The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 22

The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 22 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019

EDITORIAL PAGE 4

NEWS PAGE 3

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Harvard’s stipend increase for Ph.D. students is a step in the right direction.

Students reflect on winter break trip to Mecca.

Harvard scores blowout win against Yale in basketball.

Harvard to Research Sexual Assault in Academia Guard

Alleges Unfair Reprisal

By SIMONE C. CHU and IRIS M. LEWIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard has joined an “Action Collaborative” that will perform further research on sexual harassment in academia in response to a report on sexual harassment from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

The collaborative — which was established under the National Academies — is comprised of a group of universities who plan to work together to study gender-based harassment in the sciences. The list of participating universities is not yet finalized, but Harvard is one of the collaborative’s 28 founding members.

The project will last at least four years, and the group will hold two meetings annually, according to Deputy Provost Margaret E. Newell who will serve as one of Harvard’s representatives in the collaborative.

Over that period, the collaborative aims to achieve four main goals: raise awareness about sexual harassment, share “evidence-based institutional policies,” set a research agenda, and create a standardized method

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By JAMES S. BIKALES and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Nicole Merhill will serve as one of two Harvard representatives in the “Action Collaborative,” a research group dedicated to researching sexual assault in academia. Merhill works at the Title IX Office, which is housed in 44R Brattle St., pictured here. DELANO R. FRANKLIN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Broad Plans New Center

By ALEXIS K. BOLNER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Broad Institute announced plans to launch the Gerstner Center of Cancer after receiving a total endowment of $25 million, according to a Tuesday press release.

The Broad Institute — run jointly by Harvard and MIT — aims to understand “molecular components of life and their connections” with the ultimate goal of improving medicine, disease diagnostics, and treatment.

The new center will work toward developing a new method of cancer diagnosis and treatment using blood samples.

Scientists at the Gerstner Center plan to focus their research on blood-based biopsies, a less invasive approach than current CT and MRI scans, in order to assess patient treatment responses, according to the press release.

Viktor A. Adalsteinsson, associate director of the Gerst­

Harvard School of Public Health security guard Joseph G. Bartuah filed a complaint with the Massachusetts State Attorney General’s Office earlier this month, alleging his supervisors at Securitas Security Services North America, which provides security services for the University, retaliated against him after he raised workplace concerns to them.

On Feb. 5, Bartuah wrote an email to his supervisors, Takeyon J. Moon and Ryan Pitt to raise concerns. Bartuah heard from coworkers that Pitt told them that Bartuah had failed to “respond to phone calls from the management,”

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Don Lemon Speaks at IOP

ner Center, said in the release that new blood biopsy technology will allow for better tracking of tumor growth and composition.

“Using blood biopsy to track patient response will help us not only determine if a tumor has gotten smaller, something imaging technologies already do, but will help us understand what is happening to the molecular composition of the tumor, something you can’t do with a CT scan or MRI,” Adalsteinsson said.

The blood biopsy method simplifies cancer cell study, allowing researchers to simply draw blood to obtain cell DNA. The press release notes that cancer cells release DNA fragments into the bloodstream that can be collected and analyzed to monitor cancer recurrence and responsiveness to treatment.

Todd R. Golub, director of the cancer program and

CNN journalist Don C. Lemon addressed the intersections of race, media, and politics at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Friday evening.

In a conversation with IOP Spring Resident Fellow Aisha Moodie-Mills and former Harvard Political Review president Sam Kessler ’19, Lemon discussed how his personal background has created a certain set of expectations for his work.

“I’m black and I’m gay,” Lemon said. “Black folks have a certain expectation of me; many feel that I should represent all

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By JANIA J. TUMEY CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

CNN anchor Don Lemon spoke at an IOP event titled “Race, Media, and Politics” on Friday. MARGARET F. ROSS—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

UC Funds Junior Family Weekend

By KEVIN R. CHEN and LAURA C. ESPINOZA CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Undergraduate Council unanimously voted Sunday to allocate $4000 to fund an event for juniors whose families will not be able to attend Junior Family Weekend.

The event will be a threecourse lunch on March 2.

Amanda Claybaugh and Sindhumathi Revuluri, the dean and associate dean of undergraduate education respectively, will attend the lunch. Professors from several departments, including History of Science, Psychology, and Romance Languages and Literatures, will also be present.

UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20, Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20, and Winthrop House Representative Shivani R. Aggarwal ’21 proposed the event. “Both junior and soph­

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PARTLY CLOUDY High: 35 Low: 20

omore class-wide programming has traditionally lacked on campus, so this event in particular strives to accomplish that amongst a demographic of students who might not also have that support when a bunch of other students are here with their parents,” Palaniappan said. The team predicts roughly 50 students will attend the event, as well as 20 faculty members. They said they hope the event will give juniors an opportunity to reflect on their futures while faculty members serve as mentors.

“Having this [lunch] gives them the ability to also talk about more broad questions of what it means to be a student on this campus and how to think about your last year and a half and even future plans,” Palaniappan said.

The team predicts

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IN THE REAL WORLD Senior Officials To Issue a Statement on National Emergency

Join an HKS Gender and Security Seminar where you can learn more about current topics of debate regarding inclusivity in the military service and “LGBT in War.” Lunch will be served.

A group of 58 bipartisan senior officials will issue a declaration on Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the MexicoU.S. border. This statement, saying that there is no factual basis for this decision, comes just a day before the House is expected to vote on a resolution to block Trump’s decision.

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The White House to Select Scientists to Counter Climate Change Findings

Recognized as a “next generation” lawyer, Amala Ejikeme will be at Hauser Hall today, working with the Harvard Association for Law & Business. Attend this event for a free flowing conversation about private equity funds and a non-pizza lunch!

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Study Group with Mayor Andrew Gillum: The Mayors 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Harvard has joined an “Action Collaborative” to research methods of addressing sexual harassment in academia. The project, which will last at least four years, follows a 2018 report entitled “Sexual Harassment of Women” from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In other news, the Broad Institute has received $25 million to launch the Gerstner Center of Cancer, which will work to develop noninvasive treatment methods.

Join Mayors Andrew Gillum and Melv Carter at the Institute of Politics to discuss the economic and cultural renaissance happening in cities..

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The White House will put together a panel of scientists whose goal is to counter consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is damaging the planet.

The National Security Council initiative will consist of scientists who question human impact on climate change and the severity of the notion, as a whole.

The 91st Academy Awards If you were too busy pseting to watch the Academy Awards, catch up with the Oscar winners and performances during the host-less (!) awards show.

AROUND THE IVIES UPENN

After a three month test period, the University of Pennsylvania is launching an Uber-esque service that will allow students to hail rides on campus, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. The app, “Penn Rides on Request,” offers students rides between on-campus locations that are more than 0.5 miles apart. The rides will be free, but wait times, at around 20 minutes on average, may stretch longer than wait times for services like Uber and Lyft.

