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The City Council should continue to repair the effects of the War on Drugs.

The Undergraduate Council funded a first-generation mentorship program.

Women’s soccer beats Penn to open Ivy League play.

HUPD Officer Suspended Over Altercation Bacow’s By alexandra a. chaidez and Ema R. Schumer Crimson Staff Writers

The Harvard University Police Department suspended an officer Wednesday for one week without pay after an investigation found he physically assaulted another officer who called him a homophobic slur, according to representatives from the Harvard University Police Association union.

During a dispute in the HUPD parking lot roughly four years ago, officers Josiah Christian and Thomas F. Karns engaged in a physical altercation after Karns allegedly called Christian a “f----t n----r,” according to union officials who represent Christian. HUPD Deputy Chief Michael Giacoppo launched an internal investigation into the incident this past summer after another officer brought it to the attention of management.

During the investigation, Karns — a detective — disputed that he called Christian the n-word; the investigation concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove that Karns had used the n-word, according to HUPA President Michael J. Allen and HUPA Vice President Joseph E. Steverman.

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found that Karns had used the word “f----t,” according to Allen and Steverman. As representatives of Christian’s union, HUPA leaders were notified of the inquiry and of the investigation’s findings.

Karns did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano declined to comment on the case.

“It is both the policy of the HUPD and the University not to comment on personnel matters,” Catalano said.

At the conclusion of the investigation, HUPD Chief Francis “Bud” D. Riley suspended Christian for seven days without pay.

Allen and Steverman said that HUPD told them Karns would face punishment, but would not be terminated. But, HUPD did not tell them what punishment Karns would face because Karns is not a current member of the union, which only represents patrol officers.

Christian did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The executive board of HUPA — which includes Allen, Steverman, Treasurer William Connell, and Secretary Michael Davenport — condemned Christian’s suspension in a written statement to The Crimson Friday. They wrote that they are

Slavery Analogy Draws Ire By alexandra a. chaidez and aidan f. ryan Crimson Staff Writers

ing to Catalano. An investigator — who in more significant investigations is a deputy chief or lieutenant — conducts a formal inquiry and writes a report of their findings. In that report, the investigator decides

University President Lawrence S. Bacow apologized Saturday for using the 13th Amendment as an analogy to compare the University’s wealthy donors to slaves at a Tuesday meeting.

The comment — made at an Alumni Affairs and Development staff meeting in Sanders Theatre — upset some of the hundreds of staff members in attendance, according to the Boston Globe, which first reported the story. An anonymous staff member called the remarks “tone-deaf” in an interview with the Globe.

Bacow used the 13th Amendment to explain that just as people cannot own slaves, Harvard’s 12 individual schools cannot “own” their alumni and limit their donations to other schools, according to the Globe.

Such practices could be detrimental to fundraising efforts by

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The Harvard University Police Department suspended an officer who physically assaulted another officer who called him a homophobic slur. shera s. Avi-yonah—Crimson photographer

“saddened and discouraged” by the decision not to terminate Karns’s employment.

The board members also called the punishment “egregious.”

“The lack of respect/concern shown to Officer Christian and all minority, gay and lesbi-

an, and members of the Harvard University Police Department is disheartening to say the least,” the board wrote.

HUPD generally initiates an internal investigation once a potential violation of department policies comes to the attention of management, accord-

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Harvard Management Company returned 6.5 percent on its investments for fiscal year 2019, bringing the value of the University’s endowment to $40.9 billion.

The returns were announced in a note from HMC CEO N.P. “Narv” Narvekar to University affiliates Friday morning, and represent the lowest return rate in two years — 2018 saw a 10.1 percent return, while 2017 yielded 8.1 percent. Despite the low rate, the endowment exceeded $40 billion for the first time in its history.

Harvard has lagged behind its Ivy League peers in recent years and fell short of Dartmouth’s 7.5 percent return this year.

Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania are the only Ivy League institutions that have reported their fiscal year 2019 returns so far. All three endowments trail the S&P 500’s return of 8.22 percent for the period matching Harvard’s fiscal year, ending June 30, 2019.

Narvekar, who came to Harvard from Columbia University in December 2016, wrote in his message Friday that he is “encouraged” by the progress ­

By JONAH S. BERGER and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY Crimson Staff Writers

The Harvard University Police Department is investigating “hateful and obscene language” posted on a faculty member’s office door Thursday, University leaders wrote in an email to Faculty of Arts and Sciences affiliates Friday afternoon.

The note insulted the unnamed FAS faculty member’s “ethnicity and immigrant status, challenged her right to be at Harvard, and wished her ill,” according to the email, which was signed jointly by FAS Dean Claudine Gay and University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

Harvard University Police were at the scene of the incident Thursday, according to the email, which also asked for tips to assist the ongoing investigation. The faculty member was with several graduate students ­

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HMC has made, but that much work remains.

“We are mindful that there is much left to accomplish in the years ahead to resolve legacy issues and position the endowment for long-term success,” he wrote.

Narvekar also noted that this year marks the half-way point in the University’s five-year plan to restructure its endowment management and shift its portfolio.

This is also the first year that the endowment will see a tax on its yields, the result of a Republican-led tax overhaul passed in late 2017. Harvard has lobbied extensively against the tax over the past several years, thus far to no avail. Still, experts say the tax rate — 1.4 percent — is low enough that most people probably wouldn’t notice any difference “It’s just that small tax and it’s not on all assets. It’s on certain parts of the income. I don’t think most people would notice the small difference,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University.

