The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 1

The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 1 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | tuesday, january 16, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Men’s ice hockey ties with Quinnipiac, beats Princeton.

#MeToo gives too much weight to anonymous complaints. Op-ed PAGE 6

sports PAGE 7

Search Group Meets In Secret

Top Job a Pay Bump For Pres.

Possibles

By the crimson news staff

By dianne lee and william l. wang

BELMONT, MASS.— Members of the committee searching for Harvard’s next president convened secretly at the Belmont, Mass. home of a committee member Saturday, spending almost the whole day in private discussions as they prepare to make a final choice in the coming weeks.

The meeting—held at the home of Overseer and committee member Tracy P. Palandjian ’93—stretched for roughly seven hours, beginning around 10:30 a.m. and lasting until about 5:30 p.m.

Crimson reporters identified at least three members of the search committee—David M. Rubenstein, Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, and Susan L. Carney ’73—as they exited the meeting.

Roughly a dozen total people left Palandjian’s house when darkness fell at the end of the day, sometimes sharing vehicles.

The committee—comprising all twelve members of the Harvard Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers—has been seeking a successor to University President Drew G. Faust since she announced over the summer she plans to step down in June 2018.

Though committee members have repeatedly declined to discuss the search publicly, The Crimson reported in Dec. 2017 that the searchers had narrowed their shortlist of candidates to under 20 names.

The secret meeting comes nine months into the search for the University’s 29th president.

In Harvard’s three most recent presidential searches, search committees started interviewing final contenders in late January or early February.

Twice over the course of the day Saturday, large SUVs with tinted windows pulled into Palandjian’s long, concrete driveway, making the turn past a green mailbox with a “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” balloon.

The SUVs discharged their passengers out of sight of the road and remained by Palandjian’s house for roughly three hours before driving away.

The first SUV arrived around 10:30 a.m. and left around 1:30 p.m.; the second SUV arrived around 2:30 p.m. and left at approximately 4:30 p.m., at least an hour before the rest of the attendees departed Belmont.

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­ or many of the candidates likely on F the shortlist for the Harvard presidency, the University’s top job would bring not only power and prestige, but also a significant pay raise.

Harvard has been searching for its 29th president since University President Drew G. Faust announced over the summer she plans to step down in June 2018. The Crimson reported in Dec. 2017 that the search committee— comprising all 12 members of the Harvard Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers—had narrowed its candidate pool to under 20 names.

Harvard’s next president could expect to make over $1.4 million per year.

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Students Find DACA Upheaval Worrying By ruth a. hailu and olivia c. scott Crimson Staff Writers

The eyes of Harvard’s undocumented students are turned to Washington as lawmakers wrangle over a deal to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The Trump administration announced in September it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—an Obama-era program that protected these “dreamers”— and set a March deadline for lawmakers to act before those protections expire. DACA protected approximately 790,000 youth, including many of the College’s 65 undocumented students.

Members of Congress from both parties have been in talks the past few weeks to work out a solution by Jan. 19, the deadline for a federal funding bill.

Meanwhile, federal judge William H.

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The statue of John Havard sits, covered by snow, during the “bomb cylone” snow storm on Jan. 4.

AMY Y. LI—Crimson photographer

HBS Grads Choose Jobs In Govt, Nonprofits

Home, Finally, for Football Player

By andrew j. park By madelEIne r. nakada

Crimson Staff Writer

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Freshman defensive back Ben M. Abercrombie ’21 returned to his family’s house in Hoover, Ala., on Monday, his first time home since suffering a major neck injury in a football game four months ago that left him paralyzed and unable to breathe on his own.

Abercrombie sustained the injury in a game against Rhode Island in Sept.

2017; he underwent emergency surgery at Rhode Island Hospital immediately afterwards. A couple weeks later, Abercrombie transferred to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Ga., where he has spent the past three months working on rehabilitation and physical therapy.

On Monday, friends and family gathered with balloons to welcome Abercrombie home. Local press and Hoover Police also turned out to greet the defensive back; at least one police

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An increasing number of graduates of the Business School are choosing to pursue public sector careers. AMY Y. LI—Crimson photographer

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Harvard Business School graduates are increasingly choosing public service careers, and some credit their Harvard education with teaching them management skills applicable to nonprofit organizations and government.

Of the 937 total students who graduated from the Business School in 2017, four percent of graduates entered nonprofit or government sectors, according to the school’s career office. The figure represents roughly double the number of graduates who chose those sectors in the class of 2016, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Matthew M. Segneri ’04, who received his MBA from the Business School in 2010 and is now the director of the school’s social enterprise initiative, said he has noticed that more graduates are considering entering politics.

“Over the last 12 to 18 months, I’ve

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Tuesday | January 16, 2018

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Eliot House Cupola Eliot House, pictured here from above, is one of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses.

Responding to Statewide Opioid Crisis, Dartmouth Introduces Drug Education Program

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Dartmouth College is piloting an online drug education program aimed at informing students how to safely and legally use prescription medications, according to the Dartmouth. New Hampshire has faced exceptionally high rates of opioid abuse and, in 2016, had the third-highest rate of overdose in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Though Dartmouth is located in a high-risk area of the state, program directors say the initiative has a preventative focus and is meant to promote healthy behaviors involving substances among students.

Columbia Professor Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations Columbia photography professor Thomas Roma resigned amid accusations that he has made inappropriate advances to students, according to the Columbia Spectator. After the New York Times wrote a story about accusations made by five women, all former students of Roma’s, he filed his resignation, effective immediately, with Columbia.

Roma did not immediately respond to request for comment from the Spectator and, in a statement to the Times, his lawyer denied that Roma’s actions with the students were coercive.

Cornell President Rejects Proposal for Mental Health Task Force

Happy Tuesday, harvard!

Welcome back, Harvard (or at least those of you who already are back).

Suckers!

In the Atmosphere…

After a week colder than a hypothermic Mankiw at the bottom of a frozen Charles River, today’s weather is a stunningly warm 32

degrees with partly cloudy skies.

In the D-Halls…

If you’re on campus, Adams and Eliot dining halls open today, in addition to Lowell and Pforzheimer.

Of course, there’s still no breakfast— sleep till noon.

EVENTS Hallgrímur Helgason & Fiona Mozley at Harvard Book Store From 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., head to the

Harvard Book Store for an event with authors Hallgrímur Helgason and Fiona Mozley. Helgason is a three-time nominee for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, while Mozley’s debut was a 2017 Man Booker finalist.

Stuti R. Telidevara & Lorenzo F. Manuali Crimson Staff Writers

The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Cornell President Martha E. Pollack denied a request for the creation of an independent task force to review mental health policies on campus. The request was made roughly ten months ago by the parent of an undergraduate student who committed suicide while on medical leave from Cornell. The decision comes just a month after a different student was found dead in her apartment during finals week in a suspected suicide, according to a police source. Pollack wrote in an email that while an internal review of resources was conducted, she did not intend to pursue “additional independent review.”

in the real world Hawaii Goes on High Alert An employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management System pushed the wrong button and told the entire state of Hawaii that a ballistic missile was incoming on Saturday. Thousands of Hawaiians had already made phone calls to their loved ones before, 38 minutes later, the EMS said the alert had been an error. Hawaiian pizza, unfortunately, also survived.

Ansari Under Scrutiny Actor and comedian Aziz Ansari has been accused of sexual misconduct.

