The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 46

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The Harvard Crimson Students must take advantage of new resources to effectively advance inclusion and belonging. EDITORIAL PAGE 6

Bruins’ Ryan Donato named one of three Hobey Baker finalists. SPORTS PAGE 8

Dominguez Accusers Criticize Harvard March 29, 2018

Feb. 27, 2018

10 women claim Dominguez sexually harassed them.

15 women sign a letter to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith calling Harvard ‘ill-equipped’ to investigate Dominguez.

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Two women come forward to accuse Dominguez of sexual misconduct. He is disciplined.

March 4, 2018

Eight more women step forward with accusations, bringing the total up to 18.

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Fifteen women who accused Professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual harassment sent a letter to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith Thursday arguing Harvard is “ill-equipped” to investigate Dominguez and demanding the University take new steps to ensure a “full and fair” review.

University President Drew G. Faust, Provost Alan M. Garber ’76, and Government Department Chair Jennifer L. Hochschild received copies of the letter.

The authors of the letter wrote that, based on their interactions with the Title IX Office, Harvard is incapable of conducting its avowed “full and fair” investigation into the allegations against Dominguez. The women call for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Dominguez’s alleged history of sexual misconduct and lay out seven criteria needed to ensure a full review of the case.

In late February and early March, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that at least 18 women are accusing Dominguez of repeated sexual harassment across the past four decades.

Shortly after the publication of these articles, Smith announced FAS would review the allegations against ­

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Classroom to Table Program Downsizes

By DEVIN B. SRIVASTAVA and SAMUEL W. ZWICKEL CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Classroom to Table program, a popular initiative that allows students and faculty to dine at local restaurants on Harvard’s dime, has implemented new restrictions on student participation this semester—but is nonetheless facing financial uncertainty after using up all its allotted College funding.

In the fall 2017 iteration of the program, student participants could eat a maximum of four meals through Classroom to Table—meaning students could likely eat a meal with every one of their professors, given Harvard students ­

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HKS Students Meet About Diversity

Grafton Street is an option for dining through the Classroom to Table program.

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The women’s varsity golf team’s weeklong training trip to southern California over spring break ended on a sour note when their team van was broken into and bags were stolen from the trunk, leaving several team members working to recover their belongings or seek compensation.

Three out of seven members of the team, as well as one coach, had suitcases containing clothes and personal belongings stolen from the team’s van on Mar. 17. Two golf bags that were in the back of the van were overturned but nothing was taken from them. While no equipment was stolen, the three team members will need new uniforms.

Assistant Coach Naree Song said the break-in came at the very end of the trip, when the team parked their van in a parking structure and left for a few hours to sightsee before their flight back to the east coast.“It was our last day of the Spring Break trip and we had parked there and gone out for sightseeing and lunch,” Song said. “When we came back in the evening before we were going to go to the airport to catch the flight we just discovered that the van had been broken into.”

Song, who was among the four individuals whose bags were stolen, said at first there was no evidence of a breakin. However, the team soon discovered a hole drilled through the car’s lock that had been used to unlock the car.

“We kind of surveyed the vehicle to see, you know, what happened,” Song said. “It looked like on the front passenger door there was a hole that was drilled through the keyhole.”When asked if she had been reimbursed for the belongings lost in her suitcase, Song said the team was “working through that process” with the Athletics Department. University spokesperson Aaron M. Goldman wrote in a statement that the University is aware of the incident.

“During the recent break, the women’s golf team van was broken into while in Santa Monica, California, resulting in the loss of four pieces of luggage,” Goldman wrote. “The team promptly reported the incident to local authorities. It is our understanding that this loss is not covered under insurance.” Song filed a report with the Santa Monica Police Department after the team arrived back on campus but is still waiting for any developments in the investigation. The break-in of the women’s golf team van was one of two reported thefts on Mar. 17 in Parking Structure 6 and the second in a three day span. ­

President-Elect Bacow Launches FAS Dean Search

By ANGELA N. FU, LUCY WANG, and LUKE W. XU

By LUKE W. XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith detailed various ways FAS is working to promote diversity in an emailed message to FAS affiliates Thursday, following the Tuesday release of the final report of a University-wide task force on diversity and inclusion.

The report, which is the final product of the 55-member Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, discusses and recommends initiatives to promote “many dimensions of

Harvard is officially launching a search for the next dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow announced in a Thursday email to Harvard affiliates.

Smith revealed earlier this month he would step down as dean of FAS at the end of the academic year. In his role at the helm of the University’s largest faculty, which he assumed in 2007, Smith weathered the 2008 financial crisis and saw the University through its record-breaking capital campaign.

Bacow thanked Smith for his

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GRADUATE STUDENT UNIONIZATION

By MADELEINE R. NAKADA

Smith, Bacow Update Students

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ

H arvard Kennedy School affiliates raised a number of diversity-related concerns Wednesday at the first meeting of the school’s diversity committee this semester, with some attendees questioning the school’s commitment to change.

The Kennedy School Diversity Committee, commonly known as “DivCo,” is a student-run organization that offers students, faculty, and staff at the school the opportunity to raise and address issues of diversity and inclusion. HKS Dean of Students Debra E. Isaacson called the meeting last Friday, according to an email sent by her executive assistant Erin O’Connell Friday.

O’Connell’s email came the same day The Crimson published the

Golf Team Belongings Stolen On Trip

Ph.D. student and Harvard Graduate Students Union- United Automobile Workers organizer Justin Bloesch argues for graduate unionization during a panel hosted by The Crimson.

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AROUND THE IVIES Yale Continues to Campaign Against Endowment Tax According to the Yale Daily News, Yale is continuing to campaign against the endowment tax policy President Trump signed three months ago. Associate Vice President for Federal and State Relations Richard Jacob said Yale and its peer institutions will give “consistent, well-considered” feedback to the Treasury Department about topics like how to calculate investment income.

Cornell Administrators Address Sexual Assault and Gun Violence at Open Forum

VOLLEYBALL IN ACTION Harvard Men’s Volleyball takes on Alderson Broaddus on Saturday afternoon.

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HAPPY FRIDAY, HARVARD! CEB’s Trolley Hop 3 p.m.-8 p.m.

A free Harvard shuttle will be rotating through 5 different locations in Harvard and Cambridge, returning to Widener Gate every 45 minutes.

Stops include the Museum of Fine Arts and the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall, in case you want to buy your outfit for formal early.

Thomas Piketty at the IOP 4 p.m.-6 p.m.

For all you Gov kids, the bestselling author of “Capital in the TwentyFirst Century” will be speaking at the IOP, using “his latest work on changing political cleavages” to answer questions about inequality.

Don’t really know what that means, but it sounds spicy.

The Boston Cypher 9 p.m.

There will be a cypher—a gathering of a group of rappers taking turns freestyling over instrumentals— tonight at the Leverett Library Theater. The event is free and features artists from BU, Harvard and Berklee.

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Cornell’s Employee Assembly hosted an open forum about sexual assault, gun violence, and recent government policies with college employees and Cornell President Martha E. Pollack and Vice President Mary Opperman on Wednesday, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. In response to a question about offering effective resources for sexual assault victims, Opperman pointed to Cornell’s education programs. When presented with gun violence concerns, Pollack pointed to active shooter training on campus.

Opperman encouraged attendees to submit suggestions to the administration, saying, “I think you have an understanding of what is possible on an open campus.”

Brown Scientists Explore Link Between Glutamate and Mood As the Brown Daily Herald reported, scientists at the university have discovered a way the behavior of a neurotransmitter called glutamate can affect a person’s mood. University of Rhode Island psychology and neuroscience professor Lisa Weyandt said that glutamate is “the brain’s principal excitatory neurotransmitter” and participates in memory and learning processes.

