The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 127

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 127 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Monday, November 19, 2018

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HUPD and HUHS must clarify their roles and increase staffing at Yardfest.

Men’s hockey splits weekend games against Arizona State University.

The fourth floor of Lamont Library will become a creative writing space.

HARVARD BEATS YALE, 45-27

DeVos Releases New T9 Rules The new Title IX guidelines may reshape Harvard’s handling of sexual misconduct.

By Shera S. Avi-Yonah and Simone C. Chu Crimson Staff Writers

game’s location at Fenway Park drew mixed responses from undergraduates.

Harvard hosts The Game every other year; when played in Cambridge, the competition typically takes place in Harvard Stadium. This year, though — given the Stadium is

The Department of Education released proposed regulations Friday meant to reshape how colleges handle allegations of sexual misconduct — Harvard among them.

The long-anticipated proposal — which was announced alongside a statement by United States Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — provides a new framework for implementing Title IX, an anti-sex discrimination law that guides universities’ approach to handling sexual assault.

The 149-page release — leaked drafts of which have been circulating for months — includes major updates such as a new rule that would allow colleges to decide which standard of evidence to apply in cases of sexual misconduct. Under the new system, schools could use either the “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof currently in place at Harvard or the more stringent “clear and convincing” standard.

DeVos said in a press release that the new rules will provide the accused due process and ensure Title IX proceedings are “more transparent, consistent, and reliable in their processes and outcomes.” The guidelines are currently open for a 60-day public comment period, after which they will be printed in the Federal Register. Roughly three months after that date, the Department can change federal regulations to make the proposed rules binding.

Such a change would force Harvard to re-evaluate its Title IX policies.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement Friday that Harvard is “reviewing” the draft regulations and that the University’s “top priority” is “ensuring the safety and

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Wide receiver Tyler J. Adams ‘21 celebrates on the field during the playin of the 135th iteration of The Game. Harvard came away victorious. timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Harvard Trounces Yale in Game Number 135

By Jack Stockless Crimson Staff Writer

In the 135th rendition of The Game, Harvard pulled away in the fourth quarter to best perennial rival Yale, 45-27. In what was expected to be a battle between the Bulldogs’ high-powered offense and the Crimson’s staunch defense, the game began with impressive displays from both defenses but morphed into a slugfest in which Harvard prevailed and claimed third place in the conference.

The 72 combined points between the teams represented the most in a single game in the history of the Harvard– Yale rivalry. Additionally, the 605 yards of total offense by the Crimson (6-4, 4-3 Ivy) is its most ever in The Game, and its 45 points match a program record against the Bulldogs (5-5, 3-4).

“I don’t think words can describe how happy and how ecstatic our team is,” said captain ­

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Relive HarvardYale in photos.

Devin D. Darrington ‘21 waves an index finger as he runs into the endzone.

The touchdown was disallowed. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Ben Abercrombie Returns to Students Celebrate Game Harvard, Reunites with Team Victory — Less So the Venue

By Jack Stockless Crimson Staff Writer

For the first time since the fall of 2017, Ben Abercrombie has returned to Harvard’s campus.

The defensive back, who suffered a career-ending injury in his first collegiate game, took in the 135th playing of The Game at Fenway Park, traveling with the help of the Harvard Varsity ­

Harvard Extends Deadline for Apps

Club according to a post on his CaringBridge page from Nov. 11.

“You know when you’re around certain people it brings good energy and good vibes to the whole surrounding?” said sophomore running back B.J. Watson. “He’s one of those types of guys, so just having him around the locker room and on

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Harvard’s commanding 45-27 victory over Yale in the 135th iteration of The Game delighted College students who had witnessed back-to-back losses to Harvard’s New Haven rival the past two years — though the ­

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The Undergraduate Council voted to allocate $15,000 to student programming during Wintersession — the period marking the last 10 days of winter break — at its meeting Sunday.

Until two years ago, the now-defunct Office of Student Life provided the UC with $15,000 to distribute to students who organize Wintersession programs. Last year, the College did not provide money earmarked for this purpose — and multiple UC representatives said the lack of financial assistance from the College left many undergraduates struggling to

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By Jonah S. Berger

A s California faces the deadliest wildfires the state has ever seen, the Harvard admissions office announced Wednesday it will offer extensions on application deadlines for high schoolers, teachers, and counselors affected by the disasters.

“The Harvard community is deeply saddened to witness the devastation caused by the wildfires throughout California,” the office’s statement reads.

The College is offering affected students extensions beyond the Jan. 1 regular decision application deadline. Teachers ­

By Sophia S. Armenakas and Michelle G. Kurilla

UC Votes Two Harvard Seniors Receive to Give Prestigious Rhodes Scholarships Winter Funding

By Delano R. Franklin and Samuel w. Zwickel

Inside this issue

Jack H. Cook ‘20 (right) outruns Yale defensive back Deonte Henson ‘21 (left) for a touchdown. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

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Brittany N. Ellis ‘19 is studying Social Anthropology and Archaeology. Ellis J. Yeo—Crimson photographer

By Alexandra A. Chaidez and Sanjana L. Narayanan Crimson Staff Writers

Two Harvard seniors — Brittany N. Ellis ‘19 and Jin K. Park ‘18-’19 — have won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and will continue their studies at the University of Oxford next year, the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust announced Saturday.

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Jin K. Park ‘18-’19 is studying Molecular and Cellular Biology. Courtesy of Jin Kyu Park

Park is the first beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to become a Rhodes scholar in United States history. This year marked Park’s second time applying for the Rhodes — and the first year that DACA recipients were eligible for the scholarship.

DACA is an Obama-era initiative that allows undocumented youth to legally live and

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work in the U.S. President Donald Trump sought to repeal the program in Sept. 2017, but his work to end DACA met with significant legal challenges. The phase-out is currently on hold pending action in court.

Park’s Rhodes aspirations helped shape the Rhodes Trust’s decision to open the scholarship to DACA recipients.

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For Lunch Popcorn Chicken Butternut Squash and Pear Panini Waffle Fries!!!

For Dinner Chicken Marsala Portobello Lentil Patty with Tomato Basil Salsa Gnochi with Butternut and Sage

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in The Real World

Reforming the Vote Harvard Democracy Center, 5:15 p.m.

Rick Scott Wins Florida Senate Race

Still a little confused about what exactly went down during the 2018 midterm elections, and want to know more about what the results mean? Join Voters Choose at the Harvard Democracy Center for a conversation about the elections, featuring a Harvard Law professor and a Cambridge Civic Journal editor. As with any good event, drinks and snacks will be provided.

We’re Still Here Ticknor Lounge, 6 p.m.

After a tumultuous two weeks of recounts, lost votes, and lawsuits in Florida, Republican Rick Scott has officially beat Democrat Bill Nelson in their Senate race. This result marked the end of Democrats’ hopes in Florida in a host of hotly contested races.

Trump Suggests Californians Can Rake Away Fire Hazards

Welsh multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Novo Amor, performed at The Sinclair on Saturday evening. Amanda Y. Su—Contributing photographer

Join CEB and NAHC for a discussion of indigenous invisibility on Harvard’s campus to kick off Native American Heritage Month. Hear from Native American undergrads and grad students from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Ticknor Lounge, and enjoy Felipe’s and Insomnia while you’re at it.

Daily Briefing In front of a sold-out crowd at Fenway Park, Harvard ended a two-year skid against Yale, claiming a decisive 45-27 victory in The Game with a recordbreaking offensive performance. In what was expected to be a battle between the Bulldogs’ high-powered offense and the Crimson’s staunch defense, the game began with impressive displays from both defenses but morphed into a slugfest in which Harvard prevailed and claimed third place in the conference.

