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EDITORIAL PAGE 4

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In support of Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a free Palestine

Softball bounces back from cancellation to defeat Brown, 2-1

Men’s tennis wins 30th Ivy League championship title

Michelle Wu to Speak at Class Day FAS Launches Strategic Initiative

By VIVI E. LU and LEAH J. TEICHHOLTZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 will address Harvard College’s Class of 2022 at this year’s Class Day on May 25, the University announced Wednesday.

Wu, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, was elected mayor of Boston last fall, making her the first woman and person of color to be elected as the city’s mayor.

In 2013, she made history after becoming the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the Boston City Council.

Wu said in a press release that she was “deeply honored” to speak at this year’s Class Day ceremony.

“I’m deeply honored to join this year’s graduating seniors for Class Day, returning to campus with fond memories and fresh excitement,” Wu said. “It’s an inspiration to see the activism and accomplishment represented across this class, and I look forward to cheering their leadership for years to come.”

As city councilor, Wu passed legislation for paid parental leave, housing stability, and

workers’ rights. Wu also outlined a Green New Deal for Boston, a staple of her platform for mayor.

As a student at the College, Wu concentrated in Economics and lived in Currier House.

Outside of her studies, she sang soprano in the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and led the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Chinatown Citizenship Program, which provides support and classes for immigrants in Chinatown with the naturalization process.

Wu also attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2012, and has served on the Senior Advisory Committee of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics since 2019.

The College’s Senior Class Committee, composed of senior class marshals, annually selects a Class Day speaker to address the graduating class. Professional basketball player Jeremy Lin ’10 addressed the Class of 2021 virtually last year.

Second marshal and speaker selection committee co-chair Ruth H. M. Jaensubhakij ’22 described Wu as an “inspiring

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By ARIEL H. KIM and MEIMEI XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Earlier this month, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences launched a three-year strategic planning initiative to identify resources needed for “long-term excellence” in graduate education, faculty support and development, and academic divisions.

The strategic planning process draws from numerous planning efforts across the FAS and will include four academic steering committees and two administrative initiatives on budgeting and technology usage, according to an FAS webpage launched in early April.

The plan extends from the work of the FAS Study Group — a faculty group convened by FAS Dean Claudine Gay in November 2020 to examine the school’s “financial sustainability, organizational flexibility, and institutional resilience,” per a November 2021 statement from Gay. The initiative also builds on ­

Michelle Wu ’07 is the first woman and person of color to be elected mayor of Boston. COURTESY OF BOSTON MAYOR’S OFFICE

group conversations hosted by the FAS for faculty to discuss the future of the school. The resulting vision statement for the strategic planning process calls for a “strong, intellectually vibrant, creative FAS.” Four steering committees will lead the academic strategic planning efforts — one for each of the Divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Studies, one for faculty support and development, and one for graduate education and admissions.

The committees are comprised primarily of faculty, along with several staff members and students.

The Division of Science will hold similar planning conversations within existing faculty structures, including its department chairs and divisional committees.

In an interview with The Crimson earlier this month, Gay said the committees are in the beginning stages of their work.

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Harvard Issues City to Expand Guaranteed Income Program First Green Bonds

By ELIAS J. SCHISGALL

By DEKYI T. TSOTSONG and ERIC YAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard issued its first-ever green bonds — debt instruments that align with international sustainability standards — earlier this month.

The $250 million bonds will finance and refinance projects including Harvard’s newly-constructed Science and Engineering Complex, estimated to cost around $1 billion, along with the ongoing renewal of Adams House and renovation of Soldiers Field Park, which will cost at least $600 million combined.

The borrowing marks the first time an outside firm has verified the University’s compliance with the 2021 Green Bond Principles, a global framework that encourages environmental sustainability and development in debt capital markets.

The principles, set by the International Capital Market Association, “outline best practices when issuing bonds serving social and/or environmental ­

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purposes through global guidelines and recommendations that promote transparency and disclosure, thereby underpinning the integrity of the market,” according to ICMA’s website.

Sustainable measures for capital projects could include renewable energy, green equipment, energy-efficient transportation systems, and the usage of environmentally-friendly building materials.

The 544,000-square-foot SEC, which opened in fall 2021, received two environmental distinctions: the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum status — the highest distinction offered by LEED — and the Living Building Challenge Petal certification. To attain Petal certification, the SEC was monitored for a year and had to pass three sustainability performance areas, or “petals.”

University spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote that the borrowing is in line with Harvard’s own sustainability goals.

“The purpose of the bond

The City of Cambridge will spend nearly $22 million of federal funding on direct payments to low-income Cambridge families, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui announced Wednesday.

The money — allocated to Cambridge under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 — will go toward expanding Cambridge Recurring Income for Success and Empowerment, or RISE, a guaranteed income pilot program championed by Siddiqui in her first term. This $22 million-dollar expansion will make RISE the second-largest direct income program of any city in the country, behind the $38-million BIG: LEAP basic income program in Los Angeles.

Siddiqui announced the program in the “State of the City Address,” broadcast virtually Wednesday afternoon.

“Particularly in light of the ongoing effects of the pandemic, which we know disproportionately affect low-income

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Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui’s office can be found in Cambridge City Hall, located at 795 Massachusetts Avenue. CORY K. GORCZYCKI —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

College Students in 11 Houses Will Be Assigned to Overflow Housing

By CHRISTINE MUI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A ll but one of Harvard College’s 12 upperclassman houses will place students in overflow housing next year thanks to the oversized Class of 2025.

Leverett House, the largest house at the College, is the only one that will not have to place upperclassmen into alternate buildings due to space constraints.

