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The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 120 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Thursday, November 8, 2018

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The University should ensure grad students feel included on campus.

Men’s hockey is seeking its first win on an Ivy League road trip.

Dean Claudine Gay reaffirms Allston campus will open in 2020.

Amnesty Policy Covers The Game

By Caroline S. engelmayer Crimson Staff Writer

The College’s amnesty policy — which grants intoxicated students under 21 exemption from punishment in certain cases — will “definitely” be in effect during the Harvard-Yale football game at Fenway Park on Nov. 17, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise said in an interview last week.

The policy dictates that students who approach Harvard employees to seek help for themselves or for intoxicated friends will not be punished for underage drinking. It does not cover other inappropriate or illegal actions students commit while drunk, however, and the College cannot prevent local or state authorities from arresting students for other crimes.

The Harvard University Police Department will work the Boston Police Department to provide security at The Game.

BPD will have “ultimate jurisdiction,” though, because The ­

Game will be played at Fenway in Boston, Scalise said.

The location of The Game this year marks a break with tradition — the match-up typically takes place at Harvard Stadium when the two teams face off in Cambridge. Harvard and Yale alternate hosting The Game every year. Administrators have said they decided to hold Harvard-Yale at Fenway, the home field of the Boston Red Sox, to accommodate “restoration work” at the Stadium.

HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano wrote in an email that one “HUPD command-level supervisor” will be stationed at Fenway to liaise with both BPD and Fenway security officers.

The College’s amnesty policy only applies when students seek medical assistance from Harvard employees. BPD is under no obligation to grant underaged students amnesty if they are drunk. BPD did not reply

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Marlyn E. McGrath ‘70, Harvard College’s Director of Admissions, leaves the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse. Amy y. Li—Crimson photographer

Experts: Trial Won’t Hurt Harvard’s Brand

By Shera S. Avi-Yonah and Cindy H. Zhang Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard has been in the news a lot lately — even for Harvard.

The three-week-long Harvard admissions trial that wrapped up in Boston last week

riveted the nation as lawyers for the University and anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions did loud and long battle in the courtroom.

The trial unearthed long-kept secrets of the College’s admissions process — including revelations about the school’s preferential treatment of donor-linked

UC Outsiders

Outsiders Face Hurdles Running for UC Leadership Five years after non-UC members first claimed the body’s highest offices, more are competing than in any election in over a decade.

of UC presidential candidates since 2012 have been outsiders

By Jonah S. Berger Crimson Staff Writer

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Harvard Invests in Cryptocurrency By andrew j. zucker Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard Management Company, the firm that oversees the University’s multi-billion dollar endowment, recently invested in “at least one cryptocurrency fund,” according to a report published by The Information last month.

HMC, which declined to comment, joined several other big-name universities — including Stanford and MIT — in choosing to invest in cryptocurrency, The Information reported. CNBC previously reported that Yale University, whose endowment is led by David F. Swensen, invested in Andreessen Horowitz’s first cryptocurrency fund, as well as in Paradigm, ­

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a new cryptocurrency fund.

Matt Huang, Paradigm’s co-founder, declined to comment, as did a representative for Andreessen Horowitz.

N.P. “Narv” Narvekar, who took over as HMC’s CEO in December 2016, wrote in the 2018 iteration of his annual letter that he is “not pleased” with this year’s returns, which clocked in at 10 percent. Only Columbia University, which posted 9 percent returns, lagged behind Harvard among the school’s Ivy League peers.

Investing in cryptocurrency — a newcomer to the financial world — is widely considered to be a risky move given the currency exists entirely online.

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applicants, its favoritism of legacy students, and detailed breakdowns of its admit rates by race.

The trial dominated news cycles, earning front-page coverage from national outlets and spurring newspapers including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to publish articles explaining how Har-

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A protester stands outside the courthouse where the Harvard admissions trial took place. amy y. li—Crimson photographer

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It was October 2016 and Grant S. Solomon ’18 and Alexander T. Moore ’18 were determined. They planned to vie that fall for the presidency and vice presidency of the Undergraduate Council — Harvard’s student government body — and they fully intended to win.

Neither had previously served on the Council, but they nonetheless believed their message could appeal to voters. They felt the UC needed fresh new faces in order to better meet students’ needs. So the duo threw their hats in the ring and assumed they would be treated just like any other candidate pair.

But, looking back two years later, Moore said that assumption quickly proved misguided. The student body at large — and in particular, student groups

who dole out coveted endorsements to candidates — largely disregarded what Moore viewed as his ticket’s strengths.

“I just felt like we were written off from the beginning,” he said.

Most years, UC members are disproportionately overrepresented in the bevy of candidates competing for the Council’s presidency and vice presidency — and they’ve achieved disproportionate success to match. Since the Council began popularly electing its leaders in 1996, non-UC members have claimed victory only once.

Now, five years after nonUC pranksters Samuel B. Clark ’15 and Gus A. Mayopolous ’15 earned the student body’s highest elected offices for the first time in its history, more outsiders are competing for the Council’s two top jobs than in any UC election in over a decade.

Current and recent candidates, though, continue to wonder if the barriers for non-UC members remain too high to overcome.

‘Higher Barriers of Entry’

Currier House resident Daniel K. Ragheb ’20, an outsider running for president in this fall’s election, said he spent the first few weeks of his campaign uncertain and anxious over what he was allowed to do per the Council’s election rules. He agonized over possible penalties he might incur by unwittingly violating UC guidelines.

Ragheb contacted the UC’s election commission, but — at the time drastically understaffed — it failed to respond to his questions in a timely manner. When he checked the Council’s website, he found it largely devoid of content. Ragheb said his campaign felt left in the dark about election policies

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Jack J. Lew ‘78 and Noah R. Feldman ‘92 held a discussion about identity and public responsibility at Harvard Law School. chloe I. Yu—Crimson photographer

Today’s Forecast

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vard evaluates high schoolers.

Despite all the attention and scrutiny, though, public relations predict Harvard’s brand will emerge from the case unscathed and intact.

At stake in the trial is whether or not the College’s

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Youth Was Crucial to Dems’ Victory

By Alexander A. Chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 were absolutely crucial to the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics analysis of the 2018 midterm elections conducted and released Wednesday.

Thirty-one percent of voters under 30 voted in the 2018 election, per the IOP analysis. Voters in this age bracket made up approximately 13 percent of the electorate, with exit polls showing that this younger voting bloc preferred Democratic candidates by a 31 point margin.

In the 2014 midterm elections, by comparison, young voters represented 10 percent of the national electorate. Republicans have held the House since 2010 and still maintain their control over the United States Senate after Tuesday’s elections.