He responded to the allegations by stating that all sexual activities were “completely consensual.”

Pentagon: Nuclear Weapons Under Development Amid increasing military strength of Russia and China, defense officials plan to develop “low yield” warheads and a sea-launched cruise missle, according to the Nuclear Posture Review commissioned by President Donald Trump.

Simone Biles Alleges Sexual Abuse by Team Doctor Gymnast Simone Biles, a four-time gold medalist for the United States in the 2016 Olympic Games, has joined team members in accusing physician Larry Nassar of sexual assault. She said in a Twitter post that USA Gymnastics shares the blame.

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WAIting at the dot The Harvard men’s hockey team traveled to New Jersey, where they faced off against Princeton. Harvard won, 3-1.

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“I’m just sitting here.”

Night Editor Kenton K. Shimozaki ’19

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Students Concerned HBS Grads Opt For Public Service About DACA Repeal hbs From Page 1

daca From Page 1 Alsup, a graduate of the Law School, ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration must allow previous DACA recipients to renew their status.

On Saturday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced they would continue to accept renewal applications for DACA recipients.

The turmoil has left Harvard’s DACA recipients—and the advisers and administrators charged with counseling them—unsure how long their protections will last and puzzling over what course of action to take next.

Katie M. Derzon, the College’s fellow for undocumented students, said the fate of DACA is still not certain.

“As far as what the DACA ruling might mean, we are not yet sure, as it just happened,” Derzon wrote in an email Thursday.

Students also described how the unpredictability of Congress’s plans to address DACA has fueled their concerns about planning for the future.

“I’m very fearful of my future,” said Daishi M. Tanaka ’19, a co-director of Act on A Dream, a student organization advocating for undocumented students.

“I am a junior currently, and because I don’t know if I’ll have the permission to work, planning my future is kind of scattered everywhere,” Tanaka said. “So I think I face challenges very different than my Harvard peers.”

Amid the uncertainty, Act on a Dream members are planning for a life without DACA. “We’ve been doing what we needed to do before DACA was a thing, and if it’s not going to be a thing anymore, then we’re going to figure out ways to make it work because that’s what we do,” Act on a Dream advocacy co-chair Bruno O. V. McCubbin ’19 said.

Jason Corral, the staff attorney at the Harvard Immigration Refugee and Clinical Program, said he is encouraging undocumented students to set up appointments with the clinic to discuss DACA-related issues.

“We’ve been telling students to set up consultations with us so that we can assess whether they might be eligible for any potential relief beyond DACA,” Corral said. “We have open office hours

where people can just drop in or set up an appointment during the week.

We’ve been doing that over the course of the last year.” The clinic has also set up a website with a frequently asked questions section that it updates as developments in Washington play out.

“We urge people to check that out and just stay in communication so we can help come up with a conclusion or a

I face challenges... different than my Harvard peers.

Daishi M. Tanaka ‘19 Act on a Dream co-director solution,” Corral said.

Both Harvard administrators and Act on a Dream members are pushing for more permanent immigration policy solutions.

University President Drew G. Faust, who has lobbied lawmakers to protect undocumented students for years, condemned Trump’s decision to end DACA as “cruel.”

In December, Faust joined an alliance of more than two dozen other university presidents to call on Congress to pass legislation that would protect undocumented students.

Since the initial announcement of DACA’s termination in September, Act on a Dream members have been working on several initiatives intended to advocate for Harvard’s undocumented students.

“We’ve hosted and co-hosted various DACA phone calls to advocate for immigrant rights in various forms, and we are hosting a CAIR Conference, which stands for Collegiate Alliance for Immigration Reform,” Tanaka said.

The conference is set to take place at the end of February and will bring together immigrant rights organizations from various national college campuses to share strategies on how to best advocate for immigration reform, according to the Act on a Dream website.

HBS Chief Information Officer Departs to Calif.

By Idil tuysuzoglu Crimson Staff Writer

Stephen Gallagher, chief information officer at Harvard Business School, will become the CIO at Stanford University starting March 12, according to a Stanford press release Friday.

Gallagher’s selection comes after a five-month-long search led by a search committee comprising faculty, staff and members of both the university and the hospital boards, and chaired

by Vice President for Business Affairs Randy Livingston. In his new position, Gallagher will report to Livingston.

Livingston said he is excited Gallagher will join Stanford’s information technology team.

“Steve brings an outstanding combination of strategic technology vision, technical depth and experience in both higher education and industry,” Livingston said in the press release.

“He is also a terrific leader and developer of talent, which are critical skills given the scope of University IT,” Livingston added.

At Harvard, Gallagher manages the Business School’s IT strategy, leading a team of 275 IT staffers. He co-chairs the Enterprise Architecture Committee and is also a member of the CIO council, where he works to make technology readily available and accessible across the University.

In the press release, Gallagher said he is honored to be joining Stanford’s IT team.

“I am incredibly excited and honored to have the opportunity to lead University IT in support of Stanford’s unparalleled research, teaching, learning and health care mission,” Gallagher said.

“This is a transformative time within higher education, and I am committed to ensuring every person within UIT feels connected to our collective purpose to advance the best technology and support services across higher education and beyond,” he added.

Gallagher has worked at the Business School since 2013. Prior to that, he was employed by the University of San Francisco from 2004 to 2013.

­ ad a number of conversations with h folks and seen a real uptick in the number of people who are thinking about local, state, and federal office,” Segneri said.

Segneri said he thinks Business School alumni have always shown a strong commitment to civic engagement and public service.

But recent alumni are choosing to get involved with public service earlier in their careers, he said.

“When you look at the prior generations of alumni there is more the tradition of learn, earn, and return—folks would go to school, have a successful traditional business career, and then later in life they would pursue public office or get deeply engaged in nonprofits and their communities,” he said.

“Today, there’s both an urgency and an understanding that it doesn’t have to be that way.”

Timothy M. Keller, who graduated from HBS in 2005 and was elected the mayor of Albuquerque, N.M. last year, said he agrees that more business school graduates are seeking out public service earlier in their careers. “In business school, what a lot of people do is say, ‘Oh, my second career is gonna be in public service. I’m gonna go into business, be successful, and then do public service,’” he said.

“What’s different all of a sudden is that people are opting out early, and they’re like ‘I’m gonna do this right now’ because they’re upset about something or fired up and want to make a difference.”

Adem T. Bunkeddeko, who received his MBA in 2017, is one such graduate.

Bunkeddeko is currently running

for Congress in New York’s Ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn. He did community work in Brooklyn before entering the Business School, and he has maintained his involvement on a local community board while attending Harvard.

“I felt compelled, given my background and given my education, to use the skills I learned at HBS to try to make a difference in the community I call home, Brooklyn,” he said.

Bunkeddeko, whose campaign focuses on housing, criminal justice, and immigration reform, said he believes his University education helps him most from a management standpoint.

“At HBS we’re trained as general managers. Understanding aspects of an organization, whether it be from the finance front or human capital, are important and useful skills that are actually quite lacking in public service today,” Bunkeddeko said.

Margaret W. Busse, a 2001 HBS graduate, has also chosen public service post-graduation. Busse is running for Massachusetts State Senate this year and said she has similarly found her business school education valuable to her public service work. After receiving her MBA, Busse worked at a strategy consulting firm for nonprofits.

