On Monday, I told my history class at school that
@AuschwitzMuseum
was by far the most important account I follow on Twitter.
Everyone must follow them and support the extremely important work they are doing!
Do you think you could give us your support & help us go beyond 1,1 million followers still in 2020?
Help us grow this amazing virtual space where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about Auschwitz.
.
@DrJillStein
and a dozen other protestors stood outside Harvard Yard to call on commencement speaker Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop charges on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
I've never written a piece like this one, but we've never had an election like this one. Here's my 5 personal stories of watching how Biden leads out of the limelight. Ash Wednesday in Moscow is my favorite: "The Joe Biden most Americans don’t get to see."
The international community cannot ignore the sham imprisonment of
@navalny
. Politicians should take a lesson or two from
@Billbrowder
and
@McFaul
.
Alexei Navalny is a political prisoner. The world must be forceful in calling for his release.
Former CNN chief media correspondent
@brianstelter
is set to join the Harvard
@Kennedy_School
’s
@ShorensteinCtr
as a fellow this fall.
“I hope I can bring the spirit of my longtime Sunday morning TV show to Harvard’s campus,” Stelter wrote in a statement
The
@Kennedy_School
's Misinformation Review retracted an article last month, in what the editorial staff called "a failure of the journal’s editorial process."
Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker is on campus today for a meeting of Harvard's governing boards
I asked Pritzker if she will demand that President Claudine Gay step down amid the controversy engulfing Harvard.
She did not give an answer
More soon in
@thecrimson
NEW: Executive Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association announces unanimous and unequivocal support for President Claudine Gay in letter to governing boards.
Story to come in
@thecrimson
w/
@claireyuan33
It was a pleasure to speak with
@abbydphillip
about the current crisis engulfing Harvard President Claudine Gay with my phenomenal co-writer
@claireyuan33
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review retracted an article that concluded the
@ADOSorg
discouraged Black voters from participating in the 2020 election
Thank you for the incredibly kind words
@brianstelter
– it means a lot coming from someone who has often provided an example of "indispensable" journalism
via
@WBUR
I love/hate Crimson reporters’ summer internships bc I follow them for headlines like “BREAKING: huds to make grape pizza a weekly meal and also oat milk froyo is permanent sorry” but instead I’m forced to read “Three Major Takeaways From Biden’s NATO Press Conference”
Slightly worried about how our intrepid Crimson reporters are going to do on their final exams when they're breaking (good imho) news at 4:30am during finals week.
SCOOP: Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf is forcing out online misinformation expert Joan Donovan from her role at the School’s Shorenstein Center
read more in
@thecrimson
A source close to the governing boards told
@thecrimson
that the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers are meeting on campus today, but it is a regularly scheduled meeting.
NOT an emergency meeting of the boards.
w/
@claireyuan33
What makes journalism so powerful is that anyone can disagree with a newspaper's editorial, write a response, and get it published in the same newspaper.
But for
@LHSummers
, a former Harvard president, to advocate for boycotting funding of
@thecrimson
is weak.
Brilliant, powerful letter to the
@thecrimson
condemning its boycott of Israel editorial and making a case for boycotting funding of
@thecrimson
.
President Santos starts the forum by congratulating Crimson President
@raquelco15
on her election to the role.
The audience responded with a loud round of applause
Adams House Faculty Dean Salmaan Keshavjee, accompanied by Khurana, brought burritos from El Jefe’s to the students occupying University Hall.
There are vegetarian and non-vegetarian options, apparently.
My grandfather is insane.
He marks the location of where the
@nytimes
has been dropped every morning and at the end of the week he mails a report card to the delivery guy.
He even designed a grading guide 😭
I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the
@Harvard
Corporation has asked President Gay to resign and she has refused.
Gay has apparently said that if she is fired, she will sue. Gay has retained her own counsel.
I can’t
Hundreds attended a protest at Harvard outside Widener Library against
#Putin
’s invasion of
#Ukraine
. Protestors chanted #СлаваУкраїні and called on President Bacow to release an official public statement in support of Ukraine
🧵 Thread
Over the past 5 weeks,
@thecrimson
has covered the death of Rodrigo Ventocilla, a transgender Harvard Kennedy School student from Peru who died in police custody in Indonesia last month.
Here is all of
@thecrimson
's coverage in one place 👇
1/13
#BREAKINGNEWS
: University President Claudine Gay will remain in office with the support of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — according to a source familiar with the decision.
@mherszenhorn
&
@claireyuan33
report.
