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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 134 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2018

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The American Economics Association should disavow Roland G. Fryer.

Faculty to vote on schedule changes, hear Council election report.

Men’s Hockey overcome at home by No. 16 Cornell.

Student Files Suit Epstein Boasts Deep Ties to Harvard Over Title IX Case

By ANGELA N. FU and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A Harvard undergraduate has filed suit against the University charging it overstepped when it opened an investigation this October into allegations he raped a non-Harvard student in an apartment building located hundreds of miles from campus in summer 2017.

The unnamed male student, dubbed “John Doe” in the complaint, filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.

He contends that Harvard does not have the authority to open an investigation into sexual assault allegations levied by a non-Harvard student regarding an incident that did not take place on University property.

He is demanding Harvard cease to investigate him and pay him $75,000 in damages, as well as compensate him for any costs incurred during litigation.

Doe’s suit states that, during summer 2017, Doe and “Jane Roe” — the unnamed woman he allegedly raped — were both working internships “in a city hundreds of miles away

from Harvard.” That city was almost certainly Washington, D.C. Additional court filings state that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department investigated the alleged assault but ultimately decided not to prosecute the case.

Doe wrote in his suit against Harvard that he is currently facing a civil lawsuit filed by Roe. The University’s Office for Dispute Resolution opened an investigation into Doe in October 2018, according to Doe’s complaint. ODR handles all allegations of sexual or gender-based harassment at Harvard in keeping with Title IX, a federal anti-sex discrimination law.

In arguing ODR does not have the jurisdiction to investigate his case, Doe pointed to University policies related to sexual and gender-based harassment.

Those policies — available online — apply only to misconduct perpetrated by University affiliates while on campus or in connection with University-recognized activities. The policy also covers

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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein is not a Harvard alum. Nor is he a faculty member or an affiliate of the University. In fact, he does not even hold a college degree.

But the billionaire — who

for years operated a sex ring of underage girls out of his Palm Beach, Fla. home, the Miami Herald reported in a three-part feature Wednesday — nonetheless boasts deep and longstanding ties to Harvard.

Epstein has donated millions of dollars to the University. His money funded the construction of at least one campus

building, still standing today.

He cultivated cozy friendships with top Harvard administrators including a former University president. And he forged close professional and personal ties to Alan M. Dershowitz, a high-profile professor emeritus at Harvard Law School who also allegedly had sexual relations with a minor.

When the allegations against Epstein first became public more than a decade ago, University representatives told The Crimson they had no plans to return any money the school received from him.

Now — as the Herald’s reporting is once again focusing

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New UC Supports Shopping Week in Near-Unanimous Vote Program Nets Five Students

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By CINDY H. ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Five sophomores declared Environmental Science and Engineering — Harvard’s newest concentration — this year, according to Patrick D. Ulrich, the program’s associate director for undergraduate studies.

Approved in the spring, the newest offering became the College’s 50th field of concentration.

Previously, students interested in the field received a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of science in the Engineering Sciences concentration on a special track.

The change maintains the bachelor of science option, known as an S.B. at Harvard, in Engineering Sciences and ­

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Dean of Students Katherine G. O’Dair swears in Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 as Undergraduate Council president.

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Ed Portal Bridges Harvard, Allston Formerly an unused garage, the Allstonbased Ed Portal welcomes Bacow

By AIDAN B. CAREY and DEVIN B. SRIVASTAVA CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Allston Ed Portal, removed from the buzz of construction and traffic on Western Avenue, is a hub of activity on an average Tuesday afternoon.

Children work on projects from telling stories about humanity’s victory in soccer over extraterrestrial beings in a “Universe Cup,” to extracting strawberry DNA, to presenting improv skits.

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Ten years ago, the space at 224 Western Ave. was an unused garage owned by Harvard. In March 2015, Harvard opened a brand new facility to house the Harvard Ed Portal as part of the University’s “cooperation agreements” with the city of Boston amidst Harvard’s long-term expansion into Allston.

MENTORSHIP: FROM STEM ORIGINS TO “VIRTUALLY EVERY FIELD” TODAY In the wake of the 2008

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In a near-unanimous vote, the Undergraduate Council called for the College to preserve shopping week — the one-week period at the beginning of the semester when students can sample classes without officially enrolling — in its current form.

The vote passed the Council, 22–2, at the UC’s last meeting of the semester Sunday.

In recent months, administrators and faculty members have formed a committee to investigate alternatives to shopping week, such as a pre-registration system. Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda J. Claybaugh met with the Council in October to discuss the well-loved tradition, and announced a series of faculty-led “listening sessions” for students to give feedback on the proposed change.

All three UC presidential tickets running in November’s election said they would advocate for shopping week to remain in place if victorious. Incoming UC President Sruthi

Palaniappan ’20, who won the election with running mate Julia M. Huesa ’20, led a student town hall on the issue in October, and has repeatedly called for more student input in the process, including after administrators cancelled a scheduled UC town hall and instead scheduled the listening sessions.

In its statement, the Council cited a recent survey of 1,883 students that showed what they called “overwhelming” support for shopping week.

“Due to the current state of academic advising, shopping week remains crucial to course selection,” the statement reads.

“Any proposal to replace shopping week would necessitate a significant rehaul of current advising programs, which would be difficult to implement in tandem with significant changes to course enrollment procedure.”

The statements adds that the UC believes shopping week to be a “quintessential, invaluable, and irreplaceable piece” of the undergraduate experience, and that the Council will “tirelessly

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Bacow Visits San Diego School

By AIDAN F. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

University President Lawrence S. Bacow traveled to San Diego last week as part of a series of trips he has taken to make the case for Harvard’s relevance to people beyond Cambridge.

During the trip, Bacow spoke at a local gathering of alumni Thursday and visited the Health Science High School and Middle College on Friday.

At the event for alumni, Bacow spoke on a wide variety of topics from the “admissions case to public service to Allston ­

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IN THE REAL WORLD

Holiday Lights Boston Public Garden, 3:30 p.m.

Macron Returns to Turmoil

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Come to see the holiday lights of Boston and roam around our historic streets instead of studying for finals, and make sure to layer up since it’s all outside!

France is in turmoil, as high inflation and planned increases in fuel taxes has given rise to nationwide protests. The “Yellow Vests” protest movement has forced intervention on behalf of the French government due to recurring incidents like human deaths, vandalized stores, and toppled vehicles.

Congress’s Never Trump Brigade

Film Screening and Discussion Ames Courtroom at HLS, 5:30 p.m.

Come watch the documentary film “This Ain’t Normal” that depicts the stories of gang-involved youth and the violence haunting Boston’s neighborhoods. Stay for a discussion on the film and how you can help.

Holiday Cards Holworthy Arts Room, 4:00 p.m.

It’s too late to make your family happy by passing all your finals, so come by the arts room in Holworthy Hall to make them a classy holiday card instead! Throw in a polaroid picture of you studying or something to make them at least have hope.

Katie K. Benson looks past a defender in Friday night’s game against Quinnipiac.

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DAILY BRIEFING A Harvard undergraduate has filed suit against the University charging it overstepped when it opened an investigation this October into allegations he raped a non-Harvard student in an apartment building located hundreds of miles from campus in summer 2017. The student filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. In other news, the Undergraduate Council called for the College to preserve shopping week.

The new class of Republican lawmakers arriving in January are likely to show more support for the Trump administration. Due to this, Republican critics of Trump are poised to do what they can to voice criticism for the president while still in office, specifically on subjects like Saudi Arabia relations and the investigation into Russia’s interference with the elections

Alleged Election Fraud Shakes N.C. District Despite fraud allegations against the election of North Carolina’s Republican senator Mark Harris, the state board of elections is not willing to certify the house race. The decision to possibly open an investigation prompted the executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party to call for the Democratic chairman of the state election board to resign.

AROUND THE IVIES YALE New Haven residents are calling on Yale to provide additional financial support as the city faces a budget crisis, according to the Yale Daily News.

In a financial report released last spring, the New Haven mayor’s office reported a $15 million deficit — a financial situation some local politicians say the university can remedy. Yale gave New Haven $11.5 million this year, a number university spokespersons said is the singles largest yearly municipal contribution by an American university.

COLUMBIA The Columbia Spectator reported that students ushered Saturday Night Live writer Nimesh Patel off stage 30 minutes into a standup comedy performance sponsored by the Columbia Asian American Alliance. During the first portion of his set, Patel told jokes some alliance members criticized as racist and homophobic, including one calling into question whether being gay is a choice.

UPENN Roughly the same number of high school seniors applied to the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2023 for early decision as the Class of 2022, per the Daily Pennsylvanian. Though the early applicant pool has grown each year since 2011, Penn’s admissions office said this year saw only a 0.22 percent increase. The relatively steady number of early decision hopefuls followed a sharp uptick last year when Penn saw 15 percent more fall applications.