She later got involved on the planning board of her town Acton, Massachusetts, and, for the past two years, she has served as associate director of the social enterprise initiative.

“Harvard Business School uses the case method almost exclusively in all of its classes, so what you’re doing every single day when you go into a class is you’re taking a real-world situation and you’re trying to figure out how to solve the problem,” Busse said.

According to the most recent public tax filings, Faust earned $852,920 in base salary, $333,825 in deferred compensation—money the Harvard Corporation sets aside for her to access at a later date—and $160,403 in non-taxable benefits in fiscal year 2016. She also made $551,928 in “other reportable compensation,” the filings indicate.

In total, her salary and benefits rank third among presidential compensations at other Ivy League institutions and Stanford, according to a Chronicle of Higher Ed analysis.

The search committee has repeatedly declined to comment on the progress of the search or to reveal the names of candidates under consideration. Nonetheless, prominent alumni, donors, professors, and administrators have pointed to several individuals—both internal and external to the University—that are likely on the committee’s under-20 list. Internal candidates named by prominent donors and professors include Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith, University Provost Alan M. Garber ’77, and Government professor Danielle S. Allen.

All of these individuals would receive pay bumps if they were named the 29th President of Harvard. In fiscal year 2016, Nohria earned $724,907 and Garber earned $833,255 in total compensation, according to 990 tax filings, which list the highest-compensated individuals employed by the University. Were he to become president, Smith’s salary would almost double— the filings show Smith earned $677,350 in the same year. Allen’s salary was not large enough to merit a mention in the tax filings.

Possible external candidates would also see a spike in salary if they got the nod for Harvard’s top job. In a Dec. 2017 interview, Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 named several candidates from outside the University he expects to see on the search committee’s shortlist, including Broad Institute President Eric S. Lander, World Bank President and former Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim, and University of Michigan President Mark S. Schlissel.

Lander—who Daley said was “almost certainly on the shortlist”— would earn the smallest pay bump; he earned $1,084,862 in fiscal year 2016, according to the most recent tax filings. Kim, like Smith, would see his an-

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Pres. Search Committee Faust Holds Secret Meeting Speaks for Equality search From Page 1

Senior fellow of the Corporation and search committee chair William F. Lee ’72 declined to comment on whether the committee interviewed candidates Saturday.

He did not respond to a question asking about the identity of interviewees.

“Bill does not have a comment to offer at this time,” University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson wrote in an emailed statement on his behalf Monday.

Previous search committees often flew candidates to posh hotels and the workplaces of committee members to conduct later-stage interviews, usually with the full membership of the committee.

Committees also used members’ homes for interviews; in the 19901991 search, the committee met with shortlist candidate Gerhard Casper for hours in then-committee member Hanna H. Gray’s Chicago mansion in February 1991.

Former search committee member Charles P. Slichter ’45—who chaired the search that resulted in the selection of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine—told The Crimson in 2001 that January is the month when Harvard search committees get “in the thick of things.”

“You have at least one person meet them firsthand, then possibly move to a stage where several of the people do,” Slichter said. “Then we worked down to a small number—four or five people—where almost all of us met with them.”

Those in attendance Saturday took measures to keep the meeting secret.

When driving in and out of the building, several attendees covered parts

of their faces with their hands or their clothing.

Multiple hired drivers declined to disclose the names of the individuals they were employed to chauffeur as they turned into Palandjian’s driveway.

One, though—who arrived driving a Tesla—said he was in Belmont to pick up “Scott.”

Scott A. Abell ’72, the president of the Board of Overseers, is one of the three Overseers who sits on the search committee.

Previous search committees often maintained tight security around their meetings.

At times during the 2001 search, search committee staffers coordinated with hotel security staff to closely monitor reporters waiting outside committee meetings in high-end New York City hotels.

Throughout the day Saturday, a man wearing a red baseball cap and a grey Vineyard Vines t-shirt sat idle in a grey Ford Fusion near the entrance to Palandjian’s driveway and within 100 yards of Crimson reporters posted in the street.

Lee declined to answer a question asking whether the man in the baseball cap was parked on the street for security reasons.

When asked what he was doing Saturday, the man repeatedly refused to answer.

“I’m just sitting here,” he said.

Roughly 15 minutes before the meeting appeared to disband, the man turned on his lights, made a threepoint turn, and drove away.

Crimson editors Derek K. Choi, Caroline S. Engelmayer, Jamie D. Halper, Hannah Natanson, William L. Wang, Derek G. Xiao, Michael E. Xie, and Brian P. Yu contributed reporting.

University’s Top Job Could Mean Pay Raise for Next President pay From Page 1

“It’s really that ability to solve real-world problems that is needed in government today, that is needed in nonprofits today, and anywhere where people are trying to make a difference.”

Another Business School graduate, Sarah R. Amico, is currently running to be lieutenant governor of Georgia.

Amico said she believes the culture at the Business School naturally steers graduates towards careers in public service, whether that be through nonprofits or through public office.

“We were consistently reminded that you were going to have a world of opportunity in front of us and a tremendous amount of responsibility should go with that, and part of that responsibility is to leave the world better when you leave than it was when you entered,” she said.

Busse, along with several other graduates, said she thinks the spike in HBS graduates running for office is likely related to widespread dissatisfaction with the current political climate.

“I’m guessing a lot of people are feeling like me, frustrated with the current situation we have in politics today and feeling their skillset gives them a unique ability to help solve the problems we have right now,” Busse said.

Keller named a more specific factor: President Donald Trump.

“A big one has to be Trump. Whether you like him or not, he is motivating.

You’re either motivated against him or you’re motivated for him,” Keller said.

“I also do think there’s just something about the millennial group that they’re not going to wait around.”

nual income nearly double. He earned $492,690 in base salary and $208,407 in additional benefits as World Bank president. Schlissel earned $782,481 in the same timespan.

Judith A. Wilde, a professor at George Mason University who researches university presidents’ salaries, said she thinks candidates under consideration for the presidency will have little trouble negotiating a high income with Harvard’s top brass.

“More often than in the past, many trustees and board members of universities are CEOs or other high level figures at major corporations,” Wilde said. “So when a president is negotiating a contract and wants a bigger salary with lots of perks, these board members don’t necessarily see a problem with that.” Wilde said that, today, many of the contracts for university and college presidents resemble the contracts for CEOs of top business firms in price range. She noted there are even attorneys who specialize in negotiating contracts for top education administrators.

Though the Harvard presidency represents a pay raise for many of the candidates likely on the committee’s shortlist, the University’s levels of executive compensation resem-

ble or fall below those at peer schools.

When compared to the heads of other Ivy League schools especially, Faust is sometimes out-earned. In fiscal year 2016, Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger earned $2.5 million, while University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann earned $3 million— roughly twice Faust’s annual income.

Other presidents at Harvard’s peer institutions earned a salary similar to Faust’s in fiscal year 2016. The presidents of Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth all earned around $1 million that year. Yale President Peter Salovey and Stanford President John L. Hennessy both earned slightly less than Faust: Salovey made $1,157,488 while Hennessy took in $1,202,934.

Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington attorney specializing in higher education leadership, said the pay discrepancy with some schools is likely intentional. He said Harvard’s governing boards may want to convey that Harvard is “not the place to come to make money.”

“That’s not what we’re about. We are about educating people, conducting valuable research that is valuable to humanity,” Cotton said. “We are about providing service to the world community at large.”

