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EDITORIAL PAGE 4

NEWS PAGE 5

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HUHS Primary Care services should be improved.

Alan Jenkins will return to Law School as a professor in July.

Men’s and women’s squash teams claim both national championships.

Corporation Members Give to Democrats

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

“­ Here in Harvard Yard, we must embrace diversity in every possible dimension, because as Governor Baker said so eloquently, we learn from our differences — and that includes ideological diversity,” University President Lawrence S. Bacow told a crowd of hundreds at his inauguration in October 2018.

During the first eight months of his presidency, Bacow has traveled across the country communicating this same message. In trips from Michigan to California, he has sought to change perceptions of Harvard as an East Coast, liberal, elitist institution. In five separate trips to Washington, D.C., he has met with lawmakers across the aisle.

Despite Harvard’s concerted effort to present a non-partisan front, many members of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — still maintain strong, traceable ties to Democrats.

The 12-member body currently includes former Obama administration officials, outspoken critics of President Donald Trump, and a number of high-spending political donors who overwhelmingly give to Democratic candidates and campaign finance committees.

CORPORATION CONTRIBUTIONS

Since 1990 — the earliest date for which data was available — members of the Corporation and Bacow have collectively donated more than $2.7 million to Democratic candidates and campaign finance committees in federal elections, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Election Commission. $322,149 has gone to Republican candidates and organizations in that same time period.

Out of these thirteen individuals, only two Corporation members — James W. Breyer and Paul J. Finnegan ’75 — have given the majority of their political donations to Republican candidates or political organizations.

Bacow — who served on the Corporation from 2011 until he assumed the presidency in July — has donated more than $9,000 to Democrats since 1990, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the most recent election cycle, he donated $1,000 to U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.).

Penny S. Pritzker ’81 is by far the most significant donor among Corporation members, giving over $1.5 million to Democrats since 1990. She also gave $22,000 to Republicans between 1996 and 2006.

A member of the Pritzker family, one of America’s wealthiest families and owners of the Hyatt hotel chain, Pritzker has long been involved in politics — most notably through her close connections to former President Barack Obama. She is one of the newest members of the Corporation, having assumed her role in July 2018.

Pritzker did not respond to a request for comment.

Paul Finnegan — the University Treasurer, who also sits on the Corporation — has given $226,650 to Republicans and $169,774 to Democrats since 1990. Finnegan wrote in an emailed statement that he considers himself an independent.

Finnegan, a Chicago-based investor, has also been “an enthusiastic supporter” of Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel since his 2015 campaign, he wrote. He contributed $100,000 to the mayor’s campaign fund that year, a sum not included in Corporation-wide totals because it was a local election.

Other notable donors on the Corporation include lawyer Theodore V. Wells, Jr. — who has given more than half a million dollars to Democrats since 1990 — and Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee ’72, who has

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UC Partners To Serve Students

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

Graduate Student Union representatives presented a motion to the Graduate Students Council Wednesday evening requesting support for their #NoCarveOut bargaining effort. CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

and discrimination. Currently, the University oversees such cases, whereas third party arbitration takes judgement out of the University’s hands.

Union members made the case for their proposal, arguing that third party arbitration is necessary to eliminate any conflict of interest that might arise

when the University has to investigate its own faculty or staff, or seeks to protect its image.

“Instead of having to go to an office that is ultimately run

by Harvard and in some sense is biased towards protecting Harvard’s interests, you go to an outside arbitrator — who is paid in equal parts by the union, who

By RUTH ZHENG CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Emma Dench discussed her current role at Harvard and her career trajectory in an interview at the Smith Campus Center Wednesday evening conducted

by Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Harvard’s first full-time Muslim chaplin.

The interview marked the second installment of “Life Matters,” a discussion series hosted by Abdur-Rashid that offers students the opportunity to learn from the insights and life experiences of members of Harvard’s academic community. ­

GSAS Dean Emma Dench discussed her life experiences with Chaplain Khalil Abdur-Rashid. MARIAH ELLEN D. DIMALALAUN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Some Undergraduate Council partnerships serve College students — and benefit the UC.

represents you there, and the University, so there’s no conflict of interest,” said bargaining committee member Cole M. Meisenhelder.

The proposed policies would not preclude students from choosing to use

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Dench, Abdur-Rashid Talk Scholarship, Life

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

R hodes Scholar and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient Jin K. Park ’18-’19 testified before a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Immigration Policy in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

Park, who became the first-ever DACA recipient to win the Rhodes Scholarship in November 2018, spoke about his experiences as an undocumented immigrant and the effect of recent immigration policy changes. Park made national headlines shortly after receiving the award because he risks being unable to return to the United States after studying abroad at the University of Oxford on the scholarship due to his status as a DACA recipient.

DACA is an Obamaera policy that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as ­

GSAS Student Council Backs Proposal The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Graduate Student Council approved a resolution declaring their official support for the graduate student union’s proposal to include sexual harassment and discrimination in grievance procedures at their monthly open meeting Wednesday.

Prior to passing the resolution, representatives from the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers explained their proposed policies —which they call the #NoCarveOut proposal — and fielded questions from attendees. Graduate students at the council meeting also debated the Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs’ rules for funding student groups, which some called unfair.

The GSC decided to expedite the vote on their resolution of support — originally scheduled for April — and then voted unanimously, with one abstention, to support the union’s grievance procedure proposal, which if included in their contract would provide the option to choose neutral third party arbitration in cases of sexual harassment

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During the conversation, Dench answered questions about challenges she has faced throughout her academic career and at Harvard.

Dench, who assumed the deanship last year, said her biggest challenge is strategizing about raising the profile of GSAS students at the University.

“It can seem a quite college focused experience and [I’m] just really trying to focus in on the very particular experience and the needs of the graduate students,” Dench said. “That’s something I think about obsessively.”

She said her “big

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The Undergraduate Council boasts an annual operating budget of $650,000 that is distributed each year across several categories: administering student services, putting on campus-wide events, and funding student-run clubs.