IN THE REAL WORLD Russia to Expel 60 U.S. Diplomats, Close St. Petersburg Consulate After the U.S. expelled several Russian diplomats, the Kremlin has retaliated by kicking out 60 American diplomats and closing the St. Petersburg consulate. At this point, we might as well change the “Harvard Today” newsletter’s name to “Russia Today.”

After Dozens Die in a Jail Fire, Venezuela Tear-Gasses Their Relatives A day after one “of the worst” prison fires in Venezuela’s history, security guards sprayed tear gas on mourning relatives to try to disperse the crowd.

The fire started when the police stormed a jailhouse party and set a mattress aflame in response to the inmates’ threat to kill a prison guard.

Adnan Syed of “Serial” is Granted a New Trial Adnan Syed, who was convicted in 2000 for kidnapping and murdering his ex-girlfriend, has been granted a new trial by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Syed became famous for maintaining his innocence in the first season of the hit podcast “Serial.”

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Smith Chemistry Professor to Leave Harvard Details Diversity Harvard has Initiatives treated me

By AMY L. JIA and SANJANA L. NARAYANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A lán Aspuru-Guzik—a chemistry professor whose research explores the intersection of theoretical chemistry, machine learning, and quantum computing—will depart Harvard to join the faculty of the University of Toronto after this academic year.

The University of Toronto announced Thursday that Aspuru-Guzik will work in its chemistry and computer science departments as part of the Canada 150 Research Chairs Program. The program, which debuted in 2017 and is worth 117.6 million Canadian dollars, aims to “enhance Canada’s reputation as a global centre for science, research and innovation excellence, in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary,” according to its website.

Aspuru-Guzik, along with several members of his research group at Harvard, will move to Canada in July to start a new lab, the Matter Lab. The lab will seek to use computer algorithms to both characterize and simulate chemical phenomena.

Aspuru-Guzik, who came to Harvard in 2006 and earned a position as a tenured professor in 2013, said he is grateful to Harvard for its ongoing support of his endeavors.

“Harvard has treated me extremely nicely. It has been an extremely great

home for me and my research,” he said.

“I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues in the department of chemistry, my colleagues in the Faculty of Arts

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diversity” across the University, such as enhanced mental health resources, retention of facult retention of faculty, and pipeline programs for staff.

In his email, Smith praised the work of the task force.

“The Task Force did thoughtful and thorough consultation, engaging each of Harvard’s Schools to learn from all their many programs and approaches, structures and committees, challenges and successes,” he wrote. “Their report speaks eloquently to what we have long known to be true: that academic excellence requires diversity—of perspectives, methods, and experiences.”

Smith also called the report and the University’s diversity initiatives “a longterm project, one that stretches into our past and that must continue in every generation.”

“I am enormously proud of those who have helped to shape the Harvard of today and are impatient for us to be the Harvard of tomorrow,” he wrote.

“Those efforts bring about the reinvention that is essential for an institution to remain vibrant, even after hundreds of years in service to our mission.”

Smith included several examples of ongoing FAS initiatives intended to promote inclusion and belonging, such as improving diversity in the faculty recruiting process.

“Persistent attention to diversity, at every stage of each faculty search, is a constant theme in our search policies and procedures, and in conversations between the deans and departments, and within departments and search committees,” Smith wrote.

The initiatives listed in Smith’s email span the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Division of Continuing Education.

These initiatives include the hiring of two Diversity and Inclusion Fellows by the GSAS Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs earlier this year, a new pre-orientation program for first generation students at the College, and an upcoming SEAS-wide “BRIDGE Week” that will “celebrate diversity in STEM.” Smith also wrote that FAS human resources facilitated workshops for coaches and other athletic department affiliates between January and March, following a 2017 “culture review” of the department.

Smith wrote the initiatives in his email comprise “just a small sample of the efforts happening across the FAS.” “Overall, we will continue efforts to reflect the issues and priorities highlighted by the Task Force in our strategic planning and assessment activities,” he wrote. “You will hear more over time from the Schools and units of the FAS in the course of their work.”

Earlier this month, Smith announced he would step down as FAS dean at the end of the academic year, as he wraps up his 11th year in the position.

In an email to Harvard affiliates Thursday afternoon, President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow announced an FAS Dean Search Advisory Committee and called for the input of Harvard affiliates on the search.

extremely nicely.

It has been an extremely great home for me and my research.

Alán Aspuru-Guzik Chemistry Professor

and Sciences, and my colleagues in engineering.”

Aspuru-Guzik said he is leaving the United States primarily due to his concern over the nation’s political climate, especially fallout from the tumultuous 2016 presidential election.

“Right now, it’s free-for-all. It’s kind of like warfare between the different parties, and this has been happening for a while,” he said. “When Trump won, I started to look abroad and started to think about different places, like

Bacow Launches Dean Search to Replace Smith SEARCH FROM PAGE 1 tenure in the Thursday email.

“Mike has served with great distinction and dedication since 2007.

I join Drew and many others in gratitude for his leadership and service—and for his willingness to carry forward in University Hall until the search concludes and his successor is

I know that such communications will contribute a great deal to my own understanding of the FAS and to thinking about its future leadership.

Lawrence S. Bacow University President-Elect

in place,” Bacow wrote.

Bacow wrote he sees the search as “an opportunity to learn more about the FAS” as he prepares to take the reins of the University this summer.

“The FAS is at the center of Harvard’s academic enterprise, the home to a community of faculty, students, and staff whose creativity, energy, breadth, and contributions to scholarship and education are second to

none,” he wrote.

Bacow and Provost Alan M. Garber ‘76 attended the biweekly meeting of the Faculty Council—FAS’s highest governing body—last week to solicit input on the dean search.

Bacow wrote, though, that he wants to expand input across “wider set of conversations with various groups of faculty, students, staff, and alumni in the weeks and months ahead.”

In the email, Bacow wrote he would be soliciting input—through a designated email address or through mail from the FAS community—on multiple aspects of the search.

“I know that such communications will contribute a great deal to my own understanding of the FAS and to thinking about its future leadership,” he wrote.

“It would help to have your views on the major opportunities and challenges facing the FAS in the years ahead, on the qualities and experience you would most value in the next dean, and—of course—on any individuals you believe should be considered as possible candidates.”

The president-elect also formed an advisory body for the search, comprising a group of faculty who will work closely with Bacow and Garber. “Consistent with the University’s practice in dean searches, I have asked a group of faculty to work closely with Provost Alan Garber and me as an advisory committee for the search,” he wrote.

“They will together bring a range of diverse perspectives and experiences to this important task, and I greatly appreciate their willingness to serve.”

HKS Students Worried About Diversity HKS FROM PAGE 1 findings of a Kennedy School task force on diversity and inclusion; those findings highlighted the school’s struggle to recruit minority students.

Since 2005, the admissions rate for African-American and Latinx students has remained stagnant, and the yield rate for African-American students has declined.

Some students said they found it concerning that bIsaacson called the first meeting of the committee so late in the semester.

“I am a bit disappointed that this is the first meeting of the semester, considering we’re a month away from the end of the school year,” Shaniqua L. McClendon, a second-year Master in Public Policy student and president of the Black Student Union, wrote in an email Thursday. “Considering the great deal of interest in diversity at the Kennedy School these meetings should be held more regularly.”

In recent years, the Kennedy School has grappled with a number of diversity-related issues. HKS Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf convened the task force of students, faculty, and staff in 2016 to research specific areas of the school and recommend initiatives to promote diversity. In May 2017, the group released its draft report, recommending ways to improve the number of U.S.-born minority students and the overall culture of the school.

The group’s main recommenda-

tion was to hire an associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging to address and implement diversity initiatives within the school. After an eight-month search process, Robbin Chapman, now an associate provost at Wellesley College, will start as the new associate dean for diversity in April.

