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The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV No. 65 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Thursday, April 26, 2018

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New Union Begins Planning

On Racial Equity, HMS Earns B-

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By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY

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White Coats for Black Lives, a group that advocates for racial equality in medicine, gave Harvard Medical School a B- in its first-ever “racial justice” report card, released Wednesday.

The report card is meant to evaluate how well medical schools around the country—including Harvard’s—foster racial equality. In rationalizing Harvard’s grade, the organization pointed to minority underrepresentation among medical students and faculty, celebration of “racist/white supremacist individuals,” and a low rate of Medicaid patients at Harvard’s teaching hospitals.

The group analyzed 15 metrics including the representation and recruitment of racial minorities, anti-racism

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Harvard Graduate Students Union -United Automobile Workers, Harvard’s newly formed graduate student union, sent an email to members Tuesday soliciting nominations for its bargaining committee.

Thirteen students will be elected to the committee, which will take charge of collecting feedback from members of the bargaining unit, setting the agenda for negotiations, and going to the bargaining table on behalf of HGSU-UAW. The call for nominations comes shortly after eligible graduate and undergraduate student assistants voted to approve HGSU-UAW’s petition to represent them in negotiations with the University over wages, stipends, health care, and a host of other issues.

In a historic election held April 18 and 19, roughly 56 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of unionization.

Eligible members of the bargaining unit will have until May 1 to nominate their peers to serve on the committee.

Eleven positions on the committee are reserved for students who earn the highest number of votes within their school or their division of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Two additional members will earn their seats by winning the next highest number of votes overall, regardless of their school or division.

This breakdown is based on the number of eligible teaching and research assistants within each school or division. Specifically, the committee will be composed of one bargaining unit member from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, one member from the School of Public Health, one member from Harvard Law School, and one member from the College.

Within GSAS—whose students comprise the largest portion of the bargaining unit—the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions will contribute one member each, while the Natural Sciences division will contribute two members.

Two members will also be elected from the Division of Medical Sciences, which falls under both the Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and offers six interdisciplinary graduate programs, including a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences.

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15 Years of Service: Corbin Leaves Legacy

By Simone c. chu Crimson Staff Writer

Though the faces of the students who frequent the halls of Phillips Brooks House change each year, Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Public Service Gene A. Corbin, with his fistbumps and friendly smile, has been a constant on campus for a generation of Harvard College students.

“I’ve been going to the same office for fifteen years,” Corbin said, laughing.

Corbin recently announced he will step down from his position May 4 after working six years as assistant dean.

Before that, Corbin had served as the executive director of the Phillips Brooks House Association since June 2003.I n June, Corbin will begin a Ph.D. program in Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston—a path he had never envisioned until he realized he wanted to continue work in higher education.

Before he was PBHA’s executive director, Corbin studied public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked with students as a teach-

ing fellow.

The past 15 years, Corbin said, have felt “unreal.” As the semester—and his time at Harvard—comes to an end, “I just think about all the amazing people,” he said.

‘CITIZENS AND CITIZEN -LEADERS’ “The mission of Harvard College is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society.”

So reads the mission statement of the College. As such, one of the Phillips Brooks House’s focuses during his tenure, Corbin said, has comprised ensuring public service remains a priority for the student body.

Progress, he emphasized, is always a collaborative effort. The Phillips Brooks House encompasses the Center for Public Interest Careers, the Public Service Network, and Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship, and the Phillips Brooks House Association—a student organization, distinct from PBH itself.

While each of these offices operates autonomously, Corbin said

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Gene Corbin, the current Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Public Service, will step down at the end of the semester. Jacqueline S. Chea—Crimson photographer

Faust, Walsh Celebrate Allston Funding

OAISC Names New Associate Dean: Libby

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University President Drew G. Faust and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh stopped by Allston Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the fact the Harvard-Allston Partnership Fund has allotted $1 million in grants to local nonprofits over the past decade.

Amid heavy rain, University officials, municipal leaders, and Boston-area residents assembled in Ray V. Mellone Park—named after a prior chair of the Harvard-Allston Task Force who led the group through tumultuous financial times—in Allston for the tenth annual Harvard-Allston Partnership Fund awards. Past award recipients have included educational programs and health and fitness programs. This year, 13 nonprofits were awarded HAPF grants totaling $100,000.

The program was established by ­

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Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Carlos Veiga are three former heads of state who spoke Wednesday about Africa’s developmental agenda. Awnit S. Marta—Crimson photographer

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Current Pforzheimer House resident dean Brigitte A. B. Libby will serve as assistant dean for the Office of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct starting June 4, Associate Dean for Academic Integrity and Student Conduct Brett Flehinger announced in an email to students Wednesday.

Flehinger wrote that Libby will “play a leading role” on the Harvard College Honor Council and Administrative Board, where she will work to “promote a culture of integrity at Harvard.” Libby will serve as the primary liaison to Harvard’s Office for Dispute Resolution, where she will “work to connect the University’s centralized Title IX policy to the needs of Harvard College,” per the email.

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YPD union Protests Revisit Days Speech The Yale Police Department protested outside of a speech given by Yale President Peter Salovey to Yale’s new class of admitted students Tuesday afternoon, according to the Yale Daily News. The union members handed out fliers that cited instances of violent crime in the area in an attempt to highlight the challenges facing the police department, the News reported.

In a contract dispute that has lasted for two-years already, the union hopes to pressure the university into supporting a favorable long term contract for the union, according to the News. Protesters held signs that said “YALE COPS WANT A CONTRACT NOW” in addition to handing out the fliers, the News reported.

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Protestors at Columbia University entered Butler Library as part of a protest to “decolonize Columbia,” according to The Columbia Daily Spectator. The undergraduates are calling on Columbia to make its curriculum more diverse, acknowledge its debt to marginalized people, and bargain with its unionized graduate students, the Spectator reported. A Columbia dean warned the students that if they reached the library’s third floor along its main stairway, they would be violating the university’s code of conduct and subject to disciplinary measures, according to the Spectator. The Liberation Coalition and The Native American Council organized the protest, the Spectator reported.

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Skate into Summer To celebrate the last day of classes, the College Events Board hosted a free roller-skating rink in the Science Center Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

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Rival Koreas’ leaders face high stakes at historic summit The stakes will be high on Friday when Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in sit down on the southern side of the DMZ in a historic summit of talks between the two countries. Since a tenuous Korean War cease-fire took hold in 1953, every major initiative to settle the standoff between North and South Korea has eventually stalled. It is uncertain what the results of the talks will be, but both sides are hopeful for a mutually beneficial outcome.

Newly freed, Meek Mill is ready to fight bias in justice system Meek Mill was released from prison this Tuesday afternoon, granted bail by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court following his conviction on drug and gun charges in a 2007 arrest. The rapper stated that he will be using his bail as an opportunity to “shine a light” on how the criminal justice system treats minorities.

