The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 123

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume clxvi, No. 123 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | tuesday, november 12, 2019

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UC referenda are a doubtful mechanism for change

Women’s hockey defeats Princeton, Quinnipiac in back-to-back wins

Men’s basketfall falls to Northeastern despite late 18-3 run

External Hundreds Walk Out to Defend DACA and TPS Review Faces Critique

By Jonah S. Berger and MollY c. MCCAFFERTY Crimson Staff Writers

A woman accusing former Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual misconduct said she and three other women are “concerned” with the progress of Harvard’s external review into the circumstances that allowed Dominguez to perpetrate misconduct over four decades at the University.

Eileen Finan — a lawyer for the Office of the General Counsel — reached out in September to former Government Ph.D. candidate Suzanna E. Challen, former Government assistant professor Terry L. Karl, and former Government concentrators Nienke C. Grossman ’99 and Charna E. Sherman ’80.

They, along with 14 other women, first publicly levied accusations against Dominguez in spring 2018, prompting a Title IX investigation into Dominguez and then the ongoing external review.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow commissioned the external review in May after the Title IX investigation found Dominguez engaged in ­

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Harvard affiliates gathered at Memorial Church Monday afternoon to show support for immigrants at the “Walk Out to #DefendDACA & All Immigrants.” Kathryn S. Kuhar—Crimson photographer

By Devin B. Srivastava and Amanda Y. SU Crimson Staff Writers

Hundreds of Harvard affiliates walked out of class and gathered in Tercentenary Theater Monday to demonstrate support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status ahead of a Tuesday Supreme Court hearing on DACA. Act on a Dream — a student-led immigration advocacy group at the College — organized the walkout along with 21 co-sponsoring campus organizations, including Divest Harvard and the Palestine Solidar­

ity Committee.

The walk-out fell one day before the Supreme Court hears a case on DACA, an Obama-era program that allowed children brought to the United States by their parents to live and work in the country. The case will determine the fate of the program, which has been challenged by the Trump administration.

The more than 200 walk-out participants congregated in front of Memorial Church for a series of chants and speeches Monday afternoon.

Education School Professor Roberto G. Gonzales said that upcoming hearings are a source of unrest for those who fall un-

der DACA and TPS protections.

“The stress, anxiety of tomorrow on many members of our community is palpable, and the weight cannot be more excruciating,” he said.

Doris Reina-Landaverde, a custodian at Harvard who received TPS in 2001, told the crowd that TPS recipients live in fear because of the hearings.

“We are under attack. We are thinking every day — what will the court decision say?” she said.

A court case about TPS — a program that grants temporary refuge in the United States to residents of countries afflicted by conflict and natural disas-

HMS Dean for Students Fidencio Saldaña spoke at a walkout in support of DACA recipients Monday. kathryn s. kuhar—Crimson photographer

ters, among other dangerous conditions — has already commenced, and a decision from the appeals courts is projected to come out soon. The DACA and TPS court cases will determine the futures of one million undocumented immigrants, 700,000 DACA recipients, and 300,000 TPS holders.

Act on a Dream Co-Director Diego Navarrete ’21 spoke about the benefits of DACA, but also its limitations. He pointed to pathways to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants as the end goal.

“DACA is literally breadcrumbs,” Navarrete said. “We need it to exist, but it’s the bare

minimum.”

During the walk-out, speakers and organizers condemned The Crimson’s decision to request comment from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson in their coverage of Act on a Dream’s “Abolish ICE” protest in September. After the protest had concluded, Crimson reporters emailed ICE’s press office for comment. More than 900 people and several student groups have since signed an Act on a Dream petition criticizing The Crimson’s decision to reach out for comment.

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Harvard Admins Nohria’s Back HEA Proposal Tenure Praised

by Faculty

By Alexandra A. Chaidez and Aidan F. Ryan Crimson Staff Writers

A fter months of lobbying lawmakers, University administrators are “pleased” with the changes in a new bill proposed

by House Democrats to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor introduced the Democrat’s version of the reauthorization — dubbed the College Affordability Act — last month.

The Higher Education Act authorizes the federal student ­

University President Lawrence S. Bacow in his office located inside Massachusetts Hall. kathryn s. kuhar—Crimson photographer

financial aid program and includes provisions for funding sources like Pell Grants; the Federal Work-Study Program; and loan repayment plans for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

University spokesperson Jason A. Newtown wrote in an emailed statement that administrators are satisfied with proposed changes to higher education accessibility contained in the bill.

“We are pleased to see the College Affordability Act is taking steps to create greater access to a college degree for

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Smith Playground Reopens in Allston

By Katelyn X. Li Crimson Staff Writer

The renovated Smith Playground in Allston — boasting the City of Boston’s first pumptrack, a new multipurpose sports field, a street hockey rink, and an amphitheater — officially reopened to the public earlier this month.

The total budget for the $6.4 million redesign project, which underwent a public master planning process in 2015, included a $1.9 million contribution from the Harvard Allston Public Realm Flexible Fund — a local grant program for projects that enhance public spaces. The new renovations mark the end of phase one of the project.

University Executive Vice President Katie Lapp joined Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Boston Recreation Commissioner Ryan Woods at the playground’s reopening cere­

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mony Nov. 2. She called the redesign an important step in promoting the “shared future” between Harvard and Allston.

“The Smith Field project has been one of the most exciting and rewarding of Harvard’s commitment to the community, and this incredible space will continue to strengthen ties between our campus and our community,” Lapp wrote in an emailed statement.

The park’s renovations grew out of public input from several open meetings. The project falls within the City’s Open Space and Recreation Plan, a six-year program aimed at promoting and protecting open space in Boston.

The central goals of the project are to increase the park’s green space, improve its accessibility and visibility, and serve residents of all ages, according

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Co-captain Bente van Vlijmen ‘20 carries the ball forward during Saturday’s field hockey matchup at Columbia.

The Crimson won 2-1 and ended the season 13-4 overall. timothy r. o’meara—Crimson photographer

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By Ellen M. Burstein Crimson Staff Writer

A s Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria prepares to step down at the end of the academic year, Business School faculty have praised his innovative leadership in prioritizing diversity at the school and fostering closer relationships between affiliates.

Nohria announced that he would step down on June 30, 2020 in an email to Business School affiliates Wednesday.

He spent 22 years as a Business School professor before becoming dean in July 2010. During his tenure, the Business School launched Harvard Business School Online, offering online business school courses for students and professionals. Nohria also oversaw a record-breaking capital campaign that raised nearly $1.4 billion as part of a University-wide fundraising effort.

Nohria was widely considered a potential candidate to succeed former University President Drew G. Faust. The position ultimately went to University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

Bacow wrote in an email Wednesday that he and University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 will soon start a search for Nohria’s successor.

Under Nohria’s leadership, the Business School has focused on its “five I” priorities: innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration. Nohria wrote in the email announcing his departure that the school had made “good progress” on ­

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Harvard Today

For Lunch Coconut Curry Chicken Philly Cheese Steak Sub Spaghetti Caponata

For Dinner Chicken Mole with Nuts Cod Olive Caper Relish Creamy Chilaquile Casserole

Today’s Events Senator Jeff Flake’s Study Group with Mark Cuban Kirkland JCR, 6:30-8 p.m.

in The Real World Record-Breaking Arctic Blast Forecasted

Come check out IOP Fellow Jeff Flake’s weekly study group, this week featuring Mark Cuban from Shark Tank! It’ll be a busy one, so make sure to get there when the doors open at 5:45 p.m. if you want to secure a seat for his discussion on Capitol Hill from the perspective of a capitalist.

Over the next week, most of the country will experience temperatures so cold that more than 300 records could be broken across the United States. From Monday to Wednesday, the Northeast all the way to the Deep South will experience record lows, with some areas experiencing temperatures up to 30 degrees below average.

Make sure to break out those winter clothes!

Simple Strategies for Happier Times Boylston 104, 6-7p.m.

Even just from the title, this event seems like something we all need.

Professor Ashley Whillans from Harvard Business School will lead a talk on her research surrounding time, decisions, and well-being.

The Role of the Media in 2020 with Bob Cohn Boylston 105, 8-9 p.m.

The Harvard College Democrats will be hosting a conversation tonight with Bob Cohn, a current IOP Fellow and president of the The Atlantic, surrounding important topics in media and the 2020 election. Stop by to learn more about the role that media can play in campaigns and elections!

Disney’s New Streaming Service Debuts

A bundled-up tourist snaps photos of Sever Hall on an overcast Monday afternoon. Zaidoc i.n. gee—Contributing photographer

Daily Briefing

Disney’s new streaming service “Disney+” makes its debut Tuesday. Featuring a large library with everything from classic Disney movies to brandnew spin-offs and sequels, the service is expected to be a competitor with current streaming services like Netflix. The service will cost $6.99 per month, and seems like a great new option for late night procrastination!

