The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLIX, No. 59

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Harvard, stick to your word in Allston with the Ed Portal

Cambridge is considering how to spend millions in federal relief dollars

Lightweight crew returns to Cambridge in the Biglin Bowl

Apartheid Week Draws Backlash FAS Vote Changes Academic Plans

By AUDREY M. APOLLON and CHRISTINE MUI CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee hosted its annual Israeli Apartheid Week this week, featuring a series of events aiming to promote Palestinian solidarity through virtual and in-person discussions.

This year’s IAW programming featured speakers like Noam Chomsky, a theoretical linguist and political activist, and Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist and author.

The College’s Palestine Solidarity Committee is a student group “dedicated to supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, justice, and equality through raising awareness, advocacy, and non-violent resistance,” per its website.

IAW organizer Michael A. Miccioli said the purpose of the week is to “draw attention to the conditions which Palestinians have to live under in both Israel and the occupied territories.”

“Israel is practicing the crime of apartheid, so our goal is to draw attention to those conditions, to try and advocate, of course, that Israel follow international law and afford equal rights to all people regardless of their race or their religion, and to try and build solidarity and awareness in the general Harvard population,” he said.

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Earlier this month, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences overwhelmingly approved a proposal allowing College undergraduates to pursue double concentrations starting next fall.

Currently, undergraduates who wish to study two disciplines must either pursue a joint concentration, which requires writing a thesis combining both subjects, or add a secondary field, which has fewer requirements and less administrative support. Under the plan, students pursuing a double concentration may double count up to eight credits — generally two courses — across the two plans of study. According to Harvard spokesperson Alixandra A. Nozzolillo, the double-count limitation means that students may not concurrently pursue two concentrations that have significantly overlapping coursework.

More information on double concentrations will be in the 2022-2023 College Handbook, she added.

Many students welcome the new option, saying it may affect ­

An art display put up in Harvard Yard by the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee drew backlash from Harvard Hillel. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The week kicked off with a panel on Black Palestinian Solidarity, which featured columnist Margaret Kimberley and Hella Black Podcast co-host Abbas Muntaqim. Chomsky headlined another event Wednesday, which had more than 60

virtual attendees, in addition to an in-person crowd in Harvard Hall.

Roughly 20 participants attended Tuesday’s virtual Queer Palestinian Panel, which featured Palestinian singer Bashar Murad, Palestinian activist and

social media influencer Lama, and Emory University associate professor Sa’ed Atshan.

The panelists discussed the concept of “pinkwashing,” which Atshan defined as “a pro-

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their chosen course of study.

Jonathan Y. Fu ’25 said he is considering pursuing a double concentration in Physics and Classics. “It seems like something Harvard should have done a while ago, but I’m happy that they got it done this year,” he said. Before the double concentrations plan was passed, Fu said he was most likely going to concentrate in Physics with a secondary in Classics, since combining the two fields in a joint thesis “would be pretty difficult.”

Glen Liu ’25 said he thinks many people who were considering a joint concentration did so because it was the only option for them if they were interested in two different fields. “I think that a significant portion of people who are planning to or originally planned to do a joint concentration will do a double concentration,” he said.

Paul Yang ’25 said he is considering concentrating in both Computer Science and either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. He considered pursuing a secondary in Computer Science but said he prefers being able to explore more courses with a double concentration.

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In-Person Visitas Returns Following Two-Year Hiatus

By NIA L. ORAKWUE and RAHEM D. HAMID CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A fter welcoming the past two undergraduate classes to Harvard virtually, the College will greet admitted students in the Class of 2026 during the first in-person Visitas weekend since 2019, set to begin Sunday.

Visitas, an annual program bringing admitted students to the College’s campus for a weekend, was held online for the Class of 2024 and the Class of 2025. Its return this year comes in light of loosened Covid-19 protocols, including the end of Harvard’s indoor mask mandate in March.

Though previous iterations of Visitas spanned a whole weekend, this year’s program ­

After two years of virtual Visitas, the program for newly admitted students is returning to campus on Sunday and Monday for the Class of 2026. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

will take place during just two days — from Sunday, April 24, to Monday, April 25.

“We’re very pleased to be back in person,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview last month. “Things are opening up, and that’s terrific.”

Still, Fitzsimmons said the College will hold information sessions via Zoom for admitted students unable to attend Visitas in person.

Prospective freshmen coming to Cambridge this weekend are subject to some Covid-19 protocols, College spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote in an email. They must present proof of vaccination and a negative Covid-19 test result prior to their arrival and take all dining hall meals to go. Dane add-

ed that the College is mailing all U.S.-based admitted students rapid tests.

While student programming at Visitas will happen on campus this year, the College will continue to host virtual-only events for family members and guardians.

At Visitas, admitted students can opt to stay overnight with a current undergraduate. College students who host will also need to test negative for Covid-19 prior to being matched with a prefrosh, Dane wrote.

The College will notify eligible hosts who have been paired with a prefrosh on Saturday, according to an email the school sent to prospective hosts Thursday morning.

