The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLV, No. 88

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLV No. 88 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | monday, september 24, 2018

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After Defining ‘Probation,’ Harvard Should Clarify Expectations

Harvard Police Investigating Two Break-Ins in Freshman Dorms, Again

Harvard Loses First Rugby Game of Season

Capital Signals Faith in Univ.

By kristine E. guillaume and jamie d. halper Crimson Staff Writers

The University’s record-breaking $9.6 billion capital campaign sends a strong signal of faith in Harvard and higher education — but it also highlights ongoing tensions in the industry, experts say.

Launched in 2013 under former University President Drew G. Faust, Harvard’s capital campaign set out to break a record previously held by Stanford University, which had raised $6.2 billion in its campaign that concluded in 2012. Harvard’s goal — $6.5 billion — was ambitious at the time.

Three years later, Harvard sailed past its target and was well on its way to the eventual $9.6 billion haul the University made public last week.

HSPH Raises $933 Million

Capital Campaign Numbers Harvard (20132018)

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Cornell (20062015)

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Stanford (20062012)

$6.2 billion

Columbia (20062014)

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UPenn (20072012)

$4.3 billion

Yale (20062011)

$3.9 billion

Princeton (20072012)

Brown (20052011)

Dartmouth (2004-2009)

Harvard’s School of Public Health raised $933 million total in its capital campaign, school officials announced at a campaign celebration Friday.

The total more than doubles the goal of $450 million the school announced in October 2013.

Donors, administrators, and alumni packed into a tent in the school’s Kresge Courtyard for Friday’s celebration, which marked the culmination of a campaign that began quietly seven years ago. School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams opened the event and led a panel discussion between four former deans of the school.

Julio Frenk, who served as dean between 2009 and 2015 and now serves as the president of the University of Miami, described the financial difficulties the school faced in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. With hundreds of millions in its coffers, he said, the school is now on stronger financial footing.

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Jonathan Lavine — the co-managing partner of Bain Capital who co-chaired the campaign with his wife, Jeannie Lavine ‘88 — took the podium to announce the campaign had raised $933 million from around 13,000 gifts.

“I was sort of hoping that there’s a $67 million gift in the room so that we could round it up,” Lavine joked after stating the total.

The school will be able to establish 12 new professorships as a result of the donations from the capital campaign, which will also go toward initiatives like financial aid, Lavine said.

Donations came from all 50 states and 62 countries.

Lavine then introduced University President Lawrence S. Bacow, who used to teach summer courses on environmental health and management at the School of Public Health. Bacow emphasized what he sees as the broader societal impacts of research at the school.

“Everyone benefits when we uncover the human cost of climate change and shed light on

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Upperclassmen, alumni, and faculty travelled to and from the podium of Memorial Church Sunday afternoon for the College’s first Latinx Convocation themed “Mis Raices, Mi Communidad.”

The ceremony, the title of which translates to “My Roots, My Community,” was organized

by Latinx student leaders in order to welcome students of Latinx heritage in the Class of 2022.

Genesis N. De Los Santos ’19, one of the student speakers, spoke of her upbringing in Dorchester, Mass. and her experiences and growth at Harvard.

“Whatever paths you trekked to get here, whatever mountains our ancestors climbed, whatever borders they crossed — both the physical and theoretical — we have achieved the unfathomable,” De Los Santos said.

She continued to address the incoming class, focusing on the feeling of “otherness” that she ­

Elizabeth Solomon, a member of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag and the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs and Fellowship Programs at HSPH, speaks at the Latinx Convocation. Ellis J. Yeo—Crimson photographer

HUPD investigates two additional break-ins in freshman dorms

By Isabel M. kendall Crimson Staff Writer

said the students may encounter during their four years at Harvard. She reassured the class, “If you’re feeling inadequate, know that you are not alone. We have all at least once felt this.”

Mariachi Veritas opened the ceremony and played several songs before the speakers addressed the audience.

The ceremony was followed by an evening reception with light refreshments in Teresita Fernández’s art installation in Tercentenary Theatre, called “Autumn (... Nothing Personal).” First-year students were congratulated with roses as they mingled among peers and speakers.

Angel A. Mata ’22, who is of Venezuelan heritage, was one of the several dozen first-year students at the event.

“Coming to Harvard is very different. I didn’t really realize how much I’d miss that part of my life,” Mata said, referring to his upbringing in Florida in a

The Harvard University Police Department is investigating one burglary and one attempted burglary Friday morning in freshman dorms, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano announced in an email to University affiliates Friday.

Several Wigglesworth Hall residents reported that someone climbed through their first floor window while they were sleeping and stole “several laptops, wallets, and an iPhone,” Catalano wrote.

Approximately four hours later, officers discovered an attempted burglary at Mower Hall while in the Yard investigating the burglary in Wigglesworth Hall.

The offender or offenders pulled the screen off the window but were not able to break into the room due to the vent lock.

“It is unclear whether these incidents are connected; however, all of these incidents are being actively investigated by HUPD detectives,” Catalano wrote.

These incidents come just a few weeks after another string of thefts were reported in Holworthy and Mower Halls. The earlier thefts are similar to those that occured on Friday in terms of both methods and items stolen.

On Aug. 28, a freshman in Mower reported that, while he had been asleep the previous night, someone raised the screen on his open window and took a laptop from a nearby desk.

On Sept. 5, several Holworthy residents reported the theft of laptops, wallets, and an iPad. Once again, the perpetrator climbed through a window.

The burglaries prompted some freshmen on the first floors of Holworthy and Mower to take additional precautions such as locking windows and avoiding placing valuables near

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Students Hold First Latinx Convocation

By Andrea M. Bossi

Harvard Yard Burgled Again

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Students Defend Affirmative Action By delano r. franklin and samuel w. zwickel Crimson Staff Writers

Students flocked to the center of Tercentenary Theatre on a sunny Friday afternoon to break dance, recite slam poetry, and muse about legal history — all in the name of affirmative action in Harvard admissions.

Members of the Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies and the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights organized the “afternoon of education” — entitled “Defending Diversity: A Timeline of Affirmative Action and Race-Conscious Admissions” — to show support for Harvard’s racebased admissions policies.

The event comes as Harvard’s affirmative action policies are set to face a legal challenge in federal court on Oct. 15. The University is facing allegations that its admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Ameri­

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Student leaders of TAPAS displayed posters on a large art installation in Tercentenary Theatre outlining the history of affirmative action in American higher education from the post-Civil War era to modern policies at schools like Harvard.