“Young Americans have made a choice to become more active participants in our democracy, and that might be one of the only benefits of our increasingly divided country,” IOP Director of Polling John Della Volpe wrote in a press release announcing the study. “During the midterm season young voters were a critical force in flipping the House and engaged at levels not seen in generations.”

The results follow findings from the fall 2018 IOP young voter poll that showed 40 percent of respondents were likely to cast a ballot in the midterm elections — double the recorded turnout of 19.9 percent for 18to 29-year-olds in the 2014 midterm elections, per census data.

Young voters also turned out in high numbers during early and absentee voting, according to the IOP analysis. The number of voters under 30 who voted early this year rose more than did the number of early voters belonging to any other age group in the electorate. The percentage of early voters under 30 spiked from 5.39 percent in 2014 to 8.67 percent in 2018 — a difference of more than 2.1 million votes.

Della Volpe also said young voters played a “crucial role” in giving Democrats an edge in ­

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Talk with Dr. Helen Davis Emerson Hall Room 101, 5-6 pm

Jeff Sessions Out as Attorney General

Go to Emerson 101 for a talk with Dr. Helen Davis, a professor in Human Evolutionary Biology, hosted by the Society for Mind Brain and Behavior.

In the latest drama of the Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday night after pressure from Trump. This change could affect the investigation into Russian interference in the elections.

White House Suspends Press Pass of CNN Correspondent

Make This Yours Smith Campus Center, 7-9 p.m.

Join FYRE at the Smith Campus Center for an evening of student performances celebrating identity and intersectionality at Harvard.

A display reading “Climate is Global, Change in Local” Sits in front of the Science Center. hayoung Hwang—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Sophomore Concentration Declaration Celebration Sanders Theatre, 9-10:30 p.m.

Sophomores: take a nostalgic trip back to Berg to celebrate declaring your concentration with the rest of your class. Snacks and fun activities will be provided.

The College’s amnesty policy — which grants intoxicated students under 21 exemption from punishment in certain cases — will “definitely” be in effect during the Harvard-Yale football game at Fenway Park on Nov. 17, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise said in an interview last week. The policy dictates that students who approach Harvard employees to seek help for themselves or for intoxicated friends will not be punished for underage drinking.

Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, lost his press pass Wednesday after a heated back-and-forth with President Donald Trump at a news conference in which Trump called the reporter a “terrible” person. The White House alleges that Acosta placed his hands on a staffer, a charge Acosta has fervently denied.

Dennis Hof, Dead Brothel Owner, Cruises to Victory in Nevada State Election

Rather than elect a Democrat, voters in Nevada chose a brothel owner who died several weeks ago as their state assemblyman, even though polling locations posted signs alerting the public to his death.

In other news, an Institute of Politics analysis of the 2018 midterm elections found that young voters were absolutely crucial to achieving the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives.

Around the Ivies Dartmouth The “corpse flower” housed in one of Dartmouth’s greenhouses bloomed for the first time in over two years, the Dartmouth reported. Corpse flowers — known scientifically as the Amorphophallus titanum — get their name from the rotting scent they emit when they are in bloom. Dartmouth first acquired its corpse flower in 2008 as a donation.

Dubbed “Morphy,” the flower has only bloomed twice before, once in July 2011 and again in September 2016. Normally, corpse flowers kept in captivity bloom every five to seven years, making the recent blooming of Morphy particularly unusual.

Cornell Cornell has opened a third investigation into former Cornell professor Brian Wansink’s academic misconduct, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. Wansink, who resigned in September, founded the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, which received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Agriculture. An investigation by the University found that he had misreported and failed to properly document and preserve research data. Provost Michael Kotlikoff did not provide a timeline for the new investigation, but said that a summary of its findings would be released to the public.

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Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said in a talk at Princeton on Wednesday that she supported requiring Americans to vote, suggesting it would help decrease polarization, the Daily Princetonian reported. “If you had mandatory voting, you would force politicians to move toward the mean,” she said. Currently, 22 democracies have compulsory voting on the books, although only some actually enforce it.

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John Hopkins Prof Talks Citizenship

By Anissa R. Medina and Connor J. Wagaman Conributing Writers

John Hopkins University professor Martha S. Jones spoke about the history of birthright citizenship in the United States at an event held at the Harvard Law School Wednesday.

The talk, hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, garnered a crowd of about 75 attendees.

Jones, who teaches history, also discussed her book “Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America,” which she published in May. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Tomiko Brown-Nagin introduced Jones and said the topic of the talk is “timely” given President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he is considering an executive order that would end birthright citizenship in the United States. ­

Under current policies, birthright citizenship means all individuals born on American soil are granted citizen status regardless of their parentage.

“When we invited Martha as a speaker earlier this year, we had no idea that we would be in this political moment,” BrownNagin said.

When Jones stepped up to the podium, she said she did not expect her book to be released during what she called “a humanitarian crisis.”

“I don’t think there’s anything funny about President Trump shaking the executive order and threatening people, their lives, their homes, their communities, their families,” Jones said later in the talk.

Jones detailed how members of historically marginalized racial groups struggled to obtain citizenship rights before and after the Civil War. “The 14th Amendment largely resolved the citizenship dilemma faced by former

slaves,” Jones said. “It did less well for U.S.-born children of immigrants who, in the 19th century and today, face questions about where they are situated along our nation’s borders of belonging.”

Jones cited several key flashpoints in the history of citizenship, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 — a law that barred the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States until 1943 — and the mid-1800s forced removal of Native American tribes from the southeastern United States known as the Trial of Tears.

Jones listed a series of legislative acts that have thus far sedimented birthright citizenship as law.

She said many Americans in the 21st century “take [birthright citizenship] for granted” — but added the policy has had a long and troubled history.

“Birthright has always required careful interpretation and faced outright challenges,” Jones said.

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Admissions Trial Won’t Hurt Harvard Brand, Experts Say race-conscious admissions policies have led the school to illegally discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

SFFA first alleged this when it sued the University four years ago.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs’s verdict is still many months away — though analysts have said that, no matter how she rules, the disappointed party will likely appeal.

Public relations professional Joseph A. Brennan, who writes about higher education communications, said that “to know for sure” how the trial affected perceptions of the University, Harvard would have to conduct extensive public opinion research.

But Harvard — which has cultivated its brand over 400 years and across seven continents — has virtually immunized itself to public outcry, he said.

“Brands are built up over a long period of time,” Brennan said. “It takes something extraordinary or a steady drip of a lot of negativity to erode it.”

Wynne Communications founder Robert Wynne, who has advised universities including MIT and Johns Hopkins, was unequivocal. The trial will have “zero effect” on Harvard’s brand, he said.

Wynne pointed to high-profile sex abuse scandals in the past several decades at Penn State, University of Southern California, and Michigan State as the kind of story that could seriously damage public perceptions of a college or university.

