The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 117

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV No. 117 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Monday, November 5, 2018

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Harvard must be held accountable for the composition of its classrooms.

Despite a one-point weekend, men’s hockey shows signs of improvement.

Harvard’s eighth annual sex week stimulates campus discussion.

What’s on the Mass.

Ballot?

The Three Questions on the Ballot, Explained

By Benjamin E. Frimodig and Iris M. Lewis Harvard lawyers Seth Waxman ’73 (left) and William Lee ‘72. Amy Y. Li—Crimson photographer

SFFA Lawyer Adam K. Mortara answers questions onFriday. Amy Y. Li—Crimson photographer

Lawyers Wrap Up Arguments on Final Day

By Alexandra A. Chaidez, Molly C. McCafferty, and Aidan F. Ryan Crimson Staff Writers

On the last day of the highstakes and high-profile Harvard admissions trial, “the wolf of racial bias” returned to the courtroom.

Lawyers for both Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions, the anti-affirmative action group suing the Universi-

ty over its admissions process, approached the wood-paneled witness stand one after the other Friday to deliver impassioned closing statements and rebuttals that stretched for hours.

Summing up what transpired during the three-week-long trial — ranging from battles over data to administrators’ repeated denials of wrongdoing to emotional and personal testimony from students — was a tall order. But the attorneys did

their best.

Harvard’s lead lawyer William F. Lee ’72 took things back to the beginning. On the trial’s first day, SFFA attorney Adam K. Mortara had declared that Harvard had “let the wolf of racial bias” through its front door.

“On this we agree. The wolf of racial bias is at Harvard’s door and at the door of this courthouse,” Lee said Friday. “That wolf comes in the form of SFFA and its experts... It is those who

would drastically reduce the number of African-American and Hispanic students on our university and college campuses today.”

The trial kicked off Oct. 15 in Courtroom 17 of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in downtown Boston. Its launch came almost exactly four years after SFFA filed suit against the University in Nov. 2014 alleging that Harvard discriminates against

Asian-American applicants.

The trial saw 15 days of extensive quibbling over every twist and quirk of the Harvard admissions process, as well as secret-spilling that revealed in unprecedented detail how the College evaluates applicants. But it did not decide the veracity of SFFA’s charges.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs will make that ruling on her own,

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Student Labor Advocacy Group Backs Hotel Strikers

By James S. Bikales and Ruoqi Zhang Contributing Writers

Protestors walk by Emerson College.

Amy Y. Li—Crimson photographer

Members of the Student Labor Action Movement held a silent protest during a series of speeches delivered by top Harvard administrators Friday, urging them to boycott seven Marriott Hotels in Boston whose workers have been striking for over a month.

The protesters hoisted a sign that read “Check out of Marriott” in hopes of forcing administrators to take a position on whether the school will patronize Marriott hotels in Boston.

SLAM members unfurled their banner from the top balcony in Sanders Theatre during a First-Year Family Weekend event that featured administrative luminaries including University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, and Dean of Students Katherine G. O’Dair.

“Our eventual goal is to have Harvard eventually take a stand on the strike while it’s still going on,” said Saul A. Glist ’22, a member of SLAM who coordinated the protest.

The students’ protest comes as a strike at seven Marriott-operated hotels in Boston enters

its fifth week — and amid a nationwide walkout at 23 Marriott-affiliated hotels in seven cities across the United States.

Unite Here Local 26, the union representing the Boston hotel workers, is seeking higher wages, increased job security, and more comprehensive workplace sexual harassment protections in its ongoing negotiations with Marriott.

This is not the first time Unite Here Local 26 has earned Harvard students’ support.

In fall 2016, SLAM backed Harvard University Dining

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Crimson Staff Writers

This election day — in addition to casting a vote for the governorship or the Senate — Massachusetts voters will tackle three questions at the bottom of their ballots. These questions touch on issues including nurse-topatient ratios, the use of money in politics, and the legality of discrimination against transgender individuals.

The Crimson breaks down what you need to know about each question below.

QUESTION 1 The first question asks voters’ opinion of a law that would limit the number of patients that can be assigned to a given nurse in Massachusetts hospitals and certain other healthcare facilities. The exact number would vary according to hospital size and the demand seen by that facility.

The law’s supporters say it will improve patient safety and the quality of care. The bill would likely push Massachusetts hospitals to hire more nurses, and detractors say it could increase financial pressure on some healthcare organizations. The question has proved controversial — nurses and nurse groups across the state are split on the issue.

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Oak Tree Divides Divinity School

By Karina G. Gonzalez-Espinoza Crimson Staff Writer

Members of the Student Labor Action Movement rode the T into Boston to attend a protest held to support striking Marriott workers. Ryan N. Gajarawala—Contributing photographer

of Maryland who recorded 71 points.

Marshall kicked off the first day of the competition on a tear, earning a top-five finish in each of the eight races. His three first-place finishes on the day propelled him to the top spot on the leaderboard, with a comfortable margin of 15 points between himself Bucher.

The second day produced spottier wind patterns. However, the weather was no match

The scheduled felling of a century-old tree on the campus of Harvard’s Divinity School is pitting administrators against students in a fight to save the red oak from death-by renovation. The Divinity School insists that planned construction to update its Andover Hall necessitates the removal of the tree.

Administrators including the school’s dean and his top advisors have said there are simply no other options.

Some students, though, say cutting down the tree amounts to a sacrilegious act of violence — and they are determined to keep fighting for the oak.

Divinity School enrollee Jesse Bercowetz, who said he identifies as a pagan, said he believes the tree is like an elder family member. Cutting it down is an act of murder.

“I question an architectural team and administration who cannot figure out another solution,” Bercowetz said.

Throughout the months of September and October, students and administrators engaged in a continuous — and at times contentious — back-and-forth over the fate of the oak, participating in several meetings and coffee shop office hours.

Like Bercowetz, some students say they are concerned

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A protestor participates in a rally in downtown Boston meant to boost striking Marriott workers. Amanda Y. Su —Contributing photographer

Faculty to Vote on New sailing Language Requirement Freshman Henry Marshall Wins Single-Handed National Championship

By Angela N. Fu and Lucy Wang

Crimson Staff Writers

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on proposed changes to the wording of the College’s language requirement as detailed in the Harvard student handbook at its monthly meeting Tuesday.

Former Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris proposed the change at last month’s meeting. The new wording would eliminate the “written component” of the requirement, allowing students to instead use languages such as Inside this issue

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American Sign Language and Ancient Greek to fulfill that demand.

The proposed change would also allow students who fail to place out of the language requirement using their first set of Harvard placement test scores to retake the placement exam again after their first semester of language study.

If a student wishes to take a placement exam in a language that is not offered at Harvard, the new wording in the handbook would allow the Office of Undergraduate Education to

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By David Manikas Crimson Staff Writer

In his first season for the Crimson, freshman Henry Marshall has attained single-handed glory.

Marshall began his collegiate sailing career in the New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s Singlehanded Championships on Sept. 15, where he bested 19 other sailors to take home first-place honors.

More importantly, the victory earned him a ticket to Single-

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handed Nationals on Nov. 3.

The National Championship, spanning this past weekend, was hosted by Grand Valley State University, which organized the event on Lake Michigan.

Posting top-five finishes in every race but one on the weekend, Marshall clinched the title before the last race even began. He ended his commanding weekend with an impressive 40 points, holding a sizable lead over Leo Bucher, a freshman from St. Mary’s College

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For Dinner Chicken and Cabbage Potsticker Saigon Bamboo Beef Spicy Tofu with Green Beans

Today’s Events

in The Real World

Julie Dobrow Book Talk Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m.

Migrant Caravan Splits

Head to the Harvard Book Store to talk to author and Tufts University Professor Julie Dobrow about her new book “After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet.”

The migrant caravan heading towards the United States border with Mexico has recently split up into several different groups. A majority continue to head towards Cardoba, Veracruz, while others have turned back or applied for refuge in Mexico.

Kemp Investigates Georgia Democrats

Lecture Harvard Kennedy School, 4:30 p.m.

Head to the Harvard Kennedy School (Littauer 166) to hear from Joe Heck, an IOP Fall 2018 Resident Fellow, speak about bipartisanship. This is an amazing opportunity one day (count it — one day) before the midterm elections!

Song for Cesar Documentary David Rockefeller Center, 6 p.m.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard is showing a documentary on how labor leader Cesar Chavez and the “La Causa” movement, which also involved musicians and artists. Go and watch!

Students stroll outside Pforzheimer on a crisp late fall day. allison g. lee—Crimson photographer

Without citing any evidence, the office of Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp accused the Democratic Party of Georgia of attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system. Kemp is overseeing the election in which he is participating as a candidate.

Daily Briefing

Democrats Hold 7-point Edge in Final National NBC/WSJ Poll

The high-profile and high-stakes Harvard admissions trial wrapped up last Friday, closing out three weeks of charged court proceedings that riveted the nation and spilled many secrets of the College’s notoriously opaque admissions process. On the trial’s final day, lawyers for both Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions approached the wood-paneled witness stand to deliver impassioned closing statements and rebuttals that lasted for hours.

Democrats are in the lead for these midterms?

Who knew? If you are a Republican, this should be pressuring you to cast those ballots. If you’re a Democrat, this is no excuse not to cast your ballots.

If you’re neither, you should be voting anyway!