Students who attended the meeting—which was off-the-record and lasted for more than an hour—said the committee discussed Chapman’s appointment and questioned whether she would have the necessary clout to enforce new policies.

“There was specifically pushback from students about what kind of teeth will her role have,” Justin E. Galle, a second-year MPP student, said. “Is she going to be able to mandate things?”

“There wasn’t a great response to that,” he added.

Galle also said the meeting included remarks from Academic Dean Archon Fung, who led the meeting along with Isaacson, as well as student questions.

“The way Dean Fung runs these meetings isn’t always conducive to productivity or students feeling welcome to share opinions,” Galles said.

“Someone specifically said towards the end of the meeting: ‘You kind of put up a wall when you should be acting like a sponge.’”

In a statement provided by Kennedy School spokesperson Doug Gavel, Fung wrote he works to listen and find common ground among students

and other attendees of these meetings.

“We constantly strive to reach common understanding between students, staff, and faculty, and we hope that our practice of shared governance between administrators and students on the Diversity Committee advances that understanding,” Fung wrote.

Several students expressed concern about the timing of the meeting.

Administrators held the session at 10:30 a.m.–a time when many Kennedy School students have classes, students said.

Nonetheless, McClendon and Galles both said around 30 people attended the event.

“It’s just a middle-of-the-day kind of time when people have things going on,” Amy J. Zhou, a second year student in the MPP program who was not able to attend the meeting, said.

In a statement Thursday, Isaacson wrote she made every effort to schedule these committee meetings at times that are convenient and cognizant of competing time constraints.

“My office worked with the three student co-chairs to find a time suitable for them, while also being mindful of faculty and staff committee members and their availability,” Isaacson wrote.

“We do our best to stagger the days and times of these meetings throughout the semester, to ensure that everyone in our community has some opportunity to participate in our committee discussions.”

Australia, Europe, Canada.”

He said Canada—and the University of Toronto in particular—emerged as a particularly appealing choice.

Aspuru-Guzik said he thinks Toronto is the “most diverse city in the world.” He added he believes Canadian legislation related to human rights, the environment, and immigration mean Toronto and other Canadian cities embody society in its ideal form.

“So, being there at one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world and leading a leading research group makes me feel very lucky,” Aspuru-Guzik said.

Aspuru-Guzik visited Canada Thursday morning to meet with the Canadian Minister of Science Kirsty E. Duncan, along with 23 other academics enrolled in the Canadian 150 program.

Matthias Degroote, a postdoctoral fellow in the chemistry and chemical biology department, said Aspuru-Guzik notified him of the planned move to Canada in Nov. 2017. Degroote will travel with Aspuru-Guzik to the University of Toronto this summer to continue his research.

“I’m excited to see what Canada has to offer,” Degroote said. “I hear Toronto is a great place, so I’m pretty excited as well. I was excited to come here, because Harvard is a great institution and Boston is a great place to live, but I don’t mind moving to Toronto.”

Aspuru-Guzik currently teach-

es two relatively new courses: PHYSCI 50: “Computing for Science Studio” and an online HarvardX course called The Quantum World, which he believes is the first edX course to be taught in two languages, English and Spanish. Aspuru-Guzik said he plans to bring both of these classes to the University of Toronto.

In his new capacity, Aspuru-Guzik will continue to be involved in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where he currently serves as senior fellow. He will also remain part of the Mission Innovation, which, according to its website, comprises a “global initiative of 22 countries and the European Union to dramatically accelerate global clean energy innovation.” He will also serve as a faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which focuses on the advancement of artificial intelligence technology in Canada.

Despite his move to Canada, Aspuru-Guzik said he will still visit the Boston area frequently to monitor the launching of his two startup companies, Zapata Computing and Kebotix.

Aspuru-Guzik is the second Harvard professor to leave the University as part of the Canada 150 program.

Computer science professor Margo I. Seltzer ’83 announced in Dec. 2017 she will join the University of British Columbia as part of the initiative next year.

Classroom to Table Faces Budget Concerns CLASSROOM FROM PAGE 1 typically take four classes a semester.

Under the new guidelines, though, students are limited to two meals per semester.

The online sign-up form for the program is also now only available during administrative office hours, meaning students can sign up between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Previously, the application to join Classroom to Table was available to undergraduates 24/7.

These changes come in light of increasing interest from the student body; the number of student requests to participate in the program rose between fall 2016 and fall 2017. Last semester, 2,880 students and 528 faculty members dined together in 894 Classroom to Table-funded meals, according to data provided by Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane.

But the changes also come as Classroom to Table faces financial difficulties. Dane wrote in an emailed statement Thursday that the program has run out of budgeted College funding and that administrators are working to raise more money for Classroom to Table.

“The program has exceeded our projections and the amount we had allocated for the program this year, and so the College will continue its efforts to raise funds to support this popular program moving forward,” Dane wrote.

This is not the first time Classroom to Table has struggled financially. Administrators halted the program in April of last year after the initiative exhausted its budgeted funds following higher-than-projected student and faculty interest.

The College implemented the fourmeal restriction the semester after these financial difficulties. Prior to the 2017-2018 school year, there was no limit on the number of meals students and professors could enjoy on the College’s dime.

Classroom to Table is funded in part

by Senior Gift, an initiative that encourages graduates of every Harvard class to donate to financial aid as well as to an unrestricted fund managed by the College.

The program was first piloted by the Office of Undergraduate Education in Sept. 2015. Under Classroom to Table rules, meals typically consist of one to two professors and three to five undergraduates. Both faculty members and

College students can organize these gatherings.

Through the initiative, the College pays up to 30 dollars per person—excluding the cost of alcoholic beverages—for a lunch or dinner at one of several Harvard Square dining establishments. Restaurants currently participating in the program include Grafton Street, Park Restaurant, Russell House Tavern, The Hourly Oyster House, and Temple Bar. Some students lauded the program’s ability to increase facetime with professors—which they said can be a rarity at Harvard.

“Even though Harvard’s a pretty big place, we usually don’t get much facetime with professors,” Yashvardhan M. Bardoloi ’21 said.

Others said they think Classroom to Table offers high-quality, one-on-one interactions with faculty members. Cedric H. Li ’21 said meals are much more personal than office hours, for example.

“It’s automatically very relaxed, [you] don’t feel very pressured to ask anything very insightful–you know, it’s just about connecting with the faculty,” Li said.

Some professors said they also value the increased student-faculty interaction Classroom to Table facilitates.

Daniel T. Gilbert, who teaches the popular Science of Living Systems 20: “Introduction to Psychology,” wrote in an email that he does not always get to make personal connections with undergraduates. Last semester’s SLS 20 class enrolled nearly 450 students.

“I rarely get to know my own students in more than a superficial capacity,” Gilbert wrote. “That’s bad for them and even worse for me.”

Gilbert wrote he thinks Classroom to Table is a “terrific” program and added he has eaten more than 25 meals with undergraduates through the initiative.

Dane wrote Thursday that finding new funding for Classroom to Table forms a top priority for College administrators going forward.

“Harvard College values the Classroom to Table program, which seeks to foster conversation and academic connection among undergraduate students to create additional opportunities for intellectual, personal, and social transformation,” she wrote. “We know that students and faculty alike value this program too (as noted by its high participation rates) and, as such, the College has made it a top priority in our fundraising efforts.”

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Dominguez Accusers Ask for Independent Review TITLE IX From Page 1 Dominguez and also announced administrators were placing Dominguez on paid “administrative leave.” The following day, Dominguez announced he would retire from his teaching position at the end of the school year and would step down from all administrative positions immediately.

Six women signed the letter with their names, while the remaining nine chose to remain anonymous, though they noted their connection to Harvard. Four of the women were undergraduates in the Government department, and three received Government Ph.D.s from Harvard. Two—Yoshiko M. Herrera and Terry L. Karl—were Government professors. Three women identified only as Harvard staffers also signed the document.

