The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 24

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The Harvard Crimson Unionization organizers must work to make the election a procedurally clean one. EDITORIAL PAGE 6

Harvard came out fast against the Bulldogs and rode a strong first half to victory. SPORTS PAGE 7

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GSAS Adds Carter to Title IX Office

By S HERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By JONAH S. BERGER

Assistant Director of Student Affairs Caysie A. Carter will now serve as the Title IX Coordinator for Harvard’s Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, the school announced last week.

Carter, who joined GSAS’s Office of Student Affairs in December, previously served as a Title IX Coordinator at Boston University. She will join Seth Avakian, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ officer for Title IX and professional conduct, in responding to Title IX-related complaints at GSAS. Harvard’s 12 schools employ more than 50 coordinators to oversee the University’s compliance with gender equality provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Carter wrote in an email she is excited about her new role.

“Since I joined GSAS in December, I’ve really enjoyed getting to know graduate students and learning more about Harvard,” she wrote. “I’ve already begun working closely with Seth

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Multiple members of the Undergraduate Council alleged Harvard did not adequately take student input into account in its recently completed presidential search at a Council meeting Monday.

UC representatives raised these objections after Nina Srivastava ’18, one of three undergraduates who served on the University’s presidential search student advisory committee, presented a summary of the committee’s work. Srivastava refused to tell the UC whether newly selected University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow met the recommendations of the student advisory group.

While representatives did not criticize the work of the student committee, many questioned whether the official presidential search committee— comprising members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers—adequately considered students’ advice throughout the search.

At Monday’s meeting and in subsequent interviews, some Council members said they doubted whether students substantially influenced the search committee’s final choice.

Many promised, though, that they would remain open-minded about Bacow.

In an interview after the meeting, UC Parliamentarian Sonya Kalara ’21 said she thinks Bacow’s insider status—he served on the Harvard Corporation and the search committee prior to being named University president— shows that Harvard did not sufficiently consider student input.

“It seems like Larry Bacow was chosen from the search committee and he’s on the Corporation which doesn’t show a lot of substantive effort in engaging with the rest of the Harvard University system,” Kalara said.

In an emailed statement Monday, University Spokesperson Melodie L. Jackson pointed to an email search committee chair and Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee ’72 sent to Harvard affiliates last week announcing Bacow’s selection.

“Our gratitude goes especially to the members of the three advisory committees—of faculty, students, and staff—who worked so hard and contributed so much to informing the search committee’s deliberations, both by sharing their own views and by eliciting robust input from many others,” Lee wrote.

Caysie A. Carter will serve as the Title IX coordinator for GSAS. COURTESY OF HARVARD PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

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Grad Student Unions Withdraw Petitions

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Graduate student unions at Boston College, Yale, University of Chicago, and University of Pennsylvania have withdrawn petitions to represent students at those campuses before the National Labor Relations Board over the past two weeks.

The decisions to stall unionization efforts come amid ongoing disputes between unionization advocates and universities over recognition of graduate student unions before the NLRB. The goal, according to organizers and labor experts, is to preclude a Republican-led NLRB from issuing a ruling that strikes graduate students’ right to unionize.

The United Automobile Workers, UNITE-HERE, the American

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A biker crosses Weeks Bridge at dusk. Temperatures Tuesday were in the 60s, bringing an early blush of spring to the banks of the Charles River. AMY Y. LI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Rahm Emanuel Faces Protests at Design School

By ARCHIE J.W. HALL and SONIA KIM CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard affiliates gathered to protest Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s visit to the GSD. JACQUELINE S. CHEA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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A crowd of around 50 Harvard affiliates and Boston residents gathered in front of the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall to protest Mayor of Chicago Rahm I. Emanuel’s appearance at the GSD on Tuesday.

Hosted by the Answer Coalition Boston and the Party for Socialism and Liberation Boston, the protest was organized to publicly criticize the Chicago mayor’s policies.

“We seek to gather to denounce the crimes of the Rahm Emanuel administration against poor and working families, especially Black and Brown communities of Chicago,” read a Facebook event page created to organize the protest.

For two hours Tuesday night, protesters chanted slogans including “Rahm Emanuel you’re a tool, hands off Chicago’s public schools!” and “From Palestine to Chicago, Emanuel has got to go!”

They also held signs reading “#ResignRahm” and “No closed schools, no cop academy,” in reference to a planned $95 million police acade-

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my announced by the Emanuel administration.

The protest did not interfere with the event itself, where Emanuel discussed his tenure as Chicago mayor with GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi.

The conversation was co-sponsored by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Design School’s Office of Communications.

Emanuel has been met with protests at his recent visits to other college campuses as well, including at UCLA and the University of Michigan. After previous protests, Emanuel’s spokesperson Adam Collins told the Chicago Tribune that the dissent was “no surprise.”

“Anyone who has spent any amount of time on any college campus has probably protested something at some point. There’s really no surprise here,” Collins said.

The Facebook event page for Tuesday’s protest accused Emanuel of responsibility for and complicity in gentrification, police brutality, and austerity across Chicago.

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AROUND THE IVIES Dartmouth Faculty Calls on University for DACA Support More than 65 Dartmouth faculty have publicly signified their support of alumnus Unai Montes-Irueste, who resigned from a number of alumni boards and college roles because of his dissatisfaction with the college’s response to President Donald Trump’s rescision of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in Sept. 2017. The Dartmouth reported that the faculty signed a letter in support of MontesIrueste, who formerly served as the vice president of the Dartmouth Association of Latinx Alumni, and his decision to sever ties with alumni organizations and stop donating to Dartmouth.

