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 […]

By Daniel Feehan, MPP ’13 Three years ago, I watched President Obama’s inauguration from Baghdad while on a deployment with the Army.  Just two days prior, a soldier from my unit had been killed in combat. I was troubled. I could not find the soldier’s name in American media aside from a sterile Defense Department […]

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 “It’s an industry, and it didn’t used to be. It’s huge and its complicated and its corporate.” With deliberate care and conviction in his voice, Jonathan Moore tells a story of HKS then and now. “My time at the IOP was a kick; it was a riot! And […]

By Erum Jilani, MPA ’12 In November 2008, President Obama’s election was celebrated not just in the United States but around the world. Crowds in Berlin cheered in the streets while Kenya declared a national holiday. Obama’s presidential campaign impressed global leaders and people the world over with its rhetoric of open engagement and its […]

 By Sheila Choi, MPA ’12 As I left the Harvard Kennedy School library at 3 AM one morning, I was startled by a rustling sound near the bushes in the courtyard. I slowly approached the moving object and found a rat with her leg stuck in a wooden snap-trap, desperately struggling to get away. As […]