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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO.52 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019

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NEWS PAGE 3

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Cambridge should work to ensure affordable housing is available for all.

Power outage hits Prescott Street swing housing.

Harvard’s track and field teams take down Yale.

UC Declines to Protesters Demand Sackler Rename Support Student

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Dozens of activists protested outside of Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum on Friday, urging the University to remove the late medicine marketer’s name from campus and refuse future donations from the Sackler family.

Wielding posters displaying photos of family members and friends lost to opioid overdoses, the protesters criticized institutions bearing the Sacklers’ name for being complicit with the opioid epidemic. Since the 1990s, more than 200,000 Americans have died of opioid abuse.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Mary Peckham, a Halifax, Mass. resident who held a sign at Friday’s rally with photos of her late son, Matthew, a victim of the opioid crisis.

While some members of the Sackler family still serve as executives at Purdue Pharma, which manufacturers the addictive painkiller OxyContin, Arthur Sackler died in 1987, nearly a decade before the drug came to market. Many activists, though, hold him responsible for developing the ­

By AIDAN F. RYAN and SHERA S. AVI-YONAH CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Undergraduate Council voted against passing a statement of support for Danu A.K. Mudannayake ’20 — a student activist who has repeatedly called for Winthrop House Faculty Dean Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. to step down after he announced he would represent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein — at their general meeting Sunday.

The proposed statement concerns Mudannayake — a Crimson design editor — and Winthrop tutor Carl L. Miller, both of whom filed conflicting reports with Harvard University Police after a confrontation in Winthrop dining hall on April 3. Mudannayake said that she approached Miller after she believed he had taken photos and videos of her while she ate dinner with a friend; Miller said Mudannayake harassed and provoked him while he ate dinner with his family.

Miller’s attorney, George J. Leontire, wrote in a letter Tues-

day that Miller and his wife Valencia Miller plan to file a Title IX complaint about the incident, though Leontire said Sunday evening that the Millers have decided not to file a complaint.After nearly 40 minutes of debate Sunday afternoon, 23 council members voted in favor of the statement, 10 voted against it, and one abstained.

Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20; Eliot representatives Max A. Gillmer ’21, Sean Sullivan ’20, and Jakob L. Gilbert ’21; and Mather House Representative Sanika S. Mahajan ’21 co-sponsored the legislation in support of Mudannayake.

“No student should ever feel intimidated by residential staff,” a draft of the statement read. “These actions on the part of Winthrop House staff create a toxic environment for students that goes against the House system’s mission of forging a healthy link between learning and living.”

Winthrop Representative Delaney E. Tevis ’19 said at the meeting that she did not

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Protestors holding signs in front of the Arthur M. Sackler building across the streeet from the Harvard Art Museums. KATHRYN S. KUHAR—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Bacow Involved in Fencing Probe Call

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ and AIDAN F. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

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Timothy Cobb, the principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, performed with the fourteen-student chamber group Brattle Street Chamber Players on Sunday afternoon in the Paine Concert Hall. CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

University President Lawrence S. Bacow said the decision to launch an investigation into Harvard’s head fencing coach was part of a University-level conversation about handling the accusations.

Peter Brand, Harvard’s head men and women’s fencing coach, sold his Needham, Mass. house to Jie Zhao — the father of current and former members of the team — in 2016 for hundreds of thousands of dollars above its valuation, the Boston Globe reported earlier this month.

“We had a conversation with our general counsel, and we all agreed that this was a good thing to do,” Bacow said in an interview Friday. “We tend to talk about these things together.”

At the time of the interview, Bacow said he could not recall the name of the firm but that it is one the University has “retained in other capacities.” University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to provide the name of the firm.

Zhao’s younger son, who is currently a sophomore at the College, was admitted to Harvard shortly after the 2016 real estate transaction. He is currently a member of the fencing team. Zhao’s older son graduated from Harvard in 2018 and was also a member of the fencing team.

The allegations against Brand and Zhao come in the wake of a nationwide college admissions scandal — which federal authorities dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” — in which

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Union Students Protest for To Air Democracy in Sudan National TV Ads

By CAMILLE G. CALDERA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By JAMES S. BIKALES CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

This Thursday, Harvard’s graduate student union will air video ads on prime-time national television criticizing the University’s response to sexual harassment complaints, according to a union press release.

Harvard Graduate Students Union — United Automobile Workers is in its sixth month of contract negotiations with the University that began in October. HGSU-UAW has repeatedly called for including a provision that would allow student workers to pursue a third-party grievance procedure for sexual harassment and discrimination complaints.

The ads will begin airing April 18, one year after the majority of Harvard’s eligible

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Roughly fifty students gathered on the steps of Memorial Church Saturday afternoon to demonstrate support for democratic governance in Sudan.

The country’s longtime autocratic ruler President Omar alBashir was ousted in a military coup on Thursday. Since December, when the price of bread

in the country tripled, thousands of anti-regime protesters have demonstrated in the capital city of Khartoum and across Sudan. Sudanese activists estimate that at least 50 people have been killed and more than 800 have been arrested since protests first broke out.

“For the first time in 30 years, there was an actual

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Ilhalm A.T. Ali ’21 leads the crowd in chants in favor of Sudanese democracy. ISABEL A. GIOVANNETTI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Sudanese students protest in support of democratic governane in Sudan on the steps of Memorial Church on Saturday afternoon. . CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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TODAY’S EVENTS Boston Marathon 10 a.m.- 6 p. m.

There’s nothing we love more than not getting the day off on what is basically a Boston-wide holiday. If you want to enjoy the festivities anyway, burst the bubble by venturing into Boston for this iconic, practically all-day-long event.

Celebrities, Attorneys, Deals: The Impact of Public Opinion 12-1:30 p.m.

Ever wonder what it’s like to represent and work with celebrities in court?

Head to Austin Hall North’s Room 100 for a Harvard Law School-sponsored conversation with John Branca, an entertainment lawyer who has represented clients like Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson.

IN THE REAL WORLD Tiger Woods Victorious in Masters

Many were uncertain as to whether Tiger Woods would ever play golf again after four back surgeries. After an 14-year lull, however, Woods returned to the green and secured his fifth Masters win. Talk about a comeback.

Rep. Illhan Omar’s Safety Prioritized

Harvard Men’s Volleyball played against George Mason on Saturday, April 12 in the Malkin Athletic Center. CHRISTIE HUNG —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Billie Eilish Plays Her First Coachella

DAILY BRIEFING Solving Big Problems 6-7 p. m.

Learn how powerful leaders in our country are taking on major issues with innovative approaches at this IOP forum. You’ll hear from Gary Cohn, former NEC Director and Goldman Sachs President and Chief Operating Officer, and Heidi Heitkamp, former U.S. Senator from North Dakota.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has discussed ensuring safety for United States Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with the House of Representatives official in charge of security following President Trump’s tweets about Omar.

Omar said she has received an increasing number of death threats following Trump’s tweet, which included a video of Omar speaking about American Muslims’ lives following 9/11.

The Undergraduate Council voted against passing a statement of support for Danu A.K. Mudannayake ’20 — a student activist who has repeatedly called for Winthrop House Faculty Dean Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. to step down after he announced he would represent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein — at their general meeting Sunday. The proposed statement concerns Mudannayake and Winthrop tutor Carl L. Miller, both of whom filed conflicting reports with Harvard University Police after a confrontation in Winthrop dining hall on April 3. In other news, dozens of activists protested outside of Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum on Friday, urging the University to remove the late medicine marketer’s name from campus and refuse future donations from the Sackler family.

For all of us wishing we were at Coachella this weekend, we can still read all about it in the news (in addition to on our Instagram feeds).

Eilish made her Coachella debut this year, and the 17-year-old artist impressed the audience.

She also brought out Vince Staples as a surprise guest, but his microphone didn’t work during the performance.

