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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 1 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2019

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Bacow says Harvard will lead on enviornmentalism, but won’t divest.

Harvard Law prof. named president of American law school group.

Men’s basketball tops Howard at MLK day away game.

Harvard Hostile to Harvard Students Recieve Pay Raises Men, Activists Say Harvard Minimum-Wage Student Employees’ Pay Rate Under MA Law CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A Ph.D. student and two former lawyers — all unaffiliated with Harvard — filed a Title IX complaint with the United States Department of Education, alleging the University had created “a hostile environment against men.”

The complaint — which, if opened for investigation, would join three ongoing probes into Harvard’s Title IX compliance — was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, according to its authors. The complainants contend that, by maintaining ties with the American Psychological Association, Harvard is endorsing the APA’s new guidelines on the potential harm of “traditional masculinity,” and therefore discriminating against men.

The complaint suggests that the APA revise its guidelines or that Harvard eliminate its relationship with the APA. The original authors of the undated complaint are Kursat Christoff Pekgoz, who said he is a PhD candidate at the University of

Southern California; John Davis, who said he is a lawyer affiliated with the Perses Institute; and James Preston, who is an inactive member of the Washington, D.C. bar. A version of the complaint available on Pekgoz’s personal website as of Tuesday evening omits the two lawyers’ names. None of the authors have direct ties to Harvard.

This is not the first Title IX complaint Pekgoz has filed — last year he leveled a complaint against Yale University with OCR, prompting an investigation into the school’s single-gender programs and scholarships specifically benefitting women. Pekgoz also filed a similar complaint against the University of Southern California. OCR later opened up an investigation into allegations of discrimination against men by USC. None of the resulting investigations have concluded.

Pekgoz has also filed complaints against Georgetown University and Northeastern University, according to his website.

The complaint against Harvard is not currently listed on

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By JAMES S. BIKALES, CONNOR W. K. BROWN, and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Student research assistants at Harvard Law School received their first pay raise in more than a decade this month thanks to a Massachusetts minimum wage law that took effect earlier this month.

Cambridge Residents Attend MLK Day Community Service Event

Those law students are some of the 742 student workers throughout the University who received raises when the state minimum wage rose from $11 to $12 per hour starting Jan. 1.

The Massachusetts State Legislature passed the bill — termed the “grand bargain bill” — in June 2018.

The bill increased the minimum wage to $12 starting

at the beginning of 2019 and will gradually raise the minimum hourly pay to $15 by 2023.

Before the “grand bargain bill,” the hourly wage given to all Law School research assistants had stagnated at $11.50 since at least 2008, according to publicly available documents on the Law School website. That pay marked a lower hourly rate than the average wage earned

by graduate research assistants — $16.50 — and the average hourly pay given to undergraduate research assistants — $13.50 — according to the Student Employment Office website.

Though the law triggered a pay increase for 742 student employees across the University, some workers did not receive

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Cut Ties to Sackler, Activists Tell Univ.

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

mobilizing volunteers and facilitating service opportunities — organized the event, which the organization has coordinated every year since 2010. The Cambridge Day of Service is one of the largest community service events in New England, according to the group’s website.

“It’s a unique opportunity for neighbors to work side by side to accomplish something for those in need,” the website

Local activists and at least one public official are calling on Harvard to remove the Sackler family’s name from their buildings after a memorandum filed in federal court Tuesday alleged the family knowingly understated the risks of its company’s addictive opioid product.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey ’92 submitted the 274-page court filing as part of a lawsuit the state brought against Purdue Pharma — the Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company that produces the painkiller OxyContin — in June 2018. The filings allege that members of the Sackler family, who have served on the company’s board of directors, “controlled Purdue’s misconduct” all the while raking in billions of dollars from opioid sales.

The Sackler family has donated significant sums to Harvard and helped fund the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which holds the University’s collection of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean art.

For years, members of the Sackler family have sought to distance themselves from Purdue and its addictive narcotic, which many have blamed for its role in spurring the opioid crisis.

In 2017, 47,600 Americans died from opioid-related overdoses, a rate of roughly 14.9 per 100,000, over five times higher than in 1999.

But this week’s filing sheds new light on the extent to which multiple members of the family remained involved in the company and its efforts to deceive the public about the risks associated with OxyContin, even after they agreed to a Justice Department settlement in 2007.

Though Arthur Sackler passed away nearly a decade before OxyContin came to market, many activists blame him for pioneering the aggressive

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Cambridge residents make blankets at the city’s annual day of service. Presidential candidate and Harvard Law School professor emerita Elizabeth A. Warren attended the event. DECLAN J. KNIERIEM—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Volunteers mill around Cambridge City Hall during the city’s annual Martin Luther King Day of Service, held Monday. DECLAN J. KNIERIEM—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

By DECLAN J. KNIERIEM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Braving strong winds and sub-freezing temperatures, more than two thousand Cambridge residents descended on City Hall and Central Square Monday for Cambridge’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

Event attendees made fleece scarves and blankets for homeless and low-income people in Cambridge; sorted food and INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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winter clothing that Cambridge residents had donated; and crafted valentines for seniors, veterans, and active military overseas. By the end of the day, volunteers had made more than 3,000 valentines, collected more than 1,000 pounds of winter clothing, sewn more than 600 scarves and blankets, and delivered nearly 350 bags of groceries to 18 local food pantries.

Many Helping Hands 365 — a Cambridge group dedicated to

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Eli J. Langley ‘20 received a language credit for Koasati, a language he has worked to preserve. AWNIT SINGH MARTA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Student Gets Native Lang. on Transcript

By JONAH S. BERGER and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Eli J. Langley ’20-’21 entered Harvard with his heart set on continuing to preserve his tribal language Koasati.

But when he arrived on campus, Langley said he found that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ language programs did not allow him to see his passion for Koasati reflected on his transcript.

Unable to use Koasati to fulfill his language requirement, Langley said he spent the next two and a half years lobbying the Office of Undergraduate Education to receive credit for his studies, even taking a yearlong leave of absence while he

worked on the cause.

Koasati is the language spoken by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, a federally recognized Native American tribe with only 865 members. Langley, who grew up on a Coushatta reservation, estimates that only 200 to 300 people currently speak Koasati.

