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The University should prepare for the admissions trial’s impact on donations.

International Socialists host first conference on Harvard’s campus.

Football beats Penn 29-7, marking its first victory over the school in years.

Union UC Presidential Candidates Argue Over Policy Points To Slow Start

By brie k. BUchanan and Bridger j. gordon Contributing writers

The three presidential tickets running to lead the Undergraduate Council faced off in the UC-Crimson “Crossfire” Debate Saturday evening, sparring over controversial issues including the ongoing admissions lawsuit and the possible elimination of shopping week.

Current UC members made up two of three tickets that participated in the debate: Education Committee Chair Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Lowell House Representative Julia M. Huesa ’20, as well as UC Treasurer Nadine M. Khoury ’20 and chair of the UC’s Student Life Committee Arnav Agrawal ’20. The outsider ticket included Daniel K. Ragheb ’20 of Currier House and Samyra C. Miller ’21 of Lowell House.

The ongoing lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants ­

By shera s. avi-yonah and molly c. macafferty Crimson Staff Writers

The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers bargaining committee went to their first-ever bargaining session with the University in October bearing an 80-count wish list and cheering optimistic chants. Just a month later, they say those goals will likely be hard-won.

The committee wrote in an email to union members on Nov. 6 that their first two bargaining sessions — one in October and one in November — were marked by forceful pushback from Harvard administrators. In particular, the committee wrote the union took issue with University counter-proposals seeking to maintain existing procedures surrounding sexual harassment allegations and to exclude hourly workers from the bargaining unit. Efforts to change Harvard’s grievance procedures surrounding sexual misconduct allegations have been a central pillar of HGSU-UAW’s contract goals. Before negotiations began, union members said bargaining for these changes would be among their first asks of Harvard — a strategy they have pursued.

The committee wrote in the email that “the administration dismissed our non-discrimination and harassment proposal” and responded by “offering just the current policies.” ­

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Candidates engaged in debate about issues like mental health on campus and diversifying the faculty. suuba m. demby—Crimson photographer

Candidates debated hot-button campus issues including the policy on final clubs and sexual assault. SUuba M. demby—Crimson photographer

The Harvard Crimson hosted a Crossfire Debate with this year’s four Undergraduate Council presidential tickets on Saturday evening. suuba m. demby—Crimson photographer

Pager, Sociology Prof., Dies at 46 By delano m. franklin and jania j. tumey Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard Sociology Professor Devah I. Pager, a groundbreaking researcher, advisor, teacher, and mother beloved by her students and family, died on Nov. 2.

She was 46 years old.

“She was a magnet,” Sociology professor William J. Wilson said. “Students wanted to work with her, not only because of her dedication, but her personality and sensitivity and the ease in which she related to students.”

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Harvard Sociology Professor Devah I. Pager died on November 2 at age 46. courtesy of harvard university.

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thored a pioneering dissertation on racial bias in employment. She died in her home after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.

Pager’s 2003 dissertation earned recognition from the American Sociological Association as one of the best studies in the field. The paper, which prompted national media attention, found that white job applicants with felony records fare better in their search for employment than African Americans without a criminal background.

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UC Puts Divestment Referenda on Ballot

By Jonah s. berger ­

Crimson Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Council voted to place two referenda challenging Harvard’s investment decisions on the ballot for its presidential election this week.

The first referendum asks voters whether the University should “completely divest its endowment from holdings in the fossil fuel industry.” Administrators have repeatedly called fossil fuel divestment — a goal long sought by some student activists — unrealistic and misguided.

The second question asks whether Harvard should divest its “holdings in the Prison-Industrial Complex.”

Students in recent weeks launched an organized effort to convince administrators to reconsider Harvard’s investments in prisons. A newly formed group called the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign held its first public event on Nov. 1, drawing roughly 100 attendees.

University spokesperson Melodie Jackson wrote in an emailed statement last week that Harvard will continue to play a

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Philosophy Dept. Honors Late Professor Stanley L. Cavell

By Ellen m. Burstein Edward W. Carr, and Elizabeth X. Guo Crimson Staff Writers

To honor the life of emeritus Philosophy emeritus professor Stanley L. Cavell, Harvard’s Philosophy Department held a tribute at Memorial Church followed by an all-day conference on Friday and Saturday.

Cavell passed away on June 19. He was 91. Cavell was appointed to be a professor at Harvard in 1963 and published 18 books throughout his academic career. His academic research focused on applying philosophical concepts to film, theater, and other artistic works.

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The event was attended by several faculty members in the philosophy department, including Philosophy Professor Richard Moran and acting Philosophy Chair Alison J. Simmons; former students and colleagues; as well as members of Cavell’s family. Moran opened the tribute in Memorial Church late Friday afternoon, attesting to Cavell’s influence on academic philosophy and calling his writing a “model of passion, brilliance, and sheer beauty.”

In a subsequent speech, Rabbi Matthew V. Soffer discussed Cavell’s legacy as an academic and as an individual.

“Certain characters are privileged with the grace of having their life lessons passed down

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to the next generation and the next,” Soffer said. Cavell’s son, David F. Cavell, moderated Friday’s tribute, which featured speeches from the elder Cavell’s daughter Rachel L. Cavell, his son Benjamin W. Cavell, and his daughters-in-law Emily Cavell and Kate Cavell.

“We never really had to say goodbye to someone who left so much of himself behind,” David Cavell said of his late father.

Nancy F. Bauer ’82, a philosophy professor and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, spoke after the Cavell family members, highlighting Cavell’s exemplary conduct as a colleague.

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As though California hasn’t seen enough suffering in the last week. A camp fire, originating in the Sierra Nevada foothills, has caused mass destruction of property and has taken over 20 lives in Northern Cali.

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DAILY BRIEFING Harvard Sociology Professor Devah I. Pager, a groundbreaking researcher, advisor, teacher, and mother beloved by her students and family, died on Nov. 2. She was 46 years old. “She was a magnet,” Sociology professor William J. Wilson said. “Students wanted to work with her, not only because of her dedication, but her personality and sensitivity and the ease in which she related to students.” In other news, members of the University’s new graduate student union say bargaining with Harvard will be an uphill battle.

Global leaders gathered to commemorate the dead of World War I in Paris today. Read up on what French President Emmanuel Macron had to say at the event in light of President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy as well as other leaders’ display of “excessive nationalism.”

Topless Female Protester Runs at Trump’s Motorcade in Paris Lots of stuff happening in Paris it seems... A very dedicated female protestor ran along the Champs Elysees with “Fake Peacemaker” written across her chest as Trump passed on his motorcade.

AROUND THE IVIES YALE The Yale Police Department appointed its inaugural community engagement officers last month, the Yale Daily News reported. The two officers, Martha Ross and Martin Parker, work with both Yale affiliates and New Haven residents. They have attended athletic games, held coffee chats with students, and spoken at local elementary schools in the past month. Ross said she hopes the new positions will help “humanize” the Police Department.

