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NEIGHBOR OR LANDLORD? Harvard owns roughly one-third of the land in Allston, a neighborhood of Boston that sits directly across the Charles River from its Cambridge campus. Regulators have approved the first stage of the University’s sweeping plans for a development complex in the neighborhood — but a decades-old distrust of Harvard lingers among some residents as the school’s plans for its vast real estate holdings across the river once again sit at a crossroads. SEE PAGE 6
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IOP FORUMS BEGIN. The Harvard Institute of Politics held its first John F. Kenne dy Jr. Forums of the semester this week. On Thursday, former U.S. Treasury Secra tary Lawrence H. Summers spoke about the risk of inflation to the global economy.
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OBAMA AT HARVARD. Former President Barack Obama spoke to the Harvard men’s basketball team last week. He emphasized the importance of teamwork in basketball, drawing upon his personal experiences with the sport, according to the Associated Press. DYLAN J. GOOD MAN
Money generated from Yale’s internal Carbon Charge program will now be used to fund de carbonization initiatives in buildings across campus. The program, started in 2017, tracks and charges Yale building units for their energy usage. In the past, the university redistributed the money generated from these charges back to the buildings, with those using the least en ergy receiving the largest proportion of funds. Now, the money will be pooled and divided into grants that buildings can receive to improve their energy usage.
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DAVID KANE AT SIMMONS. Former Harvard Government preceptor David D. Kane, whose contract was not re newed after he was accused of authoring racist blog posts, is teaching at Simmons Universi ty this semester. JULIAN J. GIORDA NO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
IOP NARRATIVES. Nine undergraduate students took center stage at the IOP last Friday, sharing their stories of identity and public service. MILES J. HERSZENHORN
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The University of Pennsylvania announced Monday that a new performing arts theater will be built next to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The new theater is part of a $25 million renovation plan and will be named for Stuart Weitzman, a Wharton Class of 1963 grad uate and luxury footwear designer. The building is expected to be 3,100 square feet and seat an audience of 300 to 350 people.
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44 IN TOWN. Former President Barack Obama spoke to the Harvard Men’s Basketball Team last weekend at a meeting of “The Break fast Club,” a group formed by coach Tommy Amaker. Obama, a graduate of Harvard Law School, played varsity basket ball in high school and some times played pick-up games during his time in the White House.
Harvard to Offer Moderna Booster
BOOSTED. Harvard will begin offering Moderna’s new Omicron Covid-19 booster shot to affiliates later this month, the University announced Tuesday. The booster shot will be required for all on-campus affiliates for the spring semester. The shot provides protection against the original strain of Covid-19 and the Omicron variant. Harvard University Health Services will offer the boosters in conjunction with free flu vaccines this fall. The announcement comes just days before the University will wind down its PCR testing program on Sept. 16.
COUNCIL RETURNS. The Cambridge City Council held its first meeting of the fall on Monday, where the new city manager, Yi-An Huang ’05, addressed councilors for the first time since taking over the role. JULIAN J. PHOTOGRAPHERGIORDANO—CRIMSON
HARVARD X AMAZON. Harvard launched a three-year research partnership with Amazon Web Services, the school announced in press release from its Office of Technology Development on Monday. The partnership aims to promote research into quantum networking — a method of sending and receiving digital information — at the Harvard Quantum Initiative, according to the press release. It will increase fund ing for faculty-led projects and allow more students to get involved in research efforts.
THE GRID COMES TO HARVARD. Harvard launched an initiative last week that aims to help affiliates translate research into startups by providing funding, work spaces, and mentorship opportunities. The initiative, called “The Grid,” is a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Office of Technology Development. The project expands previous funding sources that were avail able to science and engineering researchers through OTD’s Physical Science and Engineering Accelerator, which has sup ported at least 16 startups since 2013.
KHURANA ON THE RECORD. Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana spoke to The Crimson on Monday, praising Univer sity President Lawrence S. Bacow and the College’s house system. CORY K. GORCZYCKI—CRIMSON
Princeton’s 2021-2022 Annual Giving campaign set a new record, raising $81.8 million from more than 37,000 donors. Princeton continues to lead higher education institutions with the highest percentage of undergraduate participation in donations. According to Princeton Alumni Week ly archives, the percentage of undergraduate alumni giving has decreased during the past de cade while total alumni giving increased.
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CITY HALL. Cambridge City Hall was home to its first City Council meeting of the fall last week, as the body reconvened to approve a pair of budget measures. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—CRIM SON PHOTOGRAPHER
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Earlier this summer, the Columbia University Resident Advisors Collective filed charges against the University for unfair labor practic es. Filed through the National Labor Relations Board, the grievance claims Columbia violated two sections of the National Labor Relations Act by miscategorizing resident advisers as “independent contractors,” instituting unlawful regulations and disciplinary actions, and retal iating against resident advisers for organizing. The CURA Collective is asking the University to reclassify RAs as student employees.
Money will be dispersed following a meeting be tween
The First Year Social Committee is hosting a sight seeing cruise on the Charles River for freshmen. Students will float by Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and Boston University and can enjoy non-alcoholic beverages on board.
On National Voter Registration Day, Harvard Art Museums is hosting an event for those eligible to register to vote if they haven’t already. Pass by the Calderwood Courtyard to pick up, complete, and submit voter registration forms.
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A Consumer Price Index report re leased Tuesday revealed that the pace of price increases remained near a four-decade high, showing less mod eration than the Federal Reserve and the White House had hoped for. Upon the release of the report — which showed prices increased by 8.3 percent compared to the year prior — stock prices plummet ed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by almost 1,300 points and the S&P 500 falling 4.3 percent. Both drops represented the steepest losses in one day since 2020. The report poses further chal lenges for the Federal Reserve, which has been aggressively raising interest rates since March in an effort to cool the U.S. economy.
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HarvardDAY Art Museums, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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IN FIRSTNORTHEASTALASKA NATIVE SWORN INTO CONGRESS REPORT SHOWS INFLATION REMAINED HIGH IN AUGUST, SENDING STOCKS PLUNGING NEXT WEEK 3SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 THE HARVARD CRIMSON The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan cen tral bank funds to aid the country’s residents, who have been facing widespread hunger. The move comes over a year after the controversial U.S. withdrawal from the country. The Taliban will not have access to the fund, which will be managed by two Afghan economists, a U.S. government representative, and a Swiss
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Harvard freshmen are invited for a half-day trip to cities on the north coast of Massachusetts, includ ing the opportunity to meet alumni, explore Salem Willows Park, and visit the Peabody Essex Museum.
A lightning Ukrainian offensive in the country’s northeast region stunned Russian forces last weekend, crush ing Russian frontlines in a matter of days. By Sunday, Russian officials acknowledged that it had lost almost all of the northern region of Kharkiv, casting doubt on the widely-held assumption that Ukraine would never be able to beat back Russia. Ukrainian officials said on Satur day that it had reclaimed the strategically important city of Izium, which Russia had taken in the spring. In a visit to the city on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volody myr Zelensky said he was “shocked” by the number of “destroyed buildings” and “killed people” caused by the Russian oc cupation.
Harvard Stadium, 7 p.m.
Radcliffe Yard’s Sunken Garden, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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“Cultural critic and historian Isaac Butler comes to Harvard for a discussion through the Theater, Dance and Media department. Butler co-wrote The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels, a book that NPR named one of the best books of 2018.
Transportation is covered for the duration of the trip, which leaves from Lamont Library at 12 p.m.
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Join Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robin son-Wood, graduates of the School of Education and experts in identity challenges of young peo ple of color, in a Zoom discussion on supporting Black women at Harvard.
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Newly-elected Democratic Represen tative Mary Peltola became the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress when she was sworn in on Tuesday. Peltola replaced longtime Representative Don Young, a Republican who served in the same seat for 49 years until his death in March. Peltola, who is also the first woman to represent Alaska in the House of Representatives, defeated prominent politicians in the state — including for mer Governor Sarah Palin — in a special election last month. She is set to face a rematch of the election in the November general election, giving her eight weeks to learn the inner workings of Capitol Hill before facing voters again.
Monday, 9/19
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The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, together with the Harvard Chaplains, is offering sixstop tours led by the chaplains and drawn from the findings of the landmark Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery report.
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Kick off Harvard football’s season opener at home against Merrimack College this Friday. A win would mark Harvard’s 11th consecutive season opener win at home. The matchup will be the first time Harvard has faced Merrimack, though the schools lie just 30 miles apart.
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The HUA will continue to con vene for a weekly general meet ing on Saturdays, while indi vidual committees will meet on independent schedules through out the week.
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“By requiring the Title IX Co ordinator to be responsible for — versus coordinating — certain compliance functions, the pro posed rule would conflict with administrative structures on many campuses,” the ACE press releaseCallingstates.the role of Title IX co ordinator “one of the most chal lenging jobs on a campus,” the letter recommended the remov al of the new coordinator respon
The ED’s amendments also proposed the expansion of Title IX coordinator responsibilities to include obligations such as mon itoring for obstacles to reporting misconduct and taking action to stop sex-based discrimination.
Lawyers representing SFFA will argue first in both cases. The group will have 45 minutes to de liver its arguments in the UNC case and 35 minutes in the Har vard case, consistent with the time the respective schools will have to respond.
Travis Allen Johnson ’24 speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Harvard Undergraduate Association on Satur day. J. SELLERS HILL — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
sibilities.TheJune proposal also sets new requirements for institu tional grievance procedures of sex-based harassment com plaints against employees. Mon day’s letter claimed these proce dures would likely conflict with existing state laws and employ ment at-will policies.
“Given events of the past few years, it’s never been more important to explore and explain the forces that are shaping both our me dia and our political environ ment,” Shorenstein Center Di rector Nancy R. Gibbs wrote in a statement Monday. “With his long experience covering America’s newsrooms, their choices and their challenges, Brian will be a great resource for our students and scholars alike.”Atthe Shorenstein Center, Stelter will “convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media,” according to the press release announcing his appointment.
The ED amendments would set different procedures for re porting Title IX violations de pending on employees’ job du ties.“This will undoubtedly lead to confusion for employees about what their reporting responsi bilities are, and for students who may wish to confide in a certain employee but be unclear what that employee’s reporting obliga tions are,” the letter states.
The Supreme Court granted the U.S. solicitor general, Eliza beth B. Prelogar, 15 minutes for oral argument in both cases.
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In the University of North Car olina case, the university, student respondents, and the U.S. solic itor general will all deliver argu ments in favor of affirmative ac tion.Harvard lawyers will be
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The American Council on Edu cation submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Educa tion Monday, calling for changes to the Title IX amendments pro posed by the Biden administra tion in NearlyJune.50 higher education as sociations signed on to the Mon day letter, which asked the ED to clarify institutional reporting re quirements and Title IX coordi nator responsibilities. Ahead of the letter’s submission, Harvard sent its own recommendations to the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Mas sachusetts, a signatory on the let ter.The Biden administration’s draft Title IX amendments in June sought to clarify and en
LyLena D. Estabine ’24 was sworn in as co-president of the Harvard Undergraduate Association on Saturday. J. SELLERS HILL — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month in a highstakes affirmative action lawsuit brought against Harvard that could end race-conscious college admissions in the United States.
Former CNN chief media cor respondent Brian P. Stel ter, whose weekly show was canceled by the network last month, will join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy as a fellow this semester.Stelter, whose show was axed as part of a directional change brought by CNN’s new leadership, will serve as a Wal ter Shorenstein Media and De mocracy fellow, the Shoren stein Center announced Monday.“Ihope I can bring the spirit of my longtime Sunday morn ing TV show to Harvard’s campus,” Stelter wrote in an emailed statement Monday night. “Most of all, I hope I can convene discussions about media and democracy that will add value for students and the wider community.”
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ter reads. “At the same time, the reporting expectations and sys tem must align with individual campus structures and be simple enough to be clearly understood by all community members.”
The court will hear two sim ilar lawsuits brought by the an ti-affirmative action group Stu dents for Fair Admissions in one day on Oct. 31 — one against the University of North Carolina and a second against Harvard.
In 2013, he joined CNN as the host of “Reliable Sources,” its longtime Sunday morning media talk show.
The signatories urged the ED to exempt employee-respon dents from the proposed griev ance procedures to ensure consistency with established pol icies.“It is critical that the final reg ulations are sufficiently flexible to be effectively implemented across diverse institutions, re flect a sensible level of simplici ty, and provide clarity about fed eral expectations for institutions and their community members,”
Justices will hear the UNC case beginning at 10 a.m. on Oct. 31. The court will hear the Har vard case later that day.
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Whereas the UC’s inaugural meetings typically drew crowds of curious freshman onlookers, the HUA failed to draw the same turnout — or interpersonal dra ma.Scattered study groups near ly outnumbered meeting attend ees. Background murmurs from problem-setting students accent ed the officers’ Throughoutpresentations.herinaugural ad dress, Estabine, who drew criti cism this week for her public de fense of a previously sanctioned campus Christian group, cited her faith as a source of inspira tion for public service.
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he Harvard Undergradu ate Association convened for its first-ever general meeting Saturday to inaugurate its officers, including co-presi dents LyLena D. Estabine ’24 and Travis Allen Johnson ’24.
“I want to use this as an oppor tunity to encourage everyone to embrace change and recognize the historic opportunities we have today to make a difference here on campus,” Johnson said.
“Today is our chance to really cre ate a fresh Residentialstart.”Life Officer David Y. Zhang ’23 presented the Asso ciation’s execution of the long time summer storage program. Zhang stressed its affordability for students but also expressed concern about the program’s scalability, suggesting the Asso ciation could limit the initiative to fewer students or work with multiple moving companies in futureLateriterations.inthemeeting, Estabine solicited support for a new HUA initiative to revitalize Declara tion Day — the day on which un dergraduates declare their con centrations — through the HUA Academics team.
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HUA Co-President LyLena D. Estabine ’24 speaks at the organization’s inaugural meeting on Saturday. J. SELLERS HILL — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
The letter recommends the ED simplify its proposed rules on reporting procedures to help stu dents determine “whether con
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The Monday letter raised con cerns about the “expansive and convoluted set” of reporting obli gations outlined in the June pro posal for all school employees.
