Editor's Note

Dear FM, This weekend, we’ll see a matchup of epic proportions: Harvard versus Yale. Turkeys versus Bulldogs. A $200 resale value versus only the slightest inclination to watch a football game. In this week’s scrut, JFA examines a dispute that’s just as contentious as The Game, albeit a lot less promising for our side: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. Through on-the-ground reporting from D.C., a fantastic set of interviews featuring the Jay Caspian Kang, and incisive prose, she challenges us to go beyond the #DefendDiversity slogan to consider the larger, weightier fight for reparations that we will lose when we lose affirmative action. In the meantime, there’s plenty of other drama to go around. MJH questioned Cass Sunstein about Dobbs v. Jackson, dogs vs. cats, and The Crimson vs. a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. MEE and KIJT interviewed the teams competing on Hare’s Kitchen, a student cooking competition in Leverett House. WSH researched the Freshman Smoker, a long-running annual social that had to be abolished due to unruliness and disorder. ARZ and SND traced the origins of Harvard’s final clubs, the elite spaces within elite spaces that magnified Harvard’s class divide. But some conflicts turned out to not be so conflicting after all. VX attended a conference on the intersections between science, technology, and society. MLFS and CRR reported on the Quad Lab, a seminar that brings the classroom to Cabot House and weaves together histories of race, class, and gender at Harvard. SB and SEW profiled a 51-year-old DJ at WHRB with a passion for both music and philosophy (and a collection of over 55,000 records!). Finally, MHSH wrote a lovely endpaper about how Multicultural London English enables her to code-switch between different dialects and communities. As always, our FM team was unbeatable this week. Thank you to all the execs, who had me fighting back tears during our last meeting!! To SS, SCS, and MH for wrestling with InDesign and JH for struggling through an hour of podcast name ideation. To JGG, who’s currently battling his inner demons while drafting his first endpaper — if you see him around this week, be sure to ask him how it’s going. And to MVE, for tackling 15 seniors, 21 schmoozes, a 39-item pagemaster, and 3 consecutive essays for class. Speaking of which, if you’ll excuse me, it’s back to Sophia vs. her overdue paper. Go Turkeys, SSL & MVE