The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 45

The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 45 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | thursday, march 29, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Harvard now has to take on the difficult and nuanced job of addressing all forms of diversity on campus. editorial PAGE 4

4.59 Percent Accepted to Harvard Class of 2022

Sporting freshly dyed blonde hair, the baseball team blew out Holy Cross 10-2. sports PAGE 6

Capital Campaign Class of Reaches 2022 Financial Early Action Aid Goal 14.5%

Harvard Acceptance Rate 22%

21.0% Early Action Admit Rate

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Overall Admit Rate *Harvard eliminated early admission for the Class of 2012 but resumed for the Class of 2016

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Acceptance Rate

By Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel Crimson Staff Writers

A record-low 4.59 percent of applicants to Harvard College received offers of admission to the Class of 2022 Wednesday, with just 1,962 of 42,749 candidates securing spots in the class.

This year marks the first time Harvard’s admission rate has ever dipped below 5 percent.

The College notified 998 students of their acceptance in the regular decision cycle at around 7 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. These accepted students make up 2.43 percent of the total 36,119 regular decision applicants, plus the 4,882 students deferred in the early action process. The accepted regular decision students join 964 students who were offered admission through Har-

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elena M. ramos—Crimson Designer

Overseer Calls on Harvard to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Lowell Faculty Deans to Step Down

By William L. Wang Crimson Staff Writer

By caroline s. engelmayer

Lowell House Faculty Deans Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin will step down at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year, the two wrote in an email to House affiliates Wednesday.

This spring, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana will bring together a committee of students, staff, and members of Lowell’s senior common room to select the new faculty deans, Eck and Austin wrote. The committee will choose new faculty deans before the start of the next academic year.

Eck and Austin wrote they want the new faculty deans to adjust to leading the house during the final year of Lowell’s renovation. Lowell—the fifth of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential houses to be renewed—is currently in its first of two years of renovations.

“We think it is important for the incoming faculty deans to be appoint-

Kathryn “Kat” A. Taylor ’80, a member of the Board of Overseers, called on Harvard to divest from fossil fuels Wednesday afternoon, marking the first time any member of the University’s governance boards has urged divestment.

Taylor is the co-founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a California-based community development bank.

She was elected to the Board of Overseers by Harvard alumni in 2012; her term will end this May. The board is Harvard’s second-highest governing body.

In an op-ed published by The Crimson on Wednesday, Taylor called for University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow and Harvard Management Company—the investment branch in charge of the University’s $37.1 billion endowment—to “adopt ethical investment principles.”

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Benjamin Zawacki gives a talk about his book “Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the U.S. and a Rising China” on Wednesday afternoon.

Brenda Lu — Crimson photographer

With just months left in Harvard’s record-breaking capital campaign, the school has met its $600 million financial aid goal, according to donor Michael T. Kerr ’81.

The campaign, which publicly launched in Sept. 2013, surpassed its $6 billion goal in 2016 and had raised more than $8 billion as of June.

Even as the overall campaign shattered higher education fundraising records, as of January, it had yet to meet the College’s financial aid goal.

At an event for scholarship donors and recipients in New York City in January, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd R. Blankfein ’75, and Class of 2016 senior class gift marshall Kia C. Turner ’16 made the case for financial aid.

As the campaign neared its finish line, donors stepped up to close the gap.

“We have achieved the target of $600 million,” Kerr said in an interview this week.

University representatives informed a group of donors about the milestone at a meeting two weeks ago, Kerr said.

Fundraising around financial aid got off to a strong start.

Early in the campaign, Kenneth C. Griffin ’89 gave a $125 million gift in Feb. 2014—the largest donation the College had ever received at the time, which funded hundreds of scholarships.

Kerr said donors and some financial aid recipients will celebrate the financial aid campaign’s success at an annual dinner. The event, called “Celebration of Scholarships,” will take place on April 13 in the Northwest Building.

He called the event “one of the finest nights we do for alumni on campus.”

Back in January, some alumni said they had been surprised this particular benchmark had yet to be reached.

Roy G. Geronemus ’75, who has funded scholarships at the College for the past 15 years, said in January he was surprised the financial aid drive was lagging behind.

“I would have assumed that they would have been further along in obtaining the support that they need to give Harvard students whatever is necessary,” he said.

Around 70 percent of Harvard students receive some form of financial aid, while 20 percent of students are on full scholarships.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven declined to comment on whether the campaign had met its financial aid goal. ­

#MeToo Movement Hits Harvard: News Analysis By luke w. xu Crimson Staff Writer

OUT OF TOWN NEWS

Inside this issue

The sky over Harvard Square is lit in shades of brilliant orange and pink. Wednesday’s warmer temperatures prompted some students to break out their spring clothes. AMY Y. LI—Crimson photographer

Harvard Today 2

News 3

Editorial 4

Sports 6

Today’s Forecast

When allegations of sexual harassment against a prominent Government professor roiled campus last month, Harvard joined a growing list of universities across America embroiled in similar scandals—and saw direct effects of the #MeToo movement for the first time.

The #MeToo campaign launched in Oct. 2017 when the New York Times reported allegations that film executive Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or abused dozens of women—ranging from actresses to staffers—across decades. The backlash against Weinstein precipitated a social media campaign centered around the catchphrase #MeToo, urging those who have experienced sexual misconduct to speak out.

In the following months, an avalanche of similar allegations surfaced in industries ranging from Hollywood to the restaurant business to higher education.

In Nov. 2017, the Huffington Post reported allegations of harassment against a Princeton engineering procloudy High: 55 Low: 47

fessor. In January, the New York Times reported five accounts of alleged sexually inappropriate behavior perpetrated by a Columbia photography professor. The Chronicle first reported allegations against Dominguez at the end of February.

Some higher education experts say it has taken comparatively longer for the #MeToo movement to reach academia broadly—and Harvard specifically.

“I don’t really know why it’s taken so long,” said Paula Fazli ’85, a search expert at Sage Search Partners. Fazli said she thinks one reason could be Harvard prioritizes protecting faculty members whenever possible.

