The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 132

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV No. 132 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Thursday, november 29, 2018

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Bacow should be deliberate in speaking out, like his predecessor.

SEAS, the Harvard Business School, and FAS are launching a fellowship.

Men’s basketball beats Holy Cross for first time in five seasons.

Harvard Lawyers Talk Trial, Off-the-Record Faculty Review HSPH Proposal

By Delano R. Franklin, Molly C. McCafferty, and Samuel W. Zwickel Crimson Staff Writers

T wo top lawyers who defended Harvard in the recently concluded admissions trial — William F. Lee ’72 and Felicia H. Ellsworth — discussed the case in an off-the-record meeting with College students and Lowell House affiliates Wednesday evening.

Members of the press were not permitted to attend. Roughly a dozen students who sat in on the discussion declined to comment on the substance of the conversation as they left the event Wednesday evening.

Lowell administrators advertised the gathering over the House email list and provided students with copies of transcripts of the trial’s opening and closing statements as part of a specially curated “reading guide.”

The email encouraged students to come with questions for the lawyers. The crowd at the event numbered roughly 30.

The discussion came several weeks after the Nov. 2 conclusion of the Harvard admissions trial, which drew national scrutiny and media attention and revealed intricate — and once closely guarded — details of the College’s admissions process.

The case opened in Nov. 2014 when anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions filed a complaint against the University, alleging the College discriminates against Asian-American appli­

cants in its admissions process.

Harvard has repeatedly denied these allegations.

The outcome of the trial will likely remain uncertain until spring 2019, after SFFA and Harvard file new documents in the case and Judge Allison D. Burroughs hears an additional set of arguments from both sides in February.

Both sides have said that, should the case not fall in their favor, they are prepared to appeal the decision.

In recent months, Harvard students have followed the case closely.

Several student organizations hosted on-campus events, while other students participated in public demonstrations. Five current undergraduates even volunteered to testify in support of Harvard in court.

Amid ongoing student interest in the case, the University’s lawyers used the event as an opportunity to share information and their thoughts about the trial with students — but without the attention of the media.

Emma K. A. Rogge ’20, a student attendee who said she has been following news reports about the trial, said the lawyers’ presentation left her with “a more nuanced perspective” on the admissions controversy.

“We had a chance to see some of the detailed breakdowns of some of the analysis, which was very interesting,” Rogge said.

Rogge said she left the event with an even more positive

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Faculty Council Talked Ph.D. Program

By Angela N. Fu Crimson Staff Writer

saw their findings rescinded in the past decade or so.

Prominently featured in the database are a series of scandals involving Piero Anversa, a renowned heart researcher formerly of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

This October, Harvard called for the retraction of 31 of Anversa’s articles — which posited that damaged heart muscle could be regenerated with stem cells — after other laboratories failed to reproduce his findings.

Officials at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ultimately concluded that Anversa had fabricated or falsified data.

Such a large-scale retraction recommendation is rare, even given the Anversa laboratory’s rocky track record. In 2014, Circulation retracted a 2012 study by the laboratory on charges it had corrupted data, prompting Harvard to launch an investigation. A few days later, prestigious medical journal the Lancet issued an “Expression of Concern” over an even more

Members of the Faculty Council met Wednesday afternoon to review Council election procedures and hear a proposal from the Harvard School of Public Health concerning one of its Ph.D. programs in a “very tame” meeting, according to Council member David L. Howell.

The Council — the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ highest governing body — also approved a list of Summer School courses for next year at the meeting.

Director of the School of Public Health’s Population Health Sciences program Lisa Berkman presented a proposal that would allow Ph.D. students in her program to see their fields of study listed on their transcripts.

The program, jointly offered by the School of Public Health and FAS, combines five departments into the broader, interdisciplinary study of Population Health.

Students in the program belong to one of five fields of study, each of which are affiliated with a corresponding department — Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health and Population, Nutrition, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Berkman’s proposal spurred questions about the need to add field specializations to graduate student transcripts, according to Howell. “[M]any departments and disciplines have diverse subfields, after all. But the program in Public Health is rather different since it’s an innovative program that amalgamates several preexisting departments,” Howell wrote in an email.

Because the proposed change is substantial, the issue surfaced for discussion only at Wednesday’s meeting.

The Council will go over the proposal again and hold a vote on the suggestion at its next meeting on Dec. 12.

Howell also presented a report to the Council on behalf of the committee he chairs, formed to review Faculty Council election procedures.

The Faculty approved the current election system in November 2015, with the requirement that a committee review the changes after three years.

The Council previously used a system that required voters to

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University Lawyer William F. Lee and Lowell House Tutor Sandy Alexander exit the Pechet Room in Lowell House after an off-the-record discussion of the admissions lawsuit. Sung Kwang Oh—Crimson photographer

E. Coli Harvard Saw Many Research Retractions Forces Harvard called for the Romaine retraction of Removal By aspen H. Buck and Elizabeth X. Guo Contributing Writers

­arvard University Dining H Services pulled romaine lettuce from all dining locations as a result of an ongoing E. coli outbreak that has reached twelve U.S. states and some areas in Canada.

The exact cause of the outbreak is still unknown, according to Harvard Environmental Health & Safety Associate Director Valerie J. Nelson. Until the recall is resolved, salad bars across campus will absent of the leafy vegetable.

“This is a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, which is often found in the digestive system of cattle,” Nelson said. “Because people can get a serious illness with an infection with this type of E. coli, we don’t want to take any risks. This investigation is still ongoing.”

Forty-three cases of infection caused by E. coli have been reported in this nationwide outbreak, according to a food safety alert posted by the CDC on Nov. 26.

