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The choice between high costs and quality healthcare is deeply troubling.

Harvard women’s soccer defeats Princeton in crucial Ivy League clash.

Women’s basketball point guard Katie Benzan ‘20 will play for UT Austin.

Voters Approve HGSU Strike Authorization HGSU Creates Guide to Voting

By James S. bikales and ruoqi zhang Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard’s graduate student union passed its strike authorization vote Friday by an overwhelming majority — with more than 90 percent of voters in support — granting its bargaining committee the power to call a strike when it deems necessary.

Cheers erupted around 10:20 p.m. Friday in Emerson 210, where union members spent more than five hours counting the ballots.

Of the 2,682 members of Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers who cast ballots in the election, 90.4 percent voted in favor of the strike, according to an email sent to union members late Friday evening.

“We hope that this should be a sign to the administration that student workers are real­

ly serious and we’re committed to fighting together and doing what it takes to win a strong contract,” bargaining committee member Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash ’15 said in an interview outside the vote counting room.

Under the rules set out by the United Automobile Workers Constitution, the union needed a two-thirds majority of voting members to authorize a strike.

HGSU, which represents graduate research assistants and student teaching fellows across Harvard, recently entered its second year of negotiations with the Harvard for its first contract. Organizers started bringing ballots cast across the University to Harvard Yard around 5 p.m. Friday, where the union members counted them in a closed room.

While the union’s voting members offered strong support for strike authorization,

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“I have to point out that the AAU survey and most surveys of its type are designed to capture, to give us a snapshot, of different points in time of what’s going on in this arena,” he said.

“They are not really designed to tell us what approaches to intervention will be most effective,” he added.

Garber also pointed out that

H arvard’s Undergraduate Council passed legislation at its meeting Sunday to support the University’s graduate student union’s right to strike.

In a statement approved 40-1, the council endorsed the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers 90.4 percent vote in favor of strike authorization, which was passed late Friday night.

“This is a strong mandate to make sure the first union contract for student workers guarantees protections against harassment and discrimination, fair pay, paid parental leave, and health care with year-round mental health and dental coverage,” the statement reads.

The statement also invited undergraduates to sign a letter declaring support should union negotiators decide to call for a strike. Earlier this month, the UC supported HGSU’s strike

Harvard’s graduate student union released a voting guide Thursday that includes information about candidates running in the upcoming municipal elections in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, which take place Nov. 5.

Thirty-two candidates from the three cities responded to the union’s questionnaire, which posed yes-no questions and offered opportunities for writein answers. The candidates in different jurisdictions received different versions of the survey tailored to issues relevant to their constituents.

Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers released a similar handbook in 2017, before the last municipal election. Each of the cities operate on a bi-annual election schedule.

Union organizer and Harvard Divinity School student Samuel D. Keaser, who helped put together this year’s guide, said that the purpose of creating it was to make sure union members and other Harvard voters are aware of the candidates’ positions on a “range of issues,” in particular, the rights of student union members.

Keaser highlighted the survey questions that probed support for student workers’ rights to organize and strike. The survey also included questions about HGSU’s efforts to create a third-party sexual harassment and discrimination incident adjudication process. The survey questioned whether the candidates opposed the National Labor Relations Board’s proposed rule last month that would essentially reverse a 2016 decision that allowed graduate students at private universities to unionize.

All the candidates who replied stated they supported the union’s rights and opposed the proposed NLRB rule.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on the survey questions about unionization.

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Members of Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers counted ballots from their strike authorization vote in Emerson Hall 210 on Friday evening. shera s. avi-yonah—Crimson photographer

Garber ‘Disappointed’ with AAU Results UC Supports Strike Approval

By Aidan f. ryan

Crimson Staff Writer

University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 said in an interview Thursday he is “deeply disappointed” by the lack of progress the University has made in combating sexual misconduct after a recent climate survey found Harvard’s incident rate remained unchanged after four years.

Administered nationwide in April, the Association of American Universities surveyed 33 schools and collected data from 180,000 students, with slightly more than 8,300 Harvard students participating.

The survey found roughly 33 percent of undergraduate women at Harvard reported having experienced some form of nonconsensual sexual contact, up from 31 percent of senior undergraduate women in 2015 who reported experiencing some form of sexual assault.

Garber said he is “grateful” for the AAU for administering the survey and called the data “immensely valuable,” but also acknowledged that the results are concerning.

“These issues are of deep, deep concern to us, “ Garber said. “I am deeply disappointed by the lack of dramatic progress in areas of such deep concern.”

After the survey’s first iteration in 2015, the University set

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Senior members of Harvard’s Administration, including University President Lawrence S. Bacow, work in Massachusetts Hall. sydney r. mason—Contributing photographer

out to reform its Title IX programming.

In 2017, administrators split the Title IX Office in two, separating those who handle sexual misconduct complaints and those who provide Title IX training and resources.

The University has also institutionalized mandatory training for students, faculty, and staff.

As the rate of those who re-

Danielle Allen Receives Award at JFK Library By artea brahaj and arvin hariri Contributing Writers

University Professor Danielle S. Allen received a 2019 Governor’s Award at the annual Massachusetts Humanities Dinner Sunday evening.

Allen, the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, was chosen for the award by the Mass Humanities Board of Directors and confirmed by Governor Charlie D. Baker, Jr. ’79.

Sunday’s award dinner was hosted at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, and followed a free public forum featuring Allen in conversation with Harvard History professor Jill Lepore about the importance of history in democracy.

Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello, Dinner Committee co-chair and vice chair of the Board of Directors, said in an interview that the organization chose AlInside this issue

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len as an “exemplar” of connecting civic engagement with the principles of humanities.

“Danielle Allen is someone whose professional life has been dedicated to thinking about how to take what often seem as big complicated ideas that sometimes get locked away in the academy and bring them to the public in ways that make them meaningful and that encourage other people to see that they have — they are actors in this messy, crazy thing we call an American democracy,” Duclos-Orsello said.

The evening began with a reception and dinner, followed by the award presentation that featured a brief montage of Allen’s accomplishments. She then offered short remarks to the crowd.