“Given the larger College population anticipated for Fall 2022 (due both to the large sophomore class, and the impact of students who took leaves of absence during the pandemic), the College has adjusted the housing arrangements so that we can continue to house as many students as possible,” Associate Dean of Students Lauren E. Brandt wrote in an email.

Some students assigned to houses located in the Radcliffe Quadrangle — Currier, ­

The Cronkhite Center is located at 84 Brattle St. and will be home to students from the Radcliffe Quadrangle.

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Cabot, and Pforzheimer — will be placed in overflow housing at the Cronkhite Center, a former graduate student dormitory that was previously used for Covid-19 isolation.

“Cronkhite will be a miniQuad next year,” Currier House Administrator Alana Brissette wrote in an email on March 27.

It is unclear where Quad students who live in Cronkhite will be assigned to eat. Brissette wrote that Currier students living in Cronkhite will keep their mailboxes in the Quad, but that information about dining locations is not yet available. The center has common kitchens on each floor.

“We do not have information about whether or not dining will be available in Cronkhite next year and this is a decision that will not be made at the House level,” Brissette added in a follow-up email on April 19.

Cronkhite is located on Brattle St., next to the Harvard Ad-

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missions offices.

Pfoho will also continue to house students in the Jordans, apartment-style halls located behind Cabot House and not connected to Pfoho’s main complex. Overflow dorms currently used to house freshmen — the Inn at Harvard, the Prescotts, and 10 DeWolfe St. — will become additional spaces for some of the River Houses this coming school year.

Next fall will be the first time in recent years that several houses — including Eliot, Mather, Currier, and Cabot — will have to place students in overflow housing. Eliot House will house students in apartment-style overflow housing located at 22-24 Prescott St., House Administrator Susan G. Weltman wrote in an email last month.

Mather House — normally renowned for its guarantee that

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HARVARD TODAY

For Lunch Chicken with Onions Fresh-Catch Atlantic in Clam Fry Vegan Tagine

For Dinner Mesquite Rotisserie Chicken Shrimp and Sausage Etouffee Vegan Sauteed Lentils

TODAY’S EVENTS Finals Fest MAC Lawn, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

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The Center for Wellness and Health Promotion is throwing a celebration for the end of classes! There will be various free food trucks, games, and photo booths to end the semester with fun.

Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Capital During UN Visit

On Thursday night, Russia attacked Kyiv with cruise missile strikes, injuring several people. The attack occurred while UN secretary general Antonio Guterres was visiting the city and meeting with Ukranian officials and just hours after President Biden requested Congress provide additional aid to Ukraine war efforts.

Exploring Black Feminist Epistemology Fong Auditorium, 3 p.m.

Fauci Says U.S. is Leaving “Pandemic Phase”

Black Feminist Philosophers Kristie Dotson and Ayanna Spencer will be discussing Black feminist epistemology’s overlap with politics.

This event will take place in the Fong Auditorium but will also offer a hybrid option!

Flowers bloom in the garden of Adolphus Busch Hall on a sunny Thursday.

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AROUND THE IVIES YALE: Hundreds Rally for Yale to Recognize Graduate Student Union —THE YALE DAILY

Finding Elle Woods: An Asian American Story Plaza Tent, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

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CORNELL: Cornell Professors Call for ‘Fossil Free’ Research Funding —THE CORNELL DAILY SUN

BROWN: Brown Accepts 13 Ukrainian Students to Class of 2026 —THE BROWN DAILY

Amazon Reports Almost $4 Billion Loss in First Quarter of 2022

After a disappointing first quarter, Amazon stocks plunged 10 percent, totaling about $4 billion in losses. The company attributes this drop largely to a $7.6 billion loss on its investment in Rivian Automotive, an electric automaker.

Amazon stocks continue to face challenges from the pandemic and the subsequent war in Ukraine.

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PENN: ‘Overlooked, Ignored’: Black Du Bois Residents Frustrated with Demographics, Living Conditions

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Harvard College Student Arts Project re-imagines famous Harvard character Elle Woods in various musical performances and commentary. The event is free, and all are welcome!

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony S. Fauci announced Tuesday that the U.S. had entered a “control” stage of the pandemic, with lower hospitalization and death levels. Noting the coronavirus will likely never be eradicated, Fauci said the U.S. has entered a new phase of an endemic.

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Protestor Urge Dairy Firm Boycott

Following allegations that the H.A. Hovey Corporation — Harvard’s then primary supplier of dairy products — engaged in union busting, over 30 students and striking employees took to the picket lines. According to the University, it had no plans of severing ties with Hovey, in spite of the allegations.

April 29, 1983

Selective Admissions

According to an informal survey conducted by Amherst College students, admissions for the Harvard Class of 1980 were the most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 19 percent. Amherst held the second April 29, 1976

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CLASS DAY FROM PAGE 1

FAS FROM PAGE 1

Wu to Speak at 2022 Class Day

FAS Launches Planning Initiative

leader” and “fierce defender of equity, inclusion, and opportunity.”

“Mayor Wu has worked tirelessly for a Boston that supports everyone and that will continue to be a model of excellence for the world,” Jaensubhakij said in the press release. “As we graduate, we are fortunate to be able to learn from her experiences and her leadership, especially at a time when community engagement is more

important than ever.”

After two years of virtual festivities, this year marks the first in-person Class Day since 2019.

The University-wide graduation ceremony, featuring remarks from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, will take place the following day on May 26. vivi.lu@thecrimson.com leah.teichholtz@thecrimson.com

“Those committees are assembled, and they’ve been charged and already, honestly, hard at work, mainly doing the information-gathering and taking the pulse of the community on the various issues,” she said.