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CORRECTIONS The April 25 article “Students Lobby to Tank Sanctions” incorrectly indentified Juson Horras’s affiliaton; he represents the North-American Inerfraternity Conference, not the National Interfraternity Conference. The article also incorrectly stated Horras said NPC representatives contacted Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana about Harvard’s sanctions; in fact, he said NIC representatives contacted Khurana.

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Union Plans Bargaining Group Medical School Gets B- For Racial Justice UNION From Page 1

One member of the committee will come from one of Harvard’s “other professional schools,” the union’s email states. These schools include the Graduate School of Design, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, and the Division of Continuing Education.

Before the election, some students opposed to unionization said they worried the proposed bargaining committee would not represent their interests.

For example, some students who work in labs said they feared the committee would focus on concerns particular to graduate students who work in a classroom setting.

Union organizers, though, said these students will not represent their schools on a constituent basis.

Rather, they will all represent the interests of the entire bargaining unit collectively.

One of the bargaining committee’s first tasks will be the creation and dis-

tribution of a bargaining survey.

During process of distributing and collecting these surveys—which can take months to complete—members of the bargaining unit will identify what they want union leadership to push for during negotiations.

Unions typically wait until over half of members have completed the survey to create an initial bargaining agenda and begin negotiations with employers.

Though the bargaining committees will likely wait until the survey process is complete to generate an agenda, HSGU-UAW cited some major goals in the run-up to the election that may inform the agenda.

For example, HGSU-UAW organizers have often pointed to provisions won by other graduate student unions relating to pay, childcare, and protections for victims of sexual harassment.

“I think it’s really exciting to see how many people already are really, really engaged with this process,” union organizer Andrew B. Donnelly said.

Though HGSU-UAW is making

preparations to begin negotiations with the University, it remains unclear whether Harvard’s administration plans to bargain with the union.

Shortly after the election, University spokesperson Anna G. Cowenhoven repeatedly declined to answer a question asking whether administrators will open negotiations with the newly empowered union.

The uncertainty around bargaining comes as graduate students at Columbia University are striking in response to their administration’s refusal to bargain. The voluntary strike will last until April 30.

Columbia’s graduate union is also currently engaged in legal wrangling with its administration before the National Labor Relations Board.

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Libby Named OAISC Associate Dean OAISC From Page 1 College’s honor code, while the Administrative Board—a committee of faculty members—enforces academic rules and social conduct standards.

Libby will continue as Pforzheimer resident dean through Commencement, Pforzheimer House Faculty Deans Anne Harrington ’82 and John R. Durant wrote in an email to House residents Wednesday. Harrington and Durant added the House has already started a search for a new resident dean and is “looking at some wonderful options.”

Libby, who has served as Pforzheimer resident dean since 2014, wrote in an email to House residents that she

has “loved being a part of this wonderful community” and has found her work as resident dean “inspiring and deeply fulfilling.”

Harrington and Durant also praised Libby for her work as resident dean in their email.

“Brigitte has been an anchor of personal support for so many students, as well as a vital and vitally important member of our community,” the pair wrote.

“We know that she will be a very hard act to follow.”

Libby will succeed Lauren E. Brandt ’01, who assumed the role of Associate Dean of Students in March.

Brandt started her role at the Office of Academic Integrity and Student

Conduct in 2014.

Flehinger wrote in his email that Libby’s experience working closely with students and University affiliates will allow her to succeed in the new role.

“Brigitte brings to her work at OAISC extensive experience counseling students through challenging times and a remarkable ability to collaborate with people across the University,” Flehinger wrote.

“She has skill, experience and compassion to excel in this role, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to work closely with her.”

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Faust and Walsh Laud Allston Funding allston From Page 1 Harvard and the City of Boston in 2008 to provide “neighborhood improvement projects, cultural enrichment, and educational programming” in Allston. The funding for community programming has continued every year since then, despite Harvard temporarily halting its construction on the $1 billion Science and Engineering Complex for a number of years after the late 2000s financial crisis.

The SEC complex is now slated to open in fall 2020.

Faust said at Wednesday’s ceremony that the fund has provided 102 grants

to 32 different “community partners” over the past decade and recognized those partners for their service to the neighborhood, where she said 43,000 people live.

“Today we recognize organizations that are helping us reach our full potential as neighbors,” Faust said.

Harvard’s expansion into Allston has remained a significant focus of Faust’s presidency.

Faust is preparing to leave her office in June.

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joyed watching this partnership grow over the past almost 11 years,” she said Wednesday, addressing local residents.

Following opening remarks by Paul Andrew, Harvard’s vice president for public affairs and communications, the youth string group of the Boston String Academy, which received $12,500 from HAPF this year, performed two pieces.

At the ceremony, Walsh praised Faust for her leadership at Harvard and thanked her for her dedication to strengthening the University’s relationship with Allston.

Walsh said he expects to hold the next president, Lawrence S. Bacow, to the same standards.

Harvard Med From Page 1 anti-racism curricula, campus policing, and support resources offered to students.

The report card outlined the rationales and standards for each area; each of the 15 received a grade ranging from A to C. Harvard earned eight Bs and seven Cs overall, but did not receive an A in any of the areas.

In total, White Coats for Black Lives examined 10 American medical schools for its inaugural ratings.

The most common grade, given to five schools including Harvard, was a B-. The highest grade awarded was a B, given to the University of Pittsburgh. Johns Hopkins received a C+, and three schools—the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, and Yale—received Cs. “Racism is a powerful force in American medicine. This is apparent in population-level health outcomes,” reads a press release announcing the report card.

“Medical schools and their affiliated hospitals receive massive amounts of public funding, provide care to millions of patients, and are often the largest employers in their regions. The Racial Justice Report Card seeks to encourage these powerful institutions to play an active role in fighting racism in medicine,” the press release continues.

Joan Y. Reede, the Medical School dean for diversity and community partnership, said she thinks the report card did not take all factors into account in an interview Wednesday.

“When you try to capture the nuances across all medical schools in short clips, you lose that,” she said.

Specifically, she pointed to the report card’s grade analysis of “disparities in medical students’ grades or honors” between white students and students of color.

The report states that it gave schools an A if there are no disparities, a B if the school tracks differences and has a plan to reduce them, and a C if there are significant gaps or if no data is publicly available.

Harvard received a C because the school does not make data publicly available. Reede said the data is not public because many of the Medical School’s classes are graded pass/fail— not because racial disparities exist.

In justifying the group’s assertion that the Medical School celebrates “racist” and “white supremacist” individuals, members of White Coats for Black Lives pointed in their report card to former dean of the Medical School Oliver Wendell Holmes.