Columbia Engineering Student Pres. Removed The Columbia Engineering Student Council voted Monday to removed its president, Aida Lu, according to the Columbia Spectator. The vote followed a motion by class of 2019 representative Montana St. Pierre to remove Lu from office last week. St. Pierre filed the motion and cited Lu’s frequent absences at mandatory meetings and general behavior as reasons for her removal.

“Generally the knowledge of Aida’s behavior is well known by the entire council, people are frustrated by it,” St. Pierre said. Lu objected to several of the allegations.

JILL SCOTT MASTERCLASS Harvard students perform at the Jill Scott Masterclass, the second event of Kuumba’s Black Arts Festival: Coming of Age. KAI R. MCNAMEE— CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

HAPPY WEDNESDAY HARVARD! Why do good weather and midterms have to go together?

In the Atmosphere…

Expect another warm day with temperatures in the 60s. Just a warning for our night owls out there: the temperature will rapidly drop to familiar 40s after midnight.

Eight Women Share Accounts of Sexual Misconduct at Yale Frat

EVENTS Democracy in the US Swing by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at 5 p.m. to speak with New York Times columnist David Brooks. The conversation will focus on populism and the future of democracy in the United States.

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Eight women interviewed by the Yale Daily News shared previously unreported accounts of sexual misconduct by members of the university’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternaty. Former chapter president Luke Persichetti was expelled from the chapter and later suspended from the university in March 2017 for the remainder of the semester for “penetration without consent” and another member of the chapter resigned in January due to sexual misconduct allegations. Four of the eight women said they were assaulted by the former member of the fraternity who resigned in January. None of the eight women have filed formal Title IX complaints with the university, citing a number of reasons including stress and the belief that their word would not be believed.

IN THE REAL WORLD SPACE FOR HOCKEY NEWS Harvard ice hockey player Ryan Donato ’19 scored the opening goal for team USA in the Olympic men’s hockey quarterfinals against the Czech Republic last night. The game, which went into a shootout, ended with a Czech victory. Last night’s goal was Donato’s fifth of the Olympics.The Czech Republic will advance to play the winner of tonight’s game between Norway and the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” in the semifinals. Donato, who has been Team USA’s best scorer, is also the Crimson’s leading scorer.

Trump Moves on Gun Control In light of the Florida shootings and resulting activism President Trump has decided to do something about gun regulations. Specifically he has ordered the banning of bump stocks, an attachment that makes guns fire much faster and that was used in the Las Vegas and recent Florida shootings.

Syrian Conflict Heats up Again The Syrian government has ramped up their war activities. In just the past two days at least 200 people, including many civilians, were killed by airstrikes alone. Without prompt international intervention, the conflict will likely claim many more lives before ending.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “There has been a consistent lack of student voice in any decision making process and that is something that needs to change.”

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Shark Inspires Airfoil Design

By AMY L. JIA and SANJANA L. NARAYANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Researchers from Harvard and the University of South Carolina have developed a new kind of airfoil, inspired by shark skin, that may improve lift in aircrafts.

Mehdi Saadat, an Organismic and Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral fellow, and August “Gus” Domel, a Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering doctoral student, joined Ichthyology Professor George V. Lauder to design the airfoil, a cross section of an airplane wing.

Combining their knowledge of shark biology and aerodynamics, the team examined denticles, small projections that are made of the same material as teeth, on shark skin.

“Once you actually put that skin under a microscope and you zoom in and you look at the small features, you realize they actually consist of many complex morphological structures on this skin,” Saadat said.

“Intuitively, the most important hypothesis out there was that it’s for reducing drag.”

Saadat and Domel thought about it differently. They hypothesized that shark denticles could produce vortices—essentially a whirling body of air, like a tornado—and that these vortices could improve the shark’s lift, rather than just drag, while swimming.

Whereas drag is the resistive force moving parallel and in the opposite direction to the shark’s forward motion, lift is the force moving perpendicular to the motion.

The researchers decided to test whether these denticles could have a similar effect on mechanical aircraft.

In particular, they studied the denticles of the mako, the world’s fastest shark.

In any collaborative project, if you put the right teams together, at the interface of all of that, that’s where the magic happens.

Mehdi Saadat

Harvard researcher “We take one of these denticles and we make a representative model,” Domel said. “We put it on the airfoil in

different configurations.”

Their experiments confirmed their hypothesis: the denticles significantly increased the airfoil’s potential to generate lift and also reduced drag to a lesser extent. Domel said the discovery could make many aerial devices more efficient.

“If you have an airplane, if you’re increasing your lift and decreasing your drag, the plane has to use less fuel to propel itself forward as well as stay in the air,” Domel said. “You can ultimately benefit the energy of the system, whether it’s generating energy via a wind turbine or reducing energy for an airplane.”

Domel and Saadat said interdisciplinary collaboration was key to their breakthrough. They said they benefited from the expertise of Lauder, as well as Applied Mechanics Professor and materials scientist Katia Bertoldi, Wyss Institute Senior Research Scientist James Weaver, and Dean of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina Hossein Haj-Hariri.

“I feel like in any collaborative project, if you put the right teams together, at the interface of all of that, that’s where the magic happens.” Saadat said.

“You have all the right pieces of the puzzle. And when you have not only the right pieces but also pieces that are all really good at what they do, it really makes for a beautiful collaboration,” Domel added.

Harvard Sold Stock Before Market Dip

By LUCAS WARD CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard sold its holding of a popular exchange-traded fund, ProShares, prior to a large dip in value that occurred in the stock market in early February, allowing the University to avoid over $10 million in losses.