“The work itself has always been its own reward,” Allen said. “No one ever regrets accepting the invitation to bring

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ported experiencing some form of sexual misconduct remained stagnant, 50 percent of undergraduate women and 75 percent of undergraduate men said they felt it was very or extremely likely that a campus official would take their Title IX report seriously.

Garber said that though the data is disappointing, it does not dictate how the University should change its policies.

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Daily Briefing Harvard’s graduate student union passed its strike authorization vote Friday by an overwhelming majority — with more than 90 percent of voters in support — granting its bargaining committee the power to call a strike when it deems necessary. Of the 2,682 members of Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers who cast ballots in the election, 90.4 percent voted in favor of the strike. In other news, the University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 said in an interview last week that he is ‘disappointed’ with the AAU Survey results, which show that the rate of sexual misconduct at the University has remained roughly the same as the rate four years ago in 2015.

President Trump confirmed Sunday morning that 48-year old ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three of his children by detonating a suicide vest during an American raid in Syria. Baghdadi’s death marks a turning point in the debate between Republicans and Democrats on Trump’s decision to withdraw 1,000 American troops from Northern Syria.

The Spread of Hong Kong’s Protests to College Campuses

There have been increased tensions on U.S. college campuses involving international students from Hong Kong, who feel they have been ostracized by other students from mainland China. Students feel they lack freedom of thought and expression because they’re still being watched by their government even while studying in a different country.

Around the Ivies cornell The body of Cornell freshman Antonio Tsialas was found in Fall Creek gorge in Ithaca, NY, according to the Cornell Sun. Tsialas was last seen leaving a fraternity event on Thursday evening. He was reported missing on Friday afternoon after he missed a meeting with his family. Tsialas was remembered in a statement from Cornell Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi as a “thoughtful and smart student.” The Cornell Police Department said in a statement that no foul play is suspected in Tsialas’ death.

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Penn students have protested the hiring of Jonathan Anomaly, an associate director of the Philosophy Politics and Economics department, due to a paper he wrote in 2018 entitled “Defending Eugenics.” Anomaly’s paper calls for the subsidizing of contraceptives and additional means that would allow parents to select for genetic characteristics in their children. Students have criticized the paper’s title, arguing that the eugenics movement is associated with Nazi Germany and other racist governmental practices.

Anomaly has said that his title was intentionally provocative and he “should’ve used a different title.”

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Democratic presidential candidate and Harvard Law School professor emerita Elizabeth Warren spoke at a campaign event at Dartmouth College on Thursday afternoon. Warren, who leads RealClearPolitics average of polls of the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, discussed her personal history and its relationship to her campaign’s economic message.

Warren stayed after the event for a “selfie line” with Dartmouth students and other attendees.

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Allen Wins Award authorization vote prior to the vote’s passage.

Earlier this month, HGSU announced it would hold a strike authorization vote, which would give the union’s bargaining committee the right to declare a strike if it sees fit. The union has been bargaining with the University for more than a year. While the two sides have reached tentative agreements on 11 issues, they remain at odds on compensation and harassment and discrimination adjudication procedures.

The University has advised faculty members to prepare for a potential strike, but University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement that Harvard does not believe the union’s calls for a strike have merit.

“The University believes

that calls for a strike are unwarranted,” he wrote. “The University continues to approach these negotiations in good faith and has offered substantive proposals that address the concerns raised by HGSU-UAW throughout these negotiations.”

The council also plans to publicize a letter written by Our Harvard Can Do Better — an anti-sexual assault advocacy organization — addressed to University President Lawrence S. Bacow and Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 supporting HGSU’s right to strike in its weekly email newsletter.

“We recognize and affirm the importance of using a strike as a measure of last resort to win a fair contract,” the letter reads.

“We stand in solidarity with our fellow students and will join all student workers on the picket

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lines if needed until they win the protections and benefits they so deserve. Teaching and research assistants’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions.”

Mather House representative Sanika S. Mahajan ’21, who sponsored the legislation, wrote in the proposal that publicizing the letter would help inform undergraduates about the strike. “[T]he Undergraduate Council’s endorsement and publicization of a student support letter would help ensure that undergraduate students are informed about an important component of the union process and can be part of the push toward better provisions if they would like,” she wrote.

No representatives offered comments against the legisla-

tion during Sunday’s meeting.

The UC also voted to co-host an open forum on sexual violence at Harvard in collaboration with Our Harvard Can Do Better.

The forum is largely in response to the results of a national sexual misconduct climate survey that revealed that sexual assault rates at Harvard remain largely unchanged from four years ago, according to UC Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20, who sponsored the legislation.

The survey found that roughly 33 percent of undergraduate women at Harvard reported experiencing nonconsesual sexual contact.

“In light of the [Association of American Universities] Student Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct results that we all received last week, Our

Harvard Can Do Better and the UC are seeking to create a student-led space where undergraduate community members can feel safe and empowered to express their feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the survey data as well as the problem of sexual violence at Harvard more generally, and discuss steps forward,” the legislation reads.

The forum will be held in the Lowell House Junior Common Room from 6:30-8 p.m. on Oct. 30, Huesa said.

The UC also allocated $3,450 to help fund the East Coast Chicanx Student Forum on Nov. 15. The conference will discuss the Chicano movements of the 1970s and diversity within the Chicanx community, according to the legislation.

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Union Passes Strike Grad Student Union Creates Approval Vote Voting Guide for Local Elections the union’s bargaining committee reiterated that they see calling a strike as a “last resort.”

“Striking is an absolute last resort and our intention here is to achieve a fair contract,” said bargaining committee member Ege Yumusak ’16. “This 90.4 percent shows that we are willing and able to do so if the administration doesn’t come to the table with a fair deal.”

Yumusak declined to comment on when a strike may take place, but said that the union will be holding “town halls” with its members to inform their planning, such as setting a strike deadline.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement Friday evening that administrators believe a strike is “unwarranted.”

“The University continues to approach these negotiations in good faith and has offered substantive proposals that address the concerns raised by HGSU-UAW throughout these negotiations,” Swain wrote.