EHS maintains a food recall notification system that regularly sends out updates via an University email listserv.

About half an hour after the CDC’s initial recall notification for romaine lettuce on Nov. 20, EHS called Martin T. Breslin, the HUDS director for culinary operations, who promptly removed the vegetable from all Harvard kitchens.

“I immediately contacted our chefs and managers to discard all romaine lettuce, remove it from our locations and sanitize accordingly,” Breslin

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­ arvard researchers are far H from immune to retractions, according to new data published

online last month.

In October, Retraction Watch — a blog “tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process,” according to its website — published the largest, most exhaustive

searchable database of retractions issued by scientific research publications to date.The database includes over 18,000 listings dating as far back as the 1970s — and details how at least half a dozen Harvard affiliates

Cambridge City Council Talks New, Safer Bike Travel System

By Leon K. Yang Crimson Staff Writer

The Cambridge City Council discussed establishing a safe travel network for bicyclists across the city at a hearing of the Transportation and Public Utilities Committee Tuesday.

The proposed network would build on some of the city’s past efforts to improve bike safety, according to Vice Mayor Jan Devereux.

“We have some painted bike lanes. We have some roads with

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protected bike lanes, but what we’re aiming at big picture is to have a network that is safe for people of all ages and all abilities,” Devereux said.

Devereux noted three main motivations for the safe travel network. She said the number of bicyclists, particularly those who use ride-sharing services such as Bluebike, has increased — and the city of Cambridge has consequently seen a rise in biking-related injuries. She added that the city hopes to further increase the number of bicy-

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clists, given bicycling is an environmentally friendly mode of transportation.

On March 21, 2016, the Cambridge City Council adopted Vision Zero, a framework designed to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. In the proposal to the Council, former City Manager Richard C. Rossi and Deputy City Manager Lisa C. Peterson highlighted the growing number of cities in the United States and Europe that have

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Pelosi Receives Nomination for Speaker of the House, Still Missing Votes Needed for Speakership Full Vote

Join the Office of BGLTQ Student Life in the lower level of Grays for an evening of succulent planting, wholesome YouTube videos, and refreshments. The social is specifically focused towards BGLTQ+ womxn.

The House Democratic Caucus overwhelmingly voted to put forward Nancy Pelosi as their nominee for Speaker of the House. Thirty-two Democrats, however, voted against Pelosi, putting her under the number of votes she needs to clinch the speakership on the full floor of the House in January.

Fear and Politics in Divided Societies CGIS Knafel 262, 4:30 p.m.

Lama Mourad, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Middle East Initiative, will be discussing the foundations of political behavior in Lebanon. Learn a little more about international politics.

Register online beforehand.

Facebook Live: The New Flu HMS Facebook Page, 12 p.m.

Take a lunch break and tune into the Harvard Medical School’s Facebook page for a livestream of flu recommendations. Learn how to do your best to stay flu-free this season, information which would honestly could benefit any college student.

HUDS has decided to replace romaine lettuce with other green substitutes after the recent E. coli outbreak. sung kwang oh—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Harvard researchers are far from immune to retractions, according to new data published online last month. The database — released in October by Retraction Watch — includes over 18,000 listings dating as far back as the 1970s.

In other news, two top lawyers who defended Harvard in the recently concluded admissions trial discussed the case with students in an off-therecord meeting on campus Wednesday. Members of the press were not permitted to attend.

Senators Back Suspension of U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War in Yemen The Senate voted 63-37 to advance a measure ending U.S. military support for the war Saudi Arabia is waging in Yemen. The vote was originally prompted by Trump’s defense of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who denied that he was in any way responsible for the journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death.

Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser The New York Times published an in-depth account of how former Chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation Les Moonves tried to cover up an accusation of sexual misconduct against him.

Moonves’s relationship with an agent played a key role.

Around the Ivies PRINCETON Police have charged Gregory Cantrell, the associate director of Princeton University’s Office of Environmental Health, with possession of child pornography. His arrest Wednesday came as part of a months-long operation conducted by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, which brought similar charges against him and 14 others.

Princeton has placed Cantrell, who has worked for the university for 28 years, on administrative leave, according to The Daily Princetonian.

COLUMBIA Vandals painted the office of Columbia Teachers College professor Elizabeth Midlarsky with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs Wednesday, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported Wednesday.

Midlarsky, who is Jewish, has published research on topics such as religion and the Holocaust. She told the Spectator her office had been similarly vandalized in 2007. President of the Teachers College Thomas Bailey issued a statement condemning the incident.

YALE Yale University President Peter Salovey announced plans to increase investments in science facilities and programs on campus, with an emphasis on investment in integrative data science, quantum science, and neuroscience. The announcement came following a June report from Yale’s University Science Strategy Committee which identified high-priority areas in the sciences for potential investment.

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Schools Launch New Fellowship By brie k. buchanan and bridger j. gordon Contributing Writers

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is launching a new Technology Innovation Fellowship Program available to all current juniors interested in solving problems and building skills in entrepreneurship.

According to the HBS cochair of the fellowship program, Business School Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann ’79, the desire to increase connections between HBS and undergraduates prompted administrators to create this opportunity.

“If you go back historically, there wasn’t a lot of interaction between the College and the Business School,” Eisenmann said.

The collaboration is “a perfect example of what we can ­

achieve with a ‘One Harvard’ approach,” Computer Science Professor Hanspeter Pfister, SEAS co-chair of the program, wrote in an emailed statement.

“One Harvard” refers to an effort former University President Drew G. Faust began to bridge Harvard’s schools, which have historically operated relatively independently.