By kristine e. guillaume Crimson Staff Writer

At a time when many are accusing President Donald Trump of racial prejudice, University President Drew G. Faust issued a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday statement reaffirming the University’s commitment to equality and an open community.

She said this community should extend beyond Harvard’s campus to the nation at large.

“Martin Luther King Day is an opportunity for us all to reaffirm the values of justice and equality that define our nation and animate all we do at Harvard,” Faust wrote. “Now more than ever, it is our responsibility to continue his work and carry forward his legacy, at Harvard and beyond.”

Faust’s remarks come after Trump garnered national headlines for reportedly making vulgar, racially charged remarks on immigration in a White House meeting on Jan. 11. He directed his comments toward immigrants from Haiti and Africa during a discussion of a bipartisan deal to provide temporary status to certain immigrants. Trump reportedly asked legislators why the United States should accept immigrants from “shithole countries.”

Trump has since denied making those comments, but some meeting attendees dispute that claim.

In her statement Sunday, Faust emphasized the importance of making Harvard accessible to people from a range of countries and backgrounds in an effort to become a “more diverse and inclusive community.”

“We recognize that our excellence derives from our openness to the widest possible pool of talent and our commitment to the full flourishing of all students, staff, and faculty, whatever their ethnicity, race, country of origin, gender, sexuality, economic circumstances, disability status or political perspective,” Faust wrote.

Faust has repeatedly emphasized the importance of American higher education remaining open to immigrants and international students.

She has spoken out against Trump’s immigration policies, denouncing Trump’s Sept. 2017 decision to repeal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—an Obama-era program that allowed undocumented youth to legally live and work in the United States—as “cruel.”

Since then, Faust has continued advocacy for undocumented students by signing letters defending DACA and appearing on national television.

Roughly 65 undocumented students currently attend the College.

In December, Faust continued her advocacy for immigrants by joining over two dozen University presidents in a coalition that pledges to support undocumented and international students on campuses across the United States.

The alliance called on Congress to pass permanent legislation protecting undocumented students.

Staff writer Kristine E. Guillaume can be reached at kristine.guillaume@thecrimson. com. Follow her on Twitter @krisguillaume.

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Football Player Returns Home

Allston Master Plan Remains Under Review

By Truelian Lee and Jacqueline P. Patel Crimson Staff Writers

abercrombie From Page 1 car escorted him to the house. Abercrombie, seated in a wheelchair, smiled as he was lowered onto the driveway, according to video recorded by Boston25 News.

Speaking to reporters in front of his house Monday, Abercrombie said he was excited to be back in Hoover.

“I can’t wait to get inside,” Abercrombie told Boston25 News.

But Abercrombie has already set his sights on a bigger goal: Returning to campus next fall to continue studying economics.

“I’m just trying to recover and when I get back I’ll be able to move my life forward and move on from the injury and everything,” Abercrombie said in an interview Saturday.

Though Abercrombie still has months of recovery in front of him, family members say they are hopeful given the improvement he has made in recent weeks. On Jan. 5, Abercrombie’s father Marty wrote about Ben’s progress in a post on the public blog he started to keep his son’s supporters updated.

“Over the course of the last few weeks, Ben has indicated he can feel some changes happening in his body.

He can feel sensations particularly in his upper chest and upper back that he was not able to feel before,” Abercrombie wrote in the blog post. “Another positive development is that Ben has begun to initiate more breaths.”

Though Abercrombie will certainly face challenges in returning to campus, he said Saturday that he feels overall optimistic.

“Learning how to do math without hands is probably going to be the hardest part. And I guess moving around is going to be a little difficult, especially in the snow,” Abercrombie said. “But other than that, nothing, I think I’ll be alright.”

Both Harvard students and administrators have worked to help the Abercrombie family navigate the challenges posed by Ben’s injuries over the past four months.

The Harvard Varsity Club in early October started The Benson M. Abercrombie ’21 Fund, a fund meant to help the Abercrombie family afford expensive medical procedures.The fund will also assist any athlete who suffers “catastrophic injuries” while playing for Harvard going forward. As of Dec. 2017, the trust had garnered over $266,000.

Bob Glatz ’88, the executive director of the Varsity Club, wrote in an emailed statement Jan. 10 that the entire club was happy to hear Abercrombie had returned home. Glatz promised club members will continue to support the freshman and his family throughout his recovery.

“I was thrilled to hear that Ben returned home to Hoover, AL. The outpouring of support from the entire Harvard community these past 3-4 months has been inspiring,” Glatz wrote.

“We realize there’s still a long way to go before Ben will be able to accomplish his goal of returning to classes at Harvard, but the Varsity Club will be there for him throughout the entire journey.”

A number of organizations have held fundraisers for the family since Abercrombie’s injury, including El Jefe’s Taqueria and Wing Zone, a chain of which Abercrombie’s father Marty is a franchise owner.

Abercrombie said in the interview Saturday that he feels grateful to everyone who has supported him over recent weeks. In particular, he thanked El Jefe’s, which donated all the proceeds from its Dec. 12 event—totaling roughly $27,000—to the Abercrombie fund.

“I’m grateful for all the support that the Harvard community has given me,” Abercrombie said. “I can’t wait to eat at El Jefe’s again. After what they’ve done for me too, it just makes the food even better.”

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Harvard officially filed a master plan for a segment of its Allston properties with Boston’s urban planning agency in early December—but the document will likely remain under review for weeks to come.

In January, the Boston Planning and Development Agency—the city’s planning body—extended the public comment period for the plan, ensuring Harvard must continue to gather feedback from local residents until early February.

And, in response to a request from an advisory group of Allstonians helping oversee the University’s plans for the area, Harvard will hold extra meetings with area residents to discuss the filings, according to University spokesperson Kevin Casey.

The group of Allston residents— known as the Impact Advisory Group— is responsible for identifying possible social and environmental impact Harvard’s projects may have on the area, as

well as determining steps to mitigate those effects.

Based on the recommendations of this group, the city’s planning agency may ask Harvard to modify its plans.

Harvard is pleased that the BPDA has extended the comment period.”

Kevin Casey Harvard Spokesperson “Harvard is pleased that the Boston Planning and Development Agency has extended the comment period until early next month, giving IAG and community members more time to review and respond to the plan, and for

Harvard to answer any questions the members may have,” Casey wrote in an emailed statement.

The University filed the proposals with the agency on Dec. 7, specifically for a 14-acre portion of its Allston holdings known as the “Enterprise Research Campus,” a planned 36-acre center for entrepreneurship.

According to the filings, the 14-acre segment will include 400,000 square feet of offices and labs, 250,000 square feet of hotel and conference center space, 250,000 square feet of residential space, nearly 900 parking spaces, and around 600 new bicycle parking spaces.

Harvard first proposed developing the enterprise research campus in 2011, when the Harvard Allston Work Team recommended the idea.

In 2016, the University hired real estate agent Steven D. Fessler to serve as “head of enterprise real estate” and to guide construction of the area.

University officials presented specific plans for the 14-acre segment of the campus to Allston residents at a meeting in Nov. 2017.

At the time, the University also described plans to construct two new roadways, Cattle Drive and East Drive, as well as various measures intended to better combat potential effects of climate change going forward.

