The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 15

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 15 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The Harvard Crimson Women’s hockey falls to the BU Terriers 3-2 in the Beanpot semifinal.

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By KRISTINE E. GUILLAUME and JAMIE D. HALPER

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Harvard plans to become fossil fuel-free by 2050, University President Drew G. Faust announced in an email sent to University affiliates Tuesday.

“Harvard will seek to become fossil fuel free by 2050 by meeting our energy needs with sustainable sources and by setting targets for purchasing externally-provided services that rely as little as possible on fossil fuels,” Faust wrote in the email.

Faust also detailed an interim goal: Harvard hopes to become fossil fuel-neutral by 2026. The University previously set a 10-year climate goal in 2006 and succeeded in 2016 in meeting its targets to reduce on-campus greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent while growing its square-footage by 12 percent.

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Faculty Vote on Advanced Standing

By ANGELA N. FU and LUCY WANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Advanced Standing program will undergo significant changes in 2020 to permit all College students to graduate with an undergraduate and master’s degree in four years.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of a motion updating the program at their monthly meeting Tuesday. Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris first introduced a different version of the motion in December. On Tuesday, the Faculty voted to accept an amendment to the motion before accepting the motion itself.

The new guidelines will take effect starting in 2020 with the class of 2024. Under the new system, students will have the option of applying to the Graduate School of Arts and

Robert A. Lue, a molecular and cellular biology professor and HarvardX faculty director, enters the faculty meeting on Tuesday afternoon. AMY Y. LI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Faust Concerned Higher Ed Act May Impact Aid CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A s Congress moves to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, University President Drew G. Faust raised concerns about the bill’s impact on federal financial aid at a Faculty meeting Tuesday evening.

The Higher Education Act, originally passed in 1965, authorizes the federal student financial aid program, and includes provisions for programs such as Pell Grants, the Federal Work Study Program, and loan repayment plans for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

Faust told Faculty members that the Act would reduce student aid and support for work study.

Republican lawmakers’ proposed overhaul, called the PROSPER Act, would re-authorize Pell grants, restructure loan repayment plans, and eliminate Federal Work Study and public service loan forgiveness for graduate and professional students. The legislation passed a House committee in December but has yet to move to the ­

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Faust said that, while these provisions will likely be challenged in the Senate, the administration is trying to make sure they do not come to fruition.

The University is deploying its advocacy team in Harvard’s Federal Relations Office in Washington, D.C. to make the case for preserving student aid programs as they currently stand.

Like Faust, Suzanne Day, Harvard’s director of federal relations, raised similar concerns about the preliminary House bill in an emailed statement.

“In particular, we are concerned about the proposed changes to federal student aid programs and the potential negative impact on our students,” Day wrote.

Day also mentioned the elimination of subsidized student loans, grants for low-income students, and changes to federal financial assistance for graduate and professional students as priorities for the University.

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By DELANO R. FRANKLIN and KRISTINE E. GUILLAUME

University President Drew G. Faust sent a letter to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle Friday, urging them to pass legislation protecting immigrants now vulnerable after the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status.

The letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, calls on Congress to protect individuals under Temporary Protected Status from not only El Salvador, but also Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan.

“I write today to urge you to take legislative action to protect these individuals—several dozen of them members of the Harvard community—from deportation,” Faust wrote.

Created by Congress in 1990 to offer provisional humanitarian relief, 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 few months, the Trump administration has stripped TPS status from Sudanese, Haitians, and Nicaraguans. In January, the administration announced it would end TPS benefits for Salvadoran immigrants in Sept. 2019.

Faust’s letter comes after a group of 50 TPS-holding workers and their allies rallied outside Massachusetts Hall last week and delivered a petition calling on Faust to write to lawmakers on their behalf.

They also asked her to hold a press conference on the issue before a Feb. 8 deadline for Congress to pass legislation funding the government. Immigration policy has become embroiled in those budget talks.

In her letter, Faust emphasized the positive contributions of TPS holders to Harvard and the country. She wrote that “repatriating them to countries that remain unstable or at risk” will only cause them harm.

“Today, more than 400,000 TPS recipients live, work, and invest in the United States. As noted above, several dozen of these individuals work across multiple departments at Harvard and are highly valued and productive ­

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Datamatch, Harvard’s popular student-created matchmaking algorithm, is spreading for the first time to Brown, Columbia, and Wellesley.

Since 1994, Datamatch—the Harvard Computer Society’s annual Valentine’s Day matchmaking survey— has set up thousands of dates between undergraduates at the College. Matches can go to eat free food at sponsors like Zinneken’s, El Jefe’s, BerryLine, and Flour Bakery.

Nearly 5,000 Harvard students registered for the program in 2017. With Datamatch’s expansion to three new colleges, more registrants are expected this year.

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around the ivies Yale’s Senior Single-Sex A Capella Groups to Consider GenderNeutral Applicants Yale’s senior single-sex a capella groups, the all-male Whiffenpoofs and all-female Whim ‘n Rhythm, announced last Thursday they would consider admitting singers of all genders, the Yale Daily News reported. The groups wrote in a Facebook post that while the Whiffs and Whims would continue to take only singers within their traditional musical range — tenors, baritones, and bass for the Whiffs and sopranos and altos for the Whims — singers from all genders who fit these vocal ranges would now be considered.

The Whiffs and Whims stated the decision was in an effort to make the groups “more inclusive” for students who are transgender and gender nonconforming, according to the News.

Cornell Graduate Students Will File Objections Regarding University Conduct in Unionization Vote Will Self Acclaimed novelist Will Self discusses Phone, the final book in his trilogy, at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday evening SOUMYAA MAZUMDER — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Try to keep your spirits up amidst brutal mid-February vibes.

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in the real world Shutdown Part Two? President Trump said he would “love to see a government shutdown” if Congress doesn’t make any moves on immigration reform (read: crackdown on illegal immigrants). This declaration may throw a wrench in Congress’s compromise budget deals.

Cornell’s graduate student union plans to file an objection to the university’s conduct during last March’s graduate student unionization vote, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. The Sun reported that the union decided not to accept a settlement offered by the university a year after the unionization vote was deemed “too close to call.” The objections will not be filed until the union holds a meeting in February.

