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VOL. XLVI, NO. 7 CONTENTS FORUM 3 Lucky Locations 4 Stopping Sexism ARTS 5 Delta 6 Not Just a Pupper

SPORTS 7 Royal 7 They Will Never Be Royal 8 Old and New

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Top 10 Date Spots Where to go with that special someone.

By RITCHEY HOWE 1. Brunch at the East Coast Grill: disregard this date option if your knowledge climb, reward yourself and your toned arms How many scenes have we witnessed in which boys are stressing out before they take a girl out for dinner? How does one start an organic conversation? What does one do at the end of the date? Thanks to movies and books, dinner dates create significant pressure. To avoid any potential awkwardness, take a date to brunch at the East Coast Grill. The highlight of the restaurant is the Bloody Mary bar that enables you to make add your own fresh ingredients.

Fun, and a hangover helper!

2. Drinks at the Beat Hotel: Full

disclaimer: do not even think about going here if you are under 21! However, once you are, this is a great place to come, sip delicious yet somewhat expensive drinks, and listen to live jazz. Nightly, the restaurant has various bands and singers. Therefore, if there is ever a lull in the conversation, no need to fret, as you can simply listen to the wonderful acoustics in this hip new restaurant in the Square.

3. Hockey Game: Harvard Hockey is now

in season and will be playing, and hopefully winning, all winter. Go sit next to the boards, watch boys slam into each other (unfortunately unlike the NHL they cannot fight against each other), and show some Crimson spirit.

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of art only comes from Jay Z’s “Picasso Baby.”

Contemporary art is often hard to discuss and anyone’s opinion or reaction is justified. On the first Friday of every month, the museum hosts visiting DJs, specialty drinks, and gallery talks from 5-10 PM. Go get cultured with your special someone.

5. New England Aquarium: They

have penguins. What’s a better way to sell a date spot? Although there may be a fishy smell throughout the aquarium, seeing cute seals and sea turtles will be a worthy payoff. Make sure to bring hand sanitizer in case you want to end your date holding hands in the IMAX theatre next to the museum. Everyone looks better in 3D glasses!

with one of Somerville’s fun restaurants.

8. The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts: Even if you are a terrible

cook, your teacher and peers will ensure that you get something edible at the end of your cooking class. Each class has a theme such as “Oodles of Noodles”, “Spanish”, or “Thanksgiving 101.”

It will be a memorable date with a delicious ending (hopefully).

9. Ice skating at the Cambridge Skating Club: Rent skates and go breathe

the fresh air and have a nice glow, hopefully not frost bite. The best part about this date is then afterwards, you can return to your dorm room with the need to warm up…

6. Kendall Square Cinema: “Dinner 10. Trapeze School of New York and a movie” is the most unoriginal date; in Boston: If you find another couple, this however, it must have a high success rate! This theatre marked with a retro “Cinema” side that comes right out of the 50s. After or before the flick, try either Catalyst or West Bridge restaurants: two of the “best” Cambridge restaurants according to Urbanspoon.

7. Brooklyn Boulders (in Somerville): Get sporty with each other and get in a bit of a workout with laughs. Help each other reach new heights (corny, but it can work?) After the

could be a great group date activity! Watch each other reach new heights, of course with the help of a certified instructor. You will also have a guaranteed Instagram out of this group date.

Ritchey Howe ’17 (ritcheyhowe@college) will neither confirm nor deny she has been to all of these.

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Calling out Catcalling Sexism on the streets.

By CAROLINE GENTILE “DAMN, you got a nice ass for a white bitch!”

need to tell me that, given that we were perfect strangers beforehand. I would feel as though he That’s what every girl wants to hear walking had been looking at my body in a way in which I to a party, right? According to Doree Lewak, the had not invited him to do. That feeling would be author of an article in the New York Post titled, magnified if the comment had been more crass, “Hey Ladies—catcalls are flattering! Deal with and I cannot begin to describe the discomfort I it!”, it certainly is: “When I know I’m looking would feel if the man who made such a comment good, I brazenly walk past a construction site, began to follow me down the street. But that’s anticipating that whistle and “Hey, exactly what happened to Shoshana mama!” catcall. Works every time — my Roberts in her video, and to countless ego and I can’t fit through the door!”