At an Allston Impact Advisory Group meeting last week, Allston residents raised a variety of concerns about transportation, bike paths, housing, height of buildings, and green spaces.

The University will likely discuss these and other issues at future Impact Advisory Group meetings.

After the review process ends, Harvard must find a development partner and write a building proposal.

Following these steps, Harvard must submit an Article 80 filing to request approval for a Planned Development Area Development Plan.

This document comprises a more specific plan which will cover the zoning for this project.

If Boston’s planning agency approves the plan under Article 80, the body would then hold a public hearing before the decision to consider public comments.

HMC Execs HKS Center Picks New Fellows Leave After Year of Changes By alexandra a. chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

By lucas ward Crimson Staff Writer

­ xecutives Geetanjali Gupta ’00 and E Richard L. Hall ’90 will both leave Harvard Management Company in February. Their departures come on the heels of a year of significant restructuring at HMC. Gupta was the senior vice president of absolute return and public market funds at HMC, where she worked for over 10 years after working in the investment banking division of the Goldman Sachs Group. She is leaving to become chief investment officer of the New York Public Library, the library announced Jan. 9.

Gupta will begin her role at the library, which has 92 locations and serves more than 18 million patrons annually, on February 26. She will manage the library’s $1.2 billion endowment. Gupta said in a January press release that she is excited for her new role.

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join the leadership team at The New York Public Library. I hope to achieve excellent returns, build an outstanding investment team and be an active leader in advancing the NYPL’s fundamental mission of strengthening diverse communities and inspiring a new generation of learners and researchers,” she said.

Library president Tony Marx said in the press release he is “thrilled” to welcome Geetanjali to the job. He called Geetanjali a “proven and trusted investor” and said he looks forward to seeing how her expertise will strengthen the library financially in years to come.

HMC private equity director Richard L. Hall will also depart the company. Hall joined HMC in 2014 as the third manager of the asset class in under a year. His last day at HMC will be Friday, Feb. 2, before he begins working as deputy chief investment officer for the University of Texas Investment Management Company.

In a letter to employees, HMC CEO N. P. “Narv” Narvekar described Hall as “a talented investor” and “a responsible steward of the University’s resources.” The memo did not detail plans to replace Hall.

Narvekar, who joined HMC as CEO in late 2016, recently led efforts to revise the University’s management strategy. HMC announced early last year that it would lay off approximately half of its 230-person staff by the end of the calendar year as part of the beginning of a five-year-long overhaul. Harvard’s endowment is the world’s largest university endowment at $37.1 billion, but faced what Narvekar called “disappointing” returns last fiscal year.

­ix new fellows—including journalS ists and authors, a Columbia journalism professor, technology experts, and the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission—will join the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy in spring 2018.

The fellows will study the intersection of technology and public policy, as well as issues like climate change and the divide between rural and urban America. The Shorenstein Center will also welcome a writer-in-residence to work on a writing project studying race relations. The Shorenstein Center announced the new fellows in a press release last week.

The honorees include Elizabeth Arnold, a former NPR Political Correspondent covering global warming; Dipayan Ghosh, a fellow at think tank New America; Genevieve Roth, founding partner of a social impact agency involving women’s empowerment and media; and Sarah Smarsh, freelance journalist and author focusing on socioeconomic issues.

The Shorenstein Center also named Thomas E. Wheeler, the former chair of

the Federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow. Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian writer and fellow with the MIT Media Lab who introduced blogs to Iran in the early 2000s, was chosen for the Entrepreneurship Fellows program, an initiative specifically meant for technology entrepreneurs. Derakhshan’s will study the sociopolitical influence of social media, how to counter algorithms that prioritize “popular” information within representative democracies, and the future of the news industry.

Jelani Cobb, a journalism professor at Columbia University, historian, and staff writer for The New Yorker, will join the fellows as a writer-in-residence. While at Harvard, he will be working on his new book about the 2015 shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. Cobb said he thinks it is “crucial” for professionals to participate in scholarship at institutions like the Shorenstein Center.

“There are often so many things going on at once that it’s hard to sit back and focus and concentrate on a single project,” Cobb said. “I think that’s crucial because it winds up being in those

times when you can actually think deeply about something that you can do really important work.”

Many of the fellows, including Wheeler and Derakhshan, have an extensive background in technology. Following a December decision by the FCC to eliminate net neutrality, and in light of increasing privacy concerns in the internet age, fellows will inspect the relationship between innovation and media and how to respond to such changes through policy.

Ghosh, a former Facebook employee focusing on privacy and public policy, will examine public service-oriented technology. As a fellow at the think tank New America, he founded an initiative that sought to bring technology experts into “public interest-focused work.” He said he hopes to continue this work while at the Shorenstein Center.

“Shorenstein is particularly amazing because it brings together innovation around academia, public policy, [and] journalism,” Ghosh said. Wheeler said his work involving technology and policy will form the focal point of his fellowship, adding that he hopes to study the political and governmental challenges created by new technologies.

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EDITORIAL #MeToo Excesses

By ELIZABETH BARTHOLET

L

ike many others, I am outraged by the egregious incidents of sexual misconduct made public recently through carefully documented journalism. I applaud the removal of many alleged perpetrators who have clearly abused their positions of power, often through force and even violence. I celebrate those who have stepped forward to call out sexual misconduct and demand changes in the degrading culture that has characterized working conditions for women in too many settings for too long.

However, I am concerned that in the recent rush to judgment, principles of basic fairness, differences between prov-

Finally, I am concerned with the cynical exploitation of sexual harassment cases and related scapegoating of individuals. en and merely alleged instances of misconduct, and important distinctions between different kinds of sexually charged conduct have too often been ignored.

Similar problems plagued the imposition of new sexual harassment guidelines for colleges and universities by the administration of former President Barack Obama. I was involved in attempts to push back against those guidelines and to develop at Harvard Law School our own policies, better designed to balance the important values at stake.

My fairness concerns with the #MeToo phenomenon include the ready acceptance in many cases of anonymous complaints, and of claims made by women over conflicting claims by men, to terminate careers without any investigation of the facts. Some argue that women who speak out should simply always be believed. Others argue that if some innocent men must be sacrificed to the cause of larger justice, so be it. I find this deeply troubling. I do not contend that mini-trials should always be required before action can be taken. Sometimes the alleged conduct is so egregious, or alleged patterns so suspicious, that suspension is warranted while facts are determined.

Sometimes allegations are demonstrably credible by virtue of independent evidence. But where facts are in doubt or conduct is subject to different interpretations, efforts must be made to investigate what actually happened and how the different parties understood the events.

I am also deeply troubled by over-expansive definitions of wrongful conduct.

In the current climate, men are called out for actions ranging from requests for dates and hugs on the one hand to rape and other forced sexual contact on the other, as if all are the same and all warrant termination. I do not believe that all touching by a man in power is the same as touching that is clearly unwanted or the deliberate abuse of power to obtain sexual favors. I do not believe that all romantic and sexual overtures should be banned from the workplace, even between people on different hierarchical levels. Some recent cases involve peremptory dismissal for behavior that may involve nothing more than that. Women are not so weak as to need this kind of protection. Banning all such activity from the workplace would reduce the quality of life for every-

one, including women.

