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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV NO. 59 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Hiring Williams is an important—but insufficient—step towards equality in the Math Dept. EDITORIAL PAGE 4

Harvard women’s rugby fell to Dartmouth in the Ivy 7s Finals Saturday. SPORTS PAGE 6

Profs to Defend Arrested Student

HMS Protests Police Brutality

By AIDAN F. RYAN

By LUKE W. VROTSOS

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

T wo Harvard Law School professors are now representing the black Harvard undergraduate whose arrest Friday by Cambridge Police Department officers has sparked allegations of police brutality and drawn national headlines. Professors Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Dehlia Umunna, who serve as faculty director and deputy director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, respectively, will represent the College student in court, according to a press release Sullivan and Umunna published Tuesday. In the press release, Sullivan and Umunna wrote that the student is still recovering from injuries he suffered during the arrest. “He is currently recovering from injuries sustained during his encounter with the Cambridge Police Department,” Sullivan and Umunna wrote. “This has been and continues to be a

Students in the Longwood Medical Area held a demonstration against police brutality Tuesday in response to the killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento, Calif. Roughly 100 demonstrators clad in white lab coats lay down on the floor of the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium in silence for the “die-in,” which was organized in coordination with other American medical schools as part of the “White Coats 4 Black Lives” movement. Clark, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Sacramento police in his grandmother’s backyard after officers responded to a vandalism complaint. He was unarmed. Many students and professors draped signs over their bodies, some of which read “respect existence or expect resistance” and “racial profiling kills.” Others held cell phones in the air

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Faust to Lobby for Endowment Tax Repeal By WILLIAM L. WANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

University President Drew G. Faust will meet with two members of Congress this week to discuss a proposed bipartisan repeal of the endowment tax passed in December. The endowment tax passed last December would require private colleges and universities with endowments greater than $500,000 per student to pay a 1.4 percent excise tax on endowment gains. Harvard—among the 35 institutions affected by the tax— would have paid nearly $43 million if the tax were in effect in 2017. Faust will meet with Alabama Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne and Maryland Democratic Congressman John Delaney, who jointly proposed a bill last month seeking to repeal the tax. The bipartisan bill is also garnering support from a higher education lobbying contingency that includes Yale University, according to Bloomberg News. In a statement Tuesday, Faust wrote that 36 percent of Harvard’s an

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie left the HKS Faculty Dining Room after speaking to students at a lotteried off-the-record event Tuesday evening. AWNIT S. MARTA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Curran Emails Address Unionization Questions By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

In the final days before Harvard’s second unionization election, University Director of Labor and Employee Relations Paul R. Curran sent a rapid-fire series of emails to eligible voters highlighting three key concerns often raised by campus anti-unionization students. In three emails to eligible voters—sent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday—Curran discussed union dues, the composition of the proposed bargaining unit, and the impending strike threatened by graduate workers at Columbia. This week’s unionization election is the University’s second vote on the issue; Harvard also held an election in Nov. 2016. The results of that election, which saw a final tally of 1,526 votes cast against against unionization and 1,396 cast in favor, eventually generated two years of legal debates between the University and the union in front of the

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National Labor Relations Board. After three rulings by the regional and national chapters of the board and two separate appeals, the board ultimately invalidated the first election result, mandating a second vote. The vote will take place April 18 and 19; at stake is whether eligible graduate and undergraduate students will earn the right to collectively bargain with Harvard. Curran wrote in two of the three emails that he sent the missives in response to questions students had emailed him. In Sunday’s email, Curran referenced dues that will come with the formation of a union—a longstanding point of contention between pro- and anti-unionization groups on campus. If the April vote falls in favor of unionization, members of the union will eventually be required to pay dues. Curran wrote in his email that the UAW requires dues of at minimum 1.44 percent from its membership, adding that approximately 60 percent

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nual budget is dependent on endowment income, including the College’s financial aid program, which allows students from families earning less than $65,000 to attend the college tuition-free. Faust wrote that she will be “encouraging elected officials to undo this damaging and unprecedented tax” this week. “Endowments are a crucial way in which colleges and universities fund financial aid that expands affordability and access, groundbreaking research that leads to cures and scientific discovery, and campus development projects that create jobs and economic growth locally, among other things,” she wrote. In February, business experts said the effect of the endowment tax will remain unclear until the Internal Revenue Service irons out the the details of the law, like how to measure endowment assets or define endowment gains. Faust has repeatedly criticized the endowment tax in recent months. When Congressional Republicans

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HKS Voices Concerns to Diversity Dean By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Kennedy School students and professors expressed their concerns about the lack of minority representation at the school at a town hall with the school’s recently hired diversity dean Tuesday. The Kennedy School hired Robbin Chapman as its new Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging per the recommendation of a 2017 report by the Kennedy School’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. The report, which detailed low percentages of underrepresented minorities at the school, said this new position would “monitor the progress of diversity and inclusion activities across the school.” Chapman’s first day at the Kennedy School was last week. Students

Signs posted on the walls of the Harvard Kennedy School welcoming the school’s new diversity dean, Robbin Chapman. JACQUELINE S. CHEA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Yale Students Protest the Student Income Contribution Requirement Twenty-seven Yale students participated in a twohour sit-in at the school’s financial aid office Sunday to protest the university’s student income contribution policy. According to Yale Daily News, the students— members of the organization Students United Now— refused to leave the building even after it closed, leading the Yale Police Department to issue the students citations for trespassing. According to SUN, the student contribution, approximately $5,950 a year, further segregates low-income students from the rest of the community by forcing them to take on term-time jobs to pay for the contribution.

Hate Crime Charge Dropped for Cornell Student The Cornell Sun reported Tuesday that sophomore John Greenwood, previously charged with a hate crime, received a plea deal sentencing him to 75 hours of community service. Greenwood was involved in a Sept. incident in which another Cornell student Solomon Shewit was subjected to racial slurs and physical attacks. Greenwood pled guilty to disorderly conduct, after which the district attorney dropped the misdemeanor charges against him. The altercation prompted hundreds of students to protest and university president Martha E. Pollack to form a task force to look at racism and intolerance on the campus.