“Oliver Wendell Holmes, after whom one of the Harvard Medical School academic societies is named, was a former dean of Harvard Medical School,” the report reads.

“When, in 1850, white students protested the admission of three Black students to Harvard Medical School,

Holmes led the faculty in expelling the Black students.”

The organization’s report also includes a set of recommendations for medical schools across all 15 metrics.

The report suggests schools implement mandatory anti-racism trainings, publicize data about representation, and “dismantle their police and security forces” to reduce racial bias.

“Policing in the United States was established from slave patrols and continues to target and terrorize communities of color,” the report states.

“Communities should have access to alternative systems of safety and justice that promote the well-being of people of color.”

In an emailed statement, Medical School Dean George Q. Daley wrote he appreciates White Coats for Black Lives’ push to examine diversity at Harvard.

“All of us at Harvard Medical School share their commitment to ensuring that students who identify as being from populations underrepresented in medicine are fully supported and equipped,” Daley wrote.

Daley also wrote he believes the Medical School has made progress in becoming more diverse.

“In recent years, HMS has made significant advances in this area. We acknowledge that there is far more work to be done, and we are unwavering in our commitment to our shared goals,” he wrote.

Shortly after becoming dean, Daley established a diversity task force, which released its diversity statement last October.

Reede, who chairs the task force, said the group has formed six subcommittees, each of which will deliver their respective reports beginning this summer.

Last month, a University-wide diversity and inclusion task force released its final report, which made a set of eight specific recommendations for the University.

The report also included statistics about faculty diversity on campus, revealing that the Medical School has the lowest percentage of underrepresented minority faculty across all of Harvard’s schools.

White Coats for Black Lives specifically mentioned faculty diversity in their report, giving Harvard a C for minority representation among students and faculty.

When asked about the low percentages of minority students and faculty at the Medical School, Daley and Reede both said the absolute number of minority faculty at the school is greater than the equivalent number at any other American medical school.

Reede said the school has about 700 part- and full-time faculty who identify as underrepresented minorities.

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Dean Corbin Leaves A 15-Year Legacy corbin From Page 1 collaboration between the trio has increased across the last few years.

“What we all do is really central to the mission of Harvard College,” Corbin said. “You have to be engaged in serving others and addressing social issues to learn to be a citizen and a citizen-leader, and that is what it means to come to Harvard College.”

That desire to shine a spotlight on public service on Harvard’s campus led to the birth of the First-Year Day of Service in 2015. The daylong initiative, which involves both alumni and Phillips Brooks House staff, helps introduce freshmen to public service opportunities on campus early on in their college experience. “Starting the year off with public service at the forefront sets the tone for people’s mindsets,” said Alysha L. Johnson ’14, the community relations fellow for CPIC. Johnson said she has observed that

What we all do is really central to the mission of Harvard College.

Gene Corbin

Assist. Dean for Public Service careers in public service have become “easier to access” during her time at the College. Corbin has helped lead an ongoing initiative—the Seamless Service Pathways Process—which seeks to further streamline that accessibility. Nineteen student representatives sit on its steering committee.

“I’m convinced that social change is typically driven by young people,” Corbin said. “I hope public service at Harvard College never loses its student-led nature.” Kristin M. Garcia ’05, who served as president of PBHA when Corbin first started as PBHA executive

director, said PBHA “has always prided itself on having a commitment to student leadership.” During Garcia’s time at the College, PBHA—under Corbin’s leadership—pioneered a “Nonprofit Management Intensive” during Wintersession.

“That really gave students the skills to figure out what it means to lead a nonprofit,” she said. Garcia added that Corbin’s “energy and creativity” supported students as they found their footing as student-leaders—and that today, he does the same exact thing.

“He always has his signature fist-bump whenever you see him in the building,” said Anwar Omeish ’19, the current president of PBHA.

ested Conference or the Public Service Recruiting Day—both of which began under Corbin’s tenure—but also in the Mindich Service Fellowship Program.

That program matches students with

BEYOND THE GATES “There are two different reasons to be in college. One is to get a credential that will allow you to make more income, and the other is to develop as a citizen and citizen-leader. And obviously there’s some overlap there,” Corbin said.

He added, though, that “I want to see the latter really become what it means to be a Harvard College student.” Becoming a citizen-leader doesn’t always seem like a viable option to every student, according to Maribel Hernández Rivera ’04, who serves on the National Advisory Board for Public Service.

“You come to Harvard as an underprivileged student and suddenly feel the pressure of succeeding and doing better,” Hernández Rivera said. “I knew that I wanted to work with immigrants, but that was not something that I had seen as a path when I was in college.”

Efforts like the Public Interested Conference, which debuted in 2012, seek to expose undergraduates to different paths in public interest work.

Hernández Rivera, who has spoken at Public Interested as an alumna, said she appreciates that Public Interested is open to all undergraduates. “You don’t have to wait until your senior year to figure out what you want to do,” she said.

The network of alumni has been instrumental not only in the Public Inter-

public service organizations across the U.S., according to Travis A. Lovett, the director of CPIC. “We’ve found that there really is a vibrant community here. It just takes being able to have enough resources to be able to bring folks together,” Lovett said.Since the program’s launch, it has grown sizably, he said, and now sponsors 75 summer fellows.

Public relations at the forefront sets the tone for people’s mindsets.

Alysha L. Johnson ‘14 CPIC Fellow

THE MISSION CONTINUES “What’s great about this place is that it’s outlived anyone who’s here currently. As each person is here, they bring what’s special about them,” said Maria Dominguez Gray, the current executive director of PBHA. “But this place has a life of its own.

It keeps going.” “Gene has done a lot of work to make sure that there are structures in place that are beyond him,” she added.

A few weeks before the end of his tenure, Corbin looked back on the collaborative efforts that he has led and expressed optimism for the future. The role of people like me is to provide the support and structures that will allow the idealism of college students to flourish,” Corbin wrote in an email Wednesday.

“It will be exciting to see what others do, and I’m really proud of the progress that’s been made in the last 15 years.”

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Searching for Buried Slaves

By ANDREA M. BOssi Crimson Staff Writer

Lesley University first-year student Jonathan Hill is working to locate the unmarked Cambridge graves of two Revolutionary War-era African-American soldiers and freed slaves—currently, he believes the sites lie somewhere near Harvard Yard.

Ever since a small plaque caught his eye, Hill, a digital filmmaking major, has been doing research in the hopes of finding the exact spot where the two men are buried in order to give them headstones—which are not currently present in The Old Burial Ground, a cemetery located nearby Harvard’s campus and across from the Yard.

“I was walking by the cemetery and noticed a little plaque outside that said something like, ‘revolutionary soldiers laid here and two African-American soldiers were buried here,’” Hill said.

