The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 91

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 91 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | thursday, september 27, 2018

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Kavanaugh’s alleged misconduct is reminiscent of our campus culture.

Palmer: Brown and Princeton will be stand-outs this football season.

The Owl Club held the first openly publicized punch in club history.

Justice Dept Investigates Yale, Too Bacow The federal government has launched a probe into whether Yale discriminates against AsianAmerican applicants to the school.

Bacow Denies Suit’s Charge of Racially Unfair Policy

Discusses DACA Advocacy Bacow met with a coalition of Harvard affiliates to talk DACA

By JAMIE D. HALPER and kristine e. GuiLlaume Crimson Staff WriterS

a Boston courthouse on Oct. 15.

Yale President Peter Salovey confirmed the departments’ joint probe into Yale’s admissions policies after the Wall Street Journal reported on the investigation Wednesday

In his first full-length sit-down interview with The Crimson, University President Lawrence S. Bacow wanted to make one thing absolutely clear: at Harvard, “we don’t discriminate against anybody.”

He was referencing a fouryear-old lawsuit that alleges the College discriminates against Asian-American applicants.

Though the stakes are high — the suit could decide the fate of affirmative action in the United States — Bacow is, for now at least, unworried. The brandnew president said he is “confident” Harvard will prevail in court when the suit goes to trial on Oct. 15.

Anti-affirmative action advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions brought the lawsuit against Harvard in 2014, during the latter half of former University President Drew G. Faust’s tenure. Weeks before she left office this summer, the legal battle escalated dramatically when hundreds of pages of court documents revealing intimate details of Harvard’s admissions process became public.

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Yale President Says His School Is Confronting Federal Probe

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A s Harvard prepares to face a high-profile trial in a four-yearold lawsuit charging it discriminates against Asian-American applicants, another elite insti­

tution has come under fire for near-identical allegations: Yale University said Wednesday that the Department of Justice and the Department of Education are investigating its admissions process for possible discrimination.

Like its New Haven rival,

Harvard is also facing a Justice Department probe into alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants.

That’s on top of the ongoing lawsuit — brought by anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions in 2014 — which is slated to go to trial in

Harvard International Socialists Protests Kavanaugh

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY Crimson Staff Writers

Toting rainbow flags and handdrawn signs proclaiming “We Believe Survivors,” members of the Harvard International Socialists rallied in Harvard Yard Wednesday night to protest the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

International Socialists member Samuel Nighman characterized the event as a “speakout” designed to allow Harvard affiliates and Boston-area locals to voice their concerns about Kavanaugh’s nomination. At the rally, a dozen of the roughly 35 attendees gave megaphone-enhanced speeches on the steps of University Hall. At various points, the crowd booed at references to Kavanaugh and chanted slogans such as, “They say ‘Kavanaugh,’ we say ‘Hell nah.’”

President Donald Trump ­

nominated Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant

by Justice Anthony Kennedy in July. The judge’s confirmation seemed all but certain until two weeks ago, when women began to come forward with allegations he had sexually assaulted them decades ago.

First, Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh had forced her onto a bed, pressed his body to hers, and tried to take off her clothes at a party the two attended in the 1980s, when both were enrolled in private D.C.-area high schools. Just a few days later, another woman — Deborah Ramirez — told the New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself and pushed his penis in her face at a party both attended while students at Yale.

On Wednesday morning, a third woman came forward to

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Activists rally against the Supreme Court appointment of Brett Kavanaugh by the John Harvard statue.

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Prof Lewis Decries Sanctions to Congress

By aidan f. ryan Crimson Staff Writer

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The Harvard Black Law Students Association released a statement Wednesday asking the Law School to place greater emphasis on criminal justice and calling on Harvard to steer clear of investing in prisons, among other demands.

The group’s public statement — posted on Twitter Wednesday morning — endorses 10 demands issued as part of the National Prison Strike and states the Law School must “work to better prepare its students to support the plight of incarcerated people.”

The document is Harvard Law students’ latest public show of support for the strike, a three-week-long national ­

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A coalition of faculty, staff, and students aiming to protect Harvard’s undocumented population met with University President Lawrence S. Bacow Wednesday to discuss their goals with the new president.

The meeting fell roughly a year after the Trump administration terminated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — an Obama-era program that allows undocumented youth to live and work in the United States — and about nine months after the administration announced it would terminate Temporary Protected Status for residents from El Salvador, Haiti, Nepal, and Honduras.

TPS provides legal protections to immigrants from countries plagued by violence or natural disasters.

Roughly 65 Harvard affiliates were undocumented in the 2017-2018 academic year, and dozens of staff members are TPS holders.

The coalition that met with Bacow formed in an effort to bring together immigrant advocacy groups across campus.

Dubbed “Harvard Community Organized for Immigration Action,” the coalition consists of organizations including Harvard College’s Act on a Dream, the Harvard TPS Coalition, and the Graduate School of Education’s UndocuAllies.

“I would say that one of the big goals for this meeting was for it to be one of the first formal ways of all of these various individuals coming together as a single community and using their voices as one,” said Elmer Vivas Portillo ’20, Advocacy Co-Chair of Act on a Dream, who attended Wednesday’s conference with Bacow.

Bacow took office in July.

Ever since, he has criss-crossed campus — spending time in dining halls and at student events — to meet with undergraduates, faculty, and staff across Harvard’s schools.

This meeting, which was originally slated to include 46 participants, ultimately involved just eight activists. Administrators told coalition ­

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Some Urge Law School to Support Prison Strike

By Caroline S. Engelmayer and Michael E. Xie

Computer Science professor and former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sharply condemned Harvard’s sanctions on members of single-gender social groups in a letter he sent to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Wednesday.

