on campus by January.
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The Harvard Crimson
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench said students should pursue graduate degrees out of passion for their research rather than a desire for professorship during a Tuesday interview. Adina R. Lippman and @angelinajparker report.
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The Harvard Crimson
7 years
Top Donald Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon will no longer attend an Institute of Politics event this week.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Kremer, who will join both the Economics and Harris School of Public Policy faculties at the University of Chicago, will begin his new roles on Sept. 1.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Amid a push to reopen schools nationwide, U.S. President Donald J. Trump called Harvard University’s plan for the fall semester “ridiculous” at a panel at the White House on Tuesday.
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The Harvard Crimson
4 years
Former director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and Global Health Professor Ashish K. Jha has left Longwood to serve as the Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.
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The Harvard Crimson
3 months
Top Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Khalid Shah allegedly falsified data and plagiarized images across 21 papers, data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik said. @VeronicaHPaulus and @akshayaravi22 report.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
From @thecrimsonarts : @maggierogers (who is currently a member of the class of 2022 at Harvard Divinity School) gifted Coachella with forty-five minutes of pure vocal perfection.
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The Harvard Crimson
5 months
The Harvard Corporation expressed concerns about allegations of plagiarism in Claudine Gay’s academic work Tuesday morning, even as the board declared its unanimous support for Harvard’s embattled president. @mherszenhorn & @claireyuan33 report.
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The Harvard Crimson
8 years
Soccer coach: "We are beyond disappointed that our season has ended in this way, but we respect the decision made by our administration."
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The Harvard Crimson
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BREAKING LIVE UPDATES: Students Rally in Harvard Yard To Protest PSC Suspension Follow live updates from Crimson News Staff:
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The Harvard Crimson
1 year
Harvard students reacted with joy and optimism to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay’s selection as the next University president Thursday.
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The Harvard Crimson
2 years
Breaking: A Harvard shuttle bus crashed into Tasty Burger on JFK St. in Harvard Square at approximately 6:43 p.m. this evening There are no known injuries, according to @CambridgePolice
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