Harvard Newstalk

Nov 05 2024 45 ep. 18 mins 3

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Newstalk is The Harvard Crimson's flagship news podcast series. Join our reporters each week to hear the most important stories from the Harvard community and beyond. Streamed in all 50 states. Heard in 100+ countries. 2024 Associated Collegiate Press National Podcast of the Year.

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Harvard's Run-Up to the Election

Nov 05 2024 29 mins

When you think about election organizing at Harvard, a few words might come to mind. Privilege. Access. Money. The Harvard College Democrats are backed by a federally recognized PAC. Student leaders at the Harvard Republican Club have dined with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and pulled off speaking events with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel. Talk to them, and you’ll find tha

Harvard IOP Student Leader Resigns, Citing ‘Palestinian Exception to Free Speech’

Oct 11 2024 50 mins

As we neared the one-year anniversary of October 7 earlier this month, the Harvard Institute of Politics — the largest student organization on Harvard’s campus and its flagship platform for political discourse — saw a high-profile shakeup in its student leadership. Citing the Palestinian exception to free speech, a vocal pro-Palestine activist resigned as the chair of one of

Is Harvard Doing Discourse Wrong?

Sep 30 2024 25 mins

If you've been a student at Harvard at any point over the past three years, there’s one thing you’ve probably heard over and over again: intellectual vitality. You’ll see it in emails, in videos, from students, from our deans — it’s everywhere. And, overwhelmingly, you’ll get the sense that Harvard’s concerned about the state of discourse on campus.So what is intellec

Infighting and Pressure From Above: Inside Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative

Sep 24 2024 20 mins

In 2022, Harvard earmarked $100 Million dollars for an initiative focused on making amends for Harvard’s ties to slavery. Now, that same initiative has faced infighting, a series of resignations, and allegations of attempts to limit the project’s scope. So how exactly did we get here? This week on Newstalk, inside Harvard's Legacy of Slavery Initiative.Newstalk is co-hosted and

Behind Harvard's Post-Affirmative Action Demographics Numbers

Sep 16 2024 18 mins

Harvard released its admissions demographic data for the Class of 2028 last week. This year more so than many years past, those numbers were a big deal.Few things at Harvard are as tightly kept a secret as its admissions process. Every year, tens of thousands of applicants around the world hit submit, hope for the best. And then… it’s sort of a black box. The applications get s

Garber's Path to the Harvard Presidency

Sep 09 2024 15 mins

It’s Harvard’s second week back in class and campus tensions are already back in the headlines.Two Harvard graduate students charged with assault and battery during a pro-Palestine protest last May face yet another delay in their arraignment date.A September 5th statement from the University provided updated guidance for those affected by doxing attacks, following months of cri

BREAKING: ALAN GARBER ’76 TO SERVE AS HARVARD’S 31ST PRESIDENT UNTIL JUNE 2027

Aug 02 2024 1 mins

Alan M. Garber ’76, Harvard’s longtime provost who suddenly became the interim leader as he sought to steer the University through its worst leadership crisis in decades, was officially confirmed as the 31st president, the Harvard Corporation announced on Friday.Eight months after Garber was appointed interim president, the Corporation — the University’s highest governing b

Pro-Palestine Student Voices Inside the Harvard Yard Encampment

Apr 29 2024 7 mins

For than 100 hours and counting, dozens of Pro-Palestine students and protesters have camped overnight in Harvard Yard, calling on the university to divest from Israel‘s war in Gaza. The encampment has now expanded to 50+ tents stretching across Harvard Yard, some a stone's throw away from Harvard president Alan Garber's office. On Newstalk, host Frank S. Zhou '26 and reporters E

Amid Turmoil, Harvard Faculty Demand Greater Say

Apr 21 2024 16 mins

As skepticism of Harvard's governance mounts amid a year of turmoil, a group of prominent Harvard professors is seeking to revive a body that hasn’t existed at Harvard in living memory: a University-wide faculty senate.Less than 20 years ago, Harvard faculty speaking with a collective voice helped oust a university president. But this proposal marks the first time Harvard's facul

Harvard Law School Students Targeted by Doxxing Truck

Apr 15 2024 16 mins

On Friday morning, March 29th, the Harvard Law School Student Government passed a resolution calling on the Harvard Management Corporation to divest from Israel. On Tuesday, April 2nd, a truck displaying the faces of the HLS Student Government co-presidents made its way around campus. The “Doxxing” truck, as it’s known, has been a familiar presence on campus since October 7th