Lewis — who has long served as a staunch and vocal opponent of the sanctions — wrote in

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movement meant to advocate for prison reform in response to a riot that recently broke out in a South Carolina maximum security prison. Among the 10 demands of the National Prison Strike are “an immediate end to prison slavery,” an end to “racial overcharging, over-sentencing, and parole denials of Black and brown humans,” and calls for Pell Grants to be reinstated in every U.S. state and territory.

Roughly 30 students gathered at the Law School three weeks ago to hold a demonstration in support of the strike. In an interview Wednesday, Lauren D. Williams, president of BLSA, said the group must continue to publicly back the cause.

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Today’s Events

in The Real World

The Roots of Happiness Pound Hall 101, 6 p.m.

Kavanaugh Faces Two New Allegations

Head to Pound Hall 101 (you remember — that place where you went far more last year than you have this year) for a talk on how to be happy!

God knows we all need it.

On the eve of the hearings in which Brett Kavanaugh is slated to address allegations of sexual assault against him under oath, two new allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced regarding the Supreme Court nominee. One of the unnamed accusers alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while the two were dating in 1998.

The other anonymous report “concern[s] a rape on a boat in August of 1985.”

Eliot Grille Concert Eliot Grille, 10:30 p.m.

The new music group Isaac and Wildman will be having a concert at Eliot Grille tonight! The duo of Harvard students released some great music this summer. Head on over for some sweet tunes.

Strongman Politics in the 21st Century Tsai Auditorium, 4:15 p.m.

Go to Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South Building) to listen to a panel of amazing speakers talk about strongman politics in the 21st century.

The speakers include Elsa Clavé, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, and Valerie Sperling.

Who Is Rachel Mitchell?

Lisa Barsotti speaks on astronomy in the Science Center. Awnit s. marta—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Harvard is no longer the only Ivy League institution facing a federal probe into allegations that it discriminates against Asian-American applicants in its admissions process. On Wednesday, Yale University President Peter Salovey said the Department of Justice and the Department of Education have opened an investigation into allegations of discrimination at the school.

The revelation comes a few weeks before a separate lawsuit charging Harvard’s admissions process is discriminatory is set to go to trial in a Boston courthouse. In an interview Wednesday, President Lawrence S. Bacow said he is “confident” Harvard will win in the lower courts, though he is unsure what may happen if the suit reaches the Supreme Court.

Republicans have chosen Rachel Mitchell — a prosecutor from Arizona who has mainly focused on prosecuting sex crimes — to question Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Blasey Ford. She has decades of experience and is the head of the sex crimes unit at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

Crosby Resigns as Mass. Gaming Commission Chairman In recent days, Mass. Gaming Commission chairman Stephen P. Crosby has twice been accused of prejudging the outcome of investigations regarding the suitability of Wynn resorts after sexual misconduct allegations were brought against casino boss Steve Wynn. Crosby denies all the allegations.

Around the Ivies Yale Yale students protested the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh this weekend in response to a series of sexual misconduct allegations brought against the judge, according to the Yale Daily News. This weekend’s protests were reminiscent of 1991 demonstrations by Yale students condemning Justice Clarence Thomas in light of accusations of sexual assault brought forth

by Anita Hill. Both Kavanaugh and Thomas are graduates of Yale Law School, though Thomas’s nomination to the highest court in the United States came 27 years prior to Kavanaugh’s.

UPENN The University of Pennsylvania’s Diversity and Inclusion in Physics Group initiated a project this year allowing students, faculty and staff members to include gender pronouns on the departmental website, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that the pronoun options are meant to combat stigma surrounding gender norms and binaries. So far, 52 department members have added their preferred gender pronouns to the Physics Department website.

BROWn The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Brown $1.675 million to fund doctoral students pursuing humanities graduate degrees, according to the Brown Daily Herald. The Open Graduate Education Program, which received the fiveyear grant, was established in 2011 to support doctoral students who want to study another subject relevant to their main field through a master’s degree. At the moment, 72 students are participating in the program, with an additional nine students beginning their master’s degree programs this fall.

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HUHS Delays Data Reveal

By Ahab CHOPRA and aSHLEY M. COOPER Crimson Staff Writers

Director of Harvard University Health Services Paul J. Barreira has no immediate plans to publish the results of a health survey sent to all undergraduates last spring, saying he wants to release the data in a manner that engages Harvard students.

HUHS emailed a survey to all undergraduates last semester — something it does every other year — asking students to anonymously answer questions on topics ranging from alcohol consumption to drug usage to mental health. The survey closed on March 9.

Though he said the data has already been analyzed by HUHS staff and is ready for public presentation, Barreira said he does not believe it is useful to simply share the results without making sure undergraduates seriously consider the data.

“It’s not locked away data that can’t be shared,” Barreira said in an interview earlier this month. “It’s a question of what’s the right forums and

groups to share the data and talk about how we want to respond to the data.”

Barreira said he plans to hold interactive forums that will include presentations and conversations meant to help

“In graduate school, it’s really simple.

They all live in their graduate deparment.

They live and die for their departments.”

Paul J. Barreira Director of HUHS

students interpret the survey result data. He said he has yet to determine a timeline for these conversations.

“If we could do something that would really engage a lot of students in some creative conversations, it could only benefit the students,” Barreira said.

He drew a comparison to a survey that HUHS recently sent to graduate students in the Economics Department that

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Paul J. Barreira is the director of Harvard University Health Services and the Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene. Mariah D. Dimalaluan—Crimson photographer

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BLSA Calls for Inmate Support we as an organization stand by this cause because a lot of our work that we have done in school is really connected to this kind of work, and especially when we’re looking at a system that disproportionately impacts black and brown people,” Williams said.

The BLSA statement also included four proposals aimed specifically at Harvard. These included ensuring the University’s endowment is not supporting any institutions that profit from the prison system; creating a “movement lawyering” clinic at the Law School to prepare students for social justice work; starting pipeline programs for jailhouse lawyers and a prison law clerk program; and appointing a critical race theorist to the Law School faculty.

