The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 93

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 93 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Monday, october 1, 2018

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Harvard should use its capital campaign funds conservatively.

Ecuador’s president spoke at the IOP about corruption in public office.

Harvard football fell to Rhode Island 23-16 in a game defined by defense.

Judge Students Demand Investigation of Kavanaugh Okays Undergrad Law Students Urges Stand Against Trial in Council Examination Embattled Lawsuit of Allegations Circuit Judge The lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans will go to trial Oct. 15.

By delano r. franklin and samuel w. zwickel Crimson Staff Writers

U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled Friday that the admissions lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants must go to trial in October, thwarting once and for all months-long campaigns waged by the University and plaintiff Students for Fair Admissions to convince her to decide the matter without a courtroom fight.

Both Harvard and SFFA, an anti-affirmative action advocacy group, spent much of the summer arguing she should resolve the suit by summary judgment — that is, sans a trial.

In a Friday court order, Burroughs disappointed both parties, determining that the suit will go to trial as scheduled at a federal courthouse in Boston on Oct. 15. Many legal experts previously predicted she would do so. Burroughs ruled she must be able to consider evidence presented at a full trial in order to adjudicate the dispute, which will not involve a jury.

“Whether SFFA may prove its intentional discrimination claim requires a close review of the conflicting expert testimony, the available documents, and the testimony of the Admissions Office employees in the context of a trial,” Burroughs wrote in a Friday court order.

Burroughs also wrote that Harvard and SFFA’s conflicting testimony and data analyses — much of which became public via court filings in June — left open the question of whether Harvard uses “racial balancing” to artificially determine the demographic breakdown of each incoming class, as SFFA alleges it does.

By Jonah s. berger

By aidan f. ryan

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Harvard’s Undergraduate Council voted Sunday night to join Law School students in calling for a University investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh before he returns to campus to lecture at the Law School this winter.

President Donald Trump in July nominated Kavanaugh, who currently serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill the vacant seat left by Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. At

As the showdown over Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation continues to grip the country, Harvard Law School students are not letting up in their efforts to prevent Kavanaugh — who teaches at the school — from reaching the nation’s highest court.

The Pipeline Parity Project — a Law School student advocacy group — and the Law School Democrats have organized phone banks in concert with Planned Parenthood this week to rally voters in key states to call their senators and tell them to vote no on Kavanaugh’s ­

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The UC demanded Harvard investigate allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted several women before allowing him to teach at the Law School. ellis j. yeo—Crimson photographer

Harvard Undergrads Run 5K in Honor of Patel Returns Team Raises Over $1,600 for Suicide Awareness Reach 10 Percent By molly M. mccafferty Crimson Staff Writer

Sporting homemade T-shirts and pushing strollers, over 2,500 people took to the streets of Brighton this weekend for the Samaritans 20th Annual 5K for Suicide Prevention, jogging along the Charles for three miles in order to raise awareness and funds for those at risk of suicide.

Running among the crowd were roughly 20 Harvard undergraduates. They were there for Alexander H. Patel ’17-’18.

Patel, a Harvard undergraduate, died by suicide during his senior year last October, aged 22. Remembered by peers and faculty as not only a brilliant student of Philosophy and Mathematics but also an “incredible friend,” he spent his time at the College as a Comput­

er Science teaching fellow and a research assistant to Computer Science Professor Margo I. Seltzer ’83.

In April, the College launched a fund in memory of Patel to support a new group of student teaching fellows in the Computer Science department.

Patel’s sister, Jacqueline P. Patel ’21, said she organized a team of students to run the 5K in advance of the anniversary of her brother’s death.

She described the team — comprising friends and blockmates — as a network of personal supporters.

“My team is basically composed of people who have been really supportive of me in the past year and are the reason why I was able to make it through this year,” Jacqueline said.

The group joined 157 other teams running the 5K, many formed in

By eli w. burnes, lucas ward, and andrew j. zucker Crimson Staff Writers

See 5K Page 5 Molly C. Mccafferty—Crimson photographer

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Students Want Tailgates Nearby By alexandra a. chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

More than 700 Harvard students and affiliates have signed a petition calling for the Harvard-Yale tailgate to be held in the athletics complex in the hours before The Game on Nov. 17, and not in a proposed space near Fenway Park.

When played in Cambridge, the annual football game has historically taken place in Harvard Stadium on the Boston side of the Charles River. In a break with tradition, however, the 135th Game between the Ivy League rivals will be played at Fenway Park in Boston due to ongoing restoration work on the more-than-century-old football stadium.

The “Save the Game 2018” petition calls on the Athletics Department to “not wholly relocate” the Harvard-Yale pregame celebrations to Fenway Park. Instead, the letter urges the department to preserve “an inclusive atmosphere of enthusiastic school spirit with student tailgates” by holding the tailgate at the athletic complex in Allston.

Christopher P. Ulian ’19, one of the authors of the petition, ­

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said he wanted to make sure administrators were aware of some students’ displeasure over the suggested changes to Harvard-Yale this year. He said he and others met with staff members from the Athletics Department and the Dean of Students Office to discuss the situation prior to creating and circulating the petition.

“Harvard Yale is one of the most important events of the year for undergraduates at Harvard, so we wanted to make sure undergraduate voices were being heard,” Ulian wrote in an email Sunday.

The Athletic Department’s website states that Harvard plans to set up a “FanZone” near Fenway Park that will be open to the public and will include a space where guests can purchase food and beverages. In an interview last fall, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise said the Athletics Department is hoping to increase attendance at The Game by holding tailgates near Fenway Park. The petition warns that many students will instead choose to stay on campus or attend pregame festivities in small and “often exclusive” dorms and social clubs around campus, thereby de-

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creasing overall undergraduate turnout for the Game.

The petition also says the proposed FanZone will “severely limit” the “socioeconomic accessibility” of the game because of the “expensive food and beverages” that will become students’ only option for snacks and refreshments at Fenway.

“As the College seeks to increase accessible social spaces and emphasize inclusivity, it seems like the Harvard-Yale tailgate represents an opportunity to demonstrate the administration’s commitment to that vision,” Ulian wrote.

Madison C. Thompson ’20 said she signed the petition because she said she wanted to preserve “one of the few days a year where people really buy into school spirit.” Thompson said moving the pregame celebrations to Fenway would be “a deterring factor” for students who are unsure of attending.

“I personally wouldn’t be too thrilled about trying to figure out my way through Fenway Park,” Thompson said. “I don’t even know the streets around there; Boston is just confusing.”

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Harvard Management Company returned 10 percent on its investments during fiscal year 2018, bringing the total value of the University’s endowment to $39.2 billion.

The returns, announced in a note from CEO N.P. Narvekar to Harvard affiliates Friday afternoon, mark an improvement from last year’s return of 8.1 percent and a serious turnaround from the loss of $2 billion in fiscal year 2016.

Narvekar, who previously oversaw Columbia University’s endowment before joining Harvard’s investment arm in December 2016, wrote in his message that he remains “confident” in the endowment management group’s future. This is the second round of endowment returns Narvekar has produced during his tenure at Harvard.

“As is well known, HMC, as an organization, and the endowment portfolio are still in the early stages of a multiyear transition, with much work ahead,” Narvekar wrote.

“Thanks to the exceptional team we have at HMC, we are confident in the direction of the organization and the long-term prospects for the endowment.”

But Harvard — as it did last year — is still trailing those of its Ivy League peers who have posted their returns. The University’s 2018 results fall short of the University of Pennsylvania’s returns, which clocked in at 12.9 percent, and Dartmouth’s returns of 12.2 percent.

The University also lagged at a national level.

The S&P 500 returned 12.17 percent in fiscal year 2018, which ended June 30.

Harvard’s endowment — by far the largest university endowment across the globe — funds many of the school’s operating costs and is used to ensure Harvard can count on consistent funding in the near future. Roughly one-third of the University’s operating budget is drawn from the endowment each year, though its schools depend on the investment fund to varying degrees. For example,

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For Lunch Pork Sausage Sub with Peppers and Onions Rosemary Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken

For Dinner Broiled Honey-Ginger Salmon General Gao’s Chicken Vegetable Lo Mein with Tofu

Today’s Events

in The Real World

Native American Poets Playlist Peabody Museum, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

US and Canada Reach Deal on NAFTA

Starting today, the Peabody Museum will be giving out free audio players with museum admission so that visitors can hear contemporary Native American poetry from the authors themselves. You can explore the poems in the first-floor galleries.

