Crimson opinion writer
Mac M. Mertens
Latest Content
A Safer River Run is a Better River Run
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The University is best served by opening the gates, dropping the guards, and otherwise staying out of student affairs.
Life, Laundry, and the Pursuit of Cleanliness
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When students are discouraged from doing their laundry by unnecessary financial barriers, washing machines wear out faster, students get sicker, and campus becomes less pleasant overall. As it showed the week after spring break, Harvard has the ability to make our laundry free. So why doesn’t it?
Learning to Lose, Love, and Leave My Accent Behind
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Whenever I talk about my sometimes-beloved sometimes-hated home, it's always with an accent. But the Southern accent I use here in Cambridge isn’t “the accent.” I use my painstakingly-researched “neutral” accent. That isn’t “my accent.”