Bloomberg reported on Feb. 9 that Harvard Management Company, the investment management team that oversees Harvard’s endowment, sold shares of “ProShares Short VIX ShortTerm Futures” valued at $11.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.

ProShares, also known by its tick-

er SVXY, is a popular exchange-traded fund that bets on stable markets.

Exchange-traded funds are securities that track a group of assets, which could range from shares of stock to physical commodities.

Unlike a mutual fund however, an ETF can be traded like stocks. As a result, ETFs change in value as they are traded.

ProShares ETF dropped over 90 percent in value as a result of a market rout that began in early February.

The stock market dip was the biggest plunge in seven years.

On Feb. 5, the Dow Jones industrial average was the biggest single-day

point drop in history. ProShares traded at $93 or above for months, but, as of market close on Tuesday, ProShares was trading around $12.

Harvard Management Company has been actively attempting to reverse more than a decade of poor investment performance in the last year.

N.P. “Narv” Narvekar was hired in December 2016 and quickly made sweeping changes—drastically cutting staff and spinning off many of its investments previously managed inhouse to external managers.

Harvard maintains the largest university endowment in the world at $37.1 billion.­

Protestors Confront Emanuel EMMANUEL FROM PAGE 1 part and parcel of are no friend to poor, working people, people of color, or any progressive minded person,” read the protest event’s description.

Last week, students at the GSD penned an open letter to Emanuel signed by nearly 70 Design School students and community members, and sponsored by the GSD African Amer-

ican Students Union and the Harvard Urban Planning Organization.

Jaydee Davis, a member of the Answer Coalition Boston, said the goal of the protest was to disrupt Emanuel’s arrival at Harvard by demonstrating against his controversial policing and schooling policies.

“We did not want to let him speak at Harvard with no repercussions,” Davis said.

“We need to join forces and stand in solidarity against him.”

A University spokesperson could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.

Staff writer Archie J. W. Hall can be reached at archie.hall@thecrimson.com Staff writer Sonia Kim can be reached at sonia.kim@thecrimson.com

Shepherd Discusses Freedom of Speech

By SIMONE C. CHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Lindsay Shepherd, a graduate student and teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, spoke to an audience of around three dozen about freedom of speech on college campuses Saturday afternoon in an event funded by

If we can’t talk about things, then how are we going to improve as people and work out our standpoints on things?

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the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

FIRE, a national organization dedicated to promoting free speech on university campuses, named Harvard one of its top ten worst colleges for free speech this year.

Last year, after Shepherd showed her class an interview with University of Toronto Professor Jordan B. Peterson, who advocates against the use of non-gender-specific pronouns, she was called in to meet with supervisors.

She said they told her students in her class had complained about being shown the videos, saying they were transphobic.

The public event was held by the Harvard College Open Campus Initiative, a student-run free speech advocacy organization that brings speakers to campus to challenge conventional political correctness, which they say limits free discourse.

The Open Campus Initiative hosted Peterson himself for a similar discussion last April. The event garnered protest and campus dissent against Peterson’s appearance.

Several transgender students said Peterson’s appearance at Harvard gave a platform to hate speech and threatened their safety on campus.

Shepherd discussed her experience at Wilfrid Laurier, and the aftermath of the video clip controversy.

Shepherd said she made a Twitter just to deal with the fallout from the incident.

Wilfrid Laurier University has since said that it mishandled Shepherd’s case.

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tice,” Shepherd said.

She said she showed her class the Peterson clips to expose them to another perspective on gender identity, in the spirit of the “active scholarship” she believes universities should prioritize.

“If we can’t talk about things, then how are we going to improve as people and work out our standpoints on things?” Shepherd said.

Shepherd said she has been inaccurately depicted as a member of the altright, because of its association with free speech advocacy in recent years.

Shepherd said she thinks political ideology shouldn’t have any stake in the issue.

“I consider myself very moderate,” she said.

After the initial student-moderated interview, audience members were invited to ask questions.

One audience member asked Shepherd whether she would ever speak at a far-right event.

She said she would, in order to prove that political ideology does not matter when advocating for freedom of speech.

“I like the way the time was structured. There was so much time still for questions, which is really important,” Olivia K. Bryant ’21 said.

Even if you hear about this story and you don’t agree with Laurier’s decision to exonerate her, for example, it’s really important to be able to come and question what’s going on Olivia K. Bryant ’21 Event Attendee

“Even if you hear about this story and you don’t agree with Laurier’s decision to exonerate her, for example, it’s really important to be able to come and question what’s going on.”

Emily M. Shoemaker ’21 said she attended the event “because it’s a perspective that I feel like we don’t get a ton of. We don’t always get to hear the stories where someone’s freedom of speech could have been violated.”­ Staff writer Simone C. Chu can be reached at simone.chu@thecrimson.com

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UC Alleges Lack of Carter to Serve Role in Grad Student Input in Search University Title IX Office Unions UC FROM PAGE 1 UC President Catherine L. Zhang ’19 wrote she was also concerned by what she called a lack of student involvement in the presidential search in an email Tuesday.

“The advisory committee did a great job of collecting student input and voices but the fact that they were not directly involved in the search and instead simply an advisory board deeply troubles me,” Zhang wrote.

“There has been a consistent lack of student voice in any decision making process and that is something that needs to change,” she added.

Quincy House Representative Sarah S. Fellman ’18 agreed. She suggested that, in the future, the search committee should include students and faculty among its members.

Srivastava said Monday that the advisory committee plans to present a final report summarizing its findings to Bacow in the coming weeks. She declined to say whether the committee’s recommendations will be released publicly.