Kelchen said that various exemptions, including exemptions for assets not directly used to carry out an institution’s tax-exempt purpose, will like-

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“The largest drop would be 1.4 percent lower returns, but because of all these exemptions, it might knock off a couple hundredths of a percentage point off the endowment returns,”

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Narvekar did not address the effects of the endowment tax but wrote in his note that further details about the returns and HMC’s progress would be released in the University’s annual financial report next

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Harvard’s endowment — the largest of its kind in the world — funds many of the school’s operating costs. Roughly one-third of the University’s

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By JONAH S. BERGER and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY Crimson Staff Writers

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences ended fiscal year 2019 with a reported $13.6 million surplus, according to the Dean’s annual report.

That figure represents a substantial increase from the $3.1 million surplus in fiscal year 2018. Prior to 2018, the school reported at least four straight years of budget deficits.

This year’s larger surplus represents less than 0.1 percent of FAS’s annual budget, which is close to $1.6 billion. Among the school’s largest expenses were the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, on which FAS spent ­

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Nonetheless, the report states that FAS still faces a “time of financial challenges and uncertainty.” Without an internal

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Today’s Events Fruits in Decay Natural History Museum, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

in The Real World Intelligence Panel to Hear Whistleblower’s Testimony

The Glass Flowers exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is definitely the coolest thing on campus you haven’t seen yet. Check out a study in summer fruit diseases, featuring glass botanical models of your favorite fruits made by famed glass artist Rudolf Blaschka.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said on Sunday that his committee has reached an agreement to hear the testimony of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint has launched an impeachment investigation into President Trump. Now, all the panel needs is security clearance from acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire.

CS50: Memory Sanders Theater, 3-5 p.m.

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Didn’t get enough CS50 when you were taking it? Didn’t take it but want to see what the hype is about? As it turns out, the lectures are public, so head to Sanders Theater with students and tourists alike, because This Is CS50.

Mihir Desai Harvard Coop, 7-8:30 p.m.

Can’t get enough of the finance scene on campus? Here’s an event just for you: meet HBS professor Mihir Desai at a signing and discussion of his new book, “How Finance Works,” at the Coop this evening. There’s no such thing as a networking-free space!

Construction work continues on the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston. The building is on pace to open by fall 2020.. Brendan J. Chapuis—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing The Harvard University Police Department suspended an officer Wednesday for one week without pay after an investigation found he physically assaulted another officer who called him a homophobic slur, according to representatives from the Harvard University Police Association union.

During a dispute in the HUPD parking lot roughly four years ago, officers Josiah Christian and Thomas F. Karns engaged in a physical altercation after Karns allegedly called Christian, a black officer, a “f----t n----r.” In other news, University President Lawrence S. Bacow used the 13th Amendment as an analogy to compare the University’s wealthy donors to freed slaves Tuesday.

The chain that fueled the fast fashion craze is due to file for bankruptcy, as Forever 21 announced Sunday. That doesn’t mean it’s going away entirely — the website and some stores will still be very much functional, though the brand plans to close 350 stores worldwide.

Why Are We So Obsessed with Celebrity Baths?

Your fun read of the day: what’s up with our new love of bathspo? When did baths become something you Instagrammed instead of something you did in private? Why does Mariah Carey bathe in cold milk? Your soapy questions, answered.

Around the Ivies columbia The faculty chairs of Columbia’s Core Curriculum program gathered for a panel event on Friday to answer questions about the ongoing relevance of the Core and evolving teaching methods, the Columbia Spectator reported Sunday. The Core is a set of courses and subject requirements — comprised of classes such as Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilizations — that each Columbia College and General Studies student must complete during their time at Columbia. “The Core is about the celebration of remarkable individual human creativity,” Frontiers of Sciences Chair David Helfand said at the event.

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The Penn Political Coalition’s one-year grant from the Office of Student Affairs will end next year, leaving the umbrella political organization — commonly referred to as PoCo — scrambling to find alternative funding sources for their future events, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported Sunday. The organization’s membership includes Penn Democrats, College Republicans, and the Government and Politics Association. OSA Executive Director Katie Bonner acknowledged the impact the loss of funding would have on PoCo members’ ability to host events but said her office has been a partner in identifying new resources.

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Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences will no longer require first-year applicants to submit SAT subject tests as part of their application, the Cornell Sun reported Thursday. Irene Lessmeister, the director of admissions at the arts college, wrote that the previous requirement “presented an access and cost barrier to many applicants,” particularly those already facing “personal and practical hurdles.” The move brings the College of Arts and Sciences in line with the other undergraduate colleges at Cornell, which either do not require subject tests or list them as optional.

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Endowment Posts Low Returns operating budget is drawn from the e­ ndowment each year, though its schools depend on the investment fund to varying degrees.

The University’s endowment has come under increased scrutiny in recent years as student activists target various investments including those tied

to the fossil fuel industry, private prison companies, and Puerto Rican debt.

Fossil fuel divestment activists have been particularly fervent in their calls for Harvard to withdraw its endowment from a stake in that industry. cindy.zhang@thecrimson.com

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Prof. Discovers ‘Hateful’ Message when she first saw the posting on her office door.

Gay and Bacow wrote that they “unequivocally” condemn the “hateful act,” calling it an “assault on our faculty’s fundamental commitments to academic excellence.” They also wrote that such acts of bigotry are detrimental to the University’s academic mission and silence the “open exchange of ideas.”

“We will answer attacks on members of our community with every resource at our disposal,” they wrote.

Gay and Bacow wrote that they would not share “detailed information” about the incident ­

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out of concern for the faculty member’s privacy.