In addition to academics, the FAS is launching two initiatives related to budgeting and technological support. Scott A. Jordan, the FAS dean for administration and finance, will lead five different working groups dedicated to “reimagine budgeting.” According to the FAS webpage, the groups will tackle five topic areas — workforce

planning, space and capital planning, multi-year planning, annual budgeting, and reporting and accountability measures — and draft recommendations for the fiscal year 2024 budget. The working groups will launch their work in the next several weeks and will continue working through summer and fall FAS Chief Information Officer Klara Jelinkova, who is also the vice president and university chief information officer, will lead a technology landscape study that will be overseen by a n FAS steering committee. The

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study will assess and make recommendations on technology usage within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Kristie T. La ’13, a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art & Architecture who serves as the graduate student representative on the arts and humanities steering committee, said the committee is still “early in the process” of their work.

“How can we organize the arts and humanities so that it can respond to the present and also be flexible enough for the future?” she said. “Many of these departments were creat-

ed a really long time ago, with a really different student body, a very different history, a very different university overall, and obviously a completely different world.”

For the working group on graduate admissions and education, the goals include recommending changes that address the changing academic job market and stipend funding sources, per Graduate School of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Ann Hall. ariel.kim@thecrimson.com meimei.xu@thecrimson.com

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Cambridge Expands Payment Program Univ. Issues Bonds for Campus Projects residents and residents of color, this historic allocation will help put families on a path to economic stability,” Siddiqui said.

Last September, Cambridge RISE — a partnership with the city, the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, and the national organization Mayors for a Guaranteed Income — began sending monthly $500 payments to 130 randomly selected low-income Cambridge households for 18 months. Under the expanded program, all families in Cambridge with incomes below twice the federal ­

poverty level will be eligible for 18 months of $500 payments. In a Thursday interview, Siddiqui said that roughly 2,300 families will qualify.

“There’s been a big desire to move forward on expanding this type of support,” Siddiqui said in the interview. “I think families are looking for relief.”

This expansion also marks the single largest allocation of Cambridge’s ARPA funds to date. Under the federal law — signed by President Joe Biden in March 2021 — Cambridge was awarded $88 million in Covid-19

relief. With this new allocation, the city will have roughly $33 million of ARPA funds remaining, which it plans to distribute among community organizations and nonprofits. Vice Mayor Alanna M. Mallon said in an interview she hopes other municipalities across the country will follow Cambridge’s lead in using ARPA funds to implement guaranteed income programs.

“Every single municipality across the country got these American Rescue Plan Act dollars, and they can allocate them pretty much however they

Developers Propose New Allston Yards Affordable Housing Project

By YUSUF S. MIAN and CHARLOTTE P. RITZ-JACK CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The developers behind a proposed project at 52 Everett St. in Allston pitched their plans to build a new housing project at meetings hosted by the Boston Planning and Development Agency over the last two weeks.

The proposed development would be a part of the Allston Yards project, which will create a new neighborhood center in Allston. The project plans to create new housing, offices, and spaces for restaurants and businesses.

The 52 Everett St. development would be located alongside four buildings approved by the BPDA in December 2019 at 60 Everett St. that are still under construction. In March, the BPDA approved a different building project for Allston Yards located at 90 Braintree St. that will include rental residential units and artist live-work spaces. The 52 Everett St. project, which is set to begin next spring, will take roughly 24 months to complete. ­

David P. Manfredi, an architect for the project, lauded the sustainability of the proposed building.

“We have a very highly insulated and very sustainable building envelope designed for reduced energy consumption,” Manfredi said.

Still, some residents said they were concerned about the proposal. Brighton resident Eileen K. Houben said she was concerned about the project’s impact on the electrical grid.

“We have lots of blackouts, at least in my neighborhood,” Houben said. “I was wondering what percentage of your power is going to be generated by you and not dependent on the grid.”

Other residents expressed support for the project and the role it would play in developing the Allston-Brighton area.

Owen Palmatier, a Brighton resident, voiced support for the project.

“I think this is a good project for us. I’m a Brighton resident and I’m also a Local 12 member,” he said, referring to the Boston plumbers and gasfitters union. “I think this would be good for the community — it

would bring in a lot of money to the community.”

Local resident Paula Alexander lauded the project’s design.

“It’s an attractive looking building, I think, compared to some of the others in the area,” she said.

Housing prices in Allston have soared in recent years. The average home went up 43 percent between 2011 and 2019, and the median rent went up 36 percent, according to data compiled by the Boston Department of Neighborhood Development.

At the meeting, the developers discussed their efforts to promote affordable housing in the neighborhood.

“We’re accelerating our Allston Yards affordable commitment and that brings forward more affordable homeownership units, which is something that the neighborhood has been really vocal about and it’s important to the community,” said Mark Jackson, a project manager from New England Development, one of the development agencies behind the proposal. yusuf.mian@thecrimson.com charlotte.ritz-jack@thecrimson.com

Three Seniors Honored with Women’s Leadership Award

By DARLEY A. C. BOIT CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

The Harvard College Women’s Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Women’s Leadership Awards, expanding the number of recipients from one to three graduating seniors.

Fariba Mahmud ’22, Oluremi F. Owoseni ’22, and Ruth H. Jaensubhakij ’22 were named this year’s recipients, along with Yanting Teng, a graduate student who received the adjacent Women in STEM Mentor of the Year Award. The Women’s Center hosted a celebratory event for the winners in Winthrop on April 22.

