The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 34

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 34 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

The Harvard Crimson We strongly support recent efforts to resume funding research on gun violence. EDITORIAL PAGE 6

Baseball struggles in four game series in New Mexico.

SPORTS PAGE 7

As Dominguez Retires, Fallout Continues Faculty Vote to Gov Prof Dominguez to Include Retire Following Allegations Sanctions

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG

CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez announced Tuesday he will retire from his teaching job at the end of the semester and that he is immediately resigning from his administrative roles, several days after at least 18 women publicly accused him of sexual harassment.

“I am retiring from my job at Harvard at the end of this semester,” Dominguez wrote in an email to colleagues Tuesday. “I have stepped down immediately from my role at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and my other very few remaining academic coordinating roles.”

Chair of the Government department Jennifer L. Hochschild shared Dominguez’s message with department affiliates in an email Tuesday afternoon. She wrote Dominguez’s retirement will not affect Harvard’s ongoing attempts to investigate allegations of sexual harassment made against the professor. The rights and privileges normally provided to retired faculty members will take into account the outcome of the University’s investigation, according to FAS spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven.The University placed Dominguez on “administrative leave” Sunday evening.

“I want to underscore that Professor Dominguez is currently on administrative leave, and his forthcoming

SEE RETIREMENT PAGE 5

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The Harvard University Police Department provided data that shows the locations and types of 581 reported crimes in 2017; the data reveals that crime is concentrated in the areas closer to the Charles River and Harvard Square.

The 581 crime reports provided to The Crimson are only a subset of the crimes listed in HUPD police logs in 2017. The department did not include certain instances, including those it deemed less severe—like trespass warnings—or confidential.

Though the full report of HUPD’s crime data will be released later this year in the department’s Annual Security Report, this data shows broad trends both in the type and location of crime on Harvard’s Campus.

The most frequent type of crime re­

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Professors enter University Hall for the monthly Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting. KARINA G. GONZALEZ-ESPINOZA —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Gov Grad Student Letter Demands More Action

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Graduate students sent a letter to Government department faculty Tuesday condemning their handling of sexual assault accusations against Professor Jorge I. Dominguez and demanding the department take steps to ad­

HUPD Crime Data Shows Campus Trends

By ISABEL M. KENDALL

The Government department is forming a “standing committee” to investigate the “conditions” that allowed Government professor Jorge I.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to include the College’s penalties on members of single-gender social groups in the student handbook Tuesday, ending more than a year and a half of turmoil and ensuring once and for all that the controversial sanctions are here to stay.

The handbook vote posed the final hurdle in what has been a tumultuous path to finalization and legitimacy for the College’s social group policy, which bars members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from campus leadership positions, the captaincies of varsity athletic teams, and from receiving College endorsement for certain fellowships.

University President Drew G. Faust debuted the penalties in May 2016— but after faculty charged they had not had sufficient input in crafting the policy, administrators formed at least two committees charged with the power to review, revise, and even replace the sanctions. Faculty members also at times offered vocal opposition to the penalties in the form of anti-sanctions legislation, speeches, and posts online and on social media.

But ultimately, the sanctions survived unscathed—the committees did not alter the penalties and the anti-sanctions legislation failed to pass.

Gov Department Committee to Investigate Gender Issues

dress “years of apparent negligence” towards issues of sexual misconduct Dominguez sent an email to colleagues later that same day announcing he plans to retire at the end of the academic year and that he is resigning all administrative roles immediately.

Dominguez’s resignation—and the graduate students’ letter—comes days after the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Feb. 27 that at least 18 women are accusing him of sexual harassment over a 30-year period. In response to the allegations, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D.

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

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Types of Crime

Open & Gross

ported was theft, with 394 individual incidents in 2017. The second most common type of crime reported was vandalism, with 86 individual incidents.

Threats, harassment, and assaults followed with 27, 25, and 23 individual incidents, respectively.

Most of the reports came from the most densely populated areas of Harvard’s campus: the river house area, the yard, and its surrounds. A small percentage of incidents were reported in the greater Boston and Cambridge areas, and a small cluster in the Longwood Medical campus, which houses Harvard Medical School, Harvard Dental School, and the School of Public Health.

Peabody Terrace—a housing complex owned by the University, which primarily houses graduate students—

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Faculty Discuss Ending Shopping

GSAS Increases PhD Stipends

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences debated a proposal that would switch undergraduate courses to a pre-registration system—and eliminate the College’s “shopping week”—at a monthly Faculty meeting Tuesday.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana kicked off the conversation by presenting to the Faculty about early registration. He said Tuesday that, in previous conversations with faculty members, many raised concerns about

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In an email to graduate students Monday evening, Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Emma Dench announced that stipends for Ph.D. students will increase by 3 percent in the upcoming year.

The new number marks a return to historical rates after an unusually low increase of 1.5 percent last year, which GSAS Dean Xiao-Li Meng attributed to poor returns on Harvard’s endowment.

Of the past nine years, eight have ­

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HARVARD TODAY

WEDNESDAY | MARCH 7, 2018

FOR LUNCH

FOR DINNER

Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas

Reds Best Local Fish with Lemon Butter Capers and Parsley

Pepper, Onion, and Cheese Pizza on Whole Wheat Crust Mexican Rice

Chicken with Green Curry Sauce

AROUND THE IVIES

ON POINTE Dancers from the Jose Mateo Dance Company perform at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square Saturday night.

Yale Sexual Assault Trial Calls Witnesses

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The defense of former Yale student Saifullah Khan, accused of raping another Yale student in 2015, called its first witness yesterday, according to the Yale Daily News. Khan faces three felony charges and one misdemeanor charge, and maintains innocence. By Monday, the prosecution had called all witnesses, and it was the turn of the defense to present theirs. Rabbi Shmully Hecht, a friend of Khan’s and founder of campus Jewish society Shabtai, and Khan’s girlfriend both testified in his defense, recounting their recollections of the events of the night when the alleged rape took place. The jury is likely to reach a decision on the case by the end of the week.

Dartmouth Offers Amnesty for Student Protests The Dartmouth admissions office announced on Feb. 23 the College will not punish applicants that receive disciplinary actions due to protesting, according to the Dartmouth. After the Parkland school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, the nation has seen an wave of student activism against gun violence.

High school students have raised concerns about penalties as a result of this activism having a negative effect on their potential for college admission.

Cornell Students Urge Congress to Save DACA

HAPPY WEDNESDAY! The magical land of spring break lies beyond this hump day. We believe in you, Harvard!

In the Atmosphere…

You can’t escape the nor’easter…

Today will be in the late 30s and ominously full of rain, snow, and wind. Stay warm!

EVENTS Occupying Paris: 1968 & the Spaces of Protest 4:15-7 p.m.

Head down to the Center for European Studies to see an exhibit created by students about the 1968 protests against state-controlled news in Paris.

Center, SHADE, the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, and the Harvard Undergraduate BGLTQ Business Society are co-sponsoring a discussion about tropes used for queer womxn in TV shows and movies. The event is open to all and wheelchair accessible.

Happily Never After? A Study Break on Queer Women in the Media 7-8 p.m.

