The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 83

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLVI, No. 83 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Monday, September 16, 2019

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Harvard should consider buying final clubs’ property in the Square.

Harvard College hires new Title IX coordinator.

Women’s soccer’s three-game winning streak comes to an end.

Harvard Name Helped Ajjawi By shera s. Avi-Yonah and delano R. Franklin Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard’s reputation and University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s direct involvement likely played an essential role in getting Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23 to campus, experts and several people involved in the case said.

United States Customs and Border Protection denied Ajjawi, a Palestinian resident of Lebanon, entrance to the United States last month after questioning him and searching through his phone and computer. After finding allegedly anti-American social media posts made by friends on Ajjawi’s feed, an official informed him they were canceling his visa and refused him entry to the country.

Ajjawi, who said he did not personally make any political posts, returned to Lebanon Aug. 23 and waited with his family as the College’s start date approached. Meanwhile, his lawyer Albert Mohkiber; AMIDEAST President, CEO, and a former U.S. ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf; and Harvard International Office Director of Immigration Services Maureen Martin worked to advocate on his behalf.

Several organizations including AMIDEAST, a non-profit organization spon-

soring Ajjawi’s study in the United States, released statements in support of Ajjawi following the incident.

Mokhiber and Kattouf both said Bacow became personally involved in the case and that his support aided Ajjawi’s eventual arrival ten days later on Sept. 3.

“I’m grateful to your president at Harvard,” Kattouf said.

“He was very much a stand-up guy on this issue and it’s very much appreciated.”

“This was a very, very unique case with a very unique student, very sympathetic factors, a wonderful president of Harvard, a wonderful CEO of AMIDEAST,” Mokhiber said. “It was a dream team. Everybody came together.”

Mokhiber also said having help from Bacow, Kattouf, and others helped Ajjawi overcome the challenges most international students turned away at the U.S. border face.

“We were successful on this one, but there’s going to be many, many more. They’re not going to have a president of Harvard or their own university or former ambassador or even a lawyer perhaps available to them,” he said. “We have to look to the underlying issue, which is much greater.”

Mokhiber was one of several immigration lawyers who

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Surveyed Freshman Back Divestment By shera s. Avi-Yonah and delano R. Franklin Crimson Staff Writers

A s fossil fuel divestment activists ramp up their on-campus presence, they may find allies in the Class of 2023. Just over 60 percent of freshmen surveyed

by The Crimson said they support calls for Harvard to divest its endowment from the industry, up from 53.9 percent of survey-takers in the Class of 2022.

When it comes to other campus issues, though, freshmen were more divided. 35 percent of freshmen said they supported the College’s decision not to renew former Winthrop Faculty Deans Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. and Stephanie R. Robinson; about a quarter said they viewed that decision somewhat or strongly unfavorably.

Sullivan and Robinson left their positions at Harvard College last year after a monthslong controversy surrounding Sullivan’s role defending Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein against criminal sexual assault charges.

Asked about the College’s social group penalties, nearly equal percentages of freshmen — roughly 21 percent — said they view them somewhat favorably and somewhat unfavorably. This year’s freshmen are the third class subject to the sanctions, which bar members of unrecognized single-gender social groups from holding student leadership positions, captaining varsity sports teams,

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60% Support Fossil Fuel Divestment

Class of 2023 Survey Results and receiving College endorsement for prestigious fellowships like the Rhodes.

As freshmen settled into their dorms and adjusted to their new lives in Cambridge, roughly 55 percent of them responded to a Crimson email questionnaire about their backgrounds, beliefs, and lifestyles.

The anonymous survey ex-

By Shera S. avi-yonah and delano r. franklin Crimson Staff Writers

Harvard College’s oldest historically all-female a capella group, the Radcliffe Pitches, inducted its first male member this week, more than four decades after the ensemble’s founding.

The Pitches welcomed tenor Mason G. Meyer ’20 to their ranks after he sang in the group’s second year of gender-neutral auditions last weekend. Pitches President Sophie C. Webster ’21 said Sunday that they made their auditions co-ed more than a year ago.

“The Pitches have always been meant to be a very inclusive space in that it was created for marginalized voices which were, at that time in Harvard’s history, women,” Webster said.

“We all came to the conclusion that it was really important that we open it up to anybody who wants to sing.”

The Pitches follow several of Harvard’s musical groups that ­

plores topics ranging from political ideology to alcohol consumption to perspectives on current campus controversies.

Of 1,666 students comprising the Class of 2023, 919 freshmen responded, representing 56 percent of the class. The Crimson did not account for potential selection bias in its analysis of the results. Due to rounding,

have broadened their membership, including the formerly allmale Din and Tonics.

The all-male Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a cappella group, have previously invited a female singer for callbacks but have not accepted non-male members into their ranks. The Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society eliminated gender requirements from their bylaws in 2018 under pressure from administrators.

Pitches music director Rena A. Cohen ’22 said the group wanted to balance their treble music-heavy repertoire — which traditionally requires singers with higher vocal ranges — and their desire to go gender-neutral.

Cohen said Meyer’s voice will “strengthen” the group’s ability to keep their standard repertoire without needing to write new parts.

“We were really excited about Mason because he could

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UC Launches First-Gen Mentorship Program

By Kevin R. chen and Laura C. espinoza Crimson Staff Writers

Roughly 50 students and faculty members gathered in the Kirkland Junior Common Room Thursday evening to inaugurate the Undergraduate Council’s First-Generation Faculty Mentorship program.

UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 established the mentorship program over the summer to support students who identify as first-generation college students in connecting with faculty, according to Palaniappan.

The duo plans to collaborate with Primus, a student organization representing first-generation and low-income students, ­

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as well as new pre-orientation program First-Year Retreat and Experience, to support students with diverse backgrounds.

