The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 96

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume cxlv, No. 96 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | thursday, october 4, 2018

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Harvard University Health Services should make its survey results public.

Entering week four, the Ivy League football scene begins to take shape.

After its contract deadline passes, Harvard’s largest union seeks help.

Diving Harvard Affiliates Keep Knocking Kavanaugh Must Coach Senate Reject Judge, Put On Law Profs Argue in NYT Leave

By Alexandra A. Chaidez

A lawsuit alleges that ex-head diving coach Heaton solicited nude photos from swimmers.

By madeleine r. Nakada and leon k. yang Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard has placed the head coach of its diving program Chris Heaton on leave after a class-action suit filed in an Indiana court alleged that the 31-year-old solicited nude pictures from and sent photos of his penis to young female swimmers years ago.

Heaton — who is named in the suit, but not as a defendant — allegedly committed the acts of sexual misconduct when he was teaching at the Indiana Diving Academy known as Ripfest, according to the suit. Athletes began complaining about Heaton’s behavior to his superiors in 2015, the suit says.

Harvard did not know about the allegations against Heaton when it hired him two months ago, according to University spokesperson Rachael Dane.

“Harvard University was unaware of any allegations of sexual misconduct when Mr. Heaton was hired as the Head Coach for Diving in August 2018,” Dane wrote in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Upon learning of these allegations from media reports, Harvard immediately placed Mr. Heaton on leave, pending a review of these allegations by Harvard University.”

Heaton could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. CNN first reported that Harvard had placed the coach on leave.

The lawsuit, filed Sept. 30 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, details both Heaton’s alleged misbehavior and students’ frequent — but unsuccessful — attempts to alert Ripfest president John Wingfield to Heaton’s conduct.

“On numerous occasions…

Chris Heaton solicited nude pictures from female athletes at Ripfest,” the suit states. “Heaton sent pictures of his penis to young female athletes.”

Wingfield, however, was ­

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Roughly two dozen Harvard Law School professors have signed a New York Times editorial arguing that the United States Senate should not confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Harvard affiliates — including former Law School Dean Martha L. Minow and Laurence Tribe — joined more than 1,000 law professors across the country in signing the editorial, published online Wednesday. The professors wrote that Kavanaugh displayed a lack of “impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land” in the heated testimony he gave during a nationally televised hearing held Sept. 27 in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Judge Kavanaugh exhibited a lack of commitment to judicious inquiry,” the letter read. “Instead of being open to the necessary search for accuracy, Judge Kavanaugh was repeatedly aggressive with

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University President Lawrence S. Bacow acknowledged in his first full-length sit-down with The Crimson last week that the brand-new, Republican-backed tax on Harvard’s $39.2 billion endowment will deal a blow to the University — but said he will protect the school’s financial aid programs at almost any cost.

The University will pay taxes for the first time on its fiscal year 2019 returns, meaning it won’t actually shell out money to the federal government until the fall of 2019. The funds to pay the tax — which is calculated based on the school’s endowment annual returns, rather than the total endowment sum — will have to come out of the University’s annual operating budget. ­

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Grad Council Urges Harvard to Investigate Trump’s Choice By shera s. Avi-yonah Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard Graduate Council published an open letter Wednesday asserting it supports the federal investigation ­

into Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and urging the University to undertake its own probe into sexual misconduct allegations brought against the embattled Supreme Court nominee and former Harvard Law lecturer.

Harvard Law School administrators have repeatedly refused to say whether the school is investigating or plans to investigate Kavanaugh. The FBI on Wednesday concluded a roughly week-long probe

By Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel Crimson Staff Writers

HUCTW members stationed themselves behind multiple tables around campus Wednesday to garner support for continued negotiations with University administrators. Caleb D. Schwartz—Crimson photographer

“I can’t tell you where the money’s going to come from,” Bacow said. “But if you ask me what are my priorities, my priorities would be to save money in other areas. The last thing which I would do is cut financial aid.”

Last week the University announced that its endowment returned 10 percent, faring better than it has over the past two years.

The unprecedented endowment tax — the product of last year’s Republican tax overhaul — would have cost the University $43 million in 2017, according to Harvard’s estimates.

Bacow said that amounts to about $2,000 per every student who attends Harvard, or roughly 25 percent of the school’s total undergraduate financial aid

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into allegations of sexual misconduct brought against the nominee by at least three women, according to the Washington Post. The Council, which

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Students To Testify In Admissions Trial

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Bacow Says Tax To Be a Heavy Burden By jamie d. halper

Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh speaking at Harvard Law School’s bicentennial celebration in Oct. 2017. Kavanaugh has taught courses at the school since 2008, though he recently announced he would not be returning to lecture at the school this winter. courtesy of Martha Stewart.

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Eight of the students and alumni who petitioned to testify at the upcoming Harvard admissions trial will have the opportunity to speak in support of the College in court, U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled Wednesday morning.

Burroughs’s ruling came as part of the case’s final pre-trial hearing, which lawyers for Harvard attended along with attorneys for Students for Fair Admissions — the anti-affirmative action group that sued the University in 2014 over allegations that the College discriminates against Asian-American applicants. Harvard has repeatedly denied all allegations

of discrimination and argues the consideration of race in the admissions process is vital to achieve diversity at the College.

Six alumni and eight current students, some of them representing University-affiliated organizations, had previously asked the court for permission to testify in favor of Harvard’s affirmative action policies.

Lawyers representing some of the students wrote in previous court filings that their clients are uniquely positioned to share their experiences as “ethno-racial minorities.”

Harvard asked the court last month to admit testimony from the students and alumni. SFFA, however, claimed such testimony would be irrelevant, arguing that the individuals are

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Khurana Talks To All-Male Groups

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By caroline s. engelmayer and michael e. xie Crimson Staff Writers

College administrators are “in dialogue” with some of the few single-gender social groups left on campus about the possibility of going gender-neutral and thus avoiding Harvard’s sanctions, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in an interview last Thursday.

Fourteen formerly single-gender groups — including every all-female group on campus — have already vowed to go co-ed in exchange for ­

The Graduate Student Council held a meeting Wednesday to discuss what a replacement for Harvard’s traditional course registration system, shopping week, might look like. shera s. avi-yonah—Crimson photographer

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For Dinner Emerald Beef and Vegetable Stir Fry Spanish Style Roasted Chicken Vegetable Edamame Dumplings

Today’s Events

in The Real World

Question and Answer Hasty Pudding Clubhouse, 4 p.m.

Feds Send First Emergency Message Test to Cell Phones

There will be a Q&A with Mike Reiss, a writer for the Simpsons, at the Hasty Pudding (45 Dunster St.) in conjunction with the OCS! Please sign up in advance.

Today was the first nationwide test of the system built by the federal government and cell phone carriers to warn Americans of emergency situations such as a terror attack. While the alert system is very similar to Amber Alerts, it is run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A Talk with Dr. Rebecca Ploof William James Hall, 7 p.m.

Dear Christine Blasey Ford: I, Too, Was Sexually Assaulted

This is the first conversation in a seminar series relating social theory to real-world, contemporary issues. The event is being hosted by the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, in William James Hall.

