The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 44

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 44 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018

The Harvard Crimson The UC should be more responsible with its operating budget, which comes mostly from students. EDITORIAL PAGE 4

In NCAA Championship, fencing finishes as the fifth place overall team. SPORTS PAGE 6

Diversity Task Force Releases Report Faust Sets Aside $10 Million to Implement Recommendations

By KRISTINE E. GUILLAUME and RUTH A. HAILU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A University-wide task force on diversity and inclusion released its final report Tuesday, calling on central administrators to coordinate efforts across Harvard’s schools to “fully integrate all members of the University into academic, professional, and social contexts.”

The report, which is the final product of the 55-member Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, asks Harvard to “become its best self” through a framework of “Four Goals” and “Four Tools” and a set of eight concrete recommendations. It recommends the University enhance its mental health resources, improve recruitment and retention strategies for faculty, and establish pipeline programs for staff, among other measures.

“When students, staff, faculty members, or academic personnel are integrated into our community in ways that permit them to do their best work, we anticipate that they will experience a sense of full belonging,” the docu-

ment reads.

The task force discussed “many dimensions of diversity,” according to the report, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and ideology.

Its recommendations aim to achieve “mutually reinforcing” goals of inclusion and academic freedom, the report says, calling both of these ideals “core to Harvard’s mission.”

The final report is the second document the task force has released to the public. The group published a draft executive summary in Sept. 2017, after University President Drew G. Faust announced she would step down in the coming summer. Faust originally convened the task force in Sept. 2016—a year after a College working group called for its creation—and charged its members with evaluating Harvard’s demographics, institutional culture, academic resources, and existing organizational structures. Allen said the group wanted to release its recommendations before Faust’s departure.

In an email sharing the report with

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John S. Wilson Jr., former president of Morehouse College and current president-in-residence at the Graduate School of Education, will serve as a senior adviser and strategist to Harvard’s president on diversity and inclusion initiatives, University President

September 2016 University President Drew G. Faust convenes the task force September 2017 The task force releases a draft executive summary of its report

June 2017 Faust announces she will step down

February 2018 The presidential search committee announces Lawrence S. Bacow will be Harvard’s 29th president

March 2018 The task force releases its final recommendations, and Faust taps Harvard Overseer John S. Wilson

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John Wilson to Advise University President on Diversity Initiatives

By KRISTINE E. GUILLAUME

November 2015 A College working group calls for the creation of a University task force

Diversity Task Force Picks New Lyrics for Alma Mater

Drew G. Faust announced Tuesday.

Wilson’s appointment coincides with the release of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging’s final report Tuesday. In the report, the task force—which Faust convened in Sept. 2016—called for central administrators to coordinate efforts to

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By OLIVIA C. SCOTT CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard announced an immediate revision to the last line of “Fair Harvard,” the University’s 181-year old alma mater, in a Harvard-wide task force report on diversity and inclusion released Tuesday morning.

The lyrics, which previously read

“till the stock of the Puritans die,” will now read “till the stars in the firmament die.” “Fair Harvard,” written in 1836, has only been altered once before in its history. In 1998, the word “sons” was replaced with the word “we” to address concerns of gender inclusivity.

Last April, Danielle S. Allen,

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Faculty Protest Loss of DACA, TPS

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard faculty members, students, and workers, as well as affiliates of other Boston-area universities braved brisk winds to protest in support of immigration rights outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston Tuesday afternoon.

A mix of Harvard professors and faculty at other local universities worked to organize the event, which included a variety speakers from across the Boston area who ranged from educators to union leaders. Organizers gathered a list of demands from ­

Harvard professors and afiliates protest in support of DACA, TPS in front of he JFK Building in Boston. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHO-

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TOGRAPHER

OSL Ends Group Travel Funding

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Office of Student Life chose not to renew a $50,000 grant largely dedicated to funding student group travel this year, leading to financial uncertainty for some campus organizations.

All student groups in good standing, as well as individual students traveling to academic conferences, were formerly eligible to apply for the travel grant, called “The Dean of Harvard College Student Life Fund.” Administrators have also used the fund to support House Committees in the past.

According to Currier House Representative Amanda Flores ’20, the Office of Student Life never informed student organizations of the travel grant’s expiration. Some student groups had already spent money on travel this year under the expectation the fund would be renewed.

“The Office of Student Life didn’t do anything to tell groups that this would no longer be offered,” Flores said.

Assistant Dean of Student Engagement Alex R. Miller wrote in an emailed statement that the program is currently under review.

“The Office of Student Life travel grant fund... has been successful in many areas, [but] there have also been unfortunate instances in which funding was misused,” Miller wrote. “This has caused us to take a thoughtful, yet thorough review of the process for allocation and distribution of the grant, which is currently underway.”

Office of Student Life spokesperson Aaron Goldman did not directly respond to a question asking about the specific incidents that led to the decision to review the fund.

Before the fund’s cancellation this year, student leaders and College officials jointly administered the money.

According to the most recent guidelines posted on the Office of Student Life website, those guiding the fund prioritized travel “aligned with the College’s mission to support experiences that foster intellectual, social, and personal transformation.”

Harvard has offered this fund since at least 2013, though in that year the grant totaled only $20,000. In 2014, the College agreed to offer an additional $30,000 for domestic student group travel in response to recommendations issued by a working group. The working group formed that same year after an undergraduate died in a car crash while returning to campus from a mock trial competition.

The Undergraduate Council failed to pass legislation at its Sunday meeting to provide $6,000 in reimbursements for student groups that had already spent money on travel. At the meeting, some representatives said they were concerned allocating UC funds for student group travel could render the ­

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Kennedy School Nets Research Donation

Labor Orgs Protest UHS Employee’s Termination

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ

By MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY and RUTH ZHENG

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The Harvard Kennedy School has received a $2.5 million gift to support research and programming on inequality and wealth concentration.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation donated these funds to the Kennedy School, according to a press release Tuesday.

The funds will contribute to the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. “To make our

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Student groups organized a protest Tuesday to defend an employee of Harvard University Health Services who was fired after she filed sexual harassment claims. KAI R. MCNAMEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Sports 6

TODAY’S FORECAST

CLOUDY High: 53 Low: 37

A group of about 30 students, Harvard union affiliates, and others crowded the sidewalk outside the Smith Campus Center Tuesday evening to protest the termination of former University Health Services employee Mayli Shing.

The picket marked the second demonstration in support of Shing since she was fired on Feb. 6 and is part of an ongoing campaign calling on the University to rehire her. As she did during the last picket, Shing claimed she was fired

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 28, 2018

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AROUND THE IVIES Average Yale Faculty Salaries Below Peer Institutions Over the past 35 years, average faculty salaries at Yale have fallen below those at Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, Princeton, and Stanford, the Yale Daily News reported. The data, pulled from the American Association of University Professors, will be incorporated into a forthcoming faculty report set for release in May. Yale administrators say much of the drop in pay occurred over the past ten years. The chair of the faculty committee compiling the report said the disparity’s roots are unclear.

Penn Implements Controversial Alcohol and Drug Policy Reforms

#METOO AND TIMESUP Leaders of the movements #TimesUp and #MeToo discuss action an culture at the IOP Tuesday CHLOE I. YU—CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

This month, University of Pennsylvania formally adopted a divisive set of reforms to its policy on alcohol and drugs, per the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Included in the changes are drink limits and a ban on kegs. Students reported a spike in the number of events shut down by paid observers, who patrol campus on behalf of the Penn Police in search of violations. Penn administrators maintain that the observers’ increased presence and the guidelines are independent.