The Harvard College Women’s

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Cornell students called members of Congress on Feb. 28 to urge them to pass legislation protecting DACA recipients from deportation, as reported by the Cornell Daily Sun. The calls were part of a national movement coordinated

by FWD.us, a bipartisan organization advocating for immigration reform. With the Trump administration’s recent policies including the repeal of DACA, colleges across the country have mobilized in opposition to federal efforts aimed at deporting undocumented individuals.

In Sept. 2016, 700 presidents of higher education institutions endorsed a letter in support of DACA. Cornell policy said the college will continue to support DACA recipients through financial aid despite federal immigration policy.

IN THE REAL WORLD Gary Cohn Will Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Gary D. Cohn, head of the National Economic Council, and Trump’s top economic adviser, announced yesterday that he is resigning from the Trump administration. This announcement comes in the wake of Trump’s decision to impose extensive tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

School Safety Bill Vote In response to the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, the House will be voting next week on the STOP School Violence Act of 2018.

Fyre Burnin on the Dance Floor Remember Fyre Festival? It was that “music festival” that turned into a cross between spring break and Lord of the Flies last year. And the creator, Billy McFarland, just plead guilty to fraud, having lost investors over $26 million.

Let’s just all agree to stick to Coachella next time.

WAITING AT THE DOT

WINTER IN THE YARD The Yard bustles with people as spring break approaches.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We need to acknowledge and work to address the cultural and structural realities that permit sexual harassment to occur.”

Drew G. Faust University President

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Policy Added to Handbook SANCTIONS FROM PAGE 1 Now, almost the exact text of the original policy Faust announced in 2016 is enshrined for the foreseeable future in the student handbook.

The Faculty voted to include the sanctions in the handbook with little fanfare at the March iteration of its monthly meeting. The vote was verbal—not balloted—with Faculty casting their votes by saying either “Aye” or “Nay.” The Aye’s outnumbered the Nay’s, and so the sanctions entered the handbook. The policy’s inclusion in the handbook means in part that students will not have to sign an oath specifically affirming their commitment to the policy, as had been proposed at one point over the last year and a half.The College released a long-awaited implementation plan for the sanctions last week, including plans to ask the Faculty to include them in the handbook.

The plan revealed that the Administrative Board will be responsible for enforcing the finalized social group policy.

Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68—a vocal opponent of the sanctions since their inception—questioned the Ad Board’s ability to en-

force the policy at Tuesday’s meeting.

He asked how the Ad Board would discover whether a student applying for or holding a leadership position is also a member of an unrecognized social organization.

Associate Dean of Student Engagement Alex Miller—who attended the meeting—responded on behalf of the Office of Student Life Thursday. He said that, as with all other Ad Board cases, social group cases will be “reactive.” He added the method through which the Ad Board will carry out the implementation will be up to the board.

Administrators have previously said the College will not enforce the sanctions by actively searching for students who violate the policy. Officials also said Harvard will not seek or act on “anonymous complaints” to discover violators.

Lewis also said at the meeting he thinks the language included in the handbook makes it unclear whether certain groups are to the sanctions.

He specifically mentioned the Harvard Knights of Columbus and Daughters of Isabella, single-gender organizations hosted through the Harvard Catholic Center.

Miller said that, going forward, individual cases will depend on whether

the organization is registered with the OSL or not.

Lewis has previously mounted opposition to the penalties. At various points he introduced two separate motions designed to kill the policy; neither ended up passing, the first because Lewis withdrew it.

Lewis’s second recent motion, introduced in fall 2017, stated the College shall not discipline students who join “any lawful organization.” Ultimately, after heated debate, the Faculty voted down his motion at the November meeting, when 130 professors voted against it while 90 supported it.

Biology professor and attendee David A. Haig said Thursday he also feels the handbook language touching on “unrecognized single-gender social organizations” is unclear. Furthermore, he questioned which fellowship endorsements would be subject to the policy.

“When we’re implementing the policy, students will want clarity,” Haig said. “Specifically, I’m not clear on what is a college-administered fellowship.”

Miller said the policy will only apply to scholarships awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship.

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HUPD Crime Logs Show Theft Hotspots CRIME FROM PAGE 1

package thefts.”

was the most concentrated area of reported crimes.

According to Steven G. Catalano, HUPD’s Public Information Officer, the high number came from “a spike in thefts at Peabody Terrace related to

—Staff writers Michael E. Xie and Dianne Lee contributed reporting.

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Assailant Robs Harvard Alum Near Sever Hall

By ISABEL M. KENDALL CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A female alumna reported an unarmed robbery to the Harvard University Police Department on Monday evening, according to a statement from HUPD. The robbery was reported in Harvard Yard near Sever Hall at 6:59 PM that night. A man grabbed the woman from behind and stole her purse. She fell to the ground and her assailant fled the scene.

The victim could not give a description of her attacker and HUPD officers searched the area after the incident was reported but was unable to find the perpetrator. ­

The attacker is unidentified and the investigation into the robbery is still ongoing.

In the statement, emailed to the Harvard community on Tuesday afternoon, HUPD urged anyone with information on the incident to contact the department.

The statement also reminded students that “we are located in an urban setting and share many of the crime and safety issues that exist in any city.”

When asked for comment on the robbery, Steven G. Catalano, the department’s Public Information Officer, restated HUPD’s policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations.

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HoCos Prep for Housing Day

By ARNAL AGRAWAL and KARINA G. GONZALEL-ESPINOZA CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

­ pperclassmen in the Houses are busU ily planning for Thursday’s Housing Day festivities, when a campus-wide celebration will welcome each House’s newest residents with videos, food, and fanfare.

Housing Day is an annual College tradition where first-year students receive their assignments to one of the 12 upperclassmen Houses.

The bulk of the planning for the annual event occurs during the start of the spring semester with each House filming a Housing Day video, designing t-shirts, and ordering House merchandise for rising sophomores.

This year, the Houses in the Radcliffe Quadrangle—Cabot, Pforzheimer, and Currier—released an additional joint Housing Day video in a lighthearted effort to address the refrain that the Quad is too far, according to Cabot HoCo co-chair Jack W. Deschler ’19.

“One thing that we really love about being in the Quad is that it is a community as a neighborhood, aside from the community within the Houses,” De-

schler said.

Deschler said that the three Houses decided to work on the video project together to show students that the Quad is not as far away from the Yard as people believe.

Nicholas C. Colon ’19, a Lowell House Committee co-chair, said that one of Lowell’s goals for this Housing Day is to impart their House traditions to the incoming group of students because Lowell is currently undergoing renovations.

Until 2019, Lowell residents will live in several buildings scattered throughout Harvard Square in a setup known as “swing housing.”

Colon said that Lowell intends to play recordings of their traditional Russian Orthodox bells at the end of the day in lieu of ringing the real ones.

“It’s introducing these traditions to freshmen who won’t be able to see them next year. Hoping that once we’re back into Lowell, they’ll really be able to grab onto them and really make sure that they’re at the forefront of Lowell House and Lowell House Community,” Colon said.

Residents of Winthrop House moved into their newly renovated complex in fall 2017.