That budget, derived from the recently increased Student Activities Fee and funding from the Office of Student Life, is sufficient to finance many of the UC’s projects.

Despite this significant budget, however, it cannot afford to fully fund the many initiatives students propose every semester.

From providing convenient transportation to purchasing textbooks and dorm supplies, addressing needs across the College is an expensive endeavor.

When established multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies already have solutions to student life challenges, the UC partners with them at no cost to bring these technologies to campus without needing to further subsidize student projects.

Through many of these partnerships, the UC is able to exchange on-campus publicity for companies for discounted services available to the entire student body.

The benefits derived from some market-

ing campaigns directly support internal UC programming for its representatives.

PARTNERING FOR STUDENTS

After losing his UC presidential bid in fall 2018, Daniel K. Ragheb ’20 approached UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 about ways he could continue to support the council’s work.

They invited him to begin surveying students who live in the Quad about their transportations needs and concerns.

After receiving more than 100 responses in a few days — of which roughly 93 percent of respondents said they would use a free or discounted transportation service every weekend if it existed on campus — Ragheb decided to act on this apparent need.

He said the unusually high survey participation convinced him that transportation issues were salient for students who do not live in River houses.

“People are scared to walk home in the dark; people are annoyed by the fact that they have to wait 45 minutes in the cold for the next shuttle,” Ragheb said.

“This is something on people’s minds.”

The UC had already planned to collaborate with ride-sharing company Lyft to arrange discounts for Harvard

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Head over to the Phillips Brooks House Association tonight for a show hosted by Kuumba as part of this year’s Black Arts Festival. Drag queens will be there to participate in a dialogue with the audience about drag and gendered performance.

Alex Trebek Breaks News of His Stage Four Pancreatic Cancer

Iconic “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek announced on the show’s official YouTube that he has stage four pancreatic cancer. Trebek went on to say that he hopes to beat the disease, which is known to have a low survival rate.

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R. Kelly in Custody for Failure to Pay Child Support

After the heavy snowfall on Sunday night, Randolph Courtyard in Adams House was blanketed with snow. KATHRYN S. KUHAR—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Owing more than $150,000 in child support payments, rapper R. Kelly was reportedly “depressed” and “upset” about his return to jail. A team of supporters is also reportedly working to get him released by next Wednesday.

Claire’s Stores Selling Makeup Containing Asbestos, According to the FDA

DAILY BRIEFING Harvard has long attempted to present a non-partisan front, especially in the current political climate as higher education is increasingly associated with the Democratic party. But many members of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — still maintain strong, traceable ties to Democrats. In other news, Rhodes Scholar and DACA Recipient Jin K. Park ’19 testified before a House Committee on immigration issues.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert about the makeup sold by the popular retail store after finding evidence of known carcinogen asbestos in three of Claire’s makeup products.

In response, Claire’s has removed the products that tested positive for asbestos as well as all talccontaining products from their stores, though it maintains that the tests were inaccurate and their products are safe.

AROUND THE IVIES BROWN

Brown’s international and public affairs institute will combine three of its undergraduate concentrations — Development Studies, International Relations, and Public Policy — into one new concentration called “International and Public Affairs,” the Brown Daily Herald reported.

Concentrators could see the change as early as this fall if administrators approve the plan. The new program will feature gateway courses for freshmen and sophomores addressing issues of ethnicity, gender, and inequality.

COLUMBIA

Columbia’s sustainability plan for 2020 will likely include a greater focus on achieving carbon neutrality, as well as plans for improved energy efficiency and waste reduction. Many of the plan’s goals have already been implemented, including the rolling out of electric shuttle buses and hybrid vehicles for public safety officers. Student groups on campus have called on Columbia to become more sustainable and are planning a “climate strike” for next week.

YALE

Yale President Peter Salovey will travel to China this month to visit alumni and strengthen the university’s research ties with other Chinese institutions, according to the Yale Daily News.

Salovey will meet with alumni at the Yale Club of Hong Kong and Yale Club of Shanghai. The president will also visit the Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Yale Immune-metabolic Research Center, and participate in the launch ceremony for the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Salovey will give a speech at the 70th anniversary celebration for the New Asia College in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Jenkins Returns UC Partnerships Subsidize Projects as Law Professor PARTNERS FROM PAGE1

By CONNOR W. K. BROWN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Former Harvard Law School Lecturer Alan Jenkins ’85 will join the school’s faculty as a professor of practice in July and teach courses on race, communications, and social justice, the Law School announced Tuesday.

Jenkins, who taught a course entitled “Communications, Law and Social Change” at the Law School in 2016, is the co-founder and president of The Opportunity Agenda — a civic engagement and social justice communication lab that ­

Preparing emerging leaders to uphold fairness and equal justice is as important now as at any time in our nation’s history.

Alan Jenkins ’85 Incoming Law School Professor of Practice

“uses a unique combination of communication expertise and creative engagement to help social justice leaders tell a better story,” according to the organization’s website.

“I am excited to join the Harvard Law School faculty at this pivotal moment for our constitutional democracy,” said Jenkins in a press release.

“Preparing emerging leaders to uphold fairness and equal justice is as important now as at any time in our nation’s history,” he added.

Jenkins studied Psychology and Social Relations at the College, holds a J.D. from the Law School, and an M.A. in Media

Studies from the New School for Public Engagement in New York.

After finishing his legal education at Harvard, Jenkins subsequently clerked for United States District Court Judge Robert L. Carter and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun ’29.

Before founding The Opportunity Agenda, Jenkins worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant to the Solicitor General.

His work included representing the United States before the Supreme Court in constitutional and other litigation.

He also acted as associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, defending low-income communities from exploitation and discrimination, according to the press release.

Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 said in a press release that Jenkins brings significant experience and strong legal expertise to Harvard’s campus.

“Alan is one of the country’s leading thinkers on the relationship between media, public opinion, law, policy and ensuring opportunity for all Americans,” Manning said.

“I am thrilled that he will be bringing to Harvard Law students his expertise on what today’s lawyers and leaders need to be effective communicators for their cause,” Manning added.