“This has been a very difficult 24 hours for this faculty member and the local department,” they wrote. “As we all find ways to support one another and to recommit ourselves to the values that define who we are as a community, we would ask that we do so in a way that is mindful of the need for privacy of those directly impacted.”

“In situations like this, restoring a sense of normalcy and security is a leading concern,” they added. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

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UC Funds FirstBacow Apologizes for Slave Analogy Gen Mentorship BACOW FROM PAGE 1

schools with alumni who tend to find jobs in the non-profit or public sector and may subsequently be less wealthy.

Bacow later sent an email to staff Saturday morning stating that he did not intend to offend anyone with his remarks.

“I regret that these comments caused offense. That certainly was not my intent,” Bacow wrote. “I hoped to convey my belief that our collective job is to help our donors achieve their philanthropic objectives, which might include supporting activities in schools where they enjoyed no prior affiliation.”

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The Undergraduate Council allocated $4,000 to fund the inaugural year of its First-Generation Faculty Mentorship Program on Sunday at its first meeting following fall elections.

UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 planned the details of the First-Generation Faculty Mentorship Program over the summer, and the UC formally voted to launch the program earlier this month.

The mentorship program pairs freshmen students identifying as first-generation with faculty members to advise them. Forty faculty members and 65 students will participate in the program during its pilot year. Palaniappan said she and Huesa decided to establish the program after many first-generation students on campus said they had difficulty in navigating the culture of higher education.

The legislation notes that challenges such as “knowing how to talk to professors” and “being able to ask for extensions/academic support” are among the difficulties first-generation students may face. ­

While the formal mentorship pairing lasts for one academic year, Palaniappan said she hopes the relationships can continue informally throughout the students’ time at the College and beyond.

The newly allocated funding will be used solely to “help facilitate interaction through more intimate conversations — over coffee or lunch — between student mentees and faculty mentors in order to build more meaningful relationships,” according to the legislation.

Each student-faculty pair will be granted $30 per semester to spend on their meetings.

“We want to make sure that students have the opportunity not to think of these as a financial burden for them to participate with their faculty mentor,” Palaniappan said during the meeting. Palaniappan and Huesa said they hope that after a successful inaugural year of the program, other Harvard offices will be able to fund the program and ensure its continued support. Sunday marked the UC’s first meeting for dozens of newly-elected members. More than half of this year’s council are first-time representatives. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com

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FAS Ends With Surplus in FY 2019 debt restructuring agreement that FAS reached with the University in 2017, it would still be running a deficit, according to the report.

“The short-term relief afforded by the debt restructuring will give way to higher costs in time as the FAS compensates the University for reduced payments in the early years,” the report states.

The report also provides updated information on faculty searches and hiring. The overall size of the faculty has shrunk slightly in the past year, from 734 to 724. The report attributed the decrease to both “a lower-than-expected number of successfully completed searches” and “a higher-than-expected number of faculty departures.” ­

The short-term relief afforded by the debt restructuring will give way to higher costs in time as the FAS compensates the University for reduced payments in the early years.

FAS Dean’s Annual Report

During the 2018-2019 academic year, FAS conducted 49 ladder faculty searches and made job offers to 34 candidates, 23 of whom accepted. Acceptance rates varied by gender, with 56 percent of women and 80 percent of men taking their offers. Three offers are still pending, two of which went out

the School of Public Health who attended the meeting, wrote in an email that the context of Bacow’s comments was a question about collaboration and respect for individuals in the alumni community, but that his analogy was “unfortunate.”

“I think his comparison to slavery was unfortunate and was an off the cuff remark in response to a question from the audience but the spirit of his message was very clear,” Kopp wrote. “I understand why the messaging was concerning but I also appreciate him acknowledging those concerns and his promise to learn from this experience.”

Kopp also noted that at Har-

vard and other institutions, fundraisers often refer to donors as “my donor,” which she views to be a “harmful” practice.

“When we regularly use phrases like ‘my donor’ behind closed doors, we are falsely claiming ‘ownership’ and control over alumni and benefactors we care deeply about and who care about Harvard,” Kopp wrote. “Our role as fundraisers is to be a philanthropic guide and advisor, not to persuade alumni to give only to their affiliated schools.”

Bacow’s comments were in response to a question about One Harvard — a concept former University President Drew

G. Faust adopted as part of the University-wide fundraising effort known as “The Harvard Campaign” — reported the Globe.

Bacow closed his email by saying that he plans to learn from this moment.

“People, appropriately, have high expectations for their leaders and their choice of language,” Bacow wrote. “In fact, you have high expectations for me as your president. I promise to learn from this experience. I do not want to disappoint you as I did some of you during our meeting.” alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

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HUPD Suspends Officer After Fight whether to sustain any allegations.

Giacoppo started reaching out to officers about the incident between Christian and Karns on or before July 18, according to internal emails obtained by The Crimson. Christian submitted his own memo — a copy of which The Crimson obtained — to Giacoppo alleging that the incident took place in a HUPD garage “approximately 4/5 years ago.”

Christian wrote that Karns approached his vehicle and told him that he had obstructed Karns’s path to pull out of the ­

to women.

The report notes that of the women who have declined FAS’s job offers to date, “the majority cited spousal considerations in their decision.” In a May interview, Gay defended the University’s policy for spousal hires. Currently, FAS assists spouses of new hires with hunting for jobs in the area but does not give them preference for internal jobs in the way some universities do.

FAS put 16 of its ladder faculty up for tenure this year, with 11 cases succeeding. Female candidates saw an 80 percent success rate in their reviews, while male candidates prevailed 64 percent of the time.