Princeton’s Cost of Attendance Increased for 2018-19 School Year

HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Only one more week of classes! We can make it through seven days. Events: From Cambridge to the Universe: Explorations of Locally Designed Dr. Henry “Trae” Winter III is an astrophysicist working for the Smithsonian Astrophysical

Observatory, and will be talking in the Cabot Science Library at 2 p.m. about how the Center for Astrophysics is partnering with NASA to get to the Sun, search for life around distant planets, and explore the reaches of our universe. This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

is hosting a storytelling open mic night—tell your true story to the audience for just five minutes, no judgment. Head over to Room 123 in Gund Hall to participate. Claire J. Hoffman Crimson Staff Writer

Real Talk: A Night of Storytelling The GSD’s African American Union

According to Princeton’s Office of Communications, the attendance costs and financial aid rose 3.9 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively. The cost of attendance increased 4.4 percent for the 2017-18 school year and 4.3 percent for the 2016-17 school year. Financial aid has followed a similar upward trend, increasing by 8.7 percent for the 2017-18 school year and 6.6 percent for the 2016-17 school year. Harvard students will also face an increase in the cost of attendance of 3 percent— or $1,971—from last year, bringing the total cost to $67,580.

IN THE REAL WORLD Barbara Bush, Former First Lady, Dies at 92 Barbara Bush, the wife of George Bush, died Tuesday evening at her home in Houston. In January, the Bushes celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary, making them the longest married presidential couple. Mrs. Bush will be remembered as the wife and mother to two presidents, as well as a strong advocate for literacy in America. Mike Pompeo Met With Kim Jong Un Over Easter Weekend CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea over Easter as an envoy for President Trump. Presumably, the meeting was to increase diplomatic relations with North Korea. The CIA and the White House both declined to comment about the visit. The Kim Wall Murder Trial: The Case Against Peter Madsen The New Yorker breaks down the case against inventor Peter Madsen, who is accused of the torture and murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Wall, who was 30 years old, was a renowned international journalist working on the Swedish-Danish “space race”; Madsen hoped to travel to space in a DIY spaceship. Madsen’s jarring court testimony only adds to the horror of the entire investigation.

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HMS Students Organize Die-In POLICE FROM PAGE 1 to symbolize the cell phone that Clark was holding when he was shot by police. As sunlight streamed in from the atrium’s ceiling, the demonstrators remained lying down for 20 minutes, one minute each for the 20 rounds fired at Clark. Students and professors gazed down at the protest and snapped pictures from the balconies above. Several Medical School faculty and administrators, including Dean George Q. Daley, joined in the protest. Daley lay down in the middle of the crowd with a sign that read “Harvard White Coats 4 Black Lives” draped across his body. Before the students’ die-in began, audience members circled around the atrium to listen to Ayotomiwa “Tomi” Ojo, a first-year medical student, who opened the event. “The White House has claimed that this is a local issue,” said Ojo, referring to statements made by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Today I stand before you to emphasize that this is not just a local issue. This event did not happen in isolation.” Though the Longwood protest was planned well in advance and was specifically in response to Clark’s death, it comes just days after the Cambridge Police Department forcibly arrested a black undergraduate—an incident which has sparked conversations about police brutality at Harvard.In her speech, Ojo mentioned the arrest, saying the student was “a victim of excessive police force.” CPD officers arrested the student Friday after responding to several calls about the undergraduate, who was standing naked at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Waterhouse St. A later police report states that three CPD

officers and one Transit Police Department officer tackled the student after he made aggressive moves toward law enforcement. But eyewitnesses, including members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, have stated the officers acted “without provocation.” A video of the incident later published by the New York Times and other outlets shows the student standing still surrounded by four officers while the officers talk to him. The student turns around and takes two steps towards one officer before stepping back and raising his arms to his chest. 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 attempt to unpin the student’s arms and handcuff him, according to the CPD police report. “When the events on Friday happened, it brought it a lot closer to home,” organizer Nambi J. Ndugga said in an interview after the event. She added that attending an elite institution does not provide “protection” against racism and other forms of discrimination.In her speech, Ojo also called for required implicit-bias training for new police officers and increased resources to reduce police brutality. Diana Ha, a School of Public Health student and University of California Davis medical student, spoke to the crowd after the designated 20 minutes when participants lay on the floor had elapsed.“What we need is not just events like this, but real, institutional change,” she said. David Hemenway, a professor at the School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, then addressed the audience. He discussed the higher rates of

gun deaths in the United States than in other developed countries.“Guns really matter,” he said. “Guns in the United States destroy communities.” Several other students from the Medical School and School of Public Health also spoke, some with prepared speeches and others extemporaneously.Finally, Daley took the microphone, telling the demonstrators he did not originally plan to speak, but decided to do so while he was lying on the floor. “That 20 minutes was a welcome respite for me to be thinking about this issue,” he said. “Looking at all of you, I feel hopeful, I feel very hopeful for the future.” He called on students to research implicit biases, especially in healthcare, in order to find ways to reduce their effects.“Please make Harvard proud. You have made me very, very proud today,” he said. Ndugga said demonstrators wanted to leverage the prestige of their institution and career to compel change.“Our main job is to go out and to serve our communities. We can’t do that if we don’t understand what they’re going through and how implicit racism and other forms of discrimination affect their health and well-being,” she said. White Coats 4 Black Lives—a national organization of medical students that demonstrates against racism in policing—released a petition in response to Clark’s death. It calls for policies from the healthcare community “that will put a stop to this national crisis.” It claims almost 400 signatories, including students from the medical schools at Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Tufts. This die-in was not the first protest of its kind at the Medical School. In December 2014, students held a “die-in” in the same location to protest police officers’ use of lethal force.

Faust to Lobby Congress Against Tax FAUST FROM PAGE 1 passed the law in December, Faust wrote that she was “deeply concerned” about the “unprecedented” tax. Faust said in a February interview

the bill would have a “pretty significant” impact on the University’s endeavors. In March, Faust wrote a letter with 48 other higher education leaders expressing “deep objections” to the endowment tax and urging leaders in

Congress to “repeal or amend” the tax. Faust is on her way out of office; she will step down as president in June. Staff writer William L. Wang can be reached at william. wang@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @

Columbia Students Vote to Support Strike By MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY and IDIL TUYSUZOGLU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Columbia’s graduate student union voted to authorize a strike as a response to the university’s refusal to collectively bargain with students. Unless the university meets their demands, student teaching and research assistants will begin striking next week. The development comes after the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Automobile Workers became a certified union in Dec. 2017. A year prior, in a Dec. 2016 election at Columbia, 72 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the union. Union members will begin striking on April 24 and continue through the end of classes on April 30, according to GWC-UAW organizer Olga Brudastova.Harvard will hold its own unionization election Wednesday and Thursday to determine whether Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers can collectively bargain over wages and benefits. The question of what a strike would look like on Harvard’s campus has been a point of contention in the run-up. Sam S. Klug, a History PhD student and union organizer, said Columbia’s strike authorization was a “last resort” action, maintaining that most instances of bargaining do not end in strike.“It’s absolutely an extreme case. Harvard administrators have said on multiple occasions that they will bargain in good faith if a union is formed here, and I would hope that they’re as good as their word,” Klug said. “Columbia’s graduate students— again, in a considered action that 93 percent voted to support–have taken this only after all of their other channels were exhausted,” he added.Support for the strike was “overwhelming,” according to the union’s website, with 1,832 votes cast in favor of authorization and 136 against. Brudastova wrote in an email that the decision for the strike came after many other movements in which the graduate students appealed to the university to collectively bargain with stu

dents. “Ever since the NLRB election, we have been organizing to put pressure on Columbia’s administration in less disruptive ways: we held rallies, a workers’ rights forum, we did outreach to other members of Columbia community and elected leaders,” Brudastova wrote. “We asked for many meetings, and they had many, many chances to respect the results of our democratic vote and start bargaining.” “We see from our conversations on

They had many, many chances to respect the results of our democratic vote and start bargining. Olga Brudastova

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the ground that people are ready to continue with the strike if the university keeps disrespecting us as workers” added Brudastova. Columbia announced that administrators would not bargain with GWCUAW in February. In an email to union representatives, Columbia University Provost John H. Coatsworth wrote that introducing a graduate student union may impede the university’s ability to pursue their “core mission” to provide graduate students with the resources to successfully complete their academic programs.“This fundamental legal question is one that should be decided by the courts; only that outcome will bring clarity and stability to the operations of universities and colleges in the United States,” Coatsworth wrote. Columbia University spokespeople declined to further comment.

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PBHA, Students Create HLS Profs Defend Undergrad New Service Program HLS FROM PAGE 1

By SIMONE C. CHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Phillips Brooks House staff members and College students affiliated with a variety of campus public service organizations are working together to create a new public service initiative. The goal of the new program, dubbed the “Seamless Service Pathways Process,” is to make public service options more transparent to students, as well as to remove barriers that prevent low-income students from participating. The initiative is funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and seeks to strengthen relations between programs hosted by the Center for Public Interest Careers, the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship, the Phillips Brooks House Association, and Public Service Network. One of the new program’s guiding principles is to bring public service to the forefront of the College experience, Assistant Dean of Student Life

“The end goal is for more students who want to be aware of and be able to take advantage of service experiences...” Maria J. Dominguez Gray PHBA Executive Director

for Public Service Gene A. Corbin said. “Could we develop one loud voice that would move public service from the margins to the center of what it means to be a Harvard College student?” Corbin said. Discussions which ultimately led to the Seamless Service Pathways Process began in the summer of 2016, when Phillips Brooks House leaders met with Priscilla Chan ’07 to discuss funding for programs, Maria J. Dominguez Gray, the executive director of PBHA, said. “[Chan] was like, ‘How does this all fit together?’ So it was a good opportunity to think,” Dominguez Gray said. “There was a great deal of discussion around the public service ecosystem at the College, and how the many terrific opportunities that are available to students fit together to repre-

sent pathways for students to be lifelong citizens and citizen-leaders,” Corbin said. Transparency was also a concern, Dominguez Gray said. “The end goal is for more students who want to be aware of and be able to take advantage of service experiences during their undergraduate and postgrad years,” she said. In addition to several Phillips Brooks House staff members, 19 student representatives from various PBHA programs, the Institute of Politics, and the Undergraduate Council sit on the steering committee for the new initiative, which began meeting at the start of the 2017-18 school year. “We wanted it to have a strong student voice,” Corbin said. Steering committee member Saim Raza ’19 said students are involved in every part of the process, from identifying shared core values between programs to figuring out ways to make service experiences more accessible. “When Dean Khurana talks about being a citizen and a citizen-leader, we’re trying to give some teeth and give some understanding to what that means to every Harvard College student,” Raza said. Connie C. Cheng ’18, who also serves on the steering committee, said many of the students involved in the initiative had participated in multiple public service programs across the separate offices. “The fact that there are organic overlaps in all of our experiences really testifies to the importance of formally defining these relationships and interconnections between the offices,” Cheng said. “My own experiences managed to cross all of these places,” she added. “So making sure that we’re setting up a structure so that future generations of students have it laid out for them and have all the barriers removed…is super rewarding.” Corbin said discussions with the FAS Standing Committee for Public Service about potentially combining “a range of experiences that would lead to some sort of citation or certification” were in early stages. Though Corbin will step down from his position at the end of this semester, he said work on this initiative will continue. “The Seamless Service Pathways Process has been a terrific collaboration between student leaders and staff representing all the public service offices at Harvard College,” Corbin wrote in an emailed statement Tuesday. “This important work will continue without me, and I will be excited to hear about the results and the impact on the future of public service at Harvard College.”

“This has been and continues to be a trying ordeal for [the student] and for his family.” Before the student’s arrest Friday, the undergraduate and four members of local law enforcement—including three CPD officers and one Transit Police Department officer—engaged in a physical confrontation. The officers tackled the student, who was naked and likely under the influence of narcotics, to the ground. A later CPD police report states the student clenched his fists and began making aggressive moves toward the officers, prompting them to tackle the undergraduate. But eyewitnesses of the incident— including members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association—have stated that CPD’s version of events is incorrect and have stated the officers acted “without provocation.” 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 for 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 at-

tempt to unpin the student’s arms and handcuff him, according to the CPD police report. BLSA has called the incident an instance of police brutality, and Cambridge Mayor Marc C. McGovern and Harvard University President Drew G. Faust later called the incident “disturbing.” In the days following the arrest, hundreds of Harvard students gathered across campus to discuss the incident, reflect, and plan a response. Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Jr. said at a press conference Monday he “absolutely” supports the officers involved in the arrest. CPD plans to conduct an internal review of the arrest per CPD policy, which stipulates reviews must take place following any use of force. Sullivan and Umunna wrote in their press release that, while there has been significant public interest around the arrest, they do not intend to “litigate” through the media. Since the student’s arrest Friday, national publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post have published articles describing the incident and the backlash. “Although there has been significant extrajudicial commentary on [the student’s] case, we do not intend to litigate these matters in the media,” Sullivan and Umunna wrote. “As the public is aware, several students captured the incident on their cell phones.” “The video speaks for itself,” Sulli-

van and Umunna added. The statement goes on to say that Sullivan and Umunna’s main focus is the student’s “health and well-being” and that the two lawyers will not comment further until they feel it is “necessary.” “We hope that the public will respect his privacy and afford him time and space to heal. We will not have further comment until such time as necessary,” Sullivan and Umunna wrote. Sullivan has a history of defending high-profile individuals facing legal charges. In 2016, he defended former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in his double murder trial. Sullivan has also defended the family of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male who was shot in Ferguson, MO in 2014. Brown’s shooting ignited significant unrest in Ferguson. Asked to discuss her decision to represent the College student, Umunna wrote in an email that she could not discuss the situation further and instead provided a copy of the press release. “Unfortunately I am unable to make further comments beyond the press release sent out yesterday,” Umunna wrote. Sullivan also responded to requests for comment with a copy of the press release. Staff writer Aidan F. Ryan can be reached at aidan. ryan@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @ AidanRyanNH.