“They spend a lot of time recruiting these amazing, top-of-their-field faculty [and] the whole institution’s reputation rests on having the best-of-thebest faculty and research in the world,” she said. “And their reputation, especially these days, there’s a huge risk in going public with a scandal.”

But former University provost Steven E. Hyman said he thinks it is an

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around the ivies Following Allegations of Misconduct, Yale Fraternities Request Additional Sexual Assault Training The Yale Daily News reported that many campus fraternities have requested supplemental workshops for their members and pledges in an effort to combat sexual assault. The request comes after several members of campus fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon came under fire for alleged sexual misconduct earlier this year. Some groups have also requested training specifically geared towards all-male organizations.

Columbia Student Suspended from Rowing Team for Intruding in Barnard Dorm

Verena Conley Verena Conley, a visiting professor of comparative literature and romance languages and literature at Harvard, gives a talk titled “Care Tactics: Environmental Practice of Everyday Life.”

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HAPPY thursday, Harvard!

advocating for ways to create financially strong and resilient cities, towns and neighborhoods.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.

Graduate Student Unionization at Harvard: A Discussion (5:15-6:30 p.m.)

The Crimson is hosting a discussion about grad student unionization today. Head on over to 14 Plympton St if you have strong feelings—or if you really need to catch up on campus goings-on.

What Lawyers Can Do to Build Strong Towns (12:00-1:00p.m.)

Hosted in Wasserstein Campus Center Room #1019, this talk will be led by Charles “Chuck” Marohn, who is the Founder and President of Strong Towns—a non-profit

Lorenzo F. Manuali and Carmen S. Enrique CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A Columbia freshman was indefinitely suspended from the mens’ heavyweight rowing team, the Columbia Daily Herald reported. The suspension comes after the student reportedly entered and defaced a Barnard student’s room while intoxicated. Both Barnard and Columbia have opened investigations into the matter.

Cornell Student Group to Host Mass Incarceration Week The Amnesty International group at Cornell plans to host a series of events geared towards combating mass incarceration early next month, per the Cornell Daily Sun. Among the planned events are a teach-in and a lecture on the connection between police brutality and mass incarceration. Student activists at Cornell say they hope the series will encourage a greater sense of urgency among students.

in the real world Trump Aide Tied to Russian Intelligence Trump campaign official Rick Gates had frequent phone calls in September and October with an individual that is believed by the FBI to be connected with Russian spy services. Too. Much.

Russia. Please. Make. It. Stop. It. Hurts.

My. Brain.

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Replaced Yet again, Trump has kicked out a member of his cabinet. Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David L. Shulkin will be replaced by Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, the current White House physician. In case you haven’t learned your lesson yet: Don’t get too attached to anyone in the Trump administration.

BGLTQ Study Break WAIting at the dot

Sonya Kalara ‘21 and Gabby Preston ‘20 attend the Office of BGLTQ Student Life’s “Take a Break!” event in Adams House.

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“We’ve decided to establish ourselves as the ‘Bad Boys’ of the Ivy League.”

Varsity baseball player Pat McColl ’19

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Sen. Mitch McConnell Stops by Harvard By simone c. chu Crimson Staff Writer ­

Approximately 100 Harvard students sat down with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at Institute of Politics fellow Scott Jennings’s study group on Wednesday afternoon.

During his short visit to campus, McConnell also met with university administrators, including University President Drew G. Faust, Dean of the Kennedy School Douglas W. Elmendorf, and IOP Director Mark D. Gearan ’78, according to Jennings.

“Frankly, he shook a lot of hands today. He got a real good sort of education about what’s going on at the Kennedy School, and what’s going on at Harvard in general,” Jennings said.

McConnell was persuaded to take a trip to Harvard by “a fortunate confluence” of “happy involvement over the years, my being here, and what I’d like to think was a persuasive invitation,” Jennings said.

Jennings, who held senior positions in McConnell’s campaigns in 2002, 2008, and 2014, said he has actually known McConnell since 1995, when Jennings was a high school junior participating in a leadership program with McConnell’s daughter.

“It was an honor to have him on campus,” he said. “It will definitely be the most special moment and memory that I take away from my fellowship here.”

Wednesday was not the first time McConnell and Faust have sat down together. During her presidency, Faust has traveled to Washington several times to meet with McConnell and other top lawmakers.

Faust has recently publicly called on McConnell to repeal the newly-passed tax on university endowments, and to keep protections for undocumented immigrants.

Jennings declined to comment on what McConnell discussed with administrators on Wednesday.

Wednesday was McConnell’s first time speaking at an Institute of Politics event, according to Emily M. Hall ’18, who helps organize Scott Jennings’s IOP study groups. McConnell’s wife—Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, a graduate of the Business School—served as a senior advisory board member of the IOP from 2002 until accepting her cabinet position.

McConnell’s talk with students at the study group, which took place at the Malkin Penthouse at the Kennedy School, was a closed event. Students had to enter a lottery for a chance to win one of the available seats.

“It was the right call to lottery,” Hall said. “There’s a lot more interest than we have space.”

Jennings called McConnell’s visit the “crown jewel” of his study group outline.

“One of the most satisfying things

to me was there were several students from Kentucky, including a couple of people who went to his high school alma mater in Louisville,” Jennings said. “And they’re now students at Harvard.”

One of the goals of the IOP study groups, Hall said, is to provide students with unique opportunities to engage with political figures “in a really close setting, which is something that we don’t often get.”

He got a real good sort of education about what’s going on at the Kennedy School, and what’s going on at Harvard.

Scott Jennings IOP Fellow “I got the chance to talk to him oneon-one. He went around the room during the reception beforehand and when he was signing books. So I got to talk to him a bit about Alaskan politics,”

Kiera E. O’Brien ’20, president of the Harvard Republican Club, said. “I just really appreciated his candor. ” Catherine H. Ho ’21, who attended the event, said she thought many of the questions Jennings posed while he was leading the discussion were “things that people have asked” in the past.

“If you’re going to make it ‘off-therecord,’ I expect the conversation to be a lot more robust and candid,” Ho said.

Ho said she wished more time had been dedicated to student questions.

“There were so many questions left to be answered,” she added, noting that there were still many raised hands when the last question was called.