A woman accusing former Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual misconduct said she and three other women are “concerned” with the progress of Harvard’s external review into the circumstances that allowed Dominguez to perpetrate misconduct over four decades at the University. University President Lawrence S. Bacow commissioned the external review in May after the Title IX investigation found Dominguez engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct toward several people multiple times over a decades-long period. In other news, hundreds of Harvard affiliates walked out of class and gathered in Tercentenary Theater Monday to demonstrate support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status ahead of a Tuesday Supreme Court hearing on DACA.

Around the Ivies yale Yale Ph.D. student Cristian Padilla Romero said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decided to deport his mother, Tania Romero, according to the Yale Daily News. The news comes two weeks after Padilla Romero started an online petition to have his mother released from an ICE detention center in Georgia. The petition, which has garnered national attention, explained that she has been detained since August and that her health was deteriorating.

columbia

The Student Affairs Committee of the Columbia University Senate recently launched the Childcare Affordability Initiative, an ad hoc subcommittee that will create a report with recommendations for how Columbia can better support studentparents, the Columbia Spectator reported.

Columbia General Studies and non-Ph.D. studentparents have fewer resources available to them when compared to peer institutions, according to subcommittee members. At a recent town hall, the Initiative listened to the concerns and needs of student-parents to better inform its recommendations.

penn

More than 500 students and alumni at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have signed a petition to revert the school’s abbreviated name from “Carey Law” to “Penn Law,” according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. The petition asserts the importance of the prestige associated with the “Penn Law” name and criticizes the renaming process’s lack of transparency. The name change was announced Friday after a $125 million dollar gift to the law school by the W.P. Carey Foundation.

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THE WEEK IN ARTS

In An Instant: A Commemoration of the Birth of Polaroid COURTESY OF SARA KOMATSU

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were so interested in the arts,” Jennifer K. Ellwood, a former engineer in product design at Polaroid, said.

Homayoon also commented on Polaroid’s contributions to the evolution of contemporary photographic artwork. Just as the art of painting had its movements, the influence of various artistic styles appear in the show’s Polaroid artwork as well: The exhibit features impressionism, mixed media, still life, and collage, to name a few. Short blurbs on the walls highlight these vaguely grouped styles and explain each movement, as well as its applicability to Polaroids.

“The way Monet and the whole impressionist movement came about was because paint became portable and they were able to create paintings really fast and in real time,” Homayoon said. “Polaroid did that.”

Beside the artwork, display cases stand populated by different iterations of Polaroid cameras — some more robust, others more technical. From the very first Polaroid built to the more modern Polaroids of today, the exhibit holds a wide assortment of the company’s large, classic machines. Some display cases hold prototypes and moving parts, while still others spotlight the specific engineer that helped develop that camera.

“I’m kind of drawn to the cameras, they just look out of place — thinking about how your cameras always fit in your phone [these days],” Tin D. Nguyen, an MIT volunteer, said.

Though the older Polaroids may now be outstripped by slimmer, higher-tech cameras, many at the exhibit said they feel the Polaroid has its place in the modern digital age — and that its current second wind is valid.

“There are so many different ways to use Polaroid products and film, like you can manipulate the images once the image comes out, you can have them instantly … there are things that Polaroid still offers that the digital cameras don’t. So in that way I do think they’re still valued,” Ellwood said.

Audience members and participants throughout the exhibit said that they saw limitless potential for Polaroids — and that this classic camera won’t be going away any time soon.

“I feel like… people rediscover these things, and for a new generation, it has a lot of novelty value,” Nguyen said.

AFTER MIGRATION: IN DEFENSE OF USING BEAUTY TO ILLUSTRATE THE JOURNEYS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A celebration the lives of refugees through art. with Professor Teju Cole.

Menschel Hall, Lower Level. November 12 at 6:30 p.m. Free.

WEDNESDAY WEST SIDE STORY TEATRO! And Organización de Puertorriqueños en Harvard present “West Side Story.”

Farkas Hall. November 13 at 7:30 p.m. Free.

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SARA KOMATSU AND JACOB R. JIMENEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITERS On Saturday, Nov. 9, the MIT Museum held a day-long special event celebrating Polaroid — the Cambridge-born camera that has captured people’s hearts from its invention to its modern day resurgence.

The ongoing Polaroid Project exhibit, tied together by a wide strip of the signature Polaroid rainbow, showcases artwork of all styles as well as the various iterations of Polaroid cameras. Cases of artifacts dominate the center of the room, while artwork, grouped by style, lines the walls.

Beyond the exhibit, the day’s agenda included a storytelling hour, a showcase of historic Polaroid models at a “Polaroid Petting Zoo,” spotlight tours with the curators, and a presentation entitled “Lady Gaga, Polaroid, and the MIT Museum: A perfect trifecta.” The exhibit also featured interactive elements, including a community pop-up installation, where visitors were encouraged to bring their own Polaroids and add them to the wall. The opening day of the exhibit marked Polaroid Reunion Day, an open invitation for former Polaroid employees to talk and reminisce while surrounded by the products they helped create and the resulting artwork.

Former employees Peter Carcia and Ladan Homayoon discussed what it was like to work under the large and influential company that Polaroid has become.

“It was a hierarchy that didn’t think women would make good engineers,” Carcia said of Polaroid’s earlier days. “I made it a personal thing to go find a talented woman. Ladan is a talented engineer.”

“We were just laying the bricks as they were driving the train,” Homayoon added.

For the former employees, the exhibit inspired nostalgia: Some of the very cameras they helped develop were on display.

“I worked on SX70, the first camera you see here. I worked with TI to put together the circuit,” Carcia said.

The exhibit itself mirrored the art-meets-technology ethos of the company: The museum page notes that the display encompasses “various dimensions of the art-technology relationship through the exhibition of both art and artifacts.”

“It was something I really enjoyed about being there, that it was both an engineering company and that they

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TUESDAY

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THURSDAY H.M.S. PINAFORE; OR THE LASS THAT LOVED A SAILOR The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players present a romantic maritime comedy.

Agassiz Theatre. November 14 at 8 p.m. Free with HUID.

FRIDAY LEGITIMACY: THE RIGHT TO RULE IN A WANTON WORLD Arthur Isak Applbaum will discuss his book “Legitimacy,” which questions the government’s role and citizens’ rights.

Harvard Book Store. November 15 at 3 p.m.

Free.

SATURDAY

MEXICO LINDO Y QUERIDO

Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, Harvard’s first and only undergraduate mariachi band, will be sharing a night of traditional Mexican music and dance.

Adams Pool Theatre. November 16 at 7:30 p.m. Free.

SUNDAY

VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP WITH LINDA CHRISTIANSON AND GEORGE MCCAULEY Potters Linda Christianson and George McCauley will be hosting a two-day Master Class.

Office for the Arts (Allston). November 17 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free.

MONDAY

ATLANTIQUE

The Harvard Film Archive will be screening “Atlantique,” which tells the story of a Senegalese woman who falls in love with a construction worker who suddenly emigrates to Europe.

Harvard Film Archive. November 18 at 7 p.m. Tickets $12.

12 NOVEMBER 2019 | Vol CXLVI, ISSUE XVII Arts Chairs Kaylee S. Kim ‘20 Caroline A. Tsai ’20

Editor Associates Joy C. Ashford ‘22 Kalos K. Chu ‘22 Aline G. Damas ’20

Iris M. Lewis ‘21 Claire N. Park ‘20 Isabel C. Ruehl ‘20 Allison J. Scharmann ‘21 Caroline E. Tew ’20 Shruthi Venkata ‘22 Lucy Wang ’20

Executive Designer Mireya C. Arango ‘20 Ashley E. Bryant ‘22

Design Associates Amanda R. Stetz ‘22 Maia R. Zonis ‘22

Executive Photographers Naomi S. Castellon-Perez ’21 Mariah Ellen D. Dimalaluan ’20

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FILM

‘The Report’: a Masterclass in Writing a Thriller LANZ AARON G. TAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Pristinely paced and unflinchingly political, “The Report” is a well-polished exposé on the inhumane Enhanced Interrogation Techniques deployed as counterterrorism measures in the wake of 9/11. Storied screenwriter Scott Burns (known for “The Bourne Ultimatum” and his frequent collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh) was in attendance at the Brattle Theatre on Friday, Nov. 8 to unveil his directorial debut.

“The Report” focuses on the Senate investigation, led by Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) and Daniel Jones (Adam Driver), into the CIA’s use of EITs in the War on Terror, both evaluating their success and weighing in on the moral repercussions of such reprehensible practices. At its core is a story about accountability and ethics, with a timely message that truth matters in today’s political climate of “fake news.”