AROUND THE IVIES BROWN

Brown plans to build a large new soccer and lacrosse complex around an existing field on campus, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The three-story building, slated to be completed during the 2020-2021 academic year, will be about 22,500 square feet. Brown’s athletic director cited the soccer and lacrosse teams’ recent successes and the distance between their current locker rooms and the field as reasons for the new complex. The city of Providence approved plans for the complex last month.

DARTMOUTH

Yo-Yo Ma will deliver the main address at Dartmouth’s Commencement this June, according to The Dartmouth. Alongside six others, he will also receive a doctor of arts honorary degree during the ceremony. Dartmouth’s president said that Yo-Yo Ma’s presence on campus will show their commitment to the arts. The ceremony will be held on June 9.

CORNELL

The Cornell Daily Sun reported that the university just hired its first professor of American Sign Language, Brenda Schertz. Schertz said that, as the only deaf child in her school, she taught her classmates sign language while growing up. She has previously taught sign language at the University of Rochester and several other universities. Schertz will start offering classes during the upcoming fall semester.

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Power Outage Hits Prescott

By EMA R. SCHUMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Roughly 600 customers of Eversource, an electric company, lost power Saturday evening after a transformer caught fire on Green Street and Putnam Avenue, affecting University affiliates living in several Lowell House swing housing buildings, according to Eversource.

A transformer — an electrical box that facilitates the transfer of electricity from power plants to households — caught fire atop a utility pole at approximately 8:21 p.m., according to Cambridge Police Department spokesperson Jeremy Warnick.

Members of CPD, Cambridge Fire Department.

Eversource responded to the scene of the fire, the cause of which remains unknown, according to Reid Lamberty, manager of media relations in Massachusetts for Eversource.

Most of the power outages occurred on Green Street and Putnam Avenue, according to Lamberty.

Additionally, Lowell swing housing located at 20-20A and 22-24 Prescott Street also experienced a loss of power.

Though residents of Lowell swing housing had their power restored by 11:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, all affected households regained power by 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Lamberty.

Residents are temporarily receiving power through a generator until the company replaces the utility pole.

Green Street resident Doug J. Necastro said that he was at home Saturday night with his girlfriend and sister when he heard “two loud bangs” at around 8:20 p.m.

“It sounded like explosions basically and then the lights immediately went out,” he said.

Doug Necastro’s sister, Kelly Necastro, said that she was in the shower washing her hair

when they lost power.

“I could sense with my eyes closed that it got darker and then I was a little afraid to open my eyes and I questioned if I was still alive,” she said.Doug Necastro said that he “got everybody together, came outside, and just watched from there.”

On the street, he observed that the pole was “completely engulfed in flames.”

Over on Prescott Street, Lowell swing housing went completely dark.

Lowell resident tutor Mahnum Shahzad sent an email to Lowell affiliates Saturday night to inform them of the power outage and offer help to those who may need it.

“While facilities is working on getting power back as soon as possible please email me if you have any accessibility concerns,” she wrote.

Lucy B. Devine ’20 visited a friend in Lowell swing housing during the power outage.

“Everything was beeping, and everything was flashing, and it seriously felt like a horror film. It was so creepy,” she said.

Others were in their dorm rooms at the moment the lights went out.

Lowell resident Anthony A. Aybar ’20 said he was in his room playing Super Smash Bros. and watching the Golden State Warriors playoff basketball game with his roommates when the power went out.

“We were shocked because we thought it would be a moment type of thing. We tried turning on the lights and that didn’t work,” he said.

Aybar relocated to the Lowell dining hall where he and friends played a game of Bananagrams as they waited for the power to be restored.

CPD and Eversource spokespeople both wrote that they are investigating the cause of the fire. ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

Dental Dean Donoff Retires

By ALEXIS K. BOLNER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

R. Bruce Donoff, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, will step down from his position at the start of 2020, University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced in an email to Harvard affiliates Friday.

By the end of his tenure, Donoff will have served in the role for 28 years.

This makes him one of Harvard’s longest serving deans, according to University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley in a co-written letter to Medical and Dental School students Friday following Bacow’s University-wide announcement.

His work has built an important bridge between dentistry and medicine.

Alan M. Garber ’76 and George Q. Daley University Provost and Medical School Dean

Garber and Daley detailed Donoff’s impact on the Dental School and Medical School communities and the broader fields of oral health and medicine in their letter.

“His work has built an important bridge between dentistry and medicine,” they wrote.

“Throughout his career he has been an effective advocate working to integrate oral health and medicine as a way to ensure improved outcomes for his own patients as well as dental patients everywhere.”

Donoff’s contributions to dental education extend beyond the Dental School and impact the broader dental health community, according to the letter.

“HSDM’s mission reflects his aspiration to develop global leaders dedicated to improving human health and breaking down traditional barriers between oral and systemic health,” Garber and Daley wrote.

“He ensured that dental stu-

dents spend time working in community health centers as part of their training and expanded the scope of HSDM’s international presence, helping to launch Rwanda’s first dental school.”

Bacow, Garber, and Daley all offered praise for Donoff in their letters, commending his achievements and dedication to oral medicine and healthcare.

“He has made major research contributions to his specialty, advancing knowledge of bone graft survival, sensory nerve repair, and wound healing, as well as oral cancer,” Bacow wrote.

Garber and Daley’s letter also commended Donoff’s work as an educator.

“His personal commitment to academic excellence has shaped his quarter-century as dean, driving the recruitment of extraordinarily talented students, faculty, and staff, and shaping efforts to make oral healthcare available and accessible to more people across the country and across the world,” Bacow wrote.

“As an educator and a mentor, Bruce pioneered problem-based learning to help students better understand the fundamental concerns of those seeking treatment and their diseases, all the while stressing that students must listen closely to their patients and treat them with respect,” Garber and Daley wrote.

He has made major contributions to his specialty, advancing knowledge of bone graft survival, sensory nerve repair, and wound healing, as well as oral cancer.

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

Daley will lead the search for Donoff’s successor, according to his and Garber’s letter.

Donoff will officially step down January 1. alexis.bolner@thecrimson.com

UC Funds Scooters, Comedy Show

By KEVIN R. CHEN and LAUREN C. ESPINOZA CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Undergraduate Council voted to fund an electric scooter sharing program, a music and comedy event, and a promotional video for a freshman pre-orientation program at its weekly meeting Sunday afternoon.

Pforzheimer House Representative Athena W. Kan ’19 and seven other council members, most of whom represent houses in the Radcliffe Quadrangle, requested $3,000 from the UC’s burst funding to support Scoob, an electric scooter sharing company run by Nestor O. Tkachenko ’21.

The company currently owns and operates two scooters on campus, which students can rent via an app. They applied for funding from the UC as well as other Harvard sources to raise enough money to purchase

roughly 20 additional scooters, according to Tkachenko.

In the pilot program, Scoob will only operate within the Harvard campus, but scooters will be available for all to use.

Harvard students will be given a subsidized rate of 50 cents to begin a rental plus 10 cents per minute, while non-Harvard students will pay a $1 flat rate plus 50 cents per minute, according to the proposal.

By granting this money to Scoob, the UC ensured priority for Harvard students when scooters need to be charged.

By downloading an additional app, users can see when scooters are low on battery and be reimbursed for charging scooters.

The UC logo will also be placed on the scooter and “prominently placed” within the app.

Dunster House Representative Janani Krishnan-Jha ’20 also proposed legislation to fund “Laugh Tracks: A Night

of Music & Comedy with JR De Guzman,” a project co-sponsored by a capella group Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones and improvisation group Three Letter Acronym Improv.Krishnan-Jha said she planned the event to help improve the accessibility of professional careers in comedy in response to what she sees as a lack of inclusivity in the comedy scene at Harvard.

“There are a few exclusive organizations on campus that bring a lot of professional comedy writers and actors and performers to only their exclusive spaces,” she said.