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The HUA was established last year after its predecessor, the Harvard Undergraduate Coun cil, was dissolved in a schoolwide referendum. The inaugural meeting — convened for less than an hour on the second floor of Harvard’s Smith Campus Center — represented a clear departure from the UC’s history of theatrics.
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and universities strongly support efforts to en courage students and employees to report all sex-based discrimi nation to the institution,” the let
joined only by the solicitor gen eral after the Supreme Court de nied a request from 25 Harvard College student organizations, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, for ten minutes of oralInargument.itsrequest for time in the Harvard case, the NAACP Le gal Defense Fund said justices should hear from student groups because their “very existence … hangs in the balance” with the lawsuit.“Should Petitioner prevail, many Amici Organizations and their sub-groups would suf fer such a sharp decline in their membership ranks that they ei ther would cease to exist or would be so weakened that they could no longer fulfill their missions,” the filing said.
Stelter got his start in col lege when he founded the tele vision news blog TVNewser, which he sold before becom ing a media reporter for the New York Times.
hance protections for survivors of sex-based discrimination and harassment in federally-funded educational insitutions.
Johnson underscored the As sociation’s infancy and its man date to revitalize student govern ment at Harvard.
The Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy fellow ship invites “high-profile fig ures at the forefront of media, politics, and public policy” to the Kennedy School to collab orate with students and facul ty members, according to the Shorenstein Center’s website.
Higher Ed Institutions Call For Title IX Proposal Changes
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SFFA is asking justices to ban the consideration of race in col lege admissions, arguing that Harvard and UNC discriminate against Asian American appli cants and violate federal law with their race-conscious admissions processes.TheSupreme Court previous ly agreed to hear the cases joint ly, but it separated them in July, allowing Justice Ketanji Brown
Jackson ’92, who has recused her self from the Harvard case due to her past service on the school’s Board of Overseers, to rule in the UNCThecase.court will hear the case near the beginning of a ninemonth term that includes a flurry of major cases on issues includ ing LGBTQ+ rights, redistricting, and elections administration.
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Our vision for an Enterprise Research Campus emerged from deep engagement with the community,Allstonthe city of Boston, and many more stakeholders over many
Today, Harvard is the largest landholder in Allston with 360 acres — roughly one-third of the neighborhood.Theseland holdings include campus cornerstones — the Har vard Athletics Complex, the Har vard Business School, the $1 bil lion Science and Engineering Complex — as well as the devel opment of hundreds of residen tial units at 180 Western Ave. and 176 Lincoln St. The Harvard Ed Portal has garnered significant praise from residents who utilize its educational resources.
The Science and Engineering Complex, a cornerstone of Harvard’s Allston campus, officially opens its doors to students.
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Brown said the University no longer feels like an “institutional neighbor.”“Now,Harvard is this enor mously influential and power ful institution that’s not talking about residence halls or science labs for its students, but talking about hotels and commercial lab space,” Brown said.
For more than 160 years, the land now dubbed Allston and Brighton was once part of Cam bridge. Following disputes with the Cambridge city government, in 1807, the town known as “Little Cambridge” opted to secede.
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Harvard continues its acquisition of land in Allston with another 91acre purchase.
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It wasn’t until 1997 that the true financier of the land pur chases was revealed: Harvard University, Allston’s neighbor across the Charles River.
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Harvard and Allston’s ties date back to the town’s origins.
But Harvard’s move to pur chase land through Beal Compa nies wasn’t unheard of. Bruce A. Beal, co-founder of Beal Compa nies, told the New York Times in 1997 that he worked with the Bos ton Public Libraries in the 1960s to purchase land for them in a strategy similar to Harvard’s.
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Harvard plans to construct a 900,000 square-foot mixed-use development on its Allston properties. Y. LIU CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
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The Raymond V. Mellone Park opens in Allston, named after the chair of the Harvard Allston Task Force at the time.
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Lifelong Allston resident John A. Bruno called the purchase a “somewhat disingenuous” but “prudent” business move on Har vard’sHarvard’spart. future Allston pur chases were made in its own name. In 2000, Harvard bought a 48-acre parcel of land, followed up by another 91-acre purchase in 2003.The University’s vision for its holdings across the river began to crystallize.Ina2003 open letter to Har vard affiliates, then-Universi ty President Lawrence H. Sum mers unveiled the first public vision surrounding the Allston purchases: a 21st-century expan sion of Harvard’s campus. By that point, Harvard had amassed over 200 acres of Allston land.
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The University’s 10-year time line for their 2013 Institution al Master Plan is set to expire next year, raising the question of how Harvard will define the next chapter of its relationship with Allston residents.
Harvard releases its Institutional Master Plan, including a 10-Year Plan for its development of a campus in Allston.
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Harvard’s future plans also include the proposed En terprise Research Campus, a 900,000-square-foot mixed-use development including residen tial, lab, hotel, and restaurant space.University President Law rence S. Bacow says the proposed development will be for Allston residents.“Ourvision for an Enterprise Research Campus emerged from deep engagement with the All ston community, the city of Bos ton, and many more stakehold ers over many years, and our work together will be stronger for it,” Bacow told The Crimson. “The ERC will be for everyone.”
“We are proud to be part of this vibrant, exciting neighborhood, and benefit immensely from col laborative work with residents, organizations, businesses, elect ed officials and others through programs, partnerships, public spaces and other shared activities and priorities,” she wrote.
A University spokesperson at the time called the move “fis cally prudent” in a comment to the New York Times. The Boston Globe called it “a stealthy land grab.”Brighton resident Justin L. Brown said Harvard’s secret ac quisition of land “sowed a lot of distrust between the residents of Allston-Brighton and Harvard.”
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Harvard donates 57,000 square feet of land to Boston to build a new branch of the Boston Public Library in Allston.
The Harvard Ed Portal, which provides free educational opportunities for residents, opens in Allston.
The SEC was a major attrac tion of the University’s 2013 Insti tutional Master Plan, which was
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Harvard constructs the Harvard Business School campus.
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University spokesperson Amy Kamosa wrote in a statement that Harvard’s long involvement in Allston has been characterized by deep engagement.
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Harvard buys an additional 48-acre parcel of land in Allston.
that time, Harvard made its ini tial expansions into the town with the establishment of the Harvard Stadium in 1903 and the Harvard Business School in 1927.
But Summers’ vision ap peared to enter dire straits under new University President Drew G. Faust, with the Boston Globe publishing a story titled, “Har vard Rethinks Allston” in Decem berThe2007.Globe reported that Faust would reconsider major tenets of Summers’ proposed Allston ex pansion, including the construc tion of four new undergradu ate dorms and the relocation of the School of Public Health and Graduate School of Education.
residentsAllston-Brightonfindout that Harvard has been secretly acquiring 52.6 acres of land over the preceding eight years, anonymouslyboughtthrough an agent.
Between 1875 and 1925, the population of Allston-Brighton grew by over 40,000 people and became a prestigious and devel oping neighborhood. Around
n 1989, a Boston develop er, known as the Beal Com panies, began acquiring a stake in the up-and-com ing neighborhood of All ston. Eight years and nearly $90 million later, the Beal Companies had amassed a total of 52.6 acres of the town’s land.
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By the second half of the cen tury, the neighborhood began to experience strains still felt today: resident exodus to outer suburbs, a housing crisis, and traffic con gestion.Harvard’s eight-year anony mous “land grab” marked a turn ing point in the University’s po sitioning in Allston-Brighton. Then-Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino called the acquisitions the “highest level of arrogance seen in our city in many years.”
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Still, Faust maintained the University was moving full steam ahead, disputing the Globe’s por trayal in a phone call to The Crim son.“It’s not a reversal. It’s not a slowing down,” Faust said. “It’s moving to the next stage of a plan.”But in the two years that fol lowed, Harvard’s endowment plunged by nearly 30 percent amid the Great Recession. Har
The east side of the land offi cially became its own entity in the late 1860s and was named Allston in honor of Washington Allston — an 1800 Harvard alum.
Harvard’s Move Into Allston
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‘Allston Dreams’ A decade before the construction of Harvard’s Science and Engi neering Complex, a Harvard his tory professor predicted a hightech Allston campus empty by nightfall.“Youhave no problem, I am sure, imagining a science campus that by 6:30 p.m. is abandoned, at least from the outside,” wrote professor Peter L. Galison in a 2007 Crimson Op-Ed. “The only sounds are those of wind, wind shield wipers, a few quiet conver sations by the shuttle bus stop, and the rumble of air condition ingGalisonsystems.”wrote the piece, en titled “Allston Dreams,” mere months after Harvard released a 74-page master plan in 2007 for a vision of Allston that would soon become derailed by the Great Re cession.Since Galison’s piece, the long-awaited 544,000-squarefoot Science and Engineering Complex has opened its doors in fall 2021 to great acclaim from students and some residents.
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The area previously known as Cambridge”“Littleand now known as AllstonBrighton secedes from the larger city of Cambridge.
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Harvard begins its expansion into Allston, creating the Harvard Stadium.
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“It brings beauty, practical ity, and sustainability into har mony, a symbol of the Universi ty’s commitment to making the world better as we undertake our best work,” Bacow said in a press release months before the facili ty’sSomeopening.Allston residents have commended the building’s aes thetic and surrounding greens pace. Others said the SEC’s gran deur felt exclusionary. Residents additionally linked the SEC to ris ing housing costs.
dinary opportunity will do much to shape Harvard for decades to come,” Summers wrote in the let ter.The campus could include new science and technology fa cilities, artistic and cultural cen ters, and new student housing, Summers said.
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He said he expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to continue rais ing interest rates amid inflation ary“Ipressures.thinkweneed to be firm and
“My best guess is we’ll have a recession in the United States,” he said. “But I’m much more con fident that there’s going to be a re cession and an element of stag flation in Europe that comes as a consequence … of the stagger ing vulnerability that they creat ed forSummers,themselves.”aformer Harvard president, was vocal in predict ing last year that the U.S. could see high inflation. Henry began the forum by asking him about his calculus at the time.
resolute with respect to inflation. What that exactly will mean, I don’t think is clear down the road,” he said. “I’m sure they’re going to have to continue to raise interest rates.”
Earlier this year, Boston May or Michelle Wu ’07 received a pair of letters — one from CJAB and one from former University Vice President Katherine N. Lapp — which characterized the Univer sity’s expansion into Allston in starkly different ways.
Kamosa, the Universi ty spokesperson, wrote in an emailed statement that Harvard is “committed to ongoing engage ment with the community to ad vance shared goals, and to en suring our spaces and places are lively, welcoming and inclusive, and that they maintain and en hance the unique creative culture of theStill,neighborhood.”Brownsaid opportuni ties to engage with the University are not accessible to certain res idents.“Attending lots of meetings and understanding how the de velopment and planning process es works creates obstacles for people who don’t have the time or the background, and these are members of our community who are often most impacted by de velopment: immigrants, low-in come renters, people of color,” Brown wrote in an emailed state ment.
My visit confirmed for me in a deep and profound way that a museum is not and should never be a place for the remains of humans,” she wrote.
The advocacy group aims to demand accountability from Harvard regarding resident out reach, affordable housing plans, and sustainability efforts.
H ammonds wrote in Thurs day’s human remains report that she hopes her committee’s work allows Harvard to begin redressing its ties to slavery.
U niversity President Law rence S. Bacow formed two new committees Thursday that will be tasked with carrying out the recommendations — a Human Remains Returns Commit tee and a Human Remains Re search Review Committee.
T he report’s first recommenda tion called on Harvard to facil itate repatriation by working to identify direct descendants or descendant communities of the likely enslaved individ uals whose remains are in the school’s collections.
I n the report’s afterword, the chair of the committee that conducted the review, Evelynn M. Hammonds, wrote about her first visit to the storeroom in the Peabody Museum, which houses the human remains.
T hursday’s report comes eight months after Bacow com missioned the Steering Com mittee on Human Remains in Harvard Museum Collections
“[Harvard] understands that it has an enormous amount of power, and it will use that pow er,” Brown said. “So what we need to do is build our own power and make sure that we’re taking col lective action and speaking with one voice, making demands that Harvard has to listen to.”
Further, the SEC has been cer tified LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council — a certi fication measuring the building’s sustainability.Despitesuch efforts, Harry E. Mattison, who is an Allston res ident, said he believes Galison’s “Allston Dreams” have become a reality.“Ifwhat you were thinking is, hey, we’re going to build a new neighborhood, or we’re going to build a new Main Street, and we’re going to create vitality, and we’re going to create Boston’s next great new neighborhood, then they’ve completely failed,” Mattison said.
T he report is a major step in Harvard’s efforts to redress its history of slavery and discrim ination. In April, the Universi ty published a landmark report that detailed the “integral” role slavery played in its history and pledged $100 million to a Lega cy of Slavery Fund.
to develop University-wide pol icies for collecting, displaying, and returning human remains. Bacow and Jane Pickering, di rector of the Peabody Muse um, formally apologized then for past practices that allowed Harvard to amass a collection of over 22,000 human remains.
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Theevening.forum, which was held as part of the 2022 Globe Sum mit, was moderated by Linda Pizzuti Henry, the Chief Execu tive Officer of Boston Globe Me dia Partners, along with her hus band, John W. Henry, who owns the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FootballSummersClub.said he believes the United States is headed for a re cession but remains in a better economic position than many European countries because it is less reliant on other nations for energy.
Whether the upcoming IMP will meet the neighborhood’s needs remains to be seen. But Bruno, the Allston resident, is op timistic.“Isee the history, and I see the potential,” Bruno said. “They know everything, whether it’s medicine or engineering or ed ucation, financing — they’re the best. Why would we be reluctant to partner with the best?”
Plans for the ERC first debuted in 2011, with the BPDA approv ing a framework for expansion in
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For centuries, the remains of ‘others’ have been collected in the name of scientific prog ress—science of the sort that accepted their bodies as simple data, objects to be measured,” Harvard postdoctoral fellow Aja M. Lans wrote in one essay.
In its 19-page letter, CJAB members raised concerns about a future in Allston-Brighton de fined by unaffordable housing, barriers to small businesses, traffic congestion, and climate change. Lapp’s letter, meanwhile, expressed Harvard’s desire to turn their purchased properties in Allston into “vibrant, equitable and welcoming” spaces.
unanimously approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authori ty in October 2013.