Canadian and US negotiators have reached an agreement on rewriting the three-country NAFTA trade deal, which President Donald Trump railed against during his campaign. Negotiations to update NAFTA have been going on between North American officials for over a year, so this development marks a huge step forward.

Free Cruise to Boston Light Save the Harbor is hosting a free “Share the Harbor” cruise in Boston this evening. A perfect chance to up your Instagram game and tell your friends that you’re going on a cruise.

Discussing the Harvard Lawsuit Grays Hall, 7-8:30 p.m.

Join the Harvard Diversity Peer Educators for a discussion on the Admissions Lawsuit in Grays Hall Ground Level from 7 to 8:30 p.m. This is an open, inclusive environment in which to discuss the lawsuit as well as the debates on race and affirmative action that it has stirred up.

Indonesia Tsunami DeathToll Climbs Above 800

Cars zip through Harvard Square Sunday evening. Kathryn S. Kuhar —Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Harvard’s Undergraduate Council voted Sunday night to demand the University investigate allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted several women before permitting him to return to campus this winter to teach a course at the Law School. The Council’s petition comes after several days of campus outcry over Kavanaugh’s teaching position at Harvard; he is slated to offer a course on the Court in Jan. 2019.

In other news, a judge has ruled that the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants must go to trial.

The death toll has been rising since Friday, when both an earthquake and 18-foot tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Unfortunately, the number of casualties is expected to rise even further in coming days given many heavily populated areas are still cut off from aid.

Huge Protests in Brazil as Far-right Presidential Hopeful Returns Home Over the weekend, thousands of Brazilians — especially women — took to the streets to protest Jair Bolsonaro, the presidential candidate who has been criticized for his sexist, racist, and homophobic views.

Around the Ivies PENN’s New Housing Plan DRAWS Criticism According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the Second Year Experience Program — the university’s initiative that requires all sophomores to live in college housing starting 2021 — raises concerns for first-generation, low-income students. This new program poses problems for these students, many of whom do not have their housing fully covered through financial aid and therefore seek cheaper, off-campus housing options.

Columbia Creates New African American and African Diaspora Studies Department Columbia’s University Senate unanimously voted in favor of establishing a department of African American and African Diaspora studies — the first independent department dedicated to African American studies in the university’s history, the Columbia Spectator reported Sunday. According to Institute for Research in African-American Studies Director Farrah Griffin, the creation of the new department brings Columbia onto par with peer institutions like Harvard and Yale, which each have independent departments dedicated to African studies. The department is still awaiting approval from the university’s board of trustees.

‘Yale Votes’ Campaign Facilitates Voter Registration Yale Votes — a new Yale student group focused on increasing political participation and voter turnout — registered around 400 students to vote last week, the Yale Daily News reported. Most of the 68 volunteers who participated in the campaign were undergraduate students, and all volunteers had to undergo extensive training. Yale Votes relied on the collaboration of both the Yale College Council and a number of political groups on campus.

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UC’s Annual Budget Increases Dining Halls Will Open Earlier

By Jonah S. Berger Crimson Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Council voted Sunday to approve its annual budget, okaying substantial increases in funding for nearly all Council operations including grants to student groups.

The $650,000 budget — which will likely be given the final nod by administrators in the coming days — will provide the Council with a roughly 34 percent increase in revenue from last year, according to an outline of the budget.

This year is the first in which the Council had to apply to a new student-faculty board to receive its funding allocations.

The College announced in April that it would increase the student activities fee — an optional sum undergraduates pay as part of their enrollment costs — from $75 to $200, and that it would make accompanying changes to the way the UC, House Committees, College Events Board, and Intramural Council receive funds.

As part of those changes, the House Committees — which used to receive nearly $160,000 from the Council — now apply directly to the funding board

for money. Even with that significant line item removed from its budget, the UC nonetheless requested slightly more funding than last year.

The Council’s Finance Committee, which faced a budget shortfall for much of last year,

Applications have skyrocketed.

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will receive $345,000 in funding, up from $295,000 last year, a welcome development for UC leaders who said in the spring they were optimistic that the changes to the activities fee would improve their ability to meet grant requests.

During the debate over the budget, Council members presented multiple amendments in order to ensure that the Finance Committee would not be forced to make large across-the-board cuts to grants or tap into the UC’s Emergency Fund, as it had to do last year.

One ultimately successful amendment, proposed by new finance committee chair Gevin

B. Reynolds ’19, called for the Council to re-allocate $25,000 of the proposed increase in the UC’s burst fund to the committee instead.

UC Treasurer Nadine M. Khoury ’20, who wrote the budget and presented it to the funding board last Thursday, said the substantial increase in grant requests last year necessitated a boost in funding to the finance committee.

“Applications have skyrocketed over the past year alone,” Khoury said. “We have huge demand for student groups all over the campus.”

“And it’s amazing because people know what the UC is doing and want to be involved,” she added.

The Phillips Brooks House Association will also gain from the Council’s revenue increase, with annual UC allocations to the service organization rising from $30,000 to $35,000.

Sunday’s general meeting was the first of the Council’s term this semester. Toughly two dozen new representatives recently joined the body after nearly half of members elected in the spring graduated, resigned, or lost their seats in elections over the past few months. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

The UC is raising its allocation to PBHA to $35,000, up from $30,000. C.C. Gong—Crimson photographer

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Dunster House’s dining hall will now serve lunch half an hour earlier than before. amy y. li—Crimson photographer

By Meena Venkataramanan Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard’s undergraduate dining halls will now open 30 minutes earlier for lunch on weekdays to accommodate the new academic schedule adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Each of the dining halls in the 12 upperclassmen residential Houses and the first-year dining hall, Annenberg, will open at 11:30 a.m. instead of 12 p.m. effective Thursday, according to Harvard University Dining Services.

“HUDS recognized that the new class schedule, including a noontime class, was making it challenging for some students to have lunch in the dining hall,” Harvard University Dining Services spokesperson Crista Martin wrote in an email.

“As such, HUDS adjusted our lunchtime opening hours by 30 minutes.”

Upperclassmen will still have

the option to grab food through Fly-By, a weekday bagged lunch service, from 11:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.and all undergraduates may continue to order bagged meals before 4 a.m. for same-day pickup, Martin added.

Michael S. Uy, the Dunster House resident dean, informed Dunster residents of the change via email Thursday.

“We’ve heard from many of you that if you have classes scheduled 12-2.45pm, then you are hard pressed to eat lunch,” he wrote.

“So we’ve listened, and HUDS has now extended its hours (effective today) so that lunch will be served beginning at 11.30am.”

Under the new scheduling rules, many seminars are scheduled to meet from 12 to 2:45 p.m., overlapping entirely with the previous lunch slot.

By opening the dining halls earliers, HUDS hopes students who must attend class during that time will still be able to eat

lunch, according to Martin.

Alexandra N. Ratzker ’19, who is enrolled in a seminar that meets from 12 noon to 2:45 p.m. on Wednesdays, said she was pleased by change.

“I think that opening the dining halls a half an hour early to accommodate students who have class from 12-2:45 p.m. is certainly helpful,” Ratzker said.

“I personally will likely go to the dining hall at 11:30 a.m.”

But she added that, going forward, she believes 165-minute classes such as her seminar should not meet midday.

“I think that, for future semesters, the schedule should be altered so that classes of that length don’t meet during that block,” Ratzker said.

Upperclassmen dining halls and Annenberg Hall, the freshman dining hall, close for lunch at 2:15 p.m. Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer House dining halls close at 2:30 p.m. meena.venkataramanan@thecrimson.com

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Ecuador President Visits IOP Philosophy Dept Hosts Speakers

By Alexandra A. Chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

President of Ecuador Lenín Moreno spoke about his country’s politics and the fight to end corruption at the Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Friday.

Moreno was joined by his wife, Rocio Gonzalez Navas; Jacqueline Brigida Astudillo, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the United States; and a delegation from Ecuador. It was Moreno’s first visit to Harvard since he was elected president of Ecuador in 2017.

“It is the first time that I came to Boston and this prestigious university,” Moreno said in his speech, which he gave in Spanish. “Ecuador is a small country, but it is enriched by its culture.”

The faculty director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brian D. Farrell introduced Moreno as one of the world’s leading advoates for rights for disabled individuals.

Moreno was shot in 1998 and has used a wheelchair ever since.

He is the world’s only cur-

rently serving head of state who uses a wheelchair.

In 2012, Moreno was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy on behalf of the disabled.

“President Moreno’s passion is the advocacy of the awareness and rights of disabled people, where he is a recognized global eminence,” Farrell said.