Trevor D. Noon ’19, Winthrop HoCo co-chair, wrote in an email that preparations for Housing Day will be relatively similar this year and the HoCo will hold activities in traditional spaces, like the Junior Common Room.

“We’re back in the House rather than being in swing. It’s nothing particularly different, just trying to get everyone excited about the new House and returning to older traditions in the JCR,” he wrote.

After upperclassmen crowd the Yard and deliver housing assignments to eager freshmen, there will be afternoon and evening activities to welcome rising sophomores into the Houses.

Colon said Lowell House will host their Thursday Tea, followed by community dinner, the same day to build House pride.

Deschler said that Cabot will introduce freshmen to the House’s “Big Fish, Little Fish” program where each blocking group is assigned a mentor the night of Housing Day—a reference to their House’s mascot.

Deschler added that first-years assigned to Cabot will also receive free drinks at Cabot Cafe on Housing Day.

GSAS Increases Ph.D. Stipends NAME FROM PAGE 1 seen 3 percent increases.

“I am thrilled to announce this in-

“Now that process is complete, we are pleased to be able to offer the increase.”

Allen D. Aloise

GSAS Dean for Finance and Administration crease and want to thank my colleagues at GSAS and our partners across the University for their efforts to continue enhancing support for our

students,” Dench wrote.

GSAS plans stipend rates in conjunction with the Graduate Student Council, which provides feedback to the School’s proposals.

“GSAS undergoes a financial aid budgeting process that takes several months and involves input from many constituents, including and most importantly students,” GSAS Dean for Finance and Administration Allen D. Aloise wrote in email.

“Now that process is complete, we are pleased to be able to offer the increase.”

In 2016, Aloise previously wrote that factors taken into account for stipend increases include tuition grants, housing, and health care costs for students.

Sperling’s Best Places, a firm that provides cost of living indices for cities across the U.S., estimates that Cambridge’s score is 198, compared to a national average of 100.

The cost of living near Harvard is also considerably higher than many peer institutions—New Haven scored of 107.7 and Hanover, NH scored 154.5.

Harvard University Housing announced in January that rents in University housing, where some graduate students live, will increase between zero and three percent next year.

Following last year’s low rate, graduate student unionization advocates— now gearing up for an election in April— cited lower increases as a reason collective bargaining would materially benefit graduate students.

In an email to students, representatives from Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers expressed qualified support for this year’s increase, arguing that collective bargaining would protect wage stability in future years.

Staff writer Shera S. Avi-Yonah can be reached at shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com.

Martin, Montagne Win Goldsmith Prize

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ and MEENA VENKATARAMANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Nina Martin of ProPublica and Renee Montagne of NPR won the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Tuesday for their series on maternal deaths in the United States.

“An underreported story with a devastatingly human angle, their report shines a light on a problem all around us, but rarely told with such power and grace,” Director of the Shorenstein Center Nicco Mele said in a press release Tuesday.

The Goldsmith Prize, which celebrates investigative reporting that “promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government,” debuted in 1991 and is administered by the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. The award includes $25,000 for the winner and $10,000 for each of the other five finalists.

Finalists included stories by reporters at the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, Buzzfeed News, and the Asbury Park Press. The finalists investigated abuses in the juvenile justice system, exploitation of opioid addicts seeking treatment, and Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

The New York Times also received a special citation for its reporting on sexual harassment, which Mele said led to a “social, cultural, and community reckoning” unlike anything he had ever seen.

During a panel at the Kennedy School before the awards ceremony, Martin discussed her personal experiences reporting on the winning story.

“In 2000, my sister gave birth in Texas to a healthy baby boy, but she nearly died in the process. I remember the trauma my family and I faced,” ­

Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $30 Million to Ed. School

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Harvard Amends Allston Proposal

By TRUELIAN LEE and JACQUELINE P. PATEL CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

University representatives released a letter amending Harvard’s Allston development proposal earlier this month in response to concerns filed recently by local residents and organizations.

Harvard first proposed developing its land in Allston into an ‘enterprise research’ campus to promote entrepreneurship in 2011. In April 2016, the University hired real estate agent Steven D. Fessler to manage construction of the area as the “head of enterprise real estate.”

In Dec. 2017, Harvard officially filed its framework and filed development area master plans for the entire campus with the Boston Planning and Development Agency, the city’s urban planning body. Local residents were able to submit responses to the BPDA during its official comment period, which ended in early February.

Various local residents and organizations filed comments to the BPDA, raising concerns about housing, infrastructure, transportation, and open space. The Impact Advisory Group, a team responsible for advising the development project which meets ­

semi-regularly to discuss Harvard’s plans, wrote that it “cannot currently support the project as it is currently proposed.”

The IAG specifically called upon Harvard to offer a more diverse range of housing options. It recommended the University plan for one-third of its residential options to be market-rate, one-third to be middle income, and one-third to be a mix of affordable housing units and housing for families and the elderly.

In its response letter, the University said current plans for residential spaces are subject to change and will evolve as Harvard works with future development partners.

Currently, the University has committed “upwards of 1,000” units of housing. The letter also noted that 13 percent of the enterprise research construction projects would be classified as affordable according to the city’s housing affordability policy.

Harvard wrote that it believed its residential housing plans will establish “a new, vibrant area where the presence of a diversity of active uses and participants leads to a thriving community of workers, residents, business owners, and neighbors.”

The IAG also recommended Har-

vard create an additional two acres of “compelling” open spaces early on in the construction process, calling for more park-like spaces. The group outlined its hopes for Harvard to tailor its plans to deemphasize vehicular traffic and better support walking, bike, and public transit infrastructure.

In response to requests for more open and integrated spaces, Harvard proposed adding two addition acres of open space and increasing bike and pedestrian paths in its Allston plans. The amount of open space in the Framework Plan has been increased by approximately two acres and includes an additional continuous east-west connection to the east towards the Charles River,” the document reads.

The University noted that it had reached an agreement with Houghton Chemical to remove the company’s rail lines, which will also help add open space.

University spokesperson Kevin Casey wrote in an emailed statement Tuesday that he believes the public comment period has been a positive process.

“We feel this has been an exceptionally productive process—resulting in tangible modifications of the plan,” he wrote.

Martin said. “It struck me, especially because she had been told this kind of thing never happened to anyone.”

After joining ProPublica, Martin said her editor encouraged her to “go big” and investigate the growing rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. But with the lack of public data available on maternal complications, Martin found reporting on the issue to be challenging.

“Many states don’t even have maternal mortality review committees that count and analyze maternal deaths, and when they do, the data that they have is de-identified,” Martin said.

Martin and her colleague began combing through closed Facebook groups and GoFundMe to find stories of women who had died or nearly died in childbirth from maternal complications.

“We weren’t finding many cases of severe maternal morbidity reported in news stories,” Martin said. “Instead, we found maternal morbidity stories mostly in private chat groups on parenting websites, and also in closed Facebook groups.”

The series written by Martin and Montagne has promoted public awareness of maternal complications, in addition to inspiring legislation in New Jersey and Texas, according to the Shorenstein Center website.

At the event, Mele presented Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, with the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

During her speech, Raddatz said the Goldsmith Prize finalists deserved the recognition for their tenacity in reporting on important issues and encouraged them to continue their work.

