The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 78

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 78 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | monday, september 10, 2018

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In failing to investigate its admissions further, Harvard ditched “veritas.”

Women’s soccer dropped a contest to Providence, losing 1-3.

A man was struck and killed by a Red Line train on Sunday.

Union May Start to Bargain By shera s. avi-yonah and molly c. mccaffety

Fox, DelphicBee Go Co-Ed By caroline s. engelmayer and michael e. xie

By kristine e. guillaume and jamie d. halper

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Harvard’s brand-new graduate student union may soon face University administrators across the bargaining table.

Justin Bloesch, a member of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers bargaining committee, wrote in an email that organizers are “currently in the process of refining our comprehensive bargaining agenda and expect to start negotiating with Harvard early this semester.”

If HGSU-UAW does begin pushing for a contract this semester, it will cap off an eventful — and historic — year.

­ The Fox Club and the joint Delphic-Bee Club are among roughly a dozen campus social groups that have now promised administrators they will go coed, securing Harvard recognition and freedom from the sanctions, Associate Dean of Student Engagement Alexander R. Miller announced Friday.

Fifteen previously single-gender groups earned recognition. The historically allmale Fox and the merged Delphic-Bee club are the only unexpected names on the list.

The Fox’s decision to admit members of all genders comes after a brief and troubled flir-

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Bacow Busy In Recent Months

The Fox and Delphic-Bee clubs have promised administrators they will go co-ed, securing recognition and earning exemption from the College’s social group sanctions. Justin F. Gonzalez —Crimson photographer

UC Will Switch Its Voting Procedure By jonah s. berger Crimson Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Council held its first meeting of the semester inside the newly renovated Smith Campus Center on Sunday afternoon. Caleb D. Schwartz—Crimson photographer

Stanford Won’t Tell Admit Percentage By delano r. franklin and idil tuysuzoglu Crimson Staff Writers ­

Stanford University, arguably the most selective institution of higher education in the United States, will no longer report its acceptance rate starting fall 2018, the school announced this summer.

Harvard — arguably the second-most selective institution of higher education in the United States — won’t be following suit. Experts say it probably won’t make a difference to eager college hopefuls across the country.

Stanford used to publish details about the incoming class — including statistics regarding academic interests and geographic makeup — in a press release every spring.

The university stopped reporting Early Action acceptance rates beginning with the class of 2021, and, starting with Inside this issue

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the class of 2023, will cease releasing admissions data altogether.

The decision sets Stanford apart from the rest of America’s top-tier colleges and universities, most of which annually release their admissions data.

University spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote in an emailed statement that Harvard will continue adhering to this tradition.

Stanford Provost Persis S. Drell wrote in a press release that the school chose to stop publicizing admissions data because it did not want its low acceptance rate to dissuade prospective students from applying.

“We want students to know that when we encourage them to apply to Stanford, it’s not because we wish to be known as a most competitive university with a low admit rate,” Drell

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­he Undergraduate Council T voted overwhelmingly Sunday to change its voting method in an effort to simplify its election process and ensure that, when voters rank multiple candidates, all of those candidates will receive a share of the vote total.

The new method, called the Borda Count voting system, gives each candidate a number of points corresponding to the number of candidates ranked below them. If three candidates were running, for example, a voter’s first preference would receive 1 point, their second preference 0.5 points, and their third 0.33 points.

Previously, UC elections relied on the Hare-Clark method, also a ranked-choice system. Under this system, if a sufficient number of candidates do not receive a particular threshold of first-place votes, the bottom candidate is eliminated and their votes are transferred to remaining candidates. It con-

tinues in this manner until winners for the position are determined.

Elections later this month for general Council seats, as well as the presidential election in November, will use the Borda method. The UC Election Commission, an independent student-run body, oversees UC elections.

The Harvard chapter of Voters Choose, a nonprofit advocacy organization seeking election reform across the country, presented their recommendations on the UC’s voting system at Sunday’s meeting.

Brandon M. Martinez ’20, founder of Voters Choose, argued that the Borda method would better reflect the will of the student body and reduce confusion. A new system, he suggested, could also increase turnout — a UC priority in the wake of a presidential election last year which saw the lowest turnout in Council history.

“This will be an improvement off of the...Hare-Clark

July and August can be sleepy and stifling in Cambridge — but the hot weather didn’t deter University President Lawrence S. Bacow from a frenzied round of activity in his first two months as Harvard’s 29th top leader.

Even before he officially assumed the presidency in July, Bacow got busy. Over the summer, he held scores of meetings with Harvard affiliates across campus, quickly filled top administrative posts, and wasted no time in fulfilling his earlier promise to serve as an advocate for higher education on the national stage, making at least one trip to Capitol Hill.

Immediately tasked with finding a successor for previous Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, Bacow began meeting with faculty and staff across FAS to find a new leader before he took office.

Bacow appointed Claudine Gay, who became the first African-American and first woman to lead the school, in July.

Bacow’s selection of Gay followed the historic appointments of two other female, African-American deans: Tomiko Brown-Nagin at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Bridget T. Long at the Graduate School of Education.

Bacow also announced Harvard Business School’s Bharat N. Anand ’88 as the University’s next vice provost for advances in learning last month.

The brand-new president has yet to find a replacement for Tamara E. Rodgers, vice president of alumni affairs and development.

But he is “spending lots of time” on the search, according to University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson.

In addition to finding and appointing new administrators, Bacow spent a “fair amount of time” in the past two months discussing Harvard’s plans for its Allston campus with University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76, Jackson said.

Somewhere in there, Bacow found time to meet with the

­ co-owner of Central Square’s A Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub has resigned following a series of sexual misconduct allegations that the venue’s owners say are false.

Middle East announced co-owner Joseph Sater’s plans to retire in a Facebook post on August 28. Sater had managed the nightclub, a Cambridge musical mainstay since its founding in 1974, for 44 years.

“Admittedly, it’s been challenging to find an appropriate way to respond to unsubstantiated third-party claims on social media,” Middle East’s management wrote in the post. “We can say, unequivocally, that the allegations being spread online are absolutely not true and that just being publicly accused is absolutely devastating.”

The post noted that the restaurant’s goal is to create “a

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warm, respectful, safe — and, as a music venue — fun work environment.”

“We always strive to do better and we sincerely apologize if any current or former employees have not had a positive experience or have felt unsafe,” it read.

Neither the restaurant nor its owners could be reached for comment.

Rumors of sexual misbehavior first surfaced about a year ago. In fall 2017, a DJ wrote an online post alleging that one of the Middle East’s owners had assaulted multiple women.

The details were and have remained murky. The post named no names. No victims subsequently came forward with stories. And the Cambridge Police Department has not received any complaints about Slater, according to CPD spokesperson Jeremy Warnick.

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California Tries a Different Angle on Gun Control

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There’s a new movement in California that is taking a different spin on the gun control battle — it’s pushing for bullet control. The movement and new legislation is inspired by the notion that “guns don’t kill people, bullets do.” It aims moves to place more restrictions, taxes, and tracking on ammunition.

PBHA Open House PBHA, 2:30 p.m.

If you’re looking for a feel-good extracurricular, check out the Phillips Brooks House Association open house where you can learn about over 80 different service groups on Harvard’s campus. There’s something for everybody at PBHA, so go find out how you can give back to the Harvard or Boston community.

Jobs Boom Reaches Blue-Collar Workers The Mowgli’s at Crimson Jam. Kai R. McNamee—Crimson photographer

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IOP First-Year Ice Cream Reception Boylston, 7:00 p.m.

The historically all-male Fox Club and the merged Delphic-Bee Club are among 15 social groups that have now promised Harvard administrators they will go co-ed, thus earning exemption from the sanctions for at least a year. The Fox’s decision to admit members of all genders comes after a brief and troubled flirtation with co-ed status.

