The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLIX, No. 82

HARVARD CRIMSON

Williams to Step Down as School of Public Health Dean

BY DORCAS Y. GADRI AND KRISHI KISHORE CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams will step down at the end of the aca demic year after seven years in office, she announced Thursday.

Williams was the first Black dean of a Harvard school’s faculty and HSPH’s first female dean. Pri or to assuming the role of dean, she served as chair of the school’s Department of Epidemiology and conducted research on child and maternal health.

“I have decided it is time for me to take the advice that we in public health so often dispense and step back to reflect, recharge, and return to activities that hold deep meaning for me,” Williams wrote in an announcement to School of Public Health affiliates Thursday.

Williams oversaw a period of turmoil at HSPH, with high lead ership turnover during her time as dean. Affiliates of the school told The Crimson that she and her deputy created a toxic cul ture, and faculty at the school weighed a rare vote of no confi dence against her in 2018.

Williams is the second dean of a Harvard school to announce their departure in recent weeks after longtime Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton said last month he would step down on the same timeline. Uni versity President Lawrence S. Bacow is also set to step down in June 2023.

During her tenure, HSPH launched collaborations with other Harvard schools, organiza tions, and academic institutions abroad — including the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Pro gram and a collaboration with the Tsinghua University’s Vanke School of Public Health in Bei jing.

HSPH also collaborated with the National Institute of Envi ronmental Health Sciences and Apple to launch the Apple Wom en’s Health Study, which aimed

Questions Remain About Death of Rodrigo Ventocilla

BY MILES J. HERSZENHORN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

An autopsy on the body of Rodri go Ventocilla Ventosilla, a trans gender Harvard Kennedy School student from Peru who died in police custody in Indonesia earli er this year, yielded inconclusive findings in September, leaving unanswered questions about the circumstances surrounding his death.

The post-mortem examina tion of Ventocilla’s body could not determine how he died due to the condition of his body, which was embalmed, according to a Sept. 28 autopsy certificate from the Pe ruvian Public Ministry obtained by The Crimson. The autopsy was performed on Sept. 4 in Peru at the direction of prosecutors who are investigating his death.

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Women’s Soccer Finishes Regular Season Strong

Underlying Data Missingfrom Endowment Report

Amid Renovations, Environmental Group Calls for Increased Public Access to Harvard Boathouses

BY SALLY E. EDWARDS, SIDNEY K. LEE, NIEL SHAH, AND JACK R. TRAPANICK CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Ongoing renovations of Harvard’s Weld and Newell Boathouses along the Charles River have re cently drawn scrutiny from an environ mental group advocating for increased public access to the riverside docks.

The historic boathouses’ construction more than 100 years ago predated Mas sachusetts’ Public Waterfront Act — also known as Chapter 91 — which dictates that private constructions on the water front must “serve a proper public pur pose.” The Charles River Watershed Asso ciation, a local non-profit environmental group, said Harvard must increase public benefit in its waterfront presence in light of its ongoing renovations.

Harvard began renovations this sum

mer on the boathouses to modernize the buildings and increase accessibility, an undertaking which requires state approv al to ensure Chapter 91 compliance.

Jennifer Ryan, deputy director of advo cacy at CRWA, said it is unclear if the ren ovation project is currently in compliance with the public access requirements.

Harvard has released plans and pro posals for both projects, but Ryan said the University “did not provide nearly enough detail on the issues around public access.”

“Harvard has not been forthcoming or transparent in their Chapter 91 due-dil igence, and has restricted public access without compensation to the public for many years,” Ryan wrote in a follow-up emailed statement. “This is about uphold ing public rights.”

Ryan said Harvard should provide an evaluation of existing public access and a “feasibility study” to ensure a “full explo ration of what is possible at those sites.”

In an October hearing, representatives

Epstein Victim Drops Suit Against Alan Dershowitz

BY MARINA QU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A victim of Jeffrey E. Epstein who claimed she was sexually abused by Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz settled a lawsuit she had filed against him on Tuesday, saying she “may have made a mistake” in accusing the prominent law yer of wrongdoing.

The woman, Virginia L. Giuffre, sued Dershowitz for defamation in 2019 after he denied her claims that she was traf ficked and forced to have sex with him between 2000 and 2002. Her former attor ney, David Boies, also sued the longtime HLS professor for defamation.

Dershowitz subsequently filed count er defamation lawsuits against both Giuf fre and Boies.

The three parties announced a non-monetary settlement on Tuesday and filed papers asking the federal judge in the case to dismiss their claims.

“I long believed that I was trafficked

by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz,” Giuffre said in a joint statement released on Tuesday. “However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and trau matic environment, and Mr. Dershowitz has from the beginning consistently de nied these allegations. I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz.”

Dershowitz has long denied having a sexual relationship with Giuffre. In an in terview Thursday, he said there “wasn’t a word of truth” to her accusations.

“I have never touched, flirted with, or had sex with another woman other than my wife during the entire relevant time period, so this was a black and white case, not a case of gray,” Dershowitz said. “I don’t know who she is. I have never met her in my life. And she finally recognized that she may very well have confused me with someone else.”

“I now feel totally vindicated,” he said. “I think that the people who canceled me

from Harvard held that public access to the docks is not feasible, as they are cur rently accessible only via the private boat houses, the Boston Globe reported. The representatives added that keeping the docks private is necessary to protect boat ing equipment and ensure student safety.

Matthew J. Lyons ’26, a member of Harvard’s lightweight men’s crew team, said he agrees with Harvard’s justification for keeping the facilities private.

“I feel like there would actually be a pretty big safety hazard if it was open to the public,” Lyons said.

Lyons cited incidents during the Head of the Charles Regatta last month, where some rowers’ personal belongings went missing when the boathouse hosted other teams.

Ryan said there are solutions that can provide public access without sacrificing the safety of student rowers.

“We’re not asking for the public to be able to go into the boathouses while the

students are there,” Ryan said. “I think there’s a little bit of misconception around that.”

Harvard spokesperson Amy Kamosa wrote in an emailed statement that the University has proposed alternate plans which would provide public benefit while still keeping the boathouses private.

“The University’s renewal of the Weld and Newell Boathouses enables signif icant public realm upgrades, including improvements to the public pathway net work and landscape features,” Kamosa wrote.

Kamosa added that Harvard has com mitted to supporting the development of a new dock on the Charles River. The pro posed dock would be at Christian Herter Park, around a mile from the Newell Boat house, and would be open to the public and high school rowing teams.

But Ryan said that there is not enough

Link Leak Leaves Some Yale Students Ticketless

BY VIVI E. LU AND LEAH J. TEICHHOLTZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Yale junior Matthew J. Pollack was sitting in a morning lecture on Nov. 1 when he no ticed something strange: His classmates were trying to buy tickets to the Har vard-Yale football game from a link Yale’s administration had never publicized.

Pollack said he started “freaking out,” texted more than 10 friends, and soon learned that a leaked link to buy tickets to The Game was circulating around cam pus.

“I jumped onto the website, and it was literally crashing every two minutes,” Pol lack said. “It was completely insane.”

The website displayed roughly 3,000 tickets available to Yale undergraduates, a number that dropped with every refresh, according to Pollack, who ultimately re ceived a ticket. Others fared less well — technical glitches left some students tick etless, while others paid for tickets that

were later revoked.

Students later learned the Har vard-Yale ticket purchase link “went live prematurely and in error,” Victoria M. “Vicky” Chun, Yale’s director of athletics, wrote in a Nov. 2 email to Yale students.

“Due to the volume of students at tempting to purchase tickets, the system crashed, and resulted in an oversale of tickets and multiple credit card charges,” Chun wrote. “We sincerely apologize for these errors and the ways they have im pacted you.”

Yale’s Athletics Ticket Office emailed students with ticket confirmations by 5 p.m. on Nov. 3, per Chun’s email, but did not announce another round of ticket sales. Students who were charged for tick ets but did not receive confirmations will receive refunds, according to the email.

Josephine W. Cureton, a junior at Yale, said she spent at least an hour trying to get a ticket.

“It was kind of really hectic,” Cureton

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A BLACK BOX Each fall, Harvard releases an annual financial report that provides insights into the University’s budget and investment strategy. For years, the endowment section of the report looked largely the same, with data on HMC’s targets, as well as returns across asset categories. But this fall, it abandoned the longtime practice of disclosing investment perfor mance by asset class. SEE PAGE 5

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The Week in Pictures

Following the Nov. 4 release of a crime report detailing four drugging incidents and one sex ual assault allegation, Cornell’s Interfraternity Council suspended all fraternity parties and social events. The ban will impact the more than 30 recognized fraternities at the school and fol lows two previous bans in the past decade: one in 2011 and one in 2019.

Prosecutors in the Operation Varsity Blues case, in which wealthy parents paid for false test scores and athletic credentials to ensure their children’s acceptance to elite colleges, recom mended that Yale women’s soccer coach Ru dolph “Ruby” Meredith receive a fine and man dated community service. Meredith, a key player in the scandal, received a total of $860,000 across a series of three deals. Meredith’s light ened sentence follows his cooperation with the federal government’s investigation.

Brown University will cover expenses incurred by female student-athletes who were plaintiffs in a 2020 lawsuit protesting the demotion of several women’s varsity teams to club sports. The uni versity will pay for $1.3 million in attorney’s fees and $40,000 in litigation costs after a Tuesday order from U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell. The 2020 motion reopened the 1992 lawsuit Cohen v. Brown, which found that equal opportunities for female athletes, which are mandated by federal law, were withheld.

Student workers at Dartmouth held a rally last Thursday demanding higher base pay and better sick and mental health pay policies. Negotia tions to reach a contract with the college admin istration have been ongoing since the spring, according to one chair of the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth. Paid mental health leave and higher wages for late night shifts are two of theunion’s top priorities.

AROUND THE IVIES

THE CORNELL SUN

THE YALE DAILY NEWS

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THE DARTMOUTH

CORNELL

SMART CITIES. A group of former mayors and professors discussed the future of cities at a panel hosted by the Har vard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society on Friday afternoon. The panel focused on the concept of the “smart city” — a city that uses technology to solve city issues and improve communication between city leaders and their constituents — and the implications of integrating new technologies into city planning. BY EMMA H. HAIDAR, JO B. LEMANN, AND TYLER J. H. ORY — CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

LATE NIGHT SNACKS. The Quad Grille, a late night restau rant operated by students, fully reopened on Halloweekend for the first time this year.Following a grand opening on Oct. 27, the grille, located in the Junior Common Room of Pforzhei mer House, now allows students to grab a late snack past dining hall hours every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. BY NATALIE K. BANDURA, LAASYA N. CHIDURUPPA, JONAH C. KARAFI OL, AND AYUMI NAGATOMI — CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

FIRST AMENDMENT. Federal judge David R. Stras reflected on his grandparents’ experience in the Holocaust and its im plications for the First Amendment at a Harvard Law School lecture Tuesday afternoon. The event, co-sponsored by the Harvard chapter of the Federalist Society and the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association, featured Stras — an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals judge — recounting his grandparents’ experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp. BY LEAH J. LOU RENCO, JASMINE PALMA, AND LINDA ZHANG — CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

HERSTORY. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey ’92 beat out her oppo nent Geoffy Dielh in the race for governor in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Healey is the first woman and first openly gay canddiate elected to the office. The Associated Press called the race immedi ately after polls closed Tuesday night.

BY JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

PROTEST AND COUNTER-PROTEST. More than 100 protesters gathered in Har vard Square on Sunday to protest the recent election of Leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the race for Brazilian president. The protesters claim the election was fraudulent, though no evidence supports their allegations of fraud. A group of Harvard students countered the protest, denouncing the allegations as anti-demo cratic. BY CLAIRE YUAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

YOU’RE A SUNFLOWER. First generation, low income students received sunflower bouquets on Tuesday as part of FGLI Visibility Week. BY TROUNG L. NGUYEN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

ICWA. Indigenous rights orga nizers and experts dicussed the Indian Child Welfare Act ahead of a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday for a case chal lenging the law. BY CLAIRE YUAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

MIDTERM MADNESS. Sen ators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth A. Warren spoke at a Democratic watch party Tues day night as election results rolled in. BY JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIM SON PHOTOGRAPHER

SOCCER STARS. The No. 6 Harvard women’s

HEALEY WINS BIG IN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION

IN THE REAL WORLD

Nationwide elections on Nov. 8 left both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives without a majority for Democrats or Republicans. De spite many Americans and news outlets anticipating a “red wave,” the Democratic Party fared better in the midterm elec tions relative to many projections. The Senate races in Arizona and Nevada have not yet been called, and the Georgia sen ate race is heading to a runoff in Decem ber. Democrats saw better results than the president’s party usually experiences in the midterm elections, though control of the House remains up in the air.

Russian troops will retreat from the key city of Kherson, Ukraine, accord ing to a Wednesday announcement from the Kremlin. Since Russia’s inva sion of Ukraine in February, troops had only captured one regional capital: the southern city of Kherson. The withdrawal follows a series of reversals from Russia, as Ukrainian forces took back sections of the northeast and Kyiv over the past few months. The New York Times reported signs of Russian forces leaving the city by Wednesday evening; however, Ukrainian military officials remained wary of the an nouncement being a ruse.

Prominent tech companies such as Meta and Twitter recently announced layoffs and froze hiring. At Meta, employees in recruiting and business will be more affected than those working on engineering the Metaverse, according to the New York Times on Wednesday. The layoffs make up about 13 percent of the company’s workforce. At Twitter, almost half of the workforce was laid off unex pectedly following the company’s acquisi tion by billionaire Elon R. Musk.

Climate TRACE, a coalition of sci entists, environmental groups, and technology companies, provides localized data on more than 76,000 emitters. The site-by-site data — col lected from satellite imagery over several years — suggests that previous measure ments of emissions from the oil and gas industries have been underestimates.

Climate TRACE, a nonprofit, partners with several prominent climate groups, such as former vice president Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and the Minderoo Foundation. The group pub lishes their data to the public before it un dergoes peer review, drawing skepticism from some scientists.

What’s Next

Start every week with a preview of what’s on the agenda around Harvard University

Monday 11/14

HYPEFEST

A WISHFUL JAM

Sanders Theater, 7 p.m.

The Harvard Din & Tonics, the Harvard Callbacks, and the Radcliffe Pitches will hold their annual Fall A Cappella Jam this Saturday at Sanders Theater. Tickets are $20 for general members and $10 for Harvard-ID holders.

Friday 11/11 Saturday 11/12

HARVARD RUGBY V. WEST POINT

Mignone Field, 12 p.m.

Students are invited to support Harvard women’s rugby during their match against the Black Knights. Free pizza will be provided for students to enjoy at the game while supplies last.

Sunday 11/13

WINTHROP’S 3.2 FOR BEN

Science Center Plaza, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

HYpefest, the first official event for Harvard-Yale spirit week, will have s’mores, a bouncy house, LED games, acapella performances, and more. Free merch will also be provided at the event for students along with beverages, such as hot choc olate and cider.

Tuesday 11/15

RIDE OR DIY

Queen’s Head Pub, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Students can show off their “crafty side” and school spirt at the Queen’s Head Pub on Tuesday. Students will be able to do poster, crewneck, wristlet/fanny pack decorations geared towards Harvard-Yale week celebrations. Students are welcome to bring materials such as jeans or shirts if they want to dec orate additional items.

CORRECTIONS

THE IDEA OF PRISON ABOLITION CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 4 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Leading philosopher and African American Studies scholar Tommie Shelby will present the case on prison abolition as discussed by Angela Y. Davis, and others. The event is free and will be open to the public.

Wednesday 11/16 Thursday 11/17

FALL-NIGHTER

Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, 9 p.m.-11 p.m. Students are invited to celebrate the fall season at Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub with a night of kara oke, pumpkin decorating, snacks, and hot choco late. Boardplus can be used on an orders from the CQH menu.

Friday 11/18

HYSTERIA SOCH, 9 p.m - 12 a.m.

The final event for Harvard-Yale spirit week invites students from both schools to join for a night of games, movie marathons, and decorating mer chandise. Students will be able to participate in a variety of activities and meet new students from the rival school.

RUSSIAN FORCES ORDERED TO RETREAT FROM KHER SON, UKRAINE TECH COMPANIES AN NOUNCE LAYOFFS AND HIR ING FREEZES

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Students, Workers Petition to Expand Hot Breakfast

dining hall workers at the limit ed locations and “deprives many students of a filling meal in the morning.”

