The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVII, No. 30

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLVII No. 30 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2020

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Ray-Ban store brings shade to Harvard Square

Lewis and Scalise are spot-on about athlete attrition

Men’s lacrosse goes 1-2 on the road to open season

Three Year Low 40,246 Apply to Class of ’24 Bacow To Take Divest to Corp.

By Benjamin L. Fu and Dohyun Kim

Crimson Staff Writers

A total of 40,246 students applied to Harvard College’s Class of 2024, marking the lowest number of applications in three years.

The figure signifies a drop by more than 3,000 applications from the previous admissions cycle, when a record-high 43,330 students applied to the Class of 2023.

Still, the number of applications for the Class of 2024 marks only the third time in the College’s history that applications have exceeded 40,000, representing a slight bump from the 39,494 applications to the College’s Class of 2021.

“We continue to be excited by the extraordinary students from across the nation and around the world who apply to Harvard College,” Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a press release Wednesday.

Female applicants slightly outnumbered their male counterparts, comprising 50.2 percent of the applicant pool. ­

The share of applicants interested in studying Computer Science increased slightly, as did the number of students who indicated an interest in the physical sciences.

Biological and social sciences remained the two most popular prospective fields of study for applicants.

Harvard’s announcement of the application numbers coincided with the unveiling of a new financial aid initiative that will eliminate the summer work expectation for incoming students receiving aid from the College.

In the press release, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay said the initiative’s goal is to create more opportunities for incoming classes in the summer before their freshman year.

“This initiative is part of a broader effort to ensure that students can engage fully, explore bravely, make authentic choices, and realize their full potential as members of the Harvard community,” Gay said in the press release.

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By Michelle G. Kurilla and Ruoqi Zhang Crimson Staff Writers

Nearly one month after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences overwhelmingly voted in favor of fossil fuel divestment, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in an interview Monday that he will report back to the faculty once the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — has considered the resolution.

“There’s been conversations with the Corporation, but the Corporation is not prepared to respond yet,” he said.

Members of the Corporation are aware of the resolution calling for Harvard to divest its $40.9 billion endowment from fossil fuel companies, but the group has yet to convene a meeting discussing the resolution, Bacow said.

“They’re aware of the vote because that gets shared with them,” he said. “But we haven’t had a Corporation meeting to actually discuss that.”

“Once the Corporation has considered it and dealt with it — as I mentioned to the FAS faculty — I will report back to the faculty,” Baccow added.

The Harvard Medical School Faculty Council also called for the University to divest from fossil fuel in a vote last month.

Last month, Georgetown University decided to divest from all of its public securities of fossil fuel companies within the next five years. Yale University’s Faculty Senate also recently held a debate on divesting its endowment from fossil fuel investments.

Bacow said that Harvard will make its own “independent decision” on divestment.

“Yale does what Yale thinks is appropriate to do, and we do what we think is appropriate for Harvard,” he said.

During Tuesday’s faculty meeting, Philosophy chair Edward J. Hall requested an update from Bacow on the Corporation’s response to divestment. ­

Harvard College’s Admissions and Financial Aid Office is located at 86 Brattle St. Sílvia Casacuberta Puig—CONTRIBUTING photographer

A First Look Inside New SEAS Complex

By Brie K. Buchanan and Elizabeth X. Guo Crimson Staff Writers

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’s nearly-complete, newly minted Science and Engineering complex in Allston will feature state-of-the-art student club spaces, sustainably designed labs, and a number of amenities, one of the project’s architects told The Crimson on a first-look tour of the complex Wednesday.

The tour offered a peek into construction progress on the building, which is slated to open in Fall 2020. Leaders of SEAS student organizations including Women in Computer Science and MakeHarvard also participated in the closed tour. Steven J. Cortesa, a mechanical engineer on the project, said the complex will include roughly 2.5 times the previously available undergraduate lab space, three times the open lab space, and five times the club-specific space. ­

An inside look at the new SEAS campus accross the river in Allston, which is currently under construction. ELIZABETH X. GUO—CONTRIBUTING photographer

Other features of the new complex include a flight lab, maker space, library, food servery, and an eight-story atrium, according to architect Michael Noll, who led the tour.

It will also play host to a wide variety of teaching spaces, from a 300-person lecture hall to a smaller classroom featuring a wall of 21 video monitors.

Throughout the tour, Noll emphasized the complex’s environmental sustainability. Classrooms will feature reclaimed wood floors, and all building materials used were vetted for hazardous chemicals in collaboration with the University’s Office for Sustainability. Additionally, the architects configured the building’s ventilation system — particularly in wet lab spaces — to lower air change rate and waste less energy. Wet labs also feature a lab write-up space partitioned from lab benches, reducing the space that requires

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Harvard Discourages Topdrawer Will Slide Open in Harvard Square International Travel

By Ellen M. Burstein Crimson Staff Writer

By Fiona K. Brennan Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard administrators discouraged all non-essential international travel for spring break and prohibited University travel to countries with a Level 3 Travel Warning from the Centers for Disease Control in the wake of increased global concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in an email to Harvard affiliates Wednesday.

The email from University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76, Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp, and Harvard University Health Services Director Giang T. Nguyen comes just over a week before students and faculty depart for spring break.

The three administrators restated University-related travel restrictions to China, Iran, Italy, and South Korea — where a Level 3 Travel Warning from the CDC is currently in place — adding that they “strongly discourage” personal travel to those areas. The email said that anyone who comes to Harvard from those areas, including vis­

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itors, must submit a health form to HUHS and self-isolate for a likely minimum of 14 days.In cautioning against non-essential international travel, administrators warned of the possibility of possible future travel restrictions and the possibility of complications upon return to Harvard.