Devontae A. Freeland ’19, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said he thought it was important to note that the event was not a forum for students to challenge speakers, but “largely supposed to be an instructive model.”

“The idea is about teaching people about experiences in politics,” he said.

“In that way, even though I disagree with almost everything Mitch McConnell stands for, I still think that there is something I can learn about his experience.”

Ho and Freeland both said there were students from across the political spectrum represented in the room.

“If anything stood out to me today, it was the ability to have civil discourse on campus between students of all political ideologies,” Freeland said.

Quincy House Looks for New Res. Dean Crimson Staff Writers

Quincy House and College administrators are launching a search for a new resident dean, according to Dean of Students Katherine G. O’Dair.

Resident deans serve as an intermediary between students in the House and the College administration.

The deans play various roles, including representing students who must go before the Administrative Board, one of the College’s disciplinary bodies.

O’Dair said the search for the new dean will involve soliciting input from multiple groups, including Quincy

Their title was confusing to students, and so they asked that it be reverted back to the former title.

Katherine G. O’Dair Dean of Students

House affiliates, University Health Services, and Counseling and Mental Health Services.

“The search process for resident deans,” O’Dair wrote in an emailed statement, “typically involves Faculty Affairs, members of the house (students, tutors), the faculty deans, and campus partners like UHS and CAMHS.” Before the College extends an offer for the position, finalists for resident dean positions are typically invited to tour the House with the Faculty Deans, House administrators, and students, along with staff from the Office of Student Life and the Campus Services department.

Once appointed, resident deans serve renewable five-year terms, according to O’Dair.

Judith Flynn, the outgoing Quincy resident dean, declined to comment via email. The title of the resident dean position has changed four times in the past decade.

In Dec. 2017, the College changed the name of the position from “assistant dean” to “resident dean,” citing confusion over the former term.

“The resident deans, former Allston Burr Assistant Deans, reported to me that their title was confusing to students, and so they asked that it be reverted back to the former title,” O’Dair said in December.

By simone c. chu Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard College Democrats released a statement Wednesday morning in support of the ongoing graduate student worker unionization effort.

The statement urged eligible students to vote “Yes” in the upcoming April 18 and 19 unionization election.

The results of that election will likely determine whether qualifying graduate and undergraduate students earn the right to collectively bargain with the University as members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers.

The group’s endorsement came two days after four campus unions and two Boston-area labor groups signed and released a letter advocating for the student worker unionization effort, which has been ongoing since Harvard’s first unionization election in 2016.

“Student workers have the same problems [as other workers] like sexual assault, getting proper wages, getting healthcare, things like that,” said Nirav R. Sookhai ’21, the College Democrats’ treasurer, who said he helped organize the endorsement. “They deserve the same rights. They deserve that union to help fight for those rights,” he said.

Devontae A. Freeland ’19, president of the College Democrats, said the endorsement forms “part of our institutional planning to try to prioritize allyship on campus more.” In 2016, the College Democrats established a new board position focused on campus outreach to further the club’s goal of supporting other student groups’ campaign efforts.

Nathaniel R. Braffman, a graduate student and supporter of the HGSU-UAW, wrote in an emailed statement that he is excited about the club’s endorsement. “It’s great to hear that the Harvard College Dems recognize our work to protect student workers from exploitation, harassment, and deportation—many of the reasons I support a union here,” Braffman wrote.

Freeland said the College Democrats will continue to discuss how to best support the union in the coming weeks. ­

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EDITORIAL

THE HARVARD CRIMSON | MARCH 29, 2018 | PAGE 4

THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

CS50 as Religious Experience

Becoming Our Best Self

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he Presidential Task Force for Inclusion and Belonging released its final report earlier this week after months of substantive discussion and analysis, providing a tremendous amount of information about many University-wide issues related to diversity and inclusion. The report is impressively thorough, and we commend the Task Force for the depth with which they have considered these weighty issues. The report’s concrete recommendations and clearcut goals for each of the University’s respective schools are especially to be applauded.

We are pleased to see that many of the issues we have opined on recently have been referenced within the report. For example, the report’s recommendation to make spaces available within the newly-renovated Smith Campus Center to support “civil disagreement” and other forms of dialogue serve as a potential for the beginnings of a multicultural center, a weighty topic within the College in recent months.

Additionally, we commend the task force for recognizing the important issue of faculty diversity and President Faust for devoting a sizable amount of funding to ameliorating it. As we have opined, and as some students know all too well, the faculty at Harvard unfortunately do not ref lect the diversity of the

student body across spectrums of race, gender, religion, ideology, and more.

We believe that this lack of diversity has troubling implications for the culture of the University, and we are glad to see this increase in funding to change course. Indeed, diversification could potentially lead to academic growth—a more diverse faculty could be propitious for founding a formal Ethnic Studies department and concentra-

The report is impressively thorough, and we commend the Task Force for the depth with which they have considered these weighty issues. tion within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, something some students have been requesting for some time.

Furthermore, in the turbulent political and social context of recent months, we also find ourselves increasingly concerned with the issue of ideological diversity. The free exchange of ideas representing the multitude of views and identities found on Harvard’s campus is essential to our continued success as a university. We are pleased to see the Task Force has not left “ac-

ademic freedom” out of the many ways in which the University could better facilitate inclusion, especially when it is profoundly liberal. We hope that the $10 million that President Faust has set aside for hiring new faculty members includes those who hold contrarian or marginalized political views.

Of course, focusing on ideological diversity should in no way diminish attempts to redress other perceived inequalities across racial and social lines. In receiving this report, Harvard now has to take on the difficult and nuanced job of addressing all forms of diversity on campus, and not leave any behind.

The report encourages the University to “become its best self,” for the sake of its own good and the public’s. We can only achieve this by working together to address all the ways in which individuals may feel unwelcome on our campus. This report provides a starting road map for the advocacy efforts required going forward, and we are eager to see the University take clear, active steps to respond to it. There is, after all, so much work ahead.

Derek K. CHOI WHAT’S NEXT?

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his week is Holy Week, and truly it is a time of miracles: Christ raised from the dead, the lapsed returned to the pews, and Harvard professors contemplating the possibility of grace in the face of human depravity.

