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The Harvard Crimson The Undergraduate Council must do more to become a vehicle for change on campus. editorial PAGE 6
Sorority Rush Numbers See Drop
Men’s hockey rejuvenates offense in 4-1 victory against Dartmouth. sports PAGE 8
Khurana Silent on Sanctions Planning
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The number of Harvard students seeking to join sororities this semester dropped by roughly 60 percent from previous years—a decrease that came during the first-ever recruitment season in which some sorority hopefuls were subject to the College’s social group penalties. The penalties—which took effect with the Class of 2021—bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding student group leadership positions, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for prestigious fellowships. Breaking with at least five years of precedent, the Cambridge-Area Panhellenic Council—the governing body for Harvard’s sororities—refused to publicly release the number of students who participated in recruitment
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Contradicting earlier statements, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana repeatedly declined to say when the College will release a final plan to enforce its social group penalties in an interview Friday. The sanctions—which took effect with the Class of 2021—bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding student group leadership positions, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for prestigious fellowships. Khurana said in Dec. 2017 that the College planned to finalize a plan for enforcing the penalties by the start of this semester. On Friday, he specified that the Office of Student Life has been “charged with the implementation” of the sanctions and will debut the enforcement
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Eagles Fans Rejoice at Super Bowl Victory By Madeleine r. nakada Crimson Staff Writer
Students attend a Superbowl LII watch party in Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub Sunday evening. Krystal K. Phu — Crimson photographer
Union Election Scheduled for April
Harvard Law Review Elects New Leadership
By shera s. avi-yonah and molly c. mccafferty
By AIdan f. ryan
Harvard will hold a second election to determine whether eligible graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants may unionize on April 18 and 19, the National Labor Relations Board announced Friday. At stake in the upcoming election is whether eligible graduate teaching and research assistants and undergraduate course assistants will have the ability to collectively bargain with the University. Public Policy Ph.D. student and union advocate Niharika N. Singh said supporters of unionization are already mobilizing in preparation for the upcoming election. “Harvard students are eager for the
The Harvard Law Review elected second-year Law student Michael Thomas the 132nd president of the journal last week. Thomas, who was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from Princeton University in 2012 with a degree in sociology. Between studying at Princeton and at Harvard Law School, Thomas worked in the office of Counsel to the Mayor in New York City and served as a summer associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison last year. Thomas succeeds ImeIme A. Umana, the publication’s first black woman president. In an email, Umana praised
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Four Philadelphia Eagles fans, roughly 10 New England Patriots fans, twice as many ambivalent onlookers, and one Minnesota Vikings fan sat in stunned silence as the final seconds of Super Bowl LII ticked down in the Pforzheimer Junior Common Room Sunday night. “Are you not aware you won the superbowl?” an onlooker asked after the clock had run out. Seconds later, the four burst into screams and hugs in front of the television as the Eagles clinched the game 41-33. Houses and clubs across the college hosted viewing parties for the Super Bowl, but not many were as rowdy as Pforzheimer’s in the final seconds of the close game. Adams House projected the game in their dining hall, with deafening speakers drowning out the cheers of onlookers, while Quincy hosted a smaller watch party in their Junior Common Room. A crowd of approximately 50 fresh-
men gathered to watch the game in the Queen’s Head Pub. A number of attendees, though, appeared to be more interested in the food than in the game, trickling out of the building early in the first half while clutching plates of chicken nuggets. Many students and Harvard affiliates said that, while they are still fans of their hometown teams, they felt an affinity for the Patriots as Boston’s hometown team Sunday night. Alysha L. Johnson ’14, a tutor in Quincy House, said she is a Detroit Lions fan at heart, but that she was still rooting for the Patriots. “I’ve been here since 2010, I was an undergrad here in 2010 so I’ve become adopted by them,” Johnson said of the Patriots during the game’s first half. “I like the dynasty, we’re going to keep it going, Tom Brady is going to get his sixth ring.” Other students took a different view. Some said they were supporting the Eagles not because they had affinity for team but because they could not bring themselves to support the
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Paul Rudd accepts his Pudding Pot from the Hasty Pudding Theatrics Friday night in Farkas Hall. Kathryn s. kuhar—Crimson photographer
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Columbia Refuses to Bargain with Grad Student Union
Blue Bottle Coffee opened on Bow Street Friday, to the delight of many students. LU SHAO — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
Columbia’s graduate student union, which was certified by the National Labor Relations Board in December, plans to file a unfair labor practices charge with the board, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. The charges follow Columbia’s refusal to respond to the union’s bargaining request. Columbia Provost John H. Coatsworth wrote in an email to students that the University plans to wait for a decision by a federal appellate court on whether graduate students may unionize. Along with members of several other local unions, graduate student activists protested the University’s actions in front of Columbia’s Low Library on Thursday.
Dartmouth Releases Rebranded Logo Dartmouth students expressed mixed feelings about the University’s new logo and communications strategy. The Dartmouth reported that 51.7 percent of students said they strongly disliked the new logo, called the “D-pine.” Other students were happy to see the college’s old seal, which featured Native Americans being led towards a University building, phased out.
Joe Thomas Named Interim Dean of Cornell Johnson College of Business
Happy MONDAY, harvard! It’s Monday, and only popcorn chicken can fill the void in our hearts. In the Atmosphere… Prepare to be blown away by a forecast of high winds and a peak of 39 degrees (please laugh). EVENTS
The Search for Story, Structure, and Meaning in Documentary Film: Part II At 4 p.m., Sanders Theater will host this part of the Norton Lecture series about cinema, featuring Frederick Wiseman. Ticket pickups are available at both Sanders Theater and online.
workshop from 6-8 p.m. with essential tips for writing a cover letter that can boost your resume and score a potential interview. Stop by 224 Western Ave., located in Allston. Andy Fan and Linda Lee Crimson Staff Writers
Creating a Positive First Impression: The Cover Letter Harvard Ed Portal is hosting a
in the real world Amtrak Train Crashes in South Carolina An Amtrak train crashed with a freight train Sunday morning, leaving two dead and over a hundred injured. Investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of the crash and why both trains were on the same track. They have, however, deemed the spilled oil to not be a threat to the public.
According to the Cornell Chronicle, L. Joseph Thomas, former dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named interim dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. This appointment follows the unexpected Jan. 30 resignation of Soumitra Dutta, who served as founding dean of Johnson College since its opening in July 2016. Following his resignation, Dutta will stay at the business college as a full professor of management. Thomas said he looks forward to working with the college administration to ensure the continued success of the Johnson College of Business and its component schools.
SWords fly sunday afternoon Fencer K. H. Albert Chien ‘19 lunges at his opponent from NYU during a bout Sunday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. ALLISON G. LEE — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
Nunes Memo Released to Fanfare The Nunes Memo was released on Friday to incredibly polarized responses. Regardless of whether or not the memo was the gamechanger that Trump and many Republicans expected it to be, it definitely held some severe implications for U.S. law enforcement writ large.
Charleston Gazette-Mail Files for Bankruptcy The Charleston Gazette-Mail, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for its investigation on the flow of opioids into West Virginia, has filed for bankruptcy. The paper’s demise highlights the financial challenges print publications face in the digital age.
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CORRECTIONS The Feb. 2 story “Khurana and Kelsey Start ‘Transcript Project’” incorrectly indicated that Dean Robin E. Kelsey is the current president of the College’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In fact, he stopped holding that position last summer. The Harvard Crimson is committed to accuracy in its reporting. Factual errors are corrected promptly on this page. Readers with information about errors are asked to e-mail the managing editor at managingeditor@thecrimson.com.
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Khurana Declines to Give Timeline for Sanctions sanctions From Page 1 mechanism to students. Asked twice when the Office plans to publish the plan, Khurana did not directly answer. He said the Office has not yet published the enforcement mechanism because it is still finalizing the details. “Our focus is to really get this right. I think it’s important,” he said. “Obviously we’re not going to get everything right the whole time.” The Office of Student Life could continue to tweak the recommendations even after staffers send the plan to students, Khurana said. “It would be great to have a detailed blueprint but [we’re] probably going to have to—once we get the framework— continue to work as we sort of adjust specific issues and questions come up,” he said. Khurana also repeatedly declined to detail the specifics of the College’s plan for implementing the sanctions. Instead, he pointed to previous reports produced by two separate committees, each charged with reviewing the policy.
Khurana said he will look to recommendations from one of the two committees in particular.
Our focus is to really get this right. I think it’s important. Obviously we’re not going to get everything right. Rakesh Khurana Dean of the College
That report suggested the College’s Honor Council should help enforce the sanctions and that all-female groups should have a five-year grace period to go gender neutral. It also suggested the College should consider barring members of sin-
After Sanctions, Fewer Undergrads Rush rush From Page 1 this semester. But, according to documents obtained by The Crimson, approximately 100 students registered to attend the first recruitment event. In order to be eligible to rush, students must attend the introductory event and must register in advance, per Council guidelines. The number marks a significant drop from past years. In the 2017 recruitment season, 286 Harvard students expressed interest in female Greek life and, the year before, 280 students registered for sorority recruitment.