The event’s planners requested $2,600 to ensure free admission to all interested students, covering JR De Guzman’s performance fee in full. Guzman is a musician and comedian who has appeared in comedy specials on Netflix, Hulu, Comedy Central, and MTV. The event is currently sched-

uled for April 29.

The UC also granted $500 to the First-Year Retreat and Experience to create a promotional video to help the group advertise to incoming freshmen.

FYRE, a new freshman pre-orientation program targeted toward under-resourced students, launched in August 2018.

Multiple projects also received funding through the Grant for an Open Harvard College, which provides funding for activities that address certain “compelling interests” delineated by the UC. These projects included Identities Fashion Show’s Coco Rocha Modeling Bootcamp, the “Covenant of Love” concert taking place during the Arts First festival, the Global Health and Leadership Conference, and the India Business Summit. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com laura.espinoza@thecrimson.com

Abdelrahman Wins Truman Scholarship

By MEENA VENKATARAMANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Salma Abdelrahman ’20 was sitting in a Phillips Brooks House Association meeting when she found out she was one of 62 students across the country named 2019 Truman Scholars, a graduate scholarship for college students committed to public service.

The award, established by Congress in 1975, offers up to $30,000 to recipients to pursue work in public service upon graduation. This year, candidates were evaluated based on their “academic success and leadership accomplishments, as well as their likelihood of becoming public service leaders,” according to the Truman Foundation press release.

Abdelrahman, an African and African American Studies concentrator, said that during the meeting at PBHA, where

she serves as vice president, a fellowships tutor sent her a text message conveying the good news. “The text was just like, ‘YOU GOT IT!’ in all caps, and I was like ‘What? Who is this?’” she said. “Then I realized what she was talking about and it was kind of crazy. I got forwarded the [Truman Foundation] email sent to [University] President [Lawrence S.] Bacow as well.”

Abdelrahman said she was first motivated to apply to the Truman Scholarship when she found out about the opportunity through her friend Nicholas P. Whittaker ’19, who received the honor last year.

Abdelrahman said much of her time on campus has been spent organizing around prison abolition, including working with the Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Advocacy and the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign. HPDC has recently garnered attention

for its efforts to persuade Bacow to divest the University’s nearly $40 billion endowment from companies with ties to the prison industry. “The folks at the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign have 100 percent made me a better organizer and a better person,” Abdelrahman said.

“The service work that I do is grounded in the belief of a world in which prisons don’t need to exist.” She also cited a class on mass incarceration that she took with History and African and African American Studies Associate Professor Elizabeth K. Hinton that has inspired both her studies and her advocacy. Hinton also recommended Abdelrahman for the scholarship.

“Professor Hinton marries academia and service so clearly that I just draw a lot of inspiration for her in what I do outside the classroom,” Abdelrah-

man said.Abdelrahman said she will use the coming year to decide how she plans to make use of the scholarship funding.“Before I decide, I am definitely going to take time to do organizing work and be on the ground for a little bit,” she said. “And then I’ll decide what skills I need based on what the work looks like and what I feel is most necessary to continue furthering the project of social justice.”

Abdelrahman said she is interested in pursuing graduate studies in law or public policy, but that she is keeping her options open for the time being and focusing on showing her gratitude for the award through service. “In terms of getting the honor, this award is not just mine,” she said. “The communities that build me up are the people who deserve this award just as much as I do.” meena.venkataramanan@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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House, Home, and City

What Kind of Community Should We Build?

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n a recent meeting, the Cambridge City Council Housing Committee discussed the Affordable Housing Overlay proposal currently working its way through city government. The proposal seeks to reform zoning laws to streamline the approval process for affordable housing units, incentivize affordable developers, and introduce other reforms designed to increase the supply of affordable housing for Cambridge residents.

It is heartening to see that Cambridge is finally looking to engage in serious action to tackle the problem of housing accessibility. We are hopeful that this measure will increase the supply of affordable housing around the city, ease the process by which that housing pool can be further expanded, and bring down ever-rising prices. Nevertheless, the City Council must be scrupulous in its assessment of the actual effects of this reform, especially in terms of potential adverse legal, safety, and environmental effects.

Councilors at the meeting expressed concerns about the proposal’s potential environmental impacts, including less-stringent building standards and potential tree removal. While we are sensitive to these and other environmental concerns and believe they should be deeply considered, the city must prioritize socioeconomic diversity and support over other interests that have little significance if a vibrant community is not present to reap the benefits.

Councilor Dennis J. Carlone, a former architect and urban design consultant,

also questioned the city’s ability to effectively deliver promised improvements on building capacity and cost management. Carlone’s skepticism, in so far as it supports the mission of the proposal but challenges the Council to buckle down on logistics, mirrors our own perspective.

Nevertheless, the City Council must work quickly. Carlone’s questions, while critical, must be responded to with haste.

The City Council must balance the need for effective reforms with efficient implementation. To that end, we encourage both a streamlined approval process and rigorous oversight.

Residents must step up and own that process, continuing to be vocal in Council meetings, and the City Council in turn must listen carefully and seriously to its residents’ concerns and suggestions.

On its face, this may seem like a contradiction, but the scale of the plan presents Cambridge with an advantage in this context. Approvals granted to developers for some affordable housing units can be testing grounds for those developers’ future projects.

In keeping with our call for oversight to ensure the success of the proposal, those who fail to deliver buildings on

budget that offer decent, affordable, and safe living accommodations must not be considered for further developments across the city.

This proposal offers a chance for the City Council to take stock of housing in our city and ensure the legacy of a diverse and vibrant Cambridge faithful to its roots for decades to come. Residents must step up and own that process, continuing to be vocal in Council meetings, and the City Council in turn must listen carefully and seriously to its residents’ concerns and suggestions.

In doing so, the City Council should also adopt an approach that is cognizant of the ways in which Cambridge is changing at a neighborhood-level as well. Protecting affordable housing is important, but it must come alongside reforms oriented toward protecting affordable neighborhoods — places where not just rent but also food, clothes, and other necessities are marketed to residents of all socioeconomic status. Only in this way can Cambridge guarantee a real community of belonging for all its residents — someplace, to use the old cliche, that everyone can call home.

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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Harvard is The Dream, Harvard Housing is a Nightmare

By EMMA S. MARGOLIN

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alfway up the 17 flights of stairs to my apartment, I thought my heart might burst. This was partly because I hadn’t exercised since returning to Cambridge for my last semester of graduate school. But it was also because I was growing more enraged with every step. Harvard University Housing had been turning off my building’s water for days to work on a damaged pipe.

And that day — a day the elevators coincidentally broke down — HUH told me I would have to move into a different unit for a week while they worked on the pipe behind my bathroom wall. When I finally made it up the stairs, out of breath and out of patience, I found the wall ripped out and the toilet in the bathtub.

No, I would not be getting any rent back, they told me as I stood dumbfounded in the building’s management office, barely containing the rage bubbling up inside of me like lava. I have no idea what I learned that day in class. I only remember feeling like I’d lost my mind.

At the risk of sounding sappy and elitist, I want to be clear: I love Harvard. Not a day goes by here where I don’t feel some form of imposter syndrome, dwarfed, as I regularly am, by the towering presence of my teachers and classmates. I was lost in my career, and I feel lucky to have this time now to reset, to make new friends, and to try and tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges. Most days, I’m sure I walk around with that dreamy look of happiness I used to resent seeing on other people’s faces. But then I come back to my Harvard-owned apartment, which has seen flooding, broken amenities and near-constant construction ever since I started paying the expensive

rent, and the spell is broken. If Harvard is the dream, Harvard Housing is surely a nightmare — one I would advise prospective students to avoid.