Our reading today comes from Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I”, the wildly popular class taught by David J. Malan ’99. The course has a turbulent history with academic dishonesty—one that includes a full tenth of the class, or over 60 students, being investigated by the Honor Council in 2017—though perhaps charitably it also is more rigorous than many courses about checking for such transgressions.

In response, Malan announced earlier this month that he plans to adopt a policy, termed the “near occasion of sin” rule, where students who say they feel they have no recourse but to cheat can instead receive penalty-free or penalty-reduced extensions on their assignments.

It’s sad that this policy seems to have baked into it a resignation to the inevitability of cheating, though I suppose that that rule—named by its creator at Princeton after a piece of Catholic dogma—has got its heart in the right place. Malan says that academic dishonesty is “almost always the result of poor, late-night decisions with stress levels high and deadlines looming,” a conclusion that seems plausible.

Indeed, elsewhere in his blog post, Malan indicates that the “regret clause,” another CS50-specific policy that violators who self-report within a certain time frame can sidestep the traditional Harvard College academic dishonesty disciplinary process, has enabled the course to identify students struggling with external health or family challenges and provide access to professional counseling.

Nevertheless, both these policies suggest a certain helplessness in the face of undergrads’ behavior. Students, CS50 seems to believe, have an intrinsic proclivity to cheat.

Left without emergency exits and amnesty clauses, they cannot help but turn to it.

Approaches like the regret clause and the “near occasion of sin” rule are designed to give undergraduates a way out, either just before or just after the cheating is consummated. In a strange sort of way, they’ve got weirdly Calvinist overtones to their fatality and outlook.

In that sense, the use of “sin” as a euphemism (or dysphemism?) for academic dishonesty seems actually quite apt. It is, as the Catholic Encyclopedia’s definition says of the phrase “occasions of sin,” a result of “the frailty common to humanity.”

The claim is a somewhat depressing one to hear. The traditional line had always been, as Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris told CS50 last fall, that students faced with a choice between a worse grade and academic dishonesty must be taught to always choose the former.

Malan now suggests that that choice never existed. Students won’t elect to get a worse grade, he says, they’ll just cheat. The only way to reduce the number of technical instances of plagiarism, therefore, is to make extensions permanently available without penalty. A willingness to cheat is now understood as a natural, if not necessarily accepted, part of Harvard students’ nature.

It is sad that the bar for expectations of us is so low, for it also implies a certain moral exculpability about academic dishonesty. CS50’s policies reflect a belief that we’d all cheat given the right circumstances. It’s a condition to be managed, not eradicated.

It’s ironic that this policy is labeled the “occasion of sin,” since Catholic theology makes clear that—while in agreement about the underlying impulse towards evil—the phrase represents the individual moral imperative to resist that temptation. “The same obligation which binds us to refrain from sin requires us to shun its occasion,” the Catholic Encyclopedia’s entry says.

It does not seem too far fetched that the same would be asked and expected of students. As the theology suggests, the better road is not always the easier one, but we do have the free will to choose. Even the grace that comes after is not free, and this week in particular, Christians commemorate its high cost. (Celebrants of today, Maundy Thursday, will recall that the night before Jesus was arrested, he also asked, rather unsuccessfully, for an extension.)

Of course, I believe extensions should be granted for students with extenuating circumstances, and it is very good that CS50 course staff have been able to look out for their students’ health outside the classroom when it impacts their academic work.

But beyond those circumstances, academic dishonesty shouldn’t be an excusable offense. Harvard should expect every student to reject it entirely, regardless of the specific conditions of their assignment. (Wonderfully, The Crimson article reporting on the new policy is paired with a photo whose caption reads, “During the first CS50 lecture, David J. Malan ’99 explains the concept of binary.”)

If academic dishonesty is indeed akin to sin—and having taken the Puritanism out of the alma mater, I suppose CS50 was as good a place as any to put it—we ought to be truer to its gravity. To commit it or to abjure it is a personal choice we must each make, as both the phrase “academic dishonesty” and the word “sin” imply.

I’m more optimistic than either Malan or the Catholics: I’m willing to believe Harvard undergrads do not have an intrinsic inclination towards cheating. I hope in the future that courses can treat them that way.

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.

Wellness at Harvard Law: Promises to Keep and Miles to Go Before We Sleep

By AMANDA H. CHAN, AMANDA M. LEE, and ADAM P. SAVITT

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very law student has met a lawyer who cannot help but offers the advice, “Don’t go to law school.” The misery in the legal profession is seemingly ubiquitous. The mental health crisis facing modern lawyers has been reported so extensively, it barely needs repetition. Yet the causes have been woefully overlooked.

Why hasn’t Harvard taken responsibility for its contribution to this professional malaise? Last year, we pushed Harvard Law School to begin an annual mental health survey to measure the welfare of the student body. We began writing law school-specific survey questions based on our experience as students and worked with university health researchers and administrators to publicize the survey.

The results presented a grisly reality. Among 886 respondents, 25 percent reported suffering from depression. For context, according to the CDC, 7.7 percent of individuals aged 20 to 39 from the general population suffer from depression. 24.2 percent of Law School survey respondents reported suffering from anxiety, and 20.5 percent said they were at heightened risk of suicide. 66 percent of respondents said that they experienced new mental health challenges during law school. Nearly 61.8 percent said they had frequent or intense imposter syndrome experiences at school and in measuring social connectedness, 8.2 percent stated they had zero people they could open up to about their most private feelings without having to hold back.

But the problem is not confined to the Law School. In 2014, researchers Jerome Organ, David Jaffe, and

Why hasn’t Harvard taken responsibility for its contribution to this professional malaise?

Katherine Bender built on the work of Lawrence Krieger, Ken Sheldon and more, to revitalize the discussion of law student mental health. They surveyed students from 15 ABA-approved law schools and found high incidence of drug use, depression, anxiety, and suicide risk. Additionally, Law students at Yale and Georgetown surveyed their peers, and students at other schools have also demanded action. Evidence of pervasive suffering calls for decisive action now.

We therefore call on all law schools to survey their own student bodies every year and release the survey data. The court of public opinion should hold them accountable.