“The program complements the mission of Harvard College and its particular focus to ‘educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society,’” Pfister wrote.

“We believe students who are grounded in the liberal arts, skilled in technology development, and trained in innovative and problem-solving techniques, will go on to become impactful and positive global citizens,” he wrote.

Pfister wrote that he hopes students will gain “a wide variety of knowledge – everything from the skills needed to succeed as an early-stage entrepre-

neur to exploring topics such as the societal and ethical implications of technology.”

Students admitted to the fellowship program can expect to participate in a variety of activities geared toward enhancing their skills and their understandings of technology and innovation throughout the spring of their junior year and fall of their senior year.

Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in an HBS Bootcamp, which Eisenmann said involves “a mix of learning-by-doing exercises and speakers, and then studio time for the teams in the afternoon.”

Following the bootcamp, fellows will attend a two-day business and innovation fundamentals program and seminars featuring “alumni entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, faculty members from different parts of the University,” according to Eisenmann.

In the summer between their junior and senior years, fellows

will have the option to either intern at a technology company or work on their own startup idea with financial support from the program.

The fellowship program will culminate in an event for incoming fellows and current fellows to showcase students’ work.

Pfister wrote the ultimate goal of the program is “to create a cohort that is excited about the challenges and rewards of innovation and entrepreneurship.”

“We want to equip the fellows with the skills to figure out if they’ve got a good idea, a good solution,” Eisenmann said.

“We want to give them the full set of business skills to take an innovator and prepare them to make their vision real,” Eisenmann added.

The application for the Technology Innovation Fellowship Program opens Dec. 3 and closes Jan. 3, 2019. Decisions will be released in late January.

Women’s Center Draws Crowds Harvard for Environmental Justice Talk Lawyers Discuss Trial discussion From Page 1

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feeling about the way the University conducts its admissions process — and the way it has defended itself in court through-

We had a chance to see some of the detailed breakdowns of some of the analysis.

Emma K.A. Rogge ’20 Attendee

out the course of the high-profile trial.

“I think I’m just further impressed with how Harvard has handled this,” Rogge said.

“I think it has further entrenched my views rather than changed them,” she added. delano.franklin@thecrimson.com. molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com. samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com.

­ttendees struggled to find A room to sit on the floor at the final Harvard College Women’s Center Let’s Talk event of the semester as more than three dozen participants gathered to discuss the challenges facing environmental justice activism on campus and the need for greater intersectionality on Wednesday.

Six student groups — Harvard Black Men’s Forum, Harvard College Conservation Society, Harvard Undergrads for Environmental Justice, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Women’s Association, Harvard Black Students Association, and the Environmental Action Committee — cosponsored the event with the Women’s Center.

The event’s goal, written on a large Staples Sustainable Earth notepad, was “building a collaborative, transformative politics for an equitable, sustainable planet.”

Julie S. Chung ’20, an intern at the Women’s Center and facilitator of the discussion, said she hoped the event would help

ensure “that people understood what the barriers are and then being able to talk about this problem with their very different communities.”

Chung said she was pleased with the turnout and level of engagement from the participants.

Much of the discussion focused on how stereotypes of environmentalists privilege nature conservation over policies that address the impact of environmental issues on disadvantaged populations.

“There’s quite a gap between the academic sphere and the social sphere of social issues that we see in general,” said Jasmine N. Hyppolite ’21, a member of the Black Students Association. “Environmentalism can be seen as an engineering issue, as a science issue, but it can also be seen as a social justice issue, and you rarely see those two things in the one classroom.”

While there are student environmental groups and student identity organizations on campus, those groups rarely gather to discuss their shared interests in environmental justice, according to participants.

“Coalition is huge,” Hyp-

polite said. “I think student groups need to come together such as they did tonight and … understand that this problem is not the same problem for every community — that it’s something that everybody should have a hand in.”

Arielle Blacklow ’21, one of the founders of Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice, stressed the urgency of the discussion, specifically on Harvard’s campus.

“It’s finally time that we’re having this conversation, and it’s very much needed,” Blacklow said. “The environment and environmental justice issues, environmental issues in general, are the biggest challenges facing our world right now, in my opinion, and we need voices. Harvard students have those voices.”

The Women’s Center is the first diversity office to pursue green office status from the Harvard Sustainability Office, according to Chung. The event concluded with a brainstorming session for a letter advocating the inclusion of “environmental justice language” in the University’s next five-year sustainability plan.

ECHO Hosts ‘Love Your Body Day’

By Kevin R. CHen and Tamar Sarig contributing writers

Students celebrated body positivity on Wednesday night in Ticknor Lounge during the annual “Love Your Body Day” — replete with fluffy dogs and relaxing massages — planned by student group Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach.

The event offered therapy dogs, free food, a photo booth, and raffle prizes. For the first time, the event, which dates back to the 1970s, featured chair massages performed by employees from the Wellness Center.

“That’s one way to actually help people tangibly feel bet-

If people leave and feel that acceptance and cherish their own body and others’ bodies as well, whatever that means for them, I think that’s what we’d look at as a success.

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ter about their bodies, is making their bodies feel better,” ECHO Co-director Jacob E. Schwartz ’20 said of the massages.

Other wellness-related groups staffed informational booths circling Ticknor Lounge, providing students with resources from Student Mental Health Liaisons, Harvard Recreation, the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, and nutritionists.

Schwartz said the purpose of the event was to create “a space to come into a culture that has a lot of body negativity and talk about sharing and loving and honoring and respecting our bodies in different ways for different people.”

Student Mental Health Liaison Amira Song ’20 said she felt the event provided a space for students to learn more about the wellness resources on campus.