Throughout the event, faculty and students participating in the mentorship program mingled while dining on finger foods and refreshments. Many students also met one-on-one with their faculty mentors during the event.

Several students in attendance lauded the faculty mentorship program, saying they appreciate the guidance their mentors provided them.

“I think it’s a great way to connect first-gen students with people who actually work here,” Lara van Rooyen ’23 said. “I feel like first-gen students might not

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Radcliffe Pitches Accept Inaugural Male Singer

Harvard College’s Radcliffe Pitches, a historically all-female a capella group that just admitted its first male identifying member, hosts auditions and practices in Farkas Hall. delano r. franklin—Crimson photographer

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Joy Nesbitt ‘21, left, is the President of KeyChange, an a cappella group that recently returned to campus. sung kuang oh—Crimson photographer

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reported statistics may not total exactly 100 percent.

The third and final installation of The Crimson’s series on the Class of 2023 examines students’ lifestyles — including their use of drugs and alcohol — as well as their religious and political beliefs.

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Students Protest at Lampoon Comp

By CASSANDRA LUCA Crimson Staff Writer

Roughly 10 students protested a Harvard Lampoon comp open house Friday night, interrogating the organization’s leadership about its internal culture and a controversial image of Holocaust victim Anne Frank printed last semester.

The protest follows heated criticisms levied at the Lampoon in May for its decision to publish a cut-out of Frank’s face superimposed over an image of a woman in a bikini. Shortly after the publication of the image, more than 900 people signed a petition demanding “public accountability” of the Lampoon.

Friday’s protest fell on the last night of the Lampoon’s comp open houses, which gave prospective members an opportunity to learn more about the organization and its member selection process.

“We just wanted to make it aware to freshmen especially, who were thinking of comping, of the controversies surrounding the organization — specifically the controversy back in the spring with the Anne Frank publication,” said Abraham E. Rebollo ’20, a protester at the meeting.

Protestors also questioned Lampoon members regarding the organization’s response to prior allegations about broader issues with the organization’s culture. Some students have previously criticized the Lampoon for an internal culture they say is hostile and an opaque selection process for new members.

“I think we all agree that things need to change, or at least, there is a lot more understanding that needs to happen.

I think the main problem is the ­

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Missouri Woman Fights for Right to Keep Emotional Support Monkeys

Yes, you read that right. Texanne McBride-Teahan is locked in a battle against her neighbors in a suburb just outside St. Louis, Mo. on behalf of her three emotional support monkeys. Having already appeared in a city council meeting to argue for her right to keep the animals, McBride-Teahan is now set to appear in court in November to decide the fate of her companions.

Deesha Dyer’s Study Group Institute of Politics, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Deesha Dyer, one of the IOP’s Fall 2019 Resident Fellows and the former White House Social Secretary for the Obama Administration, will be hosting her first study break of the year at the IOP in room L-166. If you can’t make it today, don’t worry, as it will be happening weekly throughout the fall.

BMF and Morehouse President Winthrop JCR, 7-8:30 p.m.

The Harvard Black Men’s Forum will be having their first meeting of the year where they’ll be discussing education in the black community with Dr. John Wilson, former Morehouse College President and current Senior Advisor and Strategist for President Bacow.

Tropical Storm Humberto Nearly at Hurricane Status Lehman Hall in Harvard Yard, the home of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

DAILY BRIEFING Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi ‘23 arrived on campus Monday after previously being denied entry to the United States last month. Ajjawi, a Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, has alleged that he was detained and questioned for hours at Boston Logan International Airport, and a Customs and Border Protection officer canceled his visa after searching his phone and laptop. The officer reportedly told him that she had found anti-American social media posts made by his friends. In other news, protesters at Harvard’s freshman convocation called on the University to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

After the majority of Tropical Storm Humberto missed the Bahamas, it appears that the storm is about due for an upgrade to hurricane status.

While its projected path doesn’t make landfall in the continental United States, officials are warning that it could create dangerous rip current conditions off the East Coast from central Florida to North Carolina. Stay safe, coastal folk!

Flavored E-Cigarettes Banned in NY

Following a rash of vape-related lung illnesses and fatalities, authorities across the nation are taking another look at the safety of e-cigarettes. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is taking emergency executive action to ban the sale of flavored cigarettes in New York, alleging that the appealing tastes are used to target young people.

AROUND THE IVIES DARTMOUTH Dartmouth students are now only able to use their student identification cards to access buildings within their own House communities, according to the Dartmouth. Their cards no longer grant them access to all Dartmouth dorms on campus, as was the policy prior to this weekend. This decision comes in the wake of requests from Dartmouth’s Student Assembly for the school to tighten security practices after several racial bias incidents over the past year, which included vandalism on dorm doors and the sending of racist emails to more than a dozen professors and students.

COLUMBIA

Columbia history professor Charles Armstrong, who was found guilty of plagiarism last spring, is retiring from the university in 2020, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. According to the findings of an investigation by the University’s Standing Committee on the Conduct of Research, Armstrong cited nonexistent or irrelevant sources in at least 61 instances in his 2016 book, “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950– 1992.” The documents also outline how a number of the chapters in question were submitted as part of Armstrong’s tenure application in 2003.

CORNELL

Cornell physical sciences professor Steve Squyres will be leaving the University to work for Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The company’s goal is to develop technologies that enable private human access to space. Squyers, however, will continue to teach his class, the history of exploration, over Skype for the rest of the semester. This departure comes after more than thirty years of teaching at Cornell.

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73 Students Students Criticize Lampoon Culture Launch UC Bids LAMPOON FROM PAGE 1

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

Seventy-three students declared their candidacy for 47 available seats on Harvard’s Undergraduate Council last week, according to the UC Election Committee Chair Perry M. Arrasmith ’20.

This marks a slight decrease from last year’s 75 candidates, a much smaller decline in interest compared to the 28-person decrease seen from 2017 to 2018.