Penn Suspends University Operations, Cancels Class for Thursday’s Superbowl Parade The University of Pennsylvania will suspend operations and cancel class this coming Thursday so students, faculty, and administrators can attend a city-wide parade in honor of the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl championship this weekend, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The decision was made in response to several student petitions, one of which was authored by the Pennsylvanian’s editorial board. One of these letters garnered over 4,000 signatures after just one day.

a STORMY DAY As students walked between classes on Tuesday morning, the Yard received a light dusting of snow.

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Elon Musk is Rocket Man SpaceX, Elon Musk’s $1 billion baby, launched the world’s biggest rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The world hasn’t seen such a powerful piece of machinery since we landed on the moon five decades ago.

Stock Markets Stabilize After Dipping Monday The S&P 500 and Dow Jones both ended up by 1.7 and 2.3% after a steep decline Monday. Vice President Mike Pence told Americans not to worry and attributed the falling stock market prices to economic cycles.

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Professors Praise OSAPR Restructures Staffing West Station Pledge By paula m. barberi Crimson Staff Writer

By truelian lee and jacqueline p. patel Crimson Staff Writers

Following Harvard’s $50 million pledge to West Station, many affiliates praised the University’s commitment to improving transportation services in Allston.

Last month, Harvard promised $50 million to fund West Station, a commuter rail stop on the Framingham-Worcester line, and up to $8 million to help construct another, interim transportation station in Allston. This pledge marks a significant increase from the University’s previous commitment of one third of the estimated development costs.

In Oct. 2014, when Harvard made the initial pledge, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced plans to construct a new commuter rail station—West Station—to connect Allston to downtown Boston and the greater Boston area. The MBTA planned to build the station on Harvard-owned land near Beacon Park Yard.

Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp wrote in an emailed statement that Harvard’s increased pledge follows a series of other actions by the University to promote the Interstate-90 Allston Interchange Improvement Project, which will include the removal of the Houghton rail spur to realign Soldier’s Field Road.

“Harvard has viewed West Station as a critical and essential element to the Interchange project,” Lapp wrote.

“It is our hope that these commitments might alleviate some of the financial concerns associated with the project.”

Monica Tibbits-Nutt, a freshman proctor who sits on the fiscal and management control board of the MBTA, said the increased pledge was “unprecedented and unusual.” She said that Harvard’s actions marked a turning point in the relationship between the state’s transportation system and the university.

“It’s a really wonderful step in the right direction, especially with the partnerships between the MBTA and our other local universities,” she said.

Rosabeth M. Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, said the pledge is “forward-thinking” and “visionary.” She said she believes that the investment will help alleviate traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions, and spur economic development.

“Public transit investments generally bring in a multiplier of three or four to one in new economic activity,” she wrote in an email statement.

While many praised Harvard’s increased pledge, the University is not the only potential funder of West Station.

José A. Gómez-Ibáñez,a professor of urban planning and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, called upon Boston University to contribute funds to West Station as well.

“If your notion of fairness was that the biggest beneficiaries ought to pay, then some combination of a big contribution from Harvard, a significant contribution from BU, and a surcharge on property taxes and value on the station would be a fair way to go,” he said.

Boston University had initially promised to fund one-third of the costs, but it did not finalize its pledge. At the time, BU was concerned about how the new station’s North-South connections would affect the University’s campus.

In response to Harvard’s increased commitment, BU spokesperson Colin Riley said that the university will continue to support the construction of West Station.

“We look forward to both discussing these new developments with the community, the state, the city, and Harvard, and determining how BU can help,” Riley wrote.

Riley did not respond when asked for comment regarding criticisms of BU not pledging funds.

Regardless of funding distribution, Gómez-Ibáñez stressed the importance of constructing a station soon.

Financial Aid in Peril AID From Page 1 others in higher education, to address these concerns with representatives in Congress,” Day wrote.

At the College, which touts its noloan financial aid policy, students are less likely to be affected by changes to federal loan policies than at graduate and professional schools—though 16 percent of senior respondents to The Crimson’s Class of 2017 Senior Survey reported that they took out loans.

By comparison, it is commonplace for Harvard Law students to take out loans, and the Law School’s Class of 2016 graduated with an average loan burden of $153,172.

Under current law, graduate students enrolled in Public Service Loan Forgiveness eliminates debt for students who work up to 10 years in public service careers, such as law enforcement or public education. The new GOP bill would get rid of this program.

Kenneth H. Lafler, an assistant dean for student financial services at the Law School, said he thinks the changes to the Higher Education Act would have a relatively limited effect on Law School students, but would impact graduate students outside of Harvard. The Law School has its own loan repayment program, the Low Income Protection Plan, that is independent of federal loan forgiveness. Lafler said 681 graduates were enrolled in LIPP in last year.

“Most law schools around the coun­

try changed the way they provide loan assistance to integrate with the public service loan forgiveness program.

So, the cancellation of that program would be a significant change for those schools, because they’re really dependent on that program,” Lafler said.

In the last year, Law School students and alumni have criticized LIPP, charging that it falls short of similar programs at peer institutions like Yale and Stanford, according to Nicole A. Summers. In Oct. 2017, Summers wrote and solicited signatures for an open letter to Law School Dean John F. Manning, asking the school to improve the program.

Lafler is more worried about a PROSPER Act provision that would nix Federal Work Study for graduate and professional students, affecting over 400 students at the Law School.

“We use federal work study to allow students to do public interest jobs in the summer.,” he said. “Work study is part of the way we fund that program. So, that would be a significant loss.”

Other experts on financial aid in higher education said certain provisions of the PROSPER Act would be detrimental to both graduate and undergraduate students.Brian Taylor, managing director of Ivy Coach, a college admissions counseling company, said the overhaul would raise costs for low- and middle-income college students and be especially difficult for graduate students.

The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response will restructure its staffing in the coming weeks as the office continues to face leadership vacancies, nine months after its director left Harvard.

Alicia Oeser stepped down as the director of OSAPR, a University-wide resource for crisis counseling, medical advocacy, and education services to combat issues of sexual assault, in May 2017 and her associate director, Meera Seshadri, resigned only a few months later in October.

Since this time, only three staff members—out of a total six positions— have been working for OSAPR. In this time, Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution also reported a rapid increase of 65 percent in formal complaints of sexual harassment for the 2016–2017 academic year amidst a national movement.