UPENN Penn graduate and celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti called Trump a “moron on many things” at the University of Pennsylvania Saturday, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. Speaking to a crowd of about 70 students at an event hosted by the Penn Democrats, Avenatti said he is the best suited candidate to defeat Trump in the 2020 presidential election. “We have to decide as a party: do we want to win, or do we we want to nominate a person who will be the best nominee, but loses?” Avenatti said.

Avenatti added that a woman or a person or color would not have “as easy a road as a white male” in the upcoming presidential race.

PRINCETON A bus transporting Princeton students to the Princeton vs. Yale football game crashed in Connecticut on Saturday, hospitalizing five — including the driver — according to the Daily Princetonian. A Princeton University statement confirmed that four students suffered minor injuries and a local Fox station reported the accident is believed to be a result of brake failure.

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Black Women’s Group Hosts Conference

By ALEXIS K. BOLNER and SAHAR M. MOHAMMADZADEH CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Roughly 80 students and professors gathered on the top floor of the Smith Campus Center for the Association for Black Harvard Women’s 16th annual Road to Success Conference on Saturday afternoon.

The conference, sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the Undergraduate Council, and the national hospital network MedStar Health, aimed to facilitate pre-professional development and mentoring opportunities for black women on campus, according to organizers.

“I don’t think Harvard does enough to really prepare, particularly black women, for the unique challenges that come when we do enter spaces, whether it be finance, consulting, entertainment, whatever,” Kacey E. Gill ’20, President of ABHW, said.

“Our goal for the event this year was really to make sure that we are trying to fill that gap.”

In contrast to past events, this year’s iteration of the conference featured guest speakers in addition to the recurring breakout discussion sessions, where participants could reflect on topics addressed during the conference.

“Those attending the event are also amazing people, so we want to make sure that they have the space to talk to and ­

learn from each other,” Adinawa D. Adjagbodjou, Vice-President of ABHW, said.

“Sessions cover topics on what to do once you have your foot in the door of your dream job, and how to continue growing.”

The conference’s featured keynote speaker was Loretta Y. Walker, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer of MedStar Health. Walker said that when she started her executive career, there were few black women in senior level positions.

“I absolutely feel like the tides are shifting,” Walker said when asked about the role of women of color in the workplace.

“I think the more diverse decision-making body is, in any industry, the better decisions you will make. It is really important to me when I get the opportunity to give back and to help others see a path that may not necessarily be clear to them that I take that extra step.”

Gill said after the event that the conference played a necessary role in addressing the many obstacles faced by members of minority groups after college.

“I think that everyone who is a person of color, everyone who is a woman knows that entering the professional world has unique challenges,” she said.

“Oftentimes people consider box braids to be unprofessional in the workplace, but that is one of the most important protective styles for black women.”

Several attendees said they

went to the conference in hopes of gaining perspectives from currently successful professionals at the conference.

“I’m undecided in what I want to study,” Unique O. Hodge ’22 said. “Hearing from other black woman professionals is very important to me when I’m deciding how to channel my interests in my future career.”

Other students at the conference said that the program provided support in more ways that just pre-professional guidance.

“What is so empowering is that [ABHW] is not just about the professional side of college,” Alexis A. Elliot ’22 said.

“It is also a great place to build communities. The Association of Black Harvard Woman provides this space for people like me.”

Both women said they thought Harvard should encourage more events like this in the future. When asked what advice she had for undergraduates unable to attend, Walker implored conference attendees and undergraduate women to take advantage of all the resources that the College provides. “To all the young women of color,” Walker said, “I would say never fail to seize the opportunity to learn something new and meet different people.

Always exhibit intellectual curiosity. It can only help you to continue to grow.”

Gill said that ABHW members are planning similar conferences and on-campus board meetings in the near future.

Socialists Convene on Campus, Urge Resistance

By TAMAR SARIG, SAM E. SHARFSTEIN, and MATTEO N. WONG CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Socialists converged on campus Saturday for the first Harvard-based New England Marxism Conference — and urged fellow attendees to resist the Trump administration.

The event — hosted for the first time by the Harvard International Socialists — included wide-ranging discussions on a variety of social issues. It attracted more than 200 attendees, who traveled from as near as Cambridge and as far as France to listen to panels such as “Capitalism and Climate Change” and “Intersectionality and Oppression.”

The Harvard-based group received assistance in organizing the conference from the International Socialist Organization, a socialist group that strategizes alternatives to capitalist institutions.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Andrew B. Keefe, the president of the Harvard International Socialists, said the conference had a strong connection to current activism at the University. Keefe cited several movements led by Harvard organizers, including members of the Student Labor Action Movement, who protested Harvard’s patronage of Marriott hotels last week.

“It’s really wonderful to be participating in an event like this at Harvard,” Keefe said.

“We need to take all of these ideas and make life at Harvard ­

and in Boston and beyond better for working people.”

Ashley Smith, a member of the International Socialist Review editorial board, opened the conference with a talk titled “Building a Socialist Alternative to Trump’s America.” In his speech, Smith said there is a pressing need for socialists to lead the resistance against the Trump administration due to frustration with the two-party system.

“We need confrontation. We need struggle,” Smith said. “We need to take down the Trump Administration.”

At the conference’s final event, Jen Roesch — the cohost of a socialist podcast titled “Better Off Red” — outlined the challenges facing organizers in today’s political climate in a speech titled “What Kind of Party Do We Need?”

Roesch advocated for a “radical and hopefully revolutionary” socialist party to meet the challenges of the Trump era.

She also mentioned her frustration with politicians on both sides of the aisle.

In an interview after her talk, Roesch expressed hope for social transformation among a new generation.

“There’s an entire generation of people who are clearly looking for socialism and looking for big answers, beyond just the ballot box,” she said. “I think people are trying to envision a whole different kind of society.”

Though similar conferences have been held annually for more than a decade around New England, this year’s iteration

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attracted a larger and younger audience, according to Akunna Eneh, a member of the International Socialist Organization and one of this year’s event organizers.

Keefe said he has noticed increasing enthusiasm for socialism across the country in recent years.

“You have membership in socialist organizations everywhere increasing,” Keefe noted. “[That’s] why our conference was so successful.”

Attendee Cobalt A. Tolbert said he traveled from Vermont to Harvard to connect with fellow socialists from outside his local organization.

Tolbert also said these conferences are “a lot of fun.”

David Wood, a Massachusetts resident and member of the International Socialist Organization, said he came to the event to strategize and debate with like-minded activists.

“I see this as an important place to share ideas for how we can win the movements we’re a part of today, how we can defeat the emboldened right wing… to engage other people from around New England,” Wood said.

The Harvard International Socialists have participated in other campus events this year.

During the September hearings on the nomination of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the International Socialists protested in Harvard Yard carrying signs reading “We Believe Survivors” to voice their opposition to the nomination.

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Grad Union, Harvard Argue Over UC Referenda Push for Divestment Sexual Harassment Guidelines “Our members have been loud and clear that the current system is broken, but the administration has so far refused to make any substantive changes to their policies,” the email reads. “Under their proposal, discrimination and harassment would not be subject to the grievance procedure.”

