The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 63

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 63 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Adams is filled with history—a history that should be preserved to the greatest extent possible. EDITORIAL PAGE 4

Tom Stewart and Charlie Booker III stand out in football’s spring game. SPORTS PAGE 6

Cambridge Police Under Scrutiny Officers Did Not Undergo Supplementary Training

Department to Add New Procedural Justice Office

By CAROLINE S. ENGELMAYER and MICHAEL E. XIE

By CAROLINE S. ENGELMAYER and MICHAEL E. XIE

CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

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The Cambridge Police Department officers who forcibly arrested a black Harvard student April 13 “have yet to participate” in non-mandatory crisis intervention training meant to instruct officers how to manage situations involving mentally ill individuals, according to CPD spokesperson Jeremy Warnick.

The 40-hour crisis training “supplements” the mandatory training officers receive every year, Warnick wrote in an email to The Crimson Monday.

The crisis intervention training is not required, according to the website of the Somerville Police Department, which also offers the training.

CPD is one of roughly 20 local police departments that have committed to ­

New OSAPR Director Named

By JAMIE D. HALPER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Cambridge Police Department will add a new office to monitor use of force and racial bias in officers’ interaction with citizens, according to a proposed Cambridge budget for fiscal year 2019.

The addition comes in the wake of a confrontation between Cambridge Police and a black Harvard undergraduate on April 13, though city officials had been considering procedural justice initiatives—which focus on police interactions with the public—prior to the incident.

Through the new office, which will be called the Office of Procedural Justice, CPD hopes to show a commitment to transparency and responsibility by analyzing citizens’ confrontations ­

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Pierre R. Berastaín Ojeda ’10 will become the director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. COURTESY OF HARVARD PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Pierre R. Berastaín Ojeda ’10 has been appointed director of the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, the University announced Monday, marking the end of a nearly one-year period in which the office lacked a permanent leader.

OSAPR provides counseling and sexual assault prevention resources for University affiliates independent from Harvard’s Title IX office and Office for Dispute Resolution. For the past 11 months, Maria Francesconi, senior director for nursing and health promotion at Harvard University Health Services, has served as acting director.

The office’s previous director, Alicia Oeser, announced last May she planned to step down to assume a similar role at the University of California, Los Angeles. In recent months, OSAPR restructured staffing within its office as it continued to search for a

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After Two Years, No New HLS Seal In Sight

By AIDAN F. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Langdell Hall, part of the Harvard Law School campus, is home to the largest academic law library in the world. MICHAEL GRITZBACH— CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Two years after the Corporation accepted a proposal to remove the controversial crest of a slave-owning family from the Law School’s official seal, the school has yet to decide on a replacement.

The former seal featured the crest of the family of Isaac Royall Jr., whose donation to the Law School in the late 18th century eventually funded the first Harvard professorship of law. The Royall family owned slaves on a plantation in Antigua and Barbuda as well as their house in Medford. Student activists formed a group dubbed Royall Must Fall in 2015 and called on the school to change the seal.

After a months-long deliberative process, a Law School committee recommended in March 2016 that Harvard change the seal. The Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—approved that recommendation later that month.

At the time, Law School spokesperson Robb London told The Crimson the school would select a new seal by 2017, in time for the school’s bicentennial

celebration.

That celebration is now nearing its end—but the school remains seal-less.

In an interview last month, Dean of the Law School John F. Manning ’82 said administrators have been focused on the school’s capital campaign and the bicentennial. He said officials will initiate the process of adopting a new seal at a later date.

“It’s been a very busy year,” Manning said. “We’ve had a very packed year with the bicentennial celebration, with the final year of the campaign, and this year we’ve had the bicentennial logo; HLS 200 has been on all of our mugs and sweatshirts and hats. We will think about replacing the seal at some future point.”

Manning added he wants to ensure the process for choosing a new seal is “fair and effective” and that he is gathering input from Law School affiliates about what that process might look like.

“We want to think about what is a fair and effective process for identifying a new seal,” Manning said. “This is my first year as dean, I’ve been going

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Two Female HKS Lecturers to Depart

Michael Brown’s Mother Mulls Run

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ

By PAULA M. BARBERI

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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T wo popular female lecturers in the Kennedy School’s communications department, Marie A. Danziger and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, will leave the school this semester.

Their departures comes amid increased scrutiny of the school’s faculty diversity, and a year after the departure of three prominent female administrators of color.

Danziger, who has been teaching at the Kennedy School for over 30 years, was part of developing one of the first credit-bearing communications courses at the school. The course, “Arts of Communication,” is still offered today and is one of the school’s most “wellknown” classes, according to Amy J.

Lezley McSpadden—the mother of slain black teenager Michael Brown— declared her interest in running for Ferguson City Council at an Institute of Politics panel Monday evening.

McSpadden spoke alongside attorneys Benjamin Crump and Jasmine Rand, as well as documentary filmmaker Jason Pollock, for nearly two hours Crump prompted McSpadden to talk about her political interests during the panel event: “Please talk about what you’re contemplating.”

“What I’m contemplating is running for city council,” McSpadden responded, eliciting overwhelming applause from the packed audience.

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Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, spoke at the Institute of Politics Monday, along with two of the family’s attorneys and the documentary filmmaker behind “Stranger Fruit.” AWNIT S. MARTA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Two Yale Students Robbed at Gunpoint in Dorm Room Suite The Yale Daily News reported that two Yale undergraduates were robbed at gunpoint in their Timothy Dwight residential college suite early on Monday morning. Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins wrote that the burglar, after confronted by the two students, produced a handgun and stole a computer before fleeing the premise. Neither of the students reported any physical injuries. The Yale Police is launching an investigation into the incident and has increased its presence around the site of the robbery.

Princeton to Schedule Final Exams Before Winter Break in Calendar Reform Princeton will move fall semester final exams from January to before winter break after a faculty vote Monday, according to the Daily Princetonian. The schedule changes, which will align Princeton’s calendar with those of its peer institutions, will roll out in the 2020-21 academic year. At their meeting, faculty also voted for the creation of a two-week “Wintersession” which students can use for travel or internships. The committee that developed the reformed schedule said that it will allow students to better rest over winter break and reduce travel costs that arise from breaks in both December and January.

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Join several panelists for a conversation hosted by the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Hear from the experts themselves about what effective diplomacy requires!

David I. Kertzer at Harvard Book Store 7 p.m.

Stop by the Harvard Book Store to discuss Brown University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David I. Kertzer’s latest book, The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe.

Columbia Students Continue Demand for 24/7 Healthcare Resources Columbia student groups continue to push for 24/7 healthcare resources, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. At the Columbia College Student Council’s meeting Sunday night, members of 24/7 Columbia questioned College deans about their commitment to meeting the activist group’s demands, which include a 24/7 rape crisis center and healthcare resources that don’t involve police.

IN THE REAL WORLD Van Strikes Pedestrians in Toronto Leaving Ten Dead, 15 Injured In the streets of Canada’s biggest city, a driver deliberately plowed a white van into a crowd of pedestrians. The attack occurred in the North York area, where eyewitnesses reported that the van was weaving onto sidewalks and against oncoming traffic. Currently, the incident cannot be connected to a larger organized threat.

ELEGANZA 2018 Students perform Saturday in Eleganza, an annual dance and fashion show.