“Those who are struggling with body image or eating issues can come and feel like they’re not alone,” she said. “There’s a

whole host of others struggling as well, and there are places you can go to for help.”

“It really means a lot to have an event that celebrates your body,” Song added. “You don’t really have to have a reason to celebrate. It’s your body — you should embrace it for what it is.”

Attendees said the event provided a good break from academic obligations.

Tony Shu ’21 said he saw the event as a “great opportunity to take some time off and just be intentional about relaxing and enjoying life here at Harvard.”

Another attendee, Sienna R. Santer ’22, said she was drawn to the event because of the free massages and said she felt Love Your Body Day provided an important break from studying.

“Our bodies take a lot of stress and wear over the semester, and I think just feeding our body good food, being around good people, good music, getting massages… it just reminds us to just take care of our bodies a little more,” Santer said.

Ariel E. Wahl, a fitness coordinator with Harvard Recreation who staffed one of the booths at the event, said exercise and physical activity can be beneficial to building body positivity. “I think it’s important because it’s really easy to get held up in your rooms all winter long, and you’re gonna be able to study better, sleep better, learn better if you have a chance to escape and move your body and sweat,” Wahl said.

ECHO is a student organization that aims to provide body image-related “nonjudgmental, nondirective peer counseling to individuals on campus,” Schwartz said. “If people leave and feel that acceptance and cherish their own body and others’ bodies as well, whatever that means for them, I think

There’s a whole host of other struggling as well and there are places you can go to for help.

Amira Song ’20 Student Mental Health Liason

that’s what we’d look at as a success,” he added.

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said. “I then contacted our produce vendors and canceled any deliveries of romaine lettuce.”

Breslin said he is not concerned about the lack of romaine lettuce in Harvard dining halls, citing various viable alternatives.

He added he has dealt with similar food recalls for romaine

This could be something on the farm, in the way the lettuce is washed, it could be anything that happens before it’s distributed out to the various purchasers.

Valerie J. Nelson Environmental Health & Safety Associate Director

lettuce, spinach, and tomatoes in the past.

“We’re replacing it with baby spinach and arugula, things that are not implicated in the recall,” Breslin said.

“There’s plenty of other lettuce to choose from that we can provide full salad bars and so on,” he added.

The contaminated romaine lettuce comes from farms in northern and central California; however, the source of the outbreak is still unclear.

“This could be something on the farm, in the way the lettuce is washed, it could be anything that happens before it’s distributed out to the various purchasers,” Nelson said.

“We look at the product and where it’s grown and where it’s processed as possi-

ble places where the outbreak or cross-contamination occurred.”

As to when students and faculty can begin expecting to see romaine lettuce on their plates again, Breslin said that he cannot safely estimate a date, adding that recalls “can go on for weeks.”

“It depends,” Breslin said.

“We just play it day by day until we get notification that it’s being resolved or not or narrowed down.”

Crista Martin, HUDS director for strategic initiatives and communications, said their approach to dealing with outbreaks involves both caution and patience.

“In short, we just take it off the menu until we have 100 percent confidence that it’s okay to put it back on the menu, and only that,” Martin said.

“It’s up to the CDC really to provide greater information, so we’ll just keep an eye on that,” he added.

All Harvard kitchens and facilities are inspected independently by EHS as well as by city agencies, according to

chosen to use Vision Zero.

“Vision Zero is both an aspirational goal and a real goal, and we believe that in a community like Cambridge, it is in fact feasible to attempt to eliminate these types of serious incidents, through the types of engineering, education,” the two wrote.

This February, the City crystallized its ideas into a Vision Zero Action Plan, which sorts actionable steps into seven categories that range from designing and operating safe streets to engaging the public with policy.

Projects in the works for the coming year include a feasibility study of the bike network as well as construction in Inman ­

Square, Kendall Square, and other venues to improve bike safety, Devereux said.

Cambridge Bicycle Safety — an activist group formed by Cambridge residents after several bicyclists, including Amanda Phillips and Joel Lavins, were killed while riding bicycles in Cambridge — called on the city to expedite the creation of the safe travel network.

“In combination with the deaths we’re seeing, three pedestrians killed this year in Cambridge and one bicyclist, it’s just a public health emergency that the city really needs to take significant steps to address,” Cambridge-based bike

activist Nathanael Fillmore said.

There are some problems where it’s really hard to solve the problem, but this is actually a problem where we have a solution.

Nathanael Fillmore Cambridge Bike Activist

Cambridge Bike Safety is currently circulating a peti-

Breslin.

“We hold ourselves to a very high standard as it pertains to sanitation and food safety,” Breslin said. “We won’t take any risks or chances. We never do.”

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The sights and sounds of Harvard.

We hold ourselves to a very high standard as it pertains to sanitation and food safety.

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tion — which had accumulated 2,000 signatures as of Tuesday — that urges the city to complete the proposed safe travel network within the next five years. The group is also hoping to obtain support from local businesses in their efforts.

“There are some problems where it’s really hard to solve the problem, but this is actually a problem where we have a solution,” Fillmore said.

“The solution is to change the built environment in such a way that these types of crashes that cause injury and death are much less likely,” he said.

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

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Bacow Should be Deliberate When Choosing to Speak Out

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ith Bacow’s tenure as the president of Harvard University nearing the close of its fifth month, his approach to deciding when and when not to speak out on various issues is becoming more clear.

Overall, he has chosen to be vocal on issues directly affecting Harvard but nuanced and reserved on more general political issues in order to foster debate.

Although it is too early to predict how Bacow’s choices on when to speak out will play out over the course of his presidency, we support his full-throatedness in speaking out on issues that directly affect the University. Bacow seems to be determined to defend the University when its long-standing values are challenged.

