The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 11

The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV, No. 11 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | thursday, february 1, 2018

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TPS Workers Petition Faust

Stanford Ahead on Adv. Standing

By sonia kim

By IDIL TUYSUZOGLU

Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard workers with Temporary Protected Status delivered a letter to University President Drew G. Faust Wednesday afternoon calling on her to take more decisive action to protect them from possible deportation.

A total of about 50 workers, students, faculty, staff, and supporters from campus unions gathered outside of Faust’s Massachusetts Hall office to deliver the letter.

Temporary Protected Status is a designation granted by the Department of Homeland Security to certain foreign nationals who are unable to return to their country of citizenship due to unsafe circumstances like an armed conflict or natural disaster.

TPS recipients can legally live and work in the U.S. and are immune from deportation.

Over the last several months, The Trump administration has terminated the program for citizens of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan, collectively ending protections for over 250,000 people.

In the letter, the Harvard TPS Coalition—a group of workers who form part of some of Harvard’s campus unions— asked Faust to support the dozens of University affiliates with TPS by holding a press conference on the issue before Feb. 8.

That day marks the deadline for Congress to revisit legislation touching on the fate of undocumented immigrants who have been granted the right stay in the United States through another temporary immigration status program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The protesters also asked Faust to write a letter to Congress and President Donald Trump advocating for a path from TPS status to permanent residency for workers and their families.

They also requested that Faust encourage other college presidents to take similar steps.

In asking for Faust’s advocacy, the workers’ letter emphasized the potential consequences of Trump’s recent TPS changes, which will likely affect dozens at Harvard.

“We will be targeted for violence and could even be killed if we return to what, for many of us, are unfamiliar

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Harvard’s Advanced Standing program, which allows students to graduate in three years or with a bachelor’s and master’s after four, is not particularly popular among students. But on the other side of the country at Stanford, nearly one in five students participate in a similar joint degree program.

Advanced Standing allows some Harvard College students who enter freshman year with high-level coursework to either graduate early or with multiple degrees. Stanford’s analogous program—known as coterminal degrees—permits students to earn both ­

Stanford University’s Coterminal Master’s Degree program is very similar to Harvard College’s Advanced Standing program.

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HMC Real Estate Joins Bain Capital

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By ELI W. BURNES Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard Management Company’s real estate team officially became part of Boston-based private equity firm Bain Capital Thursday, finalizing a move months in the making.

Harvard’s 22-person real estate team, led by Daniel W. Cummings, will continue managing the University’s more than $3.4 billion portfolio—but as Bain employees. The group may incorporate portfolios for other investors, the Boston Globe reported in December. HMC CEO N.P. “Narv” Narvekar first announced that he expected the real estate group would spin out to an external manager in a Jan. 2017 letter sent to Harvard affiliates. The merger with Bain was anticipated for weeks before Bain Capital officially announced the move in December.

Harvard’s real estate team has ­

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The Central Square subway station offers a fast and easy way to get to the shops around Central Square. Cambridge City Council voted Monday to commission a feasibility study for a Business Improvement District in Central Square. bRENDA lu—crimson photographer

Students Push For State Bill on Immigration

HSPH Rejects Tobacco Funding

By Luke W. Vrotsos

By SIMONEC. CHU and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY

Crimson Staff Writer

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The Harvard School of Public Health has joined 16 other schools in rejecting funds from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, an organization they say is too closely linked to the tobacco industry.

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, founded last September, is expected to receive almost $1 billion in funding over the next twelve years from Philip Morris International—the producer of Marlboro and other cigarette brands.

In a joint statement released last week, the deans of the 17 public health schools stated they would not accept funds from the foundation because of its “close association with an industry and a company whose products have killed millions of people around the world.” Dean of the School of Public Health Michelle A. Williams, along with her counterparts at Johns Hopkins, Tulane, and other universities,

A rmed with call sheets and cell phones, students convened in the Phillips Brooks House to call Massachusetts residents to garner support for the Safe Communities Act Wednesday afternoon.

The Safe Communities Act is a piece of Massachusetts legislation that aims to offer more legal protections for immigrants in the commonwealth.

One protection granted by the Safe Communities Act would include a requirement that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement present a warrant in order to arrest a person. Another protection would decree that immigrant detainees must be informed of their rights in a language they understand.

Campus activist groups Act on a Dream, Harvard College Democrats, Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, Harvard Student Labor Action Movement, Harvard Graduate

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Graduate students gathered in Phillips Brooks House Wednesday afternoon to rally for the Safe Communities Act. Crimson photographer

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Brown Adopts Restorative Justice Program

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Brown University adopted a new restorative justice approach to handling misconduct on campus, according to the Brown Daily Herald.

The method places emphasis on creating conversation between the victim and accused to repair harm caused by conduct violation.

According to Katherine Wolfe, Brown’s assistant dean of student conduct and community standards, the approach will only be used for less serious cases, not more pressing ones involving sexual assault or gender-based discrimination.

Since its inception in fall 2017, the approach has thus far been used for two cases: one involving theft and another for property damage.

Columbia Refuses to Bargain with Grad Student Union According to the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University provost John Coatsworth announced that the Columbia would challenge a recent labor board decision allowing student unionization in federal court, refusing to bargain with graduate students. Last month, graduate students delivered a bargaining request to President Lee Bollinger after the National Labor Relations Board ruled against the University’s latest objection. Graduate Workers of ColumbiaUnited Auto Workers plans on filing a charge of unfair labor practice.

Yale Students Accused of Sexual Assault Suing University

Happy THURSday, harvard!

Happy Thursday! It’s February, which means you can officially start stressing about getting a Valentine’s Day date.

In the Atmosphere…

Compared to the last few days, today we’ll get an exceedingly warm 43 degrees. Of course, nothing’s perfect,

so there will be scattered showers to ruin your day.