Dartmouth Dean of the College Will Step Down Ahead of Tenure

HAPPY WEDNESDAY, HARVARD! Spring has sprung but I’m still coldhearted. Explain?

Obesity: It’s More Complex Than You Think (5:00 p.m.)

Go to the Knafel Center at 10 Garden Street to listen to how obesity is a far more complex subject than it seems.

Fatima Cody Stanford—an instructor

at Harvard Medical School—will be lecturing.

Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences (4:15-6:15 p.m.)

Meet at S020 CGIS South for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable. This discussion will center around the growing generation gap in Asia.

How Mushrooms Changed the World (6:00 p.m.)

Yes, of course they’re talking about the food. Head to the Geological Lecture Hall at 24 Oxford Street to listen to what has to be a fascinating discussion. Professor of Biology David Hibbett will be lecturing.

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Dartmouth Dean of College Rebecca Biron will step down ahead of schedule in June. The Dartmouth reported. Biron, who will have served three years out of a four-year term, expected to teach “at least one course a year” while serving.

Since Dartmouth eliminated the “vice-provost” position, however, Biron has not been able to teach. She plans to resign in order to resume teaching Spanish and Comparative Literature in Fall 2018. Interim provost David Kotz will be leading the search for a new dean to take over on July 1.

IN THE REAL WORLD West Expels Russians President Trump and European allies expelled many Russians from their countries after the alleged poisoning of a spy in the U.K. by the Russian government.

Stocks Surge...Again The Dow Jones Industrial Average has seen its best day in weeks recently, as it and the rest of the market surged due to easing concerns about trade.

2020 Census to Add Question About Citizenship Status The Commerce Department reported that the 2020 Census would have an added question concerning citizenship status. Opponents worry this will discourage immigrants from responding to the census and thus skew the results.

COUNTERPOINT WAITING AT THE DOT

Stanford Counterpoint, the only all-female a capella group at Stanford, sings as a part of a dual performace with Harvard’s ‘Cliffe Notes.

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“When it comes time to sing our alma mater, updated at the suggestion of the task force, I will proudly give voice to the song’s new final line.”

University President Drew G. Faust

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University Diversity Committee Releases Report REPORT FROM PAGE 1 Harvard affiliates Tuesday, Faust wrote she is “deeply grateful for the extraordinary work of the task force and for the insightful, ambitious, and inspiring approaches reflected in its report.”

She also announced the appointment of John S. Wilson Jr. as a senior adviser and strategist to Harvard’s president. Wilson, the president-in-residence at the Graduate School of Education and the former president of Morehouse College, will serve as a “point person” for the implementation of the report, Faust wrote.

Faust highlighted the parts of the report she will implement before leaving office, including designating $10 million in presidential funds to new faculty hires and requiring deans and administrators to produce plans to advance inclusion and belonging in their schools or units.

President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow will take over implementation of the recommendations when he moves into Massachusetts Hall this summer. Bacow, a member of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—served as the president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011.

While at Tufts, he worked to diversify the faculty and student body.Faust wrote she has been “in consultation” with Bacow about the implementation of the report.

“Because I am nearing the end of my term as president, I want to ensure that the University’s leadership transition does not delay the implementation of the task force’s recommendations,” she wrote. Faust wrote she and Bacow have designated items that can be acted upon immediately and others for “longer-term strategic work” that will fall under Bacow’s purview.

After it released the draft executive summary in September, the task force—led by Government Professor Danielle S. Allen, Kennedy School professor Archon Fung, and Vice President for Campus Services Meredith L. Weenick ’90—conducted outreach to gather feedback from Harvard affiliates.

According to Weenick, the task force met with stakeholders across all of Harvard’s schools—including student groups, deans, and staff—throughout the fall to discuss the draft. The group also created an online “Solution Space” for Harvard affiliates to submit comments or suggestions to the task force that other users could support by voting.

“It was an extraordinary process of collective discussion and deliberation, and so I know that the final report is much stronger because the campus engaged with the discussion draft so thoroughly,” Allen said.

The final iteration of the report still contains many of the recommendations in its draft version, including its first recommendation, which focuses on evaluating the University’s symbols, revising its values statement and alma mater, and creating inclusive spaces.

The report specifically mentions the Smith Campus Center as a space that, in addition to containing administrative offices and health services, should also serve as “a center for programming that supports civil disagreement and productive engagement with one another.”

In her email Tuesday, Faust called

the Smith Campus Center a “centerpiece” of efforts to promote interaction across groups at the University.

“It is designed to be a crossroads, a central place for members of the community to gather, and it offers us the opportunity to embody a number of the task force recommendations in its identity from the outset,” she wrote. “I have asked that its art reflect the heterogeneity of today’s Harvard.”

Like the earlier draft, the final task force report emphasizes staff inclusion—particularly in a recommendation calling for University Human Resources to “enable staff talent and improve organizational culture.”

“Such efforts might involve offering services and training to managers directed toward moving more job candidates from underrepresented groups from finalist to appointee, and on the development of diverse teams,” the report reads.

Weenick said staff across groups raised common concerns about “interpersonal relations” in the workplace.

“We discovered through our listening that staff also experience some of the most extreme feelings of not belonging here, so it feels like we have further to go in some respects with the staff,” Weenick said.

The task force also reiterated in the final report a goal of encouraging “responsive curricula” that adapt to student demand by establishing new courses, hiring new faculty, and integrating student input into the process of crafting syllabi. The task force recommended that the University collaborate with Harvard’s governing boards to increase funding for faculty renewal, cluster hiring processes, and pipeline programs for graduate students to develop into future faculty members.

Thirty-four percent of the University’s faculty are female overall, and 18 percent are minorities. But faculty demographics are very “school-specific,” Allen said, and some schools struggle to recruit both groups.

The Business School, for example, has increased its percentage of minority faculty by just two percent over a decade—rising from five percent in 2006 to seven percent in 2016, according to the report. The Kennedy School reported an increase from seven percent to 10 percent, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reported an increase from five to seven percent, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences reported an increase from one to five percent.

A similarly slow growth rate exists in the percentage of female faculty in these three schools, among others. The Kennedy School reported an increase from 27 percent in 2006 to 31 percent in 2016, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reported an increase from 35 percent to 37 percent, and the Business School from 22 percent to 26 percent, according to the report.

“If we look at women, you see meaningful growth in many places but not much growth in other places,” Allen said.

The Law School has reported relatively swifter growth in its percentage of female faculty across the last decade—rising from 24 percent in 2006 to 30 percent in 2016. Though the University has become more diverse overall in the past decade, the task force report calls progress “frustratingly uneven”

across schools—and asserts many issues of inclusion and belonging previously remained “unaddressed.” In addition to the “school-specific” discrepancies in recruitment and promotion of diverse faculty, the report also raised issues surrounding interpersonal relations and the culture of the University.

“There are structural aspects of our institution that have come to connect with cultural norms that we believe merit re-examination,” the document reads. “We suggest that leadership and new norms will be required to ensure that necessary hierarchies are nonetheless linked to a broad and deep culture of respect for all.”

The task force went on to describe how, in outreach sessions, Harvard affiliates voiced concerns about the existence of what they called a “Harvard code.” “[They] said that encounters with tacit social norms are often experienced as privileging particular identities—typically white, male, secular, and politically liberal,” the report says.

