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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 33 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019

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Critic Hilton Als and novelist Claire Messud discuss culture and humanity.

Harvard must increase cultural event institutional support.

Women’s basketball concludes regular season with win against Columbia.

Univ. Leaders Take Harvard’s Side SEAS Mandates Diversity Reports

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ questionnaire sent to colA lege and university presidents around the country in January showed that only four in 10 surveyed are confident Harvard will win its current admissions lawsuit, according to findings published Friday.

Inside Higher Ed conducted the annual survey with analytics group Gallup. The results aggregated the opinions of 784 college and university presidents on topics ranging from the admissions suit and affirmative action to Title IX regulations.

The admissions lawsuit, brought by anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions, alleges that Harvard admissions policies unfairly discriminate against Asian-American applicants. Harvard has rejected these allegations and has argued its race-conscious admissions policies are necessary to achieve diversity in its student body. The outcome of the suit — which could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court — may shape the fate of affirmative action at private colleges and universities nationwide.

Only 37 percent of surveyed presidents said they strongly agree or agree that they are

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Incoming and current faculty members at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are now required to report their involvement in promoting diversity and inclusion, which could then affect the assignment of faculty bonuses, Dean of SEAS Francis J. Doyle III said in a February interview.

Administrators implemented the requirement this academic year in accordance with a number of other diversity initiatives. Prospective faculty members must now provide a “diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement” as a part of their application, according to Doyle.

“I have found this to be a very important thing that we want to use in our recruiting to, again, set the tone that we value this — we think it’s a priority,” Doyle said.

SEAS has also implemented a requirement that current faculty members report any efforts they are undertaking to promote diversity, inclusion, and ­

A survey of university presidents asked them about the admissions lawsuit and a host of other topics. University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s office is in Massachusetts Hall. SHERA S. AVI-YONAH—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

“confident in Harvard’s defense of itself and the principles of affirmative action.” Sixty-two percent, however, agreed that colleges and universities should continue to account for race in their admissions processes. A

majority of those surveyed — 57 percent — disagreed with a statement asking whether their institution is planning for a possible end to affirmative action.

Slightly over half also said private colleges like Harvard

should continue to consider legacy status — whether an applicant has a family member who is an alumnus — when deciding whether to admit applicants.

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belonging. Such efforts could range from modifying course curricula to mentoring student affinity groups. Doyle said that while he does factor other aspects of faculty members’ job performance when assigning bonuses, he considers this information a “priority” in his decision.

“This is the way, in the University setting, that I can indicate the importance of this and reward accordingly when our faculty are invested deeply in that area,” Doyle said.

The diversity statement is one of a number of new initiatives created in the wake of an April 2018 climate survey that found more than a quarter of respondents have experienced harassment or discrimination at some point during their time at SEAS. Alexis J. Stokes, director of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at SEAS, said that requiring incoming and current faculty to report their commitment to diversity serves as a consistent means of monitoring their involvement in fostering an inclusive environment.

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HUHS, Athletics Dept. Create Student Athlete Program

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By DEVIN B. SRIVASTAVA and OLIVIA C. SCOTT CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A car crashed into the front door of The Crimson Monday evening, damaging the exterior of the building. Nobody was injured in the crash. KAI R. MCNAMEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

­ he Athletics Department and T Harvard University Health Services’ Counseling and Mental Health Services have collaborated to launch a program for student athletes that primarily focuses on mental health screening, education, and care through workshops for students and coaches.

The new initiative, dubbed the “Crimson Mind and Body Performance Program,” debuted at the beginning of last semester in response to survey data collected over the previous few athletic seasons. The program provides mental health

services specifically tailored to College students on varsity sports teams.

Two licensed clinical social workers spend half of their time working with student-athletes and coaches through the program, according to Brant Berkstresser, the associate director of athletics for student-athlete health and performance. Their main responsibilities include meeting with student athletes individually and holding workshops for them, as well as coaches.

In the past, some student-athletes turned to their coaches for support, but the new system promises to streamline resources and give athletes easier access to mental health pro-

fessionals, according to Women’s Soccer Head Coach Chris Hamblin.

“The coaches aren’t licensed clinicians...we deal with a lot of different situations and then trying to support us to athletes as best we can,” he said.

“We don’t have the tool kit to be able to really be able to navigate some of these challenging struggles that students face.”

Some students said they think the program is necessary because of the stigma that some athletes face in seeking mental health support.

“There’s a lot of access available but I think there’s a lot of negative stigma surrounding

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Pilot Program Delivers Free Safer Sex Supplies Economics Plans Entry-Level Courses

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and TAMAR SARIG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

By SOPHIA S. ARMENAKAS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Economics Department is working to create more entry-level courses focused on the applications — as opposed to theory — of economics in an effort to attract more freshmen and sophomores, according to Department Chair Jeremy C. Stein.

The department currently has one main introductory course that is a prerequisite to upper-level courses — Economics 10: “Principles of Economics.” Ec10 focuses very heavily on theory, which may discourage some students from taking the class or pursuing economics more broadly, Stein said. To combat this issue, the department has already created one application-heavy introductory course — Professor Raj Chetty’s Economics 1152: “Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems” — and hopes to introduce more like it.

Both Stein and Economics Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeffrey A. Miron said some students have not found Ec10’s theory-first approach particularly interesting. ­

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“To some students, ec10 (and 1010a, 1010b, 1123) are the ‘spinach’ while electives and applications are the ‘dessert.’ So it’s reasonable to allow the option of getting a taste of dessert first,” Miron wrote in an email.

Freshmen interested in issues beyond economic theory, like income inequality or health care, have a harder time getting a flavor of such topics early on in their college career because they must start with Ec10 before taking other electives, according to Stein. The smaller range of course options early on may turn some people off from the field, he added.

“For juniors and seniors, we have a wide variety of offerings — lots of topics and many terrific faculty. But for freshmen and sophomores the pipe is narrower,” Stein said. “And so maybe they conclude, ‘this is not for me, this is for people who want to be business majors.’”

Chetty’s course, targeted at freshmen and sophomores, aims to address this issue by showing the applications of “big data” and how it can be used to understand and solve current

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I­n an effort to make safe sex practices more widespread across campus, Sexual Health Awareness and Relationship Communication Educators are piloting a “SHARC Kit” program through which College students can receive supplies like condoms anonymously.

The program — which is currently underway in Currier and Leverett Houses — allows students to fill out a Google form and request to receive a kit through the College mailing system, according to SHARC Co-Director Brandi Moore ’19.

The group eventually plans to expand the program.

“It allows students who don’t feel comfortable necessarily going in a dining hall to pick up safer sex supplies — or going into one of the offices on campus to get that — to kind of just have a really discrete way to have safer sex supplies with a fair amount of ease,” Moore said.

“So that’s something awesome and we hope to roll it out to other houses because it’s been very, very popular, which is really exciting.”

SHARC will also continue to provide safe sex supplies for students during their office

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Sexual Health Awareness and Relationship Communication Educators hold office hours in dining halls around campus to distribute free safer sex supplies. KATHRYN S. KUHAR—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

hours in dining halls on campus. Currently, students can see SHARC counselors from 9-10:30 p.m. in Currier Dining Hall on Sundays, Kirkland House Dining Hall on Mondays, Leverett House Dining Hall on Tuesdays, and Quincy House Dining Hall on Thursdays.

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Before becoming a peer educator group in 2017, SHARC was a peer-counseling organization.

The organization changed its status following the results of a sexual health survey released in 2016.

The group shifted its focus to “actually engage in more active

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outreach” and have the ability to set up events with students, according to Moore.

Moore said the group wants students to know that SHARC does more than hand out safe sex supplies, though.

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HARVARD TODAY

For Lunch Lemon Chive Crusted Flounder Turkey, Bacon, and Avocado Panini Potato & Vegetable Casserole with Veggie Crumbles

For Dinner Bourbon Glazed Pork Loin Maple and Chipotle Chicken Harvest Seitan Stew

TODAY’S EVENTS Goldsmith Awards Ceremony 2019 6-7:15 p.m.

IN THE REAL WORLD

This one’s for all of the aspiring journalists among us. Stop by the Institute of Politics to watch a conversation between Washington Post editor Marty Baron and former Managing Editor of Time (and Kennedy School professor) Nancy Gibbs.

Pelosi Calls Impeachment ‘Too Divisive’

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in an interview yesterday that she was not in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump, saying the process “divides the country.” Pelosi has been under pressure from some liberal Democrats to support impeachment since the party gained control of the House of Representatives in last year’s midterms.