For example, Bacow has been very outspoken when it comes to the current admissions lawsuit. He has clearly delineated his stance on the admissions trial by sending emails expressing his support of Harvard’s affirmative action policy to students and alumni.

While he tended to refrain from commenting on the intricacies of the trial, he staunchly defended Harvard’s overall admissions policy and the financial aid program. We are heartened to see Bacow not being afraid to take a firm stand-

ing on Harvard-related issues, while at the same time being considerate of diverse opinions. This demonstrates his commitment to balancing perspectives, which he has made clear.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow should choose deliberately when to leverage the University’s influence.

Bacow also chose to speak out against divestment from the fossil fuel industry and the prison-industrial complex. He upheld the stance of his predecessors, arguing that Harvard will not use its endowment to achieve political goals.

In this regard, we believe Bacow has made the right choice communicating the University’s position on critical issues affecting Harvard.

For issues that affect the University less directly, however, Bacow has been less outspoken.

He has admitted as much, saying that his leadership philosophy entails speaking out on issues “that are central to the institution, or [about which] the insti-

tution has had a long-standing point of view.” Should Bacow wish to speak out on issues that are less central to the University, he has great leeway to do so and significant weight in his words.

There is precedent for such an approach. Former University President Drew Faust addressed issues of national import — for instance, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which does not affect Harvard’s administration so much as members of its community. Faust spoke in favor of the program.

Like Faust, Bacow should choose deliberately when to leverage the University’s influence.

Given that Bacow has only led Harvard for a semester, the legacy of his role as an advocate is far from finalized — and we wish him the best as he continues to determine it.

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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We Are Failing as a Moral Republic

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braham Lincoln famously wrote, in a moment of great moral fortitude, that by “giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.”

As I’ve poured over the deluge of photos and video footage from this week’s tear gas incident at the southern border, when law enforcement agents launched canisters of the chemical spray at approaching migrants, including many children, I’ve thought also about the precedent we might be setting for ourselves. If we will not give safety to the immigrant, can we ever assure it to ourselves?

Lincoln — not to mention the basic law of karma — suggests not.

Some of the images evoke open cruelty: Mothers dodging gas, small diaper-clad children sobbing. Others trade more in the ironic, like the picture of a young Central American woman who found cover under a sheet painted like the American flag. All the images are laden with the markings of suffering and hope, often in close quarters. That combination, I found from my own experience viewing, elicits a particularly strong moral reaction.

All the images are laden with the markings of suffering and hope, often in close quarters.

That combination, I found... elicits a particluarly strong moral reaction.

A close friend and I were recently trying to make sense of the tear gas skirmishes. He (a conservative) and I have on several occasions talked about how to balance a commitment to human dignity and rights with national security concerns. My personal position after the

events of this week was that the chips had fallen too clearly for extensive debate. What the evidence demanded first and foremost was compassion. “It just all feels so wrong,” I told him.

I’ve been thinking since then about what else I might have said. Here is my best effort at a thoughtful response. We live in an era unfriendly to old-school appeals to morality. Our cultural and political commentators, politicians, and businessmen talk for the most part like they’re more interested in the minutiae of governance — whether tax rates, stock market figures, or demographic trends — than in the grander ideas of early democracy: Ideas like liberty, community, and the cultivation of character. Among these voices, the older voices of social progress — of emancipation, the New Deal, the anti-war movement, or Civil Rights — seem to have faded.

The result of three decades of this smothering technocratic talk is our present border war. The Trump administration has deployed the military to the border. It has expanded the size of Border Patrol. It has demanded that migrants remain outside the country as they await judicial decisions regarding entry. It has gone as far as separating children from parents and setting up long-term tent cities in the desert — all to more perfectly track individuals’ movements.

This is one way the border skirmishes push us closer to general anomie. We continue to talk about immigration like it was a science of rates and flows, a problem of missing data. The rub, as one commentator recently had it, is that we can’t precisely count people who are dodging government’s traditional feelers like tax returns or a permanent address.

This kind of thinking is what the French social theorist Michel Foucault famously called the condition of “veridiction”: Of being so obsessed with government as a kind of technical problem that one begins to prefer efficiency over principles like justice, liberty, or community.

We hear the language of veridiction all the time in the right’s criticisms of immigration: that immigrants take jobs, draw doles, and dodge the taxman. Besides being untrue, these myths evince an obsession with efficient — but not necessarily just or democratic — government. They imply that the immigrant’s chief fault is being unregulatable.

What we lose out on with that view is the strong moral dimension of our democratic citizenship, and in particular our call to charity. George Washington observed in his “Farewell Address”

that “[o]f all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable.”

For Washington, to be a patriot meant to always be guided by a sense of wrong and right, the “firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.” To look on the immigrant as a technocratic concern — another person to house and feed — is to overlook the demands of human compassion.

I’ve written before in these pages on the promise of our collective political inheritance for these difficult times. Last July, I wrote specifically on the potential for a new, reformed American exceptionalism. The argument would no longer be for benign imperialism or shouldering the “White Man’s Burden,” but for a return to what we might call the “moral republic”: The idea that we are a city upon a hill, setting an example of humane democratic conduct for the world. We would again strive to be an exemplar country with a unique civic consensus neither racial nor religious, but human.

As thousands of Central Americans arrive in the so-called “second caravan,” Americans must confront our mounting moral burden to respond, and to respond with kindness and understanding.

By patrick c. barham

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arvard has a long and storied history of students’ wartime sacrifices for the United States — one that is honored inside the Memorial Hall transept and Memorial Church.