In other news, election day is coming up — and, if you live in Massachusetts, you’ll face three key questions at the bottom of your ballot. The Crimson breaks down what those questions are all about and what your vote will mean.

Around the Ivies Yale Students serving as Yale College Development Ambassadors were asked to give tours to “prospective students and donors,” according to emails from the Office of Development sent on Oct. 1, the Yale Daily News reported. Vice President of Development, Joan O’Neill, told the YDN that she was not aware of a Yale College Development Ambassadors program. The Yale Admissions website does not list any programs that allow prospective students to meet with current students before admissions decisions are released.

UPENN The student-led Penn Votes Project, which helps hospitalized citizens cast ballots, has grown from 10 students who volunteered during the 2016 election to 75 students for Tuesday’s election, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. The group consists of students from Penn’s law, medical, and nursing schools. It expanded this year to include two hospitals in the University’s health system.

Volunteers help patients fill out applications for emergency absentee ballots, for which law student volunteers get physician signatures, then notarize and submit the applications and return a ballot to each patient.

CORNELL A non-Dartmouth student was shot two blocks from the heart of the University’s campus on Friday night, The Dartmouth reported. Gage Young, 22, of Lebanon, NH, was arrested on Saturday afternoon for second degree assault.

According to a witness, a car raced down School St. around 9:40 pm on Friday, followed by a loud “slam.” The victim was transported to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center where they were reportedly in stable condition. Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said the victim appeared to be a random target.

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15-Day Admissions Trial Ends

The Mass. Ballot Qs, Explained

William S. Consovoy, Adam K. Mortara, and John M. Hughes, three SFFA lawyers join protestors in holding signs outside the courthouse Friday. Amy Y. Li—Crimson photographer

without a jury; she is not expected to offer a final verdict for several months.

Friday’s proceedings drew massive public interest. Onlookers — including parents, locals, and a bevy of undergraduates, many of them donning Harvard gear — packed Courtroom 17 and spilled over into two overflow rooms. Surveying the large crowd, Burroughs urged lawyers to speak clearly into the microphone. “You have a cast of thousands hearing what you have to say this morning,” she said.

SFFA lawyer John M. Hughes spoke first, delivering a fiery oration that lasted over an hour. He appeared to grow emotionally invested in his own words, often slamming his fist on the table in front of him. Hughes reiterated SFFA’s long-standing stance that Harvard admissions officers, driven by entrenched tendencies toward “bias” and “stereotyping,” engage in intentional discrimination against Asian-American applicants. He said that, though College employees are “well-meaning people,” they wind up treating Harvard hopefuls of Asian heritage as monolithic “model minorities.”

“Harvard suggests Asian Americans are a group of one-dimensional academic superstars,” Hughes said.

Then it was Harvard’s turn.

University lawyers Lee and Seth P. Waxman ’73 gave Harvard’s closing statement together. The duo leaned heavily on student testimony and on the ­

work of David E. Card, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley whom Harvard paid to analyze its admissions data ahead of the trial. Card found that the College does not discriminate in its admissions process.

Lee noted that, while eight Harvard students and alumni took the witness stand to testify in support of the University in the third week of the trial, none of the students whom SFFA claims to represent showed their faces in Courtroom 17. SFFA originally filed suit on behalf of several Asian-American students who allege they were unfairly rejected by Harvard; these students have chosen to remain anonymous throughout the lawsuit and trial.

Lee thanked the eight Harvard students for their testimony, which he described as “powerful.” Each of the eight drew on personal experience — including tales of childhood bullying and fears of Harvard’s whiteness — to argue in favor of race-conscious admissions and against a race-blind process. “We’ve heard from the students themselves. We’ve heard from the students who are living diversity every day,” Lee said. “Although much progress has been made, there is much to be done.”

The lawyers finished speaking around 2:30 p.m., marking a relatively early end for a trial whose proceedings often lasted until close to 5 p.m. But the case is far from over.

Experts have said that, regardless of how Burroughs

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Faculty Releases Meeting Agenda to seek qualified examiners at other institutions.

The Faculty Council — the highest governing body of FAS — voted to approve the proposed changes at their last meeting, though their vote is purely advisory.

The Faculty will also hear Tuesday from FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke about a proposal to add two additional class start times to the new course schedule, which administrators implemented this semester.

Under the new proposal, instructors who teach two-hour classes starting at 12 p.m. or 3 p.m. would be able to delay their course start times by 45 minutes. The proposal is meant to address one complication inherent in the new schedule — limited time for lunch. This semester, 141 courses take place between 12 to 2:45 p.m., exactly overlaping with Harvard University Dining Services lunch hours. HUDS recently increased its open hours by 30 minutes in an attempt to give students more time to eat.

“This minor adjustment, in combination with the expanded dining hall hours, will quickly alleviate the major issue with the new schedule raised by students and faculty,” Burke wrote in a memo to the Council on Oct. 4.

Burke wrote he hopes to implement the new changes in the spring semester. One hundred and nine courses are currently scheduled to take place in the 12 to 2:45 p.m. class slot in the spring.

The Council voted unanimously to support the proposal at its last meeting. The Council’s vote is nonbinding, though, and the Faculty will likely vote on the schedule change at its next monthly meeting in December. Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Comparative Literature Professor Jeffrey Schnapp will give a presentation on Curricle, a new platform meant to allow FAS members to navigate course selection and the curriculum. angela.fu @thecrimson.com. lucy.wang@thecrimson.com.

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rules, the disappointed party is likely to appeal — and that a cascading series of appeals could bring the suit before the Supreme Court. The newly conservative court is more likely to side with SFFA than with Harvard, analysts have said. If it does, it could mean the end of affirmative action in the United States.

Over the past three weeks, five current and former high-up Harvard administrators called to serve as witnesses did their best to avert that outcome. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 was up first. He spent most of his four-day testimony defending his legacy as dean — a position he has held for over 30 years. Asked at one point whether the admissions office condones “stereotyping” of Asian-American applicants, Fitzsimmons answered without hesitation.

“We do not endorse — we abhor — stereotypical comments,” he said. “This is not a part of our process. This is not who I am and not who we are.”

Marlyn E. McGrath ’70, Harvard’s director of admissions, took questions from Harvard and SFFA lawyers on two separate occasions. During her first court appearance, McGrath confidently asserted Harvard has never issued written rules detailing how admissions officers may consider race when evaluating candidates. That didn’t turn out to be entirely true: Harvard added a section to its application “reading procedures” for the Class of 2023 that expressly forbids staffers from using race

to calculate high schoolers’ personal scores. McGrath returned to the stand Thursday to face grilling over how and when administrators made that decision.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana was the next top administrator to testify. On the sixth day of the trial — pressed

by SFFA lawyer Mortara — Khurana repeatedly insisted that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian Americans. When Mortara followed up by asking whether Khurana believes the socioeconomic makeup of the College’s wealthy student body should more closely match national demographics, the dean replied “I don’t.”

Soon afterward, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith stepped up to defend the work of his namesake “Smith Committee,” formed in 2017 to research race-neutral alternatives to affirmative action. The committee concluded that “Harvard could not both achieve its diversity interests and achieve other equally important educational outcomes, such as academic excellence” — a finding Smith stuck to on the witness stand.

Former University President Drew G. Faust was the final Harvard administrator called to the witness stand in Courtroom 17.

Faust spent most of her time on the witness stand Thursday explaining and defending diversity initiatives she pursued as president. She particularly noted that the number of Asian-American students and faculty at Harvard increased during her tenure.

The eleventh day of the trial, though, belonged to the eight student witnesses. The students, all of whom are non-white, said the elimination of race-conscious admissions would drive down the number of students of color who matriculate at Harvard each year. On a campus where minority enrollees already feel isolated and alone, this decrease would be nothing less than a disaster, the students said. “Race-blind admissions is an act of erasure,” student witness Sarah F. Cole ’16 said in court. “To not see my race is to not see me.”

At the close of the trial Friday, Harvard lawyers appeared confident that — for now, at least — Cole and other students of color do not have to worry. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com. molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.comfirst. aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

HUHS Pushes Drug Disposal Program

By Alexis K. Bolner and Brie K. Buchanan Contributing Writers

Seeking to combat drug misuse and abuse, Harvard University Health Services has rolled out a new Consumer Drug Take-Back program that provides a place for people to dispose of unused or expired medications.

The dropbox, located in the HUHS pharmacy in the Smith Campus Center, accepts “unused or expired prescription medication, unused or expired over-the-counter medication, and pet medication,” according to a label pasted on its top.

The program is not accepting “illegal medications,” needles, inhalers, liquids, or aerosols. The new health initiative, which HUHS launched this September, allows patients to dispose of drugs usually left behind in medicine cabinets before they can be taken and misused, possibly by children.

Representatives for HUHS declined to comment on the new program. But health experts across Harvard’s schools said the program represents a small step towards fighting addiction and drug abuse.

Michael L. Barnett, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the program offers a way for patients to discard unused medications, meaning it minimizes the risk that others misuse the drugs. “Many patients don’t complete their opioid prescriptions,” Barnett said. “So what that means is that [in] medicine cabinets across the city, across the country, there is a large supply of opioids that are basically just waiting to be taken.”

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Mark P. Eisenberg wrote in an email that unused medication can pose a danger to other members of a household.