Harvard Medical School Info Panel 7:15-8:15 p.m.

Grab all your pre-med friends and head over to Emerson Hall 105 for a panel on medical and dental school.

Seven recent alumni will be on hand to answer any questions you have about life as a doctor-in-training.

Linsanity Movie Screening 8-10 p.m.

Remember Jeremy Lin ’10? Join the Harvard Asian American Association in Harvard Hall 201 to catch a special screening of a new movie documenting his rise to basketball fame. Best of all, food will be provided.

Rival Venezuelan Leaders Host Rallies as Blackout Continues Jeannie Boehm ‘20 goes up for a shot in Harvard Women’s Basketball’s 69-56 victory against Columbia March 9, concluding their regular season. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

DAILY BRIEFING A survey of 784 college and university presidents found that 37 percent are “confident in Harvard’s defense of itself and the principles of affirmative action” in the admissions lawsuit the University currently faces. Sixty-two percent of respondents indicated that college and universities should continue to account for race in their admissions processes. In other news, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has started to require prospective and current faculty to provide a “diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement,” which could then affect the assignment of faculty bonuses.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido attended a mass rally and threatened to declare a state of emergency after power blackouts affected 70 percent of the country throughout the weekend.

Guaido and his supporters are seeking to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office.

Democrats to Host 2020 Convention in Milwaukee

The Democratic National Committee announced its plans to hold the 2020 Convention in Milwaukee. The decision comes as Democrats look for ways to flip Wisconsin, a state 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton unexpectedly lost to Donald Trump.President’s dedication.

AROUND THE IVIES COLUMBIA

The Columbia College Student Council rejected a referendum to gauge student support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement Sunday, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The anonymous vote, which occurred after a four-hour meeting, drew over 150 spectators. At a fireside chat for undergraduates last Thursday, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger rejected the idea of divestment, citing the lack of consensus on campus.

PENN

The University of Pennsylvania graduate student group focused on unionizing, Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania, has officially disbanded, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The move comes after GET-UP withdrew their petition to unionize last February, citing concerns that the Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board would use a vote to unionize as a chance to overturn a 2016 decision that formally categorized graduate students as employees. Participation within the group has continued to shrink ever since, but sub-committees focused on individual student workplace issues have now arisen instead.

PRINCETON

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai argued that the repeal of net neutrality will have a positive effect for American internet use Thursday, according to the Daily Princetonian.

Pai spoke at a question-and-answer event hosted by the Princeton Federalist Society, where he also dispelled rumors of increased internet usage costs. He said that the FCC considered banning unlimited data plans in 2015 when net neutrality was originally enacted. Pai also advocated for 5G networks, investigations into communications giants like Facebook, and more attention paid to technology research in the United States.

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A Conversation on Literature, Love, and Loneliness with Hilton Als SHRUTHI VENKATA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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COURTESY OF THE MAHINDRA HUMANITIES CENTER

Critic Hilton Als and novelist Claire Messud talked cultural monoliths, a Barbadian family heritage, and the gravity of the human condition at the Mahindra Humanities Center on March 4. Als’ speech revolved around the humanity that characterizes his work — from “Personal History” essays in the New Yorker to his Artist’s Institute one man show.

Claire Messud began the evening by enumerating Als’s many merits: his Pulitzer Prize for criticism after years at the New Yorker and the Village Voice, his books “The Women” and “White Girls,” and the art exhibit on James Baldwin he recently curated at David Zwirner in New York City.

“As Ezra Pound would have had it,” Messud said, “‘he makes it new.’”

Messud noted that Als will soon relinquish his position as theater critic to be a critic-at-large for the New Yorker, at which point Als chimed in from the audience to say that he won’t have to go out five nights a week anymore.

When Als took the stage, he first paid tribute to his inspirations among the audience: Jamaica Kincaid, to whom he wrote a fan letter after reading “Wingless” and later befriended, and Anna Kohler, an actress who features in one of Als’s first theater pieces.

After paying his respects, Als proceeded to read an excerpt from his novel on Richard Pryor. The novel examines a close relationship between Pryor and a reporter. Their lives are connected by parallels, and they share past ordeals and trauma. The themes set the premise for much of the rest of Messud and Als’s discussion.

After moving from the podium to the neighboring table to begin his conversation with Messud, Als continued to read the next couple of pages of the Pryor novel. Messud insisted that Als continue — Als was reluctant because, he said, he likes to leave the readers wanting less.

In his reading of the novel, Als addressed the difficulty of encapsulating reality and the truth of imagination at once in a form of writing. As for his latest novel, he said, “It’s made up and it’s not made up at the same time.”

Pryor is anti-hip-hop, anti-Miles Davis, anti-Toni Morrison — Als wrote that Pryor has his own brand of radicalism. “How can you smash the black patriarchy when it is you, and there is so little of it in the world?” he read from the novel.

Als also spoke of love and of being the extramarital interest of someone married, akin to the reporter’s situation in the piece on Pryor. He explains that when you’re the third person, there is an element of heightened unre-

ality that makes you more desirable — you’re not the one at home who forgot the Bounty. Being the third person also never satisfies — Als writes of the reporter’s insatiable yearning for something more of his relationship with Pryor, which, he later says to Messud, is something he has experienced.

On the other hand, now that Als is in love within a more conventional relationship, he said he doesn’t want to go out five nights a week (at least as a theater critic) anymore. He doesn’t have to go out into the world to see what the world is doing — it’s at home. “Did you get the toilet paper?” — Als said this frustration with a loved one is an endearing reality.

Als offered several insights into the experience of a writer, many of which he had alluded to in his reading. He said of his novel on Pryor that he “wanted to play a joke on nonfiction narrative” — why pretend that the writer is not there? The facts in journalism are always affected by the sensibilities of the journalist, Als remarked. He added that, as Tillie Olsen said, you can call your writing whatever you like — short fiction, a memoir, or a novel — but the labels are futile because regardless, you are writing about memory.

Those memories lay bare human realities, like as Als said, that nothing prevents people from yearning for love — even cruelty. He returned to an image he read aloud earlier where Pryor’s father punches him in the chest, and Pryor’s heart in his chest curls around his father’s fist. When learning about Pryor’s relationship with his father, Als realized that it mirrored the memory of his own father.

Als additionally spoke of the fortifying experience of reading about other people’s loneliness and finding within it your own.

Carissa Rodriguez, an artist in the audience and a visiting lecturer at Harvard, met Als in New York when she was 19. When asked what part of the talk resonated with her the most, Rodriguez cited Als’ generosity in sharing about himself and his experiences.

“He’s my deepest inspiration,” she said.

Student and former Crimson columnist Minahil A. Khan ’19 also said that she appreciated Als’s openness.

“It was so honest and genuine — the entire conversation,” Khan said. “It didn’t feel like there was an entire, not just room — more like stadium — full of people here.

He would show his own confusion.”

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Staff writer Shruthi Venkata can be reached at shruthi. venkata@thecrimson.com.

TUESDAY MASTER CLASS WITH BELINDA MCGUIRE. Belinda McGuire, a Juilliard-trained choreographer, will be leading a class for intermediates/experts (or even any courageous beginner!), open to the public.

Harvard Dance Center. March 12 at 7-9 p.m.

Free admission, registration required.

Wednesday LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON PRESENTS “SHOUT” Anderson will be leading a conversation about her latest memoir, “Shout”, including a book signing and a special guest appearance, to be announced.

Brattle Theatre. March 13 at 6 p.m. Tickets from $19.25 (book included), $9 (with student ID).

Thursday THE BEARDED LADY CABARET Inspired by the beloved “Mr. Rogers” program and its most staple songs, this high-energy show that has been described as therapeutic for adults.

Oberon Theater. March 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets form $25.

Friday MFA LATE NITES The after-hours event will feature many local artists whose work centers around breaking gender constructs.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston. March 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets from $15.

Saturday THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT Two real-life twins star in this 1967 film, which screens as part of the series “A Tribute to Michel Legrand.”

Brattle Theatre. March 16 at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets from $9.

Sunday DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE Choreographer and visual artist Alessandro Sciarroni turns to the Institute for Contemporary Art for a solo performance.

Institute for Contemporary Art. March 17 at 2 p.m. Tickets from $5.

MOnday SABRINA CARPENTER CONCERT On tour for her album “Singular: Act 1,” Sabrina Carpenter will be bringing her pop and R&B fusion style to Boston.

Boston House of Blues. March 18, doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets from $39.50.

