The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 38

The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI NO. 38 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2019

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The Faculty Council should postpone any decision on shopping week.

Losing to NC State, men’s basketball finishes their season.

Junior drives in four home runs in grand finale against Penn.

Bacow Takes Lowell To Not Display Some Portraits First Trip to Asia

By SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and DELANO R. FRANKLIN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

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

In his second international trip, University President Lawrence S. Bacow defended academic freedom and outlined his vision for Harvard’s future in China, Hong Kong, and Japan in several high-profile meetings with Harvard alumni, university leaders, and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Bacow’s week-long excursion to Asia culminated Wednesday in a highly publicized speech at Peking University, where he addressed the role of universities and their pursuit of “truth, excellence, and opportunity” in the world and praised the long-standing ties between Peking and Harvard.

“Our institutions have a responsibility to contribute positively to our own societies and to the national good, as well as to the world at large,” Bacow said. “But as universities we fulfill this charge precisely by embodying and defending academic values that transcend the boundaries of any one country.”

The speech, however, was not without controversy. Bacow offered support for the May Fourth movement, an early 20th century youth campaign against the Chinese government, and concluded his remarks with a poem from Abdurehim Ötkür, a member of the country’s Uighur population.

International rights groups ­

claim that the Uighers, a Muslim minority group living in Western China, have faced detention and surveillance at the hands of the Chinese government — allegations that the government denies.

Peking University and Chinese state media did not mention those comments in articles about the event. University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment about their exclusion from official reports.

The Peking University speech came at a tense point for United States-China relations. The two nations have imposed billions of dollars worth of tariffs on each other in recent months and have struggled to bring an end to the trade war, which has impacted financial markets, triggered political tensions, and created problems for companies around the world.

Bacow alluded to these tensions in his speech, calling on scholars around the world to band together and maintain good relations with one another.

“As I speak to you now, our governments are engaged in important and at times difficult discussions over a range of issues — and those discussions have implications that reverberate around the world,” Bacow said. “I believe that sustaining the bonds that join scholars across borders is of the utmost importance for all of us

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Lowell House will not display portraits of former University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, and his wife Anna Parker Lowell when it reopens in the fall, incoming Faculty Deans David I. Laibson ’88 and Nina Zipser announced in a Friday email to House residents.

Lowell’s tenure as University President — which stretched from 1909 to 1933 — was marked both by the major changes he instituted at Harvard and by his racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia. Laibson and Zipser said students should not have to see images of the two Lowells — after whose family the House is named — in such a prominent space.

During his tenure, Lowell created the house system and worked to integrate students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. He also sought to cap the number of Jewish students at Harvard and excluded African-American students from living in Harvard Yard.

Alongside former Dean of the College Chester N. Greenough, Class of 1898, he led a purge of gay students — the “Secret Court” of 1920 — connected to at least one suicide.

The portraits of Lowell and his wife hung in the Lowell dining hall before renovations began.

Laibson and Zipser wrote that they did not want to erase part of Harvard’s history and that they plan to host discussions on the Lowell family’s leg-

When Lowell finishes renovations in the fall, its dining hall will no longer display a portrait of former University President A. Lawrence Lowell. SHERA S. AVI-YONAH—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

acy. They also wrote they will invite students to view another portrait of Lowell in University Hall.

“Such an erasure is not possible and, in our view, is not desirable,” Laibson and Zipser wrote. “We should not ignore or hide our history. We need to keep talking about Abbott Lawrence Lowell with each new cohort of Lowell residents (discussing both the good and the bad that he contributed) whether or not he is hanging over us while we’re eating Cheerios.”

Laibson and Zipser also an-

nounced they would add several paintings by University portraitist and Lowell Senior Common Room member Stephen E. Coit ’71 to the renovated dining hall, including a portrait of outgoing Faculty Deans Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin. A portrait of former Radcliffe College administrator and Lowell Senior Common Room member Florence C. Ladd will also be added.

Laibson and Zipser added that they would reinstall portraits of some other members of the Lowell family in the reno-

vated dining hall.

Lowell resident Richard Yarrow ’19 said he supports the decision to not display the portrait in a prominent place, but said he believes the house should not erase all signs of his tenure.

“The portrait of A. Lawrence Lowell doesn’t need to be peering down at students in the middle of lunchtime or breakfast,” he said. “I’m a Jewish student.

A. Lawrence Lowell was a notorious anti-Semite. He kept out my grandfather. There are lots

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In Letter, Bacow DSO Says Says No Review Yet No Guests at 2019 Yardfest

By MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY and JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

THE GARAGE

The Garage, located on Mount Auburn Street, houses a group of stores and restaurants.

JONATHAN G. YUAN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

­ niversity President Lawrence U S. Bacow reaffirmed in a letter to group of Government graduate students that Harvard would not commence an external review of sexual misconduct allegations against Government Professor Emeritus Jorge I. Dominguez until its internal review concludes.

Bacow’s email came in response to a letter from the Government Department Graduate Student Association’s External Review Working Group, which has repeatedly called for an independent investigation of the allegations against Dominguez — levied by at least 20 women and spanning nearly 40 years.

In their letter, students demanded a “public” commitment to an external review and a “feasible timeline” for the initiation of such a review.

In his email, Bacow acknowledged that University administrators “have expressed a willingness” to conduct an external review, but reiterated that he believes “how best to orient such an examination” cannot be decided until the University’s Title IX investigation into Dominguez — which has been ongoing for roughly a year — wraps up.

“While I appreciate your concern about the passage of time, our adjudicatory processes seek to be as thorough and fair as possible—and that

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City Legislators Call for Housing Zoning Overlay

By DECLAN J. KNIERIEM and KATELYN X. LI CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

After years of discussions about how to combat Cambridge’s enduring challenges with a lack of affordable housing, City Councillors plan to push for legislation enacting a “100%-Affordable Housing Zoning Overlay” plan in the coming weeks.

The proposed zoning reform will offer incentives to developers in return for building residential units that are considered “100%-Affordable,” according to the City Council website.

These reforms are intended to bolster the ability of affordable housing developers to compete against market-rate developers.

The proposal will also amend current zoning regulations to INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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streamline approval processes, reducing costs and increasing construction efficiency for new affordable housing.

The plan intends to use public funds to help developers “more quickly, more cost effectively, and in areas where there are fewer affordable housing options for residents,” according to the website. The proposal stemmed from concerns about displacement and increasing rents.

Cambridge Mayor Marc C. McGovern wrote in an emailed statement that high property and living costs in Cambridge made the affordable housing overlay “necessary.”

“We need to provide this relief so that more affordable

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TODAY’S FORECAST

SUNNY High: 44 Low: 25

By SAMUEL W. ZWICKEL and SANJANA L. NARAYANAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

­ ollege students will not be alC lowed to bring guests to this year’s Yardfest — a spring music festival held annually in Harvard Yard — according to an email sent to undergraduates Monday by the Dean of Students Office.

The email also announced other changes to Yardfest that administrators said stemmed in part from the recommendations issued by a committee appointed by former University President Drew G. Faust following the arrest of a black Harvard undergraduate the night of last year’s Yardfest.

The incident drew allegations of police brutality and led some students to call on the University to improve its policies for the event.

“Although they reflect the recommendations of the Review Committee following the 2018 Yardfest, the changes we are announcing today are also established best-practices for large-scale events on college campuses,” the email reads.

Monday’s announcement informed students that the concert will take place on Sunday, April 7 at 3:30 p.m — a shift from the previous two years, when it occurred on a Friday evening.

The shift back to a Sunday afternoon comes after more than 17 students were transported by ambulance as a result of their intoxication last year, overwhelming the emergency rooms at several local hospitals.

The committee reported noted that first responder resources are “predictably

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HARVARD TODAY

For Lunch Jerk Chicken Fusilli Alfredo Pepperoni Pizza Green Garbanzo Falafel Sandwich

For Dinner Chicken Stroganoff Haddock Provencal Egg Twist Noodles

TODAY’S EVENTS Aisha Moodie-Mills and Bernard Coleman: A Campaign’s True Colors 4:30-5:45 p.m.

IN THE REAL WORLD Prosecutors Charge Michael Avenatti for Allegedly Trying to Extort Nike

Join Institute of Politics Resident Fellow Aisha Moodie-Mills and Uber’s Global Head of Diversity Bernard Coleman in Littauer 163 (the Faculty Dining Room) at the Harvard Kennedy School to discuss diversity in politics.

Attorney Michael Avenatti was taken into custody after being charged with attempting to extort up to $25 million from Nike and embezzling a client’s settlement money. Avenatti came to prominence after representing Stormy Daniels, who alleged that she was paid to not speak about an affair she had with President Donald Trump in 2006.

Nike Women Truth Tour: Garment Workers Speak Out! 7-9 p.m.