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Royal Cambridge Family Welcomes Their Third Addition Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton introduced their newborn son to the public, making him the third royal child of the family. According to a tweet from Kensington Palace, both Duchess Middleton and her son are healthy and well. The child is now fifth in line to the British throne, accomplishing more in the first few seconds of his life than most Harvard students do in theirs.

Astronomers Confirm Clouds on Uranus Smell Like Farts After years of speculation, an international team of astronomers has confirmed that Uranus is shrouded in hydrogen sulfide, the same compound associated with the stench of rotten eggs. Although this discovery will make Uranus the butt of many jokes, it also holds greater astrological implications as astronomers say the composition of a planet can reveal information about its formation and initial location.

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CPD To Create New Office POLICE BIAS FROM PAGE 1 with the police, according to the proposed budget.

“Believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, the Office of Procedural Justice will focus on proactively monitoring data related to police-citizen interactions for indications of possible racial profiling, racially-biased policing, or use of force incidents,” the budget reads. “The Office will also assess the Department’s compliance with statutes, ordinances, and regulations aimed at mandating accountability.”

The procedural justice initiatives will specifically focus on maintaining officer accountability, according to Councillor Alanna M. Mallon. Mallon said city officials have particularly focused on procedural justice in light of the arrest of the undergraduate earlier this month.

“I know many of us are really thinking about this recently,” Mallon said.

“But [procedural justice] has been something that has been in the works for a long time, and I look forward to really seeing that come to fruition.”

The arrest of the undergraduate at

the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Waterhouse Street sparked allegations of police brutality from eyewitnesses in the days following the incident.

Students have since formed a new activist group and held a protest against police brutality in the wake of the arrest.

A video of the incident later published by the New York Times shows the student standing still surrounded by four officers while the officers talk to him briefly.

The student turns around and takes two steps towards one officer before taking a step back and raising his arms to chest-level. Another officer then tackles the student from behind.

While the student remained on the ground, one CPD officer punched the undergraduate in the stomach five times in an “ineffective” attempt to unpin the student’s arms and handcuff him, according to the CPD police report.

The student was ultimately arrested on charges that include indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, and assault.

CPD Commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. said at a press conference last week that the student’s arraignment has been delayed in part due to concerns about the undergraduate’s mental health.

CPD also will create a new Family and Social Justice Section in the coming fiscal year to better serve “the city’s most vulnerable populations,” according to the proposed budget.

These populations include children, senior citizens, and those afflicted by homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, or sexual assault.

“The new section will bring together various units that individually work to provide services that divert individuals away from the criminal justice system and toward the support services they need, reinforcing the human dimension of social justice,” the budget reads.

As a part of the department reorganization, CPD will also add six new positions comprising “one Deputy Superintendent, one child psychologist, one licensed social worker, and three additional patrol officers.”

UC Welcomes Student Fee Changes

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Members of the Undergraduate Council’s Finance Committee—which doles out $300,000 in grants to students groups each year—said Monday they are optimistic that College changes to student funding will benefit their budget, despite a semester marked by financial instability.

According to committee chair Henry S. Atkins ’20, an increase in the total number of student groups at the College, as well as higher funding requests from some groups, combined to form a “structural tidal wave of forces” that placed the committee in a financially precarious position throughout the semester.

The committee was forced to make above-average cuts to its weekly grants pack on multiple occasions, with cuts in at least two weeks topping 30 percent.

At one point, the problem was so pressing—with the committee preparing to impose a 43 percent acrossthe-board cut in one week in early March—that the Council tapped into its $18,000 Emergency Fund.

Nonetheless, committee leaders said they were relieved to have reached the end of the semester without being forced to make unusually large cuts in the semester’s final weeks.

“I think it took a lot of foresight to be able to get us where we were, a lot of planning on our policy, a lot of planning on our budget, as the weeks progressed, so that we wouldn’t be in a state of shock at the end of the semester,” said Swathi R. Srinivasan ’21, secretary of the Finance Committee.

Still, Atkins said he was disappointed the committee had to impose such large cuts to funding compared to cuts in past years.

“There were times as recently as a year ago, where we were thinking 20 percent was an astronomically high cut,” Atkins said. “So the fact that we kept things below, most weeks, under 30, 35, I’m happy with, but I still wish we could have done better.” ­

Committee leaders also said the College’s decision to increase the student activities fee by 150 percent this coming fall will provide an opportunity for the UC to obtain more money to fund student groups. Currently, the Council receives nearly all of the money gathered from the fee.

But starting fall 2018, the Office of Student Life plans to restructure the way it funds the Council, the College Events Board, House Committees, and the Intramural Sports Council, Alexander R. Miller, the College’s associate dean for student engagement, said in an interview earlier this month.

Specifically, the OSL plans to form a new committee—comprising both students and administrators—that will help distribute the funds. The committee will allocate funds in part based on student groups’ ability to engage with undergraduates, according to Miller.

Committee leaders called for the College to give part of the increased revenue gleaned from the fee to the Council. Ivy Yard Representative Seth D. Billiau ’21, who serves as vice chair of data of the finance committee, said current cuts are threatening the “financial stability” of student groups that don’t have other sources of funding.

“Right now, there are OSL-recognized clubs that are asking the UC for money for day-to-day operations, and we say that we can give them 75 percent of the money for that, which means that they have to go to their bases of members and ask for money,” Billiau said. “With that increase in the student activities fee, I would hope that the College would prioritize student-run and student-led social spaces, like OSL-recognized organizations.”

Committee leaders hesitated to assume their finances were now secure, though, saying the ideas they developed to improve the long-term stability of the budget should remain on the table.

“We’re not waiting for the cavalry to arrive because we need to proceed like we’re still going to have to

deal with this situation,” Atkins said.

“I suspect that whatever solution this body comes up with...is not going to fix all of our problems.”

Even though funding requests exceeded the UC’s budget this year, the shortfall was far less than in some previous years. In fall 2013, for example, student groups requested close to $400,000 in grants from the Council, while the Council ultimately allocated less than $145,000.

The finance committee considered multiple proposals this semester in an attempt to shore up its budget, including implementing a progressive cut on grants—which most likely would have disproportionately hurt larger student groups—but ultimately did not implement any significant structural changes.

“Once we get into the actual specifics of how that would work, it can become really contentious,” Atkins said of implementing a progressive cut.

“Because that hurts some organizations more than others.”

The committee did, however, establish a minimum cut rate across weeks and began to more rigorously enforce its policy preventing groups in “bad standing”—or those who don’t return receipts or unused funds from previous committee grants—from receiving money from the UC. Some committee members are considering other ideas to prevent large grant cuts in the future.

For example, Billiau is proposing allocating slightly more money than available in the budget under the assumption that some groups will not claim the money, similar to the way airlines sell more tickets than available seats for some flights.

Billiau cautioned, though, that the idea could be risky if too much money is allocated.

“In the first semester, I’m very comfortable doing that,” Billiau said. “In the second semester, I’m a little less comfortable doing that because if you run too big of a deficit, you may run into spending more money than you have.”

Square’s Andover Shop Up for Sale

By HENRY W. BURNES and FRANKLIN R. CIVANTOS CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Andover Shop—a Harvard Square staple selling menswear and formal attire—is up for sale after 65 years on Holyoke Street and 70 years in Andover, Mass.

Store owners Charlie Davidson and Virgil Marson will be selling the shop and the property that it occupies in the coming months, with the hope that new owners will keep the brand alive.