Established in 1997, the WLA celebrates female leadership on campus and has historically been awarded to a single senior student — until this year.

Ananda M. Birungi ’24, one of the Women’s Center interns, helped push for the change from one winner to three.

“We don’t want to send out this idea that leadership is an individual thing or there’s one leader in our community,” Birungi said.

Birungi added the Center aimed to include a diverse set of student leaders from across campus.

Mahmud, a joint centrator in History and Literature and Classics, formerly interned at the Women’s Center and is former co-president of the Harvard South Asian Association.

Owoseni, a Psychology concentrator, has worked closely with the Phillips Brooks House Association. Jaensubhakij, a Social Studies concentrator, spends most of her free time with the First-Year International Program and Peer Advising Fellows Program.

All three winners said they hope to foster a sense of belonging among students in their respective student organizations.

“What I devote my time around has always been around building community — whether that be in the South Asian community on campus, whether that be House committee, or whether that be for women and gender minorities on campus,” Mahmud said.

Owoseni said she plans to stay involved with PBHA after graduation, inviting future student leaders to call on her “at any point.”

“No matter what I move on to after this, I will always want to give back,” she said. “The way that PBHA does foster that community of love, people will

keep coming back to it even after we graduate.”

Jaensubhakij praised Harvard’s First-year International Program and the College’s Peer Advising Fellow program for providing equitable paths to leadership for all members, regardless of gender.

“I think that’s not true in every organization at Harvard, in every space,” she said. “So I feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to step into these leadership positions and do what I’ve been able to do without necessarily facing particular setbacks because of my gender.”

Owoseni stressed the importance of “leading with love” and approaching leadership roles with “positivity and compassion and grace.”

“It can be done: you can just always have grace and always be positive, even when times get hard,” she said.

All three women said they are proud of the impact they have achieved on campus.

“If my leadership or community building has been able to even impact one person to feel more included or to feel more at home on this campus, I would feel so honored,” said Mahmud. darley.boit@thecrimson.com

like, as long as they fall within the ARPA guidelines,” Mallon said. “The gauntlet has been thrown.”

In the Wednesday address, Siddiqui echoed similar sentiments.

“This is the exact type of initiative that makes us all proud of Cambridge: a unique, forward-thinking anti-poverty program that will hopefully serve as an example to cities everywhere,” she said in the speech.

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offering includes support for maintenance and investment in Harvard’s physical campus, including creating capacity for initiatives related to Harvard’s Climate Action Plan,” he wrote.

Harvard’s climate action plan includes targets for campus operations to be fossil-fuel neutral by 2026 and fossil-fuel free by 2050.

Harvard, however, has yet to release updated environmental targets after its first sustain­

ability plan, announced in 2014, lapsed last year.

The tax-exempt, 10-year bonds were verified by Kestrel Verifiers — a company that conducts external reviews for public finance projects — on April 6 and subsequently issued on April 20.

The bonds will close on May 17, 2022. dekyi.tsotsong@thecrimson.com eric.yan@thecrimson.com

HMS Researchers Develop Genetic Risk Scores for Frequent Diseases

By KENNETH C. MURRAY and JOHN N. PEÑA CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals have developed genetic risk scores — which have the potential to aid screening and prevention in high-risk patients — for six common diseases and applied them clinically.

The study, published in Nature Medicine on April 18, was co-led by Harvard Medical School professors Jason L. Vassy and Matthew S. Lebo, and included researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.

The researchers analyzed the genomes of thousands of patients and developed polygenic risk scores, which use individual genes to predict the likelihood of a patient developing a given disease. The methodology has widespread applications in detecting and preventing diseases, including common ones like atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, ­

and colorectal cancer — the focus of the team’s study.

Vassy said polygenic risk scores could allow physicians to target the highest-risk patients for prevention and screening.

“I would say in the next 10 years, at least some polygenic risk scores of some shape and form will be regularly used,” he said.

Peter Kraft, a Harvard School of Public Health epidemiology professor and co-author, said the technique had previously been demonstrated in a research setting but was difficult to apply clinically.

“There’s no guarantee that what we saw in our research studies is going to work in a pre-living human population,” he said.

Kraft said the team successfully proved the validity of their methods in a clinical setting, but still faced the challenge of helping physicians understand and implement polygenic risk scores in patient care “Primary care doctors in particular are just swamped these days — Covid notwithstanding — so they’re not going to take a new genetics class or

a new curriculum on polygenic risk scores,” Vassy said. “We wanted to be able to deliver the intervention in this research study in a very, very time-conscious way.”

Vassy said the use of polygenic risk scores in clinics also raises ethical concerns.

“The body of cohort studies in the world consists predominantly of European ancestry individuals, so these polygenic risk scores have been developed in those individuals,” Vassy said. “When you look at porting them over to cohort studies that consist of more diverse ancestry individuals, they don’t perform as well.”

Anna C. F. Lewis, a research associate at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics who co-authored the study, said while variance in the efficacy of polygenic risk scores is an “ethical problem,” the methodology should still be tested.

“The right thing to be doing is to test them and to measure how many of these concerns are in fact realized,” she said.

Kraft said enrolling more genetically diverse cohorts is the next step.

HOUSING FROM PAGE 1

Nearly All Upperclassman Houses to Rely on Overflow Housing Next Fall all students will get a single — will house roughly 70 students in suites with two double bedrooms at 10 DeWolfe St., a former apartment building.

“Mather normally has 400 students, but the large rising sophomore class means that Mather will have additional students for the next three years,” Mather Resident Dean Luke Leafgreen wrote to residents on April 1. “Combining Mather proper and Mather overflow, Mather House will have bed space for 461 students, and every space is expected to be filled.”