Studies that anonymize school participants allow schools to shirk individual responsibility. Only institution specific surveys done year to year can measure whether policy changes at each school were effective.

Harvard Law School is the only law school that has taken the first step to-

wards change with an in-depth, initial survey and other schools should do at least the same.

Because an annual barometer of student wellbeing is only useful if coupled with new policies, we also advocate for Harvard to take these next steps: First, release a full and anonymized report of the data. A largescale community mobilization was critical to discover the truth about the Law School’s mental health status and it was built on the promise to combat the crisis together. To achieve this goal, students were willing to put in the time to answer invasive questions about their mental health struggles, including potential struggles with suicide ideation, alcohol consumption, and more. Students deserve to have ownership of the data that they themselves created; as sophisticated and sensitive allies, students also understand that data must be handled responsibly, that patterns may not have statistical significance, that correlations are not causations, and that results should be contextualized. But if the data is kept behind administrative doors, it will be impossible for students to offer perspective to improve the way data is analyzed and it will be clear that students are not respected as equal stakeholders in a crisis that affects them; naturally, it would then be difficult to galvanize students behind a future survey. A full community effort can only be created with full transparency.

Second, hire more full-time therapists who are diverse in both personal background and professional specialty. Only 33 percent of student respondents that were found to be depressed were being treated. Harvard should also provide weekly, appointment-free drop-in counseling sessions. However, any increase in access to care to new students must not be at the expense of ongoing or specialized treatment to students already seeking care. The general increase in providers is an ask especially of our leadership, University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow, to increase Health Services’ capacity at all levels.

Third, train students how to informally counsel and detect signs of distress in individuals who may be facing mental health challenges. These trainings can develop lawyering skills when applied to client service and facilitate earlier peer or self-intervention for students struggling with mental health. It is evident that most of our classmates suffer in isolation; a majority of student respondents indicated that they believed less than half of their peers faced mental health challenges, though 83 percent of respondents reported having such challenges.

Fourth, foster deeper connections between faculty and students. This could include more candid discussions about mental health struggles in the legal profession, or even the struggles of the faculty themselves.

Our survey shows that students with more connections to faculty members display lower rates of depression and anxiety. But, as it stands, only 8

percent of students said they would feel comfortable reaching out to faculty about mental health challenges. Our educators should be open to combining traditional legal teaching tools with new pedagogy that cultivates conversation and de-stigmatizes mental health.

Fifth, as a leading law school that produces one of the largest graduating classes, Harvard should pressure

In the face of this mental health crisis, law schools must reverse the trend of increased mental health challenges. state bar associations to eliminate questions that do not assess a candidate’s competency to practice law. Licensing bodies require candidates to answer probing character and fitness questions as a prerequisite to practicing law; some have even discriminated against students based on treatment or diagnosis in violation of the ADA. Basing assessments of competency on a candidate’s medical record which may include the diagnosis of mental health conditions, rather than a candidate’s actual conduct stigmatizes mental illness and actually deters students from seeking counseling for fear they will eventually need to report. Indeed, our survey found that 19 percent of respondents were reluctant to seek help due to concerns about bar eligibility. This reluctance was correlated with heightened depression, anxiety, and risk of suicide.

In the face of this mental health crisis, law schools must reverse the trend of increased mental health challenges. By committing to our asks, Harvard should engage in this cooperative effort to investigate root causes of mental health challenges, test new interventions, and begin to inaugurate practicing lawyers that finally say to future law students, “definitely go to law school.” Or at least, “maybe go.”

Amanda M. Lee is the President of Harvard Law School Student Government. Amanda H. Chan is the Vice President of Harvard Law School Student Government. Adam P. Savitt is Chair of Health and Wellness of Harvard Law School Student Government. The authors are all third-year students at the Law School.

Derek K. Choi ’18, a former president of The Crimson, lives in Leverett House.

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Lowell Fac. Deans Leave faculty dean From Page 1 in a timely fashion, to familiarize themselves with the scope and facilities of the new Lowell House, and to make many of the important upcoming decisions,” they wrote. In an email sent to students Wednesday morning, Khurana wrote Eck and Austin plan to “work closely” with the committee charged with picking their successors.

“We are so sorry to see them move on, and are deeply grateful for their dedication to Harvard College over the years,” he wrote. Eck and Austin’s decision to step down comes after 20 years as Lowell faculty deans. In the email, they described their stint as faculty deans as “the happiest and most rewarding time of our lives together at Harvard.”

“We do plan to be here to see the House through this next year of our diaspora and there will be time in the year ahead to say just how much we love the Lowell House community,” the two wrote. News of Eck and Austin’s upcoming departure from Lowell comes at a time of turnover for the leadership of some Houses. Last week, Khurana announced that Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor Brian D. Farrell and Irina P. Ferreras would serve as faculty deans for Leverett House starting next year.

#MeToo Arrives on Harvard’s Campus harassment From Page 1 “error” to tie the problem of power relations or the problem of protecting tenured faculty exclusively to Harvard.

“I think academia is all hierarchical, and I think tenured faculty are protected, and I think it’s not unique to academia by any way, certainly,” he said. “I think the pattern is that people do protect each other and protect their powerful leaders both for bonds of affinity and also in these hierarchies because of fear or danger of rocking the boat.”

I think it’s not unique in academia by any way, certainly.

Steven E. Hyman

Former University Provost Fazli adds she thinks the changing cultural climate towards sexual harassment—typified by the #MeToo movement—has now made it impossible for institutions of higher learning to “push it under the rug.”

Narcisa Polonio, an executive vice

president at the Association of Community College Trustees, posited another reason the #MeToo movement may have taken longer to reach the University. Polonio said she thinks Harvard’s high profile might mean victims of sexual harassment feel reluctant to speak up.

“I think the issue here is because of the space that Harvard occupies,” she said. “Anything that’s going to happen there is going to get a lot more attention.”

University Title IX Officer Nicole M. Merhill said Harvard administrators have worked for years to address issues of sexual misconduct, with efforts dating back to well before the #MeToo movement began.

“We are creating an environment that is inclusive, that ensures that our graduate professional students and our undergraduate students feel that they can come forward to share concerns without the risks... of retaliation, risks of reputational harm,” she said.