Moreno spoke about corruption in Latin America — an issue that has recently focused an international spotlight on Ecuador.

In July, it was reported that an Ecuadorian judge had released an arrest warrant for former President Rafael Correa for helping kidnap one of his political opponents.

Moreno served as Correa’s vice president from 2007 to 2013.

Moreno warned that even leaders with “good hearts” can fail to resist the pull of absolute power.

“The moment that you feel absolute power, you fall in love with it completely, and you cannot stop it. This is why corruption is still around,” Moreno said to the large crowd of Harvard affiliates and visitors.

Since his election, Moreno has distanced himself from former president Correa, introducing policies meant to protect freedom of expression in Ecuador and allowing private banks to work independently of the central bank in certain cases.

“We must hear the opinions of the other side to advance our country,” Moreno said.

Andres G. Sierra, a Masters in Public Administration student at the Kennedy School who attended the speech, said it is important to hear from presidents like Moreno who came from “developing countries.”

“The fact that President Moreno came to Harvard is a very important opportunity to open parts of cooperation between the government of Ecuador and Harvard,” Sierra said.

“It is always hard to have a president here in the Forum, especially when he comes from a developing country — from a country where not many young people have studied at Harvard. So, it’s an amazing opportunity,” Sierra added. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com

By Annie C. Doris Crimson Staff Writer

Professors, formerly incarcerated individuals, lawyers, and students crowded together in the Barker Center for several hours Friday afternoon for “Belonging: The Challenges of Reentry,” a conference dedicated to discussing the experiences of individuals who reenter society after serving time in prison.

Three members of the Philosophy Department — Ph.D. candidatese Darien Pollock and Diana Acosta Navas and Breon Durr, Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies — worked together to organize the conference.

The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History also sponsored the event.

Pollock, one of the conference’s co-organizers, cited the “need to tell a nuanced aspect of the phenomenon of mass incarceration” as one of the reasons to hold the gathering.

Pollock said that, while American society and academics sometimes openly discuss sentencing and prison experience, he hears much less conversation about reentry.

University Professor Danielle S. Allen, who gave opening remarks at the conference, said it is vital to canvass the topic of reentry in order to accomplish criminal justice reform.

“The worse the experience [in prison], the less likely the prospect of reentry,” Allen said.

“So, at the end of the day, the sentencing conversation and the re-entry conversation are

the same conversations.”

The conference comprised two panels, both of which featured speakers who had served time in prison as well as a number of professors. Pollock said the organizers wanted to hear both from former prisoners who had directly experienced reentry and from academics who are addressing incarceration and similar themes in their research.

Panelist Imani Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, spoke about the economic and social difficulties individuals face when reintegrating into society. She said it can be especially hard to find a job.

“The structure that exists is one that is deliberately exclusive, it’s exclusionary,” Perry said.

“The problem of reentry so often is constructed as a problem of the deficiency of those who are reentering, when in fact is is a structural deficiency.”

Panelist Angel Sanchez said he agreed with Perry. Sanchez said he “grew up in Florida’s prison system” after being tried and convicted as an adult at age 14 for attempted murder and armed robbery in gang-related activity.

Sanchez, now a law student at the University of Miami, said the road from prison to law school was nearly impossible to traverse.

“I was 28 when I got out of prison, going on 17 emotionally,” Sanchez said in an interview with The Crimson after the panel discussion.

Sanchez said formerly incarcerated individuals face a challenging decision upon reenter-

ing society: whether to return home or to try to begin anew elsewhere.

“When I got out, I knew that I couldn’t go back to the same people, places and things, but I didn’t have anywhere else to go,” Sanchez said. “[We] have to choose between going back to a bad environment or having no environment to go to, so the answer is obviously easy. Go back to the bad environment.”

Sanchez chose to start fresh.

From a homeless shelter in Orlando, he made his way to community college, where he earned a 4.0 GPA. His prior conviction, though, followed him to college, where he was removed from the honor society when other members learned of his felony.

After being rejected by 21 out of 23 law programs to which he applied, Sanchez enrolled at the law school at the University of Miami and has since served as a judicial intern.

“I literally went from a defendant in that courtroom to a judicial intern walking in to that courtroom. When they said all rise, I was next to the judge in her robe, myself in a suit in a courtroom where I once had to walk in with an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs,” he said.

Pollock, who gained inspiration for the conference from the experiences of his uncle who served time in prison, said he thought the conference was successful and went “better than [he] hoped.”

“I think this conference was really what it said on the flier. It was a belonging type of conference,” Pollock said. annie.doris@thecrimson.com

FAS Ends FY 2018 with $3.1 Million

By Angela N. Fu and Lucy Wang Crimson Staff Writers

President of Ecuador gives a public address at the Harvard Kennedy School on Friday. Awnit Singh Martara

Mass Hall Partially Reopens

By Yasmin Luthra and idil tuysuzoglu Crimson Staff Writers

The summer renovation of Massachusetts Hall — which prevented University President Lawrence S. Bacow from immediately taking his rightful seat behind the large desk in the corner office in the small brick building that has long served as the ancestral workspace of Harvard presidents — is almost complete.

The construction, which was slated to conclude during the summer of 2018, wound up continuing well into September. According to University spokesperson Brigid O’Rourke, the renovation did not affect the move-in of the 13 members of the Class of 2022 who were assigned to live there during their freshman years.

“The students moved back on time, as scheduled, on Monday,

August 27,” O’Rourke wrote in an emailed statement.

Nevertheless, the construction did not go unnoticed by the first-year residents.

“It has its benefits and its drawbacks,” resident Selorm M. Quarshie ’22 said. “Drawback would be at like, 6 a.m., and you wanted to sleep in, but they’re using a ripsaw,” he said. “Advantage would be, it’s like 9 a.m. and you missed your alarm, and you have a 10:30 class, and it actually worked out well.”

Nicole Zhang ‘22 said the fire alarm sounded “several times” during the renovation process.

“So that was definitely part of an inconvenient thing that would happen,” Zhang said.

“It’d be really loud, and you wouldn’t know if you should leave the building or not, because you know it’s just because of the construction,” she added.

Other residents said the noise and commotion has not

bothered them.

“I’d say it hasn’t really impacted my experience so far other than the fact that some of the dorm amenities weren’t implemented yet, so I had my light switches installed like two weeks ago,” Mikki A. Thompson ’22 said. “But other than that, they were good about not making noise.”

In addition to serving as a dormitory for freshman students, Massachusetts Hall is home to the offices of the President, Provost, and several other high-profile Harvard administrators.

While Bacow and the Provost have now begun working in the building again, other officials who work in the Hall will keep moving back in throughout October, according to O’Rourke. yasmin.luthra@thecrimson. idil.tuysuzoglu@thecrimson.

Following at least four years of budget deficits, The Faculty of Arts and Sciences ended fiscal year 2018 with a $3.1 million surplus, according to the Dean’s annual report.

Faculty members will discuss the report, as well as a proposed change to the wording of the College’s foreign language requirement, at their monthly meeting Tuesday, the first of the semester.

FAS Dean Claudine Gay will present the annual report — her first presentation since taking office in July following former Dean of FAS Michael D. Smith’s retirement — according to the meeting agenda. This will also be the first Faculty meeting for newly minted University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

The report summarizes FAS’s financials from fiscal year 2018, which ended June 30. FAS ended the year with a $3.1 million surplus — an improvement from the $11.7 million deficit it saw in fiscal year 2017. This is the first time the school has achieved a surplus in several years as it struggled to recover from the 2008 financial crisis.

The report also highlights that FAS raised a total of $3.28 billion during the University’s recently concluded Capital Campaign, far surpassing its initial goal of $2.5 billion.

Key expenses over the past year have included Harvard Financial Aid, a new initiative started by Smith in fall 2017 to fund faculty projects, and infrastructure expenses — including the House Renewal project, per the report.

Gay’s report also introduces the Quantitative Biology Initiative, which launched this past spring, and comprises research

grants and training meant to facilitate collaboration between scholars in biology and quantitative fields.

The report further highlights faculty hiring trends, including an increase in the percentage of women in the ladder faculty — meaning tenured and tenure track professors — from 25 percent to 31 percent and an increase in the percentage of minorities in the ladder faculty from 17 percent to 23 percent under Smith’s 11-year deanship.

Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Jay M. Harris, former Dean of Undergraduate Education, will propose a change to the Handbook for Students which would alter the wording of the current foreign language requirement

The language requirement demands rigorous study but does not require a particular format of study or examination.