“You will be subject to any restrictions in place at the time of your return, not only at the time of departure,” they wrote.

“Return to the U.S. may be difficult, and after your arrival you may be required to stay away from campus.”

At a Tuesday meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nguyen and FAS Dean Claudine Gay warned professors they should begin preparing for disruptions to teaching and research. Gay recommended that the faculty learn to use Zoom, a remote teaching platform.

The Wednesday email also advised Harvard affiliates planning to travel within the country to use “caution and

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Topdrawer — a lifestyle accessory store geared toward “creative nomads” — is set to open in Harvard Square in April.

The Japanese-American company sells sustainable tools that “can be used for a lifetime and handed down to children and grandchildren,” according to its website. The store’s wide-ranging inventory includes backpacks, notebooks, and sunglasses, designed to empower their users to be “creative” and “productive.”

The upcoming opening marks Topdrawer’s 14th location worldwide and its third in Massachusetts. It will join existing stores in Boston and Brookline.

Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said Topdrawer’s offerings are designed to mimic what one might find in the “top junk drawer” in their house.

Jillson added that her organization was “looking forward” to having Topdrawer in the ­

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Topdrawer, a family-owned Japanese-American store for everyday accessories, is opening this spring in the Square in the space previously occupied by Black Ink. Aiyana G. White—Crimson photographer

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Today’s Events Super Tuesday - What Just Happened?

Institute of Politics, 6 p.m.

in The Real World Super Tuesday Results: Who Won?

Join the Institute of Politics for a forum about Super Tuesday results and the direction of the 2020 presidential race, led by Mike Allen, co-founder of Axios, Tiffany Cross, IOP Resident Fellow, and Galen Druke, podcast producer and reporter.

After the biggest day of the primary election season where one-third of all delegates will be awarded, former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. seems to be pulling ahead, scoring victories in the key Southern states and a surprising win in Massachusetts.

To All the Boys 2 Screening and Discussion Lowell Movie Theater, 7-9:30 p.m.

Still haven’t seen the sequel to your favorite Netflix teen romcom yet? Interested in Asian media representation? Join the Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies for a screening of the sequel “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You” at Lowell Movie Theater followed by a discussion!

Intro to Grassroots Peacebuilding in Israel-Palestine Emerson 307, 7-8:30 p.m.

Drop by Emerson 307 for a talk with Embodying Peace and the Harvard International Relations Council about local civil society organizations and nonviolent movements in Israel and Palestine that are working to build a lasting peace from the ground up.

Novel Gene-Editing Technology Used in A Patient

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Doctors have used CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology, to edit a patient’s DNA while still inside their body. They injected the micro-gene technology into the diseased retinal cells of a patient and will continue to monitor results over the next several weeks.

Daily Briefing

Deadly Tornado Strikes Tennessee

A bike sits alongside Brattle Street on a temperate Tuesday afternoon. AIYANA G. WHITe—Crimson

Harvard College posted its lowest application numbers in three years, receiving 40,246 applications from high school students across the globe.

The College also unrolled a new financial aid initiative that will eliminate the summer work requirement for incoming students. In other news, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said the Harvard Corporation has yet to meet to discuss a February meeting where the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of fossil fuel divestment in large numbers.

After two tornados with wind speeds up to 175 mph touched down in Tennessee, the state is attempting to assess the damage and locate three missing persons. Twenty four people died and hundreds of buildings were destroyed in East Nashville, Donelson, and Mt. Juliet in the state’s deadliest tornado in seven years.

Around the Ivies cOLUMBIA Columbia has suspended all foreign travel for upcoming programs affiliated or sponsored by the university until further notice, according to The Columbia Spectator. In an email to students, the interim provost wrote that students currently abroad need to make preparations for a possible return to the United States. The university is evaluating the situation for students currently abroad on a case-by-case basis. In an email sent to Business School students, administrators discussed the possibility that remote instruction may become necessary.

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Brown University has slashed its endowment’s investment in fossil fuel by 90 percent since October 2017, when the university started selling these investments, the Brown Daily Herald reported. Brown had invested 6.5 percent of its endowment in fossil fuel companies prior to the selling, and has reduced that proportion to 0.9 percent. Brown reduced its securities holdings in fossil fuel companies due to the declining cost of alternative energy sources and the increasing economic uncertainty of fossil fuel, according to a letter by Brown President Christina H. Paxson cited by the Herald.

Dartmouth

Dartmouth College’s newly adopted sexual misconduct procedures includes options for informal resolution, The Dartmouth reported on Tuesday. Students can use the informal procedures if they do not want to file a formal complaint and pursue an investigation, according to the school’s Title IX coordinator Kristi Clemens.

The proceedings and measures taken under the informal procedures do not require formal investigation and discovery of responsibilities.

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GSAS Student Council Discusses Advising and Union By andy z. wang Crimson Staff Writer

OCS Assistant Director Caroline Wright speaks at the March meeting of the Harvard Graduate Student Council.

ZADOC I.N. GEE—Crimson photographer

Harvard Scientists Construct ‘Tentacle Bot’

By Ethan lee Crimson Staff Writer

Scientists at Harvard and Beihang University released a study in late February revealing a new soft robotics product – an arm with the gripping characteristics of an octopus’s tentacle.

The “Tentacle Bot” uses its flexible design and suction cups to grip and manipulate objects with a variety of different shapes, according to a press release about the study.

Katia Bertoldi, a professor of applied mechanics at Harvard, who co-authored the study, said the team’s research began by trying to discover more about the octopus tentacle’s structure.

“The octopus arm has this intriguing shape,” Bertoldi said. “We tried to understand the implication of that.”

