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Linguist discusses origins of language at book talk

Hajjar: Being a conservative at Harvard comes with drawbacks

Harvard men’s hockey takes down Clarkson, 5-2

DOJ Submits Scalise Speaks on Academic Support Supporting Brief By ema r. schumer Crimson Staff Writer

By Dohyun Kim and benjamin l. fu Crimson Staff Writers

The United States Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to overturn the October 2019 case ruling which found that Harvard College does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process.

Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband filed an amicus brief alongside three other Justice Department officials in support of the plaintiff in the case — anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions — one week after SFFA appealed the ruling.

The Justice Department argued in its brief that a district court judge failed to apply strict scrutiny in determining whether Harvard’s use of race in its admissions process was “narrowly tailored to a compelling interest.” It also defended SFFA’s allegations that Harvard engages in “racial balancing” when admitting students and systematically penalizes Asian American applicants.

The officials also argued that

the Department has a vested interest in the case because of its role in combatting discrimination and scrutinizing organizations that receive money from the federal government.

“The United States enforces multiple statutes that prohibit racial discrimination in public accommodations, housing, voting, education, and employment, among other contexts,” the brief reads. “As particularly relevant here, the United States distributes billions of dollars in federal financial assistance every year, and it has a significant interest in ensuring that recipients of such assistance comply with Title VI’s antidiscrimination mandate.”

In an emailed statement, SFFA president Edward J. Blum praised the Justice Department’s intervention in the case.

“Students for Fair Admissions is grateful the U.S. Department of Justice has formally recognized that Harvard’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants,” Blum wrote. “DOJ’s amicus brief accurately highlights

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A s Division I athletics programs across the nation unveil academic resource centers and one-on-one tutoring programs offered exclusively to enrolled athletes, Harvard Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise said he does not support specialized academic programs geared toward student-athletes sprouting up in Cambridge.

Scalise said in a Tuesday interview that specialized academic resources to athletes run counter to Harvard Athletics’ mission.

“It’s not a student development kind of direction,” he said.

“I actually firmly believe that if we admit people to come here — and people come here for the right reasons and we are reasonable in our time commitments — that specialized academic resources for student-athletes that are not available to all of the students at the school is an unwise direction.”

Scalise said Harvard does not offer special academic attention to its athletes because it values their academic contributions to the College.

“Harvard and the Ivy League ­

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Harvard Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise speaks about academic resources for student athletes.

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HMC Bought Uber, Biopharma Stocks Last Quarter History Prof.

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By Camille g. caldera and ellen m. burstein Crimson Staff Writers

The Harvard Management Company bought stock in Uber, decreased its shares in Facebook, and slightly lowered its overall securities value in the last quarter of 2019, per the University’s latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC requires investment managers who oversee over $100 million to disclose their securities holdings each quarter.

HMC purchased 1.8 million shares in the ride-hailing company — equivalent to $53.5 million in holdings — which went public in May 2019.

It also slightly reduced its overall securities value to $945 million this quarter after doubling the previous value to $1.07 billion last quarter. Still, the securities represent a relatively small percentage of Harvard’s endowment, which was valued at $40.9 billion in 2019.

HMC also bought nearly 3 million shares in NuCana Plc, a cancer-focused biopharmaceutical company. That figure amounts to around 9 percent of the company’s total shares, per another form Harvard filed with the SEC. The SEC requires companies to disclose stock ownership above 5 percent.

HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan declined to comment on the filings, citing HMC’s policy not to comment on individual investments.

“HMC does not comment on specific investments,” McKiernan wrote in an email.

HMC also decreased its total shares in Facebook and Palo Alto Networks, selling 30 percent of its shares in Palo Alto Networks and nearly 40 percent of its shares in Facebook.

The value of Harvard’s holdings in Facebook dropped from over $400 million to $283 million in the last quarter.

Additionally, it sold all of its shares in two companies: 43,000 shares of the software

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Tutors to Depart Lowell, Sparking Hiring Process

By Declan j. Knieriem and sydnie m. cobb Crimson Staff Writers

A search is underway in Lowell House to fill eight positions left by tutors who plan to depart at the end of the semester, according to Faculty Dean David I. Laibson ’88.

A majority of the eight tutors — who comprise roughly 40 percent of the total in the House — are leaving because they will be completing their graduate degree programs.

In a Tuesday interview, Laibson described the “multi-stage” hiring process that the House is currently undertaking.

House staff has already completed the initial application stage, during which they reviewed candidate applications.

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with candidates, according to Laibson.

Laibson called the tutor position in Lowell House a “wonderful” role.

“I think people don’t realize how great it is because it sounds kind of crazy when you’re looking in from the outside,” he said.

“It is truly a wonderful life, however strange it might first seem.”

Lowell House Committee Chair Ross D. Simmons ’21, who is participating in the informal meetings with prospective tutors, said he is looking for candidates who will be “present” and involved in student life.

“They should come to house events, they should eat dinner with students frequently, they should be present in the house, and be good advisors,” he said.

Other houses are also in the hunt for new tutors, and all plan to extend offers by

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Lowell House affiliates are conducting interviews for new tutors, as roughly half of the Lowell House tutors will be leaving at the end of the semester. Pei Chao Zhou— Crimson photographer

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By Jamie S. Bikales Crimson Staff Writer

A ssociate professor Elizabeth K. Hinton will depart for Yale this summer after six years in Harvard’s History and African and African American Studies departments, during which she produced high-profile scholarship on racial inequality and poverty.

Beginning July 1, Hinton will hold tenured appointments in the history and African American studies departments of Yale’s faculty of arts and sciences, as well as a secondary appointment at Yale Law School.

Dean of Yale Law School Heather K. Gerken announced the move in an email to Yale Law students Wednesday afternoon.

A rising star in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hinton is a preeminent scholar in mass incarceration, most notably publishing the award-winning 2016 book “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.”

She said in an interview with The Crimson that Yale reached out to her with an offer of the tenured appointment last spring, though she did not actively apply for a job there.

After she learned of Yale’s proposal, she began the tenure review process at Harvard and was also granted tenure at Harvard’s FAS in the fall, she said.