Daily Briefing

Slam Poetry Queen’s Head Pub, 6 p.m.

Harvard has placed the head coach of its diving program Chris Heaton on leave after a suit filed in an Indiana court alleged he solicited nude pictures from and sent photos of his penis to young female swimmers years ago.

Join CEB at 6 p.m. in the Queen’s Head for a slam poetry night! More importantly, there will be wings, cookies, and other treats.

In other news, 25 Harvard Law School professors signed a New York Times op-ed arguing the Senate should not confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh — and Harvard students will be permitted to testify in the upcoming admissions trial.

First-year students discuss their experiences so far at Harvard at a Harvard Women’s Center’s event: “Womanhood: Setting your Own Standards.” Chloe i. Yu—Crimson photographer

Connie Chung, a broadcast journalist, penned an open letter to Christine Blasey Ford in which she shared publicly for the first time that she was sexually assaulted. In a powerful Washinton Post piece, she wrote about the event and about the difference between not being able to remember a lie and not being able to forget the truth.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Ending Protections For Some Immigrants U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco has barred the Trump Administration from ending protections that have allowed immigrants from four countries to legally live and work in the United States. Judge Chen has granted a request for a preliminary injunction against the administration’s decision.

Around the Ivies Dartmouth The Trustees of Dartmouth College filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Sept. 18, the Dartmouth reported. The complaint — which was filed in conjunction with ChromaDex, a California-based dietary supplement company — alleges that Elysium Health, another dietary supplement company, misrepresented its products in marketing and used intellectual property of Dartmouth and ChromaDex without permission.

The complaint concerns two patents obtained by Charles Brenner in 2004, while he was a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine.

Yale Yale has hired 65 new faculty members under its Faculty Excellence and Diversity Initiative since it started in 2015, according to the Yale Daily News.

The program was instantiated during a period of elevated discussions of race on campus after several high-ranking faculty members left the university. The program, which came with a $50 million price tag, recruited 15 new faculty in the last year, according to an email from the provost’s office. Apart from recruiting new professors, the initiative also sponsors programs to fund development workshops for graduate students; 25 students will benefit from such programs this year.

UPENN An alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania gifted $50 million to the business school, breaking the record for the largest single contribution in the school’s history, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. Marc J. Rowan and his wife Carolyn Rowan designated the gift to fund the Rowan Distinguished Professorships and Rowan Fellows Program.

Additionally, $12 million of the gift will go toward a new initiative to “launch Wharton to the forefront of public policy innovation.”

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questioners.”

As of Wednesday evening, 25 Harvard Law professors had signed the article, which authors indicated “will be updated as more signatures are received.” The signatories plan to present the story as a letter to the United States Senate on Oct. 4.

Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate committee to address allegations of sexual misconduct raised by Palo Alto psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of attempting to rape her at a house party in 1982 in suburban Maryland.

Ford recounted these allegations in detail to the Judiciary Committee last Thursday before Kavanaugh himself testi­

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After Ford went public with her allegations, two more women — Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick — came forward with their own charges. Ramirez said Kavanaugh shoved his penis in her face at a party during their freshman year at Yale College and Swetnick issued a statement in which she said she saw Kavanaugh engage in “inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s.”

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied these allegations.

During last Thursday’s hearing, he vehemently and angrily insisted that the women’s tales of sexual misconduct formed part of a partisan plot by the Democrats to ruin his nomination.

The professors did not take a stance on the allegations against Kavanaugh, focusing instead on the judge’s temperament and writing that “we have differing views about the other qualifications of Judge Kavanaugh.”

The Crimson reported Monday evening that Kavanaugh will not return to teach at the Law School this winter.

He was originally slated to teach a class titled “The Supreme Court Since 2005” for three weeks starting in early January. Kavanaugh has lectured at the Law School for roughly a decade.

In their letter, the professors wrote that “judicial temperament” numbers among the “most important qualities of a judge” and that Kavanaugh’s

lack of composure at his hearing is “disqualifying” for a nomination “for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land.”

The professors also criticized Kavanaugh for calling the hearing “partisan” and for displaying agitation over Senators’ questions.

“Instead of trying to sort out with reason and care the allegations that were raised, Judge Kavanaugh responded in an intemperate, inflammatory and partial manner, as he interrupted and, at times, was discourteous to senators,” the professors wrote.

Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 was not among the letter’s signatories. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com

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Diving Some College Students Can Coach Testify in Admissions Trial Placed On Leave “dismissive” of the female athletes’ complaints about Heaton, according to the suit. Wingfield could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

Instead, Chris Zukas, another Ripfest coach, stepped in, according to the suit.

Zukas “was instrumental in getting Heaton to leave Ripfest,” the suit states.

Harvard hired Heaton in August 2018. At the time, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise praised the new coach in a press release.

“Chris is an outstanding coach and educator,” Scalise said at the time. “He brings a great track record of helping students achieve success at the highest level.”

Heaton said in the release that he was thrilled to accept the position as head diving coach.

Mentioning his wife and three daughters, he said he was eager to start work.

“My wife, three daughters, and I are excited to relocate to Cambridge,” Heaton said. “I look forward to bringing my knowledge, experience, and passion to the team and partnering with the coaching staff to continue to foster an environment that creates successful scholars, athletes, and leaders.”

Heaton is not the only Harvard Athletics employee to face allegations of sexual misbehavior in the past year.

Former Harvard track coach Walter W. Johnson ’71 was arrested and charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography in April 2017. He had served as a track coach for the University’s men’s and women’s teams from 1982 to 2006. madeleine.nakada@thecrimson.com leon.yang@thecrimson.com

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unfamiliar with the intricacies of the Harvard admissions process.

But the student and alumni petitions — as well as Harvard’s on their behalf — won the day. When the trial begins on Oct. 15, the witnesses will have their day in court — though that means they may also be subject to cross-examination.

Judge Burroughs wrote in a Wednesday court order that she believes some of the additional testimony would “advance justice.”

“Both amicus groups offer to present testimony from individuals with valuable perspectives that will otherwise be absent from the trial record,” Burroughs wrote.

Burroughs also handed down a ruling Wednesday regarding what evidence will remain sealed in the case.

She said that any documents that either Harvard or SFFA “rely on” in the trial must become part of the public record.

Burroughs agreed to grant certain exceptions, however, agreeing to redacting sensitive information such as students’ names.

“If we rely on it, I feel like it should be in the public domain,” she said.

Burroughs asked that both parties limit the volume of their

evidence submissions in order to avoid “a wholesale data dump” that would unnecessarily prolong the trial.

How confidential information is handled in the case was a major bone of contention between Harvard and SFFA in the pre-trial phase of the suit.

SFFA pushed for the unsealing of many documents filed as evidence — such as internal admissions office emails and student application files — while Harvard repeatedly demanded privacy for its students and faculty.

Several thousand of pages revealing previously confidential details of Harvard’s admissions process — ranging from the school’s rating system for applicants’ “personal qualities” to the substantially higher admit rate seen by Harvard legacy students — became public over the summer.