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Editor Associates Liana E. Chow ‘21 Aline G. Damas ’20 Danielle L. Eisenman ‘21

Iris M. Lewis ‘21 Claire N. Park ‘20 Isabel C. Ruehl ‘20 Allison J. Scharmann ‘21 Caroline E. Tew ’20 Shruthi Venkata ‘22 Lucy Wang ’20

Executive Designer Mireya C. Arango ‘20

Design Associates Amanda Stetz ‘22

Executive Photographers Kathryn S. Kuhar ‘20 Zennie L. Wey ‘20

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COLUMN

Building Character KELSEY CHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

chinese characters have joints— they are comprised of a million dissatisfied, spindly components that recombine into chromosomal dissonance. traditional or simplified? click to download. but it’s impossible because microsoft does not know that silence is possibly the most temporal of grammars that I have no path for the trackpad to imprint besides the anxiety of calligraphic hauntings.

I swear there are inconsiderate sea monsters in my keyboard, but no one believes me. there are no cubes for me to stack my words so I sit, and tell myself I am not bitter. a wall must be the murderer of monuments. door_landmark ?

X marks the spot.

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I hate how characters sit in boxes. too many borders. there should be no such thing as a wall, when this land was never yours to capture. my body has no walls, only cavities. his body holds no walls, only infinite space.

Contributing writer Kelsey Chen’s column, “Body Language,” is a creative column combining visual arts and creative writing to explore the body as a medium of political expression.

‘Run Away,’ Please CASSANDRA LUCA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

It only takes a few pages for “Run Away” to inform the reader that the word “beige” is a little outdated: “The politically correct term is ‘earth tones.’” Such a detail appears incidental to the plot, but it’s exactly the kind of quip that regularly resurfaces throughout the latest novel from New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben.

Unfortunately, sometimes these quips are grouped in lengthy paragraphs that seem like they’re trying too hard to be something they’re not. Coben repeatedly plays with the idea of inserting cultural critiques into a thriller — trying to make an otherwise decently plotted thriller into a work of affected prose — only to fail at both endeavors.

The many digressions and awkward phrasing demand better editorial attention, both to bring attention back to plot and to minimize poorly phrased rhetorical devices.

Simon Greene — Wall Street bigshot, father of three, devoted husband to Ingrid, generic thriller protagonist — has been searching for his drug-addled eldest daughter Paige for a while now. What begins as an altercation between him and Paige’s equally drug-addicted boyfriend Aaron turns into a wild-goose chase starring him, his wife, and Elena Ramirez, a private investigator whose own search intersects with theirs when Aaron is found dead. Add in genetic testing, a weird cult reminiscent of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and multiple chapters from the point of view of Ash and Dee Dee, two characters whose roles are only made clear toward the end of the novel, and you’ve got a thriller with enough moving parts to theoretically keep things interesting.

The issue is, however, that Coben could not seem to decide what exactly he wanted this novel to be. Should it be a tightly wound edge-of-your-seat thriller that wraps up all its loose ends? Or a work with prose so moving it will make you cry at its profundity? In playing with both ways of writing, Coben ends up writing neither novel, making it difficult to truly sink into the action or appreciate the moments of supposed “insight” that comes, strangely enough, not from Simon himself, but from the omniscient narrator who occasionally uses Simon as a mouthpiece for his own tangential opinions he feels must be inserted into the action.

One excerpt dives deep into the necessity of money: “Pooh-pooh it all you want. Money may not buy happiness, but...well, nonsense. Money, pretty much more than anything else you might be able to control, can conjure

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up and elevate that elusive ideal we call happiness.” This kind of phrase resurfaces many, many times throughout the novel, chopping up the action in disdain of continuity.

Readers looking for a thriller paced at a fast clip should look elsewhere. To make such shifts even more jarring and out-of-place is Coben’s inability to decide which voice should tell the story. Third person? Second person? Many of these tangents address the reader in second person

before transitioning back to the actual plot — which, thankfully, is told in third. By the end of the novel, it’s easy enough to ignore these inconsistencies, yet that’s precisely the problem: The reader shouldn’t have to — especially not in a thriller that purportedly relies on a fast pace to carry the story along.

Other “highlights” include philosophical reminiscence on the physical manifestation of a gun on one’s hip; contemplation of Death “battling Life” in Hollywood movies; and describing sex in the most generic way possible — “she missed the way he looked at her when he was inside her, as if she were the only woman on God’s green earth” — as though the reader has yet to discover these revelations. Coben also lists a dozen adjectives in a row in an attempt at profundity, and, particularly jarring to the millennial reader, incorrectly identifies a simple quote as “a meme.”

All of these details, seemingly dropped in with no apparent purpose or foresight, distract from the pacing of the novel. If anything, they are so clumsily executed that the reader is left wondering why they are there, other than the author’s desire to insert his own editorializing into the novel. It’s a shame that the attempts at what Coben perceives as “literariness” weren’t edited out: The reader might have been able to engage with the actual “mystery” part of the novel.

But of course, since the author’s attention was divided in two ways, the plot itself also leaves something to be desired. The end reveal is much more compressed than it should have been, and Simon, our main character, somehow figures out everything on his own at the perfect times. Paige’s reappearance is the ultimate deus ex machina, and the way Coben charts the passage of time is clumsy, like he didn’t know how to keep the story chugging along.

The failure of “Run Away” to deliver at the level of prose could, perhaps, be forgiven, depending on the demands of the reader. But the failure to construct a thriller that does not rely on seemingly random reveals is a great deal less excusable. Adding in a cult for the special effects is a nice touch, but haphazardly throwing together cults, drugs, and genetic testing does not make a thriller.

Staff writer Cassandra Luca can be reached at cassandra.luca@thecrimson.com.

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FILM

LANZ AARON G. TAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Acclaimed South Korean writer and director Park Chan-wook visited the Harvard Film Archives on March 5 for a conversation with Professors Carter Eckert and Alexander Zahlten of Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department.

Park’s visit coincides with a course taught by Eckert and Zahlten titled “Frames in Time: Korean Cinema as History and Filmmaking.” Two of Park’s films headline the syllabus and were shown at the Harvard Film Archives the weekend leading up to his visit. “Joint Security Area” (2000) is a mystery film that centers on a shooting in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, while “The Handmaiden” (2016) is a psychological thriller about how social concerns complicate a love affair in colonial Korea. Park’s filmography also includes “Oldboy,” his 2003 noir action film, and the science fiction picture “Snowpiercer,” among others. Park spoke in Korean throughout the conversation as a translator rendered his responses into English.

After Eckert and Zahlten began the conversation by projecting a montage of iconic scenes from Park’s filmography, Park revisited his early career and recalled his budding passion for film. Two films that resonated with him at a young age were “Vertigo” by American director Alfred Hitchcock and “Hwanyeo ‘82” (which translates into “Woman of Fire ’82”) by Korean director Ki-Young Kim. “Although I think these two films are very different, the common thread between the two films, to me, is those films have very surreal qualities about them. They depict those objects that are very familiar to us, but it taught me that depending on the perspective of the filmmaker

you can present these as very unfamiliar,” Park said.

Jeehae Park, a fellow at Harvard Medical School, said she appreciated Park’s use of humor to anchor his films’ emotional cores. “I really liked when he explained how he introduced humor and the effect of it,” she said. “I recognized those from his movies, but I didn’t know how he directed or what kind of effect he tried to make out of those, so it was cool to hear that.”

Park also remarked on the sociopolitical factors that shaped his signature filmmaking style. Growing up as part of the “386 Generation” — a generation of South Koreans born in the 1960s, who went to college in the 1980s, and played a tremendous role in the democratization of their country — Park recalled the protests in which he participated in college. “I came across a lot of teargas. Of course in those days, if you were a student, you took part,” he said. “It is imagining the impending violence that is the most scary. The violence in my films is more about fear of imminent violence.”

While the South Korean struggle for democratization molded part of Park’s directorial identity, many of his recent films can be read as social commentaries on more modern issues. When asked how “The Handmaiden” dealt with same-sex romance, Park said, “It is a genre film so the point is not for audience members to say, ‘They’re two women — they shouldn’t do that,’ but ‘This woman should swindle the other lady out of money!’” referring to the drastically different socioeconomic backgrounds of the lovers in the film. “It is a big budget film. There were people who were not without concern that we were spending that much money in same-sex romance,” he said. “I was prepared for backlash, but no — it was completely accepted by the public.”