University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson wrote in an email that Harvard “is committed to the safety and well-being of all members of our community, which is which is why we have invested significant resources in recent years to strengthen our policies, grievance procedures, training and support.”

“Harvard’s nondiscrimination and harassment policies are strong and clear and have been strengthened in recent years with vast community input,” she wrote. “Let there be no mistake that the University is actively engaged in negotiating this proposed article and more than 30 others that are currently on the table.”

HGSU-UAW is not alone among graduate unions in pushing for contract provisions relat-

ed to sexual misconduct. Graduate unions at the University of Connecticut and New York University — both of which HGSU-UAW has cited in the run-up to negotiations — have successfully bargained for reforms in this area. The UConn contract allows union officials to advocate for members who have filed allegations of harassment with the university, and the NYU contract specifies that violations of its nondiscrimination agreement constitute grounds for a formal union grievance.

Administrators also disputed HGSU-UAW’s characterization of members’ workloads over the course of negotiations, according to the email from union organizers. To support their proposals, bargaining committee members recounted personal experiences they had asked union members to share with them.

Per the email, administrators allegedly called the testimony “a good story, if true.”

Despite their description of the University’s pushback, the bargaining committee will continue to marshal members’ stories, the committee wrote. The

email ends with a call for additional accounts of “discrimination, harassment, unsafe working conditions, or unfair workloads.”

In response to the first two sessions, the bargaining committee also wrote it plans to ask Harvard to schedule longer and more frequent negotiations. Earlier this semester, HGSU-UAW members said they hoped to meet administrators five or six times before winter break.

“To reach an agreement in any reasonable time, Harvard needs to demonstrate that it is committed to addressing students’ demands and meet on a more frequent basis,” the email reads.

Bargaining committee member Madeleine F. Jennewein wrote in an emailed statement that, after receiving a “thoughtful proposal” from HGSU-UAW, the University proposed an “unacceptable” response. “The administration has so far denied our proposal and instead proposed maintaining the status quo, which leaves survivors in the hands of a system that most student workers believe is ill-

equipped to deliver a fair investigation and recourse,” Jennewein wrote. “We will continue to call on the administration inside and outside of the negotiation room to reach a fair agreement.”

Jennewein wrote it is “no secret” that some students feel “widespread dissatisfaction” with University procedures for responding to sexual misconduct allegations.

In her statement, Jackson wrote that while the University has “no desire to prolong this process unnecessarily,” it is “important to remember we are starting from scratch and care must be taken in drafting contractual language.”

“Our priority is to create an agreement that is fair for the university, the members of this union, and all the students we serve,” she wrote. “Let there be no mistake that the University is actively engaged in negotiating [articles surrounding grievance procedures] and more than 30 others that are currently on the table.”

The union and University have not announced the date of a third bargaining session.

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Devah Pager, Harvard Sociology Professor and Pioneer, Dies at 46 Pager’s research transcended academica and had a tangible effect on modern politics. In the mid-2000s, her research featured heavily in political promotions for “ban the box” legislation, which in some states bars employers from asking applicants for their criminal records.

Sociology Department chair Jason Beckfield said the dissertation was groundbreaking, calling it “amazingly rigorous and important.”

“That paper is one of the most highly cited papers in all of sociology,” Beckfield said. “It’s a very, very important piece.”

Wilson agreed.

“Her work provided some of the most rigorous research on the continuing significance of racial discrimination in the United States,” he said.

Pager’s work appeared widely in electronic and print media, earning attention from policy-

makers in the Bush administration.

In 2007, former United States President George W. Bush signed the Second Chance Act, which created a program to help convicted felons re-enter the job market.

Then-Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Jim Towey credited Pager’s 2003 dissertation with helping shape the legislation.

Early in her career, Pager earned a reputation as a highly competent researcher.

“She was extraordinary from the get-go,” Stanford Sociology professor David B. Grusky said.

“Devah was a clear superstar, a brilliant person from the beginning.”

Friends said Pager inspired love and respect in students and colleagues throughout her career. As her illness worsened, nearly 100 Sociology De-

partment students and faculty members gathered to film a video in Pager’s honor, singing and dancing as they carried signs bearing slogans like “Thank You, Devah” and “We Love You, Devah.”

Her colleagues said Pager remained devoted to her students throughout her life. She continued to teach even as her cancer progressed.

“Students could always count on Devah Pager. She was always available, even during the period when she was suffering from her cancer,” Wilson said.

Government Department chair and professor of African and African American studies Jennifer L. Hochschild said she exchanged emails with Pager a few weeks before she died.

The two wrote back and forth about the future of the graduate sociology seminar they co-taught.

Hochschild said Pager’s upbeat personality shone through her teaching.

“She had this enormously vivid, strong, warm personality, which came through very clearly,” Hochschild said. “She was very engaged with the students.

She cared a lot about what they were doing.”

Grusky added that Pager’s energy stood out to her colleagues and students.

“She was willing to share her ideas and energy with everyone and anyone. She was beloved.

She was truly beloved,” he said.

Pager is survived by her husband, Michael Shohl, and her son Atticus. A memorial service is scheduled to take place Dec. 1 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge.

The Harvard and Princeton Sociology Departments will host a memorial celebration for Pager on Aug. 9, 2019 in New York City.

“crucial” role in “tackling” climate change, but will not divest from fossil fuel companies.

“While we agree on the urgency of this global challenge, we respectfully disagree with divestment activists on the means by which a university should confront it,” she wrote.

“Harvard is fully committed to leadership in this area through research, education, community engagement, dramatically reducing its own carbon footprint, and using our campus as a test bed for piloting and proving solutions.”

“And Harvard Management Company will continue to actively incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors – including climate change – into its investment work,” she added, referring to the group that shepherds the University’s endowment. Asked in an October interview whether Harvard would consider divesting from prisons, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said shifting the endowment is not the appropriate mechanism to enact social change.

“The University should not use the endowment... to achieve political ends or particular policy ends,” he said. “There are other ways that the University tries to influence public policy through our scholarship, through our research, but we don’t think that the endowment is an appropriate way to do that.”

There are two ways referenda make it onto UC ballots; either the Council can vote to add the questions — as happened with the divestment referenda — or the student body can vote to do so.

Both referenda failed to garner the requisite number of undergraduate signatures — equal to 10 percent of the student body — before Tuesday evening’s deadline, the first time in multiple years that no referenda made it through the petition process. UC referenda are typically meant to gauge student opinion on campus issues ranging from Harvard’s sexual assault policies to more light-hearted initiatives including a past push to make the “Harvard Turkey” the University’s official mascot.

Students have weighed in on fossil fuel divestment before. In the 2012 UC election, 72 percent of voters — or roughly 2,600 students — voted in favor of urging the University to divest from fossil fuel companies.

At the time, administrators said they had no plans to do so;

though in 2017, HMC’s head of natural resources Colin Butterfield said Harvard was “pausing” investments in some fossil fuel companies for financial reasons.