It is never too late to afford others the dignity and respect they were denied in life, and it is never too soon to begin the pro cess of recognition and, with hope, reconciliation,” Bacow wrote in an email announcing the report on Thursday.
“In fact, how people are kept in a museum may be antitheti cal to practices of caring for the dead of the communities whose ‘remains’ are ‘stored’ in muse ums.”The report was interspersed with reflections from faculty on Harvard’s slavery ties.
“I saw a GDP gap [in] the Unit ed States of perhaps 2 or 3 per cent, and I saw that we were do ing 14 percent of GDP in fiscal stimulus,” he said. “And I thought to myself, ‘this bathtub is gonna overflow pretty badly.”
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I hope our ancestors whose re mains are in our care will see that we have begun our jour ney along the path that leads to ward justice,” she wrote.
Harvard’s upcoming projects — particularly the much-anticipat ed Enterprise Research Campus — continue to be a source of con cern for some Allston residents.
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The plan also details a mixeduse development at Barry’s Cor ner.But prior to the plan’s ap proval, Allston residents raised a number of concerns. For ex ample, the development at Bar ry’s Corner would cause conges tion, they alleged. They also took issue with the lack of specificity surrounding Harvard’s plans for affordable housing and sustain ability.Harvard has taken a number of initiatives to address resident anxieties.Since2000, the University has sponsored the Harvard Local Housing Collaborative, intended to bolster the supply of low-cost housing in Cambridge and Bos ton.The University renewed the collaborative in 2019, which has invested more than $40 million in the Greater Boston area, accord ing to its Harvardwebsite.alsohelped to estab lish Allston-Brighton’s “All Bright Homeownership Program” in 2015, which seeks to improve ac cess to homeownership for the neighborhood’s residents as out side investors and developers buy up property in the area.
T here is no mention in the legacy of slavery report or the human remains report issued on Thursday of a high-profile 2019 lawsuit brought by Tamara K. Lanier, who says the school illegally possesses daguerreo types of two of her enslaved an cestors, Renty and Dalia. Mas sachusetts’ top court ruled in June that Lanier has grounds to sue the school for emotional distress, but rejected her claim to the photographs.
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T he Human Remains Re turns Committee will be tasked with determining how the Uni versity should handle remains of individuals who were not en slaved or fall outside the Na tive American Graves Protec tion and Repatriation Act of 1990, which requires that Na tive American remains be re turned to their descendants or tribes. The Human Remains Research Review Committee will “work with Museum staff on assessing requests” by Har vard or other scholars to use skeletal remains.
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of existing academic practic es and curricula on human re mains, and memorializing in dividuals held in its collections.
Former United States Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers discussed his concerns about the continued risk of inflation for the global economy at a Harvard In stitute of Politics forum Thurs day
T he report urged faculty to craft curricula that engage the histories of human remains collections on campus, with a focus on the “ethical dimen sions of their presence” and “how they reflect the complex history of the University.”
tion of the Coalition for a Just Allston and Brighton last August.
Bacow said his “vision for an Enterprise Research Campus emerged from a deep engage ment with the Allston commu nity” and that the ERC will, resul tantly, “be for everyone”.
In the second half of the fo rum, Summers took questions from audience members, who asked about his career, his eco nomic forecasting, and the glob al economy.Askedby Henry at the end of the discussion about Boston’s economic future, Summers high lighted the academic talent it at tracts.“We live in a cognitive era, where intellectual talent and brainpower is more important for economic success than it’s ever been before,” he said. “Bos ton, with all its universities and all its colleges, stands out for how much of that it possesses.”
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Meanwhile, Brown said that the future of Harvard-Allston re lations relies on the “energized and activated” residents.
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Some union representatives from Local 26 — representing Boston hospitality workers — voiced support for the propos al due to its affordable housing stipulations and potential to cre ate Otherjobs. residents felt the pro posal insufficiently addressed theirDuringconcerns.the approval process for Phase A of the ERC develop ment, continuing resident con cerns culminated in the forma
Kevin M. Carragee, a Brighton resident and member of CJAB, alleged the University is not up holding its “social justice mis sion.”To quell affordability con cerns amid Allston’s housing cri sis, Harvard entered a landmark agreement with Allston leaders this past UnderJuly.the agreement bro kered by the Wu administra tion, the University committed to 25 percent residential units to be affordable within Phase A of the ERC. Harvard also agreed to donate $25 million to establish the Allston-Brighton Affordable Housing Fund and to donate a 0.9-acre tract of land at 65-79 Se attle St. to an affordable housing developer.TheUniversity has also made commitments to expand trans portation, including a 2018 pledge of $50 million to the neigh borhood’s planned West Station MBTA extension — currently set for construction in 2040.
This coming year, the University will presumably submit a new In stitutional Master Plan, detailing its current developments in All ston and presenting its next de cade-longKamosaagenda.wrote that the Uni versity wants to contribute to a “thriving, innovative ecosystem” that will change the neighbor hood in “profound ways.”
If what you were thinking is, hey, we’re going to build a new neighborhood, or we’re going to build a new Main Street, and we’re going to create vitality, and we’re going to create Boston’s next great new neighborhood, then they’ve completely
The IMP contains nine proj ects totaling nearly 1.4 million square feet, including the con struction of a new executive ed ucation facility at the Harvard Business School and additions to the Harvard Stadium.
H arvard also agreed to re configure its stewardship of human remains by creating a “purpose-designed” view ing space, facilitating a review
proposed ERC would in clude a hotel and conference cen ter, office and laboratory space, and residential, retail, and restau rantIndevelopments.itspitchtoresidents, the University touted nearly three acres of publicly accessible open space, centering on a public “gre enway” plaza and lawn that will connect Raymond V. Mellone Park — named in honor of a for mer Harvard Allston Task Force chair — to the Charles River.
The station is part of Allston’s larger I-90 Multimodal Project, for which Harvard has promised hundreds of millions of dollars of support.Residents and city legislators have also voiced concern over what they deem insufficient com munication from the University.
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perficial understanding of restorative justice and warrants our concerns that he may still be danger ous to our peers. We know we are not alone in this concern — during Comaroff’s first class on Tuesday, five graduate students walked out of his lecture in protest, while dozens of others gathered in the Sci ence Center Plaza.
Beyond the humiliation and confusion we feel while watching Harvard scramble every time a scandal breaks, it pains us to witness the harm done to community members in situations that could have been preempted.
of their core identity; either we accept people in their fullness, or we don’t. We cannot and should not negotiate others’ identities — reli gious, sexual, racial, or other — for our own comfort.
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the resignation of a female bisexual stu dent-leader from her role as Assistant Bi ble Course Leader after learning that she was in a same-sex relationship. A year lat er, Harvard placed the organization on a year-long administrative probation. Fol lowing the decision, our board opined that the student’s removal from leadership con stituted a morally egregious act, affirming the sanctions levied by the College. How ever, we also felt that the College’s proba tion measures — which still allowed HCFA to hold regular meetings — were complete ly insufficient.Inlastweek’s email thread, a current leader in Harvard’s Undergraduate Asso ciation and HCFA leader defended the or ganization, stating that “all are welcome at HCFA Doxa, Bible Course, and all other Events, regardless of their sexual orienta tion, race, or religious identity.” Sharp (and fairly justified) questioning of the HCFA’s ability to stay true to those promises en sued. Given its recent history and current concerns posed by students on campus, HCFA should explicitly re-affirm its com mitment to fostering an inclusive campus as a student organization — and make pub lic any evidence of the reform or progress that followed their 2017 debacle.
The queer community, at Harvard and everywhere else, should not have to alien ate themselves from their queerness in order to feel comfortable and included within organizations and spaces. Queer students at Harvard, being members of our community, deserve the same trans formational experiences and intellectual enrichment they enrolled for. However, in dividual acts of discrimination that begin with expectations of how queer students ought to behave foster a toxic campus cul ture that dampens said extraordinary ex periences. Our bottom line is simple: this Editorial Board strongly condemns the actions of any organization that discrim inates against the LGBTQ+ community in this way or in any other way. This campus should be one of acceptance and inclusion, and we urge every student and organiza tion to reaffirm this through their actions.
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No student should have to split their attention in the classroom between pursuits to satiate intellec tual curiosity and fears for their physical and emo tional safety. The classroom ought to be a sanctuary, not somewhere from which students need to seek refuge.
as individuals, HUA leaders preserve the right to express their beliefs and state their opinions at their own dis cretion. They should do so, however, while remaining cognizant of their positionali ty as student body leaders, of the exagger ated impact and scrutiny linked to their words. In our board’s view, as our elect ed representatives, the extent to which HUA members are relevant in the pres ent discussion comes down to club fund ing — and we strongly do not believe that the HUA should fund clubs that discrimi nate against LGBTQ+ people or any iden tityDiscrimination,groups. in our opinion, in cludes the denial of one’s identity and en titled expectations that one could and should hide some parts of their identity for the convenience of others. Some peo ple and organizations on this campus may attempt to separate individuals from their queerness — to condemn non-heterosex ual relationships but somehow support
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the individuals themselves. We vehement ly disagree. Any attempt to separate peo ple from their LGBTQ+ identities in order to attack the latter is a disingenuous at tempt at inclusive self-delusion at best, and a lackluster disguise for homophobia at worst. One cannot accept someone in spite of their core identity; either we accept peo ple in their fullness, or we don’t. We cannot and should not negotiate others’ identities — religious, sexual, racial, or other — for our own comfort.
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ur new, in-person term has not es caped the now familiar pitfalls of online quarrels. Last week, an event for the rather controversial Harvard College Faith and Action was publicized on Lowell House’s unmoderated email list. Several indignant students quickly re sponded, criticizing the organization — which describes itself as “a gospel-cen tered community that welcomes students from all backgrounds” — for an alleged history of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.The students are not exactly wrong on the facts. In 2017, HCFA leadership urged
man accused of abusing those under his guidance. Indeed, this points to an even larger structural con cern: The possibility that Harvard was aware (and even warned!) of accusations against Comaroff at the University of Chicago prior to his hiring in 2012 suggests problems in Harvard’s vetting process that warrant a closer look if the University is interested in preventing similar crises from arising in the fu ture. As we have opined previously, the Universi ty should be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to Title IX protocols.
It cannot be overstated how troubling it is that students, especially women, may not feel safe and comfortable within the classroom or even Harvard as a whole now that Comaroff has returned.
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The administration must acknowledge and rem edy the ways in which Comaroff’s return forces stu dents into an unsafe learning environment. By al lowing Comaroff to return as a teaching professor, Harvard sends the message that when it comes to academia, safety and well-being take a backseat to intellectual achievements and academic promi nence.Students should not have to find themselves be tween a rock and a hard place: taking a course with an alleged predator or rearranging their schedules to avoid any potential hazards. The burden of find ing ways to feel safe in a classroom should not be placed on students’ shoulders.
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The queer community, at Harvard and everywhere else, should not have to alienate themselves from their queerness in order to feel comfortable and included organizationswithinandspaces.
Despite his two-year leave, the University’s lack of transparency surrounding any rehabilitative re quirements for Comaroff’s return reflects only a su
lawsuit to be dismissed. Last Wednesday, however, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief ar guing that the University could be liable for Coma roff’s threats to retaliate against the graduate stu dent
The current controversy also raises a question about the ofttimes ambiguous role of HUA members. HUA leaders are not meant to be — and should emphatically not be treated as — sources of moral guid ance. That strays much too far from their role description. For us, the job of an HUA representative is singular and simple: fund our student clubs and organizations in a timely and efficient fashion. Harvard out siders and over-eager media outlets might assume otherwise, might attempt to paint them as chosen ideologues or imagined messiahs that define our campus’ moral
outlook. Yet, as actual Harvard students, we know that is hardly the case: None of our peers are looking at the HUA for ethi cal
Even if the University wasn’t liable for the harm done to students previously, it may certainly be held accountable for any potential harm done to students who are currently under the tutelage of a
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arvard’s campus is extremely vast — some of us are particularly aware of this when we must venture from the Quad to the SEC and back again. But sometimes, Harvard’s campus doesn’t feel quite big enough, like when the course taught by an alleged serial assaulter is listed as one of the options to fulfill your concentration require ments.This fall, Professor John L. Comaroff returned to campus after a two-year administrative leave. A ten ured professor in the Anthropology and African and African American Studies departments, Comaroff was accused of sexual misconduct during his time at Harvard as well as during his prior three-decade stint at the University of Chicago. Comaroff has also allegedly threatened students who warned others of his sexually inappropriate behavior — an issue cen tral to the ongoing lawsuit against Harvard in which three graduate students argue that Harvard should be liable for ignoring Comaroff’s threats of retalia tion against them.
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Students should not have to find themselved between a rock and hard place: taking a course with an alleged predator or rearranging their schedules to avoid any potential hazards.
not equipped to comment on the legal nuances of the amicus brief, as students, we are concerned by Comaroff’s return to campus and what this may mean for our community.
Furthermore, his proposal for a constitution al amendment to abolish slavery was too radical for some of his colleagues, as it attempted to rec ognize emancipated Black Americans equally under the law. He also famously initially opposed the 14th Amendment, because the bill did not
as they may be, calls to cre ate a shared Hispanic identity at Harvard are misguided.Hegelbelieved that the definition of an identi ty requires opposition with an Other. Many times this definition is needed, but in this case, in creat ing a defined Hispanic identity, we risk distanc ing ourselves from the rest of the student body — all in pursuit of reifying a community that doesn’t need to exist. Instead of trying to con struct a community to match the term Hispan ic, we should embrace the differences between Hispanic identities and try to learn from one an other.This is not to say that I don’t support the His panic affinity organizations on campus. Peo ple should embrace all those communities with which they identify; affinity organizations help them do just that. All I’m saying is that we should not lament the fact that Hispanics lack the social cohesion that other identities may have on cam pus. Instead, we should celebrate the differenc es between the Hispanic identities that make us who we are.
Two-thirds of Bangladesh sits at less than 15 feet above sea level. By 2050, one in seven peo ple in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. This past summer, catastrophic flash floods — the worst in Bangladesh in over a hun dred years — barreled through the northeastern region of Sylhet, wiping away towns and affecting around 7.2 million people.