The final demand echoes a rallying cry of the now-inactive activist group Reclaim Harvard Law. Reclaim occupied a main thoroughfare in the Law School in 2016 to pressure the school to hire more faculty of color and to bolster the school’s curricular offerings on critical race theory.

Law School spokesperson Robb London wrote in a statement Wednesday that the Law School is committed to teaching

helped unearth the reality of student learning environments at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

During the 2016–2017 academic year, HUHS and a group of Economics Ph.D. candidates worked together to develop a mental health survey designed to assess levels of student stress. Barreira said this experience led him to realize how powerful it can be when students are involved in survey generation and analysis.

So far, though, HUHS not replicated this kind of survey for undergraduates. Barreira said it is often easier to class and understand issues — like stress factors — when they are experienced by a homogeneous student body like Economics Ph.D. students.

“In graduate school, it’s really simple,” Barreira said.

“They all live in their graduate department. They live and die for their departments.”

HUHS offered College students a $5 J.P. Licks gift card as a reward for completing the optional survey.

students about criminal justice.

“Criminal justice reform is the focus of a great deal of leading scholarship, research and advocacy by a number of faculty, clinics, and student organizations at HLS, including BLSA,” London wrote. “We learn from hearing student proposals about ways to improve the learning experience at HLS.” Emanuel Powell, one of the co-chairs of the Powerfully Utilizing Law School Educations for Political and Social Justice Committee — a subcommittee of the Harvard BLSA that organized the demonstration three weeks ago — said the group hopes to use the Harvard name to call attention to the cause.

“I think it’s critical... for us to use our platform in support of individuals who are currently incarcerated — to use our platform to elevate their voices,” Powell said.

“By attending this institution, an institution in general, we’re at a position of privilege and a position of power and we can make changes and do things and actually impact the system,” Williams added. aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

morning.

“The Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education are investigating whether Yale’s undergraduate admissions policies improperly discriminate on the basis of race, particularly in regard to Asian-American applicants,” Salovey wrote in a statement posted on a Yale website.

According to the Journal, the Department launched its investigation into Yale in April 2018 in response to a civil rights complaint filed in 2016. The Justice Department opened its ongoing probe into Harvard’s admissions in Aug. 2017 in response to a 2015 civil rights complaint filed by 64 Asian-American groups including the Asian American Coalition for Education. The 2015 complaint alleged the College denied admission to “almost perfect” Asian-American applicants while admitting similar students of other races.

At the time — operating under the aegis of the Obama administration — the Department of Education quickly dismissed the complaint, and the Justice Department also refrained from taking action. But in August 2017, several months after the upset election of President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the Justice Department announced that the federal agency

planned to investigate Harvard after all.

The 2016 complaint against Yale was also filed by the Asian American Coalition for Education, then acting in concert with a coalition of 132 other Asian-American groups.

In that complaint, Yukong Zhao — the president of the Coalition — charged that Yale, Brown University, and Dartmouth College all “unfairly denied admission to Asian-American applicants by treating them differently based on their race during the admissions process,” according to the New York Times.

Though it is pursuing the charges against Yale, the Department of Education has dismissed the complaints against Brown and Dartmouth because they lack sufficient detail, the Journal reported.

In his Wednesday statement, Salovey unequivocally denied all allegations of discrimination — as Harvard’s top brass have done repeatedly since the lawsuit and probe began.

He cited the educational benefits that stem from a diverse campus, again mirroring rhetoric frequently espoused by Harvard administrators.

“I want to assure you that while Yale will cooperate fully with the inquiries conducted by the federal government, we also

will vigorously defend our ability to create a diverse and excellent academic community,” Salovey wrote.

He compared the Yale probe to challenges facing affirmative action policies practiced at other universities such as Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which is also facing a private lawsuit over its race-conscious admissions policies.

“This investigation takes place in the context of legal challenges at other universities aimed at overturning Supreme Court precedent permitting the consideration of race in college admissions,” Salovey wrote.

Experts have said the Harvard lawsuit is likely to reach the Supreme Court and that the Court’s ruling could decide the future of affirmative action in the United States.

As it probes admissions, the Justice Department is also seeking to get involved in the suit.

But it’s definitely not looking to help Harvard.

The department filed a sharply worded “statement of interest” in the lawsuit on Aug. 30 in which it asserted Harvard’s admissions system is “infected with racial bias.”

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Harvard International Socialists Protests Kavanaugh accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. The woman, Julie Swetnick, said in a sworn affidavit that Kavanaugh was present while a group of teenage boys drugged and raped her at a D.C.-area party in 1982. She also alleged Kavanaugh participated in similar behavior at parties held between 1981 and 1982. Kavanaugh has repeatedly and unequivocally denied all three allegations. Both Kavanaugh and Ford are set to testify at a highstakes and nationally televised hearing before members of the Senate on Thursday at 10 a.m.

Late Wednesday night, hours before the testimony was scheduled to kick off, two more anon-

ymous allegations surfaced in documents released by the Judiciary Committee. The committee published transcripts of phone calls it held with Kavanaugh on Sept. 17 and on Tuesday in which comittee members asked him about charges that he sexually assaulted a woman he was dating in 1998 and that he raped a woman on a boat in 1985.

Kavanaugh denied the charges listed in both calls, at one point calling the allegations “crazytown.”

At the International Socialists rally, several speakers called on Harvard to sever ties with Kavanaugh, who has taught at the Law School since 2008.

Several Law School students urged the University last week to bar the embattled nominee from returning to Cambridge to teach the course on the Supreme Court he is supposed to offer in Jan. 2019. The Law School is refusing to say whether it still plans to employ Kavanaugh.

As the evening went on, the gathering attracted attention from tourists and students milling around the yard. Midway through the event, a pair of Harvard freshmen passing by — Neil K. Khurana ’22 and Oluwatobi I. Ariyo ’22 — strode up the steps to University Hall and asked for moderation and a fair hearing for Kavanaugh and his accusers.