EVENTS A Public Address by Senator Dick Durbin Listen to President Faust and Democratic Whip Senator Dick Durbin give a public address at the JFK Jr. Forum at 6 p.m. Senator Durbin has been in the news recently concerning the fate of DACA and a

possible bipartisan immigration bill.

Agents of Change: Film Screening and Discussion Sponsored by the Hutchins Center and a variety of other Harvard affiliates, this movie screening will occur in Wasserstein Hall from 4-6 p.m.

Lorenzo F. Manuali Crimson Staff Writer

Yale is currently facing three ongoing lawsuits from men who have been disciplined for sexual misconduct according to the Yale Daily News.

The men allege that Yale discriminated against them on the basis of gender. The most recent suit comes from Daniel Tanreiro-Braschi, a Yale junior disciplined with a two-semester suspension in Dec. 2017 for groping and creating a hostile academic environment. The three cases pose the question if part of Yale’s policy was unfair to the accused students, higher education expert Scott D. Schneider told the Spectator. But Yale Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said that the cases will not push Yale to “reassess our procedures because of lawsuits.”

in the real world FBI Director Clashes with Trump Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI who Trump nominated to succeed James Comey, has publicly condemned the push to release the Republican ‘secret’ memo on the Russia investigation. This puts him at odds with the President, who tweeted his support for the memo’s release.

Department of Justice Investigates Sports Organizations The Department of Justice has issued grand jury subpoenas to obtain information from FIFA, the International Olympic Committee, and the United States Olympic Committee.

They are (finally) investigating possible racketeering, money laundering and honest services fraud charges.

in the NEWS Harvard TPS Workers Call on Faust for Support Harvard workers with Temporary Protected Status delivered a letter to President Faust asking her to take action to protect them from deportation.

School of Public Health Rejects Funds from Philip Morris-funded Organization The School of Public Health has joined 16 other schools in rejecting funds from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, which is completely unsuspiciously receiving nearly $1 billion from Philip Morris International, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes.

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Harvard Lags in Adv. Standing TPS Workers Petition Faust for Support Stanford From Page 1

a bachelor’s and master’s in whatever time they deem necessary, so long as they earn 240 total credits. For some ambitious students, that means earning both degrees in as short a span as four years.

In order to petition for Advanced Standing at Harvard, students must enter the College with one full year of study under their belts, “documented by AP exams, an IB diploma, or other international credentials,” according to the Office of Undergraduate Education’s website. If approved, such students are granted 32 credits— the equivalent of one year of College coursework—on their transcripts, allowing them to move through the College in a shorter amount of time.

While Harvard does not publish the number of students pursuing Advanced Standing, Noël Bisson, associate dean of undergraduate education, previously said only a “tiny” amount of students choose to do so. According to Harvard’s online alumni directory, at least 40 students—a small fraction of the approximately 1600 total seniors—graduated from the College in 2017 with both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree.

At Stanford, though, around 20 percent of undergraduates pursue the coterminal program, according to James T. Campbell, a history professor and co-chair of a Stanford committee tasked with studying the undergraduate program. Campbell said that, of the roughly one-fifth of undergraduates pursuing their bachelor’s and master’s ­

concurrently, the majority are students who want to use a master’s degree to advance quickly in their field of study.

“I think it’s not by any means limited to—but most dramatic in—students who are doing engineering degrees or who are in other fields in which a master’s degree is a terminal degree or a practitioners degree,” Campbell said.

Stanford coterminal students said they appreciate the flexibility the degree program affords them, permitting participants to pursue all their interests over the course of many semesters.

“It’s this perfect buffer between graduating from undergrad and actually going into the real world,” Devangi Vivrekar, a Stanford student pursuing her coterminal degree, said. “It’s like buying some time to go a little deeper and address that feeling of ‘I wish I could take five more classes.’”

While Stanford students said they value the chance to deepen their coursework, some at Harvard say they worry Advanced Student might cut short their time at Harvard, preventing them from exploring the full range of possible activities on campus.

Nike S. Izmaylov ’19, one student pursuing Advanced Standing at the College, said advisors encouraged her to think carefully about rushing her undergraduate degree. “I receive a lot of cautionary things that some students take Advanced Standing because they think that ‘advanced’ is something that is inherently beneficial, that’s like proving themselves to be smart or something like that,” Izmaylov said.

Harvard is exploring a policy change that would make it more diffi-

HMC Real Estate Finally Part of Bain HMC From Page 1 performed well in the past. In his September letter, Narvekar cited real estate returns as a source of endowment growth. In fiscal year 2016, real estate saw 13.8 percent returns on investment, while the overall endowment shrunk. At the time, real estate comprised 14.5 percent of the endowment.

The NACUBO-Commonfund Report on U.S. college and university endowments, released last week, found average private equity real estate returns for 2017 of 7.3 percent compared to average endowment returns of 12.2 percent for the 809 institutions surveyed. Harvard trailed the national average with 8.1 percent returns overall.

Since Narvekar took over as CEO of HMC in Dec. 2016, outsourcing funds to external managers has become a mainstay of his strategy to re-

structure the endowment—last January, Narvekar announced he planned to lay off nearly half of HMC’s staff.

Several hedge funds have spun off this fiscal year. Experts told The Crimson when the Bain spin-off debuted in December that the move was emblematic of Narvekar’s strategy. Analysts also suggested the spin-off would benefit all parties.

Charles A. Skorina, the leader of a financial executive search firm, said the move could allow Harvard’s team to work better and help Bain invest in real estate.

“I think it is an excellent move, just brilliant,” Skorina said. “I think this is a win-win—this is good for the school, for Harvard Management Company, and for Bain.”

—Staff writer Eli W. Burnes can be reached at eli. burnes@thecrimson.com.

City Council Looks to Boost Central Square Business By patricia j. liu Crimson Staff Writer

The Cambridge City Council adopted a policy order to explore funding options for a Business Improvement District in Central Square at a meeting Monday.