The signatories requested that the University Title IX office reach out “proactively” to women who worked with Dominguez.

University spokesperson Anna G. Cowenhoven wrote in an emailed statement earlier this month that FAS has begun outreach to “students and post-docs who have worked closely with Prof. Dominguez.”

Several women, however, said this is not enough.Herrera, a former associate professor of Government, said in an interview she thinks Harvard needs to expand its outreach to include former junior faculty who may have come into contact with Dominguez. She also said the University needs to look beyond people who “worked closely” with Dominguez.

“By only looking for people he closely worked with, you’re not going to get

all of the people who he might have harassed because some of those people would have specifically decided not to work closely with him,” Herrera said.

She added the University has not reached out to her in an “institutional or official” manner, meaning no University or FAS administrators have contacted her to date. She said she has, however, been in touch with Hochschild.

Nienke C. Grossman ’99, a former Government concentrator who also signed the letter, said it is important Harvard begin reaching out to people instead of waiting for them to contact the University.

“You can’t just rely on people reaching out to you if you want a complete record, or a reasonably complete record,” Grossman said. “By reaching out to people, Harvard is showing the community that it takes this seriously and that it cares.”

Karl, another signatory of the letter and the main subject of the original Chronicle article, wrote in an emailed statement Thursday that she contacted Faust the day the first Chronicle article was published. Karl wrote an email to Faust asserting she possesses documents that are “directly relevant to the choice of appropriate sanctions” for Dominguez.

In an email obtained by The Crimson, an employee in Faust’s office responded to Karl and wrote she had given Karl’s name to the Title IX Office.

The employee added Title IX officials would contact Karl if the staffers “need further information from you.”

Karl said she has not received any communication from the Title IX Office about her documents in the weeks

since this email exchange.

In the letter Thursday, the women also wrote they submitted a list of 10 questions to the Title IX Office following the Chronicle articles. The women repeatedly noted it took 10 days for the office to respond to these questions.

Suzanna E. Challen, a former government Ph.D. student and one of three women who reached out to the Title IX Office about Dominguez in Nov. 2017, said Title IX officials told the women in Jan. 2018 that the office did not plan to take further action regarding their case.

“In January 2018, the Title IX Officer told us he would take no further action in investigating our reports unless we filed formal complaints due to ‘multiple situations with ongoing harassment,’” the letter reads. A University spokesperson for Title IX did not comment on specific criticisms of the office.

In the letter, the women wrote they would “like for Harvard University to commit to conducting an investigation that meets the following requirements” before detailing seven criteria.

The seven suggestions include the proposal that Harvard conduct an independent investigation, in addition to an official Title IX investigation, to determine “what conditions gave rise to this situation and what can be done to prevent this from happening again.”

Dominguez was sanctioned for sexual harassment in 1983, after Karl came forward with accusations of harassment, but was not stripped of his position and continued to rise though Harvard’s ranks.

Karl said she thinks Harvard is “experiencing a massive system failure.”

“There are at least 20 women between 1979 and quite recently that have

Grad Students Debate Unionization

By SHera S. AVI-YONAH and Molly C. Mccafferty Crimson Staff Writers

Graduate students debated the merits of unionization ahead of an upcoming election to determine whether eligible students will form a union to collectively bargain with the University at a forum hosted by The Crimson Thursday evening, The election, set to take place on April 18 and 19, comes after a previous vote in Nov. 2016. The results of the 2016 unionization election were the subject of over a year of legal back-and-forth between the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers and the University over the required lists of eligible voters provided by Harvard.

In December and January, the National Labor Relations Board determined that a second election was warranted due to inadequacies in the voter list. For example, some students from the Graduate School of Design were not ­

included on the initial list.

At the forum, representatives from student groups HGSU-UAW and Against HGSU-UAW discussed several contentious aspects of the proposed unionization plan, including the union’s ability to raise wages and effectively combat sexual harassment.

One such point of contention was the possibility of a strike. Panelist Momchil Tomov, an Against HGSU-UAW representative, noted that many graduate students in the sciences might be reluctant to strike if missing work would imperil their research or their relationship with their supervisors.

“A lot of people doing research in, let’s say, wet labs, they work—you know, for their experiments, they just have to come in there,” Tomov said. “Especially if they work with animals, they have to come in there every day at a given time, and they can’t just decide for a week, ‘Oh, I’m not going to come in today.’”

HGSU-UAW organizer Justin Bloesch countered that a strike would

be a “last resort in a negotiation process,” used only to protect essential benefits.“If you don’t want to go on strike, no one’s going to make you go on strike,” HGSU-UAW organizer Sejal Singh said.

Another topic of debate was the dues pulled from students’ salaries, which members of the bargaining unit would be required to pay if HGSU-UAW prevails. The UAW’s base rate for members is set at a minimum of 1.44 percent of monthly wages.

Singh, noted that, per UAW policy, a “large part” of the dues collected from students will stay with HGSU-UAW. The remaining portion will go to the international UAW, for expenses such as the strike and defense fund.

Jae Hyeon Lee, an organizer for Against HGSU-UAW, said the inconvenience of a union would likely outweigh any potential gains in graduate students’ salaries or benefits.

“Why would we go through all this trouble for just an incremental gain?” he said.

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said they have been harassed by this individual,” Karl said. “That means that Harvard has shown it is incapable of investigating these stories, that its procedures and policies do not work, and that it would behoove the institution greatly to hire an outside agency that is experienced in issues of sex discrimination and sexual harassment because if you do not understand these issues, then you cannot investigate them.”

Charna E. Sherman ’80, a former Government concentrator who said she experienced harassment while working with Dominguez in the late ’70s, also said the investigation needs to be independent, given the fact that Dominguez’s behavior persisted over several decades.

“If you want to look at this system, you can’t have the system itself doing the looking,” Sherman said. “We need a thorough investigation, it needs to be independent, and there needs to be commitment in advance that it be public.

The letter also asks the University to “not investigate complainants or witnesses for retaliation for sharing information acquired during the Title IX process.”“There is a clause of confidentiality which would basically make it possible for witnesses or complainants, meaning the women who are participating in the process, to be investigated for retaliation if we speak about any information we learn as part of the Title IX process,” Challen said. “That’s not something that we feel comfortable agreeing to.”

The women’s other suggestions include allocating more resources to the Title IX Office and making public the final report of any investigation Harvard undertakes.

Grossman, who has been in contact with the Title IX Office since last November along with Challen, said the office informed them Monday it had prepared a complaint with a list of potential complainants or witnesses. The office told them they could file a complaint themselves or serve as witnesses.

“I very much would like to file a complaint,” Grossman said. “But I want to see first how the University responds because the process needs to be a process that is full and fair, as the University has said it wants to do.”

Challen said she believes the Title IX Office needs support from Harvard at this moment in particular.

“I think it’s important for the University to adequately put resources behind its Title IX Office right now,” Challen said. “It’s my understanding that there’s more complaints as a result of the publicity, combined with the #MeToo movement more generally.”

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 spiked by 20 percent in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal that sparked the #MeToo movement.The women wrote that they are addressing Smith specifically because they believe he has the ability to dictate the terms of the investigation.

Smith could not be reached for comment Thursday, but Cowenhoven wrote in an emailed statement that “the University is committed to a full and fair review of the allegations surrounding Jorge Dominguez in accordance with our Title IX policy and procedures.”

Admitted Students React with Shock, Joy

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

Nina Elkadi, a senior at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City, Iowa, was taking a break from producing her school’s newspaper when she checked online for her Harvard admissions notification. While she submitted applications to a number of Ivy League schools, she said she “really wasn’t expecting anything.”

When she went to check the online admissions portal, though, what she found surprised her.“I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Elkadi said. “I screamed very loudly.”