The legal definition of sexual harassment in employment and education is a helpful guide to what sexual conduct should be the focus. It is illegal to engage in quid pro quo harassment, namely conditioning an employment or educational benefit on sexual favors. It is illegal also to create a “hostile environment” through unwelcome sexual advances that are severe or pervasive and that limit the victim’s ability to enjoy employment or educational opportunity. Objective standards apply, so the question is whether a reasonable person in the position of the alleged perpetrator or alleged victim would have thought the conduct was sexual harassment, not simply what the alleged victim subjectively felt.

Finally, I am concerned with the cynical exploitation of sexual harassment cases and related scapegoating of individuals. The #MeToo movement has helped demonstrate to the world the toxic level of sex discrimination and sexual misconduct that have characterized work life for too many women in business, entertainment, media, and government. Corporate and political leaders, who must have been at least generally aware of these problems, did little to address them until this moment of public shaming. Now they dismiss alleged perpetrators overnight, often with no regard for the facts but clearly with significant regard for their corporate reputations and electoral strategies.

All this puts real reform at risk. It undermines the legitimacy of action against serious sexual misconduct and abuse of power. It creates the potential for backfire.

Elizabeth Bartholet ’62 is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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The Ice Cream Metaphor

By JESSENIA N. CLASS

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reshman year, I craved academic beauty. I wanted that elusive Harvard experience that we all look for, that feeling that overwhelms you, squeezes your shoulders and catches your breath all at once. I wanted the “aha” moment that proved to me that yes, learning is just like walking through an art museum. Learning is about appreciating and coming to understand knowledge as an art form.

To find this, I of course took a philosophy class. It took the lofty task of describing how free will and determinism can exist if a God-like being does. To help us imagine the possibilities, the professor placed us in an ice cream shop: As we tried to poke holes in compatibilist or monist reality, vanilla and chocolate chip became our bargaining chips.

Instead of asking if our intention— the thing that gives us will—is determined in and of itself, we ask, “What happens if the store only has vanilla and I want chocolate chip?” “What happens if I’ve never heard of chocolate chip?” someone shouts, hoping their fellow classmates understand them when they wonder whether free will exists when their options are taken away. We asked a lot of questions— waded knee deep in arguments about Napoleon and extra toppings—without asking much at all.

This was almost the beauty I wanted, but not quite. Something was off.

The words we used to express ourselves in class were getting in the way of the concepts. Instead of focusing

purely on the merits of soft determinism over free will, we were spending time picking the best flavor to represent obstacles in our argument.

Time and time again, words became placeholders. I mean this but say that. You understand this but answer that. We both agree on that, but never talk about this. We play musical chairs until the idea that we wanted to express goes around the circle without us ever having to get fingerprints on our intentions. Play it cool, play it safe, we tell ourselves. Place bets on black or red only and let the roulette spin. Don’t tell the man behind the ice cream counter what you really want, for fear that he already knows it.

I told myself that I wasn’t the type for these placeholder games. I was a no nonsense, tell-it-to-’em-straight kind of gal who was determined to see the art sans filter. Rough around the edges, not embarrassed to go for what I wanted or if it made others bleed in the process. I didn’t need to wainscot my conversation in waffle cones for it to be pretty.

But I was wrong. I cozied up to my newfound personal philosophy, dressed it up and took it for a spin. I showed it off to my friends in various outfits, asked them what they thought of each interpretation. Did they feel like monistic determinism best captured the human experience? If an omniscient being can predict your actions, does that complicate your free will? Can free will and determinism exist together as compatibilism?

And—begrudgingly—if you’re a regu-

lar at the shop and the ice cream guy always gives you vanilla, does it even matter that you dreamed about chocolate chip the night before?

Unsurprisingly, people preferred talking about the nighttime chocolate chip escapades much more than monistic determinism.

And that’s when I found it. It wasn’t so much the hard facts but the expression of it, the words themselves—the ones we said aloud and alluded to in the spaces caught between our metaphors—that were beautiful.

It was the way in which words were simultaneously the placeholder for a concept, the concept itself, and the passion for it that made me see learning as a piece of art.

The ice cream metaphor has since developed a mind of its own in my conversations. It’s been used to negotiate intention and desire, contemplate the balance between complacency and taking a risk for success, and—of course—free will and determinism. Now, if I realized that I preferred free will, then chocolate chip was my Mecca and I’d reach over the counter and scoop it out myself with my bare hands. Free will doesn’t argue with determinism; it now is both the ice cream choice and my cupped hands, melting. Coexisting.

Maybe compatibilism was always right there—just over the counter, sitting pretty.

Jessenia N. Class ’20, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology concentrator in Quincy House.

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Even Science Has Blind Spots

By REED T. SHAFER-RAY

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aving blown off taking my science Gen Ed all throughout college, I thought it might be refreshing to attend a lecture on HIV with my friend for her class. As a Social Studies concentrator, I was surprised that, during a 30-minute introduction on the history of HIV, the disproportionate impact the HIV epidemic has on gay men and the immoral inaction of world leaders like Ronald and Nancy Reagan were not mentioned once.

My friend became visibly angry when the lecturer described her research in South Africa and attributed the HIV epidemic there to the mistakes of 14-year-old girls. For some reason, she told us, these girls were incapable of asking their partners to wear condoms. A violent culture against women was never discussed as a contributing factor to the crisis despite the fact that, in a study conducted by South Africa’s Medical Research Council, over 25% of South African men reported that they have committed rape at least once, and the current president Jacob Zuma was acquitted from a rape trial after telling the court that his accuser had dressed provocatively.

The lecturer capped off her presentation by demonstrating to us that people in the United States still get HIV, showing us a picture of Charlie Sheen. Forget the 1.2 million people in the United States, disproportionately people of color and gay men, that currently live with the disease: Once the straight, white star of “Two and a Half Men” has HIV, it is time to start paying attention.

My friend tells me that the blatant social unawareness exhibited in the HIV lecture was not an isolated instance within the Harvard science community. In another course that dealt with HIV, she was taught about the risks of HIV transmission via male-male and male-female sex. Transmission for female-female sex was completely ignored, erasing the experiences of women who have sex with women. In her Harvard-affiliated lab in Boston, a co-worker expressed her puzzlement that all the men in the lab had kids, but none of the women did. The possibility that the burden generally put on women to care for children might derail the women’s careers apparently did not occur to her.

Of course, scientists are susceptible to overlooking social realities outside of Harvard, too. But Harvard’s occasional contribution to such neglect is noteworthy because of Harvard’s self-identifiIt is this fact— cation as a world leader in both academic and social that humans progress. are animals of This aloofness from social realities—which is prejudice—that by no means ubiquitous must always be but still frequent—can prevent science from dokept in mind if ing its job. From the huge science and its disparities in HIV rates across demographics to implementation the striking gender gap in are to become scientific disciplines, sois less safe and eqmore effective and ciety uitable when scientists inclusive. do not engage with history, sociology, and politics.

The “objectivity” that scientists defend in their work can sometimes serve as an illegitimate excuse for not engaging with their own blind spots.

For example, the debate on the gender gap in science is dominated by questions about cognitive and behavioral genetics (see former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summer’s speech or “the Google memo”), even though scholarly works like Myths of Gender have long ago exposed the faultiness of much of the literature alleging inherent intellectual differences between men and women. More focus on gender-based barriers in the workplace—such as the lack of adequate family leave which disproportionately affects women—could help provide a more accurate explanation for such gender gaps.