The event included three interpretive student performances as part of its “celebration of diversity.” To open, one student delivered a slam poem in two parts.

In the first portion, the student addressed her poem to Asian tourists in the Yard and spoke of racial dynamics at the College. In the second part, she read from a section of the College’s admissions office website. That section, called “What We Look For,” lists a number of questions for prospective students to consider as they apply.

Members of the Harvard Breakers followed the poem; the break dance troupe

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The Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies and the committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights held an event on Friday exploring the history of affirmative action in higher education. Delano R. Franklin—Crimson photographer

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Amy Dacey Study Group IOP, 4:30 p.m.

Ford to Testify against Kavanaugh

Interested in the issues that are driving the conversation of today? Speaker Amy Dacey will be leading a focus group on topics such as immigration, economic crisis, health care, the opioid epidemic, the women’s march, and more at the IOP.

Christine Blasey Ford has committed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after days of intense deliberations and tensions. The agreement still leaves several details unattended, such as whether Republicans will use an outside lawyer to question Dr. Ford, but a spokesman for the committee said that her lawyers consider the hearing imminent.

Beyond Binaries BGLTQ Student Life Office, 8:30 p.m.

Come join Robyn Ochs at the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life for an interactive workshop on identity and sexuality!

Outbreak Week Lecture Geological Lecture Hall, 6:00 p.m.

Michele Barry, director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, will give a public lecture on conflict and the global threat of pandemics at the Geological Lecture Hall on Oxford Street.

Democrats to Investigate New Allegation Against Kavanaugh The Du Bois Orchestra held a concert in Tercentenary Theater celebrating the legacies of James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois. Melissa W. Kwan—contributing photographer

Daily Briefing The University’s record-breaking $9.6 billion capital campaign sends a strong signal of faith in Harvard and higher education — but it also highlights ongoing tensions in the industry, experts say. Harvard and higher education generally continue to need to justify their vast budgets in the face of growing political hostility. In other news, Harvard University Police Department is investigating a burglary and attempted burglary into freshman dorms Friday, just weeks after a similar pair of crimes occurred.

As tensions mount in the Senate regarding allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh , there is pressure to oppose his nomination to the Supreme Court. Senate Democrats are currently investigating a new allegation, dating back to when Kavanaugh was a freshman at Yale. The new accuser is Deborah Ramirez, who claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her a party.

Tiger Woods Wins 2018 Tour Championship

Tiger Woods has won the 2018 Tour Championship for his first PGA Tour victory since 2013. Shooting a 71 in the fourth round Sunday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, the 14-time major winner finished the tournament 11 strokes under par.

Around the Ivies Yale Forty-nine Yale Law School professors signed an open letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling for a full investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Yale Daily News reported.

In the past week, two women, Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, have come forward alleging that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them in two separate incidents. The open letter calls for “a fair and deliberate confirmation process,” and signatories include former Yale Law School deans Harold Koh and Robert Post. Just two months ago, Yale Law School released a statement in which several faculty praised Kavanaugh for his previous judicial work.

Dartmouth Dartmouth professor H. Gilbert Welch resigned Sept. 13 after a College-led investigation found him guilty of having committed plagiarism, according to the Dartmouth. The investigation, which spanned over 20 months, found that Welch had engaged in “idea plagiarism.” Dartmouth started its investigation after professors Samir Soneji and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez accused Welch of using their research to write a 2016 article that was later published in the New England Journal of Medicine. They requested that Welch add them as first authors, but he refused. The NEJM has since refused to retract the article.

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Corrections Due to incorrect information provided by Harvard, a previous version of the article “Kennedy School Beats Fundraising Goal by $200 Million” incorrectly stated the amount of money the Kennedy School’s capital campaign raised as of June 2018. The correct figure is $721 million, not $705 million. The amount of money that will go to financial aid ($130, not $126 million) and the amount of money that went toward the campus transformation project ($108 million, not $109 million) were also misstated. This article also previously included a graphic depicting the incorrect figures. A previous version of the article “Students Call on Harvard Law to Bar Kavanaugh from Teaching Pending Probe Into Sexual Assault Allegations” misspelled the name of Alexandra “Vail” Kohnert-Yount.

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At a time when both Harvard and higher education face a hostile political climate marked by a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard, a tax on some university endowments, and criticisms of higher education’s efficacy to the average American, the capital campaign still managed to exceed expectations. Tamara E. Rogers, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said the campaign ended “very successfully.”

The unprecedented haul displays donors’ confidence in both the value of a Harvard education and the ways in which administrators use financial gifts, experts say.

Fred Weiss, chief research and data officer at the Washington, D.C.-based Council for Advancement and Support of Education, said the “big impact” of Harvard’s success is its demonstration that “educational institutions are really worth supporting.” Weiss said enthusiasm in capital campaigns like Harvard’s results from “carefully built relationships” with established and potential donors whose priorities align with those of the institution.

“Where those things overlap, it can turn into the results we’ve seen for Harvard and for other campaigns,” Weiss said. “All of these things advance the mission of an institution and, more broadly, the mission of education, and, more broadly, the impact that education can have on individuals, families, and communities.”

Peter F. Lake ’81, a higher education law expert at Stetson University, on the other hand, said the campaign’s success also conveys a different kind of faith in Harvard — that donors believe the school is using their gifts effectively across the University.

He particularly pointed to Harvard’s approach to paying its staff, putting funds behind student groups, and backing long-term endowed professorships — taken together, a strat­

egy that can help schools avoid perpetual concerns over annual operating budgets.

“Obviously, the folks willing to commit those kinds of resources believe chiefly that the choices are good ones,” Lake said.

Critics of higher education around the nation, however, may not necessarily agree in the value of these investments.

Weiss said the success and high visibility of Harvard’s campaign creates a certain awkwardness in light of Harvard’s efforts to fight the tax on its endowment.

Republican lawmakers passed a tax overhaul in Dec. 2017 that levied a 1.4 percent excise tax on the returns of large university endowments. Harvard has spent money and sent University presidents to Washington to make the case that taxing the endowment will hurt financial aid and other essential University initiatives. Raking in almost $10 billion in donations could appear to contradict this message.

“Success like this runs the risk on the one side of people saying, ‘Well look at how rich these institutions are, and we should try to tax them more,’” Weiss said. Yet Weiss said this is a “misunderstanding” of the way both campaigns and endowments work.

“Donors want to support causes that they feel really strongly about and, as a result, they put restrictions on some of the things that they support,” he said. “Endowments aren’t places where an institution can go and just write a check out of.”