YALE

For the first time, Yale’s Development Office withheld second-quarter donation amounts from the Yale University Cabinet, according to the Yale Daily News. According to the University President, such a move would mitigate short-term bias in the cabinet’s investment decisions. Another factor behind the policy change is Yale Daily’s quarterly publishing of the donation numbers. Several cabinet members voiced objections and pointed out that transparency, rather than concealment, is more effective in reducing bias.

COLUMBIA

Robert Kraft, a Columbia alumnus, trustee emeritus, and multimillion-dollar donor, has been charged with soliciting prostitution for his multiple visits to an erotic massage parlor in Florida, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported.

Columbia’s campus has several spaces named after Kraft: a sports field in recognition of his $5 million gift to Columbia’s athletic department and the university’s center for Jewish student life. He has also won several awards from the university, including the Alexander Hamilton Medal in 2004.

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Securitas Guard Alleges Retaliation in Complaint

for measuring progress.

Dr. Frazier Benya, the National Academies staff member in charge of the collaborative and study director for the 2018 report entitled “Sexual Harassment of Women,” wrote in an email that the inspiration for the collaborative came from discussions with universities about the report.

“They often asked what ideas and strategies other institutions were pursuing to follow the recommendations in our report and they wondered what those institutions had found was working,” she wrote.

The National Academies have formed action collaboratives about other issues in the past, which Frazier said inspired the idea to use the model to address sexual misconduct in academia.

“It seemed clear that this model would work well for assisting institutions with sharing their new ideas and promising practices,” she wrote.

“There’s always the danger, I think, that with these largescale reports, that they’ll end up just kind of sitting on a shelf,” said Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay about the Academies’ report in an interview earlier this month.

according to emails Bartuah provided. In his email to his supervisors, Bartuah told the managers that those remarks were “uncalled, unprofessional” and would damage his reputation among his superiors and colleagues.

Bartauh said that three days later, he received a call from Alonzo B. Herring, Boston area manager of Securitas North America, telling him not to come to work due to an investigation.

In an “investigative meeting,” Bartuah said members of Securitas management showed him surveillance footage in which he was away from his desk during overnight shifts.

Bartuah said in an interview that he has left his post during his shifts, but that this is a “common practice” for security guards working overnight, and no other employees are facing discipline.

“That is because of the overnight culture that we create in the workplace,” Bartuah said.

“During the time of the night where everybody’s sleeping, things are pretty loose, so we don’t operate like we operate during the day.”

“I think this investigation started out of retaliation, that’s my position,” Bartuah added.

Securitas and Pitt did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Moon declined to comment on Bartuah’s complaint.

“It would be completely inappropriate for us to comment on an on-going employment matter between Securitas and our employee,” Herring wrote in an email.

Shortly after the “investigative meeting,” Bartuah filed a

“But the fact that this is the first big step post-report, and it’s one that by its very title is committed to making a difference, is really encouraging.”

Harvard reached out to the collaborative shortly after the report was published, according to Newell. Both she and University Title IX Officer Nicole M. Merhill will be involved in the collaborative in the coming months.

The group will conduct its research via four different working groups, each with a different focus. Newell said the working groups will research topics like best practices for helping victims of sexual harassment and ideas for restructuring policies to decrease misconduct.

In March, representatives from the founding members of the collaborative, including Newell, will meet to concretely determine what each working group will research.

“The Action Collaborative is intended to pick up from where that report leaves off, and to engage universities together, collectively, to try to address some of those issues and concerns,” Newell said.

“They also want to do it in a way that’s evidence-based.”

Though the collaborative is a research initiative and not a policy program, Merhill and Newell both said they hope policy changes will result from its findings.“One area that you might see some movement on, through conversations as a result of the National Academies’ report, is what is called ‘gray areas’ of misconduct,” Merhill said.

She added that there may be an opportunity for the collaborative to discuss how to develop a policy that addresses these gray areas, which are typically understood as incidents of misconduct that do not fall under the specific standards for sexual harassment.

In addition to discussing the collaborative’s potential to influence policy, Newell also referenced its applicability to disciplines beyond the sciences.

“There are many things that they can say generally, that you don’t have to be a scientist for them to apply to you,” she said.

“It just happens to be the National Academies that’s spearheading this — but that doesn’t mean they, either, want it to be limited to those disciplines.” simone.chu@thecrimson.com iris.lewis@thecrimson.com

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Broad Institute Sets Up New Center for Cancer Research Gerstner Center, said he was surprised by the simplicity and effectiveness of blood biopsies in improving cancer treatment.

“Not long ago I thought that blood biopsy was more science fiction than reality,” he said in the release.

“Broad scientists have demonstrated that it’s possible

to look at an entire cancer genome from a blood biopsy. That is spectacular.”

Broad Institute President Eric S. Lander said he is optimistic that blood biopsies will greatly advance the scientific understanding of cancer and, consequently, patient care.

“We have the opportunity

now to greatly improve patient care,” he said in the release.

“We can move closer toward making blood biopsy and other diagnostic technologies for tracking disease progression a powerful new standard-of-care for patients. alexis.bolner@thecrimson.com

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Don Lemon Speaks on Racism, Homophobia at IOP black people. Same thing with gay people.”

He said that while journalists can draw from their experiences when reporting, they should not allow their personal identity to bias their reporting.

“We all have different lenses. There’s nothing wrong with having a perspective on things, as long as you don’t let that carry or obscure your thinking or what you do,” Lemon said.

Additionally, Lemon said other people’s discriminatory attitudes toward reporters’ backgrounds can color the public’s criticism of their work. He said this causes him to always “wonder” how his audience perceives him.

Though some people’s criticisms of his work may be jus-

tified, Lemon said he believes biases underlie some people’s criticisms of him.

“A lot of the criticism of me is warranted,” he said. “Other times I think it’s based in homophobia — a lot of it — I think a lot of it is also based in racism.”

Lemon has not just had to contend with the public’s opinions: Some backlash to his reporting has come from President Donald Trump. Trump called Lemon “the dumbest man on television” in a tweet last August after Lemon’s interview with basketball player Lebron James aired on CNN. Lemon said he believes the president’s negative comments about CNN and his reporting in particular are rooted in Trump’s alleged opposition to

the truth.

“He hates it because we tell the truth, and the truth doesn’t fit into his agenda,” Lemon said.

But even as Lemon believes Trump appears to hate the media, he said Trump also depends on it.

“He loves the media,” Lemon said. “Without the media there would be no Donald Trump.”

Despite Trump’s opposition to news sources like CNN, Lemon argued that this particular issue is only temporary.