“As we went more and more, we also started building things,” he added.

Li Wen, another co-writer and professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation at Beihang University in Beijing, wrote in an email that the researchers progressed from analyzing characteristics of the octopus tentacle to beginning to create the bot.

“When we search the octopus arm on the internet, we observe that the octopus arms are taper-shaped and are highly variable between different species,” Wen wrote. “Inspired by the tapered morphological feature of octopus arms, we are very curious how this tapered shape would benefit the design and performance of soft actuators and soft robots.”

“We also expect this robot could help the doctors to carry out some medical diagnosis.”

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Wen added that, unlike past work on robots that attempted to replicate individual octopus characteristics, the Tentacle Bot combined different aspects of the cephalopod’s physique.

“In contrast to the previous studies on octopus-inspired robots, which focused primarily on either arm motion, or sucker action alone, this present tentacle bot integrates both concepts and adopted an optimal tapered

shape of the tentacle for a better gripping performance,” Wen wrote.

August G. Domel, a Harvard Ph.D. graduate and co-author of the paper, said he thinks the bot may have practical implications for manufacturing.

“I can imagine this being used in some sort of assembly where you have to basically manipulate a wide range of objects and maybe it isn’t just one consistency coming through,” Domel said.

“We include suction and bending, and we have this nice tapering angle too. We’re able to really grab a wide range of things. So you can imagine that if you’re on some sort of manufacturing application, this can really be useful,” Domel said.

Wen added that he thinks the Tentacle Bot could be used in the future for more complicated operations, such as medical procedures.

“In the future, we hope this robot can be safely operated in the company of human bystanders to work on a few complex missions together,” Wen wrote. “We also expect this robot could help the doctors to carry out some medical diagnosis.” ethan.lee@thecrimson.com

IOP Panelists Criticize Harvard’s Negotiation Stance with Union

By KEVIN A. SIMAUCHI and RAQUEL CORONELL URIBE contributing writers

Former New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse and President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Sara Nelson criticized Harvard for its stance in ongoing negotiations with Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers at an Institute of Politics event Wednesday.

Greenhouse and Nelson argued that institutions like Harvard should not wait for the National Labor Relations Board to implement a rule that would exempt “graduate students who receive financial compensation” from being defined as workers. The widely-expected decision would effectively overturn a previous NLRB ruling upholding the right of graduate students to unionize.

The union —which engaged in a month-long strike in late 2019 before returning to work at the beginning of the year — remains in talks with the University on a contract. The sides have yet to strike an agreement that addresses the three major provisions that prompted the strike: compensation, health care, and grievance procedures for discrimination and sexual harassment complaints.

In an interview prior to the event, Greenhouse and Nelson cited the possibility that Har­

vard may find a legal technicality to not recognize the HGSU-UAW. “Harvard did not agree to a so-called union security clause which would require all, you know, grad teaching assistants to contribute towards the union,” Greenhouse said.

Nelson agreed, stating that the exclusion of this clause is “kind of a backdoor way to not

As an entity, they are not behaving as though they have a conscience .

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recognizing a union.”

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment in response to Nelson and Greenhouse’s criticisms.

HGSU-UAW representatives distributed a flyer at the event titled “Why is Harvard hiding behind Trump!?,” which cited concerns about Harvard allegedly “consistently violating labor law.”

Boston Globe reporter Katie Johnston moderated Wednesday’s panel discussion with Greenhouse and Nelson, which was followed by an audience discussion.

Despite their criticisms, Greenhouse and Nelson said they believe the University has a “conscience,” contrasting Harvard to the University of Chicago, which has declined to negotiate with its graduate students.

Andrew M. Bergman, a graduate student in applied physics and HGSU-UAW member, disagreed with Greenhouse and Nelson’s assessment of Harvard during a back-and-forth at the forum. “As an entity, they are not behaving as though they have a conscience,” Bergman said.

Nelson also spoke about labor issues emerging from the coronavirus epidemic, citing the reluctance of Republican congressmen to provide health care-related government assistance. “I think that what the coronavirus epidemic is doing is exposing the hypocrisy of the healthcare debate,” Nelson said. “The coronavirus is demonstrating, literally, the foundation of unions—that an injury to one is an injury to all— because this is not something that you can hide from.”

Nelson is currently considering a campaign to lead the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the largest body of organized workers in the United States. If elected, Nelson would be the federation’s first woman leader.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Student Council discussed a forthcoming survey to gauge the state of graduate student advising during its monthly open meeting in Lehman Hall Wednesday night.

The council — the official representative body for all GSAS students — also discussed career services available to graduate students, upcoming elections, graduate student union bargaining, and campus safety.

Germanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. candidate Zachary M. Hayworth, who serves as president of the GSC, introduced GSAS Advising Project director Reba Rosenberg to present a survey to gauge the state of advising within the school. The survey is set to go live in April.

“We just really want to understand what’s happening in each different department, each different area — even within a certain department, you’re going to have differences, right?”

Rosenberg said. “You want to capture as much of that as possible, which is why now we’re going to be doing this survey.”

The council also invited Office of Career Services representative Caroline Wright to inform students about the range of professional development resources available to graduate students.

Wright stressed that the OCS provides significant support for students engaging in job searches, running the gamut from interest assessments and resume review sessions to mock interviews and negotiation tips.

“GSAS career services has traditionally seen students to-

“It’s never too early to engage with our office.”

Caroline Wright OCS Assistant Director

wards the end of degree completion, when perhaps they’re realizing that they may want to go on in a nonacademic job market,” Wright said. “We never want students to feel that they’re scrambling. It’s never too early to engage with our office.”

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didate Erik Baker shared an update on the state of bargaining between Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers and the University over its first contract.