“The Report” is thematically more consistent with Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” and “Vice” — films with a penchant for uncovering the truth in ways that invigorate a response from the audience, usually incredulity or disbelief. However, Burns couldn’t made a more diametrically opposed stylistic film. Where McKay uses comedic timing, fast edits, and breaking the fourth wall, Burns uses careful dialogue and a slower pace to concoct a political thriller more closely matching George Clooney’s “The Ides of March” or even Alan Pakula’s “All The President’s Men” in terms of pace and tone.

Burns’ well-informed script peels back key revelations with an urgency that succeeds in stimulating audience interaction with the subject matter. “The Report” is told from Jones’ perspective so as he peels back layers of the investigation, the audience does too. It’s a key narrative framing technique that puts all viewers — even those without the faintest political background — on the same page in following a deeply technical story.

For such a taut political thriller, “The Report” surprisingly tackles its sensitive subject matter head on with an unflinching look at the EITs through undoctored scenes of waterboarding and physical abuse. These scenes are few and far between but are nonetheless harrowing and disturbing. While they can seem out of place in a dialogue-heavy film, these scenes shake the film

with an otherwise inconsistent intensity and are essential in taking the audience from disbelief to disgust. Burns banks on the expectation that when the audience is invested in the subject matter, they will also be invested in the story, and in “The Report,” that expectation is met.

However, Burns focuses so much on telling the story truthfully that he neglects to develop his static characters.

Jones ends the movie at the same place where he started, and that’s in no part due to Driver’s committed performance. At times, it feels as if Burns was presented with a choice between thematic and narrative payoffs, and that he prioritized the thematic. This is often disappointing, because there are fragments that could have felt much more cohesive with integrated character development; for instance, when Jones is placed under imminent personal risk from the investigation, it’s difficult to care about his character’s fate beyond empathizing with his extensive efforts in the investigation.

For an Amazon Studios production that will make its way directly to Amazon Prime Video, “The Report” looks more like a television show than a theatrical experience: There’s nothing spectacular cinematography-wise aside from some striking symmetrical long shots. There’s even a small, but noticeable (and sometimes distracting) amount of handheld camera shots that appeal to the small-screen approach but detract from the film’s glossy finishing. At times, it’s evident that “The Report” is Burns’ first directorial effort; some of the scenes (which are mostly

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conversations) are blocked so simplistically one might expect such a layout from a theater play. Furthermore, the camera is extremely static, turning the audience into passive, rather than active, observers. Ultimately, these disappointing choices leave “The Report” feeling tedious and repetitive in short spurts — even when its script so adamantly isn’t.

“The Report” succeeds as an informative and stimulating docudrama, but often loses itself as a compelling narrative with fleshed out characters. It marks a promising debut from Burns, but what stands out about his first directorial effort is still what he does best — writing. “The Report” will begin its limited theatrical run on Nov. 15 before being released on Amazon Prime Video later this month.

Staff writer Lanz Aaron G. Tan can be reached at lanzaaron. tan@thecrimson.com and on Twitter @LanzAaronGTan1.

TV

Apple TV+’s ‘The Morning Show’ Is Just Good Enough JOHN R. OUR CONTRIBUTING WRITER On Nov. 1, Apple TV+ launched with original, star-studded television shows including “See” (starring Jason Momoa), “Dickinson” (starring Hailee Steinfeld), and “For All Mankind.”

Apple TV+’s flagship series is “The Morning Show,” which stars Jennifer Aniston (in her first major television role since “Friends”), Reese Witherspoon (hot off the second season of “Big Little Lies”), and Steve Carell (a.k.a., Michael Scott from “The Office”). Let’s just read that sentence again, and realize just how star-packed Apple TV+’s most high-profile project is.

The series focuses on Alex Levy (Aniston), the longtime host of “The Morning Show,” a popular news program. Her life and successful career, as well as the show itself, are upended when Levy’s co-host of 15 years, Mitch Kessler (Carell), is fired over allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Yes, I know what you’re thinking — this show is similar in many ways to the fall of Matt Lauer on “Today.” Even worse for Levy, Kessler tells her that the network was planning on getting rid of her before his termination.

As Levy fights to keep her job, she also engages in a rivalry with Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), a younger and edgier journalist who is tapped to replace Kessler.

“The Morning Show” offers what may be the very best performance of Aniston’s career. As mentioned previously, Aniston plays a character who is fighting tooth and nail to retain her status as America’s top morning show anchor. Behind the scenes, she goes toe to toe with her male bosses in an attempt to be treated with more respect and dignity. The network executives seem to forget that Levy is actually the one waking America up every single damn morning. She also refuses to let the grossly inappropriate behavior of her former partner affect her own career path: a timely response that mirrors the career rises of Hoda Kotb and Gayle King after the sudden falls of Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, respectively.

Witherspoon also churns out a well-rounded performance.

Jackson’s life is completely turned upside down, going from a local journalist in West Virginia to a morning anchor on America’s morning show. Simply put, her story is true rags to riches, and yet, Jackson doesn’t change who she is as a person. As a result, Jackson often says things and asks questions that irritate the show’s executive producer, which lends the show its humor. To round things off, Carell plays a very convincing disgraced TV star, although I am very fearful that “The Morning Show” wants us to sympathize with a sexual predator. While the show wants us to start an important conversation about whether disgraced men not as “bad” as Harvey Weinstein should be able to make a career

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comeback, the show, more times than not, spends way too much time on the accused man and not nearly enough time on his actual victims.

Even though “The Morning Show” is enjoyable and highly bingeable, the show can’t help but feel as if it’s missing that extra something, especially given its stellar cast who deserve more. For starters, the show seriously lacks high-stakes drama, with most episodes moving at a sluggish pace until the last couple of minutes, in which something momentous happens that makes you want to click “Next Episode.”

For a show that reportedly cost over $300 million for its two-

season order, the show is not actually that visually impressive.

Sure, it’s high-definition, but the set of the show-within-a-show is underwhelming, to say the least. The fictional morning news program that Levy and Jackson host isn’t particularly exciting either, and it’s hard to see how it is supposedly one of America’s most watched broadcasts.

All this said, Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” is by no means the next big TV show that gives Netflix a run for its money. As much as “The Morning Show” isn’t a particularly good show, it’s not bad either, and there is really nothing better than watching Aniston back on TV again.

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MUSIC

Frank Ocean is Done with Vulnerability on ‘In My Room’ In a cover interview with W Magazine, Frank Ocean shared that he is no longer sure if strength and vulnerability are compatible. From an artist whose albums delve deeply into his upbringing, past relationships, and fears and who shared his unreciprocated first love in an open letter he posted on Tumblr, this is a shocking revelation. In spite of Ocean’s avoidance of the public eye, his music is so powerful because it is honest and intimate. On “In My Room,” a single released on Nov. 2, Frank Ocean gives insight into what this turn away from vulnerability looks like. On the track, he moves away from R&B ballads and soulful lyrics, instead using pop-inspired beats and stream-of-consciousness lyricism.

The single opens with the repetition of a synth piano melody punctuated with smooth, thumping bass. Although the simple techno-pop beat doesn’t initially feel like Frank Ocean — most of his discography has mellow beats and instrumentals that are much more full — the change is far from an unwelcome one. The production is clean and spacious, and occasional laser sound effects prevent the beat from getting too repetitive. Frank Ocean enters the track with a long verse that explores fame, wealth, and sex with cleverly written wordplay. He changes subjects rapidly and seemingly at random, opening with the words, “No sleeper seat, that’s a mattress.” A few lines later he raps, “I’m not fake patient, I don’t fake sick / That kinda coffin don’t need lean,” using the word “coffin” to simultaneously refer to lean, the drug made with cough syrup, and deaths that it is associated with.

The song takes a quick turn in lyrics and delivery towards the end. Ocean’s abstract rapping about his wealth and confidence turn over to more melodic singing, where his armor seems to crack. He croons the line “Quit being violent with me” three times. After a short but weighty pause, the plea changes to something that feels more like a threat: “You make me violent.” In the outro, he sings “My room, my room with me / I guess I can’t state my feelings too soon / I don’t know you.” The paradox of someone being in Ocean’s room, an

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incredibly intimate space, but Ocean being unable or unwilling to take the emotional jump and share his feelings lingers on the closing beats of the song.

More than anything else, Ocean’s latest releases create even more anticipation for what is to come. The cover for “In My Room” features Ocean sitting on a bed, staring defiantly into the camera. This pose is replicated in one of the 17 silhouettes that decorate the bottom of the cover, hinting at the release of an album. If these tracks are representative of Frank Ocean’s direction following his critically acclaimed album “Blonde,” they suggest that Ocean is experimenting with abstract concept songs that lack clear narratives. Regardless of the change, Frank Ocean pulls us in with beautiful vocals, a style not found anywhere else in the industry, and just enough vulnerability to keep us waiting for more.

