The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVII, No. 33

The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume cxlvii, No. 33 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | tuesday, march 10, 2020

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Harvard should prioritize vulnerable affiliates in face of coronavirus risk

Harvard approved a second redesign proposal for Kirkland’s house shield

Harvard falls short against Brown on senior night

Univ. Indirectly Invests in Tobacco COVID-19 Delays Housing Day

By Ruoqi Zhang

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The Harvard Management Company indirectly holds an estimated $98,265.08 worth of shares through exchange-traded funds which include tobacco companies, an industry Harvard divested from in 1990, according to The Crimson’s analysis of HMC’s public filings to the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission.

ETFs are exchange-traded securities made up of assorted securities that usually mirror the performance of certain indices. They allow investors to put money into a broad array of companies without having to hold stock in each of the component companies.

Harvard indirectly held equities of several tobacco companies including Altria Group, Philip Morris International, Universal Corporation, and British American Tobacco by the end of 2019 through three widely-traded ETFs that cover a wide range of stocks. According to HMC’s filings, these ETFs include iShares Core S&P 500 ETF, iShares Core S&P SmallCap ETF, and Vanguard FTSE

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Harvard Management Company still maintains indirect investments in the tobacco industry. Aiyana g. white— Crimson photographer

Surveyed Female Faculty Report Unequal Treatment

By James S. Bikales Crimson Staff Writer

Forty percent of respondents to a Crimson survey of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences indicated that they know someone in their department who has experienced sexual harassment.

At the same time, just 32 percent of survey-takers felt the University’s Title IX office and Office for Dispute Resolution are “adequately equipped” to deal with sex- and gender-based discrimination at the University. Harvard maintains a University Title IX Office to provide education and resources on Harvard’s gender and sexbased misconduct policies, and the Office for Dispute Resolution to adjudicate formal complaints. ­

A significantly higher percentage of female survey respondents than male respondents indicated that their work at Harvard has been limited by their gender. While 47 percent of women reported encountering obstacles because of their gender, only seven percent of men said the same.

Harvard saw a jump in sexual harassment complaints after the #MeToo movement began in late 2017 — including some against its faculty members.

The University has launched a number of institutional efforts to combat sexual misconduct on campus in recent years, but The Crimson’s survey results indicate that faculty’s experience with such issues remains mixed.

The Crimson distributed its faculty survey to more than

Harvard College will indefinitely postpone Housing Day — an annual tradition in which freshmen students are assigned to an upperclassmen house — to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar Michael P. Burke wrote in an email to students Monday.

The College has yet to announce a new date for Housing Day. The Housing Office will contact freshmen about their assignments, per Burke’s email.

“More immediately, as part of our effort to eliminate gatherings of 100 people or more, we are announcing today that Housing Day, originally scheduled for this Thursday, March 12th, will be postponed,” Burke wrote. “The Housing Office will be in touch with students about when they will receive their housing assignment.”

The email specified that, as of Monday afternoon, there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus on campus. The first confirmed

Do you know anyone in your department who has experienced sexual harassment?

1,000 members of the FAS in late February, polling Harvard’s flagship faculty on key University policy decisions, pressing issues on campus, and challenges they face as academics. Emeritus, tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track faculty all received the survey.

The 74-question survey garnered more than 400 responses, though not all respondents answered each question. The anonymous survey, a link to which was emailed to nearly every member of the FAS, was open from Feb. 20 to 27. The Crimson did not adjust the data for possible selection bias.

The first and second installments of The Crimson’s 2020 faculty survey series explored faculty perspectives on

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Four burglaries were reported on Feb. 29 in Quincy, Lowell, Adams, and Mather Houses respectively, according to police logs released by the Harvard University Police Department.

This latest round of property thefts – which included laptops, camera, cash, and a passport – occurred roughly a month after an earlier string of burglaries on Feb. 4, which affected River Houses and Yard dorms.