“We have to make sure that due process is still upheld and innocent until proven guilty is still a thing that we hold true,” Ariyo said. “I mean, I don’t know if the accusations are true or not true, but —” A member of the International Socialists cut Ariyo and Khurana off and thanked them for speaking.

Several members of the crowd shouted “Go away!”

The event concluded with calls for changes to both the international political order and to Harvard’s treatment of its affiliates who allege sexual misconduct.

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Our Harvard Can Do Better member Amelia Y. Goldberg ’19 said the allegations against Kavanaugh should be taken “seriously” by both Harvard and the U.S. Senate. OHCDB is an anti-sexual assault advocacy group.

“This is a person who is now being nominated for a permanent seat on the highest court in our country and who also holds a position at our University...”

Goldberg said. “We’re requesting that these allegations, which are very serious in nature, be taken seriously.” shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com molly.mcafferty@thecrimson.com

By Shera S. Avi-Yonah, Caroline S. Engelmayer, and Molly C. McCafferty Crimson Staff Writers

As the sounds of Kanye West and Childish Gambino streamed onto Holyoke Street, sweaty, blazer-clad sophomores mingled at the all-male Owl Club’s first openly publicized punch event Wednesday night.

The Owl has held punch events nominally open to all sophomore males for the past two years, but did not make details of those events widely available. This punch season, though, the club sent an email to all male members of the Class of 2021 inviting them to attend an event either Monday or Wednesday.

Some attendees also received individual text messages from club members encouraging them to attend.

Punch, held each fall, is the process by which Harvard final clubs have long recruited and selected their members.

The change to the Owl’s punch process comes at a time when the membership policies of Harvard’s historically single-gender social groups are under intense administrative scrutiny.

Fifteen former single-gender social groups recently vowed to go gender-neutral and, in exchange, received exemptions from the College’s social group penalties.

The sanctions — which took effect with the Class of 2021 — bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding campus club leadership roles, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for certain prestigious fellowships.

According to several attendees, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, no women attended the Owl’s punch event Wednesday.

Though the University previously justified the social group policy by arguing it would reduce sexual assaults, Harvard administrators later pivoted to a new rationale: the sanctions, they argued, would prevent gender-based exclusivity on campus.

This year, administrators changed the justification again, arguing that the policy will promote diversity of every stripe.

The Owl is one of the clubs that has remained single-gender despite the sanctions, though it did recently agree to forge a vaguely defined partnership with the historically all-female final club the IC — supposedly meant to allow both groups to “explore paths of increased inclusion” this year.

The IC has vowed to go coed and successfully applied for College recognition; the Owl has not. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

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Bacow Defends Admissions Policy Lewis Pens Letter Against Sanctions Some revelations drew national headlines — including the fact that the University’s internal research arm produced a confidential report in 2013 that concluded the College’s admissions process disadvantaged Asian Americans. The study, which was circulated among top administrators but not released publicly, asserted that Asian-American applicants suffer “negative effects” not experienced by candidates of other races who apply to Harvard.

Bacow said in the interview Wednesday that he does not believe any of the documents released over the summer — including the details regarding the report — prove the College discriminates against Asian-Americans. Harvard has repeatedly denied all allegations of discrimination.

“There have been hundreds — I think a hundred thousand documents — that have been turned over through discovery and countless individuals have been interviewed under oath and there is no evidence of any intent to discriminate, policy of discrimination, limitation on the number of students admitted from any ethnic group,” Bacow said.

Bacow was serving as a member of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — when the school’s research research office produced and offered the report to Harvard high-ups in 2013. But he said Wednesday that neither he nor the Corporation as a whole ever examined the report, dubbing it

one of many internal research documents that failed to make its way onto the Corporation’s jam-packed agenda.

“I only became aware of this through the lawsuit,” Bacow said of the report.

He added that the internal study is a draft that relied on “incomplete data,” characterizing it as “a cursory effort.”

Harvard lawyers have outlined similar arguments in court, asserting that the 2013 report was “incomplete” and “prelim-

“There is no evidence of any intent to discriminate, policy of discrimination, limitation of the number of students admited from any ethnic group.”

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

inary” and never intended to definitively evaluate “whether Harvard was intentionally discriminating.”

Though the trial has yet to begin, Bacow said he expects the real contest will play out in front of the Supreme Court.

If Harvard wins in the October trial — as Bacow predicted it will — and SFFA decides to appeal, the case will proceed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. If

Harvard wins there, too (and Bacow said he is “confident” it will) a second appeal would propel the case to the Supreme Court.

The Court has ruled in favor of race-conscious admissions policies in the past, holding up Harvard’s system as a model.

But, pending the results of a confirmation hearing slated to be held Thursday for President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, that could change.

Kavanaugh’s appointment would shift the Court to the right — and conservative America has long sought to end affirmative action in college admissions.

Bacow said the Supreme Court’s ruling in the suit would have implications not just for Harvard, but for all of higher education.

“If the Supreme Court wants to make new law, they will make new law. If they apply existing law, we will win,” Bacow said. “If they make new law, we’ll have to see what law they make.”

Bacow noted SFFA’s founder Edward Blum has openly admitted that he wants to cancel the consideration of race in universities’ admissions processes — and has sought to do so before.

“I think there’s a lot at stake here,” Bacow said.

Legal experts are divided over whether the case will wind up in the Supreme Court.

Some have argued that the court may be hesitant to take on the case, given it has of-

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fered similar decisions in the past.

Both SFFA and the University have martialed large bodies of paper evidence to make their respective cases. In court, Harvard plans to call as witnesses top administrators including Faust, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, and Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67.

Bacow said he will not tes-

“If the Supreme Court wants to make new law, they will make new law. If they apply existing law, we will win. If they make new law.”

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

tify at the trial because the admissions policies under fire date to well before he assumed Harvard’s top job.

As things heat up in coming months, Bacow said the University is working to ensure its perspective remains part of the national conversation.