Merhill also said she thinks Harvard is “ahead of the curve” on issues of sexual harassment policy. She pointed to recent Title IX office initiatives including a new online training module debuted at the College two years ago, regular analysis of “patterns of concerns” across the University, and the addition—and extensive training—of over 50 Title IX Coordinators across the University in recent years.

“Harvard didn’t wait and doesn’t wait to respond to issues that come about through the media,” Merhill said.

Since the establishment of the central Title IX office in 2014, the University has seen an increase every year in the number of reports of sexual misconduct across Harvard.

As of Dec. 2017, complaints had

What Harvard does next will serve as a template.

Narcisa Polonio spiked by 20 percent in the wake of the Weinstein scandal.

Now that allegations of sexual harassment have specifically reached a Harvard professor, Polonio thinks the landscape of sexual misconduct in academia could shift.

Polonio said the University’s high profile means how it handles the Dominguez allegations could set a precedent for how higher education institutions around the country handle sexual harassment incidents.

“What Harvard does next to resolve

this will serve as a template for colleges and universities all over the country,” she said.

“That’s what I would hope, that Harvard rises to the occasion and really explores the very best way to set the checks and balances and mechanism to protect those women and men.”

In the wake of the allegations brought against Dominguez, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences placed the professor on “administrative leave.”

Harvard is currently conducting a review of the charges against Dominguez, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith. Dominguez also announced he would retire from teaching at the end of the semester, and from administrative positions immediately.

Hyman and Merhill said they hope those who have experienced sexual harassment continue to come forward.

Merhill said the Title IX Office’s goal is to create an environment where students “feel comfortable coming forward to any of their coordinators or to my office to share the concern they have so we can connect them with resources.”

“What I hope is that this is not a flash in the pan, a brief moment of people telling their stories,” Hyman said.

“But rather that places like Harvard and all institutions, companies, will ensure that people who have been harassed, assaulted and so forth will continue to feel safe coming forward.”

Harvard Receives Call to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Group Urges Better Low-Income Program

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A group of Harvard Law students and alumni are urging Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 to make a number of changes to the school’s Low Income Protection Plan, which helps graduates who go into public service and other low-paying legal careers repay their loans.

The group, called the Coalition to Improve LIPP, published an open letter to Manning in the Harvard Law Record Tuesday proposing five changes to the program in order to “empower HLS graduates of all backgrounds to pursue the careers of their choosing.”

The coalition’s open letter Tuesday outlines five specific policies the coalition has asked the Law School to review, including “improving the participant contribution scale,” increasing transition time for students moving between jobs, improving family leave and dependent care policies, doing away with the cap for undergraduate borrowing, and removing the cap for retirement asset protections. The Coalition to Improve LIPP has been working since the fall semester to address grievances they identified with the program based on conversations with alumni, research into loan repayment programs at other schools, and a survey of law students.

LIPP aims to assist eligible students in repaying loans by asking students to repay a portion of their student loans based on their income. The Law School then pays the remaining amount.

Around 700 graduates are currently enrolled in the program, according to Kenneth Lafler, the school’s Assistant Dean for Student Financial Services.

The Law School’s public interest programs have generated debate at the school in recent months. Many of the concerns the Coalition to Improve LIPP raises in the letter were first voiced in a

“­ At a minimum, Harvard should direct the Harvard Management Company to divest from fossils fuels to prevent the end of life as we know it through cascading climate-driven disasters,” Taylor wrote. “This single act would not only take steps to address the existential crisis of our time, but it would allow the University to lead its peers, as few, if any, American universities thus far have taken this important moral stance.”In a conference call Wednesday, Taylor said she has “exhausted all other avenues available to me as a sitting member of the Board of Overseers.” Taylor said she has used diplomatic measures with other members of the Board, talked to Harvard administrators, and asked the Board to consider advisories to the President regarding fossil fuel investment.

“We have called on the University to divest from all climate-destabilizing actions, including fossil fuel investment,” Taylor said. “Regrettably, these voices have been dismissed by Harvard’s leadership at every turn, sometimes with judgment and disrespect.”

More than 100 Harvard faculty signed an open letter in April 2014 urging University President Drew G. Faust and the Corporation to divest from fossil fuel investments. As of Wednesday, more than 270 people have signed the letter. In March 2015, a group of 20 students stormed and occupied Massachusetts Hall— where Faust’s office space

is located to demand fossil fuel divestment. And in March 2017, 20 members of the student activist group Divest Harvard blockaded University Hall to demand similar action.

Despite the mounting pressure, Faust has held firm on her stance against divesting from fossil fuels, arguing Harvard can better tackle climate change through research.“ While I share their belief in the importance of addressing climate change, I do not believe, nor do my colleagues on the Corporation, that university divestment from the fossil fuel industry is warranted or wise,” Faust wrote in a letter to Harvard affiliates in 2013. Chloe S. Maxmin ’15, the co-founder and CEO of Divest Harvard—an organization comprising Harvard students, faculty, and alumni—recounted how the movement grew exponentially over time. But she said the University did not listen. “Harvard has lost an opportunity to be a climate leader,” Maxmin said. “Now, all it can do is follow its students, faculty, and alumni to the right side of history.”

In an email sent to Harvard affiliates in January, Faust announced the University’s plans to be fossil-fuel free by 2050. Faust did not discuss the University’s stance on its fossil fuel investments at the time.

Tim E. Wirth ’61, a former member of the Board of Overseers said he has repeatedly asked the University to consider a policy on fossil fuels along with others.

Record-Low Percent Offered Admission to Harvard Admissions From Page 1 -vard’s early action process in December.

This year’s acceptance rate is the lowest in the history of the College.

Down from last year’s 5.2 percent, this year’s rate also marks the fourth consecutive year in which the percentage of admitted students has decreased.

The total number of admitted students in the Class of 2022 has also decreased from last year’s 2,056. “They are quite an amazing cohort of people because they’re coming from the widest range of economic and ethnic backgrounds in our history,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ­

They are quite an amazing cohort of people.

William R. Fitzsimmons ‘67 Dean of Admissions ’67 said in an interview Wednesday.