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Suárez-Orozco Named HUPD Chief Clay Calls Police Practices ‘Outdated’ New IIH Director

By SARAH GIRMA and BRANDON L. KINGDOLLAR

By PATON D. ROBERTS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Carola Suárez-Orozco is set to lead the Immigration Initiative at Harvard as its newest director, a role she will assume on July 1 in addition to joining the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A self-described “grandmother” of the field of immigration studies, Suárez-Orozco works as a professor of counseling and school psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She previously taught at the Graduate School of Education of the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Steinhardt School at New York University. Suárez-Orozco has also authored numerous articles and books all focused on the subject of immigration.

In her future post as the director of the IIH, Suárez-Orozco aims to continue the work of inaugural program director Roberto G. Gonzales, who went on to teach at the University of Pennsylvania last summer. ­

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“I’m going to be taking that initiative and extending the work that he did, but expanding it to go more broadly, to truly try to understand the 27 percent of children who are immigrant-origin kids—and that includes first and second-generation kids,” she said.

Suárez-Orozco will be returning to the University after nearly two decades, having previously served as co-director of the Harvard Immigration Project — a longitudinal study following 400 children from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, China, and Central America. The incoming IIH director traces her interest in helping young immigrants back to this formative role.

“We interviewed them every year, interviewed their parents, did ethnographic work in schools and in their homes and neighborhoods, and really tried to get a sense of what their experience was like, and what were some of the particulars

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Harvard University Police Department Chief Victor A. Clay said current law enforcement recruitment and training practices are “outdated and ineffective,” calling for police departments to reform during a webinar hosted Thursday by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Clay’s remarks came at an event called “Who Is Policing the Police?” that featured a panel of law enforcement experts.

“I don’t understand why we, as an industry, we haven’t turned a corner and sort of moved the needle into the 21st century,” Clay said at the event.

“The way some cops right now are being trained reminds me of the way I was being trained in the ’80s.”

“We have to start that change process, I don’t know why it’s so difficult,” he said. “It starts at the top. It starts with me here at Harvard.”

Clay, who took over as HUPD chief in July, said he supports police reform “100 percent,” ­

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Harvard Police Chief Victor Clay spoke about police reform at an event hosted by the Radcliffe Institute and the Generational African American Students Association. JULIAN J. GIORDANO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

adding that modern-day police recruitment materials should focus on compassion and emotional intelligence, rather than toughness.

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The panelists discussed

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About a dozen student minority and activist groups protested Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and the Harvard Corporation following a dispute with Cornel R. West ’74, calling for an increased focus on diversity at the University.

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Students Mull PSC Hosts IAW, Draws Hillel Backlash Concentrations propaganda discourse that supporters of the right-wing Israeli state use to draw attention to a purported advanced LGBTQ rights record in Israel in order to detract attention away from Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.”

“We know homophobia exists everywhere. It exists in Palestine. It exists in Israel,” Murad said. “It exists all over the world, but it doesn’t justify any of the oppression that Palestinians are going through.”

Earlier in the week, the PSC placed an art installation between the freshman dorms of Canaday and Thayer meant to represent the Israeli West Bank barrier. The “Wall of Resistance” consists of six painted panels, which included the phrases “Free Palestine” and “Boycott! Divest! Sanctions!” referring to the international movement to withhold economic support from Israel.

The installation features a quote from writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde, “Your silence will not protect you.” Another panel reads in all capital letters, “Zionism is Rac­

“With a secondary you only take four classes, so you’re not getting that much of an experience in CS,” he said. “There are so many CS courses at Harvard, and it’s so difficult to find the four that you’re really interested in.”

On the other hand, Yang said he would need more information about how the College would count his credits when the two concentrations have more than two overlapping required courses.

“CS and Engineering, both of those course loads are very similar in terms of the classes that you need to take,” he said. “I’m just curious how that’s going to balance out or how that’s going to affect the concentrations.”

Nonetheless, Yang said he counted himself “lucky” because as a freshman, he can still accommodate a potential double concentration.

Dora Ivkovich ’24, on the other hand, said it would be infeasible for her as a sophomore to change her course of study to a ­

double concentration in Math and Economics. “Given that we’ve already done four semesters, unless I did three math classes for one or two semesters, it’s just not doable, honestly,” Ivkovich said.

Eric A. Forteza ’24, who declared a joint concentration in Government and History, said he would have considered a double concentration if the option were available to him as a freshman. “I think I would have taken a more equal balance of History and Government because right now, I’ve taken more Government classes than History,” he said. Forteza added that a double concentration would restrict the number of electives he could fit in his schedule.

“With the double concentration, I would have had to take 23 classes, and I would just have had no time to take any other electives,” he said. meimei.xu@thecrimson.com ariel.kim@thecrimson.com

ism Settler Colonialism White Supremacy Apartheid.”

In response, Harvard Hillel organized a “Stand with Israel Rally” on Wednesday calling on Harvard affiliates and the public to “take a stand against the anti-Israel apartheid week.”

Roughly 40 people gathered in Harvard Yard in support.

Hillel’s student president, Natalie L. Kahn ’23, said in an interview at the rally that she felt IAW’s approach lacked nuance and that the art installation was offensive to students.

“For our students to have to walk outside their room everyday and see these very reductive and libelous statements that are calling Zionism racism and Zionism apartheid and Zionism white supremacy — which is something deeply, deeply offensive to the Jewish people who, by the way, had been targeted by white supremacists throughout years — is disgusting,” said Kahn, a Crimson news editor.

Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel, sent an email to Hillel affiliates on Wednesday denouncing the rhetoric of IAW participants.

“Long-discredited tropes such as ‘Zionism = Racism’ and absurdities such as ‘Zionism = White Supremacy,’ as we have seen billboarded in the heart of Harvard this week, on a huge anti-Israel display in the Yard, are beneath the intelligence and the truth-seeking inquisitiveness one expects of Harvard students,” Steinberg said.

He condemned the art installation as one that “can be explained only in terms of a frothing vitriol that verges left and right on outright antisemitism.”

The Harvard Israel Initiative called the IAW events “devoid of any attempt at dialogue or complexity” in a Tuesday statement.

Hillel’s Student Board also released a statement criticizing IAW’s language.

IAW organizer Nadine S. Bahour ’22 said she always “expects” opposition and hopes the events will start a conversation.

“I love how Harvard is a space on campus where everyone can organize their events and also feel comfortable speaking up about what they object to with other student organization events,” Bahour said.

City Considers How to Spend $55 Million in Relief

By ELIAS J. SCHISGALL CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

The City of Cambridge currently has access to $88.1 million in federal funds, much of which remains unspent. Now, the city faces the daunting task of deciding where it goes.

Following the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in March 2021 to boost the economy, Cambridge was awarded $65 million directly from the federal government and $23 million through an intermediary statewide fund.

So far, the city has spent about $33 million of the relief funds on government projects, including meals and housing for unhoused Cambridge resi-

dents, Covid-19 testing and vaccines, and relief grants for small businesses and restaurants. At a meeting of the City Council Finance Committee on Wednesday afternoon, residents and representatives from local nonprofits made speeches asking the Council for a slice of the remaining $55-million pie.

During the meeting, Assistant City Manager David J. Kale said 40 community groups and nonprofits have applied to the city for funding so far, with requests totaling upwards of $180 million.

The bulk of this total comes from requests from the Cambridge Housing Authority, the non-profit that runs public housing in the city. In its requests, the CHA recommend-

ed spending up to $29.6 million on social services for CHA residents and infrastructure and planning costs related to new public housing projects.

This sum includes a $9 to $18 million expansion of Cambridge RISE, a guaranteed income pilot program.

During the Wednesday meeting, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui reiterated the Council’s support for using ARPA funds for a larger guaranteed income program. In February, the Council unanimously voted to request policy options from the City Manager on using ARPA funds for direct payments to Cantabridgians “facing eviction, housing instability, and/or homelessness.”

The CHA also filed a request

for up to $54 million — nearly all the city’s remaining funds — to be allocated toward the construction of 128 new units of affordable public housing at two sites in the city. During the meeting, Michael J. Johnston, the executive director of the CHA, described the request as a “placeholder,” giving the Council the option to allocate any amount of funds toward public housing construction.

Other large funding requests include $6 million for improvements and green space near Jerry’s Pond in North Cambridge; $15 million to provide housing stipends to unhoused people through the non-profit Project Right to Housing; $2 million for an equity fund investing in businesses owned by racial mi-

norities; and $5.5 million for Cambridge HEART, a community-based public safety alternative to policing.

On May 2, according to Kale, the city will take a “strategic pause” on accepting proposals to sort through existing applications and evaluate their eligibility for funding.

In the meeting, Councilor and Finance Committee cochair Patricia M. “Patty” Nolan ’80 said that though there are “many, many excellent proposals,” not all will receive funding.

“As difficult as it is to understand that money is limited, we have more worthy projects than we can possibly fund,” Nolan said. elias.schisgall@thecrimson.com

Miccioli pushed back on the claim that calling Israel an apartheid state is anti-semitic.

“They’re trying to conflate criticism of the state of Israel with anti-semitism. We have Jewish members in our organization. We had Jewish speakers come speak at our events, so I don’t think that their response has been very convincing,” he said.

Bahour said that her favorite part of IAW’s programming has been the Wall of Resistance in Harvard Yard.

“The panels are all very powerful and they really show a lot of solidarity, because they’re not all about Palestine,” Bahour said. “Each one covers a different topic and is trying to show that the Palestinian cause doesn’t exist in a bubble, but it’s rather very interconnected with our everyday life here in the U.S.” The week’s programming will conclude Friday with a discussion featuring speakers from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and HLS. audrey.apollon@thecrimson.com christine.mui@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

OP-ED

Harvard, Stick to Your Word in Allston

An Unlikely Cubicle

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Abby T. Forbes THE TRADES

Education is only socially valuable when as many people as possible have access to it.

arvard seems to have done a good thing. Its expansion into Allston has not come without its downsides, but it has ushered in vast strides toward ameliorating those tensions. Those strides are neatly packaged in one overarching program, the Harvard Ed Portal, that indulges students and Allston residents alike.

We would first like to applaud Harvard’s efforts. We are heartened to hear that Allston residents themselves find value in the Ed Portal — at the end of the day, that’s what matters most.

The program supplies a broad range of opportunities, such as workforce training, partnerships with public schools, and tutoring positions for Harvard students. This breadth excites us, and we are especially grateful for Harvard’s emphasis on, inclusion, and valuing of trade-based work.