Bangladesh is accustomed to torrential down pours during monsoon seasons — yet the globe’s warming climate is quickly lengthening and in tensifying the rains and floods, permanent ly altering the nation’s landscape. Nearly 75 per cent of Bangladesh sits below sea level. Erosion from the Padma, Jamuna, and Meghna has en gulfed 160,000 hectares of land, pushing 300,000 to 400,000 people each year to flee to Dhaka, the country’sBangladesh,capital.like many coastal nations, is ground zero for climate change, unjustly bearing the brunt of wealthy nations’ carbon emissions.
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sufficiently protect the right of Black Americans to vote. In these and other ways, Sumner was the John Brown of the legislature, uncompromising in his belief in the universal rights of men.
riting about the Hispanic identity is very difficult. That might be because it doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s just my Social Studies-esque “everything is discourse” sensibil ity talking, but regardless, I can’t help but notice that in the same way Foucault wrote “Before the end of the eighteenth century, man did not exist,” at Harvard, Hispanics don’t exist either.
To replace Winthrop House with Sumner house would be a symbolic gesture, but a significant one.
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The goal is not just ripping down plaques of those that have lagged behind the moral charac ter of Harvard; the ultimate goal is to celebrate the people that represent the best of the Univer sity.Case in point: the unwavering stances in the pursuit of justice that defined Senator Charles Sumner’s career in the halls of Congress. In coop eration with members of the Women’s National Loyal League, he helped organize a petition with over half a million signatures for the abolition of slavery, which he used to push for the expansion of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Moreover, Sumner’s grandfather, Job Sumner, fought for freedom during the colonial period. Job was admitted to Harvard at age 20, entering in November of 1774. When the American Revo lution erupted, Sumner joined up with the patri ot army, putting to use the skills he had learned with a Harvard military company that would lat er become known as the “Harvard Washington Corps.” Major Sumner was later recognized by the President and Fellows of Harvard Universi ty for his service in the armed forces, who hon ored him with a Master of Arts degree. When the eldest Sumner died, then-Vice President John Adams, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and oth er revolutionary officers attended Job Sumner’s funeral.Sumner House has no shortage of names to replace. As of now, two of Harvard College’s Houses, Winthrop House and Mather House, are named after slaveholders. Eliot House and Low ell House, meanwhile, have eugenicists as name sakes. Presuming that chattel slavery, the geno cide of native peoples, and belief in eugenics have become “‘abhorrent’ in the context of current val ues,” these Houses surely qualify to be denamed.
people are resilient and uniquely poised to tackle the issue of climate change with innovative solutions. However, they should not have to face this fight alone while we watch their nation sink from our dry vantage spots in Cambridge. Har vard, with its multibillion-dollar endowment, should publicly address and invest in resourc es for Bangladeshi flood relief. For Pakistan, stu dent activists from Harvard College Pakistani Stu dents Association have already risen to the fight by raising funds among students; Harvard should provide monetary support for and amplify these voices.
Charles Sumner’s ideological framework was far from epiphany. Charles Pinckney Sumner, Senator Sumner’s father, played an influential role in shaping his son’s politics. Also a gradu ate of Harvard College, he instilled his own abo litionist views in his son, teaching that abolition would mean nothing unless white Americans were willing to “learn to have a good feeling to ward [Black Americans], and treat them as well.”
There is a clear bias in whom we choose to show solidarity to. Choosing to center victims who are white is a reflection of Western notions of humanity, and a broader symptom of a Western tendency to disregard Black and Brown bodies in favor of serving the West’s geopolitical interests.
very first-year student at Harvard swipes their ID at Annenberg dining hall and walks past a portrait of Charles Sumner. After graduating from Harvard College, Sumner spent 22 years as a public servant representing Massachusetts in the Senate. Throughout his time in Congress, he was famous for his fierce support for the abolition of slavery and unpopu lar belief in equality for all people. For his accom plishments, Sumner deserves to have a Harvard House in his name.
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The most obvious place where the Hispanic problem rears its head is in the mundane work of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census question naire asks respondents to identify their race, presenting options for White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. “Hispanic” doesn’t make the list because the na ture of Hispanicism encompasses various races. There are White Hispanics, Black Hispanics, and Asian Hispanics. Instead, the questionnaire asks in a separate question if the respondent identi fies as ThisHispanic.solution addresses the narrow problem faced by the Census Bureau — identifying His panics — but, in a broader sense, it exemplifies a failure to fully understand how Hispanics ac tually identify themselves. Many Cubans, for ex ample, do not consider themselves Hispanic but rather Cuban-American, an identity meant to recognize a particular culture, history, and set of traditions distinct from that of other Hispanics in the U.S. Differences in racial self-identification further distinguish Cubans: In 2004, 86 percent of Cubans identified themselves as white on the Census, while only 50 percent of Puerto Ricans did the same.
Some may see this fracturing of the Hispanic
hen I recall the nation I was born in, my memories of the brief time I spent there are conjured through rose-tinted glass es. I recall lush fields of green rice paddies, ponds decorated with lily pads and frogs, and trees bursting with fruit. Besides myself, Bangladesh is home to 168 million people — yet the nation was only recently born through blood and struggle over 50 years ago. Now, Bangladesh faces great struggle again.
Academia is not apolitical. Harvard has been an architect and endorser of harmful policy and practice. Divestment from fossil fuels, while mon umental and significant, was not the clean-cut end of Harvard’s muddy relationship with climate change — not while nations like Bangladesh and Pakistan still reap the effects of decades of fossil fuel pollution. Harvard’s student body is undeni ably conscious of the climate crisis and human itarian crises such as the one in Ukraine — and rightfully so. However, there is a clear bias in whom we choose to show solidarity to. Choos ing to center victims who are white is a reflec tion of Western notions of humanity, and a broad er symptom of a Western tendency to disregard Black and Brown bodies in favor of serving the West’s geopolitical interests.
For wealthier nations, the luxuries of everyday life allow climate change to loom in the distant fu ture. But for Bangladesh, and other nations such as Pakistan, climate change has already claimed the lives of their people, destroyed their homes,
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It would be especially fitting that a family with a lineage of abolitionists replaces a family with a lineage of enslavers: the Winthrops. Governor John Winthrop helped justify the Pequot War by claiming the superiority of advanced peoples to assert their “civil right” to the land. He owned the wife and two unnamed sons of Pequot sachem Mononotto and at least four other unidentified Indigenous people. The younger John Winthrop, a President of Harvard, owned two enslaved peo ple named George and Scipio. To replace Win throp House with Sumner House would be a symbolic gesture, but a significant one — a sign of a more serious commitment by Harvard to reckon with its ugliest history while embracing its
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Go to any Hispanic event at Harvard and you’ll see this diversity of identities. There are international students who identify more with their home countries than they do with the His panic population on campus.
Despite producing a mere 0.21 percent of global CO2 — leagues below China with 29.2 percent, the U.S. with 14 percent, and Japan with 3.5 percent — Bangladesh is paying the price for these nations in its own lands and livelihoods in what may only be considered an extreme climate injustice.
The majority of the nation sits on the largest river delta in the world, at the confluence of the mighty Ganges, Jamuna, and Meghna Rivers. These rivers are Bangladesh’s lifeblood; they are the waterways that produce the rich agricultural soil that dubs the nation the “Land of Rivers.”
identity as a problem in light of issues with His panic representation on campus. In final clubs, for instance, the general consensus is that His panics are among the least represented groups. Some people hear mention of the “Black Fly” or a pipeline between Black Men’s Forum and final clubs and conclude that the answer to this lack of representation is to strengthen the institution al and social power of Hispanic affinity organiza tions, creating a strong, unified Hispanic identi ty on
The goal is not just ripping down plaques of those that have lagged behind the moral character of Harvard; the ultimate goal is to celebrate the people that represent the best of the
In general, Hispanics tend to identify much more with their country of origin than with the term Hispanic. According to Pew Research, only 24 percent of Hispanics use the terms Hispan ic or Latino most often to describe their identi ty. Over half prefer instead to use their family’s country of origin to identify themselves.
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I still don’t know how to swim. It’s a forgivable privilege here. Students at Harvard swim for fun, to exercise, or in races against other schools — but not to scramble away from the waves consuming their home. Knowing how to swim is not an op tion for the people of Bangladesh, who must swim for their lives, away from lands wrecked by our ig norance.
Instead of trying to construct a community to match the term Hispanic, we should embrace the differences between Hispanic identities and try to learn from one another.
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I’m not trying to make some vague postmod ernist argument about the social construction of race. Maybe there really is some ideal “Hispanic” floating around somewhere in Platonic heaven. But here on Earth, what really matters to Hispan ics at Harvard, myself included, is what people actually see as the Hispanic identity, and how it impacts our interactions on campus. It is in this sense that the Hispanic identity is a problem — so fractured, diverse, and ill-defined that for all in tents and purposes, it doesn’t exist.
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and created life-altering cycles of poverty. This year, unprecedented flooding submerged 94 per cent of Bangladesh’s Sunamganj town and 84 per cent of the surrounding Sylhet district — flooding so terrible it has never been seen in living mem
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There are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking the Spanish of their par ent’s home culture. There are other second-gen eration immigrants who found a place within a local American-Hispanic culture, and still oth ers who are Black and Hispanic and must bal ance those two identities. Misguided attempts to generalize Hispanics into one ethno-racial group is what leads people to be surprised when they see the 32 percent of Hispanics who voted Republican in 2020.
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For someone writing a piece about identity, I haven’t talked a lot about my own so far. Yes, I am Hispanic, but knowing that doesn’t tell you any thing about me. Instead of knowing me as a His panic student, you should know me as the son of two Colombian immigrants, someone who only speaks Spanish at home, who grew up in Atlan ta and visits their family in Colombia often. I am Hispanic, but before that, I am an individual, who, like many, has a story that cannot be gener alized into one overarching identity. As Hispan ic Heritage Month begins, I urge you to listen to the stories — in the Crimson’s pages and beyond — that define each of us. Reading them, you’ll see the differences that, paradoxically, are what make us all Hispanic.
My rose-tinted glasses are gone now. Where there were once rice paddies, there is now just wa
The Land of Rivers is quickly becoming the sea, and no one is coming to save it.
Where there were once rice paddies, there is now just water; where there were once ponds full of life, they are now buried under the currents; and where there was once beautiful agriculture, there is now only erosion and destruction.
— Afiya Rahman ’24, a Crimson Editorial edi tor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Pforzhei mer House.
—Manuel A. Yepes ’24, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot
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MY PEOPLE ARE RESILIENT AND UNIQUELY POISED TO TACKLE THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE WITH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS. However, they should not have to face this fight alone while we watch their nation sink from our dry vantage spots in Cambridge. Harvard, with its multibillion-dollar endowment, should publicly address and invest in resources for Bangladeshi flood relief.
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I have a personal confession to make: I can not swim. This is an oddity for someone born in a tropical country. Back home, my grandmother in sisted on carrying all her grandchildren into the ponds, until each child learned the useful life skill of a butterfly or backstroke — all except for me. Instead, I was whisked away to this land, where I have comfortably lived without ever needing to know how to swim.
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are few families tied to the legacy of Harvard that come close to the honor and forti tude of the Sumner Family. Those who we choose to memorialize define what we as the Harvard community want to embody in the future. As we work to become a more just community, we must reckon with our history. That process can begin
is part of a focus on Hispanic authors and experiences for Hispanic Heritage Month.
On May 5th, 2022, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay sent out an email de tailing a new institutional process for FAS affil iates to petition for the denaming of Harvard structures. Per that email, the administration will consider denaming spaces “based on the perception that a namesake’s actions or beliefs were ‘abhorrent’ in the context of current val ues.”The new denaming process has one glaring omission, however: Students seemingly cannot argue for whom these structures should be re named — they can scrub names, but offer no al ternatives. Renaming is a significant part of re storing the harm of the name that came before. It offers an opportunity to permanently reconsti tute whomever we choose.
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FIRST MEETING OF FALL. The Cambridge City Council met for the first regular meeting of the fall on Monday, where City Manager Yi An-Huang ’05 addressed councilors.
Le Macaron French Pastries Opens in Harvard Square Council Sets Sight on Housing Again
In November 2021, the Coun cil called on the Community De velopment Department and the city’s Planning Board to “devel op concepts and principles” to change the zoning code and allow for multifamily development.
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Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang ‘05 speaks at his first City Council meeting on Monday. JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
As Cambridge’s new city manag er Yi-An Huang ’05 assumes lead ership over city government and the City Council resumes regu lar meetings after the summer, councilors have set their sights once again on a contentious is sue: multifamily housing.
toward the Affordable Housing Trust.Cambridge’s chief public health officer, Derrick L. Neal, presented on the state of the Covid-19 pandemic and monkey pox in Cambridge, noting that
FOLLOWING the departure of Louis A. DePasquale, Yi-An Huang ’05 was appointed as Cambridge’s new City Man ager in June. Huang, a former executive at Boston Medical Center, highlighted climate change, housing, and transit as key issues he would act swiftly on.
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“We are super excited to be in Harvard Square” Enest add ed. “We love the community, and we’re having fun.”
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he Cambridge City Coun cil held its first regular meeting of the fall Monday night — the first to feature new city manager Yi-An Huang ’05.
During the meeting, the coun cil approved nearly $16 million in state and local funding for Cam bridge’s Affordable Housing Trust and nearly $4 million for “historic preservation and open space projects” under Massachu setts’s Community Preservation Act.In an interview prior to the meeting, Vice Mayor Alanna M. Mallon said the transition to Huang’s leadership has been a “really exciting time” and that she was optimistic about his relation ship with the council.
Two of Le Macaron’s employ ees are current Harvard students.
ergies” and “cosmic awareness.”
Days after finishing his role as Cambridge’s acting city man ager, Owen O’Riordan has a new job in City Hall — right down the hall from his last one.Cambridge’s newly-mint ed city manager, Yi-An Huang ’05, tapped O’Riordan to serve as acting deputy city manager, according to an email to city staff reported by Cambridge Day. O’Riordan, the head of the city’s Department of Pub lic Works, served as acting city manager for two months over the summer before Huang tookTheover.deputy city manager position has been empty since early 2021, when officeholder Lisa Peterson retired.
Toner said he hopes to identi fy three or four priorities to be “la ser-focused on” and that issues related to housing “will definite ly be at the top of the list.”