The report notes that representation of both women and minority ladder faculty grew for the seventh year in a row.

FAS Dean Claudine Gay will present the report at the Faculty’s monthly meeting Tuesday, the first of the semester.

At the meeting, professors Edward J. Hall, James G. Anderson, and Naomi Oreskes will introduce a discussion on climate change and “Harvard’s appropriate response” to the “ecological crisis,” according to the agenda. At an April faculty meeting, University President Lawrence S. Bacow agreed to host an open forum or dedicate a portion of a future meeting to discuss fossil fuel divestment, in response to a request from Hall.

Professor Robert A. Lue will also update the Faculty on “expanded services” at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which provides instruction to faculty members and teaching fellows.

garage. Christian alleged in his memo that he moved his vehicle to allow for Karns to exit and unsuccessfully urged Karns to move away. Karns then refused to leave, and Christian got out of his vehicle to confront Karns, according to the memo. Christian wrote that the two were “yelling” and “nose to nose with each other” until Christian started walking away. After further arguing, Christian moved toward Karns and alleged that Karns then said, “Fuck you, f---t n----r.”

Christian wrote that the interaction then became physical.

“Immediately after hearing this derogatory statement from Tom [Karns], the verbal altercation quickly became physical,” Christian wrote. “Both Tom and I were holding onto each other and pushing each other.”

Bystanding officers then intervened and pulled Christian and Karns off of each other, Christian wrote.

The union plans to go through a grievance procedure to retrieve Christian’s seven days of pay, according to Allen and Steverman.

At the conclusion of their statement, the union’s execu-

tive board urged Harvard affiliates to make their feelings about the incident known.

“We hope the Harvard community whether or not you are a minority, part of the LGBTQ community, students, faculty, investors, employees and Harvard Alumni share in our deep disappointment in the direction the Harvard University Police Department Administration took with the facts presented to them regarding this incident,” the statement reads. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

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Rose, Thorn, Bud: City Council’s Marijuana Policy Needs Refinement

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he Cambridge City Council has voted overwhelmingly for the “Cannabis Business Permitting Ordinance,” which opens the door for recreational cannabis businesses in Cambridge. Notably, the legislation includes an amendment from Councilors Sumbul Siddiqui and Quinton Zondervan, establishing a two-year ban on cannabis businesses with owners who do not come from historically marginalized groups.

We believe this amendment is indicative of a concerted effort on the part of Council members to grapple with socioeconomic inequality in this city. Further, we are glad that the City of Cambridge is progressing on actually implementing marijuana legalization by facilitating the opening of local shops, and we appreciate the reparative spirit of the Council’s legislation as it seeks to right the injustices of the War on Drugs and associated historical discrimination.

The attempt to make space for the victims of the War on Drugs and affected communities of color to have a first shot at opening marijuana-related businesses in Cambridge is admirable.

However, to be blunt, we feel that the groups that this legislation supports are too broad, and that more specific consideration to groups marginalized specifically by the War on Drugs would be more appropriate. Generalizing legislative support beyond the specifically affected populations seems to undermine the significant work the bill seeks to achieve.

In particular, while we believe the Council has an active role to play in promot-

ing women’s economic empowerment through a variety of city programs, we do not believe that groups not affected directly or indirectly by the War on Drugs should be included in this program.

This amendment unfortunately generalizes the plight of a group of people dealing with the historically specific dynamics of the War on Drugs into a shared struggle of all historically marginalized groups.

Even though the amendment casts too wide of a net in its support, we still applaud the ingenuity of the Cambridge City Council.

Marginalized groups can be disadvantaged each in their own way, and this amendment offers a one-size-fits-all approach that does not give adequate concern to the directly reparative spirit in which we understand the intentions of this ordinance.

It homogenizes the experience of minority groups and directs regulatory privilege towards a broader group of people in a way that belies the degree to which the burden of the War on Drugs fell disproportionately on African American and Latinx communities.

While white women have faced a historical struggle that merits policy redress on a variety of dimensions, the impact of the War on Drugs on them specifically does not seem to us to be among

them, particularly relative to more directly and heavily affected groups. Even though the amendment casts too wide of a net in its support, we still applaud the ingenuity of the Cambridge City Council.

Complex problems require creative solutions, and the spirit of experimental policymaking is at the heart of that important work.

We hope that the Council continues taking up the task of repairing the negative effects of the War on Drugs — and all systemic oppression of marginalized groups — through innovative social policy. For example, to further Cambridge’s commitment to repairing that harm, we hope that the Council will advocate for expungement of criminal records for low-level drug offenses.

If this legislation is successful, we hope that other state and local governments will follow suit with policies of this kind and adopt more broadly this kind of creative policymaking attitude.

Despite our criticism, we remain hopeful that this legislation can be a productive first step in addressing the damage done to victims of the War on Drugs and their communities.

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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ivest Harvard is a useful microcosm of the modern environmental movement that I think has a lot to work on. At two crucial turns the movement lets me down.

First, it abandons the simple decision-making framework of cost and benefit in favor of panicked alarmism, leading to its own misguided mission. Listen to any divest protest or mainstream environmentalist messaging, and it is impossible to avoid the common idea that climate change is the “single most important issue” of today, and a future catastrophe waiting to destroy us.

From this starting point, divestment mimics a common theme in modern environmentalism: fixating on a particular course of action not so much because it is a clear effector of positive change but because it symbolically looks like environmentalism.