University administrators have pursued a number of environmental initiatives in recent years. Earlier this year, former University President Drew G. Faust laid out an ambitious plan to make the University fossil fuel-free by 2050. UC members said Sunday that, though they understand administrators’ long-standing objections to divestment in fossil fuels, they believe students should have a chance to weigh in on the issue.

We should give students a chance to express their voice.

Michael Y. Cheng ’22 Elm Yard Representative

“Even if I don’t know if it’s going to pass and I’m not sure if I’d support the referendum as is, I still think that we should give students a chance to express their voice,” said Elm Yard Representative Michael Y. Cheng ’22.

James H. Coleman ’21, co-president of the Harvard Environmental Justice group — which gathered roughly 400 signatures in an attempt to put the referenda on the ballot — said the recent presidential transition offered a perfect way for students to send a clear signal to administrators that they still support the divestment campaign. “We believe that it is important, now more than ever, to put this on the UC ballot, because of the new administration of Larry Bacow and with the resurgence of the divest movement,” he said. “We believe it is every-important to have the students have another opportunity to tell the University....to believe they can invest in areas that are moral and sustainable.”

Salma Abdelrahman ’20, co-president of the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign, said at Sunday’s meeting that the campaign has so far mostly involved graduate students.

A UC referendum, she said, would give undergraduates the ability to weigh in on the issue, too. “We want undergraduate voices to be represented in the room and not just have this be a campaign that’s dominated by grad students,” she said.

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marked one of the central issues canvassed in the Crossfire Debate.

All three tickets said they believe the University’s repeated assertions that it does not discriminate — but disagreed over what the College and the UC should do in response to the suit.

Agrawal and Khoury said they supported Harvard’s plan, as stated during the suit, to “expand diversity and to implement affirmative action.”

“We believe that a part of this transformative experience we’ve had is being able to immerse ourselves in the diversity on campus, whether it’s racial, ethnic, religious, or so forth,” Agrawal said.

“However, at the same time, we believe it’s also important the College is more transparent about how it makes decisions,” Agrawal added.

Ragheb and Miller said that, while they also agree with Harvard, they believe that the UC should not take a formal position on the matter.

“Samyra and I believe that Harvard is in the right here,” Ragheb said. “But again, the UC isn’t supposed to be the voice of two people, it’s supposed to be the voice of an entire student body.”

Current UC President and Vice President Catherine L. Zhang ’19 and Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 have previously stated that the UC should not take a formal position on the admissions lawsuit.

Huesa said that, while she understands the rationale behind Zhang and Boucher’s position, she believes that it is im-

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portant to support “communities of color [who] are under attack.”

“These are elected representatives who have political ideologies. And the fact that they all have a majority vote on something, that must mean they represent the majority opinion,” Huesa said.

Anticipated changes to shopping week also marked a key point of discussion.

Faculty and administrators are currently weighing a proposal that would end the weeklong period at the beginning of the semester during which students can freely walk in and out of classes before finalizing their enrollment.

While all three tickets indicated support for preserving shopping week, their approaches to addressing the issue varied.

For Palaniappan and Huesa, a “four-prong strategy” is the answer.

“We are targeting the alumni network, we are talking to the grad student union, we are talking to the faculty,” Palaniappan said.

“We are also mobilizing other students in order to address this issue,” she added.

Agrawal spoke about his role distributing the student survey on shopping week and promoting a discussion in Leverett House between students and administrators.

Khoury cited actions she took to support shopping week while serving as the UC treasurer.

“I increased the Education Committee funding by 150 percent so that they have those re-

sources to lobby for [shopping week],” Khoury said.

Though Ragheb said he thinks the conversations surrounding shopping week are a good start, he said he would like to see more opportunities for the general student body to express their opinions about the practice.

“The UC should’ve given students on this campus a bigger role in doing this, more than just the listening conversations that we had,” he said.

All three tickets later said they favor the College’s sanctions on members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations, though they raised concerns over what they called the disproportionate impact the policy has had on female groups and female empowerment on campus.

Since the penalties’ debut over two years ago, every single one of Harvard’s all-female social group has promised to accept individuals of all genders.

By contrast, several all-male groups have vowed to fight the penalties to the bitter end.

Other topics discussed Saturday included a proposal floated by Ragheb and Miller to bring back hot breakfast in the upperclassman houses; a proposal by Khoury and Agrawal to change Pusey Library into a social space for first year students; and a proposal by Palaniappan and Huesa to offer social inclusion grants for undergraduate parties and social events.

Voting for the 2018 UC election begins Nov. 12 at 12 p.m. and closes Nov. 15 at 12 p.m. Results will be announced at 10 p.m. on Nov. 15.

We learned from Stanley that believing in and reaching for our higher selves is of the utmost ethnical importance Nancy F. Bauer ’82 Philosophy Profesor at Tufts University

our higher selves is of the utmost ethical importance,” Bauer said.

Saturday’s all-day conference — held in Emerson Hall — focused on Cavell’s academic influence and work. Conference attendees, many of whom had known each other and Cavell for years, waved at and greeted each other jovially before speakers took to the podium.

Eleven professors hail-

ing from a variety of institutions took turns speaking about Cavell’s influence on both their intellectual pursuits and their personal lives. Alice M. Crary ’89, a philosophy professor at Oxford University, spoke about Stanley Cavell’s empathy during her battle with depression and his role as officiant for her commitment ceremony with her partner. Crary recalled once revealing to Cavell her need for “someone to tell me that they believed I could do this.”

“He showed his appreciation of my words by responding to me in his slow, winning manner, ‘Anyday,’” Crary said.

The academic portion of the conference concluded with a round-table discussion of Cavell’s works held by seven of Cavell’s former colleagues. The discussion was followed by an evening reception in the Philosophy Department’s Robbins Library.

In an interview during the reception, Gary Ebbs, a philosophy professor at Indiana Uni-

versity Bloomington, recalled a poignant memory of his former colleague. After telling Cavell one time that he was feeling frustrated with philosophy, Cavell responded to Ebbs simply, “Yes, well, there’s also pleasure there.”

“This is the kind of remark for which he’s well known for,” Ebbs said. “To see what’s needed to make the transformation away from conventional ways of thinking to something that is more genuine, but takes courage to do. I think of that remark quite often.”

Conference attendee James Laff, who said he wrote his thesis on Cavell, said he hoped the philosopher’s work will continue to remain relevant in the future. “Today was a great event, but hopefully the beginning of many such events,” Laff said.

“What today symbolizes is the planting of the seed that will hopefully be the way in which Stanley’s work will continue to impact future generations of philosophers.”

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

column

Preparing for the Worst

R.I.P. to the Mrs.

Why the admissions lawsuit necessitates financial caution

If you’re looking for a future spouse, look beyond the college campus

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week after the conclusion of the Harvard admissions trial, it is important to recognize that once-hidden details brought to light in court may have profound effects on University donations. The rather unsurprising revelation that children of major donors get a leg up in the admissions process — a practice that we oppose — could spur more donations from those willing, or a decrease due to negative perceptions. For many experts, it is simply too early to predict what effect, if any, the lawsuit will have on giving.