Hinton said the choice to make the move to New Haven was “not an easy” one, but she ultimately felt Yale would be a better fit for her family and a better environment to advance her scholarship.

“I am saddened by leaving behind so many colleagues who I treasure dearly here, but this decision felt like the right one for me and for my family in this moment,” Hinton said.

She added that the appointment at Yale Law School was a “major factor” in her decision.

“The opportunity to be a part of the faculty at Yale Law School, ­

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For Lunch BBQ Pulled Pork Meatballs in Marinara Sauce Spicy Nacho Grilled Cheese

For Dinner Fettucine with Chicken Fried Calimari Grilled Chicken Breast

Today’s Events Climate Change Trivia Queenshead Pub, 8 p.m.

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The Queen’s Head Pub is hosting a special climate change trivia night— bring your trivia team or form one there, and test your climate knowledge!

Hundreds of New York Students Watch ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in Madison Square Garden For the first time ever, a Broadway show played Madison Square Garden to an arena of enthused students. The production was put on for free for 18,000 middle and high school public schools across New York City’s boroughs.

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In Historic Move, House Passes AntiLynching Bill

People take advantage of the warm weather on Monday at the foosball tables outside the Science Center. Aiyana G. white—Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief supporting Students for Fair Admissions in its appeal against Harvard. In the brief, the Department argued that a district court judge failed to apply strict scrutiny in determining whether Harvard’s use of race in its admissions process was “narrowly tailored to a compelling interest.” In other news, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise said he does not support calls to implement separate academic support structures for student-athletes.

Since 1900, there have been 200 efforts to make lynching a federal crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed the House with a 410-to-4 vote. Congressman Bobby L. Rush, who introduced the bill, is hopeful that it will face no further obstacles passing the Senate and being signed by the President.

Around the Ivies Columbia

Columbia University researchers recently received a $2.1 million grant to research viable drugs that could combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to the Columbia Spectator.

The Jack Ma Foundation — a nonprofit owned by Jack Ma, China’s richest man — donated the grant as the virus is spreading more rapidly throughout China. The donation occurred just days after the Education Department launched an investigation into Harvard for allegedly failing to report foreign donations.

Brown

On Tuesday, over 100 Brown University graduate students marched in a protest led by the Stand Up for Graduate Students Union negotiating team, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The march follows almost one year of negotiation between the union and Brown over a contract, and during the march, participants repeatedly threatened striking.

SUGSE has been openly negotiating graduate student concerns with Brown since its inception in 2014, but since they’ve begun negotiating a formal contract last year, the two sides have failed to come to “final agreements.” SUGSE leaders said Tuesday that they are currently planning more marches and picket lines as negotiations continue.

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The University of Pennsylvania athletics department and men’s basketball team received sanctions from the NCAA yesterday following a bribery scandal surrounding the former men’s basketball team coach, Jerome Allen, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. The basketball team’s participation in the regular season will not be restricted, but the team does face a three-week ban on recruiting. The athletics department faces a $5,000 fine and two years on probation. This follows after Allen was implicated in a July 2018 scandal where it was revealed Allen had accepted money from businessman Phillip Esformes to secure his son’s acceptance as a basketball team.

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#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke Reflects on Work By sixiao yu and Raquel C. Uribe Crimson Staff Writers

At the Institute of Politics Wednesday, Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, discussed the importance of intersectionality in her work and how she thinks the movement should continue after recent verdicts against Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.

At the beginning of the event, Burke received a standing ovation after being awarded the Harvard Kennedy School’s Alan Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award.

Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, Kennedy School professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership, moderated both the conversation with Burke and a discussion with audience members.

During the discussion, Burke reflected on Weinstein, whose alleged sexual misconduct fueled the #MeToo movement in 2017. On Monday, a jury charged Weinstein — a movie executive whom more than 100 women have accused of sexual harassment and abuse — with a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third degree rape.

He was acquitted of first degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault.

“There’s a lot of excitement in the air right now — some renewed energy after this Wein-

stein verdict, which I’m going to comment on, because we have a lot of work to do,” Burke said after receiving the award. “But I am really grateful for where we are.”

Burke founded the #MeToo movement in 2006, while working at Just Be Inc., her nonprofit that focuses on supporting young women of color. She coined the phrase “me too” as a statement supporting people who have experienced sexual assault.

In 2017, the New York Times broke a story documenting decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.

Soon after the story was published, actress Alyssa J. Milano began using the #MeToo hashtag. Hundreds of people began sharing their own stories of sexual misconduct using the hashtag.

That fall, Burke’s movement — over a decade old — suddenly emerged in the spotlight. At the discussion, Burke acknowledged that the Weinstein verdict “is not an indictment of #MeToo.” She said the movement “is about catharsis” and “healing.”

“Justice looks different for everyone and survivors don’t think punitively,” Burke said.

“We want healing.”

Burke also discussed differences between society’s response to women of color and white women who experience sexual assault.

“Whether — white men, black men, black women — we have been socialized to respond to the vulnerability of white women,” Burke said. “And because of that, we put aside so many things, and we push forward.”

In the question portion of the forum, Lovern J. Gordon — founder of Love Life Now, a nonprofit to support people who have experienced domestic abuse — asked how to bring more people, including those from underrepresented backgrounds, into the #MeToo movement.

Burke stressed that providing resources to marginalized groups who may have felt disconnected from the mainstream #MeToo movement.

“Our work, our programs — and we’ve taken two years to really work hard to build out programs specifically so that we are hitting marginalized groups first, and so that we get to the people who usually don’t get the resources first,” Burke said.

Burke also encouraged students to get involved in procuring more resources at higher education institutions such as Harvard for people who faced sexual misconduct.

“When places like Harvard have courage they maybe haven’t had in the past, others follow,” Burke said. “You have the power now. You have the power in your pocketbook because you are paying tuition. Sit down and

Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, speaks on Wednesday at the Institute of Politics. Ryan n. gajarawala—Crimson photographer

examine what forms of power you have, and use that power to push back.”

Maria Keselj ’23 said in an interview after the forum that it was “really insightful” to lis-

HKS Dean Supports Student Activists

By Sixiao yu Crimson Staff Writer

Amid continued criticism over the lack of faculty and student diversity at the school, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf said he hopes to engage with student activism in an interview Wednesday.