Audience member Reverend G. Stewart Barns, Episcopal Chaplain emeritus and consultant to Harvard University Health Services, said he was impressed by Park’s sincerity. “I was so struck by his honesty, his integrity, his sense of history, his sense of current political movements. And of course in the Handmaiden, his handling of same sex marriages into the texture of his movies. He’s really extraordinarily articulate,” he said.

Eckert and Zahlten asked Park about the importance of dealing with conventional narratives, to which he responded that he relished turning tropes on their head. “I take immense joy in misleading the audience, for the audience to find the narrative take a turn into something unexpected — to be surprised,” he said. The very premise of “The Handmaiden,” Park explained, is conventional in South Korean cinema: A wealthy Japanese household in the colonial era hires a young Korean handmaiden. But the film quickly devolves into something different — the Handmaiden falls in love with the mistress of the Japanese household she’s trying to defraud. Park’s unexpected twists in the plot allowed him to explore same-sex relations in a unique light.

Audience member Jacob A. Heberle ’22, who has seen many of Park’s films, said he appreciates Park’s particular filmmaking techniques. “He sticks to his own rules,” Heberle said. “He really makes the films the products that he wants, the story he wants to tell, and the message he wants to impart on his audience.

For example, he finds a lot of unique ways to put in his own little touch, like adding in dark humor and subverting audience expectations. He likes to play around with film conventions and I think that’s a sign of a great filmmaker.”

THEATER

Boston Ballet’s ‘Full on Forsythe’ Breathes Innovation and Excitement into Ballet ALINE G. DAMAS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Boston Ballet’s new show “Full on Forsythe” showcases the most recent works of American choreographer and innovative genius William Forsythe. After a long career in Europe, Forsythe created a piece for Boston Ballet called “Playlist (EP),” the first work he has choreographed for a North American company in almost 30 years. The show, which runs March 7 through March 17, also includes last year’s experimental “Pas/Parts” and “Blake Works I.” Due to its magnificent group of dancers and sublime choreography, Boston Ballet’s “Full on Forsythe” is a triumphant delight that celebrates both Forsythe’s innovations and its performers’ intensive energy.

With its spectacular ’80s voguing-inspired movements, “Playlist (EP)” is easily the most exciting work on the program. It is no easy task to choreograph to both Barry White’s sultry and fun “Sha La La Means I Love You” and Lion Babe and Jax Jones’ club track “Impossible” and still call it classical ballet, but Forsythe has accomplished this feat. “Playlist (EP)” is marked by chasses, glissades, and fanning arms that merge into a endless array of swinging, conga-like hips. At times, the performance feels like a scene from “Paris is Burning.”

The ’80s influence brings a much needed and unexpected freshness to the art form. On some level, it instantiates a sense of humor because ballet stands in such contrast to the wild movements of disco. Yet it also demonstrates that there are unexpected similarities to be found between pop dancing and classical ballet. A number of chugging movements and flowing arms, for example, recall “Phlegmatic” from Balanchine’s “Four Temperaments.” And Kathleen Breen Combes’ tongue-in-cheek, Michael Jackson-like shift onto the tops of her toes is, in essence, a simple bend while balancing on the pointe shoes’ block.

Forsythe has always been known to push the boundaries of choreography with dances full of chaotic formations and movement, which eventually converge into recognizable motifs and ordered canons. “Pas/Parts,” as Boston Ballet demonstrates, is no exception. The work comprises a series of 20 quickly-paced divertissements including solos, duets, trios, quartets, and ensemble movements for 14 dancers. The steps are at their heart classical, but oddlyangled, inverted arms and turned-in knees speak to its contemporary influence. Dancers move fluidly between each style, such that at times it becomes difficult to differentiate between them, lending modernity and effortlessness to the work.

“Pas/Parts” is set to a maximalist, dissonant soundtrack, including reversed shrieks, mambo music, and even Mongolian throat singing, that ingrains a steady heartbeat in the work. Eventually, the once-jarring sounds become monotonous and appear to fade into the background, allowing the viewer to focus on the dancing. Of particular note is “11,” a syncopated duet between female dancers Ji Young Chae and Seo Hye Han, who dance with sensuousness and strength. “16,” led by the epic Misa Kuranaga and Patric Palkens, is also remarkable due to the partners’ intense interconnected movements, moving flawlessly as two parts of one whole.

The “Blake Works I” sequence, a delicate mix of classical and modern dance set to seven James Blake electronic songs, was also incredibly refreshing. The piece’s most stunning performances are set to the synth-heavy “Two Men Down” and the heartbreaking “The Colour in Anything.”

In “Two Men Down,” seven male dancers are eventually joined by all the women of the piece.

In this fast-paced and footwork-heavy piece, rapid arm movements melt into slow extensions.

What begins as chaos — male dancers stagger across the stage haphazardly, moving feverishly in offbeat fashion — quickly turns into a series of canons and then one final, synchronized mass of dancers performing an allegro. Derek Dunn’s dancing here is particularly fabulous, as he

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makes his splendid leaps and bouncing turns blend together into one movement. The dancers on the whole expertly handle the progression from chaos to order as they anchor the wild movements with phenomenal levels of control.

In “The Colour in Anything,” the wildly talented Chyrstyn Fentroy and Roddy Doble take on the role of lovers caught in some sort of miscommunication. Their movements are initially synchronized, but become separated in the form of a lag. Fentroy’s grace and Doble’s strong stage presence make the performance particularly convincing. Though there is no explicit story to this dance, their combined energy and longing looks seem to form one.

Overall, the nuanced performances and Forsythe’s tremendously innovative choreography form the heart of this fantastic show. With his perfectly fused hybridizations of ballet and ’80s culture, Forsythe has really outdone himself. One only hopes that this new choreography leads to many more new works.

Staff writer Aline G. Damas can be reached at aline.damas@thecrimson.com.

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FILM

Whats New on Netflix: March 2019 LANZ AARON G. TAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Streaming giant Netflix likes to keep its 139 million subscribers happy by keeping its stockpile of movie selections fresh. Every month, a handful of TV shows and movies leave the streaming site, but this outflow is matched by an influx of new ones. Here are three particularly welcome additions — oldies but goodies — and two notable mentions coming to Netflix this month.

“APOLLO 13” (MARCH 1)

Ron Howard’s 1995 film is a thrilling tale of human survival in the vacuum of space. It captures the sequence of events leading up to the failure of the titular spaceflight mission to the moon. The story is told as a parallel between the ramping tensions in the cockpit as the astronauts address a stream of technical problems, and the pragmatic resilience of problem solvers at NASA Headquarters. The film also balances powerful performances from its central cast of astronauts, which includes Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. While its depictions of space may not be as awe-inspiring as films released in recent memory (no doubt in part due to technical limitations 20 years ago) — such as the expansive sense of infinity in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” and the haunting beauty of Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” come to mind — “Apollo 13” is still a poignant portrayal of resilience in the face of diminishing odds and is worth a watch.

“THE HURT LOCKER” (MARCH 1)

“The Hurt Locker” is an exhilarating military thriller that tells the story of a battered U.S. soldier (Jeremy Renner) in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (the process of deeming explosive devices safe) who deals with the harsh realities of the Iraq War as well as the difficulties of adjusting to mundane civilian life. Many memorable moments transpire when the soldiers find themselves forced into action. Director Kathryn Bigelow handles tension in these scenarios impressively, with her visceral cinematography and shaky camera movements that immerse the viewer entirely in the hammering pace of the adrenaline-laced action. While not done to the scale of a full-blown war epic popularized

by Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” “The Hurt Locker” more than holds its own merit with its smaller scale. The film is uncompromising in forcing the audience to confront completely immersive, brutal, and morbid images, but the violence is not simply gratuitous.

“KUNG FU HUSTLE” (MARCH 15)

A hysterical comedy with a ridiculous plot that matches its ridiculous fun, Stephen Chow’s unique, Cantonese take on a gangster film is hard to forget. Chow also stars as the film’s lead, Sing, a down on his luck aspiring gangster, who, together with his helpless sidekick Bone (Lam Chi-Chung), traverses a bleak Shanghai in an attempt to find a neighborhood where they can belong as gangsters. Some plot points are convoluted and the premise is absurd, but the film is acutely self-aware. Featuring well-choreographed martial arts scenes (which Chow also plays for laughs), an iconic climax, and a guaranteed two hours of nonstop laughter, “Kung Fu Hustle” deserves a few rewatches.