Wynne and Brennan said the trial is also unlikely to change perceptions of Harvard’s admissions processes or of affirmative action more broadly — both said they think details that emerged during the lawsuit will merely reinforce the beliefs of onlookers on both sides.

“There’s some confirmation bias that comes into play here.

Someone that believes Harvard discriminates looks at this as confirming it,” Brennan said.

“On the other hand, if someone believes Harvard is trying to be

inclusive they can find evidence to confirm their belief.”

“Not a single person will have their opinion changed,” Wynne said. Harvard will likely also benefit from a fast-paced news cycle that ensures that nothing remains in the headlines for long, experts said.

Andrew Careaga — who works as the Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at Missouri University of Science and Technology — wrote in an email that, even in recent days, national news coverage of Harvard appears to have shifted away from the admissions trial.

“But based on a couple of Google Trends searches of the keyword ‘Harvard’ I conducted this morning – one search for mentions during the last 30 days and one for mentions during the last 7 days – queries related to the trial have fallen off the radar,” he wrote. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com. cindy.zhang@thecrimson.com

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Amnesty Policy Will Be In Effect At 2018 Harvard-Yale Football Game to an email Wednesday asking how officers would respond if they encounter intoxicated and underage College students at The Game.

The Athletics Department hopes officers and Harvard employees can “intervene in a situation before it escalates,” Scalise said. The Game typically marks a day of heavy drinking for many undergraduates.

Some logistical details of this year’s Harvard-Yale matchup are still being ironed out, Scalise said last week.

In particular, Scalise said he is still “working out the final details” of what will happen if students need to be transported to a hospital.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in an interview Monday that the Dean of Students Office and the Athletic Department will soon send an email to students detailing the College’s protocols for medical care at The Game.

Harvard will also work with Boston authorities to set up a medical tent at Fenway, Scalise said.

Staff from Harvard University Health Services will work with Fenway medical personnel to treat any students who need medical attention.

“The goal of what we’re doing is to create a great event for our Harvard and Yale communities, to create an event that is

safe and an event that honors the contributions of all the people who are participating and is respectful for our neighbors,” Khurana said.

The Game’s relocation to Fenway has proven controversial on campus. Some undergraduates have said they are frustrated that, per Fenway policy, game attendees will be reuired to sit in assigned seating.

Later, so many students tried to sell their College-allotted tickets that administrators sent emailed rebukes reminding undergraduates that ticket scalping violates Athletics Department policy. caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.com

After her speech, Jones took questions from the audience.

At one point, she told a questioner she does not have a “fix” for all issues related to citizenship today’s political climate, especially given Trump’s announcement.

“Hope for the best and prepare for the worst,” she said.

She added, though, that she hopes her book “illuminates what we need to know in this political moment.”

“There’s no shame in 2018 in being someone and being of a community who is outside, in essence, looking to get in,” Jones said. “That is as American as any story, that is part of our history.”

Jeanne M. Pickering, a local resident who attended the event, said she was impressed

by Jones’ knowledge of historical debates surrounding citizenship.

“It’s good to hear her talk about what the role she sees of historians in today’s controversies,” Pickering said.

Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha S. Jones discusses birthright citizenship at the Law School. Hayoung Hwang—Crimson photographer

Former Treasury Sec. Talks Politics

By Luke A. Williams and Katherine S. Li Contributing Writers

Jack J. Lew ’78, Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff under former U.S. President Barack Obama, spoke Wednesday at Harvard Law School about how his Jewish background and beliefs have informed his political pursuits.

Lew argued that public servants’ commitment to the nation’s interests should take precedence over their personal religious beliefs.

“The sole governing principle for a US public official should be how to best serve the United States and the American people,” regardless of the official’s faith background, he said.

While Lew stressed prioritizing American interest over religious beliefs, he also highlighted the role religion can play in politics.

His talk formed one in a series given as part of the annual Alan and Elisabeth Doft lectures, which are co-sponsored

by Harvard Law School and Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Dozens of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, University faculty, Cambridge residents, and students from Boston-area colleges attended Lew’s speech.

Lew said he has often reflected on the relationship between public service and private beliefs over the course of a decades-long career in government.

“What I bring is a practical perspective based on many years of balancing responsibility at the highest levels of public service and a private life defined by tradition,” he said.

Lew said he melded his Jewish heritage with his political career.

He noted that he continued to strictly observe the Jewish holiday of Shabbat while serving in both President Bill Clinton and Obama’s administrations.

“Seeking answers always occurs through the lens of the values that define who each of us is,” Lew said.

Faith has the potential to be ­

“an enormously positive influence” on American public policy and policymakers, he said.

He argued public servants who successfully integrate their faith into their work can “reflect universal principles familiar across diverse beliefs.”

After his lecture, Lew held a public conversation with Law School professor Noah R. Feldman ’92.

The two discussed how Democrats and Republicans alike can draw on the same set of religious beliefs when defending their divergent political views.

Cambridge resident Mark H. Mulgay, who attended the talk, said he felt encouraged by Lew’s message.

“One has to find a certain balance between what one might consider religious obligations and one’s obligations in terms of their particular government, their community,” he said.

“Jack Lew and his work really exemplify someone who strikes that balance.”

Attendee Diane T. Shrenzel, a student at Wellesley, said she agreed.

“Hearing about the experiences of someone who worked so closely with the president and who was able to articulate how he managed that not only with his observance but also with his beliefs,” she said.

Boris Davidov ’19, another attendee who said he hopes to follow Lew’s example as a Jewish public servant, said he felt inspired by the lecture.

He said it was particularly meaningful to hear Lew discuss his Jewish faith with pride in the weeks after a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left 11 dead.

“I’m incredibly pleased to see he is a very proud and observant Jew,” Davidov said.

“Especially in the wake of what happened in Pittsburgh last week, the Jewish community needs people like Jack Lew to show that in spite of the hate that they receive they can still stand as proud Jews with power and integrity and hope for a better better future.”

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Youth Critical to Democrats’ Gains the Nevada Senate race, Texas’s 23rd congressional district, and Georgia’s 6th congressional district.

He said that, had young voter turnout remained at levels seen in previous midterms, these seats “would likely not have flipped from Republican to Democratic control.” The IOP analysis also noted that young voters caused the Texas Senate race — in which incumbent Ted Cruz faced off against El Paso congressman Beto O’Rourke — to be more competitive than polls had presaged. Cruz ulti-

We’re a demographic group with distinct policy preferences, .

Theodore “Teddy” N. Landis Public Opinion Project Chair

mately won re-election.

Theodore “Teddy” N. Landis ’20, student chair of the Harvard Public Opinion Project, said this year’s increased young voter turnout sets the bar high for future elections.