“That was really interesting because I tried to figure out where they were buried since they don’t have headstones.” The Cambridge Historical Commission, the body tasked with preserving historic sites in the city, previously knew that the two soldiers, Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost, lay in the cemetery, though they did not know exactly where, according to Charles M. Sullivan, the commission’s executive director.

While the exact locations of Stedman and Frost have yet to be officially named, Hill is working with the Commission and the Cambridge Department of Veterans’ Services to perform more digs and find the right spot.

Once determined, Hill plans to apply for headstones. “It’s not so much a discovery, really,” said Sullivan. “It’s uncovering more information.” By look-

There are so many stories out there that have been forgotten.

Jonathan Hill

Lesley University student ing through old records and archives, Hill and his affiliates are trying to uncover more information about the individuals’ life stories as well. “We’re just at the very beginning,” Hill said, noting he has many leads to follow. Neil S. MacInnes-Barker, who serves as Director of the Department of Veterans’ Services in Cambridge, is working with Hill. He said they will work hard “to make sure we have solid evidence before we start the application [for a headstone].” “We

don’t want to put a stone in the wrong place. We want to be sure that we do it right, and we are not sure how long it will take,” MacInnes-Barker said.

“This is another opportunity on many levels to right a wrong and showcase an individual who shouldn’t be left in the shadows.” Based on Hill’s current findings, it seems likely that Frost and Stedman were buried alongside their former slave owners, indicating they were not buried in mass graves—as was common for the many enslaved people who could not afford a headstone.

“There are some authoritative guides that say that Cato and Neptune both were buried with their former masters, but we have to see evidence of that, and we haven’t seen the original historical records yet,” Sullivan said. “We’re hoping the original record might have more specificity and not just unsupported legend or hearsay.”

Hill, who calls himself a “huge history nerd,” said he has developed an affinity for finding unmarked graves and ordering headstones because the stones signify that someone mattered more than just records, he said.

“I want to tell the stories of people who are important and really made a difference in this world but are forgot because I feel like there are so many stories out there that have been forgotten for one reason or another,” Hill said. “History matters.”

The Old Burying Ground, located on Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street, opened around 1635. Casey M. Allen —Crimson photographer

African Heads of State Discuss Development at IOP Forum

By Alexandra A. Chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

The former leaders of Nigeria, Tanzania, and Cape Verde spoke about effective leadership and development in Africa at a forum hosted in the Harvard Kennedy School’s JFK Jr. Forum Wednesday.

His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria, His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, former president of Tanzania, and His Excellency Carlos Veiga, former prime minister of Cape Verde, answered questions from moderator Thoko Moyo and audience members. Moyo currently serves as the Kennedy School’s associate dean for communications and public affairs.

Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf introduced the panel and paid tribute to the late HKS professor Calestous Juma, known around the world for his study of technology and innovation in Africa. Juma passed away last December. Elmendorf said Juma’s work around public policy on the African continent will continue at the school. “Harvard University needs to play a significant role in promoting the scholarship about Africa and in building stronger connections between the United States and countries in Africa, and the Kennedy School intends to play a key part in those efforts,” Elmendorf said. The speakers focused much of their discussion on what they view as the primary responsibilities of African

leaders. Veiga said “commitment” is the most important quality of an effective leader. “The first thing is to be committed with the country and try to do the best we know to serve the country and to serve the people,” Veiga said. “You can be wrong, but it’s normal. You can change what you have done.”

The leaders each said that, in order to succeed, African countries need both strong institutions and strong leaders.

The leaders were referencing former United States President Barack Obama’s 2009 statement that Africa needs strong institutions, not strong men. Obasanjo flatly disagreed with Obama’s claim and called the president’s assessment of Africa was “wrong.”

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wrong,” Obasanjo said. “Africa needs good, strong leadership and we need stable, strong institutions. It’s neither one nor the other.”Kikwete said he was “in total agreement” with Obasanjo’s diagnosis. “That’s precisely the point, you need both,” Kikwete said. “If you have a strong leader and weak institutions, then they will be depending on an individual for survival and decision-making, which is a very weak base for a country.”“If you have weak leaders, they are not good resources,” he added.

Obasanjo referenced the leadership of former South African president and activist Nelson Mandela as a role model for African leaders and citizens, pointing out how Mandela forgave those who imprisoned him for more than 20 years.

“I think that requires something more than normal in human beings to be able to do that. I think we need to learn that from Mandela and we need to practice it,” Obasanjo said. “Forgiveness is one thing that we don’t get enough in our interaction with our fellow beings. I believe whether at personal level or at political level or at whatever level: forgiveness and love.” Some audience members said they wished the discussion had contained more substance and directed questions.

“I think there wasn’t enough substance,” Graduate School of Design Student Kahira Ngige said. “We didn’t get to the heart of what I wanted to know, which is what we do about the problem of governance across Africa.”

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Ec Ph.D. Students Report Anxiety

By Ahab Chopra and ASHLEY M. COOPER Crimson Staff Writers

A recent Harvard University Health Services mental health survey revealed a significant percentage of University Economics Ph.D. students experience symptoms of depression and anxiety, prompting students to establish a peer support group.

The survey was first released to graduate students in the Economics Department during the 2016-2017 school year. The initial iteration of the survey was solely “for internal purposes” and did not constitute an official research initiative, according to Economics Ph.D. student Valentin Bolotnyy, who worked on the study.

The survey included a clinical screen for depression and anxiety, in which students could select a score above 10 in either category to signal they suffer from “moderate to severe symptoms of depression and anxiety,” Bolotnyy wrote in an email.

The survey results revealed that 15 percent of Economics Ph.D. students reported above a 10 on the depression scale, while 23 percent of the PhD students reported above a 10 on the anxiety scale. Nationally, approximately 5 percent of the population typically scores above a 10 on the screens.

After seeing the results of the survey, several Economics graduate students decided to found a Peer Support Network in the department. The group comprises nine volunteers, all of whom represent different years in the graduate program. The names and contact info of these individuals are made available to every student in the department.

“Grad school’s a difficult time, especially at a place like Harvard where people are very smart and you can feel like you’re struggling and sort of don’t belong, you know that people sort of struggle with these kind of things,” said David C. Martin, an Economics graduate student and Peer Support Network volunteer. “But I think it just made it more salient to people actually seeing the percentage of people who were at risk for anxiety, for example.”

Martin emphasized that the results of the survey are not “official diagno-

ses,” but said the support group hoped to provide mental health resources in the department and to normalize conversations around mental health.

“We’re trying to provide as many different options as possible for people within the department to feel comfortable talking about mental health issues, so we do sort of regular drop-in hours,” he said. “We have two hours where there’s somebody in person in our room in the Econ building on Wednesday evenings.”

