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NEWS 3 Not Conforming to Standards FORUM 4 Setting the Bar 5 Sexual Frustrations 6 Sexual Frustrations 7 Say What You Want ARTS 8 Storytime SPORTS 9 Killin' the Game 10 Hoop Dreams 11 #ICYMI As Harvard College's weekly undergraduate newsmagazine, the Harvard Independent provides in-depth, critical coverage of issues and events of interest to the Harvard College community. The Independent commentary on news, arts, sports, and student life. For publication information and general inquiries, contact President Albert Murzakhanov (president@harvardindependent.com). Letters to the Editor and comments regarding the content of the publication should be addressed to Editor-in-Chief Shaquilla Harrigan (editorinchief@harvardindependent.com). For email subscriptions please email president@harvardindependent.com. The Harvard Independent is published weekly during the academic year, except during vacations, by The Harvard Independent, Inc., Student Organization Center at Hilles, Box 201, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Copyright Š 2015 by The Harvard Independent. All rights reserved.
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On the Heels of Change Genderqueer activist Jacob Tobia speaks at Harvard. By HUNTER RICHARDS
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enderqueer activist and binary non-conforming Jacob Tobia spoke on the current state of genderqueer identities and their place within current LGBTQ communities and movements on April 4, 2015. Tobia’s talk, “On the Heels of Change,” addressed the issues faced when identifying outside the gender binary and discussed, as Tobia said, “How I came to understand my own gender identity and come to live it, love it, and work it.” Tobia reflected on how their experiments with gender and learning that there are more gender options to choose from have shaped their activism. During high school, Tobia started seeing gender as something that they could play with, stating, “I had never thought of gender as something fun before.” Tobia recalls the internal conflict when a friend suggested they buy their first pair of high heels, recalling that they thought, “I have to say no because I’m supposed to say no but I don’t want to say no, I want to say yes.” Tobia explains that it’s difficult to see where in their own life they found gender liberation, making activism more difficult. The first step is defining what gender is and how it’s misconstrued as a binary. In reality, gender is a spectrum and a culturalspecific social construct acting as a system of power. Gender, they explain, is a method of organizing bodies and behavior that functions as a system. “Gender roles gender roles create differentiation that sustains patriarchy and men’s power,” and by not fitting into the gender binary, it threatens the current power structure. Introduced with a trigger warning, Tobia commemorates the members of the genderqueer community that were The Harvard Independent • 04.09.15
targeted in the past year. Posing the question of who is subjected to violence and marginalization, Tobia highlights the consequences to disobeying gender expectations. This emphasizes public safety as a necessity so that people won’t feel the need to resort to violence when confronted with genderqueer expression. This spectrum, made up of physical sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, determine one’s role in society and often depends on whether one comfortably fits the binary or is somewhere in the middle, as Tobia defines themselves. Tobia’s hope is not for a third acceptable gender, but rather a world where there are multiple definitions and genders in between male and female. When outlining the marginalization of genderqueer people within the trans movement, the question of whether the trans movement seeks to maintain or abandon the gender binary and where that leaves genderqueer individuals was posed. Cultural representation and visibility as well as having a place within the trans movement will encourage the genderqueer movement. Genderqueer people are often ignored in the broader transgender movement partly because the media’s definition of transgender excludes genderqueer experiences. It will take more political organizations and media recognition working with genderqueer issues. Social changes call for decentralizing gender, creating spaces for diverse gender identities, redefining bullying as a gender problem, and looking at parenting methods. It will also take new political actions to reform prisons and the police, support transition-related health care, raise awareness of the vulnerability
within the homeless community, and bring light to workplace and hiring discrimination. Closing the discussion, Tobia poses the key questions concerning how we define gender, why we choose to define it in this way and whether the media is able to redefine transgender. Tobia admits it will be hard to enact change and it is a long process but ends with the encouraging message: “Honey, we can do it!” In the questions that followed Tobia’s talk, they explained how staying positive keeps their activism strong. Tobia advocates for self-care and making gender more playful so that people feel comfortable experimenting. They are intentionally less political and more playful because showing “that gender is just play” encourages conversation and makes femininity more accessible. There are so few chances where someone is offered the opportunity to experiment with femininity, which influences Tobia to create a safe space for people interested in expressing different gender identities. Though they don’t like calling it activism too loudly because that would take away from its playful nature, Tobia hopes this fun experimenting will allow people to more freely traverse the gender binary. Tobia loves sharing their femininity with the world because, “Like anything good that you have and love, you share it with other folks.” Hunter Richards ‘18 (hunterrichards@college.harvard.edu) wants to dismantle the patriarchy one step at a time.