“The presidency comes with term limits. Journalism does not,” Lemon said. “Long after this administration is in power there will be journalism, so take some solace in that.” jania.tumey@thecrimson.com

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UC Gives Funding for Junior Parents Weekend Event roughy 50 students will attend the event, as well as 20 faculty members. They said they hope the event will give juniors an opportunity to reflect on their futures while faculty members serve as mentors.

“Having this [lunch] gives them the ability to also talk about more broad questions of what it means to be a student on this campus and how to think about your last year and a half and even future plans,” Palaniappan said.

“There’s lots of interest from faculty members to engage in this particular type of event as well, so I think it gives them the opportunity to gain insight as to where juniors are mentally in terms of their time here at ­

Harvard and how they can also support them when it comes to their time in the classroom together,” Palaniappan added.

The lunch was inspired by a similar event for freshmen whose parents could not attend First-Year Family Weekend.

“Currently, there isn’t an alternative event for juniors whose families aren’t able to come to Junior Family Weekend, as there was for firstyears,” Huesa said. “We wanted there to be an opportunity for something like that for juniors.”

Mai-Linh Ton ’19, the organizer of the freshman dinner, said she created the event two years ago to make Harvard more inclusive and have faculty “take the place” of parents who

could not be in Cambridge that particular weekend.

“I think the junior parents weekend is a perfect continuation because that’s something I had in mind, too,” Ton said. “I’m so happy that the UC ended up doing the other half.”

The team asked the Office of Diversity Education and Support to instituwtionalize and help fund the event, but since the office had already planned its budget for the year, it could not accommodate an additional event, according to Palaniappan. She said, however, that the office may be able to sponsor the event in future years. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com laura.espinoza@thecrimson.com

Harvard Students Make First Umrah Trip to Mecca

By RUTH ZHENG

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cess any grievance accordingly,” 32BJ SEIU spokesperson Amanda Torres-Price wrote in an emailed statement.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement that the University could not comment on the case because Bartuah is employed by Securitas, a contracted firm.

“This matter does not involve employees of the University, and with that the University is not in a position to comment,” Swain wrote.

“Additionally, it is the University’s practice to not comment on personnel matters,” he added.S SLAM distributed flyers about Bartuah’s case over Harvard email lists and called for students to contact University Director of Labor and Employee Relations Paul R. Curran regarding Bartuah’s case, according to SLAM organizer Ria Modak ’22.

SLAM is also lobbying the Undergraduate Council to release a “statement of solidarity” for Bartuah, similar to how they supported former University Health Services employee Mayli Shing, who activists have argued was fired from her position as retaliation.

“I think that we’ve had success in this kind of individual advocacy efforts like Mayli,” Modak said.

“Joseph’s case points to instances of retaliation that happen in the workplace that are completely unacceptable.”

“In an ideal world, Joseph would be rehired to his old post and with back pay,” Modak said.

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workplace complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office.

Margaret Quackenbush, the office’s spokesperson, confirmed the existence of the complaint.

The investigation has left Bartuah in a difficult financial position, he said. “I’m not getting paid. I don’t know if I could move on,” Bartuah said.

“Bills are creeping up as well as the rent at the end of the month.”

Bartuah said he has not been paid for two weeks.

In addition to working as a guard at the School of Public Health, Bartuah is a student at the Division of Continuing Education at the Harvard Extension School.

After this semester, he said he will only have one semester remaining to complete a Master’s degree in Government.

If he were to be terminated, Bartuah said, he would not be able to register for his final semester.

The company has yet to provide him a timeline regarding how long the investigation will last, he said.

“I’ve gotten myself just trying to focus on my education and trying to look for different opportunities when the investigation ends,” he said.

“I think the main reason why I’m even doing this is because I need a new job to complete my degree at the Extension School.”

Bartuah is in contact with his union, 32BJ Service Employees International Union, and Harvard Student Labor Action Movement regarding his case.

“We take allegations of unjust termination seriously and follow a strict protocol to pro-

During a reflection event Saturday evening, Muslim students looked back on their journey — both spiritual and physical — to Saudi Arabia over winter break as a part of Harvard’s inaugural Umrah trip.

For many, the January trip was not only their first time on Umrah — an Islamic pilgrimage — but also their first time outside of the United States.

Nearly all of the students were fully funded by community organizations and anonymous alumni donors to participate in the trip.

Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Harvard’s first full-time Muslim chaplain, hosted Saturday’s event — which included dinner and a reflection period.

With his wife, Ustadha Samia Omar, Abdur-Rashid led the group of 30 students on the trip.

They split the eight day trip between the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina.

Abdur-Rashid said the evening was one meant for “sharing, exploration, and reminiscence about the journey” students took last month.

Umrah is considered the “minor pilgrimage” in Islamic

practice in contrast with Hajj, which is the “major pilgrimage” and falls on specific dates each year according to the lunar calendar.

The rites and duties performed during each are similar, but Umrah can be performed anytime during the year and is typically simpler and shorter, according to Abdur-Rashid.

Several students said they were extremely grateful for the opportunity to perform Umrah.

They also recounted stories of spiritual growth and transfor-

This trip should be part and parcel of every single student that wants to go’s experience.

Khalil Abdur-Rashid Muslim Chaplain

mation while overseas at the event on Saturday.

“This was a profound experience and that’s to say the least,” Jenna Albezreh ’22 said.

“I don’t think that’s something you can get here at Harvard or any university campus in the world.”

Many students said that going from being a religious minority as a Muslim in America to a part of the majority while on the trip helped put their faith in perspective.

“It was a cultural shock,” Injil Muhammad ’21 said of his first trip to Asia as part of Umrah.

“So many people — 300 people to my right and left praying — made me feel like I was in the right place. I was home.”Others said that being in Mecca and Medina moved them to think about their religion beyond their own personal practice.

For Abdelaziz “Zizo” Bahnasey ’21, Umrah drew his attention to the “millions of Muslims who have done this before you, will do this after you.”

“I have always been the center of my life and that is something I have come to realize.” he said.

Abdur-Rashid said he and his wife plan to make Harvard Umrah an annual trip with the hope of allowing all students in the future to attend without having to pay.

“This trip should be part and parcel of every single student that wants to go’s experience,” Abdur-Rashid said. ruth.zheng@thecrimson.com

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Indexing Graduate Students’ Stipend

We Testified, It’s Time for Action

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n a welcome turn of events, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recently announced a 3 percent increase in the stipend for Ph.D. students on financial aid for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Graduate students often face considerable economic struggles in light of the ever-increasing cost of living in the greater Cambridge-Boston area.

We greatly support the stipend increase, as it will serve to combat these difficulties and promote the financial accessibility of graduate programs.

While the increase does represent tangible progress towards that goal, it does not mean that Ph.D. students’ economic troubles are solved.

While the value of the stipend changes from year to year, these changes are not always so generous.