His work preserving the language — what he calls “the thing that I’ve cared about the most my entire life” — featured heavily in his college applications. Though multiple Harvard officials, including his admissions officer and a resident dean, asked him about his work, Langley said he was for a long time unable to actively pursue

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Participants gather in the Science Centerfora lecture by the Institute for Applied Computational Science. MARGARET F. ROSS—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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HARVARD TODAY

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For Dinner Chicken Marsala Fresh Seared Swordfish Tempeh with Mushroom Sauce

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IN THE REAL WORLD

The Glamorous Life CGIS Knafel, 4-5:00 p.m.

Supreme Court Decision Temporarily Revives Transgender Ban for Military Service

Tanisha C. Ford is a 2018-19 Lisa Goldberg Fellow for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She will be speaking at the Knafel Center about her historical research concerning how black women raised funds for movement organizations during the civil rights movement as well as modernday ramifications.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down injunctions set by lower courts preventing the Trump administration from banning most transgender individuals from military service. The Supreme Court’s decision essentially revived the policy while cases challenging it move forward in the courts.

Othello Loeb Drama Center, 7:30 -9:30 p.m.

The American Repertory Theater is performing Shakespeare’s Othello tomorrow. Tickets start at $25. Watch this classic as a way to enjoy your Wintersession.

Bachata & New Friends La Fabrica Central, 9:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Head to La Fabrica Central Restaurant for a Beginner/Intermediate Bachata class followed by DJs playing Bachata, Salsa, Kizomba & Merengue music. The class and the social dancing afterwards costs $10. Participants must be 18+ to dance (sorry, some freshmen) and 21+ to drink (sorry, most of Harvard College).

Some Trump Voters Consider Him Responsible for Government Shutdown A squirrel munches on an acorn in Harvard Yard Tuesday, days after the first major snow of the season. MARGARET F. ROSS—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER,

DAILY BRIEFING In today’s headlines, a Ph.D. student and two former lawyers — all unaffiliated with Harvard — filed a complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, alleging Harvard is not in compliance with Title IX law. The complaint contends that by maintaining ties with the American Psychological Association, Harvard is endorsing the APA’s new guidelines on the potential harm of “traditional masculinity,” and therefore discriminating against men. In other news, 742 student workers across the University have received a pay raise after Massachusetts raised its minimum wage from $11 to $12 per hour.

In what has been the longest government shutdown in United States history, President Trump is starting to lose support with his base.

Though the president’s base has been fiercely loyal throughout the course of his presidency, some parts of it are beginning to disapprove of his actions.

Severe Winter Weather Causes at Least Five Deaths The severe winter weather in the past few days — including snow, ice, and very low temperatures across the Northeast and Great Plains — has caused at least 5 deaths, according to NBC News.

Make sure to stay safe this season.

AROUND THE IVIES COLUMBIA A sexual harassment lawsuit against Columbia University’s former General Studies Dean of Students Tom Harford was amended to allege that the University had knowledge of two prior instances of misconduct by Harford against female colleagues, the Columbia Spectator reported Friday. The amended lawsuit also claims Columbia retaliated against a student who alleged harassment by restricting resources and personnel regarding her disability accommodations and financial aid, which effectively forced her to go on medical leave and to subsequently drop out of Columbia. Harford was removed from his position in August, but legal proceedings are ongoing.

DARTMOUTH In documents filed in a recent class action lawsuit, Dartmouth denied allegations that its administration ignored years of sexual harassment by three former psychology and brain sciences professors, according to the Dartmouth. Seven women first filed the class action suit against Dartmouth in November 2018 over allegations of sexual misconduct levied against former professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen. A recent filing in response to the suit states Dartmouth was unaware of the allegations against the professors until students brought the allegations to its Title IX office in April 2017.

PENN

Lambda Phi Epsilon, the Asian-interest fraternity at Penn, was shut down by its national headquarters after “significant evidence of hazing” came to light, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported Tuesday. In December 2018, a student-run blog at Columbia University reported that Columbia’s Lambda Phi Epsilon pledges were sent to Penn to compete with its pledges in activities that required extreme physical exertion to the point of losing consciousness, per an anonymous source. The Penn chapter confirmed that it had closed its doors, though it disputed the allegations.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | JANUARY 23, 2019

Harvard Law Prof. Jackson Named AALS President

By CONNOR W. K. BROWN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard Law School professor and constitutional law expert Vicki C. Jackson will serve as the next president of the Association of American Law Schools, the organization announced earlier this month.

The non-profit association, founded in 1900, counts 179 law schools nationwide as members — schools that “enroll most of the nation’s law students and produce the majority of the country’s lawyers and judges, as well as many of its lawmak-

ers” according to the organization’s website.

The group inducted Jackson as its president at a January meeting in New Orleans.

Jackson joined the Law School’s faculty in 2011, where she was appointed the school’s first Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law. She was previously a faculty member at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Jackson wrote in an email that, as AALS president, she hopes to utilize her expertise in constitutional law to address the challenges that legal schol-

arship faces.

“My scholarship includes work on both U.S. constitutional law and comparative constitutional law, a background that should help me give voice both to the challenges facing constitutional democracy and to what legal education is doing and can do to strengthen constitutional democracy,” she wrote.

Former Dean of the Law School and current University Professor Martha L. Minow, who served as chair of the AALS Deans Steering Committee from 2013 to 2015, praised the group’s choice of Jackson as

president in an emailed statement.

“Professor Jackson brings deep and extensive knowledge about law, legal institutions, and legal education not only in the United States, but also across the globe,” she wrote.

“Her talents as a teacher, experiences in curricular innovation, collaborative leadership style, and understanding of this key moment for the rule of law around the globe bring great strengths to this organization of law schools.”

This year will be the first in AALS’s 119-year history that

women hold all three major executive offices, President, Immediate Past-President and President-Elect — a development Jackson wrote provides an opportunity for legal scholarship to become more diverse and inclusive.

“Haing all of these offices held by women is a visible symbol that may inspire others to seek such leadership roles, to overcome barriers to women’s advancement that persist, and to look carefully at how their institution’s practices can be changed to promote more genuinely open and inclusive paths

to leadership,” Jackson wrote.

