The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 91

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Harvard’s climate policy remains inadequate despite recent steps.

Cambridge City Council candidates met to debate climate change solutions.

Harvard football looks forward to a win to start Ivy League season.

Donate Epstein’s Gift, HPT Undergrads Say DCE Dean to Retire in Winter

By Shera S. Avi-Yonah and Delano R. Franklin Crimson Staff Writers

Current Hasty Pudding Theatricals members and alumni started a petition to the organization’s graduate board last month calling for the Pudding to donate the $50,000 gift it received from a charity connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.

Former Hasty Pudding Theatricals cast member Jacob W. Roberts ’19 first advocated for redirecting the money to anti-sex trafficking organizations on Aug. 15, according to internal emails obtained by The Crimson. Other alumni and undergraduates voiced their support in the email chain that followed and started to circulate a petition. Some suggested that Hasty Pudding members also volunteer at local nonprofits.

“The purpose of this petition is to reallocate philanthropic output received from Epstein to combatting sexual exploitation and trafficking from predators like him in our community,” the petition reads. “The funding we received at the cost of sex trafficking should go back to helping survivors in our community get the support and care they need to carry on healthy, full lives.”

Tax filings revealed that a charity organization, Gratitude America, Ltd., donated $50,000 in 2016 to the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 — the umbrella group comprising the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Hasty ­

DCE Dean Huntington D. Lambert plans to step down in December

By Lucy Liu Crimson Staff Writer

Pudding Club, and the Harvard Krokodiloes. Epstein served as president of Gratitude America in 2014.

The Hasty Pudding Institute previously counted Epstein among its major donors. As recently as April 17, the organiza-

tion’s website listed him among donors who gave more than $50,000 in 2018. He is not on the roster of 2019 donors.

Several undergraduates wrote in an internal email chain that they believe signing the petition — which is directed to-

ward the graduate board — and engaging in volunteer work would be the best courses of action because the organization’s financial decisions are largely in the hands of its graduate board.

“Unfortunately when it

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The Undergraduate Council signed on to a letter last week addressed to University President Lawerence S. Bacow and incoming Harvard University Health Services Director Giang T. Nguyen pushing for publicly accessible Naloxone on Harvard’s campus.

Two recent College graduates — Eana X. Meng ’19 and Kailash S. Sundaram ’19 — spearheaded the letter, which appealed the decision by HUHS in April to decline to make Naloxone publicly available in automatic external defibrillator boxes located around campus.

Mutiple Harvard professors, Mayor Marc C. McGovern, and the Undergraduate Council have all signed onto the letter.

“I think that a large part of ­

Cambridge city council candidates discuss their plans to address climate change locally. Voters gather to learn more about the candidates’ strategies to respond to this issue. camille g. caldera—Crimson photographer

Faculty Council Hears Allston Plan The Faculty Council heard preliminary plans for course scheduling at the new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences campus in Allston at its biweekly meeting Tuesday.

Former Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris and SEAS Associate Dean for Education David Y. Hwang presented the update to the Council, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ highest governing body.

Harris and Hwang serve on a faculty committee charged with anticipating potential scheduling issues to make the opening of the new campus in Allston next fall “as smooth as possible,” Council member Kirsten A. Weld said.

Specifically, the committee is trying to coordinate the SEAS ­

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comes to funds and allocations, this is something entirely out of undergraduate hands, and in the hands of [the Hasty Pudding Institute],” one email read.

“Exec could send an email to

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The Hasty Pudding’s clubhouse, located in Harvard Square across from The Garage. Undergraduates and alumni have called for the group to give away money donated by Jeffrey Epstein. Jonathan g. yuan—Crimson photographer

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the reason that we wanted to sign onto this is because we try to represent not only student interest, but also the interest of the community surrounding us,” said Sanika S. Mahajan ‘21, chair of the UC Committee on the Health, Safety, and Willness Committee.

The letter references the efforts of Harvard for Opioid Overdose Prevention and Education, a group started by Meng and Sundaram focused on breaking the stigma surrounding opioid use. The group also works on issues relating to Harvard’s relationship the City of Cambridge. After HUHS declined to provide Naloxone in AED boxes last spring, Meng Sundaram formed the group in June.

The letter comes after a

Dean of the Division of Continuing Education Huntington D. Lambert announced his decision to retire in December in an email to DCE affiliates Wednesday.

DCE encompasses Harvard’s Extension School and Summer School, as well as a variety of other academic enrichment programs. Lambert has held the deanship for six years. Starting next January, Henry H. Leitner, DCE associate dean and chief innovation officer, will serve as interim dean until a permanent replacement can be found. Lambert wrote in the Wednesday email that he is stepping down to focus on “family, philanthropy, and learning passions,” and to thank the school’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

“I am reaching out to thank all of you for your amazing contributions to our successes at DCE,” Lambert wrote. “Your hard work and dedication to our mission, students, FAS, and Harvard have allowed us to expand DCE into the leading CE institution in the world. It was an honor to work with such committed and driven staff, faculty, and teaching assistants.”

In recent years, DCE programs have increased both in participation and their financial contributions to Harvard.