However, our major concern regarding Harvard’s involvement in Allston has been gentrification. Residents have repeatedly raised concerns about the rising cost of living and the displacement of longtime community members. Ultimately, Allston’s residents, not Harvard, should be at the center of this discussion. We caution against any dialogue that would suggest otherwise, framing Harvard as an all-knowing savior institution. That’s why it’s so important Harvard gets this right. This doesn’t, on its own, absolve them of the harms of gentrification, but placing Allston’s community at the forefront of their endeavors is the kind of thing that contributes to outweighing those harms.

The Ed Portal is exactly what we envisioned when we called for Harvard to start battling educational inequity long before they begin reviewing applications. Too often, one side of the conversation demands that universities repair America’s economic inequality in one fell swoop by allocating social mobility to those who enter their doors. Their partners, conversely, contend that inequity begins long before universities can intervene, excusing themselves from solving America’s problem. This kind of free educational outreach from Harvard — a leading university — threads the needle. Education is only socially valuable when as many people as possible have access to it.

The Ed Portal is exactly what we envisioned when we called for Harvard to start battling educational inequality long befroe they began reviewing applications.

We also hope that Harvard’s students will play an important role in Allston. Organizations on campus such as the Phillips Brooks House Association have collaborated with public schools for a long time, building valuable relationships through afterschool and mentorship programs. Harvard should model their own pursuits after the successes of its students.

Reciprocally, its students should eagerly get involved with the Ed Portal. If you come to Harvard uncertain of your life aspirations, the natural grooves to fall into are pre-professional. Manifold powerful companies spend considerable time and money making this an easy track for us to follow. Like these career-oriented cultural impulses, participating in these outreach programs must become a norm that Harvard students default to.

Not only will student engagement strengthen the Ed Portal, but we are confident that those who join will find the experience fruitful. As Harvard cuts back on its teaching programs — like UTEP and GenED 1076 —it should encourage its students to learn what it is to be an educator by taking part in the Ed Portal’s educational programming.

We’re glad to see Harvard taking strides in the right direction, and we hope to see more in the future. More apparency of the Ed Portal’s accessibility for Allston residents who may be turned off by the Harvard name. More financial investment in the program. More student involvement. And most importantly, more inclusion of those who call Allston home.

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impartiality of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on similar topics.

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Literally Allergic To The Cold

By GRACIA A. PERALA

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am from the blisteringly cold Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, where 250 inches of snow per season is the norm. My childhood was filled with snow, negative temperatures, and ice; I grew up in the cold. I figure skated avidly from the age of three. But my devotion to the chilly sport and fond relationship with winter weather came to a screeching halt after my diagnosis in November of 2020.

Here’s my story: what it’s like to be literally allergic to the cold.

During a routine figure skating rehearsal, I noticed red, itchy bumps forming on my legs and hands. I didn’t think too much of it until the next day, when I opened my window to get some fresh air, and the hives reappeared. Occurrences like this continued, but I wasn’t positive about the cause until two weeks later when I used an ice pack on my leg. Hives immediately formed in the exact shape of the ice pack on my skin. I saw a doctor the next day, who diagnosed my condition with an ice cube on my forearm.

I have a rare form of cold urticaria. My body reacts to cold exposure as though it were an allergen. For some people, this reaction can be minor, and lead only to itchy hives. My severity level is unfortunately much worse. While I do get skin welts and hives, I am also susceptible to anaphylaxis, shock, hypotension, and hypothermia. If I were to fall

into the Charles River, it could be fatal.

Not only does my body react to the cold, but it retains it. Even as my body reheats, or moves into a warm environment, the ice in my veins remains. I have to actively warm my skin, either through flaming showers or layers of blankets, to free myself from the cold.

Anything less than my internal body temperature can cause a reaction. The weather outside may not always seem cold, but it can still give me hives. Lower temperatures are of course more dangerous, but even the warmer days can be a struggle. Sometimes, I venture out in full winter gear on a “warm” day, col-

Even as my body reheats, or moves into a warm environment, the ice in my veins remains. lecting stares and laughter from people as I pass.

Now, I carry an EpiPen and inhaler with me everywhere I go. The medical alert tag around my neck displays in bold letters: COLD ANAPHYLAXIS. I show up to lectures in a bright yellow snowsuit and sit through discussion sections clutching hand warmers.

I get strange stares and whispered comments frequently. I do my best to ignore them. It’s not always so easy,

though.

It’s one thing to live with the physical realities of my condition — the psychological toll is another deal entirely. Trying to explain why I can’t catch an Annenberg brunch with friends on a cold day. Zooming in to classes when it’s raining. The “I can’t go out with you tonight, it is too cold for my body to handle.” Sleeping through club meetings on the weekends because I had to take an emergency super-antihistamine that knocked me out for 16 hours. Cooping myself up in my dorm to wait out two days of a blizzard. The looks of disbelief when I tell people, “I am literally allergic to the cold.” I understand the doubt.

Sometimes, I can’t believe it either.

I don’t know if this condition will ever go away, but I don’t have much hope. Doctors still have no idea why this hit me so abruptly after years of living in the cold. There is no cure, and the treatments only add to the psychological toll of my abnormal life. All I can do is adapt and surround myself with people who understand.

The next time you look out your window to a frosty Cambridge day, you may mull over grabbing a sweater or jacket, or dread the frigid walk to class.

On these days, I wake up and wonder if today’s the day I freeze to death — literally.

