The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 23

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 23 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The Harvard Crimson The tax on Harvard’s endowment could harm vital University programming. EDITORIAL PAGE 10

Women’s swimming and diving claims Ancient Eight championship. SPORTS PAGE 11

‘Ex-Gay’ Speaker Draws Protest

HLS Affiliates Support Bacow

By PAULA M. BARBERI and CAROLINE S. ENGELMAYER

By AIDAN M. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

­ earing rainbow-colored signs and B wrapped in pride flags, students and faculty crowded into Emerson Hall Friday night to protest Jackie Hill-Perry, a speaker invited by religious group Harvard College Faith and Action who has been an outspoken critic of homosexuality.

Hill-Perry, who writes that she was “saved from a lifestyle of homosexual sin and the like” on her website, has often spoken publicly about her sexual preferences. She claims God helped her see that remaining in a homosexual relationship would violate Christian teachings.

At the event and in days prior, some

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­How many more?

That’s the only question that remains after host Harvard women’s squash swept the competition this President’s Day weekend to secure its fourth consecutive College Squash Association (CSA) national championship and become the winningest franchise in women’s collegiate squash.

After breezing past No. 8 Cornell and No. 5 Yale, the Crimson faced third-ranked Trinity (15-3) in the packed Murr Center on Sunday afternoon in defense of its team championship. But hardly an hour and one wave into the match, sophomore Amelia Henley’s drop shot gave the team and home crowd its 18th Howe Cup to celebrate. Home makes winning sweeter, but Harvard had been hitting the sweet spot all year long.

Beyond all of the superlatives—perfect record (15-0, 7-0 Ivy), most women’s titles by a Crimson coach (six), and Ivy League Champions—this season

Students, faculty, and administrators at the Law School say they are pleased Harvard’s 29th president will be one of their own.

University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow, who will take office after President Drew G. Faust steps down in June, graduated from the Law School with a J.D. in 1976. He also holds two degrees from the Kennedy School.

Law School affiliates are eager to embrace a president with long-standing ties to the school. Bacow, an environmental policy expert, spent a number of his formative years at the school and met his wife, Adele F. Bacow, on the Law School campus during the first day of orientation.

Bacow, who served as the chancellor of MIT and the president of Tufts University, returned to his former stomping grounds decades after graduating, taking a seat on the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, in 2011. He also worked on the Program on Negotiation at the Law School.

John F. Manning ’82, dean of the Law School, wrote in an emailed statement that he is “delighted” with Bacow’s appointment and “look[s] forward to working with him.”

“I am delighted that our alumnus Lawrence S. Bacow will lead Harvard University. When I became dean, one of the most frequent pieces of advice I got from fellow deans was, ‘You need to meet Larry Bacow; he has terrific insights about how to lead a school.’ They were right,” Manning wrote.

Manning’s predecessor as dean, Martha L. Minow, wrote in an email that she thinks Bacow’s legal training has equipped him well to lead universities like Tufts, and now, Harvard.

“Larry Bacow is not only a proven, effective leader in higher education who passionately cares about access, inclusion, and excellence; he is also genuinely perceptive and wise,” she wrote. “Because he continually integrates rigorous analysis with generous human concerns (helped by his legal and economics training!), his leadership bodes so well not only for Harvard but for all affected by higher education.”

Not many current HLS scholars taught Bacow in the ’70s, but Laurence H. Tribe ’62, a Law School professor, said he wishes he had known Bacow as a student.

“Larry Bacow wasn’t my student, but I wish he had been,” Tribe wrote

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Students hold up a rainbow flag in protest of Jackie Hill-Perry. Religious group Harvard College Faith and Action invited the “ex-gay” speaker to their weekly gathering Friday night. TIMOTHY R. O”MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Women’s Squash Wins Nationals

By WILLIAM QUAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Amelia Henley ’20 prepares to serve against Trinity College on Sunday in the CSA National Championship. Henley went on to win her match 3-1 to clinch the team’s 9-0 championship win. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Solange Knowles Named 2018 Artist of the Year

By RUTH A. HAILU and OLIVIA C. SCOTT CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Solange Knowles will headline this year’s Cultural Rhythms Festival as the 2018 Artist of the Year, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations announced Friday.

The acclaimed R&B singer-songwriter will come to Cambridge to receive the award on March 3.

Knowles adds the Artist of The Year award to the several she has collected over the last several months.

In 2017, she received her first Grammy Award, was named a Glamour Woman of the Year, picked up her first Black Entertainment Television award, and garnered a Billboard Impact Award.

Knowles’s 2016 album “A Seat at the Table” earned critical acclaim and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, Apple Music, and iTunes Overall Top Albums Charts.

Her music is known for lyrics that attempt to capture what it means to be a black woman in the United States today.

Asked how he felt about Harvard Foundation’s pick, Associate Dean of INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Students for Diversity and Inclusion Roland S. Davis at first responded with one word: “Wow!” “I’m excited,” Davis said. “I think that’s a wonderful opportunity for the Harvard Foundation, I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for students to see to be able to see her, to interact with her, and just a wonderful opportunity for the community as a whole.”

“She’s phenomenal,” he added.

Jackson C. Walker ’21 said he also feels excited Solange will be coming to campus.

“I love Solange a lot, and I feel like having her here at Harvard is such an opportunity, such a privilege,” Walker said.

In addition to her musical success, Knowles is also known for her social justice activism.

In the past, she has used her platform as a prominent musician to highlight causes like police brutality and women’s empowerment.

In a speech at the 2017 BET awards, Knowles particularly mentioned women she said inspired her and empowered her to pursue her passion for music.

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Pres. Search Student Adviser Talks to UC

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Nina Srivastava ‘18 speaks to the Undergraduate Council about the University-wide student advisory committee in the presidential search. ELLIS J. YEO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Nina Srivastava ’18, a member of the student advisory committee for Harvard’s presidential search, declined to say whether newly selected University President Lawrence S. Bacow met the recommendations of the advisory body at an Undergraduate Council meeting Monday. Nonetheless, Srivastava said she believed student input was valued by the group selecting the University’s 29th president.

“They were very genuinely interested in what we had to say and very open and willing to meet with us,” Srivastava said. “We, I think overall, throughout the process, felt very heard.”

Srivastava was one of three undergraduates on the student advisory committee, serving alongside students from most of Harvard’s

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AROUND THE IVIES Dartmouth President Provides Update on Sexual Misconduct Investigations The Dartmouth reported that Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon sent out a campus-wide email regarding the investigations involving sexual misconduct allegations against three Dartmouth professors. According to the email, the investigation is almost finished, and any necessary disciplinary action against the professors will be considered afterwards.

Additionally, Hanlon stated that “sexual misconduct and harassment have no place” in Dartmouth College.

Yale Online Radio Suspended Over Licensing Scandal WYBCx—Yale’s student online radio—has halted operations after realizing they failed to establish proper licensing agreements for the music played, according to Yale Daily News. In an email, the station’s general manager wrote that the station has been “operating illegally since 2008.” The station general manager said she hopes to be back up on the air in the “next week,” but is working to make sure they comply with all the necessary legal requirements. Though Yale does not fund WYBCx, the online radio could potentially rely on financial support from WYBC 94.3—Yale’s original student radio broadcast on airwaves and online—to cover licensing fees and fines.

OLD BURIAL GROUND The sun sets over the Old Burial Ground, located on the corner of Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue. It contains headstones with dates going back to the 17th century.

JACQUELINE S. CHEA — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

HAPPY TUESDAY HARVARD! Hope you enjoyed the break, because midterm season is now in full swing...

In the Atmosphere…

It seems like good things do come after the rain. If you’re not too busy studying for midterms, take the opportunity to go outside and enjoy temperatures in the high 50s.

EVENTS Singing and Improvisation Head over to Lowell Lecture Hall at 7 p.m. for On Improvisation: Masterclass with Jill Scott. This event held by the Black Arts Festival will include a performance by the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College and a dialogue moderated by Professor Esperanza Spalding. Try to

get there earlier though: tickets start selling at 6:15 p.m. on a first-come, first-serve basis!

Andy Fan Crimson Staff Writer

Brown Health Services Expand To Mental Illness The Brown Daily Herald reported that a new plan involving the university’s health services has made it possible for primary care physicians to prescribe medications to students with anxiety or depression. Prior to the change, only psychiatrists at Brown’s Counseling and Psychological Services were allowed to prescribe medications to treat students’ mental illnesses. Under the new plan, however, students can receive the best-suited treatment for their mental illness after being evaluated by their primary care physician. This change facilitates cross-consultation between CAPS and Brown University Health Services.

IN THE REAL WORLD Black Panther Opens in RecordBreaking Weekend Don’t worry there are no spoilers here, so regardless of whether or not you’ve seen the movie yet, read up on many of the ways Black Panther has broken records and why it’s sweeping the nation. By the way, if you haven’t seen it yet, we highly recommend you do this upcoming weekend.

Shooting as a “Reprieve”?

An anonymous White House official recently called the Florida shootings a “reprieve” from the controversy and chaos happening at the White House.

Faking it to the Olympics So apparently you don’t actually need to be good to go to the Olympics. Read about Elizabeth Swaney’s appearance at the Olympics despite not being competitive whatsoever. Spoiler alert: you’re going to need a lot of money to pursue your Olympic dream.

WAITING AT THE DOT THE BRANCH RODENT A squirrel balances high on a branch over Harvard Yard.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The history of this speaker and the things that she keeps promoting ... threaten the existence of queer students on campus.”

Ahmed Ragab, Divinity School Professor

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Readers with information about errors are asked to e-mail the managing editor at managingeditor@thecrimson.com.

STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE Night Editor Kenton K. Shimozaki ’19

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Design Editor Assistant Night Editors Diana C. Perez ’19 Michael E. Xie ’20 A. Daniela Perez ’21 Editorial Editor Emmanuel R. R. Story Editors D’Agostino ’19 Graham W. Bishai ’19 Brittany N. Ellis ’19 Photo Editor Joshua J. Florence ‘19 Caleb D. Schwartz ‘20 Hannah Natanson ’19 Claire E. Parker ‘19 Sports Editor Alison W. Steinbach ‘19 Kim Arango ’20

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Handel & Haydn Society Breathes Life into

Bach BOBAE C. JOHNSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Feb. 16, the Handel and Haydn Society performed all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” at Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theater. Founded in Boston in 1815, the orchestra brought an incredibly charismatic and artistic performance to the stage, while maintaining respect for the source material.

The small group was composed of string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments. They began with Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major,” projecting their warm and rich sound across the hall effortlessly and drawing the audience in with each sweep of the bow. The sound brought listeners to a different time. Recreating the intimacy of a Baroque era concert in a venue as large as Sanders Theater was a challenge that the group met with impressive ease.

For their next number, “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major,” the group rearranged to feature flutist. Christopher Krueger, violinist Aisslinn Nosky, and harpsichord player Ian Watson. The trio was also supported by a small string ensemble. Despite the eclectic mix of instruments, the trio performed smoothly as a single unit of sound. Each artistic intent was perfectly matched. The string ensemble that supported the trio also accompanied them energetically, buoying the soloists up with their own lines.