For the first time in 10 years, a majority of accepted students are women. Women make up 50.1 percent of the admitted class, compared to last year’s 49.2 percent.

The percentage of minority admits rose across racial groups relative to last year’s levels. A record 15.5 percent of admitted students are African American, up from last year’s 14.6 percent.

Latino admits increased to 12.2 percent from last year’s 11.6 percent. Native American admits grew marginally this year to 2 percent, up from last

year’s 1.9 percent. Asian American admits went up to a record 22.7 percent, compared to last year’s 22.2 percent First-generation college students make up 17.3 percent of this year’s admits, up from 15.1 percent for the admitted Class of 2021.“We’re really thrilled to see the jump in first-generation students,” Fitzsimmons said Wednesday. “This is one of those years where I think we had some breakthroughs.”

Fitzsimmons also touted the class’s socioeconomic diversity, citing the success of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative over the past few years in making an education at the College practical for students from low-income backgrounds. Currently more than half of students at the College receive some form of need-based financial aid. Twenty percent of families— those making less than $65,000 annually—pay nothing at all toward the cost of their student’s Harvard education.“ The doubling of the applicant pool is a measure of exactly how important financial aid is to making a case to people that whoever you are, you can afford to be here,” Fitzsimmons said.

Students admitted to the Class of 2022 hail from all 50 states, and 90 countries around the world. International students make up 12 percent of admitted students, up from 11.4 percent last year.

Fitzsimmons previously said the College planned to admit fewer students into the Class of 2022 in hopes of allowing “40 to 50 to maybe 100 people” off the waitlist. Last year, Harvard did not admit any students from the waitlist. Fitzsimmons said the Admissions Office’s target class size is around 1,665, indicating a predicted yield of around 85 percent for the Class of 2022.

Acceptance letters are slated to be sent to students Thursday.

By aidan f. ryan Crimson Staff Writer

separate letter sent to Manning last October. More than 175 Harvard Law students and alumni signed onto that letter, which claimed the program is not on par with loan repayment programs at other law schools like Yale and Stanford.

In a statement, Lafler wrote LIPP offers more benefits and flexibility in career choice to Harvard Law graduates than comparable programs offer.“ Compared to similar programs at many schools, LIPP covers a broader range of jobs and provides benefits that are not contingent on a long-term commitment to a specific type of work,” Lafler wrote.

The coalition attached a document to the Tuesday letter that explains each of their proposals, outlining alternative contribution scales and allowances graduates receive for having a child, among other details. “We are committed to making Harvard Law School more financially accessible and committed to making both front-end and back-end aid here, making it possible for students to pursue the careers that they want to pursue,” Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash ’15, president of the Coalition to Improve LIPP, said in an interview Wednesday.

Sara R. Fitzpatrick, a first-year Law student who serves as policy director for the coalition, said it’s important that graduates from underprivileged backgrounds are able to pursue careers that serve people in their communities.

“What we see as a problem [is] where people aren’t able to go back into the communities that they come from and the only people that are able to do public interest are often people who came from privileged backgrounds and may not understand as well the issues that those communities face,” she said. Several student organizations, including the Law School’s student government, the Women’s Law Association, and the Black Law Students Association, signed

onto the letter.

Paavani Garg, a third-year Law student and president of the Harvard Women’s Law Association, wrote in an emailed statement that changes to LIPP would advance gender equality.

“Women tend to go into public interest jobs more so than private sector and therefore are largely influenced by LIPP,” Garg wrote. “The current program implicates matters such as maternity leave, transition time, career choices, retirement savings—all topics that are implicated in conversations about gender equity.”

The Student Government for Harvard Law School also signed the letter.

Amanda M. Lee, president of the Student Government, wrote in an emailed statement that the organization voted “unanimously” to sign the letter in support of the policy changes.

“After hearing about the Coalition to Improve LIPP’s efforts to improve the program, our Student Government council members present voted unanimously to sign on to the letter,” Lee said. “We are proud to support the Coalition’s student advocacy, especially as it was done in conjunction with and informed by alumnae who have been living on LIPP and have brainstormed many ways in which LIPP can be improved.”

Lafler wrote in a statement that he has met with the coalition several times and that the Law School’s Financial Aid Committee is considering the issues they have raised.

“LIPP is the cornerstone of the Law School’s commitment to career choice,” Lafler wrote. “I have had many constructive meetings over the past several months with the students in the Coalition to Improve LIPP. The issues they raise are important and deserve careful consideration, and the Financial Aid Committee is engaged in that process right now.”

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Dyed Blonde, Harvard Crusades over Holy Cross

bad boys The Crimson recorded its largest margin of victory of the season on Wednesday night, triumphing over Holy Cross by eight runs. Ryosuke takashima—Crimson photographer baseball

By Bryan hu Crimson Staff Writer

I­ s there a new squad on the block to watch out for?

In perhaps the Harvard baseball team’s most dominant win over a strong team in over a year, the “Bad Boys” Crimson squad blew out Holy Cross, 10-2, on Wednesday night in Northborough, Mass. As of March 25, Harvard was ranked 175th on the RPI Division I baseball rankings, whereas Holy Cross was ranked 108th—so the Crimson was up against a stiff test.

After finishing its spring break trip 5-5, Harvard had to do one thing—get off to faster starts. After all, the squad was plagued all trip by early deficits that late rallies couldn’t bail them out of every game.

A week and a half later, the Crimson players made good on their promise.

Like a loaded spring compressed for too long, Harvard (8-11) veritably launched out of the gates at the New England Baseball Complex in the Crimson’s first action since March 17, plating four runs in the top of the first inning before Holy Cross (7-11, 2-2 Patriot League) recorded an out.

“We’ve decided to establish our-

selves as the ‘Bad Boys’ of the Ivy League,” said junior first baseman Pat McColl. “We came out right away and scored four runs in the first, so it was a good showing.”

Junior center fielder Ben Skinner got it started with a leadoff walk dealt by freshman righty Noah Luckenbaugh. Junior catcher Jake Allen— the team’s batting average leader—followed by drawing another free pass, and McColl made the rookie pay by lacing an RBI double to right. Sophomore outfielder Jake Suddleson then characterized the game with a three-run shot in the next at-bat, his third home run of the year.