Following the first survey, Paul J. Barreira, director of HUHS, met with students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to design a new study addressing mental health concerns more broadly. The second survey, administered during this school year, included both the same clinical screens and a student-designed portion.

“It’s questions about their environment that either mitigate or exacerbate stress and trouble,” Barreira said in a recent interview.

HUHS released the new survey to the College, three GSAS departments— Earth and Planetary Sciences, Integrative Life Sciences, and Physics—and the Law School. UHS also re-surveyed graduate economics students.

The results of this survey have not been published, but, according to Barreira, will be utilized as an evaluation tool to assess change over time.

“Because everybody has agreed to repeat the survey, it becomes an evaluation tool. You do something and then you repeat the survey,” Barreira said.

“So for Econ, the first time we did this was two years ago and this fall we repeated it. So there’s been two. And this fall, the survey gets to see whether the changes that were made had any effect.”

In the meantime, Martin said the Peer Support Network in the Economics Department will continue to host events and drop-in hours in attempt to reduce stress on campus.

Staff writer Ahab Chopra can be reached at ahab.chopra@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @ahab_chopra Staff writer Ashley M. Cooper can be reached at ashley.cooper@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @ashleymcooper_

HMC Brazil Land Facing Probe

By Lucas ward and HENRY W. BURNES Crimson Staff Writers

A University investment in Brazilian farmland may be in danger of a lawsuit as prosecutors in the state of Bahia review allegations that a company linked to Harvard’s endowment does not rightfully own titles to the land.

Harvard Management Company— which controls the University’s $37.1 billion endowment—owns its holdings in Western Bahia through its subsidiary Guara LLC. Guara owns Caracol Agropecuaria, the company that holds the property titles, according to University filings.

Caracol is valued at around $44 million, according to Harvard’s 2016 endowment tax filing.

The commission listed irregularities with 24 titles for Caracol land holdings, Bloomberg News first reported.

“Caracol has the property title, but it couldn’t prove how the land, at the dimensions it has today, has been formed over time,” Barbara Camardelli Loi, an official in the prosecutor’s office, said in an interview with ­

Bloomberg.

“If we prove this is an area owned by the state, the company will lose it.”

The dispute has gone on for years and covers titles for a large majority of the farm.

It is the second recent controversy surrounding foreign land holdings for HMC, after its farms and forests assets lost over $1 billion in value.

Included in these losses was an investment in a eucalyptus plantation in Uruguay that fared particularly poorly.

Complaints from subsistence farmers in Bahia that they had been evicted from government land predate Caracol’s involvement in the dispute.

A 2014 report from a state commission recommended titles be revoked after finding a “festival of irregular and illegal procedures which resulted in usurpation of public lands.”

Brazil began restricting foreign ownership of farms in 2010, prompted by increased international investments.

In the face of steep losses, HMC has begun a program repositioning its foreign land investment.

HMC decided to exit from another

Brazilian farm investment of at least $150 million last year.

That exit contributed to the writedown of the natural resources portfolio.

HMC has had a number of other properties in Brazil.

HMC CEO N.P. Narvekar explained the company’s decision to move away from natural resources in a September letter.

“For years, HMC benefited from an internally managed natural resources program that generated strong returns,” he wrote.

“At this stage, however, while most assets remain attractive, a few have significant challenges.”

“Our natural resource platform will take multiple years to reposition,” he added.

In another recent offload, HMC sold $73 million of farmland in New Zealand.

Staff writer Lucas Ward can be reached at lucas. ward@thecrimson.com. Follow him on twitter at @LucaspfWard.

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Faculty Council Discusses Allston

By Angela n. Fu Crimson Staff Writer

The Faculty Council approved a preliminary list of courses for the 20182019 academic year and heard presentations on a potential Extension School program and the ongoing construction in Allston at its biweekly meeting Wednesday afternoon.

The Council—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ highest governing body—received a list of FAS courses for the next academic year in its annual review of course offerings. The list includes courses available to both undergraduate and graduate students as well as courses at the Extension School.

Though some courses were missing details on times and section scheduling, the Council chose to formally approve the courses, and the entire Faculty will have a chance to vote on the list of courses at its next meeting.

“There are a lot of details that have to be still settled, so there will be corrections to the list over the coming months,” Council member David L. Howell said.

FAS will release a final list of course offerings in June.

The Council also heard a presentation from Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension Huntington D. Lambert on a possible collaboration between the Extension School and MIT’s “MicroMasters” program.

MIT’s program allows students to take online courses to earn a MicroMasters credential, which will then qualify them to apply for a Master’s degree at MIT and other universities.

The Extension School is currently considering a collaboration with MIT that would allow students who earn a MicroMasters credential to apply to Mas-

ter’s programs within the Extension School.

Katie Lapp, the executive vice president of the University, and Shaun L. Donovan, the senior strategist and advisor to the president on Allston and campus development, updated the Council on the state of construction on the Allston campus. They also spoke about their vision for the campus, which they said will include other Harvard programs in addition to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

One potential addition they spoke about was the creation of arts-making and performance spaces.

They also said that they would like the new campus to be open to Allston residents.

“They want to make it a real neighborhood, not just an office park or campus buildings,” Howell said. “It sounded very attractive.”

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EDITORIAL

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The Wi-Fi is Bad and I Blame HMC

An Explanation After the Arrest The College should clarify the roles of HUHS and HUPD

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n light of the physical police altercation on April 13 between a black undergraduate who was likely under the influence of narcotics and officers from the Cambridge Police Department, Harvard affiliates have raised important questions about College policies to protect and assist students. One of the primary concerns is exactly how the College’s amnesty policy for drug and alcohol use might apply in this case. Consequently, we call on the administration to explain when the amnesty policy applies to students and more clearly delineate policy for how the Harvard University Police Department and Harvard University Health Services intervene in such cases.

According to HUPD spokesperson Stephen G. Catalano, HUHS was contacted about the student. HUHS subsequently contacted HUPD, who in turn transferred the call to CPD, who he said had “primary jurisdiction.”

The College’s amnesty policy states that students seeking medical treatment for alcohol or drug-related illnesses for themselves or a friend will not face disciplinary actions for any illegal substance use in their interaction with HUHS or HUPD. Although the administration has given no indication that it will discipline the student involved in the police altercation, the event raises important questions about when the amnesty policy applies. Does the policy, for

example, apply when police officers from the CPD or the Boston Police Department interact with students?

Additionally, we question whether it was necessary to involve CPD in this case, and hope to see the administration set clear guidelines to determine when analogous situations cease to be medical emergencies and instead become matters involving law enforcement.

Last Saturday, Black Students Organizing for Change, a group formed by students in the aftermath of the traumatic incident, held protests and, through an open letter to the “Harvard Community,” presented a number of demands to the University, which merit consideration.