Burglaries occurred in Quincy House on both occasions.

Shortly after midnight, HUPD officers were dispatched to Quincy House and Lowell House to respond to reports of break-ins, per the police log.

In Quincy House’s Stone Hall, an Apple Macbook valued at $1,500, a Canon Camera valued at $60, $350 in cash, and a passport were reported stolen.

Next door, in Lowell House, another Macbook was stolen along with a Samsung laptop valued at $1,000 and a Jansport backpack.

Both thefts occurred between midnight and 1:00 a.m.

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Over the past week, several reported thefts occurred across houses on the river, including Quincy and Lowell houses. Steve s. li—Crimson photographer

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cases in the region — three employees of Cambridge-based company Biogen — were announced by the company Thursday. These employees, though not Massachusetts residents, attended a company management meeting with about 175 colleagues at a Boston hotel.

Kirkland Hoco Co-Chair Andrea J. Zhang ’22 said she understood the College is taking precaution in the postponement.

“It’s an unideal scenario, but it’s also understandable given how so many other concerts, events, classes, and tests have been moved,” Zhang said.

In the email, Burke also provided guidelines for students seeking treatment if they exhibit symptoms — though he wrote that Harvard University Health Services is not currently providing testing services. “Regarding testing, please note that diagnostic testing for COVID-19 can be conducted only through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” the email states.

Today’s Forecast

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The Dean of Students Office will pilot a new leadership-oriented program for incoming freshmen this summer.

Leadership Institute for the First-Year Experience (LIFE) will join the existing roster of pre-orientation programs, including Fall-Clean Up, FirstYear Arts Program, First-Year International Program, FirstYear Outdoor Program, FirstYear Retreat and Experience, and First-Year Urban Program.

Kate T. Colleran, assistant dean of student engagement and leadership and director of LIFE, wrote in an emailed statement that the program will recruit 40 students who seek to develop their leadership skills and become “change makers at Harvard and in their own communities.”

The DSO announced the addition of LIFE via admissions marketing materials sent out to the Class of 2024.

Colleran wrote that the DSO began plans for the pilot after surveying the Class of 2023 ­

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and noting that students indicated strong interest in a leadership-focused programming.

“We received feedback this fall from them about a desire for a Pre-Orientation focused on Leadership,” Colleran wrote. “My team runs the pre-O programs, it seemed like a good fit for us to take the lead on.”

Colleran wrote that program participants will spend the week working with local, “real life” change makers, who will instruct them in the “Social Change model” of leadership.

The LIFE pilot begins shortly after the institutionalization of FYRE, a program to which the College granted permanent funding this fall.

FYRE, a pre-orientation program aiming to help under-resourced incoming students adapt to life at the University, received glowing reviews from students when it was first piloted for the Class of 2022.

“We have a variety of amazing programs that all

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Harvard Today

For Lunch Lemon Chive Crusted Flounder Pork Sausage Sub Potato and Vegetable Casserole

For Dinner Bourbon Glazed Pork Loin Korean BBQ Chicken Harvest Seitan Stew

Today’s Events Space Night at Harvard Smith Campus Center, 4-10:30 p.m.

in The Real World

Head to the Smith Campus Center for Harvard’s first-ever Space Career Fair, along with a series of lightning talks from space professionals. As if that wasn’t enough, Professor Dimitar Sasselov and Space Lawyer

Five Congressmen To Self-Quarantine After Conservative Political Action Conference

Incoming White House Chief of Staff and current North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, along with two other members of Congress, have self-quarantined after coming into contact with someone infected with coronavirus. Some of these individuals have interacted with U.S. President Donald J. Trump as recently as last week.