“For Christmas, we offer a gin gerbread Christmas macaron, and then we also offer, in Novem ber, Pumpkin,” she said.
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The council also passed a res olution on the August death of “legendary Cambridge resident” Peter Z. Valentine, an eccentric local artist who was known for speaking at council meetings on topics such as “metaphysical en
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David I. Heller ’79, a close friend of the owners who enjoyed a bubblegum macaron, called the establishment a “delicious ad
Policymakers have long rec ognized the severity of the hous ing crisis and the need to increase the city’s housing supply. But finding and implementing poli
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Monday’s meeting, councilors, Huang, and city offi cials discussed monkeypox, and proposals to raise “linkage fees,” a fee paid by private developers
“The joy and spirit and color ful essence of Peter reverberates,” Councilor Patricia M. “Patty” No lan ’80 said during the meeting.
Azeem also argued that Cam bridge has had an “ugly history” of using zoning regulations to “[push] out people of color,” but that eliminating restrictive zon ing laws could be a step forward.
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Harvard Square officially wel comed Le Macaron French Pas tries in a grand opening event Sat urday.Located on Massachusetts Avenue, Le Macaron is a Blackowned business offering a se lection of French macarons and pastries, as well as gelato and Eu ropean-style coffee. The shop first opened its doors on Aug. 12 during Black Business Month, but held off its official grand opening celebration until nearly a month later.
“I think that this will be the city council that will end that his tory and allow for multifamily housing,” he said. “We’re going to do everything in our power.”
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Joseph W. Hernandez ’25, who works at the shop, praised the store’s management, saying he appreciates that “they are willing to hear from the people that are working there.” He called both owners, Karine and Emmanuel Ernest, “nothing but great.”
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In a message to staff, Huang said the deputy city manag er will have a more expan sive and clarified role, accord ing to Cambridge Day, writing that he views O’Riordan as the “chief operating officer for the city.” Huang said the deputy city manager will be responsi ble for “managing major dayto-day operations” and “over seeing core infrastructure,” according to Cambridge Day.
Noting that “it’s taken long” to set up Le Macaron in the Square, Karine Ernest advised other as piring entrepreneurs to be per sistent.“Never forget your dream and pursue that dream, and don’t be discouraged,” she said. “The whole process may take longer than you anticipated, but if you stick by it, you’ll get there.”
Toner said he felt there was potential to increase communi cation and alignment between the Council and other govern ment bodies that deal with zon ing and development, such as the Planning Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Later this month, Huang and the councilors will go on a retreat to discuss the council’s working relationship with the city manag er, as well as goals and priorities for the start of Huang’s term.
Huang said last week the city is facing staffing shortag es, comparing the problem to ones he faced as a hospital ex ecutive.“We’re facing the same staffing shortages that every hospital or health care pro vider is looking at as well,” he said.Huang praised O’Riordan’s City Hall service in the memo to staff on Friday.
“Owen has performed wonderfully as the acting city manager over the sum mer and for many years as the commissioner of Public Works,” he wrote, according to Cambridge Day. “I’m grate ful for his experience and lead ership, and I’m excited to work with him in this new role.”
Cambridge Vice Mayor Alanna M. Mallon, pictured at a City Council meeting on Monday. JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
Huang and the council will go on a retreat to discuss issues raised by Cambridge residents during the city manager search process last spring, Mallon said. She described the discussion as “longMallonoverdue.”added that Huang’s work during his onboarding “re ally affirmed the decision that we made as a city council to have YiAn be our next city manager and really tackle some of these sort of thorny issues that we’ve been trying to work through for a long
Le Macaron sits in what was previously an office space for the Cambridge Savings Bank. Kar ine Ernest called the bank an “in credible partner in this journey” of launching the pastry store. She also previewed new fla vors planned for the holiday sea son.
On Tuesday, the Housing Committee of the Council held a meeting relaunching discussions on allowing multifamily residen tial developments throughout the entire Tuesday’scity.discussion centered around eliminating single- and two-family zoning to allow for denser residential development. Currently, much of the area west of Harvard Square only allows for building single- and two-fam ily buildings. And on Wednesday night, five councilors — Marc C. McGovern, Mayor Sumbul Sid diqui, Vice Mayor Alanna M. Mallon, Paul F. Toner, and Bur han Azeem — gathered for a vir tual town hall meeting hosted by housing advocacy group A Better Cambridge to discuss the city’s housingMalloncrisis.said the “long over due” conversation on zoning re form “had a couple of fits and starts and I’m hoping that we can get it right back on the path and get the train out of the station.”
“I’ve been working with Owen very closely during the transition period,” Huang said in an interview last week pri or to the announcement. “I’ve been really grateful for his openness.”Huang took over as city manager on Sept. 6 after he was selected by the City Coun cil to replace Louis A. De Pasquale.The city is currently searching for a chief of staff and a chief of strategy imple mentation, according to job postings on the city’s web site. According to the job post ings, the salary range for both jobs is between $160,000 and $200,000.“Wewere able to meet and have good conversations about transition planning, where he was helping to bring me up to speed and to give me some of that organizational context and history,” Huang said of O’Riordan.
“We have been just well re ceived by the community, the students, the locals, the Harvard Square Business Association, and particularly the Cambridge Savings Bank,” co-owner Karine ErnestCambridgesaid. City Councilor E. Denise Simmons attended the grand opening. Simmons, the for mer mayor of Cambridge, spoke at a ribbon-cutting ceremony and congratulated the business on its opening, calling it “a sweet, de lightfulErnestsurprise”.calledthe business her “lifelong dream” during the cere mony.“Thank you to all those in Har vard Square. Thank you to my friends and family, my children for coming out here to support me,” Ernest said.
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the city had fewer than 10 cases of monkeypox. He urged Cam bridge residents to get an updated booster vaccine to protect against the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and said those eligible to get the monkeypox vaccine should do so.
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“We have to have a better con versation with them about the goals of the city and City Coun cil in terms of our housing initia tives,” Toner said.
Maxdata.G. Ehrenfreund, a sixthyear graduate student and a member of HGSU-UAW, said the responsibility of protecting af filiates should lie in Harvard’s hands.“As to what happens next, I think that’s a question that ad ministrators really need to an swer,” he said.
With three months to go be fore its longtime executive di rector steps down, the Harvard Alumni Association is in the mid dle of a search for its new leader.
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“One of the things that we would love to see is for it to be a person of color or a person from a marginalized identity,” said Ja cob A. Barrera, co-president of the Harvard Latino Alumni Alli ance.Barrera said he would like to see a Latinx person “because there’s been so much negativ ity around Latino professors and faculty at Harvard” in re cent years, citing Lorgia García Peña’s 2019 tenure denial, which sparked outcry and calls for ten ure
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But some union members have voiced concerns about the feasibility of the arbitration pro cess.“An arbitration can take many months to settle,” said Denish K. Jaswal, co-chair of the Contract Enforcement and Ed ucation Committee. “So by the time we got in front of an arbitra tor, the class would have already beenLjunggrenover.” said the union’s goal is to protect all affiliates on campus from harassment and discrimination.“Lookingforward — while the grievance might be sort of dead in the water — I think what we’re really trying to do is make sure the campus is continuing to en gage in the conversation around Title IX reform,” they said.
Lovejoy steered the HAA through its transition to virtual operations during the Covid-19 pandemic. When the organiza tion eased back into in-person programming, it opted to split its reunions and annual meeting from University Commencement festivities, angering some alumni who cherished the longtime tra dition of the events being held on the same Harvardday. has hired promi nent executive search firm Isaa cson, Miller to help find the next HAA executive director, accord ing to an Aug. 8 email from Bri an K. Lee, the vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and De velopment. Founded in 1982, the Boston-based firm specializes in leadership searches for higher education and nonprofits.
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The complaint, filed on Aug. 8 by the Harvard Graduate Stu dents Union-United Automobile Workers, alleged that by allow ing Comaroff to teach, the Uni versity violated provisions out lined in Articles 7 and 10 of the HGSU-UAW contract, which re quire Harvard to protect affil iates from discrimination and remedy any “Comaroff’sharm.presence in the classroom is an unnecessary threat to safety of women and queer students, including stu dent workers who may work in the same buildings in which he teaches,” the grievance states.
The HAA has also solicited suggestions and nominations from alumni and named an ad visory committee made up of current and former HAA lead ers. Some alumni groups also re ceived invitations to live focus
and not confined to just Harvard ‘insiders,’” higher education ex pert Thomas D. Parker ’64 wrote in an“It’semail.animportant job,” Parker wrote. “They need to take whatev er time is necessary to find some one who is a good fit.”
arvard’s graduate stu dent union filed a griev ance against the Uni versity last month, claiming Harvard failed to ensure “a safe and healthy work and education al environment.Thegrievance denounced professor John L. Comaroff’s re turn to teaching this fall. Coma roff was placed on unpaid leave in January following a pair of University investigations, which found he had violated Harvard’s sexual harassment and profes sional conduct policies.
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Ljunggren said the Universi ty requested a private meeting after receiving the complaint, where Harvard administrators said the school wanted to bypass the typical grievance process steps, in which the union would meet with University stakehold ers.Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations wrote in an August response to the griev ance that the union’s contract does not give HGSU-UAW juris diction over how the University decides to discipline faculty and staff.“As the union should be aware, the contract between the University and the union explic itly retains for the University the exclusive right to make academ ic decisions, including but not limited to who is taught, what is taught, how it is taught and who does the teaching,” the let ter
Grinstead ’97, pres ident of the Harvard Christian Alumni Society, said it will be “difficult” to find a candidate who will be comfortable navigating an alumni network as “diverse and geographically broad” as Har vard’s.“You need someone who’s got the ability to listen,” Grinstead said. “You’ve got to have someone who is genuine in their desire to hear from all parts of the commu nity.”Though Lovejoy himself is not a graduate of Harvard, his father, George M. Lovejoy Jr. ’51, was an active alumnus until his death in 2020. Philip Lovejoy wrote in the email announcing his departure that he plans to spend more time working for the Blue Hills Foun dation, a working land trust in New Hampshire that his father
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HARVARD’S GRADUATE STUDENT UNION filed a grievance against the University over Anthro pology and African and African American Studies Professor John Comaroff’s return to the classroom this term.
Laura A. Parkin ’86, co-pres ident of Harvard Alumni for Cli mate and the Environment, said that though a Harvard de gree should not be a prerequisite for the job, the pick should have “some familiarity with how uni versities“Thesework.”sorts of institutions seem to be unique beasts,” Par kinAssaid.in the ongoing hunt for Harvard’s 30th president, diver sity is important to some alumni.
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“The union sought to change the Title IX policies and proce dures during bargaining but ul timately agreed … that the Uni versity has the exclusive right to amend the policies and that student workers may not raise complaints regarding sexual and gender-based harassment through grievance and arbitra tion,” the Harvard Office of La bor and Employee Relations’ let ter
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“If they don’t answer it, the University will continue to suf fer reputational damage, and the potential that Comaroff will con tinue to abuse the students will remain unaddressed,” Ehrenfre und said.
Bringing in the firm will help “ensure that the net is cast widely
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“Forreform.us,it is really hard to en gage alumni when they see Har vard treat our other alumni or other Latino faculty and staff in such a way. For us, diversity, for sure, is at the top of our list,” Bar reraUniversitysaid. spokespeople did not respond to a request for com ment.According to the Isaacson, Miller website, 46 percent of all of its executive placements have been women and 27 percent have been people of color. Parkin said she hopes the next HAA leader will tackle ur gent challenges such as climate change.
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As of Sept. 14, no students are enrolled in Comaroff’s course, down from two when the course began, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences class enroll ment
Philip W. Lovejoy, who has held the top permanent post at the HAA since 2014, announced in February he will step down in December after serving in a vari ety of roles across 24 years at Har vard.The HAA connects over 400,000 living alumni to Harvard and its networks across the globe. Lovejoy’s successor will manage approximately 40 staff members who support alumni program ming, including reunions and Harvard Club events.
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for HRDC’s Fall 2022 were published. Over the next 48 hours, lists were re-shuffled as students accepted or denied roles. Every season, some students face the privileged and difficult decision of choosing between shows with conflicting schedules; others might be dis appointed or relieved by their names’ absence from the cast lists. Once cast, an actor must submit the “ac cept this role” form to confirm their spot as a member of the show. If a student refuses a role, their first alter nate is alerted that the part is now theirs to take if they so choose. Consequently, a bottleneck of indecision forms as actors stall to see what shows their friends pick, or if the actor cast in a role for which they’re list ed as an alternate decides to drop. As the signing dead line looms, the waiting game assumes a sense of ur gency. Friends are consulted, directors are emailed, my.hrdctheater.org is refreshed dozens of times as ac tors check to see if a role for which they are listed al
ternate has opened up. Everyone holds their breath. Two days and 59 seconds later, on Thursday, Sept. 8th at 6:01p.m. the signing portal closed. Now, production teams begin composing emails to their finalized ensembles, stage managers start the daunting task of scheduling rehearsals around the hectic time conflicts of up to two dozen Harvard students, actors call their friends to congratulate them and stalk their fellow cast members on Insta gram, and everyone lets out a collective breath.
“Don’t Worry Darling” had every thing going for it. The script sent studios into a bidding war over acquiring the follow up to Olivia Wilde’s widely praised directorial debut “Booksmart.” Anticipation only grew as Oscar-nominated actress Florence Pugh and Gram my-winning pop sensation Har ry Styles were tapped to star in the project. News outlets and fans alike went as far as calling the film an early favorite for the 2022 Oscars. But much like the film’s idyllic setting in the fictional uto pian town Victory, things aren’t always as they initially appear.
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hat does he want from me? What should I try to be? So many fac es all around, and here we go. I need this job; oh God, I need this show!” The 1975 Broadway Musi cal “A Chorus Line” is only slightly hyperbolic in describing the intensity of auditioning. Unlike the Broadway hopefuls in “A Chorus Line,” Harvard stu dents don’t have overdue rent or health insurance to worry about — but with 349 audition sign-ups for eight student-run productions through the Har vard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s “common casting,” the stakes can feel just as high.