Harvard Summer School offers more than 500 courses to over 10,000 students. The Extension School offers more than 900 courses, which are available both online and on campus. In Lambert’s first year at Harvard — 2013 — the Extension School issued 645 degrees. Now, the number has risen to more than 1,200 annually.

In a message sent Tuesday, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay praised Lambert’s contribution to Harvard’s educational mission and attributed DCE’s growth to his work.

“During Hunt’s time as dean, Harvard has increasingly sought to engage learners who seek to expand their ­

course schedule to ensure that all students can travel between the two campuses and still have time to eat lunch, according to Weld. The committee hopes to arrange class times in such a way that most SEAS students will only need to take one round trip across the Charles River each day, rather than darting back and forth between Cambridge and Allston for classes.

Harris and Hwang provided an extensive report on a new algorithm their committee has developed to “control for conflicts between pairs of commonly sequenced courses,” Weld said. The tool aims to anticipate pairs of courses that the average SEAS student would commonly take during the same semester and ensure the course meeting times will not conflict.

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Panelists Discuss Race and Technology at IOP By amanda y. su Crimson Staff Writer

Academics and media experts warned of the limits of inclusion in technology at a forum hosted by the Institute of Politics on Wednesday evening.

The panelists at the event — dubbed “The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion” — discussed a variety of topics, ranging from targeted advertising in social media to video game “culture wars.”

Joan Donovan, the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center, moderated the event. Donovan opened the panel by pointing to a “culture shift” in technology and inclusion.

“There’s a lot of inclusionary rhetoric that we traffic in exclusionary politics,” she said. ­

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Harvard Kennedy School professor and panelist Khalil Muhammad spoke about his research on state-weaponization of big data. He said crime statistics have been used as a “measure of citizenship” and justification for eugenics and immigration restrictions.

“They claim the data itself was divorced from a political agenda. It was just a simple articulation of the facts of the choices that individuals made in some way. And the data just accumulates in their behavior,” he said. “But of course, their behavior was subject to surveillance and was subject to different standards of treatment, and justice, etcetera.”

Panelist Latoya Peterson, known for her award-winning blog Racialicious.com, shared

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Ruha Benjamin, Khalil G. Muhammad, Latoya Peterson, and Joan Donovan speak at the IOP Wednesday. amanda y. su—Crimson photographer

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Today’s Events BLIFF 2019: Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba & Nowhere Bastards 8-9 p.m., Tsai Auditorium

in The Real World Whistleblower’s Claims are ‘Very Credible,’ According to House Intelligence Committee Chairman

The movie “Bakosó” is being screened at Tsai Auditorium for the Boston Latino International Film Festival.

Trace the journey of DJ Jigüe, who travelled back to his hometown of Santiago de Cuba for inspiration to a new afrocuban genre called Bakosó.

The score for the film was composed by the founders of the genre, and it promises to have stunning visuals.

The Future of US (Part 1): Fault Lines 6:30-9 p.m., Lehman Hall Head to Lehman Hall for a discussion on Singapore’s future on the occasion of the country’s bicentennial. The event will include an exploration of Singaporean identity from different angles and a discussion on how current issues will evolve in the future. RSVP if possible and submit issues to discuss at the event!

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff deemed the allegations regarding President Trump’s conversation with the Ukranian President to be “deeply disturbing” and “very credible.” On Wednesday, the White House released a transcript of a phone conversation between Trump and the Ukranian president.

17 States Collectively Sue Trump Administration for Weaker Endangered Species Act A building at the Harvard Graduate School of Design stands out against the clear fall sky on Wednesday afternoon. Quinn g. perini—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Hasty Pudding Theatricals undergraduates are currently collecting signature for a petition that calls on the organization’s graduate board to donate the $50,000 gift it received from a charity linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The petition advocates donating the money to anti-sex trafficking organizations. In other news, Dean of Continuing Education Huntington D. Lambert announced he will step down from his position in December.

A lawsuit was filed by 17 states in a federal San Francisco court against the Trump Administration in order to block measures that they allege weaken the Endangered Species Act. The new measures allow officials to consider financial impacts while deciding how to support an endangered species.

5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Pakistanoccupied Kashmir, At Least 20 Dead At least 20 people are dead and hundreds were injured in the aftermath of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Kashmir around 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday. Army troops have been dispatched with supplies and medical support.

Around the Ivies PRINCETON Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif proposed to the United States that Iran return a Princeton graduate student convicted of espionage in Iran, The Daily Princetonian reported, citing an NPR interview. The offer to return Xiyue Wang – the American Ph.D. student studying history at the university – was made last September and included a prisoner swap, according to Zarif. The Trump administration, however, said there are no current bilateral talks, and that it does not consider the prisoner exchange proposal to be a serious one.

Wang has been detained since August 2016, when he was conducting research in Iran.

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Yale decided earlier this year that it will no longer accept donations from the Sackler family, The Yale Daily News reported. The Sackler family owns Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the opioid-based painkiller OxyContin that helped fuel the opioid crisis. The university, however, will not be removing Sackler’s name from endowed professorships, or from the Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences at the University. Removing a donor’s name from a program would require the benefactor’s permission, according to a 2017 interview with a former communications vice president for the university that the newspaper cited.