At the meeting, Mather House Representative Eduardo A. Gonzalez ’18 said he hopes that future presidential search committees will publish summaries of student advisory commit-

tees’ recommendations. Gonzalez said he thinks publication would allow the public to directly discover how chosen candidates stack up against advice students submitted throughout the search.

“I think that would be a great way for the students across all schools of the University to see that the search committee is taking the advisory committee seriously and is listening,” Gonzalez said. “We can then basically vet the presidents on whether or not they matched the stated characteristics that the search committee took from the advisory committee.”

Quincy House Representative Wyatt M. Robertson ’18 said that, though he—and others—had hoped the search committee would choose someone from an underrepresented background, he thinks students should give Bacow a chance to show his commitment to underrepresented groups on campus.

He specifically cited recent efforts to establish a multicultural center as a potential barometer of Bacow’s true commitment to these groups.

“I would just love to see if he can really get behind some of these issues that I think students were hoping a more diverse president would most likely get behind,” Robertson said.

CARTER FROM PAGE 1 Avakian in supporting GSAS students and have started connecting with my colleagues across the University who serve in similar roles.”

GSAS Dean for Student Affairs Garth O. McCavana said he hopes Carter will be able to address graduate students’ concerns relating to the law.

“GSAS is committed to providing resources for graduate students, and we’re pleased to be able to add this important student-facing position,” McCavana said.

“I am delighted that Caysie has joined the team and know that the experience she brings to the job will greatly benefit our students.”

Carter’s appointment comes amid increased federal scrutiny of the University’s handling of Title IX-related matters.

In November 2017, the Department of Education launched an investigation into GSAS for insufficient compliance with Title IX. Federal investigators are currently examining GSAS administrators’ response to a student’s sexual assault complaint against a peer.

The Education Department is also studying GSAS’s alleged failures to adopt and publicize appropriate pro-

cedures for responding to sexual assault and publish notices of nondiscrimination.

GSAS is committed to providing resources for graduate students, and we’re pleased to be able to add this important student-facing position.

Garth O. McCavana GSAS Dean for Student Affairs

The probe joined two other ongoing Title IX investigations into Harvard, launched in 2014 and 2016 respectively.

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Withdraw Petitions UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 Federation of Teachers, and the American Association of University Professors, which are affiliated with unionization efforts at those universities, made the move in anticipation of a vote by a Senate committee to advance labor attorney John F. Ring’s nomination for the NLRB. If confirmed, Ring would be President Donald Trump’s fourth and final appointment to the five-person board.

Penn’s graduate union, Graduate Employees Together-UPenn, wrote on its Facebook page that the decision to halt legal proceedings was made by its members last week.

“We made this decision in a Special General Body Members’ Meeting on Thursday, February 15, and our petition to withdraw was submitted to the NLRB today, and we are waiting for an official acceptance notice,” the post read.

According to former NLRB chairman William B. Gould IV, the board

The UAW has not communicated an intention to withdraw its petition to represent Harvard students.

Paul R. Curran Director of Labor and Employee Relations

is likely to reverse the standing precedent on graduate student unionization after a third Republican joins the board.

A 2016 NLRB ruling directed at Columbia University established the most recent precedent for graduate student unionization under the National Labor Relations Act. “I think one of the first issues on which the board would like to provide a reversal is the precedent that emerged during the Obama board’s tenure,” Gould said.

The impact of the rescinded petitions on Harvard’s upcoming unionization election, scheduled for April 18 and 19, is unclear. Even if union advocates prevail in April, a change in the NLRB’s position could endanger a graduate student union’s authority to collectively bargain with the University.

Unlike the cases at other universities, the UAW’s petition to represent Harvard’s graduate and undergraduate teaching and research assistants is not currently pending before the NLRB. Per a 2016 election agreement between the University and Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Automobile Workers, Harvard has not asked the NLRB to reconsider its position on graduate students’ employment status.

In the wake of the withdrawals, Director of Labor and Employee Relations Paul R. Curran sent an email to students on Friday stating that preparations for Harvard’s unionization election will proceed as planned, despite the developments at other campuses.

“The UAW has not communicated an intention to withdraw its petition to represent Harvard students holding teaching or research positions, and the University is therefore moving forward with identifying eligible voters for the election currently scheduled for April 18 and 19, 2018,” Curran wrote.

HGSU-UAW organizer Andrew B. Donnelly wrote in an email that he would disapprove of any changes to the University’s original position in 2016 due to changes in the composition of the NLRB. “When Harvard attorneys signed the initial election agreement in 2016, they indicated that they would bargain with us in good faith if we won.

Like many of us, they thought Hillary Clinton would be president,” Donnelly wrote in an email.

“For them to change their position because Donald Trump is president would be political opportunism at its worst.”

University of Oregon Professor of Labor Education Gordon Lafer wrote in an email that he expected Harvard administrators to take advantage of the Trump board’s “anti-labor orientation,” adding that doing so would be “entirely unprincipled.”

“They’re all happy to jump on any excuse, including taking advantage of the Trump administration’s anti-labor orientation, to deny the democratic voice of grad students or anyone else they can,” Lafer wrote.

University representatives declined further comment.

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The Final Word on Unionization The University and HGSU-UAW must both seek to avoid an appeal of the results

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t has not been a good week for university unionization. Proponents of student unions at Yale, the University of Chicago, and Boston College have withdrawn petitions to the National Labor Relations Board that served as their best chance to unionize.