However, notably fewer names will likely be inscribed from our more recent conflicts in the Middle East, in comparison to most major conflicts in American history.

Many Harvard graduates in these historical wars have made the ultimate sacrifice — indeed, Harvard has graduated more Medal of Honor winners than any university besides the service academies — but fewer have in the most recent conflicts.

Next October, the war in Afghanistan will turn 18 years old. For almost every student in the College, the war has been a fixture of political discussion our entire life, and for most members of Harvard’s Class of 2023, it’ll be a war that has been going on for their entire life.

The war would be able to drive, buy cigarettes in most states, serve on a jury, and vote. Ironically, this is a war that no American voted for and a sizeable majority supports withdrawing from.

Nonetheless, almost 9,000 soldiers remain deployed in Afghanistan — a number that excludes military contractors upon which the United States increasingly relies upon — and it is very likely that these soldiers will remain there into the future.

Our involvement overseas is not limited to Afghanistan. Despite no formal declarations of war since World War II, the United States currently has almost a quarter-million troops deployed abroad.

Some of these troops are stationed at peacetime bases in allied countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, but others come under fire daily.

The tranquility Americans enjoy at home is not extended to our troops engaged across the Middle East and in Northern Africa.

Troops in these foreign conflicts put their lives at risk every day, and yet there is little accountability for where they are, when they will leave, and why they’re there: The location of almost 40,000 troops remains classified by the Pentagon, and as journalist and academic Steve Coll puts it in a New York Times op-ed, “President Bush, President Barack Obama and President Trump have all offered convoluted, incomplete or unconvincing answers to [an] essential question: Why are we in Afghanistan?”

For almost every student in the College, the war has been a fixture of political discussion our entire life, and for most members of Harvard’s Class of 2023, it’ll be a war that has been going on for their entire life.

Ultimately, the lack of clarity surrounding these deployments has real consequences and has cost many service members their lives. Over the course of the war on terror, almost 7,000 soldiers have lost their lives and more than 50,000 have come home wounded.

As long as we continue to place our troops into conflicts, the casualties will continue to occur and their number is no longer decreasing. In fact, military casualties are on the rise this year for the first time since 2012.

Just this week, three American service members were killed by a roadside bomb. Those lives have become added to the ever-growing list of promising individuals sent overseas only to come back wounded, scarred, or not at all.

Though these figures were reported on evening news broadcasts, they will fade from the news cycle almost as quickly as they came up.

However, the deployments will not fade out.

The war in Afghanistan and our greater engagements overseas are part of a new normal that those of us stateside are privileged enough to ignore.

Technological advancement and changes in warfare have enabled us to fight on an increasing number of fronts with an ever-decreasing number of soldiers.

While this has increased our readiness and ability to respond to threats, it has also enabled us to engage in more conflicts and deploy our troops more broadly across the globe.

When will we ask ourselves where these overseas engagements should end?

The war in Afghanistan and our greater engagements overseas are part of a new normal that those of us stateside are privileged enough to ignore.

Whether this new exceptionalism is in any way practicable remains to be seen at the southern border. As thousands of Central Americans arrive in the so-called “second caravan,” Americans must confront our mounting moral burden to respond, and to respond with kindness and understanding. I hope we will do so despite certain lingering questions of veridiction, like where to house or whom to employ or educate — what Lincoln called the “mere catch arguments” of obstruction.

If we are worthy of the rich political heritage afforded to us, we will answer these calls in the distinctly American way, “with malice toward none, with charity for all, [and] with firmness in the right.” To do otherwise would mean permanently surrendering the moral high ground, which I worry has already slipped out from under our feet.

More importantly, how many American lives will be lost needlessly and thousands of miles away before we decide to withdraw from wars outside our dominion and before we become more deliberate about our use of force?

Rather than having a military-based foreign strategy, we should grow our diplomatic presence abroad: The face of the United States should not be a soldier with a gun but a diplomat with the promises of democracy and the support of U.S. aid.

It’s time for us to draw down our engagement around the world and bring our young service members home.

The end of the war in Afghanistan and of our other needless military engagements is well overdue.

—Henry N. Brooks ’19 is a Social Studies concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays.

—Patrick C. Barham ’21, a Crimson Editorial comper, is a Government concentrator in Pforzheimer House.

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Scientists Face Paper Retractions Faculty Talks HSPH Degrees

famous paper co-authored by Anversa. That paper had been cited 270 times and demonstrated “promise for treatment of heart failure,” according to the Lancet’s initial press release.

Anversa sued Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the ongoing investigation into his research and subsequently left the University to take a new post in Switzerland. In 2016, Anversa lost the appeal — and, a year later, Harvard was forced to pay the United States government $10 million to settle charges that the Anversa laboratory had fraudulently won

funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Another set of retractions came from yet another researcher at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital: assistant professor of medicine Weishu Y. Weiser.

In 1995, the Public Health Service’s Office of Research Integrity found Weiser had falsified data in two research papers he produced on white blood cells.

The Journal of Immunology, which published the studies, claimed they never received the letter of retraction Weiser had agreed to send. It retracted both papers in 2012 — 17 years

after the initial finding of falsification.

The database reveals that research papers authored by other Harvard affiliates earned retractions for iffy ethics or methodology.

In July, Nature retracted a highly cited 2011 paper by cancer biologist Sam W. Lee — formerly affiliated with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT — after several researchers raised concerns over the treatment of animals involved in the study.

Figures showing mice with tumors suggested the animals may have “experienced more pain and suffering than originally allowed for,” according to

a 2015 notice.