Public relations implications aside, Lake said Harvard’s “extraordinary achievement” with its campaign also highlights increased stratification in wealth between liberal arts colleges and universities across the country.

“The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and there are a hundred colleges out there that would just beg to split a billion dollars amongst

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HSPH Campaign Raises $933 Million t he realities of gun violence.

What happens here is not just public health; it is public service,” Bacow said.

He added that the school’s work regularly saves lives.

“To save one life, just one life, is the equivalent of saving the entire universe,” Bacow said, referencing the Talmud. “We have saved and continue to save the universe, over and over and over again.”

Roughly 40 percent of the capital campaign haul came from a $350 million donation by Gerald Chan, prompting Harvard to rename the school after his father, T.H. Chan.

The event included several video messages from individuals including Massachusetts Governor Charles D. Baker ’79 and Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, a former dean of the School ­

of Public Health. Both thanked Gerald Chan by name for his donation.

Williams said Chan’s gift “injected new energy here at the school that sparked innovative, out-of-the box thinking.”

The School of Public Health’s campaign formed part of the University’s record-breaking capital campaign, which raised a total of $9.6 billion, administrators announced last week.

Several other Harvard schools, including the Kennedy School, have also announced fundraising totals well in excess of their goals.

Nearby Harvard Medical School, which reached its goal of $750 million last winter, has yet to formally publicize its final capital campaign total. luke.vrotsos@thecrimson.com.

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Students Hold First Latinx Convocation predominantly Latinx environment.

“To me, this [convocation] means representation on campus and acknowledgement that we are here, and we are powerful,” Xochitl Morales ’22 said.

“I’m excited for the freshmen next year.”

Elizabeth Solomon, assistant director of academic affairs and fellowship programs at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the Massachusetts Tribe at Ponkapoag, was one of many faculty members and administrators to speak at the convocation. She acknowledged the history of the land where Harvard stands and its ties to the indigenous people of the region.

“When indigenous communities in the United States gather together, they traditionally acknowledge the ancestral holders of the land they are meeting on,” Solomon said.

“Many non-Native communities have started to incorporate this practice in public events both to honor Native ­

peoples who belong to the land and to recognize that the use of the land by Harvard has come as a result of displacement of the land’s original holders.”

In addition, a few faculty members addressed Latinx Convocation guests. Among them were María Parra-Velasco, a senior preceptor in the Department of Romance Literature and Languages; Brian D. Farrell, Leverett House Faculty Dean and a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; and Alejandro De La Fuerte, a professor of Latin American history and economics.

Dianisbeth M. Acquie ’16, a second-year Law School student and Lowell House resident tutor, said she was involved with the Latinx community during her time as undergraduate, including as vice president of Fuerza Latina. In her speech, she told first-year students that it was “remarkably brave” to leave their homes and chase that “beautiful dream” at Harvard. andrea.bossi@thecrimson.com.

them,” Lake said.

A higher bar for Harvard, then, doesn’t necessarily translate into higher fundraising goals across higher education, Weiss and Rogers said. Rogers, who will step down at the end of the calendar year, said university leaders observe each other’s campaigns, but that most schools — including Harvard — tend to think more about the “impact of the funds they raised” rather than the final number.

Weiss said Harvard’s base of support is particularly extensive because of the school’s elite status.

“There are very few other institutions that can achieve those types of outcomes,” he said. “I think most institutions are going to sit back and say: what is right for us, what is right for our community of donors, what is right for the local community that we’re in, and let’s make sure that we’re setting realistic goals.”

Rogers and Weiss said colleges and universities must also examine what the expectations might be for the level of support an individual campaign might receive. Rogers said this is crucial in a campaign’s “quiet phase” — a testing period prior to a campaign’s launch that helps universities determine a realistic final goal.

Even if Harvard’s campaign doesn’t set a new bar for higher education fundraising, it might still serve as a model for more effective campaigns, Lake said.

Other schools are likely to try “studying the film” from the campaign to borrow from Harvard’s fundraising tactics in their own efforts.

“It’s likely to influence how people operate their capital campaigns,” Lake said. “I think people are going to try to figure out, ‘How did they do this? How do you turn that much money up in such a short period of time?’” kristine.guillaume@thecrimson.com. jamie.halper@thecrimson.com.

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“You’re not living in a total bubble. There’s stuff you have to look out for,” said Douglass A. Bryant ’22, who lives on the first floor of Holworthy, after the initial break-ins occurred.

Though thefts like these do occasionally happen in the Yard and the upperclassmen houses, this many in such a short time frame is unusual.

In response to a similar string of thefts in February of last year, a college subcommittee worked with the UC to im­

It is unclear whether these incidents are connected; however, all of these incidents are being actively investigated by HUPD detectives.

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prove residential security and

produce a report of their findings.

The group was part of the larger Harvard Safety Committee, which seeks to raise awareness about security breaches across the College.

In his email on Friday, Catalano urged Harvard affiliates not to prop doors open, to keep their rooms locked, to close their windows when leaving the room, and to “keep all property away from windows.” isabel.kendall@thecrimson.

More freshmen were the victims of robberies in the Yard. . Kathryn S. Kuhar—Crimson photographer

Breakthrough Starshot Aims to Find Life By amy l. jia and sanjana l. narayanan Crimson Staff Writers

Hundreds of astronomy enthusiasts filled every available seat to listen to Astronomy Department Chair Abraham “Avi” ­

There are more habitable planets in the observable volume of the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches on Earth.

Avi Loeb Astronomy Dept. Chair

Loeb describe recent innovations in the search for life beyond our solar system.

Loeb, who chairs the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, presented to the packed house in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Phillips Auditorium on Thursday.

The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, founded in 2015 by investors Yuri and Gloria Milner, is a “$100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for... ultra-light unmanned space flight at 20% of the speed of light,” according to the initiative’s website.

Space flight at this speed would allow a flyby mission to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth, within our lifetimes, reducing a mission that would have taken tens or hundreds of millennia with current rocket propulsion technology to just a few decades.

In particular, astronomers hope to photograph Proxima b, a planet which — according to Loeb — sits at just the right distance from Proxima Centauri, a dwarf star in the Alpha Centauri system, to potentially have liquid water on its surface and thus sustain life.

Loeb began his lecture by explaining his belief in the “cosmic modesty principle.”

According to Loeb, Earth is probably not the only planet to contain life, due to the sheer size of the universe.