If you can successfully pretend to be a first-year, or are actually a first-year, the IOP is having a general interest session — plus ice-cream sandwiches.

In other news, Harvard’s brand-new graduate student union hopes to begin bargaining with University administrators “early” this semester. If the union does begin pushin for a contract with Harvard this fall, it will cap off an eventful — and historic — year for both the University and its union.

America is seeing the fastest growth of blue-collar jobs it has in 30 years, causing a hiring boom in rural areas, many of which are conservative, just before the November midterm elections. Jobs in goods-producing industries jobs have grown 3.3 percent in the last year, but it remains to be seen if this is a long-term increase or a short term bump.

Man Drowns During Party Cruise A 21-year-old man died after falling overboard Saturday night during a party cruise on the Boston Harbor. According to the Bay State Cruise Company, the man was “engaging in horseplay” prior to falling overboard.

Around the Ivies PRINCETON Princeton’s pre-read program — through which incoming freshmen receive a copy of a selected book that “introduces students to the University’s intellectual culture and encourages reflection and discussion” — will extend to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and interested staff for the first time in the program’s five-year history, the Daily Princetonian reported Saturday. This year’s selection, “Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech” — written by Princeton politics professor Keith Whittington — argues that free speech plays an essential role on college campuses. The pre-read program will culminate in an assembly and discussion hosted by Whittington, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, and other faculty members for the Class of 2022 in September.

YALE Combining several existing programs started by the Dean’s Office and various student groups, Yale’s new First-Generation Low-Income Community Initiative aims to provide financial, career, and academic advice to first-generation, low-income students through one centralized source, the Yale Daily News reported Thursday. In addition to a comprehensive website, the initiative offers students planned weekly discussions and workshops and a “Career Closet” with formal clothes they can borrow, among other services.

Yale College Dean Marvin Chun said he believes the First-Generation Low-Income Community Initiative is especially timely, given the diversity of the Class of 2022, and “will help students develop ownership of their education opportunity.”

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HGSU-UAW Could Bargain “Soon” Over Summer, Bacow Kept Busy

In Jan. 2018, after two years of legal battles, the National Labor Relations Board invalidated the results of Harvard’s first unionization election — held in Nov. 2016 — and mandated that the University hold a second election that spring.

When the polls for that election closed on April 19 after two days of voting, a slight majority — just under 56 percent — of graduate and undergraduate teaching and research assistants had voted to unionize. It was the first time this had happened in Harvard’s history. After 11 days of uncertainty, former University President Drew G. Faust and University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 announced Harvard intended to honor the vote and bargain in good faith.

Following that announcement, the union began preparing to negotiate in earnest. In May, students elected a 13-member bargaining committee. Union affiliates formed a committee focused on combating sexual assault — dubbed “Time’s Up” — and a committee to protect workers’ rights.

Through the end of the se-

mester and into the summer, all three committees kept busy.

Bargaining committee members developed and sent out a survey quizzing students on what they hoped to see result from negotiations. Respondents rated the importance of approximately 50 potential bargaining goals ranging from childcare subsidies to free dental and vision insurance. Bloesch wrote “hundreds of student workers” filled it out. The Time’s Up committee and the civil and human rights committee, meanwhile, held town halls and listened to student feedback.

In making these preparations, the bargaining committee is wading into relatively waters for student unions at private universities. Though graduate students at Brandeis reached a contract with their university administrators in August, that contract is not yet certified, making NYU’s graduate union — Graduate Student Organizing Committee-UAW — the only union to successfully complete a round of negotiations at a private university.

The Brandeis and NYU con-

tracts both feature increases in compensation and improved access to mental health services and dental care. Anne E. Pasek, a former contract negotiator and spokesperson for GSOC-UAW, said universities and graduate unions each possess the tools to set the tempo of negotiations.

If they want to slow the pace of talks, she said, administrators can argue certain demands do not constitute negotiable topics or can purposefully make it difficult to schedule time for negotiating sessions. And if the union wants to fight back, it could use public pressure like a threatened strike to push for a speedy end to the bargaining process, Pasek added.

“Negotiations often follow the rhythm of a school year, so a strike authorization vote when papers are going to be graded at the end of the year is a powerful tool,” she said.

Bloesch wrote that, in addition to surveying members, HGSU-UAW has been “researching best practices from existing collective bargaining agreements negotiated by unions across the United States.”

William A. Herbert, who directs the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College in New York, wrote in an email that HGSU-UAW will likely prioritize goals that organizers highlighted in the run-up to the April election as negotiations with Harvard move forward.

“Among the strategic questions will be which proposals are primary, and which are secondary,” Herbert wrote.

Issues the union has raised in the past include teaching stipends, housing, and childcare. Bloesch also cited “protections for survivors of sexual harassment” as a potential negotiating demand.

Before negotiations begin, HGSU-UAW members will vote on a bargaining agenda culled from survey results.

Bloesch did not comment on when the results will be released. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

deans of each of the University’s schools.

And he held several planning retreats this summer, one with his leadership team and another with the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body, on which Bacow served prior to his presidency.

In late July, Bacow headed to the nation’s capital, where he spoke to students performing public service internships at a Harvard Kennedy School event.

There, Bacow reaffirmed his commitment to championing higher education.

He told attendees that the values of colleges and universities have “enabled the American dream for so many of us” and that is it “important that we not let that dream die.”

Bacow also continued Faust’s tradition of meeting with legislators in Washington during her trips to D.C. He met with with members

of the Massachusetts delegation, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck E. Schumer ’71 (D-NY), U.S. Senator Mike D. Crapo (R-ID), and U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA).

Near summer’s end in August, Bacow stepped further into the political realm.

He signed a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler that opposed a draft rule that would require the federal government to make all data used to support scientific studies that inform its regulations available to the public.

Bacow and his fellow signatories argued that the new rule would “cripple” scientific studies because many require the use of confidential patient data.

Bacow will officially be inaugurated Harvard’s president on Oct. 5. kristine.guillaume@thecrimson.com jamie.halper@thecrimson.com

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flirtation with co-ed status that at one point saw the group’s displeased graduate board shut down the club’s mansion near campus. The Bee and the Delphic decided to share membership and a clubhouse in fall 2017, at the time marking the first union of an all-female and an all-male final club in recent memory.

Most of the others on the list, which includes ex-sororities, ex-fraternities, and final clubs, had already declared they planned to go gender-neutral. Administrators’ Friday announcement — published on the Dean of Students Office website — leaves Harvard’s campus without all-female social groups, confirming The Crimson’s report last month.

The full list of recognized clubs includes the Fox, the Delphic-Bee Club, the Fleur-de-Lis, Kali Praxi, the Ivy, the Aleph, the KS, the Spee, Theta Zeta Xi, the IC, Pleiades, La Vie, the Oak Club, the Sab Club, and the Seneca. Four groups — the Delphic, the Fox, the Oak, and the Spee — were once all-male social groups and two were once fraternities. The remaining groups are all historically all-female.

It is the end of decades of independence for the Delphic, the Fox, and the Spee. The three clubs were among the nine allmale final clubs that formally severed ties with Harvard in the early 1980s rather than accept women.

Harvard’s two-year-old social group penalties, which took effect with the Class of 2021, bar members of unrecognized single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding student group leadership positions, varsity athletic team captaincies, and from receiving College endorsement for prestigious fellowships like the Rhodes. The policy, which former University President Drew G. Faust announced in a May 2016 email to students, has spurred near-constant controversy and backlash since its debut.

Even as some clubs evade the sanctions by seeking formal ties with Harvard, others are choosing the warpath. The Cambridge Coalition, a set of social groups that includes storied all-male final clubs the Fly Club, the AD Club, and the Porcellian Club, is taking the fight to Capitol Hill and lobbying Congress in favor of a bill it hopes will kill the sanctions by forcing Harvard to choose between the penalties and millions of dollars of federal funding.

