Four Harvard University students won the annual Econometrics World Championship (also known as the Econometric Game) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual event is organized by the University of Amsterdam and the VSAE (Association of…
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Harvard Poll: Millennials Not Too Enthusiastic about Socialism After All
Some intriguing results: More than half of millennials recently surveyed by the Harvard Institute of Politics reject both capitalism and socialism, according to the poll’s results. Perhaps surprisingly, socialism is even less popular than capitalism,…
Harvard Campus Police Intimidated by Protesters?
Typically, Harvard campus police ask protesters to leave and could escort them out. But, in a recent confrontation between yelling protesters and an invited speaker, they did nothing. Photo by Little Koshka
Free Speech Advocates Confronted by Race Activists at Harvard
Universities are now a battleground over free speech: Tensions are rising at Harvard Law School (HLS) after a confrontation between student activist group Reclaim Harvard Law (RHL) and students who are concerned about freedom of…
Lawrence Summers: No Hypersensitivity against Anti-Semitism at Colleges, but Why Not?
Summers, a professor at Harvard, makes some great points in his piece in the Washington Post. Photo by :::mediActivista:::
Harvard Student Blasts Campus Coddling of Students
The latest from the Washington Examiner’s Ashe Schow: But there are many, perhaps even a silent majority, that believe safe spaces, trigger warnings and labeling microaggressions keep students from growing up. Enter Rachel Huebner, a…
Academic Problem with Polls
When academics point out the problems with polls, they might wind up trying to regulate them. “Because one of the things I want to say about public opinion polls is that they are the child…
Harvard Professor Pulls Out All the Stops for Hillary Clinton
Now that the media have helped establish Trump as the runaway frontrunner, these reporters and news organizations are starting to have buyer’s remorse, comparing him to Hitler, Kim Jung Il, and Stalin. Harvard professor Danielle Allen…
Columnist Believes ‘Friend Zone’ Promotes Violence
A female columnist at the Harvard University paper, Harvard Crimson, does not like the ‘friend zone.‘ The friend zone, for people unfamiliar with the term, is when one person is romantically interested in another person,…
Some Harvard Medical Students Want More Student Diversity, but No Asians Mentioned
That is a bit racist, isn’t it? Or at least exclusionary to Asian medical students.