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The union and the University, which have thus far reached a consensus on 11 proposals ranging from workplace resources to intellectual property rights, have not been able to reach tentative agreements on economic issues such as student compensation and health benefits. Two days after voting on the strike authorization began Oct. 17, the two sides agreed on two contract provisions, one regarding

international student rights, as well as one on workspaces and materials.

The strike authorization vote brought “energy” to negotiators during the session, according to an email from HGSU bargaining committee member Jennifer K. Austiff to members. She characterized the tentatitive agreements as “significant wins.”

University and HGSU negotiators, however, remain at odds over key harassment and discrimination greivane procedures. The union has proposed that members be allowed to pursue third-party arbitration, which Harvard has repeatedly opposed. Sexual misconduct is currently adjudicated through the Office for Dispute Resolution, which investigates formal Title IX complaints.

University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 said in an interview Thursday that Harvard respects the union’s right to strike, but reiterated that the University believes it has approached the bargaining process fairly.

“There’s a large number of substantive issues on the table and I think that the discussions have been useful,” he said.

Garber said Thursday it would be “premature” to specify the measures the University plans to take in the event of a strike, but noted that Harvard is looking at other universities’ historic responses to strikes.

Associate Provost Doreen Koretz and University Director of Labor and Employee Relations Paul R. Curran wrote in an email to faculty on Oct. 15 that it is “critical” that faculty begin to plan for how they would continue running courses in the event of a strike. james.bikales@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

and Boston city councils have recently weighed in on HGSU issues. Cambridge City Councilors Sumbul Siddiqui and E. Denise Simmons spoke at a March HGSU rally. In April, the council unanimously passed an order supporting the union’s calls for increased compensation and its positions on other issues.

In June, HGSU members testified at a Boston City Council hearing to discuss the status of the union. Keaser said he hopes the candidates — even those who lose — use the “platform that they have” to help HGSU through public proposals.

The guide also addressed whether candidates would support an affordable housing zoning overlay. Some survey respondents argued Harvard has contributed to the housing problem in the city. Candidate Charles J. Franklin said Harvard is “part of the problem,” as it fails to provide “adequate housing for students.”

“I am in favor of denying

push Harvard, and demand that Harvard do its part part in addressing climate change, and it starts with their divestment from fossil fuels,” he said.

O’Rourke wrote Harvard is “acting aggressively” to address climate change and noted University President Lawrence S. Bacow and Harvard Corporation members have met with divestment advocates several times, most recently last week. O’Rourke added Harvard has “meaningful partnerships” with Cambridge and Boston.

“Harvard is modeling the pathway to a healthier, fossil-free future,” she wrote.

Keaser said the guide is an important contribution to Harvard’s “civic life. ” “In addition to being Harvard graduate student workers, and undergraduate student workers, we’re all parts of these communities,” he said. james.bikales@thecrimson.com declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com

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Garber ‘Disappointed’ by AAU Survey Results the survey may not reflect more recent initiatives, including recently instituted bystander training.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in an interview earlier this month that he would look to pilot new forms of bystander training with the Office of Sexaul Assault Prevention and Response.

“The thing that you should keep in mind when interpreting the results is that we haven’t had bystander training in

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them any future building permits or upzoning requests until they build more housing for their students,” he said.

In August, Harvard announced it was recommitting to a $20 million affordable housing program in Cambridge and Boston. Since 2000, it has helped create more than 1,600 affordable housing units in the city, according to University spokesperson Brigid O’Rourke. She wrote Harvard houses almost all undergraduates on campus and can house nearly half of its graduate students. Proposed in early 2019, the overlay saw months of fiery debate before being tabled until next term.

The guide also addressed Harvard’s role in combating climate change, which has become a key election issue. Several candidates called on Harvard to divest from fossil fuels. In the guide, Mayor Marc C. McGovern said he is “proud” to join Divest Harvard’s recent activism.

“We must work with Harvard,

the best of our human capacities, to make unique of common human trials.”

Event attendee Nichole A. Turpin said Allen demonstrates the unique ability to connect her scholarship to everyday people.

“She’s relatable and understandable on a level that makes everyone feel like they’re belonging in the space that she’s making, which I think is really needed at this time,” Turpin said.

Mass Humanities’ leadership also applauded Allen for her contributions to the Clemente Course in the Humanities.

Funded by Mass Humanities, the Clemente program was started in 1995 to teach art, philosophy, and literature to adult students who would not otherwise afford this type of education.

Mass Humanities Executive Director Brian W. Boyles said Allen worked for the program early in her career while teaching at the University of Chicago.

“She taught that course twice a week in the evenings to people who didn’t have access to the humanities traditionally, and I think that that’s been a spirit of her work,” Boyles said in an interview.

Allen said in an interview at the reception that teaching Clemente classes was among the “most important teaching experiences of my life” and that she had been a supporter of Mass Humanities for more than two decades because of the organization’s continued advocacy for the Clemente program in Massachusetts.

“It matters a lot to me that Mass Humanities was one of the first humanities councils to support Clemente,” she said.

“They rest on a vision that every person should have equal access to the cultural wealth of the humanities.”

place for all that long. And it may be that it will take some years to see dramatic change in some of these measures,” Garber said. “And I don’t say that as an excuse. I say that to point out that we shouldn’t lose faith that some of these interventions might work even if we don’t see the evidence just yet.”

Other University officials have also shared their disappointment with the results.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow wrote in an

email to Harvard affiliates announcing the survey results that they were “profoundly disturbing” and the issue was not something that just leadership should deal with, but rather it is an issue for people across the University.

“We must do better,” he wrote.

Garber invoked Bacow’s comments in the Thursday interview and said it is on everyone at Harvard to try and “change culture.”

He said he is working with administrators examine the data and propose new initiatives going forward.

“The Title IX office, the deans, and many other people throughout the university, are in the midst of analyzing and digesting the AAU survey results with an eye toward improving every aspect of how we approach this extremely important problem,” Garber said. aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

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Reconsidering the Student Health Insurance Plan

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etween teaching section, working in high-powered laboratories, and writing dissertations on everything from wood chip mulches to pavement performance in crosswalk designs, many graduate students at Harvard struggle to make Harvard’s Student Health Insurance Plan meet their health needs.