With the film’s reputation al ready in flames and a legion of movie buffs and Styles’s fans breaking down every moment of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, memes and gaffes were predestined for virality. From Styles’s riveting interview an swers — “My favorite thing about the movie is that it feels like a movie” — to Chris Pine’s quick ly memed reactions during in terviews, the saga quickly tran scended from Twitter topic of the day to mainstream pop culture fixation.Every moment of the premiere has been assessed and picked over by internet fanbases. Shots
While the audition process can bring out insecuri ties surrounding both identity and artistic value, it can also be empowering for some.
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The idea that performers are cast based solely on talent or merit is an unfortunately common falla cy. There is no standardized metric on which art — and especially acting — can be judged. Casting boils down to how an actor fits into a small handful of peo ple’s specific vision for a specific role. This element of subjectivity renders casting directors susceptible to indulging implicit and explicit biases, being un able or unwilling to see beyond their preconceived notion of how a character should look, sound, move.
While “Don’t Worry Darling” has been a frequent flier on the Hollywood rumor mill, the press tour truly took a turn for the worst with the release of Variety’s cover story interview with Wilde. In the interview, Wilde spoke at length about her desire to show female pleasure in the film.
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of the cast seated at the premiere spread online last week, showing Gemma Chan and Chris Pine ap pearing to be uncomfortable buf fers between Wilde, Styles, and Pugh.Meanwhile, a video of Styles allegedly spitting on Pine gained enough traction that spokesmen for both actors formally came forward to deny the allegations. But the true peak of the night may have been a shady post from Pugh’s stylist captioned simply “Miss Flo,’’ along with behindthe-scenes shots of her team in custom shirts bearing the same phrase.The film itself is now over shadowed by the drama and con troversy surrounding its produc tion. It would take an audience reception akin to “The Godfa ther” to erase the deluge of me dia controversy tainting the film’s legacy. But based on the film’s lukewarm reception among early critics, a behind-the-scenes tellall may be in higher demand than the film itself.
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jure emotion and project it out to a room of strang ers is essentially an exercise in blind faith. At an au dition, there is no fourth wall to hide behind, no pretense of character, no collective investment of an ensemble or creative team. The other people in the room — present solely to judge you — may be a will ing audience, but their interests lie with what they deem best for their show.
In American theater, this historically meant anyone who wasn’t white, thin, and able-bodied was over looked — or cast as a villain, sidekick, or comic relief.
marketing push, which has cen tered the sex scenes between Pugh and Styles, telling Harp er’s Bazaar “When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it.” Fans were quick to point out that Pugh has avoided post ing about the film on social me dia and is largely absent from the film’s press tour, missing both the Venice press conference and the upcoming New York premiere.
Though no system, no matter how systematic or streamlined, can fully eliminate the insecurity or anxiety inherent to the competitive nature of audi tions, the dependable and unambiguous structure of HRDC’s common casting process creates a space where students can focus solely on presenting their best selves. Frontloading auditions for an entire sea son’s worth of shows may have its logistical draw backs, but ultimately this simultaneity provides a sense of camaraderie amongst students from all corners of Harvard’s performing arts scene, gives actors equal exposure to all shows and vice versa, and creates momentum and excitement for the sea son to come.
The climax of anticipation peaked at 6:00 p.m. sharp, on Tuesday, Sept. 6th, when casting decisions
The comments came just days after Pugh criticized the film’s
The idea that performers are cast based solely on talent or merit is an unfortunately common fallacy.
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But the fallout from Wilde’s in terview didn’t end there. Wilde also spoke about Shia LaBeouf, initially tapped to play Jack Chambers before being replaced by Styles, who abruptly departed from the project in 2020. While the studio initially cited sched uling conflicts, Wilde told Vari ety that she fired LaBeouf from the project because his process was “not conducive” to her goal of making Pugh feel safe and supported. LaBeouf was nota bly sued for Sexual Battery by his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs just monthsLaBeouflater. quickly respond
Competing against dozens of your peers for a se lect number of roles is not the only stressful part of common casting. Drama is an inherently intimate art form. Expressing any kind of emotion in front of another person requires vulnerability and trust. In live performance, the only intermediary between artist and viewing public is the cryptically abstract “fourth wall” separating reality from the story being told onstage. Within such close proximity, to con
ed to Wilde’s comments, shar ing emails, texts, and videos with Variety that allegedly confirmed he was not fired from the proj ect but chose to leave. Screen shots also featured conversations that suggested Pugh and LaBeouf seemed to be on good terms. A video LaBeouf shared with Vari ety showed Wilde asking LaBeouf to stay on the project, saying this could be “a wake up call for Miss Flo” in reference to his co-star.
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opportunity for the already de ceased to return to the Ozarks to say their final goodbyes — an un usual sudden display of nostal gia. While disarming and slight ly out of place, the flashbacks do pay tribute to all the phenomenal actors “Ozark” lured to Missouri — the closest thing to closure au dience members can expect from a show that kills off its characters withoutNevertheless,remorse. the last season of “Ozark” is a must-see. Moving performances, imperfect rela tionships, and shocking deaths coin this piece of television art istry. The show’s final episodes powerfully allude to the danger of childhood trauma by further exploring Wendy’s upbringing — truly a highlight of the season. This storyline not only paves the way for stellar performances but also allows the audience to fath om the pain of childhood trau ma through her interactions with herWendy’sfather.
Imagine a land where dragons soar over a palatial red keep, where a young girl, queen by birthright and conquest, has mastered these beasts of the sky, and where family ties can bind and break a dynasty. This might sound straight out of “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s highly acclaimed epic fantasy TV show, and you would not be far off from think ing so. HBO has blessed all “Game of Thrones” fans with a brand-new spin-off following the Targaryen royals, set about 170 years before the start of the show.“House of the Dragon” was highly anticipated due in part to the unsatisfying ending of “A Game of Thrones” and fans’ thirst to see more of Westeros and House Targaryen. The protagonist of “Game of Thrones” is Daenerys Targaryen, an exiled prin cess seeking justice and vengeance against the usurpers of her crown. In “House of the Dragon,” however, the Targaryens are at the height of their power: Dragons and silver-haired royals abound in King’s Landing, a thrilling contrast to Daenerys be ing the last of her kind in the original series.
It’s time to… take a short walk towards Porter Square: Honeycomb Creamery + Bagelsaurus Head beyond the outer reaches of Harvard Law School and you have a brief, perfect food adventure just waiting to break up a monotonous week end in the library. The cult-favorite sourdough bagels and arti sanal spreads at Bagelsaurus consistently sell out well before the shop closes at 2pm, so go early and be prepared to wait in line. Eat a bagel, preferably with their uniquely delicious hon ey rosemary cream cheese; walk around Porter Square if you want; revel. When you’re hungry again (or sooner), walk back towards Harvard Square and stop by Honeycomb Creamery on the way to try their creative seasonal flavors in a warm house made waffle cone. Thank us for this flawless itinerary later!
ons. The show itself is based on Martin’s fictional historical narrative “Fire & Blood,” an epic chroni cle of the Targaryens’ rise to power.
The expanded 14-episode run paired with each episode’s one hour run time left the writers with a lot of time on their hands. Flash backs attempt to fill that time, but fail to drive the story forward. At times, this season feels like an
It is inevitable that “House of the Dragon” will always be compared to its incredibly popular pre decessor, “Game of Thrones,” but its pilot episode
The story begins with Prince Viserys, a young er grandson of the Old King Jaehaerys, chosen as his heir over Princess Rhaenys, who by birth or der should succeed the Old King. The show is set around ten years after this event, following King Viserys’s only child Rhaenyra as the king defies precedent by crowning her as his heir over his younger brother Daemon.
upbringing doesn’t justify her irrational behavior, but it does suggest that often bad people are deeply complex and flawed. Marty and Wendy’s rela tionship is often criticized; they are weighed down by the lust for power, the fear of death, and the struggle of trauma, but it is a rela tionship grounded in a prevailing love. Knowing this makes their interactions all the more devas tating — and heartwarming. “I know I am not easy to love,” Wen
While “Game of Thrones” was all about the power struggles between the noble houses of West eros, “House of the Dragon” focuses on the political and personal clashes between various members of the House Targaryen. These conflicts will even tually leave their house permanently weakened as dragons and Targaryens alike perish, which George R. R. Martin — executive producer and au thor of “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the book series that inspired the show — deems the Dance of the Drag
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It’s time to… pick up takeout for a quiet night in: Jefe’s + Le’s + Pokeworks + Falafel Corner There are countless take out options to choose from in and around Harvard Square, but these four are among the most popular spots that haven’t been mentioned already. If it’s a burrito you’re after, El Jefe’s has you covered — college students love this place for its late hours (open until 4:00 a.m.!) and its steadfast refusal to charge cus tomers extra for guacamole. Just across the street in the Garage you can find Le’s, a reliable option for Vietnamese cuisine and especially hearty pho. Pokeworks borrows the choose-yourown-toppings approach used by the likes of Subway (also in the Square!) and Chipotle and applies it to poke. Last but not least, Falafel Corner is popular for its reasonably priced falafel and shawarma. Fire up Snackpass and get your order in!
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is women in power, with the young Rhaenyra as an obvious foil to the Queen Who Never Was, Prin cess Rhaenys. While this idea was always present in books, the transformation from historical nar rative to HBO drama allows for deeper, more nu anced storytelling. Examples include the sub tle rivalries between the two princesses, Viserys’s power over his wife Queen Aemma, and the heart breaking scene where Viserys must decide wheth er having a male heir is worth losing the woman he loves. Viewers can feel the precariousness of Rhaenyra’s victory at end of the episode as she is crowned heir — not only does her empowerment hinge on her father’s whims, but her ambitious un cle and scheming courtiers loom with their own secretOtheragendas.details really bring the story to life, such as when Rhaenyra is made to light her mother’s pyre in a heartbreaking scene about duty and grief. One particularly compelling concept is the friend ship between the young princess and Alicent High tower, daughter of the Hand to the King. Seasoned fans of the books know that their friendship will eventually turn to bitter rivalry, and it was pleas antly surprising to see them as friends in the first episode (with some mild sapphic undertones), knowing the drama that lies ahead.
to starring actress Laura Linney, the central ques tion of the show, and perhaps its most enticing one, can be traced back to a single word — identi ty. Working for a drug lord is not the safest career choice. Indeed it
It’s time to… splurge (reasonably!) and eat well: Orinoco + Maharaja + Dumpling House + Nine Tastes Harvard Square is as good a spot as any to mix it up and get a delicious meal you might not have tried before. Tucked away behind other busi nesses that line JFK Street, Orinoco offers a cozy atmosphere for enjoying delicious Venezuelan cuisine, ranging from arepas and empanadas to South American wines. Right across the street lies The Maharaja, one of Boston’s best Indian restaurants with an extensive menu and a prime view of the Square through their floor-to-ceiling windows. Dumpling House is located a bit far ther off of the beaten path, but their fantastic Chinese cuisine makes a trip down Mass. Ave. well worth the walk. Their food is best enjoyed family-style, so get a group together! With the recent closure of Spicies, Nine Tastes stands as the preeminent Thai restaurant in Harvard Square. It’s a favorite for takeout among college students, but has a great area for dining in, too.
It’s time to… get tipsy: Grendel’s Den + Felipe’s + Charlie’s + Wusong Road No restaurant guide would be complete without highlighting the standout local bars, and Harvard Square has no shortage. Grendel’s Den manages to draw a fair number of college students without sacrificing its local Cambridge character; its combination of frequent live music performances, a solid cocktail menu, and satisfying bar food make it worth a visit. Felipe’s might be most famous among Harvard students for its tasty takeout burritos, but it’s also a favorite among local 20-somethings as one of Harvard Square’s most popular bars. When the weather’s good, grab a frozen margarita and enjoy the sunshine on their rooftop patio! Charlie’s Kitchen offers more of a no-frills diner at mosphere, and its beer selection and burger menu are among the best in the area. Newly opened Wusong Road provides scorpion bowls, mai tais, and delicious Chinese-American appetizers at its second-floor Tiki Bar.
suggests that the new series will be just as superb, with its dynamic characters, delicious drama, fan tastical worldbuilding, and stunning sets. The cast ing is also perfect; each character looks straight out of the book, with a standout performance from Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen. Fans will be ex cited to return to the world of dragons and future queens every week after this show-stopping pre miere.
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Without spoiling any of the historical narrative in “Fire & Blood,” show writers should avoid letting Princess Rhaenyra meet a similar fate to Daenerys. Many fans were deeply upset with the ending of “Game of Thrones” because they watched a be loved character and major female power player be written off as insane and killed off by show writ ers. For this show to follow the same pattern would not be a great look, and the writers are hopefully aware of this.
Princess Rhaenyra’s character, already a dy namic personality in the books, is brought to life in the first episode as a headstrong, fearless child who rides dragons and firmly believes in her right to the throne despite her sex. A major theme of the show
is this constant fight for survival that unearths the secrets, fears, and long-forgotten personality traits of its main characters. Just like that, family members turn into strangers. Granted, after three and a half seasons, viewers might think they finally know the Byrdes. But just as that wrong ful assumption took hold, Net flix dropped its final season, and it wasTheearth-shattering.lastseasonof the Net flix show proceeded largely in “Ozark”-fashion — suspense, re venge, and death dominated the final episodes. Undoubtedly, the show remains one of the most intense and poignant television dramas to date. The storyline is overall riveting and exciting, though at times slightly confus ing. There is no way around the fact that certain storylines are ob solete and repetitive. For exam ple, there is simply no need for Mel Sattem (Adam Rothenberg), the private investigator, to re turn to the Ozarks to look into the whereabouts of yet another dead person. Furthermore, the catand-mouse game between Omar Navarro (Felix Solis) and his sis ter (Verónica Falcón) gets very old, very quickly.
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The show, a promising spinoff of “Game of Thrones,” focuses largely on the struggles and motives of women in power.
The source material for “House of the Dragon” differs from the “Game of Thrones” source materi al in two key ways. First, its arc is completed, which will hopefully save “House of the Dragon” from the same decrease in quality the original show suffered when writers were forced to go off-book. Secondly, the book is written as a historical nar rative rather than an actual novel, giving the writ ers creative freedom to flesh out the dialogue and characters while having a definitive plot direction to ground the show and provide a path forward. To fans of the franchise and books, “House of the Dragon” may feel somewhat like a historical dra ma or political period piece, with all the magical el ements and thrilling action scenes of epic fantasy.