The task force also recommended that Harvard build two University-wide centers designed by faculty, with one center focusing on “identity, politics, and culture” and the second on “higher education, inclusion and belonging, and organizational change.”

Advocates for ethnic studies at the College criticized the September draft executive summary, raising concerns that the draft did not explicitly call for an ethnic studies program or center, which advocates have requested for decades. In their most recent effort, the Ethnic Studies Coalition petitioned the University to create such a center and increase faculty hiring and renewal in the field.

Ethnic Studies Coalition founder Juhwan Seo ’17 in November posted about the omission of an explicit ethnic studies center or program on the task force’s online solution space, creating a petition for a University-wide research center focusing on race and ethnicity that would serve as a “national hub” for ethnic studies. The petition quickly became the site’s most popular, garnering over 500 votes. Seo’s petition mentioned Yale, Columbia, and Stanford—three peer institutions with centers concentrating on race and ethnicity—as points of comparison.

Allen said a task force subcommittee looked at comparable centers at peer institutions and worked to gain an understanding of “curricular gaps and absences” within Harvard’s program.

But the task force ultimately decided the centers should be formalized by “pulling a group of faculty together to be engaged in the design process,” Allen said.

“We wanted to make sure that all the intellectual developments of the last few decades could flow into how people think about the work they want to do in this context,” Allen said. “So, we didn’t want to presume an intellectual paradigm—for example, Ethnic Studies.”

Allen said the driving idea behind the centers is to create a base for inclusion and belonging work that covers many goals in the task force’s report.

“The notion is that curricular work flows from that, and work that supports student engagement in the associated academic fields flows from that, and faculty collaboration in these academic

Alma Mater Lyrics to Change ALMA MATER FROM PAGE 1 co-chair of the Uniersity task force on inclusion and belonging, announced Harvard would hold a competition to select new lyrics for the final line of the song.

“The Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging launched this competition to affirm that Harvard’s motto, Veritas, speaks to and on behalf of all members of our community, regardless of background, identity, religious affiliation, or viewpoint,” the task force’s website reads. The new line, submitted by Janet B. Pascal ’84, was selected from among 168 entries for the task force’s competition by a committee of five judges, among them Kurt Crowley, the associate conductor of Broadway musical “Hamilton.”

“I wanted something that had as much the same rhythm and vowels as possible, so it would sound the same, and the same kind of formal and flowery diction, so firmament just seemed like the perfect word,” Pascal said.

After months of work, the diversity task force on Tuesday debuted the final version of its University-wide report (which included the revisions to the alma mater). The report detailed eight key recommendations, one of which called for “Inclusive Values, Symbols, and Spaces.”

“The alma mater revision is a key part of that,” Allen said in an interview last week.

Pascal said she thinks the alteration to the alma mater means the song better reflects the perspectives of all Harvard affiliates.

“I think it’s a very good thing that Harvard was actually thinking about it enough to decide to change what is a line too firmly focused on one small group, so I’m glad they did,” Pascal said.

In an email response to the release of the report Tuesday, University President Drew G. Faust also referenced her desire to make symbols at Harvard more inclusive.

“The task force recommendations on inclusive symbols and spaces ob-

viously extend well beyond the Smith Center, and I have asked the executive vice president and the deans to develop additional guidelines and policies designed to improve wayfinding on campus and to ensure that public art on campus reflects our commitment to belonging and inclusion, ” Faust wrote in the email.

The revision to the alma mater is one of multiple changes to Harvard symbols in recent years. In 2016, the Corporation approved the removal of a seal at the Law School after outcry from students. The former seal featured the crest of a slaveholding family that contributed to the endowment of Harvard’s first law professorship more than two centuries ago.

“When it comes time to sing our alma mater, updated at the suggestion of the task force, I will proudly give voice to the song’s new final line—and its recognition that the pursuit of truth and knowledge belongs to everyone at Harvard, from all backgrounds and beliefs,” Faust wrote in her email.

Harvard Invests $300M in Fund

By LUCAS WARD CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ arvard plans to invest an expectH ed $300 million in a direct lending firm started by three former Harvard Management Company credit specialists, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The money will come from Harvard’s endowment; the Boston firm slated to receive the millions dollar-strong backing from the University is Evolution Credit Partners, according to Bloomberg.

HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan declined to comment Tuesday on the expected investment.

Evolution Credit, which finances buyouts, acquisitions, growth capital, and recapitalizations, among other services, also provides direct financing to private middle market companies in the U.S. with earnings between $15 million to $100 million, according to the firm’s website.

All three co-founders of Evolution Credit have strong ties to HMC. One of the co-founders, Rene Canezin, previously served as the head of

fixed income, credit, and commodities at HMC. Mike Guarnieri, another co-founder and now a managing partner at the firm, worked as a specialist in private credit business at HMC. Joe Lu, managing director and partner at Evolution Credit, is also a former employee of HMC, where he specialized in private credit business.

Valued at $37.1 billion, Harvard’s endowment is the largest university endowment in the world.

Staff writer Lucas Ward can be reached at lucas.ward@thecrimson.com.

fields flows from that, and intellectual communities that can support recruitment and retention of faculty members flows from that—all four of those things,” she said.

The final report expands upon its draft version by introducing a new proposal for enhanced mental health services. The report recommends structural and organizational changes in the allocation of mental health resources to make them more accessible to students across the University.

“The Task Force recommends that CAMHS receive appropriate resources to conduct this strategic planning effectively and that the Office of Institutional Research be equipped to continue the mental health and well-being surveys across campus in a systematic way,” the document reads.

Allen said mental health resources at the University emerged as a key topic of concern during multiple outreach sessions the task force conducted after publishing the draft.

“Right now, that interface appears to be working less well than it might, and it appears to be also having kind of disparate impacts on different groups of students,” she said.

The final report places emphasized political ideology as an axis of diversity—one essential to “academic freedom.” During their outreach sessions, task force members heard Harvard affiliates describe feeling excluded on the basis of their conservative political views, according to the report. The task force found that conflicts involving academic freedom can often “generate sharp disagreement” on campus.

“We heard a clear theme that many conservative students on campus engage in self-censorship to avoid possible alienation from peer groups,” the document reads. “We cannot afford to presume a necessary conflict between protecting academic freedom and a culture of mutual respect.”

While ideological diversity had been a recurring theme in the task force’s meetings since the group’s inception, Allen said the emphasis on free speech and academic freedom “got somewhat reduced” in the draft version released to Harvard affiliates.

“One of the things that happened is yes, the discussion draft brought to the surface a way in which a theme that had been there hadn’t gotten as much air time in that discussion draft as we thought it had and that we needed to respond to it more fully,” Allen said.

The task force’s remarks on academic freedom and ideological diversity come amid nationwide debate about free speech on university campuses.

“It’s across higher education we are all wrestling with issues with the relationship between speech and mutual respect. It is just a core issue on campuses at the moment and so it was important that we think our way through that question,” Allen said.

The debate has manifested at Harvard in recent months through controversial speakers like Jackie Hill-Perry, an “ex-gay” and outspoken critic of homosexuality who was invited to speak

by Harvard College Faith and Action.

During Hill-Perry’s visit, protesters gathered in the back of the hall holding signs in silent protest.

In an interview, Allen also touched on another issue igniting controversy

across the country: sexual harassment.

The national #MeToo movement has raised awareness about sexual harassment in offices, movie studios, newsrooms, and universities—including Harvard.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences placed Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez on “administrative leave” earlier this month after The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 18 women have accused Dominguez of sexual harassment over the past three decades. Though the task force report does not explicitly mention sexual harassment, Allen said parts of the report are relevant to the dynamics underlying sexual misconduct and sexual assault at the University.