In a statement, HUDS spokes person Crista Martin defended the breakfast offerings.

BY AUDREY M. APOLLON, SOPHIA C. SCOTT, AND CLAIRE YUAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Nearly 2,000 Harvard stu dents have signed onto a petition advocating for hot breakfast service across all upperclassman dining halls.

Harvard’s undergraduate-led Student Labor Action Movement launched the petition last week in collaboration with the Univer sity’s dining hall workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 26. The state ment urges the University to ex pand hot breakfast offerings to all upperclassman dining halls to promote student wellbeing and alleviate the workload of dining hall workers.

Harvard University Dining Services currently only serves hot breakfast in Annenberg Hall and Quincy House every week day, while other upperclassman houses offer continental break fast.

Petitioners argue the limit ed hot breakfast service “plac es an unnecessary burden” on

“Harvard University Dining Services works in close coordi nation with Harvard College to determine the appropriate level of operations to support the Col lege’s goals regarding House life, community and equity, as well as to manage financial resources ef ficiently without compromising community goals,” Martin wrote.

“We see a similar balance man aged by colleagues at peer insti tutions where dining is a self-sus taining service.”

The Harvard Undergraduate Association expressed support for the petition in its November email to students.

“With these grievances in mind, we are joining with SLAM to demand Harvard offer hot breakfast in every dining hall, with the appropriate staff to do so,” the email read.

In 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed hot break fast offerings in the 12 upper classmen houses in a budget cut, saving the University roughly $900,000 per year at the time, but HUDS expanded its hot breakfast service to Quincy House in 2021.

SLAM organized the cam paign for hot breakfast expan sion in solidarity with the din ing hall workers’ union. The organization’s emails publiciz ing the petition say the demands have garnered the support of the union’s stewards.

ly have Hot Breakfast.”

The union’s petition claims that the current hot breakfast ser vice “ignores important realities” on campus.

“Undergraduates do not have the time or the ability to trav el to Quincy or Annenberg in the morning; workers and their workspaces cannot serve the high volume of students who do make the trip,” the petition reads.

Charlene V. Almeida, who has worked for HUDS for 20 years and is currently based in Quin cy House, said the current hot breakfast model has placed a “huge strain” on workers.

“I’m starting to feel bad be cause we’re serving over 600 stu dents for breakfast,” she said. “They’ll be waiting outside for the hot breakfast, waiting in long lines because [the dining hall workers] cook everything at once, but the kitchen is small.”

Syd Sanders ’24, an organizer for SLAM, said the petition aims to ensure all students have ac cess to hot breakfast. While Quin cy House and Annenberg Hall are open to all students for breakfast, Sanders said students living in the Radcliffe Quadrangle are dis advantaged.

“For students, it’s a wellness thing, and it’s a quality of life thing,” Sanders said.

BUDGET CUTS. Hot breakfast in the 12 upperclasmen houses was removed in 2009, saving $900,000 a year for the Univer sity. 13 years later, Harvard’s workers and undergraduate students are demanding its return.

UNITE HERE Local 26 also circulated its own petition, which advocates for the expansion of hot breakfast across more under graduate dining halls in an effort to create “more jobs to help the overwhelmed Halls that current

HUDS spokesperson Crista Martin wrote in an email that the petition “contains several mis leading statements.”

Martin wrote that, in 2009, Harvard College reduced the board rate in response to the

ABHW Holds Vigil for Black Transgender Lives Lost

BY DARLEY A.C. BOIT AND ELLA L. JONES CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Association of Black Harvard Women hosted its fourth annu al vigil commemorating Black transgender lives lost in the past year on Saturday. The event — held in Holden Chapel in collab oration with the Queer Students Association, the Harvard Foun dation, and the Office of BGLTQ Student Life — featured a series of guest and student speakers, as well as a performance by the Har vard Kuumba Singers. Portraits and biographies of the Black transgender individuals who lost their lives in the past year were placed throughout the chapel.

Tiffany C. Onyeiwu ’25, ABHW’s inclusivity chair and an organizer of Saturday’s event, gave opening remarks, stressing the importance of action to pro tect transgender people.

“Black transgender folks, and in particular Black transgender women, face an epidemic of phys ical and verbal violence,” Onye iwu said. “As Harvard students and community members from around the world, it is our duty to stop the cycle.”

Sadé Abraham, senior direc tor at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Rela tions, said in her address that vio lence against transgender people is deeply institutionalized.

“We live in a world where dis crimination, harassment, and violence against Black trans, intersex, queer, and gender

non-conforming LGBTQ people permeate virtually every institu tion and setting,” Abraham said.

The Queer Students Associ ation’s co-presidents Alana L. Young ’24 and Atlas Sanogo ’24 said the advantage that Harvard students have is to disrupt a sys tem of oppression through “hav ing access to an elite educational institution.”

“Granted, [this institution] is one that very often does not sup port us, inflicts violence upon us, and erases us,” Young add ed. “Nevertheless, our education here is a ticket into the world that many of our trans siblings will never be able to access.”

“I hope the Black community will support and love Black transgen der individuals.”

In an interview after the vig il, Onyeiwu spoke to the impor tance of intersectionality in her work.

“To nip all of the buds of injus tice, we also have to nip transpho bia and homophobia — racism is connected to that as much as it’s also connected to sexism,” Onyei wu said. “Yes, this is a trans issue, but all of these injustices impact one another and compound on one another.”

Reverend Irene Monroe, a Harvard Divinity School gradu ate and queer Black pastor who spoke at the vigil, also empha sized the importance of inter sectionality in understanding the discrimination and violence against transgender people.

“The importance of centering trans lives is that we’ve got to un derstand the intersections of all oppressions here — that trans misogyny is as pernicious as rac ism, as homophobia, as antisem itism,” Monroe said in an inter view following the vigil.

2008 financial recession. Subse quently, HUDS was “restructured to gain efficiency in the least uti lized meal period of the day.”

“No staff layoffs (job loss es) occurred in this change,” she wrote.

In 2021, HUDS expanded its hot breakfast offerings to Quin cy House.

“Since the addition of that ser vice, multiple jobs represent ing an additional 155 labor hours have been added at Quincy House

just to support service of the en hanced breakfast menu,” Martin wrote.

Keith E. Hylton ’24, a student in Lowell House who signed the petition, said students should have access to hot breakfast in their own houses.

“It’s important for the stu dents to be able to actually get breakfast in their house without having to make long treks before class,” he said.

Hilton added that the conti

nental breakfast options are “lim ited.”

Sanders said SLAM hopes to garner as many signatures as possible before delivering the pe tition to administrators.

“We’re not going to back down from this,” Sanders said. “This is obviously something that is needed on this campus and it’s a shame that we don’t have.”

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Provost for President? Garber is ‘Very Happy’ in Current Role

BY CARA J. CHANG AND ISABELLA B. CHO CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Alan M. Garber ’76 has the re sumé of a Harvard president: More than a decade as the Uni versity’s top academic officer, the founder of two medical research centers at Stanford, and a trio of graduate degrees.

But with the search for Har vard’s 30th leader underway, he says he’s “very happy” where he is — as the school’s No. 2.

“I am very happy serving as Harvard’s Provost,” Garber said in an interview Friday. “I am very much focused on doing my work as provost to the best of my abili ties, and ensuring a smooth tran sition to the next president.”

Garber’s pedigree natural ly invites speculation about his presidential prospects.

In 2017, during the presiden tial search that ultimately select ed Lawrence S. Bacow, several prominent donors and profes sors at Harvard identified Gar ber as a likely internal candidate for the University’s top job.

Trained as both an economist and a physician, Garber taught at Stanford before becoming Har vard’s provost in 2011.

a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

But Garber, who said he has “a lot of confidence” in the search committee’s selection process, said the Ph.D. is not a line in the sand for presidential contenders.

“If they decide on a candidate that does not have a Ph.D. it will be because they had many other strong qualities that made up for the lack of the Ph.D,” Garber said of the 15-member search panel.

Garber said one of the incom ing president’s first priorities will be addressing the Supreme Court’s ruling on an anti-affirma tive action lawsuit against Har vard that it heard last month.

In the decade since, he has re ported to former Harvard presi dent Drew G. Faust and her suc cessor, Bacow, who announced in June that he plans to step down next summer.

In a keynote speech, Chastity Jamaria Bowick — executive di rector of the Transgender Emer gency Fund, a nonprofit support ing low-income and unhoused trans people in Massachusetts — spoke about her goal of building solidarity for Black transgender people.

“I hope our allies will rise among us to fight for our rights — I hope our family members will stand with us,” Bowick said.

Onyeiwu also encouraged those who do not identify as mem bers of the transgender commu nity to do “work year-round” to support transgender people.

“If you’re not part of the trans community, tie your laces, be cause you’re running this mara thon to be an ally,” Onyeiwu said. “Show up for trans folks in what ever way you can.”

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His response to questions about the top job mirror remarks from another potential inter nal candidate — Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay, who told The Crimson last month she has “a great job” that she is “singularly focused on.”

As Harvard’s chief academ ic officer, Garber works close ly with departments and offices across the school to advance re search and University-wide ini tiatives. He also directly oversees more than a dozen administra tive units, including Harvard University Health Services, the Office for Gender Equity, and the Office for Climate and Sustain ability.

Asked what skills or experi ences would be most critical for Bacow’s successor, Garber listed an understanding of Harvard’s values, openness to free debate, and an ability to foster pub lic trust in research produced across the University.

Despite their eclectic academ ic and personal backgrounds, one qualification for the Harvard presidency has remained near ly constant over the past centu ry: having a Ph.D. Since James B. Conant, Class of 1914, took over Massachusetts Hall’s corner of fice in 1933, Harvard has been led by just one president without a Ph.D. — Derek C. Bok, who holds

He said the lawsuit is “on the minds of nearly everyone in the Harvard community” and will likely be top of mind for the 30th president.

“We’re obviously hopeful that the decision will go our way, but we have to be prepared for the possibility that it won’t,” Garber said.

The court’s opinion is expect ed to come down next summer, but conservative justices — who outnumber their liberal coun terparts, 6-3 — appeared skepti cal of race-conscious admissions during oral arguments last week.

Garber declined to comment on how long he envisions him self staying in the provost role af ter the next president eventual ly takes office, offering only that he is “committed to making sure that the next president can get off to a good start.”

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PETITION. Student labor activists joined HUDS employees to advocate for the expansion of hot breakfast.

Students serve themselves breakfast in Quincy House. NATHANAEL TJANDRA — CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Tiffany C. Onyeiwu ‘25 ABHW Inclusivity Chair

As Harvard students and community members from around the world, it is our duty to stop the cycle.

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Students from Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement table in Kirkland House. SOPHIA C. SCOTT — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Alan M. Garber ‘76 Harvard University Provost

I am very much focused on doing my work as provost.

Underlying Data Missing from Annual Endowment Report

TOBY R. MA — CRIMSON DESIGNER

THIS FALL, Harvard’s an nual financial report was missing underlying data in the section on the Univer sity endowment.

BY ERIC YAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In 2016, Harvard had bad news to share in its annual financial report: Its endowment val ue had dropped nearly $2 billion.

The report, released that Novem ber, detailed the endowment’s lackluster returns by disclosing how the Harvard Management Company performed in a variety of asset categories against inter nal and external benchmarks.

This year, the University dis closed similarly low returns, al beit in different market condi tions. The endowment’s value dropped $2.3 billion after HMC delivered a 1.8 percent loss on its investments in fiscal year 2022. But this fall, the financial re port’s section on the endowment was missing a key ingredient from years past: underlying data.

Each fall, Harvard releases an annual financial report that pro vides insights into the Universi

ty’s budget and investment strat egy. The most anticipated figures in the report — annual endow ment returns — come in a report from HMC’s CEO, which offers a rare glimpse into the investment approach of the largest university endowment in the country.

For years, the endowment sec tion of the report looked large ly the same, with data on HMC’s targets, as well as returns across asset categories such as domestic and foreign equities, private equi ties, and real estate.

But beginning in 2017, after N.P. “Narv” Narvekar took over as HMC’s CEO, the annual endow ment reports began to change.

That year, the company stopped disclosing its internal benchmarks, which can be used to analyze the risk and return of a given investment portfolio. And this fall, it abandoned the long time practice of disclosing invest ment performance by asset class.

Narvekar, who does not speak to the press, provided some writ ten insights in a letter included in the financial report, which said fiscal year 2022 “was not a strong benchmark relative year” but the firm’s five-year performance “re mains very strong” relative to its targets. The University’s financial

report includes details on the as set allocation of all of Harvard’s investments, which encompass the endowment and other invest ments not managed by HMC.

But the changes have left Har vard stakeholders — including donors and alumni — without any underlying data to interpret the endowment’s performance, providing only topline numbers that can be difficult to evaluate on their own.

“Transparency goes to the heart of accountability for non-profit corporations, which don’t have the same types of gov ernance controls that exist in the for-profit world,” New York Uni versity finance professor David L. Yermack ’85 wrote in an email.

“It’s pretty rare to see a non-profit discontinue the disclosure of in formation that it has regularly re leased in the past, particularly in an area where it has struggled.”

In an interview earlier this month, Harvard University Pres ident Lawrence S. Bacow said HMC’s previous practice went be yond that of many peer institu tions.

“We were reporting, for ex ample, asset allocation and re turns to different asset classes, when most of our peer institu

tions were not providing that lev el of detail in the reports,” he said. “So there are competitive reasons not to do it, candidly.”

Five of the eight Ivy League universities did not release their fiscal year 2021 endowment re turns by asset class in their re spective financial reports. Only Harvard, Brown, and Princeton included the data.

disclose, but there’s always a judg ment that’s made about whether the disclosure works to our bene fit in enhancing our financial po sition or not.”

HMC has undergone a ma jor overhaul since the arrival of Narvekar, who instituted a re structuring plan that shifted the vast majority of the endow ment’s assets to external manag ers. HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan wrote that the shift toward external managers has made “simplified allocation re porting increasingly arbitrary.”

“Individual investments can straddle multiple asset class es and HMC wants to avoid re porting with false precision,” he wrote.

ing distributions to the Universi ty’s budget into the future.”

Mitchell L. Dong ’75, manag ing director of the hedge fund Py thagoras Investments, said he does not believe HMC’s decision to release less data is “anything to be alarmed about.”

“I’m a hedge fund manager myself, and I write letters to my investors and also invest in oth er managers,” he said. “I read ev erybody’s letters and some peo ple are very detailed, some people are less detailed — it just reflects somebody’s personality.”

Bacow said decisions about what is disclosed in the financial report are made by HMC with the blessing of its board, which he sits on alongside an array of investors and financial experts.

“We’re not serving the institu tion well if the demands for trans parency occur at the risk to any process,” Bacow said. “So we do

Environmental Group Calls on Harvard to Increase Public Access to Boathouse Docks

Narvekar’s restructuring was designed to revitalize HMC’s per formance, which lagged severe ly in the years before he took over as CEO. Six years into his tenure, Harvard officials now say they are pleased with the company’s performance. In the school’s lat est financial report, Harvard Treasurer Paul J. Finnegan ’75 and Vice President for Finance Thomas J. Hollister wrote that HMC “continues to wisely man age the endowment so that it can best provide steady and increas

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Yermack, a former Crimson managing editor, said it is “not clear” how Harvard would be at a competitive disadvantage if HMC continued to disclose its invest ment performance by asset cate gory.

“Everyone knows the bench mark returns in these asset class es,” he wrote, “and keeping the in formation secret from Harvard’s own alumni looks an awful lot like an attempt to deflect ques tions about performance.”

Staff writers Cara J. Chang and Is abella B. Cho contributed report ing.

HSPH Dean to Step Down at End of Year

to eliminate stigma around the menstrual cycle.

Under Williams’ leadership, HSPH also hired its first chief di versity, inclusion, and belonging officer in June 2020.

Williams also led the school’s response to the Covid-19 pan demic. In 2021, she co-found ed the COVID Collaborative — a group of health experts, eco nomic leaders, and educators brought together to help coordi nate local and national respons es to the pandemic.

“Under Michelle’s leadership during the historic public health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty proved them selves to be an invaluable re source to governments and the public at large,” Bacow wrote to HSPH affiliates Thursday.

Williams will resume teach ing and research as part of the HSPH faculty after a sabbatical year.

“Looking back, I see a kaleido

scope of memories. The COVID pandemic, of course, looms above all,” Williams said. “I will always be proud of how our com munity mobilized to meet the moment, producing research and guidance that saved count less lives and shifting our vital educational programs online without missing a beat.”