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A Plea to Gerald Chan Why the real estate mogul should buy us a bar. By RITCHEY HOWE
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n the past year, Gerald Chan, a Harvard alum and billionaire Hong Kong real estate mogul purchased $120 million worth of Harvard Square property. These purchases are certain to bring good returns as the rent of Harvard Square is only increasing. Last fall, Chan generously gave $350 million to Harvard School of Public Health, the largest single donation Harvard has ever received. Clearly, Chan wants the best for his alma mater. Why not use his recent real estate purchases to help us out a little more? I suggest that Chan use a portion of his real estate purchase to create a student bar, and in doing so, provide another gift to the College. With these new assets, Chan has a unique opportunity to not only generto further support the College and improve the undergraduate experience. Many other colleges have some type of college bar. Yale has Toad’s, Georgetown has The Tombs, Columbia has Mel’s, etc. We do not have any sort of equivalent. I believe that Harvard College students need a casual bar; a bar where all students can come together and socialize, a bar that excludes no one, a bar that College students can afford. A current sophomore told me, “Currently I’d have to say that the most social spot on campus is Lamont Café,” and thinking about it, I would have to 4 harvardindependent.com
agree. This observation should really shock us. The most social spot for Harvard College students is the library? While I’m sure many professors will be happy to hear this, college students should also be encouraged to leave the library. College should be about more than completing problem sets and writing papers. So many students
seem to undervalue what we can learn from one another. While clearly it is critical to study and learn in class, I have learned so much from my peers over a glass of wine at dinner or a conversation at a party. This is the sort of education will continue beyond academia. All students at Harvard have something special to offer, and we need an environment where we can share our diverse knowledge. Having a college bar for all students will lessen the necessity for elite clubs
to provide exclusive social entertainto exist for the foreseeable future, I believe that a bar would include more of the student body and enable people from different parts of Harvard to come together. In a conversation with several former students about their experiences at Harvard, a recent grad, said, “The best part about Senior Week is that everyone can come together.” But why do we need to wait until the week before graduation? Students want and need a social space. Currently, there are remarkably few places where students can physically come together. While the new Smith Campus Center proposes a solution, Chan’s real estate investment could provide a quicker remedy. I am grateful for Harvard Square’s diverse restaurants and coffee shops. Why not add a place in the Square where I could go and be surrounded by other college students? Opening a bar intended for college students would be both a smart investment venture and a fantastic gift to the Harvard undergraduate community. Mr. Chan, if you want to give to Harvard, give us a space, and we’ll buy you a drink. Ritchey Howe ‘17 (ritcheyhowe@college.harvard.edu) prefers Peroni. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Why we need to revisit modern conceptions of bisexuality. By W. POWELL EDDINS
everyone expected him to. When I decided to come
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I felt stuck in an awful torturous sexuality from which I couldn’t escape.
aware of this stecided to skip the charade and come right out as gay. And at
I felt stuck in an awful torturous sexuality from which I couldn’t escape. I felt like — as the modern gay rights movement constantly reminds us — that I it was ultimately constructed by my femininity and the constant pursuit of mascubisexual people to start being treated with the respect they deserve; to have people respect bisexuality as a legitimate and not merely a transient identity. As a person ing. People can be attracted to all sorts of genders and gender expressions. Limiting people to choose “one or the other” can
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there are some serious problems with the way that bisexual people have gone about advocating for
that someone addressed them. Many bisexual people claim straight-passing privilege is a myth. Their argument goes like this: when bisexuals are in a heterosexual ple often mistake or reduce their identity to being
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a heterosexual relationship at the time. that when the said bisexual person is in
getting married without fear of social stiging that people don’t take their queerness seriously because they present themselves in a gender normative way. They complain that such societal attitudes reduce
there are...serious problems with the way that bisexual people have gone about advocating for this visibility and respect...