In particular, caps on specialist and mental health consultations from outside providers force some students — admittedly less than one percent — to choose between high out-of-pocket payments and foregoing individualized medical care.

Healthcare, particularly on Harvard’s campus for those enrolled in SHIP, can be incredibly challenging to navigate. In particular, forcing students to choose between important medical procedures or face massive out of pocket costs is deeply troubling.

We have previously opined, with regard to healthcare at the undergraduate level, that the University, through Harvard University Health Services, should reflect on the healthcare knowledge of the students it covers — both in terms of specific coverage as well as broader principles of personal health management.

If you’re not well-versed in the world of healthcare benefits, you might not know that Harvard’s health insurance program is different, in that it is self-funded. As such, it avoids subjection

to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to provide equal mental and physical health benefits.

So while SHIP may be legally compliant, Harvard still must consider whether its coverage model can be considered to be ethical.

M. Susan Ridgely, a senior health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, has agreed that while legal, SHIP raises ethical questions about what it should achieve with regard to coverage. We share Ridgely’s suspicion.

In particular, forcing students to choose between important medical procedures or face massive out of pocket costs is deeply troubling.

Graduate students provide so much to our campus, not least in their contributions to research and instruction, that we believe it is in everyone’s best interests if they can perform their work as unimpeded as possible by burdensome healthcare and financial concerns.

We hope that the ongoing negotiations between Harvard and the University’s graduate student union prove fruitful in this regard. Both sides must work for a fair and equitable agreement re-

garding SHIP that protects the health of grad students on our campus without putting them under undue financial stress.

Most policymakers would agree that our healthcare system is far from perfect. Healthcare outcomes in America lag significantly behind those in other similarly developed nations even as the US spends much more as a percentage of gross domestic product. A lack of broad and inclusive coverage as well as navigational guidance is one big reason why.

Harvard should be at the forefront of answering these questions, not lagging behind its peer institutions on student coverage and ease-of-use. As the union negotiations continue, Harvard should take a moment to reconsider and hopefully revise its policies.

How can Harvard lead the way in healthcare innovation — not least at its renowned school of public health — if it doesn’t first take care of the students who make that intellectual work possible?

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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Science, Scorn, and Cynicism William A. McConnell Scientism in the new generation

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It’s an understatement to say that modern science has been the most transformative tool in the human toolkit over the last millennium. From our transportation systems to our digital playthings, we are a society built on the shoulders of science.

We are also a society that has embraced this tool with passion. In elementary school I remember memorizing the scientific method, admiring the genius of Isaac Newton and Marie Curie, and watching with awe my first science experiment, a baking soda and vinegar volcano. STEM education is the stated center of U.S. education policy. News outlets, responding to public demand, now regularly utilize the statistics and studies that their forebears once flippantly labeled nerd-stuff.

And wherever we go, we encounter technology, each device quietly advertising to us the power of this tool we call science.

Yet, as (somebody other than, it turns out) Mark Twain famously put it, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” And thus, amidst this science-oriented backdrop, the doctrine of scientism — “the promotion of science as the best or only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values” — has emerged.

It has done so throughout society, but especially in the most significantly exposed segment of the population, the younger generations, the longer educated, and the less religious. We’ve internalized our cultural love of science so that we increasingly tend towards believing that human knowledge is driven by science and science alone, that most questions need to be answered empirically, and that most phenomena can be explained with sufficiently complex physical accounts.

The first problematic symptom of scientism we can identify is the scorn that it often engenders for other modes of thinking. The religious arena best illuminates this scorn.

At some point we all probably have seen, or have been, the person who confidently bashes on religion for having no evidence behind it. “Evidence” needs no adjective — for of course it is only ev-

idence of the scientific sort that counts.

And thus the ship of scientism leaves behind the religious, with an amused chuckle and a petulant puff of steam. My point here is less to initiate a metaphysical conversation about god/God than it is to illustrate how our scientism often precludes us from even getting to a starting point for such a conversation.

This same attitude possesses conversations that deal with topics like free will, morality, the nature of the mind, and the nature of gender. These questions do not ask for experiments but for reason, for examples and analogies, for theories of the meanings of words, for hypotheticals and counterfactuals, for powerful explanations, and for reflections on our own lived experiences.

Yet our capacity and propensity to think along these lines fade as we become more and more convinced that truth in this world can be reduced to science.

We become mired in the kind of

At its worst, scientism denies any form of meaningful justification — the religious, the cultural, the philosophical — for these norms and casts them as wholly arbitrary cultural artifacts. thinking that says free will and morality cannot exist in an entirely physical universe, and that minds and gender can be reduced to the physical processes underlying them.

We skip the humanities for the hard sciences, supposedly the only place where real, productive thinking takes place.

Scientism cuts deeper, however, in the way that it inherently devalues the individual.

It denies the capabilities of an individual mind, and the meaning of an individual existence, thus cultivating repressed cynicism about the world.

We see this cynicism manifested in individuals’ pessimism in their ability to take a position on an issue. For as pow-

erful a tool as science is, it is also selectively wielded, by academia, by large corporations, by the government. The individual is excluded from the truth-finding process.

Thus the phrase “I don’t know enough to have an opinion” rolls freely and quickly off tongues, preempting the important processes of individual reasoning and reflection. Conversations start and end with a Google search that either revealed the answer science gave us or didn’t. The skeptical position becomes the thoughtful one, even as it entails almost no thought.

By devaluing the ways in which individuals derive meaning, scientism also contributes to a dangerous moral cynicism, not so much on the hot-button topics but on the more quotidian acts concerning morality — white lies, stereotyping, keeping promises, working hard, authenticity and the like. At its worst, scientism denies any form of meaningful justification — the religious, the cultural, the philosophical — for these norms and casts them as wholly arbitrary cultural artifacts.

Where is the science to say that we should conform to these norms, it prompts. At best, it allows for a coarsely utilitarian view of them, the sort of easy “greater good” thinking that on the ground level almost always loses out to human selfishness.