Faculty Meeting Agenda Item

to be a “language other than English” and eliminate the “written component” portion of the requirement.

“The language requirement demands rigorous study but does not require a particular format of study or examination. Students should be taught in all forms of a language that are customary in the practice of that language today,” the proposed wording states.

The new wording stems from a report authored by a subcommittee convened in spring 2018 to review the language requirement. The elimination of a written component would allow students to use American Sign Language to fulfill the re-

quirement.

“The subcommittee recommends that the study of sign languages of Deaf communities such as American Sign Language (ASL) be permitted to fulfill the language requirement,” the report reads. “[ASL] is not the English language in another form, but is instead a language with its own cultural and linguistic integrity, unrelated in structure to spoken English.”

Ever since Harvard first began offering ASL classes two years ago, activists have urged the College to allow students to fulfill their requirements using the language.

The proposal would also allow students more flexibility in completing the foreign language requirement generally.

One proposed change would allow students who fail to place out of the requirement using Harvard placement test scores to retake the placement exam after their first semester of language study. Another proposed change would allow the Office of Undergraduate Education to seek qualified examiners at other institutions if a student wished to take a placement exam in a language not offered at Harvard.

The Faculty Council has already discussed and voted to approve the new wording at its most recent meeting.

Though the Council will announce its support for Harris’s proposal, their vote is purely advisory.

Because the change in wording would be substantial, the Faculty will only discuss the proposed change Tuesday and will be able to vote on the proposal at their next meeting in November. angela.fu@thecrimson.com. lucy.wang@thecrimson.com.

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Harvard Lawsuit Law Dean Still Silent on Kavanaugh Moving to Trial “SFFA and Harvard again present plausible but conflicting interpretations of the admissions data and testimonial evidence concerning whether Harvard uses a quota system,” Burroughs wrote.

SFFA brought the lawsuit against the College in 2014, alleging its admissions office illegally discriminates against Asian-American applicants to the school.

Harvard has vehemently and repeatedly denied the charges.

Thousands of pages of internal Harvard admissions data — ranging from administrators’ emails to guidelines for scoring high schoolers’ applications — became public via court filings over the summer.

SFFA’s lawyers based many of their arguments for summary judgment on these documents, which in some cases detailed previously confidential components of Harvard’s notoriously secretive admissions process.

A few of those filings revealed the existence of a 2013 internal review conducted by the University’s research arm that concluded the College’s admissions system produc-

es “negative effects” for Asian Americans.

The confidential report found that admissions officers gave Asian-American applicants lower scores for their personal traits such as “humor” and “grit.”

The report was circulated among top administrators at the time but Harvard officials did not take serious action to address the study’s findings.

Top University administrators argued in court filings over the summer that that report was “incomplete,” based on limited data, and never meant to definitively evaluate whether Harvard discriminates in its admissions process.

As the University girds for a high-profile and high-stakes trial in 15 days, it also faces an ongoing United States Department of Justice investigation into allegations of discrimination against Asian-American applicants.

The Justice Department opened a parallel probe into Yale’s admissions process over near-identical allegations in April. delano.framklin@thecrimson.com. samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com.

confirmation.

Their entreaties follow a dramatic Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. last week in which Palo Alto psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford elaborated in vivid detail on her allegations that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her when the two were teenagers in suburban Maryland in the 1980s. Ford is one of at least two women who have publicly accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in recent weeks, roiling a confirmation process that once seemed straightforward.

Ford first came forward with her allegations in an interview with the Washington Post, alleging that Kavanaugh pushed her onto a bed, attempted to remove her clothes, pressed his body onto hers, and covered her mouth when she tried to yell for help while at a party in high school. Ford repeated these allegations — tearfully asserting that she believed at the time Kavanaugh was going to rape her — when she testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

Following Ford’s interview with the Post, a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale, Deborah Ramirez, came forward with her own allegations of sexual assault. Ramirez told the New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself and pushed his

penis in her face at a party both attended while freshmen at Yale.

Kavanaugh has “categorically and unequivocally” denied the allegations levied against him, and he forcefully repeated those denials at Thursday’s hearing.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court around 1:45 p.m.

Friday — less than 24 hours after Ford and Kavanaugh testified. But in a surprising turn of events, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) called for a one-week delay of the full Senate vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination until an FBI investigation “limited in time and scope” is completed.

Kavanaugh — who has taught at the Law School as a visiting lecturer since 2008 — is scheduled to teach his course “The Supreme Court Since 2005” in Jan. 2019. Since Ford stepped forward last month, Law students have penned an op-ed and held protests calling on the school to bar the judge from teaching pending a school investigation into the allegations.

Law School administrators have repeatedly declined to comment on the future of Kavanaugh’s position at the school, citing school policy not to comment on “personnel matters.”

Law School Dean John F.

Manning ’82 had not commented publicly on Kavanaugh until late last week. After receiving a flood of emails from concerned students, Manning sent a missive to the student body Friday seeking to account for his silence.

In his email, he wrote that, though he knows many students are “unsatisfied with the answer that we cannot comment on personnel matters in particular cases… the policy serves important purposes even in stressful times.”

“Still, I can provide you this assurance: When concerns and allegations arise about individuals in our teaching program, we take those concerns and allegations seriously, conduct necessary inquiries, complete our process, and then act,” he added.

Asked whether the school is investigating Kavanaugh, Law School spokesperson Robb London again declined to comment.

In addition to campus activism aimed at preventing Kavanaugh from returning to Cambridge, Law School students involved in the phone bank are hoping to change minds further from home.

The students are specifically concentrating their efforts on several states whose senators will cast critical votes to determine Kavanaugh’s fate: North

Dakota, West Virginia, and Arizona.

Sens.

Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.), Joe Manchin (DW. Va.), and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) — all considered swing votes — supported the delay and investigation Flake set in motion Friday. Phone bankers hope to persuade voters to encourage the senators to go a step further and vote down Kavanaugh’s confirmation. The groups have held two sessions at the Law School and made over 1,000 calls thus far, they said. They plan to hold two more phone banks over the coming week.

Second-year Law student Emma R. Janger, a member of the Pipeline Parity Project and one of the organizers of the phone banks, said the phone banks offers students a way to translate their frustration into action.

“People are really, really energized and they really want to push their senators on this and that’s been just honestly, really energizing to hear,” Janger said.

“I think sometimes this has kind of felt like a pretty hopeless week but talking to people who are in a position to really affect their senators’ votes and hearing how energized they are is giving me personally a lot of hope.” aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com.

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Kavanaugh’s confirmation seemed secure — but that was before multiple women stepped forward with accusations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them, throwing the nomination process into disarray and riveting a divided nation.

One accuser, Palo Alto psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a house party held in the 1980s, when the two were both enrolled in D.C.-area high schools. Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, has alleged that Kavanaugh pushed his penis in her face at a party both attended during their undergraduate years at Yale.

A third woman — Julie Swetnick, a client of prominent lawyer Michael Avenatti — issued a sworn statement indicating she saw Kavanaugh engage in “inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s.”

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations against him, casting them as politically motivated in indignant and fiery testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

Kavanaugh, who has lectured at the Law School for a decade, is slated to teach a course titled “The Supreme Court

since 2005” during the winter 2019 term. The Council’s vote Sunday comes on the heels of several days of heated protests at the Law School, where students are calling for the school to bar Kavanaugh from returning to Cambridge to teach pending a probe into the allegations.

The UC voted to publish a letter on behalf of the body demanding that Harvard investigate the nominee at its Sunday meeting, held in the brand-new Smith Campus Center. Twenty-five representatives voted in favor of the measure and 13 voted against it.

“The Undergraduate Council stands in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, and all survivors of sexual violence,” the letter reads. “We also stand with members of Harvard Law School who request a full and fair investigation into allegations against Judge Kavanaugh before he is allowed back on campus to teach.”

Law School spokespeople could not be reached for comment late Sunday.

In her Thursday testimony, Ford said she had received “constant harassment and death threats” since going public with her allegations.

The Council condemned attempts to silence sexual assault victims in its letter, writing that

the threats Ford has endured indicate a need for students to “come together” to oppose all forms of sexual misconduct — and to oppose any and all attempts to cover up assault allegations.

“Repeated attempts to silence survivors like Dr. Ford cast into doubt time and time again the reliability of institutions that are meant to uphold justice and our civil rights as students,” the letter states.

“At times like these, when survivors’ stories are called into question, we must come together to build collective power and hold our university accountable for supporting survivors, sanctioning perpetrators, and fighting the culture of sexual harassment.”