they are actually still dealing with the stigmas and accurate; people should not question the legitimacy of a bisexual person’s queerness just because he/she happens to be in
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and then later admitting to having lied and coming
forcing a binary conception of gender. It is incredibly frustrating that bisexual people are hyper sexualized and considered promiscuous because of their sexual orienta-
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very single person reading this article knows some femme queen gay man who was “bisexual” when he
a community that is traditionally thought to be built off people who are “visibly “sissy” gay men and “butch” lesbibe frustrating to have people tell you that “you’re not really queer” because you present yourself in a
frankly much worse. Much of queer stigma is rooted in issues of gender non-conformity.
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gay” people do not have that option. Being a gender normative queer allows you to have far greater visibility in media representations of queerness as well (i.e. how and how many femme gay men actually get their own story line in a TV show or movie instead of just being the “sassy gay
passing privilege because we would just look like a fag and a dyke walking down the street together. People would not take my sexual orientation as bisexual seriously because society’s concept of bisexuality is rooted in gender normativity; having never been able to meet these standards of gender
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ready to take my heterosexual attraction seriously either. If you’re wondering why so many gay men come out as “bisexual” before revealing their sexual orientation to actually be ceived to be more masculine than male gayness. For men just tifying as bisexual is the perfect way to distance themselves from all those “sissy” femme queens that are the bottom barrel of the gay community.
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this way of thinking is exactly right. No one can actually see your innate sexuality (though they can see part of it by who you choose to date and have
Grindr or OKCupid and see how many say “no femmes” all at the same time. If you’re wondering why Dan Savage used to it only takes any bisexual a year or two because he was frustrated with these men not owning up to the full stigma of their identity as a gay man and trying to distance themselves from the community by identifying as bisexual. Ab-
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exactly beating down the door to have sex with a femme queen gay man like me or
to my other privileges of being white and male (and I’m absolutely not questioning the immense advantage the former of those identities
male bisexuality is perceived to be more masculine than male gayness.
society’s concept of bisexuality is rooted in gender normativity.
as “gay.” Femme bisexual women complain that lesbians don’t perceive them
the “radical progressive” left always used to tell me that because no one could see
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Presenting oneself in a “straight way” means that one gets treated like a straight person wherever they go. You don’t have to worry about people screaming “FAGGOT!” at you walking in a subway tunnel because your walk is a little too “gay;” or worry about your gender presentation in a job interview being “the wrong kind of gay” that might not be palatable to clients; or having parents uncomfortable with you interacting with their children because your visible gayness makes you visibly more “sinful”. Being a gender normative tween the queer and straight communi-
this erasure and attack is rooted in the erroneous and harmful belief that monosexual attraction is the only sort of attraction that exists; that bisexual people are somehow inherthe greater part of this hostility within the LGBTQ community toward bisexuality has to do with the gender normativity attached to its social construction.
what I discovered is that LGBTQ rights really have never been that much about sexual orientation: they’ve been more about the right to deviate from the normativity of your perceived gender to an extent of your choice (which can often be manifestexpression that the vast majority of queer stigma lies. While bisexual visibility and validity is an incredibly important part understanding how gender non-conformity and expression are intertwined with modern conceptions of bisexuality will ultimately be the key to eradicating its stigma from both inside and outside of the LGBTQ community.