During many of the performances, the violinists stood on opposite sides of the stage while the rest of the orchestra remained in the center such that the violins resembled two arms of a single human body. This arrangement helped to distinguish the different parts and made their melodies and harmonies much clearer. When they played in unison, the orchestra united even the most diverging parts.

In the third concerto, Aisslinn Nosky’s performance shone with her vitality and musicianship. Leading the group, Nosky fiddled along with dance-like movements, all the while playing with incredible sophistication. She grinned at both the ensemble and the audience as she played. Her charisma was infectious, pulling the audience in further as her notes continued to bounce off every inch of the hall. As the

melody passed to different instruments, Nosky danced out of the way, giving the spotlight to others.

The members of the group listened to each other with sensitivity, discerning individual voices. They also manipulated their tones to give each line a purpose: Long held bass notes in the background were active and deliberate, drawn from the string to bolster the melodic line floating above.

During “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major,” trumpet player John Thiessen’s solo transcended the orchestra, sounding more like an oboe than a trumpet. An anguished cry left a haunting feeling pervading across the concert hall as an oboe-like piercing tone replaced the hearty, typical sound of a brass instrument. This voice was surprising but ultimately pleasing.

Nosky’s virtuosic violin solo highlighted the first movement of “Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major.” She brought robust and powerful emotion to the score. Again, the performance emulated the atmosphere of an intimate house concert rather than a massive hall. The transition from phrase to phrase invited the audience along in the story that the players wove.

The group reserved Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major” for the final performance of the night. An ethereal recorder solo established a mournful atmosphere.

When the orchestra whirled directly from the “Andante” to the “Presto” sections of the piece, the group provided yet another captivating performance. The duet between violin and recorder leaped in every direction possible, the duo performing with ease and excitement. Though the pair played together as a single entity, they stressed the differences in sound between their instruments, a decision that came as unusually delightful.

More than 200 years after its creation, the Handel and Haydn Society continues to breathe life into its Baroque and classical repertoire. Their mesmerizing rendition of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” brought a depth and excitement to the stage that is not easily replicated.

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STEVE COLL PRESENTS DIRECTORATE S: THE C.I.A. AND AMERICA’S SECRET WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Steve Coll is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author.

He wrote a book about the CIA’s role in the Afghanistan war.

Harvard Book Store / 1256 Mass ave. 7 p.m. Free.

LITTLE TINY WALLS: MUSIC & CONVERSATION ABOUT DACA Grammy Award-winning musician Arturo O’Farrell will present his newest project, “Little Tiny Walls,” a social commentary on polyculturalism and immigration. A panel discussion about art, politics, and the Trump administration will follow.

Oberon (2 Arrow St., Cambridge, MA). 7pm.

Free, call 617.547.8300.

ALL BUGS REVUE Part 1 of Brattle’s Bugs Bunny Film Festival, this film featuring everyone’s favorite rabbit is a fun time for kids and adults alike. Playing in 35mm film.

Brattle Theatre. 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. $9 for first three showings, $11 for last two showings.

NEIL LEONARD, STEPHEN VITIELLO & SCANNER: SOUNDING THE CLOUD This is a concert that explores the ubiquity of the internet and the rise of the “cloud” as a medium for information storage through music.

Much of the music will be improvised.

Institute of Contemporary Art. 8pm. $10 students.

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH After a British airman crashes during a WWII bombing mission but miraculously survives, he meets and falls in love with the American woman who tried to help him.

Brattle Theatre. 5 p.m, 7:15 p.m., 9:30 p.m. $11.

BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA / MUSSORGSKY, PROKOFIEV & TCHAIKOVSKY The Boston Philharmonic’s third program of the season. Featuring conductor Benjamin Zander and pianist Alexander Korsantia.

Sanders Theater. 3pm (1:45 talk). Tickets - call The Harvard Box Office at 617-496-2222.

HOUSE IN THE FIELDS Winner of the John Marshall Award at the 2017 Camden International Film Festival, presented

by DocYard. Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Tala Hadid.e.

Brattle Theatre. 7 p.m. $12.

20 february 2018 | VOL CXLv, ISSUE 3 Arts Chairs Mila Gauvin II ’19 Grace Z. Li ’19

EDITOR Associates Kaylee S. Kim ’20 Caroline A. Tsai ’20 Aline G. Damas ’20 Noah F. Houghton ’20 Edward M. Litwin ’19 Petra Laura Oreskovic ’20 Ethan B. Reichsman ’19 Yael M. Saiger ’19

Caroline E. Tew ’20 Jonathan P. Trang ’19 Lucy Wang ’20

Executive Designer Hanna Kim ‘21

Design Associates Mireya C. Arango ‘20 Emily H. Hong ‘21 Julianna C. Kardish ‘20 Jessica N. Morandi ‘21

Executive PhotographerS Kathryn S. Kuhar ‘20 Zennie L. Wey ’20

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Danielle Lazarin Discusses Female Expression in a Society That Stymies It COURTESY OF GRACE Z. LI

JENNIFER XIAO

CONTRIBUTING WRITER “I’m teaching my daughters to be rude,” Danielle Lazarin said to listeners of her talk. On Feb. 13, Lazarin visited the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge to discuss her debut short story collection, “Back Talk,” and sign books afterward.

The talk, hosted by Laura van den Berg, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and author of the novel “Find Me,” traced Lazarin’s journey producing her new book.

Lazarin began by reading an excerpt from “Floor Plans,” a story she introduced as a key piece that guided her collection.

The story follows a narrator in the process of selling her apartment after her husband asks for a divorce. Rather than focusing on the divorce, however, the story centers on the narrator’s newfound friendship with another woman who lives in the apartment next door. This relationship between women serves as the foundation for the rest of Lazarin’s collection.

Lazarin’s unembellished reading captured the essence of her book, which she noted revolves around women’s conversations with one another. “I’ve had so many conversations with friends, family, and, quite frankly, strangers,” she said, “One of the things I love about women is how quickly we get intimate with one other and how much we share with each other, just in the service of making other women not feel alone in the world.”

Lazarin said finding a voice to tell a story was a natural process. She explained that she began her stories while thinking of an image or a perspective. If she felt compelled to continue, she would find a voice to carry on the story. “Maybe it is a little bit like a spectral visit,” she said as the audience

laughed. But she said the process of fleshing out a voice isn’t always easy. When complimented for giving the characters in each of her stories such distinctive voices—especially those written in first person—Lazarin revealed that she found writing in first person to be particularly challenging. “You don’t want it to sound like yourself,” she said.

Lazarin gave an honest assessment of her writing style: “I’m not a landscape writer.” With time, Lazarin found that she was able to better describe settings in her stories, which often take place in New York City. Influenced by her childhood in the Bronx, Lazarin became interested in writing about the outskirts of the city. Lazarin chose to set her stories in the less glamorous parts of New York to better connect with her readers, whom she felt might feel alienated from reading a “New York story.”

Lazarin’s own age also shaped the fabric of her stories.

Lazarin wrote the first story for the collection in 2002 and the last in 2016. Lazarin noted that her life completely changed in 2009 when she moved back to New York with her one-yearold child, and that she could characterize her stories into two chunks: Those before and those after the move. Before 2009, Lazarin based many of her stories on mothers and children.

On returning to New York in 2009, Lazarin revisited her stories from a new perspective as a mother herself.

Regarding the title of her collection, Lazarin recalled a moment from her childhood when a friend from California called her opinionated, a quality which others she knew deemed undesirable in a woman. “When I was a teenager, I was freer with my ideas and less afraid,” she said. Lazarin

noted that, when she was in her 20s, she learned to tone down her “unbridled feelings, anger, and opinion” and noticed that many other women were doing the same. Drawing from these observations, Lazarin wrote about women who, instead of unleashing their inner turmoil, often chose to internalize it.

In her stories, Lazarin explored this internal conversation within women living in a world that tells them to “stop talking and apologize for existing.”

Lazarin concluded with some thoughts on the power of choosing when to be vocal: “I published an essay on not conditioning girls to respond to compliments,” she said.

In response to compliments like, “You’re pretty,” Lazarin chooses to remain silent. On thanking people for these compliments, Lazarin said, “It’s actually unnecessary.”

After the talk, audience members formed a line for the book signing. “I love that they’re doing this here. I think this event brings new ideas and people to Boston,” Cambridge resident Helena Turner said. “It’s my first time meeting her in real life. We’ve been Twitter friends for a while—I’ve enjoyed her presence on social media for a long time. I bought three copies of her book,” said Lindsay Hatton, another Cambridge resident who attended Lazarin’s talk.

The event also attracted those unfamiliar with Lazarin and her work. “I didn’t know anything about the book—I’m excited to read it. I liked the way she talked about her process and how she wrote her stories over such a long period of time,” Lauren E. Cortese, a Cambridge resident, said.

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Julia Michaels’ ‘Heaven’ is ‘Fifty Shades’ of Unconventional Catchiness CAROLINE A. TSAI

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

COURTESY OF JULIA MICHAELS / UNIVERSAL STUDIOS & REPUBLIC RECORDS

Since The Weeknd’s “Earned It” peaked at number three on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart, big names in music have been vying to produce the latest hit song for the “Fifty Shades of Grey” film adaptations. The second single for the first movie, Ellie Goulding’s power ballad “Love Me Like You Do,” hit number one in over 25 countries. ZAYN and Taylor Swift handled the lead single for the second installment with their Jack Antonoff-produced duet, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever,” which also debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100.

The formula for these songs, it seems, is relatively simple: syncopated synth beat, layers of “ooh” vocals in the background, a creeping, sultry verse that builds to a stomping, anthemic chorus. Oh, and lyrics that beg and cajole, that bemoan the kind of romantic love at the center of “Fifty Shades,” the kind that’s illogical and irrational, yet simultaneously uncontrollable and alluring.

Whether it’s actually love or incessant boning that “Fifty Shades” celebrates, the climax of the trilogy is upon us—and so, too, is the final soundtrack. Producers tapped Julia Michaels—a relative newcomer best known for the song “Issues”—for the soundtrack’s third single, which earned Michaels her first Grammy nominations just this past January.

Michaels’ contribution to the “Fifty Shades Freed” soundtrack is “Heaven,” a sensual, slowburn ballad recalling a love affair as toxic as it was intoxicating. Though sonically understated compared to its “Fifty Shades” predecessors, “Heaven” showcases Michaels’ vocal range and technically clever songwriting.

Michaels, whose songwriting credits include the likes of Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony, smartly imbues “Heaven” with analogous lyricsonic motion. “Falling for him was like falling from grace,” she sings on a descending arpeggio, as lyrical “falling” parallels musical descent.

Its verse slides down a chromatic scale whose breaks with major key signature produce a sound as discordant as the love affair in question.

“Heaven” builds on Michaels’ established sound, the staccato synth backing not unlike the plucked strings that preface the verse of “Issues.”

Yet the song makes use of her breathy vocals to spin the tune into a much darker contemplation of love. “All good boys go to heaven, / But bad boys bring heaven to you,” Michaels opines in the chorus. It’s the kind of buzzy wordplay on a truism that sticks in your head—the kind of punchy one-liner you’d expect Dakota Johnson to recite in a “Fifty Shades” trailer.