The 72 combined points between the teams represented the most in a single game in the history of the Harvard–Yale rivalry.

In other news, newly proposed Title IX guidance could reshape how the University handles sexual misconduct.

In the wake of a series of horrific wildfires in northern California, Trump criticized California’s forest management as a cause of the frequent and destructive wildfires. Trump’s suggestion for better forest management involves raking the forest floors, an idea he says he got from the President of Finland. The Finnish President, however, disputes Trump’s claims, so maybe this is just one of Trump’s ideas on how to Make America Rake Again.

Is Boston Ready for Electric Scooters?

Boston may see a wave of electric scooters on the streets this Spring as part of a pilot program, and citizens and experts are divided on this potential transportation newcomer. On one hand, the scooters are fun, functional, and could help solve the “last mile” problem for many commuters, helping them get from their homes or offices to other transportation lines. On the other, as the Boston Globe puts it, “Think ER Visits. Obnoxious scooter bros. DUIs.”

Around the Ivies Yale The Yale Daily News reported Friday that a Yale college alumna is suing Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital for requiring her to take a medical leave as a student in 2016. After two Yale undergraduates killed themselves in November 2016, a religious advisor suggested the student seek counseling, and Yale’s Mental Health and Counseling advised her to go to the hospital for treatment. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 5 this year, alleges that the hospital staff held her for involuntary treatment and shared confidential medical information with Yale Administrators without the student’s consent.

UPENN The University of Pennsylvania will distribute debit cards to pay for meals over Thanksgiving break to around 350 “highly-aided” students who opt-in to the program, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. 125 students participated in the program last year, which was available to “highneed” students, an ambiguous category that caused confusion. Under the program, eligible students will receive $20 for every day of break that they are on campus. Surveyed students “almost universally” preferred receiving debit cards rather than the gift cards to a grocery store the program distributed last year, according to the Pennsylvanian. The program will continue for winter and spring breaks this year.

Columbia

Columbia’s football team beat Cornell in the Empire State Bowl on Saturday, clinching their first back-to-back winning seasons since 1962.

Columbia finished the season with six wins and four losses despite more than thirty injuries, including their top wide receiver, top two running backs, and top two quarterbacks.

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Students Celebrate Game Victory DeVos Releases New

A member of the officiating crew motions before the start of a play.

tending The Game.

Singer said he would have been more likely to go had the match taken place on campus.

“It was less convenient. I don’t think that was what made my decision, but I definitely could have seen that if it wasn’t as far away, if there was less travel involved it would have made it easier for me to go,” he said.

Elizabeth A. Kinard ’22 said she chose not to attend The Game for similar reasons.

“It’s just so many people were going at the same time.

It’d be hard to get there,” she said.

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under construction — the University chose to move the match to Fenway Park, the storied home of the Boston Red Sox. Park personnel transformed the baseball diamond into a football field ahead of Saturday’s game.

Some freshmen — who have never seen The Game played in the Stadium or in the Yale Bowl — said they liked the nontraditional location.

“I think that it was really cool. Just kind of weird that they put a football stadium inside of a baseball stadium,” Madison L. Fabber ’22 said.

Marwa Albaadani ’22 said she enjoyed the atmosphere at her first Game.

“My favorite part of the event was the turnout since it’s so rare to see all your class­

mates and teachers in one space at such a wonderful occasion,” she said.

Football team member Will Christiansen ’22 said he was glad the team could contribute to “Fenway history.”

“The Game was a great experience for the team being in such a historic venue and hopefully adding our own contribution to Fenway history,” he said.

“This was a huge game and I’m so happy for the seniors and the whole team in general that we got this win. The overall experience was surreal and I’ll never forget it.”

Some students, though, said they would have preferred the usual venue.

Noah Singer ’22 said the comparatively long commute to Fenway deterred him from at-

The Harvard student section cheers on the home team. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

The Game was a great experience for the team being in such a historic venue and hopefully adding our own contribution to Fenway history. This was a huge game.

Will Christiansen ’22 Football Team Member

The College offered free shuttles to and from the stadium starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m., though some students said they still opted to pay for transportation to Fenway Park.

The venue switchup did not

mark the only change to The Game this year. Administrators also barred tailgates, typically a mainstay of The Game. The Harvard Athletic Ticket Office website states that city regulations prohibit tailgating around Fenway.

Earlier this fall, hundreds of students signed a petition calling on the University to allow tailgates in the Athletic Complex.

“It was exciting to have The Game at Fenway, but it wasn’t worth not having the normal tailgates, which most students care much more about than the actual game,” Jake H. Ascher ’19 said.

The University attempted to make up for the loss of the tailgates by providing students with a combined undergraduate tailgate held outside Fenway Park — and by handing out free t-shirts at the event.

Harvard also hosted various “student gatherings” on campus.

“As always, our goal is for students, alumni and fans to have a fun and safe experience,” Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise wrote in an emailed statement at the time students circulated the tailgate petition.

Harvard will not host the Game again until 2020. Lucy M. Jackson ’22 said her first Game was “really incredible” — but, as for 2020, she said she is unsure what to expect.

“It’s going to be a totally different ballpark,” she said.

The annual Harvard-Yale football game was held at Fenway Park for the first time Saturday. Timothy r. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

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Harvard Extends Application Deadline and counselors may request extensions on the set deadline for submitting transcripts, letters of recommendation, and other supporting documents.

The 2018 wildfire season in California is unprecedented in the size and scope of its devastation. Several fires — which ignited earlier in November near Los Angeles and the Sierra Nevada foothills — have burned around 400 square miles of land and killed at least 79 people, while over 1,000 people are still missing. The largest of these wildfires, known as the Camp Fire, decimated the entire town of Paradise, Calif. and become the deadliest fire in recent history.

The fires have destroyed tens of thousands of homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents.

Amid the destruction and disruption, those who work in college admissions at Harvard and elsewhere say many students in California will likely need more

We want to be fair to these students and give them the most complete hearing we can give them.

William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 Dean of Admissions

time to complete their applications.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling wrote in an online statement that it recommends colleges adopt “flexibility and accom-

modations” for high school seniors affected by the wildfires.

“It would be wonderful if all campuses — both public and private — let students and counselors in the impacted communities know that their institutions will work with them as they deal with recovering from these natural disasters in the midst of the stressful college application process,” Marc McGee, the president of the Western branch of the Association for College Admission Counseling, wrote in an email to members.

Harvard’s move to extend the deadline is not without precedent. The College has perviously offered special accommodations to students whose hometowns were hit by natural disasters.

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsim-

mons ’67 said last fall that standardized test cancellations and administrative delays seen by affected schools can have “a major effect” on students’ application progress. Some may be more inclined to to consider colleges closer to home in light of the crisis, he said.

“We want to be fair to these students and give them the most complete hearing we can give them,” Fitzsimmons said in a Sept. 2017 interview soon after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey.

The University of California system is also offering affected students an extension on application deadlines. Upon request, UC hopefuls will be granted a 15-day delay. delano.franklin@thecrimson.com samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com

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UC Allocates Wintersession Funding find adequate funding. The College increased the UC’s budget by roughly a third this year after raising the student activities fee, an opt-out charge College students pay annually as part of their term bill.

With more money in the bank — and memories of last year’s funding imbroglio — UC representatives said they felt compelled to step up to foot the bill for student-led Wintersession programming this year.