The College granted recognition to every club that applied for it, Miller said in a Thursday interview. Most of the 15

groups received “Interim Recognition” — the lowest tier of recognition in the three-tiered system administrators debuted last semester — though at least one group, the KS, earned “Full Recognition,” the second-highest tier.

Though every level of recognition requires gender-neutral membership practices and confers exemption from the sanctions, upper tiers demand total non-discrimination and come with unspecified amounts of College cash. Groups do not actually have to go co-ed to earn Interim Recognition. But they must demonstrate a legitimate intention to do so later on.

And Interim Recognition only guarantees safety from the sanctions for one year. At the end of that period, groups in that category can either apply to advance to Full Recognition or they can seek to extend their interim status for another year.

Miller acknowledged that some of the clubs that earned recognition Friday are still single-gender in practice. But he said administrators worked with every group to develop an “action plan” to ensure they meet College requirements for recognition going forward.

Not every recognized group could be reached for comment Friday. The IC and the Sab declined to comment.

The Fox first experimented with a co-ed move in 2015 when undergraduate members chose to admit women, citing both students’ “sincere desire” to go co-ed and “tremendous pressure” from administrators.

But alumni — and especially the club’s powerful graduate board — were far from pleased.

The board called a special meeting to discuss the co-ed move and stipulated that the nine new female members would remain “provisional” denizens of the Fox pending later approval.

The board abruptly shuttered its clubhouse on JFK Street a few days later, effectively stalling that semester’s “punch,” the process by which the Fox selects and inducts new undergraduate members.

In subsequent punch seasons, the club reverted to choosing only male members. And in July 2017, The Crimson reported that the club’s graduate board had permanently revoked membership for its nine provisional female members.

But the Fox graduate board’s days of so directly steering the club’s affairs may soon be at an end. Harvard can deny or rescind recognition to social groups if it finds that recognized clubs’ graduate boards or national organizations wield too much clout over undergrad-

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uate members. The ex-fraternities and ex-sororities on the Friday list all had to sever ties with their national chapters to secure recognition.

Miller declined to comment on what might constitute an inappropriate level of influence exerted by club graduate boards, but said generally that the College will consider the amount of financial control exerted by alumni.

Harvard is not shirking from influencing the groups itself. Administrators have already given recognized clubs recommendations designed to “increase their gender inclusivity across their organization,” Miller said. A few got advice about “how they may need to strengthen their overall governance within themselves, how they manage themselves, [and] how do they make decisions,” he added.

Miller declined to give any further specifics, noting he wants to preserve trust between administrators and social organizations.During the application process, the 15 clubs submitted written forms and members interviewed with a committee specifically tasked with making decisions about social group recognition, according to Miller. He declined to detail the membership of the committee, which he said included administrators, faculty members, and some students affiliated with social organizations.

The stamp of approval Harvard offered the 15 groups Friday may be merely the first step in a changing relationship with the College, Miller said. Harvard may eventually assign some clubs faculty advisers, according to Miller. He declined to comment on the specific circumstances under which the College would assign advisers, saying the committee would consider a variety of relevant factors.

The Delphic, the Fox, and the Spee’s 1984 break with the University did not have serious consequences. Then as now, the historically all-male final clubs around campus — including the holdouts that still refuse to go co-ed — are privately financed and own their own property in Cambridge.

All the Delphic, the Fox, and the Spee had to give up at the time, the New York Times reported, was their “low-cost school phone and heating systems” and their “access to alumni mailing lists.”

Close to 40 years later, they’re back in the fold.

So there’s a major issue of disenfranchisement that is buried in some of the mechanics.

Brandon M. Martinez ‘20 Founder of Voters Choose

UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 said the HareClark method was so complicated that the voting software the UC put in place last year could not calculate the results.

Instead, Boucher himself had to compose code to tabulate votes, a process he called “painful.”

“What we’re trying to do is

move away from a system that is not explainable at the human level,” Boucher said. “I think we have an incredible proposal here for really good

reasons why we should be using a different system.”

Crimson Yard Representative Ifeoma E. White-Thorpe ’21 asked if the new system could potentially allow a candidate with fewer first-place votes than another candidate to emerge victorious.

“Is it possible, under this new system, say someone has 30 number-one votes, and the person in second has 25 votes and a ton of votes for third, could that person win?” she asked.

Pablo Rasmussen ’20, director of outreach for Voters Choose, conceded that such a situation could occur.

“The short answer is yes,” he said. “The odds of that are slim, but yes, it is possible.”

The Council ultimately passed the legislation 27-2.

Also at the meeting, UC leaders announced they would establish a student advisory committee — including a “chief of inclusion” — composed of non-UC representatives. The committee will advise the Council on administrative matters.

The Council also elected Rainbow Yeung ’20 as its new secretary, replacing Jackson Walker ’21, who recently resigned from the Council.

wrote. “It is because we want promising students of all backgrounds to seriously consider the educational opportunities and possibilities at Stanford.”

“By focusing on the admit rate, talented students who would thrive at Stanford may opt not to apply because they think Stanford seems out of reach. And that would be a shame,” he added.

But the point may be moot.

Stanford has to release its admissions data to the federal government, which will make those numbers public anyway.

Not only is Stanford still required by law to report its data to the National Center for Educational Statistics, it will continue to share its data with the Common Data Set, a program that facilitates data collection among member universities.

College consultant Anna Ivey said she thinks Stanford’s policy change is unlikely to have a significant impact .

“Applicants to Stanford typically know that it’s one of the hardest, and often the hardest, college to get into.

The same goes for Harvard,” Ivey wrote in an emailed statement. “If both schools stopped reporting admit rates, people wouldn’t all of a sudden be confused or ignorant about the fact that they turn away most applicants.”

Acceptance rates for both Harvard and Stanford have trended inexorably downward for at least the past five years.

Stanford was the first to see its admission rate dip below 5 percent with the Class of 2020, but Harvard followed where the California school led with its Class of 2022. Last year, Stanford’s acceptance rate clocked in at 4.3 percent while Harvard saw a rate of 4.6 percent.

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method because those lower preferences don’t come into effect until multiple rounds have occurred, whereas every preference counts in this method,” Martinez said.

“If there’s a bottom-ranked candidate [in the Hare-Clark system], that person will be eliminated and anyone who voted for him or her will be removed from the process,” he added.

“So there’s a major issue of disenfranchisement that is buried in some of the mechanics,” he added.

But Dunster House Representative Victor C. Agbafe ’19 said he doubted a new voting method would encourage students to vote, arguing that the process by which votes are counted is less important than the election software itself. Members overhauled that technology last semester after suffering through a presidential election marred by technical issues.

“The assumption is simplifying the voting system, in terms of how votes count, will equal higher turnout,” Agbafe said. “I’m a little iffy about that.”

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Hit-and-Run TPS Advocates Rally, Urge Reforms Suspect Set Free By edith m. herwitz, sonia kim, and molly c. mccafferty

By isabel m. kendall Crimson Staff Writer

­ he Pembroke, Mass. woman T arrested last week on the suspicion that she was responsible for a hit-and-run that left an 80-year-old woman dead pled not guilty at her arraignment in Cambridge District Court on Friday morning.

The Cambridge Police Department had charged Ashley Monturio, 41, with leaving the scene of an accident causing a death. Police identified her after spotting her license plate in surveillance video of the incident. Monturio, who has no prior criminal record, was released without bail. She could not be reached for comment. CPD officers found Romelia Gallardo, the victim, in the parking lot of the Cambridge Housing Authority building in Cambridgeport around midday Thursday.

Police transported her to CHA Cambridge Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Monturio was driving a white Infiniti QX 60 SUV when she struck Gallardo, who was bending over to pick something up and pushing a walker.