“Our students are passionate about making the world better. That’s why we admit them to the Kennedy School — it’s because of that passion,” he said. “Universities tend to move more slowly than students want them to move, and I remember that very clearly from when I was a graduate student here at Harvard.”

Elmendorf stressed the role free speech plays in HKS’s programming, pointing to the John F. Kennedy, Jr. forum as a space for discussion between audience members and prominent speakers.

“Every event at the Kennedy School, with an outside speaker,

there are questions and answers that come from the members of the audience and sometimes the questions are friendlier and sometimes the questions are more critical. “ Kennedy School students and administrators have started their own discussions regarding diversity at the school in recent years.

Student groups such as the HKS Equity Coalition have advocated for the school to increase diversity in its student body, faculty, and curriculum.

Earlier this month, the coalition sent an email — signed by multiple affinity groups and 375 HKS affiliates — to Elmendorf demanding that the school “commit to creating a culture and environment built on the principles of anti-racism.”

The letter called on HKS to implement mandatory diversity training for all HKS affiliates in the spring, host a required course across all degrees on the “history of race and inequality” for the upcoming fall semester,

and hire faculty of color who “critically study the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and power.”

In his response, Elmendorf wrote that the Kennedy School will partner with advocacy group Community Change, Inc. to develop anti-racism workshops this spring.

He also wrote that while he and his colleagues are “committed” to enhancing a diverse education at HKS, they are not yet convinced that “a required, standalone course is the best approach.”

Elmendorf added that the school hired five faculty members over the past three years such as Marcella M. Aslan ’99 and Desmond W. Ang “who work on aspects of ‘difference.’”

In the interview, Elmendorf, referencing the letter and his response, spoke about how the school has designed their search for new faculty to “reduce biases” and “cast a very wide net.”

“We have been able to hire

outstanding people, because of that,” he added.

Elmendorf said that Sandra S. Smith, a current professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will join the HKS faculty. Smith studies issues of urban poverty and racial inequality.

“She is one, now, of half a dozen family members we’ve hired in the last few years, who focus on race and gender identity issues,” Elmendorf said.

Elmendorf said the school also hopes to increase the amount of financial aid offered to its students.

“We’re fortunate to have a lot of friends at the Kennedy School who provide financial aid who are not alumni of the school, but who believe passionately, like our students, in the importance of public service,” Elmendorf said. “And we hope to continue to increase the amount of financial aid we can offer.” sixiao.yu@thecrimson.com

ten to the “empathy-based, survivor-based” perspective that Burke presented.

“We all have this urge to go and get justice,” she said. “But really, when you look back, is

that what people really want? I find that it’s this really aggressive — and you can call it a toxic masculine — way to look at it.” sixiao.yu@thecrimson.com

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DOJ Files Pro-SFFA Appeal Brief the emails, depositions, internal studies, data analysis and testimony that SFFA presented to the district court to prove that Harvard’s admissions policies are discriminatory.”

The Justice Department’s brief comes as the latest part of litigation that has been pending against Harvard for several years. SFFA initially filed its lawsuit against Harvard in November 2014. Last October, District court Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled in Harvard’s favor and found that the College does not discriminate against Asian American applicants.

Eonomists and several legal organizations also submitted amicus briefs supporting SFFA and opposing the district court ruling. Those groups include Mountain States Legal Foundation, Judicial Watch, and the National Association of Schol-

ars, among others. The Asian American Coalition for Education and the Asian American Legal Foundation also submitted a brief, which lists the names of nearly 300 Asian American organizations as supporters.

Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane declined to comment on the amicus briefs.

The brief marks the second time the Justice Department has previously supported SFFA in its lawsuit against Harvard.

Separately, the Department led its own investigation into alleged discrimination in Harvard admissions, which was confirmed as ongoing in December 2019.

Harvard is scheduled to submit its brief in the case by May 14. benjamin.fu@thecrimson.com dohyun.kim@thecrimson.com

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Adams’s Renewal Plan Presented By camille g. caldera and amanda y. su Crimson Staff Writers

Seventy-nine percent of student beds in Adams House will be in singles and 77 percent will be in suite-style living after the House’s renovations are complete, architect Nathaniel F. R. Rogers ’05 said in a presentation to Adams affiliates Wednesday evening.

The renovations will also increase the capacity of Adams dining hall by 35 to 50 seats and add “new meeting and break out spaces,” according to the presentation, which was put on

by Rogers and two other architects, Elizabeth Leber and Aaron M. Lamport ’90.

Adams House is currently in the first year of a four-year renovation plan — the longest project the College has taken on thus far as part of its House Renewal program.

At the presentation, students raised questions about murals that generations of Adams residents have painted on the walls of tunnels that run under the House.

Due to deterioration and groundwater damage, Rogers said they will not be able to save “many or any” of the original murals. However, he said they plan to create a digital photographic archive so students can “visit the tunnels virtually.”

“There will be an incredible amount of blank canvas to create new murals for the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years,” Rogers said.

“This is really about another chapter in the Adams House story.”

The renovation also aims to unify the three buildings that comprise Adams House. Orig-

Members of Adams House met on Wednesday evening to hear and discuss updates on Adams’s current construction. Owen a. berger—Crimson photographer

inally, separate developers built the buildings as private off-campus housing and never intended for them to “relate” to each other, per Rogers.

The project will create a “mid-block access” that extends from Russell Hall, to Claverly Hall, to Westmorley Hall. The mid-block access would make the outdoor sidewalk entrances to buildings the same level as the floor inside of them, allowing wheelchair users to enter more easily.

“This really serves two purposes,” Rogers said. “One is to really make Adams feel more like one single community, even though you’re spread across three different city blocks. The second is it actually achieves a

lot of accessibility needs.”

The renovation project will also make the Adams Pool Theater and the House’s courtyard more accessible.

Lamport also said that Adams House will be the first house to boast direct air ventilation into each individual room.

“It’s not air conditioning — it can’t claim to be that — but that air has been dehumidified, it’s going to be certainly cooler on a hot day than what’s out on the street, and it means there’s less of a need to open up a window,” he said.

Other amenities in the renovated house will include small offices designed for phone calls and a new common space called “The Loft.”