We support BSOC’s demand that Harvard acquire its own University ambulance. Harvard should seek to follow the example set by MIT, whose ambulance service is operated by a student-led Emergency Medical Services team. Acquiring a University ambulance will be an important step to ensuring that students who need medical help receive it safely, expeditiously, and, when possible, internally.

We also support the group’s demand for the establishment of an internal crisis response team, which would pursue short-term strategies to deal with medical emergencies and housing issues. Up until institutional changes aimed at preventing

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similar incidents are put into effect, the crisis response team would work to ensure safety and security for Harvard affiliates.

BSOC’s claim that HUHS dispatchers and HUPD officers should receive trainings regarding mental health is similarly valuable, as these trainings may well have altered the course of events in this incident.

In endorsing these three demands, we recognize that our suggestions are not exhaustive. We strongly encourage the College to listen to, consider, and respond to the other changes BSOC and other students, especially those who are disproportionately affected by the event, have proposed.

Ultimately, we hope that the administration clarifies its procedure for involving police in situations where students and affiliates require medical attention. If there is no existing policy, the administration must work quickly and effectively to create one in order to ensure that students remain safe. No incident like that of April 13 should ever happen again.

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t’s springtime again in Cambridge: The days are lengthening, the leaves are returning, and my inbox is filling with Senior Gift emails. Sixteen of them, to be precise.

I’ve seen a lot of Senior Gift marketing. I’ve seen the email blasts, the T-shirts, the social media posts, and the raffles. I’ve seen the posters up around my House, trumpeting the multifarious recipients of senior generosity, from the Classroom to Table program (shuttered for the semester, lacking funds), the Wi-Fi (slow), and my Faculty Deans’ dogs (very cute, but I bet not actually fed by the Harvard College Fund).

I’ve been e-introduced (via email blast) to a pair of 1997 alums who pledge an ever-escalating series of matching gifts and who I have elevated to semi-mythical status.

(The adjective “inspiring” has been repeatedly used to describe their response to my class’s anemic altruism. I also refuse to believe six-figure donors actually condition their giving on what a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears undergrads do.)

I will say that it’s a genuinely remarkable exercise. Not the money, of course—$10 is the minimum online donation, $5 if you pay in physical American currency—but the amount of energy that goes into raising it. (Truly, as Churchill might have said, never have so many raised so little from so few.) Instead, to me it’s representative of the tremendous focus that students, administrators, and alumni put into fundraising relative to the more significant source of Harvard’s wealth: endowment returns.

It’s particularly ironic because Senior Gift seems determined to convey a Sergeant Schultz-level of distance from the University’s endowment. Someone at the Harvard College Fund has evidently surmised that asking undergrads to throw a few bucks into an already-$37.1 billion pot is a less-than-persuasive tactic. “No money raised by Senior Gift goes to the endowment,” the emails say in bold letters, and I can attest that it’s a major talking point of the rank-and-file Senior Gift representatives.

Set aside, for a moment, the obvious fact that unrestricted contributions—one of the two ways to make a Senior Gift—can be used to offset endowment disbursements and thus grow the principal. It’s fundamentally weird that the University Development Office is positing the endowment and donations as separate and separable.

Of course, Senior Gift and its few thousand dollars’ worth of Wi-Fi routers and dog food has a primarily psychological, not pecuniary, purpose. It exists to condition nearly-graduates into paying their Harvard tithe. (A friend told me that senior gift representatives were instructed to be “change agents, not tax collectors,” but you know what they say about things that walk like a duck, swim like a duck, and come asking for money around April 15.)

Of course, there’s no direct tradeoff between photocopying Senior Gift posters and increasing the performance of Harvard Management Company. Indeed, Harvard Management Company CEO N.P. Narvekar’s restructuring seems reasonable to my layman’s eyes. Yet I can’t help but think that Senior Gift is but a particularly clear example of the thinking which elevates the Harvard Campaign to consume half of senior administrators’ time and helps structure the dates of their departures, even as it’s sabotaged by nine-digit endowment losses.

Indeed, HMC’s years of subpar returns have deprived the University of billions of dollars in would-have-been funds. Endowment losses have forced units like the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is particularly dependent on investment returns, to make serious cuts, restricting graduate admissions and reducing salary growth.

The massive numbers involved mean that small changes in year-to-year performance result in huge swings. This year, Harvard placed last among Ivy League endowments, growing at 8.1 percent. Yet the failure to match even Yale, itself second from the bottom in the Ivy League at 11.3 percent, meant the loss of $1 billion in growth.

Development is important, and I neither have a problem with fêteing donors nor Senior Gift. I was glad to hear Harvard’s recent announcement that we’re past the $9 billion mark.

But as massive as that pile of money seems—and it is a lot, equivalent to the cost of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the value of a medium-sized company, or the GDP of a small country—its potential to act as a so-called “change agent” is dwarfed by the performance of HMC. Even if Harvard can continue to persuade its benefactors to voluntarily part with a billion or so each year—greater than the annual economic output of 17 countries—philanthropy cannot be a substitute for endowment success.

A single percentage point change in the endowment is worth about $350 million, the size of the donation that renamed the School of Public Health. (That $5 minimum Senior Gift is equivalent to a 0.00000001 percent growth increase.) When, in fiscal year 2016, HMC lost $2 billion, it effectively erased two years of record-setting fundraising.

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Our Space, Our Voice: Welcome from Act on a Dream

By ANSHI MORENO JIMENEZ and ELMER VIVAS PORTILLO

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lass of 2022—when you arrive on campus, you will find students that have been advocating for immigration rights and reform since they were in high school, others that have only recently begun their activism, and some who are not open about their status. Wherever you are in this journey, we hope you’ll join us.

Discussing undocumented status is difficult. Yet, many students on campus have boldly come out and have made these conversations more common. There is widespread support for and recognition of undocumented community members among the student body. This is, in part, due to Act on a Dream’s advocacy and community building work.

Act on a Dream is a student-led, student-run organization at Harvard College focused on supporting undocumented students, DACA recipients, citizens in mixed-status families, and other immigrants. We focus on three branches: First, advocating for legislative measures; second, building a community on campus that welcomes all immigrants; and third, working with Harvard administration for undocumented student resources.

On a daily basis, Act on a Dream’s support could mean providing a space for ref lection and support (such as following the 2016 election), being able to mention DACA without explaining what it means, venting about our anxieties, or going out for a fun night together. We have established a mentorship program that connects upperclassmen with firstyear students, staged rallies outside Massachusetts Hall—home to the offices of the University president— and, most recently, created an openmic Visitas event for prospective members of the Class of 2022 to meet our members and allies through conversation and performance. Our events are often co-sponsored with other student organizations, reflect-

ing our belief that strength lies in our unity.