There seems to be a political motivation here: The NLR B’s membership primarily consisted of prounion appointees of then-President Barack Obama when it issued its 2016 decision allowing unionization at private universities.

With President Donald Trump’s third appointee set for a hearing and confirmation early next month, organizers have expressed concern that bringing their cases to the NLR B would give the more conservative, majority-Trump-appointed board the opportunity to overturn the 2016 ruling.

At Harvard, however, the unionization effort remains fully underway and, so far, unaffected by the changed composition of the NLR B. After complaints about the first election’s validity, a second election has been called and set for April 18 and 19. We have long been in favor of giving eligible graduate and undergraduate students the right to a fair unionization election, and we hope that the one in mid-April serves this role.

To that end, both the University and the students aiming to unionize—backed by the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers—must do everything in their power to make the election a

procedurally clean one.

If the University or the HGSU-UAW finds fault in the proceedings of the election, they could each appeal to the NLRB, which would give the board a chance to overturn its precedent.

This would be an illogical decision, as students at universities who engage in teaching and research and are compensated for it are indeed employed. Therefore, they should have a right to form a union, should they so choose.

Pending the approval of Trump’s third nominee, the NLR B could jeopardize this right if given the chance to rule, so both Harvard

At Harvard, however, the unionization effort remains fully underway and HGSU-UAW must proactively work to create an election that requires no NLR B intervention.

That being said, in the case of genuine, serious procedural misconduct on the part of either party, the other can and should exercise its right to appeal to the NLR B, despite the existential threat that doing so would pose to unionization across the country. However, any politically motivated appeals—arising from discontent with the April election’s results—would be doubly harmful because of the chance it would

give the NLR B to readjudicate its 2016 decision. This sort of appeal is best avoided by both parties working together before the election to finalize and disseminate fair voter lists as well as determine and widely share when, where, and how to vote. This will not only avoid the procedural errors of the last election, but also encourage widespread participation.

While the University and the HSGU-UAW differ on whether they believe unionization would be productive, they both have publicly shared a belief that students have the right to a fair election. In successfully holding a vote that does not lead to an appeal, not only would they give students the ability to decide if they want to unionize, they would also avoid calling into question unionization at private universities itself. Unionization at Harvard has real advantages and real drawbacks, and we encourage eligible students to familiarize themselves with both and cast informed votes to decide unequivocally and ultimately in April whether or not the students at Harvard should unionize.

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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Sweep the Sheds, Scrub the Toilets Leaders of character are willing to do the dirty work

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hen I look back on my collegiate days, I will fondly remember wearing a cumbersome vacuum pack for hours at a time in unseasonal spring heat, damp-dusting hundreds of identical bookshelves and desks—and yes, scrubbing fellow classmates’ toilets.

Seriously—working for Dorm Crew’s Spring Clean-Up over the past few years has been one of my most memorable experiences at Harvard.

While some of our dear classmates live so much like animals that their rooms attract actual animals, Spring CleanUp can be enjoyable and rewarding work despite the unexpected visits from woodland creatures. Transforming a room from an unmitigated disaster to a gleaming triumph in a matter of hours is quite the team effort and accomplishment.

I can see The Onion’s sarcastic headline now: “Elitist college student does normal-person job and has ‘life-changing’ experience.” Not entirely unfair. I admit that it does smack of Ivy elitism to turn work that real people do as part of a full-time job into some kind of summer camp character-building experience.

Nonetheless, elitist college students can benefit from partaking in solid manual labor. If we want to be leaders of any sort, we need to learn how to do the dirty work, because leadership is not about stature, but stewardship and taking care of your organization and people. You can tell a great deal about

a person’s character by watching them mop floors and de-scum showers that you cannot otherwise discern in an academic setting.

This is not an uncommon scene: a brilliant Harvard pre-med, star athlete, or prodigal musician is instructed to mop the floor of every room on a given floor by a certain time. They do so by entering each room and first sitting on the bare bed on their phone for several minutes before deigning to move the furniture and wet the mop. When a frazzled and harried Captain comes to check on them, they say they need more time. This behavior hardly exemplifies good character.

Yes, you are being paid by the hour, and no one will likely be any the wiser to your languid deceit. But what we do when no one is looking, evaluating, or interviewing us reveals the strength of our character and work ethic.

Too often I have seen that our imagined Harvard discipline and attention to detail is actually quite disingenuous, selectively applied to only resume-building parts of our lives. Supposedly, we pride ourselves on the strength of our resolve and willingness to tackle tough problems, our dedication to doing good. If we are only driven and determined in a few parts of our lives, we are not really driven or determined at all.

I have been fortunate, however, to work alongside many individuals who take pride in the long hours of Dorm Crew, do everything they can not to falter or fall behind in their cleaning assignments, and uphold the high standards of cleanliness that their Captains outline for them. Even though I only interact with such people for a few short weeks, it is readily evident that they possess a true and noble work ethic that if it appears while scrubbing toilets, it must surely permeate their entire lives.

I’ve worked for Captains with better leadership and management skills than many Business School and Kennedy School students, who somehow manage to turn drudge work into a project the entire crew wants to be excellent.

These Captains were equally as up to their elbows in cleaning chemicals and dust, knew that a dozen donuts would lift morale on a Friday morning, and expected quality work from everyone.

Individuals and leaders who are willing to get their hands dirty can reap huge rewards for their organizations.

For example, “sweep the sheds” is a first principle for the winningest rugby captain of all time and arguably the most dominant rugby side of all time.

Richie McCaw, captain of the New Zealand All Blacks, has a habit of sweeping dirt and other post-combat gunk out of the team’s locker room after a match or practice with other members of New Zealand’s pantheon of rugby greats.