“The current [Dean of Students Office] wants us to look with our own budget to see if we can put together funding for Wintersession activities,” said Finance Committee chair Gevin B. Reynolds ’19.

This year, for the first time, the DSO will review and sign off on Wintersession programs.

In the UC legislation’s original form, receiving a stamp of approval from the DSO would automatically make programs eli­

gible for Council funding.

Some representatives, however, sought to gain unilateral control over which programs the UC funds.

I think we should say from the getgo that this is our Wintersession funding.

Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 UC Vice President

Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 proposed an ultimately successful amendment that completely disregards the DSO’s decision about a program.

“If we are the ones that are doing 100 percent of the funding, then we should be the ones that get 100 percent of the say on who is eligible to get fund-

ing,” he said. “I think we should say from the get-go that this is our Wintersession funding, so therefore we will give it to the groups that we would like to see get it, per our own policies.”

“That perhaps is me being irritated that the last fund was removed in the first place,” he added.

A spokesperson for the College declined to comment Sunday evening. Some representatives disagreed with Boucher’s amendment, arguing that working constructively with the DSO would help ensure that all students who need funding can procure it through the UC. Reynolds said in an interview after the meeting that he hopes the DSO will still publicize available funding from the UC — even given Boucher’s amendment.

“I still will encourage the DSO to encourage all of the people who they recognize to come

to us for funding as well, but I think the amendment gives us a little more latitude to not be solely attached to the DSO’s process,” he said.

Some limited benefits from gaining DSO backing remain.

Reynolds noted that this official sign-off may give a project “more legitimacy” and the ability to use theHub, a University-run website that helps individual and groups publicize programs.

Sunday’s meeting marked the final one that will be held under the leadership of Boucher and President Catherine L. Zhang ’19. In December, Dean of Students Katherine O’Dair will swear newly elected President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 into their new roles at the helm of the undergraduate student government. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

Title IX Guidelines wellbeing of every member of our community.”

“We have invested significant resources into preventing and responding to disclosures of sexual and gender-based harassment, including sexual assault, and will continue to strengthen these efforts,” Swain wrote.

In a major shift from Obamaera federal guidance, the new rules mandate that schools allow both complainants and respondents in formal investigations to question each other during a live hearing. The guidelines would also forbid conduct that takes place outside the bounds of a school “program or activity” from serving as the basis for a formal complaint. It is unclear whether activity that occurs within the spaces owned by off-campus College social groups could serve as the foundation for a complaint under the proposed rules.

Law School Professor Diane L. Rosenfeld, who teaches a course on Title IX, said the new guidance is “an attempt to make [schools] not responsible for off-campus” sexual assault and harassment.

The Obama-era Department of Education issued its own guidance on Title IX in 2011, releasing a Dear Colleague letter that “strongly discourage[d] schools from allowing the parties personally to question or cross-examine each other” during hearings. The letter argued that this setup “may be traumatic or intimidating, thereby possibly escalating or perpetuating a hostile environment.”

That letter, unlike DeVos’s proposed guidance, did not force schools to adopt its recommendations.

Nevertheless, they undergird Harvard’s internal policies, including the current Faculty of Arts and Sciences Policy on Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment released in 2016, which governs Title IX proceedings for FAS affiliates. The University updated its policies in 2014.

The rules also suggest shifting away from a “single investigator” model, instead allowing both parties access to all evidence gathered by investigators and requiring investigators to act on the presumption of innocence.

The University Office for Dispute Resolution is tasked with investigating formal Title IX complaints. But as regards College students, the ability to implement ODR’s recommendations and impose disciplinary measures rests with Harvard’s Administrative Board.

The new guidelines additionally redefine “sexual harassment” as “unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the recipient’s education program or activity,” based on Supreme Court precedent.

Under the Obama-era policy, “sexual harassment” was defined as “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” that includ­

ed “requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature.”

DeVos rescinded the Dear Colleague letter in Sept. 2017 and allowed schools the opportunity to select their preferred standard of evidence, paving the way for more changes to come.

Law School professor Janet E. Halley said she plans to write a formal comment to the Department advocating for policies similar to the ones currently in place at Harvard Law School, which mandate a different hearing process than the one the government has put forth. She said she thinks the new proposal contains both necessary improvements and “disastrous” flaws.

“A lot of my issues are my concern for the accused, but a lot of my issues are my concern for the complainant,” she said.

“There’s good things and bad things for both sides here, so the public furor is pretty idiotic.”

She also criticized the policy’s definition of sexual harassment, arguing that “severe and pervasive” would not encompass a sufficiently wide array of possible behavior. Halley said she would prefer “severe or pervasive.”

Rosenfeld criticized the 60day notice-and-comment period as “rather short” and noted that the Department released the new guidelines “right before Thanksgiving.”

“That was, I think, a bad faith attempt to do something really drastic while no one was paying attention,” she said. “It’s a 149-page guidance. Sixty days to respond substantively to a really big piece of extremely problematic legislation is a pretty short time.”

While University officials and legal experts review the new federal guidelines, on-campus activists groups have already started gearing up to oppose them.

Campus anti-sexual assault advocacy organization Our Harvard Can Do Better began circulating an open letter to students nationwide opposing DeVos’s policies shortly after their release.

The Our Harvard letter charges that, rather than making Title IX “more fair,” the new guidelines “will make it easier for schools to sweep cases of sexual violence under the rug.”

“Existing Title IX processes already provide fair and equal representation to accusers and accused,” the letter reads. “Title IX is designed to provide accommodations to students that the legal system cannot.”

Remedy H. Ryan ’21, a member of Our Harvard Can Do Better, said the organization will participate in the notice-and-comment period and that she hopes other students would as well.

“Anyone can participate in notice-and-comment, so I’d urge all Harvard affiliates to participate in it,” Ryan said. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com simone.chu@thecrimson.com

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t he field before going out there was a big help.”

Arriving at a practice in the week leading up to the Harvard–Yale game, Abercrombie reconnected with teammates and coaches at his home field, Harvard Stadium.

“Just seeing him again and seeing all the guys react, it was something else,” said sophomore defensive lineman Doug Henze. “A lot of the guys hadn’t seen him since before the Rhode Island game last year.”

On Sept. 16, 2017, Abercrombie traveled to Kingston, R.I., for the team’s season-opening contest against the University of Rhode Island. He was the only freshman to make the travel roster. ­

In the second quarter, Abercrombie made a hard tackle on Rhode Island’s Marven Beauvais near the Harvard sideline.

Abercrombie laid motionless on the field — after a lengthy delay in a near-silent Meade Stadium, the defensive back was ultimately stretchered off the field and transported to Rhode Island Hospital. It was determined that he had fractured vertebrae in his neck, an injury which compressed his spinal cord and paralyzed him below the neck.

After being released from the hospital, Abercrombie continued his recovery and rehabilitation at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. On Jan. 8, 2018, Abercrombie returned home to

Hoover, Ala. Henze, who also grew up in Hoover, recalls playing youth football with Abercrombie and competing against him on a rival high school team.

“He’s exactly how he’s described,” Henze said. “He’s just a great, down-to-earth guy. He always has your back. He’s really just a guy you want in your corner.”

Currently, Abercrombie breathes with the assistance of a ventilator, though he has been working to wean off the device and breathe on his own. Signals from his brain are too weak to reach the rest of his body and produce unassisted movement, but he is able to perform rehab exercises with assistance.