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Ed Portal Bridges Town-Gown Gap in Allston financial crisis, former University President Drew G. Faust halted the construction of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ planned campus in Allston.

Despite this setback, the University followed through on their agreed upon plans for community outreach detailed in their agreements with Boston.

The Ed Portal opened in June 2008.

One of the agreements was the creation of an “Artlab,” which gradually morphed into the Ed Portal.

The Ed Portal, run by the University’s public affairs and communications arm, serves as a hub for Harvard’s neighborhood outreach efforts in Allston.

Among these efforts is the Ed Portal mentoring program, which pairs Harvard undergraduates as mentors with Allston elementary school students.

The mentors and mentees meet once a week to work

through projects combining personal interests and academic or personal growth topics.

The program was the brainchild of Robert A. Lue, faculty director of the Ed Portal and a professor of the practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Lue, aware of Harvard’s future in Allston, approached the University more than 10 years ago with an idea to increase the University’s engagement with the Allston neighborhood.

“The mentoring program was one of the critical things we wanted in the community of Allston,” Lue said.

The program started with an emphasis on science and math but has since expanded to “virtually every field you can think of,” Lue said.

“What we’re really trying to do is to create an opportunity here in Allston for Harvard students, the College students, the graduate students as well, to come and

form a new community with the youth of Allston,” he said.

For Christopher Li ’18, this appeal worked.

“Getting off campus, kind of getting to a different space, working with people who aren’t Harvard students, who are high school, middle school students from the local community, breaking out of that bubble was refreshing, but

What we’re really trying to do is to create an opportunity here in Allston for Harvard students.

Robert A. Lue Ed Portal Faculty Director

also a bit inconvenient,” Li said.

Li said the distance of the Ed Portal from Harvard’s main campus across the Charles River in Cambridge

poses a bit of a challenge.

Currently, there is only one Harvard shuttle route that travels through Allston.

Susan L. Johnson, a manager at the Ed Portal, also noted logistical difficulties in determining schedules between mentors and mentees.

At the start of each semester, as mentors select their courses, the Ed Portal juggles varying schedules as they try to match mentors with mentees.

Johnson said this also leads to a fluctuation in the amount of mentors each semester, sometimes causing a shortage.

‘EACH GENERATION HELPING THE NEXT’ On Sunday afternoon, the Ed Portal filled with nearly 100 mentors, mentees, families, local Allston residents, and Harvard affiliates.

Each semester, the mentees, with help from their mentors, present the projects they have worked on during

the semester.

This year’s fall 2018 cohort consisted of 20 mentors and 161 mentees.

Some of the guests present Sunday were particularly high-profile.

State Rep. Kevin G. Honan and Boston City Council member Mark S. Ciommo came to show their support, along with University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

This was Bacow’s first visit to the Ed Portal, where he spent roughly 30 minutes greeting mentors and mentees.

Mentees excitedly showed Bacow around their science lab, where smoke from dry ice tumbled around the room, and showcased their projects, including an iPad-controlled robot that erased markers from a whiteboard.

Bacow then shared a story from his own youth in Pontiac, Mich.; he said he was a “math and science geek” growing up.

“I actually had my life changed by a mentor, who I

Music Dept. Hires Amherst Professor CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ vette J. Jackson will join the Y Music Department in July to teach interdisciplinary music courses as assistant professor in creative practice and critical inquiry.

Jackson, who currently serves as a visiting assistant professor of music at Amherst College, holds a doctorate in music-integrative studies.

In her new role at Harvard, Jackson will combine her expertise in music with her experience in theater.

She will teach undergraduate classes for Theater, Dance, and Media, and graduate classes for the Music Department’s Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program.

“I’m looking forward to being able to create classes that are cross-disciplinary. I always

enjoy connecting music to other disciplines,” Jackson said. “So, creating classes for Theater, Dance, and Media is something I am really looking forward to.”

Suzannah E. Clark, the chair of the Music Department, said that during her time leading the department, she has made intentional changes to expand the department’s offerings to focus on types of music outside of the European tradition.

“The structure of our requirements was really centered around European music, or the Western tradition,” Clark said.

“Now we’re very open, and we regard everyone in our department as equally contributing to what it means to study music.”

As part of these initiatives, the department founded the Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program in collaboration with composer and musical improviser, Vijay Iyer.

Iyer, a professor in the Music department, currently serves as the program’s graduate adviser.

“We make music, and we think about it,” Iyer said.

“We think about how to talk about it, how to study it, how to analyze it, and how to theorize about it in ways that serve the process of music making.”

Jackson said she was excited to be involved in the new program and in the broader departmental changes.

Jackson self-described her compositions as “radio operas” which are electroacoustic compositions drawing on historical context and using various sounds, often from computers, like sound bytes.

Iyer said that the Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program marked the beginning of a shift in the identity of the department.

“We have all these music

Harvard, from the Law School to Longwood.

makers who have very diverse backgrounds, orientations, and perspectives on what music making consists of, how to study it, how to do it, and how to think about it,” he said.

Jackson’s recently announced appointment is another step in the department’s attempts to recognize and teach across more musical genres.

“She holds the view that everyone is a composer and everyone has creativity in them, and it’s about the ability to make something happen with sound,” Clark said.

Prior to teaching at Amherst, Jackson taught music courses at the University of California, San Diego.

In her final semester at Amherst next spring, she will teach a course on identity and electroacoustic music history.

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encountered actually when I was in high school,” Bacow said.

This mentor, his high school librarian, introduced him to a biography of Thomas Jefferson, which helped him “emerge a little bit from my math and science shell.”

He attributes his current deep love of history and literature to this experience.

“I hope you guys will always be stimulated to keep learning,” Bacow encouraged the students. “But I also hope that someday you guys will become mentors yourself.”

Bacow’s concluding message expressed hope the program will continue to inspire young students to look forward and for older students to give back.

He added, “We’re creating and reinforcing the tradition of each generation helping the next.”

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Student Sues Univ. Over Title IX harassment that may create a “hostile environment” for other Harvard affiliates.

Doe, though, is likely subject to both University policy and guidelines followed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a student of the College. The University’s overarching policy — which Doe referenced — does not preclude schools within Harvard from producing and enforcing their own, more expansive sets of rules.

FAS policies and procedures are broader in scope than comparable University policies. Per its guidelines, FAS may hold all students to the expectation that they behave in a “in a mature and responsible manner” no matter where they are.

“It is the expectation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that all students, whether or not they are on campus or are currently enrolled in a degree program, will behave in a mature and responsible manner,” the policy reads.

“Consistent with this principle, sexual and gender-based misconduct are not tolerated by the FAS even when, because they do not have the effect of creating a hostile environment for a member of the University community, they fall outside the jurisdiction of the University Policy.”

Recent federal Title IX guidelines proposed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could complicate Doe’s suit.

The new rules, released by the department on Nov. 16, would forbid universities from opening investigations into alleged acts of sexual misconduct that

took place outside the bounds of a school “program or activity.”

In his complaint, Doe charges Harvard with two counts: breach of contract and breach of covenant of faith and fair dealing. He alleges that, in allowing him to attend classes in exchange for “substantial amounts of money,” Harvard created a reasonable expectation that Doe would earn a degree from the school. One possible outcome of an ODR investigation is expulsion.

“Harvard has breached, and is breaching, its contractual obligations by subjecting Mr. Doe to a disciplinary process that— in the ways, and for the reasons, set out above—is arbitrary, capricious, malicious, and being conducted in bad faith,” the complaint states.

Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane declined to comment.

The complaint states that Doe met Roe on the night of July 22, 2017 at a party held at Roe’s apartment.

There, they “engaged in sexual activity,” to which Doe alleges Roe consented. Roe, however, alleges Doe raped her, according to the lawsuit. The suit states Roe later filed a complaint with the local police department.

Roe filed a civil personal injury suit against Doe in March 2018. That suit is currently ongoing.

Doe states that ODR informed him that the investigation into him is based on Roe’s allegations. In an email submitted as an exhibit in the lawsuit,

Ilissa K. Povich, ODR senior investigator, wrote that the College Title IX coordinator filed the case, then reached out to Roe to ask her to participate as a complainant in the investigation.

After first questioning ODR’s jurisdiction, Doe asked Povich to temporarily suspend the investigation pending the results of the lawsuit filed in March by

‘Harvard has breached, and is breaching, its contractual obligations by subjecting Mr. Doe to a disciplinary process that — in the ways, and for the reasons, set out above, is arbitary, capricious, malicious, and bein conduct in bad faith.’

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Roe. Doe stated a simultaneous ODR investigation would have a “serious impact” on his ability to defend himself in the ongoing civil case, according to the complaint.