Maria Francesconi, director of Nursing and Health Education in Harvard University Health Services, wrote in an emailed statement that OSAPR will create the new role of “case coordinator” to replace the associate direc­

tor position after recent student feedback requested an increase in “direct care services.”

Francesconi wrote that OSAPR has hired a licensed mental health clinician for the new position and the individual is expected to start within a few weeks.

She added that student members of the campus peer education and peer counseling groups, Consent Advocacy and Relationship Education as well as Response, were involved in the hiring process.

“This role, staffed by a licensed mental health clinician, is designed to be someone who can provide support services to those who have experienced any level of interpersonal violence and can also assist in connecting our community members to other resources both inside and outside the Harvard community,” Francesconi wrote.

Francesconi also wrote that the hiring of the new case coordinator has delayed the appointment of a permanent director for OSAPR. “We prioritized this search over the director role, given its importance to our direct care services, and are now in the early interviewing process for a di-

rector,” Francesconi wrote. “This process will include feedback from students, faculty, and staff, and we hope to have it filled later this semester.”

First established in 2003, OSAPR originally only provided services to College students, but by 2013, the office had expanded to be a University-wide resource for students, faculty, and staff.

In 2014, amid campus controversy over Harvard’s handling of sexual assault, University President Drew G. Faust pledged to increase funding for OSAPR leading to a more than doubling of the office’s staff size in less than a year.

In a 2014 letter to Faust, former University Provost Steven E. Hyman wrote that members of a presidential task force on sexual assault were concerned about OSAPR’s ability to adequately serve students with its previous levels of funding and staffing.

“We are concerned that moving forward, an understaffed OSAPR risks slow or ineffective responses to students who have experienced sexual assault,” Hyman wrote in the letter. “The task force asks that OSAPR be provided with whatever additional resources are necessary to carry out its role—beginning as soon as possible.”

Harvard Raises $1.28 Billion

By William L. Wang Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard raised an all-time high $1.28 billion in fiscal year 2017, surpassing fundraising totals from 2016 and topping Stanford’s fundraising total for a second consecutive year.

Fiscal Year 2017 marks the fourth consecutive year the University has raised over $1 billion, according to data from the Council for Aid to Education. Since the launch of the University’s historic capital campaign in 2013, Harvard has raised over $8 billion as of June 2017, far surpassing its initial goal

of $6.5 billion.

In the past, Stanford University has traditionally topped Harvard’s fundraising totals, outpacing the University nine out of the past 12 years. In 2017, Stanford and Harvard were the only two schools to surpass the $1 billion mark.

Donations to American colleges totaled $43.6 billion in 2017, displacing the $41 billion total set in 2016. The top 20 highest-earning institutions— comprising less than 1 percent of the nation’s colleges— raised $12.23 billion, or roughly 28 percent of all donations. The list of 20 schools include five

Ivy League schools: Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and Harvard.

A strong stock market contributed to higher personal giving, according to the Council for Aid to Education. Gifts from alumni of American colleges rose by 14.5 percent to $11.37 billion, accounting for 26.1 percent of total giving.

Harvard’s $37.1 billion endowment grew 8.1 percent in fiscal year 2017, meaning it grew the smallest amount compared to Ivy League peer endowments.

Democrats, Feminist Groups Hold Panel on #MeToo, Sexual Harassment By paula m. barberi and simone c. chu Crimson Staff Writers

Students, professors, and legal experts discussed the direction the nation should take following the national spotlight on the #MeToo movement at a Tuesday evening panel.

About 50 students gathered in Emerson Hall for the event, which was co-sponsored by the Harvard College Democrats, Our Harvard Can Do Better, and the ReproJustice Action and Dialogue Collective.

Panelists included Law School Professor Diane Rosenfeld, Massachusetts Legislative Aide Preyel Patel, University of Massachusetts-Boston Professor J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, and Know Your IX Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Sejal Singh.

The panelists discussed the evolution of the movement against sexual assault over time. Ehrlich observed that over the decades, a new vocabulary had to be created in order for people to be capable of discussing the experience of sexual harassment.

“When I was a teenager, sexual harassment really hadn’t been invented as a formal legal concept,” Ehrlich said.

“I had no words for it. I had no name for it.”

A central theme in the panelists’ responses was the call for intersectionality within the movement, and advoca-

cy for marginalized groups.

“I can’t speak for a trans woman, but I can hold a space for her,” Rosenfeld said.

I hope people got the sense that this is a fight we’re in, but it’s a fight we can win.

Amelia Y. Goldberg ‘19 Our Harvard Can Do Better Organizer

Panelists also called for individuals to not shy away from difficult conversations with their peers.

“I personally have had several conversations with male friends and female friends about, for example, the Aziz Ansari article,” Patel said. “That one especially was very controversial, because I think a lot of people—a lot of men especially—saw themselves in his shoes.”

But it is this kind of conversation, Patel said, that helps drive progress.

RAD President Sarah M. Lipson ’20 said she hoped students would learn

that the #MeToo movement is more than just stories of sexual assault.

“Every single person has something to contribute and they will be affected, even if by extension,” Lipson said.

Many students said they strongly connected to the topics discussed by the panelists.

“I thought that it was really interesting how they really focused on power dynamics, talking a lot about the patriarchy and how this is a really systemic problem,” Jeremy A. Stepansky ’21 said.

“What really struck me about this entire discussion was the framing of what’s happening right now with the #MeToo movement as something that is part of a longer-term feminist project that’s been going on for decades, and also as something that has real revolutionary power to create change,” Amelia Y. Goldberg ’19, an organizer for Our Harvard Can Do Better, said.

“That gave me a lot of hope. I hope people got the sense that this is a fight we’re in, but it’s a fight we can win,” she added.

Sruthi Palaniappan ’20, the College Democrats’ service director, said she believes it’s important to be patient.

“Culture doesn’t change overnight,” Sruthi Palaniappan ’20, the College Democrats’ service director, said. “But it’s important that we are making constant efforts to create these large strides.”

José Andrés Advocates for Puerto Rico By alexandra a. chaidez Crimson Staff Writer

Michelin star chef and humanitarian José Andrés discussed the importance of providing aid to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria at an Institute of Politics panel Tuesday.

Andrés joined the former Secretary of Homeland Security, the Vice President of Disaster Operations and Logistics for the Red Cross, and the Director of Emergency Management for Walmart to discuss national responses to natural disasters in 2017 at the panel.