Bacow said University lead ership will soon launch a search for Williams’ successor.

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about the University’s propos als to determine whether they are sufficient in providing pub lic access.

“It is premature to opine on filings that we haven’t seen,” Ryan said of Harvard’s pro posed support of the Christian Herter Park dock.

Other private entities whose facilities lie along the water

front and do not allow for pub lic access — like boat clubs or other universities’ docks — may have an interest in the outcome of CRWA’s advocacy.

A successful push from CRWA could set a precedent for forcing these groups to in vest in greater public access to their property, like creating walkways or building addition

al docks.

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson Edmund Coletta wrote in a statement that “these facilities are subject to licens ing under Chapter 91” and that they “will continue to be re viewed under the current Wa terways Regulation.”

Ryan said that Harvard

should consider how to best support Cambridge beyond merely abiding with regula tions.

“Harvard is leaning into a diversity, equity and inclusion paradigm and wants to find ways to be more creative and innovative in being a good part ner,” Ryan said. “This is an op portunity.””

Harvard has enjoyed exclusive access to the waterfront via its two different boathouse docks for more than a century.

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Lawrence S. Bacow President of Harvard University

“We’re not serving the institution well if the demands for transparency occur at the risk to any process.

Dean Michelle A. WIllians will step down after seven years of leading HSPH. COURTESY OF BEN GEBO

Ash Carter, 1954-2022

BY MILES J. HERSZENHORN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Like many second-year pub lic policy students at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bethan M. Saunders was nervous about finding someone to serve as her policy analysis exercise ad visor. But she also had a dream candidate in mind: former U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

At the start of the fall semester, Saunders spotted Carter walk ing down a hall in the Kennedy School and chased him down, shouting, “Professor Carter, Pro fessor Carter.” After chatting about their summers, Saunders told Carter about an idea she was really excited about for the policy analysis exercise — and eventual ly worked up the courage to ask him to serve as her advisor.

“‘Yes, of course. I’d be hap py to,’” Saunders recalled him saying, leaving her “in complete shock.”

“I was so excited to be working with someone who had such im portant insights and experience, and really a brilliant scholar and public servant,” Saunders said.

“And in hindsight, I shouldn’t have been surprised at all be cause he cares so much about stu dents, and is incredibly dedicated to developing future leaders, fu ture public servants.”

A lifelong academic and pub lic servant who would go on to serve as the 25th Defense sec retary under President Barack Obama, Ashton B. Carter died on Oct. 24 in Boston after suffering a heart attack. He was 68.

‘A Totally Normal Kid’ Who Was ‘Destined for Big Things’ Carter was born in Philadelphia on Sept. 24, 1954, the youngest of four children born to William and Ann Carter. A graduate of Abington Senior High School, he studied at Yale University before attending Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Cynthia DeFelice, one of Car ter’s older sisters, said it took her a while to “catch on to the fact that Ash was really different and des tined for big things.”

Carter graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1976 with degrees in medieval history and physics. As an undergradu ate, Carter was elected to academ ic honor society Phi Beta Kappa and won Yale’s Andrew D. White Essay Prize in European History. He obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Oxford in 1979.

While Carter is universally de scribed by friends and colleagues as exceptionally smart, DeFelice maintains that he was “a totally normal kid.”

“He is, at heart, just a goofball,”

DeFelice said. “Nobody could make me laugh like my brothers. And my husband would walk in the house and he’d be able to tell that I was talking to Ash, or my brother Chip when he was alive, just by my laughter.”

But his multidisciplinary in tellect always shined through. As an adult, she said, he did calculus problems to relax.

“Just recently he had ordered a whole bunch of calculus and physics books to relax with on va cation,” she said.

Carter started his career in the Department of Defense in 1981, just two years after he received his Ph.D. Three years later, he started teaching at Harvard Uni versity after he was hired by thenHKS Dean Graham T. Allison ’62 to work as an assistant profes sor. For much of the next 38 years, Carter would spend his career os cillating between teaching jobs at the Kennedy School in Cam bridge and serving in the Defense Department in Washington.

Allison said Carter was “laser smart and really driven by ambi tion to try to make a difference in the world.” But he added Carter’s brilliance could also make him “anxious — awkward even, many times abrasive, actually, when he was younger — because he was super smart and often dealing with people who didn’t get it.”

At first, it was uncertain if Car ter would succeed at the Ken nedy School, Allison said, as the school’s initial attempts to fo cus more on nuclear science and technology were met with skepti cism from faculty members. But Carter proved his versatility as a professor, choosing to teach a sta tistics course in the core curricu lum despite his training as a phys icist.

“If Ash put his mind to doing something, he could do it,” Alli son said.

Carter quickly rose through the ranks at the Kennedy School, becoming the director of the school’s Center for Science and International Affairs in 1990. A year later, following an attempted coup against Soviet Union Presi dent Mikhail Gorbachev, Carter formed a working group at HKS that sought to identify a strate gy to maintain control over So viet nuclear weapons in case the country collapsed.

Alongside Steven E. Miller, who currently runs the Interna tional Security Program at HKS, Carter authored a monograph titled “Soviet Nuclear Fusion,” which served as their initial an swer to that problem. Carter then traveled to Washington, where he successfully lobbied Senators Richard G. Lugar and Samuel A. Nunn to pass legislation inspired by the work.

There were thousands of nu

clear weapons left outside of Rus sia after the Soviet Union col lapsed, and it was nearly certain that some of them would end up on the international black mar ket, Allison said.

“What in the world does that look like? So that looks like 9/11 with a nuclear bomb,” Allison said. “And a nuclear bomb — or two, or a dozen — exploding in cities like New York or Boston.”

The afternoon after Presi dent Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, he invited Allison to the White House for a meeting where he asked him and Carter to serve in the Defense Department. His administration later implement ed their strategies for disarming the former Soviet Union.

R. Nicholas Burns, who cur rently serves as the U.S. ambas sador to China, wrote in an email that he worked with Carter to seek “new relationships” with Russia and Ukraine “at a very dif ferent time in history.”

“We worked closely together in the Clinton Administration on U.S. efforts to forge new relation ships with Russia and Ukraine af ter the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union

and Warsaw Pact,” Burns wrote.

Carter served as an assistant secretary of Defense in the Clin ton administration from 1993 to 1996. He returned to Har vard in 1997, but 12 years later, after Obama was elected, Car ter moved back to Washington to serve in the Defense Department again, this time as an undersecre tary.

‘Nobody Is Going to Replace Ash Here’

When Carter served in the Obama administration, he had one prac tice that he took very serious ly: He frequently visited troops at the Walter Reed National Mil itary Medical Center, at a time when hundreds of American sol diers were dying in Afghanistan each year.

Eric B. Rosenbach, who served as Carter’s chief of staff during his time as Defense secretary, said Carter and his wife, Stephanie, “at least once every month, some times every weekend, would go and visit folks” at the military hospitals.

In 2015, Obama asked Carter to be the first senior U.S. official

to meet with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Iran nuclear deal was sealed. In a tense meeting, Net anyahu proceeded to “give Ash the business” about how the deal posed a threat to Israel’s very ex istence, according to Rosenbach.

But Carter, who attended high school three miles away from Ne tanyahu’s alma mater, Chelten ham High School, had a trick up his sleeve to diffuse the tension.

“About 25 minutes into Net anyahu chewing it out, Ash says, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, that’s all fine, but I want you to understand that at least my high school beat your high school in soccer the year that you were a se nior,’” Rosenbach recalled.

Netanyahu burst out laugh ing. “‘Are you kidding me? You went to that high school?’” Rosenbach recalled Netanyahu asking Carter.

“It was one of these times when it was very high pressure — it was Ash doing something im portant for the president,” Rosen bach said. But Carter “delivered a human touch that kind of deflat ed the whole situation, too, so it’s one of my favorite memories of him.”

Carter championed sever al initiatives during the Obama years to improve the safety of mil itary personnel.

The redesign of military ve hicles in order to be more blast

resistant reduced the number of troops wounded or killed by mines, and was one of Carter’s accomplishments in which he took the most pride, according to Rosenbach.

Carter also pushed for the de velopment of ballistic underwear in order to protect troops from suffering traumatic injuries.

“He also took that mission of protecting troops very seriously,” Rosenbach said.

After Carter was promoted to the top job in the Department of Defense, he opened combat roles in the military to women and end ed a ban on transgender service members.

“Our mission is to defend this country, and we don’t want barri ers unrelated to a person’s qual ification to serve preventing us from recruiting or retaining the soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine who can best accomplish the mis sion,” Carter said in a June 2016 speech announcing the end of the ban.

Grace Y. Park, a current HKS student who identifies as female and non-binary, said they joined the military at a time when “it was just sort of a given that female service members didn’t serve in combat and transgender service members didn’t serve at all.”

“Just by changing those poli cies, the culture and the language around how we talked about these types of vulnerable com munities in the military just total ly shifted,” Park said of the chang es Carter made during his time in the Defense Department. “He was able to do that in a really short amount of time.”

After the end of the Obama ad ministration in 2017, Carter made a familiar move: to Cambridge, where he returned to the Kenne dy School, this time to serve as di rector of the Belfer Center for Sci ence and International Affairs.

In an Oct. 25 statement to the Kennedy School announcing Car ter’s death, HKS Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf emphasized Carter’s love for teaching and mentoring students.

“He said that one key rea son he returned here was his ex perience at the Defense Depart ment of visiting abroad and being greeted with the salutation ‘Hel lo Professor Carter’ from his for mer students—so he wanted to come back and work with more students, and he helped to raise funds for student fellowships,” Elmendorf wrote.

Allison said Carter was an “ex traordinary person” whose death has left a big hole in the Kennedy School.

“People ask, ‘Well, who’s gon na replace Ash here?’ The answer is, nobody is going to replace Ash here,” Allison said.

“There’s no such person who combines a strong footing in sci ence and technology, and fero cious appetite for trying to un derstand all the frontiers of technology, and who has that deepest set of commitments to national security, policy, and pol icymaking.”

Ash Carter graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1976 with degrees in medieval history and physics. COURTESY OF MARTHA STEWART

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Ash Carter, center, looks on as U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry and Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy

Ash Carter quickly rose through the ranks at the Harvard Kennedy School. COURTESY OF MARTHA STEWART

Ash Carter began at the Harvard Kennedy School in 1984 as an assistant professor. COURTESY OF MARTHA STEWART

Ash Carter died on Oct. 24 in Boston after suffering a heart attack. He was 68. COURTESY OF MARTHA STEWART

Leaked Link Leaves Some Yale Students Ticketless to The Game

HLS Profs. Talk SCOTUS Reform

BY TRISTAN T. DARSHAN, SALLY E. EDWARDS, AND JOYCE E. KIM CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Law and public policy experts weighed potential reforms to the Supreme Court in a panel event at Harvard Law School on Wednes day.

Law School professor Stephen E. Sachs ’02 moderated the panel, which brought together profes sors from Yale Law School, Duke Law, the University of Virgin ia, the University of New South Wales Sydney, and the Harvard Kennedy School. The panel dis cussed the Presidential Commis sion on the Supreme Court of the United States, which released its final report outlining proposed changes to the court in Decem ber 2021.

The panelists agreed that any reform should both insulate the justices from partisan politics and preserve the legitimacy of the court.

is actually now currently much more representative of the aver age Republican Party voter.”

Sen pointed to the rushed con firmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a catalyst of the court’s politicization and the public’s dis approval of the court.

She said the misalignment of the public’s opinion with court rulings has contributed to calls for reforms to the court.

“The more that people see the court’s rulings in a way that’s op posed to their own views, sort of in conflict with their own views, the more likely they are to sup port things like terms limits and court expansion,” Sen said.

Still, the panelists highlighted the dangers of packing the court, with Siegel cautioning that court packing is “almost always a very bad idea.”

“It risks severely damaging, if not destroying, the court’s legit imacy,” he said. “I think it does raise the question of whether we want two branches of govern ment or three.”

said.

Though Cureton’s credit card was charged in the process, she said she did not receive a ticket confirmation until she reached out to Yale Athletics directly.

Sukesh Ram, a Yale senior who was unable to snag a ticket, said he was “really disappoint ed” the university has not an nounced a plan to sell more tick ets through an “official channel.”

“They either need to find a big ger stadium, honestly, when it’s

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hosted at Harvard, or they need to just make sure, obviously, something like that doesn’t hap pen,” said Ram, who is still seek ing a ticket. “Yale should try hard er to maybe have viewing parties or find some kind of alternative that’s more equitable, because there’s 6,000 undergrads, and what are we supposed to do?”

Yale spokesperson Karen Peart did not respond to multi ple requests for comment, and Harvard spokesperson Rachael

Dane declined to comment.

Senior Herman L. Peng was unable to buy a ticket through the leaked link but later purchased one from a friend. This year’s ticketing mishaps were not that “huge an anomaly,” he said.

“The bigger issue is probably communication. That’s always been a fraught process,” Peng said.

Yale junior Deniz Ince said she was ultimately able to get a ticket after opening the leaked

link on an incognito tab. Some others — who were not so lucky — are now seeking tick ets through different channels, according to Ince.

“I have heard of a lot of stu dents just asking around just try ing to see if anyone’s selling the tickets that they got,” Ince said. “I haven’t heard of any success sto ries yet.”

Epstein Victim Drops Dershowitz Suit

as the result of this accusation should now apologize.”

Giuffre has accused sever al prominent men, including Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family, of sexually abus ing her after she was trafficked by Epstein.

Boies, who filed a defama tion suit against Dershowitz in 2019, said in the joint statement that “the time has come to end this litigation and move on.”

“I know that Alan Dershow itz has suffered greatly from the

allegation of sexual abuse made against him—an allegation that he has consistently, and vehe mently, denied,” Boies said in the statement. “I also know that this litigation has imposed, and continues to impose, a signifi cant burden on Ms. Giuffre.”

Dershowitz was a longtime friend of Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. In 2008, he represented Epstein in federal court, brokering a plea deal af

ter Epstein first faced arrest for sex trafficking.

Epstein donated around $9.1 million to Harvard between 1998 and 2008, according to a review Harvard released in 2020. His largest gift, totaling $6.5 million, established the University’s Program for Evolu tionary Dynamics in 2003.

Though he continued donat ing to the school following his 2006 arrest for solicitation of prostitution, Harvard did not accept any funds from Epstein

after his conviction in 2008.

Epstein also served as a vis iting fellow in Harvard’s Psy chology Department during the 2005-2006 academic year. In 2020, University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced the school would divide the re maining $200,937 from Ep stein’s donations between two non-profits supporting victims of human trafficking and sexu al assault.

Faculty Discuss Midterm Election Results

BY CAROLINE K. HSU, THOMAS J. METE, AND AYUMI NAGATOMI CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Following the 2022 midterm elec tions, Harvard Kennedy School political experts discussed what the results mean for polarization, voter turnout, and the future of the GOP at an Institute of Politics forum Wednesday night.

Moderated by Daniel J. Balz, a Washington Post chief corre spondent and senior fellow at the IOP, the forum featured HKS affil iates Archon Fung, Cornell Wil liam Brooks, and Margaret E. Ta lev.

Brooks said high voter turn out in the midterm elections was “validation and affirmation of de mocracy.”

“In the face of widespread stoked cynicism and skepticism, people still showed up,” Brooks said.

Still, Fung said that while this year’s voter turnout was high for a midterm election, it was “pathet ically low by international stan dards and the standards of good democracies.”

Talev, a CNN political analyst, said the country cannot “cele brate the resilience of democra cy” with the continuing success of officials who question the legit imacy of the 2020 U.S. presiden tial election results.

“There are more elected rep resentatives of Congress and state-level officials now elected who baselessly question the le gitimate outcome of an election than ever before, and that’s a real problem,” she said.

Wednesday’s panel also touched on the recent attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pe losi.

Brooks said politicians need to make clear that they stand against political violence.

“The fact that someone could attack the husband of the Speak er in their home and not have ev ery member of Congress speak with a clear voice says two things — both they underestimated the threat, and they don’t appreci ate the proximity of the threat,” Brooks said.

“In a democracy, political vi olence makes everyone vulnera ble,” he added.

Talev discussed the implica tions of Tuesday’s midterm re sults for major players in the GOP.

“It was a bad night for Trump, a good night for DeSantis,” Talev said.

