THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV NO. 17 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2018
The Harvard Crimson Harvard has failed to fairly communicate how the sanctions will be enforced. EDITORIAL PAGE 6
Free throws and team effort propel men’s basketball past Cornell. SPORTS PAGE 8
Khurana Supports Co-ed Pudding
HMS Combats Opioid Epidemic
By CAROLINE S. ENGELMAYER and MICHAEL E. XIE
By LUKE W. VROSTOS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Speaking softly in a small, dark studio on the tenth floor of the School of Public Health’s Kresge Building, United States Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams did not soften the statistics. “Four people will die from overdoses in the time that we’re having this conversation today,” Adams told the audience of roughly 50 students, physicians, and researchers, all gathered on campus Jan. 25 to hear him discuss the opioid epidemic currently sweeping the country. Nationwide, an average of 115 people die every day due to opioid overdoses. The epidemic—which began around 2013 and 2014, according to data compiled by the New York Times—has hit
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana applauded the Hasty Pudding Theatricals for its decision to cast women starting fall 2018 in an interview last Friday, noting the move came at the “right time.” During its 2018 Woman of the Year festivities honoring Mila Kunis in late January, the Pudding announced it would break with nearly 200 years of tradition and welcome women to join its cast next fall. The decision came hours after Kunis phoned at least one member of the Pudding’s graduate board to discuss the move. The switch to co-ed also comes at a moment when administrators
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KATHERINE E. WA NG—CRIMSON DESIGNER
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Deloria Joins Native American Program By CECILIA R. D’ARMS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Harvard’s first ever tenured professor in Native American studies, History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists calling for Native American studies offerings. Deloria’s appointment is the culmination of an effort by the Harvard University Native American Program that has been going on “since the mid2000s,” according to Executive Director Shelly C. Lowe. Deloria, who is Native American himself, has been working with HUNAP, the University’s main organization for Native American students and faculty, since 2004. “Phil Deloria is the leading—I was gonna say one of the leading, but he’s really the best —historian of Native Americans active today,” History Department Chair Daniel L. Smail. “We were just really lucky.” Deloria has been at the University of Michigan’s American Studies department since 2001, but said he is excited
to join the “really smart, excellent people” in Harvard’s History department. “Internally, in terms of Harvard, there’s so many great things happening here. The museums, the libraries, the resources are tremendous for the study of Native Americans and Native American history,” Deloria said. “To the extent that I can jump into a conversation and advance that conversation, make things more legible and coherent as far as the field, that would be great,” he added. This semester, Deloria is teaching a graduate seminar on the historiography of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and next semester he will teach an introduction to Native American Studies course primarily for undergraduates. Deloria, Smail and Lowe all said Deloria’s full professorship is a significant step for Harvard’s Native American curriculum. “Having a full professor here will legitimize Native American studies coursework here in a way that assistant professors just couldn’t,” Lowe said. Truman M. Burrage, president of
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A lone chunk of ice drifts from its fellow chunks in Cambridge Common on Thursday afternoon. KATHRYN S. KUHAR—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
HUHS Warns Students of Mumps
Sally Donahue to Retire in August
By AHAB CHOPRA
By DELANO R. FRANKLIN and SAMUEL W. ZWICKEL
CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Harvard University Health Services Director Paul J. Barreira sent a University-wide email Thursday morning to confirm cases of influenza and “presumptive mumps” across Harvard’s campus. Mumps most recently appeared on campus in June 2017 with two confirmed cases. The virus was particularly active during the spring of 2016, with over 60 confirmed cases recorded prior to the end of the 2016 academic year. In 2016, infected students were quarantined for five days by mandate of the Cambridge Public Health Department. As in his previous emails about mumps, Barreira noted that even individuals who have been vaccinated for the virus are still at risk of infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control, mumps outbreaks can
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Sally C. Donahue, who has served as the College’s financial aid director for 18 years, will retire in August. CASEY M. ALLEN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
News 3
Editorial 6
Sally C. Donahue, the College’s financial aid director, will retire in August. Throughout the 18 years she’s held the position—and three decades working at Harvard—she’s earned admiration from colleagues at the University and across the country. In her tenure as director of financial aid, Donahue oversaw the office as it launched the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative in 2004. Under her leadership, the office’s budget has approximately doubled—an improvement which financial aid office staff say now ensures a Harvard education is affordable for all families. Donahue’s achievements with the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative extend beyond Harvard, her colleagues say. Introduced in 2004, the initiative stipulates that families earning less
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