The council voted unanimously for the feasibility study on a Central Square improvement district with the exception of Councillor Craig Kelley, who was absent from the meeting.

To fund an improvement district, businesses in the area typically pay an increased tax, which goes towards projects that promote a cleaner and safer environment.

“The menu of services provided by BIDs vary, but generally include some combination of sanitation, security, capital improvements, neighborhood promotion, and business attraction,” said Michael Monestime, the executive director of the Central Square Business Association.

Monestime also said improvement districts can enrich a neighborhood through initiatives for “cultural placemaking” and “support for the arts.”

But, according to Monestime, the process to create an improvement district can take many months and even years.

The City of Cambridge has studied the possibility of an improvement district in Central Square before.

In Dec. 2011, the Mayor’s Red Ribbon Commission, which focuses on Central Square’s social and economic development, recommended a Central Square improvement district. More recently, in Aug. 2017, a city-commissioned retail strategic plan also cited the benefits of such a district.

Councillor Alanna M. Mallon urged the city of Cambridge to begin the process of establishing an improvement district at the meeting. She proposed starting with the state’s recommendation of a feasibility report.

“It’s definitely a thing that can unlock the potential in Central Square for the businesses there, but it’s become really clear that there’s this critical step between a recommendation and it actually happening, and that is the city

really stepping forward to help fund a feasibility study,” Mallon said.

Submitted by Councillors Mallon and E. Denise Simmons, and Mayor Marc C. McGovern, the policy order would explore whether or not the conditions of Central Square are right for a business improvement district.

“It’s great to see that the city of Cambridge as a partner to its business districts is supportive,” Monestime said.

“Again they just voted on a feasibility study, so there’s nothing set in stone.”

The formation of an improvement district in Central Square is still in its early stages, but the next steps would include focusing on a campaign and communication strategy, Monestime said.

He said he hopes to hear from the residents, property owners, and businesses as the proposal for a business

“...This is the entryway to Cambridge for a lot of people that are coming here.“ Alanna M. Mallon Cambridge City Councilwoman improvement district moves forward.

Mallon emphasized the importance of finding the right solutions for Cambridge. She said a study for Central Square would have to fit the neighborhood’s specific needs.

“This is the seat of our government.

This is the entryway to Cambridge for a lot of people that are coming here. It’s a really important square and I think it deserves the care and attention of the entire city council,” Mallon said.

Staff writer Patricia J. Liu can be reached at sonia.kim@thecrimson.com.

cult for students to pursue Advanced Standing.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is debating a motion that would stop AP scores from counting for credit. While this would make eligibility for Advanced Standing universal, the changes would also make it impossible for students to pursue a bachelor’s degree in three years. Instead, undergraduates would only be able to earn a master’s degree in four.

Campbell said he finds the stated goal of some Stanford students—to complete their bachelor’s and master’s degrees as quickly as possible—“a little disturbing.”

“A lot of our students are now trying to pick up a coterm degree in the four years or maybe one extra quarter or two extra quarters,” he said. That would require cramming many credits into few semesters. “Call me old fashioned, but I adhere to the belief that the purpose of college education is not simply a degree that you want to get as soon as possible, but is also an experience,” he said. “It’s living in a particular town or community—a formative period in one’s life.”

Campbell added that, though many coterminal students have valid reasons for pursuing concurrent degrees, he worries others may be doing so out of misplaced ambition. “I often look at the mill that we put you through to get into schools like this and I think you deserve an apology from my generation,” he said. “What you have done is become these kinds of phenomenal multi-taskers, and I’d think a lot of people have a really hard time turning it off.”

HSPH Rejects Tobacco Funding funds From Page 1 signed the public statement.

Derek Yach, president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, rebutted the deans’ statement, writing in an emailed statement that Philip Morris “has absolutely no involvement, influence or control over the Foundation.”

Further defending the foundation’s autonomy, Yach wrote, “The Foundation’s bylaws, certificate of incorporation and funding agreement are unprecedentedly rigid and establish the Foundation as a completely independent organization.”

He also wrote that Philip Morris is “legally bound” to continue to fund the foundation over the course of the next decade, regardless of its research activities.

Karen Emmons, the dean for academic affairs at the School of Public Health, said the choice to avoid affiliation with the foundation is part of a Harvard policy—in place since 2002— of not accepting funds from the tobacco industry. “It is completely antithetical to public health to support the industry,” Emmons said Tuesday.

Yach maintains, however, that the Foundation’s goals are in alignment with those of the schools of public health. “It is disappointing, and a loss for smokers, that deans of some institutions have opted not to work with the Foundation in its efforts to end smoking,” he wrote. “We share the same goals: to improve public health and urgently advocate for more funding and better science to help millions of smokers reduce their risk of death and disease.

The schools of public health are not alone in distancing themselves from the organization. The World Health Organization also announced last year that it will not work with the foundation in its research efforts, citing Philip Morris’s efforts to prevent Uruguay from requiring graphic labels on tobacco products.

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World responded to the World Health Organization in a letter disputing their claims. The foundation asked the WHO to remove relevant press releases from its website until “you have been able to complete proper due diligence on the Foundation.”

The American Cancer Society—like the WHO—took a dim view of Philip Morris’s recent activities. The society said Philip Morris is “suing governments around the world” and “fighting every meaningful, evidence-based tobacco control effort” in its statement announcing it would not support the organization.

Emmons said she has similar concerns about Philip Morris. “Although the foundation is set up saying it wants a smoke-free world, there are many other things that Philip Morris International in particular is doing that really go in the face of that,” she said.

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has not yet allocated funds to research institutions. After a public comment period last year, it plans to announce funding decisions in late February. ­

TPS From Page 1 countries. We are Americans who deserve permanent residency here in the United States,” the letter reads.