PRINCETON

Princeton will no longer require applicants to 14 of the University’s graduate programs to submit their Graduate Record Examination results, The Daily Princetonian reported. The decision to make the standardized test optional is intended to widen the scope of students that the programs attract. Some regard the standardized test – which normally costs $205 to register for in the United States – as a hindrance to low-income applicant groups and undue advantage to those that are financially welloff.

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HPT Weighs Donating Epstein Gift IOP Panel Talks Race, Technology t he grad board and include the form answers showing the fact that like 50+ undergrads want us to donate to sex-trafficking non-profits . . . potentially more if you toss the form over the full HPI email list,” another read.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals President Elias W. Russell ’20 did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the petition and the organization’s stance on the Epstein-linked donations.

Epstein, a billionaire investor, died by suicide last month in a Manhattan jail cell, where he was held on charges associated with the sex trafficking of minors. In a November 2018 report, the Miami Herald identified roughly 80 women who allege Epstein sexually abused them from 2001 to 2006 and uncovered a sex ring Epstein operated out of his Palm Beach, Fla. home.

Prosecutors first convicted Epstein in 2008 on charges related to the solicitation of a prostitute, though he served only 13 months in prison with a work release allowance. The ­

short sentence resulted from an unusual plea deal led by former United States Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta ’90.

Acosta resigned in July after federal prosecutors opened a new probe into the allegations against Epstein.

Roberts said in an interview that he wanted the Hasty Pudding Institute to donate a sum equal to the full amount Epstein gave, rather than any unspent remainder the organiza-

I would hope...that we would not use any of the cop-out language like ‘whatever money we haven’t spent already.’

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tion still has.

“I would hope that when making that commitment to direct money towards those or-

ganizations that are combating human trafficking and sex abuse, that we would not use any of the cop-out language like ‘whatever money we haven’t spent already,’” he said. “Because that’s just a way of giving yourself an out to not actually follow through on your commitments.”

Much like the Hasty Pudding, Harvard is currently grappling with how to address gifts linked to Epstein. University President Lawrence S. Bacow wrote in a email to Harvard affiliates earlier this month that the University would donate an unspent balance of $186,000 in gifts from Epstein to organizations that support victims of human trafficking and sexual assault. In the same email, he acknowledged the $8.9 million in donations Epstein gave to the University between 1998 and 2007.

At Bacow’s direction, the Office of the General Counsel announced last Friday it is reviewing any donations made to the University at Epstein’s “suggestion.”

The Hasty Pudding is one of several Harvard-affiliated groups that accepted money linked to Epstein well after his 2008 conviction. Gratitude America made a $110,000 donation in 2016 to Verse Video Ed-

The purpose of this petition is to reallocate philanthropic output received from Epstein.

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ucation, a non-profit that funds English professor Elisa F. New’s television show and digital initiative “Poetry in America.” Epstein also “facilitated” major Harvard donor Leslie H. Wexner’s contribution to the construction of the Harvard Hillel building. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com delano.franklin@thecrimson.com

t he story of the time a reader suggested she look into a piece about white supremacists using “search engine optimization” to “hijack” the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peterson said she found that white supremacist groups were manipulating search rankings to reroute people looking for information about King to white supremacy pages disguised as sites focused on civil rights.

“We’re now also dealing with the rise of white supremacy online,” she said.

“Racial terror tactics migrate.”

Panelist Ruha Benjamin — an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton — explained this phenomenon as the “innovation of racism.”

“We’re trained to think about racism as sort of what happens in the backwoods as a byproduct of not knowing things,” she said. “But the fact ­

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UC Signs Letter to President Bacow Calling for Naloxone 26-year-old man fatally overdosed on the steps of Blue Bottle Cafe, located at 40 Bow St., last July. Swathi R. Srinivasan ’21, one of the group’s co-directors, said she had hoped that HOOPE wouldn’t need to push for Naloxone availability because of a specific overdose incident.

“We were hoping that it wouldn’t have to be in the circumstances that something [had] already happened,” Srinivasan said.

HUHS told Meng and Sundaram that first responders carry naloxone and that they have a quick response time, according to Meng.

But in Meng’s opinion, the fatal overdose proved their push for Naloxone in AED boxes was necessary.

“It was really hard to read about it, because this is exactly

the thing that we were trying to prevent,” Meng said.

HUHS Spokesperson Michael Perry wrote in an email to The Crimson that HUHS “will continue to consider the possibility of Narcan in our AED boxes when we have more data.”

“HUHS is committed to ongoing conversations across the Harvard community to determine best ways to address emergent situations such as overdose and better understand opioid use on our campus through our health assessment survey that we will distribute this academic year,” he wrote.

Meng said that though she recognizes that decisions take time, she believes the opioid crisis warrants immediate action.

“It’s not to be overly harsh,” Meng said. “I know people have

priorities, but this is one for the world.”

HOOPE has received widespread support from Harvard Medical School professors and Boston-based RIZE, a non-profit focused on combating the opioid epidemic.