The day of the broken elevators and demolished bathroom was not the first time HUH has interfered with my graduate school experience. Since I moved in, construction workers have had to frequently walk through the apartment to complete some sort of project on the building’s balconies. That’s an annoyance I could have lived with. But when I got out of bed one rainy day last fall and realized I was standing in an inch of water covering my entire bedroom floor, I started to think I made a mistake living here. The flood — due to a leak on the roof, I was told — broke my printer and computer charger. Even worse, because

If Harvard is the dream, Harvard Housing is surely a nightmare — one I would advise prospective students to avoid.

I was scrambling to save my belongings without electrocuting myself, I missed a class featuring former National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice as a special guest.

Other students have horror stories, too. Last year, residents of one of HUH’s properties filed a complaint about a construction project that they said created months of “constant” noise, debris and a “dangerous” environment, especially for kids. Students were able to get back three months’ worth of rent in that case. But different problems persisted; the same apartment complex was plagued with

nearly 50 false fire alarms between fall 2017 to early this year. To be clear, Harvard Housing is not subsidized; HUH charges market rents for the 3,000 or so apartments it manages, since the University considers anything below market rate to be a form of financial aid. And, as with most housing in Cambridge, it’s not cheap; monthly rent in my apartment complex ranges from $1,854 for a studio to $4,206 for a three-bedroom. A major draw for living here is that the costly rent includes great features, like Internet, elevators, electricity, heat, and water. But when those features are suspended or only available to you if you squat in a vacant apartment for a while, as I had to, living here is simply not worth the price – no matter how many Whole Foods gift cards HUH gives tenants for their trouble. (They gave me three.)

If I were home in New York, where I’ve had my fair share of terrible housing experiences (although none requiring me to leave the apartment for days), I might have tried to renegotiate my rent or even just started paying less in this case — come what may to my credit score! But here, my options are limited. Unpaid charges on my Harvard account, including rent, means the school can prevent me from registering for future classes, requesting transcripts or receiving my diploma.

I wish I’d known how bad it could be before signing my lease. So, as the newly admitted students make their decisions about whether or not to accept their offers, I’ll be sure to tell them: Come to Harvard, but don’t live in Harvard Housing.

—Emma S. Margolin is a mid-career MPA candidate at the Kennedy School.

“Because of the way this society is organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions.” - Angela Davis

Laura Veira-Ramirez A WILD TONGUE

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emories clouded my brain as I heard responses to the divestment protest that had just happened. I had just come from a meeting where we watched the newly-leaked video and praised the way the protesters’ made their cause known and refused to be silenced.

We wrapped up a meeting in the Phillips Brooks House parlor room when a police officer walked in. He asked if any of us had been involved in the protest. We responded that we had not, but the police presence resonated with me.

When I was in another room later with opinions that opposed mine, I pulled together enough energy to recount previous encounters with police. I thought back to the Republican National Convention, when I was part of a group of immigrant rights protesters putting together a ‘Wall off Trump’. Members linked their arms to create a wall of unity. I remember the line of police facing us in our vulnerable states as we risked arrest.

I remember how the police faced us, prepared to take action.

I compared that to the way I saw police circling a group of right-leaning protesters at the Democratic National Convention the following week. Their backs were to the protesters. They faced the rest of the crowd and protected the protesters’ right to free speech with their own bodies. While their rights were protected, we were vilified. We were targeted.

This was one of the first examples I had that showed me the way “freedom of speech” is skewed to protect hate speech and to police marginalized communities. Another recent example brings us to the University of Arizona, where students were charged for protesting an event on their campus earlier this month. Students noted that the presence of representatives from Customs and Border Protection made them feel unsafe.

While the freedom of speech of the CBP presenters was protected, that of the protesters was deemed a disturbance.

Freedom of speech being trumped with the excuse of disturbance of the peace feels like a direct way to limit discourse coming from the left from people who don’t have the resources or platforms to be heard otherwise.

When we tie these larger issues to the events that took place at the Institute of Politics forum with University President Lawrence S. Bacow, similar possibilities present themselves. We have yet to see if action will be taken against the protesters, but we already see a pattern of policing right on Harvard’s campus.

The divestment protest was not an independent event. The protesters shut down the IOP event in response to the continued silencing they faced when meeting with Bacow as they were met with the statement, “I don’t respond to demands, I respond to reason.” Bacow repeated this patronizing claim during the IOP protest and continued his response with the question of what kind of community we want, as if we really have a say in the matter. He exposed the power disparity by doing so.

The foundation on which this institution was created is not sustainable for everyone.

The way that this community is structured now is not sustainable for everyone. The foundation on which this institution was created is not sustainable for everyone. All the voices in the community are not being heard because they’re not all represented in positions of power since it was not built with everyone in mind.

The foundation of this institution was flawed from the start, but Harvard still has an opportunity and duty to rebuild it. We should be building a community where we listen to demand because it comes out of another ideology that is often neglected. We should be building a community where we are not leaving collateral damage as this institution tries to get ahead. This is what Divest is pushing for. These are the demands that are getting ignored.

I have been a student at Harvard for 958 days, and I have seen the silencing of marginalized students far too many times. Bacow has made it abundantly clear that the voices of students don’t matter. It seems like the choice is only the administration’s.

The choice should be ours.

—Laura S. Veira-Ramirez ’20, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in History and Literature and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.

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STATEMENT FROM PAGE 1

SACKLER FROM PAGE 1

UC Opts Not to Protestors Criticize Sackler Family Support Student techniques that Purdue’s sales team would later use to distribute its product to pharmacies and doctors across the country.

Massachusetts-based opioid grief groups organized the protest, which was the latest effort in a months-long campaign pressuring Harvard to remove the Sackler name from its campus. More than 14,700 people signed an online petition calling for the removal of the Sackler name, and dozens of mothers of opioid victims sent letters to University President Lawrence S. Bacow in March with that objective. In June 2018, activists held a protest inside the museum.

Bacow responded to the mothers in March, writing that their letters “deeply moved” him, but that the University “does not have plans” to remove Arthur Sackler’s name.

Activists said recent devel­

co-sponsor the statement in support of Mudannayake out of fear of retaliation.

“I was asked to co-sponsor this and I decided not to because of the power dynamic in Winthrop,” Tevis said. “I thought that if I co-sponsored it, there could be some retaliation towards me.”The vote comes days after Eliot House Committee presidents Terzah A. Hill ’20 and William S. Flanagan ’20 weighed in on the events in Winthrop, criticizing the Millers’ actions in the wake of the incident.On Friday, Hill and Flanagan — a Crimson news editor — defended Eliot Faculty Dean Gail A. O’Keefe in an email to House affiliates. The Millers filed a lawsuit against O’Keefe for defamation last week after O’Keefe sent an email to Eliot residents that said the Millers acted “unprofessionally and dishonestly” in their response to the confrontation with Mudannayake.

“We stand with Gail. We support Gail,” Hill and Flanagan wrote. “We will not tolerate acts against our community and the people like Gail who make Eliot House our home.”The UC legislation calling for the statement in support of Mudannayake mandated that the council’s leadership send it to the entire student body and post it on Facebook — a process the council calls “Tier 1” publicity. The council’s constitution requires a two-thirds majority of the body’s entire membership for any “Tier 1” statements, meaning the message in support of Mudannayake narrowly failed to pass.Though some UC members proposed that the council consider releasing the statement in a lower tier, the meeting adjourned before members could vote a second time.Mudannayake said last Wednesday’s events have limited her ability to feel safe on campus.