The Council argued in its letter that an “institutional failure” on the part of the University to combat sexual assault has bred a “ sense of mistrust” among students. The letter specifically mentions sexual harassment allegations made against Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez last semester. Dominguez remained a Harvard faculty member for decades — and rose through the ranks to ever-higher positions of power — even after multiple women publicly accused him of harassment in the 1980s, prompting the University to

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sanction him at the time.

The allegations against Dominguez (and his punishment in the eighties) remained largely forgotten until the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in early 2018 that at least 18 women were accusing the professor of repeated acts of sexual harassment across the past three decades. In the wake of the Chronicle’s report, Harvard placed Dominguez on paid “administrative leave” and Dominguez said he was retiring.

“Much like on the national stage, the problem of sexual violence at Harvard is complicated by structures of power, as we saw when the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article exposing decades of sexual harassment on the part of Jorge Dominguez at Harvard and institutional failure to address it,” the Council wrote in the letter.

“Less than half of female undergraduates and even fewer trans or gender-nonconforming students at Harvard think that campus officials would take a sexual violence report seriously,” the letter continues in reference to the results of a 2015 campus climate survey conducted by the Association of American Universities.

the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s largest unit, received about half its operating budget from the endowment in 2016.

The unusually brief note from Narvekar — three short paragraphs in total — stands in stark contrast to the five-page letter he sent out announcing last year’s returns in which he also detailed his plan to overhaul the endowment. Narvekar noted Friday, however, that he will offer further details in the University’s financial report next month “for those interested.”

Since Narvekar took the helm of HMC in December 2016, the endowment has shifted from a “silo” model — in which managers focus on individual asset classes — to a generalist model, in which managers are responsible for the entire portfolio and compensated

for overall performance.

Narvekar has also moved to downsize HMC and outsource some investments, including spinning off the school’s real estate division to Bain Capital.

In January 2017, he announced that HMC planned to lay off half of its staff as part of the five-year overhaul.

In recent years, HMC has struggling to address its historically poor portfolio performance and has continually underperformed its peer institutions.

The news of the 2018 endowment returns comes shortly after Harvard wrapped up its record-shattering capital campaign.

In total, the University raised $9.6 billion. eli.burnes@thecrimson.com lucas.ward@thecrimson.com andrew.zucker@thecrimson.com

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Undergrads Run 5K for Suicide Students Petition for Campus Tailgate Awareness and to Honor Alex Patel honor of loved ones lost to suicide.

Every detail of the Patel team’s preparations was meant to memorialize Alex — even down to the email lists the team contacted with fundraising messages, Jacqueline said.

The team solicited donations from groups that she, Alex, and their brother Dev A. Patel ’16 were involved in at the College — namely, their Houses, Quincy and Adams, and The Crimson, where all three siblings formerly served as News editors.

Alex reported on Harvard Business School for The Crimson and did work for the paper’s data analysis team, at one point winning a national award for a data-based article on faculty political donations.

“I was really trying to not just raise money from random people, but raise money from people who knew Alex to kind of keep the message of this alive, that this is not just raising money for the sake of raising money but raising money to honor Alex,” Jacqueline said.

By Saturday morning, the team had raised over $1,600 to help fund crisis hotlines, community outreach, and grief

support groups organized by Samaritans, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing suicide risk.

Jacqueline said she believes the fundraiser was a great way to keep her brother’s memory alive.

“After you have a memorial service, there’s not many things you can do to remember the person you lost,” Jacqueline said.

“This is a cool way where I still get to remember Alex, but also raise money for a really good cause and bring my friends together to remember my brother at a time of year that’s super difficult for me and my family.”

The mood of the 5K, held on a cloudless late-summer morning, was more festival than memorial, with raffles, food trucks, and a tie-dye tent set up at the starting line.

During registration, the sounds of Beyoncé and Katy Perry filtered over loudspeakers and the mascot of the Boston Red Sox weaved through the crowd giving high-fives.

When the time came to start the race, participants ranging in age from toddlers to retirees took their marks behind a 20foot arch of green and white

balloons, many with dogs and strollers in tow.

Friends and family lined up to cheer along the route, many wearing colorful homemade T-shirts bearing the names and photographs of lost loved ones.

Byron S. Hurlbut ’21 said the team of undergrads “were not running the race to win.”

“We all finished the 5K, which was good,” Hurlbut said.

“I think it was just an amazing show of solidarity from us, but also to see so many people at the Samaritans race, all of whom have been directly affected by suicide, and to know that support network exists, and to see how much people care about this issue.”

Jacqueline said the fundraiser could potentially become an annual tradition.

“Definitely I’m super interested in repeating this, but I’m really just kind of looking at this year and looking at this race, and doing it with my friends, and taking it just one step at a time,” she said.

Alex attended high school in Denver, Colo. before coming to Harvard.

Sunday, Scalise wrote that the Athletics Department will announce details for pregame activities “soon” after coordinating with the College’s Dean of Students Office.

The College’s DSO is currently in the process of hiring a graduate student to plan a campus-based “watch party” for undergraduates who choose not to make the trek from Harvard to Fenway Park, according to a job posting on the Student Employment Office database.

“As always, our goal is for students, alumni and fans to have a fun and safe experience,” Scalise wrote. “We are working closely with the Dean of Students Office to determine the feasibility of an on-campus event for students to gather and socialize together before the game, and we hope to have details to announce soon.”

Some students are less than impressed with administrative efforts so far.

“There’s been so much changing this school year with getting rid of Harvard Time, the new schedule, everything like that, it just seems like they are kind of uprooting a lot of things that Harvard students have really enjoyed and it seems asinine in my opinion,” Thompson added.

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Harvard Should Use Capital Campaign Funds Conservatively

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his past week, Harvard closed out a record-breaking campaign, raising $9.6 billion. The campaign is an extraordinary financial achievement and speaks to the phenomenal generosity and devotion of the Harvard network.

We congratulate the Harvard administration on the achievement, and especially on the $1.3 billion raised specifically for financial aid.

Nevertheless, we urge the administration to practice fiscal caution with the funds that have been raised.

Not only does Harvard face the first year of a new federal endowment tax on the income generated by the endowment, but the Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governor Jay Gonzalez is proposing a new tax on University endowments. Unlike the federal tax, this new proposal would tax the assets of Harvard’s endowment, costing the University over ten times as much.

Already, the federal tax will be a significant burden to the University endowment. Administrators estimated that in 2017, the tax would have cost the University $43 million. Administrators note that the tax limits the University’s programs to spend on important

research, as well as financial aid programs that are integral to Harvard’s support of low-income students. If this tax is now Harvard’s reality, then Gonzalez’s plan is only more concerning. His plan would cost the University over $500 million.

It follows that Harvard must be incredibly thoughtful about how it spends and more importantly saves the funds it has acquired as a result of the capital campaign. Though current use giving — or donations that could be spent as soon as they came in — was an exciting part of the campaign, we believe that immediate usage of the funds may not be the best for the University’s financial health. Though Gonzalez’s election is unlikely against popular incumbent Republican Charlie D. Baker ’79, the University should be preparing itself for a scenario in which it faces both the current federal and the proposed state tax, which is notably supported

by Cambridge Mayor Marc C. McGovern.

That being said, we are eager to see Harvard redouble its commitment to financial aid and the ongoing house renewal project. The $1.3 billion the University raised exclusively for financial aid is a remarkable accomplishment, and we hope the University continues

to prioritize the program in its fundraising and expenditure. The program marks one of Harvard’s most critical contributions to higher education and society as a whole, and we hope the University continues to lead the way in supporting low-income college students.

Likewise, the house renewal project has been a critical part of improving undergraduate life, especially as the University seeks to limit the sway of unrecognized single-gender social organizations on undergraduate student life. We look forward to the completion of Lowell House and the commencement of work on Adams House thereafter.

All who gave to and worked on the capital campaign should be applauded for this financial achievement.

However, the new federal endowment tax and the threat of an even more burdensome state one necessitate that the University proceed with fiscal caution.

This staff editorial 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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ominated to the Supreme Court on July 9, Brett M. Kavanaugh has since become the focus of a national reckoning over sexual assault in the context of his confirmation hearings. As multiple allegations of sexual misconduct have emerged against Kavanaugh at the height of the #MeToo movement, the fight over his confirmation has devolved into partisan mudslinging.