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The Perils of Technocratism at the Kennedy School

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Not Yet an Equals Sign The appointment of Professor Williams as a tenured mathematics professor is an important - but insufficient - step towards equality in the Math Department

he Harvard Math Department recently announced that it would be hiring Lauren K. Williams ’00 as a senior professor, marking only the second time in its history that a woman has been granted tenure status. We have previously opined on the need for the Harvard Math Department to recruit a more diverse range of professors, and are happy to see that the department has succeeded in bringing such an impressive and gifted scholar to Cambridge. Yet we are simultaneously disappointed at how groundbreaking this appointment is—it should not be so revolutionary for a woman to earn a tenured faculty position in Harvard’s Math Department. From elementary school onwards, studies have shown that women face systemic barriers to success in mathematics. Cultural attitudes often tell women that they are not cut out for the field, causing girls to lose confidence and leave higher-level mathematics classes. This achievement gap is evident in our own community, where Math 55 enrollees at times are 100% male and women are asked to leave the Math Common Room because they don’t look like mathematics concentrators. Appointing women to more teaching and research positions in the department is essential to combatting this culture. Female and non-binary students deserve to have role models that share their identities and experiences and that can mentor them through a field still heavily dominated by male voices. Moreover, the important work of female academics such as Williams, who has studied topics such as cluster algebras, deserve the equal recognition and continued support that is afforded to so

many male faculty members. We would like to underscore the value that Williams brings to our institution as an academic, not just as a woman. We are deeply concerned at the potential for her appointment to be tokenized and for her accomplishments to be overshadowed or ignored due to her gender. Williams should serve as an example of how women are equally capable of achieving great things in mathematics if provided with the proper support and if

It should not be so revolutionary for a woman to earn a tenured faculty position in mathematics at the University. they are given equal chances to prove themselves. Attention first ought to be paid to her highly impressive resume and accomplishments. Past reports indicate that minority faculty members often must take on the burden of serving as advocates and mentors for students who share their identity—an unfair additional expectation placed on their already overworked shoulders. So while we hope that Williams will serve as an example, role model, and perhaps an advocate and mentor while at Harvard, it would be incredibly inappropriate for the University to expect that these are all roles she is obligated to assume. We expect Williams to be given the freedom to navigate her own path as a newly tenured faculty member and decide which roles, if any, she wants to take on beyond mathematical teaching and research.

By MICHAEL R. GALANT

s this year’s accepted students weigh the decision to commit to a the Kennedy School education, they may recall the essay question that they answered in their application: “The Harvard Kennedy School motto, echoing the President for whom the School is named, is ‘Ask what you can do.’ Please share with the Admissions Committee your plans to create positive change through your public leadership and service.” We enter the Kennedy School asking what we can do to create positive change. We expect our education here to help. A piece of advice from a soon-to-be graduate: It won’t. The Kennedy School curriculum is designed to produce elite technocrats. If you are interested in effecting meaningful change in pursuit of a better society, the Kennedy School is not for you. The Kennedy School curriculum is based on a model of politics that occurs within the bounds of existing power relations. Policymaking, we learn, is the art of accepting the status quo and finding “solutions” within it. There is no critical examination of the systems that produce the problems in the first place and certainly no attempt to change them. Our job is to design top-down, incremental solutions that may provide some benefit at the margins. Like the fish that doesn’t know what water is, the underlying model of politics at the Kennedy School is so ubiquitous that it is difficult to spot. When we plan to heal our cities through artificial intelligence and Google partnerships; When we speak of race and gender only in terms of diversity hiring and representation at the top; When we find all of our development answers in randomized controlled trials and social entrepreneurship; When we exalt “big data” as the ultimate solution for local governments; When we try to nudge our way to healthier living; In short, whenever we precondition policies on what is acceptable to those who already hold power, we embody the technocratic mindset. Innovation, data, and efficiency aren’t necessarily bad. The problem at the Kennedy School, and wherever technocratism predominates, is that it becomes perceived as the only legitimate solution, crowding out critical assessments of the deeper causes of problems and the potential for meaningful shifts in power. Why fight for redistribution when we can solve poverty with an app? While marketing itself as apolitical, technocratism becomes guardian of the status quo. Unsurprisingly, a wealthy, powerful school trains alumni to serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful. In an MPP student’s first year, more than a quarter of all required coursework is reserved for statistics. The same for economics. Two requirements, on top of this, are dedicated to professional and managerial skills. And the MPP is considered less technical. Of the MPA/ID’s requirement-heavy curriculum, almost every class is economics or statistics. In the spring policy analysis course, the MPP’s foundational training for the flagship skill of “policy analysis,” students are explicitly taught to design solutions that appeal to the existing arrangement of stakeholder power. Of the case studies carefully selected as aspirational models when I took the course, one sought solutions to climate change through disclosure of financial risks to investors. Another, an admittedly valuable set of voluntary guidelines on businesses and human rights, was accompanied by a lecture that displayed deep scorn not for rights-abusing businesses, but for the human rights activists who dared push for binding regulations. A third advocated determining rainforest land use through quantification of economic potential. When asked whether quantification would favor more powerful economic interests over the social and cultural needs of indigenous groups, the lecturer dismissed the question: Why would it? Across all Kennedy School master’s programs, there is not a single required course, and very few on offer at all, that focus on contemporary, critical social perspectives: anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, postdevelopment theory, critical race theory, or queer theory. Rarer still are courses designed to prepare students to act on these critiques in pursuit of meaningful shifts in power. The few exceptions—electives with Muhammad, Ganz, Johnson, and Sikkink, come to mind—prove that it is possible to incorporate critical perspectives into our coursework. The Kennedy School simply chooses not to. Some would counter that, while critical perspectives are valuable, they’re not what students need for professional success. But such a response is premised on the same problem. A critical understanding of society should be considered an essential part of the professional training of those destined to have influence in it. Excluding such critical discussions comes with insidious consequences. Others may argue that students have already had a chance to study these topics in undergrad. Yet the Kennedy School offers plenty of introductory courses on subjects we’ve already had an opportunity to take. And avoiding repetition of undergraduate courses hasn’t stopped the school from requiring economics or statistics. In any case, I doubt that everyone has had extensive experience with these ideas. I certainly haven’t. That’s why I came here—hoping for some technocratic skills, yes, but also desiring a deeper understanding of the society I may one day be in a position to change and the tools to truly change it. I realize now that I won’t find what I’m looking for. No curriculum is neutral. Of the entire body of human knowledge, administrators must select only a few semesters worth of courses that they believe will be most valuable to their students. At the Kennedy School, they choose sterile, myopic, and ultimately reactionary technocratism. To prospective students deciding whether or not the Kennedy School is right for you: Come if you’d like. But if you’re hoping to spend your life confronting powerful interests to make meaningful change, your fight may have to start here first.