“It is true that some meds are taken from parents’ medicine cabinets by kids or grandkids” Eisenberg wrote.

According to the HUHS announcement for the program, 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. New users obtain 77 percent of the opioid prescription medications they take from a friend or relative. Additionally, 62 percent of teens who admit to using medication for recreational or other non-medical reasons say they grab the drugs from medicine cabinets in their homes.

HUHS’s announcement of the program also addresses the negative environmental impact of improperly disposed-of drugs. Eighty percent of 139 streams sampled from 1999-2000 contained at least one pharmaceutical, according to the Consumer Drug TakeBack site. “There has traditionally been no safe way to dispose of them,” Eisenberg wrote about prescription drugs. “It is not great for the water supply to flush them.”

According to Barnett, programs like the CDTB form part of a national response to the opioid epidemic and provide a way to responsibly address the threat posed by unused medications. But Eisenberg also acknowledged the long-term impact and limitations of drug take-back programs on the opioid crisis. “Every little bit helps but it is a drop in the bucket regarding turning around the crisis” Eisenberg said of the program. “It’s much more important to combat stigma and ensure everyone has access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder.”

A “yes” vote would limit the number of patients per nurse. A “no” vote would maintain current laws, which place no limits on the number of patients per nurse.

QUESTION 2 The second question asks about an initiative meant to limit the role of money in politics. If adopted, Question 2 would establish a commision of 15 volunteers from across the state and task it with advocating for a United States Constitutional amendment to overturn the landmark 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling. The Citizens United case set the precedent that corporations are entitled to the same rights as people in the United States. In addition to pushing to cancel that ruling, the hypothetical commission would also seek to regulate campaign contributions and expenditures made by corporations. The proposal enjoys widespread and bipartisan support from Massachusetts politicians including Republican Governor Charles D. Baker ’79 and Democratic Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. Recent polling has indicated that a majority of Massachusetts voters favor the idea.

A “yes” vote would establish a commission and task it with advocating to overturn Citizens United in addition to pushin for a limit on corporate political spending. A “no” vote would not establish such a commission.

QUESTION 3 While Questions 1 and 2 both refer to possible future developments, Question 3 deals with a 2016 law that already exists.

That law bans discrimination on the basis of ender in places of “public accomodation, resort, or amusement” in Massachussetts. A “yes” vote would keep that law as-is, while a “no” vote would rescind it.If kept, the current law adds gender identity to a longer-standing list of prohibited grounds for discrimination including race, skin color, religious creed, national origin, sex, disability, and ancestry. In traditionally progressive Massachusetts, Question 3 has garnered tremendous public support.

A “yes” vote would keep the current law banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity. A “no” vote would repeal this law. benjamin.frimodig@thecrim son .com iris.lewis@thecrimson.com

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Group Supports Hotel Strikers Services — who are also represented by Local 26 — during the workers’ historic 22-day strike that rocked campus.

Though SLAM’s Friday demonstration was short-lived — Sanders staffers escorted the students out after about three minutes — the protest marked just one of bouts of student activism meant to convince University officials to signal their support for the striking workers.

SLAM members said they have reached out to University administrators including O’Dair and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay over the past two weeks.

Students hoped to schedule meetings with the officials and to persuade them to sign a “One Job Should be Enough” pledge promising they will not eat, sleep, or meet at any of hotels whose workers are on strike.

The group has also urged student organizations not to hold meetings at the hotels; and SLAM members participated in another protest Thursday.

University administrators, however, have declined to sign SLAM’s pledges. “Harvard supports fair labor management practices and it respects the legal process that calls for labor issues to be resolved between a union and an employer,” University spokesperson Jonathan Swain wrote in an emailed statement Sunday. “As such, the University is not taking a position on the current labor dispute between Unite Here Local 26 and Marriott International.”

SLAM protesters said University administrators’ decision not to sign the pledges in part motivated their Friday demonstration. “This was one of the more visible ways that we could get [Bacow] to see that Harvard students are invested in the strike,” said Ria Modak ’22, one of the students who unveiled the banner Friday.

She said she felt the protest was successful because it may make it easier for SLAM to get face time with administrators.

SLAM has already succeeded in getting at least one Harvard-affiliated group to cancel an event slated to take place in a Marriott-operated hotel. Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business relocated its Intercollegiate Business Convention from the Sheraton Boston Hotel, whose workers are currently on strike, to the Science Center on Harvard’s campus.

IBC Co-Chair Charlotte E. Kim ’20 said holding the event at the hotel would have been “very wrong and “very hypocritical to our mission,” though changing the venue at the last minute created significant logistical and financial challenges for the group.

IBC invited two of the striking workers to speak at the conference. Their speeches

“brought a lot of the audience members to tears,” Kim said.

SLAM has not just focused its efforts on Harvard’s campus, though. Group members rode the T into Boston Thursday to join the picket line of striking Marriott hotel workers in Copley Square before marching towards another striking hotel while chanting, “One job should be enough.”

The workers are “striking from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. everyday,” Glist said. “And the more people that we bring, the less time they’re on their feet.”

Some members of other Harvard unions — including SEIU and the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Automobile Workers, which is currently engaged in collective bargaining with the University — joined SLAM on the picket line.

Some participants, from Harvard and other Boston-area schools, said they chose to join the protest because they felt a responsibility as students to support the strike and labor movements.

“Showing solidarity for other members of the union that represents workers on our own campuses was an important reason in this, too,” said Jesse L. Ryan, a student organizer from Tufts University who attended the protest.

Glist said he was happy with how the protest went.

“Our goal was to be in solidarity with workers, and let them take a break, and bring different people together, and we were very successful with that,” he said. “The numbers were large and visible, and we got a lot of attention.”

Union workers on the picket line said they were thankful for the student support. “We are very grateful young people take our struggle seriously. They show a lot of courage,” said Henrique G. Fernandes, a picket captain and board member of Unite Here Local 26.

Local 26 spokesperson Nicki Morris said she agrees. “We appreciate the students coming out to support,” she said. “It’s definitely encouraging to know the students in Boston along with the greater Boston community support us in the strike, and are standing up for workers in their community.”

In an emailed statement, a Marriott International spokesperson wrote the company is a “competitive employer that pays significantly above the minimum wage in most markets and provides generous benefits” and that “we remain committed to negotiating in good faith to reach a fair contract for all parties.”

Though SLAM members ended Thursday’s protest by shouting “We’ll be back,” Glist and Modak said the group has not yet planned any definite future events.

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Harvard Sex Week Stimulates Campus Conversation

Undergraduate sexual health groups led “Sexpardy!”, a trivia event about sex, sexual health, and sexuality. Josephine M. Roberts—Crimson photographer

By Sophia S. Armenakas, Jenna X. Bao, and Connor W. K. Brown Crimson Staff Writers

For the eighth year running, Harvard students dedicated a week to discussing sex.

Hosted by the student orga-

nization Sexual Health Education and Advocacy Throughout Harvard College or SHEATH, the program known as “Sex Week” featured workshops on topics ranging from sexual health to gender identity and relationships.

Coinciding with Freshman

Family Weekend this year, Sex Week aims to stimulate dialogue and awareness surrounding stigmatized topics of sex and sexuality.

SHEATH organized 13 events throughout the week including “Hit Me Baby One More Time: BDSM in the Dorm

Room,” “Sexual Fetishes A-Z,” and “One is Not Enough: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy and Polyamory.” The workshops featured speakers, sextoy demonstrations, and raffles.

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BDSM, anal sex, or orgasms.

These are legitimate expressions of human sexuality that students may have questions about and so we have a duty to provide that education during Sex Week,” SHEATH Co-President Lita D. Peña ’19 wrote in an emailed statement.

Most of these workshops took place in classrooms and lecture halls across the University. While many drew overflowing crowds, most attendees declined to comment.

Jovanni J. Candia ’20, who attended Sex Week events for the first time this year, said he thinks Sex Week is a good idea.

“These classes are actually a really interesting way for everyone to get proper sexual education,” Candia said. “A lot of people have these sheltered views and they’ll think it’s a really negative thing.”

Candia added that he believes Sex Week helps destigmatize discussing sex on campus.

“Just the fact that it’s out in the open and people know that ‘hey, there’s a whole class about it and there’s a full class full of people just to hear someone talk about sex’ kind of gives a better viewpoint for the whole student body, even the people who didn’t come,” Candia said.

Michal Goderez, a Good Vibrations employee who spoke at “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” said she thinks events like Sex Week are important to ensure students receive appropriate sexual education.

“I’m so excited this is hap-

pening at universities for freshman and sophomores, people who need this information,” Goderez said.

“Obviously it would be great if they had this information by the beginning of high school, but wherever we can get it, the better.”

Peña wrote that Sex Week aims to show that sex is not

“We may be brilliant in the classroom, but we still need [an] education in the bedroom.”

Lita D. Peña ’19 SHEATH Co-President

something to be ashamed of.

When asked what she thought was the highlight of the week, Peña recalled a moment with Laurie Mintz, the speaker at “Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters — And How to Get It.” Peña said that Mintz found the “orgasm inequality gap” in the room was similar to those seen in studies of the general population. “[Mintz] turns to the audience and essentially responds, ‘Harvard students! They’re just like us!’” Peña wrote. “It reaffirmed to me that we may be brilliant in the classroom, but we still need and deserve a comprehensive education in the bedroom, and so I’m proud of the work that Sex Week does.”