The Harvard Student Labor Action Movement is working with its parent organization, the United Students Against Sweatshops, to host two Indonesian garment workers and union leaders as they take on Nike.

Listen to these women as they share their experiences at the Phillips Brooks House Association.

A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Need to take a study break while you’re at the Smith Campus Center?

Multiracial Students eXchanging and Encouraging Dialogue is showing multiracial student portraits in the second floor Arts Wing.

The Man Who Had the ‘Magic Elixir’

The Harvard Forest frequently hosts student trips and various research initiatives. AMY Y, LI — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Celebrate upcoming Ivy Day by taking a deeper look at how William “Rick” Singer developed what some are calling the largest college admissions scam in American history. One expert said he had the “magic elixir” to get high school students into prestigious universities.

House of Commons Takes Control of Business from Prime Minister May

DAILY BRIEFING In his second international trip, University President Lawrence S. Bacow defended academic freedom and outlined his vision for Harvard’s future in China, Hong Kong, and Japan. While in Asian, Bacow had with several high-profile meetings with Harvard alumni, university leaders, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. In other news, Lowell House will not display portraits of former University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and his wife Anna Parker Lowell when it reopens in the fall, the House’s incoming faculty deans wrote in an email to House affiliates Friday.

Members of Parliament have voted to take control of business in the House of Commons away from Prime Minister Theresa May in the hopes of finding a Brexit plan supported by a majority vote.

Members of Parliament will vote on Wednesday on a few different options for Brexit.

AROUND THE IVIES YALE

Yale has rescinded admission to a student incriminated in the nation-sweeping college admissions scandal, according to the Yale Daily News. On Sunday, university spokesperson Tom Conroy said that Yale is conducting an internal review in light of the revelation that women’s head soccer coach Rudy Meredith accepted bribes to classify applicants as athletic recruits. Conroy said Yale does not believe other students were involved besides the one whose admission was rescinded and another who was not accepted. Federal authorities were allegedly tipped off by Morrie Tobin, a father of Yale students, while he sought leniency in a separate fraud case.

COLUMBIA

Barnard College admitted 11.3 percent of applicants to the class of 2023, a 2.4 percent drop from the previous year, according to the Columbia Spectator. Barnard accepted 9,319 applicants, the highest number of applications in the school’s history. The Spectator reported that this pool was the the most diverse class ever admitted to Barnard, with 56 percent of this year’s admitted students identifying as women of color.

DARTMOUTH

Former Dartmouth administrator Carol Folt will take the helm as president of the University of Southern California this coming June, The Dartmouth reported. Folt served as the interim president at Dartmouth from 2012 to 2013, when she left to take on the role of chancellor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She will be the first female president at USC, which has been recently embroiled in the college admissions scandal.

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ARTS

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‘Five Feet Apart’ is a Feel-Good Tear-Jerker, and Unsurprisingly So

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KALOS K. CHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

It’s hard to review a teen romance drama.

Sure, they have changed over time. Outfits become less denim-heavy and technology more touchscreen-centric, journal entries become vlogs and online chat rooms in “A Cinderella Story” (2004) become FaceTime calls in “Sierra Burgess is a Loser” (2018).

Sometimes, the changes aren’t insignificant — “Love, Simon” (2018) and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” (2018), for example, brought refreshing representation to a genre that’s almost exclusively populated by straight, white characters.

In the end, however, the tropes are almost always the same: the repressed romantic tension-filled first encounter, the goofy but supportive sidekick/best friend, the falling-in-love montage sequence, the dramatic moments of heightened tension and their tear-jerking resolutions.

Not all teen romances follow this formula, but “Five Feet Apart,” for the most part, does.

A chalkboard with a sappy, motivational quote scrawled out in cursive; photos of constellations and watercolors of the ocean thumbtacked to the wall; friends dropping by to eat junk food and chat about boys — in the opening scene, Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) seems like just another teenage protagonist. But as soon as her friends walk out the door, she puts on her oxygen tube, and the viewer is introduced — in vlog form, of course — to the life of a teenage cystic fibrosis patient. Stella takes us through her daily routine: meticulously scheduling her treatments, FaceTiming her best friend Poe (Moises Arias), and crossing things off her to-do list (which itself is depicted more often than her actually completing the items). This routine is disrupted by one suave, too-cool-for-the-hospital, obligatorily dreamy Augustus Waters — er, Will Newman (Cole Sprouse).

Stella, who is Will’s Hazel Grace, does much of the expositional work for the viewer. “You’re the kind of guy who ignores the rules because it makes him feel in control,” she says, within 30 seconds of meeting Will. His quip oozes with melodrama: “It’s just life. It’ll be over before you know it.” The two, who are already standing six feet apart

to not catch each other’s CF bacteria, are further separated

by Barb (Kimberly Hebert Gregory), the endearing, caring nurse who seems to be the only one who’s keeping the teenagers alive — but it’s too late. Stella and Will, within the first hour, have gone from being fundamentally antagonistic to inexplicably in love. What follows is a sort of hourlong push and pull: Stella and Will push that six foot limit, in a triumphant declaration that is probably medically unsound, to five feet, as Barb tries desperately to pull them apart, and Poe flits about pushing and pulling on everyone’s heartstrings with his quirky but unwaveringly kind antics.

Poe is the real star of the film. Arias makes the most of the hackneyed best friend role to which he has been relegated; his quirks are endearing, his jokes land, and his quips draw chuckles. In response to Will asking why he hasn’t made a move on Stella, he retorts, “It’s because she’s not a he.” One of his scenes in the second half ends up being one of the most poignant and touching in the whole film — to elaborate on it would be to spoil the film.

Other actors surprise with impactful performances.

Gregory gives a powerful performance as Barb, illuminating the strength, willpower, and care that so many nurses embody. Stella does a fair bit of illuminating herself; she shares with the world the often unsung experiences of cystic fibrosis patients, who make up around 30,000 cases per year in the United States. At times, the film is a touch too melodramatic. In one scene that is supposed to be romantic but that is almost as cringy as the rom-com staple of a flirtatious billiard game, Will and Stella are in adjacent hospital beds, screaming and refusing to leave each others’ sides while hospital workers struggle to separate them.

For the most part, “Five Feet Apart” checks off all the boxes: Expect to chuckle liberally, cringe occasionally, and cry inevitably, although not quite when one would expect.

For those who appreciate a good tear-jerking teen romance, expect a reaction similar to “The Fault in Our Stars” back in 2014 — it probably won’t be winning any Oscars any time soon, but who cares?

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—Staff writer Kalos K. Chu can be reached at kalos. chu@thecrimson.com.

TUESDAY LAILA LALAMI AND MIN JIN LEE PRESENT ‘THE OTHER AMERICANS’ Author of Pulitzer Prize finalist “The Moor’s Account” Laila Lalami discusses her latest novel “The Other Americans” with Min Jin Lee, author of “Pachinko.”

Harvard Book Store. 7 p.m. Free admission.

Wednesday MFA MUSIC: DREAMERS’ CIRCUS Dreamers’ Circus, a trio reinterpreting Nordic folk music at the forefront of the Scandinavian music scene, will give their North American premiere performance.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $24 for members and $30 for non-members.

Thursday

WICKED QUEER OPENING NIGHT: JUST FRIENDS Wicked Queer 2019, the 35th Boston LGBT Film Festival, opens with Ellen Smit’s “Just Friends” and David Scala’s short film “Engaged.” Tickets include an after-party at Beat Brew Hall following the screening.

The Brattle Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20.

Friday

CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: DANILO PEREZ’S GLOBAL MESSENGERS AND AMIR ELSAFFAR’S TWO RIVERS ENSEMBLE Danilo Perez’s Global Messengers will perform unique music reflecting the cultural traditions of its members. The Two Rivers Ensemble will perform music that combines American and Middle Eastern jazz.

Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets start at $45.

Saturday

ICA PLAY DATE: GOING FAR TOGETHER The Boston City Singers and guest singer Alastair Moock will join in a day of multimedia art and story presentations, art-making activities, and performances for all ages.

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. 10 a.m. $10 student admission.

Sunday

JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET WITH AARON GOLDBERG, REUBEN ROGERS & GREGORY HUTCHINSON Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists today. The quartet will perform new, original pieces composed by Redman.

Sanders Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets starting at $30.

MOnday

HIGH LIFE From director Claire Denis, this film depicts the journey to the black hole within closest reach of Earth, with a collection of dangerous prisoners, lastchancers with nothing left to lose as a crew.

The Brattle. 7 p.m. Free admission.