But Povich rejected this request, stating that Harvard University Police Department confirmed with D.C. police that law enforcement did not plan to investigate the allegations, ac-

cording to an email filed as an exhibit.

Though FAS policy allows the school to pause an investigation in order to avoid interfering with active criminal investigations, it does not mention the possibility of deferring an investigation to accommodate ongoing civil litigation.

In his complaint, Doe states that the ODR investigation is unnecessary because Roe is already “assured of having her day in court” through her civil suit.

He adds that, in that suit, Doe “will be entitled to all the protections of a defendant in a civil case,” including subpoena power and the right to cross-examine Roe and other witnesses.

On Nov. 15, Harvard temporarily paused its investigation into Doe, the complaint states.

It reopened the investigation on Nov. 27 “with no changes to its existing procedures” and requested an interview with Doe the next day, according to the complaint.

Doe noted in his complaint that the temporary suspension of the investigation coincided with the Education Department’s release of new Title IX guidelines — “rules with which Harvard’s current proceedings do not comply,” the suit reads.

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Bacow Visits San Diego, Sells Harvard and efforts to tackle climate change and the opioid crisis,” according to University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson.

English Professor Elisa F. New accompanied Bacow on the high school visit, where her class ‘Poetry in America’ is being taught through Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.

New led the class in conversation, discussing various themes within the works of poet Emily Dickinson.

The trip is one of several that Bacow has taken in recent months.

After he was appointed as Harvard’s 29th president last February, he pledged to reach out to all parts of the country to address critiques that Harvard caters only to a smal roup of coastal elites.

In September, Bacow visited Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., where he grew up, in order to make the case for the positive role the University can play in people’s lives across the country.

“I think it’s important that people understand that graduates of Harvard are working hard to make places like Detroit more vibrant, more interesting, and to create opportunity for others,” Bacow said during an event in Michigan.

Bacow spoke of his Midwestern upbringing during his remarks at the Health Science High School and Middle Col-

lege, a charter school in San Diego.

“Being here took me back in time to being a high school student myself,” Bacow said.

“Both my parents were immigrants — and actually both

Graduates of Harvard are working hard to make places like Detroit more vibrant.

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were refugees to this country — and so education was really important to them.”

“They thought it was a way to provide a better life for me and my sister,” he added.

Former University President Drew G. Faust also took several trips to communities across the country during her tenure, traveling to Philadelphia and Cincinnati in the waning days of her presidency.

During a wider discussion on higher education, Bacow said that students “can get a great education anywhere,” but emphasized what you do with that education is critical.

“For almost any college or university in this country, if you apply yourself, if you seek out the right people, you can get a great education,” he said. aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com.

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Since Early 2000s, Harvard Maintained Ties to Epstein national attention on Epstein’s and Dershowitz’s alleged misconduct — Harvard is staying quiet. University spokespeople declined to comment for this story. Harvard also refused to comment publicly on the allegations against Dershowitz.

The Herald reported they had identified about 80 women who said they had been molested or sexually abused by Epstein between 2001 and 2006.

Witnesses and alleged victims testified in civil court that hundreds of girls traveled to Epstein’s homes over the years under the pretense they would be paid to give Epstein “massages.”

Epstein forced the women to perform sexual acts during most massages, according to the Herald.

The Herald described the operation as “cult-like” and akin to a “sexual pyramid scheme” in which girls acted as recruiters, attracting other underage girls.

A 14-year-old girl and her parents went to the police in 2005 to report that Epstein had molested her at his Palm Beach mansion.

That report kickstarted a legal battle that has continued to the present day.

One of the women Epstein allegedly paid for sexual services — Virginia Roberts — stated in a 2015 affidavit that Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell directed her to have sex with Dershowitz and others.

Roberts wrote in the affidavit that she had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz six times starting at age 16.

Dershowitz has denied these allegations multiple times over several years, and the judge presiding over the case ultimately struck the allegations from the record on the grounds that they were not relevant to the suit.

Dershowitz was not merely friendly with Epstein — he also served as part of the seven-person legal team that defended the billionaire in court.

The Herald reported that, as part of his defense of Epstein, Dershowitz sought to portray some of the underage girls who had accused Epstein of sex crimes — many of them near-homeless or hailing from broken homes — as unreliable witnesses. Dershowitz denied this, telling the Herald he is “not an investigator.”

Though Epstein faced a potential life sentence, in 2007 his legal team and prosecutors struck an extraordinary plea deal: 13 months in the county jail and the shutdown of an FBI probe into Epstein’s sex crimes. Current Labor Secre­

tary R. Alexander Acosta ’90, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida at the time, formed part of the prosecution team that arranged the plea deal.

Epstein pled guilty in state court to two charges of felony prostitution.

After finishing out his 13-month sentence in 2009, Epstein went on to pursue charity work and scientific research projects.

He currently faces a civil lawsuit filed by Bradley J. Edwards — a lawyer who represents some of Epstein’s victims — that alleges Epstein “sued him to punish him for representing several of his victims,” according to the Herald.

A separate lawsuit filed by some of the women accusing Epstein of sexual assault seeks to invalidate the 2007 plea deal, but it has been stalled in court for nearly a decade.

The Herald’s reporting revealed how Epstein was able to “manipulate the criminal justice system” using his riches, power, and influence.

Before Epstein was indicted, though, his riches, power, and influence earned him a different kind of special treatment.

The billionaire enjoyed access to U.S. presidents, billionaire business leaders — and to scores of Harvard professors, administrators, and affiliates.

A ‘LONG-TIME, LOW-PROFILE DONOR’ ADVERTISEMENT Though Epstein is not a Harvard alumnus or affiliate, he has a history of strong financial ties to the University.

In a 2003 profile, The Crimson reported that many of Epstein’s friends described him as a “long-time, low-profile” donor.

In 1990, Epstein partnered with fellow billionaire Leslie H. Wexner to fund the construction of a new building at Harvard Hillel — Rosovsky Hall, named after former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky, one of Epstein’s oldest friends.

Around 1998, Epstein helped fund the research of Anne Harrington ’82, a History of Science professor who also serves as Pforzheimer House faculty dean.

Harrington wrote in an email Sunday that Epstein served on the advisory board of the Harvard Society of Mind, Brain, and Behavior at the time of the donation. Harrington called Epstein’s actions “terrible.”

“He became interested in some work I was doing on the placebo effect and offered me

modest funding to pull together an interdisciplinary group that would work on the subject,” Harrington wrote. “Had I known then even a hint of what we all have subsequently learned about him, I never would have accepted it.”

Roughly a half-decade later, Epstein approached David R. Gergen, a Harvard Kennedy School professor, to inquire about making a donation to the school.

In an interview Sunday, Gergen said the encounter — which he said took place around 2004 or 2005 — marked the first time he met Epstein.

“It turned out he was serious and we, of course, had to do due diligence on him as we do on every donor, and the due diligence report that came back said that there were some questions about his past but that the University saw no reason not to receive the potential gift,” Gergen said.

Gergen said the idea for the donation was eventually scrapped.

“Somewhere along the way, serious questions began to arise about his past and at that point, we slowed the conversations way down and became very wary of making sure it was the right thing to do or not and eventually both he and we — the conversation waned and eventually ended several years ago,” he said.

Most notably, in 2003, Epstein pledged a $30 million donation to Harvard to fund the work of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak.

His donation established the University’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Nowak directs today. Nowak, a professor of Mathematics and Biology, did not respond to a request for comment.

When Epstein was first charged in July 2006, several recipients of his donations — including New Mexico Governor Bill B. Richardson and New York attorney general and then-gubernatorial candidate Eliot L. Spitzer — distanced themselves from the billionaire.

Harvard did not.

Former University President Derek C. Bok, then serving as Harvard’s interim president, stood by his longstanding assertion that the University should not “have an obligation to investigate each donor and impose detailed moral standards.”

University spokespeople said in 2006 that Harvard had no plans to return any money it had received from Epstein.

University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson declined to comment on any questions

related to Epstein on Sunday, including one that explicitly asked whether Harvard plans to return Epstein’s donation in light of the Herald’s reporting and the new details it unearthed.

“We decline to comment,” Jackson wrote in a one-sentence emailed statement Sunday.

Epstein’s ties to Harvard extended to cozy chats with the school’s top brass and premier scientific minds.

In an interview Friday, Dershowitz said that, over the course of several years, Epstein frequently hosted “seminars” in Cambridge on evolutionary biology.

Dershowitz said that numerous prominent Harvard professors and administrators attended the discussions.

Participants included Lawrence H. Summers, who was serving as the University’s president at the time, Rosovsky, Gergen, and Stephen M. Kosslyn. Kosslyn, who is a Psychology professor emeritus, also received research funding from Epstein.