The Holyoke Street store is one of two locations of the Andover Shop. The store’s first location, operated by Davidson’s brother-in-law Virgil Marson and located in namesake Andover, Mass., is also up for sale. Cambridge store manager Lawrence D. Mahoney said they are working to attract a buyer that will keep both stores open and maintain the Andover Shop brand and tradition.

The Andover Shop has been a Harvard Square staple since 1953 and a goto formal wear shop for generations of Harvard students and Cantabrigians.

Mahoney said he believes the community the store has developed over the past 65 years is a main reason that its new owners would benefit from continuing the brand.

“We have relationships with our customers and they are really members of an extended family; you know, multigenerational,” Mahoney said.

“There’s definitely community.”

One customer, who had stopped in the store to talk to Mahoney, said he has been shopping at the Andover Shop

since attending Harvard in the mid1970s.

Mahoney also remarked on the store’s collection of well-known customers.

“It’s a very unique place in that you can come in and be buying a pair of pants next to a former Supreme Court justice or world-class cellist,” Mahoney said.

The Andover Shop has faced significant challenges in recent years due to Harvard’s ongoing construction of the Smith Campus Center right across the

You can come in and be buying a pair of pants next to a former Supreme Court justice or worldclass cellist.

Lawrence D. Mahoney Store Manager

street.

According to Mahoney, road closures from the construction over the last two and a half years have hurt the store’s sales. He said these challenges contributed to the decision to sell the

stores.

“Street traffic has been reduced significantly and that’s had a negative effect,” Mahoney said. “Harvard has not been a good neighbor through the whole process.”

Mahoney said Harvard was required to reimburse the City of Cambridge for its lost parking meter revenue.“Which for me sets a standard that says they should compensate the businesses for the lost revenues,” Mahoney said. A Harvard spokesperson declined to comment on the Andover Shop specifically, but emphasized that the University has made ongoing efforts to minimize the impact of construction on local streets and businesses by keeping sidewalks open and providing ample signage.

Other Holyoke Street businesses have also faced challenges due to disruptive construction. Mediterranean restaurant En Boca closed its doors in June 2017—just eight months after opening—due to frustrations with the ongoing construction. En Boca has since sued Harvard for “breach of contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, nuisance” and other violations related to the renovation process.

Harvard spokesperson Brigid O’Rourke wrote in an emailed statement that when the Smith Campus Center opens, it will likely bolster business in the area.

“The enhanced public spaces, new local retail tenants, and diverse programming will ensure that the Smith Center becomes a destination that attracts additional visitors and residents to the area,” O’Rourke wrote.

Brown’s Mother to Run for City Council FERGUSON FROM PAGE 1 Several minutes later, McSpadden said that a run for office would constitute part of her broader advocacy efforts after the 2014 shooting of her son. Brown was 18 when he was fatally sh ot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. “We’re pushing forward and we’re coming through,” McSpadden said.

“We have to get behind people that look like us and into elected seats so that they can really do what’s right in our community. I’m going to start with me when I run for city council.”

“We’re seeing new people being elected, but will it change what happened then? No. But we can change the course of what may happen tomorrow and what is happening now,” McSpadden added.

Pollack wrote to The Crimson after the event that McSpadden is considering the run “very seriously” and has spoken about it “publicly.”

A screening of Pollack’s documentary on Brown’s death, “Stranger Fruit,” preceded the panel.

Pollock recounted hearing news of the 2014 shooting and said he moved to Ferguson immediately after to research the event.

“I didn’t want to go there with a Christopher Columbus-type attitude,” Pollock said.

Both Pollock and Crump commented on the media’s portrayal of Brown, saying they took issue with his description as a “thug.”

“Just imagine if it was your child, and then not only the death of the child, but the cover up of the character, which I think is the thing that is so unhuman about this and so different,” Pollock said.

“It’s the same thing every time. First they assassinate you, then they assassinate your character,” Crump said.

Crump also pointed to what he identified as the differential treatment of minorities by law enforcement.

“We certainly can’t forget about Dylann Roof, the young white supremacist who went and killed nine of the most innocent people you could ever find in a church in South Carolina,” Crump said.

“Then the police not only take him alive, but they take him to Burger King to get a burger and fries. Where is the humanity for Michael Brown? For Stephon Clark? For Alton Sterling? For Philando Castile?”

“Young white men who have already murdered people get more con-

sideration than a young unarmed black man in America,” Crump stated.

We have to get behind people that look like us and into elected seats so that they can really do what’s right in our community. I’m going to start with me when I run for city council.

Lezley McSpadden Michael Brown’s Mother Jasmine Rand, another attorney who represented the Brown family, said that lawyers are often limited in the advocacy they can provide.

“That’s why Jason needs to tell this story through the film. And that’s why Lezley needs to keep telling it. We all have to work together in as many mediums as we can to create social change,” Rand said. “ We can write the most beautiful laws in the world... but that’s not enough because we have inequitable minds sitting on benches and inequitable minds sitting in jurors boxes and they’re going to continue making inequitable resolutions. Being a lawyer is not enough.”

Pollock concluded the panel event with an entreaty to audience members to become involved.

“In terms of the movement, please connect with us. We’re going to be here. I think that today can be a historic day in reopening the case,” Pollock said.

“We will look back at this day to the people in this room and remember that it started here at Harvard.”

Staff writer Paula M. Barberi can be reached at paula.barberi@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @paulambarberi.

Two Female Lecturers to Depart HKS HKS FROM PAGE 1 Zhou, a second-year master in public policy student.

Danziger, who is retiring, said she had decided it was time for her “to figure out what to do with [her] life.”

She said she was taking a variety of University courses in subjects ranging from Italian to acting to artificial intelligence.

“Instead of performing and being the ‘professor teacher,’ I want to be a learner now,” Danziger said.

Marzano-Lesnevich, who has been at the school for five years as an adjunct lecturer, teaches two courses about policy-writing.

She will be leaving the school to take a tenure-track position as an assistant professor in the English department at Bowdoin College.

Marzano-Lesnevich said she will be teaching creative nonfiction at Bowdoin but that she will be able to apply many of the same skills of writing narratives and stories that she taught to students at the Kennedy School.

“When we make a policy or think about a policy, we are in essence telling a narrative about the way the world is and the way the world should be,” Marzano-Lesnevich said.

“And so that interrogation of narrative underlies everything I do at the Kennedy School, underlies everything I do in my own writing, and at Bowdoin. I’ll be bringing out those same questions to the students, not so much around the policy but in other areas of life.”

Both lecturers were “really well-regarded, really terrific people,” according to Jeffrey L. Seglin, the director of the communications program at the Kennedy School.

Zhou, who took courses from both Danziger and Marzano-Lesnevich, said she enjoyed their courses and said both were “kind” to students.

Zhou brought up their departures at a meeting with the Kennedy School’s newly appointed diversity dean last week and expressed her concern with the lack of female faculty at the school.

A University-wide annual report about diversity showed that the Kennedy School has remained relatively stagnant in terms of number of female faculty over the past 10 years.

In the report, HKS reported that 33

percent of tenure-track faculty are female, the same percentage as in 2008.

In all, 21 percent of tenured faculty are female—up just one percentage point from 10 years prior.

The Kennedy School recently has been facing criticism of its faculty composition with many students and faculty calling on the school to recruit and retain more women and racial and ethnic minorities.

Within the past year, three female administrators have stepped down from their position at the school, with one citing the “lack of support” she received from top leaders at the school.