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trict Attorney Maren Schrader said Monturio drove over Gallardo “as if going over a speed bump,” the Boston Globe reported. According to testimony, Monturio drove around the corner after hitting Gallardo, then she returned to the parking lot, called 911, and said Gallardo may have fallen down.

Monturio also said she could not stay because she had a job interview, per court testimony.

Monturio, who works at a pharmaceutical company, turned herself in to police Thursday, prosecutors said.

She was arrested at the station after interviewing with officials, per the Globe. Her lawyer Patrick Reddington told the Globe, “we are deeply saddened and very apologetic for the loss of the family.

Other than that, we have to let justice play out.”Monturio is scheduled to appear again in court on Nov. 27. She has three previous accidents and three speeding tickets on her driving record. Last week’s incident caused her license to be suspended as an “immediate threat,” the Globe reported. isabel.kendall@thecrimson.com

Chanting, lofting a banner, and shouting into a megaphone, a group of around 75 Harvard affiliates rallied in the Science Center Plaza Friday afternoon to support workers with Temporary Protected Status and show solidarity with an ongoing nationwide prison strike.

The rally was hosted by the Harvard TPS Coalition, a group of workers who include members of Harvard’s campus unions and advocate for Harvard workers with TPS. It was the coalition’s first public demonstration of the school year and its first partnership with Act on a Dream, a student immigrant rights organization.

Temporary Protected Status is a designation the Department of Homeland Security grants to certain foreign nationals who are unable to return to their country of citizenship due to unsafe circumstances like an armed conflict or natural disaster. TPS recipients can legally live and work in the U.S. and are immune from deportation.

Over the past year, the Trump administration has terminated the program for citi-

zens of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan, collectively ending protections for over 250,000 people.

At the event, around 20 representatives from campus labor unions, student advocacy groups, and local organizations addressed a half-circle of congregated students, faculty, and staff. Members passed out buttons that read, “Residency Now!” and flyers listing the

We hope the new president can write to the Congress, too, to advocate for TPS holders in Harvard.

Doris Reina-Landaverde Harvard custodian and TPS recipient

demands of the prison strike, which include better conditions in prisons, wages for inmates, and “an immediate end to the racial overcharging, over-sentencing, and parole denials of black and brown humans.”

Doris Reina-Landaverde, a Harvard custodian who is a TPS recipient, helped organize the event. She said the event showed the connection between issues of labor, incarcer-

Harvard, from the Law School to Longwood.

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ation, and immigration.

“We are TPS holders, immigrants. And we are workers — we have unions. And, you know, when the people are deported, they also go to jail — detention centers,” Reina-Landaverde said. “All the organizations here, we have connections.”

Reina-Landaverde said she hoped University President Lawrence S. Bacow would follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Drew G. Faust, in publicly advocating to protect immigrants.

“The last president of Harvard, she wrote to the Congress and supported the workers here at Harvard,” Reina-Landaverde said. “We hope the new president can write to the Congress, too, to advocate for TPS holders in Harvard.”

University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson wrote in an emailed statement that the University is “deeply committed” to supporting Harvard affiliates impacted by the roll-back of TPS and other changes to national immigration policy.

“We will continue to make every effort to have our voice heard and to advocate for permanent legislative solutions to these challenging issues,” Jackson wrote.

Emily Pope-Obeda — a History and Literature lecturer

who researches race, ethnicity, migration, and labor — also spoke at the event, calling on University faculty to “stand with those fighting for their rights.”

“As this gathering demonstrates, these horrific immigration policies impact people right here in our own communities,” Pope-Obeda said. “They impact our students and their families, faculty, and a lot of great workers on campus.”

“As faculty members, we need to fight for these issues not only because those affected are our students, our peers, and members of our campus community, but because they are also the critical moral imperatives of our time,” she added.

Cherrie N. Bucknor, an organizer for Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers and sociology Ph.D. candidate, agreed. She said Harvard employees impacted by TPS are integral to the University.

“Harvard University would be little more than an investment corporation if not for the work done in its dining halls, residence halls, and lecture halls,” she said. edith.herwitz@thecrimson.com sonia.kim@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

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Club Owner Quits Amid Allegations of Misconduct Still, the allegations generated backlash. Some musical groups canceled performances and offered statements of protest, though at least one organization — the organizers of “Grassfed Disco” parties — acknowledged in their statement that “we have no real insight or knowledge about these allegations.”

Over the summer, the issue arose anew when Alex Pickert, a former Middle East employee, penned an explosive Facebook post dubbing the work environment at the restaurant “toxic.”

Pickert wrote he quit working at the restaurant because he’d given up hope of improving things. He wrote he and a few others had pushed internally for improvements including the removal of the accused owner and the undertaking of sexual harassment trainings with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

These efforts ultimately failed, Pickert wrote. BARCC terminated its services and Sater, who had taken a leave of

absence following the online accusations, returned to the restaurant four months later.

“I was wrong to have gone along with the company as long as I did, but with the hopeful facade of them taking the situation seriously, I stayed,” Pickert wrote. “I realize that I have been complicit in my silence and wanted to detail and share my experience.”

Sater previously told the Boston Globe his decision to take a leave was “in the best interest of the business at that time.” He also told the Globe he is retiring to cease distracting the business and “the staff I care so deeply about.”

Afterwards, more musicians distanced themselves from the club. Boston band Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys announced on Twitter on August 23 it would donate all its profits from its Aug. 29 show to the BARCC. Other bands have canceled or moved shows, including The Hotelier, The

Art Pays Tribute to Baldwin Essay

Courters, and The Worriers.

Heather McCormack, a member of the local band Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers, said she became aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against Sater in Nov. 2017.

Though Pickert sought to convince the group to keep their reservation, pointing to the BARCC trainings, McCormack ultimately pulled the plug, citing safety issues for performers.

“My main concern was at that point, they had not made any sort of public statement acknowledging that these issues had come up,” McCormack said.

McCormack also said she thinks Sater’s resignation will do little to fix the situation at Middle East.

“I think it’s totally abating the issue, and it’s not taking any sort of systemic, structural step to prevent issues like this from arising in the future,” McCormack said. leon.yang@thecrimson.com

Inside the Newly Opened Smith Center

By Yasmin Luthra and Idil tuysuzoglu Crimson Staff Writers

By andra m. bossi and annie c. doris Crimson Staff Writers

A recently erected art installation titled “Autumn (...Nothing Personal)” and inspired by a James Baldwin essay will remain in Tercentenary Theatre throughout the month of September, serving as a space for events, discussions, and public viewing.

The Harvard University Committee on the Arts commissioned artist Teresita Fernández to create the sculpture. The installation comprises concentric rings of long, curved wooden benches with backings made of semi-illuminated yellow and orange tubes. Planning for the sculpture, which was fully installed in the Yard August 27, began two years ago.

“I knew I wanted to create an artwork that wasn’t passive, that didn’t just get ‘plopped down’ on the Harvard campus,” Fernández wrote in an email. “I developed dialogues, met with many individuals, collaborated, brainstormed, and formed relationships at Harvard for almost two years in order to create a work that people could feel invested in.”

Fernández taught a course at Harvard entitled “Arts, Imagination, Democracy: Public Arts in Practice” in Jan. 2018 as part of the College’s Wintersession program. She wrote the course served as “preparation” for her work on the sculpture.

“The students were involved from the beginning in thinking about what it could mean to imbue a built structure with democratic practices and research,” Fernández wrote.

The project also drew on contributions from Harvard affiliates such as Amanda Figueroa, a Ph.D. candidate and an intern for the committee on Ethnicity, Immigration, and Rights. To plan for the sculpture, Figueroa said she dug into the Harvard archives to learn more about Tercentenary Theatre.