Jenkins has also served as a commentator on broadcast outlets including MSNBC and CNN, and print publications such as the New York Times and the Huffington Post. connor.brown@thecrimson.com

students, and after Ragheb’s survey identified transportation concerns among Quad students, he was invited to the table.

Now, UC leadership and Lyft are in discussions about a partnership to provide affordable evening transportation that is faster and more convenient for some students than evening van and shuttle services.

“Whether helping students get home late or to a nearby event, Lyft is available to provide affordable and reliable transportation to the Harvard student body,” Lyft Communications Manager Daniel Roberts wrote in an email.

This partnership is one of several projects the UC has initiated in recent years to bring discounts and convenience to students across the College.

While residents of the Quad served as inspiration for this initiative, Lyft programs at other universities suggest the benefits may ultimately extend to everyone on campus who wants a ride.

At the University of California, Los Angeles, for example, the company offers cheaper flat rates for all rides that originate on their campus and travel to other affiliated buildings, according to a Lyft blog post.

UC Representative Alexa C. Jordan ’22, on the other hand, was canvassing dorms in Ivy Yard for general feedback when a student suggested the UC look into starting an umbrella sharing program for rainy days in Cambridge.

The proposal quickly transformed into conversations about a collaboration with UmbraCity, a Canada-based company.

“This is an effort to have the UC be efficient, effective, and impactful to students,” Jordan said.

In 2016, UmbraCity tested an umbrella-sharing service at the

University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus to “solve the frustration of getting soaked in the rain due to the loss, breakage or simply forgetfulness in the possession of an umbrella,” according to UmbraCity’s website.

Partnering with Harvard would be UmbraCity’s first American venture.

Based on current conversations with the UC, UmbraCity umbrellas would be available free for 24-hour rental periods for students and faculty, accord-

This is an effort to have the UC be efficient, effective, and impactful to students.

Alexa C. Jordan ’22 UC Representative

ing to the company’s founder and CEO Amir Entezari.

But not all partnerships feature externally run companies.

The UC has also sought to back Harvard students’ ventures.

The council recently sponsored College X Change, an online commerce platform specifically aimed at Harvard students.

Milton K. Dorceus ’19 and Kervens Fonrose co-founded College X Change because they saw a need for a single platform students could use to buy and sell items.

After launching in summer 2017, it has since expanded to 300 users.

“Seeing a lot of people selling and trying to push things on GroupMe, email lists, the Facebook free and for sale pages — there are so many avenues that no one knows where to go,” Dorceus said.

“For me, I envision that there can be a cultural change in which everyone knows that

there’s one place to go to buy and sell things from each other, even give things away for free, and that would just make things so much easier, so much more efficient.” He added.

The UC has helped publicize College X Change by including the platform in email blasts and other promotional materials, according to Dorceus.

“I just really found a lot of value in the UC just given it’s a student led organization and it’s an established organization on campus that a lot of individuals respect,” Dorceus said.

‘MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL’

While many of the UC’s partnerships serve College students at large, they also maintain a special partnership with Harvard Student Agencies. Through this, the council secures additional funds it can then use for its own activities and operating budget in exchange for publicity and support.

The UC advertises the Harvard One Ring, a college ring sold by The Harvard Shop and fulfilled by Balfour, a graduation product company.

The UC’s original contract, which ran from 2015 to 2019, required the UC to send promotional emails over its lists, display the HSA logo on certain council websites, and have the UC President speak at the One Ring ceremony held annually during Junior Family Weekend.

The contract also mandated that the board meet twice a year to discuss and distribute advertising duties for the coming semester, as well as to provide the UC with its semesterly compensation capped at $1,500.

UC Treasurer Jack M. Swanson ’22 said the council partners with organizations like HSA to raise additional funds on top of what it receives from the College, helping to cover the coun-

cil’s own activities and costs without diverting funds from the general student population.

“The idea is that we should

Whether helping students get home late or to a nearby event, Lyft is available to provide affordable and reliable transportation to the Harvard student body.

Daniel Roberts Lyft Communications Manager

not spend student term bill money on those issues because those are, like, internal UC affairs and have nothing to do with the student money,” Swanson said.

The initial contract expired at the beginning of 2019, but the UC has continued to advertise the rings as they renew their agreement with HSA. The success of the One Ring contract, Swanson said, led to discussions on further partnerships between the UC and HSA. Both organizations are now looking to partner on events during Visitas, the College’s annual weekend for accepted students hosted in April, and expand their advertising efforts to admitted students.

“In the future, we’re sort of working on more partnerships with HSA for the same reason,” Swanson explained.

“The mutually beneficial aspect is that UC needs money, HSA needs advertising, and it tends to work out that way.” He added. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com laura.espinoza@thecrimson.com

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Rhodes Scholar Jin Park Testifies Before Congress

GSAS Graduate Student Council Approves Union Resolution

children to live and work legally in the country. But after President Trump’s Administration moved to eliminate the program and federal judges blocked that effort, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services eliminated a specific provision of the program that allows recipients to travel outside the country under limited circumstances, such as for educational purposes.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in a Tuesday faculty meeting that Harvard has “connected” Park with legal counsel from law firm WilmerHale, which is representing him pro-bono.

Wednesday morning, Park joined seven other witnesses to testify at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in light of the Trump administration’s decisions to dismantle a series of programs preventing certain immigrants’ deportations. In addition to Park, the panel also included individuals with Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure — programs that give immigrants from particular countries temporary legal status in the U.S. or allow the president to temporarily pardon some groups of undocumented immigrants, respectively.

The panel also featured immigration advocates and experts, and a bishop from the

existing University procedures; third-party arbitration would serve as an additional option, according to union organizer Erik Baker. He added that while the grievance policy would initially raise dues by a voted-on amount, increased use of the arbitration process would not further raise the dues rate.

Meisenhelder said that the Harvard bargaining unit continues to oppose including sexual harassment or discrimination cases in the neutral third-party grievance procedure clause.

