The Citizen

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 Harvard Kennedy School’s 2012-13 budget is due to the University on March 2, and Associate Dean for Finance, Lara Metcalf, and her team at the Office of Financial Services have been working nights and weekends to ensure the accuracy of every last line. Much of January has been […]

By Nick Wilson I’m not sure why I originally decided to see Boston Ballet’s new production of The Nutcracker at the Boston Opera House. It’s never been a favorite of mine, but perhaps I wanted to be there opening night to experience the unveiling of the much buzzed about new costumes and sets. Lately, I’ve […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits and conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  To see all the Snapshots, follow this link. Alexandra Raphel is interning […]

By Ben Beachy and Jason Rowe Since the Occupy movement entered the gates of Harvard Yard, too much discussion has focused on the gates themselves, not the responsibility of those of us who study behind them. One of the gates—Dexter Gate—bears the following inscription: “Enter to grow in wisdom.  Depart to better serve thy country […]

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 Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 In fiscal year 2011, HKS collected $37.3 million in revenue from investment income, the annual return on our $1 billion endowment. About half went to core operations such as faculty chairs, financial aid, events, maintenance, staff, etc.; the other half went to funding the IOP and research centers. […]

By Sophie Brion, MPP ‘12 In a recent class, our discussion turned to the ubiquitous topic of immigration. As per the Kennedy School usual, the comments were informed and thoughtful. My classmates eruditely discussed negative perceptions of immigrants. They pondered what role race plays in U.S. immigration policy and parsed the practical demands of running […]

By Brian Hull, MPP2 Recently, an email was sent out by KSSG that contained an image depicting a certain female Black student as “Muffy,” the monkey character from the cartoon Arthur. This, understandably, led to a school-wide conversation on diversity attended by well over one hundred students. While I do not wish to discuss the […]

By Alex Pak, HBS Class of 2013 As much as I am a fan of both social movements and camping, what is occurring on our campus under the guise of Occupy Harvard disturbs me. My perception of Occupy Harvard is that it is less of a social movement than a proxy war being waged by […]

By Matt Bieber, News Writer, MPP/MDiv ‘13 pbieber@mail.harvard.edu In October of 2009, MP David Bahati introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan Parliament.  The bill [link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Homosexuality_Bill] – which proposed the death penalty for homosexuality – immediately became infamous around the world. At that time, Val Kalende was a veteran activist in the struggle for […]

By Zachary Rosenfeld, Assistant News Editor, MPP ‘13 We have just a few updates this week. Kevin Chee’s Finance Committee has formed three new sub-committees to work on transparency, funding regulations, and sponsorship, respectively. They also discussed major funding requests for the African Caucus and Women’s Policy Journal and established a new “Quorum Call” funding […]

By Zachary Rosenfeld, Assistant News Editor, MPP ‘13 As one of the chief architects of Greek monetary policy during the 1990s, Lucas Papademos helped his country to stabilize the value of the drachma, win the confidence of international financial experts, and transition the Greek national currency to the euro. But with some European heads of […]