"The point of the video was to show women everyday. …really? Because when a few To further underline the sexism homeless guys shouted that to me as that street harassment is a very real revealed in the video, funnyordie.com I walked by en route to a party on a made another video, this one a parody, Friday night, me (and my ego) wanted to problem, and one that illuminates the of a white man walking down the streets run the other way. of New York City. Instead of passerby Catcalling has recently garnered a lot sexism that many believe no longer telling him how sexy he looked, people of media attention, Lewak’s article in the offered him jobs, Starbucks gift cards, New York Post included, after an actress exists in our society." high fives, and eventually ended up just named Shoshana Roberts videoed picking him up and carrying him around, herself walking silently through New chanting that he was the King of New York City for 10 hours, wearing a simple York City. Despite their differences in outfit of jeans and a crewneck tee-shirt. During actually complimentary, though. “To clarify,” she tone, both videos suggest that there is persistent those ten hours, she was harassed by men over writes, “a compliment is ‘You’re beautiful,’ and inequality between how women and men one hundred times. These harassments ranged not ‘I like your nipples,’ a crude comment beyond (particularly white men) are treated. from a simple “Dayummmm” to men literally the point of no return.”

Of course, we as a society have made a lot of following her down the street as she tried to The counterargument, of course, is what gives progress in terms of gender equality over time, avoid eye contact, to one man even saying, “A men the right to feel like they can comment on a but clearly, more progress needs to be made. thousand dollars just walked by!” as she passed. woman’s body? Catcalling is a prime example of After all, I highly, highly doubt that a woman The point of the video was to show that street the objectification of women. Never is catcalling would ever tell a man, especially a white man, harassment is a very real problem, and one about what a great personality a woman has, but that he had a nice ass for a white dude. that illuminates the sexism that many believe rather her physical attributes, and how those no longer exists in our society. But if sexism no physical attributes bring pleasure to men.

Caroline Gentile ’17 (cgentile@college) is looking longer exists, then either there would be no street I can see both sides of the argument. Would I for progress. harassment, or both sexes would be equally be flattered if some random guy on the street told harassed. Rarely would you see a woman catcall me I looked beautiful? Maybe a little. But even a man, though, and rarely to the extent to which then, I would still be creeped out that he felt the Image courtesy of Tom Thiel on Wikimedia Commons.

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the men in the video did to the actress.

But what’s so bad about being told you look good? That’s the argument Lewak makes in her article; being told you look good is supposed to be a compliment! With this logic, if someone is so impressed by your good looks that they made the effort to say something, then you should feel flattered. She notes that not all catcalls are

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By HANNAH KATES

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n the month since the British indie trio alt-J released its second album, it has received the kind of critical acclaim usually reserved for bands many years and certainly several albums their senior. The praise certainly isn’t expected for a group that had nine months earlier lost one of its founding members. The album, This is All Yours, topped the UK charts days after its release and has enjoyed good reviews from The Guardian and Rolling Stone. Music from their last album was featured in The Silver Linings Playbook and Weeds; they are definitely on track to make an enormous impact on the contemporary music scene.

Like An Awesome Wave, the group’s first album, This is All Yours begins with a track called “Intro” that is more experimental interlude than structured song; the experimental tone comes from the digital manipulation and repetition of its disparate elements, choral-sounding vocal notes, hints of a twangy, Asian-sounding string instrument, and distorted vocals. On its heels is the mellow, acoustic beginning of “Arrival in Nara,” the first of a three-part saga inspired by the Japanese town famous for its deer.

This and the subsequent “Nara” introduce a motif that finally recurs in “Leaving Nara,” the album’s last track. “Nara” combines light, melodic bells and vocals with a heavy, distorted rhythm section in the characteristic style of alt-J. “Left Hand Free” is the first conventionally structured song on the album, evoking vintage British pop, and it is a real deviation from the experimental, eerie feel of the songs it follows. “Garden of England” is a oneminute interlude of unadulterated woodwind and again feels vaguely oriental. “Choice Kingdom” once again slows down the pace of the album — expertly, without being too The Harvard Independent • 11.06.14

experimental that listeners lose interest. It was a bit reminiscent of the Shins; I could pick out a clean acoustic guitar behind the kind of melodic vocal play heard at the beginning of the album. The keyboard added a melodic as well as synthetic-sounding element to the track.