Last academic year, GSAS also instituted a 3 percent increase, but the prior year only brought a 1.5 percent increase.

Given that rent and food costs across the greater Boston area have risen in the last few years, unpredictable increases in the stipend expose graduate students to the risk that those increases will not keep pace with those in the cost of living.

As a result, we are concerned that the University is not providing adequate resources for graduate students to thrive at Harvard, especially if they live near

campus.

Harvard Square and surrounding areas have only become more expensive and inaccessible to residents and students alike in the last few years, and it appears they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The University’s treatment of students reflects its values as an educational institution, and must work persistent-

We call on Harvard to reaffirm its commitment to making graduate school affordable and accessible for as many students as it can — starting with this stipend. ly to ensure that graduate students enjoy a decent standard of living.

In order to consistently provide for the needs of GSAS students, we recommend that GSAS index Ph.D. stipends to the cost of living in the greater Cambridge-Boston area, as the cost of living near Harvard will likely rise.

Given that GSAS students often live in and face difficulties affording off-campus housing, concerns over the financial stability of graduate students will continue to surface unless actions like in-

dexing are taken.

We appreciate Harvard’s commitment to providing an accessible education for all of its students, as the stipend program shows.

But certain career paths necessitate graduate degrees, such as in academia or advanced research in certain fields, and the high financial costs of such degrees may dissuade or discourage many prospective talented undergraduate students from pursuing said careers.

If these undergraduates do not see adequate systems of support, the chances they will pursue these careers would be lower.

Thus, in the spirit of ensuring its education is as accessible as possible, attracting and assisting the best minds across the country and the world, we call on Harvard to reaffirm its commitment to making graduate school affordable and accessible for as many students as it can — starting with this stipend.

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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By SALLY CHEN, THANG Q. DIEP, and CATHERINE H. HO

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e’re tired. We’re busy with classes, homework, and extracurriculars. But we still took the witness stand in the federal Harvard admissions trial on Oct. 29, doing something that most college students have only seen in television shows.

We spent countless hours preparing with lawyers, talking to media, and organizing our peers to rally and march because we ardently believe in the importance of educational justice and accessible higher education for students of all backgrounds.

But while it is imperative to defend diversity in admissions, it is not enough to worry about who the school admits. Harvard must also ensure that all students are supported and well-equipped to thrive once they arrive on campus.

We asked the judge for the chance to testify in order to, as Harvard characterized it, “offer important and distinctive perspectives on the importance of a racially diverse student body.”

Before the court, and the world, we revealed our academic records, family histories, and our aspirations. On legal record, we also re-lived and publicly shared the personal moments in which our university systematically failed us. It is hard to continually fight for and defend our existence at an institution that wasn’t built for us, as evidenced by the lack of a culturally nuanced and competent support network or even a physical manifestation of our presence on campus.

Students and alumni have been making the same demands for years. We are tired of having to fight to belong on this campus. If administrators are truly listening, then they know that action is long overdue and students are prepared to hold them accountable.

We demand a robust and interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies Department. Harvard has failed, for the past 47 years, to equip students with the language and skills needed to grapple with the critical issues of race and ethnicity of our time, including affirmative action.

We need tenured faculty and course offerings in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, Arab

Administrators, you have our demands. You know what we need.

Do something about it.

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Becoming Numb to the Pain Laura S. Veira-Ramirez A WILD TONGUE

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his past August, I was involved in the First-Year Urban Program, as I have been for the past three years. As the leaders prepared for the “FUPpies” to arrive on campus, we had a slot for “leader family” bonding in small groups.

To get to know each other better, we were supposed to do “life mapping.”

We drew diagrams for critical moments in our lives (up to that point) that we were going to share at the end.

We shared stories that consisted of a lot of pain, but my friend, who I had known for years, and I laughed together at experiences we had shared in a way that was probably confusing to the other people in our group who didn’t know us well.

“Oh, no. I was definitely crying and yelling when that happened in real life,” my friend acknowledged after we were all done.

“Of course. Me too. I think it just gets easier when you practice this so much,” I agreed.

I’ve been praised for so long for my strength.

As people in marginalized communities, we learn to laugh off our oppressions and lived struggles as a way of coping with the pain. This is how we form communities.

We do this for a reason, though it seems to happen naturally.

I’ve been praised for the countless times I’ve gotten up after falling down.

I surprise myself when I no longer cry about experiences that once caused me so much pain.

When I can bring them up casually in conversation.

As people in marginalized communities, we learn to laugh off our oppressions and lived struggles as a way of

coping with the pain. This is how we form communities.

We do this for a reason, though it seems to happen naturally.

We make jokes with people of similar identities that don’t work the same with outsiders. It becomes a break from the tension and serious conversations we usually see around these sensitive topics.

We have become submerged in identity politics and out of it comes the expectation to speak on behalf of the communities we belong to.

We are taught that we need people to sympathize, and the onus is on us to make sure our words carry meaning.

But we can’t do that well if we are shaking and crying on a panel or news interview.

I’ve realized how much this pattern manifests itself in the world we live in now, as it demands that we present our pain in a way that is palatable.

With the “life mapping” activity came the realization of how much we can become desensitized to our own pain through these efforts of standing up for ourselves.

In a previous article, I mentioned how sharing my story around my immigration status helped me to let go of some of the pain each time.

I attribute this mostly to my status because that is the story I get asked for the most.

I saw this pattern clearly ingrained in the immigration system itself when I worked with women seeking asylum this past summer.

I ran through their declarations with them to make sure we were making a strong-enough claim to prove that they had a credible fear of returning to their home countries.

The U.S. demanded that they spill their trauma, mostly cases of sexual assault and gang violence, into the organized structure of a legal case file.

Extremely counterintuitively, they had to relive their pain in order to get a semblance of peace through an asylum that was not guaranteed.

These cases then go to immigration

courts, where their stories are read by immigration judges who are no longer surprised by the words they’ve seen before them many times.

That’s when you notice that it is not only us who grow numb to our own pain, but also people looking in.

People are put on display to be

But if we are becoming desensitized to our own pain, what could that mean for outsiders in their ease of ignoring it and even perpetuating it? What does this mean for us when we only have enough energy to concern ourselves with how to deal with the pain and not with where it is coming from? viewed by members of their own communities as well as outsiders.

We see news covering recent attacks on our own communities and it no longer surprises us.

Outsiders see the news and they no longer care, if they ever did at all. Stories of violence and injustice become the norm as they flood our feed.

We see news of school shootings, police violence, and sexual assault, and we are no longer outraged.

But if we are becoming desensitized to our own pain, what could that mean for outsiders in their ease of ignoring it and even perpetuating it?

What does this mean for us when we only have enough energy to concern ourselves with how to deal with the pain and not with where it is coming from?