Any singer who scores a track on the “Fifty Shades” soundtrack seems automatically poised for instant viral music stardom, or at least radio plays. On first listen, though, “Heaven” doesn’t feel like the pop power ballad of “Fifty Shades” soundtracks past. It doesn’t even sound like a song that plays while the credits roll. Sure, there’s nothing remarkably innovative or fresh about “Heaven.” It’s pop manufactured for Hollywood, love synthesized for the radio. It’s a slightly toned-down version of what’s already come, only with a dose of Michaels’ songwriting prowess.

But that’s not to say it’s any less powerful or catchy than its predecessors—in fact, its simplicity lends itself to accessibility. The love in “Heaven” is not the holy grail, as in Ellie Goulding’s version. Nor is love equated to immortality, as in ZAYN and Taylor’s version.

As Michaels herself sings in the second verse, “There’s no regrets. I just thought it was fun.”

“Heaven” renders love, or at least the “Fifty Shades” version of it, in simple terms. The boy is bad for her, and yet, so good.

Staff writer Caroline A. Tsai can be reached at caroline.tsai@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @carolinetsai3.

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‘Black Panther’ Sets a New Standard for Superhero Movies AIDAN F. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS / DISNEY

Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe began with “Iron Man” in 2008, the franchise has enjoyed an incredible run at the box office, amassing over $13.5 billion with 18 movies, and more in the works. Popular among fans and generally accepted by critics, Marvel has fared much better than its rival DC Comics, who have struggled to regain the spirit of “The Dark Knight” trilogy with the exception of last year’s release of “Wonder Woman.” Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is widely thought to be the best comic book movie of all time, especially for Heath Ledger’s timeless performance as the Joker. How does “Black Panther” compare to the Gotham hero? Simply put, “Black Panther” is right up there with “The Dark Knight” as the best comic book film ever.

First introduced in “Captain America: Civil War,” Black Panther is the alter ego of T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the prince of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Beneath its third-world country guise, Wakanda is a highly advanced society supported by the strongest metal known to man, vibranium. The city mixes traditional African culture with gorgeous, high-tech architecture and style—it’s no wonder they hide themselves to preclude the risks of exploitation by the rest of the world.

Most single-hero comic book movies follow a similar style: origin story, some villain who vows to destroy the hero, a massive fight scene, and the resolution that ends in the hero’s triumph. “Black Panther” reinvents these plot points, recontextualizing them in a metaphor for black suppression.

There are villains—Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) and Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) are both fantastic—but the real problem lies in the question of Wakanda’s responsibility to protect both Africans and black Americans around the world. It’s a problem that doesn’t have a clear solution at first, making the film a cathartic journey of not only protecting Wakanda from the threat of Killmonger, but a

moral question of whether a highly advanced, black African nation should lend a hand in protecting black individuals outside of their home.

Boseman is clearly the leader of the cast, assuming the role of T’Challa with poise and strong, subtle power. Like all great leaders, his moral compass serves as guide to the rest of the characters. At the end of the film, Boseman, dressed all in black, stands against the fence of basketball court in Oakland. The shot composition makes him look larger than life—Boseman stands with complete confidence. His stance parallels the end of “The Dark Knight Rises” when Bruce Wayne donates his mansion to the orphans of Gotham. But while Wayne fades away, T’Challa remains present, a symbol of active heroism.

T’Challa is joined by his amusing sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) who makes his weapons, his love interest Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), army general Okoye (Danai Gurira), best friend W’kabi (Daniel Kaluuya), and his mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett). Each of these characters have significant roles and no one is shut out of the action. Nyong’o, Wright, and Gurira particularly stand out for their ability to combine laugh-out-loud humor with some amazing action sequences.

Rounding out the cast are CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) and the elder Zuri (Forest Whitaker), who plays a very similar role here as he does in “Rogue One.” “Black Panther” is able to succeed in large part due to Ryan Coogler being at the helm of the film. Coogler, writer and director of both “Fruitvale Station” and “Creed,” has solidified himself in Hollywood as an established filmmaker.

His director of photography, Rachel Morrison, shines, displaying some incredible scenes of Wakandan landscape that are comparable to Peter Jackson’s shots of Middle Earth in “Lord of the Rings.” Morrison’s talent is well known— she recently became the first woman to be nominated

for an Oscar for Best Cinematography for her work on “Mudbound.” Ludwig Göransson’s score emphasizes the more emotional parts of the movie while Kendrick Lamar’s studio-produced soundtrack is art in its own right, adding another powerful layer to “Black Panther.”

The only major problem with the film comes during its prime action scene near the end. The scene is necessary, but for a couple minutes the entire soul of the movie is lost.

Superhero movies tend to showcase action scenes that seem too choreographed: Everything is shot a little too well and the timing is a little too perfect. Toward its finale, “Black Panther” falls into this trope. At one point a crash of rhinos rise from the ground, a confusing moment that may cause eyes to roll. While on the whole the scene is cliché, a few memorable moments borrow iconic imagery from other big action movies. Martin Freeman’s CIA Agent flies in a “Star Wars”-like ship above the planet, gunning down enemy transports, while T’Challa and Killmonger fight on a bridge above a deep abyss, reminiscent of epic lightsaber duels. The film jumps back to life with intense screenwriting, when Killmonger exclaims to T’Challa, “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage.”

“Black Panther,” like “Wonder Woman,” is long overdue in terms of minority representation in superhero movies.

The film, like last year’s “Get Out,” challenges the old, white Hollywood that has dominated the film business for far too long. Moreover, “Black Panther” does it superbly, bringing together an incredible ensemble of black entertainers who come together to make one of the best comic book movies of all time.

Staff writer Aidan F. Ryan can be reached at aidan.ryan@ thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @AidanRyanNH.

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Dissecting Whiteness in the American Poetic Cannon with Claudia Rankine ALLISON J. SCHARMANN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Claudia Rankine is not only a creative jill of all trades, but a master of every single one. It comes as no surprise, then, that when the poet, playwright, essayist, editor, and professor took the stage Feb. 15 at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, the room, filled to capacity, erupted in thunderous applause. The applause faded to attentive listening as Rankine introduced her talk, “The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry,” a speech focused on the received neutrality and cultural dominance of whiteness.

The author of “Citizen: An American Lyric” examined the way whiteness pervades American culture and how this dominance is so often ignored by canonical white writers.

“To write about race in the mind of many white writers has little to do with investigating whiteness,” she said. Further, Rankine discussed how the people in these authors’ works are presumed to be white simply because they are people. She added, “Whiteness as universal, nonpartisan, neutral, and normal is an equation that rules journalism, nonfiction, and creative writing, which is to say it rules the culture.” In this way, whiteness persists as the cultural standard.

Rankine blended her discussion of the urgent topic with quotes from other prominent racial thinkers, particularly one from James Baldwin about the danger of silence. She delivered the final words of Baldwin’s quote, saying, “it takes no time at all before we cannot talk about anything, before absolute silence descends,” then gave the audience a command, “Now think about people’s hesitation to talk about race in this country.” She directed her gaze forward and stopped speaking, creating space for contemplation, and coyly slipped on her glasses to punctuate the effect of her request.

In 2016, Rankine along with a group of other creatives and activists founded The Racial Imaginary Institute, or TRII, to engage with and demystify whiteness in American culture. The “cultural laboratory,” as the poet calls it, sponsors programming including art exhibitions, readings, in cooperation with other groups and artists. TRII seeks to counteract the feeling of white endangerment in America they say came to a head in 2016.

In the spirit of the mission of her organization, Rankine went on to discuss a number of mainstream, American poets with the disclaimer, “My ulterior motive here is partially an open invitation to consider both what you produce and how you read and critique within the frame of white dominance.”

To illustrate both the execution and the importance of this work, Rankine examined pieces by prominent poets including Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, and Allen Ginsberg. Rankine used history, research, and literary selections to contextualize and expose both explicit and implicit racism within the American poetic canon. Beginning with Whitman, Rankine used analysis of the writer’s personal racism to preface her discussion of race in one of his most popular works, “Song of Myself.” She revealed the contradiction between Whitman’s advocacy of abolition alongside his desire to see the black race eradicated. His motivations in supporting abolition were not in the interest of human rights, but rather in the interest of eliminating the “black tide” taking jobs for white working men, she said. Rankine used this context to frame what she called the lack of racial awareness in Whitman’s work and the work of other writers.

“I really enjoyed the way she walked us through these kind of case studies of poets.

I don’t have a background in poetry, but doing that kind of breaking down of those kind

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of small shifts in language is a really interesting way to come at looking at that,” said audience member Caitlin E. Gianniny, who said she is trying to write and to think more on whiteness herself.

“I love Claudia Rankine, I love ‘Citizen,’ and I really appreciated the kind of deep dive into the language of poetry and how white supremacy is evident in poetry,” Mardi J. Fuller said. “It’s not something that I looked into before, it’s really provocative.”

Rankine closed her talk with a viewing of the opening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film “Eyes Wide Shut,” with a recording of Tracie Morris’s “eyes wide shut: a not neo-benshi read,” superimposed over the audio. The piece analyzes the racial and power dynamics of the movie in the form of clipped, repetitive sentences—the first one eight repetitions of the phrase, “The scariest people in the world are not Black.” Rankine did not speak further, letting the work speak for itself.

Staff writer Allison J. Scharmann can be reached at allison.scharmann@thecrimson. com.

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ELI ZUZOVSKY CONTRIBUTING STAFF WRITER What is it like to grow up transgender with a schizophrenic single mother? That’s the question that Clyde Petersen tries to answer in his recent film, “Torrey Pines.” The transgender filmmaker, animator, and musician creates what he calls “a queer punk coming-of-age tale” based on his personal story.

Since its release in 2016, Petersen’s film has been screened all over the world, from Norway to Japan. It arrived at Emerson Paramount Center’s Jack Liebergott Black Box on Feb. 14 for a special one-week screening. The Harvard Crimson sat down with Petersen to chat about his work, LGBTQ representation, and “Torrey Pines” itself.

The Harvard Crimson: In recent years, we’ve seen an

explosion in the production of LGBT-themed films and TV shows. Do you feel that audiences today are more interested in nuanced portrayals of LGBT characters?

Clyde Petersen: Oh, yes, for sure. Generally speaking, I think that all audiences are ready for more nuanced characters, beyond portrayals of caricatures and stereotypes. I think that everyone is thirsty for that. The situation that we have now in Hollywood is pretty bleak. Most films just reiterate stereotypes and portraitures of queer people, people of color, and women.

I think it’s great to see all of those marginalized communities making films that represent themselves. There are so many stories about gender in the world. I think that every story is a story about gender, but [films nowadays] mostly emphasize the common thread of what a man is and what a woman is in our culture. It would be good to see some other stories out there, because everyone struggles with gender in some way, whether they identify [with] that or not.

THC: A major theme in “Torrey Pines” is mental health.

How did you approach such a sensitive topic?