Consistent with past election cycles, significantly more freshmen are running for seats on the council than students in any other class year.

Roughly half of the candidates are freshmen, with 34 students running for 12 seats, on the council.

Historically, elections for freshman seats on the council have been more competitive than upperclassman races.

Freshmen also have the highest voter turnout at UC elections.

This year, however, Elm Yard elections are non-competitive, with only three students running for three available seats.

Elections will not be competitive in six of the 13 upperclassman houses: Cabot House, Dunster House, Eliot House, Kirkland House, Mather House, Winthrop House, and Dudley Community.

After elections take place, there will still be vacancies in Cabot House, Dudley Community, Eliot House, Kirkland House, Mather House, and Winthrop House because they have fewer candidates than available seats.

The most competitive election for upperclassmen will be Currier House, with six representatives running for three seats.

Twenty upperclassman representatives, a majority of the 37 upperclassman representatives eligible for re-election, chose not to declare candidacies for an additional term on the council.

Lowell House Representative Samyra C. Miller ’21, like many of her fellow representatives, chose not to run for re-election despite only joining the council in January after an unsuccessful bid for UC vice president last fall.

“I’ve decided that that is not a space that I want to contribute my energy to right now,” she said.

Eliot House Representative Maxwell A. Gillmer ’21, the council’s first director for belonging and inclusion, also decided not to run for re-election.

In some houses, fewer than the 3 allotted seats per house are open during this year’s election.

Junior or senior returning members of the council who serve as a committee chair, secretary, or treasurer do not have to run for re-election. This year, this rule applies to four UC representatives: Ajay V. Singh ’21, Sanika S. Mahajan ’21, Cade S. Palmer ’20, and Phiroze K. Parasnis ’21.

The campaign period for fall elections began Sunday at noon and will conclude at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday. Elections will be held from 12 p.m. on Tuesday to 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

Lampoon’s lack of transparency,” said Danu A. K. Mudannayake ’20, a protester and a Crimson design editor.

Lampoon Co-President Jack G. Stovitz ’20 wrote in an emailed statement that the Lampoon is committed to “accessibility” and that the magazine has detailed efforts to improve the comp process on its website.

“Accessibility is at the core of our comp, because if you’re funny (or good at business), no matter who you are, we want you,” Stovitz wrote.

New initiatives listed on the website include mandatory Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response training for new members, anonymous feedback forms for compers, ­

and “digital office hours” for compers seeking feedback.

The Lampoon has also created two new positions — scribes to their Accessibility Council – to lead staff meetings in which members will share “collective responsibility” for the magazine’s comp and general operations.

At the comp meeting, Stovitz said the Lampoon should not have published the image of Anne Frank and referenced an earlier public statement the organization had released in May. “We as individuals and we as an organization would like to apologize for our negligence in allowing this piece to be created for and printed in our latest issue. We are sorry for any harm we have caused. Furthermore,

we want to both affirm and emphasize that the Lampoon condemns any and all forms of anti-Semitism,” part of the May statement reads.

Several protestors said they are unsure if the Lampoon will take action to address the concerns they raised.

“It sounds to me like they are making an effort to look like they care about the issue. I don’t know if they genuinely do,” protestor Miriam Alphonsus ’21 said.

“When they’re as opaque as they are, it’s difficult to assess it from the outside,” protestor Jarod R. Stone ’21 said. “I think there was a mix of people who are trying to change it from the inside. But I think there’s a need for external pressure to just

guide things along.”

Stone said that the protest group focused on the history of the organization.

When they’re as opaque as they are, it’s difficult to assess it from the outside.

Jarod R. Stone ‘21 Lampoon Protestor

“I just think so many of the problems of perception can be resolved by a… willingness to move away from the rarefied castle,” Stone said. cassandra.luca@thecrimson.com

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PITCHES FROM PAGE 1

First Male Singer Joins the Pitches really sing the parts that were already written, but added a wonderful element of power and strength behind lines that are sometimes very low in the female range so they come out a little bit softer,” Cohen said.

“We think he’ll be a great fit.”

It was really important that we open it up to anybody who wants to sing.

Sophie C. Webster ‘21 Pitches President

Webster said her predecessor, Hannah N. Johnston ’19, first suggested to the group’s

graduate board in May that the Pitches open their membership.

Though the Pitches auditioned men in the spring, Webster said Meyer was the first candidate they felt fit the group’s needs.

“We did speak to our graduate board and fortunately it seemed to be that there was really minimal pushback,” Webster said. “It really was just one conversation with Hannah very eloquently laying out why this was critical for our group in this day and age, and also just to her personally, and I think that they were like, ‘Alright, sounds good.’” delano.franklin@thecrimson.com shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com

MENTOR FROM PAGE 1

Faculty Mentor FirstGeneration Students know how to form relationships with their professors. Now, I already have someone who’s trying to help support me.”

Palaniappan and Huesa said former UC representative MaiLin Ton ’19 inspired them to support first-generation stu-

A lot of them had noted to us the challenges that the community particularly faces in being able to connect with these upperlevel faculty members and having more personal, meaningful conversations.

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dents more actively, as Ton was a great supporter of first-generation students.

During Ton’s time on the council’s education committee, she compiled a list of faculty members who were themselves first-generation or allied with that community. Many of the faculty, including Stephen

N. Chong, co-director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Computer Science, joined the mentorship program this year. Palaniappan said that many of her and Huesa’s conversations with first-generation students on campus specifically identified a difficulty in connecting with faculty members.

“A lot of them had noted to us the challenges that the community particularly faces in being able to connect with these upper-level faculty members and having more personal, meaningful conversations with them when it often seems that the only space in which you’re able to connect is through office hours,” she said.

While recruiting faculty mentors, the duo said they contacted faculty members who identify as first-generation or as allies of the first-generation community.