It is a literal and deeply symbolic mantra. Andrew Mehrtens, a former All Black flyhalf, describes it as “not expecting someone to do your job for you.

It teaches you not to expect things to be handed to you.” The All Blacks have won 86 percent of their matches since this radical cultural shift, and have a winning record against every opponent.

We can attend all the leadership development seminars, conferences, and lectures we want. Goodness knows Harvard is full of these opportunities. We can read tome upon tome, ruminate, and hypothesize. But only our willingness to sweep the sheds and scrub the toilets will reveal the content of our character and genuine leadership.

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

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Finding Mañana, Again

By JESSENIA N. CLASS

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ighteen and freshly married, my grandmother left la isla del encanto, with its endless palm trees and sunsets that dip the world in rose gold, for the graffitied brick of Newark. Race riots engulfed the city, and without any English or standard education, she was on her own to make a better life for her and her budding family.

Life in a factory awaited her. *** Hurricane Maria twisted its way through Puerto Rico in late September of last year, leaving a wake of windscarred lands, ravaged businesses, and broken families in its wake. Months later, the hurricane still has a pulse on the island, breathing and beating in Puerto Rico’s continued difficulties to return power, provide consistent sources of clean water and food, and repair the infrastructural damage sustained by the disaster. A surge in homicide rates has researchers predicting that January will be the most murderous month on the island in two years. Along with an economy rolling in a $70 billion grave with little tax or humanitarian help from the United States or FEMA, the island’s situation is not looking too pretty.

And because of this—because the effects of the hurricane are taking up so much space—Puerto Ricans are deciding that there isn’t enough space left for them.

Waves of boricuas have left the island. Over 239,000 have moved to Florida since early October. High levels of migration have also been seen in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New York. Although 0nly 29 percent of Puerto Ricans are born and live on the island, research forecasts that 14 percent more of the island’s population will migrate to the states 14 percent more of the by 2020 as a reof this hurriisland’s population will sult cane. migrate to the states by *** The road to my 2020 as a result of this g ra nd mot her ’s hurricane house in Puerto Rico wraps around a hill, bends itself backwards under plantain trees and around casitas until the cracked asphalt drops you at her white doorstep. The house started off as just one room: Her father built it out of riverstone for his family of 15 when their first house was destroyed in an earlier fire.

Now, there’s two bedrooms and the door in the kitchen overlooks the rolling greens where the family farm lies, nestled. It’s quiet, remote—serene, even.

In Newark, home was a paycheck. The family bounced around from neighborhood to neighborhood, coming and going with the ebb and flow of work. Like most immigrant families, they thought of home the way you flip through books of baby photos—slowingly and sparingly, with a hint of a smile grazing your eyes as you remember the distance between then and now with something like nostalgia or love. It was never a feeling you could tuck into your pocket and save for tomorrow. It was here and now, a pocket of warmth before the next shift started. *** In Finding Mañana, Mirta Ojito paints a picture of the 1980 Miami coastline: 125,000 Cubans flooded southern Florida in a span of merely six months, seeking political asylum during the Mariel Boatlift. Massive changes were made to the Floridian communities at the price of widespread discrimination of the Marielitos—and a similarsituation might be happening to Puerto Ricans today.

There are important differences between the two to consider: Puerto Ricans aren’t fleeing from a dictator, the means of travel they are using to come to the states are much safer, and boricuas have the title of being American “citizens” (despite having little to no voting voice against bills in Congress that affect them). However, in being thrusted headfirst into a new culture, language, and way of life, both the Marielitos and the Puerto Rican migrants of today face similar issues that stem from the broader issue of Latinx immigrant prejudice.

The Latinx community has for decades been attributed this trope of the “bad hombre” immigrant. Marielitos were called “criminals, homosexuals, and mentally defected persons” as a shallow excuse for horrible treatment in the 1980s. Puerto Ricans today (and for decades past) are being racially and socioeconomically discriminated against, and their “half-citizenship” has been used as a shallow excuse for wrongful treatment. As an increasing number of Puerto Ricans decide to call the United States their new home, America must be careful to prevent the treatment of this mass exodus from transmogrifying into the second coming of the Marielitos. *** My grandmother’s hands, like metal murcielagos, still fly over knobs and buttons at the screw factory, decades later. Like many other boricuas and Latinos that come to the states, she’s been stagnant at a blue-collar job since she came to this country.

At the end of her shift, she takes off her apron. Though tomorrow she will go back to work, for now, she goes home.

Jessenia N. Class ’20, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology concentrator in Quincy House.

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Notebook: Harvard Streaks to Season Sweep of Yale MEN’S BASKETBALL

By STEPHEN J. GLEASON CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard men’s basketball team was able to clinch a spot in the second annual Ivy League Tournament by topping Yale, 64-49, on Saturday night in a nationally televised game at Lavietes Pavilion. The win was the fifth straight for the Crimson and allowed the teamto keep pace with Pennsylvania—its opponent next Saturday night in Philadelphia—for the top spot in the conference.

Much like in its last battle with the Bulldogs, Harvard (14-11, 9-1 Ivy League) came out fast and rode a strong first half to victory. However, unlike in the first meeting, Yale (12-14, 5-5) was never able to get within striking distance after the break.

The guests trimmed their halftime deficit from 20 to 9 but the Crimson had enough answers on the offensive end to keep the 1,636 fans in attendance at relative ease.