In either case, scientism undermines the force of these moral norms. We may play along, depending on the strength of other behavior-shaping factors.

But societies tend to slowly phase out the things they have stopped respecting. Science is not going anywhere, nor should it.

It is the greatest tool for understanding the world we humans have developed, and the innovation and improvements in our lives that it has brought should be duly respected.

But we would all do well to not let this respect evolve into scientism. Because ultimately — a powerful hammer though science may be — the world is much more than just nails.

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

On the Offensiveness of the Rising Sun Flag By daniel kim

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tudying in the United States had made me desensitized to the traces of the Japanese colonization of Korea that I see all the time back home. Without the recurring news on the latest developments in the drawn-out trade war between Korea and Japan, or the history lessons I had growing up that drilled into my mind the pain that my people endured during the occupation, it became difficult for me to be fixated on the past.

For this reason, the shock I felt when I came across a certain poster advertising Hist 1023: Japan in Asia and the World in the Center for Government and International Studies was greater than ever.

It clearly stood out among the numerous other posters on the wall — it showed the image of a red sun on a white background, with its deep red rays covering over half of the poster. I immediately recognized that the image on the poster was the Japanese imperial flag, otherwise known as the Rising Sun flag. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.

The Rising Sun flag is often likened to the Nazi Swastika, and rightfully so. It was used as a flag of war, officially made the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1870. The flag reminds especially Chinese and Korean people of the horrors of Japanese occupation. The Japanese imperialists’ crimes against humanity include forced labor, gruesome medical experiments on innocent people, and forced prostitution.

I was left in shock by the blatant disregard for Japan’s crimes against humanity that the History Department demonstrated in allowing this image to be used in promotional materials.

The Rising Sun flag became a flashpoint of tension during the Beijing Olympics and other major sporting events. FIFA has also instituted a ban on the flag at international football matches in response to South Korean protests. As such, the flag is internationally recognized as divisive, if not downright offensive.

On a campus that strives to be politically correct and hesitate from making any statement that may offend a certain ethnic group to even the slightest extent, I was left in shock by the blatant disregard for Japan’s crimes against humanity that the History Department demonstrated in allowing this image to be used in promotional materials.

The Rising Sun flag may be widespread and symbolic in Japan, but this in no way means that the crimes against humanity associated with the flag’s symbolization of Japanese imperialism should be ignored.

Harvard is home to a considerable amount of Asian students, and the Class of 2023 is 25.3 percent Asian American. Even if the offensive nature of the Rising Sun flag is not widely known, to display a poster with the flag in a public space is grossly disrespectful to the Asian population at Harvard.

What makes matters worse is the fact that the Rising Sun flag was used as a promotional image for a class on Japan.

Considering how Japan refuses to directly acknowledge its war crimes, using the Rising Sun flag as a representation of Japan is deeply troubling. The matter is left unresolved even today, with the Korean Supreme Court ruling demanding Japanese firms to compensate for the victims of forced labor during World War II leading to a trade war as well as soured relationships between Korean and Japanese people.

The Rising Sun flag may be widespread and symbolic in Japan, but this in no way means that the crimes against humanity associated with the flag’s symbolization of Japanese imperialism should be ignored.

With the shadow of Japanese war crimes continuing to affect Chinese and Korean people today, the Rising Sun flag is a painful and cruel reminder that the victims of Japan’s atrocities have yet to be fully compensated.

I know my perceptions of Japan may be somewhat biased because of the Korea-centric history I learned growing up. But, history is history. Leaving biases aside, the historical record of Japanese atrocities in Korea and China during WWII remains.

The Rising Sun flag is a symbol of Japanese imperialism that took away countless lives of the innocent — that alone justifies its inappropriateness.

The History Department and the teaching staff of History 1023 should acknowledge their mistake in some format, raising awareness of the offensiveness of displaying the Rising Sun flag in public. That this poster did not generate a huge outcry on campus does not absolve them from blame.

Ignorance of history and its cultural connotations will only lead to more ignorance and hurt.

—Daniel Kim ’21, a Crimson Editorial executive, is a Government concentrator in Leverett House.

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Sports

In Other News

woMen’s ice hockey

Men’s Soccer

Women’s ice hockey opened its season with a 7-4 win over Dartmouth. Sophomore forward Kristin Della Rovere posted a hat trick in the victory as eight Harvard skaters appeared on the scoresheet.

Men’s soccer managed to stay within a goal of Princeton for most of the Saturday contest, but the Tigers found the back of the net a second time in the final 10 minutes to seal a 2-0 result.

women’s basketball

Katie Benzan to Grad-Transfer to Texas Longhorns

By Ema R. Schumer Crimson Staff Writer

K atie Benzan ‘20, Harvard’s starting point guard for the past three seasons, confirmed that she will play for the University of Texas at Austin upon graduation for the 2020-2021 season.

At the end of August, The Crimson reported that Benzan would forgo her senior year season.

“Katie has been a remarkable player in our program for three years,” head coach Kathy Del­

Katie’s obviously a great player...I think all great players know how to adjust. It will be super different [playing in the Big 12], but you know, great players are great.

Jeannie Boehm Texas Senior Forward

aney-Smith said in an emailed statement. “After much discussion with the coaching staff, she has decided to step away her senior year.”

On Saturday, Benzan posted photos on Instagram sporting a No. 11 Longhorns burnt orange jersey.

Benzan wrote in a message to the Crimson that she has a verbal commitment from the

University of Texas at Austin as of now and will formally sign a letter of intent during the signing period around mid-November.

Per NCAA Division I rules, a graduate student is eligible to compete in intercollegiate athletics provided that she has one season of competition remaining, according to the NCAA Division Manual.

In her three seasons playing for The Crimson, Benzan shattered school records.

Her freshman season, she set the record for most three pointers made in a season with 85.

She went on to break her own record twice, finishing last season with 103 made threes.

Her superlative skill from three point range enabled her to set the all-time Ivy League record, what was previously 273, for career three pointers made in only three seasons. She ended her career with 287 triples scored.

Also in her final season for the Crimson, Benzan became the 20th Crimson player to score 1,000 points. In addition to her prolific scoring, Benzan led the Crimson in assists all three seasons.