Teammates and coaches describe Abercrombie as a hard worker who gives 100 percent of his effort to anything he is doing and note that he has maintained that mentality during his rehab process. According to entries on his CaringBridge account, Abercrombie is planning to return to Harvard in the fall of 2019 to resume his education.

“He’s doing what he has to do to walk again,” Henze said.

“And the rehab process is painful from what I’ve been told, but he never wavers. He never complains about it. He just puts his head down and says, ‘I’m going to keep doing this. I’m going to walk again.’”

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Defensive back Ben M. Abercrombie ‘21 (left) and head coach Tim Murphy (right) talk on the field. Since suffering a serious spinal injury last year, Abercrombie has been recovering at his home in Alabama. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

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Two Harvard Seniors Win 2019 Rhodes Scholarships Last year, Park was ineligible to apply for the Rhodes under the scholarship guidelines then in place. He went for it anyway. Operating with support from Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, Park underwent the rigorous application process in the hopes that undocumented students might eventually be considered for the honor.

Though he was not selected last year, Park’s application caused the Rhodes Trust to rethink their criteria for DACA recipients, according to URAF Director Gregory A. Llacer. “It basically was this kind of watershed moment, that [Park’s] application and his fortitude kind of opened up,” Llacer said.

Park said in an interview that

his undocumented status has formed his academic interests and career aspirations.

A concentrator in Molecular and Cellular Biology with plans to go to medical school, Park said he wants to use his medical training to improve health-related policy for immigrants.

“Growing up as an undocumented person in New York City, I had a lot of formative experiences that have taught me that it’s important for me to use my talents and my educational training to give back to the undocumented community,” Park said. “And I wanted to do that through the lens of healthcare.”

Park is the founder and co-director of the non-profit organization Higher Dreams, which aims to help undocumented stu-

dents navigate the college admissions process.

At Oxford, Park said he will pursue Masters degrees in Global Health Science and Epidemiology as well as Migration Studies.

“I proposed the Migration Studies to gain skills that I can use in the field to responsibly record and document the narrative and the lives of undocumented immigrants in New York City,” Park said.

Park and Ellis are among 32 American recipients of the 2019 Rhodes Scholarship, which pays for several years of postgraduate study at Oxford.

Over 350 Harvard students have been selected as Rhodes Scholars since the program’s establishment in 1902, meaning

the College has graduated more Rhodes scholars than has any other university.

This year’s group of winners boasts the greatest number of women — 21 — ever elected to an American Rhodes class. Nearly half of the class are immigrants or first-generation college students.

Rhodes hopefuls must seek endorsements from their college or university; this year, more than 2,500 sought endorsement and 880 were ultimately endorsed by 281 unique institutions.

Ellis — a Crimson news executive — said she has been thinking about the Rhodes since she was 10 years old.

She said she has always been “interested in learning for as

long as possible.” “[The Rhodes scholarship] seemed like the pinnacle of research and scholarship and I knew from a young age that I loved school, that that’s what I wanted to do with my life,” Ellis said.

Ellis’s interest in the Rhodes matches her passion for museums. She said she has been “enraptured” with them since she was 12 or 13 years old.

“I think that they are the best institutions to bring people together to learn about contemporary and past societies,” Ellis said.

An Anthropology concentrator, Ellis said she hopes to pursue a Masters in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology at Oxford.

Ultimately, Ellis hopes to practice “cultural research” and help institutions like museums and universities “tell the stories of cultural objects.”

She noted that both museums and universities are associated with “colonial and imperial pasts,” but said she hopes to change that culture by designing exhibits that reflect both scientific and community interests.

Her dream job is to work at the British Museum.

“I’m really committed to making sure that those institutions and projects going forward are as inclusive, accessible, and mutually beneficial as they can be,” Ellis said. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com sanjana.narayanan@thecrimson.com

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Renovations Take Over Schlesinger Library

By Liana E. Chow and Ema R. Schumer Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard is renovating its Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute in an efort to drive increased engagement with the library’s extensive collection of documents vital to the history of women in America.

The project involves exterior and interior renovations, including building an enlarged exhibit space and a “technology-enhanced” seminar room.

Schlesinger closed for construction in November 2018 and will remain closed until September 2019. Project manager Kate N. Loosian said the renovation will restore the library’s exterior, improve its maintenance system, and make its collections more accessible to researchers and the public.

“The interior renovations piece came out of a larger planning discussion that crossed many departments of the Institute in terms of improving public access, whether to events or to the collections,” she said.

Once open, the new seminar room will allow students to digitize paper materials using overhead cameras and will allow them to project images from their laptops onto screens arrayed around the walls, according to Loosian.

Manager of Special Projects and Digital Services at Schlesinger Amanda E. Strauss said she looks forward to the educational opportunities the seminar room will foster.

“I’m very excited for the fact that the research librarians in particular are going to get to work with small groups of students to do some in depth examination of materials,” she said.

Strauss noted that it is the library’s priority to offer innovative ways for researchers to en-

It will allow us to attract a broader audience to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger, and that’s in keeping with my vision of making sure we are connected to the community.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

gage with the collection.

“If everything is lying dormant in the vaults, it’s not really doing much good,” she said.

“So we’re looking for all different kinds of ways all the time for scholars of all levels to really do actual work in our collections and make new scholarship and make new projects.”

Executive Director of Schlesinger Library and Librarian of the Radcliffe Institute Marilyn Dunn agreed.

“People have the sense of libraries as perhaps a little passive, but really libraries are con-

stantly evolving, finding new uses of technology, developing new teaching skills,” Dunn said. “A library never sits still.”

The library’s inaugural exhibit post-renovation will open in all 2019. It will feature materials from the papers of American political activist Angela Davis. That same season, Radcliffe will host a conference on race, gender, and incarceration. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Tomiko BrownNagin said she is particularly excited about the gallery space.

“I think it will allow us to attract a broader audience to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger, and that’s in keeping with my vision of making sure we are connected to the community,” she said.

Though the library is currently closed, researchers can access the collection via a temporary reading room in Fay House on Garden Street. Researchers must make appointments to visit.

Katherine L. Turk, a Radcliffe fellow who is researching documents in Schlesinger’s collection, said the temporary setup has not had a deleterious effect on her research.

“We’re a little bit cozier than we used to be, but that’s not so bad,” she said. “People should not be deterred from using the wonderful resources there because of this construction. It’s just an incredible place, especially if you’re interested in women and gender, it’s sort of like Mecca for many of us.” liana.chow@thecrimson.com

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Lamont Fourth Floor To Be Creative Writing Space

By Connor W.K. Brown and Isabel L. Isselbacher Contributing Writers

Harvard is converting the fourth floor of Lamont Library into a new space for creative writing.

The floor is currently closed for renovation and is on track to reopen by the start of the spring 2019 term.

Construcion kicked off Sept.

17, 2018 and is expected to conclude on Jan. 31, 2019.

“The project is on schedule and should be available for use in the spring term,” Michael N. Lichten, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences associate dean for physical resources and planning, wrote in an emailed statement.

“The fourth floor of Lamont will be used for the English Creative Writing activity.”

Lamont already boasts several classrooms, media labs, reading rooms, and a cafe.

The library, which is open 24 hours on most weeknights during the term, is often packed

The project team is working very closely with the Lamont Building manager and library administration to ensure that users of the library are not disrupted.

Michael N. Lichtenl Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

space will be used.

“I am quite excited to see what the reveal of this enigma is, as we don’t quite know what is going on on the fourth floor,”

Abigail Y. Pan ’22 said.

Lamont Library posted several notices warning students about possible intermittent construction noise.