THEATER

‘the smuggler’: A 9000-Word Rhyming Exploration of Immigration and the American Dream

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HANNAH T. CHEW CONTRIBUTING WRITER

What does a rhyming 9,000-word one-man play about an Irish bartender have to do with modern American immigration? Quite a bit, actually. Written and directed by Ronán Noone, “the smuggler” puts Tim Finnegan (Billy Meleady), an Irish immigrant, alone and center stage to tell his story and critique the idealized “American Dream.” Although at times the strict rhymed structure inhibits the show’s sincerity of Finnegan’s monologue, Meleady’s lively yet intimate expressions and boisterous storytelling still provoke sympathy for the morally questionable character as he navigates the dilemmas and sacrifices of immigrant life.

Award-winning director and writer Noone’s production of “the smuggler” will run from Nov. 7 to Nov. 24 at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Around 70 minutes, the play features Tim Finnegan, a struggling Irish immigrant, who soliloquizes about the circumstances and events of his life that led him to own the very bar he stands in. On the fictional New England small town of Amity, a drunk driving accident has heightened tensions around immigrant communities, and controversy over the removal of a sycamore tree provides context for the local political scene. Against this background, Tim Finnegan describes his life as a jobless, alcoholic writer struggling to maintain his marriage and support his son.

Out of desperation, Finnegan turns to theft and moral compromise, setting in motion a chain of personal justification and reckoning that both destroys and improves the lives of those around him.

The show begins with folk music, and Tim Finnegan descends the staircase into the basement of a bar, removes his coat, cracks open a beer, and sits on the black stool in the center of the stage. Meleady’s movements are exaggerated and comical, and as he begins his rhyming verse about his journey to America, his narrations seems more like an expositional theatrical monologue than intimate storytelling. However, Noone’s rhymes begin to feel natural as Finnegan’s personality, character, and flaws are revealed. Finnegan is not a lovable protagonist, his attitude is cynical and jaded, and he constantly tries to justify the mistreatment of his wife Tina and his crimes to himself. Yet Meleady’s moving expressions of true frustration and honest desperation make it difficult to entirely condemn his actions.

This tension in Finnegan’s tell-all confession helps Noone express the complexity of immigrant communities on the most personal level, while still incorporating universal questions of moral compromise.

To introduce the characters of this story, from Finnegan’s mother-in-law to the mysterious “X,” Finnegan takes to attempting impressions of each to relay their dialogue.

He is by nature an unreliable narrator, and pairing his bias with Meleady’s hilarious and exaggerated impressions adds an element of intimate storytelling. In the moments of greatest drama, such as a heated exchange between Tim and his wife or a confrontation between Tim and his cop brother-in-law, the rhyming aspect of the show and Meleady’s portrayal of other characters make the scenes captivating, turning a one-man performance into a drama significant to the contemporary world.

The web of relationships, secrets, and desires ultimately culminate with Tim Finnegan crossing the line, assuming the role of the smuggler and prospering. This ending, where morally-questionable actions and an immigrant-eat-immigrant mentality prevails, undermines the pedagogical face of the play, instead setting a harsh critique on the American Dream and its legacy.

In order to leave the debate and questions of ethics and morality in the spotlight, the play’s technical elements are subtle but effective. The set, a staircase leading from a well-lit door to a dirty but empty basement, is closed in by walls of red and black. Descending the staircase holds the imagery of a descent into Hell and sin, and mirrors Finnegan’s journey.

Open and well-lit, the set allows Meleady to move freely, acting out dramatic moments without restraint, and heightens the confessionary aspect of his monologue.

As the play begins, the rhyming aspect of “the smuggler” seems to prevent intimacy in storytelling, but the candid portrayal of Finnegan’s flaws; Meleady’s personal, captivating performance; and the backdrop of a larger social conflict allow the play to transcend individual elements of its structure. In evoking sympathy for Tim Finnegan, Ronán Noone compellingly condemns an entirely black-and-white view of morality, immigration, and the American Dream itself.

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‘Song of the Crimson Flower’ Has a Romance that Fails to Bloom EMERSON J. MONKS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Julie C. Dao’s “Song of the Crimson Flower” is a frothy, contrived concoction of pleasure reading and little more, offering far more shallow style than substance.

The “Song of the Crimson Flower” begins when young Lan, a wealthy member of the aristocracy, rejects the heartfelt proposal of Bao, a poor orphaned fisherman and physician’s assistant. After such a vicious, flinty dismissal, Bao flees his home and proximity to Lan and her family, and on his journey encounters a powerful river witch who seems to know him and casts a spell upon him. She reduces Bao’s essence to a ghostlike form inside his flute and decrees that the only way to reattain his true form is if a declaration of true love is made before the next full moon. She tells him to head south to the Gray City, the ominous birthplace of black spice, an opium-esque drug that pollutes Dao’s fictional society, to find his mother, who should surely love him. When Lan finds Bao’s flute and discovers the tale, to amend for her former cruelty, she accompanies him on the long trek, avowing to atone.

On the one hand, Dao’s fictional landscape is richly envisioned and lavishly textured; she describes the docks near Lan’s home with luxurious care: “Boats swept over the water, packed with nets of wriggling fish, buckets of jackfruit and spiny durian, and baskets of sweet, fragrant pastries wrapped in banana leaves… Men and women who had once played as children on the riverbank now rowed their goods to shore.” Likewise, Dao paints the tainted opulence of the Gray City’s drug trade with sinful decadence; Bao’s “skin crawled at the sight of the bronze-and-cypress furniture, the rare painted scrolls, and the jeweled trays… Death and black space had gilded each table and upholstered each chair with silk.”

But “Song of the Crimson Flower” is unfortunately a novel of surface-level embellishments that lacks a concrete foundation. Though Dao lavishes pages on expositional descriptions, she skims other vital points of narration. She does not, for example, describe a large battle that happens at the Gray City; rather, she diverts the reader’s attention to the escape of the protagonists from the palace. They emerge to find that

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the battle has more or less been miraculously won. Difficult, all-encompassing questions of plot progression do not develop and build over time. Instead, Dao places her protagonists against a backdrop of a war that conveniently falls into place around them.

In fact, Dao charts both plot and character development unevenly. She does not introduce the concept of a larger war until a third of the way through the novel, which is not terribly long to begin with. Likewise, she introduces a tangential romance to a group of side characters that appears hastily constructed. She simply does not devote enough attention to the romance and its development to make it credible — or, in a much more real sense, interesting for the reader. Dao has the unfortunate habit of introducing plot digressions far too late into the novel that she does not fully resolve. If she does reconcile them, she does so in the last few chapters, with hastily murmured declarations of love and miraculous battle techniques that the reader never actually sees.

One of the larger issues with the “Song of the Crimson Flower,” though, is its tendency toward the trite. It’s a novel of tropes, many of them world-wearied and worn. The motif at the center of the story, after all, is the unrequited love of a hapless peasant at the hands of a member of the nobility. Look at Wesley and Buttercup in William Goldman’s “The Princess Bride,” Anne and Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” or, even in a less literary sense, at Rose and Jack in the “Titanic.” The romance at the center of the “Song of the Crimson Flower” is wholly unexcitable; even its eventual outcome is predictable. The love story is so formularized, in fact, that it makes its progression almost boring for the reader. It ends with Lan’s tearful remission: “I’m sorry I wasted so much time. I’m sorry I never saw how wonderful you were.”

Forget trite: It’s tired.

This all said, the “Song of the Crimson Flower” is not an irredeemable read. It’s pleasant, light fare, if one does not pay too much attention to a somewhat slapdash plot and unoriginal storyline, and Dao is a skilled worldbuilder. It’s a novel meant for quiet, unconcerned escapism.

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The Artistic Battle for the Amazon ILANA COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

DESIGN BY MARLENA SKRABAK

“The lungs of the earth are on fire.” Newspaper headlines have inflamed people around the world with coverage of the climate-linked forest fires devastating the Amazon. The flames alight the largest tropical rainforest have drifted almost two thousand miles and blackened the skies of Sao Paulo since August. Amidst this unprecedented deforestation and burning threatening the planet’s biodiversity and oxygen supply, artists like ArtFashion Daria Kurtumulus refuse to remain silent. With massive deforestation and wildfires threatening the planet’s biodiversity and critical oxygen supply, they seek to awaken public consciousness to the existential threat of climate change by transforming business as usual in their respective mediums. Through innovative forms of public engagement from clothing-based performance art to botanical exhibitions, these artists occupy new spaces in public view, making clear the message sent by the Amazon forest fires in a time of climate emergency. Even as they approach the task using different mediums,they all work to bring these fires so near to people that complacency becomes a painfully active choice.