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UC Questions When to Pay

By Jonah S. Berger Crimson Staff Writer

Though recent changes to the way the College funds student groups left the Undergraduate Council with more money than ever before, the overhauled funding structure has also sparked newfound disagreements within the body about when it should step in to fund student events.

For three consecutive weeks now, the UC’s Finance Committee has not imposed any acrossthe-board cuts to its grants to student groups.

The lack of cuts comes just one semester after the Council had to consistently diminish its grants by over 25 percent each week.

The rosy financial picture is likely a result of the Council budget, which is 34 percent higher this year than it was last year.

That increase has also allowed the Council to allocate more funding to every one of its committees.

Yet at multiple meetings this fall, the Council voted against allocating money for events that it claims are not their responsibility to fund.

At Sunday’s meeting, despite opposition by numerous representatives, the Council allocated $10,000 to buttress funding for a campus-wide party in Annenberg — the freshman dining hall — on Nov. 16, the evening before the Harvard-Yale football game.

While opposition to two other prospective programs in recent weeks — funding student dinners and advising meetings — appeared to be case-specific, the debate about whether to lend a hand to those other groups will likely remain an ongoing dispute, according to multiple representatives.

The changes to the Council’s budget came as a result of a 150 percent increase in the student activities fee — an optional sum undergraduates pay as part of enrollment costs — and accompanying changes to the way the UC, College Events Board, House Committees, and the Intramural Sports Council receive funding.

While House Committees previously fell under the auspices of the Council, they now apply for money independently to a funding board composed of students and administrators.

UC Finance Committee chair Gevin B. Reynolds ’19 said these changes mean the Council no longer has an obligation to fund events for which any of the above groups should be responsible.

“It was my understanding, that this year, with the new funding structure, CEB was supposed to have the financial ability to plan, run, and fund

their own events, and the UC would have the money to fund our own initiatives,” he said.

“The [CEB] supposedly should get the money from the administration to fund their events on their own.”

Other representatives said the Council’s overarching mission — to serve the student body — should compel them to act in certain instances, especially if other groups, such as the CEB, feel financially constrained.

Lowell House Representative Julia M. Huesa ’20 argued that, because the UC and the other three groups ultimately draw from the same “pot of money,” they should not see themselves as clashing bodies.

“One of the goals of the UC is to fund inclusive social life,” she said.

“Ultimately, if they’re funding something that’s going to be for the entire student body, it’s in the interest of the UC to fund that.”

At its Oct. 8 meeting, the Council narrowly voted down legislation to help the Lowell House Committee fund its annual party, “Glowell.” At the time, representatives raised similar concerns about funding house parties, which many called the domain of House Committees.

Some said it could be the start of a slippery slope that leads the UC to fund more and more events.

Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 said Sunday that he continues to harbor reservations about helping the CEB and House Committees fund their own events.

Boucher ultimately voted for the legislation at Sunday’s meeting because CEB leaders agreed to name the UC as cohosts.

The legislation ultimately passed, with 24 in favor, 8 against, and 2 abstaining.

“If it had been purely a CEB event where the UC was giving a grant to help them do an event of their own, I would have been against it for the reasons Gevin mentioned,” Boucher said.

He added that the new funding scheme should give each of the four groups financial independence.

In reality, though, “growing pains” associated with the new system — as well as some groups exceeding their financial means — has prevented that from happening, he said.

“If each group is advocating for the amount they believe they need for the entire year, theoretically, there shouldn’t need to be any requesting of funding from the UC from either CEB, IMs or the HoCos,” Boucher said.

“What we’ve seen is that that’s not the case.”­ jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

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Axing Splits Divinity School, Students ­

The Divinity School plans to remove an old red oak tree. Karina G. Gonzalez-Espinoza—Crimson photographer

by both the ethical and spiritual ramifications of the tree’s felling. Others take issue with the manner in which administrators have handled the decision-making process, calling it one-sided.

Divinity School enrollee Shane H. Brodie said in an interview he feels that students and Divinity School administrators are not at all on the same page.

“What’s very hurtful in this situation and the decisions that are coming down about the tree is

By Simone C. Chu Crimson Staff Writer

An estimated 18,000 faculty and staff across the University will take a sexual assault prevention training module starting Monday, University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp wrote in an email last week.

All benefits-eligible faculty and staff must complete the 45-minute program — designed to remind Harvard’s employees about University policy and resources — by Dec. 17.

Garber and Lapp said in May that the University would mandate faculty and staff training around sexual assault prevention and response in fall 2018.

Their announcement came on the heels of a year that saw the #MeToo movement hit Harvard in a big way; 18 women stepped forward to accuse prominent Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual harassment stretching back decades in early spring and the University in March barred star Econom-

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ics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr. from setting foot in his lab while it investigated allegations of sexual harassment against him.

Central administrators and the leaders of Harvard’s individual schools have worked across the past two years to implement the 2016 recommendations of a University-wide task force on sexual assault prevention that urged mandatory trainings for students, faculty, and staff. Administrators debuted a similar sexual assault prevention training module for undergraduates in 2016. Though the module was not originally mandatory, 100 percent of students completed the training this fall after administrators tied program completion to course registration.

In their email to faculty and staff last week, Garber and Lapp wrote it is important to review information about sexual assault prevention and response.

“Recent events across society continue to underscore the observation that sexual and gender-based harassment remains a deeply ingrained problem,”

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aspects of institutional power to bulldoze the situation.”

Divinity School top brass maintain, however, that they have been clear about the decision-making process. School officials sought alternatives to the tree’s removal in response to student feedback, they said. “I know some are not happy with where we are, but we really have been very transparent with the process,”said Ralph DeFlorio, the Divinity School director of

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Title IX Module Mandatory for Faculty, Staff

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that I had assumed we had the same values,” Brodie said.

Brodie also questioned whether administrators ever really planned to take student input into account. He noted that the Divinity School released its final decision to cut down the tree well ahead of the December deadline by which its meetings with students are slated to conclude. “It’s not that they’re bad people,” he said. “But I feel like they are using some of the worst

operations.

DeFlorio, along with Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton and Senior Advisor to the Dean Patricia M. Byrne, all highlighted the University’s commitment to the environment and to fostering a multi-faith space.

The trio said the school plans to replace the canopy lost by the tree and will engage in discussions on how to best process and mourn its removal, making sure to carefully weigh all the different religions and beliefs at play.

“There is no one happy about the fact that the tree is going to have to come down,” Hempton said. “We want to do the right thing for people to give proper expression to that sadness.”

The health of the tree marks another a bone of contention between students and administrators. Byrne said Divinity School staffers consulted a tree specialist about the health of the tree and its possible relocation, only to be told the oak is already declining irreversibly and probably wouldn’t survive a move.

“If we weren’t doing the renovation, we would probably be looking at the health of this tree anyway,” Byrne said.

Harvard Yard bustled with parents, siblings, and extended family members on Friday and Saturday as relatives of freshmen converged on Cambridge for the College’s First-Year Family Weekend.

The Harvard Dean of Students Office organized the annual event, inviting parents to participate in a range of activities. Smiling family members stopped by classrooms, museum open houses, historical tours, faculty lectures, religious group events, and a tailgate luncheon. During meal hours, Annenberg Hall — the freshman dining hall — overflowed with parents proudly sporting “P’22” caps and crimson-colored sweatshirts. Though Kosta Sakenis and Renata Sakeniene, parens of Simas Sakenis ‘22, said they enjoyed several College-sponsored events, the pair said the real value of their weekend came in seeing how their son lived on a day-to-day basis.

“I wouldn’t say [there was] much surprise, because our son was already telling a lot,” Kostas Sakenis said. “It was more to see [it] with our own eyes.”

Jacqueline E. Zoeller ’22 said she was also excited to show her parents her new life at Harvard.

“It was so odd just to be like, ‘Wow, my life is so different from when I last saw you,’” Zoeller said, Polina N. Whitehouse ’22, meanwhile, said she was eager to show her parents her newly clean bedroom, the result of hours of frenetic activity before the weekend rolled around.

“I was particularly excited

to show them the actual visible floor” Whitehouse said.

“I was impressed by the amount of crap on the floor,” Mark Whitehouse countered, referring to the common room.

“I don’t know if you can use that word in The Crimson.”

Kirsten M. Anderson ’90, mother of Kieran L. Anderson ’22, said the College now seems to put more emphasis on supporting students than it did when she was an undergraduate.

“The only thing that strikes me as different, I think, is the expansion of the student-centeredness...which I think is really good,” she said.

Gina Burke, the College’s interim coordinator of parent programs, wrote in an emailed statement that First-Year Family Weekend gives families an opportunity to “spend quality time” with students in their new environment at Harvard.

“For students, we hope having their families in town provided a boost of support and connection to home, especially after being away from each other for several months,” Burke wrote. “For those whose families were not able to attend, we hope students were able to connect with the larger Harvard community through special events like faculty dinners, meeting up with a host family, or gatherings in their entryway.”

One of the divisions of the Dean of Students Office hosted a student-faculty dinner on Friday for freshmen whose parents could not come to campus due to “financial hardships, immigration policies, and/or other significant personal circumstances.”