— Gracia A. Perala ’25, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Straus Hall.

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o most people, the stuff inside the boxes would be a complete mystery. Coils of blue translucent wires compressed at an angle, like a porcupine in its burrow. Peel-off fabric squares the size of a palm, meant to stick to skin like the quills of said porcupines. What appear to be either vape pens or souped-up Apple pencils stacked alongside capsules of clear liquid reflect the viewer’s perplexed expression right back at them.

But to Steven Garcia Machuca, these items were nothing other than the nectar of life — for millions of people with chronic disease, but particularly the uninsured people of the Bay Area who Steven’s work serves. A student of public health and health policy, Steven is driven to address the problems of access to lifesaving medicine that haunt U.S. medicine. He understands the way that, if you don’t have access to insurance, you do not have access to the medicine you need to survive. You see, Steven (like myself ) lives with chronic disease, leveraging those experiences to cultivate the resourcefulness that led him to Harvard — and to the life of service he built outside of it.

A first-generation American, Steven grew up in a small Colorado town on the outskirts of Aspen. Among the powder and privilege, he had a front-row seat to inequities of access from housing to healthcare. And he was determined to do something about it.

Steven applied to Harvard, where he focused on studying History of Science and Global Health and Health Policy. He was determined to learn how discriminatory policies can be changed to promote healing and respect no matter what a patient’s financial means. And when Harvard made students leave, Steven didn’t see any reason to stop this work.

Immediately after being kicked off campus, Steven returned to Colorado. There, he took on a role as a Covid-19 contact tracer for his local health department. Steven connected patients to rental assistance, food assistance, and medical relief programs. He realized how much misinformation was circulating about Covid-19 among his community.

He learned how to listen compassionately, how to understand perspectives that, to most Harvard students, would feel illogical and worlds away. As one of the only contact tracers bilingual in English and Spanish, Steven poured his energy into ensuring that his community wasn’t left behind amidst ever-changing covid information and policy.

At the same time, Steven was a Harvard student fully immersed in his Canvas classes, on top of simultaneously studying for the rigorous Crimson EMS program. The burnout was extreme, but he needed the school health insurance: if he were to take a leave, he wouldn’t be able to afford the medicine he needed for daily survival.

So in an effort to combat some of that burnout, Steven took his $5,000 housing stipend and rented a cubicle at his local WeWork. Rarely does anyone aspire to have a cubicle, but for Steven, it was a place of much-needed separation between school, work, and home life.

And yet, working a full-time job while being an online student can only be sustainable for so long. But to take time off, Steven would need to solve the health insurance problem. After untold hours of research, cover letters, and interviews, he landed a job with HealthCorps (a program of AmeriCorps) in San Francisco.

In addition to health benefits, the position came with a stipend to cover living expenses.

Not to mention, the role could not be more ideally aligned with Steven’s mission and values: Steven works as a diabetes care coordinator, improving outcomes for underserved patients with chronic disease.

He supports a program called Healthright 360 — one of the few in the country that doesn’t turn away anyone because of their inability to pay. There, Steven distributes medical supplies for survival for free to uninsured and underinsured patients.

He also provides educational programming and boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables from the “food pharmacy,” free of charge for anyone who needs them.

He understands the way that, if you don’t have access to insurance, you do not have access to the medicine you need to survive.

As Steven shares his story, I can feel the glow in his face down the phone line. I can hear us both think how, in a slightly different life, we would be the ones receiving the emergency medical supplies — at least, we hope we would have access to a program like this one.

At that moment, feeling very much “at the mercy of geography and whether it shines or rains,” in the words of Tenille Townes, I can feel our alternative lives pulsing beneath the surface.

It’s not something we think of often.

At Harvard, we push them down deep, transcending their tragedies of inaccess through our relentless resourcefulness. But through our hard work and creativity, our not-a-moment’s hesitation to grasp at any opportunity that comes our way, we have the courage at moments like these to reflect. And to reach back.

— Abby T. Forbes ’22 is a Philosophy concentrator in Adams House. Her column “The Trades” appears on alternate Fridays.

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Students Study South Asian Poetry

By ELLA L. JONES and MONIQUE I. VOBECKY CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

From the end of March through last week, the Harvard Creative Writing Collective held a series of poetry readings hosted by South Asian authors.

The South Asian Poetry Series invited poets of South Asian descent to travel to campus, hold readings of their work, and join in on dinners with students and faculty.

Isabel T. Mehta ’24, the main organizer of the series, said she was first inspired to put on the readings when she heard her professor Vidyan Ravinthiran, who teaches English, read one of his poems for the CWC. “I was blown away because I was in the presence of a South Asian person reading the poetry that they had written professionally,” Mehta said. “Being exposed to a South Asian person with a similar background as mine who has done this for their career was just kind of mind-blowing.” ­

Ravinthiran helped Mehta organize the events but gave credit to Mehta for bringing the poets to Cambridge.

“When we have a reading, I’m sure I’ll really enjoy it,” he said. “But it’s absolutely her achievement, and I think that should be made clear.”

To organize the first event in the series, Ravinthiran put Mehta in touch with poet Srikanth Reddy ’95, who agreed to read his work to the group. Mehta said many poets were eager to take part in the series when invited.