Though Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has stolen the headlines, it is not the only position he was slated to fill in the coming year. Kavanaugh is listed as a lecturer at Harvard Law School for the winter of 2019, where he has lectured since 2008. Since the emergence of allegations against Kavanaugh, the Law School has refused to say whether or not he will take up his post as a lecturer in the new year. Instead of refusing “to discuss personnel matters,” the response given by Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82, the University should consider carefully the costs of having an angry, partisan Supreme Court nominee who stands accused of sexual assault and potentially perjury teaching a class on the history of the Supreme Court since 2005.

Arguments against confirming Kavanaugh to the Court or allowing him back to Harvard on the basis of believing Dr. Ford and other accusers have already been made by Democrats on the national level and by law students writing in the Harvard Law Record.

I strongly support these arguments, but both for Dean Manning and Senate Republicans like Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, they have not appeared to be enough. Manning refused to comment, and Corker announced his support for the nomination, saying, “While both individuals provided compelling testimony, nothing that has been presented corroborates the allegation.”

Flake, another swing vote during the confirmation process, referenced due process in his statement on the morning Kavanaugh was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying, “Our system of justice affords a presumption of innocence to the accused, absent corroborating evidence.” Though Flake later pushed for and received a one-week postponement of Kavanaugh’s full Senate vote pending a brief FBI investigation, this rationale remains should the investigation fail to sway his opinion. To those who want to justify support for Kavanaugh, this argument has the advantage of not negating the severity of sexual assault or rape.

However, this argument holds little merit. What’s at stake for Kavanaugh is not conviction of a criminal offense. It is whether or not he is promoted to a lifetime appointment on the foremost judicial body in the

country. At the College, we know all too well the difficulties of being considered for jobs. Companies can and do search students’ social media profiles looking for information on what kind of people they might be outside of their professional context. When employers find images or other evidence that suggest anything other than the highest qualifications, we are not afforded the opportunity to defend or contextualize our actions. We are not told that because there is not enough proof to merit our conviction in a court of law, we will be given the benefit of the doubt. We are simply put in a reject pile and passed on for the next qualified applicant.

Similarly, when assessing Kavanaugh’s fitness to hold a position as a lecturer at HLS, questions about the credibility of the allegations are not the only worries for his appointment.

Can a person whose behavior as a teen is front and center in the fight for the future of the court, and who was so visibly emotional, angry, and nakedly partisan during his confirmation hearings be expected to provide an impartial discussion for his students?

Even if the answer is no, it could be argued that, like at the Kennedy School, people whose teaching is not politically neutral play an important role in networking the school into the professional world. However, taking that line of argument at the Law School can and should open up HLS to the same kinds of political liabilities that the Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School face. When Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo refused to show up to a scheduled event because Chelsea Manning was also invited to the IOP, the IOP revoked Manning’s offer. This decision had nothing to do with the educational merit of Manning’s appearance, or any judgment about her character, which had not changed between the time the invitation was issued and when it was revoked.

If that is the argument upon which the Law School bases a decision to keep Kavanaugh, should they elect to do so, then it is up to those who feel that Kavanaugh’s tenure at HLS is illegitimate to use similar tactics to ensure that he does not remain there.

Both respect for the severity of issues of sexual assault and considerations of educational and political merit demand that Kavanaugh not be invited to return to the Law School. Similarly, the tradition of innocent until proven guilty does not excuse him from the dangers that job-seekers face in every other context. Unless enough evidence of currently prosecutable criminal wrongdoing to justify charges accrues against him, Kavanaugh should return to his seat on the D.C. Circuit, where he should stay.

—Ari E. Benkler ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Leverett House.

n 2018, you’ll find a host of articles about all the things millennials have seem to killed: the diamond industry, home ownership, JonBenét Ramsey (well, maybe not the last one).

Far more interesting than multi-billion dollar industries made obsolete are what we’ve given life to: avocado toast, fidget spinners, and “woke” culture!

What does it mean to be woke?

Knowledge of social justice issues is so Civil Rights Era and (therefore) out of date. In the age of constant social media connection and instant gratification, we need excitement! Sustained community-based activism and political work just takes too long. Tweeting about how I just bought a PRIDE t-shirt and “ended homophobia” inside Target only takes a few seconds.

That, my friends, is woke culture in 2018: a performance in two parts — posting about social issues online and expectantly waiting for the affirmation to pour in.

To activate your woke starter kit, RSVP to a Facebook event. But you don’t actually have to go. It’s not even the thought that counts. What’s important is that other people see you had the seeming intention to go. However, if other people don’t like your RSVP to the Women’s March or environmental justice protest, you may as well cancel your intention to go anyway.

The whole “woke” concept started as a way for black people to remind one another of the importance of socio-po-

The whole “woke” concept, much like everything else in the United States, has been co-opted by the larger culture for their own selfenjoyment and capitalist gain. litical awareness as a means of survival. But much like everything else in the United States, it’s been co-opted by the larger culture for their own self-enjoyment and capitalist gain. In genesis of wokeness, crucial was the phrase “stay woke,” which emphasized that dismantling oppressive structures is a process that requires constant vigilance, un-learning, and re-learning.

Yet, our culture has decided active, continual engagement with wokeness — like free healthcare and Applebee’s — isn’t all that important. Instead, we value the image of performance of social awareness.

Performing such awareness means signaling values, acting as if you’ve got to show that you have the social justice know-how — regardless of your actual advocacy or beliefs — in order to prove that you’re smart, cool, and if you’re “privileged,” one of the good ones. “She’s woke,” we might say to describe someone to signal that we approve of her and suggest our friends do the same.

Performative wokeness is drowning your lecture comments with a host of social justice buzzwords — try favorites like intersectionality, marginalized, discourse, subjectivity, or any -ism — without regard to whether other people understand you. Forget interrogating that you likely only have some of this knowledge thanks to your $65,000+ education, which many of the communities you claim to be speaking for could never access: This is your self-congratulatory stage!

All of this is not to critique the afore-

mentioned social justice words or concepts themselves. The problem exists in how performative wokeness weaponizes them. Woke culture separates these ideas from the oppressions they give us frameworks for understanding and from the communities they seek to empower. Instead, critical concepts become tools for bolstering our own self-image and earning each others’ approval.

How do I know woke culture so well? I’ve spent my fair share of time in social justice spaces, surrounded by “leftist” kids with more virtue-signaling pins on their backpacks than minutes dedicated to community service.

I’ve read treatises on white privilege by folks who cross the street when they see a black person.

What really made me question the authenticity of some woke-card carriers was the repeated explanation of my own experiences for the sake of proving how “down” they are. Their eyes doggedly search my black-womanly face for any scraps of woke-brownie points they can get. You don’t have to explain racism to me. I’m glad you’ve seen “13th” and have read bell hooks and attended a Black Lives Matter rally.

Sometimes I want to talk about whether Kim Kardashian’s braids look good or not without having a white girl explain cultural appropriation to me.

But how do I really know woke culture? Because I’m part of it too. I spend more time reading anti-capitalist Tumblr posts than I do community organizing. I’ve taken pictures at a protest and posted them on Instagram. Heck, I’ve written a multi-paragraph Facebook polemic (or 12).

That’s how I know the wanna-bewoke among us don’t always have bad intentions. Sometimes posting on the Internet or wearing that strongly-worded t-shirt feel easier than trying to fix a world that feels engulfed in an indomitable, metaphorical-sociopolitical fire. And the truth of the matter is that activism and social change don’t always feel glamorous.

So I’m not saying we should never wear feminist t-shirts again or that there’s no value to talking about social justice online. One could argue such efforts, particularly online discussions, which offer knowledge and information to people who otherwise lack access to them, are crucial to consciousness raising. However, I do contend that it’s worth questioning why and how we and those we encounter are (seemingly) advancing the causes they do.

If woke culture presents another oppressive force we need to combat, how do we join the #resistance? I guess we could go outside and canvass for the November midterm elections. Vote when the time comes. Tutor kids after school. Join a mentoring program. Volunteer with a hunger relief organization, animal hospital, or homeless shelter. There are a number of activist or volunteer efforts you and I could help advance in a world of seemingly endless need.

But what if no one’s around to see what we’re doing? If a tree falls in the forest, and it doesn’t make a sound, is it really woke?

We may not save the world from global mass extinction in 2100, but at least we felt good about ourselves for barely trying. And looked good online doing it.

—Jenna M. Gray ’19 is a Sociology concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.

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Harvard Notches Fifth Shutout in Victory Over Yale By bryan hu Crimson Staff Writer

Imagine a slow chess match.

Both sides have time to think, to calculate.

Now imagine a third baseman fielding a rocket line drive.