DeSantis won the Florida gu bernatorial race by 19 points on Tuesday, garnering 58 percent of the Hispanic vote, and carry ing Miami-Dade county, a tradi tionally Democratic stronghold. According to Talev, Florida’s race may indicate a shift in momen tum within the Republican Party.

“I think we woke up this morn

ing trying to understand how many national profile Republi cans were going to take that mo ment as a window of opportunity and say, ‘It’s time for the country to move on,’ or ‘It’s time for us to get past Trump,’” Talev said.

She said a number of Trumpbacked candidates lost at the polls in high-profile races, leav ing many Republicans frustrat ed.

Talev also said it was “a bad night for Kevin McCarthy,” not ing that even if he becomes House Speaker, he will be “completely hobbled” by the concessions he will have to make with a divided caucus.

If Republicans win control of the House, McCarthy would be leading it with a much small er majority than expected. Talev said this will give President Biden “maneuvering room,” allowing him to prepare an agenda to ap peal to centrists and “get ready for a reelection campaign.”

Neil S. Siegel, professor of law and political science at Duke Law, said the court’s legitimacy “al ways exists, or not, in the minds of an audience.” He added that jus tices should therefore strive to be “above reproach” and should re cuse themselves from cases when necessary.

“I’d like to see the justices act more like judges,” Siegel said. “I’d like to see them act like their robes are black, and not blue or red.”

He stressed that the court has existed for centuries and will en dure long after the current jus tices’ tenure.

“Sometimes I worry that at least some of the justices some of the time don’t really appreciate that,” he said.

Maya Sen, professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, said the Supreme Court no longer rep resents the average American, es pecially in light of the court’s re cent swing to the right. Following the confirmation of three conser vative justices in just four years under former President Donald Trump, the court reached its cur rent 6-3 conservative majority.

“The Supreme Court’s really no longer in sync with the major ity of Americans,” Sen said. “The court really is not representa tive of the average American, but

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He suggested that a “piece of low hanging fruit” that could be implemented to improve the court is the adoption of an ethics code.

“It’s really not acceptable that they are the only federal judges to whom an ethics code does not apply,” Siegel said. “They should adopt it themselves, and they should try in good faith to com ply with it.”

UNSW Sydney professor Ro salind Dixon warned that efforts to reform the court must ensure the public’s trust in the justices does not erode.

“We need to approach this with a view empowering demo cratic politics and encouraging a more responsive court,” Dix on said. “But not further alien ating a conservative court into stepping away from its abso lutely most fundamental func tion, which is to uphold the rule of law in a constitutional de mocracy.”

Cause of Ventocilla Death Uncertain

Ventocilla died on Aug. 11 at a hospital in Denpasar, five days after he was arrested upon arriv al at the airport in Bali for pos session of an herb grinder and other items suspected to contain marijuana. Ventocilla, a prom inent trans rights activist, was traveling to Indonesia on a hon eymoon with his spouse, Se bastián Marallano.

Ventocilla’s family alleges the arrest was motivated by racism and transphobia and that he was subjected to physical and psy chological violence at the hands of Indonesian authorities.

Police in Bali have denied al legations of wrongdoings, claim ing Ventocilla died after con suming unseized drugs while in police custody.

Julio Arbizu González, a law yer representing Ventocilla’s family, said in a statement the family had initially requested for an autopsy to be performed in In donesia, before the body was re turned to Peru.

“I believe that in the case of the Indonesian authorities it is more than a mistake, more than an error,” Arbizu said in Span ish. “We believe that what the Indonesian authorities actually did was deliver a body that was going to be difficult to undergo a legal autopsy. Knowing that the person had not died a natu ral death, which meant that obvi ously an investigation should be opened regarding the real causes of death — that obviously arous es suspicion of a cover-up.”

Stefanus Satake Bayu Setian to, head of public relations for the Bali Police, wrote in a state ment in Indonesian that “the handling of the case against Pe

ruvian citizens is in accordance with the SOP [standard operat ing procedure] carried out by in vestigators.”

“The cause of death has been issued by the hospital through a death certificate,” Bayu Setian to said. “The hospital is an insti tution outside the police and the statements issued are in accor dance with their expertise.”

Arbizu also placed blame on Peruvian authorities for not do ing more to ensure an autopsy was performed in Indonesia.

“It is well known that work ing on a body with formalin is much more difficult for special ists in legal medicine, doctors who must complete an autopsy protocol,” Arbizu said.

In the weeks following Vento cilla’s death, his family took aim at Peruvian consular services in Indonesia for not doing more to support him and Marallano while they were hospitalized in police custody.

The Peruvian foreign minis try initially rejected the family’s allegations of wrongdoing — be fore changing its tune in a state ment two days later that called for an investigation into Vento cilla’s death.

The Peruvian foreign min istry and the Peruvian prose cutor’s office did not respond to requests for comment on Thurs day.

Peruvian prosecutors are still probing Ventocilla’s death, fol lowing the Minnesota Protocol for the investigation of potential ly lawful death. The timeline of the inquiry is unclear.

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EDITORIAL

We Deserve To Be Treated As More Than Just Liabilities

BY THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

ANote from the Editorial Board: The following piece includes discussion of severe mental health struggles and suicide. We’ve compiled a few resources that might be useful to any readers in need of help or support. Please make sure to take care of yourselves — seeking help is al ways worthwhile.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. To speak with a certified lis tener, call 1-800-273-8255.

If you are enrolled, Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health Services offers no cost support, in cluding Urgent Care appointments at (617) 4955711.

For international students, see our website for a list of some internationally available support ho tlines that might be helpful.

— Guillermo S. Hava and Eleanor V. Wikstrom, Editorial Chairs

— Raquel Coronell Uribe, President

In September 2015, tragedy struck Harvard’s campus when Luke Z. Tang ’18, a student in Low ell House, died by suicide. Three years later, Tang’s father filed a lawsuit alleging that sever al Harvard employees — including residential dean Catherine R. Shapiro, former Lowell Resi dent Dean Caitlin M. Casey ’03, and Counseling and Mental Health Services employee Melanie G. Northrop — displayed “negligence” in the case of his son. Last week, Harvard attorneys argued that the school’s actions did not rise to the legal definition of negligence, and that these named affiliates had no liability in Tang’s death.

A student died by suicide on Harvard’s watch — and Harvard claims to have sufficiently ful filled its duty of care.

We wish to express our utmost sympathy and support to Tang’s family as they navigate this painful case. We can’t speak to the law here — its sterilized conceptions of negligence and li ability, its calculated assignment and dismiss al of blame — but as a student community who mourned the loss of Luke Tang seven years ago, the gut-wrenching impact of this case is clear. Harvard’s defense, and its equation of “duty” with what seems to be a bare-bones minimum standard of care, is not what we expect from our school. If Harvard fulfilled its duties in Tang’s case — despite the University’s failure to ensure Tang was undergoing treatment upon his return to campus after a recorded suicide attempt the previous semester, and the expectation that he would reach out proactively for help, as outlined in the complaint — then the content of those “du ties” must be thoroughly reconsidered.

There’s no other way to express it: Watching this litigation unfold is heartbreaking. By affirm ing the notion that those entrusted with our care for four years have no responsibility, in terms of basic human compassion, to reach out to stu dents who have previously expressed suicidal ideation, the University sends a message that our well-being only matters insofar as it is a liability.

Infusing compassion into Harvard’s men tal health care is, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Harvard must adopt an approach to mental health care that includes preemptive out reach for those it knows have previously strug

gled with or acted upon suicidal ideation. The burden should not fall on students suffering mental health crises to seek help; case managers should not consider their duties fulfilled simply because an at-risk student has failed to explicitly ask them for help. Focusing on preemptive care will ensure that students struggling with suicidal ideation receive the care they require.

Putting students above legalistic bureaucracy also means treating us like individuals.

Mental illness is as varied as the people it af fects; there’s no one-size-fits-all response to de pression. Taking a leave of absence, for example, can help some students gain clarity and peace while removing others from their support sys tems at the risk of worsening their mental health. Policies surrounding mental health need to be flexible.

But policies are not enough — culture mat ters, too. Harvard’s hyper-competitive, some times toxic culture can often push us to figure things out on our own instead of asking for help. On our campus, the necessarily stressful sepa ration from family and transition to adulthood combines with an extraordinary academic pres sure — and more broadly, on campuses across the country, it combines with a generational despair. The product is a proliferation of men tal health crises, year after year, among a demo graphic that must already contend with sparse on-campus resources.

We want a university that sees us as people to be cared for, not liabilities to be managed. Har vard’s response to the lawsuit takes care to distin guish University students as young adults rather than children, implying that we somehow de serve less care and attention as a result. But that respect for young adult autonomy seems to dis appear when Harvard urges students to leave campus and then dictates the terms of their re turn through University Health Services riders or other means. We don’t want a university that shifts its view of us according to convenience.

When we struggle, we deserve dignity and support. We don’t deserve to be seen as a burden. Perhaps more concretely, we will find it a lot eas ier to ask for help if we feel that doing so triggers Harvard’s genuine care for our wellbeing. Stu dents in crisis should not have to worry about whether the University’s interests are aligned with their own.

It has been seven years since Tang’s death, but many of the issues surrounding Harvard’s han dling of his case still linger today. Regardless of the legalities of the case, given the College’s less than optimal mental health care infrastructure, we fear student trust in these resources will only be further reduced by Harvard’s cold, legalistic response. Most concerningly, if Harvard’s logic continues to assert that everything is fine unless students explicitly reach out for help, then on pa per, this campus may not experience any mental health struggles at all — a crude calculation of li ability with the potential to be dangerous.

These staff editorials solely represent the ma jority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impar tiality of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on simi lar topics.

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How Do We Reclaim Our Streets?

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BY CLYVE LAWRENCE

On a summer evening perhaps better spent watching the Celtics play in the NBA Fi nals, I instead stepped inside a swelter ing community center in Cambridge to attend a meeting.

Thirty minutes later, it wasn’t just the midaft ernoon sun causing the uncomfortable heat. Across from me, several residents demanded changes affecting a street on Harvard’s door step: Memorial Drive.

Memorial Drive is an example of a con cept called “open streets” — programs that open streets to people by closing them to cars. On open streets, people enjoy space together, whether jogging, cycling, or rollerblading. Harvard students living in River houses see this every weekend or even use the park them selves.

During the pandemic, the city closed Memo rial Drive to cars on both Saturdays and Sundays to provide open space, expanding a decades-old policy of closing parts of the area on Sundays. The Cambridge City Council extended this pro gram through December of this year because of its immense popularity.

Since I began attending Harvard, I have en joyed seeing people outside enjoying the space the park provides. I love the quietness and the feeling of community that arrives every week end. It is a welcome change of pace from the speeding cars that I typically encounter on weekdays.

At this meeting, however, a few residents held a different view. They implored the city council to reopen Memorial Drive to cars on Saturdays.

City council meetings, community events, and social media posts reflect the controversy of open streets. They are often the first steps to re ducing car dependency; as a result, they become a battleground between opposing visions for the future of cities.

Following that meeting, I visited neighbor hoods in Boston to learn how people are re claiming our streets. Here is what I learned five months later.

Memorial Drive is only one of many open streets programs in our area. This past summer, Boston mayor Michelle Wu introduced “Open Streets Boston,” a series of pilot programs in dif ferent neighborhoods in the city. During these open streets programs, people could walk up to food trucks and local businesses, play games with their children, or enjoy music in a festi val-like atmosphere.

I went to the first Open Streets Boston pro gram in Jamaica Plain. As I walked, a woman in an adaptive bicycle skirted past me. A father chatted with his son in Haitian Creole. Two peo ple played cornhole, and dogs barked at chil dren blowing bubbles. It was incredible seeing the diversity and energy of Boston on full dis play. That day, people of different ages, abilities, backgrounds, languages, and cultures chose to reclaim their streets.

There is something undeniably special about bringing people together outdoors. In our post-lockdown period, we have seen

a massive decline in mental health, widespread reports of loneliness and exclusion, and prob lems accommodating disabled communities. Open streets provide help for all of those needs. They allow people to take over areas previ ously dominated by fast, noisy cars. Compared to normal usage, these programs are safe and vi brant.

Not to mention incredibly successful. From San Francisco to Philadelphia, cities have mas sively invested in pedestrianized spaces. The reason why is quite simple: People love them. The feeling of safety, the community, and the freedom not to have to drive proved popular in places like New York City and Durham, North Carolina.

Boston’s Open Newbury Street program and Copley Connect study, which I also visited, demonstrated the demand for more open spac es in our area.

But the residents at the community meet ing were still unhappy. They described how cars would speed through residential areas late at night and how, without warning, the park would close to vehicles on holidays. Listening to resi dents and visiting programs throughout Boston, I learned something: open streets can be suc cessful, but only if cities do them right.

Implementing these programs requires large-scale city planning. Cities should improve traffic signals on detour roads and design traf fic calming measures to lessen the impact of ve hicular traffic. They should also increase transit frequency — something Boston failed to do with their open streets pilots. Law enforcement offi cers could enforce traffic violations like “block ing the box.”

Just as equally, the implementation requires buy-in from residents. One concern during the Memorial Drive process was the lack of commu nication between City officials and the Depart ment of Conservation and Recreation, which controls the park. If residents are unaware of changes, they are less likely to support them, even if they provide a benefit. Providing lan guage access, physical signage, and clear detour markings would go a long way in garnering sup port for open spaces.

The effort is worth it. When done well, these programs have overwhelmingly positive im pacts on our public health, accessibility, climate, and more.

People love open streets. I don’t blame them. Comparing Memorial Drive with cars and Me morial Drive with people, the difference is no ticeable: cleaner air, increased public activities, and friendliness to families. A chance to enjoy the Charles River. It is an asset for residents and the Harvard community.

Open streets exemplify the best way we can build communities and cities around people — together.

Clyve Lawrence ’25 is a Government concentra tor in Adams House. His column “Our Trans portation Crisis” usually appears on alternate Mondays.

Howard, Here We Come!

BY STERLING M. BLAND

In August of 1933, a 65-year-old, heavy-hearted W.E.B. Du Bois, Class of 1890, founder and edi tor of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People’s magazine, “the Crisis,” published an article titled “The Negro College.” In it, Du Bois expressed a radical commitment to exclusively-Black education in the face of Jim Crow, a fierce declaration that would get him into a lot of trouble, both with his readers and the NAACP’s lead ership.

In fact, the following summer, the conflict would lead to his resignation.

Du Bois begins the essay by criticizing Black ed ucators who insist that a Black college is “nothing more and nothing less than a university.” No, Du Bois, writes. Stop assimilating. They are Black uni versities. For Du Bois, to advocate against race-con sciousness in historically Black institutions of learn ing naively assumed an inevitable racial progress in the Jim Crow Era. Instead, America needed these colleges to prepare Black students for the real world, such that they could learn “exactly how and where… to establish a reasonable Life in the United States.”

Du Bois’ readers correctly understood him to be advocating for segregation. At this point in his life, he had begun to cope with racism’s permanence in the industrial system. Du Bois had his share of ed ucation, graduating from Fisk University in 1888, earning a second bachelor’s from Harvard in 1890, and five years later, in 1895, becoming the first Af rican American to receive a PhD from Harvard. He spent the majority of his adult life fighting for inte gration through both academia and journalism, try ing to convince whites that Blacks were worthy of their support. And still, it seemed like segregation in the educational system was only solidifying.

The only viable alternative was to pivot inwards. Black people, through “voluntary determined co operative effort,” would have to establish their own Black institutions in their own communities. With great time and effort, they would fight their way back into a diverse American public sphere.

Du Bois’ dreary vision of racial separation in 1933 is darkly prophetic, perhaps. It is the world Students for Fair Admissions wants.

This October, the Supreme Court took up Stu dents for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, a landmark case challenging Harvard’s race-conscious admissions. Using the classic white supremacist move — pitting minori ties against one another — SFFA asserts that Har vard’s race-conscious admissions “penalizes Asian Americans” for the undue benefit of African Ameri can and Latinx applicants. Such a conniving conser vative argument (“race-conscious admissions are reverse racism!”) is just another instance of white supremacy wagging its unwieldy head, calling dis criminatory a measure designed to correct the dis crimination that white supremacists themselves have perpetuated.

If affirmative action is overturned, Harvard’s percentage of Black and Latinx students may shrink into non-existence, particularly impacting Gener ational African Americans, who are already esti mated to be severely underrepresented at the Uni versity. Institutional bias will go unchecked and the admissions office’s preference for legacy students will only strengthen. Harvard admissions, the socalled colorblind institution SFFA dreams of, will increasingly shatter the dreams of Black and Latinx high school applicants.