Making fashion a form of protest, Kurtumulus employs her design skills in Amazon-themed performance art. In one YouTube video, she represents the Amazon on a T-shirt by painting a pair of lungs — one half of which teems with life while its fire-consumed complement forebodes unparalleled destruction. For the first half of her video, Kurtumulus paints the life-affirming lung, which she comprises of mossy green tree leaves and surrounds with a hummingbird and butterflies. Its pastel colors induce mysticism in the vast and still much undiscovered biodiversity of the Amazon.

The second half of the video, however, exposes the fragility of this beauty when after intersplicing her work with footage of the Amazon’s destruction, Kurtumulus’ second lung combusts into flames that leap across her chest. The work portrays the sharp contrast between the Amazon that viewers, present and future, may know — one of life or death — and challenges them to pick a side in the battle for its conservation. From a tranquil tone overlaid with peaceful bird chirps, the music in the second half of the video quickens in pace and strikes a tone of alarm, fomenting a palpable sense of anxiety in viewers that matches Kurtumulus’s race to finish the T-shirt design. Wearing her shirt, Kurtumulus coughs against her arm as if unable to stop herself and puts on a gas mask, staring straight into the camera. The moment issues a far more direct challenge to her audience — with the planet’s lungs at risk, so are her viewers’.

The Amazon fires are also inspiring a new activist edge in ecological art-themed exhibitions within gallery walls. Last month marked the end of the “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx” show at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York, the tone of which rapidly evolved from one of pure tribute to the Amazon to one a fervor of resistance to its fires. Be-

yond paintings, sculptures, and landscape designs that harkened back to Burle Marx’s past projects in Brazil were more subtle works with signs later added by the curators that spelled out startling statistics about the fires and their horrific ecological impacts. Working to raise awareness among the show’s visitors, the signs also concretized inseparability of one’s local environment and daily experiences in nature from the greater global ecosystem. Also through an immersive experience for viewers, the Amazon fires have infused Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s “Children of the Earth” installation in Hollywood with new meaning. He creates a jungle of multi-colored fabric with crocheted sacks and knotted ropes hanging from a webbed ceiling and draping onto lazy red couch cushions.

Immersing spectators together in the sense of a seamless natural environment — one whose feel sharply contrast to the quotidian of urban life — through physical interaction with the installation’s various components, Neto induces a feeling of collective stake in its preservation, while also hinting at dangers that humans pose to it. Every spectator is a “child of the earth” as they inhabit the installation — joining the fabric of the mystical world it creates. Like the Burle Marx show, this exhibit posits the inseparability of human and non-human life, exposing not only the interconnectedness but the mutual dependency of human existence with that of natural wonders like the Amazon, even as people may not always recognize such wonders’ pull on their lives.

Amazon artists also claim social media as a realm of resistance. Through easily shareable images and the use of hashtags such as #PrayForTheAmazon, they make the reality of destruction accessible — putting it at the forefront of Instagram feeds to awaken an impulse for action in the public consciousness. These evocative, vibrantly colored images convey the breath of life that the Amazon fires put on the line. Some, like those by Mariana Matija and Gretta ConGanas, blend striking visual, from angry smoke pillows rising arising out of a flame-engulfed canopy to gas mask-wearing mother and child duo stumbling upon a tree in an extinction-themed museum, with Spanish phrases to make poetic and explicit calls to action against the threat of mass extinction. Matija directly links her art to organizations working to protect the Amazon that spectators can support, effectively using the platform of social media to solicit a direct impact from her audience.

Across digital and physical mediums, artists are working fiercely to put one fire out — one that causes the destruction of the Amazon and the vast life it contains— and set a new one aflame — the public will for climate action.

Contributing writer Ilana Cohen’s ‘22 column, “Expressions of the Climate Emergency,” is a nonfiction column that discusses artistic response and resistance to the climate crisis.

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DOMINGUEZ FROM PAGE 1

WALKOUT FROM PAGE 1

Dominguez Accusers Concerned

Hundreds Join DACA Rally

unwelcome sexual conduct toward several people multiple times over a decades-long period. Bacow said the external review would not focus on the allegations against Dominguez but rather the “organization or culture” that might have prevented victims and bystanders from coming forward.

In September, Finan contacted a lawyer who represents the four women to arrange a meeting between them and the three academics conducting the external review, according to Challen.

The four women offered to fly to New York to meet with the committee in October, but Finan declined, according to Challen. As of last week, Challen said, Finan and Deputy Provost Margaret E. Newell have offered the women two additional dates to meet — one during the committee members’ internal planning time and another on the day they will visit Harvard’s campus.

Challen said she and the other women are concerned that the lack of available meeting time suggests that the committee will not adequately priori­

tize the review.

“I expect that the committee will meet with us, but my concern is just in the lack of time being allocated to this,” Challen said. “I really would like to see the investigators prioritize this in their schedule and make a commitment to conduct as many campus visits as necessary to meet with interested participants in this process.”

The reviewers will only visit campus once this semester, according to Challen. She said she and the other three women are “especially concerned” about accepting a meeting during the campus visit, which will take place Dec. 11.

“That’s the day they’re going to be meeting with graduate students, people in the Gov department, people in the Weatherhead Center, other students who are concerned about sexual harassment,” Challen said.

“There’s an opportunity for them to hear from a lot of people when they visit campus, so we certainly don’t want to crowd out their time that day.”

“It sends a message of disinterest to have only one campus visit in the remainder of this

calendar year and only to offer a 4:30 in the afternoon slot or for us to come to that one campus visit,” she added.

Karl and Grossman did not respond to a request for comment, and Sherman declined to comment, deferring to Challen.

Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement that the review is ongoing and “remains a priority” for the University.

“The committee continues to work to engage members of the Harvard community through in-person meetings, as well as collecting information and perspectives through phone conversations and in writing,” he wrote. “The committee and the University are committed to ensuring this review is a robust examination of factors detailed in the committee’s charge that may undermine the ability to prevent or address incidents of sexual harassment.”

Challen and the other three women have previously raised concerns about Harvard’s handling of its investigation into Dominguez.

In May — after Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Claudine Gay announced she would bar Dominguez from campus and strip him of his emeritus status — the same four women and their lawyers said Harvard “stonewalled” them out of the investigation, declining to accept information on their terms about their allegations.

Sophie Hill, a graduate student who serves on an informal committee within the Government department called the “External Review Working Group,” said the women’s frustrations with the external review reflect what she believes to be the University’s lack of transparency in its review.

“There’s just a lot of unanswered questions,” she said.

“When trust is this low, that’s just not the right thing to do.”

Hill said that some graduate students would like the opportunity to submit input to the external review committee, rather than speak in person, but she has not received word about whether she will be able to do so. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

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Higher Education Act ‘Pleases’ Admins students from any economic background, including long-overdue increases to the Pell grant program and improvements to student loan programs,” he wrote.

The new bill includes provisions to increase the value of Pell Grants, ease the burden of student loans, and block United States Secretary of Education Betsy D. DeVos’s proposed Title IX rule that would redefine sexual harassment, require live cross-examinations in investigatory proceedings, and allow proceedings to be discussed with outside parties.

Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex for educational institutions that receive federal funding.

Harvard and a coalition of universities across the country condemned the new Title IX proposal at the end of the public comment period in January, writing that the proposed change to the cross-examination policy is “restrictive” and “inappropriate.”

Newton also wrote that Bacow has focused on financial accessibility in conversations ­

with lawmakers.

“In his discussion with Members of Congress, President Bacow has emphasized the importance of these programs in ensuring equitable opportunity to higher education,” Newton wrote.

Bacow has met with lawmakers throughout his tenure about the Higher Education Act — a bill that Congress has attempted to permanently reauthorize.

Bacow has met with U.S. Representative Robert “Bobby” C. Scott (D-Va.) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) — who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — about the bill’s reauthorization.

Despite support from Harvard administrators, experts have raised concerns about the long-term consequences of the bill, citing possible increases that colleges and universities may make to its tuition costs.

Neal McCluskey, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, said that institutions of higher education often raise their own prices to “capture” the increase in fed-

eral aid or reduce their own aid packages for students.

McCluskey said, however, that Harvard is a special case.

Holding the largest university endowment in the world at $40.9 billion, the University may have the resources to maintain their costs despite any changes to Pell Grants or other student aid programs.

“Harvard works very hard to make itself affordable for people who would have difficulty paying the sticker price,” McCluskey said. “Many other colleges do not have the resources to do that.”

During the 2017-2018 school year, Harvard had 1,254 Pell Grant recipients who received awards totaling $5,601,702 and 1,120 students on Federal Work Study, collectively receiving $2,397,897.

Sixteen percent of the roughly 6,600 current undergraduate students receive Pell Grants, according to the Harvard College admissions website.

A provision that could imperil Harvard’s social group sanctions is also on the table as the legislation moves through Congress. The College’s sanc-

tions bar members of single-gender Greek groups and final clubs from leading extracurricular organizations, becoming athletic captains, and earning College endorsements for prestigious academic fellowships.