Minow wrote she believes Jackson’s leadership in particular will help promote diversity in the field.

“Because of her strong commitments to and track-record of support for diversity among faculty, staff, and students, because of her own experiences in government and in private practice, and because of her deep wisdom, the legal academy is lucky to have the benefits of her leadership,” Minow wrote. connor.brown@thecrimson.com

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Volunteer organizer Amy S. Bamforth, a social worker who said she has helped coordinate the Day of Service since the event began, oversaw volunteers who made scarves and blankets for the homeless and families in need.

“I just think it’s important to help out other folks, and I think sometimes people don’t realize how much privilege each of us have,” Bamforth said.

The Day of Service also drew some University affiliates, and several Harvard students worked to help organize the event.

Ed D. F. Aubry, a Harvard Kennedy School student who served as a volunteer coordinator, said he wanted to “help on a day that’s important to America.”

“I’m not from here, so it’s a great way to get involved in what’s going on in Cambridge,” he said.

Reverend Ellis I. Washington, another volunteer in attendance, also decided to participate in the event as a way of honoring King’s memory.

He said the best way to pay tribute to King’s “life dedicated to service” is to help those in need.

Though Washington was initially supposed to deliver a speech about King’s legacy in front of City Hall, event organizers decided to cancel his remarks because of the sub-freezing temperature.

Josephine T. Mullen, a Cambridge resident who said she was paricipating in the event for the first time this year, said the Day of Service offered her

an opportunity to become more involved in her community.

“I’ve always wanted to come,” she said.

The Day of Service also drew one particularly high-profile Cambridge resident: United States Senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren attended the event and spoke with volunteers and organizers alike.

Both attendees and coordinators said the event marked an important chance to participate in community service.

“Any opportunity to come out and just join with other people across the community and do acts of kindness, acts of service, is inspiring,” Washington said. declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com

a raise as a result of the legislation. Harvard’s other 6,983 student workers already made at least that much per hour, so the law did not affect their salaries, University spokesperson Jonathan Swain wrote in an email.

Some of the students who received wage increases because of the law, however, said they do not think the Law School did enough to secure adequate wages for them. Yaacov “Jake” Meiseles, an law student research assistant and organizer for Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers — a union comprising undergraduate and graduate teaching and research assistants — said he finds it concerning that the Law School continues to pay student research assistants the minimum amount ­

allowed under the law.

“Research assistants are helping professors in writing massively influential books and law review articles and working on important cases and filing lawsuits,” Meiseles said.

“The fact that Harvard seems to value that at whatever the minimum the state is allowing them to get away with is deeply troubling.”

Alexandra “Vail” KohnertYount, another law student research assistant and union organizer, said the wages the school pays its student workers are not high enough to give them “a chance” to reduce their debt.

In an emailed statement, University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson declined to respond to questions about the specifics of the Law School

wage increase, citing ongoing contract negotiations between Harvard and the graduate union.

“With the certification of HGSU-UAW as the representative of HLS research and teaching assistants, wage rates are now part of the ongoing negotiations between the University and the union,” Jackson wrote.

“HLS continues to respect and await the outcome of that process.”

Representatives from the University and the union have met every two weeks since October to negotiate a contract for the union’s members. Experts say the negotiation process could stretch on for months.

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EDITORIAL OP-ED

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

President Bacow’s Doublespeak on Fossil Fuels

Letter to the Editor: Editorial Board Fell Short on U. C.

By MARCEL E. MORAN

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hen it comes to fossil fuels, University President Lawrence S. Bacow has demonstrated his intention to pursue two opposing goals. He believes that Harvard can remain a leader in research on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental science while also profiting (handsomely) off oil rigs, coal mines, and fracking. Bacow’s responses to calls for Harvard to divest its nearly $40 billion endowment from fossil fuels and join the growing list of schools worldwide that have taken this bold step reveal his disappointing position.

For Bacow, Harvard’s research agenda and investment principles need not cohere and can even be contradictory.

When asked about the possibility of divestment from private prisons, Bacow stated that the University should not use the endowment to “achieve political ends or particular policy ends.” He added that “there are other ways that the University tries to influence public policy through our scholarship, through our research, but we don’t think that the endowment is an appropriate way to do that.” This perspective (largely shared

by Bacow’s predecessor, former University President Drew G. Faust) ignores the incongruity between the arm of the University studying sea-level rise and the other arm accelerating it with reckless investments.

Guided by this mindset, perhaps it is only a matter of time before Bacow reverses Harvard’s 1990 divestment from the tobacco industry, given the Harvard School of Public Health’s research on smoking presumably serves as an adequate counter balance. Indeed, there’s still time to buy more shares in private-prison corporations, which for Bacow can be offset by Harvard’s significant scholarship on that industry’s egregious

conduct. Across these cases, Harvard’s research does not absolve the University of related investments. So, why should we believe it redresses the University’s financial attachment to fossil fuels?

Still in its infancy, Bacow’s presidency has the chance to champion a sustainable future, but only if he addresses the challenge of climate change in a single, clear voice, rather than an equivocating doublespeak.

More recently, Bacow has gone further in his defense of Harvard’s fossil fuel investments, under an even more curious rationale. Indeed, this past December, he said, “It’s also the case that if we want to bring about meaningful change — as I think we should — in trying to help create clean paths to energy, that we need to be willing to work with those organizations and institutions that are responsible for the infrastructure that literally fuels our economy.” This defense – effectively, if we can’t beat them, join them – is even worse than simply wanting a good return on the endowment, regardless of its holdings. Instead, President Bacow looks at the decades of deceit from the fossil fuel industry, such as its long-term propaganda campaign to muddy the waters on climate science and opposition to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and sees a reasonable partner.