Another outstanding disagreement between SFFA and Harvard was whether Harvard’s history of anti-Semitic discrimination during the early 1900s may be discussed at the trial. Burroughs decided the evidence would be allowed at the trial, but only in a “very limited” capacity.

Harvard previously argued any historical discrimination has no bearing on the current allegations, while SFFA argued

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Council Says No to Kavanaugh comprises representatives from each of Harvard’s 12 graduate schools, voted to release the statement — posted on Facebook — at a meeting Tuesday evening.

“The Harvard Graduate Council (HCG) is deeply moved by the accounts of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and Julie Swetnick,” the letter reads. “The Harvard Graduate Council demands that the Congress of the United States withold its vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court until a thorough and independent investigation has been completed into the allegations of sexual assault levied against him.”

The Senate will review the contents of the FBI report in coming days and Republicans hope to hold a final vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation on Friday, according to the Post.

The Council’s letter comes days after The Crimson reported Kavanaugh would not return to teach a January course at Harvard Law School following weeks of student outcry over his continued employment at the school.

Both he and University President Lawrence S. Bacow have indicated he made the decision to leave on his own.

President Donald Trump nominated the conservative

judge to the Supreme Court in July. His ascension to the nation’s highest court seemed all but certain until the first woman spoke up in mid-September.

Ford granted the Washington Post a tell-all interview roughly two weeks ago, telling the newspaper that Kavanaugh had tried to rape her at a house party the two attended in suburban Maryland in the 1980s. Days later, Ramirez told the New Yorker Kavanaugh had pushed his penis in her face at a party both attended while they were undergraduates at Yale. And last Wednesday, Swetnick said in a sworn affidavit that Kavanaugh was present while a group of teenage boys drugged and raped her at a D.C.-area party in 1982.

At Harvard, where Kavanaugh has taught since 2008, the allegations prompted students at the Law School to protest Kavanaugh’s confirmation and to demand Harvard launch its own probe into the allegations against the nominee.

HGC members wrote in Wednesday’s letter that they agree with those who have demanded Harvard investigate Kavanaugh, arguing that every allegation against a faculty member should lead in an internal investigation.

“HGC celebrates the activism of students who have demanded that the Harvard ad-

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the decades-old evidence points to a history of discrimination perpetrated in the College’s applications process.

Burroughs told the lawyers she believes this history is of “limited relevance” since a “vast amount of time” has passed since that era of admissions at the College.

“I don’t find it particularly relevant, but others may,” Burroughs said, adding that she believes the court should “develop as thorough a factual record as possible.”

Though the trial was originally scheduled to last three weeks, Harvard and SFFA suggested they may need as long as four weeks in a joint Monday filing. Burroughs, however, asked the lawyers Wednesday to limit the duration of the trial.

Judge Burroughs asked the attorneys whether they believed space in her courtroom would be sufficient and — expecting significant public interest in the trial — determined the case may require an overflow courtroom.

Burroughs — who serves at the U.S. District Court in Boston — will adjudicate the allegations of discrimination in the October trial without a jury.

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ministration initiate a separate investigation into Judge Brett Kavanaugh in lieu of his scheduled January lecture at the Harvard Law School,” the letter reads. “No professor who is accused of a serious crime like sexual assault should be allowed to continue teaching without an investigation into the allegations.”

“The administration must consistently uphold this standard of scrutiny and accountablity in all instances of sexual assault across the university,” the letter continues.

The council’s letter is meant to represent the views of Harvard’s graduate student community at large. Harvard Graduate Council president Max Vani wrote in an email that “the Council decided that high-profile matters surrounding sexual assault are of university-wide importance and should be addressed collectively by all of Harvard’s constituent schools.”

The effort forms part of a larger push by the group to speak out about national and local issues affecting graduate students. At the same meeting, the council discussed the possibility of forming an External Affairs subcommittee specifically charged with releasing these kinds of statements. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com

By Luke w. vrotsos Crimson Staff Writer

­arvard School of Public H Health Dean Michelle A. Williams plans to use the added cash raised through the school’s capital campaign to bolster financial aid programs, renovate old campus buildings, and erect new ones, she said in an interview Wednesday.

The school announced its capital campaign fundraising total of $933 million two weeks ago.

Williams said she wants to invest some of the school’s newfound riches in major infrastructure projects that will help consolidate and update its campus.

“A major priority emerging after the successful campaign has to be a campaign to help us rebuild our campus,” she said.

Williams pointed to two aspects of the school’s current campus that she finds troublesome. First, the school’s offices and classrooms are dispersed across 25 different physical addresses. The school’s main campus is on Huntington Ave., near the Medical School, but it also has offices at the Landmark Center in Boston, about a mile away, and in Harvard Square, about three miles away.

“It’s really hard to exercise this team science if the overhead of our getting together to be a team is so high,” Williams said.

Second, she noted some of the school’s buildings are approaching the end of their “built utility.”

She pointed to the Kresge Building, completed in 1975, as one example.

“We are investing quite a lot in repairing and rehabbing space that we would rather use those resources to build a facility that is more in keeping with the 21st-century science that our faculty and students are doing,” Williams said.

Looking forward, Williams said she has discussed plans for

infrastructure redevelopment with top Harvard administrators. Further construction or renovations would need to be “done in coordination with the master plan of the University” over the course of several years, she said.

In recent years, Harvard’s Cambridge campus has seen several large-scale construction or renovation projects — including the more-than-$1-billion House Renewal projects

The average debt that students leave with is $75,000. I’d like to see that drop to zero.

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currently underway. Construction, however, has been less extensive across the river in Longwood.

Williams said another fiscal priority for the school is to help reduce the debt load that students must assume to graduate.

“Right now the average debt that students leave with is $75,000,” she said. “I’d like to see that drop to zero if we can make that happen through pushing on philanthropic sources.”

A debt-free guarantee would require the school to spend roughly $40 million on financial aid each year, according to Williams.

The school’s capital campaign raised about $26 million specifically earmarked for financial aid, administrators announced at the campaign celebration last month.

Full-time tuition without financial aid for the school’s most popular degree program, the Master of Public Health, currently cocks in at $58,635 per year. luke.vrotsos@thecrimson.com

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New Tax Will Hurt Univ., Bacow Says budget.

As the value of the endowment increases, Harvard will likely pay even more; based on its 2018 returns, Harvard would have owed the federal government more than $50 million this year.

Even as the first fiscal year of taxation begins, Harvard hasn’t given up the fight to eliminate ­

I think institutions like this really, really matter and so I think it’s important that I and others continue to try and make the case for why they are worthy of public support, and we can’t take that for granted.”

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

the new levy.

On Bacow’s first trip to Washington, D.C. as Harvard’s top leader, he told legislators on both sides of the aisle that the tax will fail to accomplish their goals.

“I talked to them about the federal endowment tax, why I thought that was poor public policy, the specific impact it had on Harvard, why I thought it not only would not achieve its intended goals — which are to ‘reduce the cost of admission,’ we’ll call it the cost of attending college — but why it would have the exactly opposite effect,” Bacow said.