“I think, whatever happened in the dining hall or not, I do feel like this has come to the point where it’s limited my ability, as well as the people I’ve been working with, our ability to just be in certain places on campus and feel safe on campus,” she

said. “So I would ask you guys as the UC to consider how that affects student life, because with tutors and faculty deans, there is a power imbalance there.”Oak Yard Representative A. Blake Barclay ’22 said he does not believe it is “appropriate” to take a side in the dispute between Mudannayake and Miller.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to do so, in an unresolved situation where we as the council haven’t heard from the other party’s perspective, and we didn’t actually witness the events transpired,” Barclay said.Over the course of the meeting, the Council’s members mulled varying versions of a statement in support of Mudannayake. An amendment proposed by Huesa to add a call for greater transparency in tutor hiring passed; a change proposed by Pforzheimer representative Athena W. Kan ’19 to remove Mudannayake’s name failed.Leontire said the Millers have not offered a public position on Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein.

“The issue has never been about the free speech or right to protest by anyone,” he said. “He and his family don’t deserve to be targeted and disparaged simply because he was doing his job as a tutor in Winthrop House.

They hope going forward they will be accorded the same respect they believe they have always shown to students at Harvard.”College spokesperson Aaron M. Goldman wrote in an emailed statement that the College “is committed to ensuring that our students receive the best possible support in their residential communities.”

“As Dean Khurana stated in his recent e-mail to students, we are working with the Office of Institutional Research to gather additional information from the Winthrop community,” he wrote. “This information will provide both a clearer picture of what is happening in the House and will inform decisions on how best to address concerns that have been identified.” shera.aviyonah@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

SUDAN FROM PAGE 1

Protestors Call for Democracy in Sudan feeling that we are pushing towards democracy in our country,” student organizer Sahar M. Omer ’20 said to the cheering crowd.General Awad Ibn Ouf, formerly the defense minister under al-Bashir, instituted himself as a replacement leader for a day before handing power to another general, Abdel-Fattah Burhan, on Friday. The protesters continue to call for a democratic government instead of a military regime.

“The Sudanese students on campus — there are 14 of us, and I am so happy to call them my brothers and sisters from Sudan — have organized this protest to bring awareness to what is happening, but also to give support for the people in Sudan who are in the diaspora who are calling for a democracy,” Omer said.Throughout the half-hour demonstration, students chanted in Arabic and English, including using a popular phrase during the 2011 Arab Spring: “The people demand the fall of the regime!”Sudanese students protest in support of democratic governance in Sudan on the steps of Memorial Church on Saturday afternoon. Days before, Omar al-Bashir, the dictator of thirty years, was ousted in a military coup. Photo: Camille G. Caldera Ilham A.T. Ali ’21 led the crowd in chants, including “Kandake queens and we don’t fear you! We beat the British and we’ll beat you too!” as well as calls for the International Criminal Court to act against al-Bashir.

“Many people still are being killed. We’re doing this for all our siblings in Darfur and South Sudan,” Ali said. “The regime has fallen twice in the past couple of days. It will fall again until we get the democratic civilization we’re asking for.”Leena A. Hamad ’21, who attended the event and spoke to the crowd, also said she hoped the military regime will lose power.

“The people of Sudan cannot go on like this. We cannot suffer 30 more years like this. The people of Sudan do not deserve another military regime,” she said, referring to al-Bashir’s reign since 1989.

In a speech at the event, Ali spoke about the how the political unrest has affected her family.

“Whenever I hit up my mom, there’s a chance she’s not picking up because she’ll be using her burner phone so they can’t track her down,” Ali said. “That’s kind of the reality activists live in in Sudan. It’s kind of like a regime of terror.”Ali also shared a story of a friend who was arrested and beaten by the police at age 18.

“To this day, that’s the reality that is happening. People are getting shot. People are getting killed,” Ali said. “I love Sudan, but that’s the reality we all live in — it’s really difficult.”Ahmad S.M. Saaid ’21, whose family also lives in Sudan, said the demonstration helped bring attention on campus to the ongoing plight.

“The past few months have been difficult. And just having everyone here supporting us – me and other Sudanese students on campus — when we’re so far from home, so far removed from the cause, yet so in the middle of the cause at the same time, it’s truly amazing and it’s more than I could ever hope for,” he said.Mohamad Y. Khalifa — a Sudanese Arabic instructor in the African Language Program at Harvard — also spoke at the demonstration.

“I really applaud all of you who gathered here in support of the forces of change and democracy in Sudan,” he said. “It’s a very high time to say enough and to move to restore our democratic system.”

“I see the future in your eyes,” Khalifa told the protestors. “You are the fuel of our future.” camille.caldera@thecrimson.com

opments have given them newfound momentum. Multiple attorneys general have recently brought lawsuits against Purdue, revealing the company’s tactics used to push its dangerous painkiller, even after its executives knew of the drug’s potential for abuse. The company now faces more than 1,600 lawsuits in state and federal court and is considering filing for bankruptcy.

In late March, Purdue and members of the Sackler family agreed to pay $270 million to settle an Oklahoma lawsuit, and other suits — including one in Massachusetts — could be fought out in court.

Just days before the Oklahoma settlement, Tate Galleries — which runs multiple prominent art museums in England — said it would refuse any future financial donations from the Sackler family. The Smith-

sonian, which has an art gallery named after Arthur Sackler, has so far resisted calls to remove his name.

“Shame on you — every single one of you — for not having a conscience,” Cheryl Juaire, founder of grief group Team Sharing Massachusetts, shouted into a megaphone at Friday’s rally, referring to Harvard and other institutions that have not yielded to protesters’ demands.

A spokeswoman for Jillian Sackler, widow of Arthur Sackler, did not respond to a request for comment.

Jillian Sackler addressed the recent calls to remove her husband’s name from institutions around the world in an op-ed published Thursday in the Washington Post, writing that protesters are engaging in “guilt by association.”

She said none of the lawsuits filed against Purdue or specif-

ic members of the Sackler family name “Arthur or his heirs” as defendants.

“Vilifying an innocent man is wrong,” she wrote. “It is profoundly hurtful to his family and to institutions such as the Smithsonian that are now unjustly under pressure to distance themselves from his name and his gifts.”

She wrote that the accusation that the marketing techniques her husband pioneered are to blame for the crisis is “as ludicrous as blaming the inventor of the mimeograph for email spam.”

Harvard spokesperson Christopher M. Hennessy declined to comment on the activists’ most recent calls for the University to remove Arthur Sackler’s name from the museum. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

FENCING FROM PAGE 1

Fencing Investigation University Input 50 people have been charged for participating in a scheme involving bribing university officials and submitting fraudulent test scores to earn students of wealthy parents seats at elite schools like Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown. Harvard was not implicated in that case.

Bacow said Harvard’s investigation is meant to account for potential “vulnerabilities” in its admissions process in light of the nationwide admissions scandal and the allegations against the fencing coach.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay first announced that Harvard was investigating Brand in an email

to FAS affiliates April 4.

In the interview Friday, Bacow said coaches were also being “re-trained” in Harvard’s conflict of interest policy following the scandal. Bacow maintained that the situation was an “opportunity to learn” for Harvard.

“It’s incumbent upon us to try and not just learn from our own mistakes but learn from other people’s mistakes,” Bacow said.

In a March interview, Bacow told The Crimson that Harvard does “some things very differently” from some of the schools that were implicated in the nationwide college admissions

scandal.

On Friday, he reiterated that sentiment, but also said that Harvard is not fully immune to some of the problems uncovered across the country.

“If somebody is determined to commit fraud, there are ways that they will find ways to commit fraud,” Bacow said.

“We can have controls in place that will make it harder for them to do it, that will ensure that over time we’ll perhaps discover it. But, there are no processes that are so airtight that we can be confident that nobody will ever succeed in manipulating the system.”

On Friday, Bacow also re-

stated some of the protocols that Harvard follows in its admissions process, including making decisions in open committee with roughly 40 people voting instead of placing undue weight on individual people’s endorsements for candidates.

“We rely upon people fundamentally being honest, and I think most people are,” Bacow said.