The key organization that must change for comprehensive fossil fuel divestment is the Harvard Management Company, the University-owned subsidiary charged with growing the endowment via investments. While HMC has taken some positive steps toward divest-

ment – including a “pause” in some natural-resource investments in 2017 – it has no explicit, enforceable ban on fossil fuel investments in place. President Bacow has remarked that divestment itself is logistically challenging. (For instance, can it still invest in car companies, which sell products that run on gasoline?) But HMC can still significantly clean its holdings now and in the future by selling its shares in any company that extracts, refines, or sells fossil fuels, as well as removing its money from commingled funds that include fossil fuel company equities and corporate bonds. An even simpler target to start with would be a ban on investments in any “carbon major” company, or one of the 100 companies that generated a whopping 71 percent of all the carbon emissions since 1988. The logistics of this challenge are a poor excuse to avoid dealing with it.

As students, faculty, and even a former member of the Board of Overseers have stated, Harvard has the opportunity to send a strong message to higher education institutions around the world that we cannot meaningfully fight climate change while investing in the industry causing it. Sadly, this is not the first time the University has lagged behind in an important divestment movement. Indeed, Harvard’s slow and inadequate divestment from South Africa during apartheid still casts a long shadow, and Bacow so far is leading the University toward an analogously shameful outcome.

Still in its infancy, Bacow’s presidency has the chance to champion a sustainable future, but only if he addresses the challenge of climate change in a single, clear voice, rather than an equivocating doublespeak.

—Marcel E. Moran ’11, a former Crimson Editorial executive, is a Ph.D. student in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Again: Opposing U.S. Military Recruitment at Harvard Law

By LAURA OLDER and HEATHER L. PICKERELL

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e condemn the presence of the U.S. Army and Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps at the Massachusetts Law School Consortium Job Fair taking place on Harvard Law School’s campus on Jan. 28 and Jan. 29.

As the Co-Presidents of Harvard Law School Lambda, the Law School’s BGLTQ student organization, we refuse to condone the government’s failure to validate the existence of transgender people.

Trump’s executive order barring transgender people from serving in the military is an unsound military policy, and the ban’s purported rationales are prejudiced and inhumane. Trump has reasoned that the military cannot support transgender service members’ alleged “tremendous medical costs and disruption,” and former Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis has rationalized that transitioning service members pose “substantial risks” to the military because they “could undermine readiness, disrupt unit cohesion, and impose an unreasonable burden on the military that is not conducive to military effectiveness and lethality.” Such claims have been repeatedly debunked by studies and by U.S. allies who have long allowed transgender people to serve openly. And we vigorously reject the bigoted accusation that current and former service members who have put their lives at risk to defend this country, such as Logan and Laila Ireland, Kristin Beck, and Sage Fox, are a “burden” in any way. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court lifted two of the nationwide injunctions that federal courts had placed on the ban, potentially allowing the ban to go into effect.

The Court’s decision has rendered the future of transgender service members endangered and uncertain.

We adopt the example of the many Law School students who protested JAG’s presence on our campus during the era of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Like many law schools, Harvard Law School has an employer non-discrimination policy that explicitly prohibits organizations that

discriminate against the BGLTQ community from conducting recruitment activities on campus. This policy conflicts with the Solomon Amendment, a statute that bars federal aid to universities that prevent military recruitment on campus. Under DADT, JAG violated the Law School’s non-discriminatory policy by refusing to hire “out” BGLTQ students. However, because the Supreme Court ruled in Rumsfeld v. FAIR that the Solomon Amendment does not violate the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees, the Law School administration was unable to bar

We refuse to condone the government’s failure to validate the existence of transgender people.

JAG from recruiting on the Law School’s campus. Despite the ruling, some professors, including then-Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and many Law School students utilized various tools of resistance to protest DADT. Notably, members of HLS Lambda signed up for interview slots with JAG and outed themselves during their interviews in an act of defiance. Their tireless resistance only ceased when DADT was repealed in 2010. Today, we pick up where the previous generation of Law School students left off by continuing to oppose any attempt to discriminate against members of the BGLTQ community on Harvard Law School’s campus.

The trans ban is only one of several ways in which the Trump-Pence administration’s attempts to marginalize the BGLTQ community and specifically trans people. The Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX that would minimize protections for transgender people under federal civil rights law and is rolling back regulations affirming transgender people’s right to access healthcare without discrimination. The Departments of Education and Justice rescinded a guidance

that clarified trans students’ right to equal access to education, turning a blind eye to widespread anti-trans discrimination in schools. The president’s religious liberty executive order and the Department of Justice’s religious liberty task force have placed cross hairs on marriage equality and discrimination against BGLTQ employees. The Department of Justice sided with the baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple, denigrating the experience of all BGLTQ individuals who lack equal treatment under the law. That baker is now refusing to serve transgender people. By removing all mention of BGLTQ people from the White House website and from the upcoming census, the president is attempting to erase us and our relevance. The trans ban is one piece of the administration’s extraordinarily complex, oppressive machine of discrimination against the BGLTQ community, and the onus is on us to fight back against any anti-trans policies that reach Harvard’s shores.

We at Lambda have been pleasantly surprised by the support that we have found among the wider Harvard community for transgender rights, with Harvard students attending our phone banks for “Yes on 3” and attending our rally for transgender rights in the fall. We may not be able to stop JAG from coming to the Law School because of the Solomon Amendment, but we can all do more to resist the marginalization of transgender people here at Harvard and in the wider Boston community. The Harvard community will continue to show our opposition to the trans military ban through protests on Jan. 29., and trans students always have a safe space in our Quoffice in Hastings Hall.

Harvard students: Do not be complicit in the administration’s denial of civil rights from a group that has long been unrecognized and disrespected.

—Laura Older and Heather L. Pickerell ’15, a former Crimson Editorial executive, are second-year students at Harvard Law School. They are the Co-Presidents of Harvard Law School Lambda.

By NICHOLAS D. BOUCHER

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o the editor, A recent piece by The Crimson Editorial Board criticizing the outgoing leadership of the Undergraduate Council — of which I am the former Vice President — represents a failure of adequate research.

First, the Editorial Board claims that the outgoing leadership of the UC led the Council with “persistent financial uncertainty,” citing a single article stating that the UC tapped into $6,000 of its Emergency Fund.

Yet under our leadership the UC both ran a surplus on our predecessors’ budget and grew the budget we wrote. We recommended that the Finance Committee use a small fraction of the $28,692.22 Emergency and Reserve Funds to send the message that student organizations needed more funding than previous years given the 45 percent increase in grant applications over the past year.