Correction: Carnell and Moore are the co-founders of the American Descendants of Slavery movement. Carnell founded the American Descendants of Slavery Advocacy Foundation in 2021.
Former Harvard professor
@CornelWest
, who launched his bid for the White House on Monday, said in an interview with
@USATODAY
that his intentions for 2024 are clear: he's staying in the race until Election Day.
Read more in
@usatodayDC
Huh - so odd. I wonder how they found out about the new rules that early…
Anyway, read
@thecrimson
if you prefer to get your Harvard news before it’s “formally announced.”
.
@revolvingdoorDC
, a public interest watchdog group, urged Harvard, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg News to disclose any corporate funding received by former Harvard President
@LHSummers
I report for
@thecrimson
Former Harvard Corporation Head Bill Lee '72 Helped Prepare Gay Ahead of Testimony, Highlighting Complex Dual Roles
@HaidarEmma
&
@cam_kettles
in
@thecrimson
with an important behind-the-scenes look at President Claudine Gay's congressional testimony prep
Huge shoutout to
@neilhshah15
@dseum22
for updating our homepage on short notice to highlight our breaking news coverage of the encampment in Harvard Yard!
So lucky to have the best team in collegiate journalism
@claireyuan33
&
@eschisgall
Sen.
@JDVance1
wrote a letter to the Harvard president after the university’s “openly defiant and potentially unlawful” reaction to the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action.
One note: letter is addressed to the wrong person. Claudine Gay is now the president of Harvard.
Hundreds of Harvard affiliates called on Harvard
@Kennedy_School
Dean Doug Elmendorf to resign on Tuesday following accusations that he denied former
@HRW
Executive Director
@KenRoth
a fellowship over his criticism of Israel
w/
@asherjmont
for
@thecrimson
Joan McPartlin Mahoney, Pioneering Female Crimson Reporter, Dies at 94
She became
@thecrimson
’s first female reporter in 1947 after working with Crimson editors at the Globe.
“It was time to cover Radcliffe, not just joke about it,” she once wrote.
Harvard
@Kennedy_School
Dean Doug Elmendorf is forcing out misinformation expert Joan Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center and ending her research project, according to three HKS staffers with knowledge of the situation
Read more in
@thecrimson
Former Human Rights Watch executive director
@KenRoth
accused Harvard
@Kennedy_School
Dean Doug Elmendorf of blocking him from a year-long fellowship at the school over Roth’s criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians
Read more in
@thecrimson
Huh - so odd. I wonder how they found out about the new rules that early…
Anyway, read
@thecrimson
if you prefer to get your Harvard news before it’s “formally announced.”
As of Wednesday morning, over 500 Harvard affiliates have signed an open letter calling for the resignation of Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf
Read all about it in
@thecrimson
w/
@asherjmont
Preston Phillips, an orthopedic surgeon and Harvard Medical School alum was killed in a mass shooting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital on June 1.
He is remembered by friends as a talented surgeon who cared about providing care to those who needed it most.
Claudine Gay will make history on July 1, when she becomes Harvard’s 30th president
@claireyuan33
and I dive into her life and academic career for
@thecrimson
’s first cover story of 2023
The
@Kennedy_School
Misinformation Review retracted an article last month that concluded that the
#ADOS
Advocacy Foundation, a reparations advocacy group, discouraged Black voters from participating in the 2020 election.
Read more in
@thecrimson
Daniel Ellsberg was an editor for
@thecrimson
. He was a scholar who received a Ph.D. in economics. He was a whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He was an anti-war activist. He was a huge film buff.
Read all about the life of
@DanielEllsberg
1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short
Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow is ending his presidency the same way it began: advocating for immigration reform
w/
@claireyuan33
for
@thecrimson
“Moments after leaving Putin’s office, Biden met with Russian human rights leaders, which annoyed some in the Kremlin and some in our own government. And that was just fine with Biden.”
.
@yarotrof
, chief foreign affairs correspondent for
@WSJ
, said the war in Ukraine will decide “the future of Europe” during an event at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Thursday afternoon.
@angelinajparker
&
@Jo_Lemann
report.
Another day, another scoop in
@thecrimson
:
FAS Research Dean Lauren Ferrell left her role at Harvard on Monday, just two months after
@claireyuan33
’s investigation into allegations that Ferrell fostered a toxic workplace in her department
El Jefe’s Taqueria reopened in Harvard Square with a new menu option: al pastor. The restaurant also plans to apply for a full liquor license to sell frozen margaritas.