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Ang Lee enlivens his sprawling masterpiece with luscious cinematography, expertly crafted fight scenes, and powerhouse performances. The story follows a seasoned warrior Li Mu Bai (Chow YunFat) as he leaves his highly coveted, legendary sword, the “Green Destiny,” with his lover Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh). Lee’s film mixes emotionally resonant storytelling with twists that will keep any audience engaged and sets that look like they were plucked out of time from the Qing Dynasty.

“SAVING MR. BANKS” (MARCH 1)

“Saving Mr. Banks” is a feel-good, if perhaps sensationalized, drama of Walt Disney convincing P.L. Travers to hand over the rights for “Mary Poppins.” With a narrative that flips back and forth between Travers’ childhood and her present struggle with Disney, there are moments that feel uneven in its tone and pacing. But with bankable performances from its two stars, Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, nostalgic music, and an unmistakably fantastical “Disney” atmosphere, “Saving Mr Banks” is hard not to enjoy.

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J.I.D & Since the 80s Talk Life in the Music Industry with No Label

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VIVIEN L. TRAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER The last rays of the setting sun filtered into the Art Wing of the Smith Campus Center on March 7, creating a natural spotlight for hip-hop artist J.I.D and his management team, Since the 80s.

Invited by student group No Label, the critically acclaimed rapper and his managers, Barry Johnson and Zekiel Nicholson, spoke about their experiences breaking into the rap industry.

Since the 80s and J.I.D are the most recent in a string of artists and producers, including Travis Scott, that No Label (founded by Marcelo P. Hanta-Davis ’20 and Miles W. Weddle ’20) welcomed to campus this year. It is the self-described goal of Since the 80s to bridge the hip-hop sounds of the 80s with contemporary artists of today. Johnson and Nicholson highlighted their close relationships with artists such as 21 Savage and EarthGang and the importance of creating a vision that both they and their artists desire and can achieve.

Moderator Makeda V. Daniel ’19, a member of No Label, began by asking about the team’s motivations and creative process. J.I.D — sporting a camo jacket, Adidas joggers, and Yeezy sneakers — chimed in.

“I do something, and I don’t stop at it. I don’t sleep, I sit in my room for hours. When I get it right, then it’s over,” he said. The artist added that he is extremely passionate about music and obsessive in his work ethic.

J.I.D then compared the team’s creative process to sculpting: He starts with an idea and together he, Johnson, and Nicholson chip away at it until they find the right medium. The trio traded jokes and laughed, trying to find the right words to describe the “tug-of-war” aspect of their process. Johnson summarized their response.

“Our goal is to find something realistic,” he said.

An Atlanta native, J.I.D. initially dreamed of playing for the NFL. He attended Hampton University on a football scholarship, but dropped out to pursue music at the encouragement of his friends. Asked about leaving football behind, J.I.D shrugged and attributed his confidence to enter the rap scene to his support system.

“They really just believed in me,” he said. “We wanted to be the biggest in the game. They had

the same mindset as me, and we wanted to be successful.”

The trio’s journey came with obstacles. J.I.D and Since the 80s recalled the struggle of promoting the artist’s first album, “The Never Story.” For months, Johnson and Nicholson asked every artist and producer in the hip-hop industry to give J.I.D’s album a listen, but nobody cared.

“We have to go and do stuff. If you don’t do it for yourself, it don’t get done,” J.I.D said.

Johnson joked at the beginning of the panel that all three were psychopaths, and he circled back to the idea to underscore their dedication to their dreams. “The dream is crazy,” Johnson said. “All of us up here [in the panel] are probably the craziest people in this room.”

During the Q&A session, Johnson recounted one of their efforts to promote J.I.D. Seven people squeezed into a six-person Chevy, packed with all their luggage as they drove cross-country, opening concerts for free. The men slept on friends’ floors, eating ramen daily and struggling to keep moving forward. Even after two positively received albums, J.I.D and Since the 80s refused to claim success. “To say I’m successful now is to limit myself,” Nicholson said. “It’s more about being happy with what you’re doing.”

After the event, Daniel explained the purpose of No Label. “[We] wanted to create experiences for artists in the community and students who were just interested and passionate about conversations in music,” Daniel said. “[They are] able to be in the same room with artists that have already sort of ‘made it’ in this idea of success, whatever it may be.”

“I thought it was really good, I thought it was really insightful,” said Alexander E. Arlos, a Boston University student, about the event. “[My friend and I are] doing something very similar to what they’re talking about right now. We’re trying to make music, so getting his advice was really helpful to me and I got a lot from it.”

Hueston M. Brathwaite, a Boston resident and aspiring artist, also attended the event to learn and network. “Just being able to meet potential new artists that I could possibly work with later on, was amazing, and to see that I have so many things in common with homeboy, was really cool,” he said.

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BONUSES FROM PAGE 1

ECONOMICS FROM PAGE 1

SEAS to Require Faculty Diversity Reports

Economics Department to Create More Intro Courses

“It’s on both ends — as you’re entering the community, and then once you are part of the commu-

pressing socioeconomic issues.

“Raj wanted to be able to teach his course to freshmen and sophomores and so we did two things,” Stein said. “First off, there is no prerequisite for his course. And second — and this is new — even though there is no prerequisite, the course still counts towards the major. The goal in both cases being to increase accessibility.”

Alexandra Norris ’21, a student in Chetty’s course, said she finds “Big Data” particularly appealing because of its focus on

I have found this to be a very important thing that we want to use in our recruiting to, again, set the tone that we value this.

Francis J. Doyle III Dean of SEAS

nity, we’re still asking you to report on the things you’re doing,” Stokes said. Though other divisions within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences do not require a di-

versity statement, the school is currently looking to learn from SEAS’s example, according to FAS Dean Claudine Gay. “In addition to SEAS, I know of a couple of other universities that are moving in similar directions,” Gay said. “From the perspective of the FAS, we’re looking at these experiments in the hopes of learning from them and seeing what makes sense for the FAS in terms of our own hiring practices.”

“Certainly one of the many things that we hope the faculty who come here do is find ways to advance inclusion and belonging, because as we know, that is one of the priorities for the FAS and for the University more generally,” Gay added.

Like Doyle, Gay said a num-

ber of considerations are taken into account when assigning faculty bonuses at the end of the year, and efforts to promote diversity and inclusion can intersect with each of those considerations.

“When we think about bonuses or acknowledging or rewarding faculty who have had an exceptional year, we look at the full complement of expectations we have for faculty,” Gay said. “Throughout, frankly, all those domains, we think about questions around how this person contributes to our institutional commitment to advance equity, inclusion, and belonging.” ruth.hailu@thecrimson.com amy.jia@thecrimson.com

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policy. She added that it has “enhanced” her interest in economics.

“I enjoy how Chetty presents issues in class by first examining the issue, then looking for causation, and finally using the findings to devise programs or interventions that may improve people’s lives,” she said. “This course focuses on solutions to issues, allowing me to think about how what I learn can be applied to help people.”

Stein said the curriculum change that Chetty’s course is

spearheading “may have broader implications” for future courses. “We will be considering additional courses that imitate Chetty’s in not imposing an Ec10 requirement,” Miron said.

Though the department is not currently making structural changes to existing courses, freshman seminars taught

by Economics professors can also count as electives towards the concentration, according to Miron. sophia.armenakas@thecrimson.com

Car Hits Harvard Crimson Building on Plympton Street

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and TAMAR SARIG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A maroon BMW struck the front of The Harvard Crimson building at 14 Plympton St. on Monday evening, damaging the entrance. The driver sustained minor injuries, and no one else was injured.

The car was driven by Jonah Naghi, who said he was in Cambridge to host an event at Harvard Hillel. Naghi did not recall the name of the event when asked after the fact. He said he was driving his mother’s vehicle at the time of the crash, which he had borrowed to get to work.

Naghi said he was originally parallel parked on the other side of Plympton Street, but after seeing that he was on the edge of the white line, he “wanted to get a little closer in.” While turning his car to adjust, he said he accidentally drove the vehicle into the front door of The Crimson.

“I mean, it all happened so fast, but I believe after I felt I was going a little too fast, I switched my foot to the brake, but then it just kept going,” Naghi said.

“The brake wasn’t work­

ing, and then I bumped into the door.”

Sihak Lee ’20-’21, who witnessed the accident, said he had been helping Naghi guide his car into the parking spot and that Naghi was correcting his position when the crash occurred.

“I was standing next to him, and I told him that he needed

I am grateful that everyone is safe and no Crimson editors or passersby were harmed in the incident this evening.

Kristine E. Guillaume ’20 Crimson President

to pull his car out to the car in front of him, so that his wheels are parallel,” Lee said. “And when he was trying to do that, he approached the front car really quickly, halted for a second, and then resumed to swerve into the building.”