In a committee hearing about the College Affordability Act, U.S. Representative Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) introduced an amendment to the College Affordability Act denouncing the sanctions and seeking to guarantee “non-retaliation against students of single-sex social organizations.”

Newton wrote that the University was not in favor of that provision’s inclusion in the bill.

“We continue to be deeply concerned about efforts by Congress that would legislate student life and override Harvard’s policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations which appropriately aligns institutional support and recognition with institutional values and our policies on non-discrimination,” Newton wrote. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

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Faculty Reflect on Dean Nohria’s Tenure t he five priorities during his 10year tenure.

Multiple faculty said Nohria’s tenure reflected his dedication to the Business School and his commitment to listening to the concerns of its affiliates. From the start, Nohria articulated his priorities for the school to make his tenure more effective, according to Jan W. Rivkin, the senior associate dean and chair of the school’s MBA program.

“Nitin declared his strategic priorities on the day he was named the dean-to-be, and he has stuck with those five priorities through his entire tenure,” Rivkin said. “[The “five I” priorities plan] has been extraordinarily helpful for the school. I think we ­

all have known what he prioritized and so we could go out and do the things that he thought we should do,” Rivkin added.

During his tenure, Nohria also worked to promote gender equality and increase the number of female administrators and faculty at the school, according to Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Janice H. Hammond.

Hammond noted that five of the 13 senior administrative deans are women.

“There’s never been demographics like that in the dean’s management group at HBS. And it makes a difference,” said Hammond.

Nohria oversaw a 2015 push for greater gender equality in the classroom at the Business

School. Under his leadership, the Business School undertook an initiative to double the number of female protagonists — central characters in the case studies dissected by Business School students — by 2019.

The class of 2021 at Harvard Business School is composed of 43 percent women, according to the Business School’s website.

Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education Luis M. Viceira praised Nohria for his “inclusive leadership style.”

“He’s not someone who is going to be putting off people but quite the contrary, he’s very good to involve everyone in the conversation to have every voice listened to, and to try to learn from, you know, the col-

lective wisdom of a group,” said Viceira.

Several faculty said they will miss Nohria’s leadership and devotion to the school.

Gary W. Loveman, a senior lecturer at the Business School, met Nohria when both were Ph.D. students at MIT. Loveman said that the two young academics, despite being a year apart in school, bonded over their shared thesis advisor and a mutual love of the Celtics basketball team, of which Loveman now owns a small stake.

“He is deeply devoted to the school, and its mission — the education of leaders is something that he believes in very deeply,” Loveman said.

In her remarks, Act on a Dream Co-Director Emily A. Romero ’21 called on all of the walkout participants to decline any interview requests from the Crimson.

Crimson President Kristine E. Guillaume ’20 wrote in an emailed statement that the publication seeks to hold itself to the “highest standards” of journalistic practice with its policies for reaching out for comment.

“Fundamental journalistic values obligate The Crimson to allow all subjects of a story a chance to comment,” Guillaume wrote. “This policy demonstrates a commitment to ensuring that the individuals and institutions we write about have an opportunity to respond to criticisms in order to ensure a fair and unbiased story.”

“We welcome feedback from ­

our readers and from those we cover. In this case, we met with representatives of Act on a Dream to hear their concerns and explain our approach,” she added.

Romero, a Crimson editorial editor, also urged walk-out participants to consider the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates’ immigration platforms when they vote.

“We who do not have the power to vote are relying on everyone extending a hand to support us,” she said.

Act on a Dream organizers said they would soon be circulating a petition calling on the University to extend support to undocumented students in the form of legal resources and additional “administrative staff.” devin.srivastava@thecrimson.com amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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Smith Playground Reopens in Allston to its master plan.

Harvard-Allston Task Force Chair John A. Bruno said the park will improve the livability ­

The Smith Field project has been one of the most exciting and rewarding of Harvard’s commitment to the community, and this incredible space will continue to strengthen ties between our campus and our community.

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and sustainability of the neighborhood, especially given its central location. He added that

he is glad that Harvard had acknowledged its responsibility to give back to the city.

“I think for Harvard to understand and cooperate with the City of Boston and the neighborhood, in the quality of life issues — that they’re an important component, you know, to create a useful community, a stable community, and a resourceful community,” Bruno said.

Planning for the second phase – which will include the construction of baseball and softball fields — kicked off Nov. 6 with a planning meeting open to Allston residents.

Brighton resident Jane McHale noted that the vast variety of amenities that the park offers — ranging from picnic spaces to outdoor exercise equipment — will ensure it is a space for everyone who needs it.

“It will be really a big gathering place for the neighborhood.

And it’s far more beautiful than it ever was,” McHale said. katelyn.li@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

OP-ED

Really? More Referenda?

Do We Make Ourselves Miserable?

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hen undergraduates vote in the Undergraduate Council presidential election this week, they can also vote on two referenda: a submission by Divest Harvard calling on the University to disclose its holdings in the fossil fuels industry, commit to divestment, and reinvest more sustainably by Earth Day 2020, and a submission proposing to extend the closing times of breakfast and dinner by half an hour in Harvard University Dining Services facilities.

So what of these two referenda? To the first we say, “Ay!” We have previously called for Harvard to “disclose, divest, and reinvest.”

As such, we support the referendum submitted by Divest Harvard and hope, perhaps vainly, that the University take this call seriously.

But the fact remains that UC referenda should inspire little confidence. If we were Divest Harvard, we’d steer clear.

As for extending mealtimes and proportionally increasing payment for HUDS employees, we believe that the issue cannot be constructively addressed by a mere referendum, which does not deal with the logistics of implementation.

But regardless of our specific takes on these referenda, we are skeptical of using

UC referendum as a platform for change in the first place.

Over the years, variations of the divest referendum have been proposed and passed by a wide margin. In 2012, 72 percent of the student body voted in favour of a divestment referendum, and last year, 71.5 percent of the student body once again voted in favour of a divestment referendum.

Neither, evidently, has made much change.

As the current UC cabinet ends its tenure, this divestment referendum will no doubt join the ranks of other overwhelmingly passed, but not realized goals: saving “Harvard Time” and extending Thanksgiving Break in 2017, and repealing sanctions on single gender social organizations in 2016.

Moreover, by associating itself with the, to say the least, ineffectual UC referendum process, the Divest Harvard campaign has reduced its activism to a level occupied by banning student meetings during breakfasts, making the Harvard Turkey the official mascot of the University, and transforming the Pusey Library into a social space.

Though some may still see the UC referendum as a platform for gauging student opinion, the low turnouts in UC elections offers a contradictory picture.

While presidential elections normally receive more attention and higher voter turnouts than midterm elections, in which “literally no one voted in the Quincy midterm elections” one year, the recent elections have not seen high turn-

outs that provide a convincing mandate: Last year, only 2,792 students voted, itself a significant increase from the year prior in which only 2,074 students voted.

To be sure, previous referenda have admittedly been a microphone, if a perhaps somewhat redundant one, for student causes — as in a 2007 referendum that jumped on the bandwagon call-

But regardless of our specific takes on these referenda, we are skeptical of using UC referendum as a platform for change in the first place. ing for fall final exams to be held before winter break. The UC, albeit one of more than a decade ago, deserves credit for that.

But the fact remains that UC referenda should inspire little confidence.

If we were Divest Harvard, we’d steer clear.

But, sure, referendize, if you really want to.

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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American Déjà Vu Nick J. Danby AMERICA IN THE WORLD

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recently noted, “[i]n balance-of-power terms, Washington’s obsession with Tehran is absurd” since the U.S. overwhelms Iran on nearly all military metrics.

Knowing that Iran lacks the revisionist vigor from 40 years ago, Washington should seek constructive engagement and negotiation with Tehran as it has done with Moscow in the 1980s and countless other “evil empires” and ruthless regimes.

If the U.S. wants to stop Iran’s nuclear program while promoting Gulf stability, the Trump team should stop relying on a “maximum pressure” strategy that is based on Peter Schweizer’s 1994 book Victory, which argues that Reagan’s “maximum pressure” ended the Soviet Union. Especially since Trump’s approach to Iran “has little in common with the carefully calibrated approach…

Reagan actually took toward the Soviet Union.”

Change for the sake of change is not always good, but when our foreign policy relies on the same methods, assumptions, and strategies — with few positive results — then it is time to reinvent our foreign policy.

This past Saturday also marked 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, which “ushered in the end of communism and national reunification” and signaled the end of the Soviet Union. At the time, President George H.W. Bush had discussed a “New World Order” where the “nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.” His national security adviser, General Brent Scowcroft, envisioned a global system that was built “out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.”

In short, the fall of the wall signified a victory for liberal democracy. This triumph has been short-lived.