“I do think this sets a precedent that our politicians will need to listen to young people in the future,” Landis said. “We’re a demographic group with distinct policy preferences, and they’d be wise to pay attention to that.”

Della Volpe wrote in the press release that the youngest American voters “seem prepared to further engage in politics and policy.” He also noted that young voters are demanding “a more progressive domestic agenda” including gun control legislation.

“We fully expect that they will play a significant role in shaping our country’s future through their commitment to service and renewed interest in politics,” Della Volpe wrote. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com.

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More Information Needed on Dudley Community

Real Friends

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ast week, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench and Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana announced in an email that Dudley House will divide into separate communities for undergraduate and graduate students.

The former, called the “Dudley Community,” will serve undergraduates who are visiting students, on campus over the summer, and living outside the 12 upperclassmen Houses or in the Dudley CoOp. The latter will serve GSAS students, who will also enjoy a dedicated new student center. We are optimistic that these changes will benefit all Harvard students, but ask that the administration provide more clarity on how changes to the Dudley Community will affect undergraduates.

As we have previously opined, we support the changes that Harvard has made to improve graduate students’ quality of life. We hope that the new division of Dudley House will address graduate students’ dissatisfaction with many features of Harvard life and foster a more vibrant and welcoming community.

The introduction of graduate student intramurals, for example, appears to be a promising initiative, and we hope that Harvard will continue its efforts to ad-

dress structural issues related to graduate student life.

Graduate students are an integral part of the Harvard community. The University should make sure they feel included on campus.

While we applaud the proposed changes Harvard has made to improve graduate student life, we are not fully aware of all the changes made to the new Dudley Community for undergraduates.

Dench and Khurana’s email states

Graduate students are an integral part of the Harvard community. The University should make sure they feel included on campus. that the Dudley Community will no longer have a Faculty Dean, but instead a “Faculty Fellow.” It also states that there will be a full-time Assistant Dean who will oversee the community.

The University has not yet provided a clear explanation for how the Assistant Dean and Faculty Fellow will assist undergraduate students. Harvard should make sure that undergraduates that do not live in the 12 upperclassmen Hous-

es are fully considered in the transition to a new system. They should not be disadvantaged compared to their peers in their access to an extensive advising network.

Most importantly, the University should address any concerns that are raised by the undergraduates who will be part of the Dudley Community to assure them that the transition will be smooth.

We hope that the new full-time Assistant Dean and Faculty Fellow will be useful additions to undergraduates, but we believe more clarity on their role is necessary.

Although the changes made to Dudley House certainly represent a positive step for graduate students, undergraduates should not be adversely affected by the transition to the Dudley Community.

Harvard should make sure that the proposed Dudley Community is a success, not a dud.

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.

How to support a friend with depression Elizabeth Y. Sun TMI

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aving a depressed friend is equal parts terrifying and annoying. I know, because I’ve been both depressed and the terrified

friend.

I know what it’s like to be the sad drunk who ruins a party, but also the caretaker charged with the task of shoving a finger down someone’s throat — trying to force them to throw up the medley of alcohol and other substances they thought would be the Nirvana for their depression.

I know what it’s like to apologize the morning after a three-hour crying session, the icy guilt causing my hands to tremble, but I also have rescheduled many days whenever my friend needed an unpaid counselor.

Most importantly, I know what it’s like to numbly wonder if I’d ever see the sun again, but also the one to worry that enough wasn’t done to help my friend — that I had misjudged, miscalculated, perhaps even misspoken when trying to comfort them. That, at the end of it all, I hadn’t done enough, and I would never see my friend again.

From all this, I’ve learned just one thing about what it means to be a real friend to someone going through a mental illness: Listening is great, listening is necessary, but don’t just listen — act.

Although I am certainly beyond thankful for the friends who sat by my side and listened to what I had to say, often times, trying to explain myself was a tiring and awful task. I was already being kept up endless nights by the negative thoughts I couldn’t fight. What I really needed was not a listener, but distraction, company, a chance to feel normal.

While I can’t speak for everyone, I know that the worst part of my depression was the loneliness caused by my impulsive desire to isolate my-

Having a depressed friend is equal parts terrifying and annoying.

I know, because I’ve been both depressed and the terrified friend.

brendan j. chapuis—Crimson photographer

Op-ed

Buying Your Way into Harvard By linda lee

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hen I applied to join the Class of 2021, I felt as if my application was a crapshoot. In high school, I had slaved away studying for standardized tests, spread myself thin with extracurriculars, and tested my limits with a rigorous course load — all for a sliver of a chance to be considered by a faceless committee that would determine the fate of my next four years.

It turns out, however, that there’s a much more foolproof method of applying to Harvard College. Apparently, I’ve been doing it all wrong. All I had to do was be wealthy enough to buy a building.

The SFFA lawsuit has unearthed yet another controversial finding about Harvard’s mysterious admissions process, namely that Harvard assigns preference to applicants whose families gift-

It turns out, however, that there’s a much more foolproof method of applying to Harvard College.

Apparently, I’ve been doing it all wrong. All I had to do was be wealthy enough to buy a building. ed large donations or possess extensive connections with powerful figures within the administration. These carefully curated applicants, found on the “Dean’s Interest List,” evidently “benefit from a significantly higher acceptance rate.”

As a low-income Asian American student at Harvard, the lawsuit has forced me to critically question my identity and my place on campus. It’s a hard pill to swallow that I attend an institution currently on trial for having bias against people like me in every sense.

The revelation of the Dean’s Interest List only exacerbates my pain because it speaks volumes as to what type of student Harvard prioritizes. It’s someone rich, someone white, someone not me.

The fault does not only fall on the College, however. On a broader scope, Harvard is merely a microcosm of the forces governing the outside world, a peek through the curtain of what inequities we should expect to encounter in the workforce and beyond.

Harvard’s preference for applicants belonging to donor families is not an egregious revelation. If anything, it affirms the tit-for-tat dynamics that have sewn the foundation of our society and workforce. Harvard, being a pipeline directly into the corporate world, has actively contributed in maintaining this reality, enabling this cyclical nepotism of millionaires paving the path for other millionaires.

According to a survey conducted by The Crimson, of the Class of 2022, only 14.4 percent come from families with incomes below $40,000 while more than half hail from families making more than $125,000. I didn’t have to research these figures to know this to be true.

I knew this by the high-end brands walking past my nameless sweater on the way to class. I knew by the clubs my friends invited me to join — only to see them shrug at the $600 fee, as if an afterthought. I knew by the cold that bites into my bones through the winter coat that is never warm enough but was the only one within my budget.

The special favor that Harvard surreptitiously gives to children of donors only contributes to the socioeconomic disparity intimately felt within Harvard.

When Harvard gives certain wealthier applicants a boost in the admissions process, it further alienates low-income and underprivileged students from their peers and contradicts the message of inclusion that we all repeatedly hear in our first year.