The ideas born of this strategy represent such a small subset of the potential steps we can take towards addressing climate change that it is no surprise that they are rarely compelling — take plastic recycling, and bans on plastic bags as examples. If they are symbolically forceful it is the wrong symbol, one that says we are committed to optics before reason.

Second, the Divest movement also embodies the uncooperative and unproductive political strategy that comes from this kind of bogeyman-environmentalism. Blockading University offices, interrupting speaking events, and demanding rather than questioning, the Divest movement almost prides itself in its combativeness.

It persists in making divestment out to be a moral choice with just one right answer, and will not budge from its firm stance within this binary framework.

In the larger environmental movement, this same with us or against us mentality has pushed our political options to either near denialism or full prioritization, neither of which seems to be the optimal path forward.

In order to avoid repeating these mistakes of its past, the environmentalism movement needs to fundamentally recast the climate change crisis in the following terms. First, it is a crisis no less earthly than that of health care or criminal justice. In fact, the most recent comprehensive study assessing the increased costs of climate change, approximates an annual $224 billion additional cost to the U.S. economy by 2090 if we continue on our current emissions trajectory. This $224 billion figure is a far cry from warnings of an “existential crisis.” As a spot check, it barely reaches half of the estimated cost of the opioid crisis.

The climate change crisis is also not out of the ordinary in a second sense: Like most difficult problems, there are a range of strategies to move forward with, all of which have pros and cons. A carbon tax would reduce carbon emissions, but at the same time it stunts economic productivity. Adopting the Paris climate accord would limit global warming to a few degrees Celsius, but also be incredibly costly — excessively so, according to one paper by a Nobel Prize winner. The solutions we adopt should maximize value, striking a balance between the economic and social costs of enacting policies, and those of living with some of the effects of climate change.An environmentalist movement grounded in this outlook would see vast improvements in its two current weaknesses. It would first learn to look beyond the basic symbolism of possible approaches and embrace that there are many different arguments for different tradeoffs. It wouldn’t take much of this thinking to see why divestment doesn’t make sense.

On the one hand, Harvard can bear the financial handicap that divestment places on the people managing the endowment.

On the other hand, Harvard can also participate in the global climate change fight by leveraging its position as a leading research institution to explore vital

new energy science, or by educating future visionaries about these problems. If we compare these two options, I would bet that Harvard can accomplish a lot more by acting like the university that it is than the fiscal policy maker that it is not.

Second, the movement would cast aside the black and white moralism that drowns its political rhetoric — after all, since when has any fiscal policy decision been a clear cut moral issue — and adopt a more sensible political strategy. This is especially important when all the best solutions within this framework require national and even global political action.

Grassroots approaches like consumer energy-saving and recycling or institutional divestment will struggle to have an impact because of the inevitable lack of full participation. There’s nothing wrong with accepting that people won’t all become vegetarian, and the world’s investors won’t all divest from fossil fuels.

Adapting its political strategy to these realities, the movement would then do good to ally with the 38 percent of Americans who see climate change as “a major problem but not a crisis,” or the 15 percent who see it as “a minor problem.”

It should appeal to them with more accessible and unemotional rationales that respect their view of climate change as just one of the many issues worth addressing. Show them why some investments in clean energy will have greater return than investment in higher education, or prison reform, or healthcare.

Passion is fine, and so is speaking up loudly. The efforts up to this point have brought, at the very least, due attention to a very real problem. To move forward now, the environmentalism movement needs to temper the alarmism it has fostered, seek rational solutions, and carry them tactfully to the political sphere.

— William A. McConnell ’21 is a Mathematics concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Mondays.

By CARINE M. Hajjar

T

he College recently announced that Peer Advising Fellows may no longer advise their advisees on academic matters. The administration stated the decision was made in order to transition to a better freshman advising program in the future, where academic advisers would receive more “intensive training.”

This announcement raised some concerns among PAFs and the larger Harvard community, and immediately startled me, lowering my expectations for the efficacy of freshman mentorship going forward. Most importantly, this change to the advising system highlights an under-reported inequality on Harvard’s campus: network inequality. The new limitations on freshman advising from PAFs are ill-advised because they eliminates a major equalizer: the PAF academic network.

T his decision has the unintended consequence of disadvantaging students who need PAF guidance the most and highlights the upper hand given to students entering Harvard with a preexisting network of social connections. How does PAFing help make a more equitable Harvard? It

This decision has the unintended consequence of disadvantaging students who need PAF guidance the most and highlights the upper hand given to students entering Harvard with a preexisting network of social connections. bolsters students’ academic and social networks on campus, regardless of the number of Harvard students they know upon arrival. This safety net is essential to students attending Harvard without any friends or acquaintances already at the College. Before coming to Harvard as a freshman, I did not have any close relationships with any other students. I did not have the slightest idea about what classes would be like, what the social life entailed, and what resources to access if I needed different kinds of support. Harvard, as far as I was concerned, was a different country (though just 20 minutes away from my childhood home).

I assumed that most other freshmen would arrive with the same doubts and ignorance that I had. However, I was stunned to find out that there was a network of Harvard expertise flowing to many of my peers through their siblings, their elite prep school classmates, and their athletic teammates. Many of my new peers had deep connections here, and they handled Opening Days and Shopping Week with relative ease. To my surprise, however, I soon discovered many of my peers already knew how to lottery for classes and take placement exams. Meanwhile, I clumsily explored course catalogues and tried to decipher the General Education system and concentration requirements.

Though this information asymmetry was discouraging, it was substantially remedied by the support I received from my PAF. My PAF not only gave me candid social advice, but he also navigated me through course selections and shopping best practices.

