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By Billy Pope, MC/MPA ’13, Correspondent On the July 17, 2012, I walked up the steps leading to the Kennedy School for the first time.  I squeezed the worn door handle in my palm and the gravity of the moment hit me.  I froze.  I couldn’t go in.  I needed to clear my head.  It […]

By Nick Wilson, Staff Writer, MPP ’14 This may come as a bit of a shock, but in the 32-year history of the American Repertory Theater, the celebrated pillar of the local theatre community has never staged a Tennessee Williams play. Armed with some serious star power thanks to Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield and […]

By Adrian Arroyo, Opinions Columnist, MPP ’13 Here’s the dilemma: there’s an ogre. You can’t get away. He offers you a choice—die quick or die slow? Choose the former, and he crushes your head with his club. Death is swift and relatively painless. Choose the latter and you live a bit longer, albeit in horrible […]

By Jaya Bhagat, MC-MPA and Mason Fellow ’13 HKS Dean David T. Ellwood announced this morning that Geoffrey Canada, the President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, will be delivering the 2013 graduation address on the afternoon of May 29 at the Harvard Kennedy School. Canada is an American social activist, educator and reformer […]

By Alexandra Raphel, MPP ’14, Correspondent Kennedy School student Varun Bhandari (MPA ‘14) is part of a team selected to represent Harvard University in the prestigious Hult Prize regional finals this March. The finalists were selected from over 10,000 applications from 150 countries and also include teams from Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan […]

By Anthony Barrows, MC/MPA ’13, Staff Writer Boston’s musical history is rich: its black musician’s union counted Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington as members; Harvard Square’s Club Passim was the epicenter of the 60s folk scene; rock clubs churned out the Cars and Aerosmith in the 70s; and Allston spawned thriving hardcore and third-wave ska […]

By Nick Wilson, MPP ’14, Staff Writer It may already be February, but it’s not too late to resolve to make art a bigger priority in 2013. After a semester of hearing that “grades don’t matter,” first-years are finally starting to believe this oft-repeated mantra and can afford to skip a few readings. Second-year students, […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) student body will vote this week on whether Harvard University should dedicate a portion of its $30 million endowment to socially responsible funds. The vote, which will come in the form of a ballot question placed alongside candidates running for mid-term student government elections, calls […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer After years of cautiously watching from the sidelines, Harvard University has entered the world of online education. The 377-year-old school, which has long thrived under a banner of exclusivity, is now offering online open access classes for free. In September, it unveiled its first two courses as part of a […]

By La Keisha Landrum, Correspondent The developing world is evolving, there’s no question there. But, is the global perception of the emerging worlds evolving at the same rate? Arguably not, and Africa is no exception. This year’s Africa Business Conference, held this upcoming weekend at Harvard Business School, seeks to help further the notion that […]

By Leila El-Khatib, MC-MPA ’13, Correspondent March 9 will mark the third annual Harvard Leadership Conference. This conference stands out from the other numerous student conferences as the only conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Council, the official student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of Harvard University. Leadership is a large part […]

By Nadir Vissanjy, MPP’14, Correspondent Having lived in San Francisco for three years, I had assumed that the ‘Dubin San Francisco Field Visit’ that I, along with 23 other Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students, participated in during the week of Jan. 15, would consist of the standard fare – the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission District, […]