While Baker said the union has reached favorable agreements over some of its central proposals, such as personal day allowances, transit subsidies, and a just-cause clause for termination, he acknowledged that the University and the union still remain at an impasse over other issues.

History of Science Ph.D candidate Alexis Turner, who serves on the council’s Safety Committee, also shared a brief update about measures to address safety concerns posed by scooters on campus. Turner said that administrators are considering building secure scooter racks outside of academic buildings to prevent scooters from being taken inside, where they may prove a fire hazard.

“Scooters are a terrible thing.

Apparently some scooter ran into someone and broke their ankle,” Turner said. “Also, some student almost set their room on fire while they were charging their electric scooter.” andy.wang@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Discourages Spring Break International Travel judgment” in their planning and regularly check for new information on the outbreak, directing them toward the University’s new coronavirus website.

University officials continue to meet consistently to update contingency plans and will continue to update Harvard affiliates through emails and the website, Lapp, Garber, and Nguyen wrote.

In an additional Wednesday email, Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael P. Burke — who is also the co-director of the Harvard College Emergency Management team — said he will provide biweekly emailed updates on coronavirus.

He also said the College plans to keep four dining halls open during Spring Break to accommodate students who choose to

stay on campus. “The updates will include everything from new guidelines regarding travel; hygiene and safety tips; academic impacts; the status of major events, and other important notices,” Burke wrote. “You can expect to be hearing from me every Monday and Thursday beginning next week.” fiona.brennan@thecrimson.com

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Lewis and Scalise Are Spot On About Athlete Attrition

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ast month, The Crimson reported that one in four Class of 2020 varsity athletes quit during their time at the College. The report prompted responses from Harry R. Lewis ’68, a former Dean of Harvard College, who argued that “Ivy League athletics is premised on the freedom of athletes, like other Harvard students, to rethink their interests and commitments,” and from Harvard Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise, who described a student athlete’s decision to stop or continue playing a sport as akin to a student changing their concentration.

We wholeheartedly agree with Lewis and Scalise’s reasoning. Harvard’s athletes are students just like any of us.

Accordingly, they deserve the right to decide, as members of our community, what their participation in student life will look like.

We affirm our belief that student-athletes, as individuals with unique experiences and mentalities borne from having dedicated themselves to a high level of athletic excellence, have an important, valuable role at Harvard. Their athletic talents, experience, and intellect diversify Harvard, just as other students’ academic, extracurricular or personal experiences enrich our school community.

This understanding of the role of student-athletes, we believe, clarifies that the athlete admissions process should prioritize considerations of how recruited athletes will contribute to campus in their role as students first and foremost.

In other words, student-athletes should

be evaluated in the same way the admissions office evaluates other students: not merely in terms of their athletic capabilities, but holistically on how the sum of their characteristics, athletic and otherwise, will enrich our community. In fact, Lewis and Scalise’s defense of athletes who walk off their teams cannot, it seems, cohere with an admissions system that treats athletes preferentially.

In recognizing the rightful place student-athletes have in the broader Harvard community, we hope and expect that student-athletes engage academically, socially, and extracurricularly outside of their teams, and, at the same time, that the student body engages with the wide range of talented athletes Harvard has attracted.

Since 2015, our varsity teams have won 54 Ivy League Championships and their successes have, unfortunately, not been celebrated or recognized widely enough across the river. These successes should be the collective pride of our campus, and any social fragmentation that exists at the College along athlete/ non-athlete lines must be viewed as the shared responsibility of our entire community.

We pride our school for its diversity, and as such, we should collectively aim — on all sides — to celebrate a diverse array of student achievements.

A 25 percent athletic attrition rate is not inherently bad. That being said, the athletic department should be cognizant of the environment and culture within teams and support their athletes

as they try to navigate their dual roles at Harvard. The time-consuming nature of varsity athletics requires student-athletes to strike a careful balancing act while on campus, and we think it behooves the athletic department to work towards a better understanding of why student-athletes choose to exit, lest the explanations point to trends worth disrupting. It is more than reasonable for students to change passions, but it is also possible for an unsustainably demanding environment to extinguish such passion.

Lastly, we appreciate that Harvard athletics gives student-athletes the freedom to leave their sports as they embark on their journeys through Harvard. Student-athletes should not feel boxed into their athlete roles and, like any other students, should be encouraged to explore diverse social groups, intellectual passions, and other extracurriculars. They are far more than means for our University to do well in a league, and we commend the athletic department for recognizing the value of their athletes and being supportive of their broader, and potentially shifting, interests.

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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The Sparkling of the Harvard Spirit

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One year ago from this month, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow visited China and gave a speech at Peking University that earned him my respect and made me proud of Harvard. His speech shone through with the Harvard spirit — the pursuit of truth through valuing the power of knowledge, encouraging cooperation and dialogue between countries, peoples, and cultures, and respecting diversity to elevate the human spirit and the condition of all mankind. In particular, Bacow’s reading of Abdurehim Ötkür’s poem about the search for truth moved me to tears. I felt proud that my beloved Uighur poet and Harvard University’s President shared the same spirit of intellectual exploration. Ötkür was a beloved and iconic Uighur writer and poet. I studied his poems and prose in our Uighur language textbooks when I was a high school student. In the 1990s, I attended the same university in Urumqi that he had attended in the 1940s.

For people who don’t know about the Uighurs, Bacow’s gesture may seem like nothing. But it is a great moral support for us, a people with a unique culture and colorful history whose ancestors established empires and contributed significantly to the building and development of the Silk Road but are now marginalized in today’s China.