CP: I grew up with my mom, who was schizophrenic. The

way the film came about was that I wrote a song about it with my friend, Kimya Dawson, and a lot of people were responding to it in many ways, like talking about their families and telling stories about mental health and growing up queer. So that’s how it unfolded over time to become a film. And I feel like we definitely see an explosion of discussion of mental health. Over the last 10 or 15 years it has become a real conversation, which is exciting. I’m excited to be a tiny part of that. And I definitely wouldn’t have had the same understanding of it if I hadn’t experienced it growing up with my mom.

THC: “Torrey Pines” is your directorial debut. How different was it from your work on short films in the past?

CP: It was incredible. It took three years and I had seven interns and an employee. We actually made it in my bedroom, which was really ridiculous, but cost efficient. It was an incredibly exciting experience, full of the day-to-day work of taking one picture at a time. It was different from working on short films because I can make a short film in a couple of weeks. I usually work by myself or with one collaborator. Here I had eight.

THC: “Torrey Pines” has a special theatrical version, the same one being performed at Emerson, with its score being performed by a live band. Where does this idea come from?

CP: I love watching films with a live score. It’s so fun.

It’s not uncommon for old films to have them, but I’ve seen a couple of new ones over the years. It’s one of my favorite experiences. I was excited to be able to do that with this film. My band, Your Heart Breaks, made the soundtrack for the film so it was easy for us to transition to that. I’d say that “Torrey Pines” is 50 percent music and 50 percent not. And we received a grant, touring grant, so that was how we were really

able to do it. We’ve been touring all over the world. We’ve just got back from Japan, Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. We’ve been on tour for two years. This is our last one, I think, unless something comes up.

THC: You are based in Seattle. What is it like to make movies outside the bubble of New York and Los Angeles? Do you think it influences the film itself?

CP: It’s so fun, I just love it. I think it’s easier to tell alternative stories outside of Los Angeles. Seattle has an incredible filmmaking scene, full of independent animators and live-action filmmakers. The support here is really strong.

People really support each other, because they recognize that we don’t have the same studio system. So I think the film had a lot of freedom to be whatever it wanted to be, without the constraints of capitalism.

THC: What about future projects? Are you working on anything at the moment?

CP: I’m working on a live-action feature. It’s a documentary about a band from Seattle called Earth. It’s kind of a heavy metal drone band. They’ve been around for years, but I finally found the space to make a film about them.

THC: It seems like you’re primarily interested in making documentaries, or at least films that examines the line between nonfiction and fiction.

CP: I studied documentary filmmaking in college.

I kind of flip back and forth between kind of documentary stuff and animation. And I do animation for documentaries.

But what I’m interested in is documenting things in general.

So whatever format that takes—audio, video, animation... I’m interested in documenting history.

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My Sister Will Be Hungry: Part II ANGELA F. HUI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER I tell Audrey a story on the way home, the usual one, about when we were little. Back then, she’d cry over the silliest things: smushed flies, roadkill, belly-up carnival goldfish. One day, I recount, she found a mangled feather boa on the sidewalk and mourned it too. My mother thought it was awfully white of her, inventing tragedy where none existed. Her dumb little gweilo daughter, pampered and hungry for problems.

“Funny how I’m the one who ended up vegetarian,” I say, but Audrey doesn’t laugh, just unlocks the front door and then closes it behind us, her expression inscrutable. I wonder if it’s because I’m leaving tomorrow, for the first time since the last time. If I had a sister like me, I wouldn’t miss her much. But Audrey is kinder than I am, more forgiving.

“Did you pack your concealer?” she asks. We’ve reached my room now, and she is searching through my makeup bag. “You should have one for blemishes and one for under-eye circles.” She is 14 but already beautiful, a double-edged quality in a girl so young. She colors herself in perfectly every morning. It was she who taught me to draw shadows on my face to distract from its increasing sphericity. My mother never comments on Audrey’s handiwork except when the powders smudge. You look dirty, she says. Like a cheap whore.

I nod. “Yep, the Almay and the Neutrogena.”

“And primer, too,” Audrey adds. “Don’t forget that.”

At the peak of my success, I was cruel to her. I was desperate, then, for reassurance. I sought safety in myself, in the protrusion of vertebrae, in the growth of fine pigmentless fur that spread over my skin—any palpable proof of purity. But I needed more, I needed a frame of reference, and there she was, silent and pliant as always.

“Close your eyes,” she says, and takes to curling my lashes, which resist beauty, which even now are sparse and fragile. A few casualties land atop my cheeks. She brushes them off and murmurs an apology.

It was so easy, even at that stage, to push her into the bathroom, force her onto the

scale, measure the inches of her pre-adolescent body. It was my favorite game: Are You Smaller Than a Sixth Grader?

And somehow, when I met my ineluctable fate a few months later, she had found it in herself to dust my resentful intubated face with blush. How clownish I’d looked, thick paint on sallow canvas. She hadn’t been so skilled back then, it was guesswork, reverse engineering. Now she is like a doctor with those brushes, those palettes, her expert hands exacting and incapable of failure. The girl she presents to me in a hand mirror betrays no trace of her nasogastric past.

“You’ll call me every day, right?”

“Every week,” I say.

She holds the mirror at arm’s length so that we both can fit inside it. “We look like we have different parents,” she says, and she presses her tanned, dimpled cheek to my pale one. “We look like different races.” I turn and blink against her face, tickling her forehead with my matted lashes. True to form, our laughs look nothing alike.

As a final touch, she takes a tweezer to my brows, pulling the skin taut to minimize pain.

Many years earlier, when still I was indifferent to my roundness, I had made a game of dropping my possessions from our bedroom window and listening for the sound of small objects hitting concrete—the light affirmative clatter that marked the turn from cause to effect.

I wish she’d hurt me just a little.

I wish she’d show some sign.

Staff writer Angela F. Hui’s column, “My Sister Will Be Hungry,” is a serialized work of fiction centered around a college student’s relationships with her mother and sister.

The story explores the effects of collective cultural trauma on the second generation of an American family.

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HCFA Speaker Sparks Protest HCFA FROM PAGE 1 students criticized HCFA for inviting Hill-Perry to campus, calling her homophobic and arguing she condones conversion therapy, a discredited practice meant to change a person’s sexual identity or orientation.

HCFA invited Hill-Perry to campus as part of its weekly Doxa meeting, a regular gathering during which group members worship, share testimonies, and listen to the week’s chosen speaker.

HCFA co-presidents Scott C. Ely ’18 and Molly L. Richmond ’18 said in an interview Thursday they invited Hill-Perry because of what they called her “compelling story.”

“It was not our intention to promote controversy at all,” Richmond said.

“We intended this conversation to primarily internal, and we were not intending it to reach that large of an audience.”

Nonetheless, both said they welcomed protesters to attend the event. “[We welcome] everyone that wants to attend and be a part of the event,” Ely said. “Doxa’s always been a space where we hope to commune, to challenge, to change; that’s our group’s mission for Doxa.”

In her speech Friday, Hill-Perry urged homosexual Christians to deny themselves same-sex relationships out of a sense of duty to God. She spoke to a large crowd packed into Emerson 105, a lecture hall that typically seats around 300 people.

“The model for how we are to deny ourselves, whether that applies to our greed, to our lust, self-denial is not optional for the Christian,” she said.

She added she believes those who pursue same-sex attractions are “broken.”

“There is not such a thing as being born gay, but there is such a thing as being born broken, broken by sin,” said Hill-Perry.

Roughly two dozen students and faculty members attended the event to silently protest Hill-Perry as she spoke.

The demonstrators lined up in the back of the lecture hall holding signs reading “One Queer Harvard” and “Gay— It’s in My DNA.” HCFA member Liam F. Keohane ’19, who said he helped organize the protest, said his goal in demonstrating against Hill Perry was to raise awareness “in the greater Harvard commu-

nity” about what he called her problematic views on homosexuality.

“People were really shocked about it because normally Doxa, they’ll bring in outside speakers, sometimes they’re controversial speakers, but not especially controversial speakers,” he said.

“Certainly not someone who’s on a speaking tour about repressing sexual desire for Jesus.”

Some professors who joined in the protest Friday night said they disagreed with Hill-Perry’s ideas about sexuality.

“The history of this speaker and the things that she keeps promoting are things that basically alienate and threaten the existence of queer students on campus,” said Ahmed Ragab, a professor at the Divinity School. “I

It was not our intention to promote controversy at all.

Molly L. Richmond HCFA Co-President

think it is a problem to have a speaker that promotes this kind of discourse.”

Other faculty members said they participated in the protest to support queer students at Harvard. Sophia Roosth, a professor in the history of science department, said she attended because she wants queer-identifying undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard to know they can have “a life that is both queer and religiously fulfilling.”

As news of Hill-Perry’s visit spread across campus earlier this week on social media, some students—including some HCFA members—started a petition calling on the religious group to rescind the invitation. The petition has garnered over 200 signatures to date.

“Ms. Hill-Perry, a self-proclaimed Christian activist, has made a career founded on homophobia and ignorance, under the guise of a journey to faith,” the petition reads. “We are deeply concerned that HCFA is giving Ms. Hill-Perry a very public platform to speak about her harmful and hateful beliefs.”

In an email sent to club members

Open Letter Criticizes Mayor Rahm Emanuel

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Graduate School of Design students penned a letter last week to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, criticizing his recent policies ahead of his visit to the school on Feb. 20. The event, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design, the Joint Center for Housing Studies, and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, will be moderated by Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Graduate School of Design. The Harvard Urban Planning Organization and the GSD African American Student Union endorsed the open letter, which more than 30 students and Design School affiliates signed. The letter takes issue with the event’s description, which claims Chicago was “a great place to live, work, and play.”

“This erases how destructive Emanuel’s policies have been to Black and Brown residents of Chicago and to the City of Chicago as a whole,” students wrote in the letter. “As future and current designers, urban planners, policy-makers, organizers, and educators, we cannot disregard the people who are in danger because of Rahm Emanuel’s administration.”

Mayu Takeda, the co-president of the Harvard Urban Planning Organization, said the event did not extend the conversation far enough.

“We felt like we needed to have that kind of critical conversation that went beyond giving him this praise of making it a more livable, workable place to be because that is the description of the event,” Takeda said. “We felt that was not in line with what a lot of the students thought and what even a lot of people thought.”

In their letter, the students men-

tion Emanuel’s 2013 decision to close 50 public schools in Chicago and four high schools in Englewood, a predominantly black neighborhood. The City of Chicago has since announced that only three Englewood high schools will close. Students also criticized Emanuel’s decision to construct a new police academy, calling the choice an “egregious use of public funds” for a police department “notorious for its systematic brutality against Black residents of Chicago.”

Students also asserted that Chicago was “less affordable” than in the years previous to Emanuel’s tenure.

Eric Williams, a signatory on the letter and a Loeb fellow at the GSD, grew up in Chicago and said the issues brought up in the letter are valid.

“There’s tons of cranes and investment in downtown Chicago, but we know the south and west sides of Chicago are not getting the same type of attention,” Williams said. “I think the things people are bringing up are very legitimate because we see these things playing out in the city right now.”