Garber and Lapp wrote. “For our community to truly thrive, its members must feel comfortable coming forward to report harassment. That aspiration will only be realized if we all have a firm understanding of the University’s relevant policies and available resources.” University Title IX Officer Nicole M. Merhill said the faculty and staff training module details definitions of what constitutes sexual harassment, outlines University Title IX policy, and lists resources available on campus. The faculty and staff training module, presents additional information about the role of a “responsible employee” at Harvard.

“If they receive a disclosure that falls under the sexual- and gender-based harassment policy, then they must share that information with a Title IX coordinator,” Merhill said. The module also explains what Title IX coordinators do with that information. Merhill also said scenarios presented in the faculty and staff training module are meant to represent experiences those

categories of Harvard affiliates are likely to undergo. Administrators will monitor faculty and staff members’ progress toward completing the module via the Harvard Training Portal. The training will only be considered successfully completed if faculty and staff receive a score of 80 percent or higher on an assessment given at the end of module. “By establishing a common baseline of training to all faculty and staff, we will continue to expand our knowledge and understanding, and strengthen our commitment to the wellbeing of every member of our community,” Garber and Lapp wrote.

Asked whether administrators could effectively enforce completion of the training — particularly given the fact that many faculty are tenured and have total job security — Merhill said administrators “watch that data very closely” and will “make efforts to ensure that all of those individuals in fact do complete the training.” simone.chu@thecrimson.com

TEDx Event Invites Critical Thinking

By Jane Z. Li and Katherine S. Li contributing Writers

A crowd of a few hundred gathered in Sanders Theatre Sunday afternoon to attend this year’s iteration of Harvard’s annual TEDx event, “What if I’m Wrong?”

Seven speakers — hailing from a variety of professions — spent around four hours urging audience members to question their assumptions about the world around them. Presenters included forensic sketch artist Gil Zamora, ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson, and University of Texas undergraduate Sofia Babool. The remainder — largely Boston-area academics — came from a wide range of fields including psychology, engineering, and anthropology.

The Harvard Breakers, a campus breakdancing group, headlined a brief intermission that kept most audience members glued to their seats.

During her presentation, Ellen J. Langer, a Harvard professor of psychology, discussed the concept of mind-body unity, telling audience members that their mindset can induce tangible changes in their physiology.

“Wherever we put the body, we necessarily put the mind,” Langer said. “We need to stop confusing the stability of our mindsets with the stability of the underlying phenomenon and recognize that we don’t know for sure.” Paralleling Langer’s challenge to common beliefs about human psychology, Pawan Dhingra, professor of American Studies at Amherst College, offered an unusual way to think about social phenomena. He encouraged the audience

to use what he called the “sociological imagination,” a framework for understanding the relationship between cultural behavior and society. “We should see our behaviors formed less by individual agency and more by economic and political forces that have historical groundings and great magnitude,” Dhingra said. “So much of the behavior is a product of social institutions ...If we want kids to not engage in violence as a means for self-protection, then we have to ask why do we have a criminal justice system that might not be treating everybody equitably.

We’re not trying to excuse any behaviors; we’re trying to explain them,” Dhingra added.

In his talk, Iverson, who served as the final ringmaster of the now-defunct Ringling Bros Circus, discussed the false certainty some people feel about their future. “We have it fixed in our minds that we have to finish what we started,” Iverson said. “We insist on the familiar because it promises us security. Let me break your heart: no matter what any insurance salesman ever tells you, there is no security. There’s always a risk.”

“Give yourself permission to not be so certain,” he added.

“We’re literally ordained by nature to shift, change, recreate our entire reality if need be, or as we see fit.” In an interview with the Harvard-based TEDx organizing team, Co-Vice President Lion Lee ’21 said the desire to hear from a broad range of speakers motivated their decision to choose this year’s theme.

“We wanted to choose something that wasn’t speaker-restricted, so that you could have a broad variety of people.”

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HKS Must Do More to Diversify

Telling the Story of the Migrant Caravan

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he Harvard Kennedy School recently released a diversity report showing that, despite recent attempts at reform, it remains predominantly white and male. Recently, the school has demonstrated a desire to improve the diversity of its student body, hiring Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Robbin Chapman earlier this year and implementing bias training for senior administration. However, despite these efforts, the school’s recent diversity report reveals that the school has made little progress in diversifying its student body and staff. As we have opined in the past, these revelations continue to be both unsurprising and disappointing.

The recent report revealed marginal increases in the diversity of some demographic groups enrolled in the Masters of Public Policy program, the largest one offered by the Kennedy School. The percentage of African-American students increased from four percent in 2015 to seven percent in 2018. The percentage of Hispanic and Latinx students made up seven percent of the student body in both 2015 and 2018.

While the percentage of Asian-American students increased from seven percent in 2017 to 17 percent in 2018, the taskforce was unable to explain the jump. We believe that the Kennedy School must work towards understanding which strategies are most effective at recruiting students from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It should also strive to expand its aid program in order to attract

students from low-income backgrounds.

The mission of the Kennedy School is to “improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world.” However, the Kennedy School must consider that the nature of its curriculum and programs might prioritize topics of study that are most conducive to its current demographic makeup, which may only serve to reinforce the status quo. A revamped curriculum focusing more on international politics and underserved communities would create a space that is more supportive for a more diverse student body.

Considering that two years ago, more than 40 Harvard alumni won seats in the 115th Congress, it is imperative that Harvard recognizes the influence that it wields over our future leaders and is held accountable for the compositions of its classrooms.

Perhaps by considering these factors, the Kennedy School can begin to mitigate the discomfort felt by many students of color in the classroom and retain more of them.

Furthermore, the report showed that the faculty has not diversified either,

with 79 percent of professors identifying as white, only one professor identifying as Hispanic/Latinx, and only two professors identifying as African-American.

These numbers are not an improvement from the previous report. The Kennedy School should work in order to diversify its staff, which could contribute towards recruiting and retaining more students of color. Students who see their identities reflected in their professors and curricula are more likely to thrive at the Kennedy School.

Considering that two years ago, more than 40 Harvard alumni won seats in the 115th Congress, it is imperative that Harvard recognizes the influence that it holds. It must be held accountable for how its classrooms are comprised of individuals who may one day hold positions of power. For that reason, it should be especially cognizant of its student body makeup, which in turn impacts who will become the leaders of tomorrow. We urge HKS to actively work towards reflecting the United States’ demographics. If this recent diversity report is any indication, their current efforts are not doing enough, if anything at all.

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

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Op-ed

Vote Yes on Ballot Question 3

By Justin P. McMahan, Amanda R. Powers, and Allison J. Scharmann.

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n Nov. 6, Massachusetts voters will take to the polls to decide one of the most salient civil rights questions of the 21st century: whether or not to protect the rights and safety of the state’s transgender residents in public spaces. While the question will be decided on a statewide election ballot, its ramifications have the potential to stretch far beyond the boundaries of the Bay State. In order to protect the civil rights of transgender and nonbinary individuals on Harvard’s campus, in Massachusetts, and across the country, it is vital that students and Massachusetts residents show up on election day and vote “Yes” on ballot Question 3.

Until recently, protections for trans and nonbinary residents were settled law in Massachusetts. The state legislature first prohibited discrimination against individuals on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations in 2016, passing a bill protecting trans and nonbinary individuals’ access to spaces including public bathrooms, locker rooms, hotels, and restaurants. The bill, which passed with almost 90 percent support in the state senate and over 75 percent support in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was signed into law by Republican Governor Charlie D. Baker ’79 that July. The 2018 statewide ballot referendum Question 3 has put upholding or repealing this piece of civil rights legislation in the hands of the residents of the Commonwealth.

The efforts to challenge and repeal these protections through popular vote have not been motivated by Massachusetts residents at large, but rather by the calculated efforts of a Judeo-Christian organization called the Massachusetts Family Institute and the allied initiative “Keep MA Safe.” Keep MA Safe, which receives funding from MFI as well as other private donors, has centered its opposition to the anti-discrimination

law around unfounded and irresponsible claims that the legislation allows people (namely sex offenders) to enter bathrooms and changing rooms in order to attack women and children on the pretense of gender identity. Assault and harassment, regardless of the spaces they occur in, are illegal in the state of Massachusetts and the anti-discrimination law has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.

The Keep MA Safe website employs tactics of bias and misinformation online and in video attempting to convince Massachusetts residents to vote against civil rights protections based on gender identity. The website attempts to scare voters using “Examples of Privacy Violations,” more accurately described as unrelated news reports on men and women peeking over bathroom stalls or in dressing rooms which in no way are connected to, nor are shown to have been impacted by, anti-discrimination laws like that which Massachusetts has adopted. Freedom Massachusetts, the primary organization advocating for the continuation of prohibitions against discrimination towards transgender people, argues that this law has not and will not affect the safety and privacy of Massachusetts residents, including in restrooms and locker rooms. The organization lists not only the aforementioned Police Association and Coalition Against Sexual Assault, but numerous other public safety and women’s advocacy groups as supporters of the Yes on 3 campaign.

The efforts that placed this crucial anti-discrimination legislation on the ballot this November were not born out of concerns for the safety of women and children, but rather out of prejudice towards transgender and nonbinary individuals, whose civil rights are under attack not only in the state of Massachusetts but across the United States. The National Center for Transgender Equality reports that “more than one in four trans people has faced a bias-driven as-

sault, and rates are higher for trans women and trans people of color” and the Human Rights Campaign has recorded 22 deaths due to fatal violence of transgender people in 2018 so far, the most recent being the death of Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier on Oct. 3. Rather than take steps to end discrimination and violence against trans and nonbinary people, the Trump administration has made this discrimination its agenda, plotting to define gender based on genitalia at birth and exclude trans and nonbinary individuals from civil rights protections.