Millions of Uighurs, who are Chinese citizens, are suffering through unimaginable, incomprehensible cruelty and heartbreaking, unforgettable tragedy. They have been separated from their family members and taken to so-called “re-education” centers.

They are under constant Chinese state surveillance. And in all aspects of life on a daily basis, they are discriminated against.

As an American citizen of Uighur origin living freely in this country, I was sad-

dened by the fate of millions of my fellow people in their own country. I could not fathom the arrests or disappearances of many lovely people like Professor Rahile Dawut, literary critic Yalqun Rozi, and others whom I know very well. These are the scholars who have contributed to the progress of Uighur society and played the role of a bridge between different cultures and peoples, between the Uighurs and the Chinese government. China’s attack on them and so many others certainly is a great tangible loss for Uighur people. It is also an intangible loss for China

For people who don’t know about the Uighurs, Bacow’s gesture may seem like nothing. But it is a great moral support for us, a people with a unique culture and colorful history ... and Chinese people.

While watching this tragedy from afar, unable to stop China’s cruelty, Uighurs abroad felt helpless and hopeless.

But we believed in humanity, and expected some kind of just and unified response from all countries and international organizations that would change China’s behavior. After all, contemporary China has thrived after it opened its door to the world.

Unfortunately, many countries and major international organizations stayed silent on the plight of Uighurs.

One hypothesis is that their eyes were on Aladdin’s almighty lamp that says “made in China.” But in such a time when those with power and fame chose to stay silent or indifferent, President Bacow stood up for justice and subtly expressed his concern for the fate of millions of Uighurs through reading that poem by Ötkür.

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few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of prices as a regulation of consumption in times when goods are in short supply. Back then, I was simply making the case that for markets, in which prices are allowed to rise naturally, individuals are much less likely to hoard scarce resources. Now, we’re actually seeing this type of hoarding in action — of everything from hand sanitizer to toilet paper to face masks, in places ranging from Georgia to France to Hong Kong.

Even in our own backyard, the problem persists. When I visited CVS in Harvard Square Wednesday morning, they were out of both hand sanitizer and masks. Indeed, the seemingly irrational unwillingness of many sellers to raise prices of face masks has led to concerns that the doctors who need masks most may not be able to secure enough of them.

The coronavirus is, after all, one of those events that leaves us feeling a sense of almost complete powerlessness: a disease that is essentially an invisible enemy. Each day, CNN and the New York Times tell us about new appearances of the virus.

In January, we knew it was in Asia, as cases migrated from China to Korea and Japan. Then it popped up in France and Italy. Suddenly Iran had

This brings me to the point. Most of us are pretty myopic when it comes to history; we tend to forget how recently the United States faced pandemics that actually inflicted damage on the scale of the worst-case projections for this virus.

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ly hired a full-time preceptor to teach the Uighur language. Without a doubt, Harvard under the leadership of President Bacow splashed water on a withering flower, and I trust that it will blossom one day.

President Bacow did not just stand up for Uighurs. Most importantly he stood up for the truth — the truth that everyone strives to live the life they would like to live as free people with many choices.

But doing so has never been easy. Too often, unfortunately, when one segment of mankind gets their liberty, another segment of mankind falls into misery. When mankind makes progress in one field, it regresses in another field. This causes an unequal distribution of choices for mankind that often makes freedom too skewed.

I am proud that Harvard’s truth-seeking community never ceases to fight for the progress and betterment of all mankind. And the Harvard community never hesitates to express its concern against injustices and oppression, wherever they are. I saw this in both President Bacow’s speech and deeds. I have also seen this in a recent Crimson op-ed that brought attention to the Uighur people’s misery.

Young people like the op-ed’s author, Guillermo S. Hava, are an embodiment of this spirit and give me hope that our youth will do more good for the future of mankind to create a peaceful, prosperous, free, and just world shared by everyone.

Whenever there is an honest exploration for the truth, done with friendly collaboration and honest dialogue, the Harvard spirit sparkles. And with this same spirit, I urge the Harvard community to remind the Chinese government that respecting Uighurs’ human rights, treating them benignly, and letting them live the way they want to live is the best cure to this conflict.

— Kaiser Mejit is a graduate of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

it too. The international spread had begun. Now, health officials say that the United States is on the eve of an outbreak, and that this is almost certainly a pandemic.

So what should we really expect? Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, is making projections that 40 to 70 percent of the world will be infected by the virus, given the length of the vaccine development process.

The World Health Organization pegs the eventual fatality rate between 1 to 2 percent; the CDC says it may be lower than 1 percent. In a world of 7 billion, even if we take the most conservative estimates of these numbers, the back-of-the-envelope math generates a death toll well in the millions.

Now, we could cast doubt on a Harvard epidemiology professor and say he should do some robustness checks on his model (for our own sanity), but then again, most of us can’t pretend to be epidemiologists ourselves. Humor me and let’s assume that these experts have a point; if they’re right, we could be facing a really seismic event unprecedented in our lifetimes.

This brings me to the point. Most of us are pretty myopic when it comes to history; we tend to forget how recently the United States faced pandemics that actually inflicted damage on the scale of the worst-case projections for this virus. In 1957, the “Asian Flu” led to an estimated 1 to 2 million deaths worldwide, including more than 116,000 deaths in the United States. In 1968, the “Hong Kong flu” led to more than 100,000 American deaths.

I would wager that 99 percent of Harvard students have never heard of either outbreak. 1957 might bring to mind the Sputnik launch or the Little Rock Nine; 1968 is, in most of our minds, the year of Vietnam and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Indeed, the Smithsonian’s summary of major American events of 1968 doesn’t even mention the flu that killed more Americans than the entire war in Vietnam.