Adams is the sixth house — after Leverett, Quincy, Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell — to be renovated.

Claverly Hall and Senior House — which are under construction during this academic year — will open in August 2020. Renovations on Randolph Hall and Apthorp House are set to begin this June and finish by January 2022, though students will not move into those buildings until the next academic year. Renovations on Russell Hall, Library Commons, and Westmorly Hall will start in June 2022 and end in August 2024. camille.caldera@thecrimson.com amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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Tutors Soon to Depart Lowell March 26, according to College spokesperson Rachael Dane.

Charlie S. Tyson, a departing tutor and Chair of Fellowships for Lowell House, said he believes the House will remain “warm” and “robust,” despite the departure of many seasoned tutors.

He also said the turnover in tutors is comparable with the turnover among undergraduates, when each sophomore class replaces the House’s graduating seniors.

“It’s always sad when you know one of your friends moves away, but the same could be said of the entire flock of seniors who graduate each year,” Tyson said.

“Although the tutors do a lot to nourish the house community, look after students, and take an interest in them, what makes Lowell special is not the tutors, it’s the students.”

Hannah R. Shaffer, who will assume the position of Chair of Fellowships following Tyson’s departure, said she looks forward to welcoming the new class of tutors.

“I think new tutors often have a lot of spirit and drive, and they want to prove themselves,” Schaffer said.

“I think mixing it up sometimes can be good. It kind of depends on how we all jive next year. I’m optimistic.”

Shaffer also said she believes some Lowell tutors may have stuck around for an extra year to assist with the recent faculty dean transition. In August

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2019, Laibson and Co-Faculty Dean Nina Zipser replaced former Faculty Deans Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin, who had served in their positions for two decades.

Simmons said he believes the student-centric focus of the tutor hiring process lends itself to finding capable tutors to fill the vacancies.

Although the tutors do a lot to nourish the house community, look after students, and take an interest in them, what makes Lowell special is not the tutors, it’s the students.

Charlie S. Tyson Lowell House Tutor

“The House administration are trying to solicit as much student input as possible, which is important with hiring new tutors, because we’re the ones they will interact with,” he said.

“With so many tutors leaving — especially so many good tutors leaving — there will be many large shoes to fill. But I trust David and Nina to hire good people.” sydnie.cobb@thecrimson.com declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com

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Linguist Discusses Origins of Language at Book Talk By natalie l. kahn Contributing Writer

Daniel L. Everett, author of the new book How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention, speaks at the Cabot Science Library. zadoc i.n. gee—Crimson photographer

Daniel L. Everett, a linguist who also serves as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, introduced his newest book and discussed the origins of language to a crowd of more than 200 in the Science Center Wednesday evening.

The conversation on topics covered in Everett’s book, “How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention,” is part of a series of science-related book talks coordinated by the Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and the Harvard Bookstore.

The premise of his new work is that language predates Homo sapiens, tracing back to Homo erectus.

Everett hypothesized that as long as the Homo genus has had the ability to create complex tools, communication has been necessary. “[Tools] have symbolic and social components. They go beyond the functionally necessary, they go into style that represents one tradition over an-

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other,” he said.

He also said tools are evidence of culture, which in turn suggests the presence of language.

“You can’t have a language unless you have a culture, and you can’t have a culture unless you have a language,” Everett said.

Everett subscribes to the gradual theory of linguistics, the idea that spoken and written language developed over hundreds of thousands of years, rather than the saltationist one, which argues that the emergence of language occurred more suddenly.

“The evolution of the platforms for language and symbols took evolutionary time and are not limited to Homo sapiens,” he said. “You don’t just get a creature that one day stands up and starts talking.”

Simge Topaloglu, a graduate student in psychology who attended the talk, said this differs from her viewpoint of how languages develop.

“It’s certainly a different approach to have language emerge — claiming that it emerged gradually over a mil-

lion years or more as opposed to being attributed to a single mutation that possibly happened 50 to 60,000 years ago,” she said.

Even though the language of Homo erectus is less complex than the language of Homo sapiens, that does not necessarily make it less legitimate, Everett said.

He cited the lifestyle of Homo erectus to demonstrate that its language contained only what it needed to survive and to express itself, while pointing out that even some current languages do not have numbers and others do not have colors.

“How much grammar do you need to build a boat?” Everett said.

He added that the “simple” nature of the language of Homo erectus also is not necessarily indicative of its intelligence as a genus.

“You could say maybe [Homo erectus] had the intelligence of an eight-year old or 10year old sapiens child,” he said.

“No way to really know that, but let’s say they did — eightyear olds can talk a lot.”

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Scalise Speaks on Academic Support HMC Bought Uber, experience is a unique college experience in athletics, because you can compete at the highest level in most of our sports,” he said. “But you get a chance to have an academic experience that’s second to none. And you have to decide what that’s going to be. It’s different than other places.”

“The schools that do that tend to do that so that their kids stay eligible,” he said.

According to the Harvard Athletics website, Ivy League “athletes should be treated as other students, receiving nothing more nor less.”

And yet, other Ivy League schools provide academic support exclusively for athletes. The University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Brown University each boast student-athlete tutoring programs that provide individualized attention to athletes.

In doing so, Scalise said Harvard’s peer institutions are succumbing to national trends in collegiate sports.

“I’m starting to see these little — this creepage of the big time approach into other Ivy League schools,” he said. “And you have to say, at what cost are you willing to have this athletic success?”

Still, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Co-President Madison J.H. Earle ’20 said she believes Harvard athletes would benefit from additional academic support.

Earle said she does not want athletes to gain access to resources not available to their non-athlete peers.

Instead, she said she would prefer Harvard to tailor existing academic resources to align with athletes’ schedules.

Earle said the time athletes devote to their sport — which she estimated at roughly 30 hours per week — precludes them from taking full advantage of academic resources at Harvard that are ostensibly available to all undergraduates.

She said professors’ office hours and sessions at the Aca-

demic Resource Center and the Harvard College Writing Center tend to coincide with athletes’ practices and competitions.

In the past, Harvard has offered resources aimed specifically at student-athletes in non-academic areas.