The Longhorns finished the 2018-2019 season with a record of 23-10. The team, which competes in the Big 12 Conference, ended its season with a loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which marked the sixth consecutive and 32nd alltime Tournament appearance in the program’s history.

University of Texas at Aus-

LEAVING HOME Katie Benzan will leave the comforts of her native Massachusetts to play in The Lone Star State next seasor. In her three collegiate seasons in Massachusetts, Benzan claimed multiple records in the Harvard program. Timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

tin Head Coach Karen Aston offered a window into the culture of Longhorns women’s basketball in a press conference on September 30.

“There’s a standard here at Texas and more importantly we

have our own standard within our program...The one thing I think people really enjoy is how my girls play the game and how we project as far as competitiveness and passion,” she said.

Senior forward Jeannie

Boehm spoke confidently that Benzan will be able to adjust to Longhorn basketball, which she noted has a “different style of play” in a “different conference” than Harvard.

“Katie’s obviously a great

player...I think all great players know how to adjust,” she said.

“It will definitely be super different, but you know, great players are great.” ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

women’s soccer

Harvard Defeats Princeton in Crucial Ivy League Clash By bEN R. MORRIS Crimson Staff Writer

A fter a consequential loss to Brown (12-1-1, 5-0 Ivy League) one week ago that put the Bears alone atop the Ivy League, the Crimson came out strong against Princeton (5-6-3, 1-3-1 Ivy League) on Saturday, looking to reclaim the momentum that the team had built up before having its seven-game win streak snapped.

The game proved to be a difficult test for Harvard, as the match was very tightly contested throughout, but with its ­

back to the wall and the fate of its season potentially at stake, the Crimson stepped up and reasserted itself with a 2-1 victory against none other than the back-to-back Ivy League champions.

The match got off to an unbelievably quick start, as Harvard was able to strike first after only two and a half minutes. The sequence began when sophomore forward Jordan Di Verniero collected the ball on the right wing of the pitch.

Di Verniero then went to work, darting down the sideline and taking on the Tiger de-

fense. As two defenders converged on her, Di Verniero demonstrated great foot skills with a fantastic move that allowed her to blow past both.

Right as she was about to reach the end line, Di Verniero sent in a great cross from the right corner that connected with the foot of junior forward Murphy Agnew.

The clean volley resulted in a hard strike that sent the ball whizzing into the upper left area of the goal before the Princeton goalkeeper could even react to the play. With that, Harvard found itself in

CRASHING THE NET The Crimson offense has shown proficiency around the goal, amassing 223 shots and 32 goals scored over the course of the season (2.29 goals per game). Quinn G. Perini—Crimson photographer

an ideal position early on and looked to build on it.

However, despite the rapid start, the remainder of the first half featured back-andforth play, as each team battled hard without giving up an inch, knowing that the game was far from over.

Although the Crimson only got off one more shot in the first half, the defense, anchored by senior goalkeeper Kat Hess, were able to deter any sort of push by the Tigers, and the half concluded with Harvard still clinging to its 1-0 lead.

After coming back out onto the pitch, both teams displayed a newfound fire, with several players rattling off shots that helped to continuously build up tension on the field, as well as among fans in the stands.

Something was going to have to give.

The moment came in the 57th minute when junior midfielder Olivia Kane of Princeton converted on a cross to net the tying goal.

It was here that the Crimson faced its most daunting challenge—a loss here would set the team even farther behind Brown. The final 30 minutes would not only decide the game but possibly the season as well.

With the Tigers regaining the momentum and Harvard facing a crossroads, the Crimson teammates would have to turn to each other and reinforce the familial identity that they have cultivated throughout this season.

“We are a tight-knit group who share a passion for soccer and competition,” Hess said.

“We respect one another and we play as a unit, not as individuals. And during the game, after Princeton tied the score at 1-1, we held those values true, working together, and focusing on our game and what we needed to do rather than on an unfortunate goal against in the second half. We lifted each other up, fought to the end, and left it all out on the field.”

While the goal for the Tigers seemed to threaten the

outcome of the game, Harvard remained calm and composed.

Each player, knowing that they were going to have to battle together, returned to mid-pitch for the kickoff, looking to do nothing other than stick to its original gameplan: play as a

We lifted each other up, fought to the end, and left it all out on the field.

Kat Hess Senior Goalkeeper

team and win.

And that is exactly what they did.

Two minutes later, after another save by Hess, the Crimson came right back.

First-year forward Angela Caloia played a ball back to junior midfielder Maria DiMartinis, who, from Harvard’s end of the field, sent an exceptional through-ball up ahead to a streaking Agnew. Agnew, with a Princeton defender right on her heels, took one touch into the box and fired a shot that narrowly snuck by the Tiger goalkeeper, giving the Crimson the lead once again.

Back on top, Harvard now looked to lock down and hold on for just a short time longer.

With Princeton mounting attack after attack, the Crimson defense shut them all down, building more momentum with each clearance.

In the 81st minute, with the finish line in sight, Agnew broke out past three Tiger defenders and launched what would have been not only her hat-trick goal, but likely a game-ender. However, the ball was deflected by the Princeton goalkeeper and rolled out of bounds just an inch to the right of the goalpost.

Yet, Harvard remained strong on defense, pushing aside any final attacks.

Finally, the thriller of a game came to an end, with the Crimson picking up right where it

left off before its game against Brown.

The win could not have come at a more pivotal point in the season. With the pain of the Brown loss in Harvard’s recent memory, the squad had to refocus its preparation and mindset.

“Soccer is a beautiful game,” Hess said. “You win some and you lose some, and unfortunately, we suffered a tough loss against Brown last weekend. But that is what is so great about these girls and this team.

We know that in order to be successful, we will fail, because that’s how we learn and grow to be better than we were the day before.”

With only two games remaining on the regular-season docket, the Crimson will return to the pitch next Saturday to take on Dartmouth (9-5-1, 0-41 Ivy League) at Jordan Field.

The match will take on added importance for Harvard because, with the win against the Tigers, the Crimson has managed to restabilize its championship hopes.

