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TOP ADMINISTRATOR SALARIES
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Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow earned more than $1.3 million in the calendar year 2021, an increase from 2020.
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STUDENTS CALL FOR WAGE RAISE More than 1,600 people signed a petition calling on Harvard to raise student researcher and teaching salaries.
A POST-COVID CAMPUS The pandemic has torn us away from some of Harvard’s institutional inertia, inviting us to reimagine what campus could look like.
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To The Class of 2023: Public Service Is Its Own Reward
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POLICE CHIEF BACKS STUDENTS HUPD Chief Victor A. Clay said he “100%” backs student and alumni calls for answers after a Leverett House swatting attack.
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FACULTY
RUSSIA
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Harvard Lifts Sanctions on Professor Linked to Epstein
Pritzker Among Nearly 500 Kenzie Bok ’11 Talks Harvard Banned From Russia and Public Service
PAGE 4. Harvard Mathematics and Biology professor Martin A. Nowak, who was sanctioned in 2021 for his association with sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, had all advising and research privileges restored in March.
PAGE 6. Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81 was one of eight Harvard affiliates blacklisted from entering Russia, the country’s ministry of foreign affairs announced Friday.
PAGE 41. Outgoing Boston City Councilor and former Harvard Social Studies lecturer Kenzie Bok ’11 discusses her path from studies at Harvard to public service, examining the influence of her time at the College.
ON THE COVER. The Class of 2023’s first class marshal Athena Q. Ye ’23 stands in front of Widener Library in her graduation regalia reading the first issue of volume CL of The Harvard Crimson.
FACULTY LEAN LIBERAL More than 77 percent of surveyed Harvard faculty identify as “very liberal” or “liberal,” per The Crimson’s annual FAS survey.
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The Week in Photos
AROUND THE IVIES AT YALE, TRANSGENDER STUDENTS FACE HEALTHCARE BARRIERS
COMMENCEMENT PREPARATION WIDENER SHINES. Harvard shield banners hang on Widener Library in preparation for the Class of 2023’s Commencement ceremony. During the ceremony, actor Tom Hanks will deliver the commencement address.
Trasngender students and faculty expressed frustration over their experiences with Yale Health, citing limited coverage under the Basic Student Health Services insurance plan and a pattern of being deadnamed and misgendered by health care providers. The Yale Daily News interviewed 17 Yale students and faculty who sought gender-affirming healthcare, of whom 11 sought care outside of Yale Health as a result of delays or poor treatment options. Eleven students said they had experienced misgendering or deadnaming by Yale Health.
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BROWN UNIVERSITY TO END CAMPUS-WIDE COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT Starting June 1, Brown will no longer require students, faculty, staff, and visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a campus-wide email Thursday. Students at the medical school or in the Gateways Program and Program in Liberal Medical Education, however, will still be required to receive vaccinations and a booster prior to matriculation due to the time they spend in clinical settings.
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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
BOLLINGER STEPS DOWN AS PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA After 21 years at the university, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger will step down from his post on June 30. The university’s 19th president, Bollinger oversaw the creation of the Manhattanville campus — a $6.3 billion and 17-acre development — during his presidency. Bollinger also led the establishment of the Climate School, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the Data Science Institute. University president-elect Minouche Shafik, who has served at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, is poised to take over after Bollinger departs.
SETTING UP. A stack of chairs sits in Tercentenary Theatre on Sunday. Thousands of chairs were set up in Harvard Yard over the weekend.
LANDSCAPING. Teams of landscapers have spent weeks treating the Yard’s lawns and trees ahead of Commencement.
HOUSE PRIDE. Workers in a cherry picker hang banners with Harvard house shields on trees around Tercentenary Theatre. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—
VERITAS. The Commencement morning exercises for the Class of 2023 will be held in Tercentenary Theater on May 25. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—
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PRINCETON INSTALLS SECURITY CAMERAS INDOORS, DESPITE PREVIOUS STATEMENT Princeton has commenced its camera expansion project, which includes installing cameras inside residential entryways — a move that comes despite previous University statements indicating cameras would be added to building exteriors. The university’s Environmental, Safety, and Risk Management Committee first approved the project in December 2022. However, the decision prompted criticism from students and student groups across campus, including Students for Prison Education, Abolition, and Reform. THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN
Listen to The Crimson’s News Podcast Today THREE PART COMMENCEMENT SERIES: I. The Harvard Alumni Who Run Massachusetts II. Does Harvard Have an Academic Freedom Problem? III. Harvard’s Denaming Dillema