It worked.

The UC earned an approximately one-third increase in budget this year. The budget upon which the Editorial Board commented was inherited from our predecessors; with our budget we were able to give full funding with no cuts to student organizations in two-thirds of our grants, which is financially unprecedented over the past five years.

We also created a public budgetary reporting system for accountability which makes it surprising that the Editorial Board claims that we provided a “lack of any real accountability mechanism.” The state of UC finance under our leadership was both ideal and significantly healthier than in recent history thus highlighting a failure of research in the Editorial Board’s claims.

A recent piece by The Crimson Editorial Board criticizing the outgoing leadership of the Undergraduate Council — of which I am the former Vice President — represents a failure of adequate research.

Second, the Editorial Board claims that the outgoing leadership of the UC has “taken credit for other, years-long initiatives which they could not have substantially impacted,” such as the educational secondary and Smith Campus Center.

Not only does the Editorial Board provide no evidence for their claim of which initiatives we “could not have substantially impacted,” but they implicitly discredit our hundreds of hours of work over multiple years and our highlighting of past students’ contributions.

Student organization for the Educational Studies Secondary was spearheaded over the past two years by outgoing UC President Catherine L. Zhang ’19. We wrote to the student body in an April 12 email that “after years of student advocacy, the college has approved and a new secondary field in Educational Studies [will] be launched this Fall!”

Our language makes clear that this project was the result of “years of student advocacy,” not just our two years of continuous work referenced in a later email.

Furthermore, in a farewell email on Nov. 29 we claimed to have “opened the Smith Campus Center nearly a decade after the UC began advocating for it.”

For the Editorial Board to claim that we took full credit for this initiative given this context would imply that we worked on this project for ten years; that implication is absurd given that we were both in middle school ten years ago and highlights the lack of qualifications for their sweeping claims.

We stated that we opened the Smith Campus Center as evidenced by months of grand-opening planning meetings and our joint speech with the financial donors at the launch event. Basic research would have revealed the unfounded nature of the Editorial Board’s claims.

Third, the Editorial Board claims that the outgoing leadership of the UC performed “slow implementation one [sic] of their key campaign promises — a ‘progress bar.’”

We launched the “progress bars” feature of the UC website within three months of the start of the spring semester when we took office. I coded an entire new website for the UC and worked with Harvard University Information Technology to have it installed on Harvard’s servers (which can often take years).

Not only did we deliver on this promise, but we did so in the first half of our term. During the technical implementation period, we also launched a video series to transparently keep the student body updated in the interim despite the Editorial Board’s claim that we provided a “lack of any real accountability mechanism.”

As the progress bars show, we began 100 percent of the things we promised and fully completed 87.7 percent.

Even the slightest amount of research would have uncovered that we provided multiple platforms of detailed accountability mechanisms, had live progress bars for the majority of our term, and were successful in completing nearly nine in ten projects.

The Editorial Board should hold itself to a higher standard.

—Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 is a Computer Science concentrator in Mather House. He is the former Vice President of the Undergraduate Council.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | JANUARY 23, 2019

SACKLER FROM PAGE 1

KOASATI FROM PAGE 1

Activists Protest Student Gets Native Language Credit Ties to Sacklers marketing techniques that Purdue and other pharmaceutical giants would later employ to sell their addictive painkillers.

Indeed, those very tactics — using throngs of sales representatives to promote opioids directly to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists — targeted Cambridge and surrounding communities in the years before the region saw a spike in overdose deaths, according to this week’s legal filing.

Robert Josephson, a Purdue spokesperson, wrote in an emailed statement that the company is “committed” to working with victims of the opioid crisis.

He cited educational initiatives the company has funded to warn teenagers about the dangers of opioids, as well as Purdue’s collaboration with law enforcement and its funding of state prescription drug monitoring programs.

Jillian Sackler, the widow of Arthur M. Sackler, wrote in an emailed statement that Arthur M. Sackler had “nothing to do with” the opioid crisis.

“It is a gross injustice to connect Arthur to the opioid crisis some 30 years after his death when he had nothing to do with it.

It denies the many important contributions he made working to improve world health and to build cultural bridges between peoples,” she wrote.

In the wake of the most recent filing, Somerville mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, a 2011 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, urged Harvard and Tufts University to remove the Sackler name from their campuses in a Thursday tweet.

“As a @Harvard graduate and Mayor of a city that’s home to @TuftsUniversity, I think there needs to be a serious discussion about removing the Sackler name from those campuses given the revelations coming from @MassAGO about how #OxyContin was pushed in our state,” he wrote.

Activists also circulated an online petition calling on Harvard University to “Cut Ties” with the “Makers of OxyContin.”

The petition has garnered more than 250 signatures and will be delivered to University President Lawrence S. Bacow, according to the petition’s web-

page.

Harvard spokesperson Christopher M. Hennessy declined to comment on the calls for the University to strip the Sackler name from its campus.

Also on Thursday, dozens of organizations dedicated to fighting the opioid epidemic, including Facing Addiction and Magnolia New Beginnings, gathered in Boston to discuss the ongoing legal cases against pharmaceutical companies and how to pressure these companies through activism.

Domenic Esposito, who organized the event — called the Opioid Epidemic Accountability Conference — said in an interview he hopes Harvard will strongly consider removing Arthur Sackler’s name from its campus.

“I personally think they should be reconsidering their… donor lists, especially when it comes to the Sacklers,” Esposi-

They should be reconsidering their… donor lists, especially when it comes to the Sacklers.

Domenic Esposito Opioid Conference Organizer

to said.

Esposito acknowledged that universities face a “tough” decision in evaluating whether to strip a donor’s name completely from their institutions.

“It’s a slippery slope because then could it be someone who is associated with Big Oil, and I mean, where do you draw the line?” Esposito said.

The recent public outcry is not the first time Harvard has faced criticism for its connection to the Sackler family.

Last June, more than 30 demonstrators held a “die-in” at the Sackler Museum to protest the Sackler’s connections to Harvard.