Marcus A. W. Mello, a co-president of the GSD African American Student Union, said design students were uniquely positioned to opine on these issues.

“I don’t think a lot of his policies have been favorable for the most-vulnerable constituents in Chicago,” Mello said. “I think that it’s important for us, especially as design students for a powerful and privileged institution like Harvard, to hold our politicians and our leaders to policies that promote equity and that really invest in the people that need it the most.”

The event’s sponsors did not immediately respond to request for comment.

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earlier this week, members of HCFA’s executive board wrote they were upset by the backlash against Hill-Perry’s visit.

But they also wrote that they believed hosting Hill-Perry would prompt important conversations about Christianity.

“The gospel is one which asks much of us. It asks that we recognize our own brokenness and invite God’s redeeming power into all areas of our life— from how we think about our money, to how we think about drinking, to how we talk about people, to how we seek restorative justice, to how we think about our sexuality,” they wrote. “So, we have decided to continue with our speaker tonight, even amidst the concern and controversy.”

HCFA rejects homophobia and conversion therapy “100 percent,” according to Ely. Hill-Perry’s visit comes at a time when students have debated the merits and drawbacks of inviting controversial speakers to campus.

In Feb. 2017, student protesters attended a talk given by ex-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. In August, the Open Campus Initiative—a group that aims to “test” the commitment of elite universities like Harvard to free speech—invited controversial scientist Charles Murray to speak on campus.

In an interview after the event, Hill-Perry said she does not endorse conversion therapy. She said that, unlike proponents of conversion therapy—who insist that all homosexual Christians must become straight—she thinks it is acceptable for people with same-sex attractions not to have homosexual relationships as long as they remain single.

“There are some Christians who will always be same-sex attracted but they are also empowered by the spirit of God to live holy lives in light of their same-sex attraction,” she said.

When asked if she believes it is better for a homosexual person to remain single than to enter into a homosexual relationship, she said, “Yeah.”

“Unto the glory of God, absolutely,” she added.

Staff writer Paula M. Barberi can be reached at paula.barberi@thecrimson.com.

Staff writer Caroline S. Engelmayer can be reached at caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.

Palestinian Solidarity Committee Protests

By SIMONE C. CHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Student activists from the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee joined other Boston-area Palestinian rights advocacy groups Saturday protesting the treatment of 17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi.

Saturday’s event came as Tamimi’s father has been calling for justice for the Palestinian teenager, who was arrested in December for slapping an Israeli soldier after her 14-year-old cousin was shot in the face.

Tamimi faces 12 charges in Israel’s military court.

Roughly two dozen people, including members of the College Palestine Solidarity Committee, gathered in downtown Boston to protest Tamimi’s arrest.

“Hopefully today will continue to raise awareness,” said Christian B. Tabash ’21, a Palestine Solidarity Committee co-vice president. “Living in the United States, it is extremely difficult to even comprehend what life is like as a Palestinian under Israeli occupation.”

Tabash said he hopes informing the student body—and public at large—will help “instill a sense of urgency for justice,” which in turn would affect global change.

“It’s hard to get people motivated,” said Heide L. Rogers ’21, who helped organize the Harvard group’s participation at the demonstration. “I was

telling other freshmen about it yesterday, what we’re doing today, and nobody knew anything. And it’s definitely something I think people should know about.”

Chanting slogans like “Israel, Israel, we say no—occupation has to go,” and “Free, free, Ahed Tamimi,” demonstrators distributed leaflets and spoke to passerby as part of their quest to raise awareness for Ahed Tamimi’s case.

Some protesters wore keffiyehs, traditional checkered square scarves that have become associated with Palestinian nationalism in the past century.

Tabash said even small gestures, like the solidarity committee’s efforts to publicize events on campus, “continue to raise a little awareness, even if people don’t show up.”

Members of other Boston-based Palestinian solidarity groups, such as the Northeastern University Students for Justice in Palestine and Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine, also participated in Saturday’s protest.

Other local advocacy groups, such as Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, were also in attendance.

“Through our work in the PSC and through these demonstrations and events that we’ll host in the spring, we hope that we’ll be some type of catalyst for change,” Tabash said.

Staff writer Simone C. Chu can be reached at simone.chu@thecrimson.com.

2018 Artist of the Year Will Be Solange SOLANGE FROM PAGE 1 “I just want to thank BET for my teenage years, giving me images of queens like Missy Elliot and Lil’ Kim and Aaliyah and Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill and Kelis and Reese and the list goes on and showing me those images and letting me know the sky’s the limit,” Knowles said.

Previous recipients of the Artist of the Year award include Viola Davis, John Legend, and Shakira.

Staff writer Ruth A. Hailu can be reached at ruth.hailu@thecrimson.com Staff writer Olivia C. Scott can be reached at olivia.scott@thecrimson.com.

Dina Powell Awarded HKS Fellowship

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Former Trump administration official Dina H. Powell will be a senior fellow at the Kennedy School for Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the school announced last week.

Powell will serve as a non-resident fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project, a program intended to study diplomacy and negotiation within international politics.

She will also spend time with the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School.

Powell previously served as deputy national security adviser for strategy under President Donald Trump until Jan. 2018.

She advised Trump on foreign policy issues, with a particular focus on Middle East policy.

Powell planned to stay in Washington for only one year, unlike other recent administration officials who have departed the White House amid scandal or controversy.

Kennedy School professor David R.

Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership, said she is one of the first officials to have benefited from working in the Trump administration.

“Not many people have been coming out of the Trump White House with their reputations enhanced, but Dina Powell is one of the expectations,” Gergen said in an interview last week.

As founder and faculty director of the Future of Diplomacy Project, Kennedy School Professor R. Nicholas Burns first invited Powell to the Belfer Center. He said his decision to bring Powell to the Kennedy School was motivated by her experience in public service and her unique background.

“We wanted to bring her to Harvard because she’s a distinguished person in her own right,” Burns said.

Burns said Powell will come to the center once or twice a semester to lead study groups, speak in classes, meet individually with students, and attend public events.

Burns said Powell will provide “an in-depth understanding” of what motivated the Trump Administration in its first year.

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columnist, and Jake Sullivan, a policy adviser in the Obama administration, are current senior fellows at the Belfer Center.

Powell’s appointment comes amidst a debate occuring at the Kennedy School over the inclusion of more conservative voices as fellows and speakers. Students have criticized invitations to prominent conservatives, most notably the Sept. 2017 visit of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and visiting fellowships offered to former Trump Administration officials Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski.

Burns said it is important for universities like Harvard to provide students with the opportunity to hear different perspectives on policy issues.

“It’s important for any university, but certainly a university like Harvard, that we provide for our speakers, in our fellows, and in our students a full diversity of viewpoints on policy issues that our country has to grapple with,” Burns said. “We wouldn’t be, I think, meeting the promise of our university if we only invited one type of person from one political party or from the left or from the right.”

UC Hears From Pres. Search Adviser UC FROM PAGE 1 graduate and professional schools. Srivastava declined to share the committee’s recommendations with the UC, saying she wanted to give Bacow an opportunity to see the advisory body’s recommendations first.

“We want him to hear our feedback first, and then we’ll go from there,” Srivastava said.

Srivastava added that her committee met with presidential search committee members on “multiple occasions” and she said she thought they were receptive to the advisory committee’s suggestions.

According to Srivastava, the advisory committee gathered student input through a variety of mediums, including multiple focus groups, a survey sent to all undergraduate and graduate students, and office hours.

Srivastava said the survey reached about 4,000 students, representing a response rate of roughly 15 percent of students at the University.

UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 said at the meeting that he and UC President Catherine L. Zhang ’19 met with Bacow last week, but declined to elaborate on the substance of their conversation.

“We’re very excited to be working

with him,” Boucher said.

As the Council’s Finance Committee continues to grapple with a budget shortfall, some UC representatives urged the committee to look closely at its funding policies.

For two consecutive weeks, the committee has been forced to make unusually large across-the-board cuts to

We’re very excited to be working with him.

Nicholas D. Boucher ‘19 UC Vice President

grant funding after grant requests far exceeded the amount the committee had previously allocated.

The committee has already implemented two minor changes to help ameliorate its recent budget woes, including reducing the amount of funding large groups receive for transportation.

The committee is also considering instituting a progressive cut to its grants, a policy that would fall disproportionately on student groups that

request large sums of money from the UC. Finance Committee member Swathi R. Srinivasan ’21 told Council members that the committee is looking “very, very, heavily” at its policy guide to try to save money wherever possible.

Winthrop House representative Evan M. Bonsall ’19 warned the Council of the consequences of failing to adequately fulfill grant requests, suggesting that the UC’s reputation may be in danger.

“I think we need to do some very hard thinking, like as an entire Council, and not just FiCom,” Bonsall said.

“Ultimately, the UC is virtually meaningless, I would argue, if we are not financially sound.”

The UC also passed legislation at the meeting to fund a town hall on education-related issues, which will be conducted in collaboration with student groups, including the Harvard College First Generation Student Union.

Education Committee chair Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 said she hopes the town hall will help the committee better serve the needs of undergraduate students.

Staff writer Jonah S. Berger can be reached at jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

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HBS Professor and Administrator Dies at 86

By Sofia W. Tong Crimson Staff Writer

When Laura U. Moon ’88 crossed the Charles River as an undergraduate to sit in on one of her father’s classes at the Business School, she quickly realized she was far from one of her anonymous lectures in Sanders Theatre. She watched with surprise as he paced the classroom, occasionally hopped up on the front desk to swing his legs, and systematically ripped his students’ arguments to shreds.

“He did it in such a playful way,” Moon said. “He used the process of teaching to help his students live and breathe the learning.”

A longtime professor of business administration, Hugo E. R. Uyterhoeven died on Jan. 29 at 86 due to complications from a bike ride injury. He was remembered by family and colleagues for his attention to detail, people-oriented attitude, and quick-wittedness that led to a prolific teaching and administrative career spanning more than 50 years.

Malcolm S. Salter ’62, a Business School professor emeritus who taught the second-year required course “Business Policy” under Uyterhoeven, said Uyterhoeven’s vivacious teaching style pushed his students hard but was never mean-spirited.

Salter recalled a class where Uyterhoeven asked the students to calculate a company’s profit. After they agreed the company was cash-rich, he helped them peel back the layers until the class was divided on whether the com-

pany was next to broke, overflowing with money, or somewhere in between.

“Well, wait a minute now,” Salter remembered Uyterhoeven saying.

“You’re the best and brightest. We’ve just spent an hour, and we can’t figure out whether this company has enough cash to do what it wants to do? How’d you get into the Harvard Business School anyway?”

Philippe C. Haspeslagh, a former student and professor at a Belgian business school, said Uyterhoeven was “the ultimate case teacher.”

“His questions, sharp mind and wit had us all in awe, yet we all loved being pushed by him, sensing his genuine warm interest in developing us as persons.” Haspeslagh wrote in an email.

Uyterhoeven’s guiding principle was to use simple frameworks to analyze complex questions from many different angles. Salter recalled a time when Uyterhoeven took a single case study problem and stretched it over not just one 80-minute class period, but three.