Zhou said after not having a female professor throughout her first year at the school, it was a “priority” for her to “actively seek out” classes taught by female professors and lecturers.

She said this disparity in female faculty puts women at a disadvantage when it comes to “networking” and building relationships with faculty members.

“The lack of diversity in the faculty really impacts the ability of minority students and women to get access to opportunities, particularly those which some white male professors might think of their favorite, white male students first,” Zhou said.

Seglin said the communications department, however, maintains an even gender balance among its faculty.

“There’s people moving around; that happens every year because we have been growing the program, but it has always been in the communications program at least, it’s been for the people who were teaching there about 50 percent women and 50 percent men,” Seglin said.

He said they have “already found” replacements for Danziger and Marzano-Lesnevich and the department will continue to have gender parity.

Still, he said he understood concerns from students about their departures.

“I can understand students being upset when a good professor decides to retire,” Seglin said.

“I think that’s a testament to how good the professor was, but people should be allowed to retire if they want to.”

Staff writer Alexandra A. Chaidez can be reached at alexndra.chaidex@thecrimson.com

EDITORIAL

THE HARVARD CRIMSON | APRIL 24, 2018 | PAGE 4

THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

No More Possessive Liberals

Preserving History and Increasing Accountability

Henry N. BROOKS

The renovation of Adams House must keep its historical value in updating it for the modern era

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n Adams House’s renovation, history, modernity, and accessibility are set to become one.

Starting in the spring of 2019, Adams House is slated to undergo renovation. This comes in the context of the University’s push for housing renewal, with renovations already having taken place in all of Dunster and Winthrop Houses, and some of Quincy and Leverett Houses.

Unlike what is occurring in the ongoing Lowell House renovations, not all Adams residents will be required to live in swing housing at any given time. Since Adams consists of three separate buildings, as some undergo renovation, students who live in the other buildings can continue to do so.

From the Gold Room to Westmorly Court, Adams is filled with history—a history that should be preserved to the greatest extent possible. Thus, it is welcome news that the Cambridge Historical Society will not allow the exterior of Adams to be changed. Furthermore, we are excited to hear that plans for Adams are seeking to preserve its more unique and nuanced historical features, including the Coolidge Room, the elliptical stairs in Randolph Hall, the lobby of Claverly Hall, the pool theater, and the suite of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904.

This is in line with the desires of Adams students, who made their

views known during a town hall. It’s a welcome sign that the architects have solicited student input during the beginning stages of the renovation process, and should to do so to an even greater extent as they continue their work.

In this vein and in line with the requests of Adams residents, the architects should continue to keep as much of the quirky, historical features of the House as possible—it is these facets that make Adams House unique.

Indeed, other historic parts of Adams House are just as worthy of preservation, including the underground tunnels decorated by Adamsians past, the ornately designed Gold Room, the stunning House library, and much more.

However, at the moment, the only elevator in Adams is in Claverly Hall, and by the end of renovations, architects plan for there to be eight all around the House, and for all entryways to be accessible. This prioritization of accessibility is commendable, in that it works to make the House safe and inclusive. A continued emphasis on this aspect of renovation should be a key aim of the architects.

The renovation also allows for increased social space within the House, as students have requested.

Students in other renovated Houses have explained that the loss of their own common rooms in suites to larg-

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er, public common rooms or off-corridor doubles constitutes a large loss to their ability to be social with other students. Those who have influence in the renovation should therefore listen to feedback from students from recently-renovated houses—particularly Dunster, Quincy, and Winthrop Houses—and emphasize the design of many suites with private common rooms. Not only would this demonstrate that those in charge of the renewal of Adams House have listened to the voices of students unhappy with this specific aspect of the renovations in other Houses, it will also facilitate a sense of community in Adams House and set an admirable precedent for future renovations.

In that vein, as each House is renewed, administrators and architects alike should be learning more about how to best renovate for undergraduate residential life at Harvard, and we hope they apply the lessons they should have learned to the particular case of Adams House correctly and with due diligence.

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vard community about ongoing issues in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank and to shed light on the injustices of the occupation as we seek to promote a twostate solution, a secure and democratic Israel, and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians.

In a time in which centrist voices are too frequently drowned out, it is important to stake out our position between those who defend the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of the current Israeli administration and those who mercilessly slander the only liberal democracy in the region. It is vital to affirm that—just as President Donald Trump does not speak for all Americans and there are many patriots who vehemently oppose his administration and his policies—Hamas and Abbas do not represent all Palestinians and, likewise, one can be both Zionist and anti-Netanyahu.

It is tempting to avoid talking about difficult issues like Israel and Palestine or to dismiss the narrative of one side while unquestioningly adopting the agenda of the other. Yet, as a leader of the newly formed Coalition at Harvard for Israel and Palestine, I urge all students to lean in and engage in the challenging project of promoting mutual understanding and a peaceful solution.

recently revisited Richard Hofstadter’s 1955 essay “The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,” and I have to say, I was struck by how relevant it is to our time.

Hofstadter originally published the essay to explain the rise of his generation’s alt-right: A loose coalition of conspiracist anticommunists that opposed President Dwight D. Eisenhower, public works projects, and free speech. A cornered animal of sorts, the pseudo-con regularly made fretful lunges in defense of its political life. It was the woman who complained about “eight more years of socialism” after Eisenhower’s 1952 election. It was the delegate to the Omaha Freedom Congress who denounced Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren for his “middle-of-the-road” thinking and, paradoxically, his supposed communist sympathies.

Jarred as I was by these profiles in paranoia, I found my attention drawn elsewhere in the essay: Hofstadter’s remark that only two decades prior, “the dynamic force in American political life came from the side of liberal dissent.” The contrast that Hofstadter perceived between the 1930s and the 1950s—the former defined by liberal aspirations for reform, the latter by a guttural conservative reaction—felt familiar.

We liberals seem to have a knack for rendering ourselves obsolete. When the stock market crashed in 1929, a generation of likeminded policymakers and activists now remembered as the “New Dealers” rallied behind the platform of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, for public works, Social Security, and expanded regulation. But by the 1950s, Republicans had won back the presidency and both houses of Congress. Suspicions of a secret liberal pact with communism had the left in spasms. The country was closer to a party-wide purge than ever before. The question loomed among liberals: How did we get here?

One answer argues that the New Dealers simply over-delivered. The large mass of men undone by the Depression had found new work and respectable housing. Social safety nets promised a modicum of respect for the unemployed and elderly. Even women could, in a limited way, pursue work. One might argue that, in the aggregate, these victories meant that the left had finally put its motivating anxieties to bed.

While certainly true in part, this explanation seems to diminish the stakes of the liberal agenda after Roosevelt. I find Hofstadter’s assessment more exciting: that “[a]fter twenty years the New Deal liberals [had] quite unconsciously taken on the psychology of those who have entered into possession.”

Democrats back then “could look back,” writes Hofstadter, “to a brief, exciting period in the mid-thirties when they had … been able to transform the economic and administrative life of the nation.” Apart from that, though, the Democrats were parched for rhetoric. They had no new futures planned.

This criticism still bites today. In 2016, it was thought by some that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton represented President Barack Obama’s third term. Even as some Democrats worked to disavow this view, others on the left—including Obama—embraced it, if in thinly veiled terms. Embedded in these tactics was Hofstadter’s old psychology of possession, which treated Hillary as the heir apparent to the 2008 Democratic wave.