Mather originally intended to place mostly rising juniors and seniors in DeWolfe, but reversed course after backlash from students.

“The students who wrote expressed the sadness they felt at this news, as well a sense of un-

fairness,” Leafgreen said in an April 3 email. “It might feel unfair, when rising juniors have borne other impacts from the pandemic and may not have contributed to the housing shortage by taking a leave of absence or deferred enrollment along the way.”

For years, the DeWolfe apartments have acted as overflow housing for upperclassman students in various river houses. This year, students in Quincy, Leverett, Dunster, and Kirkland lived there. Starting in the fall, it will be home to some Quincy, Dunster, and Mather residents. In 2012, the College launched its $1 billion House Renewal project to phase out the use of DeWolfe St. units as overflow housing, allowing all undergraduates to live in their affiliated houses. Three years later, Harvard College

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Dean Rakesh Khurana said the schools planned to phase students out of DeWolfe as house renewal progressed.

Adams House is currently under renovation while Winthrop, Lowell, and Dunster were previously overhauled.

Parts of Leverett and Quincy were also renewed, but students from both of those houses lived in DeWolfe this year. In the coming school year, Winthrop House will use Fairfax Hall as overflow housing. A portion of Lowell House students will live in Ridgley Hall.

“The College will be continuing to evaluate our housing needs and demands in the years to come and making adjustments accordingly, in tandem with the ongoing House Renewal projects,” Brandt wrote. christine.mui @thecrimson.com

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In Support of BDS and a Free Palestine We are proud to finally offer our support for Palestinian liberation and BDS

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hen oppression strikes anywhere in the world, resistance movements reverberate globally. The desire for rightful justice spreads, like wildfire, moving us to act, to speak, to write, and right our past wrongs.

Over the past year, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has strived to do just that. Amid escalating tensions between Israel and Palestine, PSC has hosted informational programming, organized weekly demonstrations of support through “Keffiyeh Thursdays,” and even installed a colorful, multi-panel “Wall of Resistance” in favor of Palestinian freedom and sovereignty. In at least one regard, PSC’s spirited activism has proven successful: It has forced our campus — and our editorial board — to once again wrestle with what both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called Israel’s “crimes against humanity” in the region.

We first and foremost wish to extend our sincere support to those who have been and continue to be subject to violence in occupied Palestine, as well as to any and all civilians affected by the region’s bellicosity. We are not sure how these words will reach you, or whether they’ll do so at all. But our stance isn’t rooted in proximity or convenience, but rather in foundational principles we must uphold — even if (or perhaps especially when) it proves difficult.

This editorial board is broadly and proudly supportive of PSC’s mission and activism, including its recent art display.

The admittedly controversial panels dare the viewer to contend with well-established, if rarely stated, facts. They direct our eyes towards the property and land confiscations, citizenship denials, movement restrictions, and unlawful killings that victimize Palestinians day in and day out. Art is a potent form of resistance, and we are humbled by our peers’ passion and skill.

In the wake of accusations suggesting otherwise, we feel the need to assert that support for Palestinian liberation is not antisemitic. We unambiguously oppose and condemn antisemitism in every and all forms, including those times when it shows up on the fringes of otherwise worthwhile movements. Jewish people — like every people, including Palestinians — deserve nothing but life, peace, and security.

Nothing about PSC’s Wall of Resistance denies that. While members of

our campus might well find its messages provocative, or disagree with their philosophical outlook, nothing about them is, in our view, worthy of that delegitimizing label. We have a certain community-wide tendency to dismiss opposing views as inherently offensive and unworthy, straw-manning legitimate arguments and obfuscating difficult but necessary discussions. Yet civil discourse and debate, even when trying, are fundamental steps towards a better reality.

Israel remains America’s favorite first amendment blindspot. Companies that choose to boycott the Jewish state, or otherwise support the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement face legal repercussions in at least 26 states. Even for journalists, openly condemning the state’s policies poses an objective professional risk. Only last year, the Associated Press prompted outcry after firing a news editor over college-age tweets critical of Israel.

The controversial decision followed a long-established pattern: Dare question Israel’s policies or endorse Palestinian freedom and you will be shunned from the newsroom, past accomplishments or legitimate arguments be damned. For college students like ourselves, speaking bluntly about events in the region can prompt online harassment or even land you on a blacklist.

BDS remains a blunt approach. But the weight of this moment demands this step.

What this immense opposition to student activists and journalists makes clear is the overwhelming power imbalance that defines and constricts the ongoing debate. This stark power differential extends far beyond the arena of free speech, shifting from rhetorical to lethal on the ground in Palestine, where Israeli soldiers have killed nearly 50 Palestinians, including eight children, this year alone. As an editorial board, we are acutely aware of the privilege we hold in having an institutional, effectively anonymous byline.

Even on this campus, many of our brave peers advocating for Palestinian liberation can be found on watchlists tacitly and shamefully linking them to terrorism. These twin factors — the extraordinary abuses and our privileged

ability to speak to them and face comparatively less unjustified retribution — compel us to take a stand. Palestinians, in our board’s view, deserve dignity and freedom. We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means to achieving that goal.

In the past, our board was skeptical of the movement (if not, generally speaking, of its goals), arguing that BDS as a whole did not “get at the nuances and particularities of the Israel-Palestine conflict.” We regret and reject that view.

It is our categorical imperative to side with and empower the vulnerable and oppressed. We can’t nuance away Palestinian’s violent reality, nor can we let our desire for a perfect, imaginary tool undermine a living, breathing movement of such great promise.