Not only would the tax potentially increase the cost of higher education, Bacow said, it would make it harder to fundraise for scholarships, too. He explained that it is harder raise money for financial aid when endowed scholarships are going to be taxed.

Bacow emphasized that the tax is a broad political issue — not one unique to Republicans.

He pointed to the additional en-

dowment tax Massachusetts Democratic candidate for governor Jay Gonzalez proposed last month.

“I don’t want to label this as a Republican issue or a Democratic issue,” Bacow said. “It’s an issue for us and it’s an issue across the board. We need to do a better job of making the case for higher education.”

Bacow’s desire to advocate for higher education is one that his predecessor, former University President Drew G. Faust, shared.

Since taking office, Bacow has traveled to his home state of Michigan to speak to high school students there. Faust similarly visited cities and schools across the Midwest throughout her tenure.

“One of the reasons why I’m spending as much time as I am in D.C. and will spend it there but also traveling around the country, engaging in conversations with others, is because I believe so passionately in the mission of higher education,” Bacow said.

“I think institutions like this really, really matter and so I think it’s important that I and others continue to try and make the case for why they are wor-

It’s an issue for us and it’s an issue across the board. We need to do a better job of making the case for higher education.

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

thy of public support, and we can’t take that for granted.”

For now, though, Bacow said the endowment tax will necessitate “belt-tightening” in certain areas — even after the University wrapped up its capital campaign by raising a record-smashing $9.6 billion. jamie.halper@thecrimson.com

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

Director Barreira, Release the Health Survey

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he University community learned on Sep. 27 that Director of Harvard University Health Services Paul J. Barreira had decided to delay publishing the results of a health survey sent to all undergraduates last spring. Instead, Barreira indicated that he intends to host interactive forums meant to engage and inform students on interpretations of the data.

We disagree with the decision to delay publication of the survey results and call on the University to release the data. If the data have been collected, analyzed, and are ready for presentation, as Barreira states is the case, then the student body has a right to access this information — particularly because the survey concerns public health and our own physical safety. The University should still hold Barreira’s proposed in-person forums, but as a way to discuss the findings of the survey and its subsequent analysis — not as a way to release the information to students.

With this approach, those who are able or willing to attend the forums will be able to deepen their understanding, and those who are not will not be left in the dark.

If the University is concerned about its image, it

should release the data anyway. The very fact that the University is withholding these data may suggest that it is hiding disagreeable data from the community. If this is not the case, HUHS ought to release the data immediately to dispel these concerns; if it is the case,

We disagree with the decision to delay publication of the survey results and call on the University to release the data. If the data have been collected, analyzed, and are ready for presentation, as Barreira states is the case, then the student body has a right to access this information.

health at Harvard, the University should have even more reason to release them. The community should be aware of any serious public health issues that the University is confronting. At the same time, the proposed public forums can be used to fully explain the data, and perhaps give full context to any disagreeable data.

Additionally, it is especially important that the University release these results given Harvard’s difficulty with handling issues of mental health in the past and the renewed focused on the issue recently.

Ultimately, all that we ask is that the University be transparent about student health statistics. Regardless of whether or not there exist serious population-level issues, the community has a right to be immediately aware of any prominent public health trends. Consequently, we call on Barreira and HUHS to release the full and unfettered results of the survey.

HUHS ought to release the data to inform students of any health problems in our community. Above all, the University should prioritize the health of its students.

Therefore, if the data depict a grim picture of student

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.

A Call Against Kavanaugh

By Amanda l. achin, terry p. classen, and andy b. keefe Although the recent news that Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh will not teach at Harvard Law School next semester is an encouraging development, Harvard’s response to the allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him has been wholly inadequate.

Instead of announcing that Kavanaugh’s position would be terminated or, at the very least, that his status would be contingent upon the outcome of an exhaustive investigation, University President Lawrence S. Bacow indicated that Kavanaugh made a personal decision not to teach next semester. We draw two conclusions from Bacow’s remarks: The mobilizations of Harvard students against Kavanaugh have been effective, and Harvard’s administra-

Harvard has an obligation to clearly articulate its position on Kavanaugh. We should not be left to wonder whether someone accused of sexual assault will be invited to teach on campus in the future, nor whether the allegations he faces had any bearing on the termination of his lectureship. This ambiguity is, at best, a missed opportunity for the University to show its commitment to supporting victims of sexual assault. At worst, it constitutes yet another example of Harvard failing to take abuse and misogyny seriously. tion has stopped short of investigating and firing Kavanaugh.

Harvard has an obligation to clearly articulate its position on Kavanaugh. We should not be left to wonder whether someone accused of sexual assault will be invited to teach on campus in the future, nor whether the allegations he faces had any bearing on the termination of his lectureship.

This ambiguity is, at best, a missed opportunity for the University to show its commitment to supporting victims of sexual assault. At worst, it constitutes yet another example of Harvard failing to take abuse and misogyny seriously.

Time and time again, Harvard has shown its inability to hold abusers accountable. We saw this in the decades-long defense of Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, who is accused of repeatedly groping students and faculty members, and more recently in the firing of Mayli Shing, who was terminated for “insubordinate conduct” after she made allegations of workplace racism and sexism.

These events are not isolated, but rather indicative of an institution that has failed to meet the standards demanded by its student body.

Kavanaugh currently faces credible accusations of sexual assault and misconduct from three women.

These accusations, anchored by the moving testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, have given the University sufficient grounds to terminate his position. A rushed FBI investigation may satisfy the rancorous and partisan Senate, but Harvard must be held to a higher standard.

Any claims that Kavanaugh should receive the benefit of the doubt ought to be laid to rest after last Thursday’s hearing. He repeatedly lied under oath and distorted statements from key witnesses. It remains to be seen whether having done so will secure his appointment to the Supreme Court, but brazen distortions in a hearing about accusations of attempted rape should disqualify him from teaching at an institution that claims the motto “Veritas.”

As The Crimson Editorial Board rightly argued, Harvard should be the voice of survivors, not perpetrators. If the news of Kavanaugh’s absence on campus offers solace to victims of abuse, that sigh of relief is cut short by the prospect of his eventual return. Is the basis for Kavanaugh not returning a schedule conflict on one of his many infamous calendars?

Or is it due to his alleged abuse? This distinction matters to those who have been awakened by the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. The looming possibility of inviting an accused abuser back to campus is an affront to victims of sexual violence everywhere.

Anger at Kavanaugh is brewing across the country. Crucially, many have translated this anger into powerful direct action. At his snarling testimony last Thursday, Kavanaugh bemoaned the prospect of never teaching again. Thanks to student-led walkouts, public statements, petitions, and last week’s speakout, he surely recognized his return to campus would not have been a welcome one, and he showed himself the door.

A Kavanaugh-free campus is a victory for survivors and those who stand with them, but the conditions of his retreat have implications for the struggle against sexual assault moving forward. Perpetrators should not be granted discretion over the terms of their departure. We should settle for nothing less than

Anger at Kavanaugh is brewing across the country. Crucially, many have translated this anger into powerful direct action. At his snarling testimony last Thursday, Kavanaugh bemoaned the prospect of never teaching again.