“Here’s the other thing, poets don’t get a lot of attention — even the really, really good ones — and so they respond really quickly to emails and they respond to everything,” Mehta said.

Mehta also expressed disillusionment with the accessibility of creative writing spaces in general within the College.

“This is something that’s very important: being a creative writer at Harvard can be a very disheartening thing be-

VISITAS FROM PAGE 1

After Years Online, Visitas Is Returning Jay P. Garg ’23-’24, who signed up to host for Visitas this year, said he had a “wonderful time” attending Harvard’s last in-person Visitas as an admitted student in 2019.

“It really is a huge part of the reason that I’m going to school here today,” he said. “It also is how I met some of my good friends and one of my current roommates.”

“Allowing others to have that experience is definitely worth it,” he added.

Prospective students arriving to campus can look forward to extracurricular and academic fairs, along with the opportu-

nity to sit in on Monday classes.

It really is a huge part of the reason that I’m going to school here today.

Jay P. Garg ’23-24

Several faculty members will also host a panel called ‘Visitas Thinks Big!’ to discuss their ongoing research. rahem.hamid@thecrimson.com nia.orakwue@thecrimson.com

cause most of the spaces that allow you to create, to do creative writing are very exclusive,” Mehta said.

In response to her observations of exclusion, Mehta joined the CWC and organized these events to create a more inclusive space and increase visibility for South Asians in fields like English.

“Why don’t we try and bring more of these people out?” Mehta said. “Not just from Harvard, but try to bring them from other areas.”

Aarya A. Kaushik ’24, a Creative Writing Collective board member, said the poetry series included optional dinners with the poets before each poetry reading.

“It was just a wonderful experience to get to see these poets in a more casual environment before going to the poetry reading and also getting to know them a little bit better,” Kaushik said.

Kaushik said the poetry series was successful due to the support from both Creative

Writing Collective members and students across Harvard’s campus.

“We’ve been really pleased and a little bit surprised, but pleasantly surprised to see the turnout is definitely not just the Creative Writing Collective,” Kaushik said. “We’ve seen lots of people from campus and even more than that, not just South Asian students or diasporic students on campus, but students from all different heritages coming to these poetry readings.”

The collective may continue the poetry series given the success of this semester’s iteration, according to Kaushik.

“We would always love to hear them read some of their works again,” Kaushik added.

“Two hours seems like a lot of time but it honestly flew by with those poets, so we’d love to have more events with them, as well as maybe continue the South Asian poetry speaker series.” ella.jones@thecrimson.com monique.vobecky@thecrimson.com

APRIL 22, 2022

IIH FROM PAGE 1

Suárez-Orozco to Direct IIH in July of smoother transitions versus transitions that were a little rockier,” Suárez-Orozco said.

“And so that really kind of got me on the trajectory of describing experiences of immigrant kids.”

HGSE Professor and IIH Faculty Lead Gabrielle Oliveira first met Suárez-Orozco when Oliveira was a graduate student at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

After reading her book Children of Immigration, she reached out to Suárez-Orozco — then teaching at NYU Steinhardt — and asked to audit her class.

Their office hours conversation began what has become a years-long mentorship.

“She cultivates people’s knowledge, she cultivates people’s curiosities, and she values where each person is com-

ing from—and I think that’s the biggest learning lesson I’ve ever gotten from her,” Oliveira said.

Looking forward to her professorial position at the Graduate School of Education, Suárez-Orozco sees this as an exciting chance to advise future teachers in the area of children’s immigration.

“School-based work would really make a huge difference in either a great experience for young people or a less than optimal experience, and educators are variably ready to do this work,” Suárez-Orozco said. “So being able to train the next generation that comes through on the very minimal things that they should be knowing and beyond is a great opportunity.” paton.roberts@thecrimson.com

Scientists Find Genetic Link to Bipolar Disorder

By JONATHAN A. COSGROVE and ANDREW LU CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

A research team including scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard reported the first strong genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder in a study published in the journal Nature Genetics on April 1.

Researchers at HMS and the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research analyzed the genomes of nearly 50,000 participants to identify the AKAP11 gene, which they found increases the odds of bipolar disorder by seven times.

Bipolar disorder is “a severe, heritable mood disorder that affects approximately one percent of the population and often ­

begins in early adulthood,” according to a press release from the Broad Institute.

Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center, said the study utilized innovative genetic research to analyze the origins and risk factors of bipolar disorder.

“We can use genes as a tool to stratify people to see who is at risk, and that might help us study environmental risk factors better,” Hyman said.

Benjamin Neale, co-director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, said he believes the study will provide important insight into the disorder.

“The long-term hope is that the genetic discoveries can form the basis of better understanding of the underlying bi-

ological processes that are involved in bipolar disorder,” Neale said.

The study explains how the AKAP11 gene influences bipolar disorder on a molecular level and how it may alter the effectiveness of certain treatments for the disorder.

Lithium, a common medication prescribed for the disorder, is not always effective and produces side effects for 75 percent of patients. The AKAP11 gene may interact with the lithium treatment, per the study.

Scientists are still working towards fully understanding the reasons behind the development of bipolar disorder and how lithium treatment can mitigate its symptoms.

The researchers plan to conduct further large-scale studies

to find genetic risks for bipolar disorder across the entire human genome through sequencing analysis. They also intend to create cellular models with variants of the AKAP11 gene to better understand the mechanisms behind bipolar disorder, which would allow for better diagnoses and novel therapies.

