By Rahul Daswani, MPP ’13 Before we get caught up in the madness that is HKS Spring 2012 (or am I too late?), I was hoping to share some of the reflections that I had over a peaceful five weeks of break in India in the hopes that we can at least delay giving in […]

By Sujoyini Mandal, Opinions Columnist, MPP ‘13 Will security assurance counter North Korea’s increasingly aggressive stance on nuclear weapons? This was the essential question at two recent Belfer Center events with guest speakers Dr. John Park from the United States Institute for Peace and Professor Sung-Yoon Lee from Tufts University. What is the current concern? […]

By José Miguel Ossa, MPA ’13 In my Column Writing class (MLD725 if you happen to be interested), one of my classmates, an international student, wrote that she wasn’t expecting “the small day to day chores to be so exhausting” when coming to the USA. After reading her piece, I started to think about the […]

By Zachary Rosenfeld, Assistant News Editor, MPP’13 Chalk it up to the decompression afforded by winter break, or maybe the merciful (if temporary) lack of problem sets and memorandums, or perhaps the new brand identity (Harvard Kennedy School Student Government or “HKSSG,” pronounced “eych kay double-ess gee” – you heard it here first). Whatever the […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA’12 Following the Fall 2011 elections, when a critical error in the online voting system contaminated the results of all the contests (and most egregiously, that of the Mid-Careers and MPA1s), some Kennedy School students were wary that their votes might be miscounted again. “Back home, many of us have […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 For some people – particularly the florists, hoteliers, restaurateurs, and greeting card writers among us – the date of February 14 is associated with Valentine’s Day, arguably the most egregiously commercialized of all American religious holidays. But for me, it is always associated with the return of the […]

By Litcy Ludvic, Culture Contributor, MPP ‘13 Human Rights? Oh, No! Not now, please! I don’t want to get depressed about gruesome stuff happening in distant lands to unknown people. I know I should care. I am even empathetic. I feel bad for all those people. I might even donate something, if need be! [This is […]

By Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller, Culture Editor, MC/MPA ‘12 After several conversations with the Administration gurus of HKS, including Dean Ellwood, who gave a resounding “yes” when I asked him if he would support the idea of a piano, the newly established (founded this year) ArtsPIC, found a donor. Space is so tight around the school […]

By Joshua Yardley, News Contributor Mrs. M. is a second grade teacher in a low-income school district of San Jose, California.  Back in November, Mrs. M. was looking for ways to fund a “clicker system” for her classroom.  This clicker system would allow her students, many of whom were performing below grade level in math, […]

By Matt Bieber, News Writer, MPP/MDiv ‘13 On Monday, January 9, I drove a couple of towns over to see Mitt Romney speak at the Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company in Hudson, NH. I walked into the venue, put my backpack and jacket down on a seat near the stage, asked a neighbor to watch them, […]

By Alexander Remingon, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 History repeats itself. Four years after the Helmet Catch, the Giants and Patriots are back in the Super Bowl. Four years after being stunned by Eli Manning and the New Yorkers from New Jersey, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr. will get a chance at revenge. A lot has […]

By Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller, Culture Writer,  MC/MPA 12 On November 11, 2011, a group of HKS students visited the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The visit was arranged by Ray Rivera, MC/MPA12, who through a mutual friend had met Sara Kanawati, senior major gifts officer at the Library. Sara had expressed strong interest in […]