In “Hunger of the Pine” the versatility of Gus Unger-Hamilton’s keyboard is once again evident; it provides brassy horn notes as well as heavy synth. Like any good house track, this one also relies on a repetitive vocal motif — in this case, a clip from ‘4x4’

by Miley Cyrus. Newman’s vocals, though, are stripped of their characteristic edge and seem rawer and more emotional than they do anywhere else on the album. The male/female vocal exchange on “Warm Foothills” evoked the style of Of Monsters and Men — as do alt-J’s vocals in general, to some degree. “The Gospel of John Hurt,” masterfully executed in 3/4, reveals many layers; it includes more of the bells and drawn-out vocals, but over a consistent rhythm, and includes some fun keyboard effects. It ends with what sounds like a xylophone and features Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes).

“Bloodflood Pt. II” — an appendage to a track on An Awesome Wave — starts out with sparse piano chords before laying down a solid synth beat, keeping the melodic vocals and horn sounds. “Leaving Nara” brings back the Nara motif, adding in distorted vocals over heavy, reverberating bass and flute notes. “Lovely Day,” the album’s bonus track, ends on a high note, bringing back the catchy theme from “Every Other Freckle.”

One of alt-J’s greatest strengths is buildup — not as stark as the ‘drop’ that is characteristic of most EDM, but palpable nonetheless. For the patient listener, long stretches of melodic experimentation

eventually burst into satisfying rhythms.

It’s not the kind of music that raises your pulse immediately, but it is invigorating and definitely upbeat. The chorus of backup vocals evokes Bon Iver and Of Monsters and Men at some points, though the general feel of the music is closer to Radiohead (Kid A era) or Mumford & Sons. Though the album, and alt-J’s music in general, can be classified in various genres, it is squarely ‘experimental’, and definitely more so than their first album, which was more rhythmically rooted. This is All Yours appeals to those craving electronic sounds, but it’s also mellow and layered enough not to be strictly party music. Overall it is difficult to classify, and this is part of its appeal, especially to college-aged listeners who seek upbeat music that is interesting but not loud and distracting, mellow but not all acoustic. The vocal element in this album seems to focus more on sound than on lyrics, and some of the lyrics are certainly odd, but the album’s recurrent themes — serenity, love, nature, loss — are easy to get behind. I also found, in its mashup of styles, textures, and iconography, a self-referential element to This is All Yours, an awareness of the flow of pop culture on which the music itself rides.

Overall, This is All Yours is a fantastic, masterful album, especially considering the relative inexperience of the band that made it. It’s easy to listen to while studying, but equally enjoyable to contemplate on its own or in a social setting. It’s available for free on Spotify, so go out and give it a listen!

Hannah Kates ’18 (hkates@college) can only imagine what alt-J’s next album will be like.

Photo-illustration by Anna Papp/The Harvard Independent

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Stylistic Shadows

In defense of the oft-neglected art of puppetry and its artistic merits.

By ANDREW LIN

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s an art form, puppetry in the modern age is too often neglected as a mere plaything, as a minor form of theater that resides in the same dismal and lowbrow artistic arenas of physical comedy and children’s books and television. Certainly puppetry has had quite a fight on its hands insofar as maintaining its artistic relevance is concerned. By virtue of the ever-present competition of everything from live actors on the stage to newer entities such as television and computer graphics, puppetry as a mainstream art form stands perhaps on the outer periphery of the performed arts. Its history belies this fact, however: puppetry stands as among the oldest and most proliferative of the traditional arts, and almost every culture the world over has developed some unique exponent of this timeless art. The puppets of the world, whether they be of rice paper or oak or latex, have contributed messages and ideas of artistic gravity and simple human import that have been in the making for almost as long as civilization itself.