Two decades ago, we wrote that divestment was a “blunt tool” that affected all citizens of the target nation equally and should be used sparingly. Yet the tactics embodied by BDS have a historical track record; they helped win the liberation of Black South Africans from Apartheid, and have the potential to do the same for Palestinians today. Israel’s current policy pushes Palestinians towards indefinite statelessness, combining ethnonationalist legislation and a continued assault on the sovereignty of the West Bank through illegal settlements that difficults the prospect of a two-state solution; it merits an assertive and unflinching international response.

The arguments made against BDS could have been and indeed were once made against South Africa, and we are no longer inclined to police the demands of a people yearning to breathe free.

We do not take this decision lightly.

BDS remains a blunt approach, one with the potential to backfire or prompt collateral damage in the form of economic hurt. But the weight of this moment — of Israel’s human rights and international law violations and of Palestine’s cry for freedom — demands this step.

As a board, we are proud to finally offer our unqualified support for Palestinian liberation and in support of BDS — and we call on everyone to do the same.

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.

OP-ED

It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Apartheid’

By SAM P. N. LIBENSON

L

ast week, as part of its annual Israeli Apartheid Week, The Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee mounted an artistic display between Thayer Hall and the Science Center Plaza promoting awareness of the immense suffering that Palestinians experience under Israel’s military occupation. Beneath the 12 paintings ran the messages “Free Palestine” and “Boycott, Divest, Sanction,” prompting the resurgence of a heated conversation about Zionism and antisemitism on college campuses.

Although the IAW display is no longer up, the same broadly-sweeping, aggressive talking points that characterize this conversation still echo around campus. Pro-Palestinian activists construct Israel as a malicious villain whose sole mission is to keep Palestinians in squalor, pulling out politically-loaded words like “genocide” and “Apartheid” from their inventory. Those quick to rush to Israel’s defense proclaim it as “the only true democracy in the Middle East” and immediately resort to disparaging the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the condescending subtext of which regards the Palestinian people as unfit to govern themselves. Yet it is not only the extremes that continue, year after year, to use the same talking points well after their potential to prompt productive dialogue has been exhausted. I tire, too, of having to hear the more “moderate” response that one can “criticize the Israeli government without rejecting the state itself.”

Beyond carelessly disregarding the not-so-clear distinction between a state — especially one that purports to be a democracy — and its government, the issues in Israel run far deeper than the government that presently happens to be in power. The recent history of the modern state of Israel has, irrespective of its government, been inextricably linked with the oppression of the Palestinian people. Though this is not necessarily inherent to the abstract notion of the state itself, such subjugation has characterized the Israeli state in reality. Since 1967, the West Bank has been under military occupation, a legal status that grants

Israel functional control over the area while circumventing the obligation to grant Palestinians Israeli citizenship and the rights and privileges this designation would afford. After 50-plus years, I question whether “occupation,” a word which suggests transience, is even apt.

Accordingly, I don’t find it unreasonable that activists — or anyone concerned with justice, for that matter — would be morally outraged by the situation in Palestine. And I certainly don’t find it unreasonable to direct that outrage at something more fundamental than “the Israeli government.”

But our language matters — both out of respect for all parties involved and for the credibility of the person or organization expressing a political message. The way we go about discussing sensitive political topics, no matter the emotional fire they may stir up, therefore deserves careful scrutiny.

With conversations that hit close to home, the words we use really do matter.

The Palestine Solidarity Committee’s display in the Yard says, “Zionism is racism, settler colonialism, white supremacy, and apartheid.” Putting aside the fact that “Zionism” is such a poorly-defined term that I’m not sure I really know what it even refers to anymore, it is these last two accusations that bother me most. To accuse Israel of white supremacy is to ignore over half of the Israeli population of Mizrahi, Ethiopian, and mixed Jews for whom “white” remains a mischaracterization. It also ignores the fact that, until recently, whiteness was a category that all Jews were decidedly excluded from.

I am Jewish, and given the shifting nature of whiteness, I acknowledge that I am also white, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t make me at all uncomfortable for accusations of white supremacy to be levied at Jews both alike and unalike me, whose shared history as victims of genocidal white supremacy remains fresh in our collective memory.

To accuse Israel of “Apartheid” in a

colloquial sense — although recognizing that the term does have a technical definition under international law — is really to accuse Israel of perpetrating the same injustices of Apartheid South Africa. I understand that calling Israel an Apartheid state is meant to use the unambiguous injustice of South Africa as a frame of reference to convince people of egregious Israeli injustices and is not meant to posit a precise, one-to-one correspondence between Israel and South Africa.

But Apartheid South Africa was a state where miscegenation was illegal and the law, which was directly derived from eugenics, regarded people of color as inferior explicitly and exclusively by virtue of their race.

No law in Israel prohibits sex across racial lines, and though terrible discrimination absolutely exists in the state, it is not founded in racist notions of biological superiority. These are, I think, crucial distinctions to be made, lest we view Israel through a lens that incorrectly asseses the country’s history, making concepts associated with Apartheid seem more applicable than they really are.

Emotionally charged and inflammatory language like this succeeds in, justifiably, elevating the perceptual stakes of the issue at hand, but it conceals something important along the way: Something doesn’t have to be white supremacy or Apartheid for it to be bad. And what is happening in Israel, what has been happening in Israel for over 50 years, is really, really bad.

Using phrases like “white supremacy” and “Apartheid,” however, cheapen the semantic weight these words legitimately hold and unfortunately misrepresent the unique complexities and conditions of today’s conflict.