“I am amazed by the connections he has in the scientific world,” Nowak told The Crimson in 2003. “He knows an amazing number of scientists; he knows everyone you can imagine.”

Rosovsky wrote in an email that the seminars took place at the offices of Harvard’s Program of Evolutionary Dynamics and that he “attended a couple of sessions and lost interest.”

Kosslyn could not be reached for comment on Sunday. An assistant for Summers declined to comment.

The Crimson reported in 2003 that Epstein maintained tight friendships with Kosslyn, Rosovsky, and Dershowitz, among other Harvard luminaries.

Epstein was also close with Summers, who served alongside Epstein on the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two elite international relations organizations.

“We all knew Jeffrey Epstein as somebody who was contributing to Harvard,” Dershowitz said in an interview Friday.

“None of us ever, ever suspected that he had any connection with anybody underage.”

DERSHOWITZ’S DENIALS Dershowitz was first implicated in Epstein’s crimes in December 2014 when a civil case challenging Epstein’s plea deal alleged that Dershowitz forced a then-underaged, unnamed woman to have sex with him

several times in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Herald identified the woman as Roberts.

Dershowitz — who is famous for representing defendants like O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bülow — repeatedly denied the allegations at the time, criticizing Roberts and her lawyers for including the charges.

Dershowitz has since continued to deny the allegations.

The presiding judge struck the allegations from the record in 2015 without directly addressing their veracity.

Dershowitz acknowledged that he once traveled to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion to receive a massage, according to the Herald.

But in his deposition in the case, Dershowitz said the massage involved no sexual activity and was performed by a professional masseuse — and that his wife was present the whole time.

In a Friday interview with The Crimson, Dershowitz once again strongly denied Roberts’s allegations. Dershowitz said the accusations against him form part of an extortion plot against Wexner, the chairman and chief of L Brands — the corporation that owns Victoria’s Secret.

“It’s a completely made-up story, I never met the woman, I don’t know her, I don’t know anything beyond what she said and it’s just a totally made up story,” Dershowitz said.

In addition to identifying the woman with whom Dershowitz allegedly had illicit sexual relations, the Herald piece sheds light on the methods the law professor reportedly employed to defend Epstein.

The Herald piece reveals that, after being hired by Epstein in 2005, Dershowitz flew to Florida and met with thenPalm Beach State Attorney Barry E. Krischer in an attempt to convince him that the girls accusing Epstein of sexual misconduct were not sufficiently credible to testify in court.

He shared the results of his personal investigation into one of the girls with Krischer, according to the Herald. Dershowitz showed Krischer photos scraped from the girl’s social media that depicted her using marijuana, the Herald reported.

In a written public statement in 2011, Acosta accused Epstein’s lawyers of carrying out a “year-long assault” on prosecutors, investigating their families and personal lives.

Private investigators for Epstein allegedly posed as police officers and followed the girls and their families, according to

the Herald.

Dershowitz, in an interview with the Herald, said he had nothing to do with gathering information on the girls, their families, or the prosecutors.

“I’m not an investigator,” he said. “My only job was to negotiate and try the case when it comes to trial.”

The Pipeline Parity Project, a Law School student group whose mission is to end harassment and discrimination in the legal profession, wrote in a statement that the allegations against Dershowitz are perturbing.

“The allegations against Alan Dershowitz are disturbing, as is Harvard’s silence in response,” the group wrote.

“Harvard maintains its policy of institutional silence, and our community is left with the harm that has been done.”

They also noted that Dershowitz retains his emeritus professor status, as does Jorge I. Dominguez — a retired Government professor who was accused of sexual harassment by at least 20 women over the past 40 years.

The group denounced Harvard’s failure to launch a public investigation into the allegations against Dershowitz and compared it to the school’s decision not to investigate charges of sexual assault brought against Brett M. Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court this fall.

Kavanaugh taught at the Law School for roughly a decade before indicating he would not return to teach his class in January 2019.

Amelia Y. Goldberg ’19 — a member of Our Harvard Can Do Better, an anti-sexual assault advocacy group — wrote in an email that she finds the allegations against both Dershowitz and Epstein “deeply disturbing.”

“Efforts to protect perpetrators of sexual violence are unconscionable,” Goldberg wrote.

Dershowitz provided The Crimson with a copy of a letter to the editor that he sent to the Herald.

In the letter, Dershowitz states that he not only “denied” that he had sex with Roberts — as was reported in the Herald — but that he “disproved it” during an investigation run by former FBI chief Louis J. Freeh.

Jackson, the University spokesperson, declined to comment on any questions related to Dershowitz, including whether Harvard has investigated or plans to investigate the allegations against him. molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com. aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com.

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Faculty to Vote on Class Times, Council Changes

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on a proposal Tuesday to add two class start times to the new academic schedule rolled out at the beginning of the fall semester.

The Faculty previously discussed the potential change at its last meeting in November when FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke presented a proposal to add these class times so students would have more time to eat lunch. If approved, faculty members could officially offer classes beginning at 12:45 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. in addition to the current slate of options. In October, Harvard University Dining Services extended dining hall hours by 30 minutes to accommodate the new academic schedule as many seminars are scheduled to meet from 12 p.m.to 2:45 pm, overlapping entirely with the lunch hours in the undergraduate dining halls. The 12 upperclassmen residential Houses and Annenberg Hall, the freshman dining hall, now open at 11:30 a.m. instead of 12 noon. In ad-

dition to the schedule proposal, David L. Howell, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, will present a report on behalf of a committee of the Faculty Council, FAS’s highest governing body. In November 2015, the Faculty voted to amend the council’s election procedures with the requirement that FAS form a committee to review the electoral changes after three years. Howell, who serves as chair of the review committee and is a member of the council, will present the group’s findings at the Faculty meeting. Previously, council elections required voters to rank their preferences among a large number of candidates, and the votes were subsequently counted in rounds. The system was deemed “confusing” and “unnecessarily complicated,” according to an April 2015 report. After the release of the report criticizing the old system, the Faculty adopted a new voting system for the council.

The changes have been successful and have led to more nominations and higher voter turnout among Faculty members, according to the report. “The aim of the reform was to simplify the

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Five Declare New Engineering Track replaces the bachelor of arts option in Engineering Sciences with an A.B. solely in the new Environmental Science and Engineering concentration.

Seven sophomores declared the older S.B. in Engineering Sciences this fall, in addition to the five who went with the new A.B. in Environmental Science and Engineering, according to Ulrich.

Ulrich said that making Environmental Science and Engineering its own concentration gives the field more visibility; however, there were few substantive changes to the curriculum.

“We were sort of buried in Engineering Sciences. Freshmen would come in and have to look really hard to find us,” Ulrich said.

“We wanted to make sure that students know that we offer this awesome program in Environmental Science and Engineering. This puts it on equal footing with all of the other concentrations.”

Marissa Saenger ’18–’19, who switched into the new A.B. program this year, said the change makes it easier to find the environment-focused field among all of the Engineering Sciences options.

“Before it was kind of hidden among Engineering Sciences and all the possible tracks and now it’s just standing on its own,” Saenger said.

Tatiana S. Jimenez ’21, who recently declared an A.B. in the new field, said the change affected her perception of what was possible in the concentration.

“I knew I didn’t want to become an engineer in the future,”

Jimenez said.

“There’s probably a good chance I wouldn’t have declared Engineering Sciences with a track in ESE. If it had never changed, I don’t think I would’ve gone down that route.”

In addition to the recently declared sophomores, several upperclassmen switched from Engineering Sciences on the specialized track to the new concentration.

“Most of our seniors decided they were going to stay in Engineering Sciences track and finish what they’ve been doing all along and most of our juniors have decided to make the switch,” Ulrich said.

Julia Henry ’20, who switched to the A.B. in Environmental Science and Engineering, said that she appreciated “flexibility” in the new program.

Some previously required classes like the College’s introduction to Computer Science course are no longer part of the mandatory curriculum, she said.

Beverly Ge ’20, another junior who opted for the new A.B., said she couldn’t see “any downside” to switching to the Environmental Science and Engineering concentration.

“My friends and I, we were definitely very excited when the news came out,” said Ge, who described the program as “very accommodating” for those transitioning to the new concentration.

“I don’t see myself becoming a technical engineer so doing an A.B. made more sense.” cindy.zhang@thecrimson.com

election procedures (and thereby boost voter turnout) while encouraging a diverse range of colleagues to stand for election to the Council. It worked,” the report states. “We recommend that the current procedures remain in place.” Under the current system, any Faculty member who receives at least three nominations qualifies automatically for election. After the reform of the policies, the report says the FAS dean no longer had to recruit candidates. Although the report does not recommend any changes to the Faculty Council election policies, it does propose two suggestions. First, the report suggests that the Faculty “convene” a group each year of junior non-ladder faculty to participate in FAS governance with a liaison member who attends Faculty Council meetings.