We urge the Math Department to continue taking on the necessary burden of supporting its female students and building a culture where female affiliates feel valued. This requires providing appropriate diversity training to discuss scenarios in which non-male students may feel unwelcome. We also support its two relatively new programs focused on hiring more women for teaching roles ranging from tenured professor to Teaching Fellow. Indeed, there is not a contradiction between valuing female scholars for their academic work and specifically targeting them in recruitment efforts. The evidence suggests that women face unique challenges in gaining recognition for their work, and ensuring that this work is given equal consideration is quite different from selecting candidates solely on the basis of their gender—if anything, the latter scenario historically has benefitted men more than women. We eagerly look forward to welcoming Williams to our community and classrooms. Her experience and innovation in mathematics should serve as an example to students of all backgrounds. Mathematics, after all, has been touted as the universal language, uniting people of disparate backgrounds and life experiences. Thus, we hope that one day the Math Department at Harvard embodies the subject matter it instructs. This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impartiality of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on similar topics.

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ast Friday night, a black Harvard College student was arrested after a physical confrontation with law enforcement. In the hours that followed, the Cambridge Police Department announced it would conduct an “internal review” of the events that transpired, as is their policy. This may seem like a good first step, but in light of the seriousness of the incident, which the Harvard Black Law Students Association has described as police brutality, it is worth observing how the department has previously handled similar cases. The police department has argued that the violence perpetrated by their officers Friday night was necessary. This was also their tactic barely more than a year ago in November 2016, when a CPD officer used pepper spray on a crowd of hundreds of students at the CambridgeSide Galleria to see the rapper Desiigner and Celtics player Jaylen Brown. A statement from the department reported that the event had turned chaotic and that the spray was “used by police to manage and disperse the crowd inside the mall after the crowds grew more aggressive.” However, a volunteer working at the event disputed this account, stating “[t] here was no mayhem before that. [An officer] sprayed, and it sprayed everybody in front of her. Everybody in front of her just scattered.” But the department’s justification implied its officers had something to fear from the crowd, which included many young Cambridge residents of color. Accounts of the event indicated that the opposite was true; the only reported injuries requiring medical care were the result of pepper spray. Even then, the department admitted no wrongdoing in the use of non-lethal force on members of the crowd. And people shook their heads in disappointment, and nothing meaningful seemed to change. The department could continue to portray people who experience and witness the excessive use of force as criminals. This was their tactic 18 months ago, when they pursued charges against 20-year-old Cleon A. Hodge after an altercation with plainclothes CPD officer Thomas Ahern.

In an eerie similarity to Friday’s incident, Ahern wrote in his police report that Hodge’s “hands were clenched into fists ... which I interpreted as a pre-assault cue.” Ahern is seen on video of the incident telling the person filming the scene, “Get away from me. You’re going to be under arrest in two seconds.” The department initially chose to pursue assault and battery charges against this witness, even though the only violent physical contact shown on the video between the two appears to be Ahern knocking the camera away. The department admitted no wrongdoing in the altercation or the subversion of attempts to document it, although it eventually dropped all charges; the internal investigation considered Ahern’s actions “consistent with his duty obligations.” And people shook their heads in disappointment, and nothing meaningful seemed to change. Similarly, the department could restrict relevant information on their use of force from the public. This was their tactic three years ago, when they initially refused a public records request to view their use of force policy before eventually releasing it after public pressure. While neighboring cities released similar policies without incident, a CPD spokesperson argued that “officers following these policies and procedures may also be placed at risk when engaging dangerous suspects” and that public records laws protected them from the obligation to release the document, a claim disputed by First Amendment advocates. Under threat of appeal, the department eventually released the full text of the policy, with a statement that concluded, “[b]y listening, engaging and integrating with the community, we have established meaningful relationships and trust with the citizens of Cambridge. To ensure that continues, we encourage ongoing dialogue while we continue to proudly protect and serve this great, safe city.” This statement reveals a fundamental disconnection between the CPD and many of the communities that it serves. “[L]istening, engaging, and integrating” is an essential first step for community policing. Indeed, many of the department’s programs deserve credit in this regard, from Homeless Outreach officers, who connect people experiencing homelessness in Cambridge to needed resources, to Youth Resource Officers, who work to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in Cambridge. But no number

of community resource initiatives can build meaningful trust when the basis of that trust is shredded by police violence and the regular use of excessive force. A statement from Mayor Marc C. McGovern on the incident Friday stated that “[p]olicing in Cambridge is far ahead of many communities in the country, and yet we can always strive to do better.” The multiple incidents we have seen in the past decade challenge this statement, and even if it is true, it is not the appropriate rubric to measure where the City stands on this issue when there are sky-high rates of police violence nationwide and substantial racial disparities in them. The playbook for Cambridge’s response to Friday’s events will be predictable because Cambridge police have used excessive force on people of color before. It is a threat to the safety of many people who live, work, study, and find entertainment in this city. This pattern was not interrupted when President Barack Obama stated that Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” in the mistaken arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates on his own doorstep in 2008, or in the aftermath of any of the other incidents in the decade since. If the City hopes to end the systemic use of force against individuals of color, it’s increasingly clear that automatic internal reviews won’t be enough, regardless of what this one finds. And if people who live in Cambridge, whether for four years or a lifetime, want to move beyond disappointment and toward change, we need to demand meaningful action from our local government. Will H. MacArthur ’20 is a Social Studies concentrator living in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.