Still, the University should prepare for the worst.

Fiscal responsibility is something that both former University President Drew G. Faust and current University President Lawrence S. Bacow have emphasized.

In particular, Bacow has asked that Harvard schools engage in “scenario planning” for when the next economic recession comes. This emphasis is important, and one that should remain — the University’s ability to advance its mission should depend as little as possible on outside economic factors.

While it is unclear whether or not the admissions trial’s impact on donations will become a significant concern for Harvard’s budget, the University should continue — as it has in the past — to err on the side of caution.

In prepation for an eventuality in which Harvard sees a significant decrease in donations, Bacow will need to take precautionary measures. One meth-

In prepation for an eventuality in which Harvard sees a significant decrease in donations, Bacow will need to take precautionary measures. od for which there is already precedent would be for Bacow to ask all Harvard schools to engage in further “scenario planning.”

This strategy allows the University and the entities that comprise it to examine many different possibilities in depth,

making it an effective strategy at preparing for worst-case scenarios. Strategic planning in the present can also allow Harvard administrators to see a wider range of future possibilities.

This allows those in power to more effectively take advantage of opportunities that arise in the present. In turn, administrators can prepare the University for the unexpected.

Despite our caution, we remain hopeful that alumni will continue donating and giving back to Harvard.

No matter how they might feel about Harvard’s stance in this trial or the court’s verdict, we hope that alumni’s devotion to their alma mater will drive them to continue supporting current students.

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.

Caleb d. Schwartz—Crimson Photographer

Op-ed

What Makes a Hero?

By eve l. howe

M

any reserve this honorific “hero” for those in the armed services. For them, a hero fearlessly charges into battle, ignoring all risk of death in service of their country.

I served as an officer in the United States Navy for five years before coming to Harvard Law School, but I was never a hero. I was never deployed, never even touched a weapon, and never had to make a personal choice between life and liberty.

Everything changed when I came out as transgender.

Now, the battlefield is America, and I am on the front line, fighting for my life and rights. Transgender lives and rights are under attack. And whether or not I choose to fight this war, I will still face its consequences.

Several weeks ago, in the midst of my first semester here at Harvard, I found myself fighting alongside other BGLTQ individuals and allies at Harvard against the Donald Trump administration, which is threatening to redefine gender and eliminate legal protections for transgender individuals. For several days, we worked to form a response to the actions, and we planned our participation in the subsequent protest in Boston.

I will not try to convince you to care about my fate because I think you already do. I believe that most people are good and want to do the right thing. Yet, still, many do not act. Despite our politically vocal student body, the majority of students I encountered seemed apathetic to the crisis, and, of the thousands of students at Harvard, only a small fraction actually protested the action by the administration. While disappointed by your inaction, I am not surprised: I think you do not act because you are afraid. I know I am too.

I have been afraid my entire life.

When I was a young child, I was afraid of what my family and friends might think of me if I spoke my mind. In school, I was afraid of what a bully might do if I

attracted their attention. As I grew older, I became afraid of standing out in a world where I just wanted to fit in. When I realized that I was transgender a year and a half ago, these fears were amplified a thousandfold. Coming to Harvard Law School this fall, I was more anxious about how people would receive me than about the tremendous amount of work that was awaiting me.

However, living openly as a trans woman has finally taught me to be courageous.

Courage does not mean fearlessness.

We are all human, after all. Nor does courage involve charging headfirst into battle. Few people crave conflict, and I am surely not one of them. Courage only requires that one transform belief into

Live fiercely, proudly, and openly in support of transgender people, and show those who oppose trans rights that fear will not stop you from doing what is right. action in the face of fear. Anyone can be courageous, from the soldier on the front line to the conscientious objector who actively practices nonviolence in defiance of the state.

Even those who oppose trans rights are courageous: They fear us greatly, and they turn their beliefs into action every day. They spit out slurs, assault us, and, sometimes, even murder us. They elect politicians who strip us of our rights and try to legally erase our existence. They ignore our cries as we are abused in prisons and as we sell our bodies to survive.

They are not evil, but they are both ignorant of our existence and apathetic to your judgement.

Those who harm us do not know what it is like to be transgender and to feel a need to break free of society and of our

own bodies. They do not know of the pain we feel, being told we are unworthy of love, of freedom, and of justice. They see us as sexual deviants, criminals, or, if we are lucky, mentally-ill fetishists.

As many have done in the past, sometimes with inhumane results, they deny our humanity. And although they fear us, they do not fear you, and why should they?

Some of you do act. Some schools at Harvard put out statements in support of trans rights in the wake of the revelation in October. Some protested the Trump administration. However, most of you stood idly by as the news broke. You still laugh at jokes made at our expense. Some of you do not even vote because the issues do not affect you. You do not raise your voice nor your hand, nor do you issue any objection at all. Your silence is our death. And you refrain from standing up because you are afraid, not of us but of them. You are afraid of the same things I am, of their judgement and their hand, of being different and not fitting in.

Let our fear unite us in purpose.

No one is asking you to fight our battle, but I am asking you to be courageous. Stand up for our humanity, even if it means standing up to family and your Harvard classmates. You do not have to be our sword, but I am asking you to be our shield, to stand firm beside us as we face our fears together, whether in the streets or in the classroom. I do not want you to suffer for us, but to comfort us in our suffering. Donate money to, volunteer for, and promote transgender causes, especially BGLTQ student groups here at Harvard. Live fiercely, proudly, and openly in support of transgender people, and show those who oppose trans rights that fear will not stop you from doing what is right.

I am asking you to be a hero.

—Eve L. Howe is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. She was an officer in the United States Navy.in the United States Navy.

Jenna M. Gray Better left (un)said

I

’m a graduate of an all-girls’ prep school. Our rigorous academic high school curriculum intended to prepare us, women, to lead the future of society. Among coursework that included calculus and principles of physics, I remember life advice most — those heart-to-heart moments when teachers shared what we really needed to know.

As in any good Catholic institution, instructors prepped for us for the heterosexual (and, in our case, upper-middle-class) life cycle. Accordingly, a statistics teacher informed us that numerically, STEM fields offered the best prospects for finding a husband. A drama teacher warned us that a woman should never marry a man prettier than her. Our school’s strict principal allowed us to write in our yearbooks that our dream futures involved marrying a lacrosse playing all boys’ prep school graduate and raising two children in the suburbs.

You see, our high school preparation was not just for a bachelor’s degree, but for the “Mrs.” For the uninitiated, attending college in pursuit of the “Mrs.” means the real purpose of four years of academic coursework is to find a mate — particularly one with a high earning potential. The “Mrs.” doesn’t require you tie the knot during undergrad (a time for sociality that marriage may impede); you just have to lock down a future spouse before anyone else in the post-grad “real world” gets a chance.

How lovely that proposition once sounded.

Trust me, in spite of all the feminist principles and gender constructivism I claim to support, I’ve never been opposed to entertaining talk of marrying rich. In fact, some might say securing the bag through matrimony is the most feminist thing you can do (don’t bother searching the Internet for support of that claim. “Some” is just me half-joking about my gender politics).