“If you realize that a quarter

of all the stars are hosting habitable Earths, then there are more habitable planets in the observable volume of the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches on Earth,” Loeb said in his lecture. “An emperor or king…boasting about a piece of land here on Earth is no more different than an ant that is hugging a grain of sand on one of these beaches.”

Loeb said in an interview Monday that one of Breakthrough Starshot’s greatest challenges is designing a lightweight spacecraft that can travel at a fifth of the speed of light. In order to reduce excess weight, according to Loeb, the spacecraft must only contain necessities, including a camera, a navigation device, and a communication device. “[Our spacecraft prototype is] based on a sail that is being pushed by light,” Loeb said.

According to Loeb, scientists plan to shine a powerful laser on the spacecraft and accelerate it “over a distance that is roughly five times the distance

to the Moon” until it reaches the

We are here and now.

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Avi Loeb Astronomy Dept. Chair

desired speed, giving the craft enough energy to travel to Alpha Centauri.

“The amount of energy that you need to invest in this launch process is similar to the liftoff of a space shuttle,” Loeb said. “Except now, the concept is to deliver it to just a few grams of material — that’s why it reaches a much higher speed — instead of many tons.”

Loeb said Starshot is in the “first baby steps” of a threephase process, which include the feasibility phase, where scientists attempt to demonstrate the technology; the testing phase, where scientists build a

prototype of the spacecraft; and the launch phase, the culmination of the scientists’ work.

He compared the cost of the final phase to that of “the biggest science projects that are currently funded, like the James Webb or the Large Hadron Collider.”

Looking ahead to the future, Loeb said international collaboration would be yet another hurdle of Breakthrough Starshot, even after the scientific and technical challenges are resolved.

Loeb emphasized the immediacy of the initiative, referencing a statistical analysis that compares the likelihood of extraterrestrial life existing in the present versus in the distant future.

“If you allow life to exist only around stars similar to the Sun, you find that being here and now is the most likely thing,” Loeb said. “We are here and now. Perhaps that says something.” amy.jia@thecrimson.com. sanjana.narayanan@thecrimson.

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Students Defend Affirm. Action performed in the center of the art installation as students and tourists looked on. Two student musicians — one on the flute and the other on the violin — closed out the event with a classical performance.

Visitors to the event were able to write comments and sign their names on posters asking about the value of diversity and discussions about race.

Emily C. Zhu ’20, a member of TAPAS who was involved in organizing the Friday event, said the hour was aimed at sparking conversation around campus about the relationship between racial diversity and college admissions.

“We feel that a lot of people are, perhaps, not super-familiar with what affirmative action actually is or its history,” Zhu said. “So we just wanted to do some education, raise some awareness, and just get people out hear and talking about what is happening.”

The “Defending Diversi-

ty” event was not the first time Harvard students have spoken out in support of the University as its admissions controversy comes to a head. In late August, 25 Harvard student and alumni groups filed an amicus brief arguing their school “must consider race” in order to reap the benefits of a diverse student body.

A Harvard senior recently filed highly personal ratings and evaluations from his admissions file in a show of public support. And several students and alumni have now petitioned the judge overseeing the case for permission to testify at the trial.

The art installation in Tercentenary Theatre, which will be on display until Oct. 1, is intended to be “a space for public dialogue and performance.”

Student groups will host events around the installation throughout the remainder of its time in the Yard. delano.franklin@thecrimson.com. samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com.

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Hurricane Florence Affects Students

By Ruth a. hailu Crimson Staff Writer

On Friday Sept. 14 as the Category 1 Hurricane Florence was making landfall, all Carolina natives at Harvard could do was watch as they waited to hear back from family members and see if their homes sustained any damage.

Since Florence arrived on the east coast, there have been at least 43 confirmed deaths, flooding estimated as high as 30 inches — which would be a state record for North Carolina if confirmed — and possible contamination of rivers due to flood damage to a dam in North Carolina.

Caroline Tew ’20, whose mother was able to evacuate to Boston, said they frantically watched the news hoping to see how her hometown, Myrtle Beach, was doing after the storm.

“They were forecasting that for North Carolina, and maybe even for my hometown of Myrtle Beach, it would be as bad as Katrina was, and so I was really panicked,” Tew, a Crimson arts editor, said.

Tew said in the days leading up to the storm’s landfall, she was preoccupied with tracking the storm and contacting people she knew still in the area. ­

“It was kind of hard to focus on the smaller assignments just because I spent several hours of my day on and off checking weather reports and texting people that I didn’t normally text to be like, ‘Are you safe?’” she said. “So I had like a lot more on my mind than usual.”

North Carolina native Mari Jones ’21 said contacting her family the weekend after the storm was not possible due to power outages.

Now that the storm has passed, however, the majority of problems result from flooding. Issues include cars fully submerged in roads that now resemble rivers, lack of access to basic facilities due to road obstruction, and fallen trees, which have caused a number of deaths.

“When you are closer inland, you don’t have the drainage set up to handle that much water, so it’s not really the winds and stuff, the infrastructure is fine for that, but it’s the amount of water damage that can happen to a lot of buildings that’ll actually make them collapse,” Jones said.

In a move that sparked controversy, South Carolina announced that it wouldn’t be evacuating its prisons, even though many are along its coast.

Salma Abdelrahman ’20, advo-

cacy chair for the Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Reform, expressed frustration at this decision, pointing towards Hurricane Katrina as an example of what can happen when prisoners are not evacuated.

“At the time, they had been staying in cells with water up to their chests and the prison guards were told to evacuate the building, and prisoners were really just sitting in their cells, swimming in water, with no support or relief,” Abdelrahman said.

Abdelrahman said that, at an upcoming HOPE event, the group would urge people to call the governor’s office and the department of corrections in South Carolina.

“It’s just despicable, quite honestly, to dehumanize people to an extent where we allow them to stay in cages at risk of losing their lives,” she said.

A number of major roads, including Interstate 40 and Interstate 95, are still closed, and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster estimated that Florence cost the state a total of 1.2 billion dollars.

Hurricane Florence arrived near the anniversary of Category 4 storm Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands,

leaving many residents still trying to recover nearly a year later.

Jones said storms like Florence and Maria, while highlighting insufficient infrastructure, also exacerbate economic and social problems since those with the most resources can more often afford to leave or rebuild.

“I feel like natural disasters, I don’t want to say are handled poorly, but there’s just not enough infrastructure because South Carolina isn’t used to hurricanes, neither is North Carolina,” she said. “But I think when they do happen, those who are more financially well off tend to come out a little more blessed than other people and then other people are kind of neglected in it, which I think we also saw with Puerto Rico.”afford to leave or rebuild.