In the fall of 2018, Harvard Athletics and Harvard University Health Services’ Counseling and Mental Health Services co-created a program to support student-athlete wellness.

Scalise noted in an email that the program does not dole out specialized resources to athletes, but instead extends the hours of previously existing resources to accommodate athletes.

Earle said that she hopes Harvard will foster an environment where athletes can succeed in both athletic and academic pursuits.

“You want to take pride in both and you don’t want to excel in one and not in the other,” she said. “To excel in both

you have to either make decisions [or] make sacrifices, and I think that with help it would make those decisions and sacrifices a lot easier.”

She added that she believes that the practice of offering additional academic resources to athletes is an equitable one.

“I don’t think it is giving athletes any special treatment.

I think it’s just like leveling the playing field,” she said.

Asked about athlete concerns regarding academic support, Scalise cited both faculty fellows assigned to each team and College programs more broadly.

“The College offers a multitude of Academic Support to our student-athletes outside of practice and game hours via the Advising Programs Office, the Harvard College Writing Center, and the Academic Resource Center,” he said. “All student-athletes are encouraged to make use of those hours if they feel they need support.” ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

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company Adobe Systems and 640,000 shares of the biopharmaceutical company Aduro Biotech.

Stephen T. Isaacs, the CEO of Aduro Biotech, said Gerald L. Chan — a major donor to the University — gifted Harvard around 7 million shares in the company. Isaacs estimated that Harvard received the gift around “a year and a half or two years ago.”

Chan, a member of Aduro Biotech’s board of directors from 2014 to 2018, did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.

Isaacs said that Harvard has been selling the shares gradually since Chan gifted them.

“We appreciate that they didn’t sell it all at once,” Isaacs said.

“I think most academic institutions have a policy of, when they get shares, they sell them and take the cash and do whatever they’re going to do. But this ­

was a large gift — I think it was seven million shares or so — and so Harvard’s been titrating it out over time.”

We appreciate that they didn’t sell it all at once.

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Isaacs said he was happy to hear that Harvard had sold the last of its shares in Aduro Biotech.

“I am glad the selling is done.

In biotech we never like to see somebody sell large blocks of shares. It’s challenging,” he said.

“We wish Harvard well .with the proceeds, using it for whatever they use it for.” camille.caldera@thecrimson.com ellen.burstein@thecrimson.com

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Baron’s Selection Highlights the Necessity — and the Challenges — of Good Journalism

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ast week, Harvard announced that Martin “Marty” Baron, current executive editor of the Washington Post and the former executive editor of the Boston Globe, will be the Class of 2020’s commencement speaker. Over his more than 40-year career, teams of reporters under Baron’s leadership have been awarded 16 Pulitzer Prizes and broken stories that shook up not just Boston and the United States, but the world at large. Baron ran the Globe when the paper’s “Spotlight” team unearthed a widespread practice of sexual abuse by priests across Roman Catholic communities in the Boston area. Also under Baron’s guidance, the Post uncovered and published the Afghanistan papers, exposing malpractice by U.S government officials as they conducted military operations in the Middle East. These journalistic feats speak to the impact of the free press, and to the power that in-depth investigative journalism can have on our lives.

Further, they speak to Baron’s own unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power and doing so with care and respect. There is a strong case to be made for Baron’s work representing the best of what journalism ought to look like.

At the same time, Baron’s journalism career, while overwhelmingly bright, has not been spotless. Just this January, Baron was at the center of a controversy over the Post’s decision to suspend a reporter who used her personal Twitter account

to retweet an article about the late Kobe Bryant’s 2003 sexual assault case on the day of the famed athlete’s passing. The decision, which was later reversed, has been criticized in the Post itself. This incident should serve to remind us all that, while the functions of a free press are indispensable, trying to embody journalistic excellence is a never-ending task, and that even the greats are continually test-

There is a strong case to be made for Baron’s work representing the best of what journalism ought to look like. ed (and occasionally fail) at this task. The production of good journalism requires constant humility, scrutiny, and ethical vigilance. Continuous striving for a more equitable, representative culture in journalism is a critical part of that task. Baron’s storied career serves to capture the struggles, triumphs, and ultimately the necessity of an industry currently under attack.

Harvard’s selection of Baron as this year’s commencement speaker is an encouraging acknowledgment of the crucial role that journalism plays in any free society. The Globe’s investigation into the Catholic Church and release of the Afghanistan papers are just a few of

many instances where Baron, his newspapers, and the press have been able to check institutions of power and hold authorities accountable for their actions.

Such work shifts our perceptions of the truth and enhances the richness with which we understand reality. We would be remiss not to praise it.

We also appreciate the way in which Harvard’s choice of Baron pushes against our general idea of what an ideal commencement speaker is. Investigative journalism isn’t the ritziest business.

While most Harvard students expect and might covet the selection of someone whose name is universally known, Harvard’s choice of Baron — a name arguably less recognizable than last year’s commencement speaker, Angela Merkel — elevates journalists and their work to an important level parallel to the star-studded list of past commencement speakers such as Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey.

We are excited to hear the perspective that Baron has to share with Harvard’s graduating class.

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.

—Carine M. Hajjar ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government concentrator in Eliot House.

Matthew B. Gilbert ’21 is a Computer Science concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays.

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The Trump Bucket: The Perils of Being Conservative at Harvard As a non-liberal student on Harvard’s campus, I’ve always had an instinct to stay quiet about my beliefs. I could never pin down why, though. Sure, there is the sheer fact that only 10.3 percent of students in the class of 2023 consider themselves to be somewhat conservative (while 2.1 percent call themselves very conservative). Overall, however, I’ve usually been able to override my instinct to remain subdued. Recently, I was able to pin down a reason. While talking to a peer about her work with a conservative woman on campus — a moderate, at that — I asked her if she was conservative herself.

She looked as though I had uncovered her deepest secret. Her eyes bulged and she stuttered. My first impression was that she was nervous to admit her conservatism; however, after reflecting, I’m almost positive that her apprehension was due to the common association of conservatism with Trumpism at Harvard.

Liberal students must take steps to differentiate Trumpism from conservatism.