“We have expectations that everybody who works at Harvard is committed to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.” alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

UNION FROM PAGE 1

Union to Air TV Ads Criticizing Harvard student workers voted to support unionization. The thirty-second advertisement — which will air on channels including CNN, MSNBC, and ESPN — opens with a narrator saying Harvard has a “worldclass reputation, and a worldclass #MeToo problem.” It goes on to reference the ongoing Title IX investigation into Government Professor emeritus Jorge I. Dominguez. The campaign will also extend to billboards, radio, and digital media, according to the press release.

HGSU-UAW bargaining committee member Cherrie N. Bucknor wrote in an email that the union decided to run ads because the University has “consistently refused to agree” to the union’s proposals on harassment and discrimination.

“We are sending a message to the Harvard administration that we will not back down,” Bucknor wrote.

Bucknor acknowledged that the campaign will require “significant resources,” but she wrote that the union has the “backing” of its international affiliate, United Automobile Workers.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in an interview Friday that third parties cannot dictate outcomes in campus sexual misconduct proceedings.

“Third parties have no control over employees at Harvard,” Bacow said. “They have no authority to act in ways that the University can its own investigations. The University has certain responsibilities under Title IX that we believe cannot be delegated to third parties.”

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain also referred to previous statements on the union’s calls for these procedures.

“Since October, there has been and continues to be an active exchange of proposals and counter proposals,” Swain wrote in an emailed statement.

Swain also wrote that students should consider sharing their opinions about Harvard’s Title IX processes through a University-wide survey about sexual misconduct on campus.

“A powerful vehicle for students to continue to drive change in the University’s resources around Title IX, includ-

ing changes to policy and procedures, is through the current Sexual Assault and Misconduct Survey that is open through April 30,” Swain added. “The results from the previous 2015 survey drove an expansion in resources devoted to addressing and preventing sexual assault and harassment.”

HGSU’s advocacy has also extended into the realm of city governance. The Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a policy order last Monday supporting the union in its negotiations with the University.

The order resolves that the City of Cambridge “stands with” student workers in their calls for increased pay and benefits, a third-party grievance procedure for discrimination and harassment complaints, and more frequent bargaining sessions in order to negotiate a contract that will “take effect by the 2019 fall semester.”

Councillors Sumbul Siddiqui, E. Denise Simmons, and Timothy J. Toomey, as well as Mayor Marc C. McGovern, sponsored the order. Siddiqui and Simmons appeared at a HGSU-UAW rally last month. Sim-

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mons called Harvard’s treatment of its graduate student workers “embarrassing” in remarks before the order came up for a vote.

“Harvard is an esteemed institution, and does it a lot of good things in our city, in our state, in our country, and this is the dark side,” Simmons said. “This is where they have dropped the ball.”

McGovern wrote in an email to The Crimson that Harvard “needs to step up.”

“Graduate students are essential to universities and should [be] appropriately compensated for their work,” McGovern wrote.

“I stood with Harvard grad students when they started their union and I stand with them today.”

Swain declined to comment directly on City Council order, but wrote that the University is negotiating in “good faith.”

“To date, more than 23 meetings have been held, including full bargaining sessions, as well as smaller group subcommittee meetings to focusing on specific proposals,” he wrote. james.bikales@thecrimson.com

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SPORTS THIS WEEK’S GAMES

PREVIEW

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Softball vs. Providence 4 p.m.

Baseball vs. Massachusetts 5:30 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Golf Ivy League Championships Track and Field UVA Challenge

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK

Track and Field Takes Down Yale in New Haven

By MAHTAB SHIHAB CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

One of the oldest rivalries in the country once again did not fail to disappoint.

The Harvard/Yale meet has been going on for over a century, and both the men’s and women’s team continued the Crimson’s domination over the Bulldogs in the all-time series by coming away with a victory this year. Records were broken and personal bests were demolished.

The meet also serves as an HYOC qualification meet.

Athletes who hit the standard times and marks will be able to go to England and compete against the Oxford and Cambridge teams this summer.

“Me and all my teammates went in to the meet with our number one priority to beat Yale, since the rivalry is historical and the duel meet is one of the oldest meets in the country,” freshman thrower and jumper John Minicus said. “We also came in knowing that the winners of each event would qualify for a Europe trip over the summer, so everyone was super competitive.”

Despite competing in this historic meet for the first time, freshmen athletes demonstrated their talent and composure with some outstanding performances.

Freshman pole vaulter Alana Carroll came away with a victory with a mark of 4.01m.

Her performance broke the Harvard record in the women’s pole vault.

Freshman jumper Kyle Murphy won both the men’s triple and long jump with marks of 14.91m and 7.23m respectively.

Freshmen throwers John Minicus and Sam Welsh also had commanding victories in three different events. Minicus won the javelin by over nine meters with a mark of 54.33m.

Welsh dominated the shot put and the discus winning these events with marks of 15.6m and 51.48m respectively.

“I was pretty excited with the win because it scored a lot of points for the team, and a lot of the team came out and supported the javelin throwers” Minicus said. “I still have a lot to work on and there will be some tough competition to face soon, so now I am looking forward to working on some form issues to hopefully get some further distances before championships.”

Preparation was key for these freshmen athletes to excel in a historically competitive meet that such high stakes.

“To prepare for the javelin and my other events, I worked hard in the first half of the week with some tough workouts,” said Minicus. “I then tapered off in the second half of the week, fine tuning my technique and making sure I was rested for Saturday.”

Other notable performances came from the Crimson’s sprinters and middle distance runners.

The women swept the 200m with sophomore Olivia Okoli, freshman Tina Martin, and junior Micah Meekins coming in with times of 24.22, 24.29, and 24.35 respectively. On the men’s side, sophomore sprinter Jovahn Williamson also won the 200m with a time 21.37, while senior co-captain middle distance runner Myles Marshall won the 800m with a time

EXPLODING OUT OF THE BLOCKS Harvard continues its dominance against Yale as both the men and women take home victory from their away meet in New Haven. In the process, several athletes recorded personal bests and broke records. QUINN G PERINI — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

of 1:52.68.

“The team knew that we wanted to go down there and take care of business” Marshall said. “The HY meet is a historic meet and so one we take seriously. For me, preparing for the 800 meant finding a way to get the win and the points to best set up everyone else to get the team win.”

Harvard also dominated the hurdles and jumps, even sweep-

ing several events. The men’s team got 1-2 in the 110m hurdles with freshman Tre Hollingsworth and senior Andrew Bolze having times 14.71 and 14.88 respectively.

Meanwhile, the women swept the event with freshman Jada Jones taking the victory with a time of 13.96, while juniors Livia Gauntlett and Karina Joiner followed closely behind with times of 13.98 and

14.05.

In the 400m hurdles, junior Maya Miklos got fifth all-time with a time of 59.11, while junior Jacob Mclennan won the men’s race with a time of 53.21.

Erick Duffey managed to set a new personal record in the pole vault with a mark of 5.41m.

“This meet was really good for a lot of our team and definitely boosted our spirits, giving us confidence that we will

do well at Heps,” Minicus said.

“Specifically our pole vaulters had huge days and PRs, which I know hyped up the team a lot. I think we are in a really good position heading into our last regular season meet this weekend and then Heps in three weekends, and I am excited to see my teammates exceed expectations in the following weeks.” mahtab.shihab@thecrimson.com

MEN’S HOCKEY

Men’s Ice Hockey Announces Next Year’s Captains

By SPENCER R. MORRIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

On Saturday, the Harvard men’s hockey team announced its three captains for the 20192020 campaign. Forward Nathan Krusko and defensemen Adam Fox and John Marino will each don the “C” as seniors on next year’s squad.

The 2018-2019 iteration of the Crimson convened for one final time on Monday, where team members voted in the trio of letter-wearers — only the second instance of three captains in program history following a leadership group comprised of Eddie Ellis ’18, Jake Horton ’18, and Merrick Madsen ’18 two seasons ago.