The state of Massachusetts has been a leader in progressing the rights of BGLTQ Americans for decades, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in a wide range of public and private areas in 1989, prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in areas including housing, employment, and union practices in 2012, and prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations in 2016. When Massachusetts votes on equality, the nation watches. Often, it follows.

The state is also home to over 100 colleges and universities — Harvard being one of its most prominent — housing transgender and nonbinary students from across the country and world. The rights and safety of these students, not all of whom are necessarily registered or eligible to vote in the state they spend the majority of their year, are left to be decided by the majority of Massachusetts voters. In order to protect the civil rights and safety of their transgender and nonbinary friends and neighbors, it is imperative that registered students and residents of Massachusetts vote “Yes” on ballot Question 3 this November.

—Alison J. Scharmann ’21, a Crimson Arts Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Justin P. McMahan ’21 is a Social Studies and African American Studies concentrator in Adams House.

Amanda R. Powers ’21 lives in Cabot House.

Trevor J. Levin after the fact

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ometimes, in the face of so much propaganda from the White House and its allies, it can be self-defeating to address their narratives on their own terms. To repudiate each falsehood is also to repeat it for a new audience; identifying each dehumanizing detail is to legitimize it as simply one “side” in a partisan argument.

In order to see the depths of the corruption and evil that the “migrant caravan” episode has revealed in the Republican Party, you have to instead start at the beginning.

At the beginning, you have a choice.

You see several thousand people, mostly families walking thousands of miles through Central America, many intending to seek asylum in the United States. This is a dangerous journey.

The group wades through rivers. Children collapse from exhaustion. You might ask why anyone would do this, and the answer, of course, is that the very prospect of being allowed to live in America, away from the violence and poverty that characterize their lives at home, makes it all worth it.

Your choice is that you can react to these images either as a partisan or as a human being. If you choose the latter, whether you believe that other people have God-given rights or simply that their well-being matters at all, you could not help but feel compassion, not fear. The appropriate question is “How do we help these poor, desperate human beings?,” not “How do we stop them from getting anywhere near me?”

How could anyone feel fear, from their sofas in Minnesota, at the sight of unarmed families a thousand miles from Brownsville — whose numbers, roughly 7,000, could not fill a quarter of Harvard Stadium?

The answer is obvious: Because a handful of very powerful people saw a potential for political gain.

As we learned after last month’s attempted bombings of center-left political figures, the Trump-Fox-Gab Reality Machine takes as its inputs not facts to be spun favorably into arguments but rather television images to be transformed into unhinged hatred — with George Soros as the semi-fictionalized Emmanuel Goldstein of our Two Minutes Hate. With scary music, misleading captions, and a right-wing base all too willing to believe the president’s claims of threats and conspiracies, these human beings looking for a better life become an invading force of gang members and Middle Eastern terrorists.

Missing in this account, of course, is that many in the caravan plan to apply, legally, for asylum at the border. And why Middle Eastern terrorists would choose as their way of entering the country to fly to Honduras and walk 1,000 miles with international media attention on them is unclear.

One explanation is that the universes of these conspiracy theories are not populated by actual people who think and feel but rather by faceless foreign enemies who came into existence hellbent on destroying America.

In a particularly stomach-churning moment, Trump even winkingly professed ignorance as to whether Soros himself is funding the caravan — the very theory that motivated Robert Gregory Bowers to kill 11 Jews at a synagogue last weekend.

Right-wing conspiracies are nothing new. Opportunists weaponized Vince Foster’s suicide in the 1990s, and a certain reality television star even accused Barack Obama of faking his own American citizenship. But, to paraphrase soonto-be-Senator Mitt Romney, never has this ugly imagination been married to real power.

But the marriage took place, and in a move without precedent (except, arguably, the entire War in Iraq), the president has deployed tens of thousands of active-duty troops in an expensive and nakedly political act of desperation. This deployment has disrupted hundreds of thousands of Americans’ lives, swamping cities at the border with helicopters and creating images straight out of an apocalyptic B-movie.

Never mind that the Army itself reports a very different image of the migrant caravan, writing in a report that the “most likely scenario” is that the caravan will continue to shrink as it moves north. (Its worst effect, in this scenario, is that smugglers exploit Trump’s focus on the caravan).

But the point is not security; the point is making Trump look like a very big boy, and he is reveling in the good television it has produced to that effect. If you have any doubt of the operation’s political motivations, note that this is not the first caravan but merely the first to approach the border during an election season. Further, the caravan is scheduled to arrive at the border in 45 days at the earliest — one day before the deployment is scheduled to end!

The absurdity of the Trumpian nightmare-theater does demand our attention. After all, it represents a horrifying torrent of dehumanizing lies from the most powerful man on earth and another step in eroding the norms of American governance. But we must also take a moment, every now and then, and look at the facts on the ground outside of their immediate political context.

We are not fundamentally Republicans or Democrats. We are human beings. And under normal circumstances, when we see other human beings in pain, we experience empathy. We try to help. That should have been the story of the migrant caravan.

The warped, hateful picture we see instead speaks to how deep those human beings can be buried under ideologies of hatred. That, not the brown faces on your screen, should terrify you.

—Trevor J. Levin ’19, a former Crimson Arts Comp Director, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Mondays.

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Harvard Records First Point with Princeton Draw By spencer r. morris Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard men’s hockey team entered Saturday’s contest against No. 19 Princeton having won the squads’ previous 10 matchups.

The winning streak is no more, but a point streak of 14 games lives on after 65 minutes of hockey ended in the two teams tied at 4-4. The Crimson (0-2-1, 0-1-1 ECAC) has not lost outright to the Tigers (1-1-1, 1-0-1) since 2011.

“Princeton was a good team.

They pumped Dartmouth coming in, 7-1, so we knew we had to be ready,” co-captain Michael Floodstrand said. “We got a couple tough bounces there, but we did a good job of weathering it. It sucks to tie, but I think we did a good job of clawing our way back.”

The Ivy League rivals traded goals throughout the first two periods, and Harvard entered the third frame trailing by a goal, still in search of its first notch in the win column in 2018-2019.

“It’s always a dagger going into the third when you’re chasing, especially in this league [ECAC] when teams can really shut it down,” Floodstrand said. “The mentality was, keep going. We were outshooting them, we knew that we were kind of outplaying them fiveon-five.”

Only two minutes had expired in the final stanza when freshman Jack Rathbone threw a puck toward Princeton goaltender Ryan Ferland.

With multiple Crimson skaters jamming at Ferland’s pads, the puck eventually popped out to the left of the crease where freshman Casey Dornbach ­

hammered it home, tying the game at four.

After a staggering five powerplay goals against Dartmouth last week, Harvard’s man-up unit was held off the scoresheet in Friday’s 5-3 loss to Quinnipiac. In the second period on Saturday, the Crimson once again produced on the man-advantage, as blue-liners Adam Fox and Reilly Walsh reminded fans, coaches, and players alike how dangerous they are in the offensive zone.

Fox began the sequence, receiving the puck at the middle point and toe-dragging his way around a helpless defender. With all eyes on the junior’s dazzling hands, Fox dished a backhand pass to an open Dornbach, who found Walsh on a low-to-high pass through traffic. The sophomore ripped a shot that skimmed freshman Jack Drury on its way to the back of the net.

Despite the successful Crimson powerplay opportunity, a Princeton shorthanded goal from junior defenseman Derek Topatigh netted out the Drury score mere minutes later.

Overall, the Tigers ran away with the special teams battle, as alternate captain Ryan Kuffner potted his second man-up goal of the night — an in-close redirect off the heel of his stick blade, eerily similar to his first score — after Topatigh’s tying strike.

“We’re still searching for the understanding of how not to beat ourselves,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “We gave up a goal on our powerplay and we gave up two shorthanded goals, but I give our guys credit for battling through that.”

For the Crimson, the trend

of untimely goals against — particularly at the beginning of periods — continued on Saturday night. Less than four minutes into the tilt, Princeton senior Max Vérroneau gained possession of the puck off a center-ice faceoff. The alternate captain ripped a shot along the ice and beat senior net-minder Michael Lackey five-hole.

“The first [Princeton] goal, I don’t know if that’s a great scoring chance,” coach Donato said.

“I think we probably want that back from a goaltending standpoint.”

Vérroneau, always an offensive threat, finished with four points (1–3—4) on the evening.

Unlike Friday’s contest, in which Harvard found itself in a multi-goal hole early on, the home team was able to notch the score less than two minutes after the Tigers tally, tilting the ice back to neutral.

Sophomore Jack Badini took the puck around the back of the cage before dishing to Rathbone at the point. The rookie fired a one-timer through traffic and found twine.

Not only did the Crimson even the ledger, but two minutes later it seized control of the game thanks to a hard drive to the net from sophomore forward Henry Bowlby. Ultimately, the opening period finished tied at two goals after Kuffner struck on the power play, but importantly, coach Donato’s group showed resiliency after allowing an early goal.