Even though the Soviet collapse signaled America’s “unipolar moment,” unlike in 1945, when the U.S. sought to

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efore arriving on campus months ago, sitting around a campfire in Vermont a week before orientation, other people from an outdoor program designed to integrate freshmen into Harvard scared the hell out of me. They told me they love programs like these because they get to meet a bunch of people who don’t hate Harvard yet.

It’s not like I hadn’t heard about the complicated relationship undergraduates had with the College. This place has a reputation. I was warned by my former boss not to be changed by “those Harvard people.” Yet, nevertheless, in the first few days, Harvard life had already begun to affect me.

Caffeine, little sleep, and forced handshakes leveraged by an incessant need for everyone to remake and “find” themselves in college make for an insufferable combination of fake niceties and anxiety.

I’m from Palo Alto, but I hadn’t ever heard of the Stanford Duck syndrome until my second day of orientation. The Stanford Duck syndrome is a model that portrays students at elite institutions as seemingly calm on the surface but incessantly paddling below the water. Since the second day of orientation, the Stanford Duck syndrome has become a touchpoint in conversation on sleep, social affiliation, and midterms ad absurdum.

Unfortunately, I’m not much of a duck. My tense, breathful paddling is clearly apparent. I’m two weeks late on a response paper, my midterm was moved up a week, and I don’t think I’m impressing my teaching fellows. Discovering assignments I had no idea existed is becoming a worryingly routine hobby.

While this level of total ineptitude is unlikely being repeated on a massive scale, we freshmen all swim in the same waters.

It seems that life is far from lacking in the department of pain. It produces enough misery to promote self-improvement without the College adding on.

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n our daily lives, much has changed in the past 20 years. Instead of streaming a movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime, you would drive to Blockbuster to rent — heaven forbid — a VHS! In 1999, if you had a cellphone you probably played Snake on your Nokia device.

Now, you can play thousands of games while texting your friends and calling your parents.

Despite these monumental cultural changes, some things are eerily similar.

Such indistinguishable change plagues American foreign policy.

Twenty years ago, if you picked up the November/December 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs, to get an annual subscription, you would have read the following headlines: “The Fall Guy: Washington’s Self-Defeating Assault on the U.N.”; “Understanding Taiwan: Bridging the Perception Gap”; “The Taliban: Exporting Extremism”; and “Saving NATO’s Foundation.” Had titles been reprinted in this month’s edition of Foreign Affairs, few would have noticed the difference.

The similarities, however, extend beyond 20 years.

Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis, where Iranian protesters seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

Shortly after the hostage crisis, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called America “the Great Satan, the wounded snake” as Iranians in the crowd shouted, “Death to America.”

Four decades later, the rhetoric remains unchanged.

This week, the commander of the Iranian army, General Abdolrahim Mousavi, stood in front of the American embassy, known as the “U.S. Den of Espionage” and called the U.S. a “scorpion.”

Actions from both sides remain unchanged. The U.S. and Iran continue to antagonize each other, except for a temporary respite in 2015, when both sides signed the nuclear deal.

But now, that rapprochement is all but dead. While Iran is far from innocent, the U.S. could have done a better job handling this adversary by reframing its assumptions and strategies. It should realistically appraise the Iranian threat.

As Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

By MAX A. DOSTART-MEERS

restructure geopolitical institutions to build a world order of peace and prosperity, the post-1989 America just assumed the rest of the world would naturally fall in line with the ongoing order. Except it did not. Putin’s revanchist Russia has reignited East-West tensions, Britain has separated itself with Brexit, authoritarianism is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere, and the United States keeps looking inward.

Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy has been driven by complacency.

We either fail to develop a strategy — and just assume everything will work out — as with Europe. Or, we just re-apply some old Cold War strategy that doesn’t quite apply, as with Iran.

This laziness has obstructed peace and the creation of a world order similar to one the elder Bush had envisioned.

Change for the sake of change is not always good, but when our foreign policy relies on the same methods, assumptions, and strategies — with few positive results — then it is time to reinvent our foreign policy.

A mentor once told me that each person only has two good ideas in their professional career — I hope a country has a few more than two.

But perhaps not. I, too, am part of the problem.

As I wrote this column, which criticizes America’s unimaginative foreign policy, I stumbled upon an article in that same November 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs by Johns Hopkins Professor Robert W. Tucker. In it, Tucker writes that “the world has changed profoundly… Americans remain tied to a past that has become largely irrelevant, prisoners of ideas and policies developed in the long encounter with the Soviet Union.”

Little has changed in U.S.-Iranian relations since 1979. Europe today shares many similarities with Europe from 1989.

And, through it all, criticisms of U.S. foreign policy in 1999 are nearly identical to the criticism I am offering today. We can all do better.

—Nick J. Danby ‘20 is a History concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

Still, before these first few weeks, my characteristic old-manliness left me partial to that notion that “today’s” college students were winners or quitters. Real growth only comes through doses of suffering. Without pain, how can we be expected to change?

On a recent phone call, my dad echoed this notion. He said something to the effect of “lean into the miserableness.” Indeed, I am learning from the “miserableness.” But I still wonder though Harvard is a campus of students predisposed to the adage “no pain no gain,” do we need to accept that misery is of inherent value?

In my mind, accepting that conclusion results in a kind of life I have no interest in leading. Growth ought not to be tied up in a need for self-inflicted pain. That kind of association is kryptonite to the many a burned-out consultant or hedge fund manager. Misery is a means and never an end. Misery can help you change, but you change because you don’t want to be miserable anymore.

It seems to me that this campus valorizes the opposite. So many of us choose to go onto live lives that require perpetual sacrifice for a future that will never arrive. Sacrifice is not bad. One can sacrifice in the name of public service, making sure one’s children grow up in a household that can give them a good life, or for the freedom that money provides.

The flawed thinking comes when one sacrifices for an outcome that never materializes. Happiness, positive change, or freedom are ends. Misery is but one of many means. Only ends have inherent value.

There are several things the College can do to realign academic priorities and promote growth without misery.Freshmen often struggle unduly in the mixed class course even though they can grasp the concepts and do the work. The disconnect stems from an easily explained difference between how college and high school courses are taught. Predominantly freshmen courses often have optional introductory meetings for new students like “Surviving Gov 20.”

Mixed class courses should do the same. A sophomore who had previously taken a given course could touch on what they wish they had known going into X, Y, or Z course in no more than an hour lecture and Q&A. While I have had a very positive experience with my freshman adviser, I’ve not heard the same from many of my classmates. The role of the freshman adviser ought to be extended from an individual with whom a freshmen meets once a semester in order to receive an electronic signature, to one who actually advises.

Only faculty who have time to meet with freshmen at least three times a semester should be freshman advisors. Students should be encouraged to send a list of classes they’re interested in ahead of a first meeting.

Still, I have lingering doubts. Perhaps, I’m just a complainer and a year from now today’s pain will make tomorrow’s familiarity with it a useful adjustment tool. The argument remains that some degree of perpetual dissatisfaction or pain leads to continual self-improvement. As we are, by nature, imperfect individuals, this seems desirable. Yet, on balance, it seems that life is far from lacking in the department of pain. It produces enough misery to promote self-improvement without the College adding on.

—Max A. Dostart-Meers ’23, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Hurlbut Hall.

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Harvard Overcomes Quinnipiac in Overtime Scare

By WILLIAM C. BOGGS and CONNOR WAGAMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

In its first weekend of back-toback road games, Harvard stole the home-ice advantage from its opponents, gliding to a 6-2 win over No. 7/7 Princeton and outlasting Quinnipiac in a 3-2 overtime thriller.

The Crimson’s spotless 5-00 start to the season is its best since the 2007-08 season, when the eventual national finalists rattled off 11 consecutive wins to open play; the 2012-13 NCAA quarterfinalist squad also won five to start. ­

HARVARD 3, QUINNIPIAC 2 (OT)

A flurry of action in the final minutes of play — minutes that bridged the gap from regulation to overtime — briefly threatened to halt the Crimson’s season-opening win streak on Saturday, before a quick start to sudden death dashed the Bobcats’ hopes of a comeback at home.

The match had held at 2-1 since a score by Harvard (5-0-0, 5-0-0 ECAC) from co-captain Kat Hughes in the third minute of the second period, a single shift after Quinnipiac (4-5-2, 0-4-1 ECAC) netted a game-tying goal in the opening plays back from intermission.

“We have that mentality of, ‘OK, they scored, now we’re gonna score,’” Hughes said.

“Everyone’s attitudes are so positive and encouraging and confident in each other. I think that played a huge role in responding to goals against.”

Then, with exactly one minute remaining, the Bobcats earned a power play. Quinnipiac pulled its goalie, bumping the standard 5-4 advantage to a 6-4 tilt.