McGovern himself has also offered support in their push to fight the epidemic. In an email to The Crimson, McGovern wrote that he will continue to work with Harvard and other universities in Cambridge on “this vital harm reduction strategy.”

“The opioid crisis crosses all demographics and boundaries.

Making Naloxone more readily available will save lives. I was happy to sign this letter and to work with students on this issue,” he wrote.

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that is that it’s often forward looking.”

At the end of the event, the panelists stressed the need for more diversity in newsrooms, digital platforms, and technology, as well as collective organization to push innovation in the right direction.

“The more you come to a community of people who can collaborate and share resources to get those apps — or whatever it happens to be — off the ground, the more likely we are to move the needle,” Muhammad said.

Graduate student Cierra B. Robson who attended the event said her main takeaway was that technology “moves in very interesting, often unintended ways.”

“That doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily bad, but it does mean that we need to be cautious,” she said. amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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Harvard, Drowning in Inadequacy

The Root of Harvard’s Suffering

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he Harvard Management Company recently announced it has officially joined Climate Action 100+ — a financial initiative aiming to leverage investor power to steer corporate greenhouse gas emitters towards carbon footprint reduction and greater financial transparency in carbon-related ventures. The initiative hopes that through “direct engagement” it can be a strong force for combating the corporate drivers of climate change.

We stand by our precedent that Harvard should divest from the fossil fuel industry. Climate change is the most pressing problem of our time and needs to be addressed with the full force of our resources, and the kind of incrementalism this initiative represents is far from sufficient.

We have called upon the University to act swiftly and decisively, and while it may be a small step in the right direction, the University’s climate policy overall remains a disappointment.

This program runs counter to the spirit of our hopes that the University divest because as an investor initiative, it specifically supports those with no intention of divestment.

Even worse, the kinds of companies to which it provides capital are some of the primary drivers of pollution.

While Harvard has emphasized a philosophy of engagement with these polluters, we are skeptical that companies whose fundamental business models and political strategies have relied on the degradation of the environment and consistent efforts to belie the reality of climate change can be reasoned with.

Furthermore, the steps the organization outlines to spur the cutting of corporate emissions are vague at best, and

we question whether this sort of ill-defined “engagement” with companies really could have the leveraging potential Harvard suggests it will.

The danger of incremental action that fails to make sufficient progress is that it gives the illusion of progress when in reality there is none, or very little. For all these reasons, we find Harvard’s action deeply inadequate.

Ironically, this investment decision from HMC is most useful in dispelling one of the myths the University has perpetuated for its own sake, namely that the endowment must remain apolitical.

That statement has been at the heart of

If the University truly believes that its investments are not to be used for political purposes, then it is contradictory for it to join an investment initiative with openly political goals. the University’s previous rejection of divestment, yet it is just such a political commitment that ostensibly drives the University’s pursuit of this program now. If the University truly believes that its investments are not to be used for political purposes, then it is contradictory for it to join an investment initiative with openly political goals.

Though this initiative might be well-intentioned, it demonstrates the hypocrisy of not divesting from fossil fuels in order to remain apolitical. Either investments are political or they are not. Yet Harvard’s current understanding seems to be that investments must remain apolitical unless and until there

is good press to be won from politicizing them.

In the context of divestment more broadly, we commend the hundreds of students, faculty, and Cambridge residents who protested for divestment and climate awareness last Friday.

Climate change is the most significant threat that our society faces today, and its mitigation requires urgent, drastic, and decisive action.

In that spirit, we fully support the efforts of those who devote their time and energy to advocating for such action. It is frustrating — though not surprising — that grassroots advocacy does not induce immediate enthusiasm for institutional change among those who hold power.

In contrast, on our other coast, the University of California system has divested about $150 million from fossil fuels.

The fund managers have claimed that this was a purely financial decision, deeming the investments too risky, but we still support their decision and hope that Harvard analyzes this decision and follows suit.

No matter the rationale, we strongly believe that divestment — coupled with other bold environmental action — is necessary given the current climate crisis, and that this incrementalist approach is woefully insufficient.

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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More American Than Bud Light

By Daniel L. Aklog

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hat does a patriot look like?

Close your eyes, envision one, what do you see? American patriotic iconography is easily identifiable — eagles, guns, beer, red, white, and blue. But patriotism needs to signify so much more.

One can see this false patriotism everywhere on college campuses, including here at Harvard. Fraternity culture has co-opted patriotism as an element of its aesthetic.

Perhaps this is a reaction to social justice movements on campuses, which are often critical of the country’s history as well as its present.

Whatever the motivation, a clear lack of contemplation of these symbols radiates from within this cultural sphere, and this lack of depth is not limited to colleges.

Much of the patriotism that I see in my country is devoid of substance. What is American about brandishing guns and beer with hints of Christianity and hypermasculinity?

This shallow interpretation of what it means to be American is at best fun and childish, and at worst disrespectful to the moral traditions of this country.

A real patriot respects the beautiful ideals stated at our foundation — life, liberty, equality, opportunity, democracy, and human rights — not a can of Bud Light.

This phenomenon is not always harmful and I admit it can be entertaining, but we must ensure that claims of patriotism are held to a much higher standard.