It lurks elsewhere too. In the run-up to the 2018 midterm election cycle, the Democratic National Committee has drafted a number of potential party slogans, some more inspiring than others. Among the least inspiring options from last summer, and one that gained serious traction, was the comical jab, “I mean, have you seen the other guys?” The implication is that the Democrats have a monopoly on dignity.

Though perhaps true, this attitude reflects a strong possessive sense. We Democrats are the gatekeepers of dignified politics: You pass through us.

For good or ill, the country has become ensnared in decades-old politics. Senator Bernie Sanders, a socialist in the American tradition of Eugene v. Debs, made a credible bid for the presidency. President Donald Trump has resurrected the “America First” slogan not bandied about since before the Second World War. American Nazis are making news from Charlottesville to Georgia to the heartland. In this environment, the psychology of possession among liberals becomes more dangerous. It dampens the dynamism of liberal dissent.

I sense that liberals can recover the “dynamic force in American political life” that Hofstadter praised. But that path requires leaving certain baggage behind: The nostalgia for the Obama coalition, the disdain for 2016’s “deplorables.”

These are political dead-ends.

The path also requires rallying to new dangers: A worsening trade war with China, a humanitarian disaster in Syria, vulnerable immigrant and refugee communities at home.

For Democrats, as for America, the stakes lie here, among the electoral base.

Most important, though, will be a profound sense of humility. The 2016 election proved that we liberals are not guaranteed victories in the way we were with presidents Bill Clinton and Obama. Times have changed. Partisan allegiances have deepened. Administrations are not so easily guilted into responsible politics.

In this world, any movement of dynamic dissent must earn its keep. Hofstadter saw the decline of a robust left movement into a contest with pseudo-cons for power. As we watch a similar contest unfold, we ought to remember the dangers of our possessive tendencies, to avoid them the next time around.

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Toward a Better Israel-Palestine Conversation

By JACOB A. FORTINSKY

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t is commonly accepted that discussions about Israel and Palestine always turn sour. Time and again, I am warned not to engage in these sorts of discussions, whether on Facebook or in-person, because “nothing good ever comes out of them.” It seems that people think compromise, civil discourse, and mutual understanding are impossible when it comes to the issue of Israel-Palestine, perhaps more than any other topic. Even on campus, one seldom can find a group of students participating in a fruitful and intellectually honest conversation regarding Israel-Palestine.

The conflict is too often painted as black and white, or a zero-sum game.

People ask what side you are on as though they are asking if you root for the Red Sox or Yankees. Painting the conflict in such a light is not only simplistic but is highly damaging to the prospect of a peaceful solution. How can anyone who is emotionally connected to either the Zionist or Palestinian causes show any sort of sympathy to the other side when it is categorically portrayed as negative and harmful? A more peaceful Middle East and coexistence between the Israeli and Palestinian people must begin by acknowledging the legitimacy of each side’s narrative.

Yet I don’t think it has to be this way.

Cara J. Kupferman ’20 and I, along with over a dozen other students, are forming a new group on campus dedicated to promoting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples called the Coalition at Harvard for Israel and Palestine. We seek to provide an alternative space where pro-Israel, propeace students can discuss and advocate for justice for both peoples.

We are establishing CHIP because we are deeply committed to ensuring Israel’s future as the democratic homeland of the Jewish people, which can only be secured through a two-state resolution. We will organize as students to act together on behalf of a two-state solution and a more peaceful, secure,

and democratic future for both Israelis and Palestinians. In so doing, we strive to bring to our campus and our communities an inclusive, pragmatic, and values-driven conversation able to meet the urgency and seriousness of the challenge that we face.

The current conversation regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both within Harvard’s Jewish and Arab communities and on campus as a whole, lacks nuance—by depicting the other side as complicit in either ethnic cleansing or terrorism—and recognition of the legitimacy of the other group’s narrative. It is crucial for the future generation of leaders to engage in meaningful and honest dialogue, and we believe that we can fill this serious void.

Additionally, it becomes impossible to respond to any contemporary challenge in the region when one views the conflict through a strictly dogmatic lens. For example, regarding the current violence at the Gaza-Israel border, one need not side unequivocally with either the terrorist group Hamas or the often-disproportionate responses of the Israeli army. Regarding the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, anyone who cares about peace would be misguided to criticize Israel without recognizing the Palestinian government’s incitement and incentivizing of terrorism; and one would be similarly misguided to attack Palestinian terrorism without condemning the tremendously negative effects of an ever-present and often-brutal military occupation.

When Palestinians’ primary interaction with Israelis is with soldiers who patrol their communities and raid their homes, and when Israelis’ primary contact with Palestinians is with knife-wielding assailants, how can one expect mutual understanding? Similarly, when the conversation in the United States is dominated by extremists like Louis Farrakhan or American ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, how can one expect nuance and intellectual honesty?

I believe it is important to bring speakers to our community, in order to educate our members and the Har-

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Univ. Names New OSAPR Director OSAPR FROM PAGE 1 permanent director. Francesconi wrote in an emailed statement that student involvement in the hiring process and another leadership change in the office contributed to the delay in hiring Oeser’s replacement.

“Because student participation in the hiring process for this position is paramount, we delayed our search until students arrived back to campus in the fall,” Francesconi wrote. “As we began our work to post the position, the OSAPR associate director announced her resignation in September of 2017.”

“Given this position’s integral role in directing service and education to students, we shifted our hiring process to prioritize filling this position,” she added.

Administrators hired a replacement associate director in late 2017, according to Francesconi. The director search officially launched in Dec. 2017 and concluded last month, she said.

Berastaín previously served as the assistant director of the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, a federally funded Latino-specific institute that works to combat gender-based violence in the United States.

Francesconi specifically pointed to Berastaín’s experience working those who have experienced harassment.

“He has proven to be a passionate advocate for civic engagement, the BGLTQ community, and domestic and dating violence survivors,” she wrote.

University President Drew G. Faust said in a press release Monday that she is “so pleased” to welcome Berastaín to his new role, especially in light of ongoing national and local conversations about sexual harassment. An Oct. 2017 report in the New York Times detailing allegations of sexual harassment

against famed producer Harvey Weinstein sparked a nationwide reckoning with sexual assault, typified by the social media campaign “#MeToo,” which urges those who have experienced sexual harassment to come forward with their stories.“As we have been reminded all too vividly in recent months, sexual harassment and assault continue to be frustratingly persistent problems on campuses and beyond,” Faust wrote in the press release announcing Berastaín’s appointment. “Our commitment to creating a Harvard where every member of our community can reach their full potential free from the scourge of sexual misconduct requires that we put in place the resources and structures that will allow us to achieve that goal.”

Berastaín’s selection comes at a time when the University is facing conversations about sexual harassment closer to home, too. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in March that at least 18 women are accusing Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of repeated acts of sexual harassment over the past three decades. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences placed Dominguez on paid administrative leave and has filed a formal complaint with the University’s Office of Dispute Resolution as part of this process. Dominguez has announced he plans to retire.

Berastaín said in a press release that he is pleased to return to Harvard, where he studied as an undergraduate and pursued post-graduate work researching gender-based violence and restorative and transformative justice at the Divinity School.

“I am excited to return to my alma mater, and I am encouraged by the deep level of commitment my colleagues have expressed to create an inclusive, safe, and healthy environment for our community,” Berastaín said.