“This grievance procedure is going to be in the contract no matter what,” Baker said.

“The University says that that’s fine as a way to treat every other contract violation, but in the specific case of sexual harassment and discrimination you have to only use the institutions that exist at the present.”

University spokesperson Johnathan L. Swain wrote in an emailed statement that if included in the contract, the union’s proposal would lack the “thoroughness, fair play, and due process” of Harvard’s investigatory process. He added that a third-party arbitrator would not have any legal power to punish faculty, students, or other employees who are found guilty of misconduct.

archdiocese of Washington, D.C. The eight witnesses answered questions about the impact of recent policy changes on undocumented immigrants and the country as whole.

As the first witness to testify, Park described boarding a plane bound for Flushing, Queens from South Korea when he was seven years old in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis in East Asia. He recounted knowing absolutely no English on his first day of school except for the words “Home Alone” — the movie he watched on the plane.

He also recalled the moment when, after attempting to volunteer at a local hospital at age 15 and being told by an administrator that the hospital “didn’t allow illegal aliens,” he learned for the first time that he was undocumented.

“That’s the perpetual reality of being undocumented,” he said before the committee. “No matter how hard I work or what I achieve I’ll never know if I ever have a place in America, my home.”

Park also spoke about how his parents’ sacrifices help reassure him that his fight for immigrant rights is worth it, even when it becomes challenging.

“Sometimes I get discouraged about the discourse and the dialogue around immigration. And I think when I do get

discouraged I just look at my father’s hands. You know, they’re rough and coarse and broken because of the kind of work that my parents do — ultimately for me,” he said. “And I stand before you today as a DACA recipient, but my achievements and ability to succeed in America do not exist without my parents.”

When Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) asked Park to explain what he thought about the “concept of belonging,” Park said that he wanted to detach the validity of calling the United States his “home” from his achievements as a Harvard Rhodes Scholar — a sentiment he repeated throughout the hearing.

“America to me is home,” he said later in his testimony.

“I don’t think that my achievements have anything to do with the fact that I’ve grown up here and I’ve made deep and profound connections to the people and the institutions and the practices here.”

While discussing what he believes truly establishes America as his home, Park described familiar memories from Flushing.

“I think about the fact that my bodega knows exactly how I like my bacon, egg, and cheese,” he said. amanda.su@thecrimson.com

“The University continues to approach these negotiations in good faith, with a commitment to reaching an agreement that is good for student workers, all students and the University. While differences around this and other proposal remain, we are committed to the negotiation process and look forward to continuing to sort through these important issues with our HGSU-UAW colleagues,” Swain wrote.

The GSC also updated attendees on their most recent meeting with GSAS deans, during which they discussed problems students had voiced with the GSAS Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs’ funding process, after some students took issue with ODMA’s decision against funding the GSAS LatinX Student Association.

The ODMA currently provides additional funding to three student groups that serve as “umbrella” groups, according to GSAS spokesperson Ann Hall. The three funded groups are LGBTQ@GSAS, Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, and the W.E.B Du Bois Graduate Society — a social affinity group for all underrepresented students at GSAS. These groups can recieve upwards of $10,000.

Audience member Aaron

R. Benavidez, the President of Finance for the GSAS LatinX Student Association, said that when the LatinX Student Association met with the ODMA in fall 2018 to ask for funding, ODMA declined and offered “administrative support” instead, stating that the LatinX Student Association does not qualify as an umbrella group.

Benavidez called ODMA’s decision a “trivialization of the Latinx identity.”

“This is really about supporting Latinx students who are undersupported,” Benavidez said.

“It’s absurd that we have to spill so much email ink just sort of saying, ‘Can you just give us $11,000 so we don’t have to go through reimbursement processes?’ One former leader has a child, and she told me she needed reimbursement to buy her kid diapers,” he added.

Hall declined to comment late Wednesday night.

The GSC also passed its first resolution this semester: ratifying proposed changes to the way graduate students fund the Ivy+ Conference, an annual graduate student leadership conference for Ivy League schools, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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Urgent Improvement in Care

Sanctions: Noble, but Ham-Fisted

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s Paul J. Barreira prepares to step down from his post as Director of Harvard University Health Services, he and Harvard University Senior Director of Nursing and Health Promotion Maria Francesconi are taking a much-needed stab at addressing some of the health service shortcomings most immediately felt by Harvard undergraduates. In seeking direct feedback from students, the duo is aiming to improve the quality of healthcare services.

Given the massive overrepresentation of undergraduates in Urgent Care, we hope these improvements will address this possible overdependence, and, if useful, to encourage more widespread engagement with Primary Care services.

To that end, we hope HUHS responds to this data by allocating its resources more efficiently, as well as restructuring the process by which undergraduates interact with the Primary Care system.

The data speaks for itself. While undergraduates account for more than 80 percent of Urgent Care visits, only ten percent of students reach out to Primary Care providers before arriving on campus their freshman year — a statistic that, although only available for Primary Care usage prior to freshman year, seems indicative of a broader underutilization of these services.

There are many factors that might explain why undergraduates constitute such a high percentage of Urgent Care traffic. Barreira and Francesconi point to undergraduate’s busy schedules and a general confusion about the assignment of Primary Care physicians. It’s

also worth considering the proximity of undergraduate housing to HUHS’s only Urgent Care location — the third floor of the Smith Campus Center, a hub of campus life — in determining whether undergraduates’ disproportionate reliance on Urgent Care is in fact detrimental to student health.

Whether or not this trend is indicative of poor undergraduate access to healthcare, it does point to a need for systemic reform within HUHS. Primary Care services should be significantly improved.

At present, as Barreira and Francesconi

We hope HUHS responds to this data by allocating its resources more efficiently, as well as restructuring the process by which undergraduates interact with the Primary Care system. suggest, the Primary Care system can be daunting for students to negotiate, and that process must be reworked.

Similarly, HUHS should consider putting more effort into the way it connects students with their Primary Care providers. One avenue to explore this would be to send an explicit email introducing students to their Primary Care doctors.