Last December, Genetics Professor and 2009 Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak retracted a 2016 paper on the origins of life published in Nature Chemistry after subsequent experiments conducted by members of his laboratory failed to reproduce the 2016 findings.

Last March, HMS Professor C. Ronald Kahn retracted a 2003 paper published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry — the third paper he retracted in the span of a year — citing the omission of key data.

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rank their preferences among a large number of candidates and counted votes in a series of rounds.

A report issued in April 2015 called the process “unnecessarily complicated” and “confusing.”

The Council subsequently switched to a more streamlined system in which three members are elected “At-Large,” and three are elected from within each division.

“The committee found that the new procedures are work-

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ing very well. Nominations to the Council are up, more faculty members agree to stand for election, and voter turnout has broken records every year since the change,” Howell wrote in an email.

“So the committee has recommended that the system remain in place.” he wrote in the same email.

The next full Faculty meeting is slated to take place on Tuesday, Dec. 4. angela.fu@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Beats Holy Cross for First Time in Five Years

By Amir Mamdani Crimson Staff Writer

­ ench and balance might be B Coach Tommy Amaker two favorite words to describe this season’s basketball team, and for good reason. Four days after outscoring the Saint Mary’s bench by a 31-2 margin en route to a seven-point road victory, the Crimson reserves proved to be the catalysts for a 73-62 home win over Holy Cross.

Despite missing Seth Towns, Bryce Aiken, and Chris Lewis for a second consecutive game, the Crimson (4-3) rolled to its most complete victory of the season and is hitting its stride halfway through the non-conference slate.

The Crusaders (4-3) entered the game on a three-game win streak, and with history on their side between the two teams.

Harvard had not recorded a victory over Holy Cross since the 2013-2014 season, a campaign that saw the Crimson win the Ivy League before upsetting No. 5 Cincinnati in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Harvard will hope this victory over in-state foe Holy Cross (4-3) is a step in the right direction towards emulating the 2013-2014 year, which marks the last time the Crimson won an NCAA Tournament game.

Beating quality non-conference teams, without the teams leading scorers, is a harbinger of good things to come for coach Amaker’s team.

Despite the final scoreline, the contest was not without its excitement. A 12-0 Crusaders’ run threatened the Crimson late in the second half, but a slashing layup by freshman Noah Kirkwood extended the Harvard lead to nine points with under four minutes remaining, quelling the hopes of a Holy Cross comeback.

The Ottawa, Ontario native finished with a career-high and team-high 20 points, one of several career-highs for Harvard players on Wednesday night.

Kirkwood had a near-perfect evening from the field, only missing one three-pointer across his eight shots from the

field.

“I’m impressed in some ways but not surprised because this is what we think we were getting when we were able to get [Noah] to come [to Harvard],” coach Amaker said. “He’s pretty crafty with his ability to drive and make plays. He’s a tremendous playmaker, and pretty efficient here tonight with his three point shooting.”

Breaking a four-game losing streak to the Crusaders would be no easy task for the hosts, as Holy Cross brought a vocal group of fans down the Mass Pike, and opened the game with a flurry of shots. A Harvard bench that would eventually outscore its counterparts by a 42-12 mark was key in seizing back momentum in the first half, in large part due to junior forward Robert Baker.

The Woodstock, Ga,. native tallied a career-high three steals, and was one of the key cogs towards the end of the first half, helping Harvard to a 40-29 halftime lead.

“I just want to be active, focusing on getting a lot of rebounds and being as active as I could,” Baker said. “Being in the passing lanes, that kind of thing just supercharged our team and getting everybody going. That was my focus.”

The Crimson were able to weather a storm from Holy Cross, as potential injury was of greater concern than the scoreboard early in the first half.

Already without the team’s three-leading scorers, junior wing Justin Bassey hit the floor hard after trying to take a charge just over three minutes into the game. The Denver, Colo. native would limp to the locker room, but much to the relief of coach Amaker and Harvard, Bassey would return midway through the first half.

Undeterred by a slow start, and the Crusaders’ legion of fans, the Crimson responded with a flurry of freshmen three-pointers. As the Holy Cross fan base cheered on its lineup, first-year players’ Kirkwood and Spencer Freedman took turns burying three-pointers. The backcourt duo, along

UNRESERVED A strong performance by the Crimson bench propelled Harvard past Holy Cross for the first time since the 2013-14 season. The Crimson reserves outscored their Crusader counterparts by a 42-12 margin, four days after outscoring Saint Mary’s bench 31-2. Henry Zhu—Crimson photographer

with freshman Mason Forbes, registered 16 of the team’s first 24 points, and embodied the team’s next man up mentality.

On Saturday night in the victory over the Gaels, junior forward Henry Welsh scored a career-high 15 points, and tonight it was Kirkwood, Baker, and Corey Johnson leading the way for Harvard.

Johnson, whose prolific three-point shot had eluded him until Wednesday, was a surprise addition to the starting lineup for Coach Amaker. Electing to start the struggling senior didn’t pay dividends until the second half, but trusting the experienced guard would pay off for Amaker.

On the opening possession of the second half, Johnson splashed a three-pointer, which he followed up with a hustle play leading to a fast-break layup,

and yet another three-pointer. The six points marked a season-high for the cagey veteran, whose experience and contributions will be relied upon for Harvard to reach an Ivy League title.

Despite a strong night off the bench for the Crimson, the hosts struggled to defend Holy Cross’ sophomore guard Jacob Grandison. Grandison, who entered the game leading the team with almost 16 points per contest, was the latest in a line of explosive shooters who have tormented Harvard this season.

The Oakland, Calif., native scored 21 points on a perfect 5-of-5 shooting from behind the arc, and was one of the lone bright spots for the Crusaders.