Our natural response may be: “but surely we aren’t living in 1968 anymore.” How can health officials in the 21st century tell us that the only preventive measure at our disposal is washing our hands more carefully? We automatically expect medical advances to prevent deaths of this scale from happening today. Perhaps they will. Certainly, researchers are working around the clock on vaccines (for those who don’t get the virus first).

But for cases of people who already have it, active quarantine measures appear to be the best way to slow its spread. It’s poetic in a way — that some techniques of the 14th century still must be used today. In a world with space shuttles, self-driving cars and high-frequency trading, that’s the best we can do at the moment.

This doesn’t mean we should accept mediocrity in the long run; that would be unacceptable in a field as important as public health. But you fight the war with the army you have, not with the army you wish to have. In any case, such situations demand from us a degree of humility, and serve as reminders that humans are still — partially — enslaved to fate.

In any case, the whole virus could blow over, so this article may not age well. But if it doesn’t go away, we may face an event of a magnitude that no longer exists in our collective memory and yet happened not so long ago. After all, history repeats when history itself is forgotten.

—Andrew W. Liang ’21, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Adams House.

His column appears on alternate Thursdays.

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New Ray-Ban Store Brings Shade to Harvard Square

By Simon J. Levin and Austin W. Li Crimson Staff Writers

R ay-Ban, a luxury sunglasses retailer, opened a Harvard Square branch in September, the first standalone Ray-Ban store to open in Massachusetts.

Julian K. Hammer, a Cambridge Ray-Ban employee, said the store is the seventeenth to open in the nation.

Hammer said he was excited by the decision to open up a store in Harvard Square and that he has enjoyed working there.

“They could have easily gone to Seaport or Newbury Street, but I think they really thought carefully about picking Harvard Square because we want to be here,” Hammer said.

“It’s been a real pleasure to meet and work with all these different people,” he said.

Ray-Ban was founded as a brand for pilots in 1936, but it quickly garnered internation­

Topdrawer, a family-owned Japanese-American store for everyday accessories, is opening this spring in the Square in the space previously occupied by Black Ink. Aiyana G. White—Crimson photographer

Applicants From Page 1

Three Year Low of 40,246 Apply to the Class of 2024 Phillips Brooks House Association executive director Maria J. Dominguez Gray expressed gratitude toward the source of the initiative’s funding, and also discussed the initiative’s aim of affording students more flexibility to engage in public service.

“We were fortunate to receive funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative three years ago to forgive summer earnings for many students on financial aid, but we soon found demand exceeded our existing funding,” Gray said in the press release. “This aid expands options for students who may work in the Sum-

mer Urban Program in Boston or Cambridge, area homeless shelters, or as Mindich Service Fellows.”

Since the launch of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative in 2005, Harvard has continued to enlarge its financial aid program.

The budget for undergraduate financial aid in 2019 totaled more than $200 million, marking a 148 percent increase since the Financial Aid Initiative began.

The admissions announcements come as Harvard continues to battle a lawsuit alleging its admissions policies discriminate against Asian

American applicants, who made up roughly a quarter of this year’s pool.

Plaintiff Students for Fair Admissions appealed Judge Allison D. Burroughs’s October 2019 decision in the University’s favor exactly two weeks ago.

The College already admitted 895 students to the Class of 2024 via its Early Action program in December 2019, an increase in early admits from last year. Regular Decision applicants will receive their decisions on March 26. benjamin.fu@thecrimson.com dohyun.kim@thecrimson.com

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SEAS Complex First Look SEAS Complex First Look Complex air exchange. Faculty, administrative offices, and labs will likely transition into the complex in June, Christina Zaldana, the manager for advising programs and diversity outreach at SEAS, said in an information session before the tour. Student groups and researchers may have the opportunity to begin utilizing the space as early as this summer, and open houses and orientations for undergraduate and graduate students will take place in August.

Addressing concerns about the distance between the new complex and other Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings, Zaldana said that students already travel comparable distances for academics, citing un-

dergraduate researchers’ trek to Harvard Medical School from Cambridge as an example. The complex sits around 1.7 miles away from the Radcliffe Quadrangle and one mile away from Harvard Yard.

A new shuttle route will run between the Quad and Allston from 7:00 a.m. to 7:20 p.m. every 20 minutes on weekdays. “This is actually one of the examples of the feedback that we got from students,” Zaldana said. “It was initially going to be a transfer from shuttles to get from the Quad to the new campus.”

She added that the complex will also include features that address two other major student concerns — safety and food. The building is equipped

with blue emergency phones and extensive exterior lighting, according to Zaldana. In the SEC Café, students will be able to pick up bagged lunches similar to FlyBy meals, or buy food using BoardPlus or their Graduate School of Arts and Sciences meal plan.

SEAS faculty will begin teaching the complex’s inaugural classes in September, and a grand opening event with University President Lawrence S. Bacow will follow shortly after.

“We want to think about it as Harvard is really growing as a campus, not just that SEAS is moving away,” Zaldana said. brie.buchanan@thecrimson.com elizabeth.guo@thecrimson.com

al recognition, expanding into countries like China and Japan.

The arrival of a new store comes at a time of rapid commercial turnover in the Square, following the closure of stores like Papyrus and Black Ink. And in October, Out of Town News, the former tenant of the Harvard Square Subway Kiosk and 6- year-old cultural landmark, closed its doors.

Hammer, who grew up in Cambridge and around Harvard Square, said he is familiar with the string of closures the Square has faced.

“Bartley’s is the last remaining burger place. Dickson Brothers is the last remaining hardware store,” he said. “So the Square is at a pivotal point of change.”

“As a larger business, we want to play a part in that change but for the good,” Hammer added.