In 2010, Andrés founded the nonprofit World Central Kitchen to build restaurants, bakeries, and schools in Haiti following the Jan. 2010 earthquake.

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, Andrés said he flew to the island to build a network of 18 restaurants and provide more than 2 million meals throughout the approximately four months his team was there.

His organization fed more people in Puerto Rico than the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or any government agency, according to the New York Times.

“You got the sense that there was no centralized leadership,” Andrés said in an interview after the panel. “I would ­

José Andrés, a Michelin star chef and owner of ThinkFoodGroup, discusses delivering cooked meals to disaster victims in Puerto Rico. Allison g. lee­— Crimson photographer

say that. Not that I like centralized leadership.”

With the help of over 10,000 volunteers, Andrés said he tackled a disaster “of biblical proportions.”

Andrés said he and his team fed hospitals, the National Guard, and even the most remote areas of the island.

He and his team prepared six different menus everyday with items including traditional Puerto Rican meals like pastelón de carne—a type of meatloaf— and sancocho—a beef stew—as well as sandwiches and fruit.

“We became the biggest buyer of fruit on the island for a couple of months,” Andrés said. “We were getting loads of apples, of oranges; we always tried to deliver one or two pieces of fruit with every meal.”

Andrés said he and his team would often go to extreme lengths to provide food to all parts of the island.

“I was crossing a river with a tray of chicken because the bridge went down in the water and it was no easy river to cross, and I fell back and the chickens survived,” Andrés said. “I was proud of that. I mean, a chef cannot lose his food, but I don’t want to brag about it.”

“I lost two satellite phones but I saved the chickens,” he added.

Andrés and the panelists also em-

phasized the improvements that still need to be made to the national response to the disaster in Puerto Rico.

Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, said Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico at an inopportune time on the heels of disasters like Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas late last August. Still, he said the island should not have been overlooked.

“It’s an island; it’s not an excuse,” Johnson said.

Andrés said he worried there was a lack of adequate thought given by government agencies to an environment where people are in desperate need of food. For instance, he said that in one case, Puerto Ricans were sent rice and beans without any method of cooking them.

“Someone is not thinking about those details that mean the difference between life and death,” Andrés said.

“A guy at the FBI doesn’t know where the shop is, but the cook does.”

Andrés encouraged people to travel to the island as a way to help restart the Puerto Rican economy.

“Show up on vacation because the industry needs to come back and there is enough infrastructure to have a good time,” he said.

EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

Where There Is Smoke, There Is Fire By refusing funds, the School of Public Health upholds basic ethical standards

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n a joint statement released in late January, the Harvard School of Public Health joined 16 other schools in refusing funds from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.

They cited concerns that the Foundation is funded by, and too closely associated with, Philip Morris International, a multinational cigarette and tobacco company. Although the School of Public Health’s rejection of these funds is not itself praiseworthy, we are glad that the it has upheld basic ethical standards for academic research.

It is worth noting that Harvard scientists have a history of accepting unscrupulous funding from suspect sources. In one example from 1967, Harvard scientists published a study on the effects of sugar on heart disease without disclosing funding from the Sugar Research Foundation, a group backed by the sugar industry.

This unfortunate example highlights the essential role of objectivity in research. In scientific research, and especially in public health, findings can have life-altering implications for the health of millions. The need for

transparency is obvious. Researchers must avoid conflicts of interest that could compromise the ethical integrity of not only their work, but also that of their institution.

We see evidence of the importance of academic integrity and transparency in the Honor Code for Harvard College, which states that members of the College community commit themselves to adhering to scholarly and intellectual standards. We expect no less from the School of Public Health and Harvard as a whole.

According to the World Health Organization, Philip Morris International has committed approximately $80 million annually to the Foundation for the next twelve years. It is clear that the tobacco industry and public health are fundamentally at odds, and regardless of the Foundation’s intentions, this financial connection undermines the Foundation’s objectivity as a potential sponsor of ethical scientific research.

We urge other schools at Harvard and beyond to follow similar steps that the School of Public Health has taken

in vetting would-be donors.Conflicts of interest are not limited to public health studies, or even STEM fields, and ethical transgressions in the humanities and social sciences are no less serious.

Although some might argue that tightening research budgets in the past few years necessitate flexibility toward sources of funding, modern ethical guidelines remain unwavering.

Researchers and institutions ought not compromise the integrity of their work even in a time of scarce funding.

We hope that the School of Public Health continues to live up to ethical standards and avoid conflicts of interest as a research organization ought to, and that other schools at Harvard follow their example.

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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will never, ever, hire/transfer you onto my team. Ever. I don’t care if you are a perfect fit or technically excellent or whatever.

I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision.”

So wrote one Adam Fletcher in 2015. Is Mr. Fletcher a white supremacist lurking amongst the halls of corporate America? A backwards homophobe creeping amongst the cubicles?

A privileged misogynist sneering from above the glass ceiling? Maybe he is actually a hero for swinging an iron hammer upon a clearly toxic and dastardly employee!

Mr. Fletcher actually works for Google, and first of all, should definitely know that nothing he says on the Internet is private. For context, Mr. Fletcher sent this email in response to the publication of the so called “anti-diversity manifesto” (which, in reality, proposed ways to increase the number of female tech wizards at Google) penned by one James Damore.

Mr. Damore’s only crime against Mr. Fletcher? Being conservative, and a white male.

Mr. Damore has recently filed suit against Google for unfair discrimination in accordance with its hiring practices. Now, I’m no legal expert, but I do know that private companies are generally free to enact the hiring policies and quotas they want.

In California, though, there are broader protections for employee political opinions than what federal pro-

tections proffer. But I would posit that California did not exactly envision placing the shield of the state over beleaguered conservatives when it drafted those political ideology protections.

The visceral response to Mr. Damore’s memo is also not surprising in a world where “Campus Bias Teams” have emerged at over 100 colleges and universities. Despite their name and expressed mission of supporting students and faculty who experience “incidents of bias and discrimination,” I hardly think these groups imagine themselves to be defenders of conservative campus minorities that are often on the receiving end of real bias.

But how the tables could turn!

Imagine Mr. Damore wins his suit, or that conservative students and faculty could successfully initiate and win Campus Bias responses against discriminatory hiring and promoting practices, disinvited speakers, suppressions of academic expression, and more. The liberal machinery would be turned in upon itself, leveraged for the advancement of its opposition!