Second, the report suggests that the FAS divisional deans, along with the deans of the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, not serve on the council, which “is a written version of an unwritten rule.” angela.fu@thecrimson.com. lucy.wang@thecrimson.com.

Ceremony Recognizes 118 Graduating Seniors

By ASPEN H. BUCK and LUCY LIU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Dozens of soon-to-be College graduates capped off their last semester with the Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony at the Student Organization Center at Hilles.

The ceremony provides students graduating after the fall semester, rather than in the spring, an opportunity to celebrate their achievement with their families.

Organized by the 2019 Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association, the event featured several speakers and a reception for the 118 midyear graduates, and their families and friends.

Some students are graduating a semester early after already fulfilling academic requirements, however most midyear graduates have taken a semester or more away from campus.

Julia E. Canick ’17-’19 said during her speech at the ceremony that student reasons for taking time off vary, but ultimately aren’t important.

Canick said she had taken three semesters off due to health issues.

“Maybe you took time to work on a campaign, or left to seek medical treatment, or simply needed a break,” Canick said.

“The reason, though, doesn’t matter. What matters is that you came back.”

Canick said that leaving the College for a semester and deciding to return can both be difficult choices, especially at Harvard.

“We took time away from an environment that often seems to emphasize being ‘on-track’, and we returned when we weren’t on said ‘track’,” Canick said.

During his remarks, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said that he himself graduated off-cycle from Cornell as an undergraduate, reflecting on the impact that the decision had on his life.

“December graduates, I feel a particularly special bond with you because I too was a December graduate. It was not something I had planned when I started college,” he said.

“But it actually turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me,” Khurana said.

“Without these moments of serendipity, we risk leading lives that are extremely efficient but monstrously dull, because it is those unexpected moments that makes life both messy and majestic,” Khurana added.

Speakers often touched on the stigma surrounding “off-cycle” students, and each time the friends and family in attendance were quick to show their support with laughs and loud cheers.

Midyear graduate Eehjoon Kwon ’18-’19 was excited to finish her studies and said she wasn’t expecting so many other students to be graduating in the fall.

Still, Kwon says she feels “not completely graduated yet.”

She and her fellow graduates still have final exams to take before the semester’s end.

“I didn’t know there were going to be this many other people off-cycle like me, and it’s really great to hear that I’m not alone,” Kwon said.

Event Explores Asian-American Experience

By SAMUEL H. CARTER and SAHANA G. SRINIVASAN CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

A round 60 students crowded into a Boylston Hall classroom Friday to discuss their perceptions of the term “Asian American” in light of the admissions lawsuit challenging Harvard’s affirmative action policies.

The event entitled, “What is Asian America?” was the result of collaboration between the Asian American Women’s Association and six other cultural organizations.

Organizers said they were inspired to host the event after seeing or taking part in a number of campus-wide events about the lawsuit and Asian-American identity.

Cayla S. Lee ’21, a Asian American Women’s Association officer, said that a lot of the discussions were focused on the opinions of Asian Americans and whether or not they benefit ­

from affirmative action admissions policies.

“We thought it was necessary to have an on-campus dialogue about how we can complicate our notions of what it means to be Asian American, and in that way, make campus discussions a little more nuanced,” Lee said.

In November 2014, anti-affirmative action group Students For Fair Admissions sued Harvard, alleging the College’s race conscious admissions policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

The case went to trial for three weeks in October and November and will extend until at least February 2019.

Though prompted by the ongoing lawsuit, students primarily discussed their personal conceptualizations of the term “Asian American.”

Participants discussed the political and social history of the term “Asian American” and

what they considered the advantages and shortcomings of the classification. Attendees shared anecdotes about how the term has been applied to them by others.

They also discussed intersectional representation within the Asian-American community — particularly focusing on how Southeast Asians, South Asians, and Pacific Islanders are often underrepresented

by Asian-American advocacy groups.

“I had not really considered the distinction between Asian American and Pacific Islander from more than a geographic perspective,” Starr H. Rhee ’21 said.

“I always thought we were grouped because people think we look alike and so because of that we have shared lived experiences, but really, Pacific Islanders have to deal with a whole different power dynamic that we usually don’t have

to think about as Asian Americans.”

G. Stewart Barnes, a former chaplain of Harvard and notable donor to the Boston Asian American Film Festival, was also in attendance.

He said he was encouraged by the dialogue and is eager to see how conversations regarding race and its impact will develop over time.

“It is a fact that students, not just Harvard students, but students everywhere, are going to be more focused on personal identity issues,” he said. =“But you have a lifetime ahead of you to focus on that, and I fully understand the focus here.”

Jasmine Y. Parmley ‘21, a member of the Asian American Women’s Association, said the group plans to host similar discussions on Asian-American identity in the future, particularly focusing on the the identities of female and queer Asian Americans.

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UC Votes in Support of Shopping Week fight” to retain it.

Also at Sunday’s meeting, Dean of Students Katherine G. O’Dair and Alexander R. Miller, associate dean of student engagement, swore in Palaniappan and Huesa as the new president and vice president of the Council.The UC also elected new members of its executive committee at the meeting.

For the first time in several years, a freshman — Elm Yard Representative Jack M. Swanson ’22 — will serve as treasurer of the Council.

Outgoing Rules Commit-

tee Chair Cade S. Palmer ’20, a Crimson sports chair, will take over as the Council’s secretary.

In an interview after the meeting, Swanson said he believes he has the requisite experience to manage the Council’s budget, pointing to his position in high school as the finance director of a multi-million dollar youth political committee in North Carolina.

He nonetheless acknowledged his relative youth — especially compared to the outgoing treasurer, Nadine M. Khoury ’20, who previous-

ly served as treasurer of the First-Year Class Committee — and wondered why it hadn’t come up in the debate over his nomination.“I was surprised it didn’t get brought up,” he said.

Swanson, who ran unopposed, will take over the Council’s purse at a time of relative financial stability for the UC, with a significantly expanded budget due to an increase in the student activities fee that undergraduates pay as part of the College’s cost of attendance.

Swanson promised at the meeting to secure the long-

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term finances of the UC, including through the establishment of an endowment to promote the Council’s financial “independence,” an idea he said administrators have endorsed.

“We want to have a good working relationship with the administration and the first way to do that is to show them that we are an independent organization that can look to the long-term, rather than looking year-to-year,” he said. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com.

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

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Reviewing Procedural Misconduct

On (Transformative) Experience, Or: The Hot Take Column

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he American Economic Association recently appointed Economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr. to a prestigious administrative position.

Harvard has barred Fryer from entering his lab since March following allegations of sexual and gender-based harassment. Days following the AEA’s announcement, the association released a statement saying it had learned one of its officers — almost certainly Fryer — is currently facing acucsations of “creating a hostile work environment.”

Given The Crimson and other media outlets such as the Boston Globe reported on the accusations leveled against Fryer, we are surprised and frankly disappointed that the AEA appointed Fryer as one of its officers. The decision demonstrates a general lack of due diligence in the association’s selection process.

This past April, the AEA adopted a new code of professional conduct that emphasizes inclusion, equity, and workplace safety. The policies seek to provide equal opportunity to economists of all backgrounds. The alleged harassment committed by Fryer is antithetical to precisely these values, as — should it be found true — the alleged conduct jeopardized the comfort, safety, and free expression of other professionals and students in the field.

As we await the results of Harvard’s internal investigation of Fryer’s alleged actions, this incident points to serious problems with the AEA’s officer selec-

tion process.

The association’s claim that it became aware of the allegations only after appointing him is deeply disappointing. It would seem difficult to miss the news, given the degree to which the allegations permeated the media at the time. A simple Google search would have sufficed.

Going forward, we urge the AEA to seriously reconsider how it vets potential officers. In order to uphold the organization’s own ethical standards, the association must actively study whether its potential appointees have any history of workplace misconduct, especially that which jeopardizes the safety of oth-

Given The Crimson and other media outlets such as the Boston Globe reported on the accusations leveled against Fryer, we are surprised and frankly disappointed that the AEA appointed Fryer as one of its officers ers based on gender and other identifiers.

Pending Harvard’s investigation, the association’s subsequent actions will reflect the degree of its genuine commitment to the professional code of ethics it adopted in the spring. The AEA’s stated promise to foster “a professional en-

vironment with equal opportunity and fair treatment for all economists” would seem to necessarily contradict the decision to appoint someone currently under investigation for sexual misconduct.

It now falls on Harvard to release the results of its investigations quickly. The relative efficiency of the investigations thus far has been admirable — at least one of which has been completed though not released. Any final decision on whether or not punitive measures should be taken must be made swiftly and judiciously.