Hyman said he believes the study of genetics is critical to understanding underlying cellular pathways.

“We do genetics above all because genes are clues to molecular mechanisms which can be clues to both better diagnoses and therapies,” he said.

“And if you don’t understand what is going on in people then you’re just guessing, and guessing hasn’t gotten us very far in terms of treatments.”

POLICE FROM PAGE 1

HUPD Chief Says Law Enforcement Practices are ‘Outdated,’ ‘Ineffective’ non-police public safety alternatives, including programs that focus on responding to mental health emergencies.

The Cambridge City Council is currently weighing two such alternative public safety proposals.

“There needs to be more mental health professionals out there on a 24-hour basis to respond to those calls as well.

There needs to be after-school programs and job programs for folks that are out there that are struggling,” Clay said. “The systems that were in place that supported the police no longer exist.”

Alongside Clay, the event featured Georgetown Law School professor Rosa Brooks ’91, Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers President Jeffrey Lopes, and Center for Policing Equity Vice President of Community Engagement Hilary Rau. The event — part of the

Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery launched by University President Lawrence S. Bacow in November 2019 — was co-sponsored by the Harvard Generational African American Students Association, a student-run organization devoted to fostering inclusion among Black students and raising awareness on issues arising from the legacy of slavery in the United States.

“One of the things that I hear from abolitionists — that I think that many police officers agree with — is that we are asking police officers to do too much,” Rau said. “There are ways to further public safety that have nothing to do with enforcement. There are forms of criminalization that everyone agrees do nothing to keep people safer.”

Lopes said community engagement efforts by law enforcement agencies are import-

ant to improving policing.

“Historically, there has been structural racism within policing — none of us can sit here and say that that doesn’t exist,” Lopes said. “What we have to do is really start having these conversations from within and making sure that we can address the structural racism from within our respective law enforcement agencies.”

In an interview following the webinar, Lopes said he hoped student attendees would come away believing that empathy-based policing is possible.

“Policing works when it’s done right, when it has a community engagement focus,” Lopes said. “When policing is done with the lens of empathy and inclusion, there’s so much that we can do together to make communities more safe.” sara.girma@thecrimson.com brandon.kingdollar@thecrimson.com

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SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

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Women’s Tennis vs Brown 2:00 p.m., at Murr Center

Men’s Lightweight Crew vs. Navy 7:30 a.m., Annapolis, M.D.

Men’s Tennis vs. Yale 2:00 p.m., at Murr Center

Women’s Water Polo vs Mt. St. Mary’s 1:00 p.m., at Kinney Natatorium

Rugby vs. Princeton, 9:20 a.m., at Mignone Field

Softball vs. Brown 12:30 p.m., Providence, R.I.

CREW

Crimson Makes Cambridge Return in Biglin Bowl

By JACK SILVERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER ­

It wasn’t the triumphant reurn it may have hoped for, but for the first time in almost three years the men’s lightweight rowing team raced the 2,000 meters along the Charles River this past Saturday, fielding five boats in a competitive bout against Dartmouth and MIT. The No. 8 Crimson fell to Dartmouth in the Biglin Bowl, with the first varsity boat being edged out by the No. 9 Big Green by a margin of six seconds. From front to back, that boat featured first-years Brahm Erdmann and James Stevenson, sophomores Ryan McCarthy and Harrison Schofield, juniors Henry Bellew, Greg Cain, and Cameron McInroy, and senior Jake Marlo, and first-year coxswain Anya Cheng. The boat finished with a time of 6:36.4, good enough to beat third-place No. 11 MIT by a comfortable margin.

“It’s early in the season,” said Bellew in an interview. “So even though the result in this regular season race wasn’t what we wanted, we learned a lot, and we’ll take those lessons and apply them to our practices this week.”

One factor working against the Crimson in the race was the weather, which deteriorated as the early-morning races went on. The boats faced persistent headwinds, increasing the toll on the rowers.

Bellew pointed to Dartmouth’s ability to adjust immediately to the conditions and row strongly through the strong wind as the decisive factor in its victory, with the Crimson struggling to adjust to the unfamiliar challenge. Dartmouth was able to cling on to its early lead in the race despite a furious comeback attempt by the Crimson.

With this narrow loss, the Crimson broke a streak of 11 consecutive Biglin Bowl victo-

ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT Tate Huffman, Fraser Darling, Joost Van Asperen and James Stevenson rowing in the 2021 Head of the Charles Regatta. MAIREAD B. BAKER—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

dries, the last of which came in 2019. Named after the famous rowing brothers John and Barney Biglin, the race has brought Harvard, Dartmouth, and MIT together each year since 1955 to compete.

In total, the Crimson has won the event 57 times, the Engineers five times, and with this victory the Big Green earned its fifth title as well.

Before the first varsity race launched at 7:30 am, the fourth and fifth varsity boats for Har-

vard teed off against Dartmouth’s fourth varsity team (the Big Green only fields four boats).

In that race, the 4V team barely fell to Dartmouth by one boat length, finishing with a time of 7:17.7 to Dartmouth’s 7:15.4. The 5V boat for Harvard rounded out the race in just over 8 minutes.