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UC Leaders Urge Chris Christie Discusses Opioids Voting Participation By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ and LUKE W. VROTSOS CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

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Declining to take a side on student unionization, Undergraduate Council President Catherine L. Zhang ’19 urged eligible students to “go out and vote” in an election that will decide whether over 4,000 graduate and undergraduate teaching and research assistants gain the ability to collectively bargain with the University. The two-day election, which begins Wednesday, may mark the end of a cumbersome, protracted legal battle on the issue of whether students may unionize. The process has seen a back-and-forth of appeals between the University and Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers ever since a November 2016 election, in which students narrowly voted down a bid for unionization. After a lengthy legal dispute, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the eligible voter list generated by the University did not meet the agency’s requirements and mandated another election. “Hopefully, people will turn out to the polls and we definitely encourage them to do so,” Zhang said. Despite these appeals to prospective voters, Zhang and vice president Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 refused to take a position on the unionization debate. “As far as the Council goes right now, there’s not any initiative to take any specific side as a Council,” Boucher said. “But at the end of the day, I think one thing we’re all in agreement on is that we want a fair election and we want people to be informed.” Zhang and Boucher also addressed the ongoing legal dispute over student admissions documents, the latest clash in an ongoing lawsuit brought by Students for Fair Admissions—an anti-affirmative action group — against the University. On April 10, Judge Allison D. Bur

roughs of the U.S. District Court in Boston ruled that a small, redacted portion of more than 90,000 pages of admissions documents submitted by the University—including admissions files and internal correspondence between admissions officers—would soon be released to the public. “It would seem problematic if it became public record, all of what presumably are very personal statements and personal pieces of information that students and applicants to the College put forward in their applications,” Boucher said. “I think it’s fair to say that our role is to serve the students and we want to represent the students’ best interests.” The duo would not comment on the merits of the lawsuit, though, saying only that “diversity” is something the University should strive for. “I think this lawsuit is nuanced and complicated and I don’t know that we’re qualified to say anything on the lawsuit,” Boucher said. “But we recognize the values that come from a diverse community.” Zhang also said she and Boucher have spoken to University president-elect Lawrence S. Bacow in an informal capacity and look forward to working with him this fall. “I think he’s a very honest and genuine person,” Zhang said. “He’s someone...who does really put the undergraduate experience at the forefront.” Boucher echoed Zhang’s praise for Bacow, saying he is someone who “cares about students.” Boucher added that he appreciated the work President Drew G. Faust has done during her tenure. “It’s been a pleasure working with President Faust,” Boucher said. “It’s sad to see her go, but we’re excited for the opportunities that will come with President Bacow coming in. Staff writer Jonah S. Berger can be reached at jonah. berger@thecrimson.com.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited the Institute of Politics Tuesday for a conversation about policy responses to the opioid crisis in America. Ed Gillespie, a current IOP resident fellow, hosted Christie for an off-therecord study group. The lotteried event, held in the FDR room at the IOP, was open to a select group of participants. Christie also attended a Director’s Dinner after the study group with IOP Director Mark D. Gearan ’78. “Audiences at both of these sessions will be composed of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, IOP Fellows and staff, local Republicans, and friends of the IOP,” Kennedy School spokesperson Thoko Moyo wrote in email Tuesday before the events. Christie served as New Jersey Gov

ernor from 2010 to 2018. In June 2015, he announced his candidacy for president but dropped out of the race by Feb. 2016 after falling short in the Republican New Hampshire primary. Christie chairs President Donald Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. During his time as New Jersey governor, he rolled out plans to provide $200 million in additional funding to addressing the epidemic. At the study group, Gillespie moderated a conversation with the former governor, discussing what “the current status on the opioid epidemic is” and solutions that state and federal governments can implement, according to the event description on Facebook. After the discussion, about 40 minutes were allotted for student questions to Christie. Several attendees declined to comment on the details of the conversation. Christie is among several Republicans who have visited the Institute of Politics in the past few weeks. Last

week, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke at a closeddoor study group hosted by current resident IOP fellow Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush. Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. E mendorf recently said in an interview that HKS would benefit from having “more prominent conservative voices.” “I do think about how to present a full range of views at the Kennedy School and make sure that people who don’t agree are talking about those disagreements and not just ducking each other,” Elmendorf said. Tuesday’s event was the last study group held by Ed Gillespie this semester. Christie’s event comes as Harvard faculty and students have increasingly focused on policy solutions to the opioid epidemic. Last week, a panel of five former governors spoke about state level responses to the crisis at an event hosted by the School of Public Health.

CAMHS Clinician to Manage Logistics By AHAB CHOPRA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Counseling and Mental Health Services at Harvard University Health Services recently appointed a clinician dedicated to helping counselors schedule sessions with students in an effort to expedite treatment. The clinician, Brandin Dear, already worked for CAMHS and just recently took on this new role. CAMHS Chief Barbara Lewis said she hoped the new internal coordinator position will allow CAMHS to increase the number of weekly counseling sessions for students it can provide. “He’s meeting with individual clinicians as a way to try to help them manage so that their schedules are freed up to actually work with students in a more ongoing way,” Lewis

said. The move comes after CAMHS launched a new system this semester to reduce the wait times for students requesting therapy appointments. Before the new system, CAMHS had trouble keeping up with the high volume of requests. Currently CAMHS is trying to manage clinician schedules more effectively so that students who have had a 30-minute session can continue working with the same therapist in subsequent sessions. “The clinicians were finding it was best to take in the student they saw for 30 minutes to their own caseload and continue to work with the student,” Lewis said. To this end, Dear will work as an internal coordinator. His role will involve attending team

meetings and meeting with clinicians to optimize their schedules. The goal of this new position is to help clinicians see students and meet their needs in a more organized fashion. Lewis said her hope was that students would be better helped by this update. “Sometimes students come in and they may be seen infrequently or they may have multiple appointments that they haven’t come for” Lewis said. “Brandin is really trying to help the clinicians and the service be able to see students, meet their needs and then, if they’re finished, let them finish so other students can come in. Staff writer Ahab Chopra can be reached at ahab. chopra@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @ ahab_chopra.