Even if this introduction is pro forma, it would likely make students feel more comfortable reaching out to schedule introductory and continued-care appoint-

ments. Overall, the Primary Care system and its providers should be strive to always be responsive and readily accessible to students.

Beyond these preliminary suggestions, we look forward to seeing what creative solutions HUHS produces to improve student healthcare. And while Barriera’s long and successful tenure at HUHS has been praiseworthy, his departure provides the opportunity for the University to appoint a successor who understands these challenges and is prepared to tackle them head on. Beyond undergraduate use of Primary and Urgent Care, we hope the new director works to make HUHS and its processes more transparent. Releasing the results of the biannual health survey delayed by Barreira in the fall as well as championing issues of mental health services and opioid usage in the community would be important priorities for a new director.

We continue to be thankful for the effort the HUHS staff puts into providing care to the Harvard community every day, and we look forward to seeing how HUHS pursues tangible improvement to the services it provides under new leadership.

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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A Crippling Sense of Entitlement Ifeoluwa T. Obayan REMNANT OF TRUTH

F

rom the moment we receive our Harvard acceptance letters, we are told that it was because of our potential. The potential to continue on our bright paths of success and excellence.

But what happens when we hit a roadblock, stumble, or simply tumble right over?

The reality is that our Harvard acceptance letters, at times, come with a false sense of invincibility. We feel entitled in the sense that we expect to receive anything we’ve set our sights on. When our hard work, time, and effort results in failure or rejection, it crushes us — so much so that instead of learning from it, we avoid any and all situations that may not have a favorable outcome. In a world where everyone always wants to look like they are “winning,” we do our best to set it up so we always are.

During my junior fall, I entered the world of recruiting. While I focused on consulting internships, there were many people who cast a wide net and recruited for finance, consulting, tech jobs, and more. I remember having a conversation with someone who didn’t get any consulting offers but was having more success in other industries. They said that they wished they didn’t waste their time on consulting interviews because it wasn’t fruitful.

This struck me as odd. I definitely didn’t enjoy the multiple rejections I also received in that season. However, I did

ultimately come to view them as a sign that the job or firm was not for me, rather than feel cheated or bitter that I didn’t get an offer. If anything, the invaluable skill of interviewing for a job or even the cool opportunity to travel to anoth-

When failure is seen as an affront to one’s identity, it is an indication that we have confused who we are with what we do. er city to visit a company was a learning lesson in itself. Nevertheless, I do understand this sentiment. Growing up as the “smart girl” before college, I can relate to the fear of failure. At that age, it was easy to feel like that was the entirety of my identity. Any failures at being smart would have been an attack on my personhood as I knew it.

While I started growing out of this toward the end of high school and have since come into a strong understanding of who I am despite my intelligence and intellectual accomplishments in my time here, many Harvard students still struggle with this.

When failure is seen as an affront to one’s identity, it is an indication that we have confused who we are with what we do.

Our rejection letters and denials, just as much as our wins and successes, do not solely define us. Getting to Harvard and remaining here does not mean that we will succeed at everything we attempt — our potential lies in so much more. Instead of allowing the devastation of failure to handicap us, we should humble ourselves. It is even more harmful to remain in a rosy bubble where we are guaranteed success because it will eventually pop. The less we expose ourselves to the opportunity to fail, the more tragic the result may be.

I will never forget what an older friend told me at my high school graduation: “Don’t confuse your journey with your destination.” It pulled my head out of the clouds I was floating in with thoughts of Harvard ahead of me. Our time at Harvard is just one part of the grander scheme of our lives.

The struggles in our path that we will inevitably face here will prepare us for what comes after college. We may be at Harvard because of our potential, but the only way to assuredly succeed here and beyond is to boldly put ourselves in situations where we may fail but ultimately learn and grow from the experience.

—Ifeoluwa T. Obayan ’19, a former Crimson Editorial Comp Director, is a Biomedical Engineering and Social Anthropology joint concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.

By DANIEL L. AKLOG

T

he focus of the sanctions conversation desperately needs correction. In my experience, the sanctions debate typically devolves as students restate their personal dispositions towards final clubs under a guise of argument, instead of evaluating the policy’s efficacy. It appears, for the foreseeable future, that the sanctions lawsuits will remain thorns in the sides of both Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana and University President Lawrence S. Bacow. Legal experts analyzing the suits believe that they are unlikely to be immediately dismissed. Although the fervor of debate may have cooled, the conversation remains relevant.

Harvard undergraduates and faculty members alike possess a breadth of opinion on the sanctions issue, touting values such as freedom of association, sexual assault prevention, and inclusivity as foundations for these opinions. Yet debates over the comparative weight of inclusivity, safety, and liberty, while relevant and important, are in fact secondary in the conversation about sanctions. The central question should be whether or not the sanctions effectively and efficiently produce the outcome they are designed to produce. In other words, do sanctions do their job?

The first step in assessing any policy is to look to its purpose. In a 2017 statement on the sanctions, then-University President Drew G. Faust condemned the negative impact of final clubs on Harvard’s campus and expressed her desire “to create a community where students have the fair opportunity to engage in curricular and extracurricular activities regardless of their gender, socioeconomic status, or other attributes unrelated to merit.” Faust also quoted the Undergraduate Council, who said, “The negative externalities of Harvard’s divisive social life cannot be ignored.

The stratification that many of these groups insert into our community is striking and their impact is widely felt.” These criticisms exemplify a good-faith effort to improve the College social experience for a majority of Harvard undergraduates.

I commend administrators’ efforts to make an inclusive social scene for its students. However, it is not clear to me that targeting final clubs has been the best way to achieve this goal. Harvard is overflowing with highly exclusive organizations, including the Crimson Key Society, the Hasty Pudding Social Club, or the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Though the University may prevent students from congregating in final clubs, these organizations, along with athletic teams, would serve as proxies for final clubs. More importantly though, the concern of social exclusion, a primary consideration articulated in the letter, is poorly addressed by the sanctions. Although they are separate, male and female final clubs often interact as a community through mixers and other events. So, integrating final clubs would not remotely open up the social scene. This begs the question: What are sanctions for?