“In terms of landmarking this space, not only does the installation work in the horizontal dimensions and provide a resting space, but the poles that come up also disrupt that visual

It is Baldwin’s essay that inspired my use of the vulnerable light of autumn as a metaphor for a nation still struggling so desperately with the same issues Baldwin so eloquently exposes.

Teresita Fernández Artist

line of sight and again just make it even more of a spotlight even more of a stage, even more of a landmark here,” Figueroa said.

Fernández wrote that the installation is meant to evoke Baldwin’s 1964 text “Nothing Personal,” published in collab-

oration with famed photographer Richard Avedon during a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The essay-length book examines the state of life in America at the time. Fernández wrote that she sees Baldwin’s work as containing elements of “loneliness, despair, and violence” but also of “light and trust.”

“It is Baldwin’s essay that inspired my use of the vulnerable light of autumn as a metaphor for a nation still struggling so desperately with the same issues Baldwin so eloquently exposes,” Fernández wrote. “During the day, it feels like an immense zoetrope, shimmering and flickering reflections and shadows of the overhead Elm trees with people moving through it; at night there is lighting built into the work so it looks like fire in the

The essay builds on itself but it ends up with the idea of light

The owner of the Middle East Nightclub in Central Square has stepped down amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Caleb D. Schwartz—Crimson photographer

­ hen visitors step inside the W newly opened Smith Campus Center, they’ll probably walk right past green, plant-covered walls before grabbing a cup of coffee and finding a comfy seat.

What they may not know is that those plants will be maintained year-round through an automatic irrigation system that distributes rainwater collected on the Center’s roof.

Like the technology behind the living walls, some features of the brand-new Center — opened this month — are easily missed.

Others literally announce themselves.

At the entrance of the building, visitors can learn about campus events at the information desk and via the interactive walls lining the left side of the Welcome Pavilion.

Guests of any height — including inquisitive five-year olds — can easily double tap the floating icons, which reveal locations, dates, and times for events listed on the Harvard

Gazette’s calendar, to which student groups add their events.

The living walls, on which over 12,000 plants sprout from wool pouches, are just past the information desk.

UV-filtered rainwater from the rooftop of the building waters the 19 species of hanging plants.

While they serve to add to the ambience of the Center, the walls also cleanse the air and make greenery a constant, even during cold New England winters.

To the left are the Harvard Commons, a multi-level open space in which students can opt to take a power nap on one of the many sofas between classes, find a study nook to work in, or enjoy a weekly concert series featuring Harvard performers around lunchtime, according to Director of the Common Spaces Julie Crites.

“The Office for Sustainability partnered with the Smith Campus Center project team and manufacturers to ensure the selected furniture and interior building materials that were used in the new space were produced without the use

of harmful chemicals of concern and delivered at the same price point,” Heather Henriksen, managing director of the Office for Sustainability, wrote in an email to The Crimson.

Planners are still brainstorming ways to use the Commons space and balance its use as Harvard’s “living room” with planned events, according to Crites.

“We see this first year as an experiment – a time to see what works and what doesn’t work.

We envision the space existing as a living room for a majority of the time, with exciting moments of transformation interspersed,” Crites wrote in an email.

Events already scheduled in the space include a screening of Incredibles 2 on Sept. 15 and a celebration featuring campus groups on Sept. 20.

The second floor includes offices for the Undergraduate Council and Harvard Graduate Council and a collaborative work space reminiscent of Cabot Library that is open only to Harvard affiliates.

Some spaces on the second floor, including an art room,

are currently inaccessible because of continuing work. Other rooms still await doors and other finishing touches.

Heading out of the Commons, visitors encounter dividers that can only be crossed by sliding a Harvard ID. Behind these are elevators servicing the other floors of the building.

A wing of the second floor connects to the offices of Harvard University Health Services.

A short elevator ride reveals some of the lesser populated spaces on the 10th floor. These spaces include several lounges and a game room, complete with a pool table and foosball.

Student groups and other Harvard affiliates will soon be able to reserve rooms for events and formal conferences.

Come winter, visitors will be able to munch on small dishes and sip on beverages at the Heights Cafe and Bar while enjoying views of the River Houses, Cambridge, and the greater Boston area. yasmin.luthra@thecrimson.com idil.tuysuzoglu@thecrimson.com

Lori E. Gross Associate Provost for Arts and Culture

middle of the Yard.”

Lori E. Gross, associate provost for arts and culture, said Baldwin’s references to light made it a “very important” element of Fernández’s work.

“The essay builds on itself but it ends up with the idea of light and that there’s light at the end of some things that are often dark,” Gross said. “I think that it’s actually a very hopeful message at the end of some very complicated ideas and times, both in ’64 and now.”

Chris Molinski, a research curator at the Harvard Art Museums, said the space brings Baldwin’s words to life.

“The intention is to have a series of public conversations where we will read the Baldwin text together in this space and also using the Baldwin text in course-work, in group discussions, with student groups as a jumping off point for creative responses that will continue a conversation beyond this physical structure,” Molinski said.

Fernández wrote that upcoming readings of Baldwin’s essay at the sculpture are also designed to evoke a sense of “public intimacy.” She said human interaction with and around her work is a key part of the sculpture. Prior to this one, Harvard commissioned other art projects including “John Harvard Speaks,” a video installation in which the John Harvard Statue was temporarily animated with students’ faces and voices.

On Sept. 14 at noon, Jonathan L. Walton, a Divinity School professor and Memorial Church minister Jonathan L. Walton will lead a public reading and subsequent discussion of Baldwin’s essay at the sculpture. The art space will be open to the public and will continue to host events until its removal andrea.bossi@thecrimson.com annie.doris@thecrimson.com

The main lobby of the newly reopened Smith Campus Center, which has been under reconstruction since 2016. Amy Y. Li—Crimson photographer

Red Line Train Kills Man in Porter Square By isabel M. kendall Crimson Staff Writer

­ 66-year-old man was struck A and killed by a Red Line train at the Porter Square station Sunday morning, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority transit police announced over the weekend.

The man— who has yet to be identified by authorities — was in the northbound tunnel when he was struck by the train at approximately 7 a.m., according to police.

Multiple transit police officers responded to calls alongside officials from the Cambridge Fire Department and

EMS. The man died of injuries sustained from the impact, per police.

Officials said no foul play is suspected, though the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office has opened an investigation into the incident.

Red Line service was temporarily shut down and shuttle

buses replaced trains from Harvard Square to Alewife stations.

But trains were back up and running by 9:45 a.m., according to MBTA officials.

The death comes soon after an 80-year-old died after being struck by a car in Cambridge. isabel.kendall@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

The Connection Challenge

When Harvard Ditches Veritas

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VICKY Z. XU—CRIMSON DESIGNER

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s a result of the Students for Fair Admissions lawsuit, internal studies about the College’s admissions policies circulated among top administrators in 2013 have come to light. The studies, which found Asian-American applicants saw “negative effects” in the College’s admissions process, were not previously made public, and SFFA alleges that administrators did not act upon the findings. The College’s choice to not take further action on such troubling statistics is unacceptable.

Harvard has tried to contest the accuracy of the studies by claiming the data set used was “incomplete” since it did not include personal essays, teacher

The College’s failure to commission further studies — despite having had five years since 2013 to do so — constitutes an educational failure on its part. recommendations, or factors such as legacy status and athletic recruitment. However, this incompleteness does not disprove the existence of discrimination against Asian-American applicants. Indeed, the College’s apparent failure to further look into the matter — despite having had five years since 2013 to do so — constitutes a systematic failure on its part.

As a leading academic insti-

tution that has inscribed the pursuit of truth into its motto, Harvard should have had the courage to investigate whether it truly disadvantages Asian Americans in its application process. Instead, it appears to have disregarded its own reports — severely damaging the trust of its Asian-American students, the University’s reputation, and affirmative action itself.

Despite Harvard’s error, it should not be used as a cudgel against affirmative action.