The fear of being associated with Trump and the current Republican Party stifles conversations between liberal and conservative students while simultaneously delegitimizing conservative students’ beliefs. Going forward, both groups must take steps to create a productive, respectful dialogue. Moreover, liberals must correct their understanding of conservative views, and conservatives must overcome their fear of being labeled as supporters of a widely unpopular president among Harvard students.

Liberal students must take steps to differentiate Trumpism from conservatism. While some conservative students do support the president, my bet is that most on this campus do not (though if

We have decided to structure our society such that most people have no choice but to sell their labor in order to survive. When a person’s life rests in the hands of their employer, they are not free.

sive, inclusive conversations on campus. For instance, I have made it a point to engage my liberal friends in more political conversations. This is always an anxiety-inducing experience at the beginning. In a short amount of time, however, the majority of my peers are surprised by the legitimacy of my opinions and my lack of maliciousness and ignorance.Going into the 2020 elections, it is now more imperative than ever that liberal students overcome their false associations by listening with an open mind and educating themselves about actual conservatism.

At the same time, conservative students also have a job to do: Instead of fearing what others think of them, they must clearly articulate their beliefs in order to distinguish themselves from the false caricatures that have become the defaults in so many of their peers’ minds.

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they do, their reasons for doing so may be surprising and acceptable to liberals upon open dialogue). Here is why: The president does not govern conservatively. The Trump administration has “hijacked” a traditionally conservative party and imposed on it a mix of populist assertions. As the GOP undergoes an identity crisis, a huge contingent of the party is finding itself politically displaced.

There are a few key distinctions between today’s party and the current administration. Conservatism does not entail an overall rejection of change, but is a moderated and controlled attitude towards change that asserts that when the government tries to resolve one issue, it usually creates more. Yet while many conservatives celebrate free trade, little government involvement, and consequently less spending, this administration has pursued heightened protectionism and huge amounts of government spending and expansion. Of course, it is hard to define conservatives as a whole over space and time, but what I can say with confidence is that just ten years ago, the Trump platform would not have survived a Republican primary.

With a better understanding of general conservative principles, liberal students may start to see conservatism as a distinct political philosophy and differentiate it from the surge of populism that they so harshly condemn. In the same vein, liberal students should also consider engaging Trump supporters in conversation to understand their standpoints — some of which will certainly be reasonable. In this way, they can leave the echo chambers that condemn and misconstrue the conservative ideology.

Understanding leads to the type of dialogue that can heal the divides between ideologically opposed students on this campus. While liberal students need to educate themselves and open the dialogue to all views, conservatives need to step up and stand by their opinions. Only then can they destigmatize their beliefs on campus.

Conservative students’ fear is understandable, however. The automatic as-

“W

e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The Founding Fathers penned these words in the Declaration of Independence and laid forth a vision of what America could be. There is hope in these words — hope for a world in which all people have their basic needs met, have the freedom to make their own choices, and have the opportunity to pursue a meaningful life in their own way. We have not yet met this vision, but I believe that we have both the ability to achieve it and a moral obligation to do so. We need universal basic income in order to guarantee these rights to

all Americans.

UBI advocate Scott Santens has noted that “Poverty is a legal status … Poverty is being legally excluded from having sufficient access to resources to exist.” The existence of poverty is an unnatural violation of people’s right to life. It should not exist and it does not have to. In the United States today there is enough food for people to eat and there are enough beds for people to sleep in. The issue is that basic needs like these cost money.

Survival costs money. As a society, we have decided that those without money should not survive — but we can change that. We have a moral duty to change that. Not only do humans deserve, as a right, the basic necessities of survival, but furthermore, nobody has the right to come between a person and what they need to survive. A universal basic income can eliminate poverty entirely by giving people the ability to acquire their basic necessities and ensure the right to life for all Americans.

But survival is not enough; someone in prison has their basic needs taken care of, but that life is not enviable. People also have a right to liberty, defined here as freedom from coercion. In other words, it is the ability to say no. The choice between work and starvation is not a choice at all.

That is not freedom.

We have decided to structure our society such that most people have no choice but to sell their labor in order to survive. When a person’s life rests in the hands of their employer, they are not free.

While we have many protections for workers, we have not abolished this one-sided relationship and the unjust coercive power that comes with it.

UBI liberates people from financial dependence on others in every kind of relationship: freedom from exploitative work, abusive partners, and more.

Critics of UBI claim that it would reduce people’s desire to work, but that very criticism reveals that much opposition to UBI comes from those who stand to lose their coercive power over others. If someone would quit a job once their basic needs were met, they were only working that job to meet their basic needs — to survive. Therefore, they were coerced into the job by the threat of poverty and did not take the job by their own free will. UBI gives people the chance to be truly free.

What will people do with their newfound freedom? Anything they want. Many people will keep their jobs; people often enjoy the structure, community, purpose, or extra income that comes with a job. Some, once they receive the financial security of UBI, will still work, but will quit their second or third job or limit their hours in order to do more of whatever they enjoy. Others will stop working entirely because those jobs are dangerous, exploitative, or otherwise unpleasant, as they should have the right to do.

This reduction of work should be celebrated; our society can function perfectly well without much of the work that people are forced into today. Many people will then have more time to pursue the activities they find most meaningful.

UBI recipients will spend more time with their kids and families. They will care for elderly and sick relatives. They will volunteer and start businesses. They will become artists and writers, journalists and students, dreamers and doers. We waste untold potential and systematically crush the human spirit because we force people into needless drudgery just to stay alive. We deny an integral part of the human experience by denying people the chance to create, to explore, and to pursue happiness.

Critics have disparaged UBI as “free money” or a gimmick. What they fail to realize is that money is not the point of UBI. Money is a means to an end: freedom. Freedom from poverty, freedom from coercion, and freedom to strive for self-actualization.

Basic income is not charity or welfare. It is a right. We have both the ability and the obligation to end poverty, ensure liberty, and give every American the chance to find their own version of success. We can finally live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and secure these natural rights. There is no reason to wait. The time for universal basic income is now.

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sociation between President Trump and conservatism is not just deeply flawed, but it can even be dangerous for non-liberal students. The President is broadly perceived as an unintelligent, even malicious, individual in most circles on this campus. Take a moment and think about what your reaction would be if you were falsely accused of voting for President Trump and thus associated with those traits. Surely you would do everything in your power to dismiss the accusation.