After spending time on the spousal hunting ground that is the college campus, I wager that seeking the “Mrs.” as an undergrad is a terrible idea, particularly on Harvard’s campus, but not because it’s a sexist idea that flies in the face of feminist efforts. The reality is that most college campuses lack eligible bachelors. Even beyond a heterosexual, woman-seeks-man context. Nobody should be seeking to find a future spouse in a fellow undergrad.

Science backs me up on this. As college students, we are burdened by personality traits and developmental circumstances that hamper our spousal potential. College brings a host of unique stressors and emotional challenges we’ve got to work through. If we can barely commit ourselves to eight hours of sleep, how can we commit ourselves to an impending lifelong partnership?

The blogosphere contends we’ve got a lot to learn in our 20s. We’ll probably be very different people by the time we finally tie the knot, so attaining the “Mrs.” may not appreciate in value. Our brains aren’t event done developing yet!

We’re prone to succumbing to peer pressure, failure to seeing tasks through, and control by our impulses. Our brains still have a lot of developing to do. Between the tender ages of 18 and 22, we’re still emotionally immature. We’re rather selfish, hyper-competitive, and unempathetic — none of which bode particularly well for your sexual or marital satisfaction.

Harvard’s campus in particular fosters some potentially undesirable spousal traits. We intellectualize everything, using unnecessarily big words to analyze things that would be more enjoyable left alone.

If you’re not convinced, reading The Crimson editorial section should be a strong enough deterrent. Try earning your “Mrs.” the Ivy Route and you might end up with a Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.

This is not all to say college folks are bad people for struggling, that the undergraduate population is entirely undateable, or that personal development and being in a relationship are mutually exclusive. Nor is it a call to close your legs. This is a warning — one I wish my high school teachers had given me — not to get your hopes up and not to spend your undergraduate years in nuptial planning.

Rarely is any issue black and white. There are a few decent people on this campus. But they’re probably either boo’d up or not looking to date you. If you’re in a relationship and have found “the one”: congratulations; I swear I’m not bitter; and thanks for taking the time to read anyway.

If not building the foundation for a holy matrimony, how is a college student to spend their time? Here are some things that are likely to go better for you than courting a Harvard student.

First, try adopting a therapy animal. If the cleanup is too much to bear, try playing an instrument.

The Harvard Band is doing pretty well without you, so you should probably just start your own.

Finally, rumor has it God will always love you. Regardless of what your title is or who you last name came from.

Hold off on the “Mrs.” for now. The pieces of paper that are B.A. or B.S. will get you farther than a marriage license anyway. But maybe not as far as an M.S. will (I’m talking about the master’s degree, of course).

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

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Sports

this week’s games

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november 12, 2018

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Men’s Basketball at Massachusetts 7:00 p.m., Amherst, Mass.

Men’s Squash at Northeastern 6:00 p.m., Murr Center

Men’s Ice Hockey vs. Arizona St. 7:00 p.m., Bright-Landry Hockey Center

Women’s Basketball vs. La Salle 7:00 p.m., Lavietes Pavilion

Men’s Basketball at Rhode Island 7:00 p.m., Kingston, R.I.

field hockey

Harvard Falters in NCAA Quarterfinal at Princeton By connor wagaman Contributing Writer

On Sunday afternoon, the curtain fell on a record-setting season by No. 6 Harvard field hockey as the Crimson came up short, 1-2, against No. 3 Princeton in Harvard’s first-ever NCAA quarterfinal match.

In addition to earning its first-ever NCAA playoff win — a commanding 6-1 defeat of No. 9 Penn State (12-6, 6-2 Big 10) — Harvard (17-2, 7-0 Ivy) posted several other program records this season: most wins (17), longest win streak (14), highest national ranking (6), and most hat tricks (4).

“It was a really great season to be a part of,” co-captain forward Kathleen Young said. “What I was really proud about is how we were able to elevate our game with every competition, and we really rose up to challenges, whether it was BC, or Princeton the first time around. Even our loss to Maryland was really stepping out of our comfort zone as a team and kind of establishing ourselves as a winning program.”

Harvard’s seniors, who played their final game in a collegiate uniform on Sunday in Princeton, N.J., set a record of their own, notching 51 wins across their four years with Harvard, the most by any group in program history.

“I couldn’t be prouder of the seniors,” coach Tjerk van Herwaarden said. “They took a chance on Harvard field hockey.

Five or six years ago [when the seniors committed], we were number 50 or number 60 in the nation, and the leaders established this program to what it is right now.”

The Crimson and Tigers’ goal-scoring abilities emerged as forces to be reckoned with over the course of the season,

with 3.7 and 3.3 goals per game, respectively. However, in this matchup between two teams defined by offensive production, the season came down to defense.

A save by senior back Olivia Allin, the second of her career and the first save of the game by either side, shut down a chance from Princeton (15-4, 6-1) in the sixth minute and set the defensive tone for the half.

Both back lines were impenetrable for the first 35. The Tigers held Harvard to two shots and the Crimson returned the favor, allowing only five shots

by Princeton. The half ended, scoreless, with no clear leader.

“I think all the seniors were thinking, as we stepped out onto the field for that last half, that it could and ended up being our last chance to play for Harvard field hockey,” Young said. “Even if we were going to lose that game, we were going to be proud of how we played, and proud of how we represented Harvard in our last time putting on the school uniform.”

A green card against the Tigers four minutes into the second half offered the Crimson an opportunity to build momentum. Carefully calculated passing outside the arc gave the Harvard time to set up. By the time sophomore midfielder Tessel Huibregtsen found junior forward and Ivy League scoring leader Maddie Earle in the box, everything was positioned perfectly.

Princeton’s green card expired, and Earle chipped a short pass to Young, who stretched.

The ball, tapped by Young’s stick, skimmed by junior goalie Grace Baylis and into the back of the net in the 42nd minute.

Unyielding defense from both sides marked the next stretch, with the Crimson managing one shot and the hosts two

23 AND ME Sophomore Tessel Huibregtsen knocks the ball past a Columbia defender earlier in the season. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

in the next 17 minutes. Then, a penalty was called on Harvard.

“I think we prepared well, and we were ready for [Princeton],” van Herwaarden said.

“We got an unlucky momentum shift when they got [the penalty] stroke.”

Princeton gave the shot to sophomore midfielder Julianna Tornetta, who entered the game with a perfect four-for-four penalty stroke conversion this season. Despite freshman goalie Ellie Shahbo’s number one in the nation save percentage, Tor-

netta managed to sneak the ball past to tie the game.

Harvard shut down two penalty corners, but the third proved true for Princeton. Six minutes after her game-tying goal, Tornetta struck again. A behind the back slice to junior back Maddie Backsai, a long drive skirting by Shahbo, and Harvard’s fate was sealed. Neither side got a shot off in the remaining five minutes.

“We all feel really fortunate to be part of the team this season,” said co-captain Kathleen

Young. “When we all committed to this program [five or six years ago], we were ranked 50s, 60s…. To be here for that meteoric rise has been really special.”