W. Powell Eddins ’16 (williampowelleddins@ college.harvard.edu) wonders who came up with the idea of gender normativity.
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Disagreement and Repression Commencement should foster free speech. By ANDREW ADLER
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epressing free expression is a natural human weakness, and it is up to us to fight it at every turn. Intolerance of ideas – whether liberal or conservative – is antithetical to individual rights and free societies, and it is no less antithetical to great universities and first-rate scholarship,” said Michael Bloomberg to Harvard’s class of 2014’s at the commencement ceremony last May. This year Keane University disinvited the rapper Common from delivering the commencement speech to the class of 2015 after outcries from law enforcement officials. Common recently won both a Grammy and an Academy Award for his song “Glory” featured in the film Selma and is widely known as a fantastic speaker. However some viewed the lyrics from “A Song For Assata” as too sympathetic a portrait of someone who killed a police officer. The President of the State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey opposed the selection specifically because it might send a “dangerous and deadly message” to the “young, impressionable people.” Beyond Keane University, many selections for commencement speakers have resulted in controversies and sometimes, the withdrawal of invitations. FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has compiled a staggeringly long list of commencement controversies since 2000, which includes Condoleezza Rice, James Franco, Laura Bush, William Ayers, and Michelle Obama among many others. While some of the commencement speeches went on as scheduled, schools The Harvard Independent • 04.09.15
often formally rescinded their invitations to controversial speakers, and in some cases the speaker withdrew in the face of protest. Not all that surprisingly, Harvard makes six appearances on the list. Tom Paulin, Robert Trivers, and Jim Gilchrist all had invitations to speak formally rescinded. Several others faced controversy. What is fascinating about this list is that these controversies occur at schools and with speakers on all sides of the political spectrum. Although Bloomberg directed his speech at liberal intolerance including those who opposed his selection, he astutely explains that this isn’t merely a liberal versus conservative issue. It’s a free speech issue. Ironically, a forced cancellation of a speaker probably suppresses discussions of the issues these protestors actually care about—discussions that could actually inform those on campus and actually make steps towards actual progress. Perhaps even more concerning is that these cancellations treat graduating students, the ones primarily listening to these speeches, as children incapable of reaching their own conclusions about the world around them. Congratulations, you’ve made it through four years of higher education! However, we don’t think you’re quite ready to think for yourselves. When researching these commencement controversies, I couldn’t help but think about the not so distant controversy regarding Tyga’s his Yard Fest performance in 2013. Many bemoaned the selection and signed a petition to cancel the performance on the grounds
that his lyrics are “explicitly and violently misogynistic.” Several students thought that Harvard should not be financing and therefore endorsing an artist who espoused these views. While I don’t necessarily consider Tyga to be in quite the same intellectual league as most of the speakers who face commencement controversies, the implication is the same. Many within the controversy treated Harvard students as impressionable children receiving and potentially accepting a dangerous message. As an aside, if you’re only listening to music that falls in line with your set of political beliefs, you’re probably listening to an incredibly narrow or bland set of music. I’m not going to pretend to offer you any novel ideas about the value of speech. History has provided plenty. However, with Common taking the heat in the latest controversy, I will say that it is important to remind ourselves about the difference between disagreement and the repression of ideas. Sharply condemning the ideas of an individual are disagreement. Demanding that they not be allowed to speak to your school is repression. Andrew Adler ’17 (andrewadler@college.harvard.edu) is looking forward to commencement season and all the ideas it holds.
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American Document Solutions Short Fiction. By MICHAEL LUO