“Many people will read this report and think it is not relevant to issues of sexual assault and sexual misconduct and that I think is a deep misunderstanding of the problem involved with sexual assault and sexual misconduct, especially in sort of teacher-student relationships or supervisor-employee relationships,” she said.

Allen pointed to a section of the report outlining a goal for “improved mentoring.” The report asserts there should be “effective training for staff, faculty, and academic personnel” in mentoring relationships.

“Mentoring is such an important part of anybody’s academic or professional development and that depends on sort of healthy relational habits and practices and sexual misconduct and harassment often grow out of unhealthy, underlying relational practices,” Allen said.

Allen said that mentoring, in conjunction with the University’s Title IX policies, is integral to addressing sexual misconduct.

“You need really sturdy procedures for people to make grievances and for there to be responses to grievances and so forth. That point, I do think, our Title IX policies on this campus are a work in progress. Our report does not directly address Title IX, but it is obviously a critical piece of this,” Allen said.

As for the report’s implementation, Allen said she expects there will be “pretty smooth implementation handoff” between Faust and Bacow once Bacow becomes Harvard’s 29th president.

In order to measure progress moving forward, the report lays out recommendations for improving data collection on diversity and inclusion metrics across schools. Allen said institutional research on these topics, as it stands now, is a “pretty fragmented enterprise.”

“Too often, efforts at diversity, inclusion, and belonging lead to well-intentioned but nonstrategic and uncoordinated ad hoc effects,” the document reads. “The result is ‘diversity clutter’: a host of programs that do not add up to more than the sum of their parts.”

The report also recommends the addition of an “inclusion and belonging module to the faculty climate survey, the staff engagement survey, and student exit surveys at each School.” This survey would be standardized across the University to provide a basis for gathering data about inclusion and belonging, according to Allen.

“What that will permit is it will give us a stronger basis for having that whole campus picture,” she said.

App Lets Museumgoers Experience Sphinx in 3-D

By CECILIA R. D’ARMS and PAUL D. TAMBURRO CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

­ rofessors and curators at the Harvard P Semitic Museum are developing an app to allow museum visitors to experience the Great Sphinx at Giza in 3-D augmented reality.

The app allows viewers to engage with a physical reproduction of Thutmose IV’s “Dream Stela,” which sits between the legs of the Sphinx at Giza, by providing translations and explanations of the hieroglyphic texts as well as virtual representations of the Sphinx over time. In order to view these features, visitors point their phone cameras at the stela and line up an outline with the artifact.

Egyptology Professor Peter Der Manuelian ‘81, who teaches Societies of the World 38: “Pyramid Schemes,” is spearheading the project. Manuelian called the project a “way to be sort of a virtual tourist at the site of the Giza Pyramids.”

Thutmose IV constructed the “Dream Stela” during the 18th Egyptian dynasty, though the Sphinx itself was built much earlier, during the fourth dynasty.

Semitic Museum visitors can use the app to experience in 360 degrees how the Sphinx looked originally, how it appeared after the stela’s construction 1,100 years later, and how the monument looks to visitors today.

In an interview, “Pyramid Schemes” Teaching Fellow Lauren M. Santini explained the history of the monument.

“The stela says that Thutmose IV had a dream that the Sphinx came to him and said, if you uncover me of sand you will be made pharaoh. So he uncovered the sphinx, he became pharaoh,”

Santini said.

Manuelian said the app is “not quite ready for prime time,” and brought in students from his class to test it out this week.

Students said they enjoyed using the app and its ability to enhance their understanding of the monument.

“I think it definitely adds to your experience, because you can still go the museum the normal way, but then you also have the potential to augment reality in this way,” said Aaron Grand ’18.

Jessica Gebhard ‘20 said she appreciated seeing how the “coloring” and “structure” of the monument has changed over time through the app.

“I like that you can see the different time periods in the background, with how the Sphinx looked with the stela in front of it and without,” Gebhard said.

Casper Dehnavi ‘20 also mentioned that the app helped explain the images on the stela.

“It was nice that there were descriptions of what the images were,” Dehvani said. “Who everybody was, and which images of gods were represented.”

Nonetheless, the beta app, which is not yet publicly available, is not without a few glitches. Many of the students said they encountered difficulties getting the app to recognize the stela.

Looking ahead, Gebhard said “getting it up and running on different platforms,” like Android, would help improve visitors’ experiences.

Many students and faculty, though, were optimistic about the new opportunities to interact with exhibits that apps like this one could provide.

“Having this sort of engagement with technology, it feels a little more special and a little more intimate,” Santini said,

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More Mismanagement

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Common Sense

The Undergraduate Council’s bicycle subsidy is a flawed solution to a thorny campus issue

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he Undergraduate Council recently voted to subsidize and, subsequently, increase subsidies for the purchase of bicycles, skateboards, and scooters by students with demonstrated financial need living in the Quad, Dudley House, or off-campus. This scope was expanded at a second meeting to include Dunster and Mather Houses.

It is heartening that the UC is looking to directly address financial disparities on campus, but the details of this specific plan leave much to be desired.

First, not all students with financial need who could benefit from the program are eligible. While the UC was right to extend the program to Dunster and Mather Houses, other students—including those in Leverett, which is merely the width of Cowperthwaite Street closer to the Yard than Dunster is—face comparable traveling distances to those who live in the areas in which residents are eligible.

This arbitrary exclusion is far from the only problem with the new initiative. An alternative method proposed at the first of these two meetings, which suggested the UC pur-

chase bikes for eligible students to use and then return to the Council’s possession was not selected. One representative argued that this method would stigmatize using the bicycles that the UC purchased.

This line of logic is misguided.

There are simple ways to avoid this issue, including purchasing a diverse assortment of bicycles, skateboards, and scooters and orchestrating discreet pick-ups and drop-offs, to overcome any potential stigma of using UC-sponsored transportation. This failed proposal would have been financially savvier, too: By allowing the UC to maintain ultimate ownership of the bicycles, skateboards, and scooters it purchased, the cost of the program would be one-time instead of annual.

Furthermore, while this program could have been better-implemented, it would have remained problematic due to the nature of the transportation it subsidizes. Since Boston experiences snow and rain for much of the year, bicycles, skateboards, and scooters are difficult to use on a regular basis. Additionally, many students have expressed discontent with the main form of transport to the Quad—

the Quad shuttle system—despite its expanded schedule and the plethora of mobile applications aimed at tracking it. A potentially more workable solution to students’ transit woes would be for the UC to instead consider a ride-sharing service subsidy.

These monetarily and practically savvier alternatives would have been shrewd for the UC, which has poorly managed its finances in the past.

That the body tapped into its Emergency Fund to finance student grants during the first of these two meetings indicates that this trend shows no signs of abating. Given the majority of the UC’s operating budget comes from students, it should be more responsible with its spending. It would do well to remember that its power is derived from students’ and family members’ pocketbooks, and that this necessitates a degree of fiduciary responsibility that UC has not shown.

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It’s Time for Harvard to Stop Funding Climate Change

By KATHERYN A. TAYLOR

I

have served Harvard for the past six years as a duly-elected member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and in my last act, I call upon the next University president, and the Harvard Corporation members who take his counsel, to adopt ethical investment principles. At a minimum, Harvard should direct the Harvard Management Company to divest from fossils fuels to prevent the end of life as we know it through cascading climate-driven disasters. This single act would not only take steps to address the existential crisis of our time, but it would allow the University to lead its peers, as few, if any, American universities thus far have taken this important moral stance. I stand up for this mandate on behalf of my constituents—like the faculty who warned us, the alumni who agree, and the students we disappoint—because I serve Harvard.