“Do I wish people had written about other things about Harvard? Of course,” he said.

“But I do think that we’re working hard to make sure that our side of the story gets out.” kristine.guillaume@thecrimson.com jamie.halper@thecrimson.com

t he letter that the roughly twoyear-old penalties have led to the “erosion” of Harvard students’ freedom of speech, expression, and association. He argued College administrators are effectively “coercing” single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations to go gender-neutral.

“Harvard claimed a right to ­

“Harvard seeks to create a community where students have the fair opportunity to engage in curricular and extracurricular activities.”

Rachael Dane Harvard Spokesperson

align students’ thinking on social matters with its own,” the letter states. “As enacted, the sanctions have nothing to do with students’ conduct, only with their alleged betrayal of Harvard’s ‘deepest values’ by joining a single-gender club.”

Lewis submitted the missive for consideration as part of a hearing held Wednesday morning in Washington by members of the Education and the Workforce committee.

The hearing, which lasted for two hours, was meant to examine the First Amendment and whether institutions of higher education are protecting students’ rights. Speakers included Representative Virginia A. Foxx, a North Carolina Republican who recently proposed a new higher education law that would imperil Harvard’s ability to enforce its controversial sanctions.

The penalties, which took effect with the Class of 2021, bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from campus leadership positions, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for certain prestigious fellowships.

Since administrators debuted the penalties in May 2016, at least 15 formerly single-gender social groups have vowed to go co-ed and, in return, have received Harvard recognition and exemption from the sanctions.

Though she declined to comment on the specifics of Lewis’s letter, Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane broadly defended the sanctions in an emailed statement Wednesday.

“Harvard seeks to create a community where students have the fair opportunity to engage in curricular and extracurricular activities regardless of their gender, socioeconomic status, or other attributes unrelated to merit,” she wrote.

Lewis wrote in the letter that he believes the College would benefit from some form of congressional intervention. He de-

clined to specify exactly how he wants legislators to act, though.

“I am no fan of government interference with private universities, but Harvard needs a civics lesson,” he wrote.

One possible “lesson” could come in the form of Foxx’s higher education law — the PROSPER Act, which she proposed as an update to the Higher Education Act. The bill, currently under consideration by the House of Representatives, contains a clause that could prevent colleges and universities that penalize members of single-gender social groups from receiving federal funding.

The PROSPER Act in its current form likely would not affect Harvard.

But opponents of the sanctions hope to change the wording of a provision in act to ensure it applies to the University.

In recent months, several undergraduate and graduate members of final clubs and Greek organizations have traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby for the legislation and against the sanctions.

The Fraternal Government Relations Coalition — a group involved in that lobbying effort — also penned a letter to the congressional committee Wednesday. It, too, argued that Harvard has gone too far and that Congress must step in.

“We urge you to consider how Congress can play a part in protecting every student’s freedom of association rights, in particular a student’s ability to join the student organizations of their choosing, including single-sex organizations,” the Coalition’s letter reads.

Dane wrote in her emailed statement that Congress “should not be seeking to regulate student life at private institutions.”

The sanctions have only recently attracted the attention of Congress — but they have roiled Harvard’s campus for years, drawing student protests, faculty backlash, and two separate attempts by groups of professors to pass motions cancelling the penalties.

Lewis spearheaded both efforts to kill the sanctions. He — along with 11 other faculty — first filed a Faculty of Arts and Sciences motion in May 2016 declaring that “Harvard College shall not discriminate against students on the basis of organizations they join.”

He withdrew that motion in Jan. 2017 after Harvard administrators formed a faculty committee and charged it with reviewing and possibly revising the sanctions. In its final report, that committee did not propose any major changes to the penalties, prompting Lewis to file a second motion in Aug. 2017 — this time alongside 20 other professors — that once again sought to nullify the sanctions.

The faculty voted down that motion 130-90 in Nov. 2017. caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.com michael.xie@thecrimson.com

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Bacow Discusses Immigration, DACA members that construction at the site of the meeting forced cuts to the guest list.

“There were a lot of voices that were not heard because there were less people represented — and maybe organizations represented — but I know we made a great attempt in trying to get a variety of people represented within even the smaller group,” said Ariana Aparicio Aguilar, co-chair of UndocuAllies.

In an interview with The Crimson ahead of the meeting Wednesday morning, Bacow said he has spoken to lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to advocate in favor of protecting undocumented people. He pointed to his own personal history — his mother was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United States — as one of the reasons he cares passionately about the issue.

“I also talked to people about immigration issues, about DACA, about the importance of continuing to extend the pro-

tection of Temporary Protected Status for students, for staff, for others, why it was important that places like this continue to be open to talented men and women from around the world,” Bacow said.

“I think we have a moral responsibility to try and be responsive to the needs of those who are most vulnerable,” he added.

Speaking about his goals for the meeting before it took place, Bacow said, “I’m interested in hearing what they have to say. I intend to tell them that this is an issue I care passionately about.”

At the meeting, members of the coalition raised three main concerns: the need for legal support for those at risk of deportation, the need for mental health services, and the need to secure work authorization for TPS holders.

“He did listen to us; he said he was there to listen,” Aparicio Aguilar said, adding — “with the limited amount of time we had.” ruth.hailu@thecrimson.com

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

Harvard Should Be Cautious with Kavanaugh

Kavanaugh’s alleged misconduct may be a national story, but it is one eerily reminiscent of our own campus.

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n Sept. 13, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, referred an anonymous letter to the FBI detailing an allegation of attempted rape

by Supreme Court Nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.

At least two more sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh have subsequently emerged, throwing into doubt Kavanaugh’s previously assured confirmation. However, the open Supreme Court seat was not the only position Kavanaugh was slated to soon fill. Kavanaugh was also granted a lecturing position at Harvard Law School for the winter of 2019. In light of the accusations against Kavanaugh, we believe that the University should conduct an investigation into his actions and background and, if it finds that he was likely culpable of misconduct, strip him of his position as a lecturer.