“We have a lot of good leaders on this team, but to be acknowledged and recognized by my teammates as someone who embodies the qualities that a

good captain, a good leader, has, was obviously rewarding for me,” Krusko said. “Along with John and Adam, we’re really excited with the group we have moving forward, and we think that great things are ahead.”

Fox, Krusko, and Marino will take the reins from outgoing fourth-years Michael Floodstrand and Lewis Zerter-Gossage, who led this year’s team back to the NCAA Tournament despite a talented team in 2017-2018 falling short of this milestone.

This triad of captains hopes to build on the promising, youth-led season that just recently concluded.

“We had a good amount of freshmen step in and play big roles for us,” said Fox of the recent season. “We had a lot of experiences that will help us going forward…. Getting back

in the Tournament after not making it is good, but the goal always is to win the National Championship, win the Beanpot, win the ECAC.” Fox, Harvard’s offensive juggernaut on the blue line, enjoyed his most productive year to date this season, setting a program record for most points by a rearguard in a single campaign (9–39—48).

In mid-February, the Jericho, N.Y. native eclipsed the 100-point plateau, becoming the first junior to do so since Wisconsin’s Justin Schultz in 2011-2012. He finished the season with a whopping 116 career points (22–94—116).

From his first shift in a Crimson sweater, Fox has served as a key facilitator both at even strength and on the powerplay, where he is especially lethal having led the NCAA in points per game on the man advantage

TERRIFIC TRIO Harvard men’s hockey announces its captains for next season. This is the second time in team history that three captains will lead the way for Harvard. COURTESY OF HARVARD ATHLETICS.

(0.70) this season.

For his junior-year performance, the two-time First Team CCM/AHCA All-America selection has been named a top-three finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, given to college hockey’s most outstanding player.

With the tri-captain designation, Fox will continue to set the standard with his on-ice play.

“Being in the same conversation with [Fox and Marino] is very exciting and rewarding for me,” Krusko began. “We all bring our own aspects to the team, leadership-wise. [Fox] leads by example on the ice, always does the right thing. I think it’s very similar in John Marino. He’s always a workhorse on the back end…. I kind of look at myself as someone who is going to be…more of a communicator to the team.”

It is no secret that Fox’s skillset is NHL-caliber. Numerous reports have predictably speculated on Fox’s future, many claiming that the defenseman is not interested in departing the collegiate ranks for the Carolina Hurricanes organization, which currently owns his rights through Aug. 15 of next year. Nevertheless, Fox has yet to announce his plans publicly, so the default assumption for now is that he will return for his senior campaign.

Marino joins Fox as a letter-wearer on the experienced Harvard blue line. A product of North Easton, Mass. and the South Shore Kings youth program, Marino has been a mainstay on the Crimson back end since his freshman season.

Marino, who has skated in 101 career games, has logged 42 points (7–35—42) and a plus-38 rating — evidence of his reliable two-way game and oft-overlooked offensive talents.

As with Fox, Marino, a 2015 sixth-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers organization, is facing a decision on his profession-

al future. After being drafted, Marino skated in the USHL for a season, eroding one year off the Oilers’ four-year stake to the junior’s negotiating rights.

So Marino has the potential to become a free agent after this summer’s Aug. 15 deadline. For the time being, however, the shutdown blue-liner has tabled an official verdict on his post-Harvard career and looks forward to the opportunity to lead the Harvard squad.

“It’s an honor to represent the team,” Marino said. “I’m going to do the best I can to lead by example and do everything I can to help the team.”

Krusko will serve as the trio’s only forward captain. The Alpharetta, Ga. native’s career has been marked by multiple highlights, including a recent Lake Placid-clinching overtime goal against Dartmouth in this year’s ECAC quarterfinals and a three-point (2–1—3) outing in the 2017 Beanpot finale worthy of tournament MVP honors.

Krusko, a somewhat undersized and shifty winger at 5’9”, has skated on all four lines throughout his three seasons in the crimson and white, totaling 47 points (15–32—47). Krusko’s junior campaign challenged him, as he was tasked with coming back from bilateral hip surgery in the offseason.

Between the subsequent lack of summer training and a talented crop of freshmen upping the competition for ice time, 2018-2019 was Krusko’s least productive season. Nevertheless, the forward has emerged from these tribulations as a stronger leader and more dedicated teammate.

“Having lost an entire summer of training was definitely not ideal,” Krusko began.

“There were definitely fears in my mind about what my future would look like and how my career would play out…. One thing I learned is you can almost use that as motivation to do things the right way, and just use that

to push yourself every single day to be the best you can be and be a better person.”

As Fox, Krusko, and Marino inherit the captaincy, the 20182019 season officially is in the rearview. Twenty members of this year’s promising team are set to return next year to accompany their newly elected leaders.

In addition to the captain announcement, the team awarded several other accolades at Saturday’s team banquet — a reminder of the squad’s fruitful season.

For his stellar on-ice performance, Fox received the John Tudor Memorial Cup, given to the team’s MVP. Fox’s classmate, forward Frédéric Grégoire, took home the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy, as he was deemed to be the group’s most improved player.

Freshman Jack Drury was recognized as the most spirited rookie with the George Percy Award, and the team celebrated outgoing co-captain Floodstrand by presenting him with the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland Award on account of his devotion to the game and spirited play.

While each new season presents its share of question marks, the 2019-2020 Crimson could very well enter as ECAC favorites, boasting another dynamic group of freshmen to complement the now-wiser young core from this past campaign.

Particularly if Fox returns for his senior slate, it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Harvard, propelled by a Hobey Baker favorite, an experienced blue line, and a skilled forward group, will contend for a national title.

Leading the charge will be Fox, Krusko, and Marino, who hope to captain their team back to the Frozen Four after experiencing it as wide-eyed freshmen three seasons ago. spencer.morris@thecrimson.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Highschool Teammates Reunite on Lacrosse Team

By BEN STERN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

It is a bleak Wednesday at Jordan Field as Harvard women’s lacrosse takes on Boston University, and snow piles a foot high beyond the end line, one last lingering gift from a frigid February.

The score is 2-2, and sophomore midfielder Tessa Queri pivots back towards the center of the field as freshman midfielder Grace Hulslander approaches. Queri deftly flips the ball to an accelerating Hulslander and curls across her path, forcing Hulslander’s defender to duck underneath the overlap.

Suddenly, Hulslander breaks her momentum and feints back towards Queri, who stiffens as if preparing to receive the pass.

Hulslander’s defender hesitates only for a moment, but it’s enough; she has a step on her opponent now. Queri looks on in satisfaction as her teammate pulls back and fires a rocket into the top corner to put Harvard ahead. It’s technically an unassisted goal, but the duo’s chemistry is unmistakable. And it’s not surprising.

They went to preschool together. They also went to the same elementary school, middle school, and high school.

In fact, there are seven pairs of high school teammates on the women’s lacrosse team this year.

They are: Camerin Rawson and Keeley MacAfee; Charlotte Clark and Shea Jenkins; Tessa Queri and Grace Hulslander; Olivia Gill and Julia DiNovi; Celia Concannon and Katie Muldoon; Marley Jenkins and Emily Ryan; and Kristin Burnetta and Hannah Keating. We sat down with a few of them to discuss what it’s like to take the field with old friends.

On the field, Tessa Queri and Grace Hulslander helped carry Christian Brothers Academy to new heights in their four years at the school.

Christian Brothers has long boasted an impressive athletics culture; it has produced multiple NFL players, an NBA forward, and a number of standout college athletes. Still, the 2016 campaign was one to remember.

“We had a great season,” Hulslander said. “We ended up winning the state championship, and we were on the same midfield line, so for both of us our hard work kind of paid off that year.”

Off the field, the two were essentially inseparable.

The pair met in preschool when they were three years old, and attended school together for more than a decade before they arrived at Christian Brothers, a small private school in Syracuse, N.Y.