Perhaps the administration believes that single-gender clubs are intrinsically immoral due to their discriminatory nature. If this were their stated motivation for the sanctions, the policy might apply adequate pressure to force the clubs to be inclusive to members of all genders. But the sanctions would then be ineffective as their exclusion of other single gender non-social organizations like a cappella groups, many of which do not have gender parity. However, gender dynamics compose only a small part of the general concern previously expressed by the administration.

Another oft-professed virtue of forcing clubs to go co-ed is that doing so would alleviate the problem of sexual assault on Harvard’s campus.

Forcing gender integration may reduce instances of sexual assault, but there is no concrete evidence that this is the best way for Harvard to reduce its incidence, given the fact that sexual assault and harassment pervade the University beyond the final club scene. There is also no evidence that there is a sexual assault problem in single gender female organizations; so, if sexual assault were a motivating factor in the policy, it does not make sense to penalize them. As for the all-male organizations, it is sloppy to target every single one. Each social organization has its own unique culture; bundling them all together is unjust as it falsely implicates those who have acted with propriety. The University should be targeting individual perpetrators specifically, instead of taking broad action against organizations. Proper punitive action requires precision. Further, forcing every all-male club to go co-ed obfuscates individual responsibility for perpetrating assault by blaming groups of men for ensuing sexual misconduct. This attitude toward assault does not hold individuals accountable for their actions by instead condemning the organization. Although a toxic environment may exacerbate bad behavior, the University should be focusing on punishing individual perpetrators, not groups.

Perhaps Harvard does not feel inclined to act with precision in this matter because of its generally negative attitude towards final clubs. Harvard’s policy must be reformed with a more focused approach and redesigned to ensure the policy ensures the outcome the University has professed it desires. Administrators should take into consideration the positive impact that final clubs have on their members without compromising the admirable goals the University has established. Although sanctions do not address the vast majority of problems the University has identified, a reformed policy has the potential to benefit undergraduates and improve student social life.

With a defter touch, the University could achieve a more inclusive campus without the crossfire.

—Daniel L. Aklog ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Leverett House.

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Dench, Abdur- Corp. Members Support Democrats Rashid Talk Life obsession,” however is bolstering the faculty-student advising relationship at GSAS — a commitment she outlined an interview last year.

According to a January 2018 student life survey conducted by GSAS, nearly 10 percent of graduate students have concerns about the quality of their relationship with their primary adviser.

“I’m gearing up in GSAS to launch this hopefully in the fall to look into what is good advising and how can we really up the standard of advising,” Dench said at the talk Wednesday.

Dench also described her passion for academics.

Throughout her time studying classics at the University of Oxford, however, Dench said she faced both self-imposed and external pressures, which led her to decide to take a year off.

“It was the most rebellious, strangely, that I had been in my life,” Dench said. “I basically walked out of college and it was a really self-determining moment.”

Dench, who is now also a professor of History and Classics, said she was able to rediscover her love for the classics and, more broadly, learning during her year away from school.

“I gave myself permission to pick and choose among philosophies and to work out what life was really about,” Dench said.

Sheridan N. Marsh ’20, who attended the talk, said hearing Dench’s experiences with aca-

demic obstacles was interesting.

“At Harvard, there’s this expectation that your life has to be a certain way to end up in a certain place, but clearly Dench went through a lot of hard times in school which I was really surprised by because she’s so smart,” Marsh said.

GSAS student Ahsen N. “Nimet” Cebeci, who also attended the event, said she ap-

I gave myself permission to pick and choose among philosophies and to work out what life was really about.

Emma Dench Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciennces

preciated the conversation about advising during the interview.

“I appreciate the idea that when it comes to advising students, there are people at Harvard who have our mental health — not only in mind and in their hearts — but also who are capable of empathizing with and really helping, not just through a kind of sympathetic outlook, but also through shared experience,” Cebeci said. ruth.zheng@thecrimson.com

donated $148,600 to Democrats since 1994. Wells and Lee have given $1,500 and $6,000 to Republicans since 1990, respectively. Lee also gave $2,700 to an independent candidate in 2017.

Kenneth I. Chenault and Karen Gordon Mills ’75 have also each given more than $100,000 to Democrats since 1990.

Wells, Lee, Chenault, and Mills did not respond to requests for comment.

University of California, Berkeley Professor Susan L. Graham ’64 is the only member of the Corporation who has not donated any money to political campaigns or organizations since 1990.

POLITICAL ACTION

The Corporation is not only tied to Democratic candidates through members’ donations, however. Several members have also served in Democratic White Houses.

Private equity executive David M. Rubenstein worked for former President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. He joined Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976 and served as a deputy to domestic policy adviser Stuart Eizenstat during Carter’s first and only term. After Carter failed to win a second-term, Rubenstein left politics for the corporate world.

All other members who have worked in federal politics did so in the Obama administration.

Penny Pritzker served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2013 to 2017 after co-chairing Obama’s 2012 re-election

campaign. A native Chicagoan, Pritzker had long-standing ties to Obama, who she has known since the 1990s when he and his in-laws would frequent her Lake Michigan lakehouse.

Karen Gordon Mills also worked the Obama White House, serving as the 23rd U.S. Small Business Administrator from 2009 to 2013 — which Obama elevated to a Cabinet-level post in 2012.

Theodore Wells also has ties to presidential campaigns. In 2000, he served as Democrat Bill Bradley’s National Campaign Treasurer during his unsuccessful run.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67 has not worked in the White House, but she confirmed in an email that she is a Democrat and a “strong” critic of Trump.

“I am indeed a Democrat and a strong critic in print and in person of President Trump from 2015,” she wrote.

“In this most polarized political environment ever, Harvard has made a conscious effort (which the Corporation has been aware of and in strong support of ) to debate issues from all political viewpoints, invite speakers reflecting that, and made a particular effort to create and support bipartisan projects where the subject matter is appropriate,” Matthews added.