Yes, Harvard’s financial aid package is outstandingly generous, but sometimes, handing students a wad of money isn’t enough when there is still an enormous wealth gap felt among students — one that Harvard actively sustains.

It is no wonder then that students here, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, suffer from an epidemic of imposter syndrome and anxi-

ety about their place on campus. I myself have always felt like I’ve had to prove my existence here, and it can be exhausting when half your emotional energy is invested in the need to overachieve to justify that you belong here, even without a six-figure family income.

The preference within Harvard’s admissions process is staunch evidence that I will have to work ten times harder just to have a chance at what others were granted at birth.

Although sobering, Harvard has shown me that even with hard work and dedication, the world still prioritizes how much is in your wallet.

In light of the lawsuit, I don’t believe that affirmative action is the problem here. While we cannot ignore the rampant inequality pervading the admissions process, we should not attempt to dismantle the only existing system at-

Harvard needs to wake up and implement systematic action behind its words and gestures of generosity, and until it does, I will not feel welcome on this campus. tempting to equalize the power of buying your way into Harvard.

I am a low-income, Asian-American student. Quite honestly, I am glad that this lawsuit has unearthed significant findings and opened a necessary dialogue about our place on campus.

However, I am frustrated with the direction of the lawsuit and demand that we not be used as a means to propel an initiative that will only contribute to the problem.

Harvard needs to wake up and implement systematic action behind its words and gestures of generosity, and until it does, I will not feel welcome on this campus.

—Linda Lee ’21, a Crimson Blog editor and Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Eliot House.

self. I would stay in my room as much as possible, skipping meals because I couldn’t handle the prospect of seeing people in the dining hall. I was overwhelmed with either fear or guilt that this temporary version of “me” wasn’t good enough, that my depressed presence would be nothing more than a burden for my friends.

What I therefore needed was not more opportunities to brood, but rather someone to impose their company on me and a sense of normalcy in spite of all the polite protests, excuses, and apologies I would inevitably throw at them.

The best friends I had during this time were the ones who included me matter-of-factly in their life — the ones who rolled their eyes at my excuses, who followed up on plans made, who pestered me to take care of myself, who accepted that my best effort at being engaged and positive might not be perfect.

Dinner plans and study sessions and even surprise visits were the best kind of support I could ask for. When it comes to depressed friends, don’t be scared to be pushy. It’s easy for someone suffering from depression to shut off socially because they have come to believe that no amount of friendship can heal them.

While I can’t speak for everyone, I know that the worst part of my depression was the loneliness caused by my impulsive desire to isolate myself.

Learned helplessness is this psychological phenomenon where a person who has repeatedly failed to escape an awful experience will simply stop trying.

At their worst, depression and anxiety are inescapable, but they ultimately become mild enough until learned helplessness is the only thing holding a person back.

Real friends are the ones who are drag their friends out of quicksand.

Sometimes, this means seeking professional help. If a friend has a serious or chronic mental illness or may even be in danger of self-harm, be the one who sits them down and has a serious conversation about how getting help does not mean losing control.

If that fails and they continue to be in a serious condition, email a Resident Dean, or perhaps even the professor of one of their classes. Sometimes, all it takes is a single extension, especially

Dinner plans and study sessions and even surprise visits were the best kind of support I could ask for. during finals or midterms week to get everything back on track.

Mental illness and self-harm are serious issues at Harvard and other campuses. As friends, we have a responsibility to take care of ourselves, first and foremost, but we also have a duty to heal others whenever we can. Real friends don’t just listen — they act.

—Elizabeth Y. Sun ’19, a former Associate Editorial Executive, is a Government concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.

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SEAS Move On Outsiders Vie for UC, Face Hurdles Schedule, Gay Says Outsiders From Page 1

dark about election policies — especially when it came to seeking student group support.

“How do I know what I’m doing is legal or illegal?” was the question that dominated the early days of his campaign, he said.

The lack of information nearly “scared” Ragheb out of running. Ultimately, though, he received replies from the commission in time to figure things out. Ragheb says the process taught him a lesson.“I think there’s a higher barrier of entry” for outsiders running for UC president, he said. Ragheb pointed out that Council insiders probably already know the body’s campaign rules and may have more direct access to UC policies.

Several past candidates agreed that outsiders face various institutional hurdles in seeking UC leadership positions.

A second obstacle pops up well before voting starts. To appear on the ballot, prospective candidates must gather 150 signatures within about a week.

That figure can be burdensome for non-UC members; outsiders typically lack a base of support from within their house given they have never before campaigned for office.

“It’s an unnecessary bar that privileges existing UC members,” said Conor Healy ’19, who ran unsuccessfully as an outsider candidate in the 2017 election. “I’m sure it was devised to limit the number of tickets, but it’s not as though there is a deluge of people running to be UC leadership.”

Current UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 defended the petition requirement, which is detailed in the Council’s bylaws.

“I don’t think the number of signatures gives any advantage to one group over another and it helps to ensure that candidates appearing on the ballot are serious,” Boucher wrote in a text message. “I am not currently considering amending section 74.1 of the Bylaws.”

Stephen T. Moon ’20, vice president of the Open Data Project, a faculty-student group that has analyzed past UC elections, suggested that previous experience campaigning marks another key advantage for presidential candidates. He said that, ­

given students are randomly sorted into upperclassmen houses, a candidate who previously won a UC election in their house is more likely to appeal to a wider swath of the electorate.

“You have to have a message that appeals to a random selection of 400 undergrads,” he said. “Presumably, if you can appeal to a majority of people in [a house], you can appeal to a majority of sophomores through seniors.”

Another possible explanation for why insiders have fared so wel in the past, according to Boucher, is that those with UC experience are simply more energetic about the Council and willing to put in the necessary time and effort to win.

“I think there is a certain amount of skew in who has been on the UC before and who has not, in that I think the students that oftentimes feel very passionately about the issues they care about or about something they want to use the student government to do at Harvard College, oftentimes choose to get involved in the UC early on in their careers,” he said in an interview last week.

THE QUEST FOR ENDORSEMENTS

Student group endorsements mark a key twist in the path to the UC presidency.

Most candidates vying for the Council’s top elected offices — in addition to trying to convince individual voters of their merits — attempt to win the support of student groups.

Moon said data from past elections shows club endorsements are “often consistent” with victory. He cautioned, though, that this could be because clubs choose to endorse candidates who are already likely to win.

“I’m not totally sure that those endorsements are necessarily predictive and it might be in fact that they’re getting endorsed because organizations are seeing that so many people in their organization like them and that’s just because they’re overall very popular,” he said.

Boucher said the endorsements he and running mate Catherine L. Zhang ’19 received during the 2017 election helped to “bolster credibility” and “foster engagement” with student organizations.