City Council Releases 2019 Budget

By PATRICIA J. LIU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Cambridge City Council released the city’s budget for fiscal year 2019 at a meeting Monday.

The budget focuses on a wide range of issues facing Cambridge residents, including affordable housing and transportation improvements. The city also plans to address problems facing early childhood development, education, and public safety.

“Cambridge is about helping people who need help, and I think if you look at this budget, it really exemplifies that,” City Manager Louis A. DePasquale said at the meeting.

One of the budget’s main goals is ­

to increase the range of housing available for residents regardless of socioeconomic status. Last fiscal year, Cambridge allocated more than $147 million towards affordable housing measures. This fiscal year, the city plans to increase funding by $650,000.

Additionally, the city will create a new executive position, the housing ombudsman, to guide affordable housing initiatives. Though the details are still being determined, the job will entail bridging various city departments to address housing problems.

“One of the things we really want to do is to have someone who can really just try to help facilitate the challenges that people are facing,” DePasquale said. “They will work with us to real-

BGLTQ Office to Form New Group

By CAROLINE S. ENGELMAYER and MICHAEL E. XIE CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The College’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life will create a new group to “respond to the religious needs of students of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations,” Director of BGLTQ Student Life Sheehan D. Scarborough ’07 wrote in an email sent to a Harvard BGLTQ list Saturday.

Scarborough tied the decision to create the new program to his office’s ongoing efforts to bring greater attention to “inclusive religious spaces,” according to the email.

“While Christianity has received much attention over the past semester, we know that questions about acceptance, community, and connection are alive for people of many religious traditions right now,” Scarborough wrote.

“There are many ways, and many com­

munities, in which to be queer and religious.”

Scarborough’s announcement comes a few months after the Office of Student Life announced it was placing Harvard College Faith and Action— the College’s largest Christian fellowship—on administrative probation for a year. The Crimson reported in Feb. 2018 that the move to place HFCA on probation was almost certainly tied to the organization’s decision to ask a woman in a same-sex relationship to step down from a leadership position last semester.

But the one-year probation will have little immediate practical effect on HCFA. The group has continued to use Yenching Auditorium—a Harvard-owned space—for its weekly worship event, Doxa. The Office of Student Life website asserts groups on “probation” for failing to complete their annual registration requirements are de-

Officers Did Not Recieve Supplementary Training TRAINING FROM PAGE 1 putting at least 10 percent of its officers through the training, per the site.

CPD aims to surpass that 10 percent threshold, though. “The goal is to train the entire department on this training,” the department’s website states.

Warnick wrote that CPD is “in the process” of making the training “available to the entire department.”

Roughly one-third of CPD’s officers and all supervisors have taken the training to date, Warnick wrote.

The program is meant to help officers understand how to respond to situations involving individuals experiencing “mental illness,” according to the CPD website. As of last week, the arrested student remained in police custody in the hospital undergoing evaluation for issues including mental health concerns.

Three of the four CPD officers at the scene of the arrest—Steven C. Burke, Lucas Harney, and Casimir Maziarz— physically tackled the undergraduate before arresting him. The fourth, Alexander Illyinski, was “covering the perimeter” and was not involved in the physical altercation, according to Warnick.

The arrest of the student has sparked allegations of police brutality from some eyewitnesses. A later CPD police report states the student—who was naked and likely under the influence of narcotics—clenched his fists and began making aggressive moves towards law enforcement, prompting the officers to tackle him.

But bystanders, including members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, have stated that CPD’s version of events is incorrect. BLSA mem-

bers who saw the interaction have stated that the officers tackled the student “without provocation.”

A video of the incident later published by the New York Times shows the undergraduate standing still surrounded by four officers while the officers talk to him for at least several seconds. The student turns around and takes two steps towards one officer before taking a step back and raising his arms to chest-level. Another officer then tackles the student from behind.

While the student remained on the ground, at least one CPD officer punched the undergraduate in the stomach five times in an “ineffective” attempt to unpin the student’s arms and handcuff him, according to the CPD police report. The student was ultimately arrested on charges including indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, and assault.

It is currently unclear when or if the student will be arraigned; CPD Commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. said at a press conference last week that the arraignment has been delayed in part due to concerns about the undergraduate’s mental health. CPD offers details about the crisis training on a section of their website labeled “Mental Health Outreach.” “The 40-hour CIT training program offers technical assistance on effective strategies for best engaging with persons who have mental illness, diverting them from the criminal justice system and into treatment when that is a safe and appropriate option,” the website reads.

The department’s crisis intervention training is run in partnership with the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health, Warnick wrote.

ly let us know what’s happening, where we need to go.”

The budget also specifies an additional $1.1 million for early childhood initiatives like the Birth to Third Grade Partnership—which strives to increase access to quality preschool education and was developed from the 2015 Early Childhood Task Force Report.

“The Task Force recognized that it would be a multi-year ongoing effort to build an effective early childhood system that would improve the outcomes for Cambridge’s children,” then-City Manager Richard C. Rossi said.

With the new 2019 budget, the number of children that wouldn’t otherwise have the resources for preschool education is expected to double.

The crisis training comes in addition to several mandatory annual programs for CPD officers. All department officers are required to attend in-service trainings, which include sessions about “Fair & Impartial Policing, Procedural Justice, Mental Health First Aid, Management of Aggressive Behavior, Diffusing Aggressive Behavior, Law Enforcement Response to Mental Illness and Emotionally Disturbed People, among other sessions that assist officers in engaging with individuals who may be in crisis,” according to Warnick.

Thomas Nolan—professor of criminology and criminal justice at Merrimack College—said he commends CPD for their efforts to hold crisis intervention trainings for their officers.

“Crisis intervention training, as we see the necessity for in 2018, includes a recognition of the officers’ ability to see that someone is in distress and has some kind of mental disorder that needs some kind of special attention or a special response that is specific to the situation,” Nolan said.

“The value of the crisis intervention training is to be able to train officers to see this is a different kind of situation— this isn’t someone who is looking to do me harm—this is someone who is in significant mental distress, and I need to adopt different strategy to deal with this individual,” Nolan added.

Warnick wrote Monday that de-escalation forms a central theme across all trainings the department offers.

“The wide range of trainings we have made available to officers when dealing with people in crisis has also extended to special instruction from Strategies from Youth on ‘Policing the Teenage Brain’ and our newer officers receiving

a 12-hour ‘Law Enforcement Response to Mental Illness and Emotionally Disturbed People’ class in the Police Academy.”

Warnick wrote that CPD has two “in-house Mental Health Outreach Officers” trained in First Aid and First Aid response for mental health. He wrote that both offer “insight and instruction” within the department as well as more broadly around the region. He also reaffirmed that CPD had jurisdiction to make the arrest, even though Harvard University Police Department has “primary jurisdiction over all crimes occurring on campus.”

The Crimson previously reported that CPD had jurisdiction because the student—who was arrested at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave. and Waterhouse St., feet from Harvard Law School’s campus—was not standing on campus and was thus outside the jurisdiction of HUPD. Nolan, a former officer in the Boston Police Department, said he does not think any type of additional training would have prevented the physical altercation April 13.

“I think that the cops, no matter what kind of training they had, were confronted with an individual who was being combative and aggressive and non-compliant, and I think they did what they needed to do,” Nolan said. “Certainly officers need to restrain their impulse; if it’s a situation where the officer lost his temper, that’s never appropriate.”