Aside from sacrificing honesty for the sake of provocation, these words alienate students who, like me, are genuinely upset about and disillusioned by Israel’s decades-long disenfranchisement, displacement, and oppression of the Palestinian people. I hate to get caught up in semantics, but with conversations that hit close to home, the words we use really do matter.

—Sam P. N. Libenson ’25 lives in Weld Hall.

What’s Nostalgia Hiding?

Nour L. Khachemoune NOSTALGIA: WHAT’S IT HIDING?

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hy does nostalgia for childhood, or “the good old days” permeate so much of popular culture? Was it inherently a better time of life, or are we yearning for any deviation from our seemingly inescapable routine?

Many forms of children’s media are described as timeless classics, much more so than the media adults consume.

There is no real adult analogue to the friendly cartoon faces that most of us watched and learned from every day in our youth and the deep memories of them that persist today.

The lack of overarching plot displayed by children’s shows make them the perfect installation anytime, anywhere. There is never a need to catch up with what “Curious George” was up to last week before diving into a new episode. Conveniently, this means that the media can be reused for years, with generations of children.

From the fantastical settings of many children’s shows to the deliberately vague settings of the likes of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” these narratives are decoupled from time passing in the real world.

Some aspects of the media are problematic at first glance. A character who speaks in an unnecessarily heavy accent and promotes racial stereotypes, for example, is low-hanging fruit for criticism.

We must reframe the fabric of our society to move away from the idealization of hard labor for profit, restrictive diets, stifled kindergartners, and more But what about the deeper messages that are so ingrained in our society that we cannot even notice them?

The way that Thomas cheerfully answers Sir Topham Hatt’s every beck and call and the way that Greg Heffley’s father must sneak into the garage to snack, restricting his natural diet, are not conscious decisions.

In our society, no one bats an eye at this behavior. The creators of these works subconsciously include these tendencies because they are simply what people do.

Harmful nuances baked into the foundations of series that began decades ago also persist without challenge in a way that is not seen in much of adult media.

The idealization of capitalist labor baked into “Nancy Drew” and “Thomas and Friends” reflects the capitalist boom that occurred in the west in the 1930s and 40s as the work-centric structure of life developed rapidly. As time has passed, we have moved away from a world where this is accepted by all and begun to question it, yet long-lasting children’s media has ideas of the past entrenched within it.

In adult life, some of the more ridiculous notions of children’s media may be challenged, but before new ways of thinking can be passed on to younger generations, they are exposed to the same messages that haven’t faltered in long-lasting media.

To resist the needling messages hidden in children’s media, we must reframe the way we think about our world from every angle.

When messaging is so interwoven with the normal-seeming activity of lifelike characters, to change these aspects would be to change the characters themselves.

Junie B. Jones wouldn’t be herself without constantly being reprimanded for her bold callouts. We can’t easily take out aspects of capitalism from “Thomas and Friends,” because the trains’ worldview is built upon them — just like our society. Changing the subliminal messaging in these shows would require changing the societal backgrounds that lead to them.

There is no need to cancel certain shows for their messaging — if colonial American messages aren’t delivered by a spunky trio of Earthlings like in “Cyberchase,” casual statements made by teachers in a classroom will achieve the same end eventually.

Instead, we must reframe the fabric of our society to move away from the idealization of hard labor for profit, restrictive diets, stifled kindergartners, and more. In much of children’s media, the real villain does not have as recognizable a form as The Hacker from “Cyberchase” and his Grim Wreaker. The true villain is the structure of our society itself which leaves fingerprints of the messages it gives children in their media.

Children’s media does not contain more insidious messages than the rest of our society.

They are simply easier to note when delivered by smiling cartoons. To resist the needling messages hidden in children’s media, we must reframe the way we think about our world from every angle.

Maybe then, despite what Sir Topham Hatt might say, we would actually be “useful engines.”

—Nour L. Khachemoune ’22-’23 is a joint concentrator in Chemistry and Anthropology in Dunster House. Her column “Nostalgia: What’s it Hiding?” appears on alternate Thursdays.

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Undefeated, Harvard Wins 30th Ivy League Title

By CAROLINE GAGE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

No. 14 Harvard secured its 30th Ivy League title in an impressive 4-0 victory over Yale on Sunday, Apr. 24.

The sweep concluded the Crimson’s undefeated conference record for the season and marks their first outright win since 2008.

“We came out and played really good tennis, and I’m really, really proud of what we’ve been able to achieve,” said senior captain Brian Shi, who played in the #2 position.

Doubles proved to be a deciding factor in the match, with Harvard winning two of three matches in tiebreakers to get the doubles point. At one point, Yale was leading on all three courts, but after seeing the loss on Court 2, the Crimson dug deeper to get the win. The duo of Shi and Milavsky on Court 1 defeated Cody Lin and Renaud Lefevre, 7-6 (7-4), taking it all the way to a tiebreaker. Two courts down, Steven Sun and Henry von der Schulenburg secured a similarly thrilling win over Michael Sun and Luke Neal, 7-6 (7-3).

“We [Shi and Milavsky] were also down early, but I knew once we got one break back the mo­

mentum was gonna be on our side,” Shi recalled after the match. “When a crowd is out there I think it’s really kind of impossible to not bring the energy, so honestly I think [the crowd’s energy] really kept us in the doubles match.”

Doubles strategy has been a focus of the coaching team throughout the season, and seeing as the Crimson took the doubles point in every conference match, the tactics are working.

The Scott Mead ’77 Head Coach for men’s tennis, Andrew Rueb ’95, has worked extensively with the team on doubles plays throughout the season.