—Laura S. Veira-Ramírez ’20, a Crimson editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in History and Literature and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.

and Muslim American Studies, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies to address the challenges in our communities both at Harvard and beyond.

We demand staff and faculty that value and represent the diversity of the Harvard student body. While University representatives do not necessarily bear ill intent, the number of racially insensitive incidents recounted by students during the course of the trial demonstrates the necessity of mandatory sensitivity and bias trainings for all University employees, including mental health counselors, campus officers, admissions officers, and teaching staff. Harvard’s dedication to diversity should also extend to its recruitment and retention of faculty and staff of color.

We demand accessible spaces that validate and address the needs of marginalized students. The call for a stable, visible, and funded multicultural center has existed for decades. The same accommodations need to be extended to and expanded for the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, the Women’s Center, and the many student-run mental health services that currently occupy basement spaces. The history of this campus is physically and symbolically coded with privilege. We need funding and administrative support for affinity groups and spaces in order to begin to shift the tide.

We demand more opportunities for students to engage in meaningful public service that aims to not only champion and develop student leadership but also to address community needs.

Harvard must uphold and expand a model of service that is community-based and student-led, with increased funding and resources for students committed to meaningful and long-term community engagement. In doing so, Harvard can support work aimed at dismantling the oppressive structures that hinder equal educational accessibility for communities of color and that prevent student success across the board.

Institutions of higher education across the nation must better support marginalized students.

We hope that Harvard will serve as an example in addressing students’ needs and ensuring that all students succeed. “I’m still confident that we will win in the trial court,” University President Lawrence S. Bacow said, but for the students who have been working overtime to fill the holes themselves in the University’s support system, this is not enough.

It has never been enough. Harvard claims that it is committed to ensuring each admitted class reflects the diversity of the world we inhabit and create.

Now, the administration must proactively work towards ensuring that the campus truly reflects this principle of inclusion and belonging.

Harvard may win this lawsuit, but Harvard is nothing without its students. Harvard cannot successfully “educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society” unless all students are adequately supported to thrive and succeed in ways that are personally meaningful to them.

Administrators, you have our demands. You know what we need. Do something about it.

—Sally Chen ’19, a joint concentrator in History & Literature and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, lives in Winthrop House. Thang Q. Diep ’19, a Neuroscience concentrator, lives in Dunster House.

Catherine H. Ho ’21, a Neuroscience concentrator, lives in Leverett House. They testified as witnesses in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard lawsuit this past fall.

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2018-19 Overall Record 16-8-3 ______________________________________

CAPTAINS GAMES ______________________________________ UPCOMING ______________________________________

Conference Record 12-6-2 _____________________________________

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Harvard Blanks Yale on Triumphant Senior Night

By STUTI R. TELIDEVARA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The last time the Harvard men’s hockey team met Yale, in New Haven, Conn., the game ended in a stalemate. Before that, the Crimson hadn’t beaten the Bulldogs in the regular season since Feb. 17, 2017. Add to that the fact that Saturday’s matchup — the game that would decide the season series — was also Harvard’s Senior Night, and you have a contest that’s bound to be a back-and-forth treat.

But the No. 17/15 Crimson (16-8-3, 12-6-2 ECAC) wound up getting the better of the Bulldogs (13-11-3, 11-8-1) early in the first and never looked back.

The star of the show was junior net-minder Cameron Gornet, who backstopped the team this weekend in place of injured senior Michael Lackey.

Not only did Gornet lead his squad to a 3-0 shutout, he also was awarded the Tim Taylor Cup, given to the most valuable player in a Harvard-Yale contest at Bright-Landry.

“When you come to Harvard, the big rivalry you always talk about is Harvard-Yale,” Gornet said. “It’s really exciting coming in and sort of sticking it to ‘em.”

The Bulldogs came out for the first with energy, drawing a penalty less than six minutes into the frame. But the Crimson withstood the early pressure; at the 8:50 mark, the hosts were the ones to break the ice.

An offensive-zone faceoff win — courtesy of sophomore Jack Badini, third-best on the draw in the country (65.3%) — saw Badini carry the puck behind the net and pass to rookie defenseman Jack Rathbone. Rathbone made no mistake, picking a corner to beat senior goaltender Sam Tucker and give his team a 1-0 lead.

Rathbone’s snipe is his second in 2019 (5–11—16), wrapping up a two-point weekend.

The freshman finished the night with 6 shots to his stat line, pacing Harvard on a night with considerable shot volume (46 SOG).

“We have two [defensemen] ­

that are horses out there in Fox and Marino,” said head coach Ted Donato ‘91. “We have their two understudies in Rathbone and Walsh.”

A flurry of penalties closed out the first period, with Yale freshman Justin Pearson taking a seat to cancel out a power play chance for his team. Having the better part of the man advantage to start the second, the Crimson sent out its top unit.

Sophomore blue-liner Reilly Walsh, the team’s leading power play goal-scorer, carried into the high slot only to hit the post with his shot. Junior defenseman Adam Fox was there to scoop up the rebound and dish it to co-captain Lewis Zerter-Gossage, who walked in on Tucker and fired it top-side.

The power play tally was Harvard’s second of the weekend after a recent dry spell, giving Zerter-Gossage his team-leading 16th goal of the season. The senior has netted six goals in his last eight games; though the season is far from finished, Zerter-Gossage has already set a career best for goal-scoring.

“I don’t think we were great in the first period on the power play,” coach Donato said.

“When you have a successful power play...you’ve got to keep evolving as teams throw different coverages at you.... Tonight we scored a couple of goals, but we generated a lot of chances.”

The middle frame featured no more scoring, with the Crimson holding a small edge in shots through the game thus far (24-21). Harvard very nearly found itself ahead by three goals — by a fraction of a second, in fact. Junior defender John Marino put the puck in the net just as the buzzer sounded, and after review the play was ruled no goal.

With just 20 minutes on the clock, Gornet saw another barrage of Bulldog attempts thrown his way, but the junior weathered the storm. The Crimson’s penalty kill is ranked a modest 47th of 60 NCAA teams (77.5%); however, the team did away with another Yale power play chance in the middle of the fi-

HIGHLY EFFICIENT The Crimson powerplay struck again on Saturday night, maintaining its nation-best execution rate. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

nal frame, en route to a perfect 6-for-6 performance.

Once again, the PK received a helping hand as Bulldogs sophomore forward Dante Palecco was sent to the box for hooking.

Harvard was on the man advantage not long after Palecco’s offense. The point-men combined in a play that has become a routine sight for Crimson fans, as Fox, avoiding a Yale player, backhanded the puck to a waiting Walsh. The sophomore’s one-timer zipped past Tucker, extending the hosts’ lead to 3-0.

A no-goal call once a game calls for a shrug and a quick recovery, but two is a surprise.

Less than a minute later, Harvard fell prey to another video review, as an apparent tally for sophomore Jack Donato was waved off as a kick.