Thanks to student-led walkouts, public statements, petitions, and last week’s speakout, he surely recognized his return to campus would not have been a welcome one, and he showed himself the door.

Harvard dismissing Kavanaugh indefinitely.

As members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences International Socialists, we will speak out against Kavanaugh, as others have in Washington D.C., New York City, New Haven, and Boston.

We encourage all concerned members of the Harvard community to join demonstrations on campus and to organize in opposition to Judge Kavanaugh. We believe protests in the streets can prevent Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Time’s up, Harvard!

—The authors are members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences International Socialists. Andy B. Keefe is a graduate of GSAS.

isabella c. aslarus—Art for non-artists

Doodling in the Margins

A

fter my senior year of high school, my parents finally triumphed in their four-year campaign to make me clean my room.

I’m not gross, or a slob. Just a hoarder who never threw away a single sheet of paper. By graduation, my slowly-growing mass of pages sprawled across the floor and under my bed, far beyond the pile that was born freshman year. All the pencil marks were smeared by time and friction, the edges ripping under shoe prints, the creases collecting dust.

I’ve always kept things because I could never feel sure they were useless. I thought that, years later, I would nostalgically relive every essay and equation. But while I dutifully boxed away the chronicle of my high school life, only the doodles caught my eye. They were everywhere. Gardens of little flowers creeping up the margins, eyeballs staring in rows between paragraphs, absurd comic strips interspersed with lecture notes. I couldn’t remember drawing any of them, but now I realized how many hours I must’ve spent. And how deliberately I forgot them.

Because doodles meant laziness and boredom. They were only al-

I’ve always kept things because I could never feel sure they were useless. I thought that, years later, I would nostalgically relive every essay and equation. But while I dutifully boxed away the chronicle of my high school life, only the doodles caught my eye.

lowed to inhabit the blank spaces.

Overlooked when I flipped back to study old notes. Erased when I needed more room. They were separate, unimportant, a distraction from my real work.

That was a terrible realization to have while sitting on the newly bare floor of my bedroom, where I could remember scattering crayons at age four, stapling my first homemade picture book soon after, planning my future as an author-and-illustrator by middle school. Art had shaped and colored in my childhood, but by the end of high school, I’d confined it to the borders of my notebooks and the margins of my life.

And art meets the same fate in so many other lives. As kids, we’re all encouraged to be messy and imaginative. We produce an abundance of scribbled stick figures, gaudy pompom crafts, glitter-glued pipe cleaners. We make art with no need for purpose, no fear of judgment.

But at some point, everything shifts. In seeps an uneasy awareness of the other sets of eyes evaluating everything we create. The world starts telling us that we are no longer coloring, or crafting, or doing anything else for its own sake — now, there are grades, scores, prizes, and adults who praise and criticize. We, too, learn to watch with critical eyes, evaluating other people and ourselves. And many of us learn that, if we want to thrive and succeed, we need to be “good” at something — and avoid being “bad” at anything else.

isabella c. aslarus—Crimson illustrator

Like all our other pursuits, art can be divided into “good” and “bad.” But art is overwhelmingly classified as something we’re “bad” at, because it is often misinterpreted as an innate talent, rather than a skill that can be honed with practice, such as school, music, or sports. And in a community as competitive and success-driven as Harvard, so many of us only make time for the things we believe we can improve upon or become “good” at.

As a result, we’re pushed away by the idea that something like art requires unattainable talent, that we aren’t and will never be “good” enough at it to feel that longed-for euphoria of success and of standing out from others.

This misconception of art is exacerbated by the “starving artist” trope, which tells us that only a tiny elite is capable of securing financial stability through art, and that we are not part of it. We come to accept that making “bad” art not only brings us a sense of personal failure, but can drag us into economic ruin. And so art’s inherent riskiness constitutes yet another reason to drift away from it. At Harvard in particular, the “starving artist” trope is fueled by a culture that equates success with financial prosperity after graduation. As we watch our classmates pursuing lucrative finance and consulting jobs, or pursue them for ourselves, our priorities come under pressure. Time is a limited resource that must be spent productively, so we push to spend our time on profitable pursuits — things that we’re “good” at — since these alone provide a route to success.

It’s not like art was ever our one true calling. Not everyone who liked drawing as a kid should want to become a professional artist. We have so many other passions and things we’re “good” at, and each of us must figure out how to hone in on a particular path that fulfills us and leads to success. But as we grow up and those passions grow stronger, art becomes wrongfully sidelined.

The loss of art in our lives parallels countless other sacrifices we make to pursue our conceptions of success.

At Harvard, many students never get enough sleep, don’t have the energy to take care of their mental and physical health, can’t find the time to be mindfully alone. We don’t make room in our schedules to go outside and exercise, to practice that instrument we played in high school, to read a book for pleasure. And we can’t squeeze art in, either.

Like so many other sacrificed things, art is incredibly important, even (and especially) when it is entirely unrelated to our primary interests.

For the process of making art is inherently enriching, even when there’s nothing to be gained externally, and regardless of whether we’re “good” at it. Our imagination, storytelling, and awareness of the world around us flourish when we exercise our creativity. As kids, we had not yet learned to care if our art was “good” enough.

And now that we’re growing up, we should once again recognize art’s true value, strive to always make more “bad” doodles, and consciously free them from the margins of our lives.

—Isabella C. Aslarus ’21, a Crimson Design editor, lives in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

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HKS Updates Fellows Vetting Process

By Alexandra a. chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

­ he Harvard Kennedy School T has adopted new guidelines for vetting fellows following a year in which its decision to appoint Chelsea Manning and several Trump administration officials to fellowships generated campus and national backlash, Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf said in an interview Tuesday.

The new protocols will take into account a candidate’s “values” and his or her potential for engaging with the school, among other considerations. If a candidate proves particularly divisive among HKS affiliates, the dean pledged to convene a committee to review the candidate.

Elmendorf said he spent last spring “talking with people around the school” about the roles of fellows — conservations which resulted in a new set of guidelines meant to regulate the fellow selection process at different research centers.

Though faculty are still reviewing the guidelines before they decide whether to formally approve the new rules, Elmendorf said the school has already begun to follow the guidelines “as an ongoing practical matter.”

The changes come almost exactly a year after the school released a statement in Oct. 2017 saying administrators were “working to better understand our current practices for applying the term ‘Fellow,’ and to establish consistent standards across the School.” That statement came in response to criticism the school received for extending a fellowship in-

vitation — and then rescinding that invitation — to Manning, a former U.S. army soldier and transgender rights advocate who was convicted of leaking several thousand classified documents to WikiLeaks.

After HKS named Manning a fellow, Kennedy School senior fellow and former CIA deputy director Michael J. Morrell resigned from his post and CIA Director Mike Pompeo backed out of an event at the school’s Institute of Politics to protest the decision. Early the next day, Elmendorf rescinded Manning’s appointment and called her selection “a mistake” — sparking several campus organizations to release a letter in support of Manning. More than 15,000 people also signed a petition created by Harvard graduates condemning the school’s decision to disinvite Manning.