Elkadi was one of 998 students to receive an offer of admission to Harvard College on Wednesday evening.

“It was a very good moment and very surprising and just really incredible. It’s pretty surreal still,” she said. “I don’t think it’s actually sunk in.”

A record-low 4.59 percent of the 42,749 applicants to Harvard College’s Class of 2022 received offers of admission this year. Of those who applied in the regular decision cycle and those who were deferred from the early action cycle, 2.43 percent received offers of admission.

Cathy K. Sun, a high school senior from Irvine, California, was part of that group. While waiting to check the online portal where admissions decisions were posted at 7 p.m. EST, Sun tried to distract herself by watching a few YouTube videos and unsuccessfully attempting to take a nap.

“I just talked to my friends and we tried to calm each other down, but we were all just shaking,” Sun said, describing the anxiety-filled minutes before decisions were released.

Sun was awaiting decisions from a number of Ivy League schools on Wednesday afternoon, and she saved checking the Harvard decision for last. ­

When she saw the word “congratulations” appear on the computer screen, she and her mother began jumping and screaming together for about five minutes, she said.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes and I refreshed that page about 50 times to make sure they didn’t send that update to the wrong person,” Sun said. “I texted about everyone I knew, especially the people who helped me out during the whole application process.”

James Garavito, a high school senior from Dover, N.J., learned about his offer of admission several weeks ago after receiving a “likely letter” in February that signified he was a highly likely candidate for admission. The phone call he received from an admissions representative confirming his acceptance was still a welcome surprise and brought tears to his and his parents’ eyes.

“It’s something that I’ve been working towards basically since I was little because I never thought that I’d be able to accomplish something like this,” Garavito said. “I come from Dover, N.J. which is a town that doesn’t really send students to Ivy League schools. Just to have this happen to me, I’m extremely grateful.”

Despite yesterday’s excitement, many students are still deciding on which school they want to attend in the fall. Students have until May 1 to respond to offers of admission. Last year’s matriculation rate reached a record high of 84 percent.

“I haven’t made a definite decision yet, but obviously Harvard is number one right now.” Patrick Monreal, an admitted student from Fresno, Calif., said. “It’s hard to choose other than Harvard.”

Accepted students will have the opportunity to attend Visitas—the College’s weekend of programming for admitted students—which runs from April 21 to April 23.

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Carpe Diem, Harvard Students must take advantage of new resources to effectively advance inclusion and belonging

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n March 27, a University-wide task force on Inclusion and Belonging announced its recommendations, calling on all of Harvard’s schools to step up efforts to better include those marginalized along racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and ideological lines. Among the recommendations released were a series of concrete administrative changes, such as designated inclusive spaces in the Smith Campus Center that seek to facilitate a more vibrant dialogue within the Harvard community by bringing all perspectives—old and new—into conversation with each other.

This change, as well as the others mentioned in the report, should be applauded. The administration is using its power to advance an admirable goal, and one that is essential to Harvard’s mission: the facilitation of a diverse and nuanced dialogue. The willingness to take steps on an administrative level to better the community is a significant first step towards solving those structural problems, given the prominent role that administrative rules play in shaping our interactions and our culture.

However, that role is not absolute.

Those who are siloed into their own spaces, whether they be religious, ideological, racial, or along any other lines, cannot simply be induced to interact and engage in substantive dialogue with the inorganic creation of formal administrative spaces. If the

community is to be transformed into one that reflects our highest ideals of diversity, inclusion, and open inquiry, it must be treated as an organic entity, where the culture is set not just in formal meetings but in classrooms, dining halls, and dorms. That cannot be done by the administration, but it can be done by the students.

To be sure, the administration has a role to play. There cannot be ideologically diverse classes without ideologically diverse faculty. There cannot be dialogue between students of different ethnicities, races, genders, and sexual orientations unless the administration admits students who are diverse across each of those categories.

But just simply hiring faculty of color cannot guarantee that white students will take their classes, and hiring conservative faculty cannot guarantee that liberal students will take their classes. Similarly, the creation of a formal multicultural space cannot guarantee that all parties, those who are currently included and those who are marginalized, will come to the table. The administration can set up the necessary space and context for change, but it is ultimately the responsibility of the students to bring that change about.

Thus, we believe that the administration, in addition to using its rule-making power, should also use its public authority to encourage the rest of the community to collaborate in im-

proving our culture as well. Those of us not empowered with the ability to make administrative decisions should work to buttress the committee’s recommendations as well as make their ideas a reality, and the administration should say so.

Without an up-front, frank acknowledgement of the limits of administrative power to shape culture and a call for students to join in the effort, the administration risks engendering complacency within the student body. The fact that such a comprehensive, carefully thought out report has been issued might lead some to focus less on the problem now, content in the knowledge that the administration has taken action.

If the vision laid out in these administrative changes is to be realized, students must instead react with more energy and determination, not less.

The administration must call on students to see this not as a time to rest on our laurels but instead to seize the opportunity to implement the roadmap laid out by the task force and drive Harvard into an inclusive and diverse future.

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.

Spring Breaking on the Islands

Ruben E. REYES BENDING THE ARC

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arvard students love the islands. The islands, of course, are those little specks in the wide, warm, blue ocean—the amorphous, multiethnic set of nations we call the Caribbean. Harvard students love galavanting around the islands, lying in warm sand, and dipping their toes in turquoise blue water.

One Harvard student wrote that, “Spring Break ‘97 was—as Spring Break ‘98, ‘99 and the rest of Spring Breaks from here to eternity will be—a home for the id to run wild; the Bahamas and Cancun are places where you can’t get caught and thus ’anything goes.’”

In 2006, a Fifteen Minutes Magazine writer claimed that, “every d-bag and their mother comes back to school with a sick tan from the Caribbean.”

During spring break in 2011, 118 students—a mix of “final club bros, sorority sisters, and various other members of the party-hopping species”—went to a beach resort in the Dominican Republic. Their “mass exodus from Cambridge to the Caribbean” was sparked by familiar allures—warmth, the possibility of a tan (or a sunburn), and relatively affordable prices. The “hottest Harvard party” that week was happening in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

The thought of the most reprehensible aspects of Harvard social life being exported abroad is deeply unsettling.

Even so, I became yet another Harvard student this temporarily fleeing to the islands for some sort of escape.

I felt a deep hesitation traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico for spring break, and the remnants of this feeling still linger. The menace of college-aged spring breakers sat in the back of my head—beaches littered with beer cans, drunken law-breaking, disrespect for local communities. Though intending to avoid these transgressions, I was still stuck with fear that I’d contribute to the disruptive hoard that comes to the island every year.

All of this was compounded by the

disgraceful way the United States government has abandoned Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. More than six months later, there are still Puerto Ricans living without power. Walking through San Juan, mere blocks away from the governor’s mansion, I saw a building with signs on its balcony that read, in Spanish, “Building Without Power.” From a ledge that overlooks La Perla, a Puerto Rican flag waved above the splintered wood of a caved-in roof.

All the while, it was impossible to forget that Puerto Rico has no voting representatives in Congress or the Electoral College.

I felt a deep hesitation traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico for spring break, and the remnants of this feeling still linger.

In the face of a humanitarian crisis, loud, disruptive, obnoxiously American college students can feel like a slap in the face. Though I avoided being blatantly offensive, there is still injustice in the fact that I was able to tan and drink while people just a few miles away had no water and no electricity.

This injustice, though, reminded me of the need for mindfulness when traveling through Puerto Rico.

The threat careless American travelers pose abroad, and the ease with which they do so, is not specific to Puerto Rico. Americans are able to vacation abroad precisely because of the way the United States had flexed its political power abroad. Some of the hottest spring break spots, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, have been previously occupied by the United States military. Residents of the United States enjoy goods produced by exploited laborer in countries they’d love to visit—bananas from Guatemala, sugar from Cuba, coffee from El Salvador, pineapples from Costa Rica.