“We know that that was something that is also really important especially at a place like Harvard where a lot of people might not always see themselves reflected in the different institutional aspects that have remained here for quite so many years,” Palaniappan said. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com laura.espinoza@thecrimson.com

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VISA FROM PAGE 1

Harvard, Bacow Helped Ajjawi Return said Ajjawi’s case came amid an increasingly difficult environment for foreign students seeking to study in the U.S. Some Harvard students also encountered visa issues in 2017, when four graduate students faced challenges arriving on campus as a result of the Trump administration’s travel ban.

Three of the students were able to return to campus after three weeks, but one waited eight months to return.

Several factors distinguished Ajjawi’s case, including the Harvard name and CBP’s alleged rationale for sending Ajjawi back to Lebanon, according to immigration lawyer Leon Fresco and Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr.

Ajjawi told The Crimson last month that officers denied him entry based on political posts on his Facebook friends’ accounts rather than his own posts.

Fresco said denials of entry are not uncommon, but that Ajjawi’s situation was different from most because of his affiliation with the University.

“Student visa turnbacks have always been a part of what CBP does, but a turnback from a school like Harvard is incredibly rare,” Fresco wrote in an email.

Ajjawi’s case is unusual as many people who are turned away at the border have difficulty challenging the denial, according to Yale-Loehr.

“I think the publicity was a large factor in shaming CBP into letting him reapply for a visa. But in general, if someone is denied a visa overseas or is turned away at the border, there’s not a lot they can do,” Yale-Loehr said. “They don’t have full due process rights to challenge a denial, because they haven’t technically entered the United States yet.”

Yale-Loehr and Fresco both said CBP’s use of social media to bar Ajjawi reflects a growing trend in immigration enforcement.

In June, the State Department announced it would require some applicants to submit social media data as part of visa applications if immigration officials deemed it necessary.

Still, both Fresco and YaleLoehr said that regardless of whether the State Department already pored over Ajjawi’s online presence, CBP officials have the right to second guess their original assessment.

Yale-Loehr added that border officials’ rationale, not their methods, made the case unusual.

“I think it was particularly outrageous, if I have the facts correct, that it wasn’t even his social media postings that supposedly caused the problem. It was simply that he had friends who had posted things that he happened to view or have on his phone,” he said.

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Terminal E is one of Boston’s Logan International Airport’s many terminals. Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23 was interrogated at Logan upon his arrival in the United States last month. MYEONGSEO KIM—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson Michael S. McCarthy wrote in August that Ajjawi was “deemed inadmissible” upon his first attempt to enter the U.S., though he did not specify on what grounds.

“Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S. by overcoming ALL grounds of inadmissibility in-

cluding health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds,” McCarthy wrote.

Ajjawi returned to campus as his classmates participated in their Convocation, a situa-

tion Fresco, Mokhiber, and Kattouf termed remarkable.

“This requires expert advocacy and diplomacy in order to navigate the very tricky legal and regulatory framework that governs these issues,” Fresco wrote. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com delano.franklin@thecrimson.com

SURVEY FROM PAGE 1

More Than 60 Percent of Freshman Are Virgins Though new freshmen gained admission to Harvard during the most competitive application cycle ever, they do have one thing in common with previous entrants — roughly 60 percent of them are virgins. Freshmen who graduated from public high schools were more likely to report that they were virgins than those who went to private schools. 64.2 percent of freshmen who went to a public school reported being virgins, compared to 52.2 percent of freshmen who attended a private school.

• A majority of non-virgins, 54.6 percent, said they have had just one sexual partner. The number of freshmen who reported having had two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight partners dropped with each additional partner — before rising again at the nine and more-thanten-partners mark.

• Recruited athletes were roughly 25 percentage points more likely than other freshman to have had sex. That difference was nearly non-existent for students who plan to walk onto a varsity sports team, though — much like the class at large, 60.9 percent of them said they are virgins.

• Many freshmen who took gap years had new experiences during their time off — 57.4 percent report having had sex compared to 37.9 percent of those who did not take gap years.

Alcohol usage is slightly down from freshmen in the Class of 2022. This year, 63.1 percent of freshmen have consumed alcohol, compared to 66.5 percent last year. Results ­

from questions about other substances, though, were much the same as prior years — except for some marijuana, Harvard freshmen generally eschew drug usage.

• Once the subject of a Harvard controversy, LSD was the least popular drug among surveyed freshmen. Nearly all respondents, 98.6

Male survey-takers were twice as likely as female ones to report that they “do not feel any pressure.”

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percent, said they have never used it.

Results for several other drugs also neared total abstinence — 98.4 percent of freshmen reported they have never used cocaine, 98.3 percent have never used ecstasy, and 97.3 percent have never used mushrooms.

Tobacco usage creeped above the 10 percent mark — 10.8 percent of respondents reported experience with it. Marijuana was more than twice as popular; 23.8 percent of freshmen reported past usage.

The percentage of freshmen who reported having a fake ID nearly halved compared to last year — just 9.5 percent of freshmen reported having one, compared to 17 percent of the Class of 2022. Students from more densely populated areas and students with family incomes over $500,000 a year were all more likely to report having a fake ID.

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A slightly higher percentage of surveyed freshmen reported having sought mental health counseling than in previous years. Last year, that figure stood at 22 percent; this year, it jumped to 24.6 percent. The percentage of those who have sought counseling was roughly the same for men and women, but much higher among students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or questioning.

• Asked what their greatest source of pressure is, 79.3 percent of those surveyed chose “their own expectations.” Male survey-takers were twice as likely as female ones to report that they “do not feel any pressure.”

Almost two-thirds of freshmen — 64.6 percent — indicated they are somewhat or very liberal, marking a slight decrease from last year when 65.8 percent identified as liberal. Almost 85 percent of freshmen said they have an unfavorable opinion of President Donald Trump, while just under 8 percent said they have a favorable opinion of him.