The very first puppets, like so many other firsts in human civilization, originated with the Ancient Egyptians and their religious rites. Hieroglyphic inscriptions and the testimony of ancient Greeks all attest to the existence of wire-frame wooden statuettes even as early as 2000 BC, which were used in the first puppet shows (religious ones, naturally). This ceremonial practice of puppetry spread rapidly through the ancient world, with the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa integrating puppetry into a rich and varied tapestry of oral history and ritual performance. As an art form, however, puppetry first truly bloomed in South Asia. From the Kama Sutra to the Mahabharata, many of the great epics of Ancient India feature puppetry. Indeed an elaborate description of the dramatic usage of puppets in ancient Indian theater heavily features in the Natya Shastra, the seminal ancient Indian dramatic textbook for the ages. Even the very typology of drama in ancient India felt its influence: the Sanskrit word for narrator transliterates to the word “Sutradhara” — the holder of strings.

The apotheosis of ancient-era puppetry, however, centralized around the great empires and warring kingdoms of East Asia. From the Indian village puppet theaters Javanese and Vietnamese traders took inspiration in the generation of Wayang, a type of shadow puppetry designated as a UNESCO “Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” The puppets themselves were and are works of art in every sense of the word: enormous yardhigh leather shadow puppets are painstakingly cut out, complete with articulated limbs — all controlled by the intricate movement of bamboo 6 harvardindependent.com

skewers. Lacquered and carved wood 3-D puppets complement the spectacle, and an eclectic mix of Persian myths and home-grown tales is all played out to the soundings of bronze drums and gamelans. But although the spectacle and wonder of Wayang and shadow puppetry rapidly spread across East Asia, puppetry was even then seen as a lower-caste occupation, with puppeteers toiling in the literal shadows of their artworks.

Such was the case in Europe as well, where the puppetry of Ancient Egypt and the Greeks had permeated the culture through the Roman Empire before reemerging in the Italian Renaissance.

Like the Egyptians of yore, the Church was in many ways responsible for the dissemination of puppetry as a means of artistic expression; indeed, the very term “marionette” (specifically denoting string puppets, as opposed to the Asian rod puppets) comes from the small puppets of the Virgin Mary used in religious plays. Comedy soon sprung forth from the simple religious puppet shows, however, and in Italy a new idiom of puppet theater (and soon of regular theater) emerged, known as the commedia dell’ arte, or comedy of improvisation. These comedies featured bawdy and base physical humor and improvisation, qualities that rapidly became demanded of stage actors as well, and indeed that ushered in a new, more spontaneous theatrical idiom. Ribald comedy was not the sole subject of puppet shows, however: Sicilian puppet theater featured ancient Frankish epics such as “The Song of Roland,” and even Shakespeare’s plays were performed often with marionettes, and courtiers and magistrates too enjoyed the puppet shows of the Renaissance.

From Italy the art of puppetry blossomed throughout the 16th through 18th centuries in Western Europe. Like the ancient Indian puppeteers and the Javanese Wayang practitioners, European composers such as Haydn and Respighi composed puppet operas, which were performed in purpose-built theaters throughout Europe. Enlightenment-era puppetry in France — known as Guignol in honor of its witty and sharp-tongued hero character — is an art still practiced today, albeit in a form that is sharply watered down compared to the biting and acerbic satire of yore. Nor was the Anglo-sphere to be undone in the art of the puppet show: the Punch and Judy style of comedy puppeteering, featuring a violent Mr. Punch haranguing other characters, has become an integral part of English beach culture in towns such as Brighton. Punch and Judy’s popularity in the 18th century spread rapidly as well, with sold-out shows in Covent Garden, Paris, and even the American colonies, where George Washington himself bought tickets.

Puppetry in the modern era has taken many distinct paths, with the 19th and 20th centuries marking a real period of divergence in the theatrics and presentation of puppets and their actions. Traditional puppetry, of course, was kept alive through the continual action of preservation organizations — puppet guilds in the 19th century and UNESCO in the 20th century. Puppetry as high art also emerged in this period: German poet Heinrich von Kleist talked of the puppet’s unique role as an actor without consciousness, an actor wholly devoted to the performance of its master — a God among theatrical men, in other words. More modern puppeteers and authors took this idea still further, with high-art puppet plays featuring authorships from highbrow authors such as George Bernard Shaw and even Pablo Picasso.