CPD is conducting an internal review in the wake of the arrest given the incident involved a use of force. CPD policy mandates the department must conduct this kind of review any time force is used.

nied access to Harvard spaces.

Some College students launched an email campaign in early March calling on the OSL to impose more stringent punishments on HCFA. Scarborough, in his email announcing the new group, specifically referenced past conversations with students about HCFA’s alleged discrimination and the College’s response.

“Many of you have expressed frustration at the lack of new information, and disappointment with explanations that have been slow, insufficient, or nonexistent,” Scarborough wrote.

“These conversations have been painful for me as well, as a gay Christian with deep faith connections. And that pain is still alive in our community.”

“At this time, it’s far too early for me to answer your questions,” Scarborough wrote. “I plan to be in touch with students at a later date when there is more to share.”

Law School Seal Yet to Be Replaced SEAL FROM PAGE 1 around and had lots of interaction with the community, with faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and in coming up with decision-making processes, it helps me to hear from a lot of constituents.”

“I’m dealing with a lot of lawyers and a lot of people who care about Harvard Law School, and so I’m asking around to see what people think would be a good process for identifying a new shield,” he added.

After the Corporation agreed to remove the Royall seal two years ago, the Law School worked quickly to remove it from campus and from Law School websites. While the endeavor was mostly successful, the seal was still visible at some locations on the Law School campus last year.

Matthew Gruber, dean for administration at the Law School, wrote in an email Monday that, in the months since the initial effort to remove the Royall crest from campus, apparel, and websites, the school has continued to identify and remove any leftover seals.

“As soon as the Corporation accepted the recommendation to retire the shield, the School undertook an effort to remove all known instances of it from campus locations, print materials, licensed products and web content that we had catalogued during a comprehensive inventory,” Gruber wrote.

“Since then, we have infrequently come across instances of the shield and have promptly removed them.”

SPORTS

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Stewart, Booker Stand Out In Football Spring Game FOOTBALL

By CADE PALMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Pale skies and warm weather greeted Harvard football back to the Colosseum for its annual Spring Game on Saturday. Amongst the various other Visitas events, the Crimson’s return to the turf featured a sprinkling of lanyard-wearing prefrosh, mostly recruited football players, throughout the stands and on the sidelines.

Though Spring Games at other schools feature the first team offense battling the second team defense and vise versa, the Crimson does differently. Hardly an even game, both offenses don crimson while the defenses wear white, making the only possible way for the defense to score a turnover for a touchdown.

In this year’s rendition, the Crimson squad blanked the White, 40-0, in the two-quarter scrimmage. ­

BATTLE FOR THE BACKFIELD During last year’s preseason, it was absolutely certain that senior quarterback Joe Viviano was the clear starter in the position for the team, until it wasn’t.

The veteran and 2016 starter took first snaps in the Crimson’s opening loss to a URI team it had never been beaten by, snapping a 13-game win streak in the opening month. When Harvard lined up again the following week against Brown, it wasn’t Viviano, but rather freshman Jake Smith under center.

And so, a year’s worth of quarterback drama ensued. No one could ever guess which of the two gunslingers would take the field first nor how long they would stay. In play that epitomized the season’s quarterback competition, Smith started against Yale and was replaced by Viviano in the final stanza.

As the team returns to the field, it seems another battle for the starting spot is all lined up. In Saturday’s scrimmage, it was Smith who stepped on as the first offense quarterback, followed by junior Tom Stewart—the quarterback Smith passed for the starting spot after the URI game—for the second offense.

“Jake [Smith] ended up being the number one guy for a good part of the [2017] season,” said Murphy of his quarterback decision. “There wasn’t a lot of difference between Jake, Joe or Tommy, but that’s the way it is sometimes.”

Stewart was sure to convey a difference on Saturday. The junior converted on seven of his 11 passing attempts for 118 yards and added two touchdowns to his state sheet. When he was forced to escape the pocket, Stewart found positive yardage, netting 54 yards on his feet.

Smith hit his only touchdown of the evening on his first drive, finding freshman tight end Adam West. The freshman hit four of 11 attempts for 56 yards.

“It’s a really good competition and the bottom line is, we’re deeper and better at the quarterback position and that obviously bodes well for our football team,” Murphy said. “It continues to be a competition, but really I feel good about both guys. They have a long way to go, but I feel good about both guys.”

SORRY FOR CHARLIE ROCKING If you give a mouse a cookie he’ll ask for a glass of milk, but if you give Booker the ball he’ll get you a first down—no questions asked.

Booker seems on track to continue to replicate and build on his powerful, steady presence that he brought to the field in the 2017 season. When all things failed, the one thing Harvard could consistently count on was Booker getting a few yards.

Though injured prior to the 2017 Yale game, the junior made sure there were no doubts about his ability to run the ball in this—his return to full contact play.

To open the game, the Crimson went first to the air, with Smith threading a pass behind the receiver across the middle, the ball dropping to the turf.

On the second play, Murphy went to his bread-and-butter, handing Booker the ball and pointing him right. Number 21 broke the give for 55 yards. The offense scored on the next play.

Despite being in a three-way rotation with sophomore Lavance Northington and freshman Aaron Shampklin for the duration of the 2017 sea-

RUN TIME Charlie Booker III continues to be a mainstay in the Crimson backfield and ready to contribute next year, as evidenced by his six-carry, 93-yard performance at this weekend’s Spring Game for Harvard football. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

son, Booker still earned First-team All-Ivy honors coupled with the division’s third highest net yardage. Under the lights on Saturday, Booker ran six times and tabbed 93 yards.

“It takes so much off my back to be able to have running backs like them,” Smith said. “I really don’t have to do anything when those guys are behind me. I just hand them the ball and they take it for 40 yards. Really that’s all I could ask for.”

While neither Northington nor Shampklin played in the Spring Game, Booker rotated with freshmen BJ Watson and Devin Darrington. Both Maryland natives, the former averaged 8.3 yards per carry on nine attempts for 75 yards. Darrington barreled into the defensive line 13 times for 59 yards. Both freshmen added touchdowns to the Crimson point total.

“Those guys are hardworking, they challenge me everyday,” Booker said. “It’s great competition and it’s just great to see guys like that because they’re just going to take it over when

it’s their time.”

SENIOR SKIP DAY Looking to the skill positions on the roster, there looks to be an oversampling of young players in starting slots for Harvard.

With Smith vying again for the quarterback spot, two freshman backs, freshman West excelling at tight end, four freshman corners getting healthy playing time, and only one senior listed at the linebacker, the skill players are a young group.

Losing the seniors may hurt the most for the linebackers. Though the group lost many to injury throughout the 2017 season, the corps entirely consisted of seniors, seniors from Texas.

To succeed, the defense must fill the holes left by the graduation of players like 2017-captain Luke Hutton and Chase Guillory. The youth showed on Saturday night as the offenses dropped 40 points. Last season, the first defense held the first offense scoreless across the match.

“We didn’t play great,” sophomore linebacker Joey Goodman said. “We’re really low on the defense right now. We have some injuries, some guys getting hurt, some guys coming back in the fall, so it was tough for us. We were just rotating through a lot. Obviously we were getting tired, but we didn’t play good enough on our end. We’ve just got to get better.”

In the trenches, however, age and experience are plentiful. Suiting up for the grudge match were six junior offensive lineman and four on the defensive front.