But no self-respecting conservative would ever allow themselves to be considered an oppressed class in need of institutional protections. If they really did want to chalk up an imagined victory like the ones above, all they would have really done is leverage liberal tools and liberal frameworks to do so, and that would be no victory. The absolute last thing conservatives would ever want is special treatment, affirmative action, or legislation to tip the scales in their favor.

So then, where do conservatives find their W’s? In many ways, conservatism can appear paradoxical. When it comes to government, less is more.

When it comes to morality and virtue, we need as much as we can get. People should be permitted to act in their own self-interest, but law and order are necessary for fallen mankind.

Even given these intellectual puzzles, I believe that I accurately capture most of the large conservative ideological tent when I say that liberty, morality, virtue, and tradition are pillars of conservative thought. But while these pillars provide something akin to victory conditions, the path towards them is decidedly less clear.

Sometimes I cannot help but wonder if a society governed by those noble forces is just as quixotic and as much a mirage as modern liberalism’s vision of equality and protection enforced by an all-benevolent state. Morality and virtues do not always course strongly through our society, and they are not easily developed or instilled in most people.

Legislative victories might bring some semblance of virtue or morality to the political system, but they would not increase those habits in individuals.

Inducing or incentivizing people to behave virtuously is not the same thing as embracing virtue for its own sake. If Mr. Damore wins his suit, for example, that might make Google change its hiring practices, but it wouldn’t unharden the hearts of employees like Mr. Fletcher.

Surely though, there are better and worse visions of utopia to strive for.

We are fools to believe that existence is relative, even if morally complex. If there is no true good or true bad in this world, then existence is quite meaningless. It is not closed-minded or intolerant to remain steadfast and resolute on an intricate but significant issue; rather, it takes great intellect and courage to resist the temptation to waver and equivocate and instead stick to reasoned principle. When the world understands that there is objective right and wrong, then, I believe, conservatism can win.

Grace M. Chao ’19 is an Economics concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays.

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Beware Stanfordization

By KEITH RAFFEL

W

ho is Harvard’s biggest rival? Yale, right? Nope, not anymore. Yes, The Game is still a big deal, but what’s true on the football field is no longer true for undergraduate education.

Yale, founded over 300 years ago, has been supplanted as the Crimson’s main competition in the academic world by an institution less than half as old—Stanford.

The numbers do not lie. In 2017 Stanford accepted 4.7% of 44,073 applicants for undergraduate admission. Harvard accepted 5.2% of 39,506. That makes the West Coast institution both more popular and more exclusive. Of the students who were accepted by both colleges, an estimated 43% pick Stanford over Harvard. That’s real competition (and a higher number than the estimated 39% who pick Yale over Harvard).

I’ve lived in Palo Alto, Stanford’s hometown, since I was a boy. Currently, though, I am hanging out in Cambridge as a resident scholar in Mather House. From what I’ve gleaned talking to applicants and students in both locales, Stanford’s the sexier choice. It’s smack-dab in the midst of Silicon Valley and has a climate without compare.

A friend of mine who teaches at Stanford calls it “a tech incubator with dorms.” He counted over 160 courses there with some variant of “entrepreneur” or “innovation” in their title. Its most celebrated grads are tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, and Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix. Stanford is to Silicon Valley what West Point is to the Army.

Harvard traditionally wanted to be the best at almost every academic discipline, from African-American studies to biology to Celtic. (The single exception was hard-core engineering, which was left to the MIT techies at the other end of Mass. Ave.) Graduates were not necessarily being trained for a specific profession. As former University President James B. Conant ’14 put it over seventy years ago in “General Education in a Free Society,” an imperative goal of Harvard was to prepare a graduate for “life as a responsible human being and citizen.”

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Back during the Cold War, I served on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It’s said that during those days, as the Soviet KGB and American CIA played “Spy vs. Spy” around the world, the two agencies became more and more alike. Is that what Harvard is doing, becoming more like its chief competitor?

I hope not.

Of course, Harvard’s recent investments in STEM make sense in the world we live in, and I applaud them. But what makes Harvard special and gives it a competitive advantage of its own ought not be neglected.

Harvard must shoot for more than training students for their future careers. It should remain a place that teaches undergraduates of all concentrations to think: to think critically, think clearly, think creatively, think empathetically.

The responsible human beings and citizens whom Conant envisioned are needed in this nation and throughout the world more than ever. (A great place for some of them to focus would be in striking the balance between social good and technological progress.)

What does this mean for Harvard? That even while continuing to invest in STEM, it should reverse the slide in the study of literature, philosophy, foreign cultures, religion, history, and the humanities and social sciences generally.

Today some humanities departments have more tenured faculty than concentrators.

The value of a Harvard degree should be measured in more than economic terms. As Robert F. Kennedy ’48 said, GNP “measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”

So, I offer this advice to Harvard’s next president. Let Stanford do what it may. Harvard should remain Harvard, a place where knowledge is valued primarily for its own sake, not for the new startups it spawns.

Keith Raffel ’72 was the founder of UpShot Corporation, a Silicon Valley pioneer in cloud computing solutions, and is currently the writer-in-residence of Mather House.

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Univ. to Stop Using Fossil Fuels FAS Approves Adv. Standing Changes FOSSIL FROM PAGE 1

As it seeks to become fossil fuel-free, the University will follow a new “Climate Action Plan,” formulated based on the recommendations of the Climate Change Task Force and sent as an attachment to Faust’s email. Faust established the task force in 2008 to study how to reduce the University’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Faust wrote that what she called the “ambitious climate goals” set by the University come in response to the threat climate change poses to humanity and the planet.

“We have continued to witness the detrimental effects of climate change here in the United States and around the world,” Faust wrote. “We have also seen an elevation of baseless skepticism of science—of the facts it generates and the value it produces—in our public discourse, and in research essential to human progress has come under assault.”

Faust also wrote that scientific research into the various implications of climate change drove the University’s dedication to fossil-fuel reduction. The

action plan attached to her email included findings from Harvard School of Public Health researchers that asserted fossil fuel emissions can produce a variety of medical consequences in addition to environmental ones.

The plan also includes proposals for continued student and faculty research into climate issues using Harvard’s campus as a “living lab.”