Vacations, though seemingly harmless, carry the weight of these histories. Traveling to certain countries is “cheap” precisely because the United States has made it so. Local economies are chained to the American dol-

lars that support the tourism infrastructure on which their residents rely.

When we justify our presence abroad simply because we’re spending money there, we have to remember that economic aid of this sort is only possible because of the colonial histories that have structured life as such.

Of course, countries are not defined simply by the way the United States intervention has shaped their histories.

They’re as much defined by the people who live there and the way they’ve resisted infringements on their autonomy. While travelers are navigating the complicated dynamics inherent to international travel, we should expect them to be thoughtful and non-disruptive.

Advocate for the communities you visit, whether it be by pushing for better relief efforts or statehood. Respect that the bars you frequent exist alongside neighborhoods where people have set up their lives.

Don’t exotify people who live in lands that are foreign only to you.

Make an effort to learn, through more than a Wikipedia search, about the history and culture of the place you are living. Blend in when possible. Make yourself small. Allow people to build and rebuild without becoming an obstruction.

Harvard students will continue going to the islands for spring break, so it’s critical that we become more conscientious travelers. As we travel abroad, we have to be aware that our nation is responsible for many of factors that make other nations—including the islands— accessible and easy to travel to. Simply, we must acknowledge the colonial structures that make our trips possible, in order to avoid reproducing them as much as possible.

Hurricane Maria uprooted a tree in San Juan that remained on the sidewalk, clumps of dirt in plain site. Someone had painted the Puerto Rican flag on the tree’s roots as a reminder that the island would rebuild itself, a reminder that—as the spray paint on a van in Santurce said—“PR SE LEVANTA.” I can only hope that my trip didn’t get in the way.

Ruben E. Reyes Jr. ’19, a former Crimson Editorial Chair, is a History & Literature concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays.

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What Democrats Stand To Lose In the Gun Debate

By PATRICK C. BARHAM

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ast Tuesday, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. This is a notable first. Currently, there are no elected officials who have taken this position, and historically, it has proven taboo for Democrats, with candidates and elected officials around the country using any number of euphemisms to steer clear of directly calling for “gun control.”

This tide seems to be turning.

At last week’s protests, signs decrying the NRA’s support of looser gun regulations and calling for gun control embody how new voices are challenging the traditional gun-rights activist fervor in the debate over the Second Amendment.

These protests have swept in a wave of vocal support for a shift to the left in the Democratic Party on this issue, and increasingly, activists’ calls insisting that their elected officials take a harder line on guns are becoming louder and more visible.

But this harder line could come at a big cost to Democrats.

According to a recent poll, just 16 percent of Independents and 8 percent of Republicans agree with Justice Stevens about repealing the Second Amendment, and despite the recent public support for greater gun control, it comes only at the end of a 20-year popular trend in favor of gun rights. In fact, it hasn’t even been ten years since the landmark Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v.

Heller protected individual gun rights.

If we are indeed at a turning point as these protests now suggest, we are still at a very early stage of the turn and a miscalculation now could table the debate for years to come.

Democrats are currently on track to make huge gains in the 2018 midterm elections. Of the special elections that have taken place so far, the trend of preference moving into the double digits in favor of Democrats candidates across the country has fueled Democratic enthusiasm and hope for the upcoming election year. It is this enthusiasm that has encouraged a new era of freshmen candidates to contest staunchly conservative national, state, and local districts.

Already in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and even Alabama, Democrats have won.

But a shift to the left on gun rights amongst Democrats will alienate moderate voters, a vast majority of whom still favor the Second Amendment, in these states and others.

While national polls suggest a country whose attitudes are becoming slightly more favorable toward gun control, these changes are more prominent in the already heavily-Democratic regions of the West and the Northeast than in the Midwest and South, where support for gun control reforms remains below the national average and where Democrats are hoping to challenge Republican incumbents. If Democrats aim to win back control of the House, these more moderate districts are must-wins.

Democrats must now tread carefully or risk pushing too hard and losing the wind at their backs. It is easy to forget that despite this The national weekend’s protests, the United States is narrative might be still a country with a turning, but that ship very vocal minority who “cling to [their] is turning a lot faster guns,” as President in more liberal urban Obama said in 2008.

It is difficult to recareas than in more oncile with the fact conservative rural that the third of Americans who own and suburban ones. guns continue to lead And it is the latter that the conversation on gun rights, but it is a Democrats have the fact of American polgreatest opportunity itics that cannot be ignored. to flip.

The national narrative might be turning, but that ship is turning a lot faster in more liberal urban areas than in more conservative rural and suburban ones.

And it is the latter that Democrats have the greatest opportunity to flip.

Gun violence, and specifically mass shootings, have become far too egregious yet commonplace to ignore, but it has become evident that Republicans are unwilling to make substantial attempts at gun reforms. Come November, losing track of the nation’s pulse and following suit with Justice Steven’s op-ed could cost the Democrats control of the House and lead Republicans to claim a false mandate on the issue of gun rights. For this reason, Democrats should be wary of rallying behind repealing the Second Amendment.

Patrick C. Barham ’21 lives in Pennypacker Hall.

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ARTS A Production That Does G&S “Yeoman’s Service”

“Fresh” is not likely to be the first word that comes to mind when describing 16th-century England, with its economic and gendered divisions and its looming Tower of London prison. Yet the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ current staging of “The Yeomen of the Guard; or The Merryman and His Maid,” indeed set in Tudor England, feels—in a word—fresh. Honeyed, airy vocal performances challenge the Tower’s assumed doom and gloom, and modern, cross-gendered casting takes place without diegetic fanfare. Elaborate costumes, thoughtful lighting, and a beautiful set knit the show together elegantly. Running from March 23 to April 1 in the Agassiz Theater, the production delights, despite some lagging Act II moments that typify librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan’s long denouements.

In knotty, plot-heavy G&S fashion, “Yeomen” tracks multiple storylines. Against the Tower of London backdrop, the young Phoebe Meryll (Arianna N. Paz ’19) sets her sight on Colonel Fairfax (typically a male role, but played here by Janiah Lockett ’20), a reportedly plucky soldier who has been wrongfully convicted for sorcery and is set to die within one hour of the show’s opening curtain. Phoebe and her father, Sergeant Meryll (Mike Shirek ’20), hatch a plan to disguise Fairfax as Phoebe’s brother, Leonard (also typically a male role, but played here by Sunny Levine ’20), and sneak Fairfax away before the executioner arrives. Fairfax, with the help of the easily swayed Tower Lieutenant (Benjamin D. Grimm ’18), plots to marry any willing woman, so that his soon-to-be-distributed estate will not fall into the hands of his nefarious cousin, who imprisoned Fairfax in the first place. Meanwhile, traveling entertainers Elsie Maynard (Julianne Freeman) and Jacklyn Point (typically the male role “Jack Point,” but played here by Rebecca Thau ’19) arrive at the Tower, and Elsie becomes Fairfax’s untimely bride. Escape, a faked murder, a marriage, and irreparable heartbreak ensue. “It never seems to go right for them, and for one character especially,” stage director

MELISSA C. RODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Nermin Hasanovic ’20 summarizes in his program note.

The cast’s stellar singing carries the production. Having dazzled in shows including HRG&SP’s “Pirates of Penzance” last semester and “Into the Woods” at the OBERON last year, Paz once again flaunts her vocal chops, this time bringing a softness and flirtatiousness to Phoebe’s mezzo voice part. Pining for Fairfax, she paces across the stage, grazing her hand against the Tower’s flagstones and briefly drawing it to her forehead in calculated maidenly anguish. “An idle breath — / Yet life and death / May hang upon a maid’s ‘Heigh-ho!’” she sings, eyes downcast and slightly come-hither, as she twiddles the coarse wool and spinning needle in her hands. Lockett, as the fated Fairfax, tackles the role with such clear diction and an incredibly lush take on the songs that the character’s traditional male gender becomes irrelevant to the performance. In particular, her voice shines in Fairfax’s entrance number, “Is Life a Boon?”; she delivers each lyric deeply, crisply, and compellingly. Freeman’s soprano rounds out the strong, articulated vocal performances.