Instead of relying too much on “objective” scientific studies to base their conclusions, some scientists—and people writ large—also need to become more cognizant of their biases. A 2013 Yale study showed that—when shown two identical applications—physicists, biologists, and chemists were more likely to hire a man and pay them $4,000 more on average. At Harvard, the Mathematics Department has come under fire for its extreme gender disparity and its unwelcoming environment for female students that has discouraged many women from taking its courses.

While math and science can certainly give us a better understanding of objective reality and advance social progress, the ways that people instrumentalize math and science cannot be divorced from their own biased purposes. It is this fact—that humans are animals of prejudice—that must always be kept in mind if science and its implementation are to become more effective and inclusive.

My hope is that, in an increasingly “post-truth” world, we work to avoid wielding a fallacious “objectivity” stripped of valuable insights from the social sciences.

Reed T. Shafer-Ray ’18 is a Social Studies concentrator in Quincy House.

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Harvard Ties With Quinnipiac, Punishes Princeton Men’s ice Hockey

By Spencer R. Morris and Stuti R. Telidevara Crimson Staff Writers

In early December, the Harvard men’s hockey team traveled to Princeton and Quinnipiac looking to right the ship after a disappointing stretch of games the month prior. That weekend proved to be a success, as the Crimson returned to Cambridge with four points from two decisive victories.

This weekend, the team once again squared off against these ECAC foes, only as the home team this time. And while Harvard (8-6-3, 7-3-2 ECAC) entered the weekend on better footing than it did back in December—the squad has not suffered a loss in 2018— the conference points on the line were just as crucial to the Crimson’s season.

“Moving forward, games only get harder as teams start to realize where they’re falling in the standings,” said tri-captain goaltender Merrick Madsen. “We need to get wins where we can…. With the Beanpot games, the way they line up we usually have some weekends where we have one game, and it’s easy for teams to leapfrog us in those situations.”

Of the four points available, Harvard claimed three in a victory over the Tigers (6-10-3, 3-8-1) on Friday followed by a draw with the Bobcats (812-3, 4-7-2) the following afternoon.

HARVARD 2, QUINNIPIAC 2 (OT) Special teams almost stole the show in Saturday’s afternoon matchup between the Crimson and the Bobcats, but the tilt ended in a tie after junior forward Ryan Donato notched the game late. Five minutes of overtime proved unhelpful in deciding a victor.

With just three and a half minutes remaining, sophomore blue-liner John Marino intercepted the puck deep in the Quinnipiac zone and shoved it toward the cage. While commotion ensued around the blue paint, the puck popped out to the left of Bobcats net-minder Keith Petruzzelli, where a falling Donato punched in the equalizer.

“I saw some bodies fly,” Madsen recounted “Then I see the puck pop out to Ryan and the goalie trying to get across…. I saw him get it, and I’m like, ‘that’s got to be it,’ and he sure enough put it in. Everyone was ecstatic.”

Despite the unexciting nature of a draw, Harvard’s third overtime game in its last four contests ended in dramatic fashion, as Donato—unsurprisingly—was in prime position to score the game-winner with just five seconds on the clock.

Instead of firing a quick shot through traffic, the Boston Bruins prospect elected to deke around Petru-

zzelli. By the time Donato looked to score, a defender had closed on him and he was forced to take the puck behind the net, where time expired.

“It would have obviously been a really cool moment again, had we pulled it off,” Madsen said. “But I was happy that we were able to battle back…and pick up some points.”

Had Donato scored, the Crimson would have yet again stolen an overtime game in the waning seconds. Last Saturday, freshman forward Henry Bowlby buried Union with 5.1 seconds remaining in the extra frame.

“I love the fact that our guys play until the final buzzer,” coach Donato said.

“I think there were a lot of good things, even though looking back, we feel like the first period wasn’t our best and put us in a spot where we were chasing more than we would’ve liked early on.”

Prior to Harvard’s equalizer, the man-advantage helped the Bobcats build a one-goal lead. In the first period, senior forward Bo Pieper drew first blood on the power play with his sixth tally of the season and his third in the last five contests.

Later, at the tail end of the second frame, Quinnipiac struck again with the extra man, this time coming from the stick of captain and defenseman Chase Priskie. Posted up at the right circle, Priskie received a wheelhouse feed from freshman forward Odeen Tufto and rocketed a one-timer over Madsen’s right shoulder. The Washington Capitals draft pick recorded a two-point night, as he picked up an apple on the Pieper goal as well.

Unlike the opposition, the Crimson’s power play was unsuccessful in Saturday’s matinee, failing to convert on any of its three opportunities with the man-advantage. Man-up struggles have been a negative trend in Harvard’s play of late, despite the squad’s lossless 2018.

“Sometimes you get some bounces and sometimes you don’t,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said, somewhat optimistically of his power play. “Tonight, we had at least two times…that the puck was rolling, where it looked like it was going in, and somehow stayed out of the net. But I thought we were moving the puck and getting the type of looks and the type of opportunities that we’re trying to get.”

Since the new year, Harvard has executed on just one of its 17 power play attempts (7.1% effective), good for fifthworst in the country over that span.

Only five programs entered Saturday’s tilt with a worse mark in 2018, the Bobcats being one of them. Needless to say, Quinnipiac broke out of its power play slump in the draw with the Crimson.

HARVARD 3, PRINCETON 1 Despite a physical game that saw 13 infractions whistled against the two

GET LOW Merrick Madsen, ECAC goaltender of the week, nabbed a pair of victories this weekend and looks to be comfortable between the pipes after briefly losing his starting role to junior backup Michael Lackey in December. Megan M. ross—Crimson photographer

teams, it was ultimately not the man advantage that tipped the scale for the Crimson in its Friday night victory over the Tigers.

Sustained offensive effort had Harvard leading, 1-0, early in the second period. With the Crimson on the power play, Princeton senior forward David Hallisey found the puck on his stick and charged down the ice on a breakaway. Hallisey deked around Madsen and got a shot off, but the senior net-minder, stretched out as far as his six-foot-five frame would allow, flashed the leather and snatched up a certain goal.

The fans couldn’t believe their eyes—and neither could the referees, apparently, as the play was reviewed to confirm the save. Madsen’s acrobatics secured momentum for the Harvard icemen, who held onto their lead for the rest of the night.

“The breakaway save he made in the second was an amazing save,” coach Donato applauded. “Ryan Donato was in the slot about to shoot, and his stick broke. And a guy that had been injured for them had changed, so that’s what led to them getting a guy behind us….

They got a breakaway on it, and it really could’ve changed the feeling of the game, but Merrick just did not quit on the play.”

Madsen’s numbers show that he was once again confident between the pipes, making 35 of 36 saves (.972 SV%) and posting a shutout through the first 40 minutes.

“I thought Merrick was outstanding, especially in the first and second periods,” coach Donato said. “[He] gave our team a great amount of confidence, the way he was playing.”

The Arizona Coyotes prospect was not the only player to have a major impact on Friday night’s tilt. Donato

bounced back from his first scoreless performance of the season last Tuesday with a two-goal effort against the Tigers.

The Scituate, Mass., native opened the scoring with half a minute to play in the first frame, picking up a rebound from sophomore forward Ty PeltonByce in the slot and shooting clear over the shoulder of freshman backstop Ryan Ferland. Though the Crimson left the ice after 20 with just a one-goal lead, the team outshot Princeton 18-6 in the first period.