“We stressed — we were hoping — that [an early goal against] wouldn’t happen,” Dornbach said. “That’s something we have to work on. It always makes it tough when you’re chasing the game like that. Hopefully we can start

they’ll take it The Crimson picked up its first standings point of the season in Saturday’s 4-4 draw with a ranked Princeton squad featuring two of the top scoring wingers in the country.. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

getting some first goals, but I thought the guys worked hard [after conceding the first goal].”

Saturday night saw Lackey regain his spot between the pipes after coach Donato, dissatisfied by Lackey’s seven goals allowed last week, gave the nod to junior Cameron Gornet on Friday. While his numbers (4 GA, .826 SV%) may not jump off the page, the senior backstop kept his team in the game and showed bursts of promising net-minding.

“I thought Michael battled,” coach Donato started. “I think much like our team’s game, it looked better but there’s still room for improvement and still areas we can be better. But I

liked the fact that he came out and was really battling…. When all is said and done, I think he’s got a better game inside of him, and I think he would tell you that.”

Harvard’s goaltending situation will continue to develop as the season progresses, with the starting role very much still up for grabs while the goals against remain abundant.

Two freshmen, Drury (1– 1—2 tonight) and Dornbach (1– 2—3), netted their first career goals on Saturday night. Another rookie, Rathbone (1–2—3), added to his productive weekend with a strike of his own. In total, freshmen accounted for eight of the Crimson’s 12 points

on the scoresheet and three of the team’s four tallies.

Prior to the tilt, coach Donato jumbled the lines quite significantly but left the pairing of Bowlby, Drury, and Dornbach from Friday night intact.

The early chemistry starting to form between the trio will be key in establishing Harvard’s ideal line combinations moving forward.

“It’s just kind of part of the game and part of our team,” Floodstrand said. “The lines kind of shifted up a little bit, which is great…. It’s always super helpful to kind of get those changes and spark a little bit of excitement.” spencer.morris@thecrimson.com

women’s ice hockey

Harvard Falls to QPac, Ties Princeton on the Road

By Kostas tingos Contributing Writer

On Saturday afternoon, a shot from the point caused a mad scramble in front of the Princeton net. Bodies were flying everywhere when finally Har­

vard sophomore forward Becca Gilmore slid behind Tigers goaltender Rachel McQuigge and tucked the loose puck into the net.

This play late in the third period knotted the game at 2-2, which allowed the Crimson (1-

3-1, 1-3-1 ECAC) to earn a tie against Princeton (3-2-1, 3-0-1) following a scoreless overtime period. The team salvaged a point this weekend after being defeated by Quinnipiac (3-5-2, 3-1-0) on Friday night in Hamden, Conn.

skyward Dominique Petrie scored in the second period of the draw. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

HARVARD 2, PRINCETON 2 “We regrouped Saturday morning and we talked about being more relentless and having urgency,” Gilmore said.

“Nothing changes, just urgency and we knew what we needed to do.”

The team certainly brought that urgency on Saturday, but it was the Tigers who jumped out to a quick start in the first period by capitalizing on a Harvard penalty. Sophomore forward Sharon Franklin put her side ahead on the power play goal off an assist from her fellow sophomore forward Sarah Verbeek.

This lead would last until the second period. After 13 minutes, freshman forward Dominique Petrie converted a penalty shot, the squad’s first since 2011, to draw the Crimson level.

An early goal in the third period from Princeton forced Harvard into another comeback effort. After applying pressure, the team got its breakthrough with Gilmore’s goal before having to pull its goaltender for an extra skater.

“It was not the prettiest goal,” Gilmore said. “My two linemates put a lot of pressure and a screen on the goalie and I was able to just sneak behind and bury it.… It was a good, gritty play by all five players on the ice.”

The five-minute overtime period featured a handful of shots from the Crimson, as it played with confidence, riding the momentum from its late

equalizer. However, none of those efforts found a way past sophomore goaltender Rachel McQuigge.

Despite not pulling out the victory, the team’s two goals were certainly an improvement from the shutout the day before. The change is not so much due to an altered style, but more just a focus on working hard and being willing to do the dirty work to finish chances.

“I think it’s just getting more shots to the net and getting more bodies in front of the net,” said captain and forward Kate Hallett. “Screening those goaltenders, and capitalizing on rebound opportunities [are really important].”

QUINNIPIAC 1, HARVARD 0 Friday night’s game was a very different affair in terms of the score sheet. Nothing could separate the sides through two periods at the People’s United Center.

Freshman goaltender Lindsay Reed played a big part in keeping things level. She accumulated 25 saves on the night to help her team stay in the game. After a save, Reed dove back towards her own net and tipped the a shot wide with her outstretched arms to prevent a Bobcat player from tapping in the rebound.

A power play goal from junior defender Kenzie Prater broke the deadlock in the third period. The game ended 1-0 after a late flurry from the Crimson fell short.

The lackluster offensive showing was led by Petrie, captain forward Lexie Laing, and junior forward Kat Hughes.

The trio finished with five, three, and three shots respectively on the night.

On the other side of the ice, six Quinnipiac players totaled at least three shots apiece. Junior defender Kati Tabin had a team high four shots out of the total 26.

This weekend was a continuation of the slow start Harvard has had. The team has only notched seven goals in its first five games, with three of those coming in the opening win against Dartmouth. If it hopes to turn things around, the goal scoring will certainly have to increase.

“We have a lot of talent on this team,” Gilmore said. “All four lines can put the puck in the net and we just need to do it consistently. I don’t think that’s based on the other team.

I think that’s our power, our grit, to dig deep and get one in.”

The Crimson has almost two weeks before its next contest against Holy Cross. The break will afford the group an opportunity to build up chemistry and make adjustments from this first stretch of games.

“We have a lot of work,” Gilmore said. “This is not where we wanted to be at the end of five games now… As a team we need to regroup and reflect on what went well, what went bad, and how we get better… The next two weeks will be huge in that aspect.”

Champion From Page 1

Sailor Henry Marshall Trounces Competition at Nationals for Marshall, who continued his dominance over the rest of the field by not giving up his position atop the pool of competitors.

Marshall is no stranger to first-place finishes. In 2016, he won the Laser Radial Youth World Championship, taking home the gold among a field of 58 international competitors.

Leading up to the regatta, he

took time off from school and trained with U.S. Olympic Laser Radial sailor Paige Railey at the United States sailing headquarters in Brazil.

Currently a member of the United States’ Olympic Development Program, Marshall is looking to continue his success representing the Crimson and the United States in the future.

“There’s a lot to look forward

to in the spring,” Marshall said.

“There are two national titles on the line and we’re going to do our best to win again.”

In international racing, Marshall is preparing to begin his training for the 2019 Pan American Games qualifiers, another step towards achieving his ultimate goal of sailing for the United States in the Olympic Games.

Marshall’s immediate im-

pact as a new member of Har-

“His work ethic is unparalleled.”

Francis Doyle ’

vard’s sailing team came as a result of his rigorous preparation going into his first-year season.

“I’ve had a pretty heavy training load right through the summer leading into my season,” the freshman said. “My coaches and I worked hard to put together a schedule that we thought would put us in the best position possible come November, and I think we achieved that.”

However, his immediate impact was not limited to his ac-

complishments on the water.

“His work ethic is unparalleled both on the water and in training,” said freshman skipper Frankie Doyle, Marshall’s high school classmate and current teammate.

“Everything that has happened with his success has come from his hard work, and I think he has really motivated the people around him as well.”

Sports

Weekly Recap

SCORES

Men’s ice hockey vs. quinnipiac l, 5-3 ___________________________________________________________

women’s volleyball vs. brown l, 3-2 ___________________________________________________________

men’s soccer Vs. columbia L , 2-1 ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo at brown W, 12-11 ___________________________________________________________

women’s soccer vs. columbia w, 42-1 ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo at MIt w, 13-9 ___________________________________________________________

women’s volleyball vs. Yale l, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

field hockey

Harvard Claims Outright Ivy League Championship

By David manikas Contributing Writer

There was no better way for the Harvard field hockey team to end its 2018 regular season.

Prior to the noon start to the matchup between No. 6 Harvard (16-1, 7-0 Ivy) and Columbia (8-9, 2-5), fans and families filed into the bleachers to support the seniors playing in their last regular season home game.

“Coming into the game I was obviously a little upset but just proud to be a part of such an amazing season and such an amazing team,” said senior back Olivia Allin, who scored a goal in her final regular season outing.

Backs Allin and Brianna Bolon, midfielders Victoria Boylett and Emily Duarte, captain and forward Kathleen Young, and goalkeeper Libby Manela were the seniors honored prior to the start of the game.

“The senior class has been amazing. They took a chance on this program five years ago, when we were in a whole different ball game than we are in now,” head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden remarked. “They made this program what it is today by winning the Ivy League championships twice.”

Following the emotional senior day ceremony, the Crimson set its sights on the Lions, looking to continue its dominance over the rest of the Ivy League.

The final match of the season, although against a Columbia team that only won two games in the Ancient Eight this season, was just as important for Harvard as any oth­

er. The squad looked to claim the Ivy League title outright for the second time in three years by going undefeated in conference play. Furthermore, the team planned on riding its record-setting 12 game win streak into the NCAA tournament, which begins this coming weekend.

And dominate they did. The Crimson played up to its defensive standard on Saturday, keeping the visitors out of the scoring column for the seventh time this season. The shutout marked the end of a regular season homestand in which Harvard did not allow a single goal.