Many more experts than I have advocated for Harvard’s leadership to take the responsible action of divesting. For instance, more than 200 Harvard faculty members, including top scientists in the field, have called on the University to divest from fossil fuel corporations. The movement to divest is large and thoroughly mainstream, comprised of many other top schools, cities, including New York City, as well as the Church of England and some pension funds. Their commitments to divest over the next few years now cover over $6 trillion in assets. So, our request, with these august endorsements, is not radical—but recalcitrance is.

Especially because it is so influential, Harvard should give moral direction to how HMC manages the endowment. These principles should be determined by the Harvard Corporation and the president, not HMC. Principles of responsibility, though otherwise common in the University’s governance, are long overdue in Harvard’s investments, which must also be consistent with the altruistic purpose of this oldest of American universities, one that commands the resources of a small country, is the most famous college in the world, and whose motto is Veritas.

Ironically, the University would

have seen better endowment returns over the last ten years had Harvard’s leadership listened to the student and faculty movement and instructed HMC to divest from oil, coal, and gas. Fossil fuel companies have been among the worst performing sector of the market for the past 5 years, in no small part because of legitimate concerns that inevitable climate regulation will leave them with fuel reserves they can never bring to market and burn. Even Colin Butterfield, who runs natural resource investing for HMC, said he has paused all further fossil fuel investments for fear of poor returns and also because “it’s stealing from the future.” Moreover, studies have established that absti-

Harvard would do better investing according to its values, by ruling out positions that foment environmental harm, and simultaneously avoiding unsustainable investment practices. nence from one of the many sectors in our economy has no discernible effect on returns.

Harvard would do better investing according to its values, by ruling out positions that foment environmental harm, and simultaneously avoiding unsustainable investment practices.

As the head of HMC has stated, comparing investment returns fundamentally requires considering risk taken.

And unless we speedily counter fossil fuel dependence, the economy itself is doomed.

Recently, the insurance industry warned that if the world endures two degrees Celsius of temperature increase, systemic problems in insurance will emerge due to the frequency and intensity of extreme weather impacts. Imagine a business world that is not insurable. Clearly, the riskiest thing to do is nothing.

University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow will take over as Harvard’s 29th president this June. Bacow used to teach environmental science, and he certainly understands what the world faces if we don’t reduce emissions and re-sequester carbon fast.

I ask, and already asked, him to hear earnestly what Harvard students and faculty have been exhorting: to direct HMC to place the considerable heft of our endowment dollars in alignment with the academic and moral leadership Harvard has already shown on so many issues. I am not saying this be completed tomorrow, as the process can take a few years, but it should start now, and it should be put on a tight schedule. Taking this first stance could give leadership insights into other pressing issues like mass incarceration, toxins into our environment, and the exploitation of labor, but let us begin with divesting from fossil fuels now.

I am not going public with this call to action lightly or to be impolite. I have tried everything else—diplomatically in the background with other Overseers and outspokenly but behind closed doors in plenary. But this is too important for me to remain silent. It’s because I love Harvard that I am compelled to speak with all the force of my position before it extinguishes. Harvard once refused to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa in spite of a moral movement on campus. I marched in the student protests in 1980 and received the same disregard we are dishing out to our future leaders now. After ten years of dismissal, and the election of no less than Bishop Tutu to the Board of Overseers, Harvard finally reversed itself.

Let’s not repeat this mistake.

It’s time for Harvard to stop owning climate change. We can make money ethically, with more resilient returns too. We don’t just get profit from what we finance in this life, we endorse the activities underlying that profit—there is nowhere to hide from that. It is because we love our country and its most respected institutions that we call out the highest standards to which they must live.

Kathryn A. “Kat” Taylor ’80 is a member of the Board of Overseers.

Grace M. CHAO THE UNDERGROUND

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nother school shooting. More teenagers murdered. Another cycle of tragedy, outrage, demand for action, inaction. Another gun control “debate” to be had. Another news cycle dominated. Anoth-

er community scarred.

Something is different about Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Something is different about the vehement and vociferous student-led political activism that came out of this tragedy. Something is different about the vitriol directed against those who might be so saddened and overwhelmed by such evil that they might fall on their knees to pray, to think, to turn their hearts to a suffering community before defaulting to political activism.

Something is different about how student activist David Hogg says “our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to,” compared to how Arapahoe High School students stood behind “Warriors always take care of one another” after their school shooting in 2013, and how the brother of a student killed at Columbine in 1997 turned his grief over his sister’s death into a powerful anti-bullying movement still reaching schools today.

Something is different about how division and strife and civil clash have reared their ugly heads with newfound force.

Perhaps all this stems from the notion that enough really is enough. One school shooting was one too many. Maybe we have reached a tipping point beyond which we must take to the streets in righteous anger and demand action from our elected representatives. Many of us are going to the streets out of a place of deep hurt and sorrow. There is absolutely a compelling case that this cycle has repeated itself just too many times.

I am fearful of some of the costs of all of this justifiable anger. When our passions and emotions run so high, we often fail to see those who might disagree with us as humans in our red-clouded gaze. When we say anyone affiliated with the NRA or who is skeptical of the efficacy of additional firearm regulation is a cold-blooded murderer who actively desires the death of children, or when we claim that someone who supports additional firearm regulation is a raving lunatic who wants to take away everyone’s guns and strike the second amendment from the Constitution, we are guilty of a grave crime. When we heap this hatred on each other, we murder each other in our hearts and minds.

When we devolve in this way, we eliminate entirely the possibility for progress. There are, I believe, real grounds for productive policy discussions on why current firearms regulations failed to prevent these atrocities and what other measures could be taken. There are also real opportunities for responsible gun owners to demonstrate how they believe guns are not toys, and how learning to handle one safely can preserve proper respect for a firearm’s destructive end while diminishing irrational fear of the weapon itself.

Misinformation and hyperbole widen an already-growing cultural chasm. Facts, evidence, and reason will be supremely important in a world where a national publication like USA Today can publish an egregiously misleading graphic depicting a “chainsaw bayonet” as a possible modification of an AR-15.

Rationality matters in a world where one of the Parkland activists can claim for purposes of exaggeration that “no one should own a gun that shoots 50 rounds a second” as they did during their visit to the IOP recently. Actually, an AR-15 can shoot 30 rounds maximum only as fast as the user can pull the trigger. That’s still very destructive, obviously. But we will not have a reasonable discussion about high-capacity magazines or semi-automatic weapons if we don’t even really know what they are.

Then again, it is enormously difficult to be clear-headed and rational when children have died. It is next to impossible to separate the personal from the political in such a time as this. There is a case to be made that our politicians are distant and opaque, regardless of where they fall on gun control, and that the anger turned towards them from all sides of the spectrum is justifiable. But surely there is also a cost to directing our rage towards our fellow citizens in vitriolic ways.

Of course, I can make my exhortations to reason from a place somewhat emotionally removed. I haven’t been in a school shooting, nor lost someone to gun violence. But my small Colorado suburb is minutes away from Columbine and Arapahoe High Schools and the Aurora theater where the ill-fated shooting took place in 2012. Some of my best friends and teammates attended those schools. I interned at the courthouse where the theater shooter was being tried in a capital case.