There’s no time to calculate — only time for instinct to kick in.

The Harvard women’s soccer team returned home this weekend to take on the Yale Bulldogs in a fast-paced, back-and-forth game decided by which team had the greater killer instinct.

A moment’s hesitation on either side of the ball meant a missed opportunity or an allowed goal.

“Yale has a high-powered offense, but we knew that they’d also been susceptible at the back,” head coach Chris Hamblin said. “We knew this was going to be a wide-open game.

We said to the team before the game, ‘We have to make sure that we are taking advantage of their backline better than they take advantage of ours.’”

With an incessantly aggressive defense, yet another shutout performance by its goalkeeper, and a first-half game-winner from freshman defender Jillian Wachira, the Crimson demonstrated how effective its hunger to win can be in a 1-0 victory over Yale on Saturday night.

The win gives Harvard (44-1, 1-0-1 Ivy) its first conference triumph and extends its non-losing streak to three.

Yale (5-4-1, 0-2-0), meanwhile, leaves Jordan Field still searching for its first Ivy win.

Wachira, a rookie out of Plainsboro, N.J., provided the decisive lift to the Crimson squad with a left-footed strike just inside the box past Yale junior goalie Alyssa Fagel in the 29th minute. The tally, aside from being the game-winner, was also Wachira’s first career goal.

“I just saw the pocket and I went,” Wachira said. “Lara [Schenk] got the ball, I called for it, luckily she played me, and

I was like, ‘You know what, I might as well take it.’ I beat the girl and I just shot.”

Freshman midfielder Lara Schenk, previously a member of the German Youth National Team U15-U19, was credited with her first points of the season. Playing her first game in a Harvard jersey, Schenk provided the assist to Wachira from midfield. Wachira gathered the pass, beat the first defender, and rocketed a shot inside the right post with another defender in her face.

“I was afraid it wasn’t going to go in,” Wachira added with a laugh. “But, you know, I took my chance.”

With the scoreline at 1-0, the Crimson kept up its high-energy play to keep the Bulldogs off the board.

Junior defender Kimaya Cole, sophomore defender Linda Liedel, and Wachira were at the heart of an assertive defense that controlled the sidelines and pushed up to challenge every one of Yale’s attacks. As a unit, the Crimson has not allowed a goal in its last three games, and on the season, has won all four of its victories in shutout fashion.

Anchoring the defense thus far has been senior goalkeeper Danielle Etzel. The veteran has allowed only two goals in nine games this season, sporting a .913 save percentage and a 4-2-1 win-loss record.

In fact, Etzel hasn’t allowed a goal since Aug. 26, over a month ago. In addition, the senior out of Madison, Conn., leads the Ivy League with a 0.30 goals-against-average over 600-plus minutes of action.

On Saturday night, Etzel made three saves in 90 minutes of work for her fourth individual shutout of the season. One of those saves was a crucial leg save late in the first half to preserve the 1-0 lead.

“I think it just comes down to trust and working for each other, working with each other,” Etzel said. “We all have that

BALL PLAY Freshmen defender Jillian Wachira makes a move against a Yale player in Saturday night’s 1-0 victory.

same mindset, that same goal that we’re achieving — to get a shutout — and we lift each other up.”

On the other end of the ball, Hamblin noted that Harvard created a bevy of scoring chances but failed to capitalize on them in the heat of the frenzies.

The Crimson took 11 shots to the Bulldogs’ nine, and took three corners while Yale took four.

Sophomore forward Murphy Agnew took four of Harvard’s shots, two of them forcing saves.

“We did a really good job in creating chances today —w e probably created as many chances as we’ve created this season,” Hamblin said. “We’d have liked to have scored more, but we didn’t. We had to rely on team defensive play to enable us to get out with a win. It showed us we have the quality to get

good chances, but now we have to go and make sure we’re putting those away.”

Notably, in the first minute of the second half, both Agnew and freshman forward Sophie Hirst had chances deep in the box to score with the Bulldog goalie on the ground, but the ball was cleared following a scramble in front of the net.

Senior co-captain Zayne Matulis subsequently cleaned up the rebound and sent a shot directly into the body of her teammate Hirst, who unknowingly saved a goal for Yale whilst on the ground.

Throughout the game, it was clear that the scoreline could easily have been more than just 1-0. Moving forward, key for the Crimson will be finishing the opportunities it creates.

But until next weekend,

when it takes on Cornell at home, Harvard can practice this week knowing it surpassed its Ivy League rival in a game full of counterattacks and allout sprints. Keeping up the energy to compete stride-forstride with its competition was paramount.

“It comes from the team atmosphere, us holding each other up, knowing that we were getting fatigued,” Wachira said.

“We’re very close as a team — we don’t really have cliques, everyone is very close with everyone, and I think that helps because it creates such a supportive environment.”

That kind of team chemistry was fostered enormously by last year’s graduating Crimson seniors of 2018, with whom Wachira and her fellow rookies didn’t get to play, but with

henry zhu—Crimson photographer

whom players such as Etzel and the rest of the upperclassmen did. The holdover environment has seemingly been passed on to the 2018-19 squad.

With one win and one draw under its belt in Ivy League play, Harvard can look to the future with optimism.

“I think just build on momentum,” said Etzel of the approach to the team’s upcoming games. “We played pretty well this game, not getting too far ahead of ourselves and keeping our heads down and [keeping on] working.”

The Crimson’s 1-0 victory over Yale on Saturday night is a form of revenge for Harvard, which lost handily to the Bulldogs in New Haven last year, 3-0. bryan.hu@thecrimson.com

Women’s volleyball

Columbia, Cornell Best Harvard in Weekend Matches By katie o’meara contributing writer

Though co-captain Christina Cornelius secured 23 kills for the Crimson over two Ivy League conference games, Harvard fell 3-1 to both Cornell and Columbia on the road this

weekend.

Following a four game win streak in the middle of September, the Crimson’s quest for the Ancient Eight title has hit a roadblock with the start of Ivy League play. Since Sept. 21, Harvard (5-7, 0-3 Ivy) has lost to Dartmouth (5-8, 1-2), Cor-

nell (8-5, 3-0) and Columbia (85, 3-1). These games have been marked by strong defensive plays and offensive struggles.

COLUMBIA 3, HARVARD 1 On Saturday, the Crimson traveled to New York City to take on Columbia. Following a career

high 43 assists against Columbia, freshman setter and outside hitter Bella Almanza recorded 27 of Harvard’s 38 assists on the game, helping Cornelius connect on 15 kills, two shy of her career record of 17.

After Columbia captured the first set, 25-19, and the second

SET UP With the two losses,Harvard’s record falls to 5-7 and the team remains winless in the Ivy League. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

set, 25-16, Cornelius came alive with five kills, each assisted by Almanza, in the third set.

At first, the Lions and the Crimson traded points, until Harvard went on a 10-2 run, allowing the momentum of the set to turn their direction. Within this run, Almanza assisted on the kills, which came from across all the Crimson’s court.

Even with the momentum of the third set, Harvard battled, but dropped the fourth set, 2225, to go 0-2 on the weekend.

CORNELL 3, HARVARD 1 On Friday, the Crimson fought against Cornell in all four sets, losing 20-25 in the first, 19-25 in the third, and 17-25 in the fourth. Sophomore outside hitter Mindie Mabry had a standout game against the Big Red as she amassed 10 kills over the four sets.

In the first set, Harvard was down by as many as nine points, ultimately fighting back to only lose the set by five. According to senior middle/right side attacker Jocelyn Meyer, the Crimson struggled at the start against the Big Red. “Definitely at the beginning of both matches we were struggling to get started,” Meyer said.

“But once we got started we were making some pretty great plays, getting scrappy touches, picking it up on our block, getting touches on the block, but from there we were not translating those touches into offensive points.”

Harvard bounced back after the slow first set. After three straight kills by Mabry, junior outside hitter Grace Roberts Burbank, and junior middle blocker Maclaine Fields, the

Crimson stole the momentum of the match early. But the Big Red continued to put up a fight, creating a battle between the two sides.

At one point tied 15-15, Harvard capitalized on Cornell errors to pull the set away, ultimately winning 25-21. Following the second set, the momentum turned toward the Big Red as the home team captured both the third set, 19-25, and the fourth set, 17-25.

Looking forward, Cornelius hopes that the team uses this weekend to help light a fire under the team during practice.