For outsiders, though, these expressions of support from student groups can be difficult to obtain. Moore said he feels that groups did not give him an equal shot at winning their endorsements this year.

“I understand that we don’t have the experience and maybe we don’t come off as people who would make good candidates just on paper, but that’s why you do give us chances to talk, right?” he said. “And again, I really thought we put our best foot forward, we gave good responses, we cared about issues, and it felt like the groups didn’t really listen.”

Moore also pointed to The Crimson Editorial Board’s UC endorsement process as one that seemed to favor insiders.

The paper’s Editorial Board typically endorses one ticket each year after interviewing all contenders. The Crimon’s Editorial and News Boards do not coordinate coverage and maintain a strict separation in staff and management.

“It didn’t feel like we were given a chance, even from the second we walked in there,” Moore said of his interview with Editorial Board during the 2016 election. “It felt like no matter what we said, they weren’t really going to respect what we said because we didn’t have the experience.”

While the endorsement article that year outlined the platforms of the other three tickets running for UC leadership, The Crimson’s Editorial Board did not mention Moore or Solomon.

Ryan P. O’Meara ’18, an Editorial Board Chair at the time, did not respond to a request for comment about the board’s decision-making process at the time.

Endorsements from fellow UC members can also provide significant organizing power, according to Healy.

“A ticket composed of UC members has an automatic pool of support from which they can draw to supplement their campaign efforts: the other members of the UC,” Healy wrote in an email. “We just didn’t have that same level of campaign organizing ability.”

Analysis from the Open Data Project suggests, however, that endorsements from sitting representatives may not be as decisive. The group points to the

HMC From Page 1

Harvard Adds Investment in Cryptocurrency, Report Says Investing in cryptocurrency — a newcomer to the financial world — is widely considered to be a risky move given the currency exists entirely online.

While cryptocurrenty investments produced some skyrocketing gains early on, investors lost billions of dollars in a crash earlier this year.

In his annual letter to Harvard affiliates, Narvekar wrote that “asset allocation — or risk level — was the dominant factor in the overall returns.” He also wrote that he “will soon engage the HMC board of directors in conversation to determine Harvard’s risk appetite.”

A move to invest in cryptocurrency seems to signal that “risk appetite” is relatively high.

Michael Sonnenshein, a managing director at digital currency investment firm Grayscale Investments, dismissed the notion that endowments’ investments in crypto-

currency expose the groups to an inordinate amount of risk.

“Most endowments are already in the high risk assets, be it venture capital or other investments that have high risk-reward profiles,” he said.

Sonnenshein, who said several universities have chosen to invest their endowments in Grayscale products, said investors are seeking cryptocurrency opportunities because it helps to diversify holdings. He also said his firm has noticed a recent uptick in schools’ interest in cryptocurrency.

“Over the last 9 to 12 months, there’s definitely been a material change in the level of engagement that my team has had with endowments, pensions, and other large institutional investors,” he said.

Robert J. Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist, said endowments’ willingness to invest in cryptocurrency does not equate to a full-throat-

ed endorsement of the digital asset.

“What I imagine happened at Harvard Management and Yale is that somebody came and gave a presentation from one of these funds and showed how there seems to be inefficiencies in this market and they can benefit from that,” he said. “It wasn’t giving them an endorsement. It was hoping to buy and sell at a higher price later.”

Shiller, who called cryptocurrency a “high-risk investment,” cautioned against pouring large sums of money into cryptocurrency funds.

“Yale, according to David Swenson, in the early nineteenth century put its whole endowment into one bank called the Eagle Bank and it went bankrupt,” he said. “They don’t do that anymore. I think crypto is much riskier than the Eagle Bank.”

2016 election, in which victors Yasmin Z. Sachee ’18 and Cameron K. Khansarinia ’18 received ten endorsements from fellow Council members, compared to 11 for second-place finishers Scott Ely ’18 and Evan M. Bonsall ’19.

On the Ballot

One of the likely reasons outsiders have almost universally failed to win the student body’s highest elected offices, though, is quite simple: non-UC members have not appeared on the ballot at rates comparable to students with previous Council experience.

Between 2009 and 2011, all 12 candidates who competed for the Council’s top positions had already served on the Council, some for multiple years.

In every presidential election since 2012, at least one outsider has appeared on the ballot, but they have collectively comprised only 18 of 50 presidential and vice presidential candidates during that period.

Healy said the lack of outsiders running for Council leadership may be in part due to widespread cynicism among undergraduates about the body’s work. In last year’s presidential election, only 2,074 students — less than one-third of the student body — cast ballots, representing the lowest voter turnout since the Council began popularly electing its leaders.

“I’m not convinced that the student body puts very much stock in the UC, or thinks about it very much because of its profound structural inadequacies,” Healy wrote in an email. “As a result, there probably wasn’t a broad consensus for change.”

Boucher wrote in an emailed statement that Healy’s criticism is largely unfounded.

“While I appreciate and welcome any criticism of the UC, I challenge anyone making sweeping claims of profound structural inadequacies,” he wrote. “The UC is Harvard’s student government, and the decisions made by the UC have real effects on all students.”

As campaign season kicks off for this year’s election, it remains to be seen whether an outsider can break through and declare victory for just the second time in Council history. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

By Angela N. Fu and Lucy Wang Crimson Staff Writers

Though some smaller details remain undecided, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is still set to complete its long-awaited move into Allston

by September 2020, according to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay. “It’s all on track and on time.

Everyone’s operating under the assumption that Fall 2020, it’s going to be going back and forth [between the two campuses],” Gay said in an interview Wednesday.

Gay inherited the task of migrating a large portion of FAS across the river from former FAS Dean Michael D. Smith.

Harvard recently put the final steel beam on the $1 billion-plus SEAS complex slated to house

I imagine that it will not be unlike this side of the river where it’s mixed use... It’s not just academic departments but it’s also housing, and there are also restaurants, and there’s daycare.

Claudine Gay FAS Dean

more than 1,800 researchers, students and faculty. Before stepping down over the summer, Smith met with the deans of SEAS and the Sciences to discuss the new campus, according to Gay. After taking on the deanship this August, Gay began having her own conversations. She has held informal chats with SEAS faculty about how the move to Allston will affect individual SEAS departments. She said the discussions have so far centered primarily on moving the school, which Gay has called “Phase One” of longer-term plans to develop the new Allston campus.

“I’ve actually been mainly having more informal conver-

sations with SEAS faculty and thinking about what the expansion to Allston will mean, both kind of logistically about getting back and forth but also intellectually,” Gay said. “Phase One is just an extension of SEAS over to Allston as opposed to involving other parts of the University or the FAS for the time being. But who knows what Phase Two will hold.”

