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Federal Judge Denies Harvard’s Motion to Dismiss Antisemitism Lawsuit
A U.S. district judge denied Harvard’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by six Jewish students alleging that the University failed to address “severe and pervasive” campus antisemitism. The 25-page ...
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More Than 1,700 Households Lose Power in Cambridgeport After Transformer Explosion
More than 1,700 households are without power in the Cambridgeport neighborhood, according to an Eversource outage map, after a transformer exploded around 3:26 p.m. Tuesday. According to the outage ...
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Church Says It Did Not Authorize ‘People’s Commencement’ Protest After Harvard Graduation Walkout
The leadership of Harvard-Epworth Church, the venue that held the “People’s Commencement” following the pro-Palestine walkout at Harvard’s graduation, said they were angered and dismayed that the ...
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‘How Far Is Too Far?’: Pro-Palestine Activism Under the Garber Presidency
On Friday evening, Syd D. Sanders ’24 was asked to withdraw from Harvard College for three semesters. The decision, relayed over the phone by Sanders’ resident dean, comes following his involvement in ...
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‘Bought Me In’: How Student-Run International Conferences Rake in Cash, Fund Free Vacations
When Oscar Yang, a high school student who attends an international school in Shanghai, signed up for The Harvard Crimson’s Crimson Journalism Camp in 2023, he saw it as a unique chance to “try ...
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The FAS Undermined the Ad Board. Now, the Harvard Corporation Must Take a Side.
The notion that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is Harvard’s most powerful faculty is something of a cliché. But the FAS put any lingering doubts to rest on Monday. During the FAS’ annual degree ...
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Harvard Grad Students Charged Following Confrontation at October Pro-Palestine Protest
Two Harvard graduate students are facing criminal charges and up to 200 days in jail following their involvement in a confrontation with an Israeli student at a pro-Palestine protest at the Harvard ...
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Encampment Protesters Remove Drawing of Harvard President as Devil After Backlash
After removing the image, the two groups — Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Organization — wrote that it had been included “inadvertently.” HOOP, ...
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Boston, Cambridge-Area High School Students Block Mass. Ave. in Support of MIT Encampment
Approximately 50 student Boston-area high school students blocked Massachusetts Avenue in front of MIT on Monday afternoon for at least four hours as part of a pro-Palestine protest. The demonstration ...
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Harvard Students Streak Around Encampment in Cheeky Primal Scream Display
The students staging a pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard did not quite get the disclosure they wanted as more than 100 Harvard undergraduates bared it all Thursday at midnight for this semester ...
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Pro-Palestine Harvard Students Occupy Harvard Yard on First Day of Encampment
Pro-Palestine protesters established an encampment in Harvard Yard on Wednesday to demand that the University divest from investments and companies in the West Bank and to protest the College’s ...
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‘A Joke’: Nikole Hannah-Jones Says Harvard Should Spend More on Legacy of Slavery Initiative
BOSTON — Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project, slammed Harvard’s $100 million commitment to its Legacy of Slavery initiative as “a joke” during her ...