Members of the coalition posted the letter online to allow students and faculty to sign it. The letter had received nearly 200 signatures as of 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, when demonstrators delivered to Faust.

Harvard University Dining Services employee Martha Bonilla, who attended the letter delivery, said she appreciates that the University has made resources like the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program more accessible. But Bonilla said she believes the most effective change will occur when Faust provides a public statement about the TPS issue.

“We [workers] always thank [Faust] because we know in the past she made a statement about DACA, but she has not said anything about TPS,” Bonilla said.

“And that’s why we’re asking President Faust to help us with the TPS problem by publicly saying she supports us.”

University spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday evening.

The letter also details the experiences of four Harvard workers from El Salvador, the country of origin for the largest group of TPS holders currently living in the United States. All four stories share common elements of uncertainty and fear.

“I’ve lived in the U.S. for 23 years and I always thought I had a chance at the ‘American Dream,’ but now I’m not sure,” Bonilla said. “I feel unsafe now because after Trump said there will be no more TPS, I worry about my family and other people with TPS.”

Salvadorans have until Sept. 2019 to find a way to legally remain in the U.S. or face deportation.

At the letter delivery Wednesday, Doris Landaverde, a Harvard staff member with TPS, said she fears the possibility of being deported back to her home country of El Salvador.

“I feel scared because if I have to go back, I won’t have a job, I don’t know how to support my kids, and I just don’t know how I’ll survive,” Landaverde said.

Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement—a group of undergraduates that advocates for workers’ rights—cosigned the letter and has been an active participant in the immigrant rights activism on campus.

Two faculty members also spoke at the letter delivery event to show support for TPS workers.

“We should not let this cruel and inhumane policy tear families and communities apart,” Mary C. Waters, a Sociology professor who studies immigration issues, told the crowd gathered outside Massachusetts Hall.

Kirsten A. Weld, a History professor, also spoke at the event.

“Workers are as much of a part of this community as professors and students; an attack on you is an attack on our community,” she said.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday it would allow the nearly 7,000 Syrians with TPS to retain their protections for another 18 months, though this group makes up a small fraction of the total TPS-holding population in the United States.

Staff writer Sonia Kim can be reached at sonia. kim@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @ soniakim211.

Students Hold Phone Bank for Immigration Bill PHONE BANK From Page 1 Students Union-United Auto Workers, and the Phillips Brooks House Association sponsored Wednesday’s phone bank.

The phone banking event formed part of a larger organized effort that took place across Massachusetts, led by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Sponsors of the Safe Community Act include Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge and Massachusetts State Representative Juana Matías. More than 100 organizations have endorsed the legislation to date.

While some students at the event said they were first-time phone bankers, others said they had participated in previous efforts to support the bill.

Hank R. Sparks ’21 joined the Harvard College Democrats in advocating for the Safe Communities Act as part of their Lobby Day in December.

“It’s been really disheartening for me to see the number of deportations ­

in New England skyrocket, to see Trump tear families apart,” Sparks said. “I think the Safe Communities Act ensures that Massachusetts isn’t a part of that, and that’s really important to me.”

Noah R. Wagner ’18, one of the organizers of the phone bank, said that many students became involved in the effort to support the Safe Communities Act out of concern for how ICE has treated immigrants in recent months.

“We’re very concerned that ICE has been creating an atmosphere of fear, forcing people into the shadows, and participating in all sorts of activities that are really, really damaging to communities all around the country,” Wagner said.

According to the ACLU, the Safe Communities Act faces a deadline of Feb. 7 to move through the Massachusetts State Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security.

“Immigrants in our community can’t wait any longer,” Wagner said.

Planning Board to Modify Harvard Square Mall Plans By henry w. burnes and franklin r. civantos Crimson Staff Writers

The Cambridge Planning Board asked a real estate development firm to modify plans to build a pedestrian shopping center in Harvard Square between JFK Street and Brattle Street at a public hearing Wednesday. The Board asked the firm, Regency Centers Corporation, to submit a new proposal that addresses concerns over the commercial development’s design and use.

The decision is the latest development in Jacksonville, Fla.-based Regency Centers’ ongoing bid to gain approval for the proposed mall that would encompass three historic buildings at 1-7, 9-11 JFK Street, and 18 Brattle Street. Regency’s current plans call for demolishing the Corcoran building—currently home to Urban Outfitters and Tealuxe—and building a four-story replacement. Board members said they are concerned Regency’s plans for construction mitigation may not sufficiently integrate the mall with the rest of Harvard Square.

“I think there are some design elements that need to be worked on here but, overall, I am supportive of the types of relief that are being requested,” Catherine P. Connolly, the Board’s vice chair said.

Preliminary plans earned the approval of the Cambridge Historical Commission in Aug. 2017. Once they receive clearance from the Planning Board, the authors of the proposal will return to the Historical Commission for further discussions on building materials and design. Sam Stiebel, the vice president of investments at Regency Centers, said he believed his firm’s ­

final plans would contribute to the surrounding neighborhood. “We support a vital and vibrant Harvard Square,” Stiebel said at the hearing.

The proposed mall will have a height of 65.5 feet, over the city limit of 60 feet that requires a special permits for exemptions, according to James J. Rafferty, an attorney for Regency Centers. Rafferty said he believes additional height will have a limited impact on the Square in terms of aesthetics and shadow. “We think we’ve come up with a profile and footprint that really mitigates the impact of the building,” he said.

Some city residents, though, said they were unconvinced by Regency’s assurances. Cambridge resident James Williamson said he disagreed with idea that there is a need for a large commercial space in Harvard Square. “I don’t see where there’s been a demonstrated need for more density in Harvard square that would justify a penthouse space on top of this, well, adjacent to the rooftop of this historic building,” Williamson said. Resident Peter B. Kroon submitted a zoning petition to the city council in September 2017 that aimed to restrict the size and type of stores in Harvard Square.