“You try to not let that affect how you play,” Zerter-Gossage said. “Coaches always say, no matter what the result is, get back to the game plan. It’s definitely tough, because you’ve got those thoughts, ‘We could be up

by one more goal,’ but I think we handled it well and kept playing our game.”

The final whistle gave Gornet (5 GP, 2.64 GAA, .920 SV%) his first career shutout, sealing a solid weekend for the junior (.969 SV%). Should Lackey remain sidelined for the close of the regular season next week, Gornet has proven that he is an able replacement.

Several of Harvard’s key offensive contributors are also riding hot streaks. Walsh is running a seven-game point streak (3–7—10). Meanwhile, Fox earned his third three-point effort of the season, giving him 11 points (1–10—11) in his last six contests. The junior paces all players in assists per game (1.11), and also leads all defensemen in assists (30) and points per game (1.41). He and Walsh are first and second in team scoring respectively; the program hasn’t had two defensemen pace the team at the end of the season in the past 11 years.

“It’s definitely a luxury to

have the talent that we have as our final line of defense,” said Zerter-Gossage on the defense corps as a whole. “When you can throw it back and trust that a play is going to be made...it’s something that you kind of take for granted as the season goes along. All the points that they’re racking up [are] definitely well-deserved, and I don’t think it’s going to go unnoticed how much they mean to our team offensively and defensively.”

The Crimson’s 2019 class also closed the book on the season at home on Saturday; aside from Lackey, the entire senior class dressed for the game. The emotion of Senior Night seems to fire up the team especially, as Harvard has triumphed on the last five occasions. Its seniors have been part of two NCAA Tournament runs, including a 2017 Frozen Four appearance, and won the ECAC Tournament and regular season in 2017 too.

Zerter-Gossage leads his class in both career games played (121) and points (39–42—81) as

of now.

“Every year when it’s Senior Night you don’t really think of how soon yours is coming,” Zerter-Gossage said. “It’s gone by really fast. The way that we handled the game, especially, played a full 60 and played the style that we really want to play going forward...was a really good way to send us off.”

The Crimson’s second-place ECAC tie puts the team in a good position heading into its final weekend of play. Its last two contests are against RPI and No. 20 Union; wins against either team would complete a season sweep.

More importantly Harvard is still in the running to win the conference outright, as leader Cornell sits only a point ahead and will face second-place Clarkson next week. With the top four ECAC teams neck and neck, anything can happen as the regular season comes to its end. stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Benzan Breaks Record as Harvard Routs Brown

By LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

On a night in which Harvard rolled to a 98-55 romp — good for easily the Crimson’s biggest margin of victory in Ivy League play — over Brown at Lavietes Pavilion, junior guard Katie Benzan added another personal milestone to a quickly growing list.

A month after she became Harvard’s 20th 1,000 point scorer (a list that is also soon likely to include co-captain guard Madeline Raster, who has scored 991), the Welles-

ley native hit her 262nd career three pointer early in the third quarter, breaking a Crimson record long held by Erin Maher ‘93.

“I didn’t even know I was close to that record,” Benzan said, “So it was a surprise. I was taken aback. I didn’t know until it was announced and all of my teammates came and gave me the biggest hugs, so I was shocked. It was nice that I was able to get those hugs from my teammates and my coaches, because they are the reason that I broke that record.”

Benzan’s 19 points on 7-of-

RECORD BREAKER Katy Benzan surpassed Erin Maher ‘93’s record for career three pointers. CRIMSON SPORTS STAFF

9 shooting led Harvard on Friday, but she was hardly the only standout performer for the Crimson. All five starters were able to crack double figures in scoring despite spending much of the second half with the game having been long since decided.

Three weeks ago in Providence, Harvard (13-9, 6-3 Ivy) and Brown (9-16, 1-8) traded blows throughout a frenzied first half and entered the break 48-48 before the Crimson pulled away in the second half.

This time around, Harvard made it obvious from the opening tip that it was the superior team, jumping out to a 20-3 lead and going into halftime up by 25.

Raster may not have reached the 1,000 point mark against the Bears, but the South Bend, Ind. native did everything else on Friday. She dove after countless loose balls, played stifling defense, and started a number of fastbreaks with steals or quick passes ahead after rebounds.

The co-captain finished with 11 points, 12 rebounds, and 8 assists in what was one of her better all-around performances of the season.

When Raster was subbed out with 8:20 to go in the game and the Crimson up by 40, it looked as if she had seen her last action of the night. But coach Kathy Delaney-Smith put her back in with 4:26 left in the hopes that she would get the two assists that would have given the senior her first career triple double.

“I didn’t have the scorers out there, but I wanted Madeline to see if she could get the two

assists,” Delaney-Smith said.

“This was the [Raster] that we know and love. She was phenomenal on both ends of the court tonight.”

Harvard looked early and often to capitalize on its clear size advantage. Junior forward Jeannie Boehm and sophomore forward Jadyn Bush established themselves early on, scoring eight points apiece in the dominant first quarter and adding eight total rebounds, including four on the offensive end.

Boehm also set the tone defensively, blocking Brown star junior guard Justine Gaziano’s first shot and finishing with three total blocks and stellar all-around rim protection.

Bush scored 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting despite playing just 16 total minutes, including only four in the second half. She looked unstoppable down low, scoring with ease and gobbling up offensive rebounds.

The Federal Way, Wash. native’s 16 minutes were lowest among the starting lineup, but not by much. The other four starters played between 23 and 24 minutes as Delaney-Smith was able to rest her key players ahead of Saturday night’s crucial showdown with Yale.

Overall, the Crimson was dominant in every facet of the game. Unlike in Providence, Harvard took its time offensively, refusing to get into a track meet with the offense-first Bears. The Crimson shot 55%, largely because it was able to drive to the hoop or dump the ball into the post and get easy layups. Harvard ended the

game with 44 points in the paint to Brown’s 14.

Against fast-paced Brown, the Ivy League’s worst defense, the offensive explosion was to be expected, especially after the Crimson scored 100 points in Providence three weeks ago.

The difference Friday was Harvard’s defensive effort.

The Bears’ scoring output dropped from 83 in the first meeting between these teams to 55, as the Crimson was able to shut down Gaziano — Brown’s main offensive weapon — particularly when the game was in doubt.

Playing near her hometown of Natick, Mass., Gaziano was unable to match her 28 point performance against Harvard the first time around. The 19 point-per-game scorer end up with a respectable 16 points, but most of those points came long after the game had been decided. In the first half, Brown’s leading scorer put up just four points on 1-of-5 shooting.

“I thought we did a good job of finding #4 [Gaziano] sooner and playing her a little tighter,” Delaney-Smith said. “We did a good job on her this game.”