“Go there, be there, feel it, smell it, know it from the inside out, and then report it.”

Facebook CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg and pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan ’07, are giving $30 million for an early education literacy program jointly run by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative, and Florida State University, the GSE announced Tuesday.

The initiative, called Reach Every Reader, will work to develop diagnostic screening and personalized education interventions for kindergarteners susceptible to reading difficulties,

“The biggest thing we’re trying to do... is set all kids up for success in learning and life.”

Elizabeth A. City Director of Reach Every Reader

according to a press release.

“We are excited to support the launch of Reach Every Reader, a unique combination of cutting edge education and neuroscience research to better understand how we can help every kid stay on track to reading on grade level by the end of third grade,”

Chan said in a statement to the Boston Globe.

The initiative will begin by partnering researchers from Harvard, MIT, and FSU with a public school district in Charlotte, N.C. “The biggest thing we’re trying to do… is set all kids up for success in learning and life by being able to read,” said Elizabeth A. City, director of Reach Every Reader.

“We’re trying to help the field of education learn how to solve complex, persistent problems.”

According to the GSE’s website, a student who cannot read adequately in first grade has a 90 percent chance of also reading poorly in fourth grade and a 75 percent chance in high school.

“This new collaboration between MITili and HGSE synergizes MIT’s strengths in science and engineering with HGSE’s expertise in the education of children,” wrote John D. E. Gabrieli, the director of MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative, in a press release.

“We need all this knowledge to improve education, especially for children most vulnerable to falling behind,” he added.

Zuckerberg and Chan founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015.

The organization previously donated to Harvard to provide financial aid for low-income students hoping to pursue careers in public service.

Last year, Zuckerberg and Chan opened “The Primary School” a private, K-12 school for low-income students in East Palo Alto, Calif., and in 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark, N.J. public schools.

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Gov Prof Dominguez to Retire New Gov Committee To Investigate Climate RETIREMENT FROM PAGE 1

retirement does not change the ongoing review of the facts and circumstances that have come to light,” Hochschild wrote in her email.

FAS Dean Michael D. Smith also wrote that Dominguez’s retirement “does not change the full and fair process of review” in an emailed statement Tuesday. Smith added that Dominguez will remain on leave until the review is concluded.

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a Feb. 27 article revealing that at least 10 women were alleging Dominguez had committed repeated acts of sexual harassment across the past three decades. The Chronicle published a second piece Sunday in which more women came forward to accuse Dominguez of sexual misconduct, bringing the total count of possible victims to 18 women.

While on administrative leave, Dominguez will continue to receive a salary but will not allowed to fulfill any of his teaching and administrative duties, according to FAS spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven.

Before Faculty administrators took action, the new and resurfaced allegations prompted Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 to send an email to Harvard affiliates Friday afternoon reaffirming the University’s commitment to “a safe, healthy and non-discriminatory educational and work environment.”

Garber also called for affiliates who have experienced sexual harassment to come forward and speak to Title IX officers.

In the days before Dominguez’s retirement, many undergraduates and graduate students called for his removal.

Dominguez started teaching at Harvard in 1972 after earning his Ph.D. the same year and received tenure in 1979. The first case of sexual misconduct perpetrated by Dominguez reported by the Chronicle occurred that same year, when a former undergraduate alleges the professor repeatedly touched her and tried to kiss her.

In the early 1980s, Dominguez made repeated sexual advances towards former assistant professor Terry L. Karl and another graduate student in the department.

Both women reported the incidents to administrators, prompting thenDean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky to sanction Dominguez in 1984 by removing him from the administrative positions he then held.

Just one year after the 1984 punishment, though, Dominguez was appointed to chair both the FAS Foreign Cultures subcommittee of the Core Curriculum and the Special Appointments Committee in the Government department.

Between 1995 to 2006, Dominguez served as the director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs;

following this, he became Harvard’s first vice provost for international affairs, a position he held from 2006 to 2015.

Weatherhead Center director Michèle Lamont released a statement on Friday in response to the initial

I am retiring from my job at Harvard at the end of this semester Jorge I. Dominguez Government Professor

Chronicle article. She encouraged affiliates to reach out to Harvard personnel and Title IX officers.

Dominguez’s various promotions across the years came as undergraduates, graduate students, and junior faculty alike were sexually harassed by the professor, according to their allegations in the Chronicle.

The most recent of these allegations dates from 2015.

Though Dominguez was on sabbatical this semester before Smith placed him on leave, he taught two undergraduate classes in fall 2017, including a seminar whose enrollment was restricted to College freshmen.

Grad Students Demand Action LETTER FROM PAGE 1 Smith announced in an email Monday night that Dominguez would be placed on paid administrative leave pending Harvard’s “full and fair review” of the allegations against him.

The same day the graduate students sent the letter, government department administrators announced the department was undertaking several initiatives in response to the allegations against Dominguez. Many of the initiatives directly address demands made in the graduate students’ letter.

Government graduate students began work on the letter, coordinated in part by the department’s Diversity Working Group and signed by 107 students, following a meeting with Government Department Chair Jennifer L. Hochschild last Wednesday. Hochschild also met with undergraduate concentrators on Friday.

“We went into the meeting hoping for answers. We left disappointed, disillusioned, and, for many of us, angry,” students wrote in the letter. “The meeting communicated a message of equivocation, powerlessness, and an unwillingness to commit to addressing this issue or instituting any significant changes within the Department.”

The letter also alleges the department has demonstrated negligence in its handling of sexual harassment.

Government Ph.D. student Joshua C. Simons, who worked with DWG on the letter, wrote in an email that the Dominguez case “raised issues of systemic and persistent sex inequality” within the department.

“The University and Government Department have burdened female students with impossible choices and unacceptably onerous responsibilities,” students wrote. “Do they work with someone who may violate their trust?

Or do they risk their career by not doing so? Individual students should nev-

er have had to navigate this decision.”

While DWG’s past findings about diversity in the department are not public, the letter also alleges that Harvard’s Government department has “few[er] women faculty compared to peer institutions.”

Hochschild declined to comment Tuesday on the graduate students’ letter.

In addition to requesting Domin-

We went into the meeting hoping for answers. We left disappointed, disillusioned, and, for many of us, angry.

Graduate Student Letter to Gov. Dept. guez’s removal, graduate students called on the Government department to issue a statement condemning sexual assault, institute a formal process for victims to come forward, inform potential students of the allegations, and begin both internal and external reviews of the department’s policies toward “sexual harassment, gender disparities, and other forms of discrimination and abuse of power.”

Government department administrators including Hochschild sent an email to undergraduate concentrators announcing the creation of a “standing committee” to investigate the reasons why Dominguez’s behavior went largely unaddressed for 30 years.

The email also detailed several smaller initiatives meant to address academic and cultural concerns surrounding the Dominguez case. The department will hold a meeting on March 21 for undergraduates to address possible academic issues stemming from Dominguez’s retirement.

The email also contained the askedfor denunciation of sexual assault.

Graduate students who worked on the letter to faculty said they are dissatisfied with the department’s actions, both before and after the allegations against Dominguez became public.