With this season in the books, and with strong talent across the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes returning for 2019, the Crimson’s field hockey’s journey is far from over. Earle led the Ivy League in goals scored, with junior midfielder Bente van Vlijmen second, while Shahbo led the na-

tion in goals against average and save percentage.

“Although right now it’s painful, it hurts the way it ended, the future looks bright, and the season has told us that,” van Herwaarden said.

First, though, van Herwaarden plans to appreciate all they achieved in a truly historic season.

“I think it’s first time to celebrate what we were able to accomplish, and look at those things before we move on to what’s next,” he said.

men’s basketball

Harvard Silenced by Northeastern’s Three-Pointers By amir mamdani crimson staff writer

With just over a minute left in the game, Northeastern’s Donnell Gresham was trapped outside the three-point line, smothered by Harvard freshman guard Spencer Freedman.

As the shot clock ticked under three seconds, the redshirt junior elevated and sunk a deep triple. That bucket, which extended the Huskies lead to eight, proved to be the nail in the coffin for the Crimson.

It was an appropriate ending on a night when Harvard (1-1) struggled mightily to defend the three-point line, dropping its first game of the season by a 81-71 mark at home to crosstown rival Northeastern (1-1). For the second straight season, the Huskies dispatched

the Crimson in large part due to a remarkable performance

by George Washington transfer Jordan Roland.

After sitting out last season, the redshirt junior came off the bench to score a career-high 35 points in his second game at Northeastern, nailing down a career-high 7-of-10 three-pointers, and hitting 10of-11 from the charity stripe.

Northeastern coach Bill Coen was thrilled with Roland’s performance Friday night, exalting the Syracuse, N.Y., native’s skill set. “[Roland]’s a young man that just has a natural gift to score the ball, he’s got a strange combination of elite quickness and deep shooting range,” Coen said. “He’s got that kind of mindset where once he sees the ball get in the basket he can go

on a roll. He’s a microwave in that way.”

Roland wasn’t the only Husky to find success beyond the arc, as the visitors scored 39 of their 81 points from three-point land at an impressive 56.5 percent clip. Northeastern repeatedly exposed Harvard’s perimeter defense, relying heavily on skip passes and ball screens to find Roland and other shooters in the open court.

Roland’s play was integral in helping the Huskies extend their lead late in the second half.

A back-and-forth affair had the Crimson trailing by as few as three points with just over two minutes left in the game. But ultimately, Harvard proved unable to string together enough stops as Northeastern scored a whopping 48 points in the second half, and pulled away in the

dying minutes of the game.

The Huskies performed excellently at the charity stripe as well, punishing the hosts for committing fouls. Northeastern converted on 20 of its 22 free throw attempts, which helped the visitors seal the game late.

“Our defense has to get tougher and they have to understand how hard it is each possession in order to be a winning basketball program,” said Harvard coach Tommy Amaker of the team’s performance.

“We had some big plays, but we didn’t get the defensive stops we needed.”

The Crimson led for almost all of the first half, as the first 20 minutes proved to be a series of runs for both teams. After Gresham sunk a jumper on the first possession of the game, Harvard rattled off a 7-0

JUZIN IT UP The Crimson converted 11 threes in the contest, but a dominant individual 35-point performance from Northeastern’s Jordan Roland proved to be the difference. JUSTIN CHIANG—Crimson photographer

run capped by a Christian Juzang three-pointer. A pair of three-pointers by Freedman off the bench stretched the Crimson’s lead to double-digits, but the Huskies would respond with a 14-0 run of their own, with the exclamation marks coming on two Roland three-pointers on consecutive possessions.

Like it did on Tuesday against MIT, Harvard ran into foul trouble early in the game.

Highly touted freshman Noah Kirkwood entered the game off the bench, and committed three fouls within the span of 36 seconds, forcing Juzang to play 19 of 20 first-half minutes. The junior guard led the Crimson with 35 minutes, and will figure to factor heavily into the team’s plans until Bryce Aiken returns from injury. The Tarzana, Calif., native was displeased with his team’s defense in Friday’s contest.

“35 points is not acceptable,” Juzang said. “The energy is good, but it can only get greater after something like this when you now know the consequences of when you don’t lock down on the defensive end.”

As the first half drew to a close, Harvard’s sophomore guard Rio Haskett entered the three-point shooting fray, knocking in two deep triples of his own. The Richmond, Va., native had eight first-half points to lead the Crimson, who managed to knot the score up at 33 entering halftime. Haskett would finish with 15 points as Harvard’s second-leading scorer.

“I thought Rio played hard I thought he really competed, he certainly shot the ball well,” Amaker said. “I thought his play was one of the reasons we were within striking distance.”

Junior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson with 17 points, and played an integral

role in keeping Harvard in the game late. Just as Northeastern opened up an eight-point lead, its largest of the game at that point, Lewis scored seven unanswered points on consecutive possessions — including a steal and full-court breakaway for a dunk.

The Alpharetta, Ga., native’s play was one of a few bright spots for the Crimson, but even Lewis struggled late in the game when double-teamed far away from the basket. Despite the final result, coach Coen was impressed by the 6’ 9” forward’s performance and the maturity he exuded. “[Lewis] is a tremendous low post player, he scores the ball easily,” Coen said. “What I really like about him is he never changes his demeanor. There’s a lot of players going on him, guys playing physically, but he’s always controls his emotions, he’s got a great demeanor.”

The season remains young, with a challenging series of road games looming in the non-conference portion of the schedule.

As the Crimson look to establish its identity without juniors Aiken and Seth Towns, the team will have to continue to correct the little mistakes.

Through two games, Harvard has struggled to control these errors, from offensive rebounding and turnovers against MIT, to foul trouble and perimeter defense against the Huskies. Amaker and the Crimson will hope to improve in these areas, and solidify the foundation of what Harvard hopes will be an Ivy Championship-winning season.

The Crimson will travel to Amherst for its first road game of the season to take on the University of Massachusetts next Tuesday at 7:00pm. amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com

Sports Weekend Recap

SCORES

men’s swimming and diving vs. Cornell W, 194-101 ________________________________________________________

women’s volleyball @ penn w, 3-1 ________________________________________________________

Field hockey vs. no. 9 penn state w, 6-1 ________________________________________________________

men’s soccer @ penn l, 1-0 ________________________________________________________

women’s basketball at No.1 Notre Dame L, 103-58 ________________________________________________________

men’s ice hockey @ yale t, 3-3 ________________________________________________________

women’s volleyball @ Princeton l, 3-0 ________________________________________________________

men’s swimming and diving vs. bryant w, 186-109 ________________________________________________________

Women’s rugby vs. american international w, 54-7 ________________________________________________________

women’s basketball @ purdue L, 66-65 ________________________________________________________ Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

football

harvard conquers penn

By Cade palmer

Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard’s seniors have now defeated every team in the Ivy League.

For the 2018 team’s graduating class, Penn remained the only team in the division that the group had failed to notch a win against, with the Crimson’s last win against the program coming in 2014.