Since 2014, the University’s Climate Change Solutions Fund has contributed nearly $4 million to more than 30 climate research projects across a variety of disciplines, according to a press release attached to Faust’s email Tuesday.

In her letter, Faust wrote that one of the key steps toward implementing the Climate Action Plan involves appointing a new Sustainability Executive Committee. The committee will consist of faculty, administrators, and students tasked with reducing fossil fuel emissions.

The plan also charges Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp and Vice President for Campus Services Meredith L. Weenick with overseeing a “strategic planning process to reduce

the University’s reliance on fossil fuels” in areas like transportation, district energy supply, and capital planning. The University will also convene working groups to form recommendations on the adoption of on-campus cost-effective energy-efficiency and emissions-reduction opportunities.

The University plans to work collaboratively with the cities of Boston and Cambridge to reach its climate goals.

Both cities have set benchmarks for reaching carbon-neutrality by 2050.

This collaboration will be particularly necessary to achieve the University’s goal of its district energy system operating without fossil fuels, Faust wrote.

Neither Faust’s email nor the action plan discussed the University’s stance on fossil fuel investments. Student activists have repeatedly called on the University to divest from fossil fuels over the past few years. Divest Harvard, a student activist group, blockaded University Hall in March to demand a “moratorium” on Harvard investments in the coal industry.

Divest Harvard did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday about Harvard’s new fossil fuel-free plan.

Campuses Host Datamatch DATAMATCH FROM PAGE 1 Business Manager Russell F. Pekala ’19, a Wellesley College student reached out to the Datamatch team asking to bring the program to her campus, while Datamatch reached out to students at Brown and Columbia universities.

Although Datamatch was created by HCS, business managers Pekala and Sam L. Goldman ’19 said they mainly partnered with campus publications instead of technology-based clubs at other schools in order to develop survey questions catered to each campus.

“We wanted this to be a fun thing for our developers, who would work on a project that’s scaling up,’” Goldman said.

Each school’s edition will be unique, Pekala said.

“They each have a different sense of humor, obviously, and we struggled a little bit with deciding how much freedom to give them, in deciding what the questions would be and what the

tone would be, how serious they would be, how many memes there would be in the questions, what kind of words could be used,” he said.

The staff of Columbia’s humor magazine, The Jester, was tasked with

“This is very much a trial run for the expansion.”

Sam L. Goldman ‘19 Harvard Computer Society Business Manager

writing Columbia-specific Datamatch questions.

“I have been getting a lot of messages from people over the last few days asking if it’s up yet,” said Supriya Ambwani, co-editor-in-chief of The Jester.

Neither Wellesley, Columbia, nor Brown’s version of Datamatch has

sponsorships with local eateries like Harvard’s program, though some students say they hope this part of the program will be included in the future.

Brown sophomore Sarah E. Berman said she initially heard about the program through a Facebook post.

“I thought it was a hackathon or something and I clicked on it. It was not,” she said.

“Honestly, I think it’s kind of funny.”

While Goldman said he was excited about Datamatch’s introduction to other campuses, he said he recognized that each school’s program might not receive as much of a turnout as Harvard’s version.

“This is very much a trial run for the expansion, so if we have 80 percent student participation here, presumably it’s not going to be anywhere close to that on the other campuses,” Goldman said.

“But hopefully, it goes smoothly, we have a nice pipeline, we have other student groups that are interested.

And then, in future years, we scale up.”

Faust Urges Congress on TPS TPS FROM PAGE 5 colleagues,” Faust wrote.

At a Faculty meeting Tuesday, Faust said she has been in contact with House and Senate leaders about TPS. She also said that she had the opportunity to speak to Senator Dick Durbin while he was at Harvard last week to seek his advice on the issue.

Harvard Kennedy School student Niharika N. Singh, a member of the International Scholars Working Group run by the graduate student unionization effort, spoke at the protest on Thursday.

Singh said she was glad the University made a statement “after many months of organizing.”

“I think when DACA was repealed, that statement was made instantaneously whereas this has taken now quite a number of months since TPS status started being under risk and cancelled,” she said.

Other protesters also criticized Faust for a comparatively faster response to the Sept. 2017 repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals— an Obama-era program that allowed undocumented youth to legally live and work in the United States. Faust denounced the decision to repeal DACA as “cruel” in a University-wide email just hours after the repeal.

Faust has been a long-time advocate for undocumented students and immigrants at Harvard and in higher educa-

tion broadly. Since the repeal of DACA, Faust has advocated on behalf of undocumented students by signing letters, appearing on national television, and joining the “Dream Coalition,” an organization of business leaders and politicians pushing for legislation to protect undocumented students.

Last week, the University updated its “Undocumented at Harvard” website to include more information on TPS and the various ways in which affected members of the University can utilize resources on campus.

The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic currently has one fulltime attorney devoted to providing legal counsel on immigration issues to University affiliates.

VOTE FROM PAGE 5 Sciences as an undergraduate in order to obtain a master’s degree during their four years at the College.

Previously, students had to have pre-existing Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credit to apply for Advanced Standing. Undergraduates also had the option to forgo a fourth-year master’s degree and instead graduate in three years.

Though students will not be able to use AP or IB exams to receive credit from the College under the new program, individual departments will be able to use the exams for placement purposes. Students will still be able to use the exams to meet their two-semester language requirement.

At the Faculty meeting, several professors took issue with the elimination of the option to graduate in three years.

Some argued there are numerous reasons students might want to pursue that path.

Computer Science Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68 said students who choose to graduate early often have a rationale that makes the decision “reasonable and worthwhile.”

“The students I know who’ve graduated in three or three and a half years don’t seem to be any less well educated than the rest, and each of them seems to have had some special, individual circumstance,” Lewis said.

Physics Professor Jennifer E. Hoffman ‘00, who noted she herself graduated in three years with advanced

standing at Harvard, said she thinks personal issues like finances and health issues might motivate a student to graduate in three years.

Hoffman also gave examples of accomplished Harvard alumni who graduated under the Advanced Standing program, including current professors as well as University Provost Alan M. Garber ’77.

Lewis said he thinks the new guidelines will detrimentally affect Harvard’s ability to compete with peer institutions like Stanford and Yale in drawing students.