FAS has already begun making preparations for the opening of the new campus. Harvard rolled out a new schedule in preparation for the shift meant toallow students to move between campuses in the same class day.

Once the SEAS departments move to Allston, many current buildings will be left empty. Gay said that, as of now, she has no concrete plans for what to do with the empty space — though she called it a “once-in-a-century opportunity.”

“This is not Stanford that seems to be tripping on land.

Cambridge is, we are, very compressed on this side,” Gay said.

“So when you get square footage open up at this scale, you want to make sure you’re thinking in a really creative, frankly visionary way about how you use that space and how you make that space align with both current as well as emerging academic needs.”

Gay also noted that administrators probably won’t decide the fate of the newly vacated spaces right after the move.

“It’s hard to imagine kind of having a plan ready to go in 18 months because they’re moving in 18 months,” Gay said. “So it seems very unlikely that we’ll be up and ready to go that quickly.”

Gay said she sees the Allston campus as more than just an engineering hub for Harvard.

“I imagine that it will not be unlike this side of the river where it’s mixed use... it’s not just, say, sciences and SEAS. We also have humanities and social sciences so maybe we’ll have something like that over there as well,” Gay said. “It’s not just academic departments but it’s also housing, and there are also restaurants, and there’s daycare.” angela.fu@thecrimson.com. lucy.wang@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Looking For Its First Win On Ivies Road Trip

By SPENCER MORRIS Crimson Staff Writer

The last time the Harvard men’s hockey team remained winless through its first four regular-season games, not a single member of the current roster was alive. In fact, neither was coach Ted Donato ’91. That’s because the last time the Crimson skated through its opening four contests without a victory, some members of the Harvard student body were fighting in World War II. The year was 1940, and it stands as the only instance of a winless Crimson team through four games in the 121-year-old documented history of the Harvard hockey program.

This weekend, the Crimson (0-2-1, 0-2-1 ECAC), still in search of its first triumph of the campaign, hopes to keep this staggering streak intact when it trips down to New Haven, Conn., to visit none other than storied Ivy League rival Yale (21-0, 2-1-0).

“You get two teams with so much history of playing against each other that everyone is going all-out,” senior goaltender Michael Lackey said. “Guys are stepping up that may not step up in other games…. Everyone is going 110 percent to get the win.”

Unlike their Cambridge counterparts, the Bulldogs enter the Friday tilt with multiple ticks in the win column, having defeated Brown to open the season before splitting last weekend’s series with Upstate New York travel partners, then-No. 18 Cornell (loss) and Colgate (win).

The intensity of a Harvard-Yale bout, however, scarcely depends on the teams’ records coming into the game.

“We’ve had a lot of great games with them over the last ten years,” coach Donato said.

“Whether it’s our place or their place, the environment is always pretty electric. I’m sure our guys that have done it before will be very excited, and the new guys will bring their own excitement, but it’s a good challenge for us to play a very ­

good team on the road.”

In addition to potentially earning its first win of the year, the Crimson has an opportunity to avenge a season sweep at the hands of the Bulldogs in 20172018. In two clashes that more or less bookended last regular season, Yale held Harvard to just three combined goals.

In early November, the visiting Bulldogs handed the Crimson its first home loss in over a year, and in late-February, a pair of goals by then-freshman Kevin O’Neil soured the end of Harvard’s regular season. Not dwelling on the recent past, the Crimson enters the weekend with a fresh-start mindset.

“We actually didn’t bring [the 2017-2018 season sweep] up,” Lackey said. “This is a new team. [We’re] trying to build off what we’ve done at the start of the season, play to our strengths, and go in with a clean slate.”

The Crimson is still searching for consistency in the opening stage of the campaign.

Coach Donato has experimented with numerous line combinations and multiple starting goaltenders through three games, as the group works to improve its team defense and play a more complete, 60-minute game.

Early on, Harvard has received significant offensive contributions from its freshmen, such as blue-liner Jack Rathbone (2–4—6) and forwards Jack Drury (1–4—5), Casey Dornbach (1–3—4), and Baker Shore (1–1—2). With these four first-years assuming critical roles in the lineup right away, the freshman class has accounted for 44 percent of the team’s total scoring through three games. “[Producing] is easy when you’re playing around really good guys,” Rathbone said.

“We’ve been playing really well together. We’ve had those moments where we’re pretty unstoppable. Now we just need to string together a full 60, and I think once we do that, we’ll be fine.”

Junior defenseman Adam Fox, a Preseason All-ECAC se-

lection, is setting the Crimson’s overall scoring pace with eight points (1–7—8). The Jericho, N.Y., native is the facilitator on college hockey’s second-best powerplay (.429) in the early part of the season and deservedly draws attention from every opponent.

Despite his offensive prowess, Fox’s primary role is to keep other teams’ forwards in check.

On Friday against Yale, he and his fellow Harvard rearguards will have their hands full with Bulldogs senior Joe Snively.

Snively, also named to the Preseason All-ECAC team, has logged seven points (3–4—7) through three contests and has done significant damage to the Crimson in the past, putting up 10 points (4–6—10) in eight career appearances against Harvard. “[Snively] is one of the top players in the league right now and has been for the last couple of years,” coach Donato lauded. “He’s dangerous. He’s fast, he’s skilled, he’s a goal-scorer, he makes plays. He’s certainly someone that we’re going to have to keep a close tab on.”

Skating alongside the Herndon, Va., product are freshman center Curtis Hall (1–4—5) and O’Neil (2–1—3). The trio comprises Yale’s most potent line offensively, combining for 68 percent of the team’s scoring through its first two weekends.

In net, coach Donato will likely turn back to Lackey (01-1, 5.30 GAA, .780 SV%), who received the starting nod last Saturday in a 4-4 draw with Princeton after junior Cameron Gornet (0-1-0, 5.27, .833) manned the pipes the previous night against Quinnipiac. As of Tuesday, however, Lackey had not received any official indication of his role in the upcoming Ancient Eight tilts.

As the numbers of both backstops indicate, the Crimson has been porous on defense in its first three games. Until the copious goals against subside, the starting goaltender role is for the taking.

For the Bulldogs, the battle for the blue paint is no less intense. Junior Corbin Kaczper-

LACKING IN WINS Senior goalie Michael Lackey and company hope to grab Harvard its first win this season while on the road against Yale and Brown in New Haven and Providence. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

ski (1-1-0, 2.53, .900) has fielded pucks in two of Yale’s three games at the outset of the campaign after earning roughly half the starts in the 2018 portion of last season. Senior Sam Tucker (1-0-0, 2.00, .931), who began last campaign as the Bulldogs’ number-one, has started just once this season but posted sturdier numbers in that effort.