“Something that we’re trying to work on is having better starts,” Madsen said. “We want to have every line get out there in the first five minutes or so…. Getting off to a good start like that helps continue through the period and through the game. You don’t want to be chasing a game.”

The home team’s offensive push continued into the second frame, when freshman forward Jack Badini skated around the Tigers’ defense shorthanded and beat Ferland glove-side, extending Harvard’s lead to 2-0. Later in the period, Donato found twine once again with a snipe to the far corner.

On Friday night, Harvard’s goal-scorers added to their impressive point totals—Donato scored his team-leading 16th goal in as many games, while Badini passed the double-digit points threshold with his game-winning snipe.

After potting the game-tying puck on Saturday, Donato has remained on a goal-per-game pace and leads the nation in that regard. In addition to his pair of tallies, the recently announced Olympian had 10 of the Crimson’s 42 total shots on goal on Friday.

“I was really happy with the urgency,” Madsen said, praising the offense.

“The one thing that we’ve had a ton of

this year is effort…. I think it showed Friday night—the first two periods especially.”

Coach Donato likewise appreciated the offensive push to start the tilt.

“I thought we came out and took the play to them in the first couple periods,” the bench boss said. “We were able to establish some offensive zone time and have some great opportunities. Our power play didn’t score but created a lot of momentum.”

Pelton-Byce had a good showing too, picking up two assists. The sophomore’s effort earned him a line promotion the following night and a chance to play alongside Donato, the finisher of his two helpers on Friday.

Pelton-Byce’s roster mobility was made possible by the continued absence of freshman Henry Bowlby, Donato’s usual left-winger, due to illness—an ailment that could sideline the rookie for a few weeks.

Princeton eventually generated some offense of its own and foiled Madsen’s plans for a shutout. A little over a minute into the third, the Tigers struck gold on the power play. Sophomore Jackson Cressey collected a cross-ice pass and beat the otherwise perfect Harvard tender.

Despite Cressey’s man-up score, the Crimson successfully killed off Princeton’s five other power play opportunities on Friday night. The team’s recent success on the kill brought Harvard’s man-down efficiency into the top 10 nationwide—that is, until the Crimson conceded two power play strikes to the Bobcats in Saturday’s matinee.

Staff writer Spencer R. Morris can be reached at spencer.morris@thecrimson.

Staff writer Stuti R. Telidevara can be reached at stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.

Crimson Pins Stanford, Maryland in Pair of Close Meets Wrestling By leon k. yang Crimson Staff Writer

­ oth wrestling dual meets this weekB end were decided by one point, and the grapplers from Cambridge emerged from the fray with two victories. Besting two formidable opponents, the Crimson established a perfect start to its new year and to its dual season overall.

After a start to a season defined by competition in invitationals, the Harvard wrestling team (2-0) beat both Stanford (3-3, 1-0 Pac-12) and Maryland (3-8, 0-6 B1G) in tight contests

that displayed the team’s mental and physical endurance, especially in later periods of matches.

“Obviously Stanford is a big one for us, being another big-time academic institution with wrestling,” senior captain Kanon Dean said. “That means a lot to us, going out there and getting after it with them. With Maryland, you have a Big Ten team; Big Ten is the pinnacle of the wrestling conferences, so whenever you get the chance to wrestle a team that represents that conference, you know that’s going to be top-level wrestling.”

HARVARD 22, MARYLAND 21 After the 157-pound weight class on

PINNED UP Sophomore A.J. Jaffe pins a Columbia opponent in a match earlier this season.

Sunday, the Crimson was in a daunting 17-5 hole against the Terrapins. Despite the 12-point gap, the team did not relent, finishing with an impressive four straight victories to take the 22-21 overall win on the day.

“In dual meets, there are only one or two matches in a day, and it’s really for the team, so every point matters,” junior Sam Goldman said. “I think that going in, everyone knew that regardless of how good the kid they were wrestling, everyone had to wrestle above their level a little bit and grab a couple of extra team points where it counted.”

In the 165-pound weight class, junior Peter Bearse responded strongly

Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

from a 2-0 deficit after the first period to win a 7-5 decision over Maryland sophomore Brendan Burnham, a triumph that proved to be the watershed moment of the meet and ignited the crowd in the third floor of the Malkin Athletic Center. From there, the team picked up steam.

Senior captain Josef Johnson followed up Bearse’s victory with a resounding one of his own, obliterating sophomore Jahi Jones in a 27-7 decision in the 174-pound weight class in a technical fall win that gave the Crimson five team points.

In perhaps the biggest match of the day at the 197-pound weight class, senior Logan Kirby pinned his opponent, freshman Mansur Abdul-Malik, to give Harvard six team points and the lead. Senior Angus Cowell in the 285-pound weight class was able to hold off No. 6 wrestler in the weight class senior Youssif Hemida to secure a major decision.

Goldman, who had a technical fall victory of his own, acknowledged the team’s ability to gain crucial points by extending leads.

“I think one of the biggest themes of the weekend was that we were going to out-condition and have a higher pace than the guys we were wrestling,” Goldman said. “I knew that if I kept the pressure on him, he would eventually break towards the end of the match.

First period, he took a shot. I ended up stopping him and going behind, getting a takedown, and rode him on top a little bit. The deeper we got into the match, the more I could feel him giving up.”

HARVARD 21, STANFORD 20 At the end of all duels on Saturday, both the Crimson and the Cardinals were so evenly matched that the first, second, and third tiebreakers did not suffice to determine a winner. Based on the fourth criteria, which awards the team with the most turns on top, Harvard emerged victorious in a tightly contested 21-20 matchup against Stanford.

The two teams had exactly the same number of team points, pins, technical falls, and accumulated individual

scores.

“It was so even, and every single marginal effort by our guys was what really turned it,” Goldman said. “Guys getting over it in the third period, getting those last takedowns was really critical, so it was pretty good because everyone felt really good about it, and the whole team was involved in the win.”

Sophomore A.J. Jaffe epitomized this sentiment. With time waning in his bout against redshirt junior Isaiah Locsin, Jaffe pinned his opponent with one second remaining, giving the Crimson six team points. The fall gave Jaffe his fourth on the season and eighth of his career.

Sophomore Hunter Ladnier followed Jaffe with a dominating 17-0 fall of his own against Cardinal redshirt freshman Jake Barry, Ladnier’s second technical fall of the season.

Both Goldman and Dean won decisions of their own, Goldman 10-3 against Stanford freshman Anthony Le, and Dean 10-5 against freshman Judah Duhm. Although the Cardinals won the 197 and 285 duels, Harvard ultimately won by fourth criteria tiebreak.

“I think we know that we have a pretty special and a special group of guys,” Goldman said. “These aren’t EIWA matches, so we start wrestling teams in our conference next weekend, and it’ll be really huge to take this momentum and avenge a couple of EIWA matches from last year ... and then hopefully garner postseason accolades for some individuals.”

Dean looks to continue the aggressive playstyle of his team moving forward into pivotal matchups later in the season.

“I think we’re looking to build off this style of extending our lead and constantly wrestling aggressively as we go into next week against Bucknell and F & M, both very winnable matches,” Dean said. “After that, it’s Cornell week, which is a huge week for us.”

Staff writer Leon K. Yang can be reached at leon.yang@thecrimson.

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