Iram Farooq, Cambridge’s assistant city manager for community development, said he thinks the Kroon petition, which would affect the Regency proposal, will “most likely” expire before it comes to a vote and will need to be resubmitted.

Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said she believed Regency would address many of the design concerns raised by residents in their modified proposal.

EDITORIAL

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Zoning Out A new proposal to limit the size of businesses in Cambridge will likely increase gentrification and adversely affect students

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n Jan. 24, the Cambridge Ordinance Committee met to discuss a proposal that would limit the size of businesses permitted in Harvard Square. The petition would amend zoning regulations such that all floor area above 60 feet in height would be mandated residential space.

Additionally, the petition would require buildings of 60 linear feet or more to devote half of their frontage to “small store space,” defined as space that is under 1,250 rentable feet.

At the meeting, petitioners led by Cambridge resident Peter B. Kroon expressed concern over the treatment of small businesses in the Square. In the past, residents have criticized the Cambridge Historical Commission for not being adequately concerned with gentrification and rising property values, which have forced some businesses to close or move.

However, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association Denise A. Jillson argued strongly against the petition. We agree with Jillson’s statement that “this petition does nothing to increase foot traffic and that it hinders sustainable leasing opportunities, diminishes flexibility, restricts growth, and hyperregulates marketing efforts.” Furthermore, we find the specific limits on square feet

to be void of real significance beyond simply limiting business size.

We agree that this proposal will prevent business from adequately adjusting to increasing demand from tourists, students, and residents in Harvard Square. While zoning regulations vary from jurisdiction to ju-

As a result, we urge the Cambridge Ordinance Committee to exercise caution in choosing whether to adopt this measure. risdiction, and while studies have pointed out flaws in recent academic research on the matter, much of the evidence suggests that overburdensome zoning regulations raise property prices, exacerbating gentrification.

Given the fact that Harvard Square is already showing signs of gentrification—property values have nearly doubled in the last five years and new landowners have bought significant portions of the area—the Kroon petition risks further exposing the Square to its negative effects. As a result, we urge the Cambridge Ordinance Com-

mittee to exercise caution in choosing whether to adopt this measure.

Furthermore, these regulations will make Harvard Square even more inhospitable for one type of business that students and residents alike acknowledge is desperately needed: a grocery store. While the Square is replete with restaurants, students seeking to purchase raw ingredients or fresh produce in lieu of journeying to their dining halls come up short. By limiting the square footage of businesses in the Square, this ordinance might reinforce the status of the Square as a food desert.

Of course, zoning regulations can be beneficial, particularly in maintaining historical areas such as Harvard Square. Nevertheless, we worry this particular ordinance would do little to encourage, as the Harvard Square Business Association said, “good value and good quality,” and instead harm those living in the area.

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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By Sophie G. Garrett

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have a confession: I journal, a lot.

I’m not sure why I feel like this needs to be a confession, and yet I think I just revealed something that some people might find strange, or even shameful, about my life.

But I shouldn’t be ashamed to be reflective. I should be past that middle school instinct to hide my diary under my bed. So why—at a school obsessed with self-improvement and personal transformation—do so few of us take the time to write about our thoughts and record our progress towards our best selves? And why do those of us who do journal guard that habit like a secret?

We might worry that it’s self-obsessed to think so deeply about ourselves when the world has far bigger problems than our emotions. There’s a certain level of guilty responsibility

Maybe we don’t want to give ourselves attention because we are afraid of what we will find when we do. that comes with being a Harvard student—that crippling feeling of needing to pay the world back for this opportunity we have. But if we can’t deal with our own internal battles, how can we expect ourselves to save the world?

The tools we develop internally to cope with our relatively small problems are those same tools that we need to fight external battles: namely, empathetic thinking and emotional awareness.

It can be hard to be empathetic with ourselves. We rush to shower our friends with love and seek to

understand them, but we rarely treat ourselves with the same amount of compassion. We write off our caring for others better than we care for ourselves as humility. We say that we don’t look into our emotions because we don’t deserve that level of attention.

Maybe we don’t want to give ourselves attention because we are afraid of what we will find when we do. In middle school, we hid our journals because we didn’t want our friends to read them. Our greatest fear was that someone else would truly see us and gain access to our rawest thoughts.

Now, however, I think a scarier idea by far is that we see ourselves. We want to let other people know us, we want to forge those deep connections, but we resist connecting with what is inside of us. I know that, for me, this resistance comes from the fear that I will find out that I’m not good enough.

Not good enough for what? This is the type of question that I confront in my journal. When I force myself to identify what scares me, I gain some level of confidence by knowing that I am able to face to my own self-doubt.

I value my daily efforts to look within myself (especially to the parts that I would rather not see) because I know that I am doing something that is really hard. As Harvard students, we look for challenge and see it as a platform for personal development.

If we lean into the discomfort of this challenge—journaling with honesty— we might be surprised by the ways it pushes us to grow.

It’s difficult to be vulnerable with ourselves, but that difficulty makes it essential. Veritas, truth, must be an internal as well as an external maxim. We can never see ourselves objectively, and there probably isn’t a single objective truth about who we are. But there is a truthful account of how we

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perceive ourselves and our experiences. By articulating this truth, we can get closer to feeling okay with who we are, to feeling like we are good enough.

To journal is to make a bold declaration that we are proud of who we are at this moment. When we write about ourselves, we say that our thoughts

It’s difficult to be vulnerable with ourselves, but that difficulty makes it essential. are worth having; that our present self is worth being and worth knowing. Maybe this is where we see shame in journaling: the shame of wanting to feel worthy, or worse, the shame of achieving this self-worth.

At the end of my senior year of high school, I started “confessing” to keeping a journal. I got a lot of weird looks.

A few people thought it was cool (or said so to avoid being awkward). At Harvard, every time I feel myself hiding this part of my life from my peers, I tell myself there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.