As we have stated in the past, affirmative action is an important project that helps to correct the systematic inequalities and disadvantages that may come with the color of one’s skin.

The experience of being part of a diverse college class is also crucial to success in an increasingly globalized, diverse, and close-knit world.

Therefore, even if Harvard is found to have discriminated against Asian-American applicants, we reiterate our support for affirmative action and its implementation in the admissions process.

Furthermore, many like to believe that college admissions is a completely meritocratic process that is entirely based on one’s qualifications.

This is simply not true. Factors that have nothing to do with one’s qualifications to attend any particular college, including the wealth of one’s family and where you live, all matter.

Sometimes, as in the case of affirmative action, these non-meritocratic factors are justified. Other times, as in the

case of legacy preference, they are not. The admissions lawsuit has offered Harvard a chance to critically analyze its own admissions process, and reevaluate the systems by which students are admitted.

In failing to further investigate whether it discriminates against Asian Americans in its application process, Harvard ditched educational values and its own motto — “veritas.”

Harvard should seize this opportunity, and analyze its admissions process as a whole while arguing this case.

In failing to further investigate whether it discriminates against Asian Americans in its application process, Harvard ditched educational values and its own motto — “veritas.” We strongly condemn the College for its failure to pursue the truth.

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.

By ROBERT MIRANDA

e all love the first few days of the semester, right when school begins and no one’s terribly busy. (“Busy”: The greatest excuse we have at Harvard, but also the saddest word I’ve heard here.) You run into friends, blockmates, linkmates, and House acquaintances you haven’t seen since the spring in the dining hall. It’s curious how it seems as if you’ve been gone for much longer than a few months, especially as you both begin to recount the experiences you had interning at Google, studying abroad in Japan, or backpacking through Italy.

As much as I love the summer, and the respite and insight it affords me, there really is nothing like returning back to Harvard in the fall. Sure, the weather has been abysmal in the way only New England can make it (seriously, Cambridge: rain?), but the idea of Harvard life starting all over again as it gets crisp in the fall, to misquote F. Scott Fitzgerald, fills me with hope.

I spent the summer interning at a company where my team and professional network was comprised of individuals much older than me.

And as much as I appreciated the chance to do so — I’ve always felt that I bond with older people much more easily than with my peers — I missed the connections with my peers that only college can provide. After all, isn’t that part of the transformative college experience that Harvard (or at least its dean) always tries to promote?

Upon returning to school and reconnecting with my best friends, though, I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating Harvard life, especially its social aspects.

I’ve been struck by a few conversations I’ve had with friends about the social life here — particularly its tendency to be disingenuous.

One of my friends, who spent a few weeks this summer in Asia, told me how the bonds he established with the people he met there were much more genuine than many of the ones he’s formed here.

In response to this, another of my friends cynically remarked that no one at Harvard truly cares about each other. This view, repeated by one of my fellow Crimson editors, isn’t a new one, nor is it completely inaccurate.

But for me? I can’t say that’s entirely true given my experience.

Yes, there are many disingenuous people on campus — the archetype of the inveterate social networker comes to mind, searching for connections everywhere he can find.

But I’ve been incredibly lucky — my blockmates and friends form some of the most solid, genuine relationships I’ve had in my life. But not everyone is as fortunate as me — we all know that loneliness remains one of this campus’s greatest issues. And even personally, I know there are many budding friendships I could build upon if I weren’t so centered upon my work. We all suffer a challenge of connection — unsure of what, if anything, to do with each other.

Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I firmly believe we could form closer relationships, if we just tried, with the right people.

We’re a campus that often describes itself as awkward and antisocial, but I feel we’re secretly much more social than we let on. For me, as curmudgeonly as I can be at times, I love talking to people, and genuinely learning from them: It was something I loved doing at my work this summer, and something I love doing here.

So, here’s my connection challenge to you, Harvard.

(Don’t worry, I’m planning to do this too.

I won’t hang you out to dry.) Pick up your phone right now, get on Messenger or GroupMe, and send a message to someone you’d love to talk to more.

I mean genuinely talk to, someone that you wouldn’t mind spending two hours with chatting about life, the universe, and everything.

After all, “let’s grab a meal sometime” is the largest missed opportunity in a campus full of students who love nothing more than opportunity. Instead, let’s build and strengthen the bonds of friendship we need, on a campus that often has greater potential to isolate than connect us.

—Robert Miranda ’20, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is an English concentrator living in Pforzheimer House.

Spicing Up the D-Hall: A Call for Korean Condiments

By DAVID J. MOON

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any times, when I tell people that I am Korean, their reaction is to tell me how much they love Korean BBQ, or kimchi. I am very proud that these foods have gained as much popularity as they have, but the rarity of instances in which people name even one other food betrays a monolithic understanding of Korean cuisine that has taken hold in America.

In fact, beef is extremely expensive in Korea, and as a result bulgogi, galbi, and other similar foods so ubiquitous in Korean-American food, are only for special occasions in Korea. Additionally, I suspect that a lot of what contributes to the popularity of K-BBQ is its relative familiarity to an American audience — America’s fascination with meat means that no Korean barbecue place will offer flavors too far from what you might find at a regular steakhouse or even an American equivalent.

Even kimchi is functionally a spicy sauerkraut. Truth be told, Korea’s most exciting and truly distinct flavors are mostly lost on the rest of the world, and this should not be the case.

The foundation of Korean

cuisine is its fermented sauces, also known as jang. Ganjang, or soy sauce, is quite familiar to many around the world now, but gochujang, or fermented chili paste, and doenjang, a fermented soybean paste, are the two elements truly constitutive of a Korean meal. These two pastes serve a whole host of diverse purposes — they can serve as marinades, sauces, soup bases, part of a braising liquid, or condiments. They also do not have any flavor analogs in any other world cuisine. America has been obsessed with

I am very proud that these foods have gained as much popularity as they have, but the rarity of instances in which people name even one other food betrays a monolithic understanding of Korean cuisine.

spice and hot sauces — jalapeno, sriracha, and Tabasco are mainstays on tables from Peter Luger’s to McDonald’s — but to reduce gochujang to just another hot sauce would be a grave injustice. It offers a unique blend of sweetness, spice, nuttiness, and numerous flavors that escape description in words, those which come from months of careful fermentation.

Additionally, gochujang has untapped culinary potential that could expand the American definition of what is culinarily acceptable: Gochujang-smoked ribs could bring the deep, smoky sweetness that is familiar to so many, but add a dimension of spice and make them that much better.

Given that it seems like anything can be made into an “aioli” and slapped onto a burger, why shouldn’t Shake Shack take a flyer on gochujang with its next sauce?

Doenjang is another ancient pillar of Korean cuisine, with a world of unexplored possibility for the American culinary scene.

For thousands of years, Koreans have been perfecting the art of fermenting and brewing soybeans. As a result, we have also learned how to use it in stews, pancakes, sauces, and

just about anything else under the sun. Doenjang brings saltiness, sweetness, and a unique depth of flavor that can only be described by the Korean verb “gusuhada”, which has no exact English equivalent, but rough-

Perhaps more than ever, finding points of agreement between an increasingly diverse number of cultures and ethnicities will only grow more and more important. ly is approximated by “nutty” — think of a much stronger miso.

However, exposure to doenjang in the West is minimal — relegated to an accompaniment for K-BBQ that often goes untouched, unless the customers know what they should be looking for.

Ultimately, though, what a

larger understanding of Korean food generally and these two specific components offers extends beyond our dining habits. In a time when America has become divided, perhaps more than ever, finding points of agreement between an increasingly diverse number of cultures and ethnicities will only grow more and more important.

And while it seems simple just to try some new foods, what you gain is a sensory experience of culture, and hopefully a delicious one at that.

