Claire Parker is a rising junior in Adams House from Washington, D.C. She is concentrating in Social Studies with a secondary in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and she is pursuing a citation in Arabic. Claire covers Harvard’s central administration for The Harvard Crimson. She spent last summer studying Arabic in Morocco through the Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship program. She is looking forward to staying local and reporting on Boston and Massachusetts state politics this summer at the Boston Globe.