To be clear, we find the allegations brought against Kavanaugh are serious, credible, and worthy of full investigation. As we have opined in the past, elite institutions — Yale and Harvard among them — have long enabled abusers to access the highest corridors of power. Kavanaugh’s glittering academic history at Yale — and now his appointment as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law — does not make him beyond reproach for the crimes of which he is accused. Harvard should seriously consider the allegations against Kavanaugh, and be prepared to terminate his position if it finds them credible.

This is not how Harvard has always acted. Our university has a history of privileging powerful men over the voices of victims. Jorge I. Dominguez, who retired from the Government Department last year amid sexual misconduct allegations, has not been fired and is still professor emeritus of the University. Even more troubling, Harvard had known about his record of sexual transgressions going back more than 30 years.

We believe that in addressing Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual violence, Harvard has a chance to at least partially make amends for its own complicity in supporting powerful men and silencing those that

We ask that Kavanaugh’s upcoming appointment as a law school lecturer be suspended pending a review of the serious allegations against him.

The Editorial Board of The Harvard Crimson

they are accused of harming. Kavanaugh’s alleged misconduct may be a national story, but it is one eerily reminiscent of our own campus culture.

Lost in Transformation

By Daniel kim

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My Harvard experience will be “transformative,” they said. Freshman year would be a good time to explore my academic interests freely, they said. Well, I tried. I met lots of friends, experienced lots of academic challenges, and got used to studying in the United States — I’m an international student, by the way. It’s true that a lot of things have changed in my life this past year in college.

But in terms of my academic path, the only transformation that I have gone through is that I have become more confused than ever.

I still remember how during the first semester of freshman year, everyone was very enthusiastic about asking each other about future concentration plans. Back then, we all had easy answers — none of us knew what to expect, so we would just tell each other about any academic or career path that sounded impressive or interesting.

Nowadays, when someone asks me what I want to concentrate in, I do have a default answer that I give them. They say “oh, nice,” and move on to some other random topic. What I do not tell them is that I honestly have no clue.

The fact that I halfheartedly answer that question does not at all mean that I know what is going on in my life.

I don’t. I used to think I would be able to do this. I used to think that I would be able to do well in those particular classes that ensured A’s and A-’s to students placing in the top 50 percent of the class. Now, all I know is that I am lost. I’m constantly jealous of my friends that manage to keep getting good grades and have a clear idea of what they want to do in college and what kind of job they want.

A lot of us feel so much pressure to succeed, or at least to look as if we are doing well. For me, this comes from mainly three sources: myself, family, and peers. I am expected to make choices that would lead to a lucrative career, and there is an implicit belief that ending up with certain jobs that are not well-paying or socially respected would be a waste of my Harvard degree.

Showing signs of uncertainty and being honest with academic struggles is shunned by many students; sometimes, I don’t want to admit that I’m not doing well because I’m well aware that doing so would lead to a banal string of comments from the other person that are seemingly supposed to make me feel better but in reality do nothing to solve my uncertainty.

We are tired of giving powerful men the benefit of the doubt. We are tired of their victims being treated as mere collateral damage — a footnote on an otherwise illustrious career path. There is no resume so spotless that it compensates for the moral depravity of sexual assault. Men like Kavanaugh have been embraced by the dominant political and cultural institutions of our country, and in maintaining its support for him, the White House now stands behind a man accused by at least two women of sexual misconduct.

We ask that Kavanaugh’s upcoming appointment as a law school lecturer be suspended pending a review of the serious allegations against him. For better or for worse, decisions made at Harvard fall under the national spotlight. Let us be a voice for survivors, not perpetrators. If the University has reason to believe that Kavanaugh was culpable of sexual assault, we believe that accepting him onto our campus would be an insult to survivors within our own community. Harvard must clearly demonstrate that it prioritizes their needs, believes their experiences, and will fight for their safety.

This staff editorial 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.

Elizabeth y. sun—TMI

I’m internally scarred when I see that other people try to relate to my hardships in a certain class but actually cannot understand my struggles because they find the class very manageable. I’m not trying to fault others for making me feel bad — I just want to point out the emotions I experience in my everyday life, especially when I think that I’m not working hard enough, that I’m not as talented as my friends, and that I have no idea what to do with my life.

In fact, even I don’t know how to offer genuine words of encouragement to my peers going through similar problems because no matter what I say, it wouldn’t be anything new or profound.

The burden ultimately falls on us to reflect on ourselves and escape from this trap of negativity.

What is ironic is that although we worry a lot about our future plans, our lives are so busy that we rarely have time to stop and think about the future.

At least for me, my day to day thoughts are centered around preparing for an upcoming exam, thinking about how much of my essay I should complete today, and so on. It is when others ask me about my life looking forward that I realize that I have no plan and have to scramble for a general answer. It is only afterwards that I am left with a feeling of emptiness and start reflecting on my life to make sense of what is going on.

I would like to ask you to take a moment in your daily life and think about whether you are studying a field because you like it. If you already figured out what you’re good at and want to do later on in your life, I commend you for that. I would love to be at that stage in life. But if you find yourself in doubt about whether the concentration you intend to choose or the career path you say you want to take is genuinely what you want, think about what makes you dissatisfied. It might be the less-than-optimal grades you are getting. It might be the burden of success you have, forcing yourself to choose an area of study because doing so would give you a better chance at that prestigious finance career that everyone else is dying to attain.

Whatever realization you come to, you will have reached a better understanding of what drives your choices.

Maybe having this time of self-reflection and realization about what you truly want is part of that “transformative” experience that we were promised as we entered Harvard.

—Daniel Kim ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Leverett House.

Counseling. How. What counseling is and why you should be open to it.

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nyone who’s ever considered getting mental health treatment will know it’s a strangely difficult choice. The first step requires not only admitting that you have a problem, but that the problem is so serious you are no longer in control of the situation.