If SFFA gets what it wants, what Du Bois called the “Color Line” in education will only sharpen. Black and Latinx students will be forced to become increasingly conscious of their racial identities as they watch Harvard retrogress to its white racial status.

A few weeks ago, a large group of Black Har vard students traveled to Washington D.C. to cele brate an annual football game at “The Mecca,” that is, the illustrious Howard University. To be in an oa sis of knowledge beyond the white gaze was a little taste of heaven. When we asked students about their experience, they had their trifles with administra tive processes, as most of us do. But when it came to their racial identity, one thing was abundantly clear: at Howard, it felt easier to be authentic, to explore the intellectual and social world around you with out having to be overly conscious of your skin color.

I didn’t apply to Howard in high school because I wasn’t aware of its importance. The alienation I have experienced on Harvard’s campus has made that importance abundantly clear. Black students on this campus are tired of being looked at sideways when we self-congregate. We are tired of the fact that there is no physical space for us on campus. We are tired of the fact that to fit in, we must assimilate into white final clubs. We are tired of so-called “pro gressive” answers in the classroom that sound woke but lack substance.

Almost 90 years after “The Negro College” was published, we wrestle with the temptation to ret rogress to separate schooling: a dystopian Ameri ca where droves of Black students stop applying to white schools and turn to Historically Black Col leges and Universities. Where elite institutions are further deprived of the gift that is diversity.

I would hope that the onset of such a segregat ed world is unlikely. But if that is the world that Stu dents for Fair Admissions want, then so be it. Howard, here we come!

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Returning the Revolutionary Slave

BY CHRISTIAN A. GINES

On a Saturday in January 1835, a group of Afri can Muslims, most slaves, began an uprising in Salvador, a city in the Brazillian state of Bahia. It was called the Males uprising, likely after a Brazilian word borrowed from the term “imale,” which means “Muslim” in Yoruba. Partly out of fear that revolutionary sentiment would ferment fur ther, the Bahians violently punished the rebels and suppressed the activities of the Males.

Like Harvard, Brazil has a legacy of slavery that reaches back centuries. It was a main port of the slave trade, receiving almost half the slaves forcibly extracted from Africa and sent to the New World. And it was the last place in the Americas to formal ly abolish slavery, with many Afro-Brazilians still feeling the effects of this bloody history today. Now, due to skull records, we know that the supposed re mains of at least one of the Male rebels ended up in the hands of Harvard.

This discovery comes in the aftermath of a report that found that Harvard holds the remains of 19 in dividuals who were enslaved and thousands of In digenous and Native American remains. While the histories of each are long and winding, we know that the skull of the Male revolutionary ended up at Harvard through Gideon T. Snow, a U.S. citizen who lived in Brazil for some time.

Snow sent the skull to Boston, where it was do nated to the Boston Society for Medical Improve ment. Eventually, the skull made its way into the hands of the Warren Anatomical Museum, a part of the Harvard Medical School.

Now the Islamic community of Salvador in Bahia is calling for the repatriation of the enslaved man’s remains. According to reporting by The Crimson, in September of this year, Harvard said that they would return the remains of the 19 enslaved people, but as of yet, no further steps seem to have been taken. Ad vocates for the Islamic community in Salvador say that repatriation would begin to address Harvard’s violent legacy of scientific racism.

Museums are not neutral spaces. They can main tain and exhibit histories of oppression. In par

ticular, this case highlights the global reach of an ti-Blackness. The transatlantic slave trade wasn’t an isolated, unidirectional event, but one that spanned geographies to the point that the skull of a leader of a Brazilian slave revolt could end up in the hands of America’s premier university.

In recent years, calls for the decolonization of museums and the repatriation of their artifacts have increased. I struggle to believe that an institu tion could come to accumulate human remains, es pecially in such a quantity as Harvard has, through ethical means. As such, and to heal the communities from which they were taken, returning them should be a first priority.

Even in death, through the inaction of museums, these individuals remain captive, denied a prop er burial. Bodies of people enslaved and exploited during life should not suffer experimentation or ex hibition in death.

I struggle to believe that an institution could come to accumulate human remains, especially in such a quantity as Harvard has, through ethical means. As such, and to heal the communities from which they were taken, returning them should be a first priority.

Harvard has released a report about their Legacy of Slavery. Now it is time to act. Returning the skull so that the Islamic community of Salvador can, at long last, provide it a proper funeral will represent a small but essential first step in the repatriation revo lution needed to atone for Harvard’s harms.

Christian A. Gines ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Mather House.

Sterling Bland ’23, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in Sociology and African and Af rican American Studies in Quincy House.

It’s November, so you can expect 75 degree weather, a chance of torrential downpour, wind strong enough to blow your “Yuck Fale” bucket hat off, and perhaps even snow. HANNAH L. NIEDERRITER ’26, A CRIMSON DESIGN COMPER, LIVES IN WIGGLESWORTH.

Healey Elected First Female Mass. Governor

“Tonight I want to say some thing to every little girl and every LGBTQ person out there: I hope tonight shows you that you can be whatever, whoever you want to be,” Healey said.

BY YUSUF S. MIAN AND CHARLOTTE P. RITZ-JACK CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

BOSTON — Democrat Mau ra T. Healey ’92 coasted to victory in the Massachu setts gubernatorial election Tues day, easily downing a Trumpbacked opponent to become the first woman ever elected to the state’s top post.

Healey, who will become the first openly lesbian governor in American history, is the third consecutive Harvard College alum elected governor of Massa chusetts. She dominated Repub lican Geoffrey G. Diehl, who con ceded just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.

“I stand in front of you tonight proud to be the first woman and first gay person ever elected gov ernor of Massachusetts,” Healey told a crowd of jubilant support ers at a hotel in Boston, where she declared victory at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Healey’s victory flips the Mas sachusetts governor’s seat blue again after eight years of GOP leadership under Governor Char lie D. Baker ’79, who opted not to seek a third term.

Healey and Lieutenant Gov ernor-Elect Kimberley Driscoll led a slate of Democratic female candidates that made history on Tuesday.

The Associated Press called the race within seconds of when polls closed at 8 p.m. Tues day. Diehl’s campaign manager, Amanda Orlando, condemned the early projection, calling it “ir responsible.” But trailing in ev ery Massachusetts county, Diehl conceded just hours later.

“The people of the common wealth have spoken,” he said in a monotone address to supporters at a watch party late Tuesday. “I respect their choice.”

Former Boston City Council or Andrea J. Campbell became the first Black woman elected to a statewide office Tuesday after she easily defeated her Republi can opponent in the race for Mas sachusetts attorney general.

“In Massachusetts we don’t just say representation mat ters, we are showing it,” she said during a victory speech at the Democratic watch party in Bos ton.

Campbell’s victory over Re publican James McMahon comes just over a year after she lost in a primary for mayor of Boston.

Massachusetts voters elect ed Democrats to every statewide office and maintained the party’s supermajority in the state legisla ture, securing its ironclad grip on state policymaking.

In the race for state auditor, Democrat Diana DiZoglio led Republican Anthony Amore, the lone statewide GOP nomi nee endorsed by Baker, as of ear

ly Wednesday morning. The As sociated Press had not called the contest at press time.

William F. Galvin cruised to an eighth term as secretary of state on Tuesday, defeating Re publican Rayla Campbell. State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg defeated Cristina Crawford to se cure her third term in office.

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At the state Democratic watch party, Healey supporters lauded her historic victory.

“I look forward to the future of Massachusetts with them in charge,” said Melody Callahan, of Charlestown.

ebrate victories by Healey and Campbell.

“I’ve gotten to know Andrea Campbell really well, she’s just a fantastic human being and will make a fantastic attorney gener al,” she said.

S. Press ley and Katherine M. Clark.

Healey Volunteer Dawn McK enna, of Lexington, said she was “thrilled” to be at the event to cel

Massachusetts Voters Approve Millionaire Tax Ballot Question

BY ELIAS J. SCHISGALL CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Officals from the city of Boston presented initial plans to conduct a study into a potential new com munity center in Allston at a pub lic meeting on Thursday.

Massachusetts voters narrow ly approved ballot questions that will substantially raise taxes on millionaires and legalize driv er’s licenses for undocumented immigrants in the midterm elec tions on Tuesday.

Residents voted 52 percent to 48 to approve Ballot Question One, which will amend the state constitution to raise income tax es by 4 percent on annual in comes above $1 million. The tax will apply to 0.6 percent of house holds in the state, according to the Center for State Policy Analy sis at Tufts University, and it is ex pected to raise about $1.3 billion in state revenue in 2023.

es, and transit systems,” Mari ani wrote. “We’ll keep working to build a Massachusetts economy that works well for everyone, not just those at the top.”

The Coalition to Stop the Tax Hike Amendment wrote it was “disappointed” by the passage of Ballot Question One, calling it a “setback for the Massachusetts economy.”

“There is no guarantee that this ill-conceived amendment will increase spending for either education nor transportation. It will, however, severely impact re tirees, homeowners, and hard working residents across the state,” the Coalition wrote. “This amendment will hurt small busi nesses as they struggle with in flation, supply chain issues, and work to rebuild from the negative impacts of the pandemic.”

cent to 29 vote, which will force dental insurance providers to al locate at least 83 percent of pre miums toward patient care. It brings regulations on dental in surance providers in line with other health care insurers, which are obliged to spend between 85 and 88 percent of their premi ums on patients per Massachu setts law.

BY CLAIRE YUAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard students and affiliates flooded the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Tuesday evening to await the results of the 2022 midterm elections at a watch party hosted by the Institute of Politics.

The watch party, moderated by former CNN anchor Brian Stel ter, featured commentary from students in the IOP, as well as for mer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a visiting fellow at the IOP this semester, and a guest speak er from Black Voters Matter, La Tosha Brown.

Shortly after polls closed in Massachusetts at 8 p.m., the As sociated Press called the state’s gubernatorial race for Maura T. Healey ’92. Election results from states across the country also be gan to roll in.

Tarina K. Ahuja ’24, a member of the IOP, said she was nervous about the “big elections” in Geor gia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, which could flip party control of the U.S. House and Senate.

“There are a couple of states that have come in, but I think the

ones that we’ve seen so far are the things that we’ve been expect ing,” she said. “I’m just holding on to see what happens with all of the ones that are kind of up in the air still.”

Even as the viewing party came to a close at 10 p.m., results from many states remained un certain.

Nahla C. Owens ’25, who hails from Georgia and Texas, two states with key races in this elec tion cycle, said the midterm elec tions would have been “terrifying to watch alone.”

“I’m really grateful for the watch parties that are happening both with Dems and IOP and hav ing spaces to react with people to gether,” she said.

“I think a lot of students who are Democrats came into this maybe not with the highest of hopes, understanding that there were seats that we were going to lose,” she added. “But I feel like there’s just so much energy in this room that the optimism is rising as the night goes along.”

Eunice S. Chon ’25, an inde pendent voter from Georgia, said she expects the race to end in fa vor of incumbent Governor Brian

P. Kemp.

“My home state is GA, which is a key swing state this mid term election season,” she wrote in a statement. “I’m pretty sure that the governor’s race isn’t that close. Kemp will win.”

Chon said the midterm elec tions revealed the nation’s hyper polarization and highlighted the differences in priorities between parties.

“Democrats fought hard on abortion and protecting our de mocracy. Republicans focused on inflation and economic frus trations,” she wrote. “Neglecting any of these issues was a sure-fire way to seem out of touch.”

After hours of watching the polls, students — along with the rest of the country — are still wait ing for final results to come in.

Luke D. M. Albert ’22, co-presi dent of the Harvard College Dem ocrats, urged voters to “let the democratic process take place and ensure it’s taking place with out being interfered with.”

“We’re all anxious, of course, but we’re balancing hope and bal ancing fear together,” he said.

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Jeron Mariani, who managed the Fair Share for Massachu setts campaign — a coalition in cluding dozens of labor unions and advocacy groups — wrote in a statement that the vote was a “once-in-a-generation opportu nity that was years in the mak ing.”

“Our coalition will stick to gether to ensure that the money from Question 1 reaches our pub lic school classrooms and college campuses, and our roads, bridg

Voters also approved Ballot Question Four 54 percent to 46, ratifying a law passed by the state legislature in May allowing Mas sachusetts residents who cannot prove legal residency to get driv er’s licenses. The result comes as a victory for advocates who have pushed for years to pass the law.

The group Safer Roads Mas sachusetts, which campaigned in favor of the ballot question, wrote in a tweet that the victory meant “safer roads and increased mo bility access for everyone in our state, regardless of status.”

Voters resoundingly approved Ballot Question Two, in a 71 per

In a statement to supporters Tuesday night, American Den tal Association president George R. Shepley said the vote “set the stage for the rest of the country.”

“You all are just setting a shin ing example of where we can go in our future endeavors in dental in surance reform and what we can do to help our patients,” Shepley said.

Voters rejected Ballot Ques tion Three, which would have overhauled the state’s alcohol li censing rules, 55 percent to 45 percent.

voters re-elected a slate of Democrats to the state legislature, helping shore up the party’s supermajority.

All nine Democrats who rep resent Massachusetts in the U.S. House were re-elected Tuesday, including both of Cambridge’s representatives, Ayanna

Maura T. Healey ‘92 declares victory in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election at a Democratic watch party in Boston. JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

MAURA T. HEALEY ’92 defeated Geoffrey G. Diehl on Tuesday in the Mas sachusetts guberantorial election, becoming the first female elected to the state’s top post.

Brian Stelter, former CNN host, comments on the midterm elections at a watch party hosted by the Harvard

Kennedy School Institute of Politics Tuesday night. CLAIRE YUAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Jeron Mariani Fair Share for Massachusettes Campaign

In their decades-long his tory, the Harvard-Rad cliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players have brought their audiences to all the corners of the United Kingdom and across half of the globe. This time is no differ ent: From Nov. 10 to Nov. 13, they are transforming the stage of the Agassiz Theater into the Palace of Westminster and its environs in their production of “Iolanthe.”

“Iolanthe” is the story of a young shepherd, Strephon, who wants to marry Phyllis, a ward of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half-fairy, and when she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, she as sumes the worst. But her “rival” turns out to be none other than Strephon’s own mother, Iolanthe, who is an eternally young fairy. Phyllis turns to her other suitors — who include half of the House of Lords and her own guardian — leading to a conflict between the peers and the fairies.

The show is as much a love story as a witty satire of Victo rian-era law, society, and gov ernment, but “Iolanthe”’s main strength might be its music.

“There are a lot of referenc es in the score to contemporar ies and predecessors of Sullivan as a composer, including Wagner, Verdi and Bellini, and I’m excit

ed to channel the spirits of those composers in the music,” said music director Arhan Kumar ’23.

Kumar, whose own artistic background is in opera singing, pointed toward the vocals as one of “Iolanthe”’s highlights.

“I’m really excited about the robust singing that everyone is bringing to the stage. It isn’t an easy thing, especially for under graduates who may or may not have extensive training in singing to really wrestle with a 25 piece orchestra,” Kumar said.

The mention of the orches tra is crucial, as G&S is one of the few performing arts organiza tions on campus devoted equal

‘The White Lotus’ Season Two Premiere Review: A Sunny Start in Sicily

BY JAMILA R. O’HARA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Season Two premiere of “The White Lotus” begins at the end of a week in paradise with a gorgeous Mediterra nean beach, free-flowing Prosecco, and the discovery of a potential murder, or perhaps several.

Following the formula of its previ ous season’s pilot (which began with a closed body bag and little context), the HBO comedy-drama’s new install ment jumps back in time after this jar ring cold open — thus establishing the apparently grim destination of the sea son’s seven-episode run. For now, how ever, viewers are left to get acquainted with the assorted group of ultra-priv ileged guests beginning their stay at the exclusive and endlessly luxurious White Lotus resort.