NON-PARTISAN ACADEMIA?

In 1961, William F. Buckley, a conservative commentator and author, famously said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Boston tele-

phone directory than by the 2000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”

Multiple higher education experts pointed to this quip in addressing the perception that elite institutions like Harvard are havens for liberal thinking.

Higher education in general has faced a hostile political climate in recent years, with Republicans questioning the merits of universities and at times, promoting and passing policies that negatively impact them.

David A. Hopkins ’99, a political science professor at Boston College, said contemporary politics as they relate to higher education are undergoing a shift.

More Republican support now comes from those without four year college degrees than in previous political eras, according to Hopkins.

“Academia in general is going to be drawn more and more into a partisan debate where it’s identified really with the Democratic party and not the Republican party,” Hopkins said.

“Every major university has to face the fact that its constituents are more and more in one party and not the other,” Hopkins added. “I think that’s a very important change in our politics and I think its implications for universities [are] potentially quite significant.”

In addition to Corporation members, Harvard faculty, instructors, and researchers have contributed overwhelmingly to federal Democratic campaigns and political organizations, according to a 2015 Crimson analysis of Federal Election Com-

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A 2018 Crimson survey of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences revealed that the vast majority of respondents identified as “liberal” or “very liberal,” with a similarly large majority having voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

For Frederick M. Hess, an education expert with the American Enterprise Institute, the Corporation’s alignment with professors’ trends “reaffirms” his belief that Harvard is not ideologically neutral.

“When we see what we already know, which is that leadership at a place like Harvard is highly partisan, that makes it harder to make the case that you’re rising above partisan divides,” Hess said.

In an emailed statement, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain pointed to Bacow’s installation address where Bacow “clearly conveys his and the University’s commitment to embracing ideological diversity and perspectives are welcomed across the Harvard community.”

Swain also noted that the University has invited a “breadth of speakers from across the political and ideological spectrum” in recent years to speak at Harvard, including U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. BU W, 18-17 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SWIMMING IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHP 2ND ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT CREW VS. YALE L ___________________________________________________________

GOLF VS. PRINCETON W ___________________________________________________________

FOOTBALL VS. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT L, 42, 36 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S WRESTLING VS. PENN STATE L, 42, 36 ___________________________________________________________

FENCING NEW ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIP 15TH ___________________________________________________________

SQUASH

Harvard Squash Claims Both Nat’l Championships

By LUCY CONNOR CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard men’s and women’s squash teams ended their seasons this past weekend with two College Squash Association Individual National Championships. Freshman Victor Crouin and junior Gina Kennedy both won their respective Men’s and Women’s Division A tournaments.

“It is a testament to the coaching staff,” sophomore Sam Scherl said. “It really comes down to the coaches and the captains, and it is incredibly rewarding and exciting to be a part of a program that’s experiencing such success.”

Four players from each team were in the top draw of the tournament, a demonstration of how dominant the Harvard teams have been this past season. Since Harvard had four out of the sixteen players in each tournament, there were realistic hopes that a Harvard player would bring a trophy home.

“There was definitely hope a Harvard player would take it all home, but because we are all so evenly matched, anyone could have won the title,” Gina Kennedy said. “It was a serious challenge and super exciting to have both Harvard players bring it home.” ­

Kennedy was the third seed of her draw. In the opening match, she beat Trinity’s Salma T. Alam Eldin in a fairly decisive 3-0 match. She unfortunately faced her teammate, Amelia Henley, in the second round. Kennedy remained steady and focused, as she was able to pull out another 3-0 victory. The semifinal match was against Penn’s Reeham Sedky.

After falling in the first game, 11-9, Kennedy retained her composure and won the following three games, defeating her opponent 3-1.

“I was elated because I was really not expecting to win that match,” said Kennedy. “On paper, the semifinal match was the most difficult match for me, so I didn’t want to put in all that effort into that match and then not win the finals.”

Gina was able to successfully use the impressive win in the semifinals as motivation in her final match.

“I just did my best to stay calm and not get too excited about potentially bringing it all home,” Kennedy said. “I knew it was such a good opportunity for me to take home the title after winning the semis, but it was going to be such a challenging match, so I was really just trying to stay focused.”

Just moments before Kenne-

dy took her court in what would result in her second Ramsey Cup, teammate Victor Crouin exited his court with his first Pool Trophy.

“In my final match I was playing against the number one player from St. Lawrence. I knew I had to play my best; he’s one of the best juniors for his age,” Crouin said. “But during the match, I was relaxed and calm and in a good state of mind.

I didn’t give him any opportunities to get a strong lead.”

Crouin won the Pool Trophy incredibly decisively. He dominated the competition, winning all four matches 3-0.

“It definitely was not obvious I was going to win, especially since during the season I lost to the number one and the number four seed,” Crouin said. “But I really just enjoyed my time playing of course, and was able to bring it all home.”

The convenient location of the tournament at Brown University was particularly helpful for both players, as they were able to be physically supported by their all of their teammates.

“Everyone who wasn’t in the tournament, men and women, all traveled to Brown to watch both of us play,” Kennedy said.

“It was just really amazing to share it with everyone.”

For both players, it was the

TWO IN THE BAG Both Harvard Men’s and Women’s squash won individual championships in the Division A Tournaments. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

support of their teammates that really made their victories special.

“I just was so happy because everyone on the team came up from Harvard to watch,” Crou-

in said. “I felt so fortunate to have everyone behind me.”

The Harvard squash program ended its impressive season this year winning both Men’s and Women’s Team Na-

tional Championships in addition to the Men’s and Women’s Individual National Championships. lucy.connor@thecrimson.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Mamdani’s Musings: Last Weekend of Ivy Basketball

By AMIR MAMDANI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 BROWN AT PRINCETON, 4 P.M., ESPNU.

This game has major implications for the fourth and final spot in Ivy Madness next weekend, as Brown and Penn enter the final week of play with hopes of booking their ticket to New Haven. A Brown victory over Princeton on Friday night, coupled with a Yale victory at Penn, would seal a playoff spot for the Bears. In a senior season mired with controversy, Princeton’s Devin Cannady has announced the conclusion of his collegiate career, and has taken a leave of absence for the school.