Photographer Nan Goldin, whose works are displayed at the museum, led the June protest and has also previously launched a Twitter campaign to encourage the University to cut its ties with the Sackler family. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

his goal at school.

“I just remember feeling like I told these people who I was and what I cared about when I was applying,” Langley said.

“I almost felt like I wasn’t welcome, or that I didn’t fit, or that there was something wrong and that this wasn’t the right place for me.”

But recent changes to the College’s language requirement in its handbook have paved the way for more Native-American students — as well as those proficient in other languages such as American Sign Language and Ancient Greek — to receive credit for proficiency.

The changes — approved by the Faculty in a November vote — allow students seeking to test out of a language not offered at Harvard to ask the OUE to recruit a qualified examiner from another university.

Previously, students who wanted to fulfill the requirement with a language not offered by FAS had to appeal in order to find an expert at Harvard who could administer the exam.

The changes also allowed students to use languages without a “written component” to fulfill their requirement.

For some native languages with very few speakers, the process of finding a Harvard examiner could be burden-

some, if not impossible, according to Philip J. Deloria, a history professor whose work focuses on indigenous peoples.

“I think one of the things Eli’s case shows is a recognition, certainly among mid-level and upper-level administrators, that you know, this is really not the best thing for our students, and we really ought to

I’m excited to feel like a normal student...to not have to feel like it’s a struggle to be here.

Eli J. Langley ’20-’21 College Student

rethink this a bit,” he said.

Last month, Langley received word that he would be allowed to take a Koasati proficiency test.

Professor Jack B. Martin, a linguist at The College of William and Mary who specializes in Muskogean languages and worked on the Coushatta tribe’s project to restore Koasati, proctored the test.

Last week, the OUE told Langley that his fluency in Koasati would fulfill the language requirement.

“I’m so happy,” Langley said.

“I have five semesters left. I’m

excited to feel like a normal student, to not have to be thinking about this constantly, to not have to feel like it’s a struggle to be here, per se.”

Noah D. Cominsky ’20, president of Native Americans at Harvard College, said he applauded the College’s decision to allow Langley to use Koasati to fulfill the language requirement.

He cited the Harvard Charter of 1650, in which the University promised to “conduce to the education” of “Indian youth.”

“Eli getting his language used as his language requirement is an excellent example in which Harvard is following the charter,” he wrote in an email.

“NAHC is extremely happy that Eli was able to get Koasati approved for his language requirement and hope that the support for Native students can continue to increase by Harvard,” he added.

Deloria said that Native languages — whose preservation he called “fundamentally important” to Native students and their communities — may require different standards than other languages, especially given that some have become “endangered.”

“Establishing a set of criteria that look like a French exam translated laterally to a Native

language is not a recipe for success,” Deloria said.

“There may have to be a little bit of flexibility around that,” he added.

Langley said he was in part inspired to continue pushing administrators to grant him credit for his study of Koasati by the younger Native students at Harvard who wanted to test out in their own languages.

He called the accomplishment both a personal victory and “a victory for Indian country at the oldest university in America.”

“I wanted to do it primarily for me, because I felt that it was important for my language and I thought it would have been like a really special part of history and been the right thing to do to recognize my language,” Langley said. “But a huge consideration also was that, if I stopped, then my feeling was that this would just continue happening.”

“It will be a step in the right direction, towards language recognition for not just American Indians, not just any particular people group, but for anyone that has felt like their language wasn’t given credibility

by Harvard or by institutions like Harvard,” he added. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

TITLE IX FROM PAGE 1

Complaint Says Harvard Hostile to Men the Department of Education’s website as an open investigation; the website was last updated Dec. 28, 2018. Harvard also has not received official word of the complaint yet, according to University spokesperson Jonathan Swain.

When asked to confirm whether the complaint had been filed, a spokesperson for the Department of Education wrote in an emailed statement that OCR does not acknowledge complaints unless or until they have been accepted for investigation.

In the meantime, both Pekgoz and Davis said they remain committed to their belief that the APA guidelines are harmful to male students.

“When we read the recent-

ly published guidelines, it was clear to us that the ‘guidelines’ represent a pervasive set of ideological distortions among psychologists,” Davis wrote in an emailed statement. “We believe those ideological distortions result from misandry and hostility towards men and boys.”

Pekgoz agreed, noting that he is specifically concerned by what he said was the APA’s “attempt to classify masculinity as a form of mental illness.”

He also wrote that Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker has criticized the APA guidelines and that Pinker’s critique was “consistent” with the reasoning behind the complaint.

Pinker — who said he is a fellow of the APA — wrote in an

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emailed statement that he has not had any contact with the complaint’s authors. “If there’s specific evidence that Harvard discriminates against men, that has to be taken seriously, but the new report and its silly statements are a red herring,” he wrote, referring to the APA’s new guidelines. He added that Harvard’s ties to the APA are “completely irrelevant.”

“You can’t have psychologists or a psychology department without ties to the APA,” Pinker wrote.

Anyone may file a Title IX complaint with the Office for Civil Rights, regardless of whether or not they themselves are a victim of the alleged discrimination. OCR then determines whether or not it has the

legal authority — and sufficient information — to open an investigation.

Colby Bruno, senior counsel with the Victim Rights Law Center, described the complaint as “once or twice removed” from the original intent and reach of Title IX. “It sounds more to me like they have a problem with the APA, and I’m not sure that would go anywhere,” she said.

Bruno also noted the current administration has sought to narrow the scope of Title IX and raise the standard for making claims of sexual harassment.

“Maybe this wasn’t the best time to file it,” she said. simone.chu@thecrimson.com iris.lewis@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

WEEKEND WEEKLY EVENT RECAP

SCHEDULE SCORES

FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. RHODE ISLAND W, 7-0 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. DARTMOUTH W, 56-46 ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Football vs. Rhode Island Men’s Soccer vs. Yale Field Hockey vs. Bryant MEN’S TENNIS VS. BUFFALO L, 4-3 ___________________________________________________________ WRESTLING VS. BUCKNELL L, 35-3 ___________________________________________________________ 7 pm, Harvard Stadium 4 pm, Jordan Field 2 pm, Berylson Field

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY @ COLGATE W, 1-2 ___________________________________________________________ WOMEN’S FENCING VS. NO.1 NOTRE DAME L, 8-19 ___________________________________________________________ Women’s Soccer vs. Yale WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. NO. 7 CORNELL 7 pm, Jordan Field L, 6-0 ___________________________________________________________

BASKETBALL

Men’s Baksetball Rolls to 84-71 MLK Day Win at Howard

By AMIR MAMDANI and HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Behind the Harvard bench stood Supreme Court Associate Justice and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan.

