Benjamin Isaac

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[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

Harvard’s grade inflation is a collective action problem, and it would do us well to treat it like one.

https://t.co/Op8ciHhqWY

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

The Coddling of the ⁦@Harvard⁩ Mind. An accurate diagnosis of a dominant student reaction to countering grade inflation at Harvard. ⁦@JonHaidt⁩ should enjoy this. https://t.co/t1NDzaIQ18

[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

https://t.co/cgfhfdNZhm

[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

Harvard released a proposal to crack down on grade inflation. It didn't go over so well with the student body.

[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

Open letters circulated by the student body accused the proposal of blatant racism and being actively adversarial, among other things.

[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

https://t.co/cgfhfdNZhm

[Crimson Opinion @CrimsonOpinion]

“Nothing about Harvard's DEl bureaucracy compelled the Salient's editors to flirt with Nazi rhetoric,” writes Benjamin Isaac. https://t.co/knRguXkC7E

[Benjamin Isaac @benjaminisaac_1]

https://t.co/skDrMWJa9X

Harvard’s right has a problem, and it isn’t wokeness. My latest in the Crimson:

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a policy order Monday asking the city to devise a plan to restore Garden Street to two-way automobile traffic while retaining its two-way bike lanes by April 2025.

@benjaminisaac_1 and @avaniiiirai report.

https://t.co/ulSj6pF6Up

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 suggested that the city may further raise property taxes and pare back certain city services to address a budget crunch in fiscal year 2026.

@benjaminisaac_1 and @avaniiiirai report.

https://t.co/KdREcBKvGk

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The Cambridge City Council unanimously adopted a policy order on Monday to request that the city update the Cambridge Bicycle Plan, a report on cycling trends and bike lanes, for the first time in four years.

@benjaminisaac_1 and @avaniiiirai report.

https://t.co/bP63ghyz9a

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The HLS student government is embroiled in a bitter feud with the Dean of Students Office over a referendum to condemning disciplinary action taken against participants of pro-Palestine study-in protests.

@MacHealey and @saketh_sundar report.

https://t.co/pmw6wmAxGF

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

More than a dozen residents and a City Councilor criticized the reappointment of civic blogger Robert Winters to the Central Square Advisory Committee at a Council meeting Monday.

@benjaminisaac_1 reports.

https://t.co/PiOH9WKott

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The Cambridge City Council took the first step in forcing landlords rather than tenants to pay broker fees, unanimously voting at a Monday meeting to hold a future hearing to discuss its feasibility.

@benjaminisaac_1 reports.

https://t.co/l2n5Ad27pz

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 said he had met nearly all of the City Council’s goals for him, but conceded that he had failed to establish a commission for reparations to the descendants of enslaved people.

@benjaminisaac_1 reports.

https://t.co/k8vFZjoDJQ

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

City staff are projecting that even if Cambridge’s operating budget grows at a conservative rate, the city may need to raise property taxes by at least 8 percent in the future, according to officials at a Tuesday hearing.

@benjaminisaac_1 reports.

https://t.co/j7H8aXQRA6

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The Cambridge City Council unanimously voted on Monday to draft a petition asking the Massachusetts State Assembly to allow the city to implement automatic traffic enforcement.

@benjaminisaac_1 and @avaniiiirai report.

https://t.co/ga8G0mjPUn

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Cambridge residents said they were highly satisfied living in the city, but gave local officials low marks on housing and transportation issues in the 2024 Cambridge Resident Satisfaction Survey.

@benjaminisaac_1 reports.

https://t.co/tcRRBMXDl6

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Local and state officials reaffirmed their commitment to completing $1.5 million worth of improvements at the intersection of Memorial Drive and the BU Bridge by the new year.

@sallyedwards04 and @benjaminisaac_1 report.

https://t.co/P4Bmbz09F4

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

More than 100 cyclists biked from Cambridge Common to the Massachusetts State House, where they joined a rally commemorating bikers and pedestrians who have died after being hit by cars in the Boston area.

@benjaminisaac_1 and @avaniiiirai report.

https://t.co/Y2DWWtyo35