Curran Answers Vote HKS Students and Faculty Raise Questions in Emails Concerns to New Diversity Dean CURRAN FROM PAGE 1 of dues and fees collected go directly to the international UAW, not to local Harvard students. Union organizer Andrew B. Donnelly criticized Curran’s comments in an email, writing that, “We do not pay our dues of 1.44 percent until after we have democratically approved a contract.” Curran’s second email, sent Monday, referenced the possible Columbia strike. Members of Against HGSU-UAW, a Facebook group for anti-union students, in recent days wrote social media posts calling the Columbia strike “unfair” and arguing that a bargaining unit would be unrepresentative of all students. Columbia’s graduate student union voted 1,832 to 136 in favor of a strike on

At Harvard, the United Auto Workers decided to try to represent a unit that includes undergraduates and graduate students from 11 schools and over 50 different degree programs. Paul R. Curran

University Director of Labor and Employee Relations Saturday. The vote followed weeks of attempts by the union to force Columbia administrators to begin bargaining, including protests and threats of legal action. If University officials do not respond to the bargaining request by April 24, a large number of Columbia’s roughly 4,000 graduate students say they will stop teaching and grading papers. Columbia’s union will not require all members to participate in the strike. In his Monday email, Curran wrote that Columbia’s strike would affect its bargaining unit members regardless of their position on unionization. “This strike potentially affects all members of the bargaining unit at Columbia, including those who did not vote to approve a strike or sign union

support cards,” he wrote. HGSU-UAW organizer Sam S. Klug said Curran’s email about the Columbia union’s strike “does not acknowledge” all relevant information. “His email today, again, does not acknowledge the fact that Columbia’s administration is breaking the law by refusing to bargain,” Klug said. “[It] does not acknowledge the fact that 93 percent of the people who participated in the vote voted to authorize this strike.” “The email also does not acknowledge all of the many steps that were taken before the strike that show that this is a last resort action,” Klug added. Curran’s final email, sent Tuesday, responded directly to a question he wrote a student had asked about the makeup of Harvard’s proposed union. Inclusion in a bargaining unit is usually determined by the group petitioning for representation. Harvard’s proposed union includes graduate and undergraduate teaching and research assistants. Curran noted that the defined unit aims to represent a wide variety of programs across the University. “At Harvard, the United Auto Workers decided to try to represent a unit that includes undergraduate and graduate students from 11 schools and over 60 different degree programs—from PhD students serving as full-time research assistants in labs to undergraduate course assistants and hourly graduate student researchers,” he wrote. Donnelly wrote in an email Tuesday that he thinks Curran’s three emails are troubling. “Students all around this campus are having a robust discussion about whether we want a union,” Donnelly wrote. “For Paul Curran to intrude on this conversation with these short, misinformed, fear-mongering emails is startlingly inappropriate.” Responding to HGSU-UAW organizers, University spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven wrote that the issue of unionization will have far-reaching effects on both current and future students. “The issues surrounding unionization and whether students wish to be represented by the United Auto Workers are important and consequential for current students and for those who will come to Harvard in the future, yet will not have the opportunity to vote,” she wrote. “The University encourages eligible students to investigate both sides of this important issue and above all go to the polls and vote on April 18 and 19.” Staff writer Shera S. Avi-Yonah can be reached at shera. avi-yonah@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter at @ saviyonah. Staff writer Molly C. McCafferty can be reached at molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com. Twitter at @mollmccaff.

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HKS FROM PAGE 1 welcomed Chapman at a reception Monday which Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf and Academic Dean Archon Fung—who chaired the task force—attended. The following day, approximately 50 students crowded into a conference room at the school for the town hall hosted by the HKS student government. During the town hall, students voiced their concerns to Chapman, who took notes, offered comments, and asked questions throughout the meeting.President of the Kennedy School Student Government Gessika M. Innocent said the town hall was open to all students. “We have decided to invite Robbin to give her an opportunity to hear about what KSSG works on as well as for students to have an intimate conversation with her,” Innocent wrote in an email Monday. Certain students were given a few minutes each to express their specific requests and thoughts about the state of diversity and inclusion at the school. Attendees raised concerns ranging from the lack of ethnic and gender diversity in the faculty to insufficient childcare to a need for compensation of students who work on these issues at

the school. Dena H. Elkhatib, a Master in Public Administration student and the cochair of the school’s Diversity Committee, said their presentation to Chapman at the meeting outlined issues which many students face and are speaking out about. “They are cultural changes that we would like to see the school work on and fix going forward,” Elkhatib said. Students also presented the new diversity dean with an open letter expressing their concerns and included the need for “accountability and transparency” and “student input” within diversity concerns. Chapman said she wanted to hear student perspectives, even those who may be critical. “I do like to hear what people are thinking,” Chapman said. “I rarely take it personally unless it is personal, and I get over it. I’m resilient.” Chapman also said she “can absolutely agree” that she will “stand [her] ground” when advocating for students. Professor Khalil G. Muhammad, one of the two African-American tenured professors at the school, attended the meeting. Muhammad said the “retention” of minority faculty at the Kennedy School is an issue the school must address, even if it is not an issue that he said all faculty are “in agreement” over. He also referred to the departure

of Karen Y. Jackson-Weaver, who stepped down from her post as the Kennedy School’s dean of students last spring, as an instance in which the school “erased the past.” “We’re pretending as if she didn’t actually have students, have an agenda, have a program, and to me, that is not a personnel matter,” Muhammad said at the town hall. Responding to Muhammad, Chapman said “we have a lot to talk about.” The Kennedy School lost three prominent African-American women leaders in the past year, including Jackson-Weaver. One of the women, Alexandra Martinez, who worked as the assistant dean for the diversity and inclusion office, said she left because of a“lack of support” she received from other school leaders. Nadia Niven, the student government’s vice president for academic affairs, said the meeting was “constructive.” She also said that though Chapman is new, students “have hope” for the future. “This is a very timely move for Dean Chapman to come,” Niven said. “It’s a huge, huge responsibility that she is undertaking, but I think what will be important is for Dean Chapman to be supported by the administration, by the staff, and by the students because diversity is not a small issue.”

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Harvard Falls to Dartmouth In Ivy 7s Finals WOMEN’S RUGBY By KIM ARANGO and AMIR MAMDANI CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

On Saturday, April 14, the Harvard Radcliffe women’s rugby team (12-3) took on Dartmouth in the Ivy League 7s finals, in pursuit of its third consecutive crown. However, the two-time defending champion was ultimately bested by the women from New Hampshire in a 29-0 scoreline, relegating the Crimson to a second-place finish in the Ancient Eight championship. Harvard had previously faced off against the Big Green last year, when the Crimson claimed a 10-5 victory over Dartmouth to secure a Ivy 7s Championships title after defeating Princeton in the semifinal, and besting Penn and Columbia in group play. Despite suffering a loss to the Big Green during group play, Harvard came back to secure the championship victory, an effort the team hoped to repeat on Saturday. Despite falling behind in the first half against Dartmouth, the team hoped its experience and stamina would life it to a third consecutive championship. “Though we don’t have as many competition days, the tournament style takes a different kind of focus and energy because we play many short games over 6-8 hour days,” sophomore Dominique Cantave said. “We’ve certainly been focusing on our play, shoring up our defense and attack. But, another component to our training has been making sure we can last through 5 games. We’ve done a lot of mobility and conditioning so our bodies can take the contact, and also mindfulness training to have intense focus throughout the day.” Early on in the 2018 championship match, however, it was evident that the Crimson was facing an extremely difficult Big Green squad. Harvard proved unable to surmount Dartmouth’s early lead, and was shut out in the championship match. After falling behind 17-0 at halftime, Harvard proved unable to scratch the score sheet to conclude its Ivy 7s campaign. This year, the Crimson opened group play by facing Columbia, Cornell, and Brown, the teams comprising Pool A. The team rolled past the competition both in group play, and the semifinal against Princeton. The women from Cambridge tallied an impressive total of 174 points, while holding opposition to just 14 points.