The University’s promptness in doing so is critical to the AEA’s ability to make a choice regarding its appointment of Fryer. Moreover, its decision is vital to the University’s own ability to move forward in its economic and educational work.

Fryer’s lab, with or without him, does important economic research and offers economic opportunities to Harvard students. The sooner the University releases the results of its investigation, the sooner the University can try to institute some normalcy around the lab and its Economics Department more broadly.

—Madeleine F. Jennewein is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Virology program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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

Are We Really Welcome Here?

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s The Crimson has reported, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has repeatedly failed to support BGLTQ graduate students at GSAS. As the co-president of LGBTQ@GSAS, I saw these issues firsthand.

We — the student group serving BGLTQ students at GSAS — were one of the only resources for BGLTQ graduate students at Harvard. Frequently, students from across Harvard’s schools came to me to ask who in the administration they could turn to for support, how to access BGLTQ-informed medical care, where international students could go to address their concerns, and more.

Each time, I had to break it to them: Har-

However, unfortunately, I had to tell them the truth. If being BGLTQ is central to who you are, you would be better off at another institution because Harvard offers few resources. vard lacks anywhere to go for help. There is no dedicated staff person with the title and training to assist graduate students with BGLTQ issues.

Harvard’s peer institutions, including MIT, Brown, Princeton, and Yale, all have BGLTQ centers open to all of their students — as well as to faculty and university employees — paid staff that plan regular events, and graduate student-specific resources. In addition, many of these universities make concerted efforts to provide students with BGLTQ-informed healthcare.

Harvard’s graduate students have no such center open to them and no dedicated staff person who works with BGLTQ issues, and, from what I understand, students’ experiences with Harvard Uni-

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BGLTQ students in this center, including paid staff members trained to help BGLTQ students. I urge Harvard to take this opportunity to correct course and serve all of its diverse students by providing us with what we need to succeed.

Displays of good intentions are not enough. Harvard must show that the scholarship of all of its students, whether they are queer, non-white, low-income, undocumented, or international, is central to the success of this great institution. Harvard needs to stand up for all of us.

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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versity Health Services providers are hit or miss. The College’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life serves College students, and its undergraduate-focused resources are neither intended for nor suitable for graduate students. Harvard Medical School has a staff person who serves its BGLTQ faculty and students. And that, to my knowledge, is it.

In my time as co-president of LGBTQ@GSAS, I was contacted by many prospective students asking whether they should attend Harvard. They were curious whether Harvard is welcoming to BGLTQ students and if it is the right school for them. However, unfortunately, I had to tell them the truth.

If being BGLTQ is central to who you are, you would be better off at another institution because Harvard offers few resources. I told them that any community they did find here would be small and embattled, held together by unpaid student volunteers trying to create what they could — often to the detriment of their own academic work. It was heartbreaking every time I had to tell a student that they might be better off somewhere else.

Yes, GSAS administrators worked with LGBTQ@GSAS to create a “You Are Welcome Here” sticker campaign a few years ago. But two years later, many of us are still left wondering, are we actually welcome here? A sticker is not a safe space nor is it a resource center. A sticker cannot train staff and faculty to be more BGLTQ-informed, and it cannot intervene in advisor-advisee conflicts. A sticker certainly can’t direct students to appropriate medical and mental health resources or create professionalization programming that addresses the concerns of BGLTQ academics.

Harvard needs to make a tangible demonstration that it wants all of us here. It is not enough to speak about BGLTQ inclusion, update our symbols, and create a nondiscrimination policy.

Harvard must commit to its BGLTQ students by hiring staff, creating a center,

Trevor J. Levin after the fact illiam Faulkner theorized that every novelist is a failed short story writer, and every short story writer is a failed poet. Similarly, in the words of a respected historian, most books should be journal articles, and most journal articles should be footnotes. You get the point: Most columns should be tweets.

Indeed, for this column, which I’ve been writing off and on since Sept. 2016, I’ve found that the sub-headline usually captures 90 percent of an article’s point. The 1,000-odd words that follow dress it up in examples and statistics, wasting your time, dear reader, and mine. With so many topics to talk about at Harvard and beyond, why should we bother? If Michel de Montaigne could write one 60-page essay about death, doctors, defecating, and seemingly any other topic that occurred to him, extensively quoting classical writers and rarely bothering to segue, why can’t my own column be a series of loosely connected hot takes until I run out of space? Montaigne couldn’t even use hyperlinks. So let’s get started.

Like nearly every other school, Harvard should let students at least rank their housing preferences. Some people want to be in the Quad, and many don’t. Mather House should house people who prioritize singles over classical architecture and proximity to the Yard, and vice versa for Adams House.

Speaking of architecture, as Matthew B. McDole, Kennedy School alum, wrote in these pages, the Yard’s Georgian style is both aesthetically and morally superior to the imposing, ostentatious, and pretentious brick wall of Eliot, Winthrop, Leverett, and Dunster Houses that faces the Charles. Whether or not you buy into the justifications of brutalism as anti-bourgeois or even heroic, you have to admit that Mather and Gund Hall look more interesting than those derivative posers. Vive le béton brut!

Harvard should recognize its role in the process of letting powerful people get away with horrible things. By giving fellowships to Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski, for example, the Institute of Politics set a precedent that people who aided and abetted the Trump administration’s horrors will be received warmly in polite (even liberal) society. Oh, and they keep inviting Henry A. Kissinger ’50 to speak. Bad. Harvard should abolish General Education and foreign language requirements. They mostly serve to add headaches and complexity to the process of choosing classes, which should be driven by actual intellectual interests or practical concerns.

The evidence that students in general remember very little content from their classes makes this a slam dunk. Get real: Few forced to take French 10 and 11 will speak a useful amount of the language even a few months after the final, and even fewer of the hundreds who skate through Ethical Reasoning 18: “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory” become better citizens through that process. (How many go straight to Goldman Sachs afterwards, or vote Republican?)

We should adopt Stanford’s “open-door policy” for alcohol. It’s absurd to think that banning alcohol from the Yard will stop freshmen from drinking rather than making their habits more irregular and dangerous.

Harvard undergrads (and the rest of the world) should resist the temptation to think of the College’s admissions process as a judgment on our worth as an 18-year-old. Instead, consider it as a pairing of the school’s resources with specific people who then use them for four-plus years.

Relatedly, as Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker wrote in a 2014 article in The New Republic, Harvard should refocus admissions away from extracurriculars and intangibles and toward academic potential, mostly measured by test scores and grades (even if I would not have gotten in under this regime). It is irresponsible that the institution with the greatest capacity for research — endless library stacks and lab space, world-renowned faculty in every office — gives so many of its undergraduate seats on the basis of who can best ski down a mountain, play the bassoon, or navigate high school student body politics. As Pinker says, why couldn’t future presidents or business leaders go to Amherst or Swarthmore Colleges? Let’s get these Nobels! It’s what we’re best at.

A corollary: Downsize athletics. Harvard has more Division I sports programs than any other American college, and when these programs recruit, they take seats from non-athletes with better qualifications otherwise. (If this weren’t the case, we wouldn’t need to recruit them!) We should first cut the programs that most stack the deck for prep school kids (sailing, skiing, crew) and the ones that oft-injure their players (football).

Finally, despite the successful use of expanding tomato basil ravioli soup availability as a Undergraduate Council presidential campaign issue, the best Harvard University Dining Services food is clam chowder. What candidate will embrace this, the most important cause I have mentioned? The whole world is watching.

christiopher kwok—Crimson photographer

By madeleine f. jennewein

How else to end a column than with a Montaignian flurry of opinions?

and designing programming specifically for the BGLTQ community. The University must track the number of BGLTQ students who are at Harvard and address the specific needs of our community.

Harvard is once again facing decisions about whether to give resources to these groups that it has previously ignored. As a member of the bargaining committee, I know that the Harvard Graduate Student Union has put forward proposals to make contractual commitments that would advance equality by creating substantive resources for all BGLTQ student workers. The Dudley House faculty deans are stepping aside, and a new GSAS student resources office is on its way. Hopefully GSAS dean Emma Dench will include resources for

Harvard needs to make a tangible demonstration that it wants all of us here. It is not enough to speak about BGLTQ inclusion, update our symbols, and create a nondiscrimination policy.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | DECEMBER 3, 2018

TUESDAY ______________________________________

WEDNESDAY ______________________________________

SATURDAY ______________________________________

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

Women’s Squash vs. Dartmouth 5:00 p.m., Murr Center

Women’s Basketball vs. Rutgers 2:00 p.m., Lavietes Pavilion

Men’s Ice Hockey at Bentley 7:05 p.m., Waltham, Mass.