We didn’t solicit gender identities in our registration. Tiana M. Menon ‘19 Fleur-de-Lis President
This fall also marked the first-ever recruitment season for the Fleurde-Lis, formerly Harvard’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and the first sorority on campus to go gender-neutral. The Fleur garnered interest from a total of 187 students and ultimately accepted 44 applicants, according to an emailed statement from Fleur President Tiana M. Menon ’19. In an emailed statement, Cambridge-Area Panhellenic Council President Alexandra P. Murray ’19 wrote the group did not plan to release data about this year’s recruitment “out of respect to the process.” Murray did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the decline in recruitment interest Sunday evening. University President Drew G. Faust first introduced the sanctions in May
2016; and late last semester, the Harvard Corporation voted to officially confirm the policy. But it is not clear whether the penalties will immediately apply to Harvard’s all-female final clubs and sororities: Under a proposed “bridge program,” campus women’s groups could retain their “gender focus” for at least three years. When the Fleur debuted its new gender-neutral membership policy in Jan. 2018, Menon wrote in a statement that the group plans to remain “female-focused.” The organization’s website asserts its mission is to create a safe and empowering space for “female-identifying individuals” at Harvard. Menon did not directly answer a question asking whether the group accepted any men into its membership this semester. “In keeping with our mission, we didn’t solicit gender identities in our registration form so I don’t have those numbers,” Menon wrote in an emailed statement. Other campus sororities have opted for a strategy opposite to the Fleur’s, instead openly defying the College’s penalties. Harvard’s chapters of Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta announced in December they planned to continue with their standard female-only recruitment practices for members of the Class of 2021 despite the social group policy. Asked whether the policy was meant to reduce student interest in sororities during an interview last week, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana— who has largely become the face of the sanctions on the campus—did not directly answer. “I think people understand that colleges and universities in the larger societies are in transitionary moments around this and those transitions can be sometimes challenging, as organizations adapt and evolve,” Khurana said.
gle-gender groups from leadership roles in both the Undergraduate Council and The Crimson as well as all other recognized student groups. Khurana declined to answer questions asking whether the Office of Student Life’s enforcement plan will follow these exact recommendations. As he said in Dec. 2017, Khurana said the final plan will seek to advance “the spirit of the policy.” “Again, I think, in the coming period you will hear all the details around those specific questions,” he said. Khurana said that—even though the Office of Student Life has yet to release its plan—he thinks students “are pretty clear about what the policy is.” He added he thinks students understand which social groups are still subject to the sanctions and which are not. “The implementation committee and the faculty committee reports actually, if you look at them, are pretty clear about the organizations, the social organizations,” he said. In December, Khurana said he was aware students might be confused about the policy and that he hoped to clear up any uncertainty as soon as
Union Election Scheduled for April election From Page 1 stability of a contract to continue their exceptional work as researchers and teachers. I can guarantee you that student-workers like myself across campus are circling April 18 on their calendars right now,” Singh said. University representatives could not be immediately reached for comment Friday evening. The NLRB announcement follows over a year of legal battles between the University and Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers over the results of a Nov. 2016 unionization election. The results of that election showed 1,526 votes against unionization and 1,396 in favor. Lawyers representing HGSU-UAW contested the initial results on the grounds that the University did not properly generate a required list of eligible voters. In July 2017, the regional NLRB ruled in favor of HSGU-UAW, saying the University-generated list was inadequate. Harvard then appealed the ruling, taking the case to the federal board in Washington, D.C. The national board ultimately reaffirmed the original decision, ruling against the University in December. The NLRB’s Boston office ordered the upcoming election in January, after the 2016 results were finalized. 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. Follow her Twitter at @mollmccaff.
possible. “We ask people’s patience while we make sure that we send clear information and clear guidelines,” he said at the time. “We can’t answer all questions right now. I apologize to the students who have those questions.”
We ask people’s patience while we make sure that we send clear information and clear guidelines. Rakesh Khurana Dean of the College
The Office of Student Life is now working to define exactly how the policy will apply to “organizations that are moving toward gender inclusion
or need some guidance about how they move in that direction,” Khurana said. The announcement of the sanctions has already prompted a number of social groups to go co-ed. The Spee Club permanently adopted gender neutral recruitment practices before the policy was announced. The Seneca, a formerly all-female club went co-ed in fall 2016. This fall, the traditionally female Sablière Society, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Epsilon Pi, and Kappa Kappa Gamma decided to admit all genders. Some social groups have taken the opposite route, choosing to defy the College’s penalties. Harvard’s chapters of Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta announced in December they planned to continue with their standard female-only recruitment practices for members of the Class of 2021. Staff writer Caroline S. Engelmayer can be reached at caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson. com. Follow her on Twitter @cengelmayer13. Staff writer Michael E. Xie can be reached at michael.xie@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @MichaelEXie1.
Smith Center on Track to Open in Sept. 2018 By yasmin luthra Crimson Staff Writer
Though Harvard withdrew an application to extend construction hours on the Smith Campus Center as the renovation project nears its second year, the building will still be completed on time, according to the University. The University filed an application in November to lengthen construction hours. The Cambridge License Commission, however, postponed a vote on the matter in December while the University continued to discuss the impacts of extending construction hours with local businesses.But Harvard has now decided not to pursue the application. Despite the lack of extra construction hours, the project will still open on time in the fall, according to University spokesperson Brigid O’Rourke. “Harvard chose not to pursue a variance,” O’Rourke wrote in an email. “The project remains on schedule.” The renovations to the Smith Campus Center have posed several challenges to neighboring businesses around the construction site. One restaurant, En Boca, filed a lawsuit alleging the University misrepresented the scope of its renovations. The restaurant has also blamed Harvard’s construction for its closure in June 2017, eight months after opening. Last October, Tanya Iatridis, senior director of University Planning, said she expects the Center to open in September 2018. When complete, the building will feature new restaurants, a renovated arcade, and a top floor bar. Harvard first began renovations for the campus center in April 2016 after receiving a donation of an undisclosed amount. Many students said they were excited by the prospect of shared space the renovated campus center will provide. “There’s really right now no space for students to congregate outside of the houses,” Brandon N. Wachs ’18 said. “Having somewhere that’s cen-
tral to meet that’s not a library, that’s not a restaurant, but that’s by Harvard would be really nice.” Isabel R. Steinhaus ’18 said she feels jealous of the students who will be around when the center opens, given construction will not end before the Class of 2018 graduates. “I’m a senior, so I’m actually a little bummed because I thought it was initially going to open in the spring of 2018,” she said. “I’m really excited about the food, I’m jealous that everyone else is going to get the chance to have some,” Steinhaus added. The Smith Center is expected to
The project remains on schedule. Brigid O’Rourke
University Spokesperson house roughly eight food vendors, but Wachs said he has reservations about the potential affordability of these establishments. “I think price point is really important, especially when you look at the Square and what’s left and potentially what could be coming in,” Wachs said. “The Square, to a large degree, does price people out depending on their socioeconomic status, which you don’t want at a school.” “I think for the restaurants they put in there it would be crucial that they take BoardPlus or Crimson Cash,” he added. The opening of the campus center has already had some effect on local residents. Due to the constant disruptive noise caused by the early morning construction, College administrators purchased white noise machines and sets of noise-cancelling headphones for freshmen living in Apley Court.
Radcliffe Institute Surpassed $70 Million Goal for Capital Campaign in May By sarah j. hong Crimson Staff Writer
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study surpassed its $70 million capital campaign fundraising goal in May 2017, according to Director of External Relations Julia H. Cavanaugh. The campaign garnered contributions from donors representing every Harvard school and every Harvard and Radcliffe class from 1933 to the present, Cavanaugh said. She said she attributes Radcliffe’s success in the campaign to Dean Lizabeth Cohen’s vision, the leadership of the campaign co-chairs Susan S. Wallach ’68 and Sidney R. Knafel ’52, and the efforts of alumni volunteers. “We have received over 22,000 gifts from more than 6,800 donor households, including 1,300 first-time supporters of the Radcliffe Institute,” Cavanaugh said. Wallach, apart from co-chairing the campaign, was also a major contributor, donating $10 million with her husband, Kenneth L. Wallach ’68. “I know that a gift to Radcliffe is a gift to the scholars, artists, students, and public intellectuals who value the Institute as a unique space within Harvard—a school dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across disciplines,” Wallach said in a statement. Though Cavanaugh said Radcliffe’s capital campaign continues to experience success and plans to build on this momentum, she said the campaign has also had to overcome unique challenges. “Unlike all other schools at Har-
vard, the Radcliffe Institute does not grant degrees to a graduating class annually, meaning our constituency does not grow organically,” Cavanaugh said. “To ensure the continued success of the Institute, we need to use the momentum of the Campaign to reach new audiences and engage old friends, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the work of today’s Radcliffe Institute.” Cohen said she plans to use the funds raised to grow the Institute’s programs and launch new initiatives meant to strengthen the Institute and the University more broadly. “We can help scholars tell a more inclusive history of women in America by acquiring new archival collections for the Schlesinger Library,” Cohen wrote in a statement. “We can help advance research across disciplines by funding more seminars and workshops led by Harvard faculty and Radcliffe fellows. And we can better share new ideas and research with a broad audience by expanding our public programming and improving our Institute facilities.” Looking ahead, Cohen said she thinks that, regardless of this campaign’s success, the Institute still has unmet needs. “There remain many opportunities for individuals, groups, or foundations to make gifts that will have a tremendous impact on the work of scholars, scientists, and artists in our fellowship program, on students and faculty at Harvard who benefit from our programs, and on the general public who flock to our lectures, conferences, and exhibitions,” Cohen said. The capital campaign is officially set to conclude in June 2018.
Fay House houses the administration of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. The Radcliffe Institute surpassed its $70 million capital campaign fundraising goal last May. Megan M. Ross—Crimson photographer
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Blue Bottle Coffee Shop Opens By HENRY w. burnes and Franklin r. civantos Crimson Staff Writers
Large crowds and the scent of freshly brewed coffee filled Bow Street as students and Cantabrigians waited in line to sample Blue Bottle Coffee’s free drinks on the cafe’s opening day Friday. The coffee shop officially opened its doors months later than expected. The Oakland, Calif.-based franchise first announced its new location near Harvard Square in Dec. 2016; at the time, Blue Bottle representatives said the store planned to open for business in summer 2017. For the duration of the day Friday, Blue Bottle—located at 40 Bow Street— offered customers a free drink of their choice from its menu of drip coffee and espresso drinks. Customers could also purchase pastries or sandwiches, with all proceeds going to Boston-based charity organization Artists for Humanity. Students who stopped by said they were impressed by the store’s open decor and tasty coffee. “I really like that it has a lot of windows. It feels very bright and cheery,” Grace C. Eysenbach ’20 said. Rick Li ’21, another student at Fri-
day’s event and an active Crimson editor, also said he enjoyed the feel of the coffee shop. “I love it. I love the ambience,” Li said. In an interview Friday, Blue Bottle CEO Bryan Meehan cited what he called Cambridge’s “numerous” city regulations as the primary reason the coffee shop took longer to open than expected. “There’s a lot of delays that happen in the sign offs with the city so it’s been like an 18 month journey getting it done. But, you know, good things are worth waiting for,” Meehan said. “I think Cambridge prides itself on preserving the greatness of the community so we’re very respectful of that. And, you know, we’re gonna be here for a long time.” Blue Bottle Coffee enters a Harvard Square market chock-full of caffeine competitors including Starbucks, Crema Cafe, JP Licks, and Tatte. Despite abundant competition, Meehan said he has faith that Blue Bottle will attract plenty of business. “We like to say we serve delicious coffee. It might take a little longer because we make every single cup by hand,” Meehan said. “So it’s a longer process but I think if you’re interested in learning more about coffee, this is not a company that processes its prod-
ucts. It’s a craft here.” Though coffee tasters on Friday said they generally liked their drinks, some took issue with the store’s higher prices. “Black coffee is more expensive here than other places,” Courtney DeLong ’21 said. “That’s usually what I drink and I’m not trying to spend another dollar every day.” Other customers did not share DeLong’s reservations. Cape Cod resident Kristi J. Regan—who said she drove up to Cambridge specifically for the coffee shop’s opening day—said she is thrilled the coffee shop has come to Harvard. “I love Blue Bottle,” Regan said. “I’m familiar with Blue Bottle Coffee so it’s exciting that they’re here finally.” Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said she is also pleased the coffee shop has finally opened. “It’s been a long time coming,” Jillson said. “So exciting. You know, particularly for that area in the Square which tends to be a little quiet. It’s a beautiful building and a lovely space.” Staff writer Henry W. Burnes can be reached at henry.burnes@thecrimson.com. Staff writer Franklin R. Civantos can be reached at frank.civantos@thecrimson.com.
Blue Bottle Coffee opened Friday on Bow Street. The coffee shop opened its doors months later than expected. AMY Y. LI—Crimson photographer
Man of the Year Paul Rudd Receives Hasty Pudding Pot By Andrea m. bossi Crimson Staff Writer
he Hasty Pudding Theatricals honT ored Paul Rudd as Man of the Year Friday evening with the troupe’s Pudding Pot and a celebrity roast. The Pudding selects an actor for Man of the Year who has had a significant and lasting impact in the entertainment world. Rudd is widely known for his performance in films, such as “Ant-Man,” which he also co-wrote. He has also starred in many movies, including “Clueless,” “They Came Together,” and “The 40-Year Old Virgin.” Cast members of the Pudding Theatricals performed a celebrity roast for Rudd, poking fun at what they called his agelessness as well as his acting career. Each character in the roast skit set Rudd a specific challenge to prove him-
Whenever you’re standing in a place that has real history, that’s been around for hundreds of years, it has a way of making you feel sane. Paul Rudd Actor
self worthy of the Pot. At one point, Eric J. Cheng ‘20— dressed as the character Sex Panther in a tight, black bodysuit—tested Rudd’s seduction techniques. After Cheng showed Rudd how to strut and “rawr,” Rudd briefly danced in a suggestive manner with Sex Panther. Pudding cast members also played other characters like Death, William Shakespeare, Thor, the Hulk, Captain America, and the Canadian band Rush, who asked Rudd to perform a one minute air-guitar and air-drum solo of their song “Tom Sawyer.” Eventually, two Pudding cast members emerged and handed Rudd the Pot, kissing him on both cheeks as they did so. Rudd then thanked the audience and the Pudding for what he said felt like an extraordinary honor. He added
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he was happy to be on campus and said he really enjoyed visiting Harvard. In a press conference following the roast, Rudd said he particularly ad-
It makes all your problems seem a little bit smaller. Paul Rudd Actor
mires the University’s long history. “Whenever you’re standing in a place that has real history, that’s been around for hundreds of years, it has a way of making you feel sane,” Rudd said, describing his ventures through the Yard. “It puts you in your place, and
it makes all your problems seem a little bit smaller because this has been going on for a lot longer than I have.” After the press conference ended, Rudd watched the opening night production of the Pudding’s show, “Intermission Impossible.” Before leaving the press conference, though, Rudd donned a Pudding-made Ant-Man style bra that he sported in several pictures. “It’s a nice fit,” Rudd said, as Pudding cast enveloped him in a red and silver, sparkly chestpiece. The Pudding Theatricals recently honored Woman of the Year Mila Kunis with a parade and celebrity roast. Before Kunis’s roast, Pudding President Amira T. Weeks ’18 announced the troupe will allow women to join men as cast members on stage next year, breaking more than 100 years of tradition.
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Leverett Council Spot Filled After Re-Vote By jonah s. berger Crimson Staff Writer
Ruiqi He ’19 won re-election to the Undergraduate Council after a revote Friday in Leverett House, according to Election Commission Chair Jubin Gorji ’21. The revote was needed given no candidates in Leverett reached the necessary threshold during last week’s midterm election to be declared the
outright winner. UC elections follow the Hare-Clark voting system, a ranked voting method in which each candidate must reach a certain vote quota to be elected. He, the former UC secretary, was the only candidate to declare her candidacy for the open seat in Leverett. But Benjamin I. Sorkin ’20, a former UC representative, garnered enough votes as a write-in option to prevent any candidate from reaching the
Harvard Law Review Taps 132nd President president From Page 1 her successor and wrote she thinks the Law Review is in good hands under Thomas. “The Law Review is lucky to have Michael at the helm. He is an incisive and thoughtful editor. More importantly, he is a compassionate peer,” she wrote. Looking back on her time as president, Umana wrote that she is pleased with everything the Law Review accomplished in 2017. “Thanks to our fantastic team of committed editors, the Law Review has had an exciting year. We welcomed the first-ever majority-female volume, selected our inaugural Public Interest Fellow, and launched a Blog,
all in addition to publishing a wide range of premier legal scholarship,” she wrote. Thomas did not respond to requests for comment. Thomas is the second black president of the Law Review in two years. His election comes after the publication undertook a series of initiatives in recent years meant to diversify its ranks. The journal, which expanded its affirmative action policy in 2013, elected the most diverse class of editors in its history in 2016 and its first majority female class last year. Staff writer Aidan F. Ryan can be reached at aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @AidanRyanNH.
threshold. The revote saw unusually high turnout for a non-presidential UC election, with 120 students in Leverett casting ballots compared to just 57 who voted in the original election last week. Sorkin said in an interview before the runoff that he was “peeved” another round of voting was necessary, given he outpaced He in first, second, and third place votes in the original vote count. Last week, Sorkin said he ran as a
write-in after not being informed of the open seat in the House. This year’s midterm election was the first to use the Council’s new election software. Gorji said Sunday that the Commission received no complaints about the new system this week, a stark contrast from the numerous voting issues that plagued November’s presidential elections. Ruiqi He did not respond to request for comment.
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Faculty Plan to Vote on Advanced Standing By angela n. fu and lucy wang Crimson Staff Writers
The Faculty of Arts and Science will likely vote on a proposal to amend current guidelines for the College’s Advanced Standing program at their monthly meeting this week. The proposal, last introduced by Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris at the December Faculty meeting, will make it more difficult for students to receive college credit for courses taken prior to matriculating. If passed, the proposal will begin affecting students in the class of 2023. Previously, students had to apply to the Advanced Standing program using Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credits and had the option of either graduating in three years or pursuing a master’s degree in their fourth year. The new program would
make all students eligible for Advanced Standing. To earn the master’s degree, students must apply to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in their junior year and “complete all requirements for both degrees without reduction” in the eight semesters at Harvard, eight credits of which will count toward both the undergraduate and graduate degree. If passed, students would still be able to use Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate examinations for placement, at the discretion of departments, and for meeting the 2-semester language requirement in place for all undergraduates. Faculty raised several concerns about the proposal at the last Faculty meeting in December. Some said they were worried students would be unable to complete an undergraduate degree and a master’s in four years. Com-
puter Science professor Michael D. Mitzenmacher ’91 said the new program may affect his department’s ability to recruit students. The proposal would disproportionately affect concentrators in the Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, divisions that see the most Advanced Standing applicants. Last December, several students said that they were not aware of the proposal and that the recommendations surprised them. Some professors also warned that the new proposal could drive top students to peer institutions like Stanford, where advanced standing programs are significantly more popular. At the faculty meeting on Tuesday, Claudine Gay, divisional dean of social science, will also report on the progress of the Inequality in America Initiative, first launched last October.
‘Harvard’s Transfer Students Can Face a Difficult Transition By Benjamin e. frimodig and truelian lee Crimson Staff Writers
It took a while before Hailey G. Davis ’18 felt at home at Harvard. Davis, who transferred to the College after spending her first year at West Point, said her sophomore year in Cambridge felt like a “second freshman year.” “It wasn’t until the beginning of my junior year that I actually considered myself a Harvard student instead of just someone that goes to Harvard,” she said. “It felt like in order to find myself at Harvard, I had to forget the part of me that I had built up at West Point over the past year.” Like many transfer students—who make up less than 1 percent of the total undergraduate body—Davis said the transition was at times difficult and socially isolating. “Everybody in the House kind of already had a friend group. It’s not they’re not open to meeting people. They’re friendly. But it’s that most people have kind of established who their close friends are,” she said. “I think you’re not necessarily looking for new friends like you were freshman year, so it’s harder to build deeper connections.” Davis is one of roughly one dozen transfer students that Harvard admits every year. Though the University has various support systems in place—a transfer student orientation, as well as transfer peer advising fellows—transfer students say that, often, it is up to them to fully integrate into life at the College. ‘THE TRANSFER STUDENT GROUP’ Before transfer students face the challenge of adjusting to Harvard, they must tackle the obstacle of a lengthy transfer application process. Students interested in transferring
to Harvard must complete a minimum of one full academic year of college and a maximum of two. The transfer application requires essay responses, college and high school transcripts, college teacher recommendations, and high school standardized test scores. The Harvard College Transfer Admissions Committee reviews all applications. The College Admissions website states that “The committee looks for a clearly defined academic need to transfer, a proven record of high achievement, and strong faculty recommendations.” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said the number of transfer students the College accepts varies, though it has hovered around a dozen each year. “We’re given a number every year. Because of our very, very high graduation rate, the College needs to make a decision every year on what it will do with transfers. I think what we’ve been
Most people have kind of established who their close friends are. Hailey G. Davis ‘18 Transfer Student
able to do recently is to admit roughly twelve transfers, and we’ve had somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,400 or 1,500 applications,” he said. Because so few Harvard students enter the College after their freshman year, some transfers said they had to take it upon themselves to find their niche at the school. Though Harvard holds a transfer student orientation and installs transfer PAFs, most of the time, transfer
students said assimilating at Harvard happens organically: through residential Houses, classes, and extracurriculars. Abbey M. Thornhill ’17, who transferred to Harvard from Wake Forest University, said her varsity field hockey team was a tremendously helpful resource. “I was really lucky to have a good team, and they turned out to be my friends, because you are working toward the same goal together,” she said. When Gillian Y. Hess ’18 transferred from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business her sophomore year, she said she made many friends through her classes. “I feel like at Harvard, there’s such an emphasis on making friends through extracurriculars, but in my classes, people needed to do the psets together, so I was like, ‘Hey, I’m Gillian, and I’m a transfer student. Would you like to work on the pset together?’” she said. Transfer students are also sometimes assigned to live with other transfer students, which undergraduates said can help with the transition. “My roommate, which they assigned randomly, was another transfer student, and she ended up becoming my best friend and one of my current roommates. My other best friend was also a transfer student, and half of my casual friends were transfer students,” Davis said. At the same time, Thornhill said that it was sometimes hard to make close connections with the other transfer students. “I think a part of it is that there are people from all different backgrounds who wanted to do different things, since I think Harvard didn’t want, say, 17 transfer students with the exact same interests. So a natural consequence was that we didn’t all become really close,” she said. “That’s good in the sense that we didn’t just become ‘the transfer student group,’ but rather that we all assimilated to the culture as a whole.”
WORTH IT Despite the difficulties of transferring, many transfer students said Harvard’s liberal arts education, learning philosophy, and extracurricular opportunities are more than enough enticement to make the change mid-college worth it.
I just wanted to be somewhere where arts were much more vibrant. Elena Y. Wu-Yan ‘19 Transfer Student
Elena Y. Wu-Yan ’19, a transfer from the University of Pennsylvania, said she thought her former college’s pre-professional atmosphere left little room for her passion for jazz saxophone. “I just felt like the arts scene overall [at UPenn] wasn’t as big as I would have expected it to be—and specifically for jazz, too—so I just wanted to be somewhere where arts were much more vibrant and like a thing on campus,” she said. Similarly, Hess said she thought the pre-professional emphasis of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business was too restrictive. She had tried to take a higher-level economics course, but the university had prevented her from doing so because she was enrolled in the business school. Hess tried to transfer to the Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, but the school told her she would have to wait until the end of the year and that there was no guarantee of a transfer. “So I was thinking, ‘If I do apply to transfer to my own school, I don’t know if it’s worth it, and I might as well fight
to transfer elsewhere...Harvard definitely gives me a lot more flexibility in terms of course diversity,” she said. “I was also attracted to its economics department.” Alexandra Abrahams ’18, who transferred from Oxford University junior year, said Harvard’s teaching philosophy suited her learning style more than Oxford’s. “One of the reasons why I transferred was because the method of teaching and learning at Oxford didn’t suit me at all,” she said. “I had thought that the tutorial system was going to be great, but I didn’t know that I would be spending most of my time in the library with a list of books to read and an essay to output.” Despite Wu-Yan’s desire to attend a school with more arts opportunities, she said news of her acceptance to Harvard was bittersweet, because she felt reluctant to leave the friends she had made during her two years at UPenn. Her decision to accept Harvard’s offer came after weeks of contemplation. Wu-Yan said she was finally persuaded to transfer once she realized she would be gaining more friends instead of replacing the friends she had made at UPenn. According to Hess, one of the most common questions transfer students get is whether they regret not having the full, four-year Harvard experience. “Looking back, I don’t regret my decision at all,” Hess said. “I don’t think I would have been able to handle coming in as a freshman. At Georgetown, I learned so much about myself, about the world, and about other people, and I took that knowledge and applied it to Harvard. And if I had not had that year at Georgetown, I definitely wouldn’t be the same person I am today.” Staff writer Benjamin E. Frimodig can be reached at benjamin.frimodig@thecrimson.com. Staff writer Truelian Lee can be reached at truelian.lee@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @truelian_lee.
Harvard Professor Sarah E. Lewis Takes Over Harvard’s Eagles Fans Elated New Yorker Photo Social Media Platform at Super Bowl Viewings By andrea m. bossi Crimson Staff Writer
Sarah E. Lewis ’01, a Harvard scholar of race, art and contemporary culture, took over the Instagram account of the New Yorker Photo Department in late January to teach viewers about the relationship between photography and culture. Lewis, an assistant professor of African and African American studies and of history of art and architecture, teaches the General Education course History of Art and Architecture 176e: “Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship.” Lewis said students in her course explore the power of visual culture in defining who is included in both American and international societies. “I hope they leave far more empowered to believe and understand that they can create the images that can author their own identities and will be far more sensitive to those of others,” Lewis said. For each day of her four-day long takeover, Lewis posted pictures meant to be compelling and thought-provok-
ing for a digital audience, including portraits of famous figures like Frederick Douglass, John F. Kennedy ’40, and Martin Luther King Jr. Each one has a connection to the current day, she said. “The New Yorker has a photography editor, Siobhán Bohnacker, who wrote an email to me asking me if I would take over the New Yorker’s Instagram account,” Lewis said, describing how the opportunity surfaced. “It came out of the blue.” Lewis said she was reluctant to accept at first because she did not know how to make the takeover align with her goals to teach through photos. She said she realized the takeover comprised an opportunity to reach a bigger audience. “We can all look at an image, say of racial terror like Eric Garner’s killing, and be outraged but not move to action because we all think someone else might be doing something,” Lewis said. “With this takeover, I thought about how could I reframe these images so they do have a potency, so that they do affect you.”
One of the first pictures Lewis posted was of a young boy, Jacob Philadelphia, touching the hair of former President Barack Obama. She said that, in this image, the boy is seeing that the texture of the president’s hair matches his own. “Here you have this idea that you really can’t become what you can’t imagine, what you can’t see,” said Lewis. “You have to ask yourself what has culture presented to him at the age of five already such that he needs confirmation that his dreams are valid, that he can rise, ultimately, to become the most powerful person in the United States, running the country.” Lewis said much of her inspiration and passion stem from her grandfather’s experience in the 1920s. He was expelled from high school for asking why the template for success always looked one way and was missing narratives of non-white success, she said. “Citizenship in the United States is defined in 1790 as whiteness, being male, being able to hold property,” Lewis said. “The current-day definition is far more vast and broad.”
super bowl From Page 1 Patriots. Enrique Casas Jr. ’19—who emphasized he only really supports the Chicago Bears—said he was not cheering for the Patriots because he felt their fans were obnoxious. “I’m actually a Chicago Bears fan,” Casas said. “It’s more so just being a fan of a team that sucks here at Harvard that made me by default an Eagles fan but I think, it’s really annoying just having to constantly hear about the five Super Bowl wins.” The few true Eagles fans made up for their diminutive numbers with spirit. As the game clock approached 30 seconds in its final countdown, Eagles supporters began a roaring cheer of “I believe that we will win.” Martha T. Gavula ’19, a loyal Eagles fan from Philadelphia, acknowledged her team’s fans have a reputation for being rowdy. But she defended her right to cele-
brate, especially after the Eagles lost their star quarterback and still made it to the Super Bowl. “We’re just the underdogs of the underdogs,” Gavula said. “I think you can call Philadelphia what you want, but this is our year, and I’m not gonna blame people for going crazy.” The Eagles maintained a lead for most of the game, but when the Patriots pulled ahead at the end of the third quarter, many student viewers said they felt the tide was turning in the Patriots’ favor. The Eagles came back with a touchdown and interception to win the game, leaving undergraduates across campus stunned. As the Junior Common Room emptied, an elated Eagles fan asked his phone, “Siri, who won the super bowl?” A number of Patriots fans declined to comment after the game. Staff writer Madeleine R. Nakada can be reached at madeleine.nakada@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @maddynakada
EDITORIAL The Crimson Editorial board
Hidden Progress The Undergraduate Council must do more to publicize its initiatives and engage students
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s The Crimson reported Tuesday, 17 students declared their candidacy for the Undergraduate Council’s spring midterm elections this year, marking a precipitous drop in the number of students seeking a seat on the Council. Last year, 27 students ran in the spring midterms, and 35 ran the spring before that. This lack of student interest in running for UC positions may, as we have previously opined, be due to the failure of the Council to serve as a vehicle for change on this campus. In the meantime, students have become engaged in other extracurricular organizations that have stepped in to fill this gap. The many different programming boards on campus, from the First-Year Social Committee to the House Committees and the College Events Board have provided students with the spaces, events, and support that the UC has not. Similarly, various affinity groups on campus have also created important communities for students on campus. The Undergraduate Council no longer plays a meaningful role in improving student life; instead, it has been reduced to the role of a financier that funds organizations that do. We believe the decline of student interest in joining the Undergraduate Council may be attributed in part to other campus groups taking on a much more active role in improving campus life.
We do not doubt that the UC is working hard to improve student life at Harvard. Although we have qualms about the UC’s effectiveness as a whole, we appreciate the efforts that individual students are taking to improve the body. We particularly appreciate the work that is being done in response to the referendum that students passed supporting the establishment of a physical space for belonging. We also commend the UC for changing the voting platform for this spring’s elections, which will certainly improve student engagement in voting. Indeed, having a voting platform that is easier to navigate bodes well for democracy at Harvard. Additionally, we eagerly anticipate the establishment of the UC progress bar, which will hold the body accountable as it seeks to implement election promises. Its introduction will serve as an important step forward in publicizing the UC’s initiatives and progress to students. Nevertheless, we believe student disinterest in the UC persists despite the UC’s efforts because the Council has historically done a poor job of publicizing its actions, achievements, and elections. Although the UC organizes and funds events across campus, and bolsters other initiatives, it struggles to effectively communicate its accomplishments to the student body. Furthermore, although the UC has been
transparent by opening their meetings to the student body, it has not effectively publicized these meetings or systematically encouraged students to attend. That we feel compelled to keep writing editorials lamenting the same issue—that students are disengaged from the UC—is extremely regrettable. Despite our continuous calls for change, the UC has been unable to improve its ability to communicate its agenda to the student body. The continuous decline in student engagement in the UC represents a systematic problem with the Council that cannot be solved by a simple change of leadership. Despite our frustration with the UC’s ability to engage students in its work, we still encourage students to vote and participate in the midterm elections. We believe that an active and empowered UC, if it existed, could serve as a focal point and platform for students to communicate their needs to the administration. Still, we need students to continue voting and attempting to initiate serious, systematic change to reach that point. 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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Lessons from Dirty Jerz “They’re from New York. Snookie is from Poughkeepsie. The Situation is from Staten Island.”—Chris Christie on MTV’s Jersey Shore By Christina M. Qiu
I. Enemies of enemies are not friends.
What outsiders seem not to know about New Jersey’s apparent shift to Republicanism when former Governor Chris Christie was elected nine years ago was the amount of points he gained for not being his predecessor, Jon Corzine. Corzine was the former CEO of Goldman Sachs; Christie was a local lawyer. Corzine apparently tried to sell the Turnpike; Christie was trying to convince people that overweight was not equivalent to overindulgent. Corzine tried to increase the sales tax rate; Christie was into lowering property taxes. The apparent inevitability of a Christie election was palpable even to my seventh-grade self—as my government, biology, and English teachers implored us to convince our parents to vote for the third-party Chris Daggett—anybody but Christie, who was bound to cut our township’s funding by millions of dollars in favor of charter schools. Christie was one of our high school’s alumni, and our town also had a school named after a Kushner. “How could you trust someone,” my middle school government teacher said, “willing to just turn on his own hometown like that?” Our middle school class went on long tangents about how we wanted control over our own government, doodled anti-Christie-Corzine drawings on our Converses, and complained day and night to our parents as our teachers did to us. When Christie decided to announce his run for presidency at our high school years later, I watched as teachers and students who despised him hold pro-Christie signs while rolling their eyes, and we laughed and laughed at the footage after Christie became Trump’s Gretchen.
II. Buy local.
Political pessimism runs deep in New Jersey blood; cynicism is the antidote. Newark’s “supermayor” Cory Booker attempted to turn back a long
tide of poverty, entrepreneurial exodus, and crime through business, development, and most of all, cheeriness: He wanted Newark residents to hope again. He saved neighbors from burning buildings, helped temporarily homeless dogs, and shoveled sidewalks. It seemed obvious, however, as we watched Booker prepare for higher offices, that symbolism, not true investment in Newark, was his motivation behind the mayoral post. Booker widely publicized an opening of one Whole Foods store in Newark to provide a minimal number of jobs for local residents while paying consultants thousands of dollars a day from reform funds to assess school districts. He announced large education reforms on Oprah, which “played disastrously in the community,” who neither knew before about these reforms nor had input into how these reforms were to happen, but resonated brilliantly nationally. He placed an unofficial minimum of $10 million gifted annually for membership on the Foundation for Newark’s Future to help wealthy donors decide what to do with the city. Local actors who had once supported his campaign, citing his absenteeism, said that they felt like a stepping stone on his run to higher offices.
III. There is always a cloud before the storm.
Perhaps, as New Jersey native Anthony Bourdain stated on his show “Parts Unknown,” the best prophecy of our country is the snapshot of Trump’s Taj Mahal established in 1983, out of place in a hurricane-touched and stinted Atlantic City. Trump had once been the hope of Atlantic City too, promising then to bring booming times back one quick flamboyant casino at a time, crossing the finish line in 2014 with bankruptcy.
IV. Classical dichotomies exist.
I went off to Harvard after high school; my best friend went off to Yale. Last November, the night before the
Game, we sat in one of the bedrooms of an ugly two-story house while the wet wood floor beat with the deep-deepdown-inside part of Kanye’s “Fade,” whose remix was scratched and scored by an anonymous skinny white boy. The mirror seemed cracked as if punched through, and some book by Joan Didion laid mean on the dusty dresser. The house smelled faintly like a cat. Outside, someone yelled over and over again that they were gonna make the school pay, and I wanted to ask for what. Rivalry seemed especially meaningless then, and when we made our way out of the rank two-stories, I saw in my best friend the quiet yellow girl that came before her and the even quieter one that came before her. Our shared town took up negative space between us. She insisted we were sheltered, but in truth, we lived in a liberal nightmare of a place. Our senior year, after Ferguson, a white boy named Tevlin got shot by a black man in an act of admitted public execution for all the lives of color taken by Americans in the Middle East. Later, the president of our high school Gay-Straight Alliance chapter came out as straight and showed off his new girlfriend while his ex-boyfriend sulked in the corner. Then, our town’s equivalent of a soccer mom sued Harvard, but not before another boy’s parents sued Princeton for the same reason almost a decade before. It means something, I told her, to have lived somewhere so upside-down, to have lived somewhere so upside-down.
V. TL;DR:
Perhaps the best conclusion I can give from these nostalgic parables of local governance is that symbolic gestures are meaningless. Our insistence that they matter works on a level of operation that is simply too easy. And when self-interest is involved, we hurt most the ones that were initially promised help. Christina M. Qiu ’19 is an Applied Mathematics concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.
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One Harvard, Still Divisible By DESPOINA LIOLIOU
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n University President Drew G. Faust’s final semester, Harvard would seem like an interdisciplinary utopia. Driven by the “One Harvard” campaign, said to merge Harvard’s academic units into a larger academic community, students from every school fill course-preview classrooms to the brim. But the fantasy ends there. After applying to cross-register into another Harvard school, a logistical hell awaits students, rendering cross-registration nearly impossible. Despite Harvard’s ceaseless promotion of “One Harvard,” when it comes to taking classes outside one’s school, it’s as if “One Harvard” never existed. With few exceptions, whomever you ask, you’ll hear cross-registration horror stories. During shopping week this spring, a friend in the Graduate School of Education attended a total of eight courses at four different schools, with slim chances of getting accepted. A different friend attended a course preview at the Kennedy School, where the professor asked all cross-registrants to kindly leave the room since there was never enough space for non-Kennedy students. I personally petitioned to enroll in nine different courses outside of my school, and felt lucky when I got on the waitlist for just one. Even students who never attempted to cross-register have heard the rumors that it’s easier to register to MIT or Tufts than to a different Harvard unit. The difficulty with cross-registration lies within dysfunctional Harvard school policies. Schools like the Law School, Kennedy School, and Business School often give their own students priority seats before considering out-of-school candidates. Other schools without formal cross-registration policies but limited class availability usually do the same. As a result, cross-registrants must wait until just moments before the registration deadlines to know if they have been accepted. If a class caps enrollment, they usually aren’t. To make things worse, each school follows their own registration calendar, often with little to no communication between schools. Though relatively simple to resolve, poor communication has chronically plagued cross-registration; an op-ed written nearly a decade ago describes strikingly similar problems. For example, while students of the School of Public Health campaign for a seat in class in early December, students of the Graduate School of Education begin course shopping in January, long after all seats at the School of Public Health have been claimed. In my and dozens of others’ experience, the sum of all this looks like the following: You obsessively check course offerings at every school as soon as they become available. Once you’ve made a list of potential courses, you launch a massive e-mail campaign to their instructors, making sure to pad your qualifications and highlight how much you need this course. During course previews, you huddle up with other fellow cross-registrants, and you collectively calculate your chances of getting in based on the school’s policies and deadlines. Finally, you make a multi-layer contingency plan for all in-school and out-of-school courses you have applied for, and pray that it all somehow falls into place. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t, and then you’re back to square one, looking for last-minute in-school courses that accept students past the original deadline. Why, then, does Harvard keep making this empty promise? It’s time to face the fact that, for many, cross-registration remains a selling point, a “you can study anything at Harvard” line in recruitment brochures that actively fails in practice. It’s a broken system, yet it claims that it works because students have the “right” to get rejected from everywhere beyond their own disciplines. The arguable cornerstone of “One Harvard,” cross-registration, has long failed to live up to expectations, and without it, its entire premise has been undermined. Harvard can never dream of seamless, rich, cross-disciplinary collaboration if it constricts students to their individual academic bubbles. In the words of Faust herself, to answer our world’s most pressing questions, “students and faculty must be enabled to draw easily on Harvard’s widely distributed strengths.” This argument does not ask for schools to prioritize other students over their own. Certainly, when degrees require specific courses, and when certain courses require particularly skilled students, it makes sense to limit cross-registration. But keeping cross-registrants floating in limbo defies the “One Harvard” message. It supplants curiosity and innovation with bitter resignation. Understandably, anyone who has experienced the stress and disappointment of cross-registration will spare themselves the agony next semester and cling to their own school. It’s too late for students in the 2017-18 academic year and those who pursue yearlong degrees. However, we must urge Faust’s successor to make much-needed changes to the cross-registration system in the following years. If they turn their gaze towards instances of successful cross-registration, they will find some common themes: stratified lotteries. Reserved seats to ensure space for cross-registrants. Open enrollment, multiple sections, and joint offerings to meet demand. Timely, well-communicated deadlines and notification of enrollment. And more importantly, in these classes they will find a diverse group of students collaborating, thinking deeply, and meeting their true potential. Isn’t that what Harvard’s all about? While individual professors sometimes adopt more relaxed registration practices for their classes, it’s now time for administrative action. Harvard can still deliver on their promise of interdisciplinary education without sacrificing a whole lot. Only this time, cross-registration must work as advertised: for all students, not just those who get lucky. Despoina Lioliou is a master’s student in Human Development & Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Harvard Extends Win Streak to Six Games against Cornell
20-20 COURT VISION Guard Katie Benzan dropped 20 points for the second straight game. The sophomore is averaging 13.7 points per game. Harvard women’s basketball maintained its firm grip on first place in the Ivy League Saturday night, CALLIE E. RENNYSON—Crimson photographer
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL By AMIR MAMDANI Crimson Staff Writer
Harvard women’s basketball team maintained its firm grip on first place in the Ivy League Saturday night, cruising to a 80-58 win over Cornell behind a double-double from freshman forward Jadyn Bush. Saturday’s win was the sixth straight victory for the Crimson (13-6, 5-1 Ivy), improving the team’s record at Lavietes Pavilion to 10-0 for the season. Although Harvard never trailed the Big Red (5-14, 1-5) in the contest, the win nonetheless came at a cost for the team. With just over six minutes remaining in the first half, sophomore forward Jeannie Boehm was whistled for a foul under Harvard’s basket.
But Boehm’s health was the bigger concern, as she fell to the ground, grimacing in pain. Boehm, one of the leading scorers and interior defenders for Harvard, left the floor under her own power, but would not return, watching the second half from the bench. In spite of Boehm’s absence, the Crimson continued to outplay Cornell on the court, leading comfortably throughout the half. “I love how hard we played,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We did a great job without Jeannie, and it allowed us time for the development of other players.” Boehm was not the only casualty of Saturday evening’s matchup. There was more cause for concern, as junior guard Sydney Skinner hit the floor hard in the fourth quarter, diving to scoop up a loose ball. Skinner remained seated on the
court for a few moments before heading to the locker room for further examination. The Plano, Texas, native, a crucial scoring presence off the bench, would not return to the game. With the game score heavily in Harvard’s favor and injuries mounting, coach Delaney Smith emptied her bench. Sophomore guard Mackenzie Barta, freshman guard Matilda Salen, and freshman forward Maddie Stuhlreyer all entered in the fourth quarter. All fourteen players on the roster saw action for the Crimson, with Smith looking to rest players before next weekend’s difficult road trip to Penn and Princeton. Injuries aside, Saturday’s win was a comfortable one for Harvard, as the team led by double digits and by more than 20 points for much of the second half. Saturday also served as a career
night for Bush. She recorded her first career double-double, scoring a career high 12 points and adding 11 rebounds. “She’s incredibly athletic, and she’s got a tremendous work ethic,” Delaney-Smith said of Bush. “Tonight, we needed her to step up big, and she did.” Bush’s performance was crucial with Boehm forced to the bench early with injury. The freshman from Federal Way, Wash., had to play extended minutes, and responded excellently, dominating the glass on both the offensive and defensive ends of the court. Harvard garnered 13 rebounds in the first quarter alone, five of which were on the offensive end, leading to eight early second chance points. By the end of the game, the Crimson had a 46-23 advantage over the Big Red in rebounding, translating to a 31-8 mark in second chance points.
“Rebounding is something we’ve really made a focus this year,” Bush said. “This weekend we’ve finally shown the work we’ve been putting in this year.” Bush would likely see more playing time if Boehm was forced to miss any games, and her performance was encouraging, as huge road matchups against the Tigers and Quakers loom large next weekend. “We’re just going to keep on focusing on what we do well rather than adjust to what they do well,” Delaney-Smith said of the trip. “We know what we have to do against them.” While the interior play was dominant, Harvard had also controlled much of the perimeter play as well. The hosts shot an impressive 53 percent from the field on Saturday, surpassing that with a 56 percent mark from beyond the arc. “The big key in this game was playing together, playing as a team, and distributing the ball well,” Bush explained. Sophomore Katie Benzan had yet another impressive performance against Cornell, leading all scorers with 20 points, and knocking down 5-7 three-pointers. The Wellesley Hills, Mass., native also chipped in with seven assists, one of which led to an exciting buzzer beater. In the dying seconds of the first quarter, Benzan corralled a loose rebound, and tossed it up to Skinner, who dribbled the length of the court to lay the ball in just as the buzzer sounded, giving the Crimson a commanding 19-9 lead entering the second quarter. The Big Red entered Saturday’s game on a skid, losing two straight and four of its past five games, all by double digits. Sophomore guard Samantha Widmann, the team’s leading scorer, was contained for most of the game, as the stifling Harvard defense held her to 16 points on just 7-20 shooting. The Crimson will have to remain solid on defense as the team hits the road for its first Ancient Eight road weekend. Penn and Princeton, which are tied for second in the league, will be a huge challenge for a Harvard team that is 10-0 at Lavietes, but 1-5 in true road games. Staff writer Amir Mamdani can be reached at amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com.
Harvard Defeats Penn, Princeton in Winning Weekend WOMEN’S SQUASH By William Quan Crimson Staff Writer
Out of all the games on the schedule this season for Harvard women’s squash, this weekend’s slate seemed to be the most compelling. On Saturday, the No. 2 Crimson faced No. 1 Princeton in a grudge match of the unbeatens. Just a day later, the team was set for a rematch of last year’s national championship against No. 7 Penn—led by undefeated star junior Reeham Salah. But that’s the magic of the team— they make compelling matches on paper seem predetermined. For the third and fourth times, Harvard (10-0, 5-0 Ivy League) bended as far as it has all season. The Crimson dropped just one match each day. For all of the anticlimax, there was supposed to be a matching amount of excitement. The Quakers were supposed to exact revenge on the Cambridge, Mass., squad that had denied the program its second national championship last year. But its top-heavy squad including two-time individual national finalist Salah and seniors Melissa Alves and Marie Stephan had buckled under pressure this season and lost all four of its matchups against top-flight teams. The real excitement came with the Saturday Ivy League draw: Princeton versus Harvard, led by two of the nation’s best collegiate players and Tournament of Championship participants in Crimson junior Sabrina Sobhy and Tigers senior Olivia Fiechter. The air of suspense quickly evaporated, though, as the star power was rendered null by the depth of Harvard.
HARVARD 8, PENN 1 The danger in this matchup was not that the Crimson couldn’t win the match, but rather that underdog Penn would squirrel a way to victory. The Quakers would have to hang onto dear life and hope that that the top end of its lineup could grind out some wins. It was not without premise. In last year’s national championship, Salah and Alves defeated Sobhy and reigning individual champion Gina Kennedy in the top two slots. But any intrigue quickly dissipated as Harvard’s first wave swept in straight games, and Kennedy exacted revenge against Alves. Four other games would go the minimum in Harvard’s favor.
RETURNING THE VOLLEY Last year’s individual national champion, sophomore Gina Kennedy, has lost just once in the 2017-18 season. Kennedy exacted revenge against last ear’s
national champion Melissa Alves this weekend. TIMOTHY R. o’MEARA —Crimson photographer
Instead the attention was pulled to center court where Sobhy faced off against “The Hammer.” The game followed course with the weekend. Salah won in three games, grounding any hype, which had already fell once it was learned that no rematch of the individual national championship between Salah and the sophomore Kennedy was to take place this weekend. The courts had already quieted when the tensest matchup of the day occurred between Stephan and Crimson junior Kayley Leonard heated up. Already loaded with history from last year’s national finals when Leonard staved off five straight match points to win in five games, the two tangled— many times literally—in an emotional
rematch. The pivotal third game, which eventually put Leonard up 2-1, saw nearly every point dotted with interference claims. Leonard wiggled through to win in four games.
HARVARD 8, PRINCETON 1 Harvard wins by putting the game out of contention early and often. This also means that the strained moments of match day come right as the first serve goes up. In the first game, Kennedy fell in the first game to freshman Raneem El Torky and things seemed unusually uncertain. “I was on the first shift and I lost the first game,” Kennedy said. “I knew it was going to be a tough match…The
courts are really hot so it’s all about finding your length. The mental work that we’ve been doing has really been helpful to stay calm and in the game.” This continued into the second game, as Kennedy went down 5-2. But she responded with seven straight points and even up the match. She then won the third by rattling off six straight winners, en route to a four-game victory. This was as close as top-ranked Princeton got. Harvard kept the Tigers off balance and uncomfortable, no more than Leonard who bageled freshman Grace Doyle in the first game as part of one of five Harvard three-game sweeps. With victory already established despite still playing the second wave,
Sobhy battled Fiechter to five games in an exceptional display of All-American squash, full of long rallies and lead changes. “I’ve played her probably like 50 times since we were 12 years old and she’s a good friend of mine,” Sobhy said. “So, we’ve been playing together ever since. This was actually the first time she beat me, and she played so well.” There are two more weeks of team squash, two more weeks to change the status quo, and a Howe Cup at stake. But for now, Harvard, bolstered by depth and top talent alike, has reestablished its number one ranking. Staff writer William Quan can be reached at william.quan@thecrimson.com.
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Harvard Gets Back on Track Against Dartmouth MEN’S ICE HOCKEY By STUTI R. TElidevara Crimson Staff Writer
After a tight second period, the Harvard men’s hockey team led Dartmouth, 2-1, with less than four minutes to go in regulation. With time ticking down, the game grew chippier as the Big Green pressed on in search of the tying goal. The puck bounced around the neutral zone before junior forward Lewis Zerter-Gossage corralled it and found the tape of linemate Ryan Donato, who had drifted all alone behind the Dartmouth defense. The precision-pass gave Donato the time and space he needed. Coming down the slot, he moved to his backhand and flipped the biscuit bar-down on senior netminder Devin Buffalo. The Scituate, Mass., native and his linemates barely celebrated the late tally, though the third goal was certainly significant. “It was just relief,” Donato recalled. “I didn’t even have the time to celebrate. I was just like, ‘finally.’” Friday night, the Crimson (10-8-4, 9-5-3 ECAC) skated to a 4-1 win over Dartmouth (9-12-2, 7-8-1), although relief—rather than excitement— seemed to be the tone of the triumph. After Harvard failed to score in two contests last weekend, the team’s offense began the road to recovery in Hanover, N.H. Donato himself, the NCAA’s leading goal-scorer (21), had been operating at over a goal per game before last weekend’s goose eggs. Of the four times the Crimson tickled the twine against the Big Green, only Donato’s was a top-line effort— another promising sign for the team, which will soon lose its scoring leader to the American Olympic squad. The bottom six made the difference in this game, going hard to the net and forcing Buffalo to make some scrambling saves.
“A lot of guys are going to have to start stepping up,” freshman forward Benjamin Solin said. “[Donato] being gone is going to give a lot of opportunities [to] some other guys.” Solin opened the scoring, deflecting a left-point shot from sophomore defenseman John Marino just 3:58 into the tilt. Though Harvard outshot Dartmouth, 19-6, in the first frame, the visitors could only build a 1-0 lead before the intermission. “In the first, I thought their goalie played great,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “Unfortunately, that’s been a theme for us. I thought we could’ve had three or four in the first pretty easily.” Despite the free-flowing first frame, the game tightened up in the second, as it took more than half of the middle period for either team to strike. This time, it was the Big Green’s turn. Rookie forward Quin Foreman carried the puck up the left wing and fired a shot that trickled through Crimson tri-captain Merrick Madsen into the blue paint. Sophomore Shane Sellar poked the loose puck home in the confusion. Though the game was closest in the middle frame, that tally would be the only goal Madsen let in all night. “I felt solid. That’s kind of the game I’m trying to get back to,” Madsen said. “We got back into the win column, and that’s what mattered tonight.” A few minutes after Sellar’s tying goal, a chip from Harvard sophomore forward Nathan Krusko sprang his linemates, sophomore Frédéric Grégoire and freshman Jack Badini, on a 2-on-1. Grégoire flew up the left wing and picked his corner, beating Buffalo with a far-side snipe. Harvard had regained the lead and would not relinquish it again. Late in the final frame and shortly after Donato’s breakaway goal, senior defenseman Wiley Sherman hit Dart-
LIGHT THE LAMP The Crimson finally broke through an opposing goaltender after running into two brick walls last weekend vs. No. 1 Cornell and Colgate. TIMOTHY R. o’MEARA—Crimson photographer
mouth’s empty net from 190 feet away, sealing the win. Coach Donato shuffled the lines in advance of Friday night, reuniting last year’s top defensive duo of Sherman and Marino, both of whom had points in the game. The familiar pairings kept the Big Green in check for the most part, aside from a few 2-on-1 chances in the second frame where Madsen was able to make the stop. A return to form for the senior netminder, who turned away 22 of 23 shots, would prove a timely boon for
the Crimson as it looks ahead to Monday’s Beanpot matchup. In addition to Madsen’s solid play (.957 SV%), the team also benefited from the penalty kill, which saw a bounce-back performance on Friday evening. The man-down unit went a perfect 3-for-3 after conceding both Colgate goals in last Saturday’s 2-0 loss. “I think it was a really solid team effort,” Madsen said. “There are some things we still want to work on, but we’re starting to get back on track.” One of those pieces that could still
use refining is Harvard’s power play. The unit is scoreless in its last 12 opportunities, going from a 27.3% execution rate in December to 9.4% in January. As the team prepares to face BU at TD Garden, the possible return of freshman forward Henry Bowlby or the Terriers’ lackluster shorthanded squad (78.2%) could provide the jump that the Crimson’s extra-man group needs. Staff writer Stuti R. Telidevara can be reached at stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com.
Second Half Surge Pushes Columbia Past Harvard, 83-76
IN THE LION’S DEN Sophomore guard Bryce Aiken drives to the hoop, guarded by two defenders. HENRY ZHU—Crimson photographer
MEN’S BASKETBALL By STEPHEN J. GLEASON Crimson Staff Writer
NEW YORK, N.Y.—A lack of offense down the stretch coupled with a scalding hot second half by Columbia doomed the Harvard men’s basketball team on Friday night as the Crimson fell to the Lions, 83-76, in New York City. Despite a career-high 31 points from sophomore forward Seth Towns and a 15-point first half lead, a post-intermission stretch that saw the Lions make nine straight field goals ultimately proved to be the difference. The loss was Harvard’s first in conference play and further muddled the Ivy League’s postseason picture. Many of the same themes that have been present for the Crimson (9-11, 4-1 Ivy League) over its last several games were on display on Friday night—Harvard jumped out to a large lead early
in the first half, allowed Columbia (513, 2-3) back into the contest before intermission, and offset offensive spells by going cold from the field for long stretches. For the first time in conference play this season, however, the formula resulted in defeat for the Crimson. A week after not making a field goal in the game’s final 4:56 against Yale and still managing to win, converting just three in the final 7:09 of its matchup against the Lions proved to be too big of a hurdle for Harvard to overcome. “I thought that Columbia played incredibly well, especially when we had a sizable lead there early and they really dug in and got back into it in the first half,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I thought that was a big key in that we weren’t able to sustain that march that we had early.” While defense tends to be the Crimson’s calling card and threepoint shooting the thorn in its side, the script was largely flipped on Fri-
day evening. Harvard shot 43 percent from beyond the arc—nailing 16 triples in the process—but struggled to get stops for most of the contest. Towns followed up his career night from last Saturday against Brown with arguably a better performance in New York. After attacking the rim and converting on midrange jumpers in dismantling the Bears, the sophomore showed off his three-point shooting touch for the 2,010 fans in attendance, making six of nine triple attempts. Towns only turned the ball over twice and had 26 of his the Crimson’s first 49 points. Through five Ivy League contests, the Columbus, Ohio native is averaging 22.8 points per game. “I think we a good job generally sticking to our principles and how we play on offense,” Towns said. “I’m out there to do whatever we need to do to make a play and score. In terms of playing my game, I don’t think that their pace was disrupting that.”
After Towns helped his team establish an early lead that topped out at 15, Harvard struggled to maintain a torrid scoring pace that was characterized by sharing the basketball and hitting open jump shots. The Lions went on an 11-0 run and ended the first half riding a 22-13 burst that put its deficit at a mere six. After not committing a single turnover in the game’s first 11:32, the Crimson coughed the ball up four times over a 3:28 span late in the opening half. Facing a Harvard team that prides itself on suffocating defense and slowing the pace on the other end, Columbia relished the opportunity to play offense in transition. The hosts turned the ball over just once and scored 22 points in the frame’s final 9:29 and held without a point for nearly four and a half minutes. The second major power outage came not long after the first. After Towns pushed his point total to 23 (of the Crimson’s 46) less than two minutes into the second half, the Harvard offense went ice cold. Following Towns’ basket at the 18:34 mark, the Crimson would not score a single point again until 13:28 remained, missing all five of its field goal attempts in the process. Meanwhile, Columbia caught fire once again, shooting 6-of-11 from the field during a 17-5 run to start the frame. After recording just six assists in the entire first half, the Lions registered five on their first six made field goals of the second. While senior guard Kyle Castlin largely kept the hosts in the game in the first half—12 points on four-offour shooting off the bench—it was Columbia’s top two scorers who did the damage after the break. Junior guard Quinton Adlesh made just one of his four first half field goal attempts but scored 13 of the Lions’ first 25 points after intermission and registered 17 points in a stretch that consumed less than eight minutes of game action. Columbia made nine consecutive field goals and saw its lead stand at nine with 9:18 to play. During the hot streak, sophomore guard Mike Smith also came alive, finishing the contest with 16 points after posting just two in the first half. “We were trying to do different things to slow them down and they got into a nice rhythm running their offense and getting good shots,” Amaker said. “They made some against our zone, I thought they made some tough shots too. I thought a few of the shots we did all we could do, bodies there, hands up, and they still made some tough shots. We told our kids that we just need to keep our heads up.” Columbia coach Jim Engles noted that Harvard sophomore forward
Chris Lewis was the focal point of his team’s defensive gameplan entering the contest. While Lewis struggled with foul trouble last Saturday, he was largely the Crimson’s x-factor in its win over Yale a week ago. The sophomore is consistently a mismatch for Ivy League big men and is the main interior post presence in Amaker’s inside-out offense. “We knew a lot of the stuff they do centers around him,” Engles said of Lewis. “They are a ball-screen heavy offense and we were really focused on making sure that he was contained as much as we could. I thought we did a good job keeping him off the glass as well.” The Lions were successful in limiting Lewis (seven points and just five field goal attempts), and Harvard was unable to establish an inside game for most of the evening. Despite entering the bonus with 9:45 to play in the game, the Crimson only attempted four free throw attempts down the stretch. For as much as it struggled down low, Harvard was able to make up for it and then some from beyond the arc. Towns and Johnson led the barrage for the guests, teaming up for 46 of the Crimson’s 76 points and shooting a combined 11-of-21 from long range. The hot shooting from deep was a far cry from the 30.7 percent mark that Harvard held entering the contest. However, apart from Johnson, much of the Crimson’s backcourt struggled with efficiency from the field. Point guards Christian Juzang, Bryce Aiken, and Mario Haskett shot a combined 2-for-13. Sophomore wing Justin Bassey was two-for-six from the field and turned the ball over six times. Despite the two lengthy Harvard droughts and simultaneous Columbia runs, perhaps the most frustrating part for the Crimson was that it was still largely in the contest when it went into its third cold spell. A Johnson three with 7:09 to play got Harvard to within two but its next points would not come until Bassey made a layup with 2:43 to play. Towns would make another three, his sixth of the evening, and freshman forward Danilo Djuricic converted a layup in the closing seconds, but the Lions scored 14 of the night’s final 25 points to put the game on ice. All told, Columbia scored 48 points in the second half (on 60 percent shooting) and 73 over the game’s final 30 minutes, outscoring its guests by 22 in the process. The 83 points allowed were the most that the Crimson has given up since its 2015 trip to Morningside Heights. Staff writer Stephen J. Gleason can be reached at stephen.gleason@thecrimson.com.