26 March 2019 | Vol CXLVI, ISSUE VI Arts Chairs Kaylee S. Kim ‘20 Caroline A. Tsai ’20

Editor Associates Liana E. Chow ‘21 Aline G. Damas ’20 Danielle L. Eisenman ‘21

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

Executive Designer Mireya C. Arango ‘20

Design Associates Amanda Stetz ‘22

Executive Photographers Kathryn S. Kuhar ‘20 Zennie L. Wey ‘20

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MUSIC

WHITE PANTHER’s

COURTESY OF TRAVIS KARTER

Multifaceted Ambition Outstrips its Musicianship CONNOR S. DOWD CONTRIBUTING WRITER Travis Karter is not your typical up-and-coming rapper. His goals, musical and otherwise, are loftier and wider in scope than one might expect from a college-aged artist. On his latest album, “WHITE PANTHER,” Karter (born Kristofer Madu), a student at Johns Hopkins University, takes inspiration from his academic interests, personal history, and philanthropic pursuits. His music clearly serves a purpose beyond art itself. It can be difficult to separate art from artist, especially when the artist himself seems to want those lines blurred, but in this case, the artist himself stands out as far more interesting and complex than the album he created.

The first voice we hear on the album’s opener, “TIRED,” is that of a robotic-sounding woman informing the listener that “100 percent of the proceeds from this album go toward providing clean water for children around the world.” To those who do not know the artist’s backstory, this intro sequence may sound like a gimmick. But Karter does significant work on behalf of Water Is the Answer, a nonprofit organization he created in 2015 in order to improve access to clean water for communities in Nigeria. It is not by accident that Karter puts this information at the very beginning of his album; his international philanthropy defines him as an artist as much as any stylistic feature of his music.

Karter is at his most successful when he casts aside the trends that have defined much of the SoundCloud rap music created in recent years by his peers. Whereas popular rap songs have trended toward shorter lengths in the recent past, Karter isn’t afraid to let his songs play out for as long as is necessary; on “COLD,” he delivers some of the strongest (and longest) verses on the album as he addresses a spiteful former love interest. Karter raps, “I swear to God, nothing makes you strong like a fucking heartbreak,” and the triumphant nature of this particular break-up song makes it hard to doubt him.

The album’s highlight comes in the form of its seventh track, “BLACK PANTHER,” a nod to the globally popular movie of the same name. It’s easy to imagine that Karter can identify, on some level, with the superhero; the elements of heroism in the young artist’s pursuits are undeniable. The song is a heavy-hitting trap anthem with a thunderous beat and raucous, reverb-heavy vocals. Yet even here Karter makes sure to remind listeners that he has aims higher than simply making good music. Later

in the song, he raps, “Came in this world to do somethin’, all these boys ain’t do nothin’,” expressing in no uncertain terms his compulsion to make a difference, whether in music or otherwise.

When Karter’s songs fall short, it is often because they slip into cliché. “ROCKSTAR” is an homage to the lifestyle of the rich and famous that feels out of touch with not only the rest of the album, but also Karter’s carefully curated image as an artist. “FLASHIN’” is his effort at a socially conscious track, offering commentary on racial profiling and police brutality. The song’s chorus is frustratingly repetitive and incorporates pitched-up vocals that undermine the weight of the lyrical content. The track concludes with a skit staging an encounter between a bigoted police officer and a black man, followed by an extended sample of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. This sample feels out of place in the context of the song and the album as a whole: poignant, but not quite in line with the overall tone and themes at work.

Karter’s energy and ambition shine through on most of the album’s tracks, and when this energy wavers, it is more a product of age and inexperience than a lack of talent or skill. On “WHITE PANTHER OUTRO,” the chorus asks over and over again, “What do you want to do with your life?”

Karter leaves listeners with the very question that motivates his music, his philanthropy, and all of his other endeavors. His rap career is just one part of his search for purpose. He seems to almost see it as more of an ongoing question than a final answer. In any case, the album’s conclusion is especially fitting. It leaves us with the image of a young man with tremendous potential, both in music and elsewhere, asking himself on how he ought to use it.

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Departure From Normalcy CARLA E TROCONIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER COURTESY OF CARLA E. TROCONIS

Teresa’s mind is the waiting room of the Venezuelan consulate on a Tuesday afternoon. Each of the four walls is coated in faded eggshell-white-turned-yellow paint, little corners and nooks peeling like dandruff off the great scalp of Bolivarian bureaucracy. The chairs line every flat surface, neatly crammed together. On the side tables, there are three or four copies of Spanish tabloids, pages papery like Latin skin exposed too long to unaccustomed cold and colors faded so they blend more into the walls with every passing day. There is a pressing emptiness about the consulate of Teresa’s mind, a slowness of pace that rivals that of even the most sun-soaked days on the beaches of the island of Margarita. On Tuesday afternoons, there are only ever two or three people in the waiting room at the same time. They are almost always elderly, wilting bodies wrapped in crepe paper button-downs or bird of paradise dresses whose colors fail to soar to the height of those shades from back home. As time passes, marked only by the moving arms of the occupants’ wristwatches, the young attendant manning the desk appears every few minutes, smacking wads of chewing gum or meticulously refilling her lined lips before disappearing again into the consulate’s maze of back offices. She never calls any names. Minutes melt into hours melt into days and the drone of the consulate’s television is never-ending. Not a word leaves the occupant’s parched lips as they sit, shrinking into their starched shirts in a slowly dominating fight between their timeworn memories and the stifling, sluggish heat of mundane red tape restrictions to this one’s citizenship or that one’s papers or whoever’s infinitesimal attempt at belonging.

Of course, to Maria Teresa, named after her grandmother, there is no windingly painful bureaucracy present. In fact, the words “bureaucracy” or “consulate” barely take up space in her mind—she has never felt the spinal compression that results from waiting for governmental redemption that does not come. Maria Teresa sits on the floor in front of her abuelita

and registers only the derivation of emptiness, something she has come to associate with aging and reaching that stage in life where home seems more a distant sketch than a full color painting you live within. The television runs in the background, a similarity between their two worlds, but Maria Teresa pays it no attention. The steady murmur of Venezuelan news reporters is an all-too-familiar soundtrack to her visits to abuelita that are so rarely are allowed to give way to the singsong tones of mermaids and princesses and young girl explorers. Today her grandmother had promised to watch a movie with her but there were still two hours until their agreed upon time. To kill the time, Maria Teresa bounces two Polly Pockets around on the oatmeal colored carpet of her grandmother’s room.

The television in Teresa’s consulate brain crackles behind her eyes as though transmitted by one of those wire frame picture boxes of times long past. The occupants let it score their yearning, registering only a few common phrases. “…two more hospitals in Caracas today reported losing complete power, taking the death toll of patients up to 15 in the last two days alone. Five of those were newborn children, as…” “…still no words from Leopoldo Lopez, as he remains on house arrest. His wife…” “…Nicolas Maduro gave a speech denouncing the call for nationwide protests, accusing the United States government of conspiring to overthrow his rightfully elected government. It is obvious, to the Venezuelan people, that it is a farce. Diosdado…”

Defeat follows disappointment follows dying supplies of righteous anger from the lungs of a population whose sore throat screams are mouse squeaks whimpers on the world stage. The news feed is such a common soundtrack that the first occurrence of a dissonant note does not register until it crescendos suddenly. “…just in, president of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó has announced he is invoking article 233 of the Constitution,

which dictates that in the event that there is no president elected, the president of the National Assembly must assume the interim presidency. Guaido has cited May 20’s fraudulent elections and their empowerment of a dictatorial government headed by a usurper as the right cause for invoking article 233 and stepping in as interim president until free and fair elections can be held. Guaidó was surrounded by protesters in Caracas while…”

A circuit shorts in the consulate and high flames of red, yellow, and blue engulf all surfaces. The occupants’ bodies contort, snakelike and melding into the rush and roar and redemption of the fire until all is a dancing mass of living burning reds, soaring yellows, sinuous blues, wildfire bodies jubilating to the clave beat of change.

Maria Teresa hears her abuelita before she feels her. There is first a sharp intake of breath and then the crashing wave of what she imagines asphyxiation sounds like.

“Abuelita!”

Before she can turn, Teresa has taken Maria Teresa in her arms. She holds her, tears escaping cataracted eyes so quickly Maria Teresa is caught in the whirlpool rush of her mother’s washing machine. Her grandmother’s arms squeeze her, constriction more akin to her mother’s still youthful arms than to the veiny trembling of Teresa’s life force. Her grandmother’s warbled cries shift, giving way to a word that Maria Teresa’s English-first brain cannot immediately discern. The word morphs like clay being shaped by the divine hands of Teresa’s histories, and fattens until it consumes Teresa’s little ears.

“Finalmente.”

Finalmente.

— Contributing writer Carla E. Troconis’ column, “Ni Aquí Ni Allá,” fictionalizes political developments in Venezuela from the past year through the eyes of the diaspora.