As Suddleson came around to score, the scoreboard lit up 4-0 in the visitors’ favor before most of the fans had even found their seats.

“We all dyed our hair this week, being the bad boys that we are,” said sophomore pitcher/third baseman Hunter Bigge. “It really gave our team a lot of energy and we were able to hop on [Holy Cross] early in the game.”

Despite the wild hair colors staring at them from across the diamond, it was likely more shocking for the home team to look up at the scoreboard 15 minutes into the game.

Harvard wasn’t done scoring in the first. The squad, colorized hairdos and

all, tacked on three more runs in the third inning on RBIs from junior outfielder P.J. Robinson, senior second baseman Matt Rothenberg, and Allen, running away to an early 7-0 lead.

The Crimson stretched its lead to 10-0 before Holy Cross scored twice in the bottom of the ninth, though the game was already headed towards the deep freeze.

Harvard’s ability to keep the pressure on and safeguard the lead may have been just as important as its ability to surprise the Crusaders early in the game.

On the mound, freshman righty Buddy Hayward, already a two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season alone, got the start. The two-way player out of Plantation, Fla. tossed two innings and struck out three, walking one and giving up no runs. “[Buddy] came out with some zip right away,” McColl said. “It’s definitely nice to have a big freshman like him who can pitch as well as hit.”

Six different Crimson pitchers worked relief innings to back Hayward up. Sophomore righty Grant Stone picked up the win after pitching clean third and fourth innings. The seven pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts of Crusader batsmen.

One player even made his collegiate pitching debut, despite having played 64 career games in a Harvard jersey.

Junior John MacLean, an outfielder by trade, pitched for the Crimson for the first time in the seventh inning. MacLean looked like a veteran, striking out two batters in a 1-2-3 inning.

“Johnny made his pitching debut on the mound and absolutely shoved,” McColl said.

MacLean, however, left it to his teammates to power the offense. McColl led the way with a three-for-six day at the plate, punching in three RBIs and scoring a run. Suddleson joined him in the run-producing category with his three-run first-inning bomb.

Skinner, continuing his season’s good form, got on base four times as the leadoff man and scored thrice.

Rothenberg went two-for-three with a walk and a run scored. Bigge drew two walks, one of them plating a run in a bases-loaded situation.

Harvard, after seeing its games postponed last weekend against Princeton, which would have been the Ivy League kickoff, will next see action at Columbia on Saturday.

Staff writer Bryan Hu can be reached at bryan.hu@thecrimson.com

Harvard Drops Empire State Match to Nation’s Top Team men’s lacrosse

By George hu Crimson Staff Writer

­ acing its first top-ranked opponent in F head coach Chris Wojcik’s eight years at the helm, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team traveled to Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday night to square up against the No. 1/1 Great Danes. The game began with a steady defensive effort for the Crimson, as the visitors were able to hold the nation’s most proficient scoring offense to just four goals through the first two quarters.

The problem, however, was that Harvard only managed two scores in that same time frame. And before it could stage a true upset attempt, Albany took control of the contest with five goals in the third, never looking back.

The Great Danes tallied a comprehensive 14-6 victory as the final result, while the Crimson recorded its lowest scoring output since netting only five against Penn during the 2014 season.

Albany (9-0, 2-0 America East) continues its dominant run atop the polls and remains perfect on the season, while No. 19/RV Harvard leaves the Empire State with its six game win streak abruptly ended.

“We knew it would be a challenge tonight and credit to Albany for playing a very complete game,” Wojcik said.

“There were definitely areas of our game that were lacking, though, and we’re obviously disappointed in the result.”

The Crimson entered Wednesday’s matchup with the nation’s 11th ranked scoring offense, but just over a week after putting up 19 on the board against Boston University, it could not find a way to keep up with the Great Danes.

The first two quarters turned out to be the worst offensive half for Harvard all season, as the visitors mustered just 12 shots and two goals.

Sophomore attackman Kyle Anderson provided a moment of excitement when he scored in a man-down situation midway through the first quarter, but that goal would be the only one for the Crimson in those opening 15 minutes. Senior long stick midfielder Robert Mencke tacked on another with 2:58 to go in the second quarter to cap all of Harvard’s scoring in the first half.

“We had to do a better job of giving ourselves a chance on offense,” Wojcik

said. “We played well on defense and at the face-off X for stretches that game, but our sloppiness with the ball and poor shooting really cost us.”

Winning possession on face-offs was certainly a positive for the Crimson, as the trio of junior James Sullivan, freshman Kyle Massimilian, and freshman Steven Cuccurullo managed to win eight out of 24 face-offs against the nation’s top face-off man, TD Ierlan. Ierlan had entered Wednesday with an 84 percent win percentage at the X, and for comparison, won every

single one of his 24 face-offs against Cornell a few weeks ago.

Harvard also contained Albany senior attackman Connor Fields, the top point scorer in the country, to just one point before Fields had to exit with an injury in the third quarter. The senior, who entered the game with 7.1 points per game to his name, had two turnovers.

“We did a good job of limiting his impact on the game before he went out,” Wojcik said. “But they have a lot of guys who can hurt you and that

showed in the third quarter.”

In Fields’ place, freshman attackman Tehoka Nanticoke, the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2017, tallied two goals and four assists to lead all players with six points. Alongside him, seniors Justin Reh and Kyle McClancy each recorded a hat trick, combining for three goals in the third quarter alone to put the Great Danes firmly in the driver’s seat.

On the other side, Crimson talisman Morgan Cheek had trouble solving Albany senior goalie JD Colarusso. De-

spite putting up a game-high 12 shots over the course of the contest, Cheek found the back of the net on just two of them. Anderson also finished with two goals on eight shots, in what turned out to be a difficult shooting night for the visitors. “[We have] a lot to work on,” Wojcik said. “We’ll take the weekend to regroup and make sure we’re ready for the rest of Ivy play.”

Staff writer George Hu can be reached at george.hu@thecrimson.com

lax woes With last night’s loss to No. 1/1 Albany, Harvard is now 2-2 against top-two teams during the eight-year tenure of coach Chris Wojcik. Allison G. lee—Crimson photographer