Men’s Squash vs. Dartmouth 5:00 p.m., Murr Center

Men’s Basketball at Vermont 7:00 p.m., Burlington, Vt.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Harvard Is Victorious Over RPI in Defensive Tussle

By WILLIAM BOGGS ­

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After 60 minutes of tight defense, staunch penalty-killing, and timely counter-attacking, the Crimson outlasted Rensselaer in a 2-0 decision.

With 4:36 left to play — as Harvard (3-5-1, 2-3-1 ECAC) clung to a 1-0 lead — the Engineers (4-8-4, 2-3-0 ECAC) drew an interference call on Crimson freshman defender Maryna MacDonald to set up a crucial power play opportunity.

Tensions ran high in BrightLandry Hockey Center as RPI seemed poised to convert on its fourth power play chance of the game after struggling on its first three. Not only did Harvard earn a hard-fought kill, however, but the squad also iced the game with a pivotal short-handed goal at the 2:58 mark of regulation.

“We stuck to the game plan,” freshman forward Kristin Della Rovere explained.

“It just happened that we got a lucky bounce and just got a short-handed goal.”

Capitalizing on the fortuitous bounce, Della Rovere led the counter-attack in the dwindling seconds of the Engineer advantage. Trailing the play was sophomore forward Becca Gilmore, who opened up for a pass from Della Rovere. Deking towards the post, Gilmore tucked home a backhand finish over RPI captain and goaltender Lovisa Selander’s right pad to seal the win.

The Engineers would go on to pull Selander for the final couple of minutes in favor of an extra skater, but Harvard freshman goaltender Lindsay Reed and the rest of the Crimson defense held strong to preserve Reed’s first career shutout and the Harvard victory. In the effort, Reed was able to fend off all

26 shots that came her way.

“It was nice to get the monkey off my back for that one,” Reed said. “Hopefully there [are] many more [shutouts] to come.”

Della Rovere did not just contribute to the last goal, but she actually netted the first one herself. After about half a period’s worth of back-and-forth play, each team had generated a few scoring chances, but both defenses played physically and both goalies limited follow-up chances with careful rebound control. Nonetheless, with 7:55 remaining in the first frame, Della Rovere changed the game’s momentum and grabbed the game’s first goal.

“Coming on, working really hard, and having that urgency getting the first goal just kind of gives us that extra confidence moving forward,” Della Rovere said.

On the play, junior forward Kat Hughes hustled behind the net to earn possession of the puck before centering to co-captain forward Lexie Laing. From the slot, Laing ripped a shot to the low corner, which Selander quickly pushed aside with a last second right-toe kick. As Laing was releasing the puck and Selander reacting, Della Rovere jockeyed for position in front of the net. Positioning herself right on the edge of the crease, she potted the rebound before any Engineer could react.

“I think it started with support from my teammates,” Della Rovere said. “We were supporting each other in the corner and getting a lot shots. Just having that extra support allowed me to be open backdoor.”

The one finish would prove to be all the Crimson needed as Reed did not concede a goal throughout the contest. Notably, the Engineers generated their best scoring chanc-

BRICK WALL Freshman goaltender Lindsay Reed earned her first career shutout in Friday night’s victory over RPI. HENRY ZHU—CRIMSON PHTOTOGRAPHER

es through odd-man rushes, but Reed proved to be up for the challenge. Looking to tie the game, as the second period wound down, RPI pushed forward on a 3-on-2 break only to the be thwarted by the right toe of Reed. “[The key was] just staying calm and knowing that I’m big getting out there, presenting myself, and making the save,” Reed said.

Harvard would maintain the 1-0 edge as the teams headed to the locker room for the second intermission, but only after killing off 1:04 of penalty time at the end of the second as the offi-

cials had whistled for a hooking call on co-captain forward Kate Hallett. The RPI power play pressure would only intensify at the start of the third as Hughes took a slashing penalty nineteen seconds into the period.

Faced with a 5-on-3 Engineer advantage, Crimson penalty killers managed to stay perfect and keep RPI off the board.

“I think our [penalty kill] is something that we should have pride in,” Della Rovere said. “I think we run a very strong PK.” Despite the numbers deficit, Harvard tried to set the tempo on the penalty kill rather than try to react to the RPI attack.

The approach seemed to work for the Crimson as the squad held the RPI power play 0-for-4 with only two aggregate shots.

“It starts with the faceoff at first, just trying to win the puck,” Reed said. “We’re being as aggressive as possible on the PK, so that helps. We’ve got to attack teams to get the puck out as quickly as possible.”

Bolstered by penalty-killing momentum, Harvard managed to hold the Engineers to only a couple of shots for the next few minutes of the period (and only six shots over the course of the entire period). In this time, the Crimson actually earned a pow-

er play of its own but failed to convert, leaving the scoreboard at 1-0 in Harvard’s favor heading into the closing stages of the game.

The Engineers last and best chance to even the scoreline came with their final power play opportunity, but the Crimson held RPI shotless over the 5-on-4 before Gilmore converted the game-clincher.

With the victory against the Engineers in hand, Harvard will immediately shift its focus to another conference foe in Union. The puck drops against the Dutchwomen Dec.1 at 3 pm in the Bright.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Late Comeback Effort Falls Short in Harvard Loss

KICK THEIR BASSEY Junior Justin Bassey led the team in scoring, but his final attempt to force overtime was long. HENRY ZHU—CRIMSON PHTOTOGRAPHER

By JOSEPH W. MINATEL ­

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In a back-and-forth matchup where momentum swings reigned, Harvard men’s basketball’s early offensive struggles paired with Siena’s runs just before and after halftime ultimately sunk the Crimson in Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y.,. Despite a few late comeback attempts, Harvard’s efforts were too little, too late to overtake the Saints.

“We dug ourselves a hole, and we didn’t play particularly well in the first half, and I thought

that spilled over somewhat into the second half,” coach Tommy Amaker said. “We had some life and tried to dig out at the end.”

The Crimson was finally able to break the back-and-forth play of the game with a pair of consecutive second-half threes from junior guard Christian Juzang, bringing the score to 5448. Harvard’s momentum was short-lived, however, as Siena struck with explosive back-toback dunks within 31 seconds to extend the lead to 10 points and reclaim the energy of the game. This departure from the see-saw play that defined much

of the second half proved to be an exception, as the Saints’ reclaimed momentum would last for another five minutes.

With 2:32 left to play, the Crimson (4-4) broke the game’s standstill once again and found new life on a three-pointer from sophomore guard Rio Haskett. Junior wing Justin Bassey then contributed his own threepoint play, this one the old fashioned way, knocking down a layup and completing the andone opportunity by sinking his free-throw.

Siena (3-5), despite earlier struggles from the line, was able

to do enough with its late freethrow opportunities to keep its lead into the final minute.

Free-throws were an issue for both sides, with the Saints and Harvard both having dismal performances from the line. Siena was 9-17 from the stripe, and the Crimson only made 7-14 free shots. These struggles especially manifested at the end of the contest, for both sides. It was a miss from the Saints, however, that made the final seconds competitive.

A Siena missed free-throw with 23 seconds to play kept Harvard in the game. A re-

bound by sophomore forward Danilo Djuricic lead to a missed layup by Bassey, but Djuricic was there to follow up the miss with a tip-in. Djuricic was fouled on the tip-in, and converted on his free-throw. Holding onto a fragile three-point lead, the Saints took a timeout to regroup.

The stoppage in play was not enough to keep the Crimson off of its back, as Siena turned the ball over quickly. Following Juzang’s steal, Bassey pulled up for a final shot, but his attempt to tie the game from behind the arc was no good, and Siena took the game 67-64.

In contrast to the latter period, the first half was offensively challenged, as each team struggled to put the ball in the basket.

Both teams shot under 40 percent from the field, as Harvard shot 36 percent while the Saints made a slightly better 37.9 percent of its shots. Of the Crimson’s 25 shots, 10 came from beyond the arc. This reliance on outside shot attempts could be due in part to the continued absence of junior forward Chris Lewis, who missed his third straight game, having previously sat out Harvard’s victories over Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross.

Despite the halftime score of 27-22 in Siena’s favor, the Crimson actually controlled much of the opening period. Harvard led the Saints for 65 percent of the first half, holding it for the last time until the break when Siena drilled a three-pointer to take the lead 20-19. The Saints would hold onto this lead into halftime, stretching it to five points with 37 seconds left on the clock. This would be its largest lead of the half.

The Crimson came out of the gates running, despite allowing the first points of the game. Harvard quickly struck back in the

opening minute of the contest with a triple from senior captain Corey Johnson. Junior forward Henry Welsh and Bassey followed with quick buckets of their own. The reminder of the first half was mostly back-andforth play, until Siena seized control of the momentum near the end of the period.