Tasting the complexity of flavor present in the doenjang and gochujang you have just read about offers a glimpse into the importance of patience in Korean culture more generally, and the benefits that that aspect of our culture offers.

This idea doesn’t stop with Korean food — to the extent that no matter who we love, what we look like, where we come from, or what we believe, we still all eat, we can all do better to reach into somebody else’s pantry the next time we’re eating out, and offer a place on our tables to new foods, no matter whether we are comfortable with them or not.

—David J. Moon ‘21, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Eliot House.

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Weekend Recap

SCORES

Men’s soccer at hofstra l, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

men’s golf ivy league championshp 10th ___________________________________________________________

field hockey Vs. american w, 5-2 ___________________________________________________________

field hockey at maryland l, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo vs. George washington w, 12-11 ___________________________________________________________

men’s water polo vs. navy w, 16-9 ___________________________________________________________

rugby vs. army west point w, 28-17 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S WATER POLO VS. FORDHAM W, 15-10 ___________________________________________________________

women’s volleyball

amy y. li—Crimson photographer

Harvard 2-1 at FairField By jack stockless Crimson Staff Writer

This weekend at the Fairfield Invitational, Harvard women’s volleyball snapped a threegame losing streak and picked up its first win of the season in the process. The Crimson (2-4) bookended a shutout loss with victories over Central Connecticut State (2-8) on Friday and host Fairfield (1-8) Saturday evening.

Over the past five seasons, women’s volleyball has had just one losing season, and has not finished below .500 in conference play during that entire span. That lone disappointing campaign occurred in the fall of 2016, when the squad went 7-7 against Ivy teams and just 3-8 versus the rest of the field. Last season, the team showed signs of improvement, as it boosted its overall record to 13-10 and completed the fall tied for third in the Ancient Eight.

Perhaps most impressive was the Crimson’s come-frombehind win over Yale on the road on Nov. 3. The Bulldogs were a frontrunner in the conference, and after Harvard jumped out to a lead in the first game, Yale fought back to capture the ensuing two. With no room for error, the Crimson battled out two consecutive set wins of its own, both of which required tiebreakers.

Despite losing its next two ­

matches that November, Harvard closed out its 2017 season with a 3-1 victory over Penn.

Now, the Crimson’s task is to improve for a second straight year in a crowded field of Ivy League volleyball teams.

The 2018 season started slowly for Harvard, as the team dropped all three matches of the Michigan Invitational, albeit against tough competition including No. 23 Michigan.

However, the Crimson bounced back at this weekend’s Fairfield Invitational as it prepares for its first home game this Thursday against Boston College.

HARVARD 3, FAIRFIELD 1 In the finale, Harvard took down the Stags on their home court and recorded its second win in as many days.

The Crimson comfortably prevailed in each of its three set wins, twice by a margin of six points and once by nine. In the last set, Harvard took 11 of the final 16 points to seal the contest and close out its weekend at the invitational. Each team recorded 42 kills, but errors are what set the two squads apart: the visitors racked up 19, while Fairfield picked up 32.

Middle blocker Christina Cornelius had an outstanding game at the net. She was credited with 12 of the team’s 42 kills and committed just one error, which came on a reception. The senior also led the team with

three blocks, two of which were solo efforts, and notched the second-most digs (eight).

Cornelius has been a key contributor in Crimson for three-plus seasons. She has averaged 2.32 kills per set over the course of her career, has totaled 326 blocks, and owns an attacking percentage of .264. The start of her final season in Cambridge has been no exception.

For her efforts in the Fairfield Invitational, Cornelius was named to the All-Tournament team. Across all three contests, the veteran middle blocker added 33 kills, 22 digs, and nine blocks.

Junior middle blocker Maclaine Fields added onto Cornelius’ dominance by tallying eight kills of her own, and senior libero Anna Uhr notched nearly 20 digs.

The freshman class proved necessary in this matchup.

Classmates Kate Condra, Bella Almanza, and Grace Varsames combined for 12 kills and 37 assists. Three of the nine players who saw the court in the tournament finale were rookies.

Two Stags notched double-digit kills (Mayda Garcia and Laura Seeger), and Alexis Rich tallied nearly all of Fairfield’s assists (35 of 40).

MICHIGAN STATE 3, HARVARD 0 Harvard ran into a hot Michigan State team in Saturday’s

opener and succumbed in straight sets to the Spartans (91).

The Crimson had its best showing in the second game, which it lost, 25-21. Michigan State triumphed fairly easily in the other two—it won the first, 25-13, and picked up a ninepoint victory in the final set. No Harvard player recorded double-digit kills, and aside from Cornelius’ seven, no one recorded more than three. Condra posted an impressive .429 attack percentage with seven total chances, as she picked up three kills and did not commit an error.

The Spartans found a good deal of success at the net.

Only Meredith Norris and Julia Hatcher posted individual blocks, but the team also had 14 block assists. On the other hand, Cornelius had Harvard’s lone individual block, and the other nine players in the lineup combined for four block assists.

Four of Harvard’s five freshmen saw the court in this contest against a formidable opponent. Almanza recorded two kills, three digs, and one block assist, and Almanza and Varsames combined for 18 assists.

Michigan State’s lone loss came in its season opener at Tennessee, where it lost, 3-1.

Since then, the Spartans have only lost three total sets, including no more than one in any match. Michigan State is

2018 Schedule

vs. Cleveland St. (L, 3-2)................................................. Sept. 1 at No. 23 Michigan (L, 3-0).............................................Sept. 1 at Eastern Michigan (L, 3-1)...........................................Sept. 2 vs. Central Conn. St. (W, 3-2)..........................................Sept. 7 vs. Michigan St. (L, 3-0)..................................................Sept. 8 at Fairfield (W, 3-1)..........................................................Sept. 8 vs. Boston College...........................................................Sept. 13 at Northeastern...............................................................Sept. 14 vs. UMass Lowell..............................................................Sept. 15 at Dartmouth...................................................................Sept. 21 at Cornell...........................................................................Sept. 28 at Columbia......................................................................Sept. 29 vs. Penn............................................................................ Oct. 5 vs. Princeton.....................................................................Oct. 6 at Brown............................................................................Oct. 12 at Yale............................................................................... Oct. 13 vs. Dartmouth..................................................................Oct. 19 vs. Columbia.....................................................................Oct. 26 vs. Cornell.........................................................................Oct. 27 vs. Yale.............................................................................. Nov. 2 vs. Brown..........................................................................Nov. 3 at Princeton......................................................................Nov. 9 at Penn............................................................................Nov. 10 the owner of a nine-game winning streak—the most recent three wins came in the form of a weekend sweep at the Fairfield Invitational.

This was the second game all-time that Harvard has played against Michigan State, and it has now dropped both.

The other matchup happened on Sept. 8, 2007, when the Spartans defeated the Crimson, 3-1, at the Harvard Invitational.

HARVARD 3, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 2

digging out a win In the opening game of the Fairfield Invitational, Harvard escaped an 0-2 set deficit and rallied to take the match, 3-2. A crucial component of the team’s success was senior libero Anna Uhr, who posted 20 digs. amy y. li—Crimson photographer

Harvard’s most dramatic game of the weekend came in the opener. Unlike its easy dispatching of Fairfield or its quick loss to Michigan State, the Crimson battled with Central Connecticut State down to the final set.

This was no back-and-forth affair, either. After Harvard lost the first two sets by a combined 10 points, it rallied to take the third by a score of 25-20.

However, it appeared as though the Blue Devils had the upper hand near the end of the fourth game. With a 23-21 lead, Central Connecticut State needed two points for a win and just one to force the game to go beyond the customary 25 points.

The Crimson had other plans in mind. It quickly tied the game at 23 apiece with the aid of an attacking error and a ball handling error from the Blue Devils. Then, Almanza came up in the clutch with two kills to steal the set.