CRIMSON COHESIVENESS The rugby team pushes the ball upfield in the championship tilt against Dartmouth. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

In the opening match of the tournament against Cornell, freshman Arianna Romero and junior Rachel Harkavy both scored three tries apiece to lead the team in scoring. However, the tries were not limited to that pair alone, with sophomore Delia Hellander scoring in the opening minute. Harvard’s momentum only increased after a successful try from junior Genevieve Quirion. The defending champions coasted to a 64-0 opening victory, with further tries from sophomore Robyn Beese, freshman Sabrina Kim, and conversions from junior Susie Clem-

ents and Hellander. The Big Red appeared overmatched by the Crimson, who appeared set on a third consecutive championship run. The winning momentum continued for the Crimson into its second match of the day, against the Lions of Columbia. The defending champions sealed a 40-5 victory, with Hellander tallying 16 points off of two tries and three conversions, supported by more scoring from Romero and Quirion. In the final group play match, against Brown, Harvard closed out the match in a 24-7 victory. The scoring was kicked off

with Romero scoring the first try of the match, putting the freshman at the top of the team’s scoring. Not to be outdone, Romero’s fellow freshman Kim added tries as well, ending the match with 15 points to become the match’s top scorer. “Going into the Dartmouth game, we were really trying to focus on running our pattern and staying calm and composed throughout the entire match,” Hellander said. Despite a disappointing end to the Ivy 7s championship, the Crimson’s season will continue into April, and po-

tentially May, depending on the team’s performance. Harvard will have a quick turnaround, as the squad will take on Army, Norwich, and Northeastern in the Bowdoin Polar 7s invitational. The Crimson will be looking for revenge, after dropping a 34-10 contest to the Black Knights earlier this season. Staff writer Kim Arango can be reached at kim.arango@thecrimson.com. Staff writer Amir Mamdani can be reached at amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com

Rich and Duncan Lead Crimson to Sweep of Penn

CONFERENCE AT THE CIRCLE The infield huddles in the second inning of a win over Penn. ALLISON G. LEE —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER SOFTBALL By JACK STOCKLESS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard softball’s junior class has played an integral role in the team’s success from its initial foray into college softball two seasons ago to its current chase for an Ivy League championship. The anchors of the pitching rotation are both in their third years in coach Jenny Allard’s program. The infield during any given game is almost entirely comprised of juniors. And one of two co-captains, outfielder Kaitlyn Schiffhauer, is also a junior. So it is only fitting that in crucial games, like this past weekend’s Ivy

League series tilt against Penn, the junior class steps up in a big way. This week, it was shortstop Rhianna Rich and pitcher Katie Duncan who answered the call. For the third time this season, Rich earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors for her performance. In the three-game set, the El Segundo, Calif., native went three-for-four in each contest, to go along with five runs and three RBI, all while battling the elements. “It’s about tuning out the cold,” Rich said. “Coach always talks about us tuning out the weather and control what you can control. And obviously we can’t control the weather so it’s about buckling down and just focusing on the

ball.” Rich has racked up the most plate appearances on the team as its customary leadoff hitter. Unsurprisingly, she also leads the team in runs scored due to her natural speed and the stacked lineup of hitters that follow her. Rich has scored 37 of the team’s 161 runs this season, and she leads the Ivy League in runs—the next best tally is 26. She also paces the Crimson in onbase percentage and slugging percentage with .483 and .638 marks, respectively. Perhaps most interesting, though, is Rich’s penchant for triples. In her rookie season, she racked up four three-baggers. Last season it was seven. This year she is at five, which is tops

in the Ivy League. In the middle game of the Penn series, a Rich triple in extra innings proved to be a huge factor in the outcome of the game, spurring the team to a dramatic victory. Leading off the bottom of the eighth, Rich knocked a pitch deep into right field, motoring all the way around to third. Co-captain Maddy Kaplan followed with a line drive to center field, deep enough to allow Rich to tag and score to give Harvard the walk-off victory. “For her to lead off with a triple in the bottom of the eighth, that was huge,” Allard said. “She set a tone offensively. She just really was consistent at the plate and made every defensive play.”

Duncan was tabbed the conference’s Pitcher of the Week. The rubber-armed left-hander pitched in all three contests, earning the win in the first two and recording a save in the finale. In the opener, she tossed all six innings and allowed just one unearned run. In addition to her terrific start, Duncan also came on in relief in the following two games, pitching 5.2 and 3.0 innings, respectively. None of the four total runs that scored off Duncan were earned, so she closed out the weekend with a clean 0.00 ERA and a .179 batting average against. The stability the southpaw provided throughout the weekend was crucial to the team’s success. “Game 2...we brought Katie in, and she did a good job,” Allard said. “They stayed really strong and were able to pull out a win, which was great. We could have easily lost that game. And then Game 3, Sarah [Smith] did a great job. Set a great tone from the beginning. Katie came in to get the save, and offensively we allowed our bats to work and made really great defensive plays.” After a solid sophomore campaign, Duncan has taken the reins of Harvard’s pitching staff. The Allendale, N.J., native has comiled an impressive 2.58 ERA and has struck out 63 batters. She is 12-7 with two saves, and has seven complete games in her 15 starts, finishing nearly 50 percent of the games she has started. Duncan and fellow junior Sarah Smith form a daunting combination in the circle. Smith has been just as dominant when she has played this season, as the two have nearly identical ERAs, but the Somerset, N.J., native has pitched just 35.2 innings to Duncan’s 106. With just six games remaining on the Ancient Eight schedule—threegame weekend series at home against Dartmouth and in Providence, R.I., against Brown—Harvard softball’s junior cohort will look to continue its tremendous impact on the team’s ascent to the top of the Ivy League this season. “We know that we’re a great team and we have the ability to beat every team in the Ivy League,” Rich said. “So it’s about us trusting ourselves and sticking with the process.” Staff writer Jack Stockless can be reached at jack.stockless@thecrimson.com.