“My junior year of high school, Grace and I spent, like, every single day together,” Queri said. “She basically lived at my house. It was awesome because we spent so much time together in high school. We were really close friends, and luckily it got to carry on in college too.

It’s been amazing.”

Apparently, they share not only TV preferences but also TV passwords.

“Grace loves Friends so much that she has her own account on my Netflix that she would use at my house so that she could watch TV—her own TV—and it wouldn’t interfere with the settings,” Queri said.

“And we would watch Saturday Night Live together every Saturday for, like, two years,” chimed in Hulslander. “Literally every weekend.”

It is evident, just from talking to the pair, that they are constantly on the same wavelength.

During the Crimson’s interview, conducted over the phone while Queri and Hulslander were on a bus to an away showdown with No. 15 Princeton, a teammate in the background asked what they were doing.

Queri and Hulslander replied, in comically perfect unison, “We’re doing an interview,” and returned to the call.

That bond, according to the pair, has helped them perform at high levels on the turf.

“I feel like we know each other as players very well, and I think that just stems from off-field chemistry as well,” Hulslander said. “We’re such good friends, and we both have, like, the same priorities in life and school and on and off the field, and I think that really helps on the field.”

It’s not inaccurate to say that Hulslander wouldn’t even be here without the older Queri.

During the recruiting process, Grace counted her friend’s presence as an important factor in deciding to take her talents to Harvard.

“When I was getting recruited here, Tessa was already committed, and a big part of my choosing Harvard was that it felt like home to me because Tessa was here,” Hulslander said. “To be here with her at Harvard is, like, just surreal and heartwarming.”

At this point, both players broke into laughter. If the strength of their friendship is any indication, they are poised to continue their high school success in college for years to come. Sophomore midfielder Celia Concannon and junior midfielder Katie Muldoon, just like their teammates from Syracuse, propelled Garden City High School to a state title during their time at the school.

GROUP CELEBRATION Several members of the women’s lacrosse team embrace eachother on the field. The group has started off its spring campaign by going 6-7, including a recent win against UMass Lowell. BRENDAN J. CHAPUIS — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Both players hail from Garden City, the town, and they were each named senior captain in their last season in high school. They played on the varsity team together and were both four-year letterwinners.

“I’ve known Katie since we were both little and we became good friends in high school when we were playing on the same team,” Concannon said.

Garden City snagged a state championship in Muldoon’s senior year (Concannon’s junior year). Ten of the seniors on that roster, including Muldoon, went on to play Division I lacrosse.

“We had a lot of fun that night,” Muldoon recounted.

“Best memory of high school by far.”

The Long Island natives are delighted to be joining forces again at Harvard. They know each other’s music tastes (Celia’s favorite musician is Billy Joel) and TV habits (Katie doesn’t watch, which Celia finds “bizarre”), and they’re close off the field.

“It’s been great,” Concannon said of the situation. “It has been really nice having someone who knows me from home around to talk to. Katie and I like to get dinner every few weeks and catch up on what’s going on back home.”

Muldoon feels the same way.

She pointed out that having a high school teammate at Harvard is like taking a small slice of Garden City to Cambridge.

“Playing with a high school teammate in college has been such an awesome experience,” she said. “Throughout high school our team had a close-knit team culture and having the opportunity to play with a high school teammate in college is incredible. It gives me a sense of home and comfort.”

Concannon and Muldoon agree that hailing from the same hometown and high school has competitive advantages. There is, of course, intangible chemistry to be considered, but there are also tactical benefits to playing with an old friend. Communication becomes easier, according to this pair.

“Having that connection back from high school is very unique,” Muldoon said. “Team chemistry is not something a coach can teach. It’s something that takes time to develop. Playing together at Harvard has enabled our relationship and chemistry to grow even more.”

“Katie and I both play defense in zones on the left side of the field and have to work together constantly,” Concannon said. “I’ve been playing with her

ON THE ATTACK Freshman midfielder Grace Hulslander makes a move and blows by a defender in a recent game. Hulslander is second on the team with 33 points, which includes 25 goals and eight assists. COURTESY OF TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA.

for so long that we both know what the other person is going to do.”

And, as if they didn’t know each other well enough already, their mothers are also very close.

“We’re great friends, and our moms are besties,” Muldoon said. “They just got back from a trip to Nashville together!”

Junior midfielder Kristin Burnetta and junior attacker Hannah Keating have known each other for twelve years.

They have been on all the same soccer and lacrosse teams since fourth grade, including the Under Armour All-American team with the best players in the country in the summer before freshman year.

They both attended the Agnes Irwin School, a small private school near Philadelphia whose founder happened to be the first dean of Radcliffe College, Harvard’s former sister institution.

The school doesn’t have a particularly show-stopping athletic program, according to Burnetta and Keating, but occasionally one class or another comes along with a number of gifted athletes. Burnetta and Keating’s grade dominated soccer and lacrosse for four years.

In an instance of fitting symmetry, Keating is Agnes Irwin’s all-time leading goal scorer in lacrosse and Burnetta holds the same distinction in soccer.

“She had a lot of assists to me in soccer and I had a lot of assists that went to her in lacrosse,” Burnetta said. “It was kind of funny how we switched roles.”

The duo is quite close. They credit each other for providing invaluable support both in high school and at Harvard.

“Playing with an old teammate is the best thing ever,” Keating said. “No matter what we do, we always have a piece of home, and she’s the person I go to for everything. She knows me, in sports and in life too, so we have that level of closeness.

She’s known me for my whole life.”

Burnetta echoed that sentiment with a laugh.

“Ditto to that,” she said. “I would say too that athletically, it’s a whole different dimension.

I feel like I know what Hannah loves, lacrosse-wise, and what bothers her and how to be there for her in those tough games.

And socially, it’s unreal having someone in college that you don’t have to explain anything to, that just understands your past and where you are know, someone who’s always in your corner.”

Those words are hardly empty platitudes. In her senior year

of high school, Keating suffered a tough injury that threatened to put a dent in her career, and Burnetta was right there to help her work through rehab as both players transitioned into college life.

“Hannah tore her ACL twice in her senior year of high school, and I feel like it was nice…” Burnetta trailed off, faltering slightly as she recollected what was certainly a difficult sequence of events.

Keating, like a twin sister, picked up in the middle of the sentence. “...to have Kristin there for my whole recovery,” she finished. “I had someone to pick me up and tell me everything was okay. I was always worried about going back to ‘the old me’ and how I played before. And Kristin knew that player. She honestly played a key role in getting me back to normal.”

“I mean, Hannah was injured freshman fall, which is really, really hard,” Burnetta said.

“I just tried to be a confidence booster.”

The two have clearly been through a lot together, and their connection runs deep. But that doesn’t mean Keating’s exempt from some good-natured ribbing.

“Hannah is the most forgetful person about, like, items,” mentioned Burnetta. “This has lasted probably all twelve years at this point. I can’t even count the number of times that we would be in the car en route to soccer tournaments or lacrosse tournaments and she would have forgotten, like, a single cleat or her mouthguard or her doctor’s note or something. So now I always ask, ‘Hannah, do you have your cleats? Do you have this? Do you have that?’ It was a funny thing growing up.”

The Crimson is clearly a tight-knit group. With seven duos from high school linking again in college, the team’s locker room atmosphere is strong.

It is hardly common to have so many longstanding ties within a team, and the players’ friendships off the field have recently translated to success on it.

Harvard trounced rival Yale, 18-8, in an away duel earlier this season and recently dropped a close game to No. 15 Princeton, an impressive feat for a team with a rookie coach and in a difficult conference.

The win column, though, isn’t the only thing that matters. When asked to describe the overall dynamic, Keating laughed. “Well, it really is cool.” she said, “And it’s fun.” ben.stern@thecrimson.com

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