The Crimson’s stifling defense clearly had an impact on the Bears’ shot selection from the opening tip. Brown was forced into one contested shot after another and had far more ugly-looking shots than makes early on. The Bears shot just 7-of-29 (24%) from the floor and 2-of-13 (15%) from three point range in the first half.

Aside from Raster’s brief four minute cameo and two minutes for senior guard Nani

Redford, Harvard’s starters were able to watch the fourth quarter from the bench, allowing seldom-used players like sophomore forwards Maddie Stuhlreyer and Maria Guramare, sophomore guard Matilda Salen, and senior guard Kelsey Bogdan to get real playing time and to score a combined 16 points in the final frame as the Crimson extended its lead to its eventual 43 point margin of victory.

Harvard’s key players will presumably get a more normal share of playing time Saturday in a crucial game against Yale (15-9, 5-4), which is coming off of a surprising two point loss to Dartmouth on Friday night.

The Crimson will be looking to exact revenge after the Bulldogs won a heartbreaker in New Haven three weeks ago on a buzzer-beating three. Harvard will need to shoot better tomorrow than they did in New Haven, when the Crimson hit just five threes in the loss.

With a win, Harvard would also earn its first weekend sweep in league play and all-but clinch a spot in the Ivy League tournament, which will take place in three weeks in New Haven. If it reaches the tournament, the Crimson will be looking to avenge a tight loss to Penn in last year’s tournament.

The Quakers and Princetonwill again be the favorites to win the conference and make the NCAA Tournament. With more performances like Friday night’s, though, Harvard should be in the mix. lev.cohen@thecrimson.com

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Aiken Hits Another Buzzer-Beater As Harvard Tops Yale

By HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Bryce Aiken did it again.

In front of 45 friends and family inside a thunderous, sold-out John J. Lee Amphitheater, Aiken went coast-to-coast and flushed a step-back jumper over Yale’s Trey Phills as the horn sounded.

The junior point guard was swarmed instantaneously by the Crimson bench, stunning the crowd at New Haven that had seen its team’s six-point lead in the final two minutes vanish. A critical open-lane dunk and corner triple in the final minute by freshman Kale Catchings — who earned a career-high 16 points in his first ever start — upended a Bulldogs lead the hosts had held since the 10-minute mark.

“We needed everyone to have a victory like this tonight because of how good Yale is and how athletic they are,” Amaker said. “I can’t say enough about our team and what we were able to accomplish — making decisions in critical moments and certainly making plays and shots to get the win. So proud of our kids for the effort that they brought after last night[’s loss to Brown].”

Yale guard Alex Copeland capped off an efficient 21-point outing with a deep triple in the waning 10 seconds of the contest to even the contest at 86-86, but 7.8 seconds still remained on the clock. Bryce Aiken used every single remaining second to pull off another magical clincher.

“I saw there was 7.8 seconds on the clock, so that was more than enough time for us to get a shot up,” Aiken said. “My teammates trust me, my coach trusts me, the whole program does…

What my team trusts me to do is make that last play and luckily it went in.”

This was the third of the past six games in which Aiken’s final-second heroics salvaged a Crimson victory. The Randolph, NJ., native drilled a double-clutch heave against Columbia to force double-overtime, followed by a desperation three that found the bottom of the net in Harvard’s 75-68 overtime victory at the Palestra. ­

With the victory, the Crimson tallied its seventh Ancient Eight win and swept the league-leading Bulldogs, whose only two conference losses have come at the hands of Coach Tommy Amaker’s side. Similar to past contests, this game was a back-and-forth outing: the contest had a total of 17 lead changes.

“They got some great energy from the kid [Kale] Catchings coming off the bench, playing really hard.” Yale coach James Jones said. “He made a couple of great plays in the game and and he certainly was a difference.

Sometimes that works where you light a fire under guy and he just comes out and just plays as hard as he can.”

Amaker, with program cornerstone Justin Bassey in sweatpants after suffering a lower leg injury Friday night against Brown, made a bold shift to his opening lineup. Juniors Chris Lewis and Robert Baker remained on the pine at tip-off.

In their stead, two freshmen —Catchings and Mason Forbes — were called pregame by the PA announcer for the first time in their careers. While Catchings had seen limited action in Ivy play, Forbes had tallied just three minutes of game action since Jan 21.

While Forbes and classmate Noah Kirkwood had quiet nights on the offensive end, the two contributed in crucial fashion on the opposite end.

Forbes altered several shots from a rim-hungry Yale squad, while Kirkwood was tasked with covering the Bulldogs’ best player, junior wing Miye Oni. Importantly, Kirkwood drew a charge on the Bulldogs’ 21-point man at the 11-minute mark that sent Oni to the bench with four fouls. The Yale sharpshooter’s inability to avoid the referee’s whistle in the second half was a game-shifter for the Bulldogs as Oni saw the floor for only eight minutes in that frame.

“Kale and Mason were the two that we inserted in the lineup, for energy, for defense, for their toughness, their grit,” Amaker said. “I thought they both played exceptionally well tonight. I had no hesitation about making that kind of deci-

sion in this kind of game, in this kind of environment and they certainly proved me to be correct.”

Without its best player on the court at the halfway point of the half, Yale was not deterred and instead sprinted out to its own 9-4 run to pull away to a 77-70 lead at the 6:16 mark. In response, Amaker re-inserted Lewis — who had sat out the majority of the second frame.

The Alpharetta, Ga., native provided two aggressive rim finishes, which compounded by a Danilo Djuricic fast-break dunk and a Christian Juzang triple in the 6 minute-to-4 minute span suddenly brought the contest back to a one-possession margin at 79-77.

Almost re-handing the game back to the home side, the Crimson followed that series with two giveaways — the first of which ended in a Miye Oni fastbreak jam — but the aforementioned Catchings and Aiken once again willed Harvard back from that six-point deficit.

Catchings had himself a breakout game, fighting for three steals and bulldozing his way into the paint for a pair of two-handed slams as well as two up-and-under lay-ins.

“I stay ready whenever I can,” Catchings said. “ And I have great mentors and upperclassmen. I get to room with Justin Bassey every weekend whenever we go on these road trips. Just being able to see him and how he goes about every day in practice, what his routine looks like, and seeing how he works, I realized I can go out there and try to replicate the best I can give.”

The Bulldogs, who entered Saturday’s outing seventh in the NCAA in field goal percentage(49.8), jumped out to a lightning-hot start in front of a boisterous crowd at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

Off four triples from sharpshooter Miye Oni, Yale exploded to a perfect 10-for-10 start.

On the opposite end, the visitors languished out of the locker room for the second straight night, converting on two buckets in the opening four minutes.