• Freshmen’s political leanings held steady from last year’s survey.

Roughly a third did not identify as liberal — 23.1 percent of respondents indicated they are moderate, 10.3 percent said they are somewhat conservative, and 2.1 percent responded they are very conservative.

• Female respondents were more likely than men to identify as liberal. 71.2 percent of women indicated they are somewhat or very liberal and 57.3 percent of men responded the same.

• The percentage of self-identified Democrats was similar to that of liberals at 63.1 per-

cent. The next largest group was independents at 17.2 percent. Republicans only have the support of 10.5 percent of Harvard freshmen.

Though more than half of surveyed freshmen support divestment from fossil fuels and private prisons, support for the former is slightly higher. Asked about their opinion on several campus issues, 60.1 percent of freshmen said they view fossil fuel divestment favorably.

Asked about prison divestment, 55.5 percent of freshmen said the same.

• Freshmen overwhelmingly supported Harvard’s decision to revoke Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez’s emeritus status — 52 percent of surveyed freshmen said they viewed it strongly favorably, and another 20 percent said they viewed it somewhat favorably.

• Harvard’s decision to dismiss head fencing coach Peter Brand was nearly as popular, nearing 70 percent support among the Class of 2023.

An independent investigation of Brand found that he violated conflict of interest policies after selling his home to a prospective student’s father for hundreds of thousands of dollars above its assessed value.

• Some issues though, did not spark strong opinions either way among surveyed freshmen.

For questions soliciting their opinion on the selection of University President Lawrence S. Bacow and on an anti-sanctions lawsuit brought by some social groups, the most popu-

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lar choice was no choice.

Nearly half of students — 46.4 percent — said they had no opinion of Bacow.

As for the social group suit, 56 percent of surveyed students said they either have no opinion or lack the information to form one.

• Asked whether they thought all single-gender groups should go coed, responses were similarly mixed – 22 percent said they should go coed, 34 percent said they should not, and 43 percent said they had no opinion.

Alongside social media mainstays Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, The Crimson asked freshmen about their use of YouTube and TikTok for the first time this year.

More than 85 percent of freshmen use the former every day; just 10.7 percent of freshmen use the latter.

• Twitter was the second least popular platform after TikTok — 52.9 percent of freshmen said they do not have a Twitter account.

• Nearly all freshmen, however, use Instagram. Nearly 91 percent reported using Instagram every day, and 17.3 percent said they scroll through the app for at least an hour a day.

• No matter the app they prefer, freshmen overwhelmingly use iPhones. The percentage of iPhone users came in at 86.5 percent, whereas just 12.7 percent reported using an Android. delano.franklin@thecrimson.com shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com

Erin Clark will serve as the new Harvard College Title IX Coordinator, Dean of Students Katherine G. O’Dair announced in an email to students Friday afternoon.

“This role is a critically important part of our commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of every single student, and we are delighted that Erin will bring her wealth of experience to our community,” O’Dair wrote.

Clark previously served as the director of Title IX coordination for the Chicago Public Schools, and was the Director of the Center for Awareness, Response, and Education at Northwestern University. She joins current College Title IX Coordinator Brian Libby. In her new role, which she begins Oct. 2, Clark will work to address concerns of sexual harassment, make students aware of Title IX resources and ways to report potential violations, and help train staff in Title IX procedures, in collaboration with the University’s other Title IX administrators. Clark wrote in an emailed statement that she looks forward to assuming her new role.

This role is a critically important part of our community to ensuring the safety and well-being of every single student.

Katherine G. O’Dair Dean of Students

“I am honored to join the team at Harvard College to help foster a community where every student has access to the resources they need in order to be safe, healthy, and thrive both academically and socially,” she wrote.

The College first appointed a full-time Title IX Coordinator in May 2015. At the time, Harvard had recently become the subject of an investigation by the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for possible violation of federal anti-sex discrimination laws that is ongoing. Over the past several years, the College has introduced a number of initiatives aimed to reduce instances of sexual misconduct on campus.

I am honored to join the team at Harvard College to help foster a community where every student has access to the resources they need...

Erin Clark Title IX Coordinator

In fall 2018, 100 percent of College students completed a newly mandatory Title IX training program that had previously been optional. sanjana.narayanan@thecrimson.com samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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What HUPD Should Stand For

‘I’m Not Worried About My Data’

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ast week, Harvard University Police Department officers assisted Cambridge police officers in responding to a protest against United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at Amazon’s Kendall Square office. The protest, organized by Jewish activist group Never Again Action, started at the Boston Holocaust Memorial and ended at the lobby of the Amazon office, where Cambridge police arrested 12 people on charges of trespassing.

Last week, Harvard University Police Department officers assisted Cambridge police officers in responding to a protest against United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at Amazon’s Kendall Square office. The protest, organized by Jewish activist group Never Again Action, started at the Boston Holocaust Memorial and ended at the lobby of the Amazon office, where Cambridge police arrested 12 people on charges of trespassing.

HUPD should always place emphasis on supporting the rights of protesters and students as well as the Cambridge residents who they are so often called to serve.

At the same time, we have also repeatedly called for Harvard to support the Cambridge community, from sharing its educational resources to increasing its financial contribution to local economies.

HUPD should not be exempted from Harvard’s commitment to supporting the broader Cambridge area. In doing so, they need to recognize the extreme sensitivity of the task they are charged with.

HUPD has the opportunity to demonstrate that supporting the law enforcement needs of the Cambridge community need not conflict with Harvard’s values of supporting the right to protest, including this instance of anti-ICE activism.