The academic advice I received from my PAF and his friends with interests that related to my own was more than helpful — it was foundational to my Harvard classroom experience. Could revamping the freshman adviser program allow for the same caliber of guidance? I assume many students now on campus would say no. The freshman advisers I encountered did not have an inkling about what classes were like and did not approach selections holistically. Of course, this is not true across all advisers, but the freshman advising horror stories are abundant.

Granted, the PAF program has its issues. There are absentee PAFs who perhaps do no more good than an indifferent advisor. However, having the PAF network within freshmen entryways means that students have other resources within reach.

The new limitations on freshman advising from PAFs are ill-advised because they eliminates a major equalizer: the PAF academic network.

Additionally, sometimes PAFs’ academic experiences are not pertinent to their PAFees’ interests.

This is seldom a huge issue, however, because PAFs can connect advisees to friends or other PAFs with more applicable advice. Regardless, all PAFs have general social and academic advice worth sharing — advice that is certainly more applicable on a daily basis than that of freshman advisers. Even if students give the College the benefit of the doubt and assume that their retraining effort will bring advisers up to speed on class selections, it would not justify the restructuring of the PAF program.

There is truly no replacement for student advice. A faculty adviser may know every Q score, know each professor, and have the course catalog memorized, but they cannot understand the student experience. They cannot connect students with peers that have recently taken the same class, and they cannot give the candid advice that students need in certain classes. PAFs, however, are an equalizer. Without them, students with stronger networks at Harvard will have the upper hand before classes even start.

—Carine M. Hajjar ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government concentrator in Eliot House.

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Sports

Weekend event

schedule

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Women’s Golf Yale Invitational

Men’s Water Polo at No. 14 Princeton 12 p.m., DeNunzio Pool

Field Hockey vs. Liberty 1 p.m., Berylson Field

Men’s Tennis Dartmouth Invite

Women’s Rugby vs. Quinnipiac 12 p.m., Mignone Field

Women’s Soccer

Harvard Opens Ivy League Play with Win Over Penn

By Lev Cohen Crimson Staff Writer

H arvard women’s soccer opened Ivy League play with a big 1-0 win over reigning Ivy League co-champions Penn in front of an announced crowd of 1,456 that filled the bleachers at Ohiri Field.

A year after two overtimes were not enough to break a 0-0 tie between these two teams in Philadelphia, freshman forward Gabby DelPico made sure there would be no repeat, slotting home a low cross from junior forward Lauren Raimondo in the 72nd minute to break the deadlock.

“I think we’ve just got a little bit more quality this year in the attack,” head coach Chris Hamblin said. “I think we can break teams down in different ways. I don’t think we were able to be as composed in the first half, but eventually we’re going to wear them down. We did, and Gabby showed up for a fantastic finish late in the game. I think it was deserved. I think we earned that.”

It was the final game of a perfect three game homestand for the Crimson (7-2, 1-0 Ivy) and Harvard’s fourth straight win overall. The Crimson, which dominated the Quakers (5-31, 0-1) in the first half, assembled a strong performance, controlling possession, piling on the pressure, and outshooting Penn 8-1 while creating the only four shots on goal of the half.

“I was really proud of how we started the game and took the game to them,” Hamblin said.

“The wind played a factor, so we had more of the territory in the first half, and unfortunately we couldn’t find the answer, we wouldn’t find the goal.”

Despite the powerful first ­

half performance and in particular the driving runs and dangerous crosses that typify a performance from junior playmaker Murphy Agnew, who was terrific again on Saturday, Harvard struggled to create particularly great chances.

But if a team dominates the game for long enough, as the Crimson continued to do early in the second half, the goal usually comes. While Penn’s defense was sound, Harvard’s near-constant presence in the opposing third finally paid off when Raimondo picked out DelPico in front of goal and gave the Crimson the goal it never found in Philadelphia last year.

It was DelPico’s fourth goal of the season, tying her for the team lead with fellow freshman standout Angela Caloia — who was also credited with an assist on DelPico’s goal — and sophomore Sophie Hirst.

“It was a combination of good play all around throughout the team,” DelPico said.

“Lauren [Raimondo] did exactly what we practiced in warmups, which is dribbling inline and then dropping it back in, and then I finished.”

After being held in check for most of the game, Penn’s attack woke up after the Harvard goal, unleashing six shots, including its first three on goal of the match, in the game’s final 15 minutes to quadruple its overall shot total. The Crimson defense, which had been so assured for most of the game, struggled to clear the ball late, inviting more pressure from the trailing Quakers.

Penn’s late pressure created a fantastic, tense atmosphere, and on more than one occasion the Quakers seemed set to knot the game at one and send it to overtime. But Harvard’s senior

SOLE GOAL Gabby DelPico maneuvers past a Penn defender on Sunday. The freshman forward scored the lone goal of the game to power Harvard to victory in its first game of Ivy League play. Quinn G. Perini—Crimson photographer

goalie, Kat Hess, stood tall in goal, displaying calm and control.

It was only fitting that Hess, the star of the game’s last 15 minutes, made her final save as the whistle blew. She fired the ball into the air and rushed off to celebrate the perfect start to the league season with her teammates.

The Ivy League rivals con-

tinued a recent tradition of low-scoring battles, as there have been just three total goals scored in their fixtures over the last four years, with the 0-0 draw last season surrounded by 1-0 finishes.

DelPico, for one, is eager to build on her first-ever Ivy League game and goal.

“I think there’s definitely a lot more nerves in the air [in

Ivy League games],” DelPico said. “You can feel everybody being tense and having high expectations, but I think what it came down to is us just playing our game we know how to play, treating it not like it’s this huge thing but playing the same way we’ve been playing throughout the other games.”