Grandison was a non factor in last season’s 73-69 Holy Cross win in Worcester, but had no trouble imposing his will on the

Crimson defense. Despite turning the ball over 19 times, Harvard was able to clamp down, due to a balanced offense that featured seven scorers tallying six or more points apiece.

The second half provided plenty of highlight reel moments for the hosts. As Holy Cross applied the press to Freedman, the first-year player threw a perfect lob pass across the court to Baker, who swung through the air for an alley-oop dunk.

On the following play, the freshman took a charge on the defensive side, before tossing a carbon-copy lob to Baker for yet another alley-oop slam, sending the Lavietes pavilion crowd into a frenzy.

“It’s nice to see Robert have somewhat of a breakout,” coach Amaker said. “Getting stuff over the top with alley-oops and Spencer was able to find him a

few times, you can see his confidence growing a bit.”

As the team hits the road again to take on Siena and Vermont, coach Amaker will continue to rely on his bench and the next man up mentality. The selflessness and sacrifice of this team will be crucial if the Crimson hope to find success in conference play and beyond.

“Every game I feel like it’s just whoever’s going,” Kirkwood said. “I think we have a good team dynamic right now that we don’t really care who’s getting minutes as long as we’re winning games.”

After traveling to Albany, N.Y., and Burlington, V.T., Harvard will return to Lavietes Pavilion on December 22nd, to take on the George Washington Colonials. amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com

wOMEN’S bASKETBALL

Harvard Wins Turkey Day Tournament in Los Angeles

By Ben Stern Contributing Writer

­ arvard women’s basketball H (4-3) posted a pair of impressive showings to take home the championship trophy in the 2018 Warner Center Mar-

riott Thanksgiving Basketball Classic in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The Crimson topped Jacksonville State (2-2) in its first game and easily dispatched CSUN (2-4) in the tournament final.

Junior guard Katie Benzan and sophomore forward Jadyn Bush were both named to the All-Tournament team, and Bush also earned MVP honors for her efforts.

The award carried a little extra meaning for Bush, a

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER Sophomore forward Jadyn Bush, pictured here in action last season, was awarded MVP honors after posting a double-double in the tournament finals. timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Washington native.

“It was special to me...because being that the tournament was on the West Coast, my immediate family was able to come,” said the force of the Harvard frontcourt.

“It was the first college basketball that some of my family members had seen me play in person, and this past weekend meant a lot to me.”

HARVARD 75, CSUN 55 Harvard played excellent defense on CSUN, holding the Matadors to a paltry 25.4 percent from the field.

Skinner kicked off the Crimson’s blitz with a triple following the tip, and Harvard never looked back.

It led wire-to-wire on the strength of hot shooting up and down the lineup.

The Crimson led 22-8 after the first quarter and turned on cruise control, holding as much as a 17-point edge. CSUN tried to sneak back late in the second quarter, pulling within 10, but Benzan nailed a dagger three with thirty seconds left in the half to essentially put the game away for good.

Bush was the story of the game, racking up another 17 points in addition to 15 rebounds, three assists, and a block. Like Benzan, she deferred praise to her fellow cagers.

“My success...I would attribute to my teammates,” she said. “I can think of specific plays where they trusted me and got me the ball.”

Harvard took advantage of

the Matadors’ misses and ran up a strong rebound tally with 43. Bush’s career-high 15 led the way for the Crimson.

“CSUN had a poor shooting game, so I had a heightened rebounding mentality,” Bush said.

Katie Benzan poured in 17 more, and the dynamic duo of Raster and Skinner put up 12 and 14, respectively. All told, four of the starting five broke into double digits.

The Crimson will look to carry its momentum into its next games.

Jadyn Bush highlighted improving chemistry as a key driver of Harvard’s recent success.

“After our loss against Hartford, [Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith] challenged us to come outside of ourselves and give our teammates the energy and communication we need,” Bush said. “I think the most important thing we can carry forward is a team-first mentality.”

Harvard can put that advice to the test on its upcoming fourgame homestand. First up is a duel with Quinnipiac back in the friendly confines of Lavietes Pavilion on Nov. 30.

HARVARD 69, JACKSONVILLE STATE 62 Bush led Harvard with 18 points against Jacksonville State, including 10 in the first quarter alone, and Benzan wasn’t far behind with 15 points on an efficient 5-of-8 from the field.

The Crimson was crashing the glass all night, grabbing 46 boards to the Gamecocks’ 37.

The rebounding helped

Harvard post an impressive 38 points in the paint and ultimately claim the victory.

Jacksonville State hung around for all 40 minutes, but the Crimson didn’t have much trouble staving off the Gamecocks’ dogged comeback attempts.

Katie Benzan knocked down a trey with 7:38 remaining in the second quarter to give Harvard a lead it would never relinquish.

The Wellesley, Mass., sharpshooter would finish the game 3-for-6 from downtown.

The Crimson started the contest stingy on defense, and Jacksonville State managed just two points in the first three minutes of the West Coast showdown.

The Gamecocks quickly regained their poise, though, and climbed back into the game before opening up a double-digit lead in the late in the first quarter.

Harvard then ripped off a 12-0 run capped by Benzan’s clutch hit from beyond the arc, and outscored Jacksonville State 18-8 in the second quarter. Benzan credited her teammates for her strong performance.

“They found me when I was open,” the junior said. “I was just fortunate to knock down shots. Everyone had a role to play to succeed and everyone did their job to win.”

Sophomore guard Rachel Levy added 11 points for the Crimson, and captain guards Madeline Raster and Sydney Skinner combined for 12 more.