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‘Queer Eye’ Returns as Powerful and Entertaining as Before

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Tan’s French tuck, Jonathan’s repeated “henny,” Antoni’s love for corgis, Bobby’s shock upon seeing a messy living room, and Karamo’s tendency to make people cry: Any avid viewer of “Queer Eye” has seen it all before, but not quite like this. The third season of “Queer Eye” opens with an emotional first episode, featuring Jody, a prison guard who hasn’t quite figured out how to accept her own beauty. From here, the emotional stakes only rise higher. Though it’s easy to sit back and wonder just how much of a difference the Fab Five can make in each person’s life — surely the causes of each person featured have much more to do with deeper issues than simply being messy or not knowing how to cook — this season proves that regardless of what causes each person’s struggles, these five men know how to dig deep and ask the right questions, all while entertaining a larger audience.

Some episodes pack more of an emotional punch than others. The story of sisters Shorty and Little, who struggle to keep things together after 35 years of hard work and early mornings at their barbecue restaurant, raises important questions about the disproportionate amount of emotional labor black women have to put into their jobs or careers. Watching Jess, a young woman in her 20s, tell the story of how her adoptive parents kicked her out from her home upon finding out that she was lesbian is also emotionally compelling. Listening to Rob, a man on the cusp of marriage, yet unable to see the good within himself, come to terms with the roots of his self-deprecation will bring tears to the eyes of many.

Each of the eight episodes reveals that “Queer Eye” is about more than simply buying a more flattering wardrobe and learning to make a signature dish. Halfway through any episode comes the realization that the underlying reason for any of the participants’ haphazard appearance or lax approach to cleaning their houses is not, in fact, because they are lazy, but because there are deeper issues at play.

The simple fact is that Jess, Rob, and Joey — a single father who buys clothes only when absolutely necessary, having convinced himself that needing anything more is a sign of vanity, not self-care — and the various other guests on the show all slowly reveal the sources of an inner trauma in ways that are both profoundly moving and poignant. That guests dealing with serious life problems can

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only find help via a reality TV show designed for the entertainment of thousands of Netflix viewers is a sad commentary on the state of mental health in the United States.

This question is one the viewer will often grapple with: Are the changes the Fab Five instill in each of eight episodes enough to help those who appear in the series, or are the changes merely cosmetic?

This season of “Queer Eye” shows that the series has evolved far beyond the first season’s insistence on developing confidence and self-love and instead has amplified these values, recontextualizing them in a more serious way amid the inner struggles and trauma with which both viewers and participants grapple. The Fab Five unearth how one’s outward appearance and surroundings are directly affected by the deeper parts of one’s psyche. This is good television: It feels good to watch, but it also allows the viewer to connect to it on a deeper emotional level.

One of the subtler ways to track the positive impact the Fab Five have on the subject of each episode is by looking at their faces. As each person’s confidence rises, so too falls away a thick beard, tangled hair, or a stray hand covering a smile. By the end, the audience sees more of the person’s face.

Though their traumatic pasts cannot be fixed, the five men collectively help their subjects see the good within them — corny, yes, but so begins change in the right direction.

“Queer Eye” is not all heavy emotional material. This season introduces Bruley, the dog who steals food when he shouldn’t, as well as small helpful life tidbits at the end of each episode. (Don’t fast forward to the next episode without watching Antoni and Tan fight over the right pronunciation of the word “tomato.”) Tune in to episode seven to find out which member of the Fab Five has a panther as his spirit animal. Spoiler: Antoni firmly identifies as “an adolescent corgi, a tri-color.”

The blend of these light-hearted moments perfectly offsets the more emotional ones, at which points the audience realizes that while the Fab Five have done all they could to help, there is, of course more work to be done on behalf of each participant.

Perhaps that’s really what the series is all about, and why “Queer Eye” is so successful at what it does. It’s not about fixing the deeper causes, but rather about unearthing them for each individual to see, for themselves, who they are and where they need to go.

Watch ‘Us’ Twice CLIFFORD COURVOISIER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, “If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” At one point or another, everyone has stared at their reflection in a mirror and wondered, if only for the briefest of moments, if there was something looking back. This fear, and the deeper question of one’s own hidden nature, fuels “Us,” Jordan Peele’s latest psychological horror film. After his widely acclaimed debut, “Get Out,” it was unclear whether Peele would be able to live up to the legacy of his first film.

In comparison to its predecessor, “Us” falls a bit short in depth and intrigue, but is still an extremely technical and captivating film that confirms Jordan Peele’s status as one of Hollywood’s most promising and capable storytellers.

To get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. Unbeknownst to the other family members, the family’s matriarch, Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o), is haunted by a traumatic event that happened on the Santa Cruz beach when she was a little girl. One night, the demons from her past return, and the Wilsons suddenly find themselves terrorized by their scissor-wielding doppelgängers.

There are many things that the film gets right, be it the likable characters, the moments of levity interspersed among the dark ones, or the captivating imagery and themes that continuously reappear. However, for a horror film to ultimately succeed, it must be scary. “Us” is scary. 20th century directors artistically generated fear through music, atmosphere, lighting, and disturbing images and events. In recent years, the horror genre has tended to stray away from these tactics, popularizing cheap “jump scares,” loud noises or sudden movements to get viewers’ hearts racing. Peele opts for the former and builds a terrifying experience through his intuitive understanding of how the best horror films work.

Harvard Professor Steven C. Schlozman aptly explained in his TED Talk “What horror films teach us about ourselves and being human” that horror films are most effective when they utilize two concepts: violations of patterns and the feeling of dread.

Pattern violation occurs when viewers see familiar concepts in unfamiliar circumstances. These violations generate strong feelings of uncertainty and fear in viewers. For instance, when people see a clown at a circus, they recognize the clown and that it belongs. When people see a clown in a storm drain, they perceive the clown but realize that it should not be in this context.

This pattern violation generates fear, and Peele handles these violations masterfully in “Us.” When the doppelgänger family first appears, they are instantly recognizable and familiar, and one can instantly understand that they should not be standing at the end of a driveway, hand-in-hand, shrouded in complete darkness. Such uncanny, disturbing images and pattern violations recur through

the entirety of the film and make for an endlessly frightening, thrilling viewing experience.

Furthermore, the pervasive feeling of dread is crucial in setting the film’s ambience. After their initial introduction, there are no doubts as to the goal of the doppelgänger family. If they manage to get ahold of the Wilson family, they will kill them. This impending and unresolved threat adds tension and suspense to every scene, as the doppelgängers can be hiding anywhere and can appear at any time.

Peele expertly crafts the imagery and themes that recur throughout the film. He relies heavily on shadows and reflections to represent his characters’ dual natures. It is fascinating to see where these reflections pop up, and their unpredictable apparitions further elevate the sense of dread, as Peele insinuates that the Wilson family and their doppelgängers are never truly apart. His use of sound is also impressively nuanced. Rather than opting for loud, grating music, Peele interjects scenes of heavy silence, where each sound can be nerve-wracking.

The true gems of the film, however, are the actors themselves.

Each actor plays both a “real” character and that character’s terrifying doppelgänger. All of the actors, including a precociously talented 10-year-old Evan Alex, make each character feel genuine and believable. Nyong’o gives the film’s standout performance as both Adelaide Wilson and her doppelgänger, Red. Her portrayal of Red is awe-inspiring, and she is completely believable in both roles. Nyong’o’s performance is as remarkable and Oscar-worthy as any given by an actor this decade.

That being said, “Us” is not perfect. Some plot points feel extraneous and confusing, and the film would’ve been improved by their exclusion. To that same effect, Peele tries to provide some clues into and explanations for the strangeness of the characters’ circumstances, but the intricacies of these explanations may be lost during an initial viewing. The film’s allegory also becomes muddled and confused as a result. However, one might find these problems rectified upon a second viewing. Starting over at the beginning with all the pieces of the puzzle makes it easier to spot the subtle clues that Peele weaves throughout the film and reveals how he has skillfully crafted the narrative. Watch the film once for the thrills and scares. Watch it twice for the deeper meaning.

Despite the film’s minor shortcomings, “Us” is another impressive addition to the horror genre. Peele’s mastery of horror techniques, his innovative approach to traditional ones, and the film’s strong cast make “Us” a film that shouldn’t be missed.

With Peele’s legacy cemented, it will be interesting to see what he makes in the future. Whatever he makes next will have the world’s attention.

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The Handel and Haydn Society’s Beethoven Five Reveals a Timeless Ensemble with a Dated Repertoire LAUREN V. MARSHALL CONTRIBUTING WRITER Accessible programming is a dangerous game. Landmark works in the classical canon come loaded with decades of interpretations, which not only heighten the listener’s expectations, but wear on the ear. Each tension and resolution slowly transforms a musical experience into familiar transaction — undemanding, but perhaps less rewarding too.