The Crimson will embark on a three game road trip start-

ing next weekend when it faces Yale, which notched a big 1-0 win of its own this weekend against Princeton.

While the Crimson and Bulldogs finished fourth and seventh respectively in the Ivy League last season, it appears that the rivals may be headed for greater things this year. lev.cohen@thecrimson.com

men’s Soccer

Harvard Draws Merrimack in Double OT Thriller

By EAMON J. mcLoughlin Crimson Staff Writer

Down 3-2 with nine seconds left in the game, all eleven Harvard players piled into the Merrimack box for one final corner kick. ­

Given how the game had progressed up until that point, it was almost unsurprising when the Crimson’s captain, Taner Dogan, smashed the ensuing cross into the net to bring the game to overtime.

In the first-ever meeting be-

tween the two programs, Harvard (0-4-1) and Merrimack (23-1) played to a 3-3 draw after double overtime in the Crimson’s home opener on Tuesday night.

Following a travel-intensive start to the season which pit-

ted Harvard against some of the nation’s top teams, Tuesday’s game and the week off that preceded it were a change of pace for the Crimson.

This extra rest may have proved vital for Harvard, as it recorded 24 shots, with 14

SLAM DUNCAN Freshman forward Duncan Sutherland picked up his first goal of his collegiate career on Tuesday vs Merrimack. Timothy R. O’Meara— Crimson photographer

of those on target, both season-highs for the team. Its three goals are also more than the Crimson has scored all season.

“We had that week of training last week,” Dogan said of the break, “which let us get on the pitch and work on some stuff which was really helpful.”

It looked as if the training paid off, as the Crimson was quick to put together chances up top. Freshman forward Duncan Sutherland and sophomore forward Alfred Perez combined well from the start, coming close multiple times in the opening minutes.

Merrimack was not able to withstand Harvard’s pressure, and Sutherland was rewarded for his efforts in just the eighth minute. Sutherland pounced on a lazy pass in Merrimack’s box, slotting into an open net for his first-ever collegiate goal.

Sutherland was not the only young player to come up big for the Crimson. Sophomore fullback Håvard Hjermstad was a force on both ends of the field, while freshman goalkeeper Oskar Nilsson kept Harvard in the game at times, most notably in a 1-on-1 with 20 seconds to play in double overtime.

Freshman central midfield pairing Martin Vician and William Ebbinge controlled the tempo of the game for the Crimson from the midfield, showing their experience and poise with every touch.

This poise was put on full display when Harvard won a freekick deep in Merrimack’s half in the 22nd minute. Ebbinge had the awareness to take the kick quickly, splitting two defenders to find Perez lurking in the box.

Perez smoothly settled the ball on the goal-side of his marker with his first touch, firing home from close range with his second.

While the Crimson looked in control of the game following its

second goal, Merrimack’s Aasmund Joedahl had other plans.

In the 32nd minute, the forward was given a yard of space as he controlled a cross at the edge of the box. He fired into the top left corner to put the Warriors on the board, before spectacularly firing into the same corner from 10 yards further out just over 10 minutes later to tie the game 2-2. The second strike came just seconds before the half, undoubtedly changing what both coaches had to say to their players during the break.

The Crimson struggled to match its first half intensity in a back-and-forth second half.

Merrimack grabbed its third of the night with just minutes to play in the game, the strike from close range seeming to complete a near-impossible comeback for the Warriors in the 84th minute.

In a game with as many twists and turns as it had, it always seemed as if there was one more goal waiting to be scored.

Dogan’s header with eight seconds remaining turned out to be just that, and was enough to extend the game by twenty minutes. Although neither team was able to capitalize in overtime, spectators could not complain of a lack of action.

“It’s always good to score three goals in a game,” Dogan said. “We have another extended break before we play Yale to open Ivies, so we’ll have a chance to get back on the training ground and get to work.”

Harvard will have another long break before its next time out. The Crimson will head to New Haven to kick off Ivy League play against Yale on Oct. 4. The Crimson is unbeaten against the Bulldogs since 2013, and will be looking to extend its streak to six years this time around. eamon.mcloughlin@thecrimson.com

Sports

Weekly Recap

SCORES

Women’s Golf Princeton Invitational 10th ___________________________________________________________

Women’s Volleyball vs. Dartmouth L, 3-2 ___________________________________________________________

Men’s Golf MacDonald Cup 7th ___________________________________________________________

Field Hockey Vs. New Hampshire W, 5-0 ___________________________________________________________

Field Hockey at Yale W, 2-1 ___________________________________________________________

Women’s wrestling vs. penn W, 1-0 ___________________________________________________________

football

Harvard Trounces Brown, 42-7, in Ivy League Opener

By Cade palmer Crimson Staff Writer

Under the Friday night lights of Harvard Stadium, the Crimson shined in its Ivy League opener against Brown, carrying the game, 42-7.

Harvard and the Bears entered Friday’s contest with diametrically opposed records, though after only one game.

The Crimson approached the contest following a rare drop of a season opener to San Diego — its first lost to its opponent from the West in program history. In contrast, Brown entered on the momentum of a win, besting Bryant University last week. The start of the contest looked to carry over the momentum from the prior week.

Three plays and 34 seconds in, the visitors from Providence logged the first points of the tilt.

The inaugural play from scrimmage net 53 yards as the Bears’ running back Allen Smith busted through the center of the Harvard line. The back fell 22 yards short of seven points, though it wouldn’t matter. Only an incomplete pass buffered the first play of the game from Smith’s next touch, a six-point dash through the scrambling the Crimson defense.