“I feel like natural disasters, I don’t want to say are handled poorly, but there’s just not enough infrastructure because South Carolina isn’t used to hurricanes, neither is North Carolina,” she said. “But I think when they do happen, those who are more financially well off tend to come out a little more blessed than other people and then other people are kind of neglected in it, which I think we also saw with Puerto Rico.” ruth.hailu@thecrimson.com.

Ed School Hosts Sexual Violence Symposium

By Lainey A. Newman Crimson Staff Writer

At the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s “Name It, Face It, End It” symposium, speakers and attendees discussed the issue of sexual violence in schools and strategies to prevent it.

The symposium, held on Friday, consisted of a day-long conference divided into two interactive workshop tracks, one for those working within the K-12 education system and one for those working in higher education.

After the conclusion of workshops, attendees reconvened for a keynote address from Jackson Katz, an educator, social theorist, and Ed School alum. Katz ­

is the founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, which provides sexual harassment and gender violence prevention training to organizations.

Katz focused on the positive impact of prevention and education programs for not only young women, but also young men.

He stressed that language and communication often perpetuate sexism and the acceptance of gender-based violence.

“You’ll hear people say ‘How many women were sexually assaulted on college campuses last year?’ rather than ‘How many men sexually assaulted women on college campuses last year?’” Katz said. “Or, you’ll

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hear, ‘How many teenage girls got pregnant last year?’ rather than, ‘How many men impregnated teenage girls last year?’”

This is the second symposium on the issue of sexual violence in schools that Justine Finn and Rachel Hanebutt, both of whom graduated from the Ed School in 2016, have organized. They cited a dearth of discussion around sexual violence in schools for pre-professionals entering the education field as the impetus for the conference.

“When we were at [the Ed School], there seemed to be a lack of courses and events that prioritized talking about sexual harassment and gender-based violence in schools,” Hanebutt

said. “There were very few resources for educators to facilitate and learn how to prevent these types of violences.”

With the current wave of anti-sexual assault activism, the organizers found they had a large amount of interest in the symposium. Regardless of political moment, however, Finn said their efforts to combat sexual violence in schools will continue.

“As the news changes and comes and goes, we are still going to be doing this work,” Finn said. “If the #MeToo movement is just a moment, we are still going to be in the trenches. Where we are happy to be.” lainey.newman@thecrimson.

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

After Defining ‘Probation,’ Harvard Should Clarify Expectations While the College’s guidelines for student group punishment constitute progress, more clarity is needed.

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fter controversially placing student religious group Harvard College Faith and Action on probation, the College has at last outlined concrete procedure regarding future disciplinary action toward student groups. Over the summer, the Office of Student Life developed a four-step process through which administrators would address violations of school rules by student groups. This process consists of a report and subsequent review, a decision on the part of the College, the possibility of an appeal, and possible punishments student groups may receive. These punishments range from a “Warning,” in which the group is alerted of its rule violation, to a permanent “Revocation” of the group’s status as a recognized Harvard organization.

We have previously criticized of the vague details surrounding HCFA’s year-long probation. HCFA, despite being on probation, did not experience any immediate losses of student group privileges, such as booking spaces on campus or being eligible for Undergraduate Council funding. Although a clearly structured policy

would have been much appreciated prior to this incident, we commend Harvard for creating a procedure to discipline student groups. Now that the College has clarified what constitutes various disciplinary measures, student groups presumably will be aware of the consequences they may face for violating community rules, and will thus have an incentive to follow College’s guidelines.

However, the College’s new policies leave something to be desired. While the College is making efforts to hold groups to community norms, it has yet to satisfactorily articulate and disseminate what those norms are. The norms detailed in the Student Handbook are mostly abstract principles, with the exception of the clause on discrimination. Harvard should further articulate the standards to which it holds student organizations. Were the College to more clearly spell out what it expects from its student groups, the benefits would extend far beyond fairer punishments. Indeed, giving student organizations a clear understanding of Harvard’s

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community values would improve the character of student life in a non-punitive manner.

Additionally, the College owes students a more clear dissemination of its new punishment system. While the guidelines were announced at meetings for student group leaders at the beginning of the semester and explained in the 2018-2019 Recognized Student Organization Resource and Policy Guide, the majority of students at the College did have an opportunity to attend the former and do not have easy access to the latter.

Only by making sure all students are apprised of these punishments, and of the community norms to which they are held, can the College make a maximally effective positive impact on student life with these policies.

This staff editorial 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.

TREVOR J. LEVIN­—AFTER THE FACT

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By PATRICK C. BARHAM

n light of the recent sexual assault allegations against current Supreme Court Justice nominee and Harvard Law School lecturer Brett M. Kavanaugh, there’s been a jarring reaction from many Republicans.

The allegations that the then-highschooler Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault a woman come at a critical time in the confirmation process for the spot on the high court.

With little more than a month until the 2018 midterm elections, such a revelation could turn the November vote into a referendum on Republicans’ and Democrats’ reactions to the multitude of sexual harassment allegations that have become increasingly prevalent.

Keeping with the moving-the-goalposts approach that they’ve used for other scandals and allegations against members of Congress and even the President, Republicans first defended the nominee’s character with testimonials by women who hadn’t been sexually harassed by Kavanaugh.

The first strategy seeming insufficient, senators then began addressing the allegations directly.

Made anonymously at the time, the allegations were attacked as hearsay with Senator John Cornyn taking to Twitter to retweet a post likening the allegations to gossip.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell then attacked the timing of the allegations as politically motivated, despite the fact that the allegations were first publicized through The Washington Post and The New Yorker, and not through Democratic senators.

With now-Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford coming forward as the accuser, the attacks have become even more pointed and now include character attacks on the accuser herself.

Those attacks have already begun on Twitter, spreading her home address and contact information and attacking her past political contributions. In a more juvenile fashion, Donald Trump Jr. mocked the allegations on Instagram.

Others, like Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley have returned to defending Kavanaugh by citing his youth at the time: “[W]e’re talking about 35 years ago.

I’d hate to ask, have somebody ask me what I did 35 years ago.”

Though it might be noted that 35 years ago, Grassley was a freshman senator.

Desperate to push the nomination through, senators are now calling for Ford to testify before the Senate immediately, denying her the investigation that many like Senator Orrin Hatch had lauded back in 1991 with the Anita Hill allegations.

Though back then he called such an investigation “the very right thing

to do,” a tweet from his office just this week defended denying Ford a similar investigation, saying that “the FBI does not do investigations like this.