The Crimson crushed a number of efforts, but the Bobcats collected a rebound with under 25 seconds to play. After a series of passes, co-captain Kati Tabin tapped the puck in to force extra time.

Harvard recovered quickly. Sophomore goalie Lindsay Reed and the defense fended off several attempts from Quinnipiac, and the puck found its way

to Crimson sticks.

Hughes flicked the puck toward the net, and sophomore forward Anne Bloomer was there for the follow-through.

For the sixth time this season, her shot converted.

“It was really a great team effort,” Bloomer said. “It started with the shift before, getting it into the opponent’s zone, and us just working it and finding pucks on net.”

Back-and-forth play defined the entire match in a way that Harvard had yet to see this season.

The Crimson never trailed — the 2019-20 vintage of Harvard hockey, in fact, has yet to trail in any game — but the Bobcats never fell more than one goal back.

The Crimson first struck seven minutes into the game on a shot from junior forward Keely Moy. Quinnipiac evened the score in minute two of the second, but Harvard responded moments later when Hughes cashed in on a rebound from junior forward Becca Gilmore.

“Getting scored on with 18 seconds left, and not getting down ... speaks a lot to our team’s resilience, so that was an awesome feeling.”

Kat Hughes ‘20 Co-captain

The remaining time was all defense — that is, until the final minutes, when the Bobcats found twine to force overtime, and the Crimson scored to win its opening quintet.

“The Quinnipiac game was a huge moment for our program, because, as a senior, that was my first overtime win at Harvard,” Hughes said. “Getting scored on with 18 seconds left, and not getting down … speaks a lot to our team’s resilience, so that was an awesome feeling.”

HARVARD 6, PRINCETON 2

The Crimson struck early and often on the offensive, netting

three goals by the end of the first period of Friday’s contest.

The Tigers (5-2-0, 3-2-0 ECAC) cut the lead to 3-1 halfway through the second period, but Harvard’s fourth goal soon after stretched the lead to 4-1 and put the Crimson in control for the 6-2 final.

“Against a great like that with a strong defense, you’ve really got to take your chances when they give them to you,” Hughes said. “So, we really did take the puck to the net as much as we could, and we were able to capitalize a lot.”

A key feature of the Crimson attack was its balance. While Bloomer did contribute a multigoal game, she was far from the only player to make a dent on the scoresheet — five Harvard skaters added goals, and four others added at least an assist.

“I think it [the scoring balance] just shows that we have a lot of depth,” Bloomer said.

“Something that I think we struggled with last year is getting goals on the board, so having the ability and the skill and the work to put a lot of goals up means that we’re more likely to win games.”

In addition to balance, timely scoring played a major role in Harvard’s fast start. A 2-0 lead going into the first intermission still would have buoyed the Crimson, but a three-goal lead could prove insurmountable for the Tigers.

With just 25 seconds and change left in the first, junior defender Emma Buckles managed to collect a loose puck in front and stash it in the back of the net, taking the air out of the Princeton defense that had hoped to escape the period on a high note.

The scoring settled down for the first half of the second period until, at the 9:16 mark, Princeton broke the ice with its first response of the game.

Winning the draw back to the point, the Tigers senior forward Carly Bullock fired a wrister on the ice through traffic before junior forward Sharon Frankel slid home the rebound to take the score to 3-1. Nonetheless, the two-goal deficit only lasted for 1:52, as Bloomer netted her second of the game.

HARVARD OUT ON TOP Harvard held off any chance of a comeback for Quinnipiac in an overtime thriller.

Later, they soundly beat the Princeton Tigers. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Tipping a centering pass from junior forward Becca Gilmore into the top shelf, Bloomer re-established momentum for Harvard and reestablished the three point lead.

“One thing that I think our team did really well this weekend was to respond immediately to our opponents’ scoring — which is huge, stealing the momentum right back,” Bloomer said. “A game has its ebbs and flows, and we just try to move on right after they score and take the game back into our hands.”

After taking the 4-1 lead into the locker room for the second intermission, the Crimson would score its fifth goal on a powerplay strike from soph-

omore forward Dominique Petrie before the Tigers responded with a powerplay score of their own to get game back to a three-goal deficit.

Harvard would have the last laugh, however, capping the scoring with 5:11 left in the contest on a breakaway deke from sophomore forward Kristin Della Rovere. In the cage, Reed contributed a stellar performance for the Crimson, turning away 40 of 42 shots faced. In particular, Reed set the tone for the Harvard scoring outbreak in the first period by holding the Tigers scoreless on 16 shots.

Princeton outshot Harvard in the opening act, 16-11, but Reed ensured that the shot ad-

vantage did not translate to a goal advantage.

After a 10-day layoff, Harvard will lace up for its first non-conference game of the season on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. away at Boston University’s Agannis Arena.

The teams last went headto-head in the 2019 Beanpot Championship, a heartbreaking overtime loss for Harvard that brought the Terriers their first Beanpot title. With time off, Harvard’s biggest challenge will be to maintain the momentum of the fast start and push its win streak to six. william.boggs@thecrimson.com connor.wagaman@thecrimson.com

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Falls to Northeastern Despite Late 18-3 Run

By MAHTAB SHIHAB CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In a game that came down to the wire, the Crimson’s spirited second-half comeback attempt fell just short.

On the road for the first time

this season, Northeastern off of a record-setting 44-point effort from captain Jordan Roland.

Still without senior point guard Bryce Aiken (who is dayto-day with a calf injury) and senior forward Seth Towns (who is still rehabbing a knee

injury), the Crimson went into Matthews Arena with the formidable task of upending a tough Huskies team that it had fallen to last year.

As was the case in its last game against MIT, Harvard’s performance was a tale of two

JUST SHORT Harvard was unable to defeat the Huskies and the record-setting 44-point effort from captain Jordan Roland. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

halves. The team only had 27 points in the first period and shot 39 percent from the floor, while giving up 63 percent shooting to Northeastern. In the second half, despite scoring nearly twice as many points and shooting at a 54 percent clip, the team could not make up for the 17-point deficit entering halftime.

“I thought their first half performance, getting us in a hole right out of the blocks, was a huge difference in the game,” coach Tommy Amaker said.

“We talked about getting off to a better start and it didn’t go that way.”

The Crimson had the unenviable job of figuring out how to defend senior guard Jordan Roland, who just scored 39 points on 15-of-24 shooting against Boston University in the Huskies’ season opener. The Syracuse, N.Y. native notched 35 against Harvard last season and continued to have his way against the Crimson defense throughout the game, finishing with a career-high and school-record 44 points.

“Certainly, the effort by Roland was outstanding this game, like he was the previous game against BU,” Amaker said. “[He is] a tremendous threat and player all over the floor, and played a full 40 minutes without ever looking like he was sweating or tired. Just an outstanding performance by that team and by that kid in particular.”

In the early minutes of the game, Roland immediately

made his presence felt by scoring 11 straight points to start the game including three triples, giving Northeastern an early 11-2 lead.

He would continue to be a scoring threat throughout the first half, ending with 20 points in the frame.

Even when Roland wasn’t scoring, the Huskies continued to capitalize on his penetration, leading to open three opportunities for his teammates throughout the first period.

The lead would balloon to double digits in the first three minutes of the game and remained that way for the rest of the first half.

In the second half, the Crimson changed the momentum of the game with better perimeter shooting and reduced turnovers.

After being outscored in the field by 18 points in the first half, Harvard limited Northeastern to only three triples in the second period.

“We honestly thought at the half we should get our confidence and our hope up,” Amaker said. “We certainly hoped they wouldn’t shoot as well as they did in the first half, and we talked about that, stayed with our discipline, stayed with our game plan, [and] stayed with our coverages ... I’m pleased we were able to cut down the turnovers from the previous game, especially as something that bothered us last season.”

The team came in with a renewed energy and would go on

an 18-3 run that would ignite its comeback.

The bench scoring of sophomore guard Noah Kirkwood and junior forward Danilo Djuricic — who contributed a combined 27 points — was integral towards the Crimson’s efforts at counteracting the Huskies’ hot scoring.

“We did a tremendous job of fighting our way back and we talked at halftime about making sure we were going to fight and we were going to play with intelligence,” Amaker said. “And we thought if we did those two things we might have a chance at making a run at it. I was very pleased and proud of that.”

Nevertheless, Northeastern did not collapse and managed to close out the game thanks to consistent scoring from Roland and critical free throws down the stretch.

The Huskies star continued where he left off in the first half, tallying 24 in the second period and hitting clutch baskets down the stretch.

Freshman guard Tyson Walker also contributed 15 points for the Huskies while junior guard Myles Franklin drained the game-clinching free throws with just over twenty seconds left to win the game for Northeastern.

Harvard will continue its non-conference slate on Sunday as it returns to Lavietes Pavilion to face Maine in a heavily-favored matchup for the Crimson. mahtab.shihab@thecrimson.com