“It was kind of like a movie scene just happening in front of my eyes,” Lee added. “I did try to coach him, but that part I

didn’t tell him to do.”

Naghi said he did not intentionally drive the car into the building.

“I wasn’t under the influence,” he said. “It was just an accident.”

“I don’t drive that often, as you can probably tell,” Naghi added.

Harvard Crimson President Kristine E. Guillaume ’20 was at the building at the time of the incident and spoke with the driver and police officers on the scene.

“I am grateful that everyone is safe and no Crimson editors or passersby were harmed in the incident this evening,” Guillaume wrote in an emailed statement.

“We are handling the situation accordingly.”

Both Harvard University Police Department and Cambridge Police Department responded to the accident. HUPD declined to comment on the incident, referring to the Cambridge Police Department for comment.

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Defending Black Commencement

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ast month, Nicholas Zuckerman, the Arizona man who threatened to bomb Harvard’s first-ever black Commencement in 2017, pleaded guilty to charges related to the threats, and now faces 12-18 months in prison.

While online threats sometimes go unexamined, we believe that the decisive action of law enforcement in this case constitutes a valuable expression of institutional support for students of color and reaffirms our commitment to a safe community.

Zuckerman’s threat against black Commencement only underscores the need for this and other events on Harvard’s campus that are designed to celebrate communities of students from marginalized backgrounds who face challenges both on their paths to Harvard and their journeys through it.

Originally organized by black students across Harvard’s graduate schools, black Commencement brings together black students from all parts of the University to celebrate their accomplishments, acknowledge the challenges faced by students of color on a historically white-dominated campus, and foster a sense of support and belonging.

To that end, we believe identity-focused academic celebrations such as Black Convocation, Lavender Graduation, and Latinx Convocation play a vital role in reinforcing our continuous striving toward making Harvard a place where people from all backgrounds feel welcomed, valued, and safe.

The threats from Zuckerman indisputably engender terror among those targeted.

We must not shy away from labelling this threat for what it is: an act of terror.

Threats like these can bring out others

who have similar toxic beliefs, and risk normalizing racist views. Zuckerman may not have executed his threats, but the very nature of a threat gives it destructive power nevertheless.

Zuckerman’s guilty plea offers a chance to reflect on the environment the University fosters for students from marginalized groups.

We believe that while such threats take place, the University must offer greater support for cultural resources and affinity groups so that minority students feel more safe and included. Complaints that culturally-focused events constitute forms of reverse racism fuel violent ideologies like Zuckerman’s, and those who make them only discred-

More institutional support must not mean that the University should take a paternalistic approach to the design of these events, and we hope that the administration will find ways to help facilitate these events without inhibiting the ability of student organizers to create events that they feel are authentically their own. it the specific challenges faced by marginalized communities in doing so. This mindset must not prevail.

The Harvard community must be sensitive to the unique challenges faced by minority groups and work diligently

to create a home for those communities within its campus.

That increased institutional support should extend to events like black Commencement as well.

Black Commencement has been organized by graduate students, and Black Convocation is organized by the Black Students Association, but the University should play a more active role in these events by supporting the organizational efforts of these groups.

They may possibly do this by assuming liability for risks of potential threats from the events’ student organizers.

More institutional support must not mean that the University should take a paternalistic approach to the design of these events, and we hope that the administration will find ways to help facilitate these events without inhibiting the ability of student organizers to create events that they feel are authentically their own.

We also extend our gratitude to the Harvard University Police Department and federal authorities for addressing Zuckerman’s threats, so that the 2017 black Commencement proceeded as a beautiful and meaningful event for people of color in the Harvard community.

We hope that this event and others like it become established as new Harvard traditions for many years to come.

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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Harvard’s Paternalistic Power Grab

By PHILIP O. BALSON

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he Committee on Student Life, a secretive body that lacks even a web page, is considering seizing control of the admissions process for extracurricular groups. This proposal has the support of Undergraduate Council President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20. Comping did not even appear on Palaniappan’s 31-point platform, but the administration has been toying with overseeing the College’s “comp” process for some time.

As far back as 2017, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana’s sanctions Implementation Committee suggested that “the practices and culture of comping should be examined … [by the] Committee on Student Life.”

Last summer, Khurana appointed Kate Colleran to oversee “policy imple-

I was cut by the Fly Club and have been rejected by almost every extracurricular to which I applied. But we should honestly face the practical consequences of this attempt to foster inclusion by fiat. mentation, assessment, and engagement culture” for student organizations.

Students have every principled and practical reason to oppose this administrative power grab. Harvard claims that its mission is to “educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society.” But the administration often treats students like children.

Our student body includes the U.S. Youth Poet Laureate and entrepreneurs bringing the fight against cancer to the poorest countries in the world. But still, we are denied opportunities if our deans do not approve of our social groups.

We must secure tutor permission to have friends over on a Friday night. This proposed policy of evaluating comps takes Harvard’s paternalism to a new and dangerous level. In the name of inclusivity, UC Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 said the College may reserve the right to determine whether each comp process is “adding value or contributing to the experience or the educational mission of the College.”

Let us be clear about what that means.

The Committee of Student Life and not the debate team would determine how to

select debaters.

The Committee of Student Life and not theater groups would have the final say on what constitutes an appropriate audition.

The Committee of Student Life and not literary magazines would decide the way to pick good writers.

All 500-plus student groups would potentially subject every detail of their comp to scrutiny by an unaccountable committee. I need hardly elaborate on the message that sends about Harvard’s trust in its students.

I carry no water for arbitrary exclusivity. I am a member of zero organizations on campus. I was cut by the Fly Club and have been rejected by almost every extracurricular to which I applied. But we should honestly face the practical consequences of this attempt to foster inclusion by fiat.

The Crimson Key Society, famous for its social comp, could cease to exist immediately. These groups may not be missed. But other groups — groups which enrich thousands of student experiences — may soon follow.

The Asian American Brotherhood, which has an intense and selective comp, builds community among mostly Asian-American men.

The Harvard College Consulting Group has a notably low acceptance rate as it selects members it can depend on while working with real-world clients.

Eleganza selects attractive models after a competitive audition, while bringing the diverse student body together and raising thousands for charity.

Under the proposed audit policy, these groups may disappear in their current form. If the impacts on student life prove devastating, perhaps Khurana will again suggest we read Chaucer.

If Palaniappan and Huesa want to fight exclusivity, they should clean their own stables first. The UC chooses its members by vote — the ultimate popularity contest.

Two-thirds of first-years who ran for the UC last fall were not elected and were therefore excluded from any participation in student government. With elections just weeks into the year, first-years with experience running for office had an “unfair” advantage.

Ending the UC’s exclusivity would be easy: Replace it with a Student Assembly, allowing any undergraduate to attend its sessions and vote. Abolish the presiden-

cy and pick a communal, rotating executive by lottery.

Doing so would give many more people the chance to lead the student body, regardless of arbitrary social status.

By advocating these changes, Palaniappan and Huesa would make a powerful statement against exclusivity. But if they are unwilling to accept more inclusive standards themselves, they should not ask administrators to impose those standards on others.

In his installation address, University President Lawrence S. Bacow bravely said that “we must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.”

He also said that we “scour the world for students… prepared to demonstrate brilliance… [on] performance stages, and out in the community.”

Surely, it is not modelling pluralism and tolerance to condescendingly micromanage student groups trying to demonstrate brilliance on performing stages and in the community.

Surely, when he goes home to Michigan, Bacow does not want to have to explain to the people of Pontiac why Harvard students cannot be trusted to run theater auditions on their own.

Surely, when we welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to speak to our common values at Commencement, Bacow should be able to look her in the

All 500-plus student groups would potentially subject every detail of their comp to scrutiny by an unaccountable committee. I need hardly elaborate on the message that sends about Harvard’s trust in its students. eye and tell her than we are upholding those values in Harvard Yard.

The University recently launched the Inclusion and Belonging Pulse Survey, telling us that “your experience matters.” If Bacow truly believes that our experience matters, he will stop University Hall from meddling with extracurriculars, the heart of undergraduate student life.

—Philip O. Balson ’19 is a History concentrator in Dunster House.

Liam M. Warner TRACTS FOR ALL TIMES

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he general public prefers when it can to think in teams. To keep an account of every person or idea is difficult, so as a matter of convenience it helps to put them into groups whose members all share certain traits: New Yorkers walk quickly, Republicans dislike the welfare state, scholastic theologians are highly technical.