New media, however, were able to bring puppetry to mass audiences like never before, and the televising of puppets rapidly surpassed live performance in its dissemination of puppetry to the world at large. The first use of television to broadcast puppet performances came in the 1940s, when the Howdy Doody show roared onto Bakelite television sets all over the United States, featuring swinging jazz and a comedy-western feel. Children’s television rapidly saw the utility and usefulness of puppets in broadcasting lessons in numbers, letters, and morality, a concept rapidly taken up and used to extremely profitable effect by the Muppets and Sesame Street.

Adults had their fair share of puppet-based TV entertainment too, however: for every Sunday night from 1984 to 1996, Great Britain saw the satirical puppets of ITV’s Spitting Image skewer prime ministers and presidents in grotesque latex caricatures, slapping and bashing each other in the same English Punch and Judy style. For a time, puppets were even a special-effects solution on the silver screen: Yoda in the original Star Wars trilogy was a puppet. CGI, of course, has changed much of this: Yoda is now a computer animation, and Spitting Image’s spiritual successor Headcases featured plasticky CGI puppets in its short run. Puppetry, however, has always managed to fend off and ultimately ally with each new technology that comes its way. And in that resilience, in the endless versatility and adaptability of puppetry as art throughout the fleeting generations it has entertained, lies the true future of puppetry as an artistic complement to the human journey.

Andrew Lin ’17 (andrewlin@college) heartily dislikes scary and creepy puppets.

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Great Moments...

By CAROLINE C. CRONIN

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Women’s Hockey opens with two wins.

he hockey team began the 2014-2015 season on Halloween; however, it was only scary for the visiting team who had to face our intimidating athletes.

Rensselaer came to the newly dedicated Bright-Landry Hockey Center Friday evening only to be crushed 4-1 by the Crimson. On Saturday, the team followed with another decisive victory against Union 5-2. The Harvard team has thus entered its 37th varsity season with wins against two of their East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) rivals. We are the last team in the NCAA to start but clearly did so with style.

The 2014 Sochi Olympics left the Harvard women’s team with only 18 student athletes on campus. This year, the women’s hockey team has 16 returners, including three Olympians, and six new freshmen. One of those freshmen, Dani Krzyszczyk, is happy to be a part of the new team. “I can honestly say that it is better than I could have ever imagined. After a week, I felt like we were a family,” she says, “It’s an amazing dynamic being apart of this team and I wish everyone could experience this.”

Harvard scored at least once in each period in the Rensselaer game. Junior Miye D’Oench began the attack with her goal in the first period.

Sophomore Lexie Laing followed with her first career score in the second period. Marisa Rasper of Rensselaer also scored in the second period, making the opposing teams first and only goal of the game. After the second period, the Crimson skated onto the ice determined to keep their lead and deny the Engineers any more chances at goal. Junior Mary Parker added to that lead in the third period with her long-effort goal against Rensselaer’s goalie. With just over a minute left in the tense final period, D’Oench finished with her second goal of the night making the ending score 4-1.

With their first taste of victory this year and an appetite for more, the Crimson turned around to play Union on Saturday at 4:00 pm. The women’s second game was part of a double header with the men’s team who played Dartmouth at 7:00 pm. The first period found Harvard in a 0-1 hole against the Dutchwomen as Erica Kelly of Union scored in the first five minutes. Spurred on by their competitive

spirit, the Crimson came back in the second period with an offensive onslaught like no other.

All five of Harvard’s goals were scored in that period and the defense and goalie did well to keep Union back. D’Oench connected two shots with the back of the net, back-to-back. Sophomore Sydney Daniels followed quickly with the team’s third goal. And in the last five minutes of the action-packed period both senior Sarah Edney and freshmen Karly Heffernan scored and brought the Crimson up 5-1. In the third and last period, Union’s Bryanne Panchuk managed a power play with just seven and a half minutes left. The Harvard team had already done its work, though, and so left the ice with a final score of 5-2.

In both of these games the team showed amazing talent, of course, but even better communication and cooperation between players. Krzyszczyk agrees, “On the ice our chemistry is amazing despite how few games we have played. I think it is because of our off-ice chemistry.” The players have come together as a force to be reckoned with and, no will no doubt go far this season because of their dedication to each other.