With just over five minutes left to play in the first half, the Saints started their tear from outside the arc. In the span of 2:03, three different Siena players knocked down three separate three pointers, interrupted only by a Crimson dunk from junior forward Robert Baker. A three-pointer from freshman guard Noah Kirkwood was Harvard’s only way to slow down the attack near the end of the half, keeping the Saints’ late run to marginal 8-3.

“I thought they played harder and more together than we did,” Amaker said. “And that was the difference.”

Following the break, the two squads returned to the backand-forth play that dominated the first half, alternating for the first six baskets of the period. Siena first broke this streak with 16:15 left, following up a jumper with a three-pointer and denying the Crimson the opportunity to continue trading points.

Not to be outdone, Johnson responded with a quick triple of his own. After a pair of baskets from the Saints made the game 41-31, the lead would hover around the low double-digits for the next seven minutes, with easier side able to string together any scoring runs and gain ground on the opposition.

Despite Harvard’s late runs that pulled it close, Siena did not relinquish the lead it seized late in the first half for the remainder of the contest. joseph.minatel@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. COLGATE W, 6-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. CORNELL L, 2-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S BASKETBALL AT SIENA L , 67-64 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOKCEY VS. UNION W, 4-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. QUINNIPIAC L, 72-67 (2OT) __________________________________________________________

MEN’S SQUASH VS. MIT W, 8-1 __________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. RPI W, 2-0 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Men’s Ice Hockey Overcome At Home By No. 16 Cornell

By STUTI R. TELIDEVARA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Coming into Saturday’s big rivalry matchup with No. 16 Cornell, the Harvard men’s hockey team had the country’s best power play unit and fourthbest goals per game. The Big Red, despite its ranking, sat near the bottom of the NCAA in terms of penalty killing. As the contest played out, special teams were a factor — but in an unexpected way.

Cornell (6-5-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) outlasted a late push from Harvard (4-4-2, 2-3-2) to emerge with a 2-1 victory after going 2-for-4 on the power play.

In fact, all three tallies in the game came on 5-on-4s. Despite the best efforts of senior net-minder Michael Lackey, the Crimson fell short after Friday’s decisive win, losing out on what would have been its first four-point weekend of the season. This loss is the home team’s last conference clash of the season, and comes just a week after it played spoiler to a Big Red-leaning crowd at Madison Square Garden.

“I thought we came out pretty strong,” co-captain Michael Floodstrand said. “[But] I think we kind of took our foot off the pedal a little bit late in the first, got dominated in the second…. Against a good team like that, they can just shut it down.”

The Crimson has had starting trouble often this year, but began the contest with jump.

Instead, it was in the second period that the team faltered.

Cornell piled on 19 shots to Harvard’s four in the middle frame after falling behind 1-0 in the first.

Two of those attempts were on the money, and came on remarkably similar attempts.

Both were power play scores from in front of the net; the first was notched by sophomore forward Cam Donaldson, and the second came from the stick of classmate Tristan Mullins on a net-mouth scramble. The Crimson gave up three penalties in all that period while

MOMENTUM SWING While the Crimson dominated the first 10 minutes, the Big Red stole momentum and potted two second period powerplays. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

drawing zero — a considerable blow to a bottom-four penalty-killing team, as Harvard is. This dramatic momentum swing proved too much for the hosts to recover from.

“The second period, I didn’t think we played with a lot of poise,” said head coach Ted Donato ’91. “Took a couple of unnecessary penalties, we got beat back at the front of our net…. They were more determined, certainly, in the second period than we were, and that was the difference in the game.”

In the third period the tables turned in terms of pressure, as the Crimson outshot the Big Red 10-1 and prevented the visitors from getting a shot on net until over 13 minutes into the frame. Harvard also saw two man-advantage

opportunities, the second coming with less than four minutes left in regulation. But it could not convert on either, and pulling Lackey for the extra attacker also proved fruitless.

The Crimson’s lone goal came at the 5:30 mark of the first period, on its very first power play attempt. As the second unit set up, junior forward Colton Kerfoot swept a pass to rookie defenseman Jack Rathbone at the left point. With Harvard skaters screening the Cornell goalie, Rathbone fired a shot that went right through the crowd and to the back of the net. The freshman’s tally extends the man-advantage unit’s streak of eight straight games with a conversion, and keeps its efficiency at the top of the NCAA. But Saturday’s game also

marked the end of several players’ point streaks. Junior defender Adam Fox, the team’s points leader, saw his season-long point streak grind to a halt, while sophomore defenseman Reilly Walsh and co-captain Lewis Zerter-Gossage did not notch a point for the first time in seven and five straight respectively. The offense, however, was not coach Donato’s primary concern after the loss.

“I’m not as concerned about the [lone] goal as I am about our overall effort,” coach Donato said. “You’re not going to win a lot of games with 24 shots. We got the goal early, but we...can’t look in the mirror and say that we played our best or that we deserved to win.”

The Big Red, for its part, turned around its game after last week’s loss. The team has

been plagued by the injury bug already this season, with several key contributors unable to dress against the Crimson. One big absence was sophomore goaltender Matt Galajda, who did not play at all this weekend after an injury sustained at Madison Square Garden.

Instead, rookie Austin McGrath stepped up between the pipes — and played to his first win, stopping 23 of 24 attempts thrown his way.

At the other end of the ice, Lackey turned in another solid performance (2.08 GAA, .933 SV%). The net-minder has picked up confidence in the past few weeks, and aside from a loss to ASU, has had good numbers for his past six starts. That positive, though not enough to secure a win, is a necessary foundation if Harvard hopes to

overcome this stumbling block.

“I thought he was good,” coach Donato said. “I think he gave us a chance to win the game, and that’s ultimately what you need from your goalie. I thought he made some saves in the second to keep the game at 2-1.”

The Crimson will close out its 2018 play with a game at Bentley next week before hosting the Chinese National Development Team in late December. A win on Saturday could have had ranking implications for Harvard — and certainly for Cornell — in addition to boosting the team’s confidence heading into its winter hiatus, but the team will need to look ahead for a satisfying closeout to the year. stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s Basketball Drops 2-OT Thriller to Quinnipiac

FIVE MORE MINUTES Captain Madeline Raster drained a jumper with under a second remaining to force overtime, but the Crimson eventually fell. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

By SHUVOM N. SADHUKA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A late-regulation comeback and 27-point effort by junior guard Katie Benzan wasn’t quite enough for Harvard’s women’s basketball (4-4) Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, who dropped 72-67 to Quinnipiac (4-3) in a double-overtime thriller to

open its four-game homestand.

Down 52-44 with seven minutes to play in regulation, senior guard Madeline Raster went on a late-game tear, including hitting a triple with three minutes left to bring the Crimson within striking distance at 5754. A Quinnipiac layup put the Bobcats up 59-54, but Benzan quickly responded with a deep

three with a minute left in regulation to keep the game at 59-57.

A Harvard stop on defense gave the Crimson the ball back with 28 seconds to play, which fed the ball to their hot hand in Benzan. The shooter drove hard to the basket in the final seconds, but the ball sailed out of bounds off Quinnipiac at 1.1 seconds.

Needing a two to send the game to overtime, Benzan inbounded the ball to Raster, who nailed a buzzer-beating baseline jumper over a Bobcat defender to close out regulation.

“We all knew she was going to make [the shot],” Benzan said. “We all believed in her and that was just a magnificent shot over two defenders, and she just

had the mental toughness to lock in and nail it.”

Harvard continued to carry that late-game momentum into overtime, racing out to a 6459 lead with a minute left, including off a scrappy dive from sophomore Jadyn Bush to set up Benzan with a three. Benzan finished 7-12 from distance.

“Jadyn just did a great hustle

play, like we were talking about getting those 50-50 balls and she dove on the floor and kicked it out to me, and I shot it, and thankfully it went in,” Benzan said.

The Bobcats weren’t done yet, as they rallied back and finished the period with their own buzzer-beating heroics with a three to tie the game at 65 and send it to a second overtime.

Harvard’s magical run didn’t quite make it into the second overtime, as it fell behind 7267 to close out the game, giving the ball away on a few critical possessions. Turnovers proved costly on the night overall for the Crimson, who finished the game with 23 turnovers in spite of outboarding Quinnipiac 50-35 and finishing with a 42.9 field-goal percentage, compared to the Bobcats’ 35.6 percent.

“They did a really nice job getting in our passing lanes and taking our sets away from us... we were frenetic and played at a pace that was too fast,” Delaney-Smith said. “We can’t turn the ball over 23 times and beat a team like Quinnipiac, and so to oversimplify things, we lacked the discipline to run a play and get to the end of the play.”

The finish may be difficult to digest for the team, but Harvard will move on towards its next contest, a home stint against Maine on Tuesday.

“There are always learning experiences in every game, but especially in losses,” Benzan said. “Going down the stretch when it’s a neck and neck game, you have to be mentally tough every single play.”