The Handel and Haydn Society confronted this risk head-on on March 10 with a high-octane performance of a well-worn program, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s “Magic Flute” overture, a risk which paid off. Despite the concert being a clear crowd-pleaser, the charismatic orchestra seemed to triumph in spite of the program, not because of it, which raises the question: What soaring heights could this orchestra reach given a fresher musical challenge?

In a sense, this was a concert with two beginnings. In a surprise addition to the program, listeners were first treated to a Collaborative Youth Concert, the culmination of a months-long education project, bringing together Handel and Haydn Society musicians and various high school choruses for a collaborative performance of Handel’s “Zadok the Priest.” Though programmatically disjointed from the rest of the concert, the performance showcased a remarkable level of choral skill and musical intelligence from the young musicians, under the lively direction of Emily Isaacson.

The orchestra first took on a unified sound, however, with the entrance of maestro Matthew Halls — the chemistry between conductor and ensemble truly brought the stage to life. From the jubilant opening chords of “The Magic Flute” overture, the orchestra seemed to speak for the first time.

Halls undeniably has a special ability to unite the ensemble. Key to Sunday’s performance was a palpable electricity between the conductor and the orchestra. As a group, the Handel and Haydn Society is far from the rigidity of conventional modern orchestras, instead using the concept of historic performance as an access point to a communal and dynamic performance practice. The result is a homogenous sound and a real feeling of investment from each individual player. In this performance, the ensemble’s sound felt so complete as a singular body that at times there was tension with soloist Eric Hoeprich ’76 in Weber Clarinet concerto, where famous virtuosic passages in the solo line were perhaps not as mellifluous and flush with the ensemble as possible. Hearing Hoeprich sensitively interpret the work on a period instrument, however — in this case, a timbrally fascinating replica of the original instrument for which Weber composed the work — was a rare and distinct pleasure.

The main course of the concert was, of course, Beethoven. Almost a victim of its cultural prevalence, from cult classic recordings to that notorious Walter Murphy disco instrumental most of us would rather forget, those tempestuous opening four notes are jarringly immortalized in classical music memory. It was therefore particularly apt that Halls, with borderline irreverence, thundered the opening motif into being before the audience had even ceased to clap. Discarded alongside the opening notes were notions of a tired and overwrought Beethoven performance. Given the legacy of the work, the Handel and Haydn Society’s claim in the program of an “ink-not-quite-dry” performance is barely conceivable, yet through sheer force of personality the Handel and Haydn Society came dangerously close to its goal. Indeed, the Handel and Haydn Society’s real triumphs lie in moments of spontaneous vigour, and Halls utilized this power to borderline excess, blasting through the symphony with an

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ecstatic buoyancy that overcame expectations and transported the listener.

This was not to say the performance was without its nuance — Halls’s historical performance sensibilities combined with the distinct sonorities of a period orchestra unveiled subtle colorings often hidden in modern orchestral renditions. The fourth movement in particular highlighted a sonically diverse wind section, the bassoon especially being a rare textural delight. However, the true victor of the concert was the piccolo, an almost outlandishly conspicuous, penny-whistle-like presence in the heroic finale to the symphony.

Sunday’s performance was undeniably a pleasure to experience, and on many levels deeply satisfying for the listener — this was reflected in the enthusiastic audience response that day. But the Handel and Haydn Society’s success in interpreting the familiar hints at a far greater, untapped potential. Throughout its 2018–2019 season, the Handel and Haydn Society has played it safe, sticking to landmark works of the classical repertoire, and in all its power to convincingly tell a story, the orchestra this year is leaving a plethora of experiences and narratives unexplored. Sunday night’s concert made a strong case for the continued relevance of period orchestras, but what would be more compelling is the development of a real musical footprint. The idea of reinventing classic repertoire is not a new one. To truly take the listener on a journey, the orchestra must showcase not only the classics we know, but bring us the classics we will come to discover.

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Neither Ghostly Nor Gripping: ‘Guestbook: Ghost Stories’ CASSANDRA LUCA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

resurfaces constantly throughout reading “Guestbook” is that many of Shapton’s chapters are intriguing without actually doing the narrative work required to evoke the sense of haunting that the collection promises.

Certainly Shapton’s method of telling a story is not conventional, and there are a few moments when this attempt at breaking literary boundaries does work. But the experience is much akin to panning for gold: searching, desperately, for a small glimmer amid the dirt and silt.

Unfortunately, many of the stories within this book could be interesting and could elicit some emotional connection, yet the elements needed to create this feeling are either too small to be registered, or non-existent. The photographs and illustrations themselves are striking, many of them capturing the mundanity of everyday life, but these images do not stand on their own: They need more from their author, and Shapton ultimately does not deliver.

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“Guestbook: Ghost Stories” proudly claims on its back cover that this collage of images, listings, quasi-Instagram pictures, and one-page short stories “explores the visitations that haunt us in the midst of life, and reinvents the very way we narrate experience.” This statement is true: Even flipping through the pages produces a kind of eeriness in the reader — one tinged with an uncertainty entirely unrelated to the ghost stories themselves. Instead, the reader is led through a maze of disjointed collections of images and prose that should evoke a sense of hauntedness but instead fall flat. The familiarity of the imagery — seeing as it seeks to capture the mundane moments that make up our daily lives — lacks enough clarification to inspire the strangeness that author Leanne Shapton is going for, leaving the reader to flip through the pages in confusion.

There are good moments, however. Shapton, one of the authors of “Women in Clothes” along with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits, presents a story called “Billy Byron” in the early pages of the book. “Billy Byron” follows the tennis prodigy from birth through his depression and rise to fame. The story ends with his implied suicide in a way that is both poignant and jarring.

Shapton marries photographs from throughout his life with captions that keep the eye moving continuously. This rapid progression creates an anticipation that propels the story towards its end. “Billy Byron,” and other chapters — if they can indeed be called such — remind 21st century readers the importance of an image and how much people, even in an Instagram-saturated world, are hungry for images that transcend their time and touch them in ways that require prolonged scrutiny, instead of cursory double-taps.

“Peele House” is likely the most haunting of all the chapters and is an excellent example of the theme Shapton fails to capture throughout many of the others. Peele House, built in New York in 1931, appears in multiple photographs as the house passed from owner to owner, perhaps because more than one woman suffered a miscarriage there while many others reported strange noises and leaking water with no apparent source. The black and white photos, as well as their captions, are ethereal and remind the reader of what is so unsettling about old, creaky houses: a sense of being watched.

Other highlights of this collection include a curation of “Instagram photos,” called such because of the varying number of likes below each one, and a perfect description of shyness:“I’d always thought she was chilly, but when we were sat next to each other at dinner and got to talking about books and people we both knew, I realized her shyness was the blurry, foggy kind — reserved, but not cold.” “Georgehythe Place,” a short photo-illustration of a family living in the chapter’s namesake mansion, has its fair share of eerie deaths and mysteriously unidentifiable “water stains,” while a beautiful array of vintage dresses accompanies a short description of how the woman who bought it felt when she wore it or first looked at it. These chapters all act as curations of the images that have an inexplicable power to touch the viewer. Collected together and told as part of a larger narrative, they are truly striking in both their ability to capture a lost past and maintain the curiosity of a contemporary reader.

The confusing bits, however, are just that: confusing. Unfortunately, they occur often enough to bury the otherwise compelling parts of “Guestbook” among the many baffling pages.

“Who is this Who is Coming?” is a 10-page spread of nearly identical pictures of a veil: There is no explanation to accompany the black and white images. The reader, supposedly, must fill in the blanks, to the point that it feels like Shapton did not do her due diligence in crafting each collection carefully enough. “Public Figure Beauty Lover Digital Talent Traveler Spinario Parma | Abu Dhabi” is a short “poem,” though what it really is is anyone’s guess, composed entirely of compliments about a woman’s dress. The premise is intriguing, to be sure, but the problem that

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Bacow Writes to Grad Students

Legislators Call for New Zoning Overlay

commitment, which I’m sure you share, invariably means that sometimes it can time [sic] for the work to be completed,” Bacow wrote.

Multiple students said Monday that they found Bacow’s response to their concerns insufficient.

Government Ph.D. candidate Andrew M. Leber said the letter did not clearly indicate a “real plan” for addressing the concerns of graduate students.

“When you have to put this many qualifiers on the statement, it doesn’t really convey much sense that the University is taking this seriously or really intends to produce much in the way of tangible results that go beyond the suggestion that we need another institution, or need to hire another lawyer, or need to take another survey,” he said.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on criticisms of the letter.

Allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Dominguez over a year ago, when the Chronicle of Higher Education published two explosive articles revealing allegations of misconduct by Dominguez dating back nearly four decades.