The critically-acclaimed satire first premiered in July 2021 and was origi nally intended to be a six-part limited series; however, its popularity quickly led to a renewal by HBO. The first season — which received 20 Emmy nomina tions and took home 10 wins including Outstanding Limited Series — detailed a week in the life at a Hawaiian location of the fictional global resort chain, follow ing a handful of dysfunctional guests, overworked staff, and disgruntled re sort manager Armond (an excellent Murray Bartlett.) In a clever expansion of its original premise, the show’s dis tinctive brand of dark humor and biting exploration of social themes continues with a new cast at The White Lotus: Sici ly. This time around, the boat of new ar rivals includes Dominic Di Grasso (Mi chael Imperioli), a Hollywood director traveling with his father Bert (F. Murray Abraham) and son Albie (Adam DiMar co) to visit his grandmother’s village. Generational differences are quickly brought to the forefront as Dom and Al bie, a mild-mannered recent Stanford grad, attempt to curb Bert’s completely

inappropriate, outdated approach to in teracting with the women around him. This familial grouping allows for a clev er exploration of masculinity across generations, exposing Dom’s own hy pocrisy: Viewers are given glimpses into the reality of his personal life, where his actions and familial relationships don’t necessarily align with his ideals (“I’m a feminist. I mean, I didn’t marry some subservient wife”).

Jennifer Coolidge reprises her role as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt, a troubled wom an who frequents White Lotus resorts around the world (she’s now a mem ber of the Blossom Circle!). Returning alongside Tanya is her now-husband Greg (Jon Gries), another guest at the White Lotus Hawaii, where the two be gan their whirlwind romance.This year, the couple is joined on vacation by Tan ya’s trendy young assistant Portia (Ha ley Lu Richardson), much to Greg’s dis may. Shirking Greg’s angry request to send Portia home, Tanya instead secret ly exiles Portia to her room — leaving this season’s Gen Z mouthpiece to dodge both Tanya and Greg for the duration of the trip.

Arriving alongside the DiGrassos and McQuoid-Hunts are two married couples who seem to share a strained friendship: the newly-rich tech engi neer Ethan (Will Sharpe) and employ ment lawyer Harper (Aubrey Plaza) have been invited to join Ethan’s pomp ous college roommate Cameron (Theo James) and his wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy) on vacation.While Ethan and Harper seem relatively grounded com pared to several of the show’s more overtly crooked characters, Cameron and Daphne are, as Harper puts it, are “People that brag about taking helicop ters to the Hamptons and being friends with Jeff Bezos.”

Rounding out the season’s main cast (so far) are Lucí (Simona Tabasco), a lo cal hustler and sex worker, and Mia (Be atrice Grannò), an aspiring musician. The girls’ schemes to catch the attention

of wealthy vacationers are constantly thwarted by Valentina (Sabrina Impac ciatore), the resort’s demanding manag er, and certainly another key player.

A major strength of the show’s first season was its ability to weave together the stories of its ensemble, as the paths and fates of guests, staff, and locals overlapped and intertwined — and the Season Two premiere is undoubtedly promising on this front. Its cast of char acters are both individually and collec tively compelling, representing a spec trum of experiences and perspectives. Furthermore, the premiere offers sever al delicious peeks into the cracks form ing in existing relationships.

The second season of White Lo tus retains its idiosyncratic and sar donic sense of humor, and Aubrey Pla za’s characteristically deadpan delivery makes her a comedic standout, espe cially as Harper navigates interactions with Cameron and Daphne — a couple whose willful ignorance is both hilari ous, and, unfortunately, very believable. (“I’m so over the whole news cycle!”)

The sun-soaked premiere also sub tly hints at the many narrative and ton al layers that will be peeled back as the season inevitably shifts into increas ingly dark themes. Just as each charac ter brings their own baggage, the resort, too, seems to carry something sinis ter within its walls: Beneath this idyllic scenery runs an ominous undercurrent that reveals itself in lulls and moments of uncertainty — and the resort’s beauti ful, historic decor appears distorted and unsettling to the characters themselves at times.

With a compelling cast, novel pic turesque setting, and the promise of several interesting slow-burn story arcs, “The White Lotus” is off to a strong start in Sicily. Time will tell if the show’s revival as an anthology series will ulti mately feel redundant — or refreshing as an Aperol Spritz.

ly to acting and music. “We have a full wind section … brass instru ments, string section,” Woodruff said. “It’s a legitimate orchestra.”

Although G&S rose up to the challenge of adapting “Iolanthe,” some changes — primarily stem ming from a concern about the length — had to be made to bring it to a Harvard audience.

“It’s a show that has some re ally beautiful music [but] it’s also a show that can be light on plot sometimes,” said stage director Nicholas C. Fahy ’23. “We want ed to make sure that when our au dience comes into and out of the theater, they feel like [we] use the right amount of words to deliver the right amount of content.”

Still, the largest source of problems was not “Iolanthe”’s li bretto or score, but rather the ef fects of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the group continued per forming during the Covid-19 pan demic and after, it did so with a markedly different repertoire — including Sullivan’s solo oneact opera “Cox and Box,” and the original “Milkmaid” — and on a smaller scale.

“I think that coming out of the Covid pandemic, a lot of student organizations like Gilbert and Sullivan don’t have the member ship that they used to,” Fahy said.

“That’s just created this vacuum of institutional knowledge: Who are the people who can do cos tumes? And who are the people who know how to do props? And different things like that.”

But the group wasn’t caught unawares, and, in anticipation of the difficulties of the ambitious task, began preparing all the way back in the spring.

“I think we had a good road map that we wanted to follow by the time August came,” Kumar said.

Although, as executive pro ducer Lucas J. Walsh ’24 said, there were “a lot of complica tions,” the production team more than delivered with hand-paint ed set elements and elaborate costumes.

“I’m just really excited to see it all coalescing, being able to sit down during the production and watch what this incredible team has put together,” Walsh said.

“Iolanthe” is a labor of love, a result of a process that began months before the September casting. Is it worth seeing?

“I think it is,” Kumar said. “It is something that people will not find in other shows.”

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Harvard Authors Spotlight: Gabrielle Zevin

This focus on diverse identi ties and narratives is a large part of why Zevin originally began writing.

Literature provides a way to explore and celebrate what makes us unique.

Gabrielle Zevin ’00, au thor and former Lever ett House resident, uses her work to deftly navigate the mysterious topic of identity.

Zevin deeply understands the role that individual identity and childhood influence play in defin ing a person’s outlook.

The idea of embracing one’s inherent identity is especial ly apparent in Zevin’s latest New York Times best-selling nov el, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” In an inter view with The Harvard Crimson, Zevin commented on how identi ty shaped both the origins of her writing and the characters in the novel.

“The fact that I am, like Sam in the book, half Jewish and half Ko rean, and I always lived in places where there weren’t a lot of peo ple like me, I think there’s an ex tent to which that sets you as an outsider among other people, which probably puts you in a sort of a writerly mode just from from the jump,” she said.

Zevin has always wanted to be a writer; the desire wasn’t in spired by a specific moment in her past.

Embracing underrepresented identities such as Sam’s has been key to Zevin’s writing even before the release of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” An other of her best-selling novels, “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” fo cused on a Southeast Asian pro tagonist at a time in which such narratives were less popular in Western media.

“[A.J. Fikry] ended up exceed ing even my expectations for what it would sell at the time,” Zevin said. “And when that book came out, about seven years ago now, people were less interest ed in stories that had biracial, Southeast Asian leads than they are now.”

“I used to believe more in the idea that novels can be a vehicle for social change,” she said. “I don’t really believe that anymore. But what I do believe is that a nov el can show: Here’s a person, like you or unlike you, and can tell you what it is like to be somebody who is not you. I think there’s some thing great about that.”

Another recurring theme in Zevin’s work is the fear of declin ing health and human mortality. Zevin commented on the origins of this theme.

“I think that, as humans, we like to think that it is not an inev itability that we get old and our bodies fail,” she said.

“There’s some fiction that lives in denial of this fact. And I think some people read for that; they read for the denial of death. But I don’t think it’s a healthy way to go through life.”

“Health is chance in many ways, and also the decline of health is inevitable. So I think that’s the thing that becomes part of [Sadie and Sam’s] games,” she continued. “And I think, in many ways, one of the reasons people play games is to deny death.”

Zevin also spoke on her col lege years and how they shaped her attitudes towards the writ ing process. Her time at Harvard was unconventional, and she of ten felt very different from her fel low students.

“I think I was a pretty lousy Harvard student,” Zevin said. “I wasn’t a joiner.”

Instead, Zevin recalls that she used her time in college to take in the world around her. Although there is often a feeling that stu dents must contribute as much to the Harvard community as they receive, Zevin found this pres sure unnecessary.

“One of the things I learned while I was at Harvard was to not be afraid of periods of dorman cy or inactivity,” Zevin said.“Cer tainly as part of the creative pro cess, the times to observe, the

times to be quiet, and the times to kind of just be in the world are just as useful as the times when you’re really, really, actively do ing something.”

She explained that taking things slow in life is more valu able than many believe.

“There’s a part in ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ that mentions the German word ‘torschlusspanik,’ meaning ‘gate shut panic,’” she said. “And that’s something I definitely felt up to a couple of years ago: This feel ing that time is running out and they’re going to close the gates be hind you.”

“But there are some things, like writing novels, that take years, and getting used to the fact

that there are slow things in life was difficult for me,” she contin ued. “Now I love that, I love the fact that in a world where every thing is, you know, TikToks, there are certain things that take a long time and that you have to look at, day after day after day.”

This ability to take things slow has obviously generated great re sults for Zevin. “Tomorrow, To morrow, and Tomorrow” is her tenth novel, and her success has only soared after its release. Her focus on exploring intriguing identities, profound questions surrounding health and chance, and an idiosyncratic writing pro cess have made her a standout voice in the contemporary liter ary world.

Remi Wolf Concert Review: Three Times the Fun

BY ABIGAIL A. GOLDEN AND JULIA YANEZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

“Rule number one is I need you to scream every lyric as loud as you fucking can,” soul pop singer Remi Wolf demanded of Boston’s Roadrunner’s animated crowd at her Oct. 9 show. Wolf’s already hit Boston a couple times this year as both a headlining act for her own tour in February and a support ing act for Lorde’s show in April. As such, she faced the prospect of a lethargic reception at her third performance in Boston. Anyone familiar with her work, however, need not worry about a lackluster performance.

“Rule number two is I need you to put your hands up, shake your fingers out, sexily bring them down our bodies,” she con tinued. “I need you guys to give yourselves the permission to have the best night of your lives.”

Indisputably entertaining and

naturally charismatic, Wolf has mastered her energetic yet lais sez-faire delivery in just under a year of touring. Originally re leased in 2021, with a deluxe ver sion hot on its tails this past June, her debut album “Juno” tran scends genre barriers as she pulls from indie pop, jazz, disco, and punk influences to formulate the unique sound that has propelled her to stardom.

Appropriately decked in an oversized Harvard T-shirt from The Harvard Bookstore and pa jama pants, Wolf put the bed room in bedroom pop, gallivant ing across her whimsical stage design and weaving around mas sive flowers, a couch, a flowery tree, and various band members during her performance. Move ment was the name of the game — she lept, danced, and cart wheeled her way to the tempo of the flashing lights and wasn’t stopping there. Tuned into the needs of her listeners, Wolf’s roaming even took her off stage

to respond to an urgent call to ac tion: a sign in the crowd that read, “Remi, sign my tits?”

Ever shameless, Wolf wasn’t afraid to indulge in the colorful ness of her lyrics. “How many of you go ‘Aw, fuck, I’m a little mean,’” she asked ahead of an im passioned performance of “Sexy Villain.” With her speech and gid dy performance, she vitalized the crowd; “How many of you say to yourself, ‘Man, I am a cunty ass motherfucker?’”

In what is rapidly becoming a tour tradition, Wolf invited her drummer, Conor Malloy, to take over the vocals while Wolf rele gated herself to playing drums. Malloy led fans in a call-and-re sponse series of affirmations, which began with the financial wisdom “I will make my cred it card payment” and culminat ed into an echo chamber of the self-confidence mantra “It’s a Dua Lipa summer! It’s a Dua Lipa fall! I am Dua Lipa!”

While Wolf certainly excelled

in her crowd work, her musicali ty was where she truly shone. Her raw talent was bellied by a healthy self-awareness and vulnerabil ity that facilitated her audience engagement. Monologuing be fore “Liquor Store,” the opening track from “Juno,” Wolf spoke about the uncertainty that stems from a “situationship where this person hasn’t replied to your text in, like, six hours, and you start to get a little — or a lot — anxious.” That anxiety propelled a dynamic performance and brought a new edge to the line “‘Cause you like having sex like an animal / And I keep thinking you’re running away from me.”

As she serenaded the audience with good energy, fans danced and laughed under strings of bubbles and psychedelic projec tions. While Remi Wolf is able to convey artistry and talent, her concert was made for fans to have genuine fun.

‘Alpha Zulu’ Review: A Soaring Rebirth for Phoenix

BY CLARA V. NGUYEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Phoenix are having a renais sance. If the Botticelli painting on the cover of their new album “Alpha Zulu” doesn’t convince you, then their music will. On Nov. 4, the French indie band unveiled a set of sleek pop-rock vignettes straight from the Lou vre, which housed a recording studio for the first time in its centuries-long history.

Lead singer Thomas Mars de scribed “Alpha Zulu” as “all over the place” to Zane Lowe on Ap ple Music 1, but the album’s the matic breadth works in its favor.

Phoenix place their character istically crisp songwriting and self-production on full display as they outline topics from the personal to the theological.

On the title track, Mars as sumes the perspective of a deity seeking to understand humani ty’s obsession with sin. “Tell me why, don’t tell me when, don’t tell me how,” he commands. As if to mock the call-and-response structure of many hymns, the intro’s choral synth phrases are met with only silence in be tween.

Mars’s derisive “ha!” reinforc es the belief that “singin’ halle lujah” without genuine repen tance amounts to little beyond a way to “cover your lies.” Then, the sparse instrumentals as sume a celestial resonance as Mars wonders, “Why choose your body over time with me?”

Some potential reasons — and even more questions — emerge on the next track, “Tonight” (feat. Ezra Koenig), Phoenix’s first studio release to feature guest vocals. Mars’s uptempo duet with the Vampire Week end frontman reconciles nos talgia and immediacy over a bouncy bass line. “What if I was the answer to your prayer?”

Mars asks, dismissing spiritu ality in pursuit of a connection that might not even “last ‘til it’s dawn.” As the post-chorus’s melismatic call to “roll with me” fragments the bridge among in sistent echoes, its nonchalance devolves into a sense of losing control. Mars and Koenig re

store order by abandoning their trademark wry wordplay to ad mit a difficult truth: “Oh, how I wish I could be someone like you.”

Doubt starts to cloud Mars’s wishes on “After Midnight” as he contemplates how even the sky, one of life’s few constants, transforms from day to night. The liminal sunset hours in between are at once “way too much” and “not enough” for Mars, who cynically quips that “‘heavenly’ sort of sounds ado lescent.” Sparse guitar chords give the melody room to wan der, but the song’s balance shifts in the bridge, when the back ground whir of synths leaps to form arpeggios above a hypno tizing chant of “Listen, listen, it’s illicit.” Mars then breaks his own spell to warn, “Soon you’ll realize it’s after midnight.” The silence that follows, like mid night, arrives sooner than ex pected.

“Winter Solstice,” the only “Al pha Zulu” track Phoenix wrote remotely instead of in their Lou vre studio, captures the bleak isolation of feeling dispensable to someone essential. “Thank God you know your ways,” Mars sings, a muffled beat blunting the edge of his sarcasm. “What would you trade me for?” The layers of synths closing in on Mars’s voice emphasize his des peration to find “something pos itive” as the days get shorter. Album closer “Identical” pays homage to the late pro ducer and DJ Philippe Zdar, who worked on Phoenix’s 2010 Grammy-winning hit “Wolf gang Amadeus Phoenix.” The soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s film “On the Rocks” featured an alternate cut of the song, and the newly extended version ampli fies its searching mood.

“Alpha Zulu” takes its name from a phrase Mars heard a pi lot repeat during a patch of inflight turbulence, and Phoenix wrote “almost all” of it in just 10 days. Though the pandemic pre vented the band members from meeting in person for months, their whirlwind creative pro cess propelled them past tow ering challenges to even great er heights.

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FIFTEEN QUESTIONS

Cass R. Sunstein ’75 is the Robert Walmsley Uni versity Professor at Har vard, where he estab lished the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at the Law School. He was award ed the Holberg Prize in 2018, de scribed by some as the Nobel Prize for the social sciences and the humanities. Outside of aca demia, Sunstein served as the ad ministrator of the Office of Infor mation and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration.

FM: Where is your favorite place that you’ve lived? Chica go, D.C., Cambridge?

CRS: Massachusetts. Of all the places I’ve lived, my favorite is Concord, Massachusetts. And of all the places I’ve worked, my fa vorite is Cambridge, Massachu setts.