“All of those universities have acceleration programs. I’m sure they’d be delighted to see us end ours,” Lewis said. “Many consider it a kind of insurance when students are deciding to come here—they like knowing that if something bad happens to them or their families during their college years, they may be able to finish more quickly, and at lower cost.”

At Stanford, almost 20 percent of students participate in the “coterminal program,” their equivalent of Harvard’s Advanced Standing initiative.

The Faculty also heard a presentation Tuesday from Dean of Social Sciences Claudine Gay about the University’s Inequality in America initiative, which seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to study issues of inequality.

Gay said the initiative received over 330 applications for just two openings in their new two-year postdoctoral training program.

Tencent Co-Founder Speaks at Ed School

By JAMIE D. HALPER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Charles Chen Yidan, co-founder of Tencent—a Chinese investment holding company—visited the Harvard Graduate School of Education this week for a conference showcasing the work of the 2017 recipients of his award for education innovators.

The award’s inaugural recipients, Stanford University professor Carol S. Dweck and Clara Victoria “Vicky” Colbert, director of the Colombia-based educational NGO Fundación Escuela Nueva, participated in a series of events with Education School students and faculty during the conference.

The Yidan Prize, founded in 2016, is a $3.9 million award given for contributions to education, with the intention of continuing the recipients’ work in their fields.

Chen, who left his post as the Chief Administrative Officer of Tencent in 2013 to be a full-time educational philanthropist, said education is the most important thing one can support.

“I have often said that education is the ultimate answer to social progress,” Chen said through a translator.

“I think this is my lifetime career, especially after I stepped down from Tencent Group.”

Dweck, who was a professor at Harvard in the 1980s, said it was “wonderful” to return to the School of Educa­

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“At lunch with the dean yesterday, I remembered that this is where I developed those ideas,” Dweck said. “I had already done 15 years of research on the topic, but it was at Harvard where the ideas crystallized.”

Colbert, who created the “New School” model of education in Colombia, said she plans to use the Yidan Prize funds to expand the network of schools using her method.

Designed for teachers in single-room schools in rural areas, the method is meant to address the needs of students with varying academic levels simultaneously.

Dweck said she plans to continue studying the impacts of her educational theories on student growth in American schools and developing a curriculum for teachers.

While visiting Harvard, Chen said he had the opportunity to meet with University President Drew G. Faust to discuss the Yidan Prize and Harvard’s own initiatives for transforming education.

“We had some detailed discussions about how the Yidan Prize went, and our ideas behind that,” Chen said. “She also shared with us some of the innovative projects and ideas Harvard will launch.”

Chen said that he and Faust had a “mutual understanding” on their goals for higher education.

Sports

The Harvard Crimson | February 7, 2018 | page 10

Women’s Ice Hockey Comeback Falls Just Short WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

By EAMON MCLOUGHLIN Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard (9-13-2, 7-9-2 ECAC) fell just short of a miraculous comeback against Boston University (11-14-6, 6-11-5 Hockey East) in the 2018 Beanpot semifinal on Tuesday evening, falling by a score of 3-2.

Harvard hockey fans know that this matchup can get wild, with the last meeting between the two ending in a 6-6 tie following overtime. Tonight proved to be no different. Harvard found itself down 3-0 within six minutes of the initial puck drop, following a pair of goals from senior Victoria Bach and one from freshman Jesse Compher.

This was a somewhat surprising result considering the two schools’ records as well as their respective histories against one another. Boston University had beat Harvard in the Beanpot tournament just twice in the tournament’s 40-year history before their win last night.

Falling behind early did not deter Harvard though, as it found itself very much in the game in the first period and throughout the rest of the contest. After settling down, Harvard seemed to outplay Boston University for long stretches, at times looking like it was the one leading by a score of 3-0.

“I think it was out of pure frustration honestly that we turned it around.” said sophomore forward Kat Hughes. “Obviously you never want to get down early on, especially not by three goals, but right when that third goal went in, it kind of flipped a switch, and we started playing really hard.”

Harvard broke through with five minutes remaining in the first period, when freshman forward Brooke Jovanovich found the net following a save from Boston University keeper Corinne Schroeder. From their goal until the end of the first period, Harvard looked hungry for more, testing the Boston Univer­

sity keeper on multiple occasions, and looking as if it would pull within touching distance before the start of the second frame.

Boston University had its chances as well, and goalie Beth Larcom came up big for Harvard many times throughout the extremely lively, back and forth affair. Things got even more interesting when the Crimson went up a player early on in the second period. After some sustained pressure on the Boston University defense, senior defender Chelsea Ziadie struck a thunderbolt from just outside of the neutral zone, finding its way through plenty of traffic, one pair of Harvard legs, and into the net to bring Harvard within just one goal of its crosstown rival.

With a spot in the Beanpot final on the line and Harvard trailing by just a single goal, Boston University managed to pick up the intensity, and began to match Harvard’s pace. Larcom stayed vigilant, finishing the night with 29 saves, compared to 24 from Boston University’s Schroeder.

The night finished in disappointment for Harvard, as it was not able to finish off what would have surely been a memorable comeback in Chestnut Hill. With the final seconds ticking away, Harvard pulled its goalie in hopes of finding that decisive third goal, but that continued to be elusive. In a six versus five situation and with pressure mounting, Schroeder sprawled and saved a shot which made its way across the length of goal line, somehow keeping Boston University ahead. With Harvard’s net open, Boston University almost took advantage of its opportunity to seal the game, with a shot from senior forward Victoria Bach just missing the empty net as time expired. Had this gone in, it would’ve marked a hat trick for Bach.

Harvard have struggled to bounce back from opponent’s goals recently, conceding three in rapid succession late in the game on Saturday versus No. 4

ON THE BIG STAGE, Sophomore Val Turgeon would be battling for possession at the Bruin’s TD Garden Tuesday night.

TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

Colgate after firmly holding the Raiders at 1-0 for almost 40 minutes. The same problem troubled the team last night, with Boston University’s three goals coming within just 2:21 of one another, and within just over six minutes of the game’s start. Following this lapse, Harvard was strong on defense, shutting its opponents out for the remaining 55 or so minutes of the game.

Jovanovich continues to leave her mark on this team and this season, with the Ontario native’s goal earning her a

fourth point in her last four games. Contributions from fellow freshmen Buckles, Gilmore, Sorkin and others have been big this season, and they show that Harvard can be optimistic looking toward the future.