University affiliates began calling for an external review of the allegations in March 2018, when fifteen of Dominguez’s accusers demanded University administrators create an “independent commission” to conduct a review of the allegations against him.

They argued the commission was vital to examining the institutional deficiencies that allowed Dominguez to maintain his position as a faculty member even after administrators first learned of harassment allegations in the early 1980s.

Multiple students also said

they are grateful that Bacow responded to their outreach.

External Review Working Group member and Government Ph.D. candidate Olivia A. Woldemikael wrote in an email that, though she believes the letter “wasn’t an invitation for dialogue,” she is nonetheless “grateful” for Bacow’s response.

“We have been repeating our request for an external review since shortly after the reports of Dominguez’s sexual harassment were published in March 2018,” Woldemikael wrote. “Up until this point, it felt like shouting into a void.”

In his letter, Bacow pointed to the University’s recent efforts to establish “a comprehensive infrastructure” designed to create a harassment-free campus.

Bacow cited ongoing efforts including an ongoing Title IX policy review committee created in 2015 and the formation of an action collaborative this year with other universities dedicated to studying sexual harassment.

A Government department committee tasked with scrutinizing departmental culture has also called for an external review.

Committee member Sarah S. Fellman ’18-’19 said that, in pointing out existing resources, Bacow’s email “dodges the main question.”

“I think the President mentioned a lot of laudable efforts that the University is working on, but those are efforts it should be working on anyway,” Fellman said. “We certainly absolutely should be improving Title IX policy and surveying folks, but that’s not what we asked for, and that’s not what we need in this circumstance.” jonah.berger@thecrimson.com molly.mccafferty@thecrimson.com

­ ousing can be built to address h our aafffordablehousing crisis,” he wrote in the statement.

At last Wednesday’s Housing Committee meeting, officers dedicated more than two hours to public comment regarding the proposed overlay, with both dedicated supporters and critics airing their views before the council.

Critics of the plan said the overlay could impose residential projects into unsuited neighborhoods, worsen traffic congestion, and work against the middle class. Supporters, however, argued that the overlay could help ensure access and equity.

City Councillor E. Denise Simmons, chair of the Housing Committee, said during the meeting that public input would be important in shaping the legislation.

“As I’ve said in previous hearings, it is critical that we all reach a shared understanding of what this proposed overlay is, what it aims to achieve, and how it would work,” Simmons said.

Recently released results from Cambridge’s 2018 Resident Opinion Survey indicate that 35 percent of respondents believe affordable housing is “the single most important issue facing the City of Cambridge today.”

According to McGovern, the overlay proposal will next proceed to a third Housing Committee meeting on March 28 and a roundtable discussion on April 9. Then, the proposal will head to the Ordinance Committee for a series of hearings, before arriving before the City Council. declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com katelyn.li@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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Center Student Opinion in Shopping Week

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hopping week continues to be one of the most hotly contested issues on campus. Ever at the forefront of this controversy, the Faculty Council — the Faculty of Arts and Science’s highest governing body — will vote Wednesday on whether to endorse a proposal set to significantly impact the status of shopping week and student life more broadly for years to come.

This proposal, which was presented by the chairs of a faculty committee investigating course registration — Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh and Philosophy professor Bernhard Nickel — suggests two primary measures: first, to postpone a final decision on the status of shopping week until spring 2022; and second, to form a new committee to more deeply investigate trends in enrollment, as a function of a broad range of University issues.

As the Council prepares to vote on this proposal, we believe it should recognize that shopping week is an issue that first and foremost affects undergraduate students and graduate student workers.

As the Council prepares to vote on this proposal, we believe it should recognize that shopping week is an issue that first and foremost affects undergraduate students and graduate student workers.

Given the pressing and deeply relevant issues that currently face both groups, we believe that postponing any decision on shopping week is imperative.

Until graduate students have fully established their institutional standing as a newly formed union, they will not be

able to adequately express their collective opinion on shopping week. With its ambitious list of 80 bargaining goals, the union expects that reaching a holistic agreement with the University will be an uphill battle. The first months of the bargaining process have been marked by disagreement and deadlock, resulting in only four agreements as of January.

The Council should be hyperconscious of this process when it votes on Wednesday, as frankly, graduate students are perhaps the most affected by shopping week. Every semester, shopping week forces graduate students to face significant job uncertainty, unsure of what or even if they will have the opportunity to teach and receive a much-needed stipend. The proposal smartly identifies graduate student unionization as an important factor for the new committee to consider as they investigate enrollment trends. But unionization is not merely a factor to be investigated by the committee. The perspective of that union — as the collective voice of the very group most affected by shopping week – must be taken into account. Until the unionization process is complete, these graduate student workers will not have the ability to adequately or completely represent opinions and interests that are vital in ensuring that the proposed system works for everyone.

Moreover, as we have skeptically noted, the administration has inundated the undergraduate body with requests for feedback on student life in the form of seemingly innumerable surveys. Not only do these surveys speak to a high demand being placed on undergraduates at the moment, but it suggests that there are a number of arguably more important issues at the forefront of undergraduates’ minds right now, not least among them sexual misconduct and safety and

inclusion in campus spaces.

Given that a productive investigation into enrollment trends will necessarily include undergraduate contributions, the Council should be aware of these demands and preoccupations that have been both circumstantially and administratively placed on undergraduate shoulders.

We believe that postponing any decision on shopping week is imperative.

Extending the timeline for a shopping week decision would likely result in the opportunity to gather more accurate and representative data about undergraduate interests and enrollment, as well as to potentially utilize the results of ongoing investigations into student life and campus climate.

We have so often been critical of the University and its various governing bodies for seeming to drag their feet on issues of enormous importance to student life.

On this issue, however, we hope the Faculty Council votes to slow down, acknowledging the fact that undergraduate students and graduate student workers are not in position at this moment to adequately contribute to what could very well be a historic pedagogical decision.

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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Los Vendidos, the Sellouts Zoe D. Ortiz and Ruben E. Reyes Jr. BORDERLANDS/ LA FRONTERA

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oe: Don’t forget where you come from. A string of seemingly innocent words, this sentence has haunted me for most of my life. The phrase that I carried with me through the hallways of my joint elementary and middle school on the affluent side of Houston. I received the best education I could and became one of a handful of the school’s Latinx students until I left for high school.

Ten years later, my Harvard enrollment signified endless educational opportunity in exchange for being a minority at a predominantly white institution.

Doors opened for my first-generation, low-income Latina hands. Doors that had always been closed to those before me. With that opportunity came the transformation of “don’t forget where you come from” to “don’t sell out.”

At home, getting a well-paying job is what it meant to be successful. It was the purpose of my education. At school, getting a well-paying private sector job is what it meant to “forget” where I come from.

Ruben: The conversation is almost mechanical: If you are among the half of the surveyed graduating class that enter the fields of finance (18 percent), consulting (18 percent), or technology (14 percent), you’re a sell out. This is especially true if you belong to a demographic systemically hurt by these industries, especially low-income communities of color.

If you’re a person of color working in these fields, you contribute to gentrification, the displacement of poor people, and systems built off the backs of people from backgrounds similar to yours. You contribute to the oppression of the community you come from. There’s no way of parsing this reality any other way.

But, simultaneously, a job in these

fields brings a substantial salary. In addition to ensuring rent and food security, you’re able to provide for family members who are struggling. “Selling out” is not always just about you and your personal gain — it’s about helping a sick relative or ensuring family members are able to make rent.

Z: Soon enough I wasn’t just me. I was my community. My decisions held weight, because I was one of few Latinx students in an elite space. To work in the private sector was equated with spitting on the hands that had lifted me here, shirking my responsibility as the future of my community. Forgetting where I had come from in favor of a high-paying salary meant being a sellout, a traitor.

The only way to avoid those labels was by working in the public sector, considered the only way any Latinx person could fight oppression.

R: More than 50 percent of surveyed graduating seniors entering the workforce report starting salaries greater than $70,000, with 11 percent reporting salaries upwards of $110,000. This means that many low-income students will make more money in their first year of work than their families do in a year.

For students who come from annual household incomes below $20,000, entering tech, finance, or consulting could double or triple their family’s income.

Can we, in good conscience, criticize their career choice?

Z: What did it mean to be a sellout? I could see the privilege that had brought me to this point. How my single-mother made money stretch, so I could spend high school studying instead of working.

I recognized how my primary education had groomed me for an elite university, even then.

These privileges, among others, were the pillars to my spot at the Ivy League. I knew most in my community didn’t get that shot.

At home, getting a well-paying job is what it meant to be successful. It was the purpose of my education. At school, getting a well-paying private sector job is what it meant to “forget” where I come from. It was the antithesis of being a Latinx student at an elite university.