Perhaps you would avoid even bringing up topics that could lead to this conversation.

But even if I, and other non-liberals, fear speaking up, we cannot afford to stay quiet if we hope to engage in comprehen-

Understanding leads to the type of dialogue that can heal the divides between ideologically opposed students on this campus.

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Cambridge Revises Position on Dispensaries

By Maria g. gonzalez Crimson Staff Writer

Cambridge will now be allowing people to apply for marijuana dispensary licenses after a long legal fight.sara komatsu—Crimson photographer

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History Professor Hinton Departs Harvard for Yale I think is really important in terms of the moment that we’re in right now in confronting issues of racism in the criminal justice system, and considering new pathways for reform,” Hinton said.

“Yale provides me a new kind of platform and I think an important one for my scholarship moving forward,” she added.

Hinton will also join Yale’s Justice Collaboratory, which brings together scholars from a variety of fields to study criminal justice reform.

Though Hinton’s departure comes amid increased scrutiny of Harvard’s tenure processes — particularly of its retention and promotion of faculty who study race and ethnicity — Hinton said that recent controversies did not affect her decision, given that she had received tenure at both institutions.

“Tenure was not a part of my

decision,” Hinton said, adding that recent ethnic studies advocacy likewise played no role in her move.

Professor Hinton is one of the finest historians of her generation, and her work is deeply connected to our faculty’s.

Heather K. Gerken Dean of Yale Law School

Hinton said she was a “target of opportunity hire,” meaning Yale created a position for her specifically rather than conducting a broad-based faculty search.

“The Law School had ex-

pressed interest in hiring me and that’s what led to the creation of my position,” she said.

FAS spokesperson Anna G. Cowenhoven declined to comment on Hinton’s departure.

Gerken wrote in an email to The Crimson that she is looking forward to welcoming Hinton to the ranks of Yale Law’s faculty.

“Yale Law School has a remarkable group of legal historians and scholars of criminal justice as well as the Justice Collaboratory, which is a magnet for academics across the University,” Gerken wrote.

“Professor Hinton is one of the finest historians of her generation, and her work is deeply connected to our faculty’s.”

“We could not be happier that she will be joining our intellectual community,” Gerken added. james.bikales@thecrimson.com

­ ambridge will now accept and C process bids for recreational cannabis businesses after a Superior Court judge ruled the city must do so, according to a Feb. 20 announcement.

The Cambridge solicitor’s office filed a motion last week appealing a Middlesex Superior Court decision which ruled Cambridge’s marijuana moratorium illegal.

The moratorium — which gave “economic empowerment applicants” a two-year headstart in recreational marijuana sales — violated the the home rule amendment to the Massachusetts state constitution, the judge ruled.

Cambridge defined economic empowerment applicants as businesses run by people who have been disproportionately harmed by past marijuana laws.

During a city council meeting in June, Sumbul Siddiqui — who now serves as Cambridge’s

in Cambridge, businesses must submit a statement of interest to the city.

Applicants may also be asked to present their information in person so city staff can ask them further questions.

According to city guidelines, a statement of interest consists of a cover letter, a special permit from the Cambridge planning board, a cannabis business permit, a management and operations profile, and qualifying documentation.

Moreover, applicants must submit a plan for “positive community impact” and certification, which mandates that a majority of the applicant’s employees will be minorities, women, or military veterans.

Certification guidelines also encourage businesses to hire Cambridge residents.

Finally, if the application is approved, the business must hold semi-annual community outreach meetings. maria.gonzalez@thecrimson.com

Public Health Students Host Painting Self-Care Night By hannah j. Martinez and jacavian d. voss Contributing Writers

­ oughly 30 students from the R Harvard School of Public Health gathered at the Longwood campus for a night of painting in a bid to give students a mental health break Wednesday evening.

Sarah E. Zelasky, vice president of student life for the Harvard Chan Student Association, said she helped organize the event “hoping to not only have students have like a mental health break from their studies, but to also form some friendships while they’re here.”

“Our school focuses a lot on academia, and that we also are a community, and it’s really important for us to remember that and provide more opportunities for people to hang out and get together,” said Zelasky.

Sina Famenini, vice president of student advocacy for the HCSA, said he believes this event is especially important during the winter.

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mayor — spoke about the need for the two-year economic empowerment amendment.

“The country’s racist war on drugs has heavily impacted and criminalized black and brown folks,” Siddiqui said.

“It’s our collective responsibility to do the best we can to fight [for] policies that provide equitable access to the wealth and opportunity inherent in this emerging billion dollar cannabis industry.”

Though a Feb. 14 statement said Cambridge would await further action by either the Superior Court or the Appeals Court before agreeing to new contracts with recreational pot companies, the city has revised its original position.

Cambridge will now accept all applications for “host community agreements” from interested parties.

The city will also enter into HCAs with qualifying applicants, according to the revised announcement.

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“Winter is isolating and the days are short and people are inside all day, so if we have to be inside, we might as well bring people together for a fun event addressing mental health and loneliness through art,” Famenini said.

If we have to be inside, we might as well bring people together for a fun event.

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Caroline D. Keroack, a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, guided the participants through painting the Boston skyline, but encouraged them to paint whatever they wished. She said the event attempted to provide a welcome break from an otherwise stressful school environment.

“It’s very hard, in like an academic world, where there’s a right answer and a wrong answer, and sort of with painting there’s no right answer and wrong answer,” Keroack said.

“I’m hoping that it gives them a break from whatever homework, classes, or exams. When I paint, afterwards I feel much lighter.”

The event was HCSA’s first planned mental health break for the student body at the School of Public Health.

Hui Fen “Rachel” Lim, who participated in the art self-care night, said that she “had never really assessed” available mental health services.

“I wish we had more events like this,” Lim said.

According to Zelasky, the event and the waitlist had been completely filled, showing the demand for events like these.

“It’s a good way to de-stress and kind of do something that you don’t normally get to do,” Archna A. Patel, who attended the event, said.