“I was incredibly disappointed by the University’s, and in particular the Government department’s reaction to the Chronicle article. That said, I was not particularly surprised by it,” Government Ph.D. student Leah R. Downey wrote in an email. “Graduate students in our community have been working hard and speaking up about a culture of gender discrimination and harassment for years—to no avail.”

Government Ph.D. student Gabrielle Malina wrote in an email she is “deeply disappointed” in the University’s response to the Chronicle’s reporting.

“We hope that the department and administration will heed our requests to rectify this deafening silence by publicly apologizing for their behavior and condemning the reported abuse and harassment,” Malina wrote. “Anything else will send a devastating signal to women who are considering coming forward with their own claims.”

Hochschild also declined to comment on the graduate students’ claims.

The Diversity Working Group is currently working with Government graduate students and faculty to send a second letter to both University President Drew G. Faust and the community at large. That letter will likely be released later this week.

HGSE Talk Stresses Teacher Quality

By LAINEY A. NEWMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford University Education professor Susanna Loeb spoke about the impact of quality teaching on student attendance at the Graduate School of Education Tuesday.

Loeb’s lecture focused on her research studying seventh to eleventh grade student attendance in an urban ­

We are thinking as a country about all sorts of things that we care about for students, yet we tend to focus on test performance Susanna Loeb

Stanford Professor of Education school district in California. She noted that many previous studies have examined the effect of teacher quality on test scores, but few have examined the effect of teacher quality on attendance.

“We are thinking as a country about all sorts of things that we care about for

students, yet we tend to focus on test performance,” Loeb said.

She noted that, in most circumstances, test scores do not predict student drop-out, but attendance does.

Loeb said she found a correlation between greater student attendance and higher individual teacher quality based on evaluations within the school district.

According to Loeb, a student on average had 44 percent fewer unexcused absences in math class if he or she had a teacher measured to be within one standard deviation above the average teacher quality rating.

The average student would have 54 percent fewer unexcused absences for English class with a higher quality teacher.

The lecture was part of a series hosted by the Partnering in Education Research program at the GSE Center for Education Policy Research. The PIER Fellowship program is designed to train doctoral students on how to partner with school districts for the purpose of education research.

“This public seminar series is part of [the fellowship] training. We bring leading researchers from across the country doing really interesting educational policy quantitative research to present to doctoral students,” said Irene A. Pak, the manager of the PIER program.

Loeb’s lecture was cosponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Inequality and Social Policy Program.

Thomas Kelley-Kemple, a PIER Fellow and second year doctoral student in the education policy program at the GSE, said that he thought Loeb’s lecture brought a new dimension to the discussion of teacher efficacy.

“There’s been extensive work about how teachers affect test scores, but as [Loeb] pointed out, there’s been substantially less on how teachers affect

We bring leading researchers from across the country doing really interesting educational policy quantitative research Irene A. Pak PIER Manager

student behaviors, specifically attendance, [especially] in high school,” Kelley-Kemple said.

“So I think this is adding something really valuable to how we think about what teachers do and how they affect students.”

COMMITTEE FROM PAGE 1 Dominguez to remain employed by Harvard for decades after administrators first disciplined him for sexual harassment in 1983.

Government department administrators announced the formation of the committee in a letter sent to undergraduate concentrators Tuesday afternoon.

Administrators also outlined a series of steps the department is taking to address academic and cultural concerns surrounding the allegations of sexual harassment recently brought against Dominguez.

The letter comes several days after two reports published in The Chronicle of Higher Education detailing that at least 18 women are accusing Dominguez of repeated acts of sexual harassment over the last three decades.

“We are taking a hard look at the conditions that allowed this pattern of harassment to continue and that prevented it from coming to light,” the letter reads.

“We recognize that the combination of the 1980s case, the pattern of allegations spanning decades, the failure of the pattern to come to light, and the important role in your education of effective and professional faculty mentors causes you great concern and has undermined your trust in the department.”

“We state unequivocally that the Department of Government will not tolerate sexual harassment,” the letter continues.

The letter was signed by Government department chair Jennifer L. Hochschild, Director of Undergraduate Studies Cheryl B. Welch, and Chair of the Faculty Concentration Committee Danielle S. Allen.

Harvard first sanctioned Dominguez in 1983 after he made sexual advances towards former assistant professor Terry L. Karl and another graduate student. As punishment, then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky removed Dominguez from the administrative positions he then held.

In the more than 30 years since, though, Dominguez has held at least four major administrative positions, including the directorship of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs from 1995 to 2006. Dominguez announced Tuesday he will retire from his teaching job at the end of the semester and that he is immediately resigning the administrative roles he still holds at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Thirty years later, Harvard has also taken new steps to punish Dominguez, placing him on “administrative leave” Sunday and launching an investigation into the allegations against the government professor.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith has said

Dominguez’s retirement will not affect the investigation.

The new committee will seek to develop a “deeper understanding of the conditions” that led to the Dominguez “situation” and will also create a “means for addressing them,” according to the letter.

The committee’s membership will include undergraduates, faculty, Ph.D. and post-doctoral students, and Harvard staff.

“Most generally, this committee will seek to address concerns about inappropriate power dynamics, gendered interactions, disruptive fear or anxiety, and other constraints on genuine discourse, learning, and free exchange of ideas,” Hochschild, Welch, and Allen wrote in their letter.

Though the committee is yet to be officially formed, some informal groups of faculty and students are already gathering to discuss changes that will take effect “in the near term,” according to the letter.

Hochschild, Welch, and Allen wrote that the committee’s creation is the first of many steps the department intends to take going forward to foster a “safe, healthy, and intellectually exciting environment” for all Government students.

Other initiatives listed in the letter include a planned meeting especially for undergraduate students pursuing Latin American studies—Dominguez’s field of expertise. The meeting, slated to take place March 21, will give attendees a forum to think about “curricular issues” as well as larger concerns over Dominguez.

The letter further encouraged any Government department affiliates who have seen or suffered sexual harassment at Harvard to come forward and share their experiences with Title IX coordinators.

The encouragement echoes earlier calls from Harvard administrators, who last week asked students and faculty to speak up about sexual misconduct.

Finally, the letter assures students the Government department is working to resolve any problems with the “curriculum, advising, and organizational activity” that may arise from Dominguez’s decision to depart campus.

The letter came shortly after graduate students sent a letter about the Dominguez allegations to Government faculty Tuesday morning.

The graduate students’ letter specifically called for some of the steps later undertaken by the department, including both a public condemnation of sexual harassment and the creation of a departmental committee to investigate the Dominguez case.

—Staff writer Shera S. Avi-Yonah can be reached at shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter at @saviyonah.

Faculty Consider Cuts to Shopping Week FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 the current system.

As it works now, College students register for classes after “shopping week,” a week-long period at the beginning of the semester during which students can walk in and out of classes before officially enrolling.

There is no official pre-registration proposal yet on the table. But Khurana said he is interested in further studying the matter.

Many professors spoke in favor of a change to pre-registration, saying the current system makes it difficult for them to plan ahead for their courses.