“We just need to get into our season,” Cornelius said. “One thing that our team talks about all the time is ‘glurgency’ in practice, which basically means game-like urgency. So in practice instead of thinking, ‘Oh it’s just practice,’ I am going to play with the mentality that I would play with in a game. So making sure that we are intentional about every pass, every set, every hit that we do. Making sure that when we see our own players on the other side of the net we are actually imagining playing Penn, Princeton, Yale.”

As the team’s season continues, both Meyer and Cornelius are excited at the team’s prospects, as the Crimson plays each conference team twice.

“We definitely need to keep in mind that anything can happen in the Ivy League,” Meyer said. “It is tough obviously if you start off with three losses in the Ivy League since it is so competitive in the race for the Ivy League ring. But we have seen in the past couple of years how anything can happen, even if you lose a couple of matches.”

Sports Weekend Recap

SCORES

Women’s volleyball @ cornell l, 3-1 ________________________________________________________

women’s tennis vs, boston college W, 8-2 ________________________________________________________

woMen’s tennis vs. cornell w, 7-1 ________________________________________________________

women’s soccer vs. yale w, 1-0 ________________________________________________________

men’s water polo @ iona w, 16-8 ________________________________________________________

men’s water polo @ st. francis w, 15-14 ________________________________________________________

men’s soccer vs. yale w, 1-0 ________________________________________________________

women’s tennis vs. Dartmouth w, 6-3 ________________________________________________________

Women’s volleyball @ columbia L, 3-1 ________________________________________________________

men’s water polo @ no. 12 princeton w, 13-12 ________________________________________________________ Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

football

Kicker Junior kick Jake McIntyre went a perfect three-for-three on his kicks on Friday night. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

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The crowd was louder and the Harvard defense more energetic, but the seven points from Darrington’s run would be the last of the night for either team.

Through the first two games, the Crimson had averaged 251.5 rushing yards. Tonight, it earned 101. Third downs were a particular strong point for Smith against Brown. Tonight, the sophomore was just 2-of-14.

Throughout the contest, both offenses were held relatively mute. In the first 15 minutes of play, the teams netted 36 yards of offense.

By the end of the first half, Harvard had one rushing yard.

It wasn’t until three minutes into the second quarter that a touchdown was finally scored. One pass earlier, Rams quarterback JaJuan Lawson missed a wide open Joey Kenny in the flat as he sent his pass to a receiver closer to the sideline. The next time he didn’t.

Lawson dropped into the pocket, looked right before firing the pass left into the hands of a wide open Kenny. The tight end let his momentum carry him into the endzone for his longest career reception and touchd o w n pass. 9-3, Rhode Island.

The Crimson ran three plays and returned the ball to the visitors, allowing Lawson to the take the field yet again. The captain did his duty, carrying the squad back down the field.

Though he had gone three-for-six with one interception in the first quarter, he hit three consecutive passes on this nine-play, 89-yard drive.

Sophomore wideout Isaiah Coulter broke on a seam route, creating distance between him and junior Emmanuel Kelly, taking the pass in stride for 45 yards. Two plays later, Coulter lost his corner and Lawson went back to him this time for 15.

Lawson handed the ball for no gain before finding redshirt senior Marvin Beauvais for 10 yards. From the Crimson nine-yard line, Lawson felt pressure on his left and escaped right. Seeing no one open, the dual threat quarterback took it himself, earning the visitors another six points and taking a healthy hit on the thigh. Lawson never returned to the field and the Rhode Island offense did not again return to the end zone.

“They’re going to make some plays, but we’re going to make some plays too,” Harvard captain Zach Miller said. “Our guys are athletic, we’ve worked hard every week, so we were ready for them.”

In Lawson’s stead, Priore — a play caller with three career passes to his name — took the offensive reins. The quarterback earned two first downs during his 35 minutes.

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both have a lot of ability. Obviously, those were a couple of tough ones, but those kids will get better. They’ll learn from it. They’ll get a little more hardened through this experience.”

Dorsey struck again to begin the second half. After putting up three, the Crimson sent the ball back to returner again. This time even Lipel couldn’t stop him. The junior wideout made a move in the middle and straddled the Harvard bench as he took the kick 97 yards to put Rhode Island up, 23-6. It was the first time the Crimson had allowed a a kickoff return for a touchdown since 2005, and it would be the last time the Rams scored.

“When I get back there, I tell myself no one will tackle me,” Dorsey said. “I trust my teammates to make a block for me and I just do my thing.”

Harvard’s offense didn’t score until the fourth quarter, and until that point it was place kicker Jake McIntyre that kept the Crimson in the game. Hitting all three kicks — one from 37 and two from 34 yards out — McIntyre accounted for all nine of Harvard’s points up to the fourth quarter.

With the Crimson down 17, it was sophomore running back Devin Darrington that breathed life into the lifeless offense. Taking the field at the Rhode Island 49-yard line, Darrington scrambled for eight yards. Smith then found junior Jack Cook for five yards before Darrington sprinted through the defensive line for career-long 36 yard run, scoring the Crimson’s only offensive touchdown of the night. Suddenly the gap was just seven.

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Rhode Island sophomore backup quarterback Vito Priore took his drop and telegraphed his target, a sprinting receiver down the visiting sideline. His defender, senior defensive back Wes Ogsbury, had his back to the ball so it didn’t matter. Then he didn’t.

The senior peeked over his shoulder, highpointed the pass, and tumbled into the end zone with the ball.

Down seven, 80 yards stood between the Crimson and sending the game into overtime. On the first play, sophomore quarterback Jake Smith escaped the pocket, bounced off his own lineman and rocketed an off-balance pass to Adam Scott for 23 yards. Smith dropped back again, but this time his pass found a different target — Rams linebacker Justin Hogan.

The interception silenced the hollering Harvard home crowd. Rhode Island wasted what little remained of the fourth quarter, leaving 30 seconds for the Crimson to toss a few deep passes and attempt a hook-and-ladder. The ball fell to the turf and the Rams celebrated the 23-16 victory under the lights of Harvard Stadium.

Smith’s final interception marked a three-drive skid in which the two teams tossed interceptions on each drive. First Smith, then Priore, then Smith again — a fitting conclusion to a contest that featured so little offensive production by both squads.

“In that situation there’s a sense of desperation,” Harvard coach Tim

Murphy said. “The defense is going to crowd a bunch of guys and it’s challenging to make big plays when they know you have to throw the football.”

Entering the fifth-ever match between Rhode Island (3-1, 2-0 CAA) and the Crimson, the latter’s defense had allowed 15.5 points per game this season. The Rams’ offense, on the other hand, had been lights out, scoring 38.3 per game, including dropping 49 points on Connecticut in a close loss.

Tonight’s game was expected to be a battle between these two fronts. Instead, the special teams units hoarded the spotlight. Rhode Island’s Ahmere Dorsey shined brightest.

Harvard (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) won the opening toss and decided to defer. Dorsey took the kick and sprinted down his own sideline for 51 yards before being forced back into the defense by freshman kicker Jonah Lipel.

The Crimson defense shuttered the drive but the return pushed Harvard against its own end zone. Three plays later, out came the Crimson special teams unit. Freshman punter Jon Sot muffed the snap and sent the punt into the back of his blocker. The ball wobbled out the back of the end zone, handing two points to the Rams for the first points of the night and the squad’s first safety in 91 games. It was the first time all season that Harvard had allowed an opponent to light up the scoreboard first.

“We’ve got some young guys in there because of injuries,” Murphy said. “We have a freshman kickoff guy, freshman punter. They’re both good kids. They

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Lawson wasn’t the only quarterback taking heavy hits.

One play after Lawson limped off the field, Smith escaped the pocket and netted 14 yards on the scramble from pressure. As he was trying to make a move prior to sliding, a Rams linebacker smothered him. Smith rose slowly, so the official called a timeout and forced him off the field. In came senior quarterback Tom Stewart. The senior immediately went to work, dishing the ball off to Aaron Shampklin for six yards before nailing senior Justice Shelton-Mosley on the edge for 17. The three subsequent incomplete passes, one dropped and one prompted by a quarterback hurry, returned Sot to the turf. Smith took back the offensive reins on the next drive.

The one offensive bright spot for Harvard was Justice Shelton-Mosley, who caught 10 passes on the night for 80 yards. With the effort, the senior is now third place in program history for passes pulled in.

Kelly and senior Richie Ryan headlined the defense with the former breaking up two passes, notching an interception and adding five tackles to stat line. Ryan earned six tackles and 1.5 sacks.

Prior to last season, the Crimson boasted a 14-0 record under the colosseum lights. The last two games under darkness here at Harvard Stadium have ended in a Crimson defeat. cade.palmer@thecrimson.com