The notices also asked undergraduates for their patience and understanding.

For some, it hasn’t been an issue. David A. Paffenholz ’22 said he has never once felt bothered by the noise.

“I only go there at night, so I wouldn’t be able to tell the daytime construction,” he said.

Pan agreed. “I have never heard actual construction noises,” she said.

Lichten noted that his office is coordinating with the library management in Lamont to minimize the noise and disruption.

“The project team is working very closely with the Lamont building manager and library administration to ensure that users of the library are not disrupted by the project,” Lichten wrote.

“This involves close coordination and scheduling of construction activity.”

Activists Talk Race, Mental Health at Two-Day Conference

By Ellen M. Burstein and Luke A. Williams Contributing Writers

Community organizers from the Boston area and across the United States convened this weekend for a two-day conference on “Race, Racism and Mental Health” hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School.

The conference comprised a series of panel discussions that touched on the intersection of race and mental illness in modern America.

The audience included local high school and college students, Cambridge residents, and Boston-area medical professionals.

In a conversation held early Friday afternoon, three Bostonian social workers convened to discuss their personal experiences with structural racism they say led to mental illness.

The trio also offered advice for the next generation.

Abrigal S. Forrester, a panelist and the director of community action at the Madison Park Development Corporation, urged black Americans to improve their own neighborhoods to show solidarity in the face of overwhelming structural racism.

“My experience everyday is the urgency of now,” Forrester said. “That young man who’s carrying a gun in Roxbury or Dorchester, who feels like he’s worth nothing… What I can say to him is, ‘Baby boy, the gig ­

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with undergraduates studying late into the night.

Some students who regularly study in Lamont said they were unaware of how the new

can stop. You don’t have to keep hurting yourself. We love you.’”

He also spoke about the link between institutional racism and disproportionate diagnoses of mental illnesses among people of color.

“There’s work that we have to do in recognizing our own internal oppression and systems that we are a part of that continue to repeat the process

There’s work that we have to do in recognizing our own itnernal oppression and systems that we are a part of that continue to repeat the process of compouinding trauma for people who have challenges in our society.

Abrigal S. Forrester Director, Madison park Development Corporation

of compounding trauma for people who have challenges in our society,” Forrester said.

Panelists later devoted 40 minutes to answering questions posed by attendees.

Panelist Phillipe Copeland, professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, suggested that victims of racism

should identify their oppressor and avoid blaming themselves — and that, ultimately, these individuals should work to reach “peace and reconciliation.”

“Black people are not just feeling bad. Things are being done to us that would make any human being feel bad,” he said.

“And so the people who are doing that need to stop. If part of the battle is not being named and doesn’t want to be peaceful, there is not reconciliation.”

Nyamuon Nguany Machar, the third panelist and the leader of “Youth Move Maine,” rounded out the discussion.

Attendees included members of Arlington High School’s Black Student Union.

“It was very eye-opening, very eye-opening. I love all the new data and statistics I’ve been exposed to,” Arlington High junior and attendee David L. Lopes said.

“I knew a lot of that stuff but not all of it,” Lopes said. “I thought I was woke, in parentheses, but now I’m even more awake.”

The students said they especially admired the panelists’ use of data. Arlington student Jordan S. Saintil said that she hope to update Black Student Union projects by “showcasing that data.”

Saintil said that integrating data into BSU presentations will help Arlington students “understand and see what we’re going through daily.”

“I’m definitely gonna be snagging some of those useful techniques,” Lopes said.

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

column

Progress After the ‘Profoundly Disturbing’ Incident

Asking the Right Questions

While the report is commendable, HUPD and HUHS’s roles need clarification.

O

n Nov. 13, University President Lawrence S. Bacow sent an email to the Harvard community with updates on the April 13 physical altercation and arrest of a black College student by Cambridge police that later sparked allegations of police brutality.

In response to the “profoundly disturbing” events, former University President Drew G. Faust created a review committee to assess the details of the incident and offer recommendations for Harvard to improve. Exactly seven months after the incident, the committee finalized their report and released it to the public.

We applaud the University for this report. Although we are disheartened by how long it took to produce the report — and respond to the fraught worries of the community in the weeks immediately following the incident — the review is thorough and diligently researched. It addresses almost all the concerns raised contemporaneously in April. It is also reflective of the conversations had with many graduate and undergraduate student groups, representatives from Harvard University Health Services, Harvard University Police Department, the Offices of Alcohol and Other Drugs Services, Black Students Organizing for Change, and other administrative officials.

Many of the recommendations speak to the need for accurate and clear communication of the roles that HUHS and HUPD play in the Harvard community.

We agree that there is an urgent need for clarification of jurisdictions and services

provided, particularly as they relate to HUPD. Students should be informed and should have clear expectations of what HUPD can offer.

After conversations with students surrounding the need for mental health services that currently do not exist, the report recommended that HUHS and HUPD increase cultural and racial competency trainings. We support the institutionalization of these trainings with-

There is an urgent need for clarification of jurisdictions and services provided in all University mental health services as well as for House and Yard staff. The College’s method for reporting racial bias was also praised; it should be a model for all other schools in the University and its process should be made accessible to their student bodies as well.

On the other hand, we are concerned that so much of Bacow’s communication focuses on changes to Yardfest. In his email, Bacow expressed his concerns about how the high number of intoxicated students led to HUPD being stretched thin. While it is alarming that the number of calls for service during Yardfest was nearly nearly six times the previous year’s, concerns about student intoxication miss the mark. Simply moving Yardfest to Sunday and tightening the event boundaries would not address the prob-

lems with HUHS and HUPD staffing during Yardfest.

The report mentions other concrete solutions that are more relevant to the core problem. For example, it details solutions such as adopting an Emergency Operations Center event management approach and examining the ratio of officers to attendees at large events. We believe the College should be focusing to a greater extent on these. Considering that Yardfest has been an annual event since 2006, it is alarming that HUHS and HUPD were not staffed adequately during the most recent Yardfest. While student intoxication is indeed a serious issue, Harvard should reevaluate the staffing of officers and medical personnel to ensure prompt responses to emergencies.

Harvard has thoroughly analyzed the incident and identified concrete strategies to reinforce safety measures in future events. We hope that the College would continue its efforts to implement the suggested solutions, especially in further clarifying HUPD’s role on campus and improve staffing during Yardfest.

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

Harvard Is Committed to Inclusion and Nondiscrimination

By Nicole M. Merhill and Sheehan D. Scarborough

T

his month, Massachusetts voters reaffirmed that it is against the law to treat people unfairly, and unequally, because of their gender in places like restaurants, retail shops, hospitals, subways, libraries and parks.

Yet, despite this outcome, members of the transgender and gender non-binary community remain in a position that many of them have known their entire lives, one of having to defend their most fundamental rights and civil liberties.

This is a community that remains under threat, and we write to reaffirm University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s Oct. 30 position that Harvard remains committed to its policy of inclusion and non-discrimination, and that will not change.

On Oct. 21, news outlets reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was considering a narrowing of the current federal use of the term “sex” as either male or female, determined at birth, a change that could restrict the rights and protections currently available to those who identify as transgender and gender non-binary.

It remains unclear if or when HHS may issue a change to current federal policy.

However, one thing is certain: The existence of transgender and gender non-binary people is not hypothetical or abstract, nor should it be up for debate.

Members of this community, at Harvard and beyond, have a right to live without fear, to be visible, and to thrive.

To this end, our non-discrimination policy includes protections on the basis of sex and gender identity, and we affirm and celebrate the diversity of gender identities and expressions represented in our community. Moreover, the University’s current Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy, first adopted in 2014,

We affirm and celebrate the diversity of gender identities and expressions represented in our community has consistently gone beyond federal Title IX guidelines. Broadly, we pledge to uphold the principles of inclusivity championed by Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, and its missive to “fully embrace individuals from varied backgrounds, cultures, races, identities, life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, and values.”

For those at Harvard who are feeling fearful, or called to act, or both, we want you to know there are resources here.

Join Harvard’s Trans Task Force or one of the University’s other BGLTQ-related student organizations to spend time in community with others; we encourage you to reference this comprehensive list, published by the Title IX Office in partnership with the College Office of BGLTQ Student Life. Other local organizations which support the transgender and gender non-binary community include the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Transgender Law Center, and the Transgender Health Program at Fenway Health.

As members of the Harvard University community, we have a unique opportunity to expand our impact. We hail from cities and towns all over the world, from disparate walks of life, and we come with unique needs and desires.

But we know, and continue to learn every day, that our diversity is our strength. We —Nicole M. Merhill is Harvard’s Title IX Officer. Sheehan D. Scarborough ’07 is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Director of BGLTQ Student Life for Harvard College.

By trevor j. levin

I

n early October, I accidentally turned my Social Studies thesis seminar into a personal therapy session. As the seminar leader reviewed the best-thesis-practices we had read about that week — start writing as soon as possible, write every day, build time for writing into your schedule — a strong sense of dread came over me: I did not want to write a thesis about my topic (modernism in mid-century American city planning).

In what might be called a controlled panic, I told my classmates about this dread, and the sense that I had squandered my summer and my academic opportunities at Harvard and any shot at an academic career. My classmates gave me the obvious advice: Change topics. But it was already October. I had spent much of the summer and the semester to date reading about New York’s highways. The thesis prospectus was due the following week. What would I even write about?

Luckily, that week, I discovered “Hamming questions.” Richard Hamming, a mathematician who wrote and spoke frequently about what made researchers productive, would ask his colleagues: What are the most important problems in your field? They would respond. And then, the dagger: Why aren’t you working on them?

Hamming reported that “the average scientist … spends almost all his time working on problems which they believe will not be important.” I applied this to my own studies and realized I did not really believe that my research question, insofar as it existed, would yield an important result. So I decided to ask myself the Hamming questions with modifications. Social Studies is just about the broadest “field” there is, and I was on a deadline. So I asked: What is the most important problem I currently have the background to work on?

The next week, I turned in a prospectus. (My new topic: The ethics of immigration policy, specifically focusing on the possibility of backlash. If it sounds interesting, listen to the episode of Vox’s “The Weeds” podcast titled “With Borders Wide Open,” which covers a lot of that ground.)

One reason Hamming questions strike me as so powerful is their deceptive obviousness. Why would anyone work on problems they don’t think are the most important they could be working on? However did I wind up reading about modern architecture instead of political philosophy?

I think the answer for me and for many Harvard students is path-dependency. At Harvard, we’re presented with nearly infinite options with how to spend our time, both here and in the next seven-odd decades of our lives, and when sheer circumstance highlights one option as a path of lesser resistance, we often glide right along.

Hamming questions provide the advantage of a different heuristic, an alternative to the status quo bias wherein we only quit things if they become actively unpleasant. The consequence is that the academic, extracurricular, social, or professional opportunities that appear at critical moments can wind up shaping huge portions of our lives, without us really intending it.

For example: I joined The Crimson’s Arts Board because I arrived late to the open house my freshman fall. Only Arts and News still had representatives staffing their tables. Arts’s first meeting was earlier in the week, and I attended it and enjoyed it.

Before I knew it, I had been an editor for two years, giving this organization hundreds of hours of time and focus. I often enjoyed it. But I’m not convinced it was the best use of all that time, and I’m horrified at how little attention I paid to that question.

In conversations with friends, they’ve expressed similar doubts and dissatisfaction with their extracurricular choices. Maybe it’s not healthy or productive to constantly question your commitments, but we get eight semesters at Harvard, each with their own beginnings and endings — eight opportunities to actively choose to spend your time doing something important, or at least truly enjoyable or meaningful.

But extracurricular choices do not hold the highest stakes, and path-dependency is not the only source of problems. No doubt, some Harvard students choose their concentrations after asking themselves Hamming-esque questions. But our usual reason for choosing a concentration, other than financial gain — a reason so widely accepted that it seems crazy to challenge it — is that we find the subject interesting; we liked the classes we’ve already taken in it. Don’t get me wrong, this is an important factor: Hamming found that researchers who were emotionally involved in their subject were more productive within their field.

But as the only factor in choosing a concentration, it’s solipsistic. Surely, given the immense luck involved in accessing Harvard’s resources, we have some obligations to the rest of the world that our knowledge production help improve lives, even in the very long run. Actions have opportunity costs. Choosing to study, say, ancient history, a topic I personally find very interesting, would have meant foregoing research on immigration ethics, which in turn meant foregoing research on global health or climate change or other areas of immense humanitarian importance.

Even if you, like me, are long past the concentration-declaring stage of life, the Hamming questions can still clarify. Applied Rationality groups have transformed the Hamming questions for non-academics, instead asking: What is the biggest bottleneck in your productivity, or in your personal life? If you were looking back at yourself ten years from now, what is the obvious thing you should be doing but aren’t? Ultimately, the Hamming questions can do more than re-orient research. They invite reflection, a chance to zoom out. I wish I’d found them earlier in my time in the mind-bogglingly possibility-rich setting of Harvard College. But to paraphrase a (supposedly Chinese) proverb, the second-best time to ask Hamming questions is now.

—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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Sports

this week’s games

preview

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Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Holy Cross 6:00 p.m., Bright-Landry Hockey Center

Women’s Basketball at Hartford 12:00 p.m., Hartford, Conn.

Men’s Ice Hockey at Cornell 8:00 p.m., Madison Square Garden

Men’s Basketball at San Francisco 10:00 p.m., San Francisco, Calif.

Men’s Basketball at St. Mary’s (Cal.) 9:00 p.m., Moraga, Calif.

men’s hockey

Harvard Splits Weekend with No. 18 Arizona State By spencer r. morris and stuti r. telidevara ­

crimson staff writers

While most Harvard students geared up to enjoy the annual Harvard-Yale football game, the men’s hockey team prepared for a two-game home stand against No. 18 Arizona State.

The Sun Devils have clashed with the Crimson just once before, falling 7-0 and 6-2 to the Crimson in 2016. But this year’s iteration of the Southwestern foe was nationally ranked, having beaten Nebraska Omaha, Michigan State, and No. 6 Penn State in the early portion of its schedule.

Though Harvard (2-3-2, 1-22 ECAC) was hoping for two wins on the weekend to boost its record above .500, the hosts split the series against the Sun Devils (10-4-0), taking Friday’s contest in a 4-1 victory before falling 3-2 in overtime on Saturday.

ARIZONA STATE 3, HARVARD 2 (OT) After a winning performance against the Sun Devils on Friday, the Crimson skated in a rematch with Arizona State on Saturday despite most of the attention around Harvard Athletics being directed to Fenway Park for this year’s installment of The Game.

The Crimson had the chance to earn its first four-point weekend of the season and build a small win streak of three games. For most of the contest, Harvard looked as though it would achieve these minor milestones, but the game unraveled in the latter half of the third period.