On the offensive side, the Crimson put on a stellar performance. The scoring began early as Allin opened the floodgates in the tenth minute on a penalty corner sequence. In the same half, freshman midfield Rachel Greenwood, assisted by junior forward Maddie Earle, laid out to extend to the ball and put one past the keeper. To round off first half scoring, Earle earned herself a goal shortly after picking up an assist, as a shot by sophomore midfielder Tessel Huibregtsen deflected off of her stick and into the net.

In the second half, goals by sophomore forward Natalie Sicher and Young sealed the fate of the game and the conference.

Sophomore midfielder Tessel Huibregtsen put one in between the legs of the keeper and into the back of the net in the 68th minute to round off the Crimson’s six goals, guaranteeing the squad sole possession of the Ivy League trophy following the final whistle.

hoisting the hardware The field hockey team, ranked sixth in the nation, gathers around to pose with the Ivy League trophy. Harvard secured the outright title with a 6-0 victory over Columbia at Berylson Field. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

Up next for the Crimson is the NCAA tournament, to which Harvard has an automatic bid after clinching the Ivy League. Currently ranked sixth in the nation, the Crimson is set to take on Penn State on Friday at 2:30 p.m.

In 2018, the Nittany Lions went 12-5 with a 6-2 record in the Big Ten. The team

had a recent three-game winning streak before losing its regular season finale, 3-2, against Iowa. Penn State is led by freshman Anna Simon with 12 goals. Senior Moira Putsch paces the team with 29 points.

Jenny Rizzo is the team’s primary goalkeeper and has held opposing offenses to 1.32 goals per game.

“We know we have the potential to do very well if we play our game and play for each other and that’s going to be our goal going into the NCAAs” said Young, who is excited to enter the national playoffs with a talented roster.

Weighing into the decision of the team’s rank in the playoff was its undefeated stint in

the Ancient Eight as well as its current 13-game win streak in which they defeated ranked teams such as No. 18 Maine, No. 24 Boston University, and No. 3 Princeton.

“We put ourselves in the best position to do damage,” van Herwaarden said. “We’re capable of competing with the best teams in this country.”

football

Harvard Dismisses Columbia, 52-18, on Senior Day

tom terrific Senior quarterback Tom Stewart threw for 393 yards and five touchdowns, the latter of which ties Harvard’s single-game record. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer By jack stockless Crimson Staff Writer

On Senior Day, a number of fourth-years shone brightest for Harvard football — but none of them more than quarterback Tom Stewart.

From the first play from scrimmage, it was clear Stewart had something special going. On the opening kickoff, B.J. Watson took the ball 55 yards out of the end zone, only to have his run nullified by a block in the back. Starting at the Crimson seven yard line instead, Stewart was determined to make up for the flag.

The senior faked a handoff in the backfield and uncorked a ball that flew nearly 60 yards through the air. Junior wide receiver Jack Cook had his man beat by more than a step — the pass settled into his hands and he sprinted down the sideline into the end zone. One play, 92 yards, seven points.

Following the immediate score, Harvard did not relent in the slightest. The hosts piled on 14 more points in the first quar­

ter and tacked on 17 for good measure in the fourth quarter, ultimately downing Columbia, 52-18. The victory levels the two teams’ overall records at 4-4 and bumps the Crimson (2-3 Ivy) over the Lions (1-4) in the conference standings.

Stewart finished the game with 15 completed passes for a whopping 393 yards. Most impressive, though, were his five passing touchdowns. The mark, achieved late in the fourth quarter, ties the most touchdowns thrown in one game in program history. The feat had been achieved thrice before, twice in 2011 by two different quarterbacks (Collier Winters ’12 and Colton Chapple ’13) and in 1953 by Carroll Lowenstein ’54.

“It’s pretty cool, especially on senior day,” Stewart said.

“Couldn’t really script it any better, so I’m on cloud nine right now with that.”

Stewart’s top receiver was a fellow senior — Henry Taylor caught five passes for 105 yards and two scores. Taylor hauled in Stewart’s record-tying toss

and also added a touchdown in the second quarter, a leaping grab at the back edge of the end zone.

The latter touchdown occurred on the first play of the drive. Four times on Saturday afternoon, Harvard led off an offensive series with an immediate strike for six. Along with Stewart’s game-opening toss, the others occurred when Stewart connected with Tyler Adams for a 75-yard trip to the end zone and when senior running back Charlie Booker tacked on the game’s final touchdown, getting the Crimson to the century mark.

“That’s the first game in a long time, probably since September, that the game hasn’t gone right down to the wire,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “The bottom line is [I’m] just really happy for our team in general but especially for our seniors, such an amazing group of seniors in so many different ways, especially intangibly. They’re just always so positive. They’re always generating great energy. They’re among

our best players.”

The Crimson would not stop at 50. A wild sequence allowed the Crimson to add two points to its last touchdown. Jake McIntyre lined up for an extra point, only to have it blocked.

The ball did not cross the line of scrimmage, however, and Cecil Williams nabbed it and dove into the end zone to record an interesting conversion.

Through one half, the rushing attack was not the focal point on a day that saw intermittent rain and violent winds sweeping into Harvard Stadium in the direction of the north end zone. The Crimson had lost 54 net yards on the ground, in part due to a botched snap on a field goal try that resulted in Jake McIntyre downing the ball all the way back at his own 21 yard line.

By the end of the game, however, Harvard finished with 103 ground yards. Sophomore Aaron Shampklin took the lead, tacking on 92 of those 103 and sprinting in for a touchdown in the third. Shampklin was part of the Crimson’s onslaught in the first quarter, albeit as a receiver. Running a wheel route out to the left, the sophomore back caught a perfectly-timed pass without much resistance from the Lions secondary and scooted 74 yards downfield for his second career receiving score.

An extreme wind whipped up about halfway through the third period, briefly slowing both sides’ offensive progress.

Hats, yardage markers, pylons, and trash were blowing helter-skelter across the field.

In the third quarter alone, the teams combined for five punts.

This wind contributed to the run-heavy attack in the final 30 minutes. With 342 passing yards at halftime, Stewart had an opportunity to target the all-time mark of 448 (Chapple, 2011), but the elements curtailed his effort.

Unlike Stewart, Columbia quarterback Ty Lenhart struggled to connect with his wideouts on the deep ball, sev-

eral times overthrowing receivers downfield. The rookie signal caller finished the contest 20-of-39 with 203 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions. Lenhart is the fifth quarterback to play for the Lions this season as the team has dealt with a multitude of key injuries.

“We’ve had to deal with a lot of things — some of it has been medical, some of it has been weather,” Lions coach Al Bagnoli said. “We had a nor’easter last week like everybody else did. Today was about as bad a wind as I could remember, especially mid-third quarter on.

But it was a wind for both sides.

You’ve got to deal with all that.

You’re in the Northeast.”

The second quarter took on a different character than the high-energy first. All of the first three drives of the quarter resulted in turnovers on downs. Two of those favored the Crimson, and the other was McIntyre’s mad dash to down the errant field goal snap. First, Columbia opted to go for it on fourth and two at Harvard’s 20 and came up a yard short on a direct snap run by Kyle Castner. The Lions, with a chance to redeem themselves on their next series, missed out on another three points as kicker Chris Alleyne rattled the uprights.

Columbia crossed the plane for the first time more than halfway through the second frame. To set up the score, the Lions ran a double reverse, but the ball ended up being pitched back to Lenhart. The rookie hit Emerson Kabus, who gained 103 receiving yards in the game, for a gain of 23. Two plays later, Castner catapulted himself over both sets of linemen and shoved the ball over the goal line.

The Crimson broke a short scoring drought as the clock wound down toward halftime.

Senior defensive back Wesley Ogsbury picked off Lenhart twice to deliver scoring opportunities for Harvard, the second of which saw Stewart hit

Taylor on the back edge of the end zone.

“The second interception I was able to just sit there and bait him into throwing because of the defensive call, but I’ve got to give credit to those receivers,” Ogsbury said. “They’re gritty and they’re tough and that brings out the best in competition. That brought out the best in me.”

After the first pick, Ogsbury handed the ball back to Columbia receiver Kaleb Pitts, who responded by taking a swipe at the Crimson defender. Ogsbury hit the deck hard — a questionable amount of time after the hit — and the teams received offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.

On a day on which Harvard’s offense was its showcased unit, the defense flew under the radar but performed admirably. In addition to Ogsbury’s picks, captain and defensive back Zach Miller forced a fumble, the team accumulated nine tackles for losses, and linemen Brogan McPartland and Stone Hart teamed up to sack Lenhart three times.

Miller’s forced fumble ended up back in Columbia’s hands, and the Lions proceeded to score their second and final touchdown of the game on a pass from Lenhart to Pitts.

The visitors had another scoring chance on their next offensive appearance, but on fourth and 17, McPartland recorded one of his two sacks by bursting around the edge and dragging down Lenhart from behind.

“The bottom line is we’ve had great senior production, tremendous senior leadership all year long, starting with our captain Zach Miller and main guys Richie Ryan, Wes Ogsbury, and Tommy Stewart,” Murphy said. “Tommy, since the moment I put him in at halftime of the Cornell game, has gotten better and better and better and has shown great leadership, great poise, great toughness.

And it’s made us a better football team.” jack.stockless@thecrimson.com