Classes are settled and campus social life is in full swing. What better time to up your Harvard Square restaurant game? To help out, Crimson staff writers Amelia Roth-Dishy and Connor S. Dowd lay out their comprehensive guide to the best Harvard Square eats for every situation.
It’s time to… indulge in a burger: Shake Shack + Tasty Burg er + Mr. Bartley’s Sometimes you just want a burger. Tasty Burger is a Boston stalwart; Shake Shack is a New York import. Both do the trick! Mr. Bartley’s is also an iconic Square estab lishment, but honestly, we don’t know many Harvard students who have gone here more than once, often during their first visit to campus. It’s worth a trip for the kitschy experience.
zark’s” highly an ticipated final ep isodes hit Netflix in late April, and fans are still recov ering. With 14 pending nom inations, the departing series is currently feeling the Emmy love. But is the finale really worth all the awards buzz? The critically acclaimed Netflix series tells the story of the Byrdes, a middle-class family that launders money for a Mexican drug cartel. Known to spark controversy, “Ozark” ques tions the moral compasses of its characters and audience mem bers alike, constantly blurring the line between decency and dishonesty, between good and bad. Some love the Byrdes; some hate the Byrdes; others feel sor ry for them. However, one thing remains undisputed: “Ozark” is one of Netflix’s biggest triumphs. But is it really its antihero narra tive that makes this crime drama so compelling? After all, morally ambiguous characters have dom inated the television landscape for Accordingdecades.
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SPOILERS. This review contains mild spoilers for Episode One of “House of the Dragon.”
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dy says, looking at Marty. After a pause, he replies: “That is not true.”Granted, the final episode is not a happy ending. It might not be what viewers hoped for, but it is what feels true to the show and the characters. “Ozark” has re peatedly alluded to the inevitabil ity of fate. Ruth Langmore’s death resembled a Shakespearean trag edy; there was a solemn sadness in the way her white dress slowly turned red. A death so tragic yet peaceful and maybe all along in evitable — as inevitable as the se ries’ ending? Jonah aims a shot gun at the investigator, who holds the cookie jar with Ben Davis’s remains as the scene fades into black.Viewers never find out if Jo nah pulls the trigger or not; in stead, we are left with uncertain ty. But looking back, the show never intended to provide its au dience with straight forward an swers. Did viewers really want to know what would ultimate ly happen to the Byrdes? There will always be someone who knows what the Byrdes did, even if it is only the Byrdes themselves. There is no end. No coda. No way out. Perhaps “Ozark” was never really about closure? Perhaps the show was simply about the jour ney of life. The journey of what we do, who we encounter, what we believe, and who we become.
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eases that are communicable can go from being a non-problem to be ing a global problem in a very short time. One of the features of our field as opposed to chronic disease epi demiology is that in chronic diseas es, you can study problems and fig ure them out at a normal scientific pace. With communicable diseas es, the problem of decision-making under uncertainty is almost always present. At the beginning, you don’t know what the trajectory is going to be, so you plan for a range of scenar ios. My new CDC role is to try to help decision-makers understand which range of scenarios is most import ant to plan for.
I was at a meeting in Wash ington, and there were a num ber of coronavirus experts at that meeting. It was January 22 or 23 of 2020, and they were certain ly all talking about it. It had been in the back of my head. Then, as the information from Wuhan be gan to come out that [Covid infec tions were] filling up their inten sive care units, and it was not just a small outbreak but a much larg er thing, I began to pay more at tention. By mid-February, I was saying publicly that this was go ing to be a large event.
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Fifteen Minutes: How and when did you decide to become an Marcepidemiologist?Lipsitch:
FM: What’s a common miscon ception about Covid or viruses in general that you wish you could
I really like making coffee. I really like drinking coffee. I can only tolerate about one or two doubles per day. But I really like it. I wish I could do latte art con sistently. I can do it sort of some times. At one point, as a birthday present, my mother-in-law of fered to give me a barista lesson.
FM: What was it like for your work to suddenly be in the spot light of public attention and government decision-making?
and RNA replicates. It’s just differ ent.”
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ML:compelling?
ML: In the early days, I thought that mathematical modeling was a lit tle like philosophy. It was a lot of ab stract thought with reference to the world but was not exactly scientifi cally testable. More and more, I’ve been moving into areas where test ing those models is an essential part, so I don’t think that anymore. But the ability to think abstractly and then bring that to particular cases is something that I learned in that study. In recent years, I’ve developed a strong interest in research ethics.
One of the common misconcep tions that’s been problematic is the idea that viruses can either go away or become milder and have a natural tendency to do so. I was asked by the leader of a country who called me up one day — that was another thing that doesn’t happen to me normal ly — and he said, “I’ve been told that it’s like a toner cartridge, that it runs out of ink eventually.” I said, “Well, there’s no analogy there. Viruses are not toner cartridges. DNA replicates
THE EPIDEMIOLOGIST sat down to discuss his interidsciplinary approach to public health and be coming a public figure during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Being very clear about the scientific rationale for advice, what are the limitations of what we know, and what public health authorities are doing to under stand the things they need to know to make better advice — all these go a long way,” he says.
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cess journals. That’s the wave of the future. It’s outrageous that publicly funded research is pay walled. Most journals add almost no value to the papers they pub lish. “Epidemiology,” one of the major journals in our field, real ly edits it carefully and improves the paper beyond the peer review. But there are other ways to pay for that. It’s long overdue.
arc Lipsitch re ceived an under graduate degree in philosophy from Yale and a DPhil in zoology from Oxford. He is a professor of epi demiology at the Chan School of Public Health and director of the Center for Communicable Dis ease Dynamics. He also serves as the director of science at the Cen ter of Disease Control’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Ana lytics.
FM: Public health messaging has been a huge point of issue in dealing with Covid, but also many other problems like vac cination and monkeypox. How can we change the way we dis cuss public health issues to re duce political polarization?
FM: You’re the director of the Center for Communicable Dis ease Dynamics — what does it mean for a disease to be dy
FM: A lot of your work lately has been focused on Covid. Do you remember when you first learned about Covid, or when you first realized how serious it
FM: A lot of your previous re search focused on antibiotic re sistance. Can you tell me a little bit more why you found this area
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ML: I’ve been arguing for open-ac cess and favoring open-access jour nals for my own work — not exclu sively, but a lot. I’ve been working as an editor and reviewer on open-ac
It was a gradual process. I went to graduate school thinking I would do some kind of quantitative biology and got very interested in the evolutionary biology of pathogens because I had an interesting group of peo ple studying math to work with. Over time, I got frustrated with the inability to test the quantita tive models that we were making of how pathogens would evolve. They could sort of predict any thing, and you couldn’t constrain them very well with data. I start ed looking for ways to use an ap proach where you knew whether you were right or not. I got inter ested in evolution of bacteria and antibiotic resistance, and then — on a lark — applied for jobs in epi demiology departments.
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FM: Are you #TeamPfizer or ML:#TeamModerna?
FM: Are there areas of re search we should be paying at tention to that may bring the biggest public health success of the 21st century?
FM: In your Twitter profile, you label yourself as an aspir ing barista. Tell me more about this dream and how you’ve been making progress towards ML:it.
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is in philosophy. How does your academic background influence how you approach epidemiology and your work now?
ML: Being very clear about the scientific rationale for advice, what are the limitations of what we know, and what public health authorities are doing to under stand the things they need to know to make better advice — all these go a long way. One of the ini tiatives that our group at the CDC Center for Forecasting and Out break Analytics has undertaken is to publish what we’re calling technical reports, following the practice from the UK. The report is the latest understanding of an evolving situation. It’s published on a fairly rapid time schedule, it highlights areas of uncertain ty, and it provides a lot of data in a downloadable form for other people to use. It’s still a work in progress, but I think that spirit is a really good one. It won’t solve polarization for sure, but it will allow people to have those rea soned discussions with a com mon set of facts.
FM: Your undergraduate degree
ML:namical?
ML: The president had chosen not to make a serious response to this pandemic as it was devel oping. So I, along with other fac ulty members and researchers at CCDD, made a conscious deci sion that one of our roles was go ing to be to get good information out publicly in the absence of a high functioning government re sponse. So the attention was very welcome. I co-wrote an article in a Scientific American blog about how journalists should cover an event like this and how to dis tinguish fact from opinion from speculation. It then became very intense: there was one day when I got calls or emails from five dif ferent CNN programs asking if I would come on. That’s not some thing I’ve ever experienced.
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FM: What would you say was the biggest public health suc cess of the 20th century?
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ML: Vaccination. For sure.
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I found it compelling because it’s one of the clear applications of evolutionary thinking to public health. It was a way to constrain my models. But it also is a major glob al health problem, one where the efforts to control it have been hap hazard. Everyone understands that the less you use antibiotics, the bet ter — until the point where you start harming patients. But beyond that, there’s a lack of clarity about what kinds of use matter for what out comes and how to control the prob lem.One of the most recent things we did right before the pandemic was to try to quantify for different bacteria how much of their exposure to anti biotics is due to treatment of them and how much is due to treatment of something else. In almost all species that we studied, the large majority was due to treatment of something else or treatment of nothing, like vi rus or a cold or asthma.
ML: Because vaccination has been so successful, the remain ing major infectious problems are ones for which we don’t have good vaccines — HIV, tubercu losis, and malaria being promi nent. In a way, we’ve grabbed the low-hanging fruit of vaccination. And now as technology is evolv ing, we’re beginning to grip the middle-hanging fruit. The other thing that’s very clear is the ineq uities at every level, from within a city to within the world, in who has access to health care. Within the U.S., that’s part of a much larg er problem of inequities. We all pay our taxes to get the research and, to some extent, to get health care. But what’s available is very unevenly distributed.
FM: You mentioned earlier the importance of making informa tion that you’re working on avail able to the public. A White House policy declared in August that by 2026, all federally funded re search will need to be freely avail able. What are your thoughts on this policy, and how will ending paywalls to scientific journals im pact epidemiology?
When a disease is commu nicable, meaning it moves from person to person, that means that it can grow very rapidly. It can be exponential growth. Dis
In a way, we’ve grabbed the lowhanging fruit of vaccination. And now as technology is evolving, we’re beginning to grip the middle-hanging fruit.
Team whatever I can get. I don’t even remember what I got most recently, a couple of days ago.
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Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana said the College made a “values-based” decision in choos ing to admit the same number of students despite a high num ber of deferrals from the Class of 2024 during the Covid pandemic leading to record-breaking class sizes.“We tried to be very clear what the consequences of this would be, which would be a swell of stu dents coming through the resi dential system,” Khurana said. “Our residential system was al ready under strain because of house renewal, but we still felt that it was important to bring stu dents to campus.”
ean of the College Rakesh Khurana declined to com ment on the early exit of Leverett House’s former faculty deans but he affirmed the impor tance of Harvard’s house system in a Monday interview with The Crimson.Astaple of Harvard’s under graduate experience is its res
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In May 2019, Khurana did not renew Winthrop House’s deans for another term following a Crimson investigation that found they had fostered a toxic culture as leaders of the house.
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lege Farrell and Ferreras’ leader ship was marred by a pattern of mismanagement. Neither a Col lege spokesperson nor Farrell and Ferreras provided a reason for their departure.
The Crimson reported earlier this month that some affiliates al
The Harvard School of Den tal Medicine launched a new dental residency program in New Hampshire this fall focusing on oral health care for rural and underserved populations. The program is a collaboration between Harvard, the Bi-State Primary Care Asso ciation, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and six other rural care providers in the state. There are currently no dental schools or residency programs in New Hampshire, which faces a dentist shortage with demand increasing under a new state program that expands adult den tal benefits.
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ty deans accountable, Khurana highlighted the importance of the house system.
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At Memorial Church’s first Faith and Life Forum of the semester on Sunday, Minister Matthew I. Potts commemo rated the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The forum is a weekly discussion that seeks to integrate faith-based dialogue with questions about life. The event, held each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. in Harvard’s Memo rial Church, is open to the public. Sunday’s event took place as a roundtable discussion, with Potts posing questions to the audience and inviting discussion. The con versation focused on the idea of apocalypse, what it means bib lically, and how it applies to the modern world. Potts asked at tendees what apocalypse means to them in the face of crises.
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idential system, which places each undergraduate into one of 12 upperclassman houses led by a pair of faculty deans.
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Still, some students in over flow housing have raised con cerns about feeling disconnect ed from house life and having to travel longer distances to dining halls.“We hope that continual focus on house renewal and other ways of strengthening and expanding the house system will help allevi ate some of the strain in the com ing years,” Khurana said. “But it is an ongoing Khuranachallenge.”saidthe focus for College and house administra tors should be on encouraging students to stay connected to their houses through activities like study breaks and intramural sports.“It’s anchored in our philoso phy that the house system is real ly critical,” he said.
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The College continues to work with faculty deans, resident deans, and house staff to ensure that the students are having a wonderful experience.
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Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana maintained the importance of Harvard’s house system amid the early departure of Leverett’s faculty deans.
Khurana, Silent on Lev, Affirms House System
Khurana said the College does not comment on person nel matters when asked about the circumstances surrounding the departure of Leverett House ex-faculty deans Brian D. Far rell and Irina P. Ferreras, who stepped down suddenly in June after four years.
housing due to the unprecedent ed size of the Class of 2025 and on going house renewal projects.
When asked how the College plans to prevent instances of mis management and hold its facul
“The College continues to work with faculty deans, resi dent deans, and house staff to en sure that the students are having a wonderful experience,” Khura na said.Another stress test for Har vard’s house system is the up tick in students living in overflow housing. With the exception of Leverett, upperclassmen in 11 of the 12 houses reside in overflow
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Alvillar said Republicans mis calculated by thinking the issue would “motivate and galvanize” their voter
The IOP Forum Wednesday introduced the fall 2022 cohort of Resident Fellows, who lead weekly discussion groups throughout the semester. CORY J.
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that much about the personal behaviors of their teachers,” he said. “It just seems like regard less of what they say or what ac tions they have — even if they’re really, really negative — it seems that schools will still hire them to teach.”Abigail J. Skalka, who took Kane’s class as a graduate stu dent, said she hopes Simmons students will boycott the class and protest Kane’s employment. “I don’t think that this is the kind of thing that we can leave up to university administra tions, nor do I think we should,” sheKanesaid.did not respond to a re quest for comment on Wednes day.