Four Harvard players registered point totals in double figures and the team shot a blistering 46.3 percent from the field, its third-highest mark in a home game this season. Meanwhile, the third-place Bulldogs, which entered the contest leading the Ivy League conference in field goal percentage, scored just 49 points to mark their fewest points tallied in a game this season.

STARTING FAST, TAKE TWO In the teams’ first meeting, Harvard came out of the starting blocks on fire.

For a club that was struggling mightily on the offensive end at the time, the opening half against Yale was arguably the best basketball that the Crimson had played up to that point in the season. Harvard made 11 of its first 18 field goals that night and junior guard Corey Johnson was impressively outscoring the Bulldogs on his own for much of the first half.

For as dominant as it looked in New Haven three weekends ago, the Crimson outdid itself on Saturday night.

Sophomore forward Chris Lewis started the scoring party by scoring the first eight points for Harvard and 10 of its first 14—the sophomore was already in double-figures just 6:10 into the con-

test.

“I think we’re all at our best when we’re playing base, with our defense initiating our offense getting down the court,” sophomore guard Christian Juzang said of the team’s success. “Lew did a great job of spreading the lane, opening it up for wings, wings did the same thing opening it up for Lew and when we get into that transition defense into our secondary offense, it flows really nice and rhythm shots come out of it.”

However, it was after Lewis recorded his tenth point that the Crimson’s runaway train departed the station.

The hosts went on to score 17 unanswered points over the next eight-plus minutes to put the game largely out of reach before it arrived at the intermission.

It was difficult to tell during the stretch whether it was the Harvard offense or its defense that was more dominant since the two ends of the floor played so seamlessly into one another during the run. Controlling both ends of the court allowed the team to extend its lead beyond reach.

“It’s not all just one-sided it is how you get there,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We were energized and playing pretty well. We were in a good rhythm and had momentum and they didn’t. Sometimes that can snowball in the opposite direction for them. You can miss shots and now we are defending and energized even more where we are getting stops and run-outs to play offense on the other end.”

All told, the Crimson went 7-of-12 from the field over the span while also forcing misses on all eight of Yale’s field goal attempts and causing four turnovers.

WHO NEEDS THE THREES? Perhaps what was most impressive on the offensive end during the 17-0 run was the ball movement from Harvard, which led to easy baskets possession after possession. Of the 17 points scored during the stretch, the Crimson only attempted two three-point field goals (making one) but 12 points came in the paint off of layups and dunks, and two were via the free throw line.

The versatile offense the team has displayed both against Yale and throughout the conference slate has been a large part of its success thus far.

ZERO GRAVITY Sophomore forward Chris Lewis elevates for a dunk.

After living and dying by the three earlier in conference play—Harvard averaged 25.3 three-point attempts in its first six Ancient Eight games—the Crimson has been more successful in recent games at getting easier baskets by playing through Lewis and its frontcourt.

Featuring a more balanced attack, Harvard has averaged just 16.75 three-pointers per game over its last four contests, which has resulted in a two-point field goal percentage of 49 percent in those games.

“We want to have great balance,” Amaker said. “That’s the key for our team. We talk a lot about bench and balance. Our bench was tremendous.

We never want to be one-dimensional offensively. We wanted people to maybe react to how we are playing and then we feel like if that is how they are doing this, we have the other portions of our offensive game to kick in.”

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Opposing coaches have employed different strategies on how to guard Lewis. Penn coach Steve Donahue refused to double-team the Harvard sophomore and paid for it as Lewis posted a career-high 25 points in a nine-point Crimson win.

Yale head man James Jones opted for the same tactic in the first half and was rewarded by watching his team allow 24 points in the paint. Lewis’ dominance was the anchor the team needed on a night when the men from Cambridge attempted to sweep the season series from their rivals.

“We got in there, and Chris delivered,” Amaker said. “That changes things, when you are trying to guard a big guy like that, what are you going to do. Do you play off on other guys? Do you double down? He caused them to change some things. That’s hopefully what we can do to different teams by having a tremendous post up player

like Chris Lewis.”

Once Yale began doubling down in the paint, Harvard’s field goal percentage dropped—it shot just 38.5 percent in the second half—but the Crimson was still able to corral five offensive rebounds and keep the Bulldogs at arm’s length despite not shooting the lights out. Perhaps the only way to slow down Lewis and Harvard is by getting the big man into foul trouble on the other end.

As the season heads towards its final two weeks, Lewis’ emergence offers a glimpse at just how potent the Crimson team can be. Dominating the interior, both offensively and defensively, Lewis will be a crucial cog in Harvard’s quest to win the Ivy League tournament at the Palestra, and a potential return to the Big Dance.

Staff writer Stephen J. Gleason can be reached at stephen.gleason@thecrimson.com.

Crimson Splits Road Weekend at Brown and Yale WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By AMIR MAMDANI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard women’s basketball recorded its first road win in conference play, but came up a rebound and a basket short of recording its first road sweep and practically guaranteeing its chances of making the Ivy League tournament.

Instead, the Crimson remain tied with Yale and Dartmouth with just four games remaining, with only two of the three teams able to advance to the Ivy League tournament in Philadelphia.

HARVARD 63, YALE 69 A back and forth affair in New Haven ended in agony for Harvard, who came up just short of sweeping the Bulldogs for the season, ending up on the wrong side of a 69-63 final.

The crucial play of the game came with under 30 seconds remaining, as Yale’s Tamara Simpson sat at the line

for two free throws, with the Bulldogs (13-10, 6-4 Ivy) leading by just one point. Simpson, a 63 percent free throw shooter, erred on the first shot, then the second, seemingly leaving the door wide open for the Crimson (14-9, 6-4) to steal a victory.