With the second win under their belts the team moves to a 2-0-0 record in the ECAC and therefore sits in a four-way tie with Quinnipiac, Princeton, and Dartmouth for second place behind Clarkson in first. The season is still young and the team has yet to travel away for a game. They will enjoy this week at home, practicing for upcoming games, the next of which are Clarkson and St. Lawrence on the 14th and the 15th. The rest of the November games will be away until the team returns to Bright-Landry in December.

Krzyszczyk looks optimistic, though, saying, “Our team’s expectations are to get better everyday and fight everyday. We hope this mentality will help us on our road to a national championship!”

Caroline Cronin ‘18 (ccronin01@college) is looking forward to seeing the team bring their great talent and skill to the ice this season.

World Series Recap

By CHRIS RILEY

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Giants Capture Third Title in Five Years.

n October 29th, the San Francisco Giants (8874) beat the Kansas City Royals (89-73) 3-2 to win their third World Series title in five years (2010, 2012). Jeremy Affeldt got the win for the Giants while World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner got the save with five scoreless innings of work. As if Bumgarner needed any more awards this postseason, that save is the longest in World Series history since saves became an official statistic in 1969.

Bumgarner continued to build upon the absurdity of his postseason dominance, throwing his five-inning shutout on three days rest after pitching a complete game shutout for the 5-0 win in Game 5. Bumgarner gave up only a lone run in seven innings of work in Game 1, a 7-1 win. Bumgarner posted a ridiculous 0.43 ERA in the World Series (according to ESPN Stats and Information, all other San Francisco pitchers posted a combined 9.92 ERA), which is somehow higher than his career World Series ERA of 0.25.

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7, the Royals won games 2, 3, and 6 to drive the Series to seven games. In their wins, Royals pitchers held the Giants to 2, 2, and 0 runs, with Kelvin Herrera, Jeremy Guthrie, and Yordano Ventura notching wins for the Royals.

Jake Peavy, who won a World Series with the Boston Red Sox last year, was the losing pitcher in two of San Francisco’s losses. Despite winning two rings in two years and playing with more heart than most pitchers, Peavy owns a 12.79 World Series ERA and a 4.50 NLCS ERA. To his credit, Peavy pitched once in the NLDS and dropped a 5.2 inning shutout.

On the offensive side of the game, the Giants owe Hunter Pence for 7 of the 30 runs they scored in the series. Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval added another 6 runs apiece (interestingly, Blanco batted only .143 for the Series; Sandoval batted .429 and Pence .444). While the Royals did not have anyone producing as many runs as those three, they got 4-run Series from Lorenzo Cain, Alex Gordon, and Omar Infante and 3-run Series from Alcides Escobar,

Eric Hosmer, and Salvador Perez. Overall, the Giants Outscored the Giants 30-27 on the Series.

While the Royals played much more balanced baseball and had contributions from a wider range of players, Madison Bumgarner’s postseason mastery was too much for the Royals to handle. While the outcome was disappointing for the Royals, the outlook seems bright for the team that finished in the AL Wildcard top spot and finished only a game behind the Detroit Tigers, who had World Series hopes themselves this season. For the San Francisco Giants, this World Series was a reminder that good coaching and decent offense (the Giants were 12th in runs scored and 10th in batting average this season) are enough to win the World Series behind solid defense and outstanding pitching…especially if it is Madison Bumgarner doing that pitching.

Chris Riley ‘17 (criley01@college) isn’t bitter that the Giants won the World Series. harvardindependent.com

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Closing Out and Starting Up The Indy gives Crimson fans a mid-season report.

By SHAQUILLA HARRIGAN

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ovember at Harvard always marks a point of transition. Most students have survived the midterm hump and are slogging away at final projects. Thanksgiving break, the first real break of the school year, is within reach. The skies have started to get dark at 4pm.

Finally, (and most importantly in my opinion) fall sports are closing out their seasons while winter (and some spring) sports are prepping for their season openers.

Brook match, Harvard won two-nil thanks to defender Philip Fleischman ‘16’s two goals. This game marked the team’s eight home win. Later in the week, the Crimson joined Harvard’s other football team in Dartmouth to face off against the Big Green.

Dartmouth scored their one and only goal just five minutes into the match. Harvard’s goalie Evan Mendez ‘16 staved off any attempts for the Big Green to score again. Midfielder Kyle Henderson ‘15 scored to balance out Mendez’ defensive efforts in the 39th minute. Freshman midfielder Season Recaps Sam Brown passed the ball to Henderson who was able to make a clean shot past Dartmouth’s goalie.