I should be proud that I take time to get to know myself, that I am doing the hard work of being okay with the truth I find internally. I shouldn’t be ashamed to be seeking self-worth.

So, go buy a journal. Buy your friend a journal. And keep it out in the open. (No one will read it, this isn’t middle school.) Keep it out as a reminder to yourself and to others that you are worth knowing, in all of the difficult truth that you access within.

Sophie G. Garrett ’20, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Mathematics concentrator in Quincy House.

“I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.”—Jeff Foxworthy Emilee A. Hackney Column

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ords leisurely unfold out of my mouth. They glide off my tongue with the smooth ebb and flow of the rolling blue Appalachian mountains I grew up on; the drawling vowels stretch long like valleys and consonants tumble down sloping ridgelines into reluctant contractions.

My speech was sheltered: I heard the faraway celebrities and newscasters and their strange, crisp voices, but I grew up surrounded by the slow, beautiful dialect that, from my first word on, became my own.

I knew it was unique, a tongue confined to my small part of the world. I knew the stereotypes, the assumed ignorance and backwardness associated with verbal loll and drawl, and I knew the North didn’t hear many voices like mine.

What I did not know, or rather, expect, was how my distinct accent would become my identifier, how it would immediately—and permanently—make me so boldly stand out when up until that point in my life it had made me belong. I did not expect to root myself in dissimilarity.

I laud Harvard for its diversity, for its medley of race and religion and identity that I was never exposed to in my small, rural hometown. I love the atmosphere of inclusivity and the sense of belonging our college is so dedicated to achieving. I can’t help but notice, though, the glaring absence of Southern accents. I’ve heard it only once, and just in passing, during my first semester at Harvard. Have I just avoided it by bad luck and timing, or is it hiding?

I admit that I tried to conceal mine. My first week in the North—which consisted of many laughable miscommunications and several confused, wide-eyed waitresses asking “Can you repeat that?”—proved that the accent made me something of a novelty. Everyone I spoke to either asked or guessed where I was from. (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and, bafflingly, Australia, were the most popular presumptions.) Then, when I revealed my home was in southwest Virginia—the heart of central Appalachia—I became even more of a curiosity. (I can’t imagine what the rest of the nation assumes about native Appalachians, but the shocked expressions made me think the worst).

I disliked how the conversation almost immediately turned to Southern stereotypes: rural conservatism, Trump, poverty, the declining coal industry. Even though these were relevant topics, I was disappointed that this was all people knew about Appalachia and the only way they knew how to relate to me. I was annoyed when I was congratulated for “making it out,” as if Appalachia were a place to escape. I was most bothered by people who asked me to repeat words only to point out and break down my unique pronunciations: They were only fascinated, not making fun, but I felt ridiculed all the same. I quickly realized why Harvard is an amalgam of hundreds of voices, minus my own; when you hear an accent as backwoodsy as mine in the city, it tends to turn heads, prompt questions, and elicit old, tired conversations us Southerners are sick of having.

So, in a desperate attempt to fit in, I tried to suppress the twang. I already felt out of place as it was, having transferred from a teensy-weensy, rural Southern community college to an outrageously wealthy and prestigious university in a major Northeastern city, so I figured that vocal modification would be the first step to successful assimilation.

The result was cringey—a strange mixture of over-enunciation and clipped, strained vowels in attempted replication of what I thought sounded like a neutral, made-for-TV accent.

This laughable oddity unsurprisingly earned me even more quizzical glances and questions than before. I quickly abandoned that ship.

At first, I was dismayed at my inability to forge a more inconspicuous accent. I’d hoped my identifying characteristic would be anything but the way I pronounced my words.

Yet, interestingly enough, the more I was asked about my accent and, subsequently, culture, the more I began to appreciate my difference. There was no changing the drawl; that was painfully obvious. There was only embracing the accent—sink or swim, right?—in an attempt to maybe, hopefully, challenge and change stereotypes and perceptions.

I can’t pinpoint when the exact shift in perspective occurred, but by the end of my first semester I was almost excited to be questioned. As I became increasingly homesick, tired of this strange, loud, city life, I relished the opportunity to talk about my calm, quiet Appalachia. I simultaneously became more and less aware of my difference: The more diversity I saw and experienced, the more I realized the non-necessity of belonging and the beauty in standing out.

That the uniqueness of the Southern accent is something to celebrate, not conceal.

Ask me about my accent. Let me tell stories about the South; let me flaunt this beautiful drawl.

You ain’t gonna hear many of ’em up here, ya know.

Emilee A. Hackney ’20 is an English concentrator living in Adams House.

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After Shutouts, Harvard Eyes Win Against Dartmouth MEN’S ICE HOCKEY By spencer r. morris Crimson Staff Writer

It’s time for the Harvard men’s hockey team to take it to another gear.

The squad is cutting it close, though.

With only eight games remaining in its regular season campaign, the Crimson is still in the progress of “clicking.” After last weekend’s back-to-back shutout losses, Harvard risks dropping to .500 if it falls to Ivy League rival Dartmouth this Friday.

The Crimson (9-8-4, 8-5-3 ECAC) has already played two months of its schedule at or below an even record— from Nov. 10 to Jan 6—and will look to avoid returning there as it trips up to Hanover, N.H., to challenge the Big Green (9-11-2, 7-7-1) in its only contest of the pre-Beanpot weekend.

“For us, this game on Friday night is huge,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “It’s time that we kind of take it to another gear, and I think this is about the time where we need to find our game.”

While the team cannot ignore its pedestrian 9-8-4 mark so far this season, it generally feels optimistic about its play.

“I thought early on we lost some games that we could’ve easily been on the other end of,” explained coach Donato when asked whether he thinks his team has outplayed a near-.500 record.

“I don’t think we’ve fully hit our stride and been able to consistently come out and play great hockey…. Whether we think our record is worse than it should be, better than it should be, that’s really out of our control right now.”