In a bright spot for the lightweight squad, both the second varsity and third varsity teams prevailed in their races. The

2V boat bested the Engineers with a time of 6:47.6, while the 3V boat trounced its Cambridge neighbors by almost a 30-second margin. This victory was especially impressive as it came amid significantly declining conditions outside, with the wind raging for the final race of the morning. “[The second team boat] had a difficult race two weeks ago,” said Bellew, referring to the team’s regatta at Overpeck Park, NJ two weeks prior.

“They didn’t perform the way they wanted to at that race, but they made a huge amount of improvement in the bye week that we had last week and in the lead-up to the Dartmouth race.”

Despite the narrow defeat for the first varsity boat, the Crimson can take solace in finally being able to return to the Charles River to compete in front of a home crowd, an experience that was new not only to the first-years on the team but to many of the upperclassmen.

“There’s nothing better,” Bellew said. “There are certain things you can only do at certain points in your life and you realize how special they are.”

The lightweight rowers will have the chance to show what they learned about rowing in rough weather when they travel to race against Delaware and Navy on the Severn River in Annapolis, Md this weekend.

The Crimson’s quest for redemption will start Saturday morning, April 23.

RUGBY

Harvard Prepares to Defend 2019 Ivy League Title

By MIMI KOENIG CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

The Harvard women’s Rugby 7s team will look to defend its 2019 Ivy Tournament title this weekend, as it hosts Princeton, Brown and Dartmouth on Saturday. The Crimson will look to build upon its strong start to the season on April 2, where it won

the Crimson 7s tournament in its first appearance since the 2019 season.

The Crimson went undefeated, beating West Chester (Penn.), 22-19, American International 43-0, and Army 17-15 in Pool B play before going on to defeat Sacred Heart 32-0 in the semifinal, and eventually Army again 25-17 for the cham-

pionship. During pool play, the Crimson wasted no time, coming out hot with a score from senior center Sofie Fella only 45 seconds into its first game against West Chester. Fella went on to lead the team with 6 tries throughout the day. The Crimson would go on to win the contest 22-19, after strong performances from sophomore fly-

half Brogan Mior and first-year lock/center Jara Emtage-Cave, who scored once and twice, respectively. In its second game against American International, the Crimson never trailed in a dominant showing, which saw three scores from senior wing/ scrumhalf Sabrina Kim, two from junior center/flyhalf Alex Pipkin, and one each from first-

DOWN FOR THE COUNT Sophomore Jordan Roe takes down a competitor from West Point during a game in fall 2021. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

year flanker Sofia Hilger and sophomore flanker/number 8 Nafanua Malietoa Fitisemanu.

In its final game in the pool stage of play, the Crimson took on Army to decide the number one seed going into the knockout stage. The Black Knights, whose 15-woman squad defeated Harvard’s in the NIRA national semifinal on Nov. 13, were able to build a 15-0 lead going into the half, and were able to hold their lead going into the game’s final five minutes.

However, with the clock running down, Fella scored two consecutive triesto bring the score to 15-10 with a minute remaining. Then, on the game’s final drive, Mior was able to gain possession and tie the game at 15, setting up the eventual game-winning conversion for Pipkin, who completed the comeback and sent the Crimson into the semifinals as the number one seed.

After Dartmouth was defeated by Army, the Crimson took on Sacred Heart in the semifinal stage, and cruised to a 32-0 victory behind solid showings from Fella and scores from sophomore flanker/center Elianne Sacher and firstyear scrumhalf Reese Morgan.

In the weekend’s culminating final, a rematch with the Black Knights, the Crimson got out to its own 15-0 lead after scores from Fella and Emtage-Cave.Army would rally to draw within 3, but tries from Mior and Fitisemanu stretched the Crimson’s lead out to 25-12, and Harvard ultimately held on for a 25-17 victory. The triumph marked the first Crimson 7s tournament win in program history, after it finished second five consecutive times between 2015-19.

Looking forward, the Crimson now look to build on their momentum this Saturday at the Ivy 7s. Having won 10 of its last 11 contests dating back to 2019, the team is in prime position to continue its recent string of successes. As hosts for the tournament, it will also look to make it three Ivy 7s trophies in a row.

Harvard will not be the only team to enter the tournament in hot form, however; Brown 7’s, who the Crimson will face at 12:00 p.m., are also coming off a tournament victory. The Bears won their home Grizzly Cup on April 10. In the championship game of that tournament, Brown, led by Noelle Lewis, Mahdia Parker and Zy Thomas, raced out to a 26-0 halftime lead against Quinnipiac before holding on in the second half to claim a 26-21 victory.

Dartmouth, who went 4-1 at the Crimson 7s tournament in Pool A, with wins against Mount St. Mary’s and Sacred Heart, will look to improve upon its last performance in Cambridge.

Katie Douty’s squad was paced by Abbey Savin, who scored 34 points during the tournament. Her performance was supplemented by a few rookies making their 7s debuts, as Allie Amerson, Kyla Widodo, Ella Gates and Adrienne Coleman scored throughout the competition.

Harvard will open play against Princeton at 9:20 a.m. at Mignone Field, and after the conclusion of three pool play games, the teams with the two best records in head-to-head matchups will advance to the championship game at 6:00 p.m. All games will be televised miriam.koenig@thecrimson.com