By the 14:30 mark, the Bulldogs had widened its margin to 24-10 and the game appeared to

CLUTCH GENE Bryce Aiken drained another buzzer-beater shot to catapult Harvard over Yale in a sold-out Lee Amphitheater Saturday night. QUINN G. PERINI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

be at risk of getting away from Harvard. But a fast-break layup from Bryce Aiken followed by an invigorating open-lane dunk from Catchings tempered the Yale run. Sophomore Danilo Djuricic, who did not enter the contest until the 10:45 point, provided a much-needed lift off the bench — immediately finding net on two triples.

The Canadian also added a mid-range jumper at the five-minute mark to will the team back to a one-point deficit, before a Kirkwood three helped the Crimson eclipse the Bulldogs for the first time in the contest two minutes later. A Forbes tip-in concluded Harvard’s offense output in the first half, and the Crimson trailed by just one entering the locker-room.

The second half started off with both sides exchanging

points and this would prove to be a sign of things to come in the final minutes. Yale quickly tallied a flurry of fouls in a scrappy second half. Outside of a Catchings layup four minutes into the half, Harvard scored only off free throws — 8 to be specific — in the first five minutes.

Aiken’s 13-of-15 night from the charity stripe combined with a 22-of-27 outing from the line was a critical factor in keeping the Crimson within striking distance of its rivals.

On the night as a whole, Aiken was just two points shy of yet another 30-point outing, while the Crimson shot 28-of-55 from the field. Harvard out-rebounded Yale by six boards, despite playing small ball for most of the contest. Six players on the visiting side converted a triple in a 45 percent night from be-

yond the arc.

“I think we were really fortunate tonight to beat the best team in our league on their home floor,” Amaker said. “ …So we just think they have a lot of right pieces of the puzzle they play well with. James [Jones] has done a tremendous job and terrific effort that they put forth tonight, and we were fortunate to get the win.”

The race for the top four spots in the Ivy League standings is heating up. The current top six are as follows: 1. Yale (8-2) 2. Harvard (7-3) 3. Princeton (7-3) 4. Cornell (5-5) 5. Brown (5-5) 6. Penn (4-6) henry.zhu@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Raster Reaches 1,000 Points As Harvard Sails Past Yale

By LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

With two seconds left in the first half, Madeline Raster drove to the basket, drew a foul, and hit a tough layup to the delight of an exuberant Lavietes Pavilion crowd. She added the free throw to put Harvard up 52-27 at the half.

It was a fitting end to a dominant first half for the Crimson, which went on to beat Yale 8369, avenging the heartbreaking loss Harvard suffered in New Haven three weeks ago.

For Raster, the game was notable beyond just being the per­

fect end to a terrific weekend for the Crimson (14-9, 7-3 Ivy). She led Harvard with 24 points, the ninth of which was her 1,000th in a Crimson uniform. About a month after junior guard Katie Benzan became the 21st Harvard player to reach the 1,000 point milestone, Raster became No. 22.

“I’m really honored [to reach 1,000 points],” Raster said.

“I’ve played with a lot of great teammates here and obviously I have a coach like Kathy [Delaney-Smith] who has believed in me from freshman year and has let me play and grow as a player, so I’m just really hon-

ored.”

For the second straight night, Harvard blitzed its opponent from the opening tip, ensuring that there would be no repeat of the buzzer-beater that made the Bulldogs (1510, 5-5) victorious the first time around. The Crimson ended the first quarter up 24-14 and then scored the first 12 points of the second quarter — including three straight threes to start the quarter — to take a 24 point lead before Yale could gain a foothold in the game.

“I think we came out really strong in this game,” Raster said. “We moved the ball really

HEATING UP An important weekend sweep over Yale and Brown positions the team well in the Ivy League standings. QUINN G. PERINI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

well like we did against Brown last night and got everyone touches and baskets. That really helped us get a lot of momentum in the first half.”

The three triples in the span of about one second quarter minute were part of an efficient first half performance from long range. Harvard’s six first half threes were a welcome change from the first game against the Bulldogs, when the Crimson hit just five shots from beyond the arc on 23 attempts.

As has become the norm of late, Harvard emphasized getting the ball down low early on, with junior forward Jeannie Boehm and sophomore forward Jadyn Bush leading the team with six first quarter points apiece. Boehm and Bush both eventually fouled out, but not before they poured in a combined 24 points, 15 rebounds, two steals, and three blocks.

While the Crimson’s four top scorers — Raster, Benzan (who poured in 18 points), Boehm, and Bush — ended up leading the team in scoring once again, Harvard’s best stretch of the game was actually spurred by big shots from junior guard Mackenzie Barta and sophomore forward Rachel Levy.

Levy ended the game with nine points on 3-of-4 shooting, as she played 22 minutes largely in relief of the foul-ridden Bush.

“They’re both really really good shooters,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “For them to step up offensively was great.

We were really happy with that contribution for sure.”

The Crimson came out in the second half noticeably less sharp, as they had multiple long stretches in which they struggled to manufacture good looks on the offensive end and forced some contested shots. The Bulldogs outscored Harvard 42-31 overall in the second half, although the inroads Yale made largely came well after the game had been decided.

Even in the second half, the Crimson played solid defense, limiting Yale to 36% shooting. The emphasis for Harvard was shutting down impressive freshman forward Camilla Emsbo, who led the Bulldogs with 15 points and seven rebounds in the first meeting between the teams.

The Crimson chose to double-team Emsbo when she received the ball in the post, a strategy that clearly paid off.

She ended up shooting just 1-of8 for two points, the worst performance of her young Yale career. The Bulldogs were outscored by 23 points in her 19 minutes on the court, giving her the worst plus-minus of any Yale player.

“I think [Emsbo] is 6’5” and she had been scoring a lot,” Delaney-Smith said. “I think teams have decided to do things differently to take her out of her game. We had decided to double-down on her. She’s not a great passer yet so I thought that disrupted her a little bit.

Now that the heat is on her, I think it’s sort of a welcome to Division I basketball. I think all big players go through that.

It’s a hard transition for inside players.”

Junior Roxy Barahman led the way for the Bulldogs, notwithstanding a scary fall midway through the third quarter that turned out to be less serious than was initially feared.

Barahman scored 21 points, two above her season average, but she had to work for those points, hoisting up 21 shots as she was guarded closely by Benzan throughout.

“Katie Benzan did a great job on [Barahman],” Delaney-Smith said. “The unfortunate thing is I did not rest Katie very well tonight. For most of the game Katie did a great job, but I think Katie got dog-tired at the end is what I think happened to her.”

It was the second straight blowout win for Harvard, which secured its first weekend sweep of the season and kept pace with Penn (8-1) and Princeton (7-2) in the battle for seeding in the Ivy League tournament, which will take place in three weeks in New Haven. The Crimson will travel to Philadelphia and then Princeton next weekend and will be looking to prove that this year there are three teams seriously contending for the Ivy League championship. lev.cohen@thecrimson.com