History professor James T. Kloppenberg said he had prior experience with pre-registration at four different universities and that the early registration allowed him “to be plan-ful and to think carefully about my courses.”

Kloppenberg also said he thinks shopping week poses many logistical issues for teaching staff. He particuarly cited his own course, History 1330: “Social Thought in Modern America,” which he said has seen post-shopping week enrollment numbers that range from 10 to 85 students in recent years.

“It’s very hard to know in advance what kind of materials you want to have, or what classroom you want to be meeting in, without knowing how many students will be in the course,” Kloppenberg said. “I think this has been extremely difficult for our graduate students, who cannot be sure what courses they will be teaching. If they’re not prepared to teach a course and find themselves slotted into it at the last minute, that cannot be optimal for our teaching.”

History professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said that, though he supports a move to pre-registration “completely,” he also recognizes that—as an undergraduate—he found the ability to shop classes both “wonderful and necessary.” ­

A new pre-registration system, however, would not necessarily mean students are locked into the courses they attend on the first day.

“It will be up to the Faculty to make sure all the necessary information about our courses is available on our course websites, and students should understand that there will still be a way to add and drop courses even with pre-registration,” Kloppenberg wrote in an email after the meeting.

This is not the first time the Faculty has brought up changing Harvard’s system for course registration. Between 2010 and 2015, the Faculty used “pre-term planning,” a tool for students to submit tentative schedules before the semester started. After feedback from Faculty that the data gathered was often inaccurate, the College decided to eliminate the system.

Several professors at the meeting said shopping week not only negatively affects their schedules and planning for the semester as well as the schedules of teaching fellows, but that it also negatively affects departmental staff.

Some, though, defended the current system. Computer Science professor Stuart M. Shieber said shopping week does not have to mean teachers and students do not tackle serious course material in the first week.

At the meeting, Khurana also mentioned that the search committee for the next dean of Undergraduate Education has had over 12 outreach meetings with standing committees and is now gathering input for a shortlist of candidates. Current Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris announced in December he would step down in June.

The Faculty also heard from Professor Daniel P. Schrag about his proposal to create an Environmental Science and Engineering concentration in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Previously, the Faculty Council voted unanimously to support the proposal at its Feb. 14 meeting.

EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

A Necessary Push for Research on Gun Violence

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n Feb. 14, seventeen students and faculty members were killed in a horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In the wake of this massacre, Dean of the School of Public Health Michelle Williams issued a statement to HSPH affiliates calling for an end to the federal restriction on most forms of gun violence research passed in 1996.

This provision, informally known as the Dickey Amendment, threatens to strip funding from government-funded agencies such as the Center for Disease Control if they conduct any research intended to “advocate or promote gun control.” At the same time that the law was passed, Congress lowered the CDC’s budget by the exact same amount it spent on such research.

The Dickey Amendment functions as a gag rule, inhibiting the CDC from utilizing its highly trained public health researchers to combat what has become a uniquely American epidemic of gun-related deaths.

We strongly support Williams’ stance against the Dickey Amendment and hope that her statement will help lead to substantive increases in research funding.

In light of a seemingly endless news cycle of mass shootings and gun violence, we believe that the federal government must support research on what has become a public health and safety crisis. To move

forward and better protect our fellow citizens, the issue of preventing gun violence must be moved out of the sphere of political talking points and into the realm of nonpartisan, academically rigorous research.

For this transition to occur, we need scientific evidence. And while private research institutions have attempted to fill the void left by the Dickey Amendment, its effect remains far-reaching and devastating.

The Dickey Amendment has wrongfully stymied publicly-funded research on gun violence research for over twenty years. We find it telling that even Jay Dickey, a key proponent of the provision, has since reversed his position and called for increased funding for gun violence research in 2015. Scientific research should not be politicized, especially when it could be used as a potent tool to save lives and reduce gun violence.

We hope that Williams and other Harvard leaders lobby our lawmakers and counter the heinous actions of the National Rifle Association, which has bankrolled the campaigns of many prominent politicians, disincentivizing them from making any effort to decrease gun violence beyond “thoughts and prayers.” Thoughts and prayers are not enough when lives are at stake. We need more funding, we need more research, and, ultimately, we need better laws.

Additionally, we hope that Williams’s public advocacy is followed by clear, strong, concrete actions to increase sorely needed research in this area. We recognize that change in the public sphere can be slow, and it may be years before the CDC will receive funding again for research on gun violence. In the meantime, Harvard should seek ways to privately fund gun control research.

Gun violence should not be a partisan issue. While William’s stance on gun violence research may seem political, this is merely a symptom of us living in a society that has turned what should be a nonpartisan issue—our overwhelming number of gun-related deaths in comparison with any other developed country—into a politicized debate. Academic research into gun violence can and should strive to be to be nonpartisan and non-biased, seek out solutions that objectively work, and hopefully, ensure that Parkland was America’s last school shooting.

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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The High Cost of Harvard’s HCFA Hysteria Harvard has proven itself unworthy of the challenge of difficult faith discussions Grace M. CHAO THE UNDERGROUND

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a ith is a n extraordina rily diff icult concept to discuss, write about, and legislate on. By its very nature, it refuses to conform to the ways of this world. It dares to say that something (or someone) unseen or untouched or unheard could be vastly more meaningful that what we can see and touch and hear. It dares to say that the world is not as it should be, that we are called to something much more sublime than the societal status quo.

For people of many traditions, faith is not simply another interest or activity. It is not a competing viewpoint, worldview, or lens, but the very compass that orients us to ourselves, to others, and to the divine. As C.S. Lewis once wrote of his Christian faith, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Faith can be a simple matter. But it can also be a matter of immense complexity and nuance. It can demand intellectual rigor on a level rivaled by few academic disciplines. If we are to reckon substantively and meaningfully with faith, we must bring hearts and minds ready to challenge and be challenged, push and be pushed, listen and be heard.

The events of the past few weeks at the College have shown that many of us are not up to such a task. In the wake of Harvard College Faith and Action’s hosting of a controversial speaker, revelations about the circumstances in which one of their student leaders was

asked to step down, the imposition of “administrative probation” from the College, and the Underg raduate Council’s condemnation of HCFA, the past few weeks have posed a major challenge to the future of faith at Harvard. The outcry and outrage, though, ref lects the College’s incapabilit y to engage faith with the nuance and complexity it often requires.

The Crimson Editorial Board chose a “race to the bottom” tactic of branding HCFA and its leaders as hateful, a tactic which has the strategic effect of putting an end to all reasonable discourse. Once you brand someone with such a red-hot label, you cannot un-brand them. “ You’re just full of hate” is not a statement that can be engaged or reasoned with. This was a dangerous, sensationalizing move.

The UC condemned the organization and refused to invite its co-presidents to a Sunday “Community Time,” a space presumably with the intent of fostering conversation and dialog ue even on difficult Harvard issues. The Finance Committee Chair was quite callous in his swaggering “not gonna be getting a dime from us” exposition on stopping HCFA’s funding from that committee. And of course, the College was initially less than clear on the details of what “administrative probation” actually means.

