THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLV, NO. 14 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, FEBUARY 6, 2018
The Harvard Crimson Faust must take a consistent policy stance on supporting immigrants at Harvard. EDITORIAL PAGE 8
After 23 minutes of overtime, the Boston Terriers edged out Harvard 3-2. SECTION PAGE 10
Feds Review Title IX Response
UC to Survey Mental Health By JONAH S. BERGER
By JAMIE D. HALPER
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he federal government launched an T investigation into Harvard in 2016 for allegedly failing to respond “promptly and equitably” to a complaint of sexual assault at the College, according to documents obtained by The Crimson. The case is one of three ongoing federal inquiries into Harvard for alleged violations of anti-sex discrimination law Title IX. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights
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The Undergraduate Council will conduct a survey to gather student input on current mental health resources and inclusion on campus in order to help the UC better allocate its resources. The survey, which passed the Council on a 29-3-1 vote on Monday, asks students about their mental health experiences on campus and whether they feel informed of the resources available to them. Student Life Committee Chair
Kanishk Mittal ‘20 (right) speaks, along with Rushi Patel ‘21 (center), and Arnav Agrawal ‘20, regarding the proposed Survey on the State of Mental Health, Inclusion, and Belong of the Undergraduate Population Monday night. CALEB D. SCHWARTZ —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
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Harvard Alumni in the Arts
The
By GRACE Z. LI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Working Artist
“It was like stepping off the edge of the world—to be an artist,” Pauline B. Lim ’88 said. We were in her home at the Brickbottom Artists Association in Somerville, Massachusetts. The first thing you might have noticed about her place was that there was no free space on her walls. They were decked out in the mixed-media paintings she sells, from the floor to the ceiling. “Right after graduation I spent several years in a state of terror,” Lim said. “What was going to happen to me? How am I going to make money? Am I going to have to be a prostitute?” Three decades later and Lim is living in a very different picture. She sustains herself through her paintings and a day job, and lives in an artist’s space with dozens of creators. But when Lim graduated in 1988 with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies, there seemed to be a myriad of voices telling her that she was on the wrong path: negative stereotypes about artists from popular culture, the ever-heightening standard of being a Harvard student, and disapproving parents. “My dad was a doctor, and my mom’s father was a doctor, and my mom was an RN [registered nurse],” Lim said. “And they were refugees from Korea after the Korean War. And they were constantly telling me I had to be a doctor in order to survive.” “Everyone at Harvard was going on to be a consultant or going to law school or medical school or business school,” she added. “And I felt so alone.”
The Crimson spoke with Harvard alumni—dancers, writers, a theater set designer, a painter, musicians, comedians, and an actor—to find out what it’s like to pursue arts as a career.
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Harvard Scientists Discover New Tree
Columbia Rejects Union Bargaining
By AMY L. JIA and SANJANA L. NARAYANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Columbia University will not respond to a bargaining request from its graduate student union, University Provost John H. Coatsworth wrote in a letter to Columbia students on Tuesday. Experts say the developments at Columbia could have significant ramifications for Harvard’s upcoming second unionization election. As a result of the university’s decision, organizers with the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto
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Elmo, a popular character from the children’s show Sesame Street, talks with Ann Compton, a former correspondant for ABC News Monday night. AMY Y. LI —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
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Botanists at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum discovered a new species of Eastern Asian hemlock tree with a natural resistance to a notorious invasive insect, according to a study published in Dec. 2017. The Ulleungdo hemlock is native to an island off the coast of South Korea and is so rare that it is already being considered for an endangered species listing. Senior Research Scientist Emeritus Peter Del Tredici, a member of the team that discovered the tree, said the process leading up to the discovery actually began at the Arnold Arboretum—a botanical garden and research center funded by Harvard—several
years before. The first temperate conifer species to be discovered in over 10 years, the Ulleungdo hemlock is valuable to scientific study because of its observed resistance to the hemlock woolly adelgid—an invasive insect that kills trees by sucking out their sap—which has devastated native hemlock populations in the eastern United States. “You could take this species and hybridize it with another species—say the Chinese hemlock, which is also resistant to the hemlock adelgid—and you could begin the process of breeding a new species of hemlock or a new variety of hemlock that’s resistant to the adelgid,” Del Tredici said. Del Tredici credits the initial observation of the tree to Nathan P. Havill, a former graduate student at Yale, who studied the hemlock woolly adelgid at
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