FM: Why is that?

CRS: Cambridge just has a com bination of energy and sense, meaning there’s a lot of intellec tual energy, people are full of ideas. There are nice restaurants, it isn’t too crowded, it’s pleas ant, and also you can find what you need there. I’ve lived in New York, which is amazing, but a lit tle overwhelming to me. And I’ve lived in Chicago, which I really like, but Cambridge is better than any workplace I’ve lived.

FM: This past summer, the Su preme Court made the deci sion on Dobbs, overturning Roe. They are currently hear ing the case on race-conscious admissions, and that has the strong likelihood of being overturned as well this com ing summer. What would you say to young people who have become a bit disillusioned with the law, the courts? Why do we still need to study them and re spect them?

CRS: The rule of law is funda mental to a free society. The law ensures background conditions for freedom from violence, for free speech, for freedom of reli gion, for an ability to get from one place to another without people putting you behind some bars un less you’ve done something that warrants that. And the law is an instrument that can be used for great good and is being used for great good every day. It’s being used today to protect the environ ment, to protect people’s person hoods against people who want to hurt them or take something from them. It’s being used today to help keep the water clean. It’s being used today to help keep workers safer than they would otherwise be.

The precondition for much of what we take for granted, so the fact that Harvard students are able to have various things that, in the arc of human history, are great, in terms of opportunities, liberties, and resources — the law has everything to do with all of those things. So if one doesn’t like the direction of the Supreme Court of the United States, the law allows you to say that, to explain to the Supreme Court itself why you think it’s gone in the wrong direction, of course, through law yers, but also through The Crim son or through newspapers. And then the law is essential to study so we can maintain its best fea tures and improve on those fea tures that aren’t so good.

There are a lot of people who are celebrating the new conser vative Supreme Court, and it was sought by people in the political

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CASS SUNSTEIN ON SCOTUS, SQUASH, AND THE LAMPOON

BY MILES J. HERSZENHORN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

process for decades; they’ve gotten there. I’m not in agreement with the central directions of the current Su preme Court, but that should inten sify our interest if you also are not in agreement and trying to make things better.

FM: At Harvard, you’re not just a professor at the Law School — you also teach a Gen Ed, “Making Change When Change Is Hard.” What inspired you to teach that course? And why do you enjoy the opportunity to teach under grads?

CRS: It grew out of a course that my wife and I created a few years ago.

We had come out of the government; she was in the area of foreign poli cy, and I was in the area of domestic policy. And we thought that we had learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t to make change, and that there would both be general lessons from particular events and also there might be enduring les sons from events in the last 40 years, some of which we were privileged to be observers of or participants in.

We both thought that undergradu ates have brilliance, of course, be cause it’s Harvard, but also they have a kind of openness to ideas of their own that maybe are completely orig inal. When you’re in grad school you might be a little more careful, which

is amazing and fantastic. But there’s something fantastic about people who are willing to think something completely fresh.

FM: You teach Gen Eds with large lecture halls of undergraduates, but I know that you’ve also ap peared to testify before congres sional committees quite a few times. What’s scarier: facing a crowd of undergraduates asking you questions or a panel of Con gresspeople?

CRS: Well, what’s scary is playing for Harvard Squash for the nation al title. That’s scary. Or what’s scary is — right now I’m faculty fellow to

the squash teams — getting on the court with someone on the men’s or women’s teams. Those are scary things. Teaching a large class is, to me, exciting, and testi fying is a privilege. Testifying as an academic really isn’t scary at all. It’s an opportunity, and you want to be helpful, and it’s not a scary thing. If you’re testifying as a public official, you’re represent ing the administration for which you work, and you want to make sure that you don’t cast anything in a bad light.

FM: When did your love for squash come? And how long have you been playing it?

CRS: Well, on my first day on the planet, my dad took me to a squash court and had me watch the finals of a local tournament. And I was crying — you know, I was just out of the womb, so I was crying a lot. But as soon as I heard the bounce of the ball, I started to calm down. And even though I was only one day old, I smiled, which was very unusual. Okay, that’s all made up. None of that is true. [laughs] I started to play squash at Middlesex School in Concord, and I started to play reg ularly in eighth grade. And I just loved it. I love the fact that it was fast and that there were lots of de cisions to be made in a hurry. It was love at first sight.

FM: Going back to your Gen Ed, “Making Change When Change Is Hard,” any advice on what could possibly need to be changed at Harvard?

CRS: Well, I mean, most of my work is really about public poli cy. So I work on health and safe ty issues, I work on environmen tal issues, and higher education isn’t something that I’ve taught or studied aside from being lucky enough to be part of an institu tion of higher education. My ob servation of those parts of Har vard that I’m privileged to see is just very favorable. The students are amazing, the faculty is tre mendous, the range and diversi ty of opportunities for students is out of sight. From what I’m ob serving in my classes and just as I walk around Cambridge, it’s a tre mendous institution. [dog barks in the background] And my dog is very much in agreement with that.

FM: I know that you were an un dergrad at Harvard who played squash, but what I only recent ly learned was that you were also a member of a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization, otherwise known as the Lampoon. Did you enjoy your time on the Har vard Lampoon?

CRS: Since 1876 or something, Harvard has been blessed to have a terrific publication that is both journalism and humor. It’s news and sports. It’s technology, it’s music. It’s the breeding ground for the journalists who have de fined American journalism. And the fact that Harvard’s only had one outlet has been okay, be cause the outlet is so spectacular. The fact that Harvard has had so many opportunities with respect to sports and so many courses you can take and majors, and the fact that it has only had one publi cation for all these years — that is the Lampoon, that’s okay because the Lampoon is so great. If you want to do interviews, or if you want to do stories on politics, or if you want to do something about Taylor Swift, or if you want to do something about political cam paigns — the Lampoon is where everyone goes. So its universal ity, I think, is why it redeems its uniqueness at Harvard. Other universities, they have a humor magazine plus a newspaper, may be a daily newspaper. Harvard just has the Lampoon, but —

FM: Professor Sunstein, this Q&A is going to become un publishable!

CRS: Okay, so, The Crimson is magnificent, needless to say —

FM: Okay, now we can run the piece.

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THE LEGAL SCHOLAR sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss why those disillusioned with the Su preme Court’s direction should not give up on the country’s judicial system. “The law is essential to study so we can maintain its best features and improve on those features that aren’t so good,” he says.

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Protest Opposes Brazilian Election

years in prison. Brazil’s Supreme Court annulled Lula’s sentence in March 2021, and he was released after spending 580 days in prison.

Families Come for First-Year Weekend

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BY SARAH GIRMA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Draped in Brazilian flags and holding signs alleg ing fraud, more than 100 protesters gathered in Harvard Square Sunday to oppose the re sults of the Brazilian presidential election.

Leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the Oct. 30 election with 50.9 percent of the vote, re placing far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who garnered 49.1 percent after serving one term in office. Protests have erupt ed across Brazil and the United States, with some Bolsonaro sup porters alleging the election was fraudulent and calling on the mil itary to stop the transition of pow er.

There is no evidence to sug gest the election was illegiti mate. Brazilian military officials, who helped supervise the elec tion, said they have not found any signs of voter fraud.

Sunday’s protest was orga nized by Congresso Conservador Brasileiro, a conservative Brazil ian group based in Framingham.

The protesters questioned the integrity of electronic voting ma chines, through which nearly all Brazilian voters cast their ballots.

A group of Harvard students counter-protested Sunday’s demonstration, calling the dis play an attack on democracy.

João Pinheiro ’23-’24 and Hel ena Mello Franco ’24, co-presi dents of the Harvard Undergrad

uate Brazilian Association, said the organization did not condone the Bolsonaro supporters’ ac tions.

“It’s an attack against demo cratic values — an attack against the electoral system in Brazil,” Pinheiro said.

“We also felt like it was an in vasion of our space as well to have these protesters here in the mid dle of Harvard Square, many

times confusing the students at Harvard who could be thinking that these people were affiliat ed somehow with us,” said Mello Franco, who attended the count er-protest.

Mello Franco described Sun day’s counter-protest, which was not organized by HUBA, as a demonstration in support of democratic institutions.

“The protest was not neces

sarily pro-Lula,” Mello Franco said. “I think the protest is more accurately described as a protest pro-‘respect electoral results and democratic institutions.’”

Lula, who is set to take office at the start of next year, previous ly served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. In July 2017, he was convicted on charges of mon ey laundering and corruption and sentenced to nine and a half

At Sunday’s demonstration, protester Fatima Heath said she was “upset” that someone who was previously imprisoned was elected president of Brazil.

“We don’t want a bad guy,” Heath said. “If the left [has] anoth er good guy, we will respect. We will respect it, because we sup port the democracy.”

Heath, along with several oth er protesters at the event, advo cated for military intervention in Brazil.

“We want, we call, we need, we ask for our army [to] resolve that,” Heath said.

Pinheiro, HUBA co-presi dent, drew comparisons between Sunday’s protest and attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election.

Mello Franco said she hoped Sunday’s demonstrations would shed light on Brazil’s political cli mate, which she described as “po larizing.”

“I hope that in a way this event also makes people more con scious of how important it is right now to support Brazilian democ racy and to leads fights to make sure that democracy is upheld — that the results are upheld,” she said.

Mello Franco also called for compassion toward Brazilian students.

“Try to be as comforting and as compassionate as possible be cause it’s very tough for us to see something like this happening to our democracy and with us being so far away from it as well,” she said.

This weekend, parents, sib lings, and family members flooded Harvard Yard to par ticipate in First-Year Family Weekend, hosted by the Dean of Students Office.

The weekend featured scheduled programming, in cluding the Harvard-Colum bia football game, perfor mances from the First-Year Arts Program, and special ac cess to the Annenberg dining hall and various museums on campus.

Ashley L. Redhead ’26 said he found Family Weekend to be a welcome reprieve from the fast pace of the fall semes ter. Rather than attending the scheduled events, Redhead opted to spend time with his family in a more informal set ting.

“It’s our first semester, and it feels like we’ve just been working non-stop,” Redhead said. “I really appreciated this weekend to see my family and reground myself.”

Redhead’s father Ashley L. Redhead Jr. added that the weekend gave parents an op portunity to meet and connect with one another.

“I’ve met so many differ ent parents on and off cam pus, and so many connections were made just as a result of someone in the elevator see ing my button or someone see ing the hat — from Trader Joe’s to the hotel elevator lobby,” he said.

For Isabella U.M. Texei ra-Ramos ’26, Family Week end was a particularly “im portant” experience because it allowed her to spend a week with her mom despite be ing unable to travel home for Thanksgiving.

“I’ve had great opportuni ties to be able to introduce my mom to all of my friends, to in troduce her to a lot of my sup port system on campus,” she added.

In a six-year high, 27 students were forced to withdraw from Harvard College during the 20202021 academic year due to aca demic dishonesty, according to a report released this month.

The Honor Council heard a to tal of 138 academic integrity cas es during the school year. The 2020-2021 school year marked the highest number of cases and withdrawals since the Honor Council came into effect in 2015.

Harvard moved classes on line during the 2020-2021 school year due to the Covid-19 pandem ic, and exams for both semes ters were administered online. Roughly 5,231 undergraduates enrolled in fall 2020 while 20 per cent of admitted students opted to defer enrollment.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana chairs the Honor Coun cil, a group of students, faculty, and administrators who adjudi cate cases of academic dishones ty.

Ninety-nine of the 138 re viewed cases resulted in a find ing of responsibility, meaning that an academic dishonesty vio lation did occur. According to the report, students who are forced to withdraw must be employed in a full-time, paid, non-academic job for at least six months before they can petition for readmission to Harvard. The length of with drawal is usually between two to four terms.

An additional 56 students were put on probation, a notice from the College that future vio lations may lead to more serious consequences. Another 10 stu dents were admonished, a warn ing that falls short of probation.

The Honor Council referred six students for a local sanction, meaning the faculty member leading the course decides the ap propriate disciplinary action — for example, a grade penalty or mandatory tutoring.

College spokesperson Jona than Palumbo declined to com

ment on possible causes for the spike in academic dishonesty vi olations.

“Harvard College is commit ted to the transparent reporting of data and ensuring a wide range of information is available to the community,” Palumbo wrote in an emailed statement. “We do not have a comment on changes in data from year to year.”

The Honor Council reviewed 88 cases involving freshmen, marking the fifth consecutive year in which they were “signifi cantly overrepresented” in cases, according to the report.

More than 120 cases involved courses in the Sciences division and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Infrac tions referred by Humanities and Social Sciences courses com prised less than 15 percent of all cases.

Plagiarism and exam cheating were the most cited concerns in Honor Council cases. Inappropri ate collaboration dropped from 27.6 percent of cases in the 20192020 academic year to 12 percent in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Even as academic dishones ty cases spiked in the 2020-2021 year, Administrative Board dis ciplinary actions against under graduates reached a six-year low. During the 2020-2021 year, the Ad Board required two students to withdraw for disciplinary offens es, while 16 were forced to with draw due to academic reasons not related to dishonesty.

The last year that the Col lege saw a similar number of ac ademic misconduct cases was in 2016-2017, when more than 60 en rollees in Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Sci ence I” — roughly 10 percent of the class — were referred to the Honor Council for alleged aca demic dishonesty.

During the 2016-2017 academ ic year, the Honor Council heard 128 academic dishonesty cases in total and 24 students were re quired to withdraw from the Col lege.

As a performer in the FAP show and the musical Some thing Rotten, Texeira-Ra mos appreciated the chance to stage performances for the visiting families.

“There [were] a lot of peo ple that turned out that we weren’t expecting to be there, much more beyond just the parents of who were perform ing, and I think that was super special,” Texeira-Ramos said.

Catherine Texeira-Ramos, a parent who flew in from Ar izona, said she enjoyed seeing her daughter settled on cam pus.

“The friendships that she’s made here is the family that she’s given herself here,” she said. “It warmed our hearts to know that they have a fam ily here.”

Avinashi A.L. Bhandari ’26 said she took advantage of the weekend to show her mother, an English professor, her in terest in the sciences.

“It was very interesting to take her to my math class, and I took her to a research fair, so it was kind of like a day in my life,” she said. “I had a fantas tic time.”

Bhandari added that while her mom’s career as a profes sor means she is already famil iar with the lives of college stu dents, Family Weekend served as a “good way for her to get an insight on my life.”

“I think it was pretty nice to have my mom around with me,” she said. “I’ve missed her.”

LAST SUNDAY, over 100 people gathered in Harvard Square to protest the results of the Brazilian presidential election.

Demonstrators gathered in Harvard Square this past Sunday to protest the results of the recent Brazilian pres idential election. CLAIRE YUAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Catherine Texeira-Ramos Harvard Parent

Harvard Women’s Soccer Shines on Senior Night

BY ZING GEE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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5-0 victory over Columbia on Jor dan Field last Saturday evening, while celebrating its seven se niors—Hannah Gardner, Han nah Griffin, Lara Schenk, cap tain Jordan Di Verniero, captain Ava Lung, Sophie Hirst, and An gela Caloia—in front of over 600 spectators in attendance.

Griffin opened the scoring frenzy against Columbia (7-53, 3-3-1 Ivy League) in the eighth minute with a pass from Has bo before assisting Caloia in the twenty-eighth minute for a 2-0 lead. Hasbo then struck twice in the first fifteen minutes of the second half to put the Crimson up 4-0, with the ball rarely cross ing back into Harvard’s defen sive territory at times as Harvard maintained possession for a ma jority of the match.

When the ball did cross into Harvard territory, the defense shone, with sophomore Jade Rose and Schenk pressuring any attacks by Columbia forwards. Gardner’s two saves brought her shutout count this season to four, and Harvard outshot Columbia 22-5. Lung put the 5-0 dagger through the Lions in the seventi eth minute to round out the day.

The Crimson (11-1-3, 5-0-2 Ivy League) sits at No. 14 in the RPI rankings and wraped up confer ence play with a very compelling case to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA DI Tournament, which they later did this past Mon day, earning a No. 6 seed in their quadrant..

The team’s last two confer ence games prior to Colum bia were both thrilling come back wins, including a 3-2 win at Princeton which saw sophomore forward Ainsley Ahmadian net the game winner in the seven ty-eighth minute, and a 2-1 win at Dartmouth after a strike by ju nior midfielder Megan Mackey in the eighty-third minute.