On the opposing side stood U.S. Senator and Howard alumnus Kamala Harris, who earlier in the day had just announced her 2020 presidential candidacy.

Adding to the symbolism of this clash between two storied academic institutions was the stage itself and its game date: Burr Gymnasium — on the campus of Howard University — during Martin Luther King Monday.

In front of such a distinguished backdrop, the hardwood itself saw the long-awaited return of the Crimson point guard donning #11. After 348 days away from competitive action, Bryce Aiken is indeed back - and it took just 16 seconds for the junior to make his impact felt on the 2018-2019 season. On the opening possession of the game, the former Ivy League Rookie of the Year drilled the game’s first field goal attempt, a deep three from the upper left arc that gave Harvard (7-7, 0-1 Ivy) a lead it would never surrender.

Coach Tommy Amaker had no hesitancies in re-introducing his star guard, inserting him into the starting lineup and featuring him for 29 minutes in Harvard’s 84-71 wireto-wire victory over the Bisons (8-12, 2-3 MEAC), the team’s final non-conference contest of the season. The Randolph, N.J., native finished with five assists and 16 points on 4-of-10 shooting. Aiken’s mere presence on the court offered a boost to the Crimson’s hopes of an Ancient ­

Eight title, especially as defending Ivy League player of the year Seth Towns remains absent.

“I had to shake off a little jitters in the beginning of the game,” Aiken said. “But the team trusts me and Coach trusts me, so once I got comfortable, I just played my game and it made it easy for me.”

More than being a re-arrival showcase for Aiken, however, the Crimson win was the product of a collective effort. Junior forward Robert Baker, who had seen limited minutes in recent contests, notched his first double-double of the season with 11 points and 13 boards.

“Very impressive, he had six rebounds at the half and I told him that if he didn’t get at least 10, that would be a disappointment,” Amaker said. “Suddenly he got 13. Really pleased with his effort on the backboard.”

Wing Justin Bassey topped the scoring sheet with 18 points with four triples. All five Harvard starters, members of the lauded junior class, finished the contest in double figures, an example of the balance that Coach Tommy Amaker has frequently exalted throughout the season.

“I think they slowed us down and put us on our heels a little bit,” Amaker said. “It stopped our penetration where we could penetrate and kick and make shots. It was a nice move by them but we settled in and adjusted.”

Bassey’s performance from the free-throw line was another positive aspect of Monday’s victory. The Denver, Colo., native, who had shot at around 80 percent through his first two seasons in Cambridge, entered Monday at 50 percent from the charity stripe. Bassey knocked down all four of his free-throws,

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as part of an impressive 22-of24 road effort from the line.

“Definitely all starts with defensive rebounds and positive possessions,” Bassey said.

“Today we did a great job getting locked in with 20 assists and making our free throws, a lot of little things taken care. All those things tend to add up for us.”

The team’s balanced attack resulted in a season-high 84 points, as well as a season-high 45-point first half. The Crimson jumped out to a quick 6-0 start, as part of a 17-7 run that forced

Junior wing Justin Bassey shoots a free throw against University of North Carolina Chapel Hill at Dean Smith Center. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Howard to take a timeout early in the first half. Although the Bisons would narrow the margin in the first half and later in the second half, Harvard was able to see out Monday’s victory without too much stress. One notable absence from the win was freshman Noah Kirkwood, who has struggled of late and missed the game with an illness.

The Crimson’s 14 turnovers was as welcome a statistic as any for a team that found itself 341st out of 351 Division I programs in turnovers entering Monday’s action, at almost 17 per game.

And while the team’s ball-handling still leaves much to be desired, the return of Aiken should bring some veteran confidence to the backcourt alongside Christian Juzang.

Harvard will hope that Monday afternoon’s victory is a harbinger of things to come, and will catalyze the team leading up to a Saturday rematch with Dartmouth at Lavietes Pavilion. An Ivy League season that had offered so much promise for the Crimson opened in a worse manner than anyone would have expected, with a 81-63 loss

in Hanover last Saturday, and Harvard will surely be seeking a dominant win in Cambridge this coming weekend.

“I just thought our kids played with a great spirit,” Amaker said. “We talked about regrouping and responding from our last outing— which wasn’t a pretty outing [at Dartmouth] and I felt we really handled things well this whole past week to get us in position to play.” amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com henry.zhu@thecrimson.com

ICE HOCKEY

Women’s Ice Hockey Suffers Two Significant Setbacks

By WILLIAM BOGGS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

After earning a much needed 1-0 road win last weekend at Dartmouth, Harvard returned home to Bright-Landry Hockey Center for one of its toughest weekend slates in the conference.

Facing No.8/8 Colgate on Friday and No. 7/7 Cornell on Saturday, the Crimson could not muster an upset against two of the ECAC’s top four teams.

CORNELL 6, HARVARD 0 Harvard did prove to be up for the challenge of facing the nation’s seventh-ranked team for the first chunk of the first period. However, after Cornell (11-25, 9-2-1 ECAC) added its first tally, the Crimson strayed from its traditionally vaunted defense.

Five more goals and one goalie pull later, Harvard had fallen 6-0 to the Big Red. “We had a really good start, I thought, right off the [opening] faceoff,” Gilmore said. “We just deflated when they got a goal.

Cornell came to play — they brought their game — and I don’t think we brought our game.”

Locked at 0-0 for the first eight minutes of play, the teams

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seemed poised for a nail-biter.

After all, in October, the Big Red had edged the Crimson by just one goal, 3-2. Over the next eight minutes, however, the game unraveled for Harvard as Cornell added three quick goals.