In its mission, HUPD vows to “maintain a safe and secure campus by providing quality policing in partnership with the community […] within the University context of free expression, rigorous inquiry, vast diversity, and pursuit of distinction.” By supporting other police departments in times of need, the HUPD has fulfilled the first part of its mission.

And we believe that partnering with police forces in the community does not, in principle, contradict the latter part — its obligation to respect protesters’ free expression.

To be sure, American police departments have demonstrated the ability to be particularly brutal toward protesters, especially when protestors seek to address systemic law enforcement violence. As a result, among young people and communities of color, trust in law enforcement has continued to decline.

HUPD should continue to be conscious of its capacity to contribute to that nexus of violence both on and off Harvard’s campus. Especially given that its primary responsibility is to protect and serve college students on a campus that

ostensibly values civil discourse and the safety of its communities of color, HUPD has a particular responsibility to seek

HUPD should continue to be conscious of its capacity to contribute to that nexus of violence both on and off Harvard’s campus. the trust of these communities. To that end, HUPD should always place emphasis on supporting the rights of protesters and students as well as the Cambridge residents who they are so often called to serve.

Just as Harvard often calls its students and faculty to lead by example, to exemplify the values of the University as they journey out into the world beyond, Harvard should hold its police force to the same standard. HUPD should always seek to demonstrate principles of responsible law enforcement both to uphold its own mission and to send a message about what policing can and should be in the 21st century.

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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hear the phrase “I’m not worried about my data” all the time. I’m sure most of you have heard it, or one of its many siblings (“I have nothing to hide,” “Who cares if Facebook has my dog pictures,” etc.) at some point in the last year.

Many of you have probably said something to this effect as well.

It’s a difficult position to discredit, and one that invites rebuttals into the silly realm of fear-mongering and futurism. But it’s also a dangerous position.

Most fears in everyday discussion about internet privacy focus on one of three things: cybersecurity risks, like compromised social security numbers, special-case hypotheticals like celebrity blackmail, or, most recently, election tampering. Each to a varying degree is a problem in its own right.

Centering the data privacy discussion around them, however, also distracts from the greater risks of not having internet privacy, which go beyond compromised passwords and even election tampering because they affect everybody at an individual level.

These risks originate from two realities that statements like “I’m not worried about my data” dismiss. First, we broadcast infinitely more of ourselves to the internet than we are willing to acknowledge. The internet has stopped being a product we consume but a space we inhabit. A modern town square, the internet today is a hub of

To see the internet as a space in this way is critical to understanding and reforging our relationship with it.

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Harvard Should Buy the Final Clubs

By WILLIAM M. RAFEY

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arvard should consider acquiring the property on which the eight final clubs reside and repurpose these social spaces as senior houses for the 12 undergraduate Houses.

The Houses have always been our first line of defense against the final clubs. An important aspect of former University President A. Lawrence Lowell Class of 1877’s push to finance the House system in the 1930s was unequal access to the final clubs, which predate the residential houses by roughly three decades. At the center of Lowell’s vision was the hope that the Houses would provide to every student the public goods once reserved for members of clubs: dining rooms, private libraries, pool halls, and places for study, work, and community.

As Lowell described in a 1907 lecture in New Haven: “Any system of societies or clubs, is incapable of supplying an opportunity for the best kind of social life to the great mass of students.” If “we allowed the boy to select his group on first coming to the university,” he continued, “the students would mainly be segregated on the basis of origin, of geographical sections, of preparatory schools, of home surroundings; and thus we should have — as people have said — a college for western men, a college for southern men, a college for millionaires. Now this is the very worst scheme of division that could possibly be devised.”

Acquiring these properties seems a natural extension of Lowell’s vision for “a system of grouping that will bring into each group men from different parts of the country, men with different experience, and as far as possible social condition,” which he contended was “one of the chief advantages of the great university.”

It may help to circumvent the continued debate over the morality and legality of the current administration’s sanctions against single-gender social organizations. It is consistent with a positive and creative spirit — to lead by example, not proscription — that aims to recycle and preserve the spaces for future generations of Harvard students (of all gen-

ders).

Repurposing the clubs could also help to serve a separate purpose: making the random allocation of students to Houses fairer.

Harvard could allocate the highest-quality spaces in inverse proportion to the distribution of quality across houses. For example, the three Quad Houses — Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer — might have the most centrally located spaces, with the rest ordered by reverse date of renovation or distance from Harvard Yard.

Regardless of the allocation, introducing accessible spaces for Quad Houses closer to most meetings of student organizations, office hours, and social gatherings will help to remedy the inequity between the Houses on the river and those in the Quad. This is especially important given that the new campus in Allston is likely to diminish the relative position of inhabitants of the Quad. The unprecedented distance it creates between Quadlings and new classroom locations may discourage concentration in the School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and related fields for these students.

Harvard should consider acquiring the property on which the eight final clubs reside and repurpose these social spaces as senior houses for the 12 undergraduate Houses.

No doubt this proposal would be — perhaps prohibitively — costly at market prices. It may be impossible for the College to make the necessary compromises to respect the history of the spaces and their former inhabitants without relinquishing the principles Harvard hopes to embody.

Whether such deals would improve upon the status quo is an open question.

At market rates — $35.1 million using 2019 assessed tax values from the City of

Cambridge — the cost would fall below 4.1 percent of the $873.9 million that the Harvard Management Corporation has allocated to House renewal.

A more radical form of this proposal is one that also includes the Signet Society, the Harvard Advocate, the Hasty Pudding, and the Harvard Lampoon. Each organization has prominent real estate and valuable alumni networks. These organizations could continue to use their original spaces to hold events. Most satisfyingly, arithmetically, this arrives at 12 properties — one for each house — though the moral grounds for collectivization of this extent may be weaker.

In 1902, then-University President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, was asked by a group of alumni whether or not he would help them to acquire land along the river for the founding of Lowell House.