Harvard Square Business Association executive director Denise A. Jillson wrote in

an emailed statement that the association was pleased with Ray-Ban’s presence in the heart of Harvard Square and its willingness to engage with its neighbors.

“We were delighted to welcome Ray-Ban to Harvard Square,” Jillson wrote.

“Upon their arrival, they immediately and enthusiastically joined the HSBA. We look forward to partnering with them as they settle in and become active and engaged community partners,” she said.

Hammer said his work at the store has allowed him to meet a diverse set of shoppers.

“We get to meet different people from different walks of life every single day,” he said. “We just want to be a part of the fabric of this community.”

Ray-Ban is located on Brattle Street between Felipe’s Taqueria and Rebekah Brooks Jewelry. simon.levien@thecrimson.com austin.li@thecrimson.com

Kirkland Shield Redesign Plan Denied by Trademark Office

By Declan J. Knieriem and Amanda Y. Su Crimson Staff Writers

A n effort by Kirkland House to modify its shield hit a roadblock after the Harvard Trademark Program denied the House’s initial design proposal.

Kirkland Faculty Deans Faculty Deans Verena A. and Tom C. Conley informed residents in an email last week that the trademark office recently determined the new design — three stars arranged in an inverted triangle position on a black and crimson background — was registered to someone else last year.

“We have to run it through the Trademark Office again before we can start using the shield in any shape or form,” they wrote.

The snag in the new shield’s approval process comes after a years-long redesign effort.

The current shield — a cross adorned with three stars — has sparked controversy because of complaints that it resembles the flag of the Confederate States of America.

In February, Kirkland House representatives presented the initial proposal to redesign the flag a meeting ­

of the Committee on Student Life. Soon after, the House received preliminary approval from Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana pending a review by the trademark office.

University spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote in an email that the University’s trademark office discovered the proposed design would possibly violate a registered trademark.

“The Trademark Program ordered a trademark design search and the results uncovered that the proposed Kirkland House shield design would have potentially infringed on an existing trademark registration,” he wrote.

“Consequently, the Trademark Program recommended that another shield be designed.”

After the denial of the new design, Kirkland affiliates voted last week between two alternative designs.

One featured the same shield but with three stars across the middle, while the other featured a crimson shield with a black bar bordered by white stripes, as well as three white stripes in the bar.

House leaders have yet to announce the victor.

Kirkland House Committee Co-Chair Andrea J. Zhang ’22

said that while the setback was “a little disappointing,” she is happy that Kirkland is making progress in its redesign effort.

“The entire time I was very aware of the fact that just because there’s so many issues that come up along the way,” Zhang said. “It’s not too surprising for us to face bumps in the road, because the process has been happening for I believe four years. So it’s not like at the first bump we faced we were like, ‘Oh, no. I’m shocked it didn’t go through the first time.’”

Kirkland House Committee Co-Chair Maranda Ngue ’22 similarly said while the denial of the new design “slowed down” the process, she said the House’s continuing efforts have left her “optimistic.”

“Kirkland has been waiting for this for many years, and we’ve been working towards it. So the fact that we’re finally getting a new shield is something that Kirkland is really excited about,” Ngue said.

“Even though we’ve hit a little bump on the road I know that in the end, Kirkland will be very happy with what we end up with,” she said. declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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Lifestyle Store Opens in Harvard Square

Bacow Will Bring Divest to Corporation

the Square.

Topdrawer will join a number of stores that have opened or will open in Harvard Square this year, including bubble tea chain Kung Fu Tea and sandwich shop Fóumami.

Peter Dunn — president of Itoya Topdrawer Corp., Topdrawer’s parent company — said the company chose Harvard Square to open a store because many store employees cited neighborhood as one of their favorites.

“We have a huge longterm relationship with Harvard Square,” Dunn said. “We think our people are here, you know, people that appreciate these types of products and use them.”

Topdrawer will replace Black Ink, a stationery store that shuttered in December after nearly two decades in operation.

Black Ink’s departure due to rising rent prices sparked a wave of criticism against Asana Partners, the North Carolina-based real estate company that owns the property. Before

Black Ink’s closing, the store launched a “Dear Asana” letter-writing campaign, placing large sheets of paper in the store for customers to write messages to the company.

Dunn said he learned of the circumstances of Black Ink’s departure after the store decided to close, adding that the “rent is expensive” at the property.

“There’s no question it’s probably the most expensive we pay in the country,” he said.

Paige G. Coolidge ’21, co-founder of Fig. Magazine, a campus fashion publication, said she felt the plethora of lifestyle stores in the Square may reflect a growing trend toward “fad-ish” commerce.

“I think that it’s almost ritualistic the way that these sleek and chic shops are popping up in Harvard Square and on other college campuses,” she said.

However, Coolidge added that she would be interested in shopping at Topdrawer.

“I would check it out for sure,” she said. ellen.burstein@thecrimson.com

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“We anticipate that the Corporation, however it responds — we hope positively, given the clarity of the community-wide call for leadership — does so in such a way as to make its reasoning public,” Hall said in the meeting.

Bacow responded in Tuesday’s meeting that the Corporation is “aware” of the resolution, but did not have time to consider it fully in its last meeting, which happened just after the February meeting during which faculty voted 179 to 20 in favor of calling for divestment.

In Monday’s interview, Bacow responded to student groups who protested his speech at the College’s annual junior parents weekend. Some of the protesters included those advocating for fossil fuel and prison divestment.

Bacow said that he was finishing his speech at the time of their protest and called the students “passionate.”

“They held their signs,” Bacow said. “I gave my talk.”

“I said that I had found Harvard undergraduates to be smart, creative, thoughtful,” he added.