So far in January, the Crimson has been playing shortstaffed, suffering from a series of injuries and other absences. After getting many players back together last week and experimenting with new lineups, a lack of chemistry seemed to plague Harvard in the second game of the weekend.

“I think one part of it was that this was the first weekend everyone was back,” Tse said. “Everyone’s in, and everyone has new roles. Maybe we didn’t adapt to those new roles as quickly as we should have. Frankly, I think that we didn’t have as many people on the same page as we would have liked, and that shows in the score.”

The Big Red would continue its offensive explosion in the second period, adding three more goals to draw the scoreline to 6-0 before the second intermission. In fact, after the fifth goal, the Crimson would pull Reed, who has the second-high-

est save percentage in the nation at 0.945, for sophomore Becky Dutton. Dutton closed out the game for the Crimson with one goal allowed on seven shots.

“We have one of the best goalies in the NCAA, and we hung her out to dry,” Gilmore said. “She’s saved us in so many games, and then in this game couldn’t bail us out.”

Despite a slow first two periods, Harvard did manage to flip the momentum in the third. Although the Crimson could not score, the team outshot Cornell over the final frame 14-4. Harvard found a way to finish strong and will look to build upon that fact before trying to muster a postseason run, which will necessitate stronger offensive play.

“If you can’t score, you’re not going to win games,” Tse said.

“Right now, that’s what we’re focusing on. Whatever line combination that is, whatever power play combination, [penalty kill] combination. Right now, we’ve just got to get back to work and figure it out. There’s no point of sugar coating it. We’ve just got to win games.”

COLGATE 4, HARVARD 2 Despite getting eight more shots

Suffering through some injuries, the Crimson are getting back into full health as ECAC play rolls on. QUINN G. PERINI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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on goal over the first two frames, Harvard found itself down 3-0 heading into the third period.

Over the first half of the final act — despite flurries of chances — the Crimson could not find the back of the net.

All of the sudden, however, the Crimson netted two goals in a 1:31 span. With five minutes remaining in the game, Harvard had cut the deficit to 3-2 and seemed poised to complete the comeback. For senior defender Kaitlin Tse, the game plan for the final five minutes was straightforward.

“Go, don’t guess,” Tse said.

“Simply, that’s it. You have nothing to lose at this point. You want to manage the game well.

You want to manage it when you pull the goalie.”

Nonetheless, with the goalie replaced for an extra skater, Harvard could not complete the comeback, surrendering an empty net goal to Raiders’ sophomore forward Malia Schneider with 1:02 left on the clock. By the time the scoreboard hit zeroes, Colgate (14-6-4, 8-2-2 ECAC) emerged as 4-2 victors, completing a contest in which it had never trailed.

The Raiders came out to a quick start, striking just 5:37 into the opening frame with a power play blast from senior defender Olivia Zafuto. Taking a pass from the point, Zafuto walked up a couple strides to the top of the faceoff circle before firing through a screen and by the arm of Harvard freshman goalie Lindsay Reed, who finished the game with 32 saves on 35 shots. Just under ten minutes later, Colgate added another goal from sophomore forward Coralie Larose.

Throughout the first two periods, the Crimson held a steady advantage over the Raiders in shots, earning a 32-24 advantage over that span. Despite Harvard’s success in generating chances, the only goal of the second period belonged to Colgate as the Raiders stretched their

lead to 3-0 before the second to intermission.

“We had a lot of shots on net—more shots than we’ve had all season—and that gave us a lot of confidence going into the third,” sophomore forward Becca Gilmore said. “Basically, the message was just keep playing how we were playing. We were playing Harvard hockey. At some point the puck [would] go in if you get shots.”

For the first two-thirds of the final period, Harvard maintained pressure but also defended well, holding Colgate scoreless on their 12 shots in the third.

With the defense shored up and the chances continuing to come, the Crimson finally reaped dividends for its shooting advantage. With 6:31 left in the game, Harvard found its scoring touch, with offense coming from the defensive end. After passes from freshman forward Kristin Della Rovere and Gilmore, Tse found the top corner of the net from long range.

“I got a good pass...I waited out a screen, and I shot high,” Tse said. “I just picked a corner and got lucky enough — it went in.”

Harvard would keep its foot on the gas and find offense again from the same source. At the five-minute mark — on the power play and on the opposite side of the ice — Tse found the top shelf a second time. Curling up from near the goal line and towards the top of the circle, Tse picked the other top corner. Also like on the first goal, Gilmore added an assist with co-captain and forward Lexie Laing contributing the secondary pass.

“At this point, you’re just shooting to score,” Tse said.

“You don’t want to set up plays at this point. So, I picked a corner, and I shot, and lucky enough, same thing, I got a goal. It was luck and sharp shooting combined.”

The offensive chances would continue for the final minutes of the game, but the goals did not.

After surrendering the empty netter and finishing the game 4-2, the Crimson found themselves 5-9-2 on the season.

Despite the setback, the game ended with Harvard outshooting the Raiders 42-36 and winning the faceoff battle 30-29 as well. Moreover, the Crimson won the third period and controlled the momentum in the final stanza, giving the squad some positives to build off of for its second matchup of the weekend against No. 7/7 Cornell.

“I think it’s encouraging, definitely, that we can put 42 shots on a phenomenal team,” Gilmore said. “But it definitely is frustrating when the puck isn’t going in the net… [It’s] definitely a little frustrating, but also a positive outlook that we can compete at that level. We just need to learn to dig deep and bury them [shots].”

In many ways, Harvard is treating this weekend like a new beginning. With a fuller roster and the experience of a few months of conference play, the Crimson is turning to its junior and senior leadership to finish the campaign strong.

“We had a great message from our captains and our leadership from the senior and junior class that, come Monday, it’s going to be a new year, and we’re going to have to find a way to play a full 60 minutes,” Gilmore said. “We’re going to get to work on Monday, and things are going to change next weekend. I have no doubt in my mind.”

Echoing a similar sentiment, Tse emphasized that the team must return to basics and play more cohesively. If the Crimson can do that, the squad is confident it should have the ability to climb the conference standings. “[If ] we play our systems, and we do our jobs and buy into our roles, we can be a very good team. Easier said than done.

This weekend should be a good test.” william.boggs@thecrimson.com