Instead of taking that first step, it’s much easier to just ride the wave of terrified optimism and tell yourself that you are, in fact, in control of the situation, as if this disease is just God’s way of measuring your willpower (or something like that), even though you aren’t actually Christian.

Yet when those lies begin to obviously fall apart, you are left with the same unsolved problem and the same choice.

Instead of making the right choice, you begin to spend all your time stressing about the logistics: How will you fit an hour of counseling into your “busy” schedule? What kind of excuse will you give if you run into someone you know?

How will you mark appointments in your calendar so that the person sitting next to you won’t be suspicious?

What if they tell you to take medication? What are the side effects?

Despite all these procrastinating concerns, almost exactly one year ago I finally had to admit it: I was absolute-

I may have enrolled in counseling when I was the most helpless, but counseling ended up being the most empowering thing I did for myself all semester. ly not in control of the situation, and alternating between trying to perform cognitive behavioral therapy on myself and calling psychology a “fake science” was not going to fix it.

So I took that first step.

I thought it’d feel as dramatic as jumping across a canyon, but honestly it was just a step. Our brains have this amazing way of making things seem more difficult and complicated than they really are, and I’m here to testify as to what the reality of seeking counseling actually is.

First, Counseling and Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is a stellar

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service. It is located right in the Smith Center, which is right in the heart of campus and is actually more than an ugly mess of concrete now. There is almost no wait time for your first appointment — a miracle when you consider how some universities have a three-month long queue. The people there are actually nice. And finally, for students who have paid the Student Health Fee, the cost of these services are covered in full by the University.

There is therefore no reason why you shouldn’t at least try it out. The people will work with you to find a solution that works, even if it takes months to do so.

Second, the logistics for initiating counseling are really not that hard.

That first thirty-minute phone call is straightforward, and all the data they take from you is carefully reviewed by your counselor before the first meeting, meaning that you aren’t ever wasting your time.

An hour a week is pretty easy to fit into your schedule and can be sandwiched in between classes. There are more than enough euphemisms to fill your calendar with. And I never ran into anyone I knew — but if I did, I really should have been having an honest conversation with them about why we were both there anyway.

Finally, realize that getting help does not mean giving up control. I may have enrolled in counseling when I was the most helpless, but counseling ended up being the most empowering thing I did for myself all semester. Not only did I learn to approach my mental illness as something separate from who I was as a person, I learn also to analyze and tackle it constructively with the help of a professional. After all, psychology is not a “fake science,” and while counseling is not a magic bullet, it is a leap towards recovery.

All of this writing is just a long-winded way of me saying, if you need help, go get it. Far too many of us have dealt with mental illness or know a friend who suffers from it to stay quiet. If we don’t take that first step for ourselves or find the courage to drag our friends towards it, no one will.

—Elizabeth Y. Sun ’19, a former Associate Editorial Executive, is a Government concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.

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Women’s tennis vs. bulldog invite friday 9am ___________________________________________________________

field hockey at penn Saturday 12pm ___________________________________________________________

football Vs. no. 2o/22 rhode island friday 7pm ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo at iona Saturday 12:30PM ___________________________________________________________

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WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. YALE Saturday 7PM ___________________________________________________________

around the ivies

It’s a Bear Eat Lion Eat Tiger World By cade palmer Crimson Staff Writer

Imagine you’re a beast in the woods. You find a dead grizzly lying lifeless on the ground.

You obviously take a bite, burying your snout in the flesh. Engrossed in your meal, you suddenly feel a twinge on your hind leg. You look to see what is biting you and it’s the bear. But also biting the bear is a lion. Biting the lion is a tiger. And the tiger is being bitten by two colors.

No this isn’t some demented version of human centipede, it’s Ivy League football and no one is actually better than anyone.

I, however, am tasked with the glorious burden of separating the wheat from the chaff, the strong from the weak, the winners from the losers. Thus I present to you, my picks: PRINCETON AT COLUMBIA Speaking of animals, recently, two rabid racoons were discovered at Princeton. But raccoons aren’t the only thing on the campus that are mad. Animal control should look into the football team as well.

The group looks good, salivating crazily at the mouth good. Two games, two wins.

But not just two wins, two blowouts. The Tigers dropped 50 and 51 points on Butler and Monmouth, respectively. The opposing teams managed to score just 16 total points in return.

The Tiger’s offense is led by the senior quarterback John Lovett. The senior’s long blonde hair, which pokes out the back of the helmet and resembles Thor’s, might look ridiculous if he weren’t thundering each and every opponent.

If you haven’t been paying attention, you might have forgotten about Lovett. The senior served as tri-captain last season despite missing every game due to an offseason injury. Now Lovett is making his presence known and after taking the field

against, Columbia is going to need some new pants. That’s a shame because it seems they won’t have anywhere to wash them.

Is this performance sustainable? Perhaps if you’re the god of thunder.

Princeton by 21.

RHODE ISLAND AT HARVARD This is the Crimson’s second consecutive Friday night game and it’s starting to feel like we cover a high school squad. Harvard will field one more weekday matchup against Holy Cross before the rest take place on Saturday. The team actually does quite well under the lights of Harvard Stadium. It wasn’t until last year’s match against Princeton that the Crimson lost a contest at home, on a Friday night, under the lights.

But if any team can do it, it’s No. 20/22 Rhode Island.

The squad is actually the highest ranked team Harvard has played since 2010 when the Crimson downed the No. 18 Penn. Still, Harvard’s performances on both sides of the ball leave me inclined to favor it in this contest against an FCS ranked team. My gut says Crimson, and the last time I didn’t go with my gut, Yale got trashed by a mediocre Holy Cross team.

Harvard by 3.