Unfortunately, Simpson, attempting to atone for her missed free throws, tracked the second miss down as it clanged off the back heel of the rim and right to senior guard Tori Andrew.

Harvard, forced to foul again, would have no such luck the second time around, as Andrew knocked down a pair of shots from the penalty stripe. A miss by sharpshooting, sophomore Katie Benzan from three-point territory was corralled by Yale, and the game was effectively over.

“Pretty disappointing, but Yale is fighting for their lives, as were we,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said of Saturday’s loss. “I always am concerned about beating a team by 30, and then being on the road.”

Had Harvard been able to rebound Simpson’s miss, it would have trailed by one point with 20 seconds left, and been able to hold for a final shot to win the game. Instead, the visitors found themselves forced to watch their rival seal the game from the free throw stripe.

The failure to rebound was a cruel twist of fate for the Crimson, which dominated Brown on the glass the night before, and outrebounded the Bulldogs by six on Saturday night.

Saturday’s contest was a back-andforth affair between the two rivals, nothing like the 97-73 win Harvard cruised to in the first meeting between the two. The game featured five ties and 10 lead changes, with the Crimson losing the turnover battle by a 13-7 margin, a familiar statistic in the losses the team has suffered this season.

“It was unfortunately the perfect storm, Yale played great to be honest, they had some kids knock down some big shots,” Delaney-Smith said. “Our

ANOTHER TRIPLE FOR NUMBER THREE Sophomore guard Katie Benzan take s aim from beyond the arc.

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kids played really hard too, it was just the perfect storm.”

Despite Harvard outshooting the Bulldogs by a 40-37 percent margin, and winning the rebound battle, the Crimson was unable to overcome Yale, anchored by Roxy Barahman and Jen Berkowitz, who combined for 37 points. Sydney Skinner and Taylor Rooks led the way with 13 apiece for Harvard.

HARVARD 86, BROWN 74 Harvard rode explosive shooting and domination on the glass to a 86-74 win over Brown in Providence, giving the Crimson its first road win of the Ivy League slate. The visitors shot an impressive 50 percent from the field, and outrebounded the Bears (14-9, 2-8) by a whopping 41-23 margin.

Although Harvard led by double digits for much of the third quarter, Brown refused to surrender, employing a full court press, forcing Harvard into turnovers and narrowing the lead to five.

But in the dying seconds of the third, Rooks converted from deep to give Harvard an eight-point lead entering the 4th quarter. The Crimson would fend off the Bears throughout the fourth quarter, knocking down key free throws to coast to a 12-point victory, its seventh straight win over Brown.

The Bears sat at 2-6 in conference play entering Friday night’s game, making the contest a do or die for Brown, with a loss likely eliminating the Bears from Ivy League tournament contention.

Harvard, who entered the matchup 0-3 on the road in Ancient Eight play, hoped to avoid the slow starts that had plagued the team away from Cambridge.

Rooks and Madeline Raster quickly obliged, knocking down a layup and drilling a three on the ensuing possession to give Harvard a quick 5-0 lead.

Despite early foul trouble for the Crimson, with starters Rooks and Kirby Porter with two fouls each in the first five minutes, the visitors’ bench production helped them pull away.

Freshman Jadyn Bush immediately contributed, converting two consecutive layups, the second one was followed by a free throw to complete the three-point play.

Layups from Skinner and Raster stretched the lead to 18-8, completing an 11-0 run, and Harvard would never trail after that point.

“Playing Brown at home, we played them really close,” Benzan said of the weekends’ opening game. “Friday night on their court, we knew we had to come out firing, and that’s how we

came out.”

The Crimson’s depth overwhelmed Brown immediately, as the visitors rang up an 11-0 advantage in bench production, in the first quarter alone.

Jeannie Boehm returned from an injury scare at Penn, keeping Harvard’s lineup the same for the 23rd straight game. The sophomore forward from Winnetka, Ill., showed no ill effects of an injury, recording an early block down low, before converting on a sweet hook shot in the paint.

Boehm would ultimately finish the contest with 11 points, concluding her evening a rebound short of a double-double. The Crimson also impressed on the defensive side, keying in on top scorers Shayna Mehta and Justine Gaziano. Mehta and Gaziano, each averaging over 18 points, were kept scoreless by Harvard through the first 13 minutes of the game, and would score just four first half points combined. Shutting the dynamic duo down helped the Crimson cruise to a firsthalf lead in Providence.

Freshman guard Dominique Leonidas picked up much of Mehta and Gaziano’s slack Friday night, scoring a career-high 21 points on 8-12 shooting from the field. Leonidas’ performance easily eclipsed her previous career high of 12 points.

Keeping Gaziano contained was especially crucial, as the sophomore from Natick, Mass., exploded for 28 points in the first meeting between the two teams, a 85-83 home win for Harvard. Gaziano would finish with just 13 points, many of them coming late into the fourth quarter.

On the offensive end, six players would score in double figures for the Crimson, with Benzan leading the way with 20 points on a familiarly impressive 7-9 shooting, knocking down 4-6 three pointers, chipping in four rebounds and four assists. Raster was also especially impressive, stuffing the stat sheet with nine rebounds, five assists, and two steals, to go along with 14 points.

With visits from conference leading Penn and Princeton looming next weekend, Harvard will put its home win streak dating back nearly a year, as well as its playoff chances, on the line.

“We just need a W,” Benzan said of the final home weekend of the season.

“We’re working practice by practice, getting better every day, focusing on the little things, and hopefully those little things can add up to a win this weekend.”

Staff writer Amir Mamdani can be reached at amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com.

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