Chamionships are never handed to you, you have to fight for them every time you put on that jersey and step on that field.

Kat Hess Senior Goalkeeper

“As the saying goes, ‘life’s a climb, but the view is great,’” Hess said. “Championships are never handed to you, you have to fight for them every time you put on that jersey and step on that field. We knew that that loss [to Brown] wouldn’t cripple us, but instead, drove us to prepare better and work harder for our next match against Princeton.” benjamin.morris@thecrimson.com

Sports

Weekly Recap

SCORES

Men’s Water Polo vs. California Baptist W, 15-12 ___________________________________________________________

Men’s Water Polo at Santa Clara W, 19-17 ___________________________________________________________

Women’s Volleyball AT Dartmouth L, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

Men’s water polo Vs. No. 13 San Jose state W, 10-8 ___________________________________________________________

Field Hockey vs. Princeton L, 3-2 ___________________________________________________________

Men’s water polo vs. Chapman W, 13-6 ___________________________________________________________

Women’s rugby vs. Dartmouth L, 41-22 ___________________________________________________________

football

Undefeated Princeton Tigers Beat Harvard, 30-24

By Joseph w. Minatel Crimson Staff Writer

PRINCETON, N.J. — In close games between talented teams, the victor is often decided in high-pressure situations. In this week’s matchup between two of the Ivy League’s top teams, much of the contest was decided by all-important third downs.

While the squads combined for a low 21.4 percent conversion rate in the first half, in later key situations Princeton won the edge and, ultimately, the game.

The undefeated Tigers converted on five of 10 third downs in the second half to stave off Harvard’s (4-2, 2-1 Ivy) upset attempt. Princeton won the contest 30-24, its third straight victory over the Crimson.

“Hell of a football game,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “At the end of the day, I think the team that made the least mistakes won the football game.”

The back-and-forth matchup was decided in critical situations throughout the game.

While the Crimson remained in the game thanks to its strong defense and prevention of both of the Tigers’ fourth-down conversions, Princeton’s (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) 50-percent third-down conversion rate in the second half helped propel them to victory.

The end of the game was decided on difficult third downs.

After forcing a speedy Princeton three-and-out while trailing by two points with under five minutes to play, Harvard avoided the same fate thanks to a leaping 11-yard catch in traffic from senior wide receiver Cody Chrest to convert on third-andeight. Despite the conversion earlier in the drive, the Crimson would be forced to punt, with junior punter Sean McKeogh pinning the Tigers once again, this time on the seven-yard line.

The poor field position and limited momentum were not enough to stop the Princeton attack early in the drive. The Tigers wiggled out of a tough third and eight with a 33-yard pass and converted on an even tougher third and 10 on its next series with a 16-yard completion. Despite bending, the Harvard defense refused to break, finally coming up with a stop on third and long thanks to a sack that forced a Princeton punt.

In its next drive, the Crimson narrowly converted on an early third and nine to keep its drive alive. On its next third down, however, junior quarterback Jake Smith sailed a pass over his receiver into traffic, resulting in a Princeton interception, Smith’s third of the game.

“Any time you make mistakes, any time you have takeaways, everybody pins it on the quarterback,” Murphy said.

“But it’s a little bit of everybody, ­

I take responsibility. Ultimately those are my responsibilities.”

On the Tigers’ next third down, senior quarterback Kevin Davidson launched a ball off his back foot as he was hit.

Sophomore wide receiver Dylan Classi, having separated from the coverage-spying Davidson, dove and snagged an impressive one-handed touchdown to extend Princeton’s lead to 30-21 with just over three minutes to play.

“They played a lot of man, and they got us sometimes,” Princeton coach Bob Surace said. “But we got them enough to get the ball into the endzone to win.”

The first half told a different story in these significant situations. The two squads combined for only three third down conversions on 14 attempts in the first two quarters, with a slower start resulting in lower offensive production numbers.

“I thought our defense played their butts off, they did a tremendous job,” Murphy said.

“We made them really have to make plays.”

Despite starting with the ball this week, Harvard was again unable to prevent its opponent from scoring on its first drive.

Following a quick threeand-out, the Tigers’ wasted no time in attacking the Crimson defense. A 41-yard bomb from Davidson to Jacob Birmelin set up a quick Princeton score on its fourth play from scrimmage.

The score made it the fifth time in six games that Harvard’s opponent has scored on its inaugural drive.

Davidson, while only a firstyear starter, has shown impressive ability in taking over the reins of an already explosive Princeton offense. The gunslinger is outpacing the entire league in nearly every statistical category, completing 70.5 percent of his passes for 1854 yards, 18 touchdowns, and only two interceptions.

“We had everyone covered, we had them well covered, and [Davidson] just stuck it in there,” Murphy said. “He threw about three corner balls that were NFL-quality balls and the receivers made some great plays. They had to make some great plays to earn those.”

Things did not turn around quickly for the Crimson after that first drive. Following a 17yard completion on first down, Smith threw an interception that gave the Tigers favorable field position just two plays after their first drive had ended. After a sack on third down, Princeton settled for a 46-yard field goal.

Even on its next drive, Harvard’s now-consistent early-game jitters continued. After a second successful screen pass to sophomore running back DeMarkes Stradford, the Crimson was forced to punt once again.

SAFE HAVEN NO MORE Harvard tight end Haven Montefalco just misses sacking Princeton quarterback Kevin Davidson, who went on to complete three touchdowns in the Tigers’ victory. Timothy R. O’MearA—Crimson photographer

The Tigers’ subsequently marched down the field in methodical fashion, yet the Harvard defense stopped Princeton in the red zone to force a short field goal attempt. On the chip shot, however, sophomore defensive lineman Truman Jones pushed through the line and blocked the kick.

The next drive saw limited success, but it resulted in a punt that landed inside the 20 and finally gave the Crimson a manageable field to defend as the clock expired on the first quarter.

To start the second quarter, Princeton failed to drive across midfield for the first time in the contest, punting to Harvard’s own 34-yard line.

Despite the strong field position, a holding penalty immediately negated the benefits and gave the Crimson a first down with 20 yards to go to start the drive.