“He had a lot of common sense,” Salter said. “Uncommon common sense, I would say.”

Academically, Uyterhoeven was interested in middle management, something understudied at the time, Moon said.

Other topics of interest included domestic and international economy and business and government interactions.

The center of his academic life was pedagogy, and many of his writings were teaching materials for course development rather than academic arti-

cles for publication.

Yet Uyterhoeven’s path to discover his passion for teaching was far from straightforward. Born on August 6, 1931 in Eindhoven, Netherlands, he grew up facing food shortages, bombings, and separation from his father during World War II under Nazi occupation.

According to family members, young Uyterhoeven had to navigate crossing the Nazi-protected border to

He had a lot of common sense...

Uncommon common sense, I would say.

Malcolm S. Salter

Business School Professor Emeritus Belgium by himself to visit his father.

When he was 17 years old, Uyterhoeven moved to Switzerland, where he finished high school and earned a law degree. He then received a scholarship to come to the U.S. and enrolled at the Business School, becoming a Baker Scholar with High Distinction in 1957.

After graduating, Uyterhoeven decided to work as a research associate for a visiting Harvard professor at a prominent Swiss business school.

Several times during that year, the Business School professor he was working with had scheduling conflicts with his class and asked Uyterhoeven to teach in his stead. That was when Uyterhoeven fell in love with the theatricality of teaching.

In addition to his teaching, Uyterhoeven brought the same energy and conscientiousness to a variety of administrative roles as well.

Over the course of his career, he worked in several positions at the Business School and set the model for reunions, developed corporate and public relations, and oversaw extensive campus renovations.

“You and I could walk together around the Business School and I could point out many things and say ‘that is Hugo,’” said Angela Q. Crispi, Business School executive dean for administration.

Crispi described a meeting where Uyterhoeven brought three separate flip charts and ran between each of them with colored pens to capture the ideas of his colleagues. When renovating faculty offices, he built mock-ups of three potential layouts and had professors test them for a year.

“He had this ability to go from a vision to how to implement at a micro level,” Crispi said.

Uyterhoeven even extended his administrative talents beyond the Business School—to Weston, Mass., where he lived for more than 40 years, and to John’s Island in Vero Beach, Fla., where he retired with his wife, Julie Zhu.

Moon recalled how as president of the Weston Forest and Trail Association, her father ultimately doubled the acreage of conservation land and trails.

He even used a connection with a former student to acquire free trail markers made of scrap aluminum.

Upon retirement, he served as president of his condominium association for seven years, restructuring their finances, improving their hurricane insurance, and enacting physical renovations to the building.

He also co-chaired a business and economic history lecture series at the John’s Island Club called the Gold Seminar.

“Hugo wanted more in retirement than golf and tennis,” George D. Higgs, the other co-chair of the Gold Seminar, wrote in an email. “You knew you were in the presence of greatness.”

Uyterhoeven loved jazz and had a comprehensive CD collection ranging from household names like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald to more niche singers like Blossom Dearie and Eartha Kitt.

Moon said his biggest advice was to never take yourself too seriously–and to never bounce a check.

“For me and for so many of us he has always been our rock,” Moon said.

“Somehow I feel a strength and a readiness to know that all of the things I’ve learned from him are a part of me now.”

Uyterhoeven is survived by his wife, Julie Zhu, and five daughters.

Staff writer Sofia W. Tong can be reached at sofia.tong@thecrimson.com.

Harvard Law Affiliates Show Support For President-Elect Law School From Page 1 in an email.

“He’s a wonderful choice as Harvard’s next President and I look forward to getting to know him. Just listening to one of his long-form interviews is a source of inspiration and comfort. His background and vision seem ideal for this difficult time of turmoil and transition.”

Jyoti Jasrasaria ’12, a third-year law student who chaired the student committee that advised the presidential search, said the committee reached out to students across the University, including law students, to solicit input about the search.

“Personally, I think, based on the outreach that I did to students along with the rest of the committee over the course of the past few months, that

what we have seen and heard from Larry Bacow so far it seems like he is going to be a really good president,” Jasrasaria said.

“Honestly, I haven’t heard much backlash—I think it might be because people know that I was on the committee and maybe aren’t telling me stuff.”

Historically, the Law School has shown a tendency to strike out on its own and occasionally depart from Uni-

versity-wide policy. Jacob R. Steiner, a third-year Law student who served as a Law School representative on the student advisory committee, said he thinks Bacow’s experience at HLS will translate into a deeper understanding of the school’s specific needs and a stronger relationship between the Law School and the University.

“I think we sort of see ourselves as a little bit more removed from the Uni-

versity than the other schools do and so I think it will be helpful to have a Law School graduate as the president— someone who understands the Law School, who understands its culture, and its history, and its independence but also is willing to push it more to integrate with the rest of the university and to encourage students to feel more like citizens of the University than they maybe do already,” Steiner said.

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Strong First Half Defense Pushes Harvard Past Yale

Battle on the court Freshman guard Rio Haskett attempts to cross past a player in an unrelenting 64-49 win for Harvard on Saturday. timothy r. o’meara —Crimson photographer men’s basketball By troy boccelli Crimson Staff Writer

With 4:34 left to play in the first half and 19 seconds on the shot clock, sophomore forward Chris Lewis caught a pass just short of the free throw line.

Having scored 14 points through the first 11 minutes of the contest, the Yale defense collapsed onto the 6’9’’ forward, but not before he found a cutting Danilo Djuricic to his right. Lewis made the pass and his freshman teammate laid in the ball in over a Yale defender to give Harvard its largest ad-

vantage of the night at 31-10.

The layup from the freshman not only capped a 17-0 run from the Crimson, but also extended a scoring drought the Bulldogs to nearly nine minutes.

A minute later Yale would finally score on a layup from junior guard Alex Copeland, but the Bulldogs (12-14, 5-5 Ivy League) would trail the rest of the way as Harvard (14-11, 9-1) would come away with the 64-49 win on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion. The win also clinched Harvard a spot in the conference tournament in March.

“I thought our first half defensive effort was outstanding,” head coach

Tommy Amaker said. “I thought we guarded really well and had a mindset of really wanting to defend. That is a part of our identity.”

The 49 points from Yale marked a season-low while its 32 percent clip from the field marked the Bulldogs’ second-worst shooting performance of the season—second only to its 30 percent mark when the Crimson visited New Haven three weekends ago.

For Harvard, the offensive outpouring began early and came largely from Lewis. The forward scored the Crimson’s first eight points on a perfect four-of-four shooting to get Harvard off to an 8-2 lead just under three min-

utes into the game.

“It was just the feeds that the guards gave me,” Lewis said. “After I made the first one, I started feeling good and my teammates trusted me and they kept tossing it to me. They gave me great passes, great angles and it made it easy to score.”

In 34 minutes of action the sophomore finished with a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds. The effort marked Lewis’ fourth career double-double.

To add to the offensive effort, the Crimson had what might be been its best offensive showing of the season through the first half. For a period of

over 10 minutes from the 13:30 mark to Copeland’s layup at 3:20, Yale failed to put up a point. The Bulldogs made just five shots through the half, shooting just 23 percent for the frame.

“Defensively, we were getting stops, no second chance points for them and we were really just controlling the pace of the game and playing our kind of basketball,” junior guard Corey Johnson said. “It really showed in the first half, we were firing on all cylinders.”

Tasked with defending one of the conference’s best offensive players in sophomore guard Miye Oni, sophomore guard Justin Bassey rose to the task. Oni would finish the night with just seven points on 2-of-10 shooting from the field.

The offensive outpouring and gritty defense from Harvard early on would gave way to a much closer second half.

Behind some early baskets from Copeland and junior forward Blake Reynolds, Yale slowly cut down what was a lead as large as 21 in the first half. With 10:13 to play, freshman forward Paul Atkinson went to the line after being fouled by sophomore forward Seth Towns. The freshman made both to put the score at 47-38.

Nine would be as close as the Bulldogs would get, however, as a long three from sophomore guard Christian Juzang would extend the Crimson’s lead to 15 just over two minutes later.

Coming off of a career-high 21 points against Brown the night before, the Juzang followed up with another standout performance. The second-year added 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the field to go with a career-high eight assists.

“I think [Juzang] has been playing tremendous basketball,” Amaker said.

“Really proud of how he’s been able to come in and take the reigns of the team as our quarterback, still have an aggressive mindset and also being really savvy and smart about when to pick his spots.”

The night also saw the return of captain Makai Mason for the Bulldogs.

The senior guard had not seen action in nearly two years following Yale’s first NCAA tournament berth since 1962 back in 2016.

The Crimson would spoil the senior’s return to the hardwood. Mason finished the night with eight points on 2-of-6 shooting from the field in 21 minutes. With the clock expiring and the game decided, the former Ivy League Player of the Year went to the line and missed a late free throw behind chants of “safety school” in the background.

“Our kids were doing exactly what we wanted,” Amaker said. “When it bears fruit like that, it is a huge shot in the arm for our guys.”

Staff writer Troy Boccelli can be reached at troy.boccelli@thecrimson.com.

Crimson Finishes Dominant Season with Championship squash From Page 1 has been characterized by the sheer dominance of the team.

“The win this year was more about backing up what we had already achieved,” sophomore Gina Kennedy said.

For the first time in 15 years, against the team last to complete the feat, Harvard swept all nine fixtures of the national championship. In the process, the Mike Way-coached team dropped just four individual matches the entire season and saw eight players finish with perfect individual match records.

Despite all pressure that the team and its individuals faced as defending champions throughout the season, the performance against the Bantams may have been the Crimson’s best response yet. In previous matches against top teams in Trinity, Princeton, and Penn, one player faltered. This time, Harvard won 9-0. No individual match-up went beyond four games.

“The team really put on a strong performance with all these expectations on top of us having won it the past few times and having a 50-match winning streak coming into the tournament,” said No. 6 co-captain Sue Ann Yong.

Junior Kayley Leonard completed a sweep of the all-important first wave with another one of her signature grinding victories in the third slot by winning a fourth-game tiebreaker against Julia Le Coq. Leonard also headlined the first wave in last year’s national championship.

“What’s so cool about college squash is that it is not an individual sport anymore,” Yong said. “You aren’t representing yourself, but you’re representing a team.”

The glory would stay with the bottom half of the ladder. While No. 2 junior Sabrina Sobhy was coming close to ending her match at the glass court, No. 5 Henley fought off a first-game loss to bring her match to championship point at 10-3 in the fourth game against the Bantams’ Vanessa Raj. With the home crowd cheering, the two players took

Poised to win Kayley Leonard prepares herself to return a shot in a dominant sweep of the third slot for the National Championship . Timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

on a 30-shot rally that Raj eventually won. The crowd gave a round of applause in appreciation. The applause the point after was in celebration.

Taking the regular season’s results into consideration, many assumed that the national championship would likely be retained by the Crimson. There

was, instead, a shift in awareness to the setting of the title defense.

“It was nice for the seniors being able to have the final match on the home court,“ Kennedy said. “So, we were really excited about having a good atmosphere for our last game and pretty much the whole team’s families

came over.... There was very high morale going into the tournament.”

Trinity had given a valiant effort, but the NESCAC team was simply outclassed by Harvard. Newly promoted No. 1 Kennedy was able to fight off Raneem Sharaf in three games (including a close 14-12 second game) to complete

the uniform victory.

Thus began the day’s second big celebration: the end of the season, the start of reflection, and the continuation of a dynasty.

Staff writer William Quan can be reached at william.quan@thecrimson.com.

EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

End the Endowment Tax The tax on Harvard’s endowment could harm vital University programming

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ean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith recently said he would not commit to new long-term projects in light of a recently enacted tax on wealthy university endowments which would have required Harvard to pay an estimated $43 million to the federal government in fiscal year 2017. We reaffirm our view that this tax is an attack on higher education that is unprecedented in American history. Now, Smith’s announcement provides the first indication that the bill may have devastating ramifications for University programming.

In recent memory, tax exemptions for higher education have been uncontroversial and popular. It is only quite recently that bills such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 have required leaders of higher education to justify why their universities’ high endowments should go untaxed. It was previously understood that the programs that Harvard’s endowment funds are vital not only to the University but also to the country and the world.

A $43 million budget could prevent Harvard from providing necessary initiatives to help its students. Financial aid, for example, is largely funded by Harvard’s endowment and therefore

could be impacted by the tax increase.

The redistribution of wealth facilitated by the tax bill takes financial resources meant for hardworking students and gives them to billionaires, something that is fundamentally unfair. As a result, the University should do everything in its power to preserve financial aid as well as diversity and inclusion programs to counter this affront to students on financial aid.

The endowment tax is a calculated disregard for the important role of research in American society at a time when even facts are under constant attack by our leaders.

Aside from the injustices students will face as a result of the tax, the policy also does a disservice to the broader national and global community. Spending reductions caused by the endowment tax could likely prevent the University from funding groundbreaking and necessary research, stifling vital medical

breakthroughs and technological developments.

Furthermore, this attack on higher education is unprecedentedly partisan.

Republican attacks against institutions like Harvard score easy political points with its conservative base. Taxing the Harvard endowment to fund tax cuts may be politically savvy, but it is certainly socially undesirable. The policy fundamentally prioritizes wealthy individual taxpayers above the larger public good.

The endowment tax is a calculated disregard for the important role of research in American society at a time when even facts are under constant attack by our leaders. As the University and its students continues to use its clout and influence to advocate for the reversal of this tax, we urge Congress to reconsider its merits. The work that our universities do is too important to be taxed to oblivion.

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impartiality of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on similar topics.

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Harvard’s New President is the Liberal’s Old Dilemma

When we talk about representation, do we mean in process or outcome?

Henry N. BROOKS SOCIALLY LIBERAL, FISCALLY LIBERAL

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he decision to name Lawrence S. Bacow Harvard’s 29th president will crystallize much of the same disagreement that defines the modern Democratic Party. His supporters will point to his track record as an environmental studies professor, a skilled fundraiser, and founder of Tufts University’s Office of Institutional Diversity. Critics will note his ties to large corporations and impute a pragmatism unsuited for radical reform. Time will tell how these debates unfold.

In the immediate, however, the community and public have become embroiled in another development: that Bacow’s selection marks “a return to white male leadership.”

One need not venture further than Twitter to witness the array of frustrated responses, including one user’s pithy congratulation to Harvard “on yet again choosing…a straight white male economist named Larry” (a reference to previous Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers). Other more banal assessments have included lamentations that Harvard would “crown yet another white man” and cynicisms about this “radical break with tradition.” These, along with at least one post in the popular Facebook group “Harvard Memes for Elitist 1% Tweens,” are telling of where our collective priorities lie.

In its coverage this past week, The Crimson has already detailed the range of relevant attitudes among campus ethnic organizations, which at various moments have called for Latino representation among the presidential candidates, requests for a strong affirmative action advocate, and demands for a champion of ethnic studies. In contrast, someone has yet to probe the connection between these resurgent identity discussions and our liberal sensibilities: specifically, how we re-

solve the old dilemma of “process” versus “outcome” in the context of representation.

Addressing this disjunction requires acknowledging competing conceptions of the problem. Process liberals view underrepresentation as the result of two potential failures: either that the selection committee inaccurately reflected the diversity of the public, or that the options under consideration were too narrow. Reform, as the process liberal sees it, must occur at one of these sites, on the theory that you can diversify the applicant pool but cannot assign an identity requirement to the position under offer.

Outcome liberals view underrepresentation as a problem requiring direct intervention. That traditional liberal norms cannot always accommodate diversity at the final stage is, according to these liberals, a shortcoming in itself.

While amending procedures and attitudes might shore up long-run gains, they suggest, these reforms are impotent in the immediate.

Since America’s inception, leaders and administrators have litigated this dispute in the public sphere, at times improving processes and at others intervening in outcomes. Reconstruction, for instance, reflected a preoccupation with immediate, supervised results. By contrast, the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, emphasized process reform, putting in place the armature for labor laws and social insurance. Both were avenues for sweeping overhaul, occasionally operating in tandem. Process reforms, like Roosevelt’s, often endure longer.

With Bacow’s selection, outcome-oriented liberals seem to have dominated the response. As a result, few have bothered to ask the important process question: Were the applicant pool and selection body accurate reflections of the polity? Admittedly, this question leaves ample room for ambiguity, but nothing on an unprecedented scale. Three hundred years after Rousseau explained that democracies ought to identify a “general will” upon which to base decisions, we still struggle to locate it in practice; his point was no less crucial for it.

Calling attention to the rift between outcome and process-oriented

perspectives is a timely project, particularly in the wake of similar liberal indecision following the 2016 election. Then, there was much excitement about a woman snagging the nomination of a major political party, which many cast as a sign of social progress.

When Donald Trump won, Democrats had to parse through the wreckage in search of lessons. One crucial (yet unvoiced) question from that soul-searching was what to make of Clinton’s womanhood. Did her presence—which marked a widening of the horizon of representation—still reflect some sort of progress? Process liberals would say so; outcome liberals might disagree.

This taking stock of difference is a strong first step toward regrouping. In particular, it will help disabuse us of our yearnings for another 2008, when process and outcome aligned in a moment of moral triumph with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Those sorts of victories have proven rare and—more insidiously—deceptive to our democratic sense. They allow us to ignore the river running through our ideological camp. Liberals must set about bridging the rift between outcome and process, recognizing the advantage of the latter approach in times of urgency and the former when preparing for the long haul.

Rounding out the discussion about Bacow’s selection requires that we note that the presidential choice doesn’t reflect, as some would have it, a compromise. Bacow is not, as I’ve heard one classmate claim, a “carbon copy” of our past. He is the child of Jewish immigrants who came to this country fleeing brutal systemic violence (his mother was an Auschwitz survivor). Surely, these experiences have had some bearing on his moral faculties.

All the same, I say we stay positive.

That Bacow is our incoming president may well prove to be a win-win scenario. Either he takes up the mantle of progress that some had hoped a woman of color would, or he forces us to finally acknowledge—and adjudicate— our liberal indecisions.

Henry N. Brooks ’19 is a Social Studies concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

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When We Let Hate On Campus

By MATTHEW J. KEATING

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Last Friday, Harvard College Faith and Action brought hip-hop artist and self-proclaimed ex-gay Christian activist Jackie Hill-Perry to campus for an hour-long sermon, in which she talked about the evils of homosexuality. During the event, Hill-Perry argued that queer people must make a choice between living a selfish life of sin or suppressing our desires and following the word of God. The event was billed by HCFA as “a respectful dialogue about sexual ethics for Christians in the spirit of love and kindness.” In reality, the event was the furthest thing possible from “respectful.”

By hosting the event—in spite of numerous calls and petitions for it to be cancelled—HCFA was complicit in promoting dangerous homophobic rhetoric that threatened the emotional and physical safety of LGBT people here on campus. No matter how many seats were reserved for protestors, no matter how much the student leaders attempted to qualify their message as loving and inclusive, HCFA still gave this woman a platform to preach a dangerous homophobic sermon for over an hour.

Last Friday, I listened to a By hosting the event—in woman with no formal divinspite of numerous calls ity education and petitions for it to be declare that a person’s sexucancelled—HCFA was al orientation is complicit in promoting merely a clusof immordangerous homophobic tering al “attractions,” rhetoric that threatened urges, and desires that are the emotional and shameful and physical safety of LGBT must be supFor an people here on campus. pressed. hour, I watched a woman preach in the same room as my Government 1510: “American Constitutional Law” lecture that living a life of homosexuality is an obnoxious act of defiance towards God—one that will make me dead and put me in hell. But even more horrifying than this woman’s rhetoric was seeing a room full of my fellow classmates nod their heads and snap their fingers in agreement to numerous parts of her sermon. I watched as kids I know from section, midterm review groups, or the dining hall scream “Amen!” as Hill-Perry described gay people as “broken.”

Queer people at Harvard have To those in that room always known snapping your fingers that this school is not perfect in agreement with when it comes to Hill-Perry’s sermon: fully welcoming LGBT students Will you look me in the on campus. In eyes and tell me that 1920, Dean of the College Chester I am perverted and N. Greenough “broken”? ’98 formed a “secret court” to investigate, try, and expel College students accused of being homosexual. To this day, we have a freshman dormitory named in his honor.

I’ve sat in section while a straight man explained to me that if I spoke with a lower-pitched voice it would help with my upcoming in-class presentation grade as more people would take me seriously. I’ve walked along Mt. Auburn Street on countless late nights and watched as boys in tuxedos laughingly call each other faggots. And last Friday, after leaving the event, I comforted a freshman crying on the steps of Emerson Hall who was distraught at having to choose between their religion and coming out publicly.

This is not the Harvard I signed up for. To HCFA: What was the point of bringing a speaker that emotionally traumatized your fellow classmates? Do you consider students crying in the Yard a successful outcome of your “respectful dialogue”?

To those in that room snapping your fingers in agreement with Hill-Perry’s sermon: Will you look me in the eyes and tell me that I am perverted and “broken”? That my identity—one that is so crucial to who I am—is merely just a grouping of immoral desires that I need to “deny” for the rest of my life?

To non-LGBT Harvard students: What are you doing to call out dangerous trans- and homophobic rhetoric when you see or hear it on campus? We are your friends, your classmates, and your peers. This is so much more than pushing back on a problematic comment in section—we need you to show up.

One recent morning, I woke up to an email from the Admissions Office asking me to call accepted LGBT students in the Class of 2022 and encourage them to enroll. I want to be able to do that to make that sell, to say this school is a safe and welcoming space for queer people. But there is so much more work to be done before I would pick up that phone.

Matthew J. Keating ’20 is a Government concentrator in Leverett House.

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Crimson Tops Ivy League, Lifts Frank Keefe Trophy

head over water Harvard claimed its third Ivy Crown in five years, on Saturday afternoon. timothy m. o’meara—Crimson photographer women’s swimming and diving

By Leon k. Yang Crimson Staff Writer

The Frank Keefe Trophy, after taking a slight detour in New Haven last year, is coming back to Cambridge.