Rather than cede the ball back to Harvard on a normal kickoff, Brown opted for the on­

side. The kick tumbled into the Bears’ hands. The visiting team lifted the ball high in the air and ran celebrating back to its sideline. It was a referee whistle that quieted the celebrations.

Brown had touched the ball one yard prior to its traveling of the requisite 10 yards, granting Harvard possession.

“I thought we were gonna have that,” said the Bears’ coach James Perry. “That was unfortunate… but we didn’t execute perfectly.”

The reversal of fortune didn’t shift the momentum. A low murmur of excitement could be heard from across the field, one that shifted into a cheers as junior Crimson quarterback Jake Smith tossed a pass into the hands of Brown’s Ryan Putnam.

The defensive end sprinted 21 yards up the friendly sideline, granting the Bears solid field possession.

Brown looked unstoppable, driving to the Harvard fiveyard line, and primed to double its lead. Things took a turn when the Bears’ quarterback — and Boston College transfer — EJ Perry muffed a snap, mishandled it again while trying to pick it up off the ground, and bobbled it once more as he dove toward the runaway pigskin. Crimson junior Nasir Darnell lept on the ball for the shift of possession, and subsequently, momentum.

Brown never recovered, nor managed to again get so close to the Harvard end zone. Smith didn’t throw another interception, instead spreading the ball around to seven receivers, for 299 yards and four touchdowns — a career high for a game. This comes one week after he broke his own personal yardage record in a game against San Diego, with 325 yards.

“I think [I’m] just progressing as a quarterback in the system, having all the experience behind me, and having more confidence because of it,” Smith said. “I’m able to just see the defense faster, process information, and move through my routes quicker and it just makes the game slow down so much for me. It’s just going to continue to get better from here.”

The dagger that shifted the game from well within the Bears’ reach to a two-possession contest was delivered, without mercy, from Smith with only 13 seconds remaining in the half.

The drive itself came to fruition on account of Brown attempting a fourth-and-one conversion on it’s own 34-yard line. Only a single unit to go, the Bears’ Andrew Bolton wasn’t just stuffed, but tossed back for a two yard loss.

“The D-line just had a great day,” junior linebacker Jordan Hill said. “They tried to run

the ball a couple of times on those third and fourth downs and those guys were just in the backfield every play.”

The Crimson took over with five seconds less than a minute to halftime. Two incomplete Smith passes, supplemented only by a six-yard run from junior Devin Darrington left Harvard at fourth-and-four.

Smith converted where Brown couldn’t, nailing B.J. Watson on the right sideline for seven.

The Crimson’s march towards six looked to have been circumvented with the advent of an unnecessary roughness call. Only 23 seconds remained until the buzzer, and Harvard was forced back 15 yards and 10 seconds were drained from the clock.

With the hurried snap, Smith rocketed a strike to the back of the endzone, finding an open senior Jack Cook to cradle the toss. The Bears’ only had half a second to work with, and did nothing before trudging back to the locker room.

The touchdown put the Crimson up two scores, 21-7, going into the mid-game break, with Harvard set to receive the kick at half.

The excitement of the first half was metered by the slowdown of the second. With a strong lead, the Crimson took its time on offense, draining the clock, and scoring at the end of

long drives. In the end, the time of possession battle was dominated by the Harvard squad, 38:51 to 21:09.

Aside from offensive production, in which the Crimson dwarfed its opponent 521 to 267 yards, the Harvard defense shone particularly bright on third and fourth downs. Brown attempted to convert on four fourth downs — it was successful on just one. Each failed Bears fourth down attempt resulted in a corresponding touchdown for the Crimson.

On third downs, Harvard allowed Brown to convert on only three of 11 attempts. In contrast, the Crimson converted on nine of 13 such attempts.

The defense limited the Bears’ quarterback Perry, last week’s FCS player of the week, to 162 yards and no touchdowns. Harvard also managed to drag him down in the backfield five times.

In addition to a transfer quarterback this season, Brown brought a brand new coaching staff as well. Taking the helm of the squad Friday for just his second game as head coach was James Perry. The Bears’ 20th head football coach helped lead the team to its second Ancient Eight title as a player in 1999.

That season, the League named him Ivy League Player of the Year.

“They’re obviously a pro-

gram that’s in transition,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said.

“They’re really well-coached.

We had better players today. I thought our execution through the second, third, and fourth quarter was pretty good.”

Among the highlights for the home team was the receiving corps, responsible for 28 points. Four players grabbed touchdown passes Friday night including senior Cody Chrest, junior Adam West, Cook, and Watson. Many of the wideout corps is new to the spotlight this season, boding well for Smith’s opportunities through the air.

The Harvard running backs likewise dominated Brown’s team logging 222 yards to the visitors’ 90. Leading the troupe was Darrington who battled his way to 91 yards and a touchdown. New to the squad, freshman Aidan Borguet contributed 84 yards and another touchdown of his own to the team’s total.

“We did not run the ball well,” coach Perry said. “I know we hit the two runs at the beginning of the game… We tried a few critical moment runs that didn’t work, and we’ll get better at that.”

With the victory, Murphy is only five wins away from besting the all-time Ivy League wins record for a head coach. cade.palmer@thecrimson.com

THE MAN, THE SMYTH, THE LEGEND Crimson quarterback Jake Smith threw for four touchdowns, a personal best, and 299 yards during this Friday’s matchup against Brown. Smith, a junior, set the record one game off of a career-best yardage total against San Diego last weekend. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer