The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 25

The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 25 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Thursday, February 22, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Protesters thoughtfully critiqued Rahm Emanuel’s speech at the GSD.

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Profs Critique Gen Ed Update

Harvard Is Both Investor, University

By Lucy Wang

By Eli W. Burnes and Luke W. Vrotsos

Crimson Staff Writer

Crimson Staff Writers

Some professors of popular General Education classes slated to lose their General Education status under a proposed new College system said they are frustrated their courses will no longer qualify under the updated requirements.

The College will roll out the new Program in General Education in 2019, a year later than originally planned.

With the switch, perennial General Education favorites like Culture and Belief 23: “From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism” and Societies of the World 38: “Pyramid Schemes: The Archaeological History of Ancient Egypt” will no longer count towards requirements.

Shaye J.D. Cohen, who teaches CB23 and another course on the Hebrew Bible in the fall that has seen high enrollment numbers in the last few years, said the General Education committee decided these courses would no longer count for General Education credit under the new program.

In March of 2016, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to overhaul the

Harvard’s investment decisions often grab headlines. Protesters have blockaded administrative buildings and staged sit-ins in downtown Boston to oppose the University’s investments in fossil fuels and private prisons. And University President Drew G. Faust has publicly opined on whether or not it is wise to divest from controversial assets.

Meanwhile, two University committees routinely make a set of less visible—yet ethically challenging—decisions about how to act as a shareholder in its existing investments. At the meetings of these committees, Harvard takes public stances on issues ranging from climate change to the rights of indigenous people in its capacity as a shareholder.

Like any investor in a public company, Harvard must decide how to vote in shareholder elections, which advise a corporation how to act with respect to a certain issue. In 2017, the two committees took up 44 widely different

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Dental School Passes Capital Campaign Goal

By Luke W. Vrotsos Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine has surpassed its $8 million capital campaign goal, reaching $10.1 million in donations during the four-year campaign that ends this June.

The school launched its capital campaign, titled “It Begins with Me,” in April 2014. At the time, Dental School administrators said they aimed to devote $6 million toward financial aid for its students and $2 million toward public oral health programs.

Wanda Mock, associate dean for development and alumni affairs at the Dental School, said 1,300 donors have contributed to the current $10.1 million total. The school has about 2,500 living alumni, who together gave 26 percent of all donations collected during Fiscal Year 2016.

Foundations and companies also accounted for 10 percent of the donations ­

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to the school, but the largest source of donations comprised individuals unaffiliated with the school, who gave 64 percent of the 2016 funds, Mock said.

The capital campaign also benefited from a $2 million gift from Gordon Macdonald, who spent a decade at the school, and his wife Ruth, according to Mock.

“The campaign has accelerated the School’s ability to educate value-based and service-oriented future leaders in the oral health profession,” Mock wrote in an emailed statement.

Mock also wrote the donations given to the campaign “will touch the lives of the School community and its students for generations to come.”

In 2014, the school didn’t have the funds to provide all of its students competitive financial aid packages, according to Mock. Annual tuition at the Dental School is currently $59,800, and

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Black Arts Festival

Harvard students perform at the Jill Scott Masterclass, the second event of Kuumba’s Black Arts Festival: Coming of Age. Kai R. McNamee—Crimson photographer

Bacow Brings Economic Expertise

Harvard Foundation Criticizes Aung Kyi

By Delano R. Franklin

By Cecilia R. D’arms Crimson Staff Writer

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Arpan Sarkar ‘20 and Andrew S. Cho ‘20 enjoy smoothies as part of a study break sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House on Wednesday. Lu Shao—Crimson photographer

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When President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow assumes the University’s top job in July, he’ll add environmental economics to a long list of fields that Harvard’s academics-turned-presidents have pursued—ranging from theology to Renaissance literature to analytical chemistry.

Bacow, who earned a doctorate of public policy and a degree in law from Harvard, taught urban studies and planning and environmental studies at MIT from 1977 to 1998 before entering the school’s administration, first as chancellor and then as chair of the MIT faculty. Later, he became president of Tufts.

Over the course of his academic career, Bacow published two books

The Harvard Foundation called on Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to better address her country’s ongoing persecution and expulsion of Rohingya Muslims in a statement Wednesday.

The Foundation previously presented Aung San Suu Kyi with its Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2016 at at an awards ceremony that met with some student protest at the time.

“We urge her to recognize publicly the Rohingya people, their identity, and their rights,” the students interns who penned the statement wrote Wednesday.

The statement outlines the development of the Rohingya crisis and criticizes the national leader for what it dubs her “tentative” response. Thirty-two faculty and student members

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around the ivies Yale A Capella group accepts first female singer after going gender neutral The Yale Whiffenpoofs, the oldest collegiate a cappella group, accepted a female singer for the first time since their founding in 1909, according to the Yale Daily News. The decision comes after the Whiffenpoofs and the Whim ‘n Rythm, another Yale a capella group, announced earlier this month they would both accept members of any gender in the spring rush. Whim ‘n Rythm remains all female. Sofia Campoamor, the first female member of the Whiffs, told the YDN that she would have auditioned even if the Whiffs had not decided to go gender neutral.

Columbia student government establishes new election commission after fall failure Columbia’s student government organizations finalized appointments to a new body to oversee student elections, according to the Columbia Spectator. The Columbia Elections Commission will fill the role left by the Columbia Elections board, the body previously responsible for overseeing elections, the Spectator reported.

The board came under fire for failure publicize elections in the fall semester and the last remaining member of the board resigned in October, according to the Spectator.

Marcus du Sautoy Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, presents on his new book, “The Great Unknown” in the Science Center.

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Cornell’s Vice Provost of International Affairs Resigns

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BHM Open Mic Cambridge is throwing down tonight in the Sullivan Chamber of City Hall for an Open Mic Night in celebration of Black history month. 6-8 p.m.

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Despair all ye warm weather lovers, for Jack Frost hasn’t had the last word yet. Rain, late-evening flurries, and a high of 39 degrees will replace the little slice of late spring we’ve

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Cornell’s Laura Spitz announced her resignation from the role of vice provost for international students on Tuesday, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. Spitz’ two year term was riddled with conflict as on two separate occasions potential changes to the financial standing of international students came to the fore, the Sun reported. The current International Affairs Associate dean, Wendy Wolford, has been announced as Spitz successor; Wolford will assume her new position on March 20th, according to the Sun.

Multicultural Center Email-A-Thon

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Mayhem and Delays Mark Wednesday for Red Line

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Wednesday was a banner day for horror on the Red Line. While the suffering of MBTA riders may never rival that of frequenters of New York’s subway system, we can all appreciate a colorful story about the very relatable experience of being royally let down by your city’s public transportation network.

Passing Notes to the President President Donald J. Trump appeared to have relied on a hastily-written talking-points sheet at a discussion with survivors of the Parkland Shooting on Wednesday, passed to him by an aide before the discussion began.

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Profs Bemoan Loss Univ. Weighs Investment Issues of Gen Ed Courses Shareholders From Page 1

Gen Ed From Page 1 current General Education program after a committee tasked with reviewing the program reported it was “failing on a variety of fronts.”

Though Cohen said he supported the motion at the time he said he was not aware of the way the implementation committee would choose courses for the new program.

“Had I known at the faculty meeting when we approved Gen Ed 2.0, had I known this is the way it was implemented, I would’ve voted against it,” Cohen said.

Cohen said he thinks the criteria for new General Education classes is biased toward certain disciplines.

East Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor Carter Eckert, who teaches Societies of the World 27: “The Two Koreas,” said the implementation committee told him the course would no longer be counted for General Education credit last summer.

Eckert said he sent an application to the committee explaining how his course fits the new General Education categories.

“I was rather puzzled that the Gen Ed committee decided that the course didn’t fit, and there wasn’t a clear explanation in the email that I received as to why it did not fit, apart from saying it didn’t fit into these categories,” he said.

Though Cohen said he can’t predict future enrollment numbers, he said he assumes “that the enrollment will diminish substantially” with the loss of

I was rather puzzled that the Gen Ed committee decided that the coure didn’t fit.

Carter Eckert

East Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor Gen Ed status.

In the spring of 2017, Cohen’s CB23 had 365 enrollees in the College. This past fall, his course Cultural and Belief 29: “The Hebrew Bible” had 297 enroll-

ees in the College.

“I’m more than happy to reach out to a large number of students,” Cohen said. “That number is probably going to go down. As far as that is true, I will be

Had I known at the faculty meeting when we approved Gen Ed 2.0, had I known this is the way it was implemented, I would’ve voted against it.

Shaye J.D. Cohen Religion Professor less happy.”

Peter Manuelian, a professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, said his Societies of the World class, “Pyramid Schemes,” might face similar challenges in enrollment if the course is removed from the General Education program.

“I wouldn’t want to see a large enrollment course turn into a small enrollment course just because we’re redefining it under some way,” Manuelian said.

Manuelian said he has not decided whether he will apply for the new Program in General Education or teach it as a departmental class.

Both Cohen and Manuelian also said they were sad to see a “Study of the Past” requirement that exists under the old General Education system not be included in the new program.

“The current system has at least one course dealing with the study of the past, and I’m not sure that will be part of the new system,” Manuelian said.

“Speaking as a biased person who deals with the ancient world, I’d like to see that stick around.”

The chair of the standing committee on General Education did not directly respond to a request for comment.

proposals—ranging from a suggestion PepsiCo should curtail pesticide use in order to protect bees to a suggestion Verizon should create a human rights committee to a suggestion Home Depot should be more transparent about equal employment information.

As an educational institution, though, Harvard shies away from taking political stances. Considering ethical responsibilities while remaining apolitical is a difficult balance to strike, according to William F. Lee ’72, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.“The line between responsible financial investing, having the University take political positions, and having things that are so antithetical to what we do that we don’t want to be involved, they are hard lines to draw,” Lee said in an interview in fall 2017.

Harvard Management Company, which is responsible for Harvard’s $37.1 billion endowment, works in tandem with two committees on shareholder responsibility issues: the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, made up of four members of the Harvard Corporation, and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, comprising four faculty members, four students, and four alumni.

The ACSR deliberates during a compressed “proxy season” in the spring, after proposals are released for consideration by shareholders. The group considers social and environmental issues and gives its recommendations to the CCSR, which makes a final decision on how Harvard should vote. The CCSR is also responsible for monitoring HMC’s implementation of Univer-

sity investment policy—including any decision to divest from particular assets.Harvard makes investment decisions with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors in mind, according to Lee. These factors include issues pertaining to climate change, pollution and worker health, and investors use them to assess risk and maximize long-term returns.

“They’re all about investing prudently and financially soundly, doing it in a responsible way,” Lee, who heads the CCSR, said.Howell E. Jackson, a professor at Harvard Law School and the chair of the ACSR, said the committee carefully researches and deliberates on every proposal it considers.

“There is actually a huge amount of background reading,” Jackson said.

Once the ACSR makes recommendations about each proxy vote, it sends them to the CCSR, which Jackson said has a tradition of “overwhelmingly following” the ACSR’s recommendations.

Lee agreed, adding that “the overwhelming majority of the time, [the CCSR adopts] their recommendation on how to vote.”

In the unusual cases when the Corporation committee does not accept the ACSR’s recommendation, Jackson said the discrepancy is often because new information emerges about the issue in question.

The CCSR publishes an annual report outlining the decisions made on proxies for that year; Lee said the report forms an effort on behalf of the Corporation to be transparent about Harvard’s shareholder votes.

“We’re one of the few universities that discloses how we vote on the proxies, and I think that’s an important part of what we do,” Lee said.Last year’s report outlines the University’s position

on 44 issues, noting a sharp increase in the last few years in the number of proposals relating to political campaign spending. A rationale for the vote outcome and a sketch of the committee’s thought process accompanies each decision. The resulting 35-page report provides a glimpse into Harvard’s approach to investment ethics.

“The University’s posture with respect to socially responsible investing is relatively progressive, I think,” Jackson said.

The ACSR relies heavily on past precedent to make decisions. If a decision breaks with past precedent, their report clarifies why the recommended vote is unique from past decisions.

But ESG priorities change over time.

Harvard often voted against proposals to publicize political lobbying several years ago, according to Lee, but now consistently votes in favor of them.

Students, faculty, and alumni do not always agree with the University’s approach—and in recent years, some have called on Harvard to take a firmer ethical or political stance on controversial investment issues. The campus activist group Divest Harvard in particular has held rallies, blockaded multiple University buildings, and had its members arrested in protest of the University’s investments in fossil fuels.

Harvard has since “paused” investments in fossil fuels, though University representatives have repeatedly made clear the decision was motivated by fiscal—rather than political or ethical— concerns.

More recently, the Harvard College Project for Justice, a student group, petitioned Harvard to divest from its stake in private companies, which the University holds through investment firm Vanguard.

Dental School Passes Funding Target Dental School From Page 1 the total cost of attendance can exceed $100,000 each year.

In 2013, the average student graduating with a D.M.D. from Harvard had $162,000 in debt. Students completing D.M.Sc. and M.M.Sc. degrees, which cover specialties like orthodontistry, averaged $243,000 in debt at graduation.

The campaign’s case statement, a

document released at the start of the campaign, specifically mentioned three types of aid donations would support: D.M.D. scholarships, fellowships for postdoctoral students in specialty programs, and a fund for Dean’s Scholars, who often pursue careers as academic researchers.

Mock wrote the campaign has enabled $2.7 million in additional financial aid.

The University-wide capital cam-

paign has raised over $8 billion in the last four years, exceeding its $6.5 billion goal. Administrators at other schools, like Harvard Medical School, have previously said financial aid fundraising has lagged behind other development goals. The Dental School is among the smallest of Harvard’s twelve degree-granting schools, with 137 students in its D.M.D. program and 103 students in D.M.Sc. and M.M.Sc. programs.

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Bacow Brings Harvard Foundation Economic Knowhow Criticizes Auung Kyi Bacow From Page 1 a nd various articles on environmental studies, economics, and higher education policy. His first book, published 1982 and titled “Bargaining for Job Safety and Health,” explores” how labor and management work together and against each other to abate occupational hazards,” according to the MIT Press.

“Environmental Dispute Resolution,” which he co-wrote with retired Harvard Business School Professor Michael Wheeler in 1984, examines the formulation of environmental policy, as well as negotiations between the government, environmental advocates, and regulated entities.

Health Policy Researcher Craig V. Thornton, who reviewed “Bargaining for Job Safety and Health,” said it covered “a really interesting” field of study.“[It’s] a really important topic for a Harvard president,” Thornton said.

Though Bacow holds more administrative experience than his immediate predecessors Drew G. Faust and Lawrence H. Summers, he has published a smaller body of scholarship, boasting considerably fewer academic articles than either of the other two scholars.

Faust continued working as a civil war historian right up until she moved in to the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall. Before assuming the University’s top job, Faust was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced ­

Study and simultaneously held a professorship.

By contrast, it has been 20 years since Bacow worked as an academic.

Before her appointment to the presidency, Faust also published eight books, one of which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Harvard’s 27th president, Summers, was “the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation,” according to Harvard’s website.

University of Michigan Professor John E. Tropman, who reviewed an article Bacow co-wrote, “Facility Siting and Public Opposition,” said Bacow’s work in administration left him less time for scholarship.“If you have the kind of jobs he’s had, there’s a cost to that,” Tropman said.But Tropman said Bacow’s academic work likely prepared him very well to be president.

Some of Bacow’s scholarship has touched on university administration, covering employment benefits, technology in higher education, and real estate.Tropman called Bacow “a pracademic, a practical academic... more practically-oriented than theory-building.”

“Obviously the new president has an interest in and a talent for problem-solving and managing,” Tropman said.In much of his scholarly work, Bacow has collaborated with academics in different fields.

Myanmar From Page 1 of the Harvard Foundation signed the document.Following a military crackdown in Myanmar last fall, the Foundation began conversations with student groups to discuss how to better respond to criticisms of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to Foundation student intern Jasmine Chia ’18.

“The Harvard Foundation therefore believes that Aung San Suu Kyi’s lack of public recognition for the Rohingya, and the continued brutality in Rakhine state, does not live up to the spirit of the award we gave her,” Cengiz Cemaloglu ’18 wrote in an email.

According to its website, the Harvard Foundation presents its humanitarian award “to an individual whose works and deeds have served to improve the quality of our lives and have inspired us to greater heights.” Rihanna and Elton John received the award in 2017.

When the award was given to Aung San Suu Kyi, S. Allen Counter, former director of the Harvard Foundation, praised “her courageous struggle for democracy, human rights, and peace in her nation” at the Sept. 2016 awards ceremony. Counter passed away in July 2017.“The courageous struggle for democracy was and is still inspiring,” Cemaloglu wrote.

Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her continued ­

advocacy for nonviolence and democratization while Myanmar was governed by a military junta. After Myanmar democratized and held elections, she won a seat in parliament and became the leader of her party.

Legally ineligible to run for the presidency, she assumed the newly created position of “state counsellor” in 2016. Filling a role similar to that of a prime minister, she is the de facto head of government in Myanmar.

Though the Harvard Foundation celebrated her achievement of democratic reforms in 2016, the award ceremony drew protest from students in the Harvard Islamic Society, who had earlier criticized Aung San Suu Kyi’s selection given her silence on the persecution of the country’s Rohingya minority.The Foundation’s Wednesday statement shows a reversal on part of the Harvard Foundation, which now echoes those criticisms.“We hope to encourage the Burmese government to recognize the humanitarian atrocities of the situation and move towards a more inclusive citizenship policy,” Chia wrote. “The rights of ethnic minorities must be taken more seriously, not just with the Rohingya but with the Shan, the Karen, the Chin, and the various other 135 ethnic groups that live within Myanmar’s borders.”