One cannot claim to love a country while neglecting those who live within it. Patriotism must go deeper than symbolism.

Can you truly love your country if you

are content with large portions of your compatriots suffering? To claim one’s patriotism must be to perform one’s duty to enhance the nation. Public service is an exhibition of patriotism. Active citizenship is a demonstration of one’s love and pride. A tank top that reads “Back to Back World War Champs” is not.

When we accept the designation of shallow behavior as patriotism, we allow the values of America to be defined by it.

If patriotism is the use of symbols akin to wearing a football jersey, then it is meaningless.

If we accept that patriotism is the support of militarism, hypermasculinity, and a blind insistence that red, blue, and white is always right, then we accept those to be the values of the nation, and it should be no surprise that it is so often condemned, especially by advocates of

It is a mistake for my fellow progressives to reject patriotism as an inherent vice. liberalism. America should mean much more.

Progressives today often define the United States by the numerous horrors of its past and present. Open any American history textbook and you will see a long list of atrocities committed by the people and government of this country.

To deny the moral weight of the Trail of Tears, slavery, and a vast collection of other barbarities would be disgraceful.

However, love of one’s country does not condone those actions.

The United States has treated me well, but a significant portion of the population has had a much darker experience, so it is understandable that many

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t’s time to address the elephant in the room.

While Houses, concentrations, and choice of extracurriculars may divide us at times, there is one common enemy that we all face on a daily basis: Harvard’s unintuitive doors.

It’s one of those things you don’t notice until you start looking for it, and when you see it, it will make you sick.

Every minor inconvenience, every ephemeral bout of frustration, adds up to a cumulative suffering.

Clearly, this is the true source of undergraduate dissatisfaction with campus life.

Don’t believe me?

Let’s start with LISE Cafe.

After pretending to do work in there for a bit, you make your way to the door. You see a handle and pull it. It doesn’t give.

You look up and pull the other door’s handle — maybe one of them is locked? Nope.

You read the sign next to the handle: The glass door reads “PULL” on the other side of the door.

You visualize yourself on the other side pulling the door. Therefore, you must push. You push the door.

What other doors, physical and otherwise, does Harvard shut off to people like us by design? Roughly four percent of applicants can enter the doors of Harvard. Of the fortunate, one percent can actually manage to open the doors.

I shouldn’t have to know English to know how to open a door. Not only that, but who pushes a door handle?

Angered at LISE’s absurdity, you head back to Leverett House to catch some sleep.

It’s late — cut through Smith Campus Center.

You’re greeted by two sets of French doors — four doors in total, and only one badge reader.

Which door will it open?

You swipe and hear the right set of doors unlock. You go for the rightmost door. It doesn’t budge. You go for the left. It opens.

Flustered yet again, you stop by Quincy House’s Stone Hall to cry to a friend living on the fourth floor.

You tap your ID at the elevator’s badge reader. It stays red. You tap again. Still red. You wait a few seconds, and it returns to green. You tap again. Red. An impatient sophomore grunts past you, hovers their ID two inches from the reader for a one-Mississippi-two-Mississippi, and up to the fourth floor you go. Your eyes swell with tears by floor three.

“What’s wrong with me?” you ask yourself.

Nothing is wrong with you.

If you also find yourself frustrated trying to figure out how to open a Harvard door, know that you are not alone, and that it is never your fault.

Someone designed that door with you, the end user, in mind. But they failed to focus intently on the experience.

If you don’t know what to do with these trivial devices as soon as you approach them, and you had to have outside knowledge — English comprehension, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, or even the presence of a Quincy sophomore —

do not feel the love that I do. I love the country itself — not everything, or even most, of what it has done.

Patriotism has long been associated with conservatism, while champions of Enlightenment liberalism have opted instead to forward a cosmopolitan worldview, in which the moral perspective is at the international level, as all people should be considered equally, independent of their proximity.

National identity is often seen as a threat because it’s only a few steps away from fascism.

It is a mistake for my fellow progressives to reject patriotism as an inherent vice.

First of all, community fills us with an essential feeling and makes governance more effective. We can achieve more with a sense of unity.

Second, this worldview underestimates the difficulty of self-mobilization to help people you will never meet. Patriotism does not require an abandonment of responsibilities abroad, where morality still holds this onus. Like a parent watching their child stand up for justice, when the United States aids people around the world I am proud.

And third, American patriotism lends itself especially well to liberal ethical philosophy. As the United States was a child of the Enlightenment, its founding ideals harmonize with liberalism.

Our history and our present are riddled with atrocities, but they do not have to characterize the nation.

If we choose to view these as betrayals of our ideals instead of the core to our identity, then we may find fertile ground for a progressive patriotism.

that’s bad design.

As Don Norman writes in “The Design of Everyday Things,” good design is discoverable.

That is, just by looking at the object, you should be able to form a mental model of how it works.

LISE violates the mental model that handles are to be grabbed, and grabbing is a pulling motion.

Smith offers no cues as to which door will unlock.

Quincy requires word-of-mouth knowledge and practice just to operate an elevator.

Harvard often fails to use what engineers call a human-centered approach to problem-solving.