R: The question of selling out or not, especially among students of color, isn’t clean cut. You do contribute to the oppression of others within career fields

that, in their very design, siphon other people of color out, and hurt a wide swath of already marginalized people.

But unlike a white classmate who comes from a background of mind-boggling wealth and family connections, entering morally-questionable fields is often a necessity. It allows an individual to directly contribute to the livelihoods — the very survival — of the people they love, the people who’ve nursed them and

The public sector is not, and can not, be the only place where Latinxs fight for our community. made their very journey to Harvard possible.

Z: As a student of color, I am intimately aware of the oppressive societal systems that exist everywhere. I understand the past of my community, I know its precarious future.

As one of the few who made it out, I am meant to fight for the rest, to push for their success. Yet too often that narrative is one that is tied to certain sectors, certain jobs, and certain positions.

The public sector is not, and can not, be the only place where Latinxs fight for our community. The constant villainization of the private sector and the Latinx students who choose to be employed by it neglects that those predominantly white spaces must also diversify. We are meant to open doors for others, not shut them.

R: “Selling out” does not look the same for everyone. Folks who enter exploitative industries must acknowledge the way their choices and jobs hurt other people of color. We must critique these phenomena.

But as we do, we should also avoid demonizing folks who have good reason to enter these fields, especially when their reasons feel existential. Doing so shifts our focus from los vendidos, to the system that threatens to crush us all.

—Ruben E. Reyes Jr. ’19, a former Crimson Editorial Chair, is a History & Literature concentrator in Leverett House. Zoe D. Ortiz ’19, a former Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House.

By MICHELLE I. GAO

want to be convinced of the sanctions. I have ever since I came into Harvard, mixed on the issue. Like the sanctions’ opponents, I had concerns that they were mixing together all types of single-gender organizations and infringing on students’ rights. But I supported what I presumed to be the sanctions’ main goals: lessening the power of these clubs and rectifying the social scene on campus.

So I have imagined this topic as a debate, like one that students might have in a classroom or an Institute of Politics forum — except that Harvard is one of the parties that must persuade. But for a long time, this has been far from reality, since Harvard is not obligated to convince its students to support the sanctions. And fair enough — as University President Lawrence S. Bacow said, anyone who chooses to attend Harvard chooses to live under its rules. But regardless of what Harvard has to do, I still think it should try to defend itself. That’s what the school would ask of its students.

I hope the pending sanctions lawsuit will force Harvard to actually make arguments and be persuasive. Because so far, the rhetoric of the administration surrounding the sanctions rollout has been insufficient and even insulting.

I hope the pending sanctions lawsuit will force Harvard to actually make arguments and be persuasive.

Because so far, the rhetoric of the administration surrounding the sanctions rollout has been insufficient and even insulting.

Most bafflingly, the administration seems perfectly willing to contradict itself and make easily disprovable allegations.

Its first motivation for the sanctions was to address sexual assault. Though surely nobody would profess to be against preventing sexual assault, many were, rightfully, against using sanctions to do so. Even though the administration moved away from this rationale, instead of acknowledging the shift, it ended up sidestepping as if sexual assault prevention had never been the main rationale at all — an easily challenged stance that, in hindsight, already hinted at the disingenuousness to come.

The administration also ignores developments that raise questions about whether the sanctions are working.

Its newer rationales for the sanctions are that they will tackle gender discrimination, as the first step in tackling all forms of discrimination.

There are fair points here: The final clubs are notoriously exclusive, and former University President Drew G. Faust has been especially passionate about improving women’s feeling of belonging at college.

So there should have been some serious reflection as the final clubs responded, for the most part, along two tracks.

While the male clubs dug in their heels and vowed to resist, the female clubs opened up. As of December, there is only one all-female social organization at Harvard; for the previous four months, there had been zero.

Is this discrepancy a problem? If the goal of the sanctions is to eradicate gender discrimination, probably not.

But if the goal is to help women feel more included in Harvard’s social scene, then maybe it is.

The point is, there’s a debate here that the administration isn’t grappling with.

Bacow acknowledged that organization members are “responding in their own way” — but his statement euphemistically glosses over the issue that there seem to be two distinct ways, separated by gender.

The extent to which the administration relies on canned answers that could have been given two years ago, instead of responding to new developments, is captured perfectly in this correction.

In December, The Crimson clarified that in an interview that month with Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, Khurana did not “not answer” questions regarding the sanctions; he merely “repeatedly pointed to previous statements instead of directly answering questions.”

One of Khurana’s answers also embodies my third complaint: that the administration patronizes its students. To the question of how exactly the sanctions would be enforced — a basic question that still did not have an answer — Khurana replied: “I trust our students,” and “I would ask each student to think about… being the best version of themselves.”

As heartwarming as it is, this laughably vague statement contradicts the very nature of the sanctions. If the administration trusted its students, it would not need sanctions. Harvard cannot have it both ways.

To justify the sanctions, the administration must justify their premise — that Harvard believes its students do not deserve that trust. Khurana’s kind of non-answer suggests that the administration doesn’t just not care about its hypocrisy; it also has the gall to assume that we students won’t care or notice.

With these obfuscations and stalls, the sanctions rollout has disappointed and irked me.

But I can’t imagine that this is the best Harvard can do; I think this rollout has been the product of the administration’s assuming it can unilaterally dictate a policy without addressing pushback. But I do still want to be persuaded. I hope the lawsuit will force Harvard to go on the defensive and do that real work of persuading.

—Michelle I. Gao ’21, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Government concentrator in Adams House.

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LOWELL FROM PAGE 1

THE HARVARD CRIMSON | MARCH 26, 2019

ASIA FROM PAGE 1

YARDFEST FROM PAGE 1

Lowell to Bacow Spends Break in Asia Remove Some Portraits gathered here today — and for anyone who cares about the unique role that higher education plays in the lives of countless people.”

Bacow also met with Xi on Wednesday, to discuss educational exchanges between the U.S. and China, according to Chinese press coverage.

“We will expand the opening ­

of reasons why we shouldn’t be honoring him. That said, he’s also a part of our history. And I think there are significant problems with forgetting aspects of our history that are less comfortable for us to think about.”

Yarrow added that he thinks displaying portraits or busts of Lowell in less central house locations, along with plaques explaining his legacy, would remind students of Harvard’s history of exclusion and the need for the University to serve underrepresented groups.

History department fellow Benjamin J. Sacks, who has written about Lowell’s tenure at Harvard, said the University should do more to publically grapple with his racist views.

“Lowell sought to promote ­

Lowell sought to promote a very particular type of person and to exclude a lot of other constituencies.

Benjamin L. Sacks History Department Fellow

a very particular type of person and to exclude a lot of other constituencies,” he said. “The University needs to be public in acknowledging Lowell’s very problematic legacy and perhaps take a more proactive and public examination of his past.”

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Sacks’s remarks. shera.avi-yonah@thecrimson.com delano.franklin@thecrimson.com

Our institutions have a responsibility to contribute positively to our own socieities and to the national good.

Lawrence S. Bacow University President

up of education, strengthen exchanges and experiences sharing with countries around the world, and jointly promote the development of education,” Xi

said in an article published by the Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency.

A spokesperson for the Chinese government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Eric P. Cheung, a Harvard Business School graduate who attended an alumni event in Hong Kong, wrote in an email that the speech at the Hong Kong event was “excellent.”

“It reminded our [C]hinese students that transformational thoughts and actions often take root on university [campuses] where intellectual freedom is paramount,” Cheung wrote.

In an interview prior to his departure, Bacow stressed the importance of international trips and bolstering Harvard’s presence in the world.

“While we are a distinctly American institution, we have a global footprint,” Bacow said.

“So, it’s important, I think, as president that I engage with people throughout the world and I will continue to do that.”

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Karen L. Thornber, the director of the Harvard Asia Center, lauded Bacow’s decision to travel to Asia, calling it an “incredibly important” step to strengthening foreign relations.

It sends a strong message that Harvard is committed to forging strong ties.

Karen L. Thornber Harvard Asia Center Director

“It sends a strong message that Harvard is committed to forging strong ties or continuing strong ties with Asia, but also acknowledging the importance of Asia on the world stage and the importance of remaining very strongly engaged with everything that’s happening in Asia,” Thornber said. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

DSO Bans Guests from Yardfest pressured” on Friday and Saturday nights, prompting it to recommend that the College schedule Yardfest at another time.

Administrators wrote in the email that dinner and water will be available in the Yard, and urged students to have enough to eat and drink over the course of the event. Per the committee’s recommendations, administrators also wrote that the College will not allow students to re-enter the concert venue.

College spokesperson Aaron M. Goldman wrote in an email that the DSO decided to eliminate guest tickets in order to make the event safer.

“The policy regarding guest tickets is being implemented in an effort to maintain a manageable capacity for this event and help ensure a safe and fun environment for all students,” Goldman wrote.