Representatives of the Burmese government were not immediately available for comment Wednesday.

UC Conversations Program Debuts to Praise

By Jonah S. Berger Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard Conversations, a new Undergraduate Council initiative that facilitates dinner table discussions between students and faculty members, debuted to campus-wide praise last week.

The dinners—accommodating one faculty member and ten to 12 students—focus on topics chosen ahead of time by the faculty member.

Upcoming topics range from impostor syndrome to the role of scientists in the public sphere.

The UC agreed to partially fund the program at a meeting earlier this

The one thing I did notice was how fluid the conversation was.

It was not akward.

Michelle Y. Zhang ‘21 Dinner Attendee

month. Education Committee Chair Sruthi Palaniappan ’20, who helped

spearhead the initiative, said the Office of Undergraduate Education will foot at least $5,000 of the bill for this semester.

According to Palaniappan, Harvard Conversations formed to overcome “barriers” that the popular Classroom to Table program imposed on students.

That program —which pays for small groups of students to eat at Square restaurants with their professors—requires students themselves to schedule outings.

Harvard Conversations, on the other hand, is organized by UC representatives, allowing students to simply sign up for a dinner.

“Harvard Conversations allows you to just click ‘Sign up,’ fill out a very brief form, and then we will put together the group of students that would be there,” Palaniappan said.

“It’s been a lot easier for students to participate in this program and also get to have dinner not only with an interesting faculty member, but students that they also probably have also never met before.”

Students said they think the new program has many advantages over Classroom to Table.

One advantage comprises a more structured format that facilitates smooth dialogue, students said.

Michelle Y. Zhang ’21, who attended

last Wednesday’s dinner led by math preceptor Hakim J. Walker, said the defined scope of the conversation kept the discussion from going stale.

It was actually really fun because people were bringing completely different perspectives to the table.

Andrew Berry ‘00 Biology Lecturer

“The one thing that I did notice was how fluid the conversation was,” Zhang said. “It was not awkward, there were never awkward silences.”

Biology lecturer Andrew Berry said he enjoyed leading Monday’s dinner, which centered on naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s contributions to the discovery of natural selection.

As an undergraduate advisor in life sciences at Harvard, Berry said he rarely gets to interact with students from other departments.

“It was actually really fun because people were bringing completely different perspectives to the table,” Berry said.

“And they’re asking questions that people don’t normally ask me.”

Multiple attendees of recent dinners cited the benefits of knowing the topic of the conversation beforehand.

Palaniappan said specifying the focus of the conversations in advance helps ensure that only students who are interested in a given topic attend the dinner.

“Students are also lotterying into the dinners that have topics mostly attuned to their interests,” Palaniappan said.

“Maybe it’s been on their mind, and they just wanted another space to be able to converse with other students who feel similar.”

The dinners, catered by Square restaurants, take place every Monday and Wednesday in House common rooms.

UC President Catherine L. Zhang ’19 said in early February that over 50 professors, including Government professor Danielle S. Allen, had already expressed interest in leading a dinner.

Grammy Winners at Black Arts Festival

By ANDREA M. BOSSI Crimson Staff Writer

The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College hosted Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress Jill Scott and Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding for a conversation and masterclass Tuesday to kick off the week-long Black Arts Festival.Black Arts Festival Co-Chair Olutoyin Demuren ’18 welcomed Scott and Spalding to the festival and introduced this year’s festival theme, “Coming of Age,” which she said symbolizes “a constant making and remaking of our identity.”

Scott credited her early exposure to art to days in her youth when her mother would take her to Ortlieb’s, a jazz club in Philadelphia.

“That’s where I learned how powerful art truly was,” she said.

When Spalding asked Scott where her “authenticity” comes from, Scott said she looks to other actors and musicians who inspired her to ask how they mastered performing with genuine emotion.“I tried to remember that they have to find the truth in every word, every phrase, every moment. Where is the truth as an actor, as a writer, as a singer, as a human being?” Scott said.

The event started with Kuumba singers serenading Scott with her song “Golden.” Several students then performed musical numbers and received feedback from Scott. Guitarist Alexander S. Graff ’17 provided backing instrumentals for several of the performances.Billed to the public as a masterclass, the feedback and instruction Scott gave to student performers made the event an interactive space, attendees said.

After Arlesia G. McGowan ‘19 performed an original piece called “Unenduring,” Scott emphasized the importance of sharing personal spirit through your song.“Taste what you’re saying. See the color of what you’re saying,” Scott told McGowan.Later, after Roderick Mullen’s ’19 cover of “This Woman’s Work” and “Latch,” Scott spoke about finding ways to sing with more passion. “What we look for as vocalists is water to swim in,” she said.

Scott seemed to particularly enjoy an original, untitled composition performed by Eden H. Girma ’18. After Girma finished singing, Scott said, “You don’t need to sing anybody else’s songs anymore.”

Michael A. Wingate ’18 performed last, singing a cover of “Plastic” by Moses Sumney—marking another song Scott appeared to relish.“When you have a voice like yours, all you have to do is tell the truth,” Scott said.

While Scott offered performers feedback, she shared her insight with those watching, too, telling them about the struggles that come with publicly performing. “You have to be vulnerable to many,” she said.

CAMHS Debuts System HDS Gets Record-Breaking Donation Reducing Wait Time

By Jingyao Zhao

Crimson Staff Writer

By AHAB Chopra and Ashley m. Cooper Crimson Staff Writer ­

Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health Services has piloted a new model for service provision to reduce the wait time for students who request therapy appointments.

Nonetheless, though, a high volume of requests has continued to slow response time.

Harvard University Health Services Director Paul J. Barreira sent an email to College students last week updating them about the changes to the service provision system.