With Brown seeing Friday night as a must-win game for their chances, and the Tigers solidly in third place in the standings, I see the more desperate team coming out firing Friday afternoon, regardless of home court advantage. I like to Brown to play with fire and win a close game behind sophomore star Desmond Cambridge, after beating Princeton by eight at home earlier in the season.

The Pick: Brown by 2 or more.

YALE AT PENN, 7 P.M.

The second Friday night game with significant playoff implications will be played at the Palestra in Philadelphia. Regardless of the outcome of the Brown - Princeton game being played earlier Friday afternoon, if Penn can beat Yale at home, it will guarantee itself a head-to-head with Brown in Philly Saturday night for all of the marbles. That being said, if the Bears knock off Princeton, Penn will be playing Yale with its playoff chances hanging by a thread, with a loss ending its season. The Quakers boast a legitimate Ancient Eight player of the year candidate in AJ Brodeur, who averages over 17 points and eight rebounds per game.

The Bulldogs have been scuffling as of late, losing two of its last three contests, including an eight-point home loss to upstart Columbia. Nevertheless, Yale will surely have plenty of motivation, looking to knock Harvard off of its first-place perch in the league. It’s hard to disagree that the Bulldogs are the more talented team, but in an

REACHING FOR VICTORY The Crimson look to secure their first place hold in the Ivy League standings this upcoming weekend with two games against Cornell and Columbia. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Ivy League season characterized by twists and turns - none more surprising than a Penn team that knocked off Villanova battling late in the season for a spot in the top four - it’s simply too difficult to pick against the team facing a must-win situation. Ultimately, my pick for this game relies upon the earlier afternoon game, since Penn will enter the 7pm tip-off knowing the result of the Brown Princeton game.

The Pick: Penn by 3 or more (or Yale by 3 or more if Princeton wins earlier).

HARVARD AT CORNELL, 7 P.M.

This is a tough game to pick.

Despite the Crimson’s loss to the Big Red at Lavietes Pavilion this season, the only Ivy League home loss for Harvard this season, the visitors enter this game as the far more complete, and hot team. The Crimson can likely chalk up that loss to the triple-overtime game against Columbia the night before, and will have revenge on their minds in Ithaca. That being said, Cornell’s season depends on Friday night’s game. If the Big Red can knock off the Crimson, they will stay in contention

for Ivy Madness, although their chances of qualifying currently stand at 10 percent.

While I would normally be compelled to pick the more desperate, home team, Harvard is simply too talented, and Cornell has been scuffling in a big way.

The Big Red has lost five games in a row, and although I expect the spread to be set at a small number, I expect the Crimson to rout Cornell on the road.

Registering the worst offense in the Ivy League, and the thirdworst defense in the conference simply won’t get it done against a first-place Harvard team.

The Pick: Harvard by 4 or more.

DARTMOUTH AT COLUMBIA, 7 P.M.

The only game of the weekend that is guaranteed to lack playoff implications, the two cellar-dwellers of the league will play Friday night in Morningside Heights. The Lions have solidified themselves as the spoilers of the Ancient Eight, knocking off both Brown and Yale last weekend on the road.

Columbia has been tough behind the shooting of Gabe Stefanini and Quinton Adlesh, and are a couple close losses out of

being firmly entrenched in the conversation for Ivy Madness.

The wheels have clearly come off the bus for Dartmouth, losers of six straight. I see them entering the final weekend of the season listless, against a far hotter Lions’ team. Columbia should be able to handle the Big Green with little trouble in front of a home crowd.

The Pick: Columbia by 5 or more.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 BROWN AT PENN, 6 P.M.

This is, for all intents and purposes, the biggest game of the weekend. Barring a Brown win coupled with a Penn loss on Friday night, this matchup will determine the fourth spot in Ivy Madness. In a season that has tormented the Quakers in conference play, I don’t see Penn squandering yet another chance. If they enter Saturday night in a “win and in” situation, I can’t imagine a Quakers team, which is in all likelihood more talented than the Bears, losing at the Palestra. Expect Penn to handle Brown, and quite possibly punch their ticket to Ivy Madness.

The Pick: Penn by 4 or more.

YALE AT PRINCETON, 6 P.M.

The Bulldogs might still be in the mix for the No. 1 seed in the league, which would guarantee them a trip to the NIT if they were to fall short of winning the tournament. The Tigers will in all likelihood be firmly entrenched in the No. 3 spot, giving them relatively little to play for, even on Senior Night at Jadwin Gymnasium.

Yale boasts the best offense in the conference at over 80 points per game, and I don’t see a Cannady-less Princeton keeping up with the visitors, despite the emergence of Ryan Schwieger. I like the Bulldogs to end the season in a winning way, before returning home to host Ivy Madness The Pick: Yale by 6 or more.

HARVARD AT COLUMBIA, 7 P.M.

The fact of the matter is, the Lions have never been an easy opponent for the Crimson to handle. The two teams played the hands-down most entertaining game of the season in Cambridge, when the Crimson eked out a 3-OT win.

Expect Columbia to come out firing on senior night, with

the confidence of knowing they have beaten Harvard three straight times.

With the Crimson hoping to hold onto the No. 1 seed in the league, expect a tightly fought contest.

Despite having little to play for, I could see the Lions defending their home court and avenging their loss earlier in the season.

The Pick: Columbia by 2 or more.

DARTMOUTH AT CORNELL, 7 P.M.

I expect Cornell’s season to have already ended by this point, giving the Big Red little to play for. Senior Night will mark a well-deserved moment of recognition for Cornell’s standout Matt Morgan, one of the best players in recent memory to play in the Ivy League.

This one could honestly go either way, but I expect Dartmouth to put up little resistance as Morgan and the Big Red will take out their frustrations at missing the Ivy Tournament on the visitors.

The Pick: Cornell by 5 or more. amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com