He declined, citing concerns over tax obligations to the City of Cambridge. As one alumnus recounts: “I do not know at what stage I approached the Corporation but I did write to President Eliot and asked if he would join us. In any case I remember well that he sent a courteous reply saying, ‘No.”’ The alumni went ahead without him.

Led by Edward Waldo Forbes Class of 1895, the grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, they founded a trust, the Harvard Riverside Associates Trust, to acquire the land with the intent to transfer the property to Harvard, which they did in 1912 after Lowell became president.

Will we ever see any similar such lasting transformations of Harvard College again?

The final clubs occupy a small corner of Harvard’s social life — one that contracts each year as the student body becomes ever-more talented and diverse.

If these buildings can be made to serve a greater purpose by drawing Harvard’s students closer together, as the land along the river once did, they will fade less swiftly from Harvard’s memory than they might otherwise.

—William M. Rafey ’13 is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

human activity, a new ecosystem for life.

Picture yourself embarking on a routine visit to check your mail in this square. On the way you’re hailed by a friend on Snapchat and stop to chat. Continuing along, you window shop for a while on Amazon. Later a New York Times headline catches your eye and you take a moment to skim it. Finally you make it to your mailbox and go through your mail.

Physically you have not entered a new space, but in every other respect you have.

Aspects of yourself are transmitted at every turn — data like your reading interests, your attention span, and the things you say, but also metadata, like your openness, your IQ, your conscientiousness, your extroversion, your neuroticism.

These last five categories aren’t made up or futuristic, but just a sampling of the data we discovered Cambridge Analytica was collecting from unsuspecting Facebook users almost two years ago.

Advances in data processing will only make this information more readily accessible. To see the internet as a space in this way is critical to understanding and reforging our relationship with it. We should have as much of a problem with being spied on when we inhabit the web as we should if we were to walk into a restaurant that had cameras all around tracking us — with the same compelling reasons we sense, intuitively, as to why this is wrong.

Which brings me to my second point: The potential for misuse of this information is vast and imminently actionable. Forget about the embarrassing and uncomfortable things we keep private, and think about how often we require privacy in the simplest sense of wanting to be able to choose what side of ourselves to present to the world.

The employer you don’t want to know about your procrastination habits because you might not get the job if they did. The bougie bar you don’t want to know about your stinginess because they might not let you in if they did.

The dating app you don’t want to know your relationship faults because it might screen you from

A modern town square, the internet today is a hub of human activity, a new ecosystem for life. other users if it did. The loan writer you don’t want to know your IQ. To some extent I’ve cherry picked examples that allow me to point out how easily the web can figure these things out about us from the data we provide it. On the other hand, I’ll just say that it was pretty easy to find these, and I could have chosen 100 different ones and still not have covered all my bases. It’s dangerous to lose control over facts about yourself the moment it becomes expedient for someone else to know those facts, at your loss.

The more intimately we intertwine ourselves with the internet world, combined with the more insightful our algorithms become, the more control we cede over these sorts of facts.

You may think greater intensification of these two developments is needed for these facts to become important. Or you may be like me, and think that too much of who we are has already been lost to the memoryless web.

At the very least, acknowledge that you do have something to hide.

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

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SPORTS

THIS WEEKEND’S

SCORES

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. SAN DIEGO L, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. UC SANTA BARBARA L, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. LA SALLE L, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

CROSS COUNTRY VS. HARVARD-YALE DUAL 2ND ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. SAN FRANCISCO L, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S SOCCER VS. VERMONT L, 4-2 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. CONNECTICUT W, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S WATER POLO

Big Weekend At Princeton Invite For No. 9 Harvard

By BEN STERN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

No. 12 Harvard men’s water polo (5-0, 0-0 NWPC) took home three wins this weekend in Princeton, N.J., at the annual Princeton Invite.

The Crimson toppled No. 9 UC San Diego (6-3, 1-0 WWPA), 12-11, in its first game of the weekend on Saturday.

It then knocked off Navy (54, 1-0 CWPA) in the early game on Sunday by a score of 17-10 and handled Fordham (5-2, 0-0 CWPA), 11-8, in the afternoon.

Harvard came into the weekend riding high from a strong showing at the Bruno Classic in Providence, R.I., on September 8.

Captain Charlie Owens and junior Jackson Enright paced the Crimson in the first match with three goals each, and sophomore Alex Tsotadze had two goals and four assists.

Michael Sonsini added two more goals to set his career high.

Harvard’s defense held strong in the close victory, and sophomore goalie Noah Hodge, who was named NWPC Defensive Player of the Week last week, recorded an assist to go along with ten saves against the Tritons.

“Overall, I thought we had a pretty good weekend, said Hodge. “We played well as a cohesive unit and are very excited to get back to training this week for more big games next weekend.”

He was happy to have received recognition for his success in the season so far.

“I’m honored and excited to be named Defensive Player of the Week for the first week of play,” he said. “I hope to continue my high level of play throughout the season.”

The second contest of the weekend took place at eight o’clock in the morning, but the Crimson attack appeared unfazed by the early start time.

Junior Dennis Blyashov and Tsotadze both tallied four goals, and Sonsini again poured in a pair while Hodge had eight saves and two assists.

The score was knotted at six ­

THE SPLASH ZONE Sophomore goalie Noah Hodge defends a shot from close range. Harvard’s defense held strong in the close victory against UC San Diego, and Hodge,

who was named NWPC Defensive Player of the Week last week, recorded an assist to go along with ten saves against the Tritons. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER at the end of the first half, but Harvard pulled away from the Midshipmen in the second half as senior Bennie Seybold kicked off the scoring.

He had two goals in the match.

In the third game, Enright led the team with three goals, his second hat-trick on the

weekend. Owens and fellow captain Austin Sechrest scored two goals apiece, and Blyashov took care of two penalties (drawn by Seybold) to help the squad on the way to double digits.