“If you look at our first offense, it’s going to be a heavily dominated senior offensive line,” Murphy said. “Really, I think the strength of the team will be in our offensive and defensive line.

Our offensive line and ability to run the football is thing I think we’ve improved the most at.”

—Staff writer Cade Palmer can be reached at cade.palmer@thecrimson.com. Follow him at @ THC_CadePalmer.

Zavolas Lead the Crimson to Series Win Against Brown

BEAN BALL Senior Noah Zavolas continued his strong pitching this weekend, extending his scoreless streak to 24.0 innings and shutting down the Brown offense in the first game of the three-game series. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER BASEBALL

By BRYAN HU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

When you know you have a good team, just put your head down and go to work. The Bad Boys, out of Cambridge, Mass., know it best.

The Harvard baseball team took two of three from the visiting Brown squad last weekend, evening out its Ivy League record at 6-6 to stay alive in the hunt for the top Ancient Eight spots.

The Crimson (16-17, 6-6 Ivy League) took the first two games, 3-1 and 8-7, on Saturday afternoon, before falling, 7-3, on Sunday.

The new Ivy League divisional format, unveiled this year, will pit the top two teams at the season’s end against each other in a mid-May championship series.

With just three conference series left in 2018, Harvard currently sits fifth in the standings, a game and a half out of second.

Unlike the Crimson teams of years past, the 2017-18 squad has legitimate reason to strive for more than just fifth ­

place, as a 2018 Beanpot title and several wins over strong teams provide ample justification for placing Harvard towards the top of the Ivy table.

The team still sits in the middle of the pack, though. Series wins are a good place to start.

Senior pitcher Noah Zavolas, a week after throwing a no-hitter and garnering NCAA Player of the Week honors, tossed another gem on the mound to lead the way for the Crimson, while junior designated hitter P.J. Robinson had a good weekend at the plate, hitting 6-for-9 in the series with two RBIs, two walks, and two runs scored.

Yale looks to be sitting comfortably at the top of the table at 11-4 in Ivy play, while Columbia holds on to the golden-ticket second spot with a 9-6 record.

“We’re not at a terrible spot right now,” said junior first baseman Pat McColl. “We’d like to be a little better off than we are—I think we let a couple [games] slip through that we think we should’ve had. But if we can do all we can, win our games, we’ll see how it turns out and not worry about anything else.”

Harvard’s upcoming midweek tilt

against a good Princeton team (10-17, 7-5) is a pivotal series. A sweep over the Tigers could hypothetically leapfrog the Crimson up unto a tie for the second-place spot in the standings, while a poor showing could seriously damage Harvard’s championship aspirations.

Brown (8-22, 4-11) sits last in the conference.

BROWN 7, HARVARD 3 Going for the sweep at O’Donnell Field on a warm Sunday afternoon, Harvard couldn’t get late rally-starting hits to land in the right places, losing 7-3 after the Bears scored thrice in the fifth and twice in the seventh to pull away.

Establishing itself early in a series has never been the Crimson’s problem this season. In fact, against its four Ivy League opponents so far, Harvard has won the series-opener every time—some in defiant fashion, including no-hitting league leaders Yale and exploding for 11 runs on second-place Columbia.

The problem has been running out of steam and sometimes letting the series get away.

The Crimson has lost all four Ivy

League series-cappers so far, a trend that Harvard will look to remedy as crunch time nears. The Crimson also lost both series to the Bulldogs and Lions despite the dominant showing out of the gates.

Down 6-0 on Sunday, Harvard still put up a fight against Brown, scoring twice in the seventh on hits by senior second baseman Matt Rothenberg, McColl, and Robinson. The Crimson had runners on second and third in the eighth and got a McColl homer in the ninth, but could only a muster a trade of tallies as it fell by four runs.

“You do all you can at those times in the game,” said McColl, who has a team-leading 32 RBIs on the season. “I think we put pretty good swings on the ball, it’s just that sometimes they fall, and sometimes they don’t—Ben [Skinner] hit one hard that just didn’t get through.”

Junior pitcher Kevin Stone got the start on the bump and pitched six innings, giving up three earned runs and striking out a trio of Brown batsmen.

The loss gave the workhorse righty a 3-3 record and a 7.24 ERA in an upand-down season, well above his career 5.53 ERA. McColl led the way for the Harvard offense, hitting 2-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Robinson went 3-for-3 with an RBI single in the seventh.

Bears senior outfielder Sam Grigo did the most damage, driving in four runs on a three-run bomb in the fifth and a late sac fly to tack on an insurance tally.

HARVARD 8, BROWN 7 In the Saturday nightcap game, the Crimson offense spread the wealth around in a true team effort, as the squad scattered 15 hits up and down the lineup and got the leadoff man aboard in five of its nine innings to keep the pressure on Brown.

Harvard surely needed every bit of its offensive production to take down the visitors, 8-7, despite the Bears’ late rally to knot the game at seven.

The Crimson made sure to send the Harvard fans home happy on a Rothenberg walk-off single with one out in the bottom of the ninth to score junior pinch-runner Trent Bryan from third.

“It’s always tough, but we bounce back really well as a team,” said junior righty Simon Rosenblum-Larson, who got the start and the no-decision.

“I think a big difference between these guys, this year, and years past that I’ve been here, is that we do a good job of bouncing back, competing when it matters.”

After Brown put together two runs the frame prior, sophomore third baseman Hunter Bigge kickstarted the home half of the ninth with a leadoff single.

Freshman shortstop Buddy Mrowka followed through with the fundamentals, laying down a sac bunt to move the pinch-runner over.

Skinner, sporting a .400 on-base percentage this season, a .308 batting average, and a team-leading 12 stolen bases in the leadoff spot, continued to spearhead the Crimson attack, going 2-for-5 and scoring twice.

Spots three through seven in the order followed Skinner by all notching at least one hit. Seven different Harvard hitters posted an RBI. Robinson, Bigge, Mrowka, and Rothenberg all had multi-hit games.

Rosenblum-Larson struck out six in five innings of work, giving up just two earned runs and four hits to lower his season ERA to 3.21. The junior, while being the team’s strikeout leader with 10.57 K/9, also walked five batters on Saturday.

HARVARD 3, BROWN 1 Zavolas is a man who can’t be touched right now.

The senior righty has a 24.0-inning—yes, twenty-four—scoreless streak going on right now, as he has rendered the Penn, Yale, and now Brown offenses useless in his last three outings of 7.0, 9.0, and 8.0 innings, respectively.

Shades of the dominance of last week’s no-hitter at Yale returned to O’Donnell Field, as Zavolas, now 5-1 as a starter, posted a final line of 8.0 IP, four hits, no runs, no walks, and 11 punchouts. The Acton, Mass., native threw 75 of his 101 pitches for strikes.

“Noah puts in the work every day,” said Rosenblum-Larson of his fellow starter. “He’s an unbelievably hard worker, who knows how to pitch, who knows how to focus, and I’m just happy he’s having success.”

Three early runs were all the support that the Crimson pitching staff needed, as McColl’s third-inning RBI single and Mrowka’s two-RBI knock in the fourth stood the test of time.

Mrowka has heated up recently, as the rookie now leads the team with a .326 BA after his 5-for-12 weekend. The Duxbury, Mass., native has also driven in 12 runs on the season.

Sophomore righty Kieran Shaw got the save to close out the game, giving up just a solo shot.

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