The responsibility falls to us.”

There are more and more examples of disheartening reactions by people in power — too many for me to cite — but these reactions show their true character.

If this kind of reaction from the majority party in both houses of Congress is acceptable to you, then by all means, vote them back in and confirm Kavanaugh. To me, these are unacceptable.

This country has seen allegations of sexual harassment come up in the nomination of a Supreme Court justice before, but that time the Senate failed in its function.

It can’t happen again. With one man credibly accused of sexual harassment on the Supreme Court already, it’s imperative that our representatives in Washington not usher in

There are more and more examples of disheartening reactions by people in power — too many for me to cite — but these reactions show their true character. a second.

Ed Rollins, chairman of a conservative political action committee, was quoted as saying that “if this is the new standard, no one will ever want or be able to serve in government or on the judiciary.”

If that is the new standard, this country should take a look into the pasts of other elected and appointed officials, because no one guilty of such sexual harassment should ever be able to serve in government or on the judiciary.

Judging by how many allegations have come to light, it’s not hard to believe that more will come.

More than that, though, the greater culture echoed by Grassley, Cornyn, Hatch, McConnell, and others cannot be accepted. It must be changed.

Come November, I can only hope that all of these reactions stick in the mind of voters as they enter the polling booths.

They stick in mine, and I’m voting for a better culture.

— Patrick C. Barham ’21 is a Government concentrator in Pforzheimer House.

s with many Harvard students not from New York or overseas, one of my first impressions of Harvard Square was its walkability. With all its shops, cafes, and restaurants, so close together, with relatively narrow (and often one-way) streets and bike lanes galore, the Square felt like a page from a post-Jane Jacobs urban design textbook had come to life.

Then, I went to the other Cambridge.

During my semester studying abroad at Cambridge’s Jesus College, I certainly noticed the bikes: one in three adults bike five times a week, the highest share in the United Kingdom. But I barely noticed how easy it was to walk around the city center — how I never had to weave in between cars stuck in traffic or jog across a street to avoid a speeding driver. In fact, I rarely had to wait more than a few seconds to cross.

Upon my return to Harvard’s campus this summer, though, these differences were no longer “99% invisible.”

My commute from 29 Garden Street to Radcliffe Yard, so simple on paper, involved multiple perilous crossings of four-lane streets with speeding cars and confusing stoplight patterns. When the school year started, I noticed more pedestrian-unfriendly crossings, particularly on Massachusetts Avenue, which most students at the College cross every day.

No, I’ve never been hit, but many are not so lucky: About 90 pedestrians and bicyclists are hospitalized by car crashes in Cambridge each year.

And the symptoms of pedestrianand cyclist-unfriendly design extend beyond safety. By discouraging Cantabrigians from biking or walking, this planning encourages them to drive (or ride-share) instead, stuffing the roads with cars. As a result, those who commute through Cambridge sit longer in traffic — not only wasting time but reducing commuters’ physical activity, worsening air quality, and emitting more planet-stifling carbon. Finally, by worsening walkability, one of the most appealing aspects of urban life, and making longer, car-based commutes easier, car-centric design incentivizes those who can move to the suburbs to do so, with terrible consequences for racial integration and public finance.

The instinctive response of cities to clogged streets for a century has been to focus on improving traffic flow — to widen the streets, eliminate crosswalks, add more complex traffic light systems like left-turn arrows, and, where possible, increase speed limits. In other words, we’ve sought to make it easier to drive. But anything that makes it easier to drive has the same ill effects as discouraging walking or biking. In fact, you might notice that the elements that make driving easier are the same as those that make walking harder.

This is no coincidence. All forms of road transportation compete for space, but cars’ spatial inefficiency (especially single-occupant cars), speed, and weight make them particularly adversarial and dangerous to the rest. As a blog post titled “How Much of Making Transit Easier is Making Driving Harder?” argues, making cities more car-friendly necessarily makes them more hostile to other (safer, healthier, greener, more

efficient) forms of transit — and vice versa.

Luckily, Cambridge has already taken significant steps to return its streets to non-drivers, with an ambitious plan to add 16 to the city’s 25.8 miles of bike lanes by 2030. In summer 2017, the city removed a lane from the stretch of Brattle Street in front of the American Repertory Theatre and added a protected bike lane in each direction. The result, a vastly more bikeable and walkable neighborhood, represents a model for cities everywhere.

But humbler and simpler redesigns could also make the Square more pedestrian-friendly. For example, the curb extensions on Mount Auburn behind Oberon make Mather residents’ walk to class safer and easier. The city should add curb extensions westward on Mount Auburn and a few on Massachusetts Avenue, say, in front of the Harvard Bookstore, Clover, and Waterhouse Street. This would sacrifice one or two parking spaces each.

More recently, a “sudden inundation” of dockless electric scooters in Cambridge pushed questions about street design to the public forefront.

I am quoted in The Crimson’s article about the city’s response as saying that “scooters represent a potential to continue moving away from cars and toward more sustainable and more spatially efficient ways of getting around the city.” For lack of space, the rest of my rant to the reporter was understandably cut. Suffice it to say that as Cambridge expands bike lanes, which seem like a better fit than either roads or sidewalks for the 15-miles-per-hour scooters, the advantages of this cheap, compact, clean, quick, and low-effort form of transit will become even clearer.

To that list of adjectives, I should add “safe.” Some complaints about scooters dress up a fear of change or hatred of anything that smells like Silicon Valley in safety concerns. Such complaints are, always, statistics-free.

When one man died this week in a dockless scooter accident, bringing the all-time total to two in tens of millions of rides, it made international news.

(Assuming the day of the man’s death was an average day in traffic deaths, about 80 people died in car accidents!)

By allowing Cambridge commuters to take Birds instead of Ubers or their own vehicles, we would be allowing a shift to a much safer form of transportation. Critics also worry about the effects on accessibility, but as a Crimson staff editorial recently noted, scooter companies have already taken steps to address these concerns — and a reduction in the car traffic that sends us scurrying across Mount Auburn would no doubt make crossings easier for pedestrians with mobility problems.

In the century following the Model T, cities across the country, including Cambridge, redesigned themselves to be as car-friendly as possible. With a few miles of bike lanes and a handful of Birds, Cambridge has only begun to reverse this environmental, sociological, and public health catastrophe. Here’s hoping they keep biking down that path.

— Trevor J. Levin ’19, a former Crimson Arts Comp Director, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Mondays.