These stories, these people, are not lost on me. The scars and wounds remain long after the news cameras go away.

The zeal for activism fades when we realize policy has no healing power. What does not fade away is the need to take care of one another, as Arapahoe students championed in the wake of tragedy and continue to champion.

I hope that political activism will not silence that need.

Grace M. Chao ’19 is an Economics concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays.

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Wilson to Advise Students, Labor Orgs Protest Bacow on Diversity PROTEST FROM PAGE 1

WILSON FROM PAGE 1 bolster diversity and inclusion across the University.

Wilson is currently a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—the University’s second-highest governing body—and served as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities under the Obama administration. While he was executive director, Wilson recommended University President-elect Bacow as an adviser to President Barack Obama on the initiative in 2009. Bacow will take over from Faust in July, and it will fall to him to oversee the bulk of the task force’s recommendations.

Faust wrote that Wilson’s experience in higher education and connections to Harvard will enable him to “bring the task force report to life.”

In his new role, he will be responsible for planning structures for improving inclusion at the University and hiring central administration personnel to conduct this work for the duration of this spring and next academic year.

In an interview Monday, Wilson said he is excited to work to make the Harvard experience “more enriching and fulfilling for more people.”

“This is what was most important for me and why I am truly excited in this role and invested in it, there is a sense that we can’t truly be Harvard until we get this right, until we figure out how more graduates of Harvard can feel like it’s my Harvard, too,” he said.

In her email, Faust also outlined her plans to begin implementing the task force’s recommendations before she steps down in June. She wrote that, with Bacow’s agreement, she decided to appoint Wilson now in order to ensure the presidential transition “does not delay the implementation of the task force’s recommendations.”

“In consultation with President-elect Bacow, I have identified actions that can be taken immediately and that I hope will serve to generate momentum for the longer-term strategic work that will extend well beyond my tenure,” Faust wrote.

The final report charges Harvard to “become its best self” through a frame-

work of “Four Goals,” “Four Tools,” and a set of eight concrete recommendations—including enhancing mental health resources, improving recruitment and retention strategies for faculty, and establishing pipeline programs for staff, among other measures. “[The task force’s] articulation of four goals and four tools, within the framework of pursuing excellence on a foundation of inclusion, defines an essential path for the University to pursue,” Faust wrote. “Through its eight recommendations, the task force has set out concrete steps to help start us down that path.”

As part of her immediate action points, Faust has designated $10 million in presidential funds to new faculty hires, provided additional presidential funds to enhancing mental health services, and required deans and administrators to produce plans to advance inclusion and belonging in their schools or units.

In addition, Faust said she and Bacow look forward to working with Government Professor Danielle S. Allen—one of the co-chairs of the task force—to establish the Smith Campus Center as a place for events surrounding “civil disagreement.”

“Both President-elect Bacow and I look forward to working with Professor Allen and others to imagine additional ways in which the Office of the President might help to sponsor community conversations designed with a similar goal of bringing together contrasting points of view on critical questions,” Faust wrote.

Faust also wrote she has asked administrators to develop policies to improve wayfinding on campus and ensure Harvard’s public art “reflects our commitment to belonging and inclusion.” Faust, in the closing of her letter, said she is excited to sing the revised last line to the alma mater—also a task force initiative—at this May’s Commencement.

“When it comes time to sing our alma mater, updated at the suggestion of the task force, I will proudly give voice to the song’s new final line—and its recognition that the pursuit of truth and knowledge belongs to everyone at Harvard, from all backgrounds and beliefs,” Faust wrote.

in retaliation after she made allegations of workplace racism and sexual harassment.

According to her termination letter, Shing was fired because of “insubordinate conduct in repeatedly disregarding instructions.”

The letter specifically cites an incident in which Shing arrived at work 30 minutes before her shift began on Feb. 6, despite having been warned not to do so.

Geoffrey Carens, Shing’s union representative from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said two of Shing’s work evaluations, though, commended her for arriving before her regular hours.

Carens said the evaluations called her “extremely reliable.”

“It shows how incredibly arbitrary this whole situation was,” Carens said.

At the picket, Shing’s supporters marched in circles, chanting statements like “Survivors deserve justice,” and “No racism at Harvard.”

Carens and other organizers distrib-

system fairer, we will need to adopt policies that empower people who have been disadvantaged in economic or social terms to get a fair chance to succeed,” Dean of the Kennedy School Douglas W. Elmendorf said in the press release.

“Jim and Cathy Stone’s generosity will allow the Kennedy School to enhance its work on these crucial issues in the years ahead,” Elmendorf added.

James M. Stone ’69 is the founder and CEO of the Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a group of insurance companies based in the northeast.

In addition to graduating from the College in 1969, he obtained a Masters Degree in Economics from in 1970 and a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1973.

His wife, Cathleen D. Stone, is the president of their foundation and sits on the boards of multiple organiza-

tions.

The gift will fund eight doctoral students per year across the University’s graduate schools.

The donation will also fund the Stone Senior Scholars program—an initiative which will invite 12 leading scholars of inequality to give lectures and coordinate events about economic opportunity and income inequality—and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture, a series of public lectures around economic inequality across the world.

French economist Thomas Piketty will deliver the first lecture of the Stone series Friday at the Kennedy School’s JFK Forum.

This is the not the first contribution the foundation has made to research on economic equality.

In 2016, the foundation announced it would donate $2.5 million to the Graduate Center of the City University of New York to fund a center for work surrounding economic inequal-

TRAVEL FROM PAGE 1 Council liable to legal threats should students experience accidents while traveling on the UC’s dime.

Flores, a member of the cheerleading club who co-sponsored the legislation, said Sunday the cut in travel funding could force her club to make budget cuts.

“We usually get about $2,000 to help us pay for nationals, so you know, that’s a big chunk of our budget missing,” Flores said. “Probably we won’t be able to do stuff in the future because of that.”

In recommending adding more money to the travel fund in 2014, the working group wrote they worried student groups’ desire to avoid high travel costs could jeopardize undergraduates’ safety while traveling.

Now, some undergraduates say the College’s cancellation of the travel fund means student groups will be forced to make exactly the kind of financial calculations the College

ity.

“The concentration and sequestration of wealth at the top can interfere with economic growth and diminish the benefits of mobility,” James Stone said in the press release.

“Excesses of concentration and hereditary wealth tend to weaken the middle class and dampen prospects for the poor. Just as important, this trend threatens to undermine the democratic pluralism in politics that has helped create this country’s impressive record of success.”

The donation from the foundation comes as Harvard nears the completion of its record-setting capital campaign, set to end in June 2018.

The Kennedy School had raised more than $660 million as of February 2018, surpassing its original $500 million goal.

Staff writer Alexandra A. Chaidez can be reached at alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson. com. Follow her on Twitter @a_achaidez.

Cambridge City Council Supports TPS

By IRIS M. LEWIS and PATRICIA J. LIU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

­ he Cambridge City Council unanT imously adopted a policy order supporting the Temporary Protected Status visa program at a meeting Monday.

The TPS program, which Congress established in 1990, grants temporary protections to immigrants from countries experiencing natural disasters or armed conflicts, allowing them to legally live and work in the United States.

The Trump administration recently announced plans to revoke TPS for immigrants from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, and Sudan. Protections for immigrants from Honduras, Yemen, Somalia, and Nepal will end later this year.