“This year was the 40th annual Beanpot, and for the history of women’s hockey, it’s a big deal.” said junior captain forward Kate Hallett. “It’s exciting to be able to be a part of an unbelievable tradition, but beyond that, something which Coach Stone always says is that

it’s an opportunity to play for a trophy in February. That’s always really exciting.”

Last night’s loss means that Harvard will have to look on from the sidelines next Tuesday at Conte Forum during the Beanpot Championship, in which Boston University will play Boston College at 8 p.m. Harvard and Northeastern will contest the consolation game at 4:30 on the same day.

Staff writer Eamon McGloughlin can be reached

Junior Shooter Johnson Steps Up In Leadership

SNIPER Junior Corey Johnson, more known for his three-ball, beats his man off the dribble in the Crimson’s close shave 54-52 away win against rivals Yale.

TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By HENRY ZHU Crimson Staff Writer

A n hour before tip-off in Ithaca, N.Y. on Feb. 3., the Harvard men’s basketball team collectively jogged onto the court for the first time. Only a scattering of media and fans were present inside Bartels Hall—Cornell’s multisport athletic complex— at that hour, and many were heading towards Lynah Rink, where the nation’s No.1 men’s hockey team was warming up for a duel against its cross-state rival, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Meanwhile inside a quiet Newman Arena, two voices particularly stood out on the basketball court. One came from head conditioning coach Luke Osberg, who was guiding the Crimson in pregame stretches as they moved parallel from one side of the court to the other.

The source of the other voice: junior forward Corey Johnson, who was noticeably stretching a few steps ahead of the rest of the team. The defeat less than 24 hours ago against Columbia did not seem to affect the energetic three-point specialist, who ­

throughout pregame was exchanging a mix of light-hearted banter and short pump-up messages with a team that, according to head coach Tommy Amaker, was still quite “gassed and tired” from the previous night’s contest.

As the only upperclassmen in Amaker’s rotation with consistent minutes, Johnson has taken over as Harvard’s on-court vocal leader this season. This post in the past was held almost exclusively by Siyani Chambers ‘16-’17 and Zena Edosomwan ‘17 , whose graduations last year left questions as to who would become the new guiding leader(s) on Amaker’s roster.

The 11th-year Crimson head coach made clear over the summer that senior Chris Egi, a native of Markham, Ontario, had earned his right to be the team’s official captain for the 20172018 season.

Egi has been an important mentor to the young Harvard team throughout the season, despite only seeing action in two games. Particularly enthusiastic on the sidelines, the team’s captain has contributed in many ways towards infusing positive energy onto the Crimson.

“My senior class was the last class

to win an Ivy League Championship,” Egi said. “I think that kind of gives us some credibility in speaking to the younger guys. We’ve seen what it takes to get there, obviously you have to work hard and they want it. But as a class, not just individuals, we have to step up and just bring that foundation in terms of being vocal leaders.”

On the court, however, Johnson has been the clear headman. During quick breaks in the action, the Ottawa native can often be seen yelling at teammates to gather and huddle.

During these team meetings lasting no more than ten seconds, the junior uses this time to settle the team down and offer encouraging statements.

Johnson is also extremely outspoken during timeouts, frequently being the last voice before the team returns onto the court.

“I have always found myself as a vocal player on the court and basically I am just trying to do my best to keep everybody together on the floor when we get into moments when we need to recalibrate and regroup,” Johnson said. “I want to make sure everyone is on the same page and we get onto the next play no matter what is going on.

If things are going well, if things are

going bad, we are always just thinking about the next play and how we are going to win the game.”

The presence of a stabilizing force like Johnson has been critical for a young team that is still struggling through inconsistency and long offensive barren stretches this season.

Against Dartmouth on Jan. 20, Havard was up by as much as 17 points in the second half before going blank in the next six minutes, ultimately requiring an offensive revival in overtime.

A similar pattern occurred in the Yale contest six days later, which saw the Crimson jump out to a 20-5 lead only to allow the Bulldogs to bring it within four by halftime. Made free throws down the stretch were crucial in that victory.

“Even though teams have made late runs on us, we have been able to maintain our composure and consistency on both ends and figure out a way really to grind out a few really good road wins,” Johnson said.

“Hopefully we can continue to do that.”

The junior wing has also had to battle against his own shooting woes, particularly early in the season. In a

stretch of five games between Nov. 30 and Dec. 23, Johnson shot a combined 6-of-22 from three point range, averaging 4.0 points per game.

Despite this extended shooting slump, Amaker gave his three-point specialist more than 30 minutes of playing time in each of the next three games. Moreover, Johnson was still given the green light to shoot, achieving greater accuracy with nine made triples in 21 attempts.

Amaker’s continued trust and confidence in one of his main perimeter weapons has paid off in recent conference games. Johnson has shot over 40 percent from deep in his past four games, including five made triples against Columbia. Before that Lions game, Amaker attributed making easier shots on helping the shooter regain his touch.

“It’s amazing how shooters and scorers, if they get a free throw or a layup, it changes things,” Amaker said. “Right after that [Corey] made some deep, long shots. I think getting off of the ledger relaxed him and gave him confidence. The next thing you know, he is making shots.”

For Johnson, continued improvement offensively will be critical in balancing out a talented Crimson roster as the team approaches the end of the season. Currently in second place in the Ancient Eight behind the unbeaten Penn Quakers, Harvard will depend on Johnson’s aggressive perimeter shooting to open space for its sophomores and freshmen to attack the rim and create playmaking opportunities.

The junior wing has largely embraced this vocal but complementary role on the team, crediting the importance of ball distribution and communication on both sides of the court for the team’s recent success.

“We have so many offensive weapons that any given night any one of us can pick up the offensive load,” Johnson said. “We are always willing to find that hot hand. We are very unselfish… It is basically finding who is on for that night and hopefully willing to run our offensive through that.”

This type of team-first, collective mentality has become not only an important motto for Coach Amaker, but a message that his team leaders have embraced.

In many ways, Johnson’s words echoes the type of openness and trust that Amaker has sought from all members of his program. To lead, as Johnson has demonstrated, involves a balance between gaining a voice and holding others accountable.

“When you see something, say something,” Amaker said. “That is where we are. Embrace that, trust that, and don’t fight it - that’s the way in which we are trying to coach them.”

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