The review committee’s oth-

er recommendations include adopting a no-bags policy, increasing the number of Harvard University Police Department officers at the event, and monitoring safety through a centralized Emergency Operations Center. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano did not respond to a request for comment Monday evening about security measures for the event.

Goldman wrote the College will review the effectiveness of its new Yardfest policies after the concert.

Yardfest traditionally features a prominent musical headliner invited by the College Events Board, which organizes the event; rappers Lil’ Yachty and Wale headlined last year’s show. The 2019 guest artist will be announced on Wednesday evening at the Battle for Yardsanjana.narayanan@thecrimson.com samuel.zwickel@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

MEN’S BASEBALL

ABOUT THE TEAM

2018-19 Overall Record 10-5 ______________________________________

Batting Average .302 ______________________________________

UPCOMING GAMES ______________________________________

Conference Record 2-1 ______________________________________

On Base Percentage .358 ______________________________________

Games

15 ______________________________________

Slugging Percentage .489 ______________________________________

Men’s Baseball vs. Holy Cross 3:30 p.m., at Harvard

Runs 98 ______________________________________

Hits 160 ______________________________________

Runs Per Game 6.5 ______________________________________

Home Runs 19 ______________________________________

BASEBALL

Harvard Grand Slam in Grand Finale Against Penn

By JACKSON DELGADO CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

It was the top of the eighth inning in a tied game, the third of a tied series, when junior outfielder Jake Suddleson stepped into the batter’s box. With the bases juiced, Suddleson was poised to drive in a run or two and finally break the stalemate.

He drove in four.

“It was a 4-4 game and we were scrapping away,” said senior pitcher Ian Miller. “We needed that one hit to get us over the edge. Jake really came through for us and hit an opposite field grand slam. His energy going around the bases was infectious — it really picked us up.

It was great.”

“Jake Suddleson’s grand slam was one of the more exciting baseball moments I’ve ever had in my life,” added senior first baseman Patrick McColl.

“The whole dugout was going crazy.”

The grand slam marked Suddleson’s fifth home run of the season, and was emblematic of the Crimson’s (10-5, 2-1 Ivy) offensive attack in this weekend’s three high-scoring contests against the Quakers (116, 1-2). Suddleson hit two home runs and two doubles in the series, McColl hit two homers and three doubles, and senior infielder and team captain Chase Aldridge contributed a homer and a double as well.

“Going up to the plate, our whole team has a lot of confidence right now,” commented McColl, whose home run in the fourth inning of Sunday’s game tied the contest at four runs apiece. “We’re aggressive swinging the bat — we don’t walk a whole lot but we get a ton of hits. I think it’s very conta-

gious. We knew that it was going to be an offensive day in a hitter-friendly park.”

McColl himself continued a hot start to the season. He extended a multi-hit streak to six straight games, and holds the third-highest batting average in the country at .515. He is also tied with Suddleson with 22 RBI’s on the season, leading the team. Nonetheless, he was nonchalant about his recent success at the plate.

“You just do everything you can,” the Los Altos, Calif., native said. “Baseball’s a game where sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you get unlucky.

I’ve been feeling good at the plate, being aggressive, and getting good pitches to hit. It’s been working so far — hopefully I’ll be able to keep it up.”

On Saturday, the Crimson played a windy, high-scoring doubleheader against the Quakers, taking the first game 12-9 but dropping the second game 16-12.

“We did a really good job coming out with energy in the first game,” Miller said. “Everyone was super excited to play.”

“It was nice to get into the Ivy League season — this ups the ante a little bit and makes the games more intense,” McColl said. “Saturday was a crazy day — the wind was blowing super hard, which pushed up the scores and home runs in the two games. For the first game we were able to come out on top in a slugfest, but in the second game we came out a little flatter and Penn was able to take it.”

The focus of the weekend, though, was the Sunday matchup that decided the series.

“Sunday was a super fun baseball day,” McColl said. “It was a really intense game.”

BIGGE MOVES Junior Hunter Bigge returns to his infield position in one of Harvard’s games against Penn last year. The Crimson took down the Quakers in this year’s rendition of the match-up, 2-1, after a grand slam home run from junior Jake Suddleson. ALLSION G. LEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Miller was able to control the Quaker offense from the bump.

He pitched 7.1 innings and collected his second win of the young season.

“I was just trying to throw strikes and keep the ball down,” the Brooklyn, N.Y., native had to say. “I tried to use their aggression to my advantage. The ball was traveling like crazy this weekend, and they’d been doing a really good job elevating the

ball into the wind. I was trying to keep the ball on the ground as much as possible.”

Miller also credited the Crimson infield with solid defensive play to back him up.

“My infield did a fantastic job turning two and making the plays behind me,” he offered, “so I was able to lean on them.”

All in all, the weekend provided the Harvard squad with an encouraging start to Ivy

League play.

“Penn is a great team, so we knew that it was going to be a challenge,” Miller said. “But we also knew that if we came out and made a statement this weekend, we were going to be in a great position going forward.

We feel really good about the rest of the Ivy League season having won on the road against a really good team.”

“We’re pretty confident go-

ing into this next series,” McColl added. “We’re going to try to win as many as we can, but we just focus on one game at a time.”

Harvard takes on Holy Cross in a non-conference contest on Tuesday before facing Princeton over the weekend. Both matchups will be at home on O’Donnell Field. jackson.delgado@thecrimson.com

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s Basketball Falls to NC State, Ending Tourney Run

By HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard men’s basketball team bowed out of the NIT and concluded its 2018-19 season on Sunday night, falling short of another upset victory over ACC side NC State.

Both junior Bryce Aiken and freshman Noah Kirkwood tallied 19 points apiece in a game which featured 11 lead changes in the second half. The Crimson had an opportunity to tie or ­

re-take the lead with 17 seconds remaining after an offensive rebound off an Aiken missed free throw, but Wolfpack guard Braxton Beverly denied the Crimson guard on his triple attempt.

A last-second three from Rio Haskett was not enough to salvage the visiting side, as Harvard walked off the court for the final time in front of an electrifying sold-out crowd of 5,500 at Reynolds Coliseum.

“Really tough loss for us —

this is an amazing environment, it’s my first time back in many years and seeing how this is transformed, I thought the energy with the crowd was such a boost for their kids,” said Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, who played at Reynolds Coliseum while at Duke for four seasons. “Kevin [Keatts] has done such a wonderful job in how they play, they are very hard to defend. We couldn’t really guard them off the bounce.”

A combination of strong

offensive rebounding in the game(17) as well as forced turnovers(17) was crucial for a Wolfpack side. Keatts’ side pressured the Crimson throughout the contest with a full-court press and limited Aiken to six conversions over 18 attempts in its 78-77 win.

“As I watched the Georgetown game, I knew those guys were pretty good,” Keatts said.

“Obviously what they do is they spread you out, they run a lot of ball screens, they have mo-

tion. And they have a legitimate post that can score inside.

We went into the game saying that if we were going to have a chance to win the game, we had to do a great job on Bryce Aiken. I told them that [Aiken] had to shoot a bad percentage to get his points.”

The Harvard point guard did have scoring relief in this contest, including a perfect 7-of-7 outing from classmate Chris Lewis inside and a 8-of12 showing from the aforemen-

THE BRYCE AIN’T RIGHT Bryce Aiken’s 19 points were not enough to move the Crimson into the third round of the National Invitation Tournament in Sunday night’s game.

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tioned Kirkwood. Lewis added four blocks to his name on the night — tying his personal-best — while teammate Robert Baker also logged three rejections.

But the Wolfpack’s late push to hold a slight lead throughout the final nine minutes opened up to a five-point margin approaching the final 30 seconds, proving too big of a hill for the Crimson to climb.

No player from NC State — outside of a brief hot streak from Markell Johnson and CJ Bryce — had a standout performance, but it was the balanced effort posed by numerous offensive weapons that made the difference.

The Wolfpack shot below 30 percent from the extended three-point line, but five players tallied double-figures in the tightly-contested battle.

“Certainly I thought in the second half how much they got on the backboard made a huge difference,” Amaker said. “I was proud of our kids of the effort they put forth and making this an interesting game going all the way down to the wire.

But not enough to beat a really good basketball team.”

The Crimson conclude its season with a 19-12 overall record and an appearance in the NIT second round for the first time in program history.

Harvard will add its seventh regular-season championship to the banners at Lavietes Pavilion, and return just about all of its scoring for the next campaign.

“I’m proud of what we were able to accomplish this year,” Amaker said. “We didn’t do all that we wanted but certainly were able to accomplish a lot with what we went through with injuries and different things within our team...overall when we get a chance to reflect and digest it all, I think we accomplished a lot but not as much as we wanted.”

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