Hodge was solid once again, holding the Rams to just eight goals as he racked up fourteen

saves and two assists to push his total at the Princeton Invite to 32 saves.

Blyashov was the team’s offensive leader on Sunday, with six goals overall.

Owens praised the team’s overall performance in the three-game set and its lategame prowess.

“We took a big step forward as a team this weekend,” he said. “Our depth showed in our ability to wear teams down and execute in the fourth quarter.

We’re looking forward to getting back to work this week and preparing for our games next weekend.”

Harvard will head to Lewis-

burg, Pa., for another early-season test next weekend at the Bucknell Invite. It will square off against No. 15 George Washington, John Hopkins, Mercyhurst, and Salem International as it looks to continue its undefeated season. ben.stern@thecrimson.com

WINDING UP Junior attacker Dennis Blyashov winds up for a shot. The second contest of the weekend took place at eight o’clock in the morning, but the Crimson attack appeared unfazed by the early start

time. Blyashov and sophomore attacker Alex Tsotadze both tallied four goals, and sophomore attacker Michael Sonsini poured in a pair while Hodge had two assists. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

SPORTS

WEEKLY

PREVIEW

MONDAY ______________________________________

WEDNESDAY ______________________________________

FRIDAY ______________________________________

Field Hockey at Massachusetts 5:00 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball vs. Boston College 7:00 p.m.

Cross Country Battle of Beantown 3:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s Soccer’s Winning Streak Concludes

By LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard women’s soccer’s season-opening three game home winning streak was snapped Friday afternoon, as a fantastic individual performance from San Francisco’s Miciah Madison stole the show at Ohiri Field and a slow start doomed the Crimson to a 3-1 defeat.

Madison, a dynamic senior forward who had entered Friday’s game with three goals and two assists in the Dons’ first six games, added two more goals and another helper, each in impressive fashion.

In the first half, Harvard (32), playing its third game in five days, appeared physically overmatched.

The bigger and more experienced San Francisco (5-2) was coming off of a humiliating 9-0 defeat to Stanford on its home turf, and it showed. The Dons came out fired up, winning contested headers, pressing the Crimson into mistakes, and holding Harvard to a single shot — which came just two minutes into the game and was blocked — in the first half.

“I think we knew San Francisco was going to be an athletic team and they were going to put us under a lot of pressure,” head coach Chris Hamblin said.

“I think we — as a team overall — hid a little bit more than we should have done. I think we weren’t as comfortable on the ball and we were not showing up and they took advantage of that and they scored some chances.”

The payoff came in the 11th minute, when Madison cut in from the left wing and fired away from 25 yards out. Almost before the Crimson players even knew the shot was coming, the ball had nestled into the top right corner. Harvard’s goalie, senior Kat Hess, had no chance to save it.

Madison was also the catalyst for San Francisco’s second goal, which came a shade under 20 minutes later. After a wayward dribble sent the ball careening toward the goal line, she showcased her speed by running it down and then lofted the ball towards the far post, where 5’9” redshirt senior forward Samantha Jehnings — ­

DETERMINED DRIBBLING Freshman midfielder/forward Gabby DelPico dribbles across the field during Harvard’s matchup against UMass. The Massachusetts native has two goals and one assist so far in six games that she has played in this season (this includes five starts). TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

with whom Madison clearly has terrific chemistry — was waiting.

All Jehnings had to do was head the ball into an open net, and the Dons had some breathing room.

The Crimson grew into the game after that second goal, al-

lowing just one total shot in the final hour of the game after conceding six, including three on frame, in the first half hour. But the one shot they did allow in the second half was a damaging one.

Those who had watched the first hour of the game were un-

surprised when 63 minutes in Madison, whose driving run had seemingly been stopped by Harvard’s defense and whose back was to goal, somehow managed to buy herself a halfyard of space and quickly fired a shot from the edge of the 18 yard box into the lower left corner.

“[Madison is] just a very dynamic player and one thing I found covering her is just I have to always be within arm’s length to make sure she doesn’t turn,” sophomore defender Jillian Wachira, who was often tasked with following Madison, said. “Just being annoying

HARVARD HUDDLE The Harvard women’s soccer team has started its fall campaign with four wins and two losses. The group has averaged two goals per game on 12.7 shots, and is currently only conceding one and a half goals per game. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

the whole game and just trying to be in her face a little bit, because once she sees that pocket she goes, and she’s quick, so you give her those five yards and she’s ahead of you just like that.”

The Crimson dominated the rest of the game, starting with a quick response to the third goal by sophomore Sophie Hirst, who directed an excellent cross from first-year midfielder Gabby DelPico into the net for her second goal of the season.

But while Harvard continued to pile on the pressure, finishing with eight second half shots (six on goal) to San Francisco’s one (the goal by Madison) and creating multiple scoring chances, the three goal deficit was too much to overcome, and the Dons held on for a 3-1 victory.

“In the second half we showed up, we competed, and we wanted the ball under pressure,” Hamblin said. “I think it’s a really good lesson for our young team to understand that you can’t hide, you can’t be afraid, you have to attack each game and although the game can be a game of two halves, often times if you put yourself in a hole, it can be too difficult to get out.”

In the loss, the Crimson also suffered what might have been a damaging injury.

Near the end of the first half, junior forward Murphy Agnew, the catalyst for much of Harvard’s offense so far this season and a key connector between the team’s midfield and first-year striker Angela Caloia, limped off the field and did not return to the game. Agnew’s status for Sunday’s game at Connecticut is uncertain, but any time she misses will be damaging to the Crimson and its chances going forward.

Harvard will travel to Storrs to face Connecticut before it returns home for matchups with UMass Lowell and LIU next week, the Crimson’s final two games before Ivy League play starts in two weeks. lev.cohen@thecrimson.com