Even with this optimism, coach Donato’s message of urgency and execution has reverberated within the Bright-Landry Hockey Center early this week. Practice has been focused, and the coaching staff has nitpicked in the spirit of attention to detail.

Frustrated at its scoreless weekend against now-No. 1 Cornell and Colgate, the Crimson has just one game to rekindle the offense before squaring off against the always talented Boston University in the Beanpot on Monday.

Dartmouth enters Friday’s tilt in peak form, too, so righting the ship won’t be easy.

“You got to treat them as a different team,” said tri-captain goaltender Merrick Madsen, comparing today’s Big Green to its early-season form. “As much as has happened to us has happened to them as well.”

The Big Green has notched recent wins versus Colgate and at then-No. 2 Clarkson, not to mention a victory at Denver, also the two-seed at the time, back in December. Harvard, on the other hand, has yet to triumph over a ranked opponent all season. That being said, a telling performance against Clarkson back in mid-January remains fresh in the players’ minds—a sort of reassurance that the Crimson can hang with the best.

“At the end of the day, college hockey is wide open this year,” Ryan Dona-

wiley-ing out In the previous meeting between Harvard and Dartmouth, things got heated on the ice as Harvard built up a sturdy lead.

matthew w. deshaw—Crimson photographer

to said. “Teams that are unranked are beating top-10 teams any given night….

Two weekends ago: 6-6 game to Clarkson, which we definitely could have won. It just goes to show that we have that ability to play like that, but we just got to find it.”

On account of last weekend’s runins with hot goaltenders, Harvard has dropped to 27th in the Division-I PairWise rankings, the closet predictor of each program’s NCAA Tournament hopes. While not certain, it is likely that the Crimson will need to win the ECAC Tournament in March to gain a bid to the 16-team competition. At this point, Harvard’s at-large chances are slim.

If that’s the focus of coach Donato’s squad, then conference points are of the essence.

“We recognize that having a bye in the first round of the playoffs gives you a better opportunity to advance,” said coach Donato, before hedging his statement. “Ultimately, the game on Friday night isn’t going to determine our season, nor is home-ice going to determine our season.”

Harvard currently sits in fourth in the ECAC, ahead of Colgate and Dartmouth by four points, albeit having played more conference games than both. This positioning would give the Crimson a first-round bye in the ECAC Tournament, which coach Donato alluded to.

In recent seasons, the Harvard icemen have typically handled the Big Green with relative ease—the Cambridge-dwellers have posted a 5-1-1 record against Dartmouth over the past four campaigns. This time around, though, the Big Green are not to be underestimated.

Entering Friday night’s bout, Dart-

ther one of us can start pushes us both more in practice. Guys know they can win with either of us at this point. It’s a good situation.”

Ahead of the Big Green matchup, Harvard’s situation in net is still up in the air. Last weekend, Lackey started the “bigger” game against Cornell, and Madsen started the following night.

Presumably, coach Donato is still searching for the hot hand, and since both net-minders ceded two goals without receiving any run support, last weekend provided little clarity.

For the green and white, net play has also been inconsistent. Through 17 games, Dartmouth’s normal starter, senior Devin Buffalo, has posted uninspiring numbers (8-8-1, 2.90 GAA, .905 SV%).

Granted, some of Buffalo’s sturdier performances have gone unrewarded, such as a 0-1 loss to reigning NCAA champion Denver. Nevertheless, the Big Green’s average of 3.18 goals allowed per game is good for ninth in the 12-team ECAC. In short, neither goaltending nor defense is the team’s strong suit.

Instead, Dartmouth is an opportunistic team, eking out one-goal wins against some premiere competition this season. Harvard’s main goal on Friday will be breaking out of its recent offensive funk, and the Big Green’s vulnerabilities, despite its opportunism, should provide an outlet to do so.

Whether the Crimson ultimately do take it to another gear, or whether they regress to .500 once again, a loaded BU team will be waiting for the squad just three days later in the Boston hockey classic.

mouth is playing arguably its best hockey of the season. Moreover, last year’s matchup in Hanover remains fresh in the players’ minds: the home team stunned Harvard with an eightgoal performance at Thompson Arena, dealing the Crimson one of its rare losses (six all year) in 2016-2017.

Harvard will think twice before writing off Dartmouth, even if the Crimson has already toppled the Big Green, 5-0, this season.

“These games, ones that we usually handle, have been an issue for us,” junior forward Ryan Donato said. “Dartmouth is a great team this year and has some huge wins…. Obviously we’re a little sour about the way things went last year.”

Expect Dartmouth’s attacking effort to take a team-oriented approach, as no individual accounts for more than 11 percent of the team’s point total on the season. Senior Corey Kalk leads the way with 15 points (5–10—15) but also owns a team-worst minus-13 rating. The alternate captain has just two points (1–1—2) in six career appearances versus Harvard.

“Dartmouth is a team that kind of scores by committee,” coach Donato said. “Their goaltenders have been somewhat up and down but are certainly capable of having some great games…. They’ve always played us tough.”

For the visitors in Friday’s contest, the offensive objective is simple: get one, and end the drought.

“Get as many pucks on net as we can,” suggested Ryan Donato, when asked about the team’s approach to Dartmouth. “We got to score one, and the floodgates will open.”

Last weekend was the first and only time this season that Donato was held

without a point in consecutive games.

The Boston Bruins prospect shoulders much of the team’s offensive burden—his 29 points (20–9—29) pace the squad—and feels the extra onus to solve its scoring woes. Linemate and fellow junior Lewis Zerter-Gossage (7–12— 19), who trails Donato by 10 points for the team lead, feels it too.