“And then as students held up their signs, I said, and also, as you can see, passionate. And I said, passion is good,” he added. michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

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Men’s Lacrosse Goes 1-2 on the Road to Open Season

By Ben Morris Crimson Staff Writer

A s the spring season brings about the re-emergence of warmer weather and melting snow, with it too comes the beginning of another lacrosse season.

It had been 301 days since the Crimson (1-2) last took the field in a matchup against Yale that concluded the up-and-down 2019 season. Since then, the program has undergone some changes–including the introduction of a new coaching staff.

Gerry Bryne, a former assistant coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish team for 16 years, now takes the reigns for Harvard and looks forward to having an immediate impact.

While there have been some changes on the coaching end of things, as for the players, much of the team is still composed of its core members from last season. The squad not only features a veteran roster that includes 14 seniors, but the entire starting lineup, aside from one player will be returning and want to continue to build and get better as a team.

One of these starters is junior goalkeeper Kyle Mullin, who, when asked about the transition from the 2019 season to the 2020 season said, “Our entire coaching staff changed in the offseason and there was definitely a learning curve for us when we got back to campus. As a group, we’ve just tried to embrace the new culture that this coaching staff has brought in.

We’ve got a great group of guys who are all committed to each other and the process of becoming a better team.”

Harvard began the season by making the near-two hour commute to take on in-state rival, No. 19 UMass Amherst (4-2), on February 22. Although the Crimson allowed the first goal of the game, the team fired right back, going on a 6-0 run. However, each goal proved to be crucial, as, by the fourth quarter, the Crimson saw its lead vanish and found itself in a tightly contested, 9-9 game. With just over two minutes to go, and the fate of the game still up for grabs, sophomore midfielder Nick Loring came up big for Harvard, scoring what would ultimately be the game-winner (and his second goal on the day). The Crimson held on to ­

HOMECOMING Harvard will host Fairfield in its first home contest of the season this Saturday at 3:00 PM on Jordan Field. The Crimson went 1-2 on the road to open the season, defeating No. 19 UMass before falling to Holy Cross and Albany, with all three games being decided by just a single goal. Brendan Chaupis—Crimson photographer

the 10-9 lead, winning its first game of the year and avenging the home-opener loss to UMass last season.

Three days later, Harvard hit the road once again, this time traveling to take on the Holy Cross Crusaders (4-2). Although Holy Cross may have had an advantage, as it began its season on February 1 and already had four games under its belt by the time the Crimson came to town, Harvard certainly had a chip on its shoulder– likely due to the heart-breaking, 11-10 double-overtime loss

Harvard suffered in last year’s matchup. The Crimson came out strong, rallying off four straight goals to grab the early advantage. However, in a mirror opposite of the UMass game, it was the opponent who this time went on a 6-0 run, and, by halftime, the Crimson found itself down by two. Despite being down 9-5 with 10 minutes left in the game, Harvard did not quit.

In fact, the team rallied all the way back, and, with 45 seconds left, the Crusaders held only a 9-8 lead. Yet, even with the impressive comeback, the Crim-

son came up one goal short, suffering its first loss of the year at the hands of Holy Cross.

The following Saturday, Harvard travelled to New York to take on Albany. The high-scoring first half saw a combined 17 goals, with the Great Danes carrying a 10-7 lead into the second half. Despite being down by three, the Crimson had the momentum going into the third quarter, as the team had fought back from an early six-goal deficit. The battle continued through the third quarter and into fourth–

setting the stage for an intense back-and-forth. The score was tied several times in the final stage of action: 12-12, 13-13, and 14-14. Every time Albany would go ahead, Harvard would strike right back. The Crimson put up a valiant effort–led by hat tricks from junior midfielder Jack Frisoli and sophomore attacker Austin Madronic–but the Great Danes put in the eventual game-winner with three minutes left, and Harvard would fall 15-14.

Three games into the young season, the Crimson has al-

EXPERIENCED Harvard entered the season with a whopping fourteen returning seniors, as well as most of the starting lineup from the 2019 season. The Crimson finished at 5-8 in 2019, going 1-5 in the Ivy League. Brendan Chaupis —Crimson photographer

ready been battled-tested, as each of its three contests have been decided by just a single goal. When asked about the start to the season, captain and senior attacker Kyle Anderson, who is tied for the team-lead in points with nine said, “We’ve been in every game, with two of the three coming back from five-plus goal deficits. We definitely need to eliminate the lulls we get into for entire quarters of games. We’re working on cleaning up our clear and stick work every day to make sure we are efficient on the field and not hurting ourselves. Coach Byrne loves to say ‘don’t give the other team opportunities that they can’t earn themselves,’ and if we clean up our turnovers in the middle of the field, we can do just that.”

“All of us are very excited as to where this season can go, and, obviously we’d love to be three-and-zero instead of oneand-two, but I’m confident that early season, one-goal losses will not define this team.” Anderson added. “We know how to stay in games and execute comebacks late in games. The final step will just be finishing the game with a win.”

Harvard will have its chance to get back on the field and bring its record back to .500 this Saturday, with its home-opener against Fairfield. “We’ve been on the road for our first three games this year,” Mullin said. “We’re really excited to play on home turf on Saturday. Fairfield is a very good team and we want to improve on our mistakes from our past games and try to get one in the win column.”

It is clear that there is a fire inside this team and a hunger to prove itself–especially within a conference that boasts several of the top teams in the nation. Both Anderson and Mullin discussed the ultimate goal of making the Ivy League Tournament, but that the key is to take the season one game at a time.

The next chance to do that will be at 3:00 pm this Saturday, when the Crimson will return home to face off with Fairfield on Jordan Field. benjamin.morris@thecrimson.com