“We had our opportunities, and then some,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “It’s not like I’m disappointed in the caliber of our play. I thought we worked hard, we controlled the puck a lot, we had numerous chances…. When it was all said and done, we didn’t get it done.”

With nine minutes remaining in the final frame and Harvard ahead, 2-1, Sun Devils forward Johnny Walker, who entered the weekend atop the nation in scoring (11–6—17), was sent to the box for boarding.

The Crimson’s ensuing powerplay provided an opportunity to extend the lead to two goals. Instead of padding its advantage, though, Harvard ceded a shorthanded goal.

Arizona State senior Dylan Hollman skated the puck into the zone to the left of Crimson net-minder Michael Lack-

ey. The forward, driving hard to the middle of the ice, lost his footing and slid through the slot after a backchecking freshman Casey Dornbach tied him up. With commotion in front of Lackey, senior forward Anthony Croston picked up the loose puck and fired it through Lackey’s five-hole, tying the game.

The tilt would remain even until the end of regulation.

Three minutes into overtime, Sun Devils freshman blueliner Josh Maniscalco threw a puck toward the cage from the point.

The low shot found its way through traffic and beat Lackey, causing Arizona State players to spill over the boards.

And just like that, a Harvard team that controlled the pace of play for the majority of the first 50 minutes of regulation left the Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Saturday night without a point.

“We played awfully well to end up with no points tonight,” Coach Donato said. “It’s frustrating, but I think we’re starting to build a lot of the things into our game that will allow us to have success.”

The Crimson’s powerplay, which cashed in three times this weekend, was a major part of its success against the Sun Devils, who came to Cambridge this weekend as owners of the top penalty kill in the NCAA (92.7%).

Co-captain Lewis Zerter-Gossage contributed to the flourishing powerplay with a goal on the man-advantage to open the scoring in the first period. The senior was responsible for both of his team’s goals on Saturday night and finished with four points (3–1—4) on the weekend.

The success of Harvard’s man-up unit, however, seemed to run out just when the team needed it most.

After allowing the game-tying tally, the Crimson had a powerplay opportunity with five minutes to go in regulation, as well as one to open the overtime frame. Frustratingly, neither attempt proved fruitful, and Arizona State goaltender Joey Daccord was a major reason why.

The junior backstop fended off an onslaught of chances on Saturday (2 GA, .952 SV%), eclipsing the 40-save threshold for the 15th time in his career.

“That’s why we think we have the best goalie in the country, and he proved it tonight,” Sun Devils coach Greg Powers said. “To have a great penalty kill, your best PK guy has

just two to show for it The Crimson walked away from the weekend with just two points despite carrying play for much of the back-to-back. amanda m. dimartini—Crimson phtotographer

always got to be your goalie….

The guys in front of him worked their tails off, too.”

Daccord’s performance, plus his team’s late-game perseverance and a few fortuitous bounces, allowed the Sun Devils to overcome adversity from the officiating (38 penalty minutes) and steal a win from Harvard to split the weekend.

HARVARD 4, ARIZONA STATE 1 Friday’s matchup was expected to be defined by Harvard’s power play, then-second in the NCAA, and Arizona State’s then top-ranked penalty kill. Special teams did prove to be a significant factor, and not one that went in the Sun Devils’ favor.

The Crimson’s man-advantage unit led the hosts to victory, going 2-for-4 on the night.

Harvard also saw considerable improvement in its penalty-killing, which owned a lackluster 61.1% kill rate prior to Friday’s game. Despite this, coach Donato saw room for improvement moving forward.

“We’re happy to come away

SHAKING HANDs, MAKING FRIENDS The Crimson exchanged well wishes with opponent Arizona State. amanda m. dimartini—Crimson photographer

with the win,” coach Donato

not quite enough Harvard struck three times on the powerplay this weekend, but its man-up success seemed to run out on Saturday just when the team needed it most. amanda m. dimartini—Crimson photographer

said. “I don’t think we played very intelligently in the second half of the game, whether it was turnovers, or taking penalties.

I think we did a lot of things to hurt ourselves. I give Arizona State credit...but I think that for me, as a staff, we were a little bit frustrated.”

After outshooting Arizona State 14-2 in the first frame, Harvard left the ice with a 1-0 lead thanks to a tip-in from sophomore forward Jack Badini. Both teams racked up shots in the second, thanks to five minor penalties, and both cashed in on the power play that period.

Junior defenseman Adam Fox found the net before the Sun Devils could, on a sharp-angle shot by the goal line.

“I was just trying to put the puck on net,” Fox said. “I saw a little area, I was lucky enough to hit the spot I wanted. There was obviously a good screen in front.”

After an Arizona State goal trimmed the Crimson’s lead, Harvard regained a two-goal cushion, again on the man advantage. Freshman forward Jack Drury stuffed in a rebound despite Daccord’s best efforts to deny him. Daccord, who has been crucial this season to the Sun Devils’ penalty-killing success, was unable to keep Harvard out on half its power play opportunities.

At the other end of the ice, Lackey was key to the Crimson’s successful night. By the end of the night he was sitting with a .968 save percentage, a

career-best other than his one shutout. While Harvard worked well to keep the visitors to the outside, Lackey stymied nearly all of the attempts thrown his way, including six shots from the lethal Walker. “[Lackey] made a couple of key saves at key times in the game, especially on their power play,” coach Donato said. “Over the last three games, he’s looked like he’s getting more comfortable. It’s very difficult to have success without getting great goaltending, and I thought tonight we were a lot closer to that than we were earlier in the year.”

The night’s goal-scoring was capped off by a breakaway goal from Zerter-Gossage, courtesy of a tape-to-tape stretch pass from Fox as he exited the box.

Zerter-Gossage fended off the defenseman pursuing him to chip the puck over Daccord’s blocker.

The Sun Devils had been inching closer through the second half of the game, piling shots on Lackey’s net as several Crimson players were whistled for minor infractions.

The fourth goal late in the third frame put victory for the visitors out of reach.

“We had good times, bad times, I think we still need to sharpen things up,” Zerter-Gossage said.

“It’s definitely something to build off of.” spencer.morris@thecrimson.com stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com

Sports

Weekly Recap

SCORES

Men’s water polo at Brown W, 11-10 ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo vs. princeton l, 12-10 ___________________________________________________________

men’s basketball at rhode island L , 76-74 ___________________________________________________________

rugby at dartmouth (NIRA Championship) L, 19-14 ___________________________________________________________

women’s basketball at siena w, 73-54 ___________________________________________________________

men’s ice hockey vs. arizona state l, 3-2 (OT) ___________________________________________________________

men’s ice hockey vs. arizona state w, 4-1 ___________________________________________________________

the game From Page 1

Harvard Snaps Two-Year Losing Streak Against Yale a nd safety Zach Miller. “Being able to play in Fenway … and to go out like this, I know our seniors enjoyed it and our team really enjoyed it.”

With a field layered in temporary sod, the focus of both offenses was squarely set on the passing game. By the conclusion of the contest, the teams had combined for 640 passing yards compared to 349 on the ground.

The quarterbacks submitted strikingly different performances despite posting similar passing totals. Yale’s Griffin O’Connor completed fewer than half of his attempts and threw two picks, while Harvard’s Tom Stewart tossed three touchdowns to one interception.

One snap before Devin Darrington scored his second touchdown to officially put the game on ice, Stewart ran the ball out to his right. The quarterback slid feet-first near the temporary turf covering the infield to avoid incoming defensive back Miles Oldacre and went down awkwardly. Stewart was taken off the field on a stretcher. After the game, the team announced that Stewart had injured his right hip, was expected to make a full recovery, and was already being released from the hospital.