“I think, as someone who gets a decent amount of ice time, you kind of have to feel the burden when the team doesn’t score at all in a weekend,” Zerter-Gossage said. “When you’re getting more chances on the power play, things like that, and you realize that it’s your job to get shots and challenge the goalie…it is kind of disappointing. But I think guys like me or Ryan or [sophomore blue-liner Adam Fox] aren’t really too worried.”

Between the pipes, Friday’s opponents are both in search of more consistency. At points in the season, Madsen (6-6-4, 2.28 GAA, .920 SV%) has played to his fullest abilities, logging three shutouts and an additional three stingy performances that saw his save percentage eclipse .960.

The senior backstop, however, has struggled to maintain the consistency that he enjoyed in last year’s record-setting campaign, forcing coach Donato to replace Madsen with junior backup Michael Lackey (3-2-1, 2.56 GAA, .907 SV%) periodically. Watching games from the bench had become a foreign feeling to Madsen, who started all 36 tilts for the Crimson last season, so the emerging battle in the blue paint has required a bit of an adjustment from him.

“Last year, it was a bit of an anomaly, starting every game,” Madsen said. “If anything, this is pushing [Lackey and me] both harder, and the fact that ei-

Staff writer Spencer R. Morris can be reached at spencer.morris@thecrimson.com.

Harvard Searches for Weekend Victories men’s basketball

By Henry zhu Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard men’s basketball team will again embark on an extended bus ride this weekend, trekking to the Empire State to take on Columbia Friday night and Cornell Saturday night.

Although Princeton-Penn weekend looms ahead in two weeks, the Crimson (9-10, 4-0 Ivy) must place its sole attention on returning back to Cambridge with its conference unbeaten streak untouched.

Although the Lions (4-13, 1-3) and Big Red (7-10, 1-3) have done little to stir the Ancient Eight pot beside split its own series, a quick glimpse of recent Ivy League results indicates the unpredictability of the conference season to date. Two teams who finished with losing conference records last season— Penn and Brown—have respectively earned victories against conference stalwarts Princeton and Yale this season.

With that said, both Columbia and Cornell encountered massive difficulties in each of their prior contests against Princeton, a likely Harvard challenger for the Ivy title. The Lions were blown out by 16 on January 12 against the Tigers, while the Big Red crumbled to a disastrous 37-point loss a day later in New Jersey.

The Crimson, nevertheless, will be fully prepared for a wide spectrum of possibilities. Coach Tommy Amaker has worked extensively in practice on finishing tight late-game situations, something several players have attributed to their own maturation process.

“We do five-minute overtime [drills] pretty often in practice,” sophomore forward Seth Towns said. “Throwing us into a game or any really close game...I think we are ready.”

Unlike Harvard’s lead group of sophomores, Columbia’s core rotation this season consists of a more diverse age pool. Three of its four leading team scorers are upperclassmen, while first year classmates Jaron Faulds, Myles Hanson, and Gabe Stefanini have combined for 233 total points this season.

This balanced distribution in scoring was critical in the two prior games against Cornell this year. Sophomore guard Mike Smith, who leads the team in scoring with 17.3 points per game, struggled from the field in both games and was held to single-digit scoring.

The three aforementioned upperclassmen—juniors Quinton Adlesh and Lukas Meisner as well as senior guard Nate Hickman—were instrumental in both contests, combining for 47 points in the Lions victory and 29 points in its one-point defeat.

Smith’s recent cold streak should not discredit his ability to place the team on his shoulders, particularly against higher-ranked opponents.

Smith scored 25 points on December 12th against Boston College and a month later matched a season-high 27 against the Quakers.

The quick and well-built 5’11” point guard will be a radically different matchup for the Harvard backcourt compared to the long and lanky Brown guards last weekend. Regardless, Amaker expressed increased confidence in the defensive performance from his guards and lauded in particular the recent play of sophomore point guard Christian Juzang.

STRONG D Coach Tommy Amaker names sophomore Christian Juzang a defensive catalyst. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

“I think he’s led us in ways that won’t necessarily show up in the stat sheet, but he’s been a catalyst for us defensively,” Amaker said of Juzang. “You’ve seen us extend our defense a little bit more in each one of these games where we’ve been able to pick up the floor and Christian being that guy your defense is energized by.”

The Harvard backcourt will need to maintain its defensive energy the following night against the Big Red, who are similarly led by a workhorse point guard. Junior Matt Morgan currently leads the Ivies in scoring with 23.6 points per game off .502 shooting from the field. Remarkably, both Smith and Morgan have attempted 261 field goals so far this season. The Cornell point guard, however, is more accurate and reliant upon his three-point shot, attempting a three about every other time he shoots and converting 40.3

percent of the time.

Morgan also scored over 20 points in both Columbia games and will evidently be coming into the Crimson matchup with enormous confidence.

Again, proper defensive switching and attention to detail is an area that will determine how much the Big Red scorer can be kept at bay.

“Be willing to help our teammates,” sophomore wing Corey Johnson said.

“Be willing to hold yourself in line and take a charge, be willing to make rotations, close out. Basically it takes a whole team effort, not just one individual on the court.”

Another key narrative this weekend will be the re-integration of sophomore point guard Bryce Aiken, who saw consecutive games of double-digit minutes last weekend. Despite a scare late against the Bears last Saturday when it appeared as if Aiken re-injured

his left knee, the team’s leading scorer said postgame that the knee was “alright”.

For Amaker, easing Bryce back in will be more imperative than rushing him back into the starting lineup.

“I haven’t really gotten to the point of Bryce starting again, we’re just trying to increase his time on the court,” Amaker said. “We’ve done it the past two games and hopefully it can continue to trend in that direction where he’s playing more minutes and being more comfortable and confident in doing so.”

This weekend will likely be one decided by guard play on both sides. For Harvard, continued aggressiveness from Aiken on offense and the tone-setting of Juzang’s defense will be critical to halter the Smith-Morgan combo.

Staff writer Henry Zhu can be reached at henry. zhu@thecrimson.com