Traveling to the City of Brotherly Love to challenge Penn (6-3, 3-3 Ivy) in the team’s homecoming contest, Harvard (5-4, 3-3) dominated the windy contest, emerging victorious, 29-7.

“This is a rivalry game, coming to Franklin Field, these guys always give us a fight when we come down here and we haven’t won very many games down here,” said captain and safety Zach Miller. “So for us, as a senior class, to go out on top of these guys, it means the world.”

The wind made its presence known from the very first play.

As the shadows of the whipping flags that surround the Quakers’ Franklin Field draped the

players in shade, the opening kickoff was delayed twice when the breeze knocked the ball off the tee. It wasn’t until Penn sophomore Jared Nobel held the ball down that play could finally get under way.

It took five possessions for either team to complete even a single pass. Stewart nearly found sophomore Tyler Adams on a 21-yard strike but the completion was erased on an illegal formation penalty by the Crimson. It was the next snap, on a bubble screen to senior Adam Scott, that Stewart completed the first pass of the game.

Following his first completion of the contest, Stewart went to Adams again, this time successfully finding his route runner. With the help of the several lengthy runs by Shampklin, this conversion put Harvard in scoring position. The offense couldn’t get the job done, but junior Jake McIntyre booted the ball in from 20-yards out, pushing the contest into two possessions.

With the field goal, his 29th career three-point kick, McIntyre is only one behind the pro-

gram record. He sits at fourth in career points.

In particular, the wind affected first quarter passing the most — after this period, both pairs of quarterbacks made adjustments. The first few drives, however, were littered with incompletions and interceptions.

With the Crimson pushing into the wind on the first drive, the environment felled the first pass from Stewart, pushing it into the turf before it reached its intended target, Scott. The wind carried Stewart’s next toss inside his target, landing in the hands of the defender, Conor O’Brien, for an interception — Stewart’s first of the season.

Penn didn’t learn from the mistakes of its opponent. With the wind at his back, Quakers quarterback Ryan Glover sent the ball sailing over the head of his man and back into the possession of the Crimson on the very next play. It was sophomore Max Jones that grabbed the wayward pass and returned it 10 yards.

Harvard took over on the Penn 29-yard line, One play af-

by the booker Senior Charlie Booker was good for 74 yards and one touchdown in Harvard’s win over Penn.

ter his interception, Stewart returned to the air on a fade route to Scott. The pass, pushed by the wind, fell short. As Scott attempt to make a play on the ball, yellow flags dirtied the field and the Crimson earned the pass interference call.

With the ball 14 yards away from six points, Shampklin pushed the offense 13 yards closer on three runs. Coach Tom Murphy called senior Charlie Booker’s number and he, with the assistance of a healthy dose of pushing from the offensive line, barreled his way into the end zone for the first touchdown of the contest and his second of the season.

Midway through the second, Stewart tried to keep a disintegrating play alive as he sprinted left away from the crashing defensive line. The senior was pummeled into the turf by the duo of Evan Carp and Nick Miller. Stewart did not get up.

He was helped off the field and Smith entered the fray.

Stewart’s departure from play affected more than just the quarterback positions. For the entirety of the season, Stew-

Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

art has served as the field goal holder for McIntyre. When Harvard scored next, freshman quarterback Luke Emge lined up to catch and plant the long snap. The ball flew through the first-year’s hands and landed near McIntyre’s cleats. The kicker picked up the wayward ball and safely tossed it out the back of the end zone.

The next time the Crimson scored, Murphy opted to purposely go for two instead. The Penn line crashed and Smith was dropped. When Harvard scored its final touchdown, Stewart returned to hold and McIntyre booted the attempt through. Despite returning for that hold, Stewart never reclaimed the quarterback spot.

As quarterback, Smith led both teams in touchdowns, with two. Both of these sixpoint passes were hauled down by senior wideout Brian Dunlap.

“The offensive line was really carrying the offense,” Smith said. “All I had to do was step in there and play my role as a quarterback and everybody else really just took care of the job.”

The Quakers’ offense was held mute on all but two drives — one in each half. The first of the teams solid drives started with a solid kick return from Penn’s Justin Morrison, earning the team some solid field possession. Glover ran for 11 yards and then tossed a perfect 32-yard pass down the sideline to Mike Akai. The wideout dove past the Crimson defender and reeled in the ball, crashing to the ground at the Harvard oneyard line. Three rushes later, Penn faced fourth-and-goal.

The Quakers went for the six through the air and fell short.

“The whole [defensive line], we live for those moments,” said senior defensive tackle Stone Hart. “Every inch, whether you get it or not, we’re going to make you fight for it.”

The second was on the team’s lone touchdown drive.

Glover threw three passes for over twenty yards on this drive alone, with the third coming on a 23-yard lob over the back of the Crimson defense to Kolton Huber.

Harvard’s rush defense throughout the game was epitomized by that goal line stand.

The front relinquished only 58 yards on the ground, allowing an average of 1.8 yards per play.

The Crimson, in comparison, earned 215 rushing yards, averaging out 4.1 per carry.

“They have some great running backs and a great offensive line, and we know that’s how

they’ve been beating teams,” Miller said. “They’re a bully in this league, they like to jam it down your throat, the [offensive coordinator] likes to run the ball a ton, establish the line of scrimmage, and just wear teams down. So for us to just stop that early, was huge for us. It changes their game plan, changes how they attack us, and it really helped a lot.”

In perhaps the most salient stat of the day, Harvard dominated the time of possession.

The Crimson held onto the ball for a whopping 36:51 minutes while Penn only controlled possession for 18:14.

On third downs too, Harvard easily outpaced its competition. Despite only converting on 1-of-11 last week, the Crimson earned the first down on six of its 14 third-down attempts.

Penn was only successful on three of its 11 tries.

A noticable difference between Harvard now, and the Harvard team earlier this season is red zone conversion rate — an area where the team used to struggle. In today’s afternoon contest, the Crimson was 5-for-6 while Penn was 0-for-1.

Aside from struggling against Harvard’s defense on every drive, Penn’s two quarterbacks — Glover and Nick Robinson — failed to maintain possession throughout the contest.

In addition to the first drive interception, Glover tossed one more in the third quarter, again simply out-throwing his route runner, instead hitting the sprinting Wes Ogsbury for his sixth pick of the season.

Robinson didn’t throw interceptions but he kept coughing up the ball. Following Smith’s second touchdown pass to Dunlap, Robinson sprinted right, away from the pocket. Seeing nothing downfield, the quarterback attempted to throw the ball out of bounds but it slipped out. Crimson senior defensive tackle Richie Ryan fell on the ball at the Penn 10-yard line, setting up Darrington’s final score.

Robinson fumbled a second time in the fourth quarter and the loose ball was again recovered by Harvard, this time by junior linebacker Bobby Drysdale.

“The defense played great,” Murphy said. “We said the number one thing that was going to be critical in this game was the turnover margin and to come out plus three on that was the difference in the game.” cade.palmer@thecrimson.com