In this discipline, people are paramount: Cost, engineering, aesthetics, and even time come secondary. While difficult doors are more whimsical indications of our school’s poor design, I invite you to question where else Harvard has failed in putting us first. Was Harvard made with people like you and me in mind, or were we the afterthought?

What other doors, physical and otherwise, does Harvard shut off to people like us by design?

Roughly four percent of applicants can enter the doors of Harvard. Of the fortunate, one percent can actually manage to open the doors.

There’s little I can do alone, but collectively, we are a force to be reckoned with. We don’t have to accept these failures of design.

Together, through petitions online, sit-in protests in front of the Smith Campus Center’s doors, and a sprinkle of administrative help, we can stunt the root of Harvard students’ suffering.

—Daniel L. Aklog ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Leverett House.

—Mohib A. Jafri ’21 is an Electrical Engineering concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays.

If you also find yourself frustrated trying to figure out how to open a Harvard door, know that you are not alone, and that it is never your fault.

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Division of Continuing Education Dean Retires pknowledge and develop deeper rofessional skills through non-degree offerings,” she wrote. “ Hunt and other leaders within DCE have been important voices in that work, both in cross-university review efforts and through DCE’s own programs.”

Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Lambert had worked on more than 25 startups in 12 different countries.

As an administrator at Colorado State University, he found-

ed an entrepreneurship center and the university system’s online program.

In his email Wednesday, Lambert called leading DCE as a “finale” to his career and called its faculty, staff, and students “outstanding.”

“Nothing prepared me for the quality of the dedicated adult part-time and summer students Harvard DCE attracts and engages,” Lambert wrote.

“DCE has demonstrated to the whole world that serving students across their lifespan is

what makes a great 21st century global university like Harvard complete.”

Gay wrote in her email that a search for Lambert’s successor will commence later this fall.

As Lambert completes his tenure at Harvard, Gay offered her gratitude for his work leading DCE. “Hunt leaves a proud legacy at Harvard, and I am deeply grateful for the positive impact he has had on our community.,” lcuy.liu@thecrimson.com

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Faculty Council Discusses Allston Campus Scheduling “They’re basically trying to do kind of predictive easing of the effects of the scheduling transition on the students who will predominantly be taking classes in Allston, which is not a majority of students by any means,” Weld said.

Earlier in the meeting, Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser and Dean for Administration and Finance Leslie A. Kirwan ’79 presented a preview of the Dean’s Annual Re-

port to the Council.

The report — which administrators will present to the full Faculty next week — discusses trends in faculty appointments and promotions and updates on FAS finances.

The Council also heard a oneyear report from FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke on the rollout of the new FAS schedule, which debuted last fall.

The Faculty voted in 2017 to standardize course start and

end times and lengthen class periods from 60 to 75 minutes.

With the new schedule came the elimination of “Harvard Time,” a College scheduling quirk that allowed students to arrive seven minutes late to class.

“It seems like overall that the new schedule has actually been implemented quite well and quite smoothly,” Weld said. molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

Cambridge City Council Discusses Climate Change

By Declan J. Knieriem and Michelle G. Kurilla Crimson Staff Writers

Cambridge City Council candidates made it clear in a Wednesday forum that they agree climate change is an immediate threat to the city.

The forum, held at the Citywide Senior Center, gave the 16 participating candidates a chance to discuss the threat of climate change in Cambridge and outline how they would address the issue if elected. The event was sponsored

by Mothers Out Front — a climate change grassroots organization comprised of mothers, grandmothers, and other caregivers, according to its website — alongside other climate advocacy groups such as 350 Massachusetts. Dozens of residents attended the forum.

Mothers Out Front organizer Kristine Jelstrup said the forum was meant to educate the public about candidates’ plans to address climate change in the city. “We want to know the candidates’ views on preparedness for climate change,” she said.

“We want to know what their plans are in regards to lowering our greenhouse gas emissions, about handling flooding and heat islands, and trees.”

Though all candidates agreed on the necessity of action, their proposed approaches and priorities differed. Popular stances among the forum

participants included net zero emissions buildings, improved transportation, increases in the tree canopy, and implementing renewable forms of energy in Cambridge.

Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler argued that his proposal to eliminate public transportation fares will help reduce emissions in the city.

“Our campaign has the ambitious goal of making subways and buses fare free by 2025,” Sobrinho-Wheeler said. This initiative is motivated “to re-

We want to know the candidates’ views on preparedness for climate change Kristine Jelstrup Mothers Out Front Organizer

duce car emissions, and because working class neighborhoods, communities of color depend on buses and subways.”

When asked which city environmental initiative she would prioritize first, Adriane B. Musgrave responded that this was a “false question.”

“We need to push on all of those issues,” Musgrave said.

“Climate change is not business as usual. We in Cambridge are leading the country in creating plans and doing the real research and technical feasibili-

ty and putting an equity lens on all of it, to make sure that we’re leading the way.”