“Tom wasn’t supposed to play [due to a separate injury suffered at Penn],” Murphy said. “He didn’t take a single snap, doctors said he’ll never be able to play this weekend and he said ‘I’ll play. I’ll play.’ He hadn’t thrown a pass in a week when he warmed up in pre-game.

Tommy’s had a remarkable season. He’s become a dynamic force at quarterback for us, not just in his ability to stretch the field vertically with the way he throws the ball, but just his personality and his toughness. Just heartbreaking to see his season have to end that way.”

Two significant calls by the referees resulted in significant momentum shifts in the Bulldogs’ favor.

First, with a third-and-eight chance at the outset of the third quarter, it appeared as though Yale would have to settle for a field goal when Wes Ogsbury made a hard tackle on running back Zane Dudek. However, his hit was ruled to be targeting and the Bulldogs were granted a first down on Harvard’s four yard line. O’Connor punched the ball in himself to knot the game at 21.

Per college football rules, Ogsbury was ejected for his apparent helmet-to-helmet strike.

At the time, he was the team’s ­

leading tackler with six drops.

The senior led the team in interceptions this season with six.

Another momentous whistle blew in the fourth quarter. In the period’s opening minutes, the Crimson appeared to bolster its 28-27 lead as Darrington broke free and marched to the end zone. However, on his way to the goal line, he turned to a Yale defender and waved his index finger — unsportsmanlike conduct, touchdown reversed, 15-yard penalty.

“The bottom line is he was wrong,” Murphy said. “I’m just so grateful to our team that he didn’t have to learn that the absolute hard way of having to live with that for a year or however many years.”

All told, Harvard committed seven penalties for 70 yards compared to the Bulldogs’ four for 30.

On that drive, eventually the Crimson added three points on a 36-yard field goal by Jake McIntyre, subtracting four possible points from Darrington’s overturned dash. The boot tied McIntyre on Harvard’s all-time single-season field goal list (13) and also tied the program’s career-high (30).

The Crimson’s defense produced a three-and-out after McIntyre’s field goal and fol-

grounded After posting 43 points against Princeton last week, Harvard’s defense limited Yale to just 27 points on Saturday. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

lowed with a lightning-quick scoring drive to pad its fourpoint advantage. First, wide receiver Henry Taylor brought the punt out to the Harvard 40 on a return that saw a penalty on both sides. Then, the Crimson broke the plane, as Darrington closed out the drive with 33 rushing yards. Harvard

38, Yale 27.

After the earlier O’Connor rushing score, the Bulldogs rapidly changed the scoreboard again.On first down at his own 46, O’Connor launched the ball deep to top target JP Shohfi, who positioned Yale at the six yard line. The Crimson put up a fight in the red zone, limiting

record-breaking With one field goal in The Game, junior kicker Jake McIntyre is now tied for the Harvard career-high of 30. He also tied the program’s season record of 13. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

the Bulldogs to a field goal. With that, the Bulldogs snapped the exchange of three touchdowns apiece and took its first lead of the game.

Harvard quickly nullified Yale’s shortly-held lead near the end of the third period. Stewart and his offensive corps drove downfield, ultimately finding the end zone on a 15-yard completion to junior Jack Cook.

Cook closed out the game with a team-high 116 receiving yards.

All told, the Bulldogs led for just 3:33 of game time.

To begin the final frame, Yale came up shy of a first down at the Crimson six yard line.

The Bulldogs opted to kick a field goal to creep within one, 28-27, instead of going for it on fourth and two. Key in Yale’s inability to find the end zone was a four-yard loss due to a botched handoff by O’Connor, which led to the third-down pass to Reed Klubnik that did not move the chains.

By the end of the game, the two offenses had established a trend by utilizing huge gains to move the ball downfield for a combined 989 total yards — Harvard’s average yards per play was 8.6. However, key defensive plays contributed to a close game in the early going.

The first two series of the contest resulted in turnovers, as O’Connor airmailed a receiver for an interception and Stewart fumbled and lost possession.

Miller bookended the game with picks, taking advantage of O’Connor’s inaccuracy which appeared to be caused by pressure from the Crimson’s defensive front.

Over his last two games to close out the 2018 campaign, O’Connor tossed six interceptions. On the other hand, Harvard’s offensive line seemed to provide Stewart with ample

time to target his receivers.

“This was trench warfare today, no question about it,” Murphy said. “I remember in our first team meeting, post Christmas in January, 6:00 a.m. in the locker room. I said ‘Fellas, we’ve got to become a bigger, stronger, tougher, more physical football team.’ We got stronger as the season wore on, mentally and physically. It really was a really great November for this particular Harvard football team.”

With under a minute left in the first half, Stewart dumped the ball off to Taylor, who dove and slammed the ball in just across the goal line. The Crimson advanced into the red zone courtesy of a deep ball hauled in by senior wide receiver Brian Dunlap, who closed out his season with a 57-yard performance. This score gave Harvard a 21-14 halftime lead.

Before Taylor broke the firsthalf tie, the two squads traded touchdowns in the first and early in the second — this made for what appeared to be a tightly-contested game early on, a trend that was snapped for good when the Crimson dropped 17 points in the fourth quarter.

Bolstered by a Jon Sot punt downed at the Bulldogs’ three yard line at the very end of the opening stanza, Harvard managed to force Yale’s punt unit onto the field. Then, Adams took a handoff and broke off a 62-yard touchdown run on the drive’s first play — the second-longest rush of the season for a Crimson ballcarrier — to put Harvard up, 14-7.

Though Adams is listed as a wideout, his role in this game was to run jet sweeps out of the backfield, several times taking handoffs from B.J. Watson in the backfield. Adams totaled 98 rushing yards, leading the team in that metric.

“If you can create the diversion of, ‘Okay is it going to be the quarterback, is it going to be pitch, or is it going to be the running back?’ there’s going to be three dimensions to it that make it more challenging to play downhill, to blitz you, and to attack,” Murphy said.

After the Bulldogs’ first score in the first quarter, the Crimson defense shut down Yale’s attack. Its next three drives resulted in a trio of punts and a total of just 37 yards gained. However, its next attempt tied the game up once more. Starting on their own 41, the Bulldogs used a 33-yard gain by Dudek to set up their second touchdown.

This time, O’Connor tossed a bullet to Shohfi for a toe-tap score. Shohfi, Yale’s top target, racked up 127 receiving yards.

Dudek, a surprise participant in the game after missing significant time in 2018 with injuries, posted 66 yards on 10 carries as well as 38 receiving yards.

To open its second drive of the contest, Harvard lost two yards on two plays before picking up a gain of 38 as Stewart passed from the left hash to the right sideline to a sliding Cook.

Six plays later, Stewart was flushed from the pocket but targeted Taylor, who came down with the game’s first score.

Once the Crimson knelt the ball to close out its victory, Taylor had accumulated 41 yards and two touchdowns, his only two receptions of the afternoon.

The Bulldogs fought right back on a drive that took 3:17 and spanned 76 yards. Heavily targeting wide receiver Jaylan Sandifer and even taking the ball himself for a first down, O’Connor guided Yale downfield and handed off to running back Alan Lamar for a threeyard touchdown sprint.

“When I look back at this game, I’ll just think of it as an all around team effort,” said senior offensive lineman Tim O’Brien.

“The defense, they got us the ball on the interceptions, on the third-down stops. It wasn’t just the offense that was making plays out there and I’ll just remember the team coming together as one.” jack.stockless@thecrimson.com