Musical moments that feature several characters likewise invigorate the show. An a capella number in Act II (“Strange Adventure”)—which is soft and contemplative but manages to buoy the waning act—exemplifies this production’s blend of thematic gravitas, vocal harmony, and intricate staging. Singing about Elsie’s untimely marriage to Fairfax, Tower of London overseer Dame Carruthers (Rachel Share-Sapolsky ’21), her niece Kate (Bo Choi ’17), Sergeant Meryll, and Fairfax himself proceed in a square formation. They trace a path that evokes the moving hands of a clock, also echoed by the song’s ticking, repeated words. The singers’ chilling, virtually unaccompanied harmonizing elevates the song’s

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commentary on Elsie’s harsh reality, from unexpected wife to unexpected widow, all as a teenager no less: “Modest maiden will not tarry; / Though but sixteen year she carry, / She must marry, she must marry, / Though the altar be a tomb — / Tower — Tower — Tower tomb!” The blocking of this number not only emphasizes the operetta’s weightier themes, but also is fresh and smart.

When Elsie and Jacklyn perform for the villagers (“I have a song to sing, O!”), they too breathe new life into the music. The “O”s that frame their duet flow fluidly between Elsie and Jacklyn, establishing their own patter of communication. Each “O” is joyous and lovingly delivered between the performance partners, a lyrical choice that makes the reprise of this number, which cements the break in their relationship, all the more poignant.

All of this nuanced singing and staging takes place with the actors cloaked in striking costumes and performing on an impressive flagstone set, featuring two Tower buildings and a cracked pink mosaic heart. During “I have a song to sing, O!,” Elsie wears a flower crown and an off-white dress with dark pink overlays and immaculate lace detailing. Jacklyn’s understated (and not overtly jester-ly) costumes—two dresses with light-colored patchworking and billowy sleeves—match well with the style and color scheme of Elsie’s costume, visually unifying the pair’s performance. Notably, the eponymous Yeomen ensemble members wear striking scarlet tunics, trimmed with gold and embroidered with the Tudor crown and H.R. monogram (“Henry Rex,” or King Henry). Kudos to the production’s creative team for their attention to detail, which keeps the eye engaged and entertained throughout a lengthy show. Yeoman’s service, indeed.

Staff writer Melissa C. Rodman can be reached at melissa. rodman@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @melissa_ rodman.

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‘UNSANE’ MELDS INTELLIGENCE WITH INCOMPETENCE

AZIZ B. YAKUB CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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There is a certain danger in pigeonholing films into a specific genre. Steven Soderbergh’s “Unsane”—purportedly a psychological thriller— fails as such. The film dutifully recounts the story of Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy), a moderately sane woman who has been accidently confined to a mental institution. While institutionalized, she comes to believe that one of its employees is her former stalker, David Strine (Joshua Leonard). Is she hallucinating? Does her stalker actually work there? Is Sawyer sane? And if she is, who in their right mind hired David? These are the questions that “Unsane” wants us to think are interesting, but they are not. Sawyer is not insane (she just needs a therapist). Her stalker works at the psychiatric hospital. He is very dangerous.

Precisely what makes “Unsane” fail as a psychological thriller—the simple solvability of its central mystery—allows it breathing room to explore more complex concepts. In this sense, it is a far more nuanced film than some of Soderbergh’s more recent forays into the genre, such as “Contagion” and “Side Effects.” Both films are too consumed with unraveling their respective narrative puzzles, and too enamored with Soderbergh’s style, to say anything substantive.

“Unsane,” however, has the intelligence to simultaneously explore the relationship between individuals and institutions while examining the rules of sanity (who decides what is real and what is not).

Within this context, the central pleasure of the film is not in determining if Sawyer is sane, but in watching Sawyer slowly begin to question her own grip on reality. In this role, Foy is magnificent. She grasps the camera with the intense magnetism of an intelligent actor. While visually unpleasant to watch, Soderbergh’s camerawork—shot on an iPhone—works to highlight the brilliance of Foy’s performance while conveying Sawyer’s degrading mental state. Nevertheless, Foy’s performance cannot carry the weight of the narrative alone. “Unsane” becomes a truly intriguing film when it situates Foy’s performance among an intriguing exploration of the power dynamics of her institution.

Sawyer begins to concretely question her reality—a reality in which her stalker works at the same psychiatric hospital where she is held—when individuals in positions of power construct an institutional reality that contradicts her own. She is told by a doctor that she is a threat to others and herself. The nurses and staff reject her depiction of reality. The police ignore her plea for help, citing the documentation of her insanity.

The institutions depicted by Soderbergh’s film are inflexible entities. They are unable to accept realities that differ from their own. In their state of inflexibility, they become a corrosive force—whittling away at Sawyer’s tenuous grasp of reality through the bureaucracy of paperwork. This structural framework enables David

to stalk, harass, torture, and maim Sawyer. His position in the organizational power structure grants him agency over reality; Sawyer’s subjugation by an institution deems her reality insane.

Quite cleverly, Soderbergh does not limit this dialogue about institutions to issues of mental health. David’s enabled predatory behavior is subtly placed in conversation with a brief interaction between Sawyer and her boss in the opening moments of the movie: Her boss invites her to his office to praise her performance; he proceeds to invite her to accompany him to a conference in another city. The predatory subtext is clear.

The film’s meditation on the structural problems of a psychiatric hospital further nuances this conversation beyond a representation of an abuse of power. Her boss is enabled by his power within an organization to engage in predatory behavior under the guise of professional praise, a process derived from the ability of individuals within an institutional power structure to construct and enforce their conceptualizations of reality. Within a manufactured institutional reality, David is not a stalker because he is part of the organizational power structure, and Sawyer’s boss has not crossed professional lines because he is part of this structural framework.

In this sense, “Unsane” is surprisingly intelligent. Its other themes, however, are barely handled with the same erudite sensitivity. Love is amorphously conceptualized as something that is not equivalent to stalking—hopefully, not

a surprise to anyone. For a film largely set in a psychiatric hospital, the mental health of the facility’s other patients is cursorily considered.

Occasionally, Soderbergh lazily departs from his more nuanced depiction of institutions and instead uses its setting to represent corporate greed. (That may be true. It is far from an original thought.)

The film’s worst moments, however, are rooted in a surprising lack of technical skill. While the way that “Unsane” is shot with an iPhone seems to have a thematic purpose, it is grating to watch after the movie’s first act. Thomas Newman’s score sounds like it was made in GarageBand. (For all we know, it could have been.) Joshua Leonard’s performance as David is flat and cartoonish—he does not impart any real depth to the character besides brutality.

Fundamentally, the film fails as a psychological thriller. Nevertheless, despite its bevy of flaws in every department of filmmaking, “Unsane” manages to produce the impression of being more than the sum of its parts. Emblematized by Foy, and Soderbergh’s meditation on institutions, perhaps it is a testament to the power that intelligent thought can have on a piece of art. For a stylist such as Soderbergh, this marks a moment of seismic growth.

Staff writer Aziz B. Yakub can be reached at aziz.yakub@thecrimson.com.

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Matt Fraschilla ’17 Heads to Final Four with Villanova MEN’S BASKETBALL

By HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

For those within basketball circles, the last name Fraschilla is synonymous with coaching.