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here were only five of us, and since I was the youngest by a decade, I did most of the scanning. We all sat in one family cubicle. Our supervisor couldn’t afford those stale, plastic dividers. We didn’t have fake walls to separate us. We did it anyway with our silence. My desk was next to Ali’s and Tory’s in classic Tetris formation. They were two ladies in their late twenties, one recently married, and one silently jealous but verbally excited for the other. Ali’s favorite band was Alice in Chains, so I had this natural urge to ask about her namesake. What gave me pause was the scathing dragon shielded by purple split ends under her gauge earring. Tory was jealous of Ali’s marriage. At exactly an arm’s length away where I could brush my elbow against his as he scan sat Tom, the in-house mall Santa. Waterfalls of thick white hair trailed off his jawline, hiding a history of naval years spent deep in the trenches of malaria-infested Southeast Asia. Every time I had to approach him to rescan a page, an involuntary “sir” fell out of my mouth, whether out of reverence for the camo cap embroidered with the NRA logo or the denim jacket populated by an ecosystem of woodland creatures, I wasn’t sure. Either way, Tom gave as much a care about employment etiquette 8 harvardindependent.com
as Clint Eastwood did about fidelity. Then again, American Document Solutions was a company well on its way to becoming a memory. I started working here on Halloween, one day after being told by my boss at Applebee’s that I didn’t have the personality to wait tables. My project was to place thin, redacted medical pages into outdated Epson all-in-ones until jpegs flooded the monitors of Dell PCs fished out of the clearance section of Best Buy. The job mainly involved moving one hand from a stack of lawsuits onto another in silence, give or take a few spreadsheet side gigs. Silence hadn’t been a qualification when I applied on Craigslist, but all I heard for eight hours a day were routine click and drones with the occasional interstitial of Marvin Gaye leaking out of Deb’s headphones. Deb was the only other person of color in this group. I think we might’ve bonded over this one time when she dropped a box of scanned documents, spilling thousands of health waivers once sorted in order. As I helped to pick some up, all I heard was, “Thanks, chink.” The newest addition was a lady in her fifties who went by Toot, which I always thought was short for destitute. She came in every day with hair unwashed in a fleece jacket the color of Robitussin. Every alternating Tuesday morning, she’d
declare, “Hey Nate, my screen froze” and every time, I’d suggest turning it off to turn it on back again. I could’ve told her my real name was Nick, but that would just make things too complicated. Funny thing was everyone in the office apparently thought I had an affinity for numbers. Whenever Excel became a nuisance, I received an email asking how to divide some data entries from someone who could’ve walked five feet over to ask me in person. Sure, I thought, knowing somewhere in this office of skimmed and skipped pages documenting family medical histories sat a copy of my unofficial transcript dotted with A’s and B’s save for the regular C’s flowing from counting to calculus. (to be continued) Editor’s Note: The rest of this story will be published in next week’s issue on 4.16.15. Michael Luo ‘16 (michaelluo@college.harvard. edu) wants you to read next week’s issue.
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A Pivotal Match Harvard Volleyball conquers Princeton to sit in second in EIVA. By PEYTON FINE
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nce a team gets rolling in volleyball, stopping it is nearly impossible. Princeton found that out the hard way on Saturday, as Harvard defeated the Tigers three sets to one. It was a crucial victory that placed the Crimson in second place ahead of Princeton in the EIVA. (The winner of the EIVA tournament receives one of four automatic bids to the NCAA tournament, and the seeding for the EIVA tourson standings.) vard quickly fell behind by three and was down by both teams. Just when it seemed as if Harvard could come back, Princeton went on an eight to two run, and the Crimson had dropped would be the team that was rolling in this match. However, Harvard quickly began to stop the momentum. dent early in the second set. The set was tied at four and remained within two points all the way through the end of the match. With
kill with a spike of his own to give the Crimson the pivotal second set. If Harvard got the ball rolling at the end of the second set, they pushed it to the precipice of the hill by the end of the third set. In a back and forth set, Harvard fortuitously timed its run for the
points, the teams continued to battle it out. Then, two Harvard seniors took over. Middle blocker Caleb Zimmick, a two-time EIVA defensive player of the week, registered a kill off a quick set to
for the match as well as much of the year, reeled off two straight to win by four. In the fourth set, Harvard was a nearly unstoppable force movof every hit that went across the net was a point for the Crimson. The fourth period hitting percentage nearly doubled the hitting percentage for the Crimson in the previous three sets. This ofover the Tigers.