After a week of tapering, the Ivy League Championship pitted the Ancient Eight against one another in a competitive contest at Blodgett Pool over four days stretching from Feb. 14 to the 17th.

At the end of it all, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team ­

took its third Ivy Crown in five years, accumulating 1616 points and beating the rest of the field by 125.5 points.

Though tied with Yale after day one, the Crimson stretched its lead and ultimately finished with the first triple figure margin of victory for the Ivy League meet since 2013. The victory comes a year after the Bulldogs captured the meet, outpacing the rest of the field by 90 points.

“Last year, if you were to ask if we had a successful meet, I would have said definitely yes,” senior Alisha Mah said. “This year, it happened to come in our favor, and it was definitely sweet

that it was at home, but I don’t think we did anything different except for swimming our hearts out and diving our hearts out.”

From the onset of the season, the team had its gaze on this pivotal meet.

“Our team in general has one goal, and that is to win the Ivy Championships,” captain Kristina Li said. “Everything that we do throughout the season, every single dual meet, every single practice, we have that goal in mind, and the takeaway is to never lose sight of your ultimate goal and see these individual events, these meets and practices, as stepping stones to the

bigger goal.”

The Crimson came roaring out of the gate on the first day of championships, breaking the meet record in the 800-yard freestyle relay. Sophomore Miki Dahlke, freshman Kennidy Quist, captain Geordie Enoch, and junior Meagan Popp touched the finish in 7:05.06, more than six seconds faster than their seed time, eclipsing the meet record in the process. Harvard also captured first place in the 200yard freestyle relay in 1:30.50 with the cohort of sophomore Mei Lynn Colby, freshman Ingrid Wall, sophomore Jerrica Li, and Dahlke anchoring Dahlke would shine throughout the rest of the days of competition in individual events. The Mill Valley, Calif., native edged out Maddy Zimmerman from Yale in the 100-yard butterfly in 52.48.

After finishing the race, she went on to set another pool record just a few minutes later in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:45.38. Quist was right behind with a time of 1:45.75, out touching Penn senior Virgina Burns by one one-hundreth of a second.

In the next day of competition, Dahlke tied a meet record in the 100yard butterfly, finishing in 48.64. Dahlke also was part of the 400-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle, which both finished second. At the end of the meet, Dahlke was named the High Point Swimmer of the Meet.

“Her performance was electrifying,” Kristina said. “She was on fire this weekend. What’s great is that swimming is in some ways individual and in some ways team. In college swimming, you have one swimmer who is lights out and beating people out, and that gets everyone else fired up. Miki played a huge role in winning her events and scoring points but also inspiring us all to fight as much as she did.”

Enoch also posted strong performances, including a 1:59.67 in the 200yard individual medley, propelling into first place. She also finished second in the 400-yard individual medley behind Princeton freshman Regan Barney and fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke.

The depth of the Harvard’s lineup was epitomized in the diving. In the one meter and three meter diving events, the Crimson slotted four divers in the top eight. In the one meter, junior Mikaela Thompson finished second with 288.85 points, and in three meter diving, Mah finished in third with 306.65 points.

“I think what we do in competition is really indicative of how we train in the sense that it was just another practice in our minds because there were so many of us in our home pool,” Mah said. “For the most part, it was very much another day at practice. These are our boards, this is what we do every single day, and just putting all those pieces together.”

Mah credits the supportive culture of the team to its success throughout the dual meet season and at the Ivy League meet.

“And I think that was why it worked out so well because we were celebrating every little victory, whether it be a touchout or doing something that we said we would do,” Mah said. “And I definitely am so proud of our team for doing that and giving it their all. I’m just so happy that all the pieces fell together.”

At the conclusion of the 21 events of the meet, Harvard held the Frank Keefe Trophy aloft as Ivy League Champions. Kristina, who finished off her 13 year swimming career with a fourth place finish in the 200-yard backstroke, acknowledges the deluge of emotion that the meet invoked.

“These careers have been so long, so obviously from just that itself, it’s very emotional to finish your last race or your last dive,” Kristina said. “Our freshman year, we had Ivies home as well, so everyone felt like it came full circle and back to where it all began.

And obviously, to be able to finish off all of our seniors’ careers with a win in our home pool was such a special feeling, and so all of that culminated in so much emotion that last night. I know that I cried many, many times.”

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

Harvard Earns ECAC Tournament Bye on Senior Night men’s hockey By spencer r. morris Crimson Staff Writer

On Saturday, the Harvard men’s hockey team honored its seven seniors for their contributions to the program over the last four years. But in the Crimson’s 5-2 victory over No. 7/3 Clarkson, it was the underclassmen who carried the way.

A pair of sophomores potted Harvard’s first two pucks before three freshmen guided the group to triumph, burying the game-winner and subsequent two cushion goals.

“Those guys have been able to step up,” said associate head coach Paul Pearl, lauding the underclassmen. “We have some talented kids, and they’re getting opportunities…. You always say, ‘They’re not freshmen or sophomores, they’re a year above,’ when you get [this late in the season].”

After skating past a ranked Boston College team in Monday’s Beanpot consolation game, the Crimson (13-104, 11-6-3 ECAC) can add another top20 team to its list of marquee wins this season.

Both Harvard and the Golden Knights (19-8-5, 11-5-4) were excited to lace them up again after January’s thrilling back-and-forth matchup, which ended in a 6-6 draw. Saturday night’s bout saw some similar stretches of call-and-response hockey.

Entering the second period, the Crimson was outpacing the opposition by a pair of scores. Clarkson wasted little time clawing back into the game, converting on a power play chance just 49 seconds into the middle third.

In the midst of a scrum in front of tri-captain Merrick Madsen’s pipes, sophomore forward Nico Sturm found a loose puck and forced it through traffic, narrowing the margin between the two teams to just a goal.

“The key, for the coaching staff and for the players, is not to have an ‘Oh, no,’” said coach Pearl about conceding the early-period goal. “That wasn’t the first time someone scored a goal and we had to answer…. We responded really well to that.”

Harvard, preferring to play with a two-score cushion, soon restored the more comfortable lead. Rookie defenseman Reilly Walsh’s bar-down wrister sent a ping reverberating through the Bright-Landry Hockey Center. The goal would prove to be the game-winner.

Walsh’s power play strike marked the third straight game in which the Crimson has potted not just one, but multiple man-up goals. This recent special teams success is somewhat a relief, as Harvard failed to score on 17 straight attempts with the man advan­

tage leading up to it.

“The first power play was really good,” coach Pearl said. “Our second one was bad, and our third one was about to be bad, but we threw one at the net…. Sometimes you have great power plays, and they’re not working.”

Following the Walsh snipe, the Golden Knights remained in a twogoal hole for almost an entire period until Sturm found the back of the net for a second time, once again from inclose on Madsen. The German centerman got rewarded for his persistent play in the “dirty” areas on Saturday night, registering his 11th and 12th goals of the season.

But Sturm’s firepower was all Clarkson could muster, as Madsen (26 SV, .929 SV%) otherwise handled the top-10 team in his return to the blue paint after watching some games from the bench.

“It was Clarkson, that was something that I felt I had the opportunity for a little bit of redemption,” admitted Madsen, who allowed a goal from beyond the blue line before getting the hook in January’s meeting. “I had a chip on my shoulder a bit, but I have played enough games that it didn’t feel weird.”

Meanwhile, the Crimson began to pull away thanks to another power play tally—this time from freshman Jack Badini—and an empty-netter from the stick of Badini’s classmate, forward Benjamin Solin.

Solin’s capstone from half-ice put a bow on one of Harvard’s more complete games of the 2017-2018 campaign.

Couple that with the fact that besting the “North Country” teams—Clarkson and St. Lawrence—is never a cakewalk, and you have a content Crimson squad.

“A lot of the seniors had great games too, contributing in different ways,” tri-captain Jake Horton said. “It’s never easy to sweep the North Country, so [I’m] really happy with everybody.”

In the two teams’ previous meeting this season, it took Clarkson all of one minute to light the lamp. This time around, however, Harvard was the first squad to score.

Just under five minutes into the contest, the puck worked its way up to the point and across the ice to junior Jacob Olson. The defenseman fired a puck wide of the cage, where it was corralled by freshman forward Henry Bowlby at the goal line. Bowlby shoved it toward the net and linemate Ty Pelton-Byce was there to punch it home through both skates and pads.

Thanks to the opening tally, PeltonByce has nabbed at least a point (2–3— 5) in all four games since replacing junior Ryan Donato—currently representing team USA in the Pyeongchang Olympics—as the team’s top-line center.

TBP AT 1C Pelton-Byce has filled the first-line center vacancy left by Donato, who is currently playing for Team USA in the Olympic Games. Pelton-Byce has fit in nicely, inking the score sheet in all four games he has played. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

“Ty is one of those [Swiss Army] knife guys,” coach Pearl said. “Now, he’s thrust into a bigger spot, so you either back off from that or do a good job with it…. He’s such a nifty kid. Everything about his game since the day he got here has improved.”

The Madison, Wis., native’s tip-in wasn’t the only underclassman contribution that the first period had in store.

Eight and a half minutes later, sophomore point-man John Marino strode into the offensive zone with the puck and flung it toward the net-mouth as he approached the goal line.

A charging Eddie Ellis made a play for the puck, hoping to chip it past freshman tender Nicholas Latinovich, but the tri-captain never got his stick on it. That’s because he didn’t need to, though, as Golden Knights defenseman Jere Astren kicked the puck into his own net.

After Marino’s first-period goal, Clarkson coach Casey Jones yanked Latinovich from between the pipes

and replaced him with the team’s usual starter, sophomore Jake Kielly.

Marino was not the only sophomore blue-liner to make an impact this weekend for the Crimson. Adam Fox, fresh off his first-ever hat trick in Friday’s win over St. Lawrence, looked to be firing on all cylinders against Clarkson as well. The offensive-minded defenseman loomed large on the power play and showed off his nifty mitts with a few precision-passes and dangles around the opposition.

“He’s so smart and has such good hockey sense, that he makes a lot of things out there look easy,” coach Pearl said. “And certainly, as a former defenseman who couldn’t skate—you have to coach him so you can’t let him know that—but you look at him with a little bit of awe, like the little subtle plays he makes breaking the puck out.”

In addition to his stellar goals, breakout passes, and power play coordination this weekend, Fox was in the thick of a very chippy contest on Sat-

urday. After the second-period horn had sounded, the Jericho, N.Y., native took a crosscheck to the back and, upon getting back on his feet, found himself dodging haymakers from Clarkson captain Nic Pierog.

“Clarkson’s always a team that plays a little chippier,” Madsen said. “Once they weren’t getting the results they wanted, they started getting a little chippier, a little more chaotic. I think our guys did a decent job staying out of it. Obviously, there were a couple instances of coincidental [minor penalties].”

With the decisive victory on Saturday night and a solid performance overall in its final regular season weekend at the Bright, the Crimson has clinched a top-four spot in the ECAC and will enjoy an early-March bye week in the conference tournament along with Clarkson, Cornell, and Union.

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

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