Our Act on a Dream family, however, includes more than just students: Harvard employees, including those with Temporary Protected Status, cook our meals and keep our houses clean and safe, even during snowstorms. They too are an integral part of the Harvard community and of our Act on a Dream family, as they provide support with our advocacy efforts.

You will surely have days when the news outside these gates will affect you, and you may find yourself unable to fully engage with your lectures or peers. As hard as this can be—especially when you are supposed to be enjoying your college experience—remember that you are not alone. The entire undocumented community and its allies are behind you. We will continue creating safe spaces to share your joy, your frustrations, and your achievements. We will move ahead together by creating solidarity from our experiences.

As you navigate through the space, we encourage you to challenge ideas in the classrooms, attend panels, and participate in rallies that push Harvard into action. We will join you in these efforts.

All of us, current and future students alike, are going through these roller-coaster months together. Not enough progress has been made at the local and national levels, and undocumented students and their families continue to have low access to education, jobs, and other opportunities. We are working to dispel myths surrounding immigration in the United States by humanizing diverse experiences with borders.

There is no single story of migration, but we can still build solidarity by listening to each other and sharing resources and tools. We hope to use our voices and advocacy skills to ignite discussions and change. Our hope is that during your time at Harvard, you too will find your voice and realize that the power of your story can move you out of the shadows.

This is a critical moment to mobilize, reminding everyone that the issues of migration do not end with us, but rather affect everyone. Migration is an intersectional issue.

When the Classes of 2018 and 2019 applied to Harvard, there was no way of knowing if there were other undocumented students. Harvard did not have an official webpage—like the one that exists today—to validate the existence of these students. This new website is the centralized location to find the resources the institution has allocated for undocumented students, including mental health care and legal advising.

There’s nothing more empowering than having freshmen join us each year to better this institution by reclaiming our narratives and sharing our stories when we feel comfortable doing so. Harvard can always do better, and you have the opportunity to provide your input in these changes. We are here to listen, to offer our advice and experience, and ultimately to support you in your unique journey.

No matter where you’re starting from, we will remind you that you have a place here.

Anshi Moreno Jimenez ‘19 is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. Elmer Vivas Portillo ’20 is a Sociology concentrator in Mather House.

They are advocacy co-chairs for Act on a Dream.

Derek K. Choi ‘18, a former president of The Crimson, is a Government concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays.

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Harvard Falls Short of Third Consecutive Ivy Title men’s golf

By Max mcevoy Crimson Staff Writer

A fter spring break training and two tournaments, the Harvard men’s golf team rounded out its short spring schedule with the competition that defines the season: the Ivy League Championship, hosted in Stonewall, Penn.

Two years ago, the Crimson won the competition for the first time in 42 years, and a year later, it took the cup again. This weekend appeared to be a golden opportunity for a three-peat, as the team was tied for first entering the final day of play.

But it was not to be. Harvard slipped to a third place finish after a difficult final round.

Yale, who was the favorite entering the tournament after strong performances this spring, lived up to form, winning by 22 shots and shooting a tournament team low of +2 in the final round on Sunday. Dartmouth had a colossal final day as well, jumping from sixth to second, edging out the Crimson by a single shot. Harvard beat fourth-place Cornell by the same slim margin. By the end of competition, the gap between second and fifth was just four shots – the fight for second came down to the wire.

The Bulldogs managed to pull away from any late drama, improving upon each day, ensuring an impressive margin of victory. At the bottom of the table, Brown (sixth) Princeton (seventh), and Columbia (eighth) followed Yale’s trend of improvement, but extremely poor performances on the first day left very little room for error, and it showed on the scorecard.

The big loser this weekend was Harvard who, after a strong first day, had an even better second. It all unraveled for the Crimson however, in the third round, where the team shot +25 - the worst team score from the final round.

The Crimson was left frustrated with the third round performance, which ruined the team’s opportunity for another Ivy League title.

“It was just one of those days,” said captain and senior Greg Royston. We played considerably under our potential, if we were at our best I believe we would have won. Today [the final round] we were just off, no one had a great day. I was pleased with the effort we gave, however, we were all very ­

FAir Game Freshman Grant Fairbairn drives the ball down the fairway at the Ivy Championship in Stonewall, Penn.

excited and I thought we had a really good chance coming into the final round. We had the right attitude today it was just one of those days.”

The dip in form from first and second to the final day of competition was unexpected given the conditions at play. The weather on day one – Friday – was abysmal, with strong winds and a chill unbecoming of the Northeast in mid-April. All across the board, the Ancient Eight shot their worst scores. The second day, Harvard’s best, brought warmer weather though the wind persisted. On Sunday, the wind dissipated and the temperature was in the mid 50s – the level of control the golfers should have had increased, but here the Crimson faltered at a crucial

juncture.

The course, which was in prime condition, was not a simple one. With tight and long fairways, a strong first shot was paramount, the opposite landing players in an early hole. This proved to be the undoing of the seven eventual runners up.

Though the team ultimately failed in its quest for a three-peat there are positive signs going forward. This is a young team, with three freshmen, two sophomores, one junior and one senior. Royston will be the only graduate. With this comes continuity, and an exciting future. Freshman Grant Fairbairn followed up his strong showing at the Princeton Invitational with a solid weekend in Stonewall, offer-

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ing promise for his development in the years to come.

“For Grant as a freshman in his first Ivy Championship, this was a really great performance,” said Royston. “He did all he could to advance the tea. It was particularly impressive because he didn’t play in this fall, then came out big this spring.”

For Royston, the tournament was his final match playing for the Crimson. Throughout his four years with the team, he has consistently been a top performer, making history, driving the Crimson to back to back Ivy League Championships in his sophomore and junior year. His teammates will miss his passion and commitment to the team.

“I’ve spent three years with Greg, four if you consider that he’s the one that took care of me during my official visits,” junior Aurian Capart said of the graduating senior. “Greg graduating is a tough blow for the team because he is a fantastic player and a great teammate. Fortunately, we built many memories together, especially the last two Ivy League Championships wins. We are losing our captain but also a great friend in Greg.”

While the Crimson look to grow in the offseason, its goal for next year is simple: a third Ivy Championship in four years.

Staff writer Max McEvoy can be reached at max.mcevoy@thecrimson.com.

Harvard Beats Princeton For First Sweep Since 2009 bullpen-like session of 3.0 innings to start the game. The hurler struck out seven of the 14 batters he faced to up his K/9 to a team-leading 11.19.

Freshman righty Jack Mahala worked the fourth and fifth innings and gave up just one hit, though he was charged for two earned runs.