The Manning controversy was one of several the school confronted during fall 2017.

More than 2,000 alumni at one point signed a petition to revoke the fellowships of former White House press Sean Spicer and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, arguing that the former Trump officials damaged public discourse and promoted “white nationalism.” Spicer also garnered criticism after visiting Harvard several times without holding any on-the-record events.

The imbroglios prompted the school to reflect on the ways in which it chooses fellows — and what, exactly, the term “fellow” means.

The school has a variety of fellowships associated with its 11 research centers, which include the IOP, the Belfer Center

for Science and International Affairs, and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. These centers offer a wide range of fellowship experiences; some encourage teaching or engaging with undergraduates, some are geared toward research, some are tailored toward post-doctoral fellows, and others bring in political bigwigs.

“Part of the difficulty of overseeing the fellows at the Kennedy School is that they come in so many different varieties and play different roles in our educational mission,” Elmendorf said.

As part of the new guidelines, he said, fellows who come to the Kennedy School should expect “sustained engagement with real faculty oversight.”

“If you’re coming just to give a talk or a couple talks in a day, then you should not be a fellow at the Kennedy School,” he added. “You should come and we will listen to you, but you wouldn’t be a fellow.”

Elmendorf also said school administrators charged with evaluating candidates should assess whether they model the “values” of the Kennedy School.

“If they will be here long enough, and that we think for other reasons because of expertise they should have the title of fellow, then we will also consider whether they have behaved in ways that seem consistent with our values,” he said.

The dean was referring to the values of public leadership he outlined in a speech to students in 2017, according to Kennedy School spokesperson Gail M. Chalef. They include the “importance of truth and

knowledge,” “civil discourse and compromise,” and “focusing attention on those who have been disadvantaged.”

The other values Elmendorf emphasized in the speech were “the worth of each person” regardless of characteristics like race, gender, and sexual orientation — as well as the creation of governments and institutions that “act effectively in the public interest.”

In a recent interview, Elmendorf said that, in cases where there may be disagreement over whether it is “appropriate” for someone to be a fellow, he will convene a committee of faculty members to review the applicant’s proposal.

The school is also working to increase the diversity of fellows “along demographic lines, along ideological lines, and in other ways,” he said.

The Kennedy School has faced scrutiny in recent years for its lack of racial and gender diversity among students, faculty and staff. Diversifying the pool of fellows is easier and quicker than shifting the demographics of other groups at the school, since fellows turn over each year, Elmendorf said.

Daniel B. Harsha, a spokesperson for the Kennedy School’s Ash Center, said fellows add a “richness and diversity” to the center.

“We have long committed to engage emerging scholars with great promise as well as the very best leaders in their fields, be they academics or practitioners, to inform our faculty’s research, teaching, and impact on practice,” Harsha said. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com

Harvard’s Largest Union Seeks Support

By Molly C. Mccafferty Crimson Staff Writer

After their old contract expired — and with no new agreement immediately in sight — leaders of Harvard’s largest union hosted events across campus this week to garner support for continued negotiations with the University.

At tables set up in the cafes and in the main thoroughfares of campus buildings across nine of Harvard’s schools, representatives from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers encouraged members to sign a statement of support and to read up on the plan for negotiations going forward. Members were allowed to take “HUCTW” buttons and were encouraged to hang posters in their workspaces bearing slogans such as “INVEST IN STAFF” and “WE CAN’T EAT PRESTIGE.” The last time the University and HUCTW negotiated a contract in 2015, bargaining continued for nearly four months after the expiration of the union’s previous contract. The 2015 contract, which was binding for three years, expired Sunday night.

The University and the union have agreed to keep members’ ­

benefits in place in the absence of a contract, as they did during previous negotiations that stretched past deadline. But the lack of a resolution will delay

All the members who’ve been coming by the tables are very supportive.

Carrie Barbash HUCTW President

any expected raises that a new contract might bring for union members.

The University and the union remain at odds over three central issues: wages, healthcare, and the use of contingent workers such as “temps.” HUCTW President Carrie Barbash said many union members who stopped by HUCTW tables this week feel that continued negotiations over these issues are “in line with their priorities.”

“We’ve had really positive response from members,” Barbash said. “All the members who’ve been coming by the tables are very supportive, and seem to think we’re all on the same page.”

Barbash said the events

around campus are meant to demonstrate that union leadership and negotiators “have the membership’s backing” in continuing to bargain with the University.

“We want to get as many people up to speed on what’s happening as possible,” Barbash said.

Union member Geoffrey Carens wrote in an email that he believes union members are in danger of being “nickel-anddimed” in negotiations this year.

“Personally I’m very disappointed that the University hasn’t been willing to make a deal with the union leadership, especially considering how modest HUCTW’s goals are,” Carens wrote. “Union members were asking, ‘Where’s our raise?’”

University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson wrote in an emailed statement Monday night that Harvard is “committed” to “continued negotiations that resolve all outstanding issues.”

“The University is as eager as HUCTW to reach a resolution and has put forward fair proposals that ensure HUCTW members salary and range of benefits remain top of market,” Jackson wrote. “We keenly understand

the critical nature of the work members of the HUCTW perform for the Harvard community, and we are proud that they receive compensation and benefits packages that lead among Boston-area higher education institutions.”

The daily tabling events, which began on Monday, will continue through Thursday afternoon.

Though union leaders have not yet planned any “next steps,” Barbash said they are preparing for many possible scenarios.

“We could come to a resolu-

Union members were asking, ‘Where’s our raise?’

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Khurana Talking to Some Social Groups College recognition and exemptions from the social group penalties.

Their shift toward gender-neutral status left behind just a handful of single-gender groups in Cambridge.

The hold-outs include three fraternities — Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Chi — and five final clubs: the Owl, the Porcellian Club, the A.D. Club, the Fly Club, and the Fox Club.

Representatives for five of the eight remaining all-male groups did not respond to requests for comment on whether

At this time we do not plan on complying with Harvard sanctions and will continue as a singlegender organization but we are not opposed to having an open dialogue with Dean Khurana moving forward.

Adam M. Kahn President, DKE

they have been in contact with the College.

Bartle B. Bull ’93, graduate president of the A.D., declined to comment.

In an emailed statement, Adam M. Kahn, the self-identified “undergraduate president” of Harvard’s chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, said the fraternity does not plan to admit women.

“We haven’t been in contact or received any form communication from Dean Khurana,” Kahn wrote in the email.

“At this time we do not plan on complying with Harvard sanctions and will continue as a single gender organization but we are not opposed to having an open dialogue with Dean Khurana moving forward.”

The College’s sanctions — which took effect with the Class of 2021 — bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding campus group leadership positions, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for certain prestigious fellowships like the Rhodes.

Khurana declined to specify the number or identity of the single-sex groups now talking

to administrators. He said conversations between social groups and the College have centered around how organizations can “modify or change and come into conformance with our university’s policies.”