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Harvard Drops First Game of the Season at Big Green

By William Boggs Contributing Writer

A fter a hot start to the 2018 campaign, the Harvard (2-1 NIRA) women’s rugby team endured a setback on the road at Dartmouth. After jetting out to two strong double-digit victories over Quinnipiac and Army West Point, the Crimson struggled on both offensive and defensive sides of the ball on Saturday.

By the end of regulation, the hosts had run up the final score to 55-13. Saturday was another instance of the Big Green asserting its dominance over the Crimson squad in the last few years. Although Harvard has had Dartmouth’s number in 7s play, the Big Green improved to 6-2 all time against the Crimson in 15s, with Harvard’s last 15s triumph coming nearly four years ago.

Despite the disappointing result, the Crimson showed promise to begin the match as both teams remained deadlocked at zero. About 12 minutes passed in scoreless action before Dartmouth struck first as Big Green senior Alex Stendahl added a try to open up a 5-0 lead over Harvard.

For the rest of the first half, Dartmouth would stretch its lead, adding another 26 points in a row to reach a 31-0 advantage. In the final 10 minutes of the first half, the Crimson regained some momentum, keeping the Big Green off the scoreboard and adding three points of its own before the half. Harvard senior Jenny Kronish maintained her team-leading scoring by pushing a successful penalty kick through the goalposts.

In the second half, the visitors started off how they left off the first—with some of their best play of the game. Coming out of the locker room, the Crimson built on its first score with another five points in the first three minutes of the second half; senior Rachel Harka­

FIRST LOSS Following last year’s loss to the Big Green, Harvard fell once again to its Hanover rival, this time 55-13; The Crimson is 2-1 in NIRA play. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

vy cut the deficit to 31-8 with her first scoring effort of the season.

Dartmouth would repay the favor, however, as the Big Green would rattle off 24 unanswered points. Looking to respond, the Crimson capped off the match on a high note, completing an-

other try to finalize the scoring at 55-13.

Despite the tough defeat, the Crimson can take some silver linings from Saturday’s tilt.

First-year Sofie Fella scored the final try of the game, continuing her streak of scoring over

the first three games of her career. Also, despite the final result, most of Dartmouth’s scoring came in two spurts, with the Crimson evening momentum if not taking some back in the other portions of the game. Finally, the 13 points that the Crim-

son tallied marked the most that it had registered against Dartmouth in 15s since 2016.

Although this loss marks the Crimson’s first defeat in Ivy Rugby play, the team still sports an impressive 2-1 record in National Intercollegiate Rugby

Association (NIRA) competition. The squad will look to rest up with an off week before returning home to Mignone Field to take on NIRA rivals Quinnipiac on Oct. 6th at noon. The game will also be broadcast on ESPN+.

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Goose Eggs for Harvard, Penn in Ivy League Opener

By Lucy Connor Contributing Writer

Defense wins championships, but defense prevented a goal from being scored in nearly two hours of soccer, leading to a draw.

Overtime did not allow either Harvard (3-4-1, 0-0-1 Ivy League) or Penn (6-1-1, 0-0-

1) to emerge victorious in the Ivy League opener this past weekend. The match, hosted at Rhodes Field in Philadelphia, Pa., was a battle of defenses, and both goalies refused to let their teams down.

Crimson senior goalkeeper Danielle Etzel shut out Penn’s four shots on goal to receive her third solo shutout of the year.

Unfortunately for the visitors, Quaker junior goalkeeper Kitty Qu was up to the task, denying Harvard’s five shots on goal to earn her sixth solo shutout of the year.

Freshman defenseman Jillian Wachira led the Crimson’s offense with three shots, while sophomore forward Murphy Agnew and senior midfielder

Leah Mohammadi contributed two shots apiece. Penn senior midfielder Allie Trzaska led the Quakers with six shots, three of which were on goal, but all were ultimately easily handled by Etzel. Although both teams reached double digits in shots, none of Harvard’s 12 shots nor Penn’s 15 were enough to change the outcome of the

scoreless game.

The defensive matchup was a stalemate from the start, with both touted defenses holding tough at the beginning of the contest. The first true opportunity for either team did not come until 17 minutes into the game, as the Quakers fired a shot wide of goal. The Crimson, matching with an attack of its

ANCHOR DOWN Both Harvard and Penn displayed strong defenses in a tight game that could not be resolved after 110 minutes, leaving Harvard 3-4-1. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

own, saw a shot from freshman midfielder Taylor Nielson miss over the crossbar just over four minutes after Penn’s early opportunity.

The Quakers kept up the pressure, testing Etzel early. The Harvard goalie recorded her first save on a shot in the 26th minute, leading to a Penn corner. The corner gave the Quakers another opportunity, but the ensuing shot was blocked.

The first half only resulted in six shots combined, limiting both teams’ ability to gain any momentum. The intensity picked up in the second half, with shots and saves finally becoming frequent. Within the first few minutes of the second 45, Wachira attempted a strike off a corner kick, but a Penn defender was able to block and clear the ball. A few more corners throughout the match provided scares for both sides, but the defense consistently prevailed.

Both teams had opportunities to score in the extra sessions, including an attempt by Mohammadi in the first period but missed over the bar. This would prove to be the last offensive chance for the Crimson in the contest.

The second overtime saw only the Quakers on the attack. Less than a minute and a half into double overtime, Etzel came up clutch for Harvard with a crucial save to keep the contest tied. Penn would see one more chance to secure a late victory, but a wide shot in the 108th minute held the game scoreless as time expired.

This was the fourth time the Crimson has been held scoreless this season, while it was only the second time for the Quakers. Both teams are on a streak of shutting out teams; Harvard is on a 466 consecutive minute streak, and Penn is on a 290 consecutive minute streak.

The Quakers’ 6-1-1 record is the best start in school history.

Harvard will look to secure its first Ivy League victory against storied rival Yale.

Sports Weekend Recap

SCORES

Football @ BROWN W, 31-17 ________________________________________________________

Women’s rugby @ Dartmouth L, 55-13 ________________________________________________________

woMen’s Volleyball @ Dartmouth L, 3-2 ________________________________________________________

Women’s soccer @ Penn T, 0-0 ________________________________________________________

Field hockey vs. Yale L, 6-0 ________________________________________________________

Field HOCKEY @ No. 18 Maine W, 4-1 ________________________________________________________

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Harvard Lights Up Brown nection put points on the board. Scott had grabbed his fourth pass of the drive and scored his first touchdown of the season to put the Crimson up, 31-17.