Letting the Tigers tie up the game at three, however, proved no issue for Harvard, as junior catcher Devan Peterson broke the tie with an RBI single to score freshman shortstop Buddy Mrowka. McColl, an RBI machine in the two-hole, kept the scoring going with a double to score Peterson and Rothenberg.

The series, meant to have been the Crimson’s Ivy-opener, had already been delayed twice. The third attempt was indeed the charm for Harvard.

Jumpin’ jake Junior Jake Suddleson hones in on a pitch against Brown. TImothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer Baseball

By Bryan hu Crimson Staff Writer

For each of the past seven seasons, the Harvard baseball team hasn’t been a competitive Ivy League squad. From 2011 to 2017, the Crimson lingered amongst the bottom half of the Ancient Eight standings, twice finishing in the cellar and never finishing above two games under .500 in conference play.

It’s 2018, and the boys might be back.

This year’s squad has rejuvenated Harvard’s status in the Ivy League. The Crimson is now gunning for its first Ivy League Championship title since 2005, when it defeated Cornell at O’Donnell Field in Cambridge, Mass. 13 years later, Harvard might have what it takes to get back to the championship series.

Led by senior second baseman Matt Rothenberg’s 7-for-12 series at the plate, the Crimson convincingly swept a pivotal midweek tilt at Princeton to propel itself into the thick of Ivy contention. Harvard (19-17, 9-6 Ivy League) now joins Columbia (14-23, 9-6) in a tie for second, while the sweep puts a dent in any chances that Prince-

ton (10-20, 7-8) had at making the top two.

The series was a convincing one— the Crimson outscored its Ivy rivals by 16 combined runs across the three games, trailing for just one half-inning.

On Tuesday, Harvard took the opener in Princeton, N.J., 5-1, behind a balanced attack and lockdown pitching, then rocked the Tigers for 14 hits and 13 runs in a 13-6 victory in the nightcap. With a chance at its first Ivy sweep since 2009, the Crimson finally closed out a series this season, dropping Princeton, 8-3, on multiple-RBI days from junior first baseman Pat McColl and sophomore two-way player Hunter Bigge.

“We’re definitely happy right now, but we’re not satisfied,” said junior center fielder Ben Skinner, who has keyed the Harvard offense all season long in the leadoff spot. “We’re looking ahead to three big games against Cornell, and I think we put ourselves in a good position, we’re excited going forward.”

The last time the Crimson was in contention for the title was in 2010, when it jockeyed for position atop the Ancient Eight table before fading away towards the end of the season.

HARVARD 8, PRINCETON 3 Rothenberg went 3-for-4 at the dish, McColl drove in three runs on an RBI single and double, and freshman righty Enzo Stefanoni threw four innings of shutout relief ball to lead Harvard over the Tigers in the series-capper on a cold and wet Wednesday afternoon at Clarke Field.

Bigge got the scoring started with a solo shot in the second, and McColl and junior slugger P.J. Robinson tacked on two more with RBI hits in the third to stretch the lead to 3-0. After Princeton knotted the game at three in the sixth, the Crimson offense put up five straight tallies to bring out the brooms.

Stefanoni gave up four hits, struck out two, and walked none, lowering his ERA to 4.05 in 13.1 innings of work this season.

“Enzo, coming in, he really showed that he has a big heart,” Skinner said.

“He just did a great job.”

The rookie’s work came in relief of junior righty Simon Rosenblum-Larson, who, like senior Noah Zavolas, was working on short days’ rest, having started against Brown just four days prior. Rosenblum-Larson, after getting the no-decision against Brown, got another no-decision after pitching a short

HARVARD 13, PRINCETON 6 On Tuesday evening, the Crimson won a big 13-6 matchup to guarantee a series win and begin pulling away from a mediocre .500 record.

Skinner went 4-for-5 at the top of the lineup and stole yet another base to lay the foundation for Harvard’s day.

McColl got on base three times behind Skinner, setting the stage for Robinson to drive in three runs on two hits in the three-hole.

Whereas the early goings in the season witnessed Harvard use big innings and big days from select hitters, recent games have shown a trend towards runs produced by timely hitting up and down the lineup.

Eight different Crimson batters tallied a hit, accounting for Harvard’s 14-9 outhitting of Princeton, and six different Crimson batters drove in a run.

Sophomore outfielder Jake Suddleson drove in two and scored three times in the cleanup role, hitting a triple and a homer along the way. Bigge reached base in four of six plate appearances and scored twice.

That the Harvard offense is starting to come alive is evidenced by the fact that the squad now has seven everyday players hitting .275 or above—Peterson, Mrowka, McColl, junior catcher Jake Allen, Rothenberg, Robinson, and Skinner. That kind of platoon continuing their hot streak can only mean incoming damage for its Ivy opponents.

The Crimson players tend to defer to the success of the offense as a whole.

“It felt good, just getting pitches I could handle and putting good swings on them, not trying to do too much, just getting something I could hit,” Rothen-

berg said. “It was good to help my team out this week.”

Zavolas started on the mound, also pitching three short innings on just two days’ rest. His scoreless innings streak was snapped at 24.0, as the Tigers got a run across in the first. But the senior got the win, moving to 6-1. Sophomore righty Grant Stone tossed 4.0 innings of two-run ball behind him.

HARVARD 5, PRINCETON 1 Nothing more could be asked out of a ballclub than a solid wire-to-wire win, with timely hitting, great defense, and effective pitching.

Harvard outhit Princeton 10 to seven, committed zero errors in the field, got six stellar innings from freshman starter Buddy Hayward. Hayward was followed up by a rare three-inning save from sophomore Kieran Shaw, enough for the visitors to take the series opener against the Tigers, 5-1.

Skinner and Rothenberg had the only multi-hit days on the visitors’ side, though Peterson did draw three bases on balls.

Robinson got the scoring started with an RBI groundout in the first, and the Bad Boys of Boston never looked back. Senior outfielder Austin Black, Skinner, Bigge, and Mrowka all followed up with single-tally RBIs to steadily grow the Crimson’s lead.

The tale of two the two rookie Buddy’s—Hayward and Mrowka—has been in full effect this season.

“Buddy made a name for himself on the mound, and the other Buddy made a name for himself at the plate,” Skinner said. “They’ve really both stepped up.”

Hayward has worked 32.2 innings this season and sports an ERA just under 5.00, while Mrowka has batted .278 in 54 plate appearances.

One last key to Harvard’s success was its clean fielding all series long.

Compared to Princeton’s seven errors, the Crimson committed just two errors on the series, something it sorely needed, as its fielding percentage has been a weakness all season long.

“Defense is definitely a part of the game that our coach emphasizes,” Bigge said. “If we’re having a tough day, then we like to get our ground-balls the day after, and come out the next series and just perform at our highest level. I think Princeton was a good example of that.”

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