To receive College recognition, groups must not only be gender-neutral but cannot remain affiliated with graduate boards that the College determines exert too much sway over the organizations.

Groups that affirm they do not discriminate on the basis of a wide a variety of criteria including race and sexual orientation may progress to higher levels of recognition that confer perks including College cash.

While some groups have gone co-ed to avoid the sanctions, a few still hope to imperil the College’s policy.

Members of the Cambridge Coalition — a group comprising the P.C., the A.D., the Fly, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Chi — have traveled to Washington, D.C. in recent months to lobby for a bill that could force Harvard to choose between millions of dollars in federal research funding and its controversial social group policy.

If they fail in their mission on the Hill, Cambridge Coalition members have said they may sue Harvard.

Khurana did not directly respond to a question last week asking how worried he is about a lawsuit.

He said no one at Harvard has asked him to start preparing for the possibility that some

Personally, I believe that most of these organizations are trying to find a way to become inclusive and evolve. It’s just not always easy.

Rakesh Khurana Dean of the College

single-gender groups sue.

Instead, he said he thinks the majority of single-gender organizations hope to eventually become gender-neutral.

“Personally, I believe that most of these organizations are trying to find a way to become inclusive and evolve,” he said.

“It’s just not always easy.” caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.com michael.xie@thecrimson.com

Geoffrey Carens Union Member

tion, and that’s what I think everybody hopes for, but it’s possible that we might not be able to do that right away,” she said.

“If we do need to go on for longer, it’s definitely the case that we’ll be asking for members to get more involved,” she added.

The latest on student life.

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Shopping Week May Go Digital By shera s. avi-yonah Crimson Staff Writer

Shopping week may one day be a virtual experience.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar Michael P. Burke detailed what a replacement for the current course registration system could look like at a Graduate Student Council town hall Wednesday evening, suggesting the College is seriously exploring a shift to early registration. Such a switch would cancel shopping week, the traditional course registration process that allows Harvard students to freely walk in and out of classes to sample them during the first week of the semester before making final selections.

Burke said an early registration system might include a “digital” shopping period during which students could watch online materials to preview courses. He said tools like Canvas and the “Q” Guide, an online system that aggregates student feedback on Harvard courses and instructors, lessen the need for shopping week.

At the request of the Faculty Council — the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ highest governing ­

body — Burke is currently forming a panel to propose a new system by which students can select courses. The possibility of a new registration setup first surfaced at a March Faculty meeting when Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana broached the subject, though he did not offer any kind of formal proposal at the time. Many professors spoke in favor of the idea.

Given the number of students taking any particular course remains in flux until the end of the week and given teaching fellows are typically alloted based on class size, the current structure of shopping week means professors are sometimes forced to hire or dismiss teaching fellows on very short notice. Graduate students have long complained of shopping week-induced headaches, lamenting the fact that their teaching positions remain in limbo while undergraduates finalize their schedules.

Many undergraduate students, however, have praised shopping week for its flexibility. Some say they appreciate the chance to try out classes before formally enrolling.

The Council heard a pro-

posal to switch to early registration from Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda J. Claybaugh at its last meeting on Sept. 12.

The proposal advocated replacing shopping week with a system that would require students to enroll in courses before the beginning of the semester.

Students would then have time to add or drop courses if they

On the practical side, my sympathies lie with the teaching fellows.

Michael Ortiz GSC Representative

wished. Burke added that graduate teaching fellows would likely benefit from such change.

He said the current system “creates havoc and has a real life impact for grad students.”

After hearing Burke’s proposal, several attendees said they would favor a move to early registration.

GSC representative DeAnza

A. Cook said that, while undergraduates may moan over the loss of shopping week, the proposed change would ultimately “enhance the undergraduate educational experience.”

“Teaching fellows would be better prepared to actually teach the classes and work collaboratively with faculty earlier than what shopping week allows,” she said.

Michael Ortiz, a first-year graduate student who also sits on the GSC, said he hopes the Faculty Council will prioritize the needs of graduate students in their deliberations.

“On the practical side, my sympathies lie with the teaching fellows and the difficulties that occur when you don’t have a final roster for classes,” he said. “I’m hoping that the administration will keep them in mind.”

Burke said his panel will likely present a proposal to the Faculty Council in January.

He added that — if the faculty ultimately approve an early registration proposal — it will roll out two years from now at the earliest. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com

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Freshman Jillian Wachira was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday after her game-winner vs Yale.

The Crimson field hockey squad is off to its best 10-game start in program history. Watch as it looks to extend its six-game winning streak when it visits Brown on Friday.

Football

Harvard’s Dynasty Reborn

By Jack Stockless Crimson Staff Writer

Life is good when your dynasty takes just a brief respite before returning in all its glory.

As a New England Patriots fan, I’ve seen this play out firsthand this season and in a few seasons past. Two straight losses, one to the Detroit Lions, had detractors salivating and clamoring to fire off tweets about how the Tom Brady is done, Bill Belichick is finished, and the Patriots are history. The team responded by blowing out the Miami Dolphins, 38-7, and even though the Dolphins aren’t necessarily elite competition, I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’ll win the AFC East for the tenth consecutive season (not really the highest of accomplishments, but oh well).

Harvard’s rebuilding phase was slightly longer than that of the Patriots, but it still wasn’t excruciatingly lengthy. I mean Brown hasn’t won the league since 2008, Cornell last came out on top in 1990, and Columbia fans have to go back to 1961 to find the sole instance the Lions secured the trophy, so at least the team’s fans haven’t suffered through that. After a 5-5 finish last season, the Crimson appears to have improved team chemistry and play-making ability about a third of the way through its 2018 campaign. Yes, I’m saying this after Harvard lost for the first time this season, but too bad. A take is a take.

And if somehow, some way, the Patriots and/or the Crimson fail to live up to my lofty billing?

Well, you may just find all traces of this article scrubbed from internet history.

DARTMOUTH AT YALE Football fans can be awfully partial to their version of the transitive property. The Browns beat the Jets, who beat the Lions, who beat the Patriots, so the Browns by definition are better than the Patriots, right? Well there’s a simpler version to that formula relevant to this game: Dart-

mouth beat Holy Cross, which beat Yale. So of course I’m taking Dartmouth over Yale this week.

Under 19-year veteran coach Buddy Teevens, the Big Green has started off 3-0, just as it did last year. In 2017, Dartmouth lost two crucial games — to Columbia and Harvard in back-toback weeks — which dropped it just short of an Ivy League title.

However, that means that Yale’s lone loss last fall was to the Big Green, in a game that featured a wild fourth-quarter finish.

This time, Dartmouth needs to travel to New Haven, Conn., to face off against the Bulldogs, but is it really home field advantage when your stadium is about a two-day journey from your campus?

Dartmouth by 1.5 LEHIGH AT PRINCETON What do you expect when an Ivy League legend, Chad Kanoff, departs for the final time from Princeton’s hallowed halls? Not this.

Princeton has begun its 2018 season on what you could call a bit of a hot streak — it has blown the doors off three consecutive opponeents, averaging 48.7 points per game on offense and conceding only 8.7 per game on the other side of the ball. The Tigers have averaged a 40-point margin of victory. Think about that. I know I don’t want to.