This is in no way an illegitimate impulse, for usually issues have sides on each of which the participants are agreed on a few basic points, vary though they may in the details.

The defining features of these teams can vary in specificity, as do the levels of the biological hierarchy from domain to species.

What Southerners, for instance, have in common is much broader than what the West Coast Straussians have. In discerning what the teams in a given argument are, the trick is to cast a net of the correct size.

Now, analyzing the so-called culture wars is just such a task, and right understanding hinges on identifying what is in dispute and who are disputing it. One of the battles is about the purpose of higher education, whether it should solely train the mind how to think or whether it should also impart moral cultivation.

On the one side we can put English professor Harold Bloom of Yale, a literary critic who maintains that reading great literature is for attaining “cognitive power,” “rhetorical power,” and

To keep an account of every person or idea is difficult, so as a matter of convenience it helps to put them into groups whose members all share certain traits: New Yorkers walk quickly, Republicans dislike the welfare state, scholastic theologians are highly technical. “a real capacity for apprehending otherness,” but not for refining one’s standards of ethical behavior. On the other side we might put, modestly, me, who thinks that a work such as “Hamlet” is meaningless if one fails to recognize that its moral tensions are also one’s own, not merely a set of premises the reader must accept temporarily in order to comprehend the play.

Bloom’s position is nonetheless thoughtful, and a controversy between his team and mine would be quite interesting because they are distinguished at this fairly specific level, since both agree that there exists in the first place such a thing as great literature, which we should read, in contradistinction to bad literature, which we should not.

It would be impossible to debate the fruits of reading Shakespeare if one of the combatants did not understand why they were discussing Shakespeare and not, say, E. L. James.

But if you glance up from this proposed argument, you will find that the real world will not suffer it to take place. In the real world, Bloom and I are counted on the same team.

This cannot be, you say; this is manifestly absurd from the foregoing. I agree with you. Many thousands of people, however, do not agree with you, and these are the members of the other team, which stages a dispute at a broader level.

They do not care about Bloom and my disagreement about the value of great literature, for they object to the very idea of “great literature,” which they find to be a self-serving figment of the patriarchy.

Bloom, calling people so persuaded the School of Resentment, gets called a conservative and is placed on my roster for disbelieving that aesthetic merit is a bourgeois preoccupation. A vast

The most glaring disagreements are crowded out; the thinking cannot debate each other because we are indiscriminately besieged by the unthinking, the unthinkable, the thoughtless, the thankless. spectrum of literary opinion which should be arguing within itself becomes compressed into an undifferentiated line because the campus left, perennially bereft of good taste, tries to make up for this defect by denying that good taste exists.

This is, one can imagine, a depressing state of affairs, not only because arguing with the School of Resentment is exceedingly boring but because it obscures my disagreement with Bloom, which is both more interesting and more important.

The problem recurs in every area of intellectual life. Jordan B. Peterson, a swashbuckling Gnostic who in a better world would be a conservative’s sworn enemy, is classed with me as an upholder of patriarcho-fascism.

Psychology professor Steven Pinker, atheist libertarian, argues that test scores should determine admission to Harvard, and that puts him on my side, notwithstanding meritocracy’s history as a dirty word in conservative circles.

The most glaring disagreements are crowded out; the thinking cannot debate each other because we are indiscriminately besieged by the unthinking, the unthinkable, the thoughtless, the thankless.

I didn’t pick these teams. I hate these teams.

A civilization in which I rose every morning to do battle with Bloom would at least be fun, but there’s no chance of having one until the campus barbarians are domesticated.

—Liam M. Warner ’20, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Classics concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

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MIND FROM PAGE 1

SURVEY FROM PAGE 1

CAMHS and Athletics Collaborate Only 37 Percent Confident in Trial mental health and I think it’s kind of looked upon as a weakness,” Meghan C. Tveit ’20, a women’s soccer player, said.

Darryl Lemus, one of the licensed clinical social workers who works with the new program, said he thinks some athletes might not feel comfortable admitting that they need mental health counseling.

“I think a persona about image that most people have of what a student athlete is like this tough, thick-skinned person and nothing really bothers them,” he said.

Plans to launch the Crimson Mind and Body program started in the spring of 2018, when members of the Student Athlete Advisory Council raised the idea with Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise during

meeting, according to council co-president Claire C. Rushin ’19.

Berkstresser, who collaborated with council members to shape the program’s logistics during summer 2018, said a series of surveys given to student-athletes in the years before 2018 had made clear that it would be helpful to increase athlete-specific mental health programming. The student workshops offered through the program are discussion-based, and student-athletes help choose their programming, according to College spokesperson Aaron M. Goldman wrote.

Recent topics have included concerns about eating and nutrition, according to Lemus and Melissa Nauman, another licensed clinical social worker

who staffs the program.

Though most of their time is spent with students, Nauman and Lemus said they believe their interactions with coaches are valuable too.

“The coaches and the trainers have...played huge roles in helping to connect the student athletes to services, which I think is really like a special thing that’s come from this,” Nauman said.

The social workers and some athletes and coaches said that, while the program is still evolving, it has increased conversation about student-athletes’ mental health and educated coaches about how to support their players.

“Communication and education has been great and we just didn’t have that before,” Jen-

nifer Weiss, head coach of the women’s volleyball team, said.

One of the most helpful elements of the program is the meetings that Nauman and Lemus held with each team at the beginning of the school year, Rushin said.

“That was one way that it became a resource that everyone knew,” she said.

Though the program has made progress, there is still more work to be done because some athletes still do not feel comfortable asking for support, Rushin said. “Until we can start to break down the barriers that keeps getting athletes from seeking out help, we haven’t done our job.” devin.srivastava@thecrimson.com olivia.scott@thecrimson.com

SHARC FROM PAGE 1

SHARC Expands Campus Outreach She said that while the organization is currently viewed as the “condom group” on campus, organization members want to change that perception.

“We also want them to know that we also focus on relationships, and kind of relationship education, how to properly communicate your needs,

wants, and non-negotiables, things like that,” Moore said.

Since 2014, SHARC has offered its workshop “Sexual Health 101” to student groups across campus.

The workshop focuses on using different types of sex supplies, getting sexually transmitted infections testing on cam-

pus, and asking for consent, according to Moore.

“This is basically a workshop that covers the basics of sexual education, because we recognize, especially at Harvard where a lot of people are coming either internationally or out of state, we don’t have the same sex ed backgrounds,” Brandi

said. “There are some people who had abstinence-only education if they had any at all, and there are other people who probably got a really comprehensive sexual education prior to coming to college.” michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com tamar.sarig@thecrimson.com

Over the course of the admissions lawsuit trial, documents submitted as evidence made public previously unknown parts of Harvard’s secretive admissions process, including details about Harvard’s treatment of donors’ children and the contents of a handbook used to train incoming admissions officers. Despite the newly revealed information, surveyed presidents overwhelmingly thought the college admissions process remains opaque to most people.

Nearly eight in 10 believe “the public does not understand the concept of holistic admissions, by which applications are considered individually rather than deciding on admissions primarily based on a scale of grades and test scores.”

College spokesperson Rachael Dane supported Harvard’s trial arguments in an emailed statement, writing that the College’s admissions process is not discriminatory.

“Harvard College is committed to expanding opportunity, to excellence, and to creating the diverse community essential to fulfilling its mission of educating engaged citizens and leaders. Harvard’s admissions policies do not discriminate against any applicant from any group,” Dane wrote.

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The survey also asked the presidents about a series of other topics related to higher education. Nearly half of those surveyed said they disagreed with recently released Department of Education guidelines seeking to reshape Title IX procedures at colleges and universities. Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at universities that receive federal funding, like Harvard.

A slightly higher number of respondents this year believed that “perceptions of colleges as intolerant of conservative political views are accurate,” rising from 32 percent in 2018 to 37 percent in 2019. At the same time, the number of respondents who indicated that they had concerns about Republican lawmakers’ “increasing skepticism about higher education” dropped by 11 percentage points. In January, Gallup invited 3,667 presidents to take the survey. The 784 that did so represented 436 public institutions, 320 private institutions, and 28 for-profit institutions.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an email that University President Lawrence S. Bacow did not take the survey. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Harvard’s home wins versus Cornell and Columbia this weekend ensured the No.3 seed in the Ivy League tournament.