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Harvard Takes Down Clarkson on the Road, 5-2 By spencer r. morris Crimson Staff Writer

­ OTSDAM, N.Y. — One thing P the Harvard men’s hockey team lacked was a win over a top-10 foe. On Friday night, the No. 20 Crimson (12-9-6, 10-5-5 ECAC) checked that box.

Harvard defeated No. 5/6 Clarkson, 5-2, to start its infamous North Country road trip on a high note. The Golden Knights (23-7-2, 16-4-0) represent the highest-caliber opponent Harvard has defeated in 2019-2020 and the program’s first takedown of a top-five team since its Beanpot crown on Feb. 13, 2017.

The victory comes at a crucial time of jockeying for position in the conference standings — the two points enhance the Crimson’s chances of locking in a top-four seed and hence a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament.

With Friday’s result, Harvard has taken points from all 11 conference adversaries this season.

“It was a good win for us,” said Crimson forward Jack Donato. “[Clarkson is] one of the better teams in the league…. We wanted to have a good team effort. Four lines chipped in, six [defensemen], really good goalie play.”

Already ahead by two scores early in the first period, Harvard coughed up multiple eastwest passes on the powerplay leading to two quality chances going the other way for Clarkson forward Zach Tsekos.

Freshman goaltender Mitchell Gibson (2 GA, .946 SV%), however, kept both chances out of the Crimson net.

“I thought they had a few pretty big chances,” Gibson said. “Just kind of had a clear mind and came up when I needed to. Obviously, the two breakaways in the first, and knowing they had the number-one penalty kill in the country, I was just trying to be ready at all times.”

Having narrowly escaped a brief stretch of sloppy play, Harvard dealt another blow to its hosts. Junior winger Henry Bowlby used his speed to gain an edge on Golden Knights forward Mathieu Gosselin. A drop pass and a blocked shot left the puck lingering in the slot, where junior centerman Jack Badini picked it up and, subsequently,

JACK ATTACK Junior forward Jack Badini scored the game-winning goal during a 5-2 road victory over Clarkson on Friday. Badini’s tally came midway through the first period.

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found twine.

Badini’s momentum-shifting goal was also the deciding strike in Friday’s affair.

“That [goal] was huge,” said Crimson sophomore forward Jack Drury. “That line has been good for us all year. Whenever they’re together, [Badini, sophomore R.J. Murphy, and Bowlby] have done a great job being hard and being fast…. [The goal] was great timing, and give Bowlby and Badini a lot of credit for making that play happen.”

Early in the middle stanza, the foes traded notches. Clarkson came out of the intermission firing after a lackluster first 20.

Within two minutes, the green and gold were on the

board, courtesy of a slick backhand shot that sophomore forward Anthony Callin roofed on Gibson.

Three minutes later, rookie blue-liner Henry Thrun got one back for Harvard.

His wrist shot passed the officials’ review for goaltender interference and restored the Crimson’s comfortable threegoal advantage.

Toward the end of the frame, Harvard saw another could-be goal go to review; this time, senior forward Colton Kerfoot’s stuff attempt was deemed to have been saved by Kris Oldham (0 GA, 1.000 SV%), the backstop who replaced starter Frank Marotte (4 GA, .789 SV%) after Thrun’s tuck.

The Crimson ended the second period with a 31-20 lead in shots.

“The big lead kind of kept our confidence going,” Gibson said. “We just wanted to stay the course [when Clarkson scored in the second period]. We knew it was a big game, we knew we were still up. I thought it was just a good shot, nothing structurally deficient or anything like that.”

The Crimson was committed to throwing shots on goal early in Friday’s bout. Offensive-zone pressure led to the game’s first powerplay two and a half minutes after the opening puck drop.

Mere seconds into the man advantage, sophomore defense-

man Jack Rathbone sent a point shot toward Marotte. The puck trickled through the tender’s pads and for a moment sat in the blue paint, where Drury shoved it across the line.

Drury’s 17th of the season extends his Division-I lead in goals per game (0.74). Twenty-one of his 32 points have come on Harvard’s lethal manup unit, which currently paces the nation at a 30.8 percent clip and has converted in all but five contests in 2019-2020.

The Harvard powerplay found success despite the formidability of the Golden Knights’ penalty kill, ranked number-one in the league at 91.7 percent effective.

Before the game was five

GIBSON IN GOAL Rookie goaltender Mitchell Gibson posted 33 saves on Friday, including two breakaway stops in the first period. tIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—Crimson photographer

minutes old, the visitors potted another puck to silence the boisterous Cheel Arena crowd.

The culprit was yet another Jack — he of the Donato variety.

The winger forced a turnover on the forecheck. With the puck at the bottom of the left circle, he hesitated, took it around the cage, and forced home a wraparound attempt.

“They were a little fidgety back there [on defense] to start the game,” Donato said. “[My linemates] did a really good job forechecking them…. I just wanted to get a puck on the net.

[Goaltending coach Brian Robinson] puts the scouting report out: slow moving post-to-post, so we wanted to try to take advantage of that early.”

Donato finished with a game-high two goals, as he also potted the empty-netter to seal the triumph.

Both Rathbone and firstyear forward Nick Abruzzese had productive nights, pocketing two assists apiece. The former, with seven points (2–5—7) in his last four outings, is one of just five rearguards in the NCAA to be at or above a pointper-game pace.

Meanwhile, the latter continues a stellar freshman campaign and torrid stretch of late — Abruzzese leads college hockey in points since Dec. 1 with 28 (11–17—28).

After an uplifting win, the Crimson traveled down the road to Canton, N.Y., and fell to St. Lawrence, 6-3, in a Saturday matchup.

With the upset win over Harvard, the Saints (4-24-4, 2-17-1 ECAC) picked up just their second conference victory of the season. Remarkably, it marked their first home win of the year.

For the Crimson, the loss marked the end of a 10-game winning streak against St. Lawrence that dated back to Feb. 20, 2015.

Harvard fell behind 4-0 during the first two periods of Saturday’s matchup and was unable to recover.

“We’re not really looking too far ahead,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said afer Friday’s win. “There are two teams in front of us, Cornell and Clarkson. We’ve played well against [them] in our last two meetings.

But realistically, that means nothing. So, we have to earn our way just to finish in the top four in the [ECAC] standings.” spencer.morris@thecrimson.com