The forum comes less than a week after hundreds of Harvard students, faculty, and Cambridge residents converged on Science Center Plaza to call for climate action and urge the University to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. They joined scores of similar protests across the globe as millions participated in a worldwide climate strike. On Tuesday, members of sponsor group 350 Massachusetts joined Divest Harvard members outside University Hall to criticize University President Lawrence S. Bacow and Mass. Governor Charles D. Baker ’79 for their actions on climate change issues.

Several questions Wednesday evening focused on the role of real estate development in dealing with climate change.

Mayor Marc C. McGovern said that when dealing with developers, he wants to make them “scream, but not run away.”

“We all show up at the photo-ops and the ribbon cuttings for all the things that those tax revenues generate for the city,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean we give them a free ride; we should require solar, we should require net zero readiness, and we should squeeze them for whatever we can.” declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Looks To Open Ivy League Season With a Win

By JAMES JOYCE Crimson Staff Writer

A side from the obvious geographical differences, California and Cambridge aren’t all that different. The two locales each featured a plethora of both shorts and pants this week as the temperature rose to an acceptable 75 degrees, each has contributed a Speaker to the House of Representatives (bonus points if you can name both!), and the two serve as bookends to the continental United States. However, as Harvard takes on the Brown Bears this Friday at home, the Crimson is hoping that its game in Cambridge is nothing like the one in San Diego last weekend.

“The bottom line is that [San Diego] had two games under their belt with another fourteen days to prepare before us,” said Crimson coach Tim Murphy of his squad’s 31-23 loss to the Toreros. “They were a much more synchronized, battle-tested team than we were. They played really well the first half, and we just struggled in all phases.”

For Harvard, last Saturday’s game against San Diego was lost in the first seven seconds.

On the first play of the game, Torero quarterback Reid Sinnett launched a 65-yard bomb to put seven points on the scoreboard. Another endzone-bound toss early in the second extended San Diego’s lead, a difference too big for the Crimson to close.

“I’m obviously never happy when we take an L,” Harvard quarterback Jake Smith said.

“I think there’s a lot of things to learn off of that first half, but then second half we really stepped it up. And we’re really an improved offense and defense – an improved whole team, for that matter. I’m proud of the way that my teammates came up in the second half.”

The latter half of the Crimson’s crusade against San Diego not only saw a near-comeback, but it featured a shattered record by Harvard kicker Jake McIntyre. The senior set the all-time Crimson record for field goals by completing the 31st of his career, a cause for celebration in a Harvard loss.

“I’ve been really, really blessed over the last four years to ­

JAKE MAKES NO MISTAKE Junior quarterback Jake Smith, who completed 77% of his passes and threw for two touchdowns in a win over Brown last season, will look to build on a 325 yard, three touchdown performance in a narrow loss at San Diego last week. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA — Crimson photographer

have Coach Murphy’s support,” said McIntyre. “You know, it’s really nice if you can rely on the guys around you. And I’ve been able to do that. So that’s made it a hell of a lot easier.”

“Jake McIntyre is not only arguably the best kicker we’ve had in my tenure, but he’s also one of the greatest kids,” Murphy said. “When you’re a specialist, it’s not easy to be a leader on the team – a lot of times, you’re isolated at practice, yet Jake is one of the most highly respected kids on our team.

He’s someone all of our kids really have great feelings about.

He’s made an impact beyond becoming the highest scoring kicker in school history.”

Though McIntyre’s kick was the highlight of the second half,

it accompanied a complete 180 in Crimson play. A pair of touchdowns led to a near-Harvard victory; Coach Murphy hopes to keep this momentum going into Harvard’s Friday night game against the Bears.

“Playing as we did in the second half was certainly a morale boost, it was very positive,” Murphy said. “I think the reality is that we put it behind us. We got our Ivy League opener this week, under the lights on ESPN, and our energy should be great and it is.”

While the Crimson is coming off a loss, Brown is doing quite the opposite. Their 35-30 win against Bryant last Saturday propelled them to 1-0 as they claw their way to Cambridge.

However, if history is any indi-

cator, Harvard should be hopeful going into the match – the Crimson has won its last nine home games against the Bears.

“I think we’re just super focused and ready to get going with Ivy League play,” Smith said. “It’s been a while since we’ve had an Ivy League competition – our last game was Yale, the weekend before Thanksgiving last year. We’re excited to get back into it.”

Standing in Harvard’s way of stretching its streak to ten is Brown quarterback EJ Perry.

Perry, a transfer from Boston College, will be returning to his home-turf as he looks to build on his stellar first performance.

“The thing that’s really helped Brown is that they got the transfer quarterback from

Boston College,” Murphy said.

“He had an electrifying first game. He was the Ivy League Player of the Week for Brown and was a finalist for National Player of the Week. He’s given them some instant swagger on the offensive side of the ball.

Like any great quarterback, he’s a gamechanger.”

“They got a quarterback who put up some major stats,” said McIntyre. “But I’m confident.”

Adding to that confidence may be the evening-time environment of Friday’s game.

Not only will Harvard’s battle against the Bears be fought at home, but it will transpire under the lights – a prospect that Murphy sees as “exciting.”

“So many of our kids grew up with Friday Night Lights

during high school football,” Murphy said. “They love playing at night. I think the only challenge is that obviously it’s a pretty short week coming off of a West Coast trip – it’s basically two practices.”