Following the release of new federal immigration policies, 19 state attorneys general endorsed a letter urging Congress to grant permanent legal status to immigrants at risk of losing TPS. The City Council’s policy order— which all nine councillors approved— asserts the city’s support for the letter to Congress, noting that the City of Cambridge has long been “a proud supporter of immigrants.”

In an interview, Manny E. Lusardi, the mayor’s liaison for immigrant affairs, pointed to Cambridge’s history of immigrant-supporting policies, which include free monthly legal consultations for immigrants and the city’s im-

migration legal defense fund.

Lusardi, who wrote the order, emphasized the importance of these local programs in the face of federal policies targeting immigrants.

“Immigration is local,” he said.

“We’re trying to prove that by leading other people in the community and asking them, by example, to step up to do similar programs.”

Mayor Marc C. McGovern, who

I want people to have a path towards citizenship that is reasonable and doesn’t take years and years.”

Marc C. McGovern Cambridge Mayor

sponsored the order, said the legislation was an important step towards protecting immigrants in Cambridge.

“I think it’s just another example of our stating our values, and pushing back against the presidential administration we feel is attacking immigrants

can really see change in Mayli’s circumstances but also a change in Harvard’s workplace culture overall,” Fadiman said.

University spokesperson Tania deLuzuriaga did not offer comment beyond an earlier emailed statement after the first protest in February.

“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on individual personnel matters, but all complaints of discrimination and sexual harassment are investigated thoroughly and fairly,” deLuzuriaga wrote in February.

“Harvard is committed to maintaining a safe, comfortable, and diverse working environment for all of its employees.”

In a speech at the conclusion of the picket, Carens said the groups plan to continue protesting until they achieve their goal to “get justice for Mayli.”

As they left the scene, demonstrators chanted in unison, “We’ll be back, we’ll be back.”

Staff writer Molly C. McCafferty can be reached at molly.mccafferty@thecrimson. com. Follow her on Twitter at @mollmccaff.

OSL Cancels Student Group Travel Grant

Kennedy School Receives Donation DONATION FROM PAGE 1

uted noisemakers and signs, and a few crowd members, including Shing herself, gave short speeches.

The Harvard No Layoffs Campaign—a caucus of HUCTW members and allies—and the Student Labor Action Movement, a pro-labor undergraduate advocacy group, jointly organized both pickets.

Since the first event, two new groups have decided to endorse their efforts: the Transgender Task Force, a student group dedicated to supporting transgender people and allies, and Our Harvard Can Do Better, a student group focused on combating sexual assault on campus.

“This is a group of people who are passionate and committed to seeing this through and making sure that Mayli gets rehired,” said Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Andrew Keefe.

Lauren G. Fadiman ’21, a representative of SLAM, said in a speech to the crowd that she hoped the protest would have a broader effect on how Harvard workers are treated.

“Hopefully with a lot of work and a lot of shouting today on the street we

in our community,” McGovern said.

McGovern also called for the city to surpass its previous commitments to immigrants, saying he thought anti-immigrant sentiment still exists in Massachusetts, despite its “blue” tilt.

“Cambridge has been a sanctuary city since the mid-80s. Crime is at a 60-year low,” he said. “It is not undocumented immigrants that are committing crimes in Cambridge, but folks don’t want to believe the data. There’s so much prejudice and racism, even here in Massachusetts.”

At the meeting, Councillor Quinton Zondervan voiced concerns about TPS recipients losing their driver’s licenses. According to immigrant advocacy groups, TPS immigrants without licenses will be vulnerable to arrest, since driving after they lose their protected status is prohibited.

“I’m particularly concerned, in this case, because we are changing our driver’s license requirements, which will severely impact immigrants who are losing their Temporary Protected Status,” Zondervan said.

According to McGovern, while Monday’s policy order does not address specific policy issues, it does have “symbolic” value.

“I want people to have a path towards citizenship that is reasonable that doesn’t take years and years,” he said.

“I’d like to see them become citizens. They basically are.”

sought to render unnecessary in 2014.

Kevin C. Fei ’19, treasurer of Harvard Ballroom, said the group wanted to travel by bus to a recent competition, but was unable to do so without the travel grant.

“We had to rent a bunch of cars, which is less safe and less desirable for everyone,” Fei said.

UC Treasurer Nadine M. Khoury ’20, who also co-sponsored the failed legislation, said “multiple” students have approached her asking about the termination of the travel fund.

“There are many people that are personally in debt,” Khoury said. “This is a really big thing for financial accessibility for people who just cannot afford to go on these trips.”

In an interview Monday, Khoury said the Finance Committee usually helps to publicize the existence of the fund to student groups in November after receiving word from the Office of Student Life. This year, though, the committee did not hear anything about the fund from the office, according to

Khoury.

Multiple members of the UC Executive Committee declared their intention to push the Office of Student Life to reinstate funding for the travel grant.

“I advocated at every meeting I could to bring back the grant because I think it’s very important to student life,” UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher ’19 said.

College spokesperson Goldman did not directly respond to a question asking whether Harvard plans to renew the travel grant in the future.

“The College recognizes the importance of a thriving student organization community,” Miller wrote. “We hope that students will take part in student organization travel activities that are safe and aligned with University policies.”

“We look forward to providing an update on the status of the funds in the near future,” he added.

Staff writer Jonah S. Berger can be reached at jonah.berger@thecrimson.com.

Faculty Protest TPS Loss TPS FROM PAGE 1 protesters at the end of the event to pass along to Massachusetts senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey. The organizers said they chose to assemble in front of the building during the workday because of the building’s ties to immigration policy.

“The point of that is that we wanted to be there during working hours in the federal building where USCIS [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] is located and where Immigration Court is located,” said organizer and Divinity School professor Ahmed Ragab.

The protest follows a September demonstration in which professors blocked traffic on Massachusetts Avenue in an act of civil disobedience to protest Trump administration immigration policies. More than 30 professors from Harvard and other universities were arrested. Since the protest, Ragab said he and other organizers have kept an email listserv, which approximately 70 professors have used to plan other immigration advocacy events, including the Tuesday protest.

In particular, protesters advocated for protections for residents covered by the now-endangered Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs. Trump rescinded DACA—an Obama-era program that allows undocumented youth to legally live and work in the United States—in early September. Trump originally set a March 5 deadline for Congress to pass permanent protections for undocumented youth, though federal judges since then have ruled the Department of Homeland Security must continue to renew existing DACA permits. Still, the department is not accepting new DACA applications—and without a legislative solution, the future for current DACA recipients remains uncertain.

The Trump administration also recently chose to end the Temporary Protected Status program for immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador, among many other countries, affecting thousands of immigrants across the nation and dozens of Harvard affiliates.

Organizer and History of Science Professor Sophia Roosth, who participated in a sign-making session hosted by the organizers earlier Tuesday afternoon, said it was important they hold a protest now to “keep the momentum going.”

“We feel that after March 5, there’s been a lot of inattention to what’s going on, and we’re concerned that that’s going to lead to people becoming a bit complacent,” Roosth said. “It’s important even as time continues to draw attention to this really important matter so that it’s not forgotten.”

History Professor Kirsten A. Weld, who spoke at the protest, said she teaches undocumented students in some of her classes and thinks about what her classroom would look like without those students.

“I think their absence would impoverish our community not just for the students who would be deprived of an education, but for all of the other students who could learn from them and could learn from their experiences,” Weld said in an interview after the protest.

Weld added that she thinks she has

It’s important even as time continues to draw attention to this really important matter so that it’s not forgotten.

Sophia Roosth

History of Science Professor a responsibility to support her students and show them their professors care about the struggles they’re going through.