The issues and policies at play are not nearly as black and white as any of these actors seem to believe. There is a real difference between asking a faith leader to step down because of their sexual orientation, and asking a faith leader to step down because of genuine theological disagreement over how we ought to live. There is a real difference between external ministry fellows inf luencing and coordinating activity in a Harvard student group, and external ministry fellows with seminary degrees providing pastoral care and spiritual

mentorship to Harvard students.

I firmly believe a battle for the soul of the College is about to ensue. These are issues that will not be ferreted away by the fickle collegiate news cycle. The question in play is of the greatest magnitude: May campus relig ious organizations govern themselves according to their values without retribution?

The largest Christian fellowship at the world’s foremost university is being sanctioned. That is no small matter.

A matter of faith with such extraordinary implications must not be approached with platitudes, close-mindedness, stubborn dogmatism, and incivilit y. Neither, though, should it be approached with fear or timidity. On the contrar y, we should not fear to be bold. But so far, we have proven ourselves utterly unworthy of the challenge of difficult discussions on intensely important questions.

In all of the hysterical noise regarding HCFA recently, though, there have bright spots, reasoned and empathic voices bridging the gap between those in and out of faith traditions. The recent Crimson op-eds of Veronica S. Wickline ’16 and Tyler S. Parker ’17 ref lect the standard of level-headedness, empathy, reason, and personal poignancy that can indeed accompany such an intensely challenging issue.

I believe Wickline frames the issue best, writing “If Har vard wants to enforce its view of how Christian communities should operate, let it understand the debate it is entering.” To this I would add an exhortation from the book of Isaiah: “Come now, and let us reason together...” What Harvard has done to HCFA is far from reasonable.

Grace M. Chao ’19 is an Economics concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays.

THE HARVARD CRIMSON | MARCH 7, 2018 | PAGE 6

The Invisibility of the Pacific

By GABRIELLE T. LANGKILDE

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o, we don’t wear leaves. No, we don’t live in huts. And no, we don’t swim to school.”

When I first visited the U.S. mainland three years ago, these were my answers, all of which I assumed to be common sense to the students who asked me about my life at home.

I’m from American Samoa. And if you don’t know where that is (don’t worry, 99.9 percent of people I’ve met in the U.S. mainland don’t either), it’s a small archipelago of seven islands located in the South Pacific.

With a population of around just over 57,000 people, my home spans only about 76 square miles, and it is quite literally a dot on the map. Given our “tininess,” it was never my expectation that everyone in the mainland would know every little detail about my home or my culture. But I fig ured that they would have at least heard of us, considering the word “American” in American Samoa, and known enough not to ask such ignorant questions.

But barely anyone seems to know where American Samoa is, or is even able to name more than two island groups in the Pacific for that matter. The extent to which most people understand life in the Pacific is encapsulated by Disney’s 2016 major animated film Moana, which is the story of a Polynesian girl who goes on a long voyage to save the fictional island of Motunui—a place some have actually assumed to be my home. Why is there such little understanding of life in the Pacific among students on the U.S. mainland?

Could it be because Pacific Islanders only make up a fraction of a percentage of the U.S. population? Or is it maybe because we’re separated from the mainland by the vast Pacific Ocean?

No. The reason why the Pacific islands remain one big mystery is because we have been nearly erased from American textbooks. Growing up under a curriculum designed by the U.S. Department of Education, it was hard for me to visualize a place for people like me outside of my island home.

In elementary school geography, we were taught that the world is made up of only seven continents: North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Antarctica, and Australia. I quickly learned that our islands belonged to none of these, instead falling under the unnamed loose conglomeration of tiny specks in the Pacific Ocean. In middle school science, I was taught about scientists from all over the world and their contributions, like Galileo and the invention of the telescope.

Yet, somehow the incredible advances of Polynesian star navigation and wayfinding never quite made the cut. In high school world history, I was taught about the rise and fall of great empires such as the Roman Empire. But not once was America’s dethroning of Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani or Independent Samoa’s long “Mau” Movement toward independence from New Zealand ever mentioned. Instead, the sliver of a section that we were most graciously allotted in their historical textbooks painted us as the “savages” that Western colonization had transformed into the “civilized.”

So, you see, we have been ostracized from the beginning––not because of our small population and not because of the vast Pacific Ocean that divides us. It is because of this double standard—the double standard that requires us to learn everything about the Western world, but does not require the Western world to learn anything about us.

And, so a clear message is reinforced into the minds of the children of the Pacific. We are lesser. We have no place amongst the rest of the world, especially in higher education—where our students have been disadvantaged and neglected. The reinforced image of Pacific Islanders as less competent or significant has made it hard for us to visualize ourselves in the college arena, with only 18 percent of the adult Pacific Islander population having a bachelor’s degree.

Hoping to counter this image and find my place at Harvard, I have still not been able to shake this persistent feeling of insignificance and invisibility. A place prided on celebrating diversity and inclusivity, Harvard falls short of including Pacific Islanders in that celebration. The lang uage department, which boasts an array of courses in lang uages from around the world, has excluded all Pacific Islander lang uages.

And on top of this, there are barely any spaces for Pacific Islanders to share their diverse cultures with the Harvard community.

Our poor representation in education needs to be recognized and addressed. Now more than ever is the time for us to take control of our own narrative and create spaces for our voices to be heard. Because we are more than the dot on your maps, and we are much more complex than the one page descriptions in your textbooks. We must recognize that we are not lesser, in order to stop being invisible.

Gabrielle T. Langkilde ’21, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Matthews Hall.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | MARCH 7, 2018 | PAGE 7

New York Land of Defensive Opportunity for Harvard WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By JOSEPH W. MINATEL CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­he Harvard’s women’s basketball T team braved weather delays in New York to finish its regular season with two victories over Cornell and Columbia. The Crimson extended its winning streak to four games heading into the Ivy League Tournament, concluding its regular season with a season sweep of both opponents.

Harvard’s offense exploded in both games, paired with a defense that has enjoyed two straight weekends of strong play. The Crimson (18-9, 10-4 Ivy) completely dominated in its 91-57 victory over the Big Red (7-20, 3-11) and cruised to victory 78-59 the next day against the Lions (8-21, 2-12).

“I am proud that we took care of business in both games,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said.

Ending the season on a high note, Harvard has secured the number three seed in the conference tournament, and will face off against Penn in what will be a virtual home game for its opponent at the Palestra.

SHARING THE ROCK In the weekend matches, the Crimson displayed one of its top qualities: a plethora of offensive weapons. There were nine double-digit performances

by Harvard players across the two day span, including two from sophomore guard Katie Benzan, senior guard Taylor Rooks, and junior co-captain Madeline Raster.

“We want to share the ball and balance out our attack,” Delaney-Smith said.

Freshman forward Jadyn Bush stepped up for a big day against the Lions, scoring a career-high 21 points.

“Jadyn Bush had her best game this year,” Delaney-Smith said. “She was immense on both sides, on the defensive end and offensive end.”

Other Crimson players also rose to the occasion, with junior guard Nani Redford recording a career-high 12 points against the Big Red and sophomore forward Jeannie Boehm notching her fourth double-double of the year against Cornell with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Harvard recorded 38 assists on the

GOLDEN GUARD Junior Guard Kelsey Bogdan drives past her Columbia defender. The junior contributed five of Harvard’s 91 points against Cornell. LU SHAO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

weekend as a whole, distributing the ball proficiently among its many scorers.