“From the moment you commit to a school like this…it’s one of the games you definitely circle on your calendar in terms of the atmosphere and the building, so it’ll be really cool,” said Rathbone ahead of Friday’s bout with Yale.

Whether the Crimson snaps a 78-year streak on Friday or not, it will head to Providence, R.I., for a matchup with Brown (0-3-1, 0-2-1) the following evening. While the ambiance in Meehan Auditorium will be predictably more subdued than the rivalry-fueled energy at

“The Whale,” an equivalent two standings points are on the line.

Plus, in 2017-2018 Harvard learned the hard way not to underestimate any opponent. Despite the Bears consistently being an ECAC bottom-feeder in recent years, Brown stunned an unsuspecting Crimson team last February, commencing an end-of-season rut for coach Donato’s group that extended into the first game of conference tournament play.

Much like Harvard, the Bears have benefitted from the play of their rookies early on this season. Three freshmen forwards lead the way in scoring: Justin Jallen (2–2—4), Tristan Crozier (2–1—3), and Jake Harris (1–2—3).

While Brown tied a struggling Colgate team last weekend, it also played Cornell to a close one-goal game, albeit a losing effort for the Bears. So the Crimson will not be tak-

ing its nearby ECAC opponent lightly.

“The atmosphere at Brown is unlike most places in the ECAC…[in that] there are not many fans,” Lackey said. “We talked about as a group bringing our own energy and creating energy on the ice to get the guys going. If you don’t do that, you can kind of fall in the trap.”

As strange as it sounds, few things in college hockey are as certain as the uncertainty in the ECAC, as the conference schedule is annually rampant with parity.

On Friday night, this trend will only heighten the intensity and unpredictability of a classic Harvard-Yale clash. On Saturday, it will raise the stakes for the Crimson, as recent history has taught the squad that no two standings points ever come easily. spencer.morris@thecrimson.com

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Midterms? Who Needs Politics When You Have Football?

By CADE PALMER Crimson Staff Writer

Yesterday was a good day for me. No, not because my political candidates won in the midterm elections, but mostly because I got to sit back and watch how bad the “experts” are at predicting things. Makes my 11-7 record here look pretty good, huh?

Anyway, the News staff here keeps telling me if I want people to read my columns, I need to talk about things people care about (like politics), as I’ve been told Harvard students don’t

care about sports. I wasn’t so sure until a girl in my section asked me if the Texas Rangers still rode horses and shot people.

I, of course, replied in the affirmative.

But in order to draw in these marginalized readers, I’m increasing my vocabulary to include some buzz words. This week, there’s a potential blue wave in Columbia, a solid chance Princeton trumps Yale, and we’ll get to see if Cornell can protect its house.

Without further ado, to the

picks: COLUMBIA AT BROWN In his college days at Columbia, Texas senatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke served as the captain of the men’s heavyweight crew team. This week wasn’t his best, which doesn’t bode well for Columbia’s blue wave.

With regard to Brown, Harvard made the quick trek down to Providence to challenge the Bears in the second week of the season. Of course, the Crimson trashed, 31-17, its opponent in the “rivalry” game. After the

aerial attack Senior quarterback Tom Stewart threw for a school-record five touchdowns in Harvard’s blowout victory over Columbia, and will look to do the same to Penn. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

final whistle, in a press conference speech worthy of a Ridley Scott film, Brown junior tri-captain Michael Hoecht made a bold assertion.

“You take out that first quarter of the game, we beat that team, 100 percent. Even the first 10 minutes,” Hoecht said. “We all know it.”

He’s probably right. Also, if you take out the first three quarters from last week’s Bears match with Yale and divide the Bulldog’s fourth quarter score in half, Brown wins that game, 100 percent of the time.

I’m not going to lie, sitting through the Bears press conference in week two put me, and my co-writer, squarely in the Brown bandwagon. He jumped off last week and then proceeded to declare “that Columbia may be doomed for all eternity.

I have learned that Brown may be in the same predicament.”

That makes this week’s game the contest of the eternally condemned. In the battle of the worst, I’ll stick to my guns — I am from Texas after all.

Brown by 3 DARTMOUTH AT CORNELL Speaking of condemnation and Hell, Dartmouth is travelling to Ithaca, N.Y., this week — a road game to make even the formidably Big Green defense tremble in fear. The last person that was documented actually wanting to travel to Ithaca was Odysseus, and that’s a myth.

Is it because the Big Red is good at home? Not particularly — just don’t talk to any Harvard players. It’s because there’s only

one respectable establishment within 100 miles of Ithaca, N.Y., and it isn’t Cornell — it’s Collegetown Bagels.

So far this season, the Big Red’s biggest win has come against the Crimson. In addition to a win against Brown, Cornell doesn’t have much to show for the season.

Dartmouth, on the other hand, has one of the top five defenses in the nation. On Saturday, the Big Green held the dynamic Princeton offense — which averaged 50.7 points per game prior to the afternoon contest — to 14 points.

Regardless, Dartmouth football can’t even boast the best defense in Hanover. That title belongs to the college’s legal team, which just won an appeal to the the New Hampshire Supreme Court allowing the school to build a new indoor practice facility.

Tuesday’s courtroom win is undoubtedly prophetic.

Dartmouth by 12 HARVARD AT PENN I know the question that’s been nagging you since week five: who is now-starting quarterback Tom Stewart?

Prior to his start in the week five Holy Cross game, Stewart had only taken first snaps in one game for Harvard — the 2016 Holy Cross loss. In 2018, the senior shepherded the Crimson to victory and, including that match, he has tossed for 1275 yards and 11 touchdowns this season with only four full games.

In the beginning of the sea-

son, our photographer was quite fond of the phrase “Free Tom Stewart.” If the contest against Columbia is any indication, he has indeed been freed.

The senior has seemingly always been around, having spelled Joe Viviano in 2016 and being lightly featured in the conversation surrounding last year’s quarterback controversy.

It seems Stewart is reaching his final form. With an Ivy League crown out of the picture, a week prior to the Yale contest is the perfect time to peak.

One opponent stands between Harvard and The Game, and that’s Penn. There’s this weird thing, where Ivy League schools do crazy things between the third and fourth quarter. Yale strips, and Penn throws toast. Perhaps it’s emblematic of the team’s prospects this weekend (i.e. they’re toast).

Harvard by 7 PRINCETON AT YALE Last time I wrote this column I predicted the Tigers’ game in the following manner: “Too easy.

Princeton by 45” I was wrong. The Tigers bested Cornell by 66. In the words of Kanye West, Princeton is nice at football. And now, barring a cataclysmic event along the eastern seaboard, the Tigers will be the Ivy League champs.

There is a silver lining. Yale’s going to be entering The Game on the heels of the worst trashing of its season.

Princeton by 30 cade.palmer@thecrimson.com