“When our students are treated unjustly, our professors are going to stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable,’” Weld said.

Weld was one of the professors arrested in the September demonstration.

Holding a sign that read “No immigrant is illegal,” Divinity School student Kat G. Poje said she wants to create an environment where people can learn without the fear of being taken away from their homes.

“This is a way of saying we, as those especially involved in education in the greater Boston area, are against this,” Poje said.

Doris Reina-Landaverde, a Harvard custodial staff member from El Salvador, was one of the speakers at the protest and said she fears for her future employment if her TPS status is revoked.

Her daughter, Virginia Landaverde, a middle school student, also voiced concerns about her family situation during a speech at the protest.

“This is kind of my dream college because my parents work here, so I kind of grew up running around the halls of the Science Center,” Landaverde said of Harvard.

“I’ve always wanted to go there, and it’s hard, because I also have to think about other things.”

SPORTS

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Harvard Wins Two of Three at Red Flash Tournament WOMEN’S WATER POLO

By RENA SIMKOWITZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ ast weekend, the number 13 spelled L bad luck for the Harvard women’s water polo team as it dropped a game to the 13th-ranked Indiana Hoosiers.

Ranked No. 22 in the nation, the Crimson squad (13-11, 2-1 Ivy) traveled to the Stokes Natatorium in Pennsylvania to compete in the Red Flash Tournament. Building on the work put in during its California trip over break, Harvard showcased its offensive strength to defeat George Washington (10-8) and Saint Francis (12-9, 0-1 NEC) by six-point margins. The games came after the Crimson fell to No. 13 Indiana (20-5, 1-1 Big Ten) by only one goal.

“Overall this weekend was great for us,” junior Kristen Hong said. “Even though we were playing in a shallow-deep pool, the games this weekend allowed us to implement what we learned about each other’s playing styles from our California trip.”

HARVARD 14, GWU 8 In Sunday’s match against George Washington, the Colonials scored the initial two goals in the opening two minutes. However, Hong scored Harvard’s first goal of the match and the team quickly made up the deficit. By minute four, the Crimson led 4-2.

By halftime, the team still lead by two but had amassed eight points. In the second stanza of the game, Harvard continued to dominate. Goals by freshman Olivia Price, sophomore Mathilde Ribordy and captain Sami Strutner—coupled with strong defense—helped the Crimson extend its lead. Price dominated, racking up five goals by herself. Sophomore Angie Varona, freshman Jilly Cronin and sophomore Sofia Carrera-Justiz each recorded two steals.

Goalies captain Cleo Harrington and junior Sam Acker shared time in the net. The duo collaborated to block seven attempted shots, curtailing the George Washington offensive front en route to Harvard’s 14-8 victory.

HARVARD 13, SAINT FRANCIS 7 On Saturday evening, Harvard returned to the pool after a loss to Indiana in the morning. Beginning with a slow first period, Harvard scored five goals in the second quarter of the game to go into the halftime with a 7-5 lead.

In the third and fourth quarters, the Crimson continued to pick up momentum scoring three goals in each. Junior Haley Bowe and Hong led the final

HONG TIME On the first day of competition, juniorKristen Hong registered 10 points, with three assists and seven goals for the squad. KATHRYN S. KUHAR—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

charge, both scoring two goals in the second half to lift Harvard over Saint Francis, 13-7.

Aker and Harrington swam in front of the net, each racking up a bevy of blocks. The captain knocked down three shots while Aker prevented six points.

INDIANA 11, HARVARD 10 Squaring up against Indiana, the Crimson displayed tenacity and teamwork,

outscoring one of the top ranked teams in the country in the second half of the game. Unfortunately despite finding the back of the net eight times in the final 16 minutes, Harvard was unable to overcome its first half deficit to beat the Hoosiers.

“We lost to Indiana by one goal, but we have another shot at them in two weeks at Harvard so we’re excited to face up again,” Strutner said. “It was a great battle though and we played well,

so it hardly feels like a loss.”

Hong led the Crimson offense with three goals and was followed by Carrera-Justiz, Strutner and Price, each of whom netted two against the Hoosiers. Harvard’s game total of ten goals against Indiana marks the highest offensive output by the the Crimson against a higher ranked opponent this season.

The weekend’s Red Flash tournament may as well been a scouting

match for Harvard as the team will get another chance at both Saint Francis and Indiana on Saturday.

“These were the final games before conference play, which are the ones that actually matter, so we had some good opportunities this past weekend to work on skills we wanted to fine tune,” Strutner said.

Staff writer Rena Simkowitz can be reached at rena.simkowitz@thecrimson.com

Harvard Finishs Middle of the Pack in Furman Golf Tournament

TEE TIME The Fresh Pond Golf Course rests in the evening sunset. The Crimson teams often practice at the course when weather permits.

MEN’S GOLF

By MAX MCEVOY CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ he Harvard men’s golf team started T its spring season off at the Furman Intercollegiate Tournament in Greensboro, S.C., finishing 15th out of 21 teams. No. 28 North Florida finished

off the three-day tournament on top while No. 10 South Carolina finished tied for fourth. Fellow Ivy competitors Dartmouth and Yale both finished above the Crimson.

After a week of practice in sunny Palm Springs, Harvard, which had not played in a tournament since October of last year, travelled to South Carolina for their season’s inaugural tour-

nament. Because of the natural circumstances—Boston in the winter— the team, before its Spring Break trip to California, had been practicing exclusively inside, lifting, running, and working on technique.

By the end of the weekend, the rust that the team had accrued over the last few months was clear to see. On the first day, Friday, the weather was ide-

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al for play. Harvard stumbled through the first round, finishing the day off in 11th, which would prove to be its highest finish all weekend.

Saturday also brought favorable playing conditions, but the Crimson did not improve on its score from the day before. In fact, its score remained the same (301) in all three rounds played.

Unfortunately for the Crimson, other

teams saw their scores improve from the first to second day, which meant Harvard finished day two in 16th.

Sunday’s weather was all but ideal, as the cold came in with the wind, and players wore as many as five layers.

After six hours of play on this freezing course, Harvard again remained consistent in regards to its previous score and managed to move up from 16th to 15th.

Though the performance of the team was not up to standard, it was not a wholly unsuccessful weekend, especially given the lack of match experience that the team has had since last fall.

Sophomore Rij Patel shot a score of 71 in the last round, and though he finished tied 48th overall, he had the eighth best performance on Sunday out of 123 competitors.

His teammates were impressed with his display, though it was something not completely unexpected.

“He has really been working hard to maintain form since the end of the fall season,” junior Aurian Capart said.

“He looked great in Palm Springs and I was happy that he was able to play at a high level, especially today.”

Senior captain Greg Royston also had a quietly efficient weekend, tying his sophomore teammate at 48th overall. Though he did not have a standout round, he shot consistently all weekend long.

Individual performances aside, this weekend and the tournaments to come all serve as preparation and practice for the nearing Ivy League Tournament.

“This weekend we figured out what we need to improve on. We had some good things going on as well,” freshman Grant Fairbairn said.

The team travels to Princeton in two weeks for its next tournament, one in which the Crimson has often thrived.

“The team is looking forward to Princeton,” Capart said. “We want to show improvement, and get sharper day by day. We need to get rid of the rust.”

After a tough first spring weekend, Harvard will continue to march on, attempting to claim the Ivy League title for a third consecutive year.

Staff writer Max McEvoy can be reached at max.mcevoy@thecrimson.com