Harvard earned its seventh-ever, and second consecutive, Ivy League title after defeating Columbia on Saturday.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO

Season, Career Start Strong for Water Polo’s Banks

By DAVID MANIKAS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­he Crimson’s early-season T success has been the outcome of intense preparation and high team chemistry, something rare for a squad where a third of the members are firstyears. However, Harvard’s strong freshman class was able to quickly adjust to college play, bonding with the rest of their teammates and stepping up in crucial games.

First-year goaltender Zoe Banks has consistently shown impressive performances since the first weekend of play. Banks, a Palo Alto, CA. native, comes from the same high school as the Crimson’s senior keeper and co-captain, Sam Acker. Faced with the challenge of stepping up against difficult opponents in her first season, Banks has been able to hold her own and greatly contribute to Harvard’s historic 9-0 start to the 2019 campaign.

Banks’ impressive start for the Crimson, however, took a mutual effort, as each member of the squad contributed to the chemistry of the team and the enthusiasm surrounding the start of the season.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT FIT

As a high school athlete, Banks was a member of the USA national youth team as well as the captain of her high school’s water polo squad, leading them to four consecutive league championships.

The college recruitment process is a strenuous time for any athlete, and choosing the right program to commit to is an always an extremely difficult decision. This stress was no different for Banks, who committed to Harvard in her second semester of senior year.

“My process lasted a bit longer” said Banks, who acknowledged that most other commits make their decisions by the

start of senior year. “But I think I knew the whole time that I really wanted to come here because this wasn’t like any other Division I club.”

The combination of a highly-competitive water polo program and an institution that offered Banks both an excellent education and the freedom to study whatever she wanted drove her to Harvard over the other schools that she was deciding between.

ADJUSTING TO A NEW LEVEL OF PLAY

Making the jump from high school, Banks had to adapt to the faster pace of the game and the athleticism of the competition quickly.

“My coaches have been great in helping me improve my technique a lot in order for me to be better prepared for those shots,” Banks said.

Immediately, Banks showed that her preparation had paid off. In the first weekend of competition, she recorded seven saves and an assist, helping the Crimson start their regular season out strong. Banks also played a big part in the Crimson’s first shutout in program history, recording five saves against LaSalle in a 17-0 victory on February 3rd.

A week later, the first-year received Division I Defensive Player of the Week honors by the Collegiate Water Polo Association for her 38 combined saves, five assists, and five steals throughout two days of competition. Those saves helped propel Harvard to its best start in program history at 9-0.

Competing in high-pressure games early on in the season has been a challenge for a player so new to the collegiate scene. However, Banks credits the environment created by the leaders of the team for her ability to stay focused throughout the win streak and continue performing at her best inside

BANKSHOT Women’s Water Polo has kicked the season off impressively, sitting at 12-2 after its first 14 games. Freshman goalkeeper Zoe Banks has been quick to adjust to collegiate ball, coming up big for the Crimson throughout their impressive start, COURTESY OF JEANIE WAHL

the pool.

BUILDING CHEMISTRY EARLY ON

The Crimson’s great chemistry has been a decisive factor in their dominant start in 2019. Senior attacker Kristen Hong gave credit to the freshman class as a big reason for the team’s early success. However, the team’s ability to gel so quickly across all class levels is the most impressive part about Harvard’s current position.

Starting their pre-season in Miami, the squad was given

an opportunity to grow closer by spending every day with each other both in and out of the pool.

“Coming off of a fall season where we were not playing a lot to that where we spent everyday together brought us to get to know each other pretty well” Banks said.

Although chemistry among the entire team took some time to develop, it seems as if the freshman class created a bond much earlier on and were able to build off of their connection in the pool.

Coming into her first year for the Crimson, Banks was familiar with both Grace Thawley and Borden Wahl through the Olympic Development program, where they first met before they even began high school. As for Evan and Inde, the chemistry between them and the rest of the freshmen was set upon the start, as the first-years found a connection right away.

“I think we have a strong connection between our whole class and I think it makes it a lot easier when times are tough”

Banks said. “We can always look at each other and say ‘we got this’ and it’s nice to have that connection in an out of the pool.”

This optimistic perspective has led Harvard to a 12-2 start on the season, and the Crimson hope to build off their tremendous start against a difficult second-half slate. However, the team’s bond and talent-level should hopefully carry Harvard a long way into the postseason. david.manikas@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s Basketball Beats Columbia on Senior Night

By LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­irst year guard Tess SussF man dove for a steal, passed the ball to junior point guard Ka-

tie Benzan, and sprinted down the court. Benzan looked right and then fired the ball left to a streaking Sussman, who converted a layup to push Harvard’s lead over Columbia to 38-

14 midway through the second quarter. The crowd and bench erupted, and Benzan’s no-look pass put an exclamation point on a 69-56 victory over the Lions on senior night at Lavietes

CHEERS, GOVERNOR Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker looked on as Harvard found victory in their final home game of the season versus Columbia on Saturday. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Pavilion.

As is the tradition in the last home game of the season, head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith gave starts to all four of the Crimson’s departing seniors, and guards Kelsey Bogdan, Madeline Raster, Nani Redford, and Sydney Skinner responded by getting Harvard (16-11, 9-5 Ivy) out to a 13-6 lead before the first substitutes made an appearance more than six minutes into the game. “[I felt] excitement and a feeling of nostalgia,” Skinner said, “but all-in-all just a great feeling and excitement to finish out the season strong.”

The Crimson’s strong first quarter performance was encapsulated by a dominant 18-0 run that lasted over five minutes. After a slow shooting start left Harvard down 6-4 to Columbia (8-19, 4-10), the extended run ensured that there would be no repeat of the first meeting between these teams in Morningside Heights, when an abysmal first quarter left the Crimson down by 20, a deficit they cut into but were unable to completely erase.

Joining Harvard on the bench was Governor Charlie Baker ‘79, who cheered on his alma mater and served as a guest coach for the Crimson on a night in which Delaney-Smith added career win number 601 a night after reaching the landmark 600.

As would have seemed appropriate on senior night, Raster, Redford, and Skinner all reached double figures in scoring by the middle of the third quarter. Raster ended with a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double, while Skinner led the team with 17 points, 10 of which came in Harvard’s hot shooting first quarter.

“I honestly don’t really even think of the scoring aspect as much as just how well are we all playing together as a team,” Skinner said. “I think we shared the ball — we had a really strong first half. But it was the last home game, I wanted to make my mark as a Harvard women’s basketball player for the last time at Lavietes, and just wanted not to be shy and to be in attack mode.”

While the seniors led the way early on, Benzan provided most of the scoring punch for the Crimson later on. She ended up with 16 points, with 10 coming in a fourth quarter in which the rest of the team was held to just seven points.

“I think Katie Benzan was brilliant down the stretch,” Delaney-Smith said. “I thought she showed great poise and leadership.”

Harvard struggled to score after Benzan’s flair gave the Crimson its biggest lead of the night. After shooting 15-of-27 from the field and 6-of-14 from beyond the arc to that point, Harvard slumped to 9-of-40 shooting and 4-of-24 from three for the rest of the game, allowing Columbia to cut the deficit to five points with three minutes left.

“We did not play well the entire second half,” Delaney-Smith said. “I don’t think we got the ball inside very well.

We had an unbelievable height advantage but even when we got the ball inside we didn’t do anything good with it.”

The Crimson did just enough defensively, though, to ensure that its lead would shrink no further. Harvard was not quite as stingy as it had been the night before, when the Crimson held Cornell to 38 points in what was its best defensive performance

of the season, but in the first half especially it clamped down on Columbia’s best scoring threats.

Two months after first year forward Sienna Durr and junior guard Janiya Clemmons combined for 43 points against Harvard in New York, they scored just six in the first half and 20 overall on 8-of-22 shooting on Saturday night.

Aside from being the final home game of the seniors’ Crimson careers, the contest had little significance for either team. Columbia had been eliminated from Ivy League tournament contention while Harvard’s win over Cornell on Friday meant that the Crimson had already locked up the third seed in the tournament heading into Saturday.

“We feel really good,” Skinner said. “Incredibly confident.

I’ve had a really great feeling this whole year about how our team’s going to be in the tournament and that feeling has not wavered for one game even though we had some ups and downs this season. I think our team has every weapon we could ask for.”

The tournament begins next Saturday in New Haven, where Harvard will play Penn, against whom they went 1-1 this season, at approximately 8:00. The Crimson will seek to avenge a 57-52 loss to the Quakers in last year’s semifinals, a game in which Penn had the benefit of home-court advantage.

Ivy League Tournament 2019 1. Princeton vs.

4. Cornell 2. Penn vs.

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