Silence from the stands. “[Smith] keeps his poise, he keeps fighting, and I thought this was a step forward for him in terms of how he managed the fourth quarter,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said.

On the road and under the lights, Harvard (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) withheld a second-half surge from host Brown (0-2, 0-1) and triumphed, 31-17. The win is the Crimson’s 86th all-time against the Bears.

Looking purely at the stat sheet, it would be impossible to pin down the type of game Smith had. On one hand, he threw for 251 yards and was 23-of30, several times completing multiple passes in succession. However, the sophomore also tossed two interceptions when Harvard was within scoring range.

Watching Smith live in action was another thing altogether. Aside from the pair of picks, Smith generally hit his receivers in optimal spots and picked good opportunities to run the ball. Smith also deftly evaded pressure — despite being sacked twice, he was never hurried and made intelligent plays when keeping the ball himself.

off Smith at Brown’s own seven. By the final whistle, Harvard had converted on just one of its four red-zone chances.

While Smith twice under-threw his receivers for interceptions, Bears quarterback Michael McGovern generally threw the ball too deep. The sophomore opened the game on the right foot (five-of-nine, 55 yards on his first drive) but eventually became a bit wild and tossed two picks of his own.

In all, McGovern threw for 293 yards but completed just over 50 percent of his passes.

At the outset of the second quarter, Brown appeared to alter its offensive strategy, focusing more on the ground game. Last week, the Bears threw 51 times, and this game 43 of their 60 plays traveled through the air.

Following fives consecutive runs, McGovern went back to the air and hit Livingstone Harriott for two yards.

The short completion may have generated a bit of overconfidence, as Crimson senior safety Cole Thompson swooped in on the next play, snagged McGovern’s pass out of the air at the 27, and sprinted toward the end zone for a pick-six. Crimson 21, Bears 3.

The Harvard secondary was not done. On the ensuing drive, Brown advanced the ball to its own 24 before McGovern attempted a long bomb to

the left sideline. It was another overthrow, and Wes Ogsbury was there to nab the pass. He zig-zagged back and forth across the field and was finally tackled 21 yards later. The visitors did not score quite as quickly as they did following the pick-six but did put up a three-spot as Jake McIntyre booted a field goal.

“Every time we come down here they come with their best,” captain Zach Miller said. “This is a big play offense, so anything to prevent as many of those as we could was our game plan this week.”

The Bears’ defense regrouped in the third quarter after a rough first half, as it halted the Crimson’s first drive once the visitors had crossed midfield, and it did not allow Harvard to advance past its own 13-yard line on its second series.

On that second drive, which lasted just four plays, Brown’s Jorquel Condomina tackled Shampklin back to the one yard line for a loss of four on the first play. Things did not improve for the Crimson on ensuing snaps. On fourth down, freshman Jon Sot took the field to punt, but the snap came in low and the Bears took over at the three. It took three plays to go a short distance, and McGovern found Jaelon Blandburg in the end zone to cut Harvard’s lead to 24-10.

Once the whistle sounded to close the third quarter, Brown had punted twice, possessed the ball for nearly half the time that the Crimson did, and accumulated 95 fewer yards. But the scoreboard is all that matters, and the Bears won the quarter, 7-0.

Harvard built most of its lead in the first quarter, racking up 168 total yards to Brown’s 83 and closing out the period with a 14-3 advantage. Smith finished a perfect six-for-six passing, spreading out his targets to four different receivers. On the other side, McGovern started out hot as well but was subjected to increased pressure as the quarter wore on, and the Crimson’s Richie Ryan picked up a sack in the process.

Smith and his receiving corps seemed to be the focal point of the game, but the ground game produced nearly as many yards. Further, Harvard’s sophomore running back group has evolved into a three-headed monster. In the first quarter, two plays after Smith scrambled up the middle on a keeper for 14 yards, he handed the ball off to B.J. Watson. The second-year ball carrier hooked around the left side of the line and scooted 43 yards down the sideline to find the end zone.

Watson closed out the game with 73 yards on four carries. Accompanying him were Shampklin and Devin Darrington, who tacked on a combined 164 yards on the ground.

“If you can run the ball, you can throw the ball,” Murphy said. “If you can’t run the ball, you’re not only one dimensional but you’re predictable, and I think the biggest difference between this year and last year is we’re better up front and we’ve made a commitment to run the football.”

Aerial Justice Senior Justice Shelton-Mosley fails to escape a Brown defender on the kickoff Friday night under the lights in Brown Stadium. Timothy R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

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By Jack Stockless Crimson Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — All of a sudden, a seemingly absent Brown crowd sprung to life. A 24-3 deficit became 24-10 after three quarters of play. Early in the final frame, the scoreboard displayed 24-17. On its heels, Harvard took possession of the ball on its own 13-yard line with 12:16 left to play. Staring back was a hungry Bears defense that had twice picked off sophomore quarterback Jake Smith near the goal line.

The noise of the crowd swelled to a roar as sophomore running back Aaron Shampklin was yanked down for a loss of one to set up third-and-three.

Brown needed a three-and-out, and it looked as though its wish might come true. Then Smith completed a clutch pass over the middle to senior tight end Dan Werner.

The raucous yells quickly dissipated. A shift in momentum had taken place on that simple four-yard toss over the middle. Sure enough, the Crimson kept driving. Another third down, another pass complete, this time to senior Adam Scott. In the same situation three plays later, Smith found Scott again to move the chains — Harvard had reached midfield. Several more plays later, and the Smith-Scott con­

That crucial fourth-quarter drive was exemplary of the second-year signal caller’s improvement from his rookie campaign. He bled 8:05 off the clock and guided his offense 87 yards to fend off a rallying Bears team. The Crimson was three-of-eight on third down conversions outside of this drive but completed the feat four times as it marched toward its final touchdown of the night.

At the outset of the final quarter, Brown released the momentum it had built up in the third and showed that it had life. Smith was finding some holes in the Bears’ secondary, but senior safety Sebastian Dovi made a crucial interception as the Crimson reached the red zone. Brown then quickly turned around and marched 88 yards in 1:08 of clock time, aided by a 55-yard catch-and-run by Jakob Prall. All of a sudden, the deficit had been reduced to only seven points.

Prall made the most of three catches, tallying 120 yards. To emphasize how pass-heavy the Bears’ offense is, each of its top four receivers accumulated more yards than Brown’s entire rushing attack did (32).

Dovi’s pick near the goal line was the second of two on the day. To start off the second quarter, Bears cornerback Jorquel Condomina dove to pick