The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873
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VOLUME CXLIX, NO. 46
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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NEWS PAGE 9
SPORTS PAGE 10
The College must help facilitate interhouse transfers
Affiliates lauded HKS’ Commencement speaker, Moldovan Pres. Maia Sandu
Men’s lacrosse beat Colgate, 7-6, on Saturday for its sixth straight win
Palandjian to Join Corporation By CARA J. CHANG and ISABELLA B. CHO CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, a nonprofit executive and former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, will join the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — in July, the school announced Monday. Palandjian will replace lawyer William F. Lee ’72, who is being term-limited off the board. Penny S. Pritzker ’81 is set to succeed Lee as the Corporation’s senior fellow. Palandjian serves as CEO of Social Finance, an impact investing nonprofit that she founded in 2011. She also serves as director of the Boston Foundation, which partners with donors to support nonprofit organizations, and a trustee of the Surdna Foundation. Palandjian served on the
Board of Overseers — the University’s second-highest governing body — from 2012 and 2018, becoming vice chair of the board’s executive committee. A magna cum laude graduate of the College, Palandjian worked for the consulting giant McKinsey & Company before returning to study at Harvard Business School. “Harvard changed my life,” Palandjian said in a press release Monday. “It has shaped my ideals, instilled a sense of responsibility that guides my work, and given me lasting roots in this community and country. I am deeply honored by the opportunity to join the Corporation and continue my service to an institution that means so much to me.” Lee, a partner at the law firm WilmerHale, praised Palandjian’s leadership in the Monday announcement.
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Journals Retract Ex-Prof.’s Studies Journals have recently retracted eight studies by a former professor at Harvard Medical School. By FELICIA HE and JAMES R. JOLIN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
teenth a paid holiday and establish a Labor Management Committee to address work-related issues. Around 74 percent of union members turned out to vote in the election. The results came despite opposition from some members of the union’s eight-person bargaining committee, which is elected to represent general members in negotiations. Some on the committee called on workers to vote “no,” hoping to get a better offer. Bargaining committee member Arun K. Malik denounced the contract offer as a tactic designed to pit union members against one another by stratifying wages within a tiered framework. He said the proposal to pay higher-level guards more money encouraged them to vote in favor of the deal, without regard for some of their colleagues.
Eight published articles — including two full studies and six abstracts — co-authored by a former Harvard Medical School professor, Jorge G. Arroyo, have been retracted in recent months by the medical journals that published them. Three different journals retracted Arroyo’s research, which was conducted over three years at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an HMS teaching hospital. The retractions came due to noncompliance with an institutional review board. Under federal guidelines, IRBs have the power to approve, modify, or reject study protocols using a group review process. Last month, two journals — Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science and Translational Vision Science & Technology — retracted a total of six abstracts and one full article on which Arroyo was listed as a co-author. Both journals cited “a serious issue related to lack of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for the research procedures.” A third journal — Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology — retracted an additional full study in February. In its retraction notice, the journal’s editorial board wrote that the “retraction has been agreed following confirmation by the corresponding author that the study procedures deviated from the human research ethics approval received for the research.” Arroyo, who formerly served
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Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, pictured outside Harvard’s Loeb House. PHOTO COURTESY STEPHANIE MITCHELL/HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Security Guards Vote to Ratify Contract By SOPHIA C. SCOTT and CLAIRE YUAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
A fter months of impasse, Harvard security guards voted last week to ratify a contract offer from Securitas, which employs around 300 contracted security workers who are stationed across the school. Union members voted 122101 to accept Securitas’ latest offer, ending a prolonged labor dispute that at points pitted workers against the leadership of their own union, 32BJ Service Employees International Union. Guards voted down a previous contract offer earlier this year. The contract — which will run through November 2025 — introduces pay raises for all guards, with higher increases for more senior-level guards. Under the new deal, guards will be able to carry over unused personal days from the previous year. It will also make June
Harvard security workers, represented by the union 32BJ SEIU, voted to approve a new contract offer from Securitas. TRUONG L. NGUYEN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
Faculty to Vote Today on Shopping Week By ARIEL H. KIM and MEIMEI XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
At Tuesday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, Harvard faculty are set to vote on two controversial proposals — one that would allow students to pursue double concentrations and another that would replace shopping week with previous-term registration. In September, the Office of Undergraduate Education created a subcommittee to prepare a proposal for introducing double concentrations. In December, an FAS committee recommended that Harvard College swap out shopping week for previous-term registration, in which students would register for courses one semester in advance. Last month’s FAS meeting was the first time the full faculty discussed these issues.
Double Concentrations Many faculty have expressed their support for the adoption of double concentrations. Currently, students may only purINSIDE THIS Harvard Today 2 ISSUE
sue joint concentrations that culminate in an interdisciplinary thesis. Art, Film, and Visual Studies professor and Director of Unsdergraduate Studies Matthew Saunders ’97 said he believes double concentrations would better allow students to explore diverse academic interests. “So many people are interested in engaging with the sort of courses that we do across film and visual arts, and it’s often hard to figure out how to make it fit,” he said. “There’s a burden on the joint concentration to do a joint thesis.” Computer Science professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Boaz Barak wrote in an emailed statement that though undergraduates have produced meaningful theses in the department, students should not be required to complete a joint thesis if they are not intellectually interested in combining the two fields. “I expect that most students that wish to combine C.S. with another field would continue to
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Taeku Lee to Join Faculty as First in Cluster Hire By ARIEL H. KIM and MEIMEI XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Taeku Lee will join Harvard’s faculty as the first ethnic studies scholar to be brought in as part of a cluster hire by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the school announced Monday. Lee, currently a professor of political science and law at University of California, Berkeley, will join Harvard as the inaugural Bae Family Professor of Government on July 1. Lee previously served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School from 1997 to 2002. FAS Dean Claudine Gay said in a February interview that the FAS has identified and is “actively recruiting” four ethnic studies scholars. Lee’s appointment marks a major step in the decades-long lobby for an ethnic studies concentration at Harvard. Gay originally launched a search for faculty specializing in Asian American, Latinx, and Muslim studies in June 2019. Due to logistical issues posed by the pandemic, however, the search was suspended in April 2020, resuming four months later.
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Gay said in a press release that Lee’s hire is a significant contribution to Harvard’s research of “ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration” and will promote the study of racial inequality. “I am thrilled to welcome Taeku who is a true intellectual leader in this rich, dynamic area of inquiry and a scholar I personally admire,” she said. The cluster hire accompanies other moves by Gay to build on the FAS’s curriculum in racial and ethnic inequality. In addition to the cluster hire, Gay welcomed Vivek Bald as Harvard College’s first visiting professor in Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration and expanded the Inequality in America postdoctoral fellowship from two to four scholars. A $45 million donation made by Asian American alumni in September to expand Asian American studies will fund the Bae Family professorship, as well as the postdoctoral fellowship and the ethnic studies visiting professorships. Lee said in the press release that he looks forward to shaping ethnic studies at Harvard in the next few years.
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Taeku Lee is currently professor of political science and law at University of California, Berkeley. PHOTO COURTESY AMY PERL
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