Fran Fraschilla served over two decades on the sidelines, with head coaching stops at Manhattan, St. John’s, and New Mexico before becoming a well-respected commentator for ESPN. Fran Fraschilla’s elder son, James, played four years of college basketball at the University of Oklahoma before joining the coaching ranks as a Player Development Coach for the Utah Jazz’s G League team.

It came as no surprise, then, when younger son and former Crimson guard Matt Fraschilla ’17 announced his plans to pursue a coaching career after graduation. His first destination since leaving Cambridge? Villanova, which under Coach Jay Wright has been home to one of the nation’s most dominant men’s basketball programs.

This weekend in San Antonio, the Wildcats will attempt to win their second national championship in the past three seasons. For a first-year graduate assistant coach like Fraschilla, the experience of making the Final Four has been, in his words, simply “unbelievable”.

Fraschilla echoed in many ways the sentiments of Coach Wright, who after Sunday’s Elite Eight victory against Texas Tech used similar language to describe Villanova’s 34-4 season and extended postseason run.

“It is really surreal,” Wright said.

“You try not to think about it so when it hits you, it is almost unbelievable. I think when we get home it will hit us.

Right now the joy of playing like that… we are proud of that.”

For “Matty Fresh,” the journey to Villanova first came into view after his junior year at Harvard, when an ACL tear forced him to take on a new role with the Crimson. In becoming a pseudo-assistant coach and maintaining an open line of communication with Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, Fraschilla reinforced that season a true love for coaching.

“The silver lining was being out and having to make an impact in a different way,” Fraschilla said. “I tried to work with the staff as much as I could and try to coach the guys on the sideline. It kind of developed into realizing I had a passion for it.”

Fraschilla also credits Amaker for maintaining an open door policy during his time at Harvard, allowing him the opportunity to reciprocate ideas and talk about the “X’s and O’s” of the game after practice. Moreover, the Dallas native emphasized that his personal relationship with Amaker ultimately convinced him to stay on a college campus instead of seeking opportunities elsewhere. ­

MATTY FRESH Matt Fraschilla has been thrown into the Final Four fire in his first season as a member of Jay Wright’s staff at Villanova. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

“A lot of people ask, ‘Why didn’t I want to work in the NBA like my brother?’” Fraschilla said. “I know a lot of it is the impact you can have on a kid. From 18 to 22 is so big, and Coach Amaker had such a big impact on me. I think it is a special bond that a college player has with his coach and I want to have that here.”

Amaker’s impact and the close-knit relationships with former teammates have not escaped the Harvard graduate, who maintains a keen eye on the young Crimson team despite switching to the Navy and White. Impressed by the performance of players like sophomores like Christian Juzang, Chris Lewis, and Seth Towns, Fraschilla stated that he has “no doubt those guys are going to compete for the conference championship for years to come”.

Having such strong coaching blood within the family impacted Fraschilla in tremendous ways as well, but there

was never any pressure for Matt to follow in his father’s footsteps. It may not have been fait accompli, but certainly, the passion for the game was passed on from father to son. “[James and Matt] both want to be in the coaching business—I didn’t encourage them.” said Fran Fraschilla in an interview with Awful Announcing. “I think through osmosis, they’ve seen that their dad has had a fulfilling, happy life being around an orange leather ball. And they see that I love my job, whether it was the coaching or the broadcasting.”

Matt Fraschilla may not be calling the shots just yet, but those lessons both on and off the court have certainly benefited in his development as a coach.

With Villanova, Fraschilla is primarily responsible for on-court instruction with players, film breakdown, and being the “utility guy” for Wright and his coaching staff. From working with

players like Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson to booking team flights, graduate assistants like Fraschilla are exposed to all aspects of the massive operation that is Villanova Basketball.

Of course, being around a nationally-respected coach such as Jay Wright is another perk that Fraschilla has embraced. In his first year with the program, the former Amaker protégé noted the unsurprising similarities between his current boss Jay Wright and former college coach.

“They are very charismatic,” Fraschilla said. “Both have a very easy time talking to people whether it is people outside the program or communicating their instructions to players. Neither of them beat around the bush…. Both have an intense side to them because they both have been at the highest level.”

Wright’s leadership as well as the mentorship of Amaker and his father has given Matt a plethora of resources

to draw from as he begins to ascend the coaching ladder.

But before thinking about the future or potentially one day returning back to Lavietes Pavilion, Fraschilla’s sole focus will be towards helping ’Nova regain its place at the top of college basketball.

“As Coach Wright puts it, ‘Be here now.’ So I am focused on Villanova Basketball.” Fraschilla said. “I am focused on here, right now, having the chance to compete in the Final Four…. Every coach has to make career decisions at some point, but I am just enjoying this and learning as much as I can.”

This weekend, a small reminder of Harvard Basketball will be present at college basketball’s biggest platform.

For once, Crimson fans will have someone to cheer for: ’Nova’s “utility guy.”

Staff writer Henry Zhu can be reached at henry.zhu@thecrimson.com.

Bruins’ Ryan Donato Named Hobey Baker Finalist MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

By STUTI R. TELIDEVARA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Junior Ryan Donato might have closed the book on his time with the Harvard men’s hockey team, but he continues to earn NCAA accolades. On Thursday, Donato, now with the Boston Bru­

ins of the National Hockey League, was named a top-three finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to the country’s top men’s college hockey player.

Donato stepped into the role of topline center in the 2017-18 season, and fit in as the team’s top offensive piece. At the end of the regular season, Donato (29 GP, 26–17—43) led the Crimson in

points and the NCAA in goals per game (0.90). The ECAC Player of the Year also traveled to Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the United States Olympic team, pacing the squad in goals (5 GP, 5–1—6).

Once Harvard’s season ended, Donato took his talents to the Boston Bruins, signing a two-year entry-level contract with the team that draft-

ed him 56th overall in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Just days after the Crimson’s elimination, he suited up for the Bs, playing against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Mar. 19. Numerous Bruins injuries gave Donato the chance to debut on the team’s second line, and he made the most of the opportunity, scoring a goal and registering two helpers. In the six games he has played

GLORY DAYS Though Ryan Donato has made a considerable impact in his short time with the Bruins, the Harvard junior is still in contention for NCAA honors. Donato aims to follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Vesey ‘16, the Hobey Baker winner for the 2015-2016 campaign. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

for his hometown team so far, Donato has notched three tallies and two assists.

When it comes to the three finalists, however, Donato is not the only one with an NHL contract. Both Denver’s Henrik Borgström (40 GP, 23–29—52) and Northeastern’s Adam Gaudette (38 GP, 30–30—60) have signed with pro teams, the Florida Panthers and Vancouver Canucks, respectively. However, neither has made his professional debut yet.

Gaudette, a junior, led the country in goals and netted a hat trick to power the Huskies to their first Beanpot championship in 30 years. He and Donato are both South Shore natives— Gaudette is from Braintree, while Donato calls Scituate home. Borgström, a sophomore and a native of Helsinki, Finland, led the National Collegiate Hockey Conference in points and for his efforts was awarded the NCHC Player of the Year.

Donato is the fifth Harvard player to be named to the Hobey Hat Trick, as the group of finalists is called. Each of the four previous Crimson finalists won the award eventually, though it took multiple nominations for some.

Harvard has seen a Hobey winner very recently—at the end of the 2015-16 season, former co-captain Jimmy Vesey ’16 capped off a memorable collegiate career with the award, winning it in his second year as a nominee.

Previous Harvard winners are Mark E. Fusco ’83, former captain Scott M. Fusco ’85-86, and former captain B. Lane MacDonald ’88-89. These four former players give the Crimson the only ECAC school with Hobey Baker awardees, and only Minnesota-Duluth has more winners (5). Whether or not Harvard will tie that record remains to be seen, as the Hobey Baker winner will be named on April 6 during the Frozen Four.

Staff writer Stuti R. Telidevara can be reached at stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com.