Central Connecticut State kept it close in the deciding set, but its best position of the game was a 1-1 tie. After the first two points, Harvard maintained a lead until the ultimate 15-12 conclusion. In this crucial fifth game, the Crimson did not commit an error.

For the only time this weekend, Cornelius did not pace the squad in kills. That distinction went to Fields, who totaled 20.

Cornelius added 14 of her own, and the team finished with an even 60. Fields’ .486 attack percentage was the highest among all players with more than one total attempt.

Once again, Almanza set up her teammates very well as she posted 30 assists. Fellow freshman Varsames and sophomore Mindie Mabry earned two aces apiece; the team ended the match with eight total aces. Three players posted high dig totals—sophomore Sandra Zang had 12, Mabry added 15, and Uhr collected an even 20. jack.stockless@thecrimson.com.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | September 10, 2018

thomas on top

By Cade Palmer

Crimson Staff Writer

It’s said that when it rains it pours. In Eugene, Ore., during the DI NCAA Outdoor National Track and Field Championships, when it rained it hailed too.

Co-captain Gabby Thomas faced the elements to compete in the 200-meter final race. She placed second—one spot better than her finish in the previous two outdoor seasons at the national meet.

“It’s an improvement, not where I wanted to be this season, but I’m happy with it, I’m happy with second,” Thomas said. “Obviously I wanted to come in first, given where my season’s been and how I’ve been doing and how I’ve progressed.”

The finish follows Thomas’ collegiate record-breaking 200-meter dash in the NCAA Indoor Championships Final. With the victory, Thomas became the first Ivy League sprinter to every hoist a National title in the indoor arena.

“It’s a little disappointing coming back from indoors to get second, but again, better than my last two years here,” Thom-

as said. “I’m not too upset about it.”

For her efforts in the race, Thomas was awarded USTFCCCA Northeast Women’s Track Athlete of the Year.

The NCAA race represented the end of the collegiate season, and with that conclusion most track athletes went home to rest after the two seasons (indoor and outdoor) of running. Thomas went to Switzerland.

“I have had a very long collegiate season, but I’m coming off of a really successful and motivating season as well,” Thomas said in a video interview with Harvard Athletics. “My indoor season went better than I could’ve expected for myself and then I had a pretty strong outdoor season just on upward spiral, consistently PR-ing which is what you want. This summer has just be a continuing of that.”

Competing in her first ever IAAF Diamond League race, Thomas hopped on a plan to Lausanne, Switzerland. Among the field of professionals, world champions and Olympians, was Shericka Jackson of Jamaica— an Olympian that donned the bronze medal in 400-meter and

the silver in the 4x400-meter relay at the game in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

In the Diamond League race on July 5, Thomas claimed gold.

She defeated the field by .21 seconds running a 22.47 race. Jackson fell to third and the next closest American, Kimberlyn Duncan, finished fifth.

The race was the beginning of a five-meet summer saga and two months of travel for the athlete that culminated in a final race in Brussels.

Next in the itinerary was Morocco. Racing in Rabat, Thomas’ second race wasn’t as golden as her first. In the 200-meter final, the Harvard co-captain competed in a heat that featured a meet-record time of 22.29.

Thomas placed in fourth with a 22.70 race. The finish fell .1 seconds behind the fastest American present, Jenna Prandini.

Prandini was not just the fastest American present at the race that day, on June 24, Prandini won the USA Championships in the 200-meter dash.

She is the fastest 200-meter runner in America, period.

The IAAF Diamond League London race told a more dramatic story. Thomas began the

Photo Courtesy of the Ivy League

race slow, falling near the pack of the pack by the 100-meter mark. A surge on the straightaway propelled the Florence, Mass., native to the front of the pack, just in time to grab the silver medal. The 22.19 finish represents a personal best for Thomas. Only Prandini — also setting a personal best — outpaced the senior with a 22.16 race.

July turned into August and Thomas just kept running against the best in the world.

Thomas finished in sixth at Birmingham and then again at the Diamond League final in Brussels — both times one spot behind Prandini.

“It’s really exciting because I didn’t actually plan on going to the Diamond League final and finishing my season so late, but I had a good bit of success in the earlier half of the summer,” Thomas told Harvard Athletics.

“This summer definitely helps in terms of a lot of growth and maturity, a lot of self-reflection, a lot of growing this summer.

With all this competition at all of these meets comes a lot of experience.” cade.palmer@thecrimson.com

Harvard Falters in Road Matchup to Providence, 1-3

By George Hu Crimson Staff Writer

Going into its sixth contest of the season at Providence, the Harvard women’s soccer team had yet to record a first-half goal. It was not a matter of being in an offensive drought — the Crimson had scored six times in five previous games, including four in an outburst against Syracuse. All tallies had just come after halftime.

That finally changed on Sunday afternoon when star midfielder and co-captain Leah Mohammadi found the back of the net in the 29th minute.

Receiving a pass from freshman forward Sophie Hirst at the top of the box, Mohammadi unleashed an arcing shot that snuck in between the crossbar and the outstretched arms of Providence senior goalie Shelby Hogan.

Harvard managed to control play for much of the remainder of the half, earning its first halftime lead this season. The second frame, though, was all Friars. The home side put three shots past Crimson junior goalie Kat Hess to reverse the tide and ultimately pull away for the 3-1 victory.

With the loss, Harvard fell to 2-4-0 on the season while Providence improved to 5-20. The Crimson now has two more games to iron things out before beginning conference play, while Providence will look to continue its torrid start to the season, which includes a perfect 4-0-0 record at home.

“We wanted to start out strong today, and we did,” Harvard coach Chris Hamblin said.

“We wanted to be aggressive to start out the game and dictate the pace of play, and we were able to do that. Now, we need to extend that mindset throughout the entire 90 minutes.”

Playing in their sixth contest in 17 days, the minutes and miles the Crimson players have recorded did seem to catch up to them as the game went on.

The Friars, in comparison, took the field four times during that same period of time.

Providence certainly had the firepower to win the game from the beginning. The Friars had only failed to score in one of its six previous contests, a road game at No. 3 North Carolina that they dropped by the narrow margin of 1-0.

“For them to come out of the

Captain of the ship Co-captain Leah Mohammadi scored the Crimson’s lone goal in Sunday’s contest against the Providence Friars. Timothy R. O’meara—Crimson photographer

gates and win four out of six, with their only losses against North Carolina and Duke, we knew they were a good team,” Hamblin said. “We tried to contain them but in the end just gave them too much space to operate in, especially in that second half.”

Junior defender Olivia Lucia and sophomore forward Hannah McNulty provided the goals for Providence, with McNulty bagging a brace. Lucia’s goal tied things up in the 54th minute, while McNulty’s first goal in the 76th minute, which came off of a rebound in the six-yard box, proved to be the winner.

She then added a well-placed

finish in the 81st minute to seal the game.

“They [Friars] were a really good team and came out with a good game plan to break us down in the second half,” said Harvard midfielder and co-captain Zayne Matulis. “We had our chances to respond, but all credit to them.”

There were still positives for the Crimson, as Hirst’s assist in the 29th minute represented the first one of her collegiate career.

A highly touted recruit coming out of high school, the freshman now has two goals and an assist to her name through just four games.

“I’m really proud of how So-

phie has come on and immediately made an impact,” Matulis said. “The freshman class as a whole has been great. Everyone has been learning quickly and really growing into their roles on the team.”

Senior goalie Danielle Etzel also extended her shutout streak to 311 minutes with a strong performance between the posts in the first half. She made two saves to keep Providence off the board in the first half. Harvard will continue to look for contributions across its squad, from the freshmen to the seniors, as Ivy play nears. george.hu@thecrimson.com

team statistics

HARVARD 9 (8) 4 5 3 0

PROVIDENCE shots (on goal) saves fouls corner kicks off sides

13 (7) 7 7 3 1

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