Behind Princeton’s offensive explosion is Kanoff’s heir apparent, John Lovett. So far, Lovett has completed 64 percent of his passes for nine touchdowns in the air, and he has tacked on an extra five on the ground. Lovett is one of the biggest enigmas in the league; in 2015 and 2016, he was a dual wide receiver and quarterback, and in 2016 he ran in 20 touchdowns and passed for 10 more.

With all of that said, betting Princeton in this game? I don’t like it, I Lovett.

Princeton by 30

MARIST AT COLUMBIA As I said earlier, Columbia has

LOOKING DOWNFIELD Sophomore running back B.J. Watson tries to evade a tackle as sophomore quarterback Jake Smith looks to pick up a block.

Harvard averaged 3.9 yards per rush in a 23-16 loss to No. 20/22 Rhode Island last Friday at Harvard Stadium. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

not had the most luck when it comes to winning the Ivy League. Despite having one of its best seasons in recent memory last year, it still fell short, with one of its two losses coming at Harvard’s hands. Now that I think about it, the Crimson was a real spoiler last season. It didn’t work out perfectly, though, as its wins over Dartmouth and Columbia led directly to rival Yale claiming the trophy.

Just as I used Holy Cross as a proxy for picking the Dartmouth–Yale game, I’ll use Georgetown (poor, poor Georgetown) in this case. As expected, the Lions took care of the Hoyas in their week two game. Marist was unable to do the same. In fact, Georgetown beat the Red Foxes by 25. Yikes. I’ll roll with Bagnoli this time around.

Columbia by 7.5

BROWN AT RHODE ISLAND This one’s going to be a real battle, folks. I devoted a full day to researching and writing this

section and about twenty minutes combined on all the rest.

After a grueling 24 hours of historical analysis, statistical modeling, interviewing college football experts, and throwing all that out the window and trusting my instincts instead, I’ve reached a decision: the Bears will win this game.

Weren’t expecting that, were you? Well, it’s true. I believe in Michael Hoecht, I really do. The guy got the entire press corps fired up and ready to run through a wall with his answers after Harvard beat Brown.

“You take out that first quarter of the game, we beat that team, 100 percent. Even the first 10 minutes,” Hoecht said. “We all know it.”

Chills.

Brown by 1

HARVARD AT CORNELL Two weeks ago, I spent the entirety of this column talking about a band — Led Zeppelin.

Some readers probably appreciated it, and for others the rock

genre is not necessarily their cup of tea. But the band I’ll talk about this week has not endeared itself to anyone — not a single person — throughout its history. I’m talking about the Harvard University Band.

A rag-tag collection of “musicians” playing seemingly whichever instruments they can find lying around before any given game, the Harvard band is even worse at running a Twitter account than it is at getting through “10,000 Men of Harvard” without a band member tripping over their own feet.

This is not an unprovoked attack on an innocent band; it has levied a handful of mild sarcastic insults at our Twitter account over the years.

(Shameless promotion: Follow us @THCSports. Do not follow @HarvardBand. And no, I don’t have thin skin. Why do you ask?)

I have a pretty simple solution to this problem, though. When Harvard returns home to face Holy Cross next Friday night, whoever is in charge should just

send the band to the moon — if that’s not possible, the roof of the Smith Campus Center will do. It’s a win-win for all sides: inhabitants of Harvard Square get a free concert, Harvard Stadium can just let its sound system do all the work, and the band can finally make some friends at the renovated and #cool campus center.

Oh yeah, the football game.

I’ll go with the Crimson.

Harvard by a billion

PENN AT SACRED HEART Aside from the Dartmouth–Yale game, this might be the most evenly-matched contest we see this weekend — at least when you just look at each team’s record and its scores. Like I said earlier, I wasted all my time and energy researching the Brown– Rhode Island matchup.

To this point, I’ve picked Ivy League teams to win each game. Let’s mix it up.

Sacred Heart by 3.5 jack.stockless@thecrimson.com

Cross country

Cross Country Competes at Roy Griak Invitational

By Tahmid Ahmed Contributing Writer

Last Saturday at the University of Minnesota, the Har-

vard men’s cross country team finished in the top three of 15 teams at the Roy Griak Invitational, while the women’s side finished fourth amongst 14

teams. Junior Kieran Tuntivate led the pack, taking home first in the men’s 8000-meter run with a winning time of 24:33.4.

Sophomore Abbe Goldstein also

finished highly, placing fourth in the women’s 6000-meter run with a time of 21:33.1.

However, it wasn’t just Tuntivate that helped the men’s

PREPPING FOR PRE’S Both the men’s and women’s squad look t oroll into Pre-Nationals with momentum from the Roy Griak Invitational on their sides. Both squads finished in the top four. Seen here is the women’s side competing in September 2017. Matthew W. DeShaw—Crimson photographer

team finish near the top. Fellow sophomore Hugo Millner and junior Will Battershill followed Tuntivate, finishing third and sixth, respectively. Hugo Millner set a time of 24:36.8 and Will Battershill finished the race in 24:44.8.

The strong finishes by multiple runners helped the Crimson achieve a total score of 89 points with an average time of 25:02.72 and a total time of 2:05:13.60. Duke and Minnesota took the top two spots with scores of 74 and 77, respectively, while South Dakota State was a distant fourth with 132 points.

“We definitely need to try to close the gap between our top three and the rest of the team. If David [Melville], Luke [Laverdiere], and I can work together and pull that off, we should be a hard team to beat,” said senior Collin Price, who finished in 36th with a time of 25:34.1.

The women’s cross country squad found similar success, where sophomore Brooke Starn, who improved from her first race of the season, finished 18th with a time of 21:59.5.

The women’s team had a total of five top-50 finishes, helping the team achieve a score of 115 points with an average of time of 22:06.26 and a total time of 1:50:31.30.

The results at Roy Griak Invitational have added a confident boost to many of the members, where Harvard hopes to

maintain its momentum for the Pre-Nationals Invitational held on October 13 at Madison, Wisconsin.

“Griak was a definitely a great showing for us. The way we are training we should be running our best time later in the season. So, going into preNats we’ve just gotta continue to stay mentally engaged throughout the race and we should continue to improve,” Price said.

Freshman David Melville finished top 50 with a time of 25:44.5 and freshman Luke Laverdiere finished with a time of 26:56.4. The team plans for each member to all finish near top to help the Crimson reach a ranking higher than third for Pre-Nationals.

On the women’s side, notable performances came from sophomore Anna Juul, who finished in 31st with a time of 22:17.5, and freshman Maya Rayle, who collected a time of 22:20.0 for 33rd place. The team trailed Minnesota (52 points), California Baptist (82 points), and South Dakota (106 points), but slipped in ahead of Montana State (133 points) and North Dakota State (173 points).

Harvard did not attend the Roy Griak Invitational last year, but the results look promising as both squads claimed top four rankings. The Crimson cross country team now prepares for the coveted Pre-National Invitationals on October 3rd.