Harvard’s last hopes of the Ivy League title were squashed when Brown’s final contest against Yale was canceled and declared a no-contest after a rise in Covid-19 cases within the Yale program. The Crimson needed Brown (11-2-2, 5-0-1 Ivy League) to lose or tie with Yale to win the

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Boston University, and other wise has been undefeated, with a notable win over then-No. 17 NC State, well-fought draws with No. 17 Texas-Christian Univer sity and No. 28 Ivy League rival Brown, and many other domi nant performances, leading to the Crimson’s first undefeated Ivy League season since 2016.

Last year, three Ivy League programs advanced to the NCAA tournament—Brown with the auto-bid and Harvard and Princ eton with at-large bids, but Har vard ultimately fell to Wake For est in the first round.

This year the program re turns to the big dance, hungry for more, as the Crimson will be gin tournament play this Satur day when they host New Hamp shire on Jordan field at 5 p.m.

zing.gee@thecrimson.com

Harvard Fencing Off to Hot Start

BY CAROLINE BEHRENS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard women’s and men’s fencing teams got off to a hot start in last weekend’s season-opening meets. Both teams traveled to the Air Force Academy in Colorado to compete in the Air Force West ern Invitational on Saturday and Sunday. The men won six out of its seven matches in the Rockies, while the women went undefeat ed across eight matches.

After a phenomenal season last year, in which it put up a 13-4 record and finished second in the NCAA Championships, the men’s team showed that it is still the team to beat.

On the first day of the invi tational, the Crimson went 4-1 against University of Incarnate Word, University of North Caroli na, Stanford, Ohio State, and Uni versity of California-San Diego.

It began the day with a 23-4 win over the University of Incar nate Ward, with three wins each from sophomore foils Andrew Chung and James Liao, senior sa bre Mitchell Saron, and senior captain and foil Kenji Bravo.

In their second match of the day, the men defeated the Uni versity of North Carolina 22-5, with the foil and sabre squads go ing 8-1. Then, the Crimson over came Stanford, 18-9, with another standout performance from the sabre team.

In its penultimate match of the day, Harvard suffered its first setback of the season at the hands of the Buckeyes, who edged out a 14-13 victory. However, the Crim son was undeterred, bouncing back strong in its final match by dispatching UCSD, 19-8.

The team picked up where it had left off on Sunday with a 22-5 win over New Jersey Institute of Technology. In that match up, Bravo and senior Filip Dole giewicz captured three wins each in foil and sabre, respectively.

The men then faced Ivy League rival Colombia in a scrim mage that ended up being its clos est match. Impressive wins in the sabre squad from Dolegiewicz, senior Jason Oh, and Saron se cured Harvard’s 15-12 win.

The final match of the tour nament further showcased the Crimson’s dominance, as the team earned a 17-10 win over

Air Force. Led by Chung and se nior sabre Daniel Solomon, who each had three victories, Harvard closed out the invitational on a high note.

Overall, the foil team was par ticularly dominant, racking up an 8-0 record in the Invitational. Bravo led the pack, winning 21 out of his 22 matches. Dolegiewicz, the reigning men’s NCAA sabre champion, won all seven match es.

“The team has pretty much the same three goals at the be ginning of every season,” Saron explained. “Win the Ivy League Championship, win the NCAA Championship, and third is to ac complish the first two while be ing the best-looking fencing team in the Division I circuit.”

With the whole team return ing for the 2022-23 season, plus the addition of talented fresh men, Saron was optimistic that these goals will be accomplished.

“We lost to Colombia last year at the Ivy League Championship, and got to beat them this past weekend, which is great prepara tion for the upcoming Ivy League Championship in February,” he said. “We are also an extremely

close team and are looking for ward to accomplishing the goals we have set.”

The women’s undefeated per formance was arguably even more dominant. Competing against University of Incarnate Word, University of North Caroli na, Northwestern, Stanford, Ohio State, and University of Califor nia-San Diego in the first day of the invitational, the Crimson was only seriously challenged by the Cardinal.

The Crimson remained unde feated throughout day two of the Invitational, capturing 21-6 victo ries over New Jersey Institute of Technology and Air Force.

Both the foil and sabre squads propelled the Crimson, going 8-1 in their matches against NJIT. The epee squad also came away with a 5-4 victory, led by sopho more Claire Beddington’s three wins.

First-year sabre Zoe Kim se cured three wins against Air Force, adding to her 11 victories the previous day in what was a brilliant collegiate debut.

Overall, both teams have set the expectation high for the rest of the season and are looking to build upon a successful previous year. With unmatched top-end talent and improved depth, both Crimson squads appear ready to compete for national champion ships in February.

WEEKLY RECAP SCORES

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. URI W, 88-74

VOLLEYBALL VS. CORNELL L, 1-3

SOCCER VS. COLOMBIA W, 5-0

HOCKEY VS. RPI T, 3-3

FIELD HOCKEY VS. BROWN W, 2-0

VOLLEYBALL VS. COLOMBIA L, 1-3

HOCKEY VS. UNION T, 2-2

SWIM & DIVE VS. RUTGERS W, 169-131

SOCCER VS. DARTMOUTH W, 2-1

MEN’S

BASKETBALL VS. MOREHOUSE W, 68-63

WATER POLO VS. PRINCETON L, 7-10

HOCKEY VS. YALE W, 4-0

WATER POLO VS. IONA W, 15-9

SOCCER VS. PRINCETON T, 2-2

HOCKEY VS. BROWN W, 5-2

WATER POLO VS. MIT W, 18-10

SOCCER VS. NO.15 UPENN W, 3-2

READ IT IN FIVE MINUTES

Women’s basketball wins season opener aginst URI 88-74. The Crimson were led by sophomore Harmoni Turn er, who recorded 31 points and led the team with five assists. In the second period Gabby Anderson and McKenzie Forbes set the tone for the remainder of the game. The Crimson ended the half ahead 40-29 and continued their of fensive dominance through out the remainder of the game. Har vard pulled away with the win after hitting 15 points in the final quarter.

Sophomore Lauren Scruggs, who won the 2021 Junior and Ca det World Fencing Champion ships in foil, led the way in the dis cipline, going undefeated in her 17 matches. Overall, the foil squad turned in an impressive perfor mance, winning 46-8.

Looking forward, Harvard will travel to Chestnut Hill and compete at the Beanpot on Nov. 16.It will face Boston College, Brandeis University, and Massa chusetts Institute of Technology.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY DEFEATS YALE 4-0

No. 15 Men’s Ice Hockey defeated Yale on November 5th in a dominant fashion and shut out the Bulldogs . Junior Forward Alex Laferriere earned the Tim Taylor Cup for the second season in a row as the Most Valuable Player of the Harvard-Yale game. Three Crimson players recorded a multiple point night: Alex Laferriere, Alex Gaffney, and Henry Thurn. Senior Goalten der Mitchell Gibson stool tall for the Crimson, making 10 saves on the night. Har vard has now beaten Yale in its last eight contests, and is 4-0 in the opening four games for the third season in a row.

WOMEN’S BASKET BALL TOPS URI

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conference title (in part because of Harvard’s 1-1 draw with the University of Pennsylvania back in September setting them back in conference standings).

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title, Harvard’s season has been nothing short of stellar. The Crimson is second in the country in points-per-game at 8.67 and has outscored oppo nents with an average of 2.87

goals per game to opponents’ 0.80. Harvard wields a deep and balanced scoring attack—Ahma dian, sophomore Hannah Bebar, Hasbo, and Griffin all have six teen points or more and five or

more goals, and while Bebar was out against Columbia and like ly will be out for the postseason with a leg injury, the Crimson has depth across all positions and has shown so game after game.

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Josefine Hasbo controls the ball past a Colombia defender in their 5-0 win on November 5. ZING GEE — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The Crimson look to continue their stellar season in the first round of the NCAA tournament. ZING GEE — CRIMSON

PHOTOGRAPHER

Mitchell Saron ‘23 Men’s Fencing.

We have great freshman this year that I am looking forward to mentoring.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Harvard Caps Off Season

BY CAROLINE GAGE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In its final competition of the fall season, Harvard’s women’s tennis team faced off against Boston College and Boston University at home for the Harvard In vitational. Throughout the short fall season, the Crimson saw ac tion at the ITA Super Regionals, Brown Quad Invite, and Harvard Fall Classic, with overall positive results. The Harvard Invitational gave players a chance to compete in a dual-match format, the pre dominant format for the spring season.

“As a team we’ve definitely been building a lot and this was our last tournament of the fall season, so it was really exciting to be able to showcase all the hard work we’ve been doing,” said sophomore Angel You, who com peted in both singles and doubles over the weekend.

Harvard had an impressive showing in singles, finishing out the weekend with a 13-4 record after a series of exciting matches. On the first day of competition, the Crimson took all but one of its singles matches against Bos ton College.

First-year top-seed Charlotte Owensby came back after drop ping her first set to defeat Marice Aguiar, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4).

Junior Iveta Daujotaite earned

a hard-fought victory in two tie breaks over Seren Agar, 7-6(4), 7-6(4).

“As a team we’ve been work ing on strategies and fine-tuning these skills, and I think that hav ing the ability to really translate those skills has been really inter esting,” You shared.

On the second and third days of the tournament, Harvard faced BU, with mixed outcomes. It was strong in singles perfor mance again, winning six of eight matches.

Senior Sophia Ho won an ex citing match against the Terriers’ Kaitlin Tan, 6-0, 2-6, 10-6.

You defeated Sydney Sharma in a ten-point tiebreaker, 6-2, 5-7, 10-5 before falling to Navya Vadl amudi in a nail-biter, 1-6, 6-2, 10-6.

“My strategy, when it really comes down to the wire, is defi nitely just to breathe and play my game, remember what we’re working on in training, focus on the basics, and just stay in and play tough,” You explained. “Es pecially when a lot is on the line, it’s important to just breathe and focus.”

Doubles matches proved to be a toss-up. On Court 3, Owens by and sophomore Holly Fischer fought hard but ultimately fell to Seren Agar and Natalie Eordeki an in a tiebreak, 7-6(6).

Meanwhile, sophomores Maxi Duncan and Rachel Arbi tman had a tough match against the Eagles’ Aguiar and Sophia Ed

wards, who were able to get the break to win 6-4. The pairing of You and Daujotaite defeated BC’s Hailey Wilcox and Muskan Ma hajan on the first day of compe tition, 6-4, which was the Crim son’s only doubles win against the Eagles.

The pair then triumphed over BU’s Sydney Sharma and Steph Nguyen, 6-2, the next day. Junior Sany Gawande partnered with You on the final day of competi tion to continue the win streak,

defeating Vadlamudi and Victo ria Carlsten, 7-5.

“I think one of the strengths that [Daujotaite] and [Gawande] and I have is that we play very ag gressive doubles,” said You, who was also undefeated in doubles play at the Brown Quad Invite on Oct. 29-31. “It’s a lot of coming in, taking volleys, having a big serve to set up your partner to finish the point at net.”

With the fall season coming to a close, Harvard will shift its

focus towards preparing for the spring, which marks a change in match format. In lieu of individ ual competition, the spring sea son will feature team-based dual matches.

“Being at home and to just have your family and friends come to watch you play, and also being able to compete next to your teammates is just an unbe lievable experience,” You said. “This weekend it was a dual match, so it’s really just giving us

a feeling of what the spring is go ing to feel like.”

Harvard finished the 2021-22 spring season ranked No. 73 with a 3-4 record in Ivy League compe tition.

However, its hopes are high er for the spring after improving doubles performance and bring ing Owensby into the fold. The new-look Crimson will restart team matches in early 2023.

Harvard Struggles vs. Conference Opponents

BY NADIA FAIRFAX CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Harvard wom en’s volleyball team played four games over the past two weekends against big contenders in the Ivy League.

Of the four matches, the Crimson emerged victorious in only one, and the rest were nail-biters.

In the first match, Harvard (513, 4-6 Ivy League) fell short to the Princeton Tigers (16-3, 8-1) in four sets on Friday, October 28, in New Jersey. Going into this game, the Crimson had just come off a loss against Dartmouth, putting an end to its two-game win streak.

Harvard struggled against Princeton in the beginning of the first set, losing five consecutive points, three of which came from service aces. It took a kill from first year outside hitter Brynne Faltinsky assisted by senior cap tain Bella Almanza to break the Tigers’ streak.

Throughout the rest of the first set, the two teams battled back and forth, exchanging leads, before the Tigers ultimately pulled through to take the first set 25-18. In the second set, the Crim son struck back, taking the set, 25-20, off a kill from Faltinsky. The entire set was a team effort, nevertheless, with great efforts including junior middle hitter Ol ivia Cooper’s two aces and two kills. Cooper hit three aces on the match, a career-high.

After ending the second set on a high note, Harvard faced chal lenges in the third, which culmi nated in a 12-point deficit to end the set. The fourth set was even more of a struggle, with the Crim son falling 14 points behind the Tigers to seal the match.

After this disappointing out come against Princeton, Harvard bounced back in its next match against Penn (2-18, 1-11) the next day. The sets were all close, with the scoreline never reaching a gap of more than six points. The Quakers took the first set, 25-19, but the Crimson quickly regained its composure and took over the rest of the match, dominating Penn and winning the next three sets.

Almanza led the team in kills and assists with 13 and 23, respec

tively. In addition, junior mid dle blocker Ava Rauser made a big impact on the game, earning the Crimson another 13 kills: a ca reer-high.

After a victorious Saturday, Harvard returned home to the Malkin Athletic Center the next weekend to duel with Columbia (5-15, 2-9). The Lions lead off the first set, earning themselves a five point lead, 13-8.

However, the hosts quickly fought back, not only tying the score but also surpassing Co lumbia with the help of two kills from Almanza and one from both Rauser and junior outside hitter Katie Vorhies. Despite a backand-forth fight for the rest of the set, the Crimson eventually fell,

25-21.

The second set proved to be much more successful for Har vard, with Columbia never get ting a lead. The Crimson even tually won the second set with a whopping nine point lead, 2516. The third set saw the return of deadlock and the score being much closer between the two teams.

The Crimson and Columbia tied the set at 21-21 before the lat ter pulled away with a four-point run to win the set. Columbia carried its momentum into the fourth set, even achieving a sev en point lead and seemingly tak ing the set and match. However, the Crimson soon retaliated and managed to claw its way back, ty

ing the Lions once again at 21-21. In the next six points, Columbia regained its footing

After this hard-fought loss to the Lions, the Crimson took on Cornell (5-16, 3-9) on its senior night. Three seniors were hon ored during the game: Alman za, outside attacker Kate Condra, and right-side attacker Jaimie Rao.

Condra helped the Crimson overcome Penn, assisting the team with one ace and six digs. Rao played against Dartmouth at the beginning of the season, earn ing the team two kills, but has not played since due to injury.

The first set got off to a rough

start for Harvard, with the Big Red shutting the team out for the first six points of the match, three of which were aces. Harvard eventually caught up, however, and even tied the Big Red 21-21.

Just like Columbia, Cornell broke away for a first set result of 25-23 over the Crimson.

The second set proved to be more of a struggle for Harvard, as it dropped this bout, 25-17. Har vard was not to go down with a fight, however, as it struck back in the third set by taking it with a six point advantage.

At the beginning of the fourth set, it seemed to be an even battle.

However, as the set progressed, Cornell took control, largely in part to a seven point run. With

this streak, there was no going back, as the Big Red closed out the match with a 25-14 shutdown.

The Harvard women’s vol leyball season, which has faced its fair share of challenges, has two final matches this upcom ing weekend. The Crimson is set to face off against Brown (12-9, 8-4) this Friday, November 11th, as well as Yale (19-2, 11-1) the fol lowing day.

Harvard is ranked fifth in the Ivy League, meaning it falls just one spot short of being in the Ivy League Volleyball Tournament. Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale have secured the four spots, with Princeton and Yale being the most likely contenders for the No. 1 seed spot.

and took four of them to seal the match with a 25-23 finish.

The Crimson women, who sit at 5-13 on the season, and 4-6 in the Ivy League, won one game, and lost three over the past two weekends. Harvard hopes to finish the season on a high note in its final two mathces of the season this weekend. CLAIRE YUAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s tennis team, which finished ranked No. 73 in the 2021-22 season, looks to build off of multiple positive performances in the fall, with high hopes to achieve even greater heights this coming spring. OWEN A. BERGER — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

CARRY THE MOMENTUM. At the Harvard Invitational, the Crimson women faced off against Boston College and Boston University. After an promising fall season, Harvard finished with strong performances across the board.