Rugby: Harvard and Dartmouth were evenly matched throughout the rest of The Women’s Rugby team ended their bid for another Ivy League the game. Despite each side’s best efforts to score another goal, the battle Champion with a third place finish. Despite coming in 3rd in their second ended in a draw after double overtime. season as a varsity team, the women’s rugby team still has a chance to go Only two points behind tied top finishers Princeton and Dartmouth, the to nationals in Spring 2015.

Crimson will take on Columbia this weekend for their Senior Day game.

The Crimson took on both Brown and Princeton at Dartmouth for the Ivy League Championships. On Saturday, the women’s rugby team slugged it out against Brown, who is the newest women’s rugby team in the Ivy Player Spotlights: League to go varsity. Despite many scoring opportunities in the game’s opening, the Crimson couldn’t cross the line for a try. The Crimson was Harvard Men’s Basketball star Siyani Chambers ‘16 has been named further handicapped when captain Hope Schwartz ‘16 was penalized and to the Cousy Award watch-list for the third consecutive year. Chambers forced from the game. is one of three players to be named to the list three years in a row. The Even though the Crimson lost 27-5, their ‘Radcliffe spirit’ was not Cousy Award, named in honor of former Celtic player Bob Cousy, goes to broken as they met Princeton on Sunday. Fighting for third place, the the top men’s collegiate basketball point guards.

Crimson came out on top beating the Tigers 22-15. Schwartz and her In addition to helping the women’s volleyball team tie for first place in co-captain Kaleigh Henry ‘15 both scored tries, in addition to sophomore the Ivy League and being a key contributor in the Harvard-Yale match Claire Collins. up, Corinne Bain has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the third time this season. Bain and the women’s volleyball team will have to continue their win streak for four more games this season.

Football: Webster’s Thesaurus should include senior squash player Amanda The rainy, miserable weather of Hanover, New Hampshire didn’t stop Sobhy’s picture next to the words “dominant” and “winner.” Sobhy, who the Crimson’s dominance. Last weekend the Harvard Crimson cruised has only lost one game in her entire Crimson career, was recently named to 7-0 win streak with their victory over Dartmouth at Memorial Field. to Squash Magazine’s Top 50 list. Sobhy, despite being the only collegiate Harvard rolled over Dartmouth 23-12 in their 118th meeting. Harvard is player on the list, is the highest ranked player on the list, which includes currently ranked first in the Ivy League and 17/18 in the FCS. squash bloggers, coaches, and CEOs. Sobhy is number two overall in the Junior running back Paul Stanton, Jr., who scored two touchdowns on magazine. Sobhy and the rest of the squash team begin their season on the Crimson’s behalf, ran a career high 180-yards game and picks up Ivy December 2nd.

League honors this week. Stanton is joined by senior defensive tackle Ryan Delisle who racked up three tackles, blocked Dartmouth for an extra point, and a recovered a fumble. Cornerback Sean Ahern ‘16 was the Crimson’s Upcoming Home Games: top player defensively with 10 sacks. Junior linebacker Matt Koran is a close second with 8 sacks; he also forced a fumble on Dartmouth.

• Women’s Field Hockey versus Columbia| November 8th at noon This Saturday, the Crimson returns home to take on the Columbia Lions. • Football versus Columbia| November 8th at 1:00pm Considering the Crimson’s 34-0 defeat of Columbia last season, Columbia’s • Women’s Soccer versus Columbia| November 8th at 1:30pm team should be a bunch of scaredy cats.

• Men’s Ice Hockey versus Brown| November 14th at 7:00pm • Women’s Swimming & Diving | November 15th at 11am • Men’s Ice Hockey versus Yale| November 15th at 7:00pm Men s Soccer: • (Field trip to TD Garden) Men’s Basketball versus Holy Cross| Harvard’s men’s soccer has an exciting season that has featured several November 16th at 5:30pm nail-biting plays in overtime. With only two games left in their season against Columbia and Penn, the Crimson currently has a 9-4-2 record Shaquilla Harrigan ’16 (sharrigan01@college) is always on top of her game.

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