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beating Penn State, which has won the EIVA tournament and represented the EIVA in the NCAA tournament every year since 1998, will still be a tall order. The Crimson took one set off the Nittany Lions in an earlier match this year, but if the Crimson can get on a roll, anything can happen. Peyton Fine ’17 (peytonfine@college.harvard.edu) was pleased to overtake Princeton for control of second place, but still sees a lot of momentum needed for the volleyball team to make the “Big Dance.” Photos Courtesy of Shaquilla Harrigan. The Harvard Independent • 04.09.15
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Duking it Out! Wisconsin falls to Duke in the NCAA Championship Game. By DEVON HIGHAM
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‘18 went to the bench with his 4 th foul it felt like the end
the presumed first pick in the NBA draft, had been plagued by foul trouble the whole night and had been mostly ineffective. Wisconsin had survived blows from Duke during the first half and the two teams went into the break tied at 31. But Wisconsin spent the first ten minutes of the second half with their foot on the gas, and was in control. When the floundering Duke ship was about to go under for good it was rescued by the least likely of heroes. Grayson Allen ‘18, another Duke Freshman, only averaging 4 points per game, came off the bench and scored 8 straight points for the Blue Devils. After having hardly scored during the first five games Allen put up 16 on 5/8 shooting. He silenced the crowd and rebuilt the confidence of the struggling Duke team. After spending the season mostly in anonymity Allen made himself a household name and a player to watch in the coming seasons. If Allen was the man who righted the ship Tyus Jones ‘18 was the man who trimmed the sails to the wind and launched ahead. The Duke guard scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half and had an answer for everything Wisconsin threw at him. He was a perfect 7/7 from the line and 7/13 from the field. His three-pointer from the top of the key in the waning minutes of the game was the moment when face erupted in a combination of fierce energy and joy that showed what everyone watching already knew: there was no way he would let his team lose this game. Jones was awarded the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four for th national championship. After their crushing defeat last year at the hands of Ken-
again ends in heartbreak for Wisconsin. They made it one game further, but that was all they would get. The first ible seniors were unable to end their careers in the perfect way. Frank Kaminsky ‘15, who at halftime was named the Naismith College Basketball player of the year and finished with 21 points, was the only player able to cause trouble for Duke. It was fellow senior Sam Dekker who left something to be desired in his performance. After his spectacular play in the first five games Dekker was never able to make much of an impact. He finished with 12 points when 10 harvardindependent.com
Justice Winslow and Tyus Jones of Duke in a High School All-American Game.
his team needed 20 from him. He was 0/6 from beyond the arc with two air balls. The final image of him leaving the court in tears stands in stark contrast to the tears shed by Jones. On one team was a senior, his career over, having come up just short in the biggest game of his life. On the other was a freshman, at the top of the sports world, having just grasped immortality. But such is the way all sports end: with victors and losers. The unending search for history is what gives teams the drive to do it all again the next year. You can only hope that the pain of the last year will not be felt again. You put on your shoes and dribble out to midcourt, ready for a new game. Devon Higham ’17 (devonhigham@college.harvard.edu) applauds both the Duke and the Wisconsin athletes for leaving it all on the court. Photos Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Crimson Teams: Home and Away A look back on Harvard sports. By CAROLINE CRONIN
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s the spring season is beginning to pick up some steam, The Indy looked at what these teams have done thus far. Tennis matches at home this past weekend. The two conference matches put the team up against Cornell and Columbia. The Crimson beat Cornell 4-3 then lost to Columbia on Sunday 5-2. The upcoming matches this weekend are also conferences matches at Penn and Princeton. The womto both Cornell and Columbia 5-2 on Friday and Saturday but is very excited to take on Penn and Princeton on the home courts this coming weekend. Baseball off of a very successful week and is taking that success to the Beanpot. After beating Holy Cross in the home opener (5-3), the Crimson went on the conquer Princeton last Saturday 8-1 and then 11-8. The following Sunday proved to be a thrilling match up as the team beat Cornell in the
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place at UMass Amherst where the Crimson (14-3) will take on the Minutemen (510). Golf er conditions this past weekend, but persevered despite the wind and cold at the Met Intercollegiate held at the Century and Old Oaks Country Clubs. The spring tournament hosted by Yale brought to-
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among the competing 18 teams present. fought the conditions and held their focus to earn 14th place overall. Up next the women head to Oregon on April 13th for the the season with the Ivy League Championships in Bethlehem, PA. Sailing The New England winter continues to thwart our teams! Two of the coed sailrecent
regattas ished because of the horrid conditions. Even so, second at the Marchiando Trophy Team Race on Saturday (hosted by MIT). Out of 16, the Crimson came away 12-3 — only following Yale by one
gether nine of some of the best teams in the Northeast. At the end of the two-round event, Harvard came out in third place — making sure to stay ahead of Yale. The team hopes to continue to do so by an even Invitational held on the 18th at the Yale Golf Course. Rebel Intercollegiate tournament held at Ole Miss. The women also faced harsh winds and threatening thunderstorms. Af-
team sailed alone on Sunday in the Dellenbaugh Troth . There will be three more regattas this April and then the Harvard team will go on to host the NEISA Team Race Championship at the end of the month. Caroline C. Cronin ’18 (ccronin01@college.harvard. edu) cannot wait for the weather to permit us to actually enjoy outdoor sporting events. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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