For the Crimson, this will be a game of returns: a return home, a return to Ivy League play, and, in McIntyre’s eyes, a return to Harvard victory.

“We’re ready to come play and start Ivy League play out the right way,” McIntyre said.

“I think everyone’s going to be pretty pumped to get back out here and finally get a game in our stadium. I think it’ll be a good result, but we’ll see on Friday.” james.joyce@thecrimson.com

Cross Country

Harvard Cross Country Notches Best Ever Beantown Finish By will connaughton Crimson Staff Writer

Down in Franklin Park, some 30 minutes from the Harvard campus, both Crimson teams placed fourth in the Battle for Beantown, their best finishes since the tournament’s inception in 2013.

In front of a crowd facing 24 other schools, including for the men No. 3 ranked Washington, No. 13 ranked Syracuse, and No. 21 ranked Arkansas and for the women No. 25 ranked Dart­

mouth, No. 27 ranked Syracuse, and No. 29 ranked Georgia Tech, Harvard had a chance to prove themselves. Prove themselves they did.

For the men, senior standout Kieran Tuntivate had the best race of his Harvard career, beating out the pack by 12 seconds. The Delaware native finished in a blistering 23:58, good for a per mile pace of 4:50. This time for the 2018 HEPs champion, was his personal best in the 8k by over 20 seconds, proving that Kieran is well ahead of

where he was last season.

“It’s true I won HEPs last year but our team was second and also missed out on qualifying for nationals,” said Tuntivate on his motivation this year.

“I’m motivated because I want our team to win HEPs and get to nationals. I want to do my part in helping that happen.”

In second for the men’s team was junior Matthew Pereria, who placed 18th, up from 56th a year ago, with a time of 24:47.

Pereria was behind many of those who finished behind him

BATTLING FOR BEANTOWN Men’s and women’s cross country both finished fourth in the Battle for Beantown, their best finishes since the tournament’s inception in 2013 Matthew w. deshaw—Crimson photographer

at the 3k and 5k mark, but he finished strongly to gain crucial positions for the Crimson. His time was also a personal best in the 8k, and the junior will look to build on this performance as the season progresses, much like many of his teammates who also performed well in Franklin Park.

The pair of junior Blake Evertsen and first year Ben Hartvigsen finished 40 and 41 for the Harvard squad, as Evertsen continued his breakout season and freshman Hartvigsen had a huge race, unafraid of the moment in his first collegiate race.

Rounding out the scoring for the Crimson was sophomore David Melville, who finished in 52nd. Freshman Acer Iverson, who had a strong opener last week against Yale, followed up with a quality 59th place finished in his second race in the crimson uniform, good for sixth on the team.

“Yesterday’s performance was about making sure our team would practice good habits and get those good habits in motion for the rest of the season,” said Tuntivate about the team’s performance. “[It was about] getting back into the routine of racing and waking up the legs after so long.”

Tuntivate and the rest of the Men’s Cross Country team have their eyes set high on nationals this year.

The men’s team finished in fourth with 151 points, just edg-

ing a talented ranked Washington team who put up 156 points and a ranked Arkansas team.

The women ran together much like they have so far this season. The standout performer for the Crimson was first-year Isabell Sagar who finished with a time 17:35 in the 5k with an average pace of 5:40. Sagar led the women for the first time in her young career and her 11th place finish was the best in the Battle for Beantown since 2015 for the Harvard women.

Just behind Sagar, a pack of three Crimson women, junior Brooke Starn, sophomore Maya Rayle, and senior co-captain Gillian Meeks, placed 28th, 30th, and 31st. The pack finished within three seconds of each other and the cohesion helped Havard jump many teams in the rankings. Junior Tessa Madrano was Harvard’s final scorer, placing 38th.

While many other teams had more top-heavy lineups, the Crimson women were able to finish together, picking up points as the third, fourth, and fifth scorers of many competitors dropped off.

“We didn’t explicitly plan to stick as a pack,” said Meeks on the race strategy. “It just sort of happened that we finished close together. We all ran different races, some of us going out hard and others going out more conservatively, but we all ended up in similar spots.”

The strong effort allowed the Havard women to place fourth

and take down two ranked opponents, fellow Ivy-league opponent Dartmouth, who finished sixth in team scoring, and Georgia Tech, who finished seventh.

In the first big race of the year both teams ran their hearts out on the way to a pair of 4th place finishes, the best for both teams since the race was first started in 2013. This contest proved how far the program has come in recent years and hinted at future program-wide success this year.

After the battle this weekend, the Crimson has two weeks off before they’re back in Franklin Park for the New England Championships on October 12th, where both teams will hope that running at Franklin Park will continue to lead to improvements on previous seasons.

In 2016, the last time the New England Championships were held at Franklin Park, the women finished second in the 35 school field, a minute and two seconds behind New Hampshire. The five seniors on the women’s team will have the chance to one-up their 2016 performance and win the New England Championships.

The men, meanwhile, did not run in the New England Championships in 2016, but will also be looking to continue to exhibit the positive signs they’ve showed so far this season. william.connaughton@thecrimson.com