“Sharing the ball makes playing so much more fun,” Benzan said. “And having so many threats inside and outside is just too hard to defend.”

DOMINANCE IN THE PAINT Throughout the entire trip in New York, the Crimson completely controlled the inside game. Harvard outrebounded its conference rivals 86-60 over the course of the weekend.

“Rebounding is going to be very key next weekend because Penn and Princeton have two really good girls [down

low],” Benzan said.

In addition, the Crimson offense flowed through its bigs. Harvard outscored Cornell and Columbia 48-28 and 40-29 in the paint, respectively.

The Crimson was led by Boehm and Bush, who each had a turn in pushing forward the Harvard offense.

“I thought they really struggled defending our inside game,” Delaney-Smith said.

As Benzan noted, the Crimson continuing its dominance in the paint would serve it well transitioning into the conference tournament and playing against some of the conference’s toughest teams down low.

SNOWED IN Following inclement weather, the original slate of Friday and Saturday was pushed back to Saturday and Sunday, meaning the Empire State games were the final contests for the Ancient Eight regular season across the conference.

“It was a bit of a tough one because they’re two hard, rough trips on the bus,” Benzan said. “We got snowed in at Ithaca.”

The New York trip is traditionally difficult for Harvard due to the distance. An additional day on the road in which the Crimson was not allowed to practice only complicated the journey.

Despite the weather, the Crimson

showed no signs of letting the unconventional road trip slow it down. The Harvard offense obviously showed its offensive prowess, averaging 84.5 points over the weekend.

The Crimson defense continued its impressive stretch. In its current fourgame winning streak, Harvard has not allowed more than 60 points in a single game. Strong defense paired with its explosive offense will prove important heading into postseason play in Philadelphia against the top teams of the Ivy League.

Staff writer Joseph W. Minatel can be reached at joseph.minatel@thecrimson.com.

Harvard Stumbles in Four-Game New Mexico Series BASEBALL

By STEPHEN J. GLEASON CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ he Harvard baseball team made the T trip out to Las Cruces, N.M., for a fourgame series with New Mexico State this weekend. Despite a blowout loss to the Aggies (8-4) on Sunday, the Crimson (2-6) was able to split a doubleheader on Saturday, losing on a walkoff in the first game before a three-run ninth inning lifted the visitors to victory in the nightcap.

Junior centerfielder Ben Skinner and sophomore shortstop Chad Minato led the way for the Harvard offense, combining for 10 hits and 11 runs batted in while junior right-hander Kevin Stone picked up the team’s lone victory on the mound.

“I thought we showed a lot of fight this weekend,” Skinner said. “I think

we definitely showed that we’re a team that’s going to have the ability to win ball games late and come back and rally, which is something that we haven’t really had my first two years so we’re definitely looking forward for that.”

NEW MEXICO STATE 23, HARVARD 4 (SEVEN INNINGS) New Mexico State ended the weekend with a bang, tagging five Crimson pitchers for 23 runs on 17 hits in a shortened contest. The Aggies exploded for 13 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and hit five home runs. Sophomore shortstop Joey Ortiz and junior right fielder Logan Ehnes each went deep and drove in five runs.

“I think we were a little bit tired today, it’s been a bit of a long weekend, but again we’ll be experiencing that down the road in the Ivy League so it’s not a great excuse, something that we’ll have to improve on,” Skinner said. “Things

got a little bit out of hand, but we’re certainly not hitting the panic button over here or anything. Flush that one, forget about it, and move on.”

Freshman Chris McGrory and sophomore JT Bernard did not retire any of the 11 batters that they faced, allowing six earned runs in the process. The 23 runs allowed are the most during Harvard head coach Bill Decker’s five years at the helm. Sophomores Hunter Bigge and Jake Suddleson were bright spots for the Crimson on Sunday as the pair accounted for the ball club’s only two home runs of the weekend in their respective at bats.

HARVARD 5, NEW MEXICO STATE 4 Despite being competitive for most of the weekend’s first two contests, Harvard did not pick up its first victory of the trip until Saturday evening. Stone was a workhorse and picked up the

win, throwing 115 pitches over eight innings. Despite walking five batters and conceding three runs in the fifth inning, the Stamford, Conn., native was a steady hand for the Crimson, especially late in the game. Stone surrendered just one hit in his final three innings of work and was in line for the win after Harvard posted a three-run ninth inning.

“It’s great to gain that experience early on,” Skinner said. “Obviously when games come down to the wire in the Ivy League, which they do a lot, it’s nice to be able to look back and say that we’ve been in that position before.

It was a lot of fun to come out on top in that second game and I think that we’ll hopefully carry that momentum into spring break.”

Harvard regained the lead in that frame after Minato and Skinner both singled to drive home a trio of Crimson baserunners. New Mexico State made

it interesting in the bottom half of the frame but Bigge struck out redshirt junior third baseman Caleb Henderson to strand two baserunners.

NEW MEXICO STATE 11, HARVARD 9 (10 INNINGS) Redshirt senior Mason Fishback hit a walk-off two-run home run as the Aggies took the front end of Saturday’s doubleheader. Fishback knocked senior right-hander Garrett Rupp’s 2-0 offering over the fence to cap off a game that Harvard led entering the bottom half of the ninth inning. After the Crimson attained a 7-5 advantage after its sixth at-bat, the hosts jumped back on top with one run in the sixth and two more an inning later. Skinner singled home senior Austin Black and Bigge but a single with one out in the bottom of the ninth by New Mexico State senior David Bellamy sent the game into extras. Skinner and Minato each drove in three runs for Harvard.

“I think we just hung in there,” Minato said. “We had some tough innings, but in both of those games, we were able to bounce back pretty late in the game and find our swings, find our rhythm against their pitchers. That was pretty good for us. I think we could be a little more consistent early on and especially in the middle of games, but on the back end, we’re definitely good in that aspect.”

NEW MEXICO STATE 11, HARVARD 5 A six-run bottom of the eighth inning propelled the Aggies to the victory on Friday afternoon. After jumping out to a 5-0 lead off of Harvard starter Noah Zavolas, New Mexico State allowed the Crimson to tie the game after hanging a four-spot in the first half of the eighth. However, a Trey Stine grand slam capped off the decisive inning for the hosts as Harvard freshman Buddy Hayward was tagged with the loss after conceding the six runs.

“I think it’d be nice to see everybody kind of relax,” Minato said. “I think having two weekends under our belt, that will help guys kind of relax and just pitch, not be so tense and try to force strikes but just try to [pitch to] contact.”

Stine and Fishback combined to drive in eight of the Aggies’ 11 runs.

Hayward had three hits for the Crimson as the team’s designated hitter but his teammates were only able to muster five hits outside of its big eighth inning.

KINGS OF THE HILL The infielders and coach of the Harvard baseball team gather at the pitcher’s mound during last year’s Beanpot series. RYOSUKE TAKASHIMA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Staff writer Stephen J. Gleason can be reached at stephen.gleason@thecrimson.com.

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