“A point margin going into singles seems small, but it’s actually a big advantage, and I think that also puts a lot of pressure on Yale to be perfect,” Rueb explained.

The pressure worked: Yale was unable to win a single match against Harvard in singles play. Ronan Jachuck made quick work of his match on court 4, beating Aidan Reilly 6-0, 6-2. Next to finish was Steven Sun, whose competition against Walker Oberg resulted in a similarly decisive 6-2, 6-1 win.

“It takes a lot to win four singles matches against us,” Coach Rueb said. “It’s not only a tal-

ented team, but it’s also a really gritty team, and that’s what’s been separating this year from some others.”

After the victories on Courts 4 and 5, the Crimson found itself up 3-0 in the competition, needing just one more point to close it out. It all came down to Shi. “In the back of my mind I was thinking ‘Oh wow, this may come down to me,’” Shi recounted. “Honestly I think in that moment I had a bit of nervous energy, but I tried to keep it one point at a time and just take my time, not get too excited and ahead of myself.”

Shi clinched the final match of the competition, which was also the team’s Senior Day. Shi easily kept his cool to win the final point necessary for the Ivy League title with a perfect 6-4, 6-0 win against Michael Sun. The victory closed out the regular season and highlighted the senior captain’s talents on the court.

“It was only fitting on senior day that Brian should be the one that clinches and gets us over the finish line,” Coach Rueb reflected after the match. “We will so miss Brian and his leadership and his warmth, and just watching him play.”

This sentiment is certainly

echoed by the rest of the team, as evidenced by their support for Shi as he finished up the match. It was an emotional moment for the team, especially for Shi. “It felt great to see all the guys right next to me, especially on that last point. They were standing there, hands over each others’ shoulders; to me it was a really special moment,” the senior captain said. “As soon as we won that point, all of the emotions came out from the entire season.”

While the regular season has ended, there is still work to be done: Harvard will now move on to the NCAA tournament.

Because of their positioning in the top 16, they will host the first two rounds of the competition at home.

“Now we have a full week, 10 days or more, before our first NCAA match, so there’s some time there for us to rebound and make a push for this last half of the season here,” Coach Rueb said.

The NCAA Championships will take place from May 1928. Regional championships, which the Crimson will host in Cambridge, start on Friday, May 6. caroline.gage@thecrimson.com

SERVING LOOKS Harvard secured its first outright Ivy League championship since 2008 this weekend. DYLAN J. GOODMAN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

SOFTBALL

Crimson Defeats Brown Bears in Weekend Series, 2-1

By HANNAH BEBAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

H arvard softball defeated Brown in an overall 2-1 series battle this past weekend in Providence.

The Crimson traveled south to face the Bears in a three game series clash coming off a period of COVID-19 struggles that resulted in a cancellation of its Cornell series the previous weekend.

Standout senior infielder Morgan Melito reflected on coming off of this hard period and the importance of getting back on track as they get deeper into their season.

“We are definitely coming off of a lull in our momentum that we have been gaining throughout the season. This weekend was all about rebuilding and getting back to a better spot,” Melito commented.

Harvard went into Saturday 10-3 in Ivy play, with extra pressure to clinch either first or second in the league to make a postseason run.

The first game of the series, although low scoring, 2-1 in favor of the Crimson, was high in ­

action. Junior catcher Allison Heffley singled to shortstop in the fourth and was brought in by a sophomore infielder Molly Dickerson walk to earn the game’s first point. The Bears would not leave game 1 without a battle.

A solo home run by Laurel Moody in the fifth inning earned Brown their only point of the game as sophomore Anna Reed pitched well, halting any momentum Brown garnered.

Harvard would go on to score in the top of the sixth winning the first game 2-1.

Game two posed more of a challenge as Bears edged out the Crimson 1-0. Harvard had a strong afternoon, out-hitting Brown 8-4, but could not capitalize with runners on base by bringing runners in and getting on the scoreboard.

Harvard reset, rested, and returned for the third and final game of the series on Sunday. First-year Katie Arrambide stepped up to pitch to keep Brown scoreless beyond the third inning, allowing the Crimson to rally from a 3-0 deficit. Harvard showed heart and persevered to win.

Melito did not hesitate to praise her teammates and the effort that the collective put in to come out with a win on Sunday.

“Brianna Jewit came up and had a sac fly to right field. Madi Mays came up and had an RBI. Priyanka Kaul came up and had a game tying RBI up the middle. There were a lot of instances where underclassmen and upperclassmen stepped up in those big moments and pulled through for the team,” said Melito.

Melito achieved no small feat herself coming through with a game winning solo home run in the top of the eighth.

“Going into Sunday, I was really focusing on simplifying my hitting mechanics, and really seeing the ball in,” reflected Melito.

Coming off of a difficult Saturday of play, her homerun relief set the Crimson back on track coming into the final weeks of Ivy play. Coach Jenny Allard praised her team for overcoming hardships not only this season, but throughout the pandemic.

“I am very proud of how hard

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CHARGING HOME Junior second baseman Trina Hoang raced around second base in a victory over Penn in early April. The Crimson maintained its momentum against Brown. DYLAN J. GOODMAN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

the team has worked to come together this year after our prolonged shut down. We have had different players step up at various times and that is the mark of a great team” Allard commented.

The Crimson approaches the end of Ivy league play in strong contention for the title.

Harvard heads to Dartmouth for series play this week, and if it comes out victorious, it is at a minimum guaranteed Ivy

League Co-Champions with Princeotn.

Depending on how other results shake out across the Ivy league, given cancellations, the Crimson might earn an outright Ancient Eight championship.