Now that the first quarter had ended, however, it seemed systematic that the tides would shift back in Harvard’s favor.

Junior running back Devin Darrington turned a few broken tackles into a strong 33-yard carry to lead the Crimson into the Tigers’ territory for the first time in the game.

Feeling the second quarter juju, an almost automatic interception thrown from Smith was dropped directly into the hands of Chrest, keeping the drive alive with a free first down. A 23yard sideline catch from junior tight end Ryan Reagan allowed

Darrington to waltz untouched three yards into the endzone for Harvard’s first score.

With the wind finally at its back, the Crimson continued the momentum by keeping up the defensive pressure. Sophomore defensive lineman David Schwartz leapt into the air, batting down a pass to force Princeton’s first three-and-out and second consecutive punt.

“A lot of our stunts were going well,” Jones said. “We executed a lot of stuff during practice this week so we needed to be quicker and get our hands up more and deflect some more passes.”

The Harvard defensive front continued to excel. The unit held Princeton runners to a stingy 2.7 yards per carry and recorded four sacks.

The Crimson wasted no time in attacking off of this momentum. Smith tucked and ran for 14 yards, then completed passes of 15 and nine yards to senior wide receiver Jack Cook to push Harvard deep into enemy territory. The drive stalled on the next series, setting up a 41-yard field goal attempt for senior kicker Jake McIntyre. Repaying the favor, the Tigers blocked the attempt from the Crimson’s alltime leader in completed field goals.

The Princeton offense, having uncharacteristically stalled for two straight drives, came out firing following the blocked kick. A 24-yard pass from Davidson opened up the drive, but an impressive open-field tackle

THE SYKES THE LIMIT Harvard defensive lineman Jacob Sykes receives a congratulatory pat on the head from a teammate after a sack during Saturday’s loss to Princeton. Timothy R. O’MearA—Crimson photographer

from Crimson junior defensive back Max Jones forced a fourth and four from the Harvard 44yard line.

Feigning a fourth down attempt, the Tigers’ offense remained on the field. Davidson took the snap and the Ivy League’s passing leader quickly pooch-punted the ball to the Crimson six-yard line. The call paid off, resulting in a quick Harvard punt from its own endzone.

A later Princeton punt seemed to take the game into the half as the Crimson allowed the clock to tick down south of 30 seconds. Harvard faced a third down and four to gain on its own 27-yard line. Smith found Cook on the sideline as the defensive backs failed to switch to the out route, and the veteran receiver never looked back. Speeding down the sideline, Cook turned on the burners and outran multiple Tigers on the way to a 73yard touchdown that gave the Crimson a 14-10 lead heading into halftime. This was Harvard’s first lead against Princeton since its last road trip to its New Jersey rival in 2016, over three years ago.

“When I saw it, I said, ‘okay great, we’re going to get another play,’” Murphy said. “I didn’t think it was going to the house, it just turned the whole thing around from halftime, just our whole attitude.”

Replicating its first half start, the Tigers showed off their big play ability with a 26-yard rush from junior running back Collin Eaddy early in the third quarter. This surge was short-lived, however, as the Crimson defense stuffed Princeton on third and short and sacked Davidson on the ensuing fourth down conversion to take possession of the ball near midfield.

Three plays later, Harvard faced a similar fourth and short itself. Possibly learning from its opponent’s mistake, the Crimson decided to punt it away, pinning the Tigers inside the 20yard line.

The field position and previous stalling proved only a slight hindrance to Princeton, as Davidson completed three passes for 49 yards, including a 21-yarder on third and 10. This moved the Tigers into Harvard territory, where they eventually faced a third and seven at the 30-yard line. This time, Davidson used his legs and scrambled, falling to the turf just short of the line to gain for a first down.

Once again, Princeton failed to convert, as the stout Crimson defensive front stood its ground and caused its second-straight turnover on downs on its own side of the field.

“I think we were just playing really physical and big up front,” Jones said. “I think this Princeton team does a lot of things well

and a lot of things methodical, and we just kind of knew what they were doing before they did it.”

The fevered excitement on the Harvard bench lasted only a brief moment, as Smith threw an interception along the Crimson sideline on Harvard’s first play from scrimmage. Possession switched again following the very next play, yet this switch was finally in favor of the offense. Davidson found Collins for a 31-yard touchdown pass on the first play of the drive to retake the lead for the Tigers.

The score would only be 1614, however, as the Crimson got to the kicker once again to block the extra point, with sophomore defensive lineman Jacob Sykes recording Harvard’s seventh block of a kick or punt this season.

“I think our special teams group and our coach, Jon Poppe, do a really good job,” Murphy said. “They take a lot of pride in it, and we get a lot of speed off the edge. Whether it’s [sophomore safety James] Herring or whether it’s [freshman defensive back] Khalil [Dawsey], all those guys can really bring it and I think we’ve done a good job sort of figuring out where any potential weaknesses are.”

Finally showing its usual offensive colors, Princeton made quick work of the Crimson defense once again. Starting with a 47-yard reverse from Eaddy, the Tigers again crossed midfield. An acrobatic catch, again from Classi, set Princeton up at the one-yard line, where Eaddy punched the ball into the endzone, his second touchdown of the day and first on the ground, to give the Tigers a two-possession lead.

Sensing the mounting urgency, Harvard decided to put together a few big plays of its own, highlighted by 31 and 16-yard runs from freshman running back Aidan Borguet. The firstyear finished off the eight-play, 85-yard drive with a rushing touchdown from two yards out, shrinking the deficit down to only two points just seven seconds into the final quarter.

“Aidan’s a very patient runner,” Murphy said. “He’s a very strong runner, he’s got good vision and balance, and he’s a hell of a football player.”

The Crimson continued to show signs of life despite the late deficit. After Smith lost his helmet and was forced to the sideline for a play, sophomore quarterback Luke Emge scrambled and launched a 30-yard jump ball for Reagan to move Harvard down the field.

A late field goal from McIntyre made it a one-score affair, but an unsuccessful Crimson onside kick sealed the game. joseph.minatel@thecrimson.com