In an interview earlier this month, Barreira said the new model is meant to address the “deluge of need that was coming” to UHS. Barreira said Harvard has seen an uptick in the number of students who are admitted to psychiatric units in recent years.

When Barreira started working at Harvard around 14 years ago, 30 students per year entered psychiatric units, he said.

In the fall of 2017 alone, by comparison, 55 students entered psychiatric units, he said.

“If you looked at the slope, it’s an increasing number of admissions, increasing number of students being admitted for suicidal behaviors too, that’s also just another measure of severity,” he said.

Throughout the month of January, CAMHS employees undertook an “exhaustive review” of the way they provide services, according to Barreira.

The staffers ultimately decided institutional change was needed.

“The way counseling and mental health services are structured doesn’t meet the need of contemporary stu-

dents, so just adding, adding, adding isn’t sufficient—other things have to happen,” Barreira said.

CAMHS evaluated data from previous years to create the new system for treating students.

The target wait time for the updated model comprises 48 hours between the time a student requests an appointment and the time they are seen by a team of CAMHS clinicians.

“The CAMHS triage team will work to respond within 48 hours of your booking request to determine the best options for you,” Barreira wrote in the email to students Friday.

“For urgent care, mental health clinicians are available for same day appointments.”

After the 48-hour period, according to Barreira, a CAMHS employee is supposed to call or schedule a 20-minute face-to-face conversation with the patient.

The student will then have a counseling session with a mental health professional five days after that initial short conversation.

Because this mental health service falls under HUHS, students will have to pay no additional cost, Barreira said.

Even with the new system, though, CAMHS has struggled to meet the high volume of student requests for counseling, he said.

“We haven’t reached that goal yet because instead of 100 a week we’ve got 140 a week, so you know everything has to be examined and then adjusted,” Barreira said.

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

A $25 million donation to the Divinity School will enable a complete renovation of the main campus building, administrators announced last week.

Artist and philanthropist Susan S. Swartz and her husband, investor James R. Swartz ‘64, have donated the largest gift in the school’s 200-year history.

Susan S. Swartz is an impressionist painter who serves on the Divinity School’s dean’s council. James Swartz is the co-founder of the global venture capital firm Accel. Both have pursued philanthropic initiatives in the past, including previous donations to the Divinity school.

Hannah Peters, the associate dean for development and external relations at the Divinity School, said the gift will mainly be used to fund the Andover Project, a long-desired renovation of the school’s main campus building, Andover Hall.“It is for our campus community, for projects that have been our

priorities for a long time, and the gift catapults them into action,” Peters said.

Executive Dean of the Divinity School Patricia M. Byrne said the goals of the project include updating multimedia facilities, increasing levels of energy-efficiency, and creating new spaces for students and faculty.

Though the school provides plenty of events and other opportunities for conversations, according to Byrne, there is not yet a lot of public space where students can engage with each other after class.

“We’re trying to create new gathering spaces for the students and connect it, visually and physically, to library spaces, and the cafe space, and public gathering spaces, so that we have a community structure of the campus,” Byrne said.

The Divinity School has been a leader of sustainability efforts among the Harvard schools, Byrne said. .“We will be able to revise this treasured building as an energy-efficient building, giving it new and extended life,” Byrne said.

“The infrastructure of our building

is somewhat out of date, we have updated a number of individual rooms within the building, but we need to do a better job for that,” Peters said. “It was designed as a Protestant seminary in the early 1900s. It is 2018 and the school has a very different mission now.”

“This is a signal moment for HDS, and we are all very grateful to Susan and Jim for their remarkable support,” University President Drew Faust said in a Divinity School press release last week.Susan Swartz said she and her husband wanted to expand on previous gifts and “to acknowledge the extraordinary leadership of Dean David Hempton and President Drew Faust.”

Faust will step down from the University’s top job in 2018 after over a decade in the role; Harvard recently announced Harvard Corporation member Lawrence S. Bacow will serve as her successor.“We are thrilled to be their partners in ensuring that this unique and historic building will become an innovation lab for the future of religious education and ethical leadership,” Swartz said.

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EDITORIAL The Crimson Editorial board

O Come O Come Emanuel

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n Feb. 20, Chicago Mayor Rahm I. Emanuel spoke at the Graduate School of Desig n. Before his arrival, over 30 g raduate students at the school from the Harvard Urban Planning Organization and the GSD African American Student Union sig ned an open letter to Emanuel, criticizing many of his policies, including his decision to close 50 public schools in Chicago, the gentrification of certain neighborhoods, and other policies that affect Chicago’s urban planning.

They also took issue with the lack of an in-depth, open dialog ue concerning the costs and benefits of these urban development policies.

We believe that the event did a superficial job of evaluating Emanuel and his work. The event’s description claims that Chicago is “a g reat place to live, work, and play,” a characterization that fails to account for how Emanuel’s tenure has affected different communities in Chicago. To be sure, many have praised Emanuel for reforming the cit y’s communit y colleges, overseeing an uptick in high school g raduation rates, and governing during a period of economic g rowth in Chicago. At the same time, though, many have criticized Emanuel for failing to adequately address the epidemic of police brutalit y in the cit y, refusing to be

transparent, and being unreceptive to the needs of communities of color.

Oftentimes, expressions of dismay with a particular speaker can lead to unproductive insults and calls to uninvite the speaker. We commend the writers of the open letter for protestesting in a way that did not demean Emanuel or call for the cancellation of the event at which he was speak-

As we have previously opined, we encourage all Harvard students to continue to speak out in the future, whether they are in support or opposition of any speaker invited to campus. ing. In fact, we believe that these student organizations explained their g rievances with Emanuel in a highly constructive way that facilitated—as opposed to inhibited—conversation and free speech.

As we have previously opined, we encourage all Harvard students to continue to speak out in the future, whether they are in support or opposition of any speaker invited to campus. We

believe that student voices and g rievances are valuable contributions to open dialog ue and a comprehensive Harvard education. The response to this particular event should thus serve as a model for similar situations in the future.

Students have demonstrated through their thoughtful action and protest that Emanuel’s mayorship is far more complex and nuanced than a simple one-sided view might imply. This recog nition—that the truth usually does not completely lie with one side of any debate—is a vital one not only for those who organized the event at which Emanuel spoke, but also for students, facult y, and administrators at universities across the nation.

Indeed, this principle provides the foundation for the freedom of expression that stitches together the very fabric of our societ y. We therefore urge students to make effective use of this freedom in the future, as they have today.

This staff editorial solely represents the majorit y view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impar tialit y of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the repor ting of ar ticles on similar topics.

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For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Derek K. CHOI WHAT’s NEXT?

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he Scripture tells us, “Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan,” and if we can expect that from the Almighty Himself, it does not seem too totally crazy to ask that of the Harvard Corporation.

I speak, of course, of the surprising recent announcement of Lawrence S. Bacow to be the 29th president of Harvard University.

Bacow is not a surprising pick because of his qualifications—he served as president of Tufts for a decade and as chancellor of MIT. Bacow is not a surprising pick because of his priorities—he seems like a safe choice intent on steering Harvard through choppy political and economic waters. Bacow is a surprising pick because he was supposed to be doing the picking.

The way Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee ’72 tells it, he was navigating the streets of the Boston metropolitan area—homeward bound from Logan International Airport—when he figured he might as well ask Larry if he wanted the top job at America’s oldest and wealthiest university.

Of course, it wasn’t quite that spontaneous. In the press conference, Lee admits that the presidential search committee had thought about Bacow as a candidate for some time before he was formally considered. Robin E. Kelsey, the chair of the faculty advisory committee to the presidential search, told The Crimson that Lee had explicitly inquired whether faculty believed there was a candidate hidden among the searchers.

Harvard says Bacow formally became a candidate in December, and Lee told the media that Bacow then underwent the “same processes as our other candidates.” But when Bacow woke up one morning and found himself changed into a presidential candidate, surely that marked the effective end of the search.

It’s hard to imagine that, having surveyed the landscape and considered over 700 individuals, the committee would have asked Bacow to become a candidate if more credible choices had abounded. By his own account, when he talked to Harvard affiliates, “Some of them said, ‘What about you, Larry?’ And I said, ‘No, thank you.’ I was there to get their ideas about others to lead Harvard.”

At the very least, the extraordinary act of asking him to step off the search committee was a signal of enormous support and confidence by the other searchers, in part because the decision was so exceptional. And once actually a candidate, he would have had an enormous leg up, having been privy to all the priorities, internal deliberations,

Perhaps more interestingly, this timeline complicates the role of the rest of Harvard in the search. and consultations of the first half year of the search.

It seems reasonable, then, to suggest that the act of turning him from searcher to candidate was the momentous one—that it was then that they had found their man.

It’s interesting to consider when they would have formally vetted Bacow. If the process was not complete before Lee’s call-from-the-car, the committee must have been prepared to make one of their own a candidate and then decline to offer him the job. Would they then have put him back onto the search committee? How would they have explained his ultimate absence from the ranks of the searchers?

If instead he was being vetted while still formally a search committee member, he must have known he was under informal consideration. (It would also imply that the committee had ruled out most of its other options prior to December.) Was there a special secret sub-committee that convened Bacow-free conference calls? Did they hang around at some meeting after he left to decide his fate?

Perhaps—and this remains entirely supposition—the choice to consider

considering him was truly the pivotal moment. But in either event, it leaves open the possibility that for the last two (or more) months of the search, the committee was effectively going through the motions of a traditional search, complete with interviews, meetings, and consultations.

If indeed this was the case, it calls into question the role of the advisory committees and non-Bacow candidates in the search. The other candidates now know that they were not serious choices since late November or early December, as presumably the committee only decided to elevate Bacow after it had come to the conclusion that it didn’t have many better options.

Perhaps more interestingly, this timeline complicates the role of the rest of Harvard in the search. To their credit, the search committee convened advisory committees of students, faculty, and staff which were billed as one of the primary means through which Harvard affiliates could provide input on the search. Instead, the search committee had decided relatively early on that few, if any, of the 700-plus suggested candidates were viable.

If the three, the faculty committee seems to have had the most impact.

Kelsey, the head of that group, told The Crimson that they had suggested Bacow be considered, and he said the faculty committee’s work was mostly complete by the time Bacow stepped off the search committee. But if the student and staff groups were providing their findings along roughly the same timetable, concluding in December, the search committee may had already decided that most of the proposed candidates—save Bacow—were unsuitable.

For at least two months—as nearly 20 names were under consideration, as The Crimson reported on potential external candidates, and as the search committee continued to conduct candidate interviews—Harvard’s presidential search committee may have sat knowing that its decision had largely already been made. By then, they had already crossed the Rubicon.

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

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American Enough

By Meena Venkataramanan

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’ll never forget the day I became an American.

My naturalization ceremony was one of a handful around the country to coincide with America’s 240th birthday—July 4, 2016. Taking the citizenship oath amidst the sprawling cacti of Arizona’s Saguaro National Park was a powerful moment that I will always remember. After moving to the United States when I was just two years old, my family and I waited 14 long years to gain U.S. citizenship. On that scorching midsummer day, we were proud to finally be able to call ourselves Americans.

Roughly 700,000 people become American citizens every single year, mostly originating from countries including Mexico, India, the Philippines, and China. By law, an American denotes any individual born or naturalized in the United States. In practice, however, the word takes on a different meaning. Perhaps Toni Morrison said it best when she proclaimed in 1992, “In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Over winter break, I traveled home for the holidays after completing my first semester at Harvard. Upon my return, my family friends were eager to know the details of my experience—one of them asked me whether I’d made lots of friends, adding, “Are most of them American?” For a moment, I was confused. But upon her clarifying, I realized she was actually asking if I had mostly white friends. To her, “American” and “white” were tacitly synonymous. Throughout the rest of my break, I’d run into similar comments made by family and friends who were quick to conflate the two terms.

But this misguided perception spans beyond the realm of just my community. Rather, it pervades communities across America, and Harvard is no exception.

Many of my classmates of color anglicize, truncate, or entirely change their names to make them more “American-sounding,” while some deliberately mispronounce their names at the convenience of others, premising such actions upon the troubling idea that even today, “American,” by default, means “white.” In fact, just last year, in her new book The Origins of Others, Toni Morrison stated that “the definition of Americanness (sadly) remains color for many people.”

Morrison’s words ring true. According to several social psychology studies conducted by Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, non-white Americans are consistently associated less often with the label “American” than white Americans. In fact, implicit association tests reveal the prevalence of the “American equals white” bias, which has persisted up until today and bears deeply harmful impacts. Specifically, it can lead to discriminatory Toni Morrison stated actions and judgespecially that “the definition of ments, in the realm of emAmericanness (sadly) ployment. Three 2010 studies found remains color for that when given resumes of job applimany people.” cants, participants were less likely to choose qualified Asian-Americans for national security jobs compared to qualified white Americans, which—according to the researchers—stems from the perception that non-white Americans possess less national loyalty than white Americans.

Since elementary school, I have always considered myself to be just as American as my white counterparts.

I’ll always remember learning about the foundations of U.S. government in my fifth-grade social studies class— since then, I’ve cherished our Constitution and passionately embraced the rights and liberties it has bestowed upon me and my peers. I love American television shows and movies, listen to American music, and happily partake in hallmarks of American culture. I’ll always remember the years I spent ardently watching seasons five through nine of American Idol, observing fireworks from my rooftop during the Fourth of July, and waking up at five in the morning to go Black Friday shopping with my family. Nor will I forget receiving my U.S. passport in the mail last year, registering to vote just a few months ago, or the proud, momentous day two summers ago that a federal judge proclaimed me and my parents to be the nation’s newest Americans.

Through Harvard’s Institute of Politics, I teach a weekly civics class to a diverse classroom of Boston fifth-graders. Many of my students are nonwhite. When we get to the citizenship unit, I start off by giving them the textbook facts about what it means to be a U.S. citizen, discussing relevant portions of the Constitution and pertinent vocabulary. But I also supplement this information with my own American story—a dynamic one that has continued to evolve into the present. Ultimately, I want them—and all Americans—to have unequivocal faith in this nation when it affirms that, regardless of race, color, or creed, each one of them deserves the title of “American.”

Meena Venkataramanan ’21 lives in Canaday Hall.

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Harvard To Take On Princeton, Penn For Top Ivy Spot men’s Basketball

By Henry zhu Crimson Staff Writer

Already safely guaranteed a top-two seed in the Ivy League Tournament, Harvard men’s basketball has —on paper— little to play for heading into the final two weeks of the regular season.

This, however, was the same narrative that earned the Crimson a quick exit on the first day of the inaugural Ancient Eight tournament last season.

Guaranteed the No.2 spot heading into the final weekend of play, Harvard fell short against No. 1 Princeton and No. 4 Penn before losing to No.3 Yale in the opening game of the conference tourney.

As Harvard (14-11, 9-1 Ivy) prepares for the Tigers (11-14, 3-7) and Quakers (19-7, 9-1 Ivy) in its penultimate regular season weekend, the focus is clear: continue its late-season momentum and avoid even thinking about the second trip back to Philadelphia on March 10.

“We feel with the pieces we have this year, the chemistry we have, everyone’s work ethic that we can definitely make a postseason run,” sophomore forward Christian Juzang said.

“But first thing’s first, we got to get there. Not thinking too far ahead, one thing at a time.”

Step one in this process means repeating a dominant performance against Princeton, which was handily defeated by the Crimson on Feb. 9. The Tigers have not fared any better since that 51-66 defeat, extending a six-game conference skid that has seen last year’s undefeated champions fall to seventh in the standings. The only other time that Princeton suffered this many consecutive Ivy defeats was in 2008, when it lost nine straight.

Friday night’s contest at Jadwin Gymnasium in Princeton, N.J., will need to be a bounce-back performance for Tigers coach Mitch Henderson’s team if they intend to even qualify for the four-team conference tournament.

Suffering a triple-overtime defeat against Cornell and a 25-point blowout

by Columbia last weekend, Princeton has just four games to eclipse Brown, Columbia, and Cornell who all sit at 4-6.

In that defeat to the Lions, junior forwards Myles Stephens and Devin Cannady each shot 4-for-11 from the field and combined for one three-point conversion. Against Harvard a week prior, the pair went a combined 5-for22 from the field. Defensively, the Tigers limited the Crimson to a sub-30 percent night from deep but allowed its

eyes on the prize Junior guard Corey Johnson intently storms down the court in the Crimson’s victory against rival Yale last Saturday. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

opponent to shoot 44 percent from the field. Juzang also had a career-night against Princeton, tallying 20 points.

Since that point, Harvard’s trajectory has only gone upward. Off a combined 34-point weekend from Juzang and a 38-point stint from sophomore forward Seth Towns, the Crimson cruised to victories against Brown and Yale. Sophomore big Chris Lewis held down the interior in both games, capped by an impressive 14 point first half against the Bulldogs. Lewis’s point average on the season now stands at 12.2 PPG, a five-point spike from last season.

“Right now we would love to see if we can perform to playing well and winning,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “That’s what we are trying to do and trying to accomplish. It’s great that we have solidified ourselves as being in the tournament but we are

still after some other things that are within our sights these last two weekends.”

Step two, as long as business is safely handled on Friday night, may be the deciding factor for the claim to the No.1 regular season spot. Heading down to the Palestra to face fellow conference top-dog Penn, the Crimson prepares for what may be a preview of the Ivy League Championship game. Although Harvard held a double-digit lead for most of the second half in its victory over the Quakers two weeks ago, that contest was Penn’s third game of that week alone.

The Quakers secured victories against the Lions and Cornell last weekend, including a massive run late in the Columbia win that propelled Penn to a 43-point second half. Held to coach Steve Donahue’s bench for much of the prior three contests, sophomore

guard Devon Goodman had a breakout game against the Lions with five made triples and a career-high 23 points.

The sophomore was limited the following night against the Bears, however, attempting just six shots and converting twice. In the Cornell game, sophomore forward AJ Brodeur carried the load for Penn, missing only two field goals in a 21-point showing.

Lewis and sophomore forward Henry Welsh contained the 6’8” Brodeur to five field goals in its Feb. 10 matchup, but were less effective in covering junior big Max Rothschild, who had numerous easy looks at the basket.

Harvard was able to protect the perimeter, as the Quakers converted on just a quarter of their 25 shots from threepoint range.

More importantly for the Crimson, Harvard turned the ball over just six times in that game. Tallying over

15 giveaways in each of its past two games, Amaker will again need his team to maintain a high level of offensive discipline against Penn.

“I think our team has a lot of composure,” said Lewis after the Feb. 10 victory. “Even though the crowd was sold out, if it’s okay for me to speak for the rest of the team, I think we all focus with who’s on the court, our jobs, our roles, and no matter what the atmosphere is we always play to our same principles.”

For the Crimson, taking it one game at a time continues to remain the motto. If Amaker’s squad is able to come away with a sweep this weekend, however, one has to wonder if postseason thoughts will be springing up in the Harvard locker room.

Staff writer Henry Zhu can be reached at henry. zhu@thecrimson.com.

Harvard Splits Games With UMass Lowell, Holy Cross vantage as Lynskey put home the decisive goal in the second overtime period. A quick slide to the left freed him right in front of goal, and he fired the ball past Harvard senior goalie Robert Shaw to give his team its first win of the year, and also first win over the Crimson in 35 attempts.

not your average joe Senior defender Joe Kearney darts through the UMass Lowell defense. The Crimson would split its weekend decisions . Allison g. Lee—Crimson photographer men’s LACROSSE By george hu Crimson Staff Writer

After having just one game in its entire 2017 season decided by only one goal, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team has already had two such games in its first two contests of the season. The second of the two also turned out to be the Crimson’s first overtime decision since 2016.

One year ago, Harvard opened its season with road wins over UMass Lowell and Holy Cross. Returning the favor, the Crimson welcomed these two in-state opponents to Jordan Field on Saturday and Tuesday, respectively, to start its 2018 campaign.

Both matchups came down to the wire, and whereas strong defensive play over the weekend helped Harvard (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) close out a 10-9 win over the River Hawks (1-1, 0-0 America East), a defensive slip on Tuesday night proved costly in a 10-9 (2OT) loss to the Crusaders (1-2, 0-0 Patriot). In splitting the contests, the Crimson will now enter its preparations for its first road game sitting at .500.

“We were glad to get the win on Saturday, but sometimes, you win a game and it can mask poor play,” said Harvard co-captain and midfielder Joe Lang. “We definitely didn’t play up to our standards over the weekend or on Tuesday, but taking the second loss will get guys looking in the mirror and figuring out how to improve.”

HOLY CROSS 10, HARVARD 9 The Tuesday night matchup between the Crimson and the Crusaders marked both squads’ first midweek game of the season. Despite the players coming out onto the field with just two days of rest, the game had a lively start.

Both sides put a shot on frame within the first minute and a half, and an offside penalty on the visitors at the 12:21 mark of the first quarter gave Harvard an early man-up opportunity.

It ended up being Holy Cross who got on the board first, however, as sophomore attackman Justin Lynskey scored a solo goal just over five minutes into the game to give his team the first lead of the game. Fellow attacker Drew Babiak then added a second for the Crusaders a few minutes later, the

first of five goals for the junior on the evening.

“Babiak and a couple of other guys on their team had great games,” Lang said. “But any time your defense can hold the other team to 10 goals or less, it’s up to the offense to capitalize.”

Despite putting up 42 shots in the contest, the offense had trouble doing just that––capitalizing on opportunities. The Crimson had five man-up chances over the course of the game but failed to score on any of them. A strong performance from Holy Cross sophomore goalie Jonathan Tesoro certainly played a role in the low scoring output for the home side, but sloppy execution and fifteen turnovers hurt it even more.

Ultimately, the Crusaders took ad-

UMASS LOWELL 10, HARVARD 9 Whereas the Crimson had to score a late goal on Tuesday to send the game against Holy Cross to overtime, it was in the exact opposite position on Saturday when it played host to the River Hawks. Harvard played the final seven minutes of the fourth quarter nursing a two-goal lead, and it managed to keep UMass Lowell from mounting any sort of last-second comeback until it was too late.

River Hawks senior attacker Sean Tyrrell scored with four seconds remaining to bring the margin to just one, but a face-off win immediately after by Crimson freshman Steven Cuccurullo iced the game. Cuccurullo wound up finishing 13-17 on faceoffs in his first career game at the collegiate level.

“We asked a lot out of our two freshman [Cuccurullo and Kyle Massimilian] to step in today and take face-offs for us,” said Harvard coach Chris Wojcik ’96. “I’m very happy with how they performed and we’re confident they’ll do just fine till [Sullivan] gets back.”

As in the matchup against the Crusaders, the Crimson had problems putting its opponents away. It held a 7-3 lead at one point in the third quarter, but allowed UMass Lowell to come back and tie the game at 7-7 early in the fourth.

An uncharacteristically low offensive output from talisman Morgan Cheek played a big role, as Cheek failed to register multiple points in a game for the first time since 2016. Backing him up, however, sophomore attackers Kyle Anderson and Ryan Graff each had strong games. Anderson tallied a hat trick in his first career start, and Graff added two goals and two assists.

Graff’s second goal with 7:12 left in the fourth proved to be the ultimate decider.

Staff writer George Hu can be george.hu@thecrimson.com.

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