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· Bryan Ke
‘Seafood bar for dinner’: Harvard student has TikTok users salivating over school’s dining hall food
A TikTok user has recently gone viral for documenting her meals at Harvard University, from brunch, lunch and dinner to late-night snacks. Elise Pham, a TikTok user with over 46,900 followers and 2.2 million likes in total, has been documenting her life as a Harvard student…
· Ryan General
Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton
A high school student with two successful books, a 4.2 GPA, an SAT score of 1560 out of 1600 and a slew of other accolades was purportedly rejected from Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton, much to the surprise of many. TikTok user Limmy (@Limmytalks), who posts reviews of college…
· Michelle De Pacina
Harvard to offer its first-ever Tagalog language course in its nearly 400-year history
Harvard University will be offering a course on the Tagalog language for the first time in its history, starting in the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Last week, Harvard announced that its Department of South Asian Studies will be hiring three professors to teach Tagalog, Bahasa…
· Carl Samson
Harvard admits record number of Asian American applicants amid SCOTUS affirmative action fight
Amid allegations of bias against Asian students in its admissions process, Harvard University welcomed its largest proportion of Asian American first-year students in its history this week. From a pool of 56,937 applicants, the Ivy League university admitted a total of 1,942…
· Michelle De Pacina
Brenda Song says she had ‘no hesitation’ choosing ‘The Suite Life’ over Harvard
Disney alum Brenda Song recently recalled choosing “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” over attending Harvard University. In an interview with Glamour, Song, 34, described some of the struggles she faced as the eldest child of a first-generation Thai and Hmong family pursuing her…
· Ryan General
Harvard students stage walkout in front of professor accused of sexual harassment
Over 100 students marched out of a Harvard classroom on Tuesday to protest the first lecture of professor John L. Comaroff this year. Comaroff, who teaches African and African American Studies at Harvard University, was found to have violated the school’s sexual harassment and…
· Michelle De Pacina
Harvard grad who lost job offer due to TikTok video critical of ‘All Lives Matter’ glad to be off social media
Claira Janover, 24, lost her job offer and was doxxed by Trump supporters after her TikTok video criticizing “All Lives Matter” went viral in 2020. Janover previously made a satirical video to condemn individuals who proclaimed “All Lives Matter,” a term created in oppositional…
· Ryan General
Harvard asserts notifying insurer about high-profile Asian discrimination lawsuit unnecessary
During a federal-court filing on Monday, lawyers representing Harvard University asserted that the institution did not have to notify Zurich American Insurance Co about the high-profile affirmative action lawsuit the school faced since the insurer “surely knew about” it. The…
· Rebecca Moon
Chinese Harvard student decides ‘not to learn English anymore’
A Chinese Harvard student has gone viral after sharing a video where she explains why she has decided to “stop trying to learn English.” The video was uploaded as an assignment for her Language and Equity course. The 24-year-old student explained that she did not feel satisfied…
· Ryan General
Duke senior’s commencement speech accused of being plagiarized from Harvard student’s 2014 address
Priya Parkash, Duke University’s commencement speaker for Duke’s Class of 2022, faced heavy criticism after delivering a speech that appears highly identical to a speech by Sarah Abushaar, Harvard University’s commencement speaker for Harvard’s Class of 2014. During her…
· Ryan General
Flyers with anti-Asian slurs posted to Harvard UC president’s door days after separate alleged vandalism
Harvard College Undergraduate Council President Michael Y. Cheng has been on the receiving end of racially charged attacks weeks after his inauguration. His dorm room door at Quincy House was vandalized on Thursday and had racist flyers posted to it on Monday. Cheng said the…
· Khier Casino
Harvard president defends university after Supreme Court accepts admissions case: ‘race matters’
Harvard University President Larry S. Bacow called the Supreme Court’s decision to review a case challenging the school’s use of race in the college admissions process a risk to “forty years of legal precedent.” "As the Supreme Court has recognized many times, race matters in…
· Editorial Staff
Supreme Court to hear cases alleging Harvard, UNC admissions discriminates against Asian students
The Supreme Court agreed to hear cases on the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is pushing for the court to repeal its 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger,…
· Grace Kim
Harvard student’s ‘Korean Disney princess’ goes viral — and film producers want in
Harvard student Julia Riew created a full script for the first “Korean Disney princess” as part of her senior thesis in playwriting. After a clip of her singing one of her songs went viral on TikTok, people online have been calling on Disney to make her script into a reality.…
· Carl Samson
Harvard says no need for SAT, ACT scores for applicants through 2026
Harvard University will not require SAT and ACT scores from undergraduate applicants until 2026, according to an official announcement released Thursday. Driving the news: The new policy was conceived in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting limited access to…
· Jiselle Lee
Biden admin asks SCOTUS to reject case that says Harvard admissions discriminatory toward Asian students
Biden administration U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar backed Harvard’s race-conscious admissions process in a brief filed to the Supreme Court Wednesday, following a challenge to affirmative action laws. The brief: Prelogar asked the Court to reject the appeal of the…
· Thy Nguyen
Jeremy Lin ‘Deeply Honored’ to Be Selected as Harvard’s 2021 Class Day Speaker
NBA icon Jeremy Lin was announced as Harvard’s Class of 2021 virtual Class Day Speaker on Monday. Before becoming a professional basketball player, Lin graduated from Harvard in 2010 with an economics degree. Since his time at Harvard, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100…
· Grace Kim
Harvard Sparks Outrage After Telling Students ‘You May Wish That You Weren’t Asian’
Harvard has come under fire for posting offensive messages including, “You may wish that you weren’t Asian” on its “Anti-Asian Racism Resources” page. The school’s Counseling and Mental Health Services had originally sent out the resources to address the rise of anti-Asian bias…
· Editorial Staff
Harvard Professor Sparks Outrage for Claiming Korean ‘Comfort Women’ Were Willingly Employed in Japan
A Harvard Law School professor has stoked controversy over claims that Imperial Japan had employed “comfort women” under contracts during World War II. J. Mark Ramseyer, who teaches Japanese legal studies, argued that those women — most of whom were Korean — were recruited and…
· Bryan Ke
‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Star Hudson Yang Accepted to Harvard
“Fresh Off the Boat” actor Hudson Yang was just accepted into the Harvard Class of 2025 as part of the university’s early admission program. The 17-year-old actor shared the amazing news on Twitter Friday, according to The Wrap.