HLS spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in an email that the Law School annually invests “sig nificant resources” in LIPP and its financial aid program in or der to make the school more ac cessible and allow graduates to pursue the career path of their choice.“Annual spending on the Low Income Protection Plan has doubled in the past decade and has grown at more than twice the annual rate of the law school’s budget overall,” Neal wrote.
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In May, the school an nounced it would increase the contribution scale used to cal culate the amount of subsidy of fered to participants, marking the highest increase in LIPP’s 45-year history.
The forum, which was mod erated by Institute of Politics In
“Every academic year, Har vard Law School engages in a comprehensive and multifac eted planning process for the year ahead, through which data
“This annual budget process aims to ensure that all avail able resources are used to ad vance our school’s mission of teaching, research, and service; to help students thrive in law school; and to provide gradu ates with the freedom to pursue career options of their choice,” it added.Butthe alumni who au thored the letter said they felt the school’s response fell short.
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“People are really struggling and have been struggling for a couple of years,” he said. “And it seems like Harvard is just get ting away with doing the bare minimum that it can.”
from a multitude of sources is considered,” the Law School’s response said.
“We have survivors from the Holocaust saying that we can now hear the same rhetoric, the same arguments that we heard in the 1930s,” Löfven said.
HLS Affiliates Call for LIPP Changes
The Biden administration unveiled a debt forgiveness plan last month that will cancel loans for millions of American students.Inaletter sent to Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 on Sept. 6, HLS students and alum ni claimed the Biden adminis tration’s program could be “a massive windfall” for the Uni versity.Since 1978, the Law School has sought to help graduates pursue lower-paying public ser vice jobs through its Low In come Protection Plan.
“These elections are very im portant, but the truth is that Elec tion Day is only a snapshot of the balance of politics,” LeBlanc said.
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omer Swedish Prime Minis ter Stefan Löfven addressed the victory of the right-wing bloc in his country’s parliamenta ry election, calling the Sweden Democrats an “extremist rightwing party, a racist party,” during the first Harvard Institute of Pol itics forum of the semester on Wednesday.Löfven’s remarks came just hours after his successor as prime minister of Sweden and fel low member of the Social Demo cratic Party, Magdalena Anders son, announced she would resign on Thursday, following election results that saw the far-right Swe den Democrats win 20 percent of theUntilvote. recently, the Sweden Democrats were rejected by mainstream political rivals be cause of the party’s neo-Nazi roots.The Social Democratic Party,
Alvillar, who served as New Mexico state director for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential cam paign, said abortion will propel Democrats in November.
cies and procedures.”
have valued the input that you’ve provided over the course of those discussions,” she wrote. “I regret that despite this engagement, you feel that you have not ‘been really listened to.’”
Almost 200 current and former Harvard Law School students signed onto a letter last week calling on the school to redis tribute any savings it receives from President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness program to alumni in low-paying jobs.
which had been in government since Löfven began his tenure as prime minister in 2014, will con tinue to be led by Andersson in opposition.“I’mscared,” Löfven said in an interview after the forum. “It is a huge mistake by the conserva tives and liberals and the Chris tian Democrats to try to cooper ate with these extremists.”
This University has a problem with systemic abuse, and the culture is set from the top down.
A May 2020 investigation by The Crimson found that three Anthropology professors — in cluding Comaroff and Urton — faced allegations of sexu al harassment. Just days later, Brezine and D’Alpoim Guedes came forward regarding years of sexual coercion and emotional abuse by WithinUrton.aweek, Gay placed Ur ton on administrative leave be fore he retired in August 2020. A year later, Gay stripped his emer itus status after a University in vestigation found he violated
But Brendan R. Schneider man — a 2021 HLS graduate who co-authored the letter and has led previous petitions to reform LIPP — said the program is fail ing to serve its original mission.
“Thereoffice.issomuch vibrancy at the tribal and grassroots level,” LeBlanc
“As John F. Kennedy once said, if you try to ride on the ti ger’s back, you end up in his bel ly,” Löfven added. “I think history has proven that.”
sexual misconduct policies. In 2018, Domínguez retired af ter 18 women accused him of re peated sexual harassment over nearly 40 years. One year later, Gay revoked his emeritus status. Comaroff declined to com ment on the Tuesday letter. Domínguez and Urton did not respond immediately to re quests for comment.
The program subsidizes an nual loan repayment obliga tions based on the income of graduates in low-paying indus tries.According to the letter, LIPP may see a decrease in expen ditures since it “will no longer need to provide repayment as sistance for the $10,000/$20,000 in loans that will be forgiven” or the interest that would have been accrued by those loans.
The Law School’s Student Financial Services office wrote in a response to the letter’s sig natories that the school will consider the letter in its annu al planning process, which is “scheduled to kick off in the coming weeks and is expected to conclude in the spring.”
During the forum, Löfven said that the far-right’s resurgence in Europe is reminding people of fascism’s rise on the continent nearly a century ago.
“I want to talk about Dobbs 24/7,” Alvillar said, referring to the Supreme Court decision earli er this year that overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional protections for abortion.
Newell pointed to the Univer sity’s investigations and sanc tions of the accused senior fac ulty members, writing that administrators “share a con cern” for the “well-being of the Harvard community and the on going improvement of our poli
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terim Director Setti D. Warren, discussed democracy and the upcoming 2022 midterm elec tions. The event featured Löfven alongside the IOP’s six other resi dent fellows: Raul Alvillar, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Stephanie Carlton, Judith LeBlanc, Mat thew Mead, and Natalie Tennant.
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Ex-Faculty, Grad Students Call for TIX Reform
The letter called on Har vard to “redirect” the potential savings “to the community to which it was originally intend ed: indebted students and alum ni” and “make public how it ex pects Biden’s forgiveness plan to affect its bottom line.”
“You can’t give somebody a right and then take it away,” he added.LeBlanc, the executive direc tor of the Native Organizing Al liance, said in order to achieve change, it is important to remain politically engaged during the months between election cycles.
“Peoplesaid.are engaged in issues and they understand that elec tions matter,” she added.
“That is a very serious situa tion,” he added.
“Everything that happens be tween elections — on issues at the grassroots level — is what shapes the outcome of elections,” she continued.LeBlanc said there are cur rently “a historic high number of Natives” running for both federal and local
“I think it was a very kind of boilerplate, noncommittal re sponse that just kind of high lights how little transparency there is in who makes these de cisions,” said Beth S. Feldstein, an HLS alum who co-authored theLIPPletter.has long faced criticism and calls for reform from HLS alumni and students.
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“Instead,base.ithas actually mo tivated the Democratic base — it has motivated men, it has moti vated women, and most impor tantly, it has motivated young folks,” Alvillar said.
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That’s always been a big focus of our team, you know, being the best of yourself...We fine tune everything that went well and we see what else can be done so as it goes on. “
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“We’re excited to see ourselves grow more than anything from that game,” she said. “Obviously, we’re always look ing to build our basic game. The basic plays of rugby and just improving our own personal ability. That’s always been a big focus of our team, you know, being the best of yourself…We fine tune everything that went well and we see what else can be done so as it goes on, by the end of it we’re hitting our max.”
Looking forward, the Crimson has high hopes for the coming season.
Fields and center/fullback Padhil la added tries of their own. London, Fields, and Padhilla’s quick assimila tion bodes well going forward in a sea son where the team is welcoming ten new recruits, as well as two walk-ons.
“The incoming class has been abso lutely awesome,” she said about firstyear performance in the game. “They came on and they’re all so eager to wear the jersey and I think we saw that on the weekend with how well they all did…. Just playing their game and being able to control it and working with those who are next to them…It’s pretty excit ing to see what that class is gonna do. It’s a big class but it’s definitely a very very talented class.”
Members of the women’s rugby team take charge of the ball in a match against Dartmouth at the Ivy 7s tournament in May 2021. The Crimson beat Dartmouth 24-17 to win the tournament.
A strong team showing was high lighted by standout performances from the first-year class.
“Last year was a good year. We made it to the [semifinals],” said Headland of the team’s expecta tions this season.
“I think the team overall was a little disappointed that it wasn’t a final finish, because at the end of the day, we all hope to make it to the final. So everything, all the work we put in, all of that, it goes into playing in that final game, whether that be a first-place fin ish or a second-place finish, so it’s definitely the same [expectation] thisIfyear.”Harvard can advance that far, the 2022 NIRA National Championship Semifinals will take place the weekend of Nov. 12 with that coveted title game the following Saturday.
The 2022 campaign marks a milestone for the women’s rugby program, as it celebrates its 40th season across club and varsity levels this year.
The Crimson will host Princ eton in its alumni game on Sept. 24, when it is expected to draw a significantHarvardcrowd.plays again this Saturday, Sept. 17, away against Mount St. Mary’s in Emmetsburg, Md. at 12 p.m.
SWEEPING THE BOARD A 48-19 defeat of Quinnipiac has left Harvard with high hopes of an appearance at the finals in the nationals tournament again this fall.
Sofie Fella helped lead the Crimson in its Ivy 7s championship victory last year.
“I think we had a good start to the sea son,” said sophomore fullback/wing Chloe Headland after the game. “Every thing went well. We executed what we wanted to execute. Obviously, the win is a big Harvardoutcome.”started the day off strong, using solid team defense and relent less pressure on offense to shoot out to a 31-0 lead behind tries from a trio of first-years – Lennox Landon, Cameron Fields and Tiana Padhilla.
als and a second-place finish in the Ivy League, as well as a USA Rugby 7s National Champion ships semifinal appearance and Ivy League 7s tournament cham pionship for the 7s in the spring has left the program eager to con tinue its string of success.
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omore fullback/wing Chloe Headland put the score out of reach at 48-19. Headland also cited the great poten tial for growth going forward.
Back row/wing London showed out in her first career home game with three first half tries, while outside back
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Harvard Out to Strong Start
he women’s Rugby 15s team was back in action this past week end, kicking off its 2022 campaign with a 48-19 win over Quinnipiac. Com ing off a third place finish at the NIRA National Championships last fall, the Crimson rolled in its first game back at Mignone Field, setting the tone for what promis es to be an exciting season ahead.
However, despite the lopsided score, the game was far from over. The Bob cats, fresh off a 47-14 drubbing of Brown on Sept. 3, readjusted at the half, and be hind improved all-around defense and renewed vigor on offense, were able to cut the lead to 31-19. The Crimson recov ered swiftly, and tries by Fields, senior scrumhalf Cassidy Bargell and soph
The pair of first-place finish es for both the men’s and wom en’s teams is an exceptional start to the 2022-2023 season and marks the first time since 2019 that both teams kicked off the season with a victory.
now officially underway, both teams will hope to carry their momentum into the next com petitions of their respective seasons, each of which will take place on Sept. 24. The men’s team will travel to New Hav
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Chloe Royston drives a golf ball in a 2018 photo shoot for Harvard Athletics.
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STRONG START. Harvard’s men’s and wom en’s golf teams got back into the swing of things at their opening tour naments last weekend, notching their best open ing since the 2019 season.
In the women’s team’s sea son-opening victory at the Yale Invitational, itfinished the tournament with a three-round score of 848 (-4), defeating sec ond-place University of Mary land by four strokes. It was a his toric performance for the wom en, too; the 18-, 36-, and 54-hole totals all mark program bests, and junior Meiyi Yan’s 208 (-5), which was good enough for sec ond place, is also a school re cord. The tournament’s top ten had four Crimson players; join ing Yan were first-year Charis sa Shang (-1, T-4), sophomore Catie Schernecker (+2, T-9), and first-year Bridget Ma (+2, T-9).
ast weekend was the season opener for the Harvard men’s and women’s golf teams, and both squads re turned with two strong perfor mances, with the men claim ing victory in the Doc Gimmler hosted by St. John’s Universi ty and the women winning the YaleTheInvitational.men’steam tore up Beth page State Park’s Red Course, and with an impressive final score of 807 (-33), the Crimson narrowly edged out the hosts, who finished second by a stroke. Overall, Harvard’s perfor mance broke the tournament scoring record by 13 strokes. In one of its rounds, the Crimson recorded just 264 strokes, best ing the school single-round re cord set at Princeton in 2014 by seven.Sophomore Jeff Fang had a stellar performance through out the 15-team tournament, tying for 5th place overall with a final score of 201(-9). He was especially brilliant in the first two rounds (66-64), as he broke the 36-hole program record by threeFangstrokes.was hardly the only Harvard player to turn in a strong season opener, as junior Brian Ma finished the tourna ment tied for 9th. Juniors Adam Xiao and Diego Saavedra-Davil tied for 12th. Rounding out the strong week was senior Brian Isztwan, who finished off Don Gimmler tied for 27th place.
pionships performance repre sentative of that effort. The pair of victories that both teams earned this past weekend is a continuation of the Crimson’s dedication to im provement. With the season
That year, the men’s team finished first of 17 teams in the Ryan T. Lee Memorial with a final score of 569 (-7). The next week, the women’s team opened its season with a win at the Dartmouth Invitational, besting 12 other squads with a final score of 576 (E). The Crim son was unable to replicate its success last season, as the men’s final score of 846 (+6) was one stroke shy of first-place Colum bia, and the women’s team’s score of 900 (+36) was 49 strokes worse than winners Penn State, good enough only for 11th in the Nittany Lion tournament.
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Rhoads, entering his 19th season as the women’s head coach and 10th at the helm of the men’s team, had said last season that his team would fo cus very heavily on “the small things” or the controllable ele
en, Conn. for a match against Yale, and the women’s team gets ready to head to Princeton, N.J. to compete in the Princeton In vitational.
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ments of the game. Thiscoach ing guidance, combined with the strong bonds that formed among members of both teams, allowed each squad to improve throughout the 2021-2022 sea son, with the Ivy League Cham
Despite the very different starts to the 2021-2022 season that the men’s and women’s golf team had, the season still con cluded with both teams finish ing a solid 3rd in the Ivy League Championships. The men’s fi nal score of 897 (+45) was edged out by Yale (+35) and Columbia (+40). Meanwhile, the wom en were just eight strokes away from claiming an Ivy League ti tle, with Princeton’s 892 (+28) enough to win the tournament. Overall, the third-place finishes set a solid foundation for head coach Kevin Rhoads to build on during the offseason.