GEORGETOWN AT BROWN Everyone should go to at least one Brown football press conference in their life. Truly inspiring. The team which finished last in the Ivy League in the 2017 entered the press pool following the loss to Harvard — for lack of a better word — hyped. This not to say they were excited about losing. On the contrary, coach Phil Estes and junior co-captain Michael Hoecht were mad, but they believed their program would be great in the near future. I’m inclined to agree.

jUSTICE’S LEAGUE Junior Justice Shelton-Mosley stands at fourth in program history for receptions with 137. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

The way Hoecht’s eyes lit up when he talked about where the Bears went from that night, I wanted to strap on some pads and relive my high school glory days in a Brown uniform.

Also, as I’m quite fond of saying, Georgetown is really bad at football. Mark my words, Saturday will be the beginning of a Bears football dynasty.

Brown by 21.

SACRED HEART AT CORNELL Sacred Heart doubles as a religion. Ithaca is as close as to hell as you can get still breathing. I believe the outcome here was decided some time ago.

Sacred Heart by 12.

PENN AT DARTMOUTH New Hampshire is a fraud.

So begins an op-ed by Henry Allen in the Washington Post. Among the better lines in his visceral description of the northern state.

“There is junk everywhere,” Allen writes. “There is an atmosphere that reminds you New Hampshirites drink more beer and distilled spirits per person than people in any other state.”

Housed in Hanover, this line more adequately describes the Dartmouth campus than any I have ever read. That then begs the question, does inebriation inhibit success on the football field? The Big Green’s record so far points to no. The team squared up against Holy Cross — Yale’s opening loss this season — and drummed the Crusaders by 20.

When Penn visits this cab-

in in the woods, it won’t escape with its win.

Dartmouth by 7.

MAINE AT YALE People ask us all the time, is Yale good?

When people tell you there are no stupid questions, they’re lying. This is a stupid question.

For one, we go to Harvard. Of course the Bulldogs are terrible. For another, this is the Ivy League. No one is really sure if anyone is good or bad. All the teams are just equally the same.

Allow me to explain as I did in another one of my articles. By the last two weeks of the 2017 season, seven teams could win the Ancient Eight title. Yale was the team that ended up capturing that crown but lost to Dartmouth. Dartmouth lost to Har-

vard. Harvard lost to Princeton.

Princeton lost to Dartmouth.

Dartmouth lost also to Columbia, which also lost to Harvard, which also lost to Cornell, which beat Princeton but lost to Penn. There was only one team that did not participate in this mess was Brown, which lost to everybody.

What I’m saying is none of this matters. This article you just read? Worthless. The five minutes you spent thoroughly digesting my expert analyses?

Wasted. You know why? Because I’m convinced every Ivy League match would be better predicted with a coin flip.

But also, Maine trounced Western Kentucky.

Maine by 13. cade.palmer@thecrimson.com

Men’s tennis

Harvard Competes Well at the Ivy Plus Tournament By lev cohen contributing writer

The Harvard men’s tennis team continued its strong start at the

Ivy Plus tournament at Princeton and Yale this weekend, winning 15 of 27 matches in their second tournament under new head coach Andrew Rueb ’95.

That leaves the Crimson needing just two wins from six Sunday matches to leave Ivy Plus with a record above .500.

Harvard’s standout per-

former at Ivy Plus over the first two days was sophomore Robert Wrzesinski, who is looking to improve on an exciting freshman year during which he was

back of the hand Junior Logan Weber rips a backahnd. The junior split his doubles matches on the weekend. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

a Second Team All-Ivy selection in doubles. The Vilnius, Lithuania native remained undefeated on the season by sweeping the first three rounds of the Lenz flight, all in straight sets. The wins send him to the finals and a matchup with LSU on Sunday, yet to be played at press time.

Wrzesinski also paired with senior Christopher Morrow in the Silver Gold flight, with the Crimson duo winning both of their opening day matches by scorelines of 8-6 over Brown and 8-2 over Washington. It was an impressive first day for a pair that did not play together last season, providing a good sign of things to come. Wrzesinski and Morrow have advanced to the finals of the Silver Gold flight, where they will take on Princeton on Sunday morning.

Coming off of a 3-0 doubles debut at last weekend’s Chowder Fest tournament, freshman Brian Shi and junior Logan Weber split their two Friday matches, defeating Alabama, 8-5, before falling to Princeton by the same score.

The victory over Alabama was particularly noteworthy as the Crimson Tide team included standout senior Mazen Osama, who came into the season ranked No. 3 in the ITA Singles Rankings. Shi and Weber will now look to end the weekend on a high note on Sunday morning, when they face LSU. With captain Andy Zhou sitting the tournament out, Shi, who came into Harvard as a five-star recruit, was the lone Crimson man at the tourna-

ment’s main Tiger Gold flight.

Shi fell to Alex Brown of Illinois, who was No. 50 in the preseason ITA Singles Rankings, in straight sets, sending him to the loser’s bracket of the Tiger event.

Shi then went on to split his Saturday matches, leaving him at 1-2 heading into his final match Sunday against Tulsa. The Jericho, N.Y. native continues to face tough competition in his introduction to college tennis, as he went 1-1 against two other ranked players — Indiana’s Antonio Cembellin (No. 66) and Texas Tech’s Tommy Mylnikov (No. 69) — at last week’s Chowder Fest tournament.

Elsewhere, freshman Harris Walker continued to build off of a strong start to his college tennis career. Walker entered the Cordish flight off the heels of a 2-1 singles performance at the Chowder Fest tournament last weekend. He won two of three Cordish matches across Friday and Saturday and will face Illinois on Sunday morning with the hope of finishing 5-2 in his first two college tournaments.

Harvard will conclude Ivy Plus play on Sunday and then gear up for ITA Regionals, which take place in Princeton, N.J. from Oct. 11 through Oct. 16. It will try to build off of a promising start, especially considering the fact that 2018 is its first year without ex-head coach Dave Fish, who spent 42 years with the team, racking up 21 Ivy League championships throughout his career.

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