IOP Fellow Mark P. Harvey Institute of Politics, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

As a former member of the National Security Council Staff, Institute of Politics Resident Fellow Mark P. Harvey will be giving a talk today about the upcoming 2020 elections, which will be the first to use new election equipment with cybersecurity in mind. Harvey will be leading a group

Italy on Lockdown

On a warm day in early March, students bask in the sunshine in Harvard Yard. aiyana g. white— Crimson photographer

Daily Briefing Despite its commitment to divest from the tobacco industry in 1990, Harvard indirectly holds nearly $100,000 in tobacco stocks via exchange traded funds.

Asked about the holdings, HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan said the university’s policies do not restrict “investment advisers of commingled funds where Harvard is not the sole investor.” In other news, Harvard College indefinitely postponed its annual Housing Day celebrations as a result of a global coronavirus outbreak.

In other coronavirus news, the nation of Italy, the second worst-hit country after China, has been put on lockdown. All public gatherings have been banned as cases of the virus have hit all 20 regions of the nation. People have been discouraged from engaging in all types of public gatherings.

Worst Day for Wall Street Since 2008

In light of the coronavirus outbreak and Saudi Arabia’s slashing of oil prices, the Dow decreased by more than 2,000 points, marking yesterday as the worst single day decrease since the financial crisis of 2008.

Around the Ivies columbia Barnard College and Columbia University have quarantined an affiliate after the individual became exposed to COVID-19, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported Sunday. Columbia has decided to cancel classes until Wednesday, when remote instruction will continue until spring break.

However, the University declined to comment on when students will learn whether classes will be cancelled or move online after spring break. Dining halls and facilities will remain open indefinitely.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Monday a patient at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

The patient works as a pediatric cardiologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and marks the seventh known case of coronavirus in Pennsylvania. The health department reports the patient was exposed to the virus internationally and is in critical condition.

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According to the Daily Princetonian, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber announced Monday the university will begin online instruction on March 23 and limit the size of campus gatherings due to concerns about the novel coronavirus. The school stated these policies would stay in place until April 5 and encouraged students to stay home during this period. An email sent to accepted students of the Class of 2024 also canceled Princeton Preview, the admitted students program on campus.

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COVID-19 Blocks Housing Day “At this time, HUHS is not providing testing, independent of these agencies.”

Burke also announced that, effective immediately, “non-Harvard affiliated out-oftown guests” are barred from staying on campus overnight.

Kirkland House Committee CoChair Maranda Ngue ’22 said in an interview Monday though she was “suspecting” a postponement, she is still “disappointed” by the announcement.

She also said the house committee is “brainstorming” alternative ways to welcome freshmen to the House.

“The way that we planned for our HoCo in Kirkland was we would continue on with our plan, thinking that maybe Housing Day would happen, so either way we were ready to go,” Ngue said. “It’s kind of unfortunate, but we’re trying to find a way to make sure that the next incoming class of Kirklanders are very welcome here.”

The email comes on the heels of the College’s decision to cancel Visitas — Harvard’s annual admitted student weekend — over similar fears of the outbreak.

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 informed admitted students in a Friday email the College will

replace the event with “Virtual Visitas,” a program of videos and online events.

The University is also discouraging all non-essential international travel for spring break and strictly barred all University travel to countries with a Level 3 Travel Warning from the CDC. Dunster House Committee Co-Chair Dylan Zhou ’22 wrote in an email that he understands the “safety concerns” behind the decision and added that the postponement is preferable to “full cancellation.”

“Dunster House still intends on hosting its traditional evening events, which include a Community Dinner, a Scavenger Hunt, a Welcome Home Stein, and Free Grille Food, on the new Housing Day,” he wrote. “The only backup plan is that we may need to split a larger group into subsets of less than 100 people.”

The next email from Harvard College on coronavirus will come Thursday afternoon, per the update schedule the College announced last week. It will include more detailed information about spring break housing, dining, and transportation, according to today’s message. sydnie.cobb@thecrimson.com declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com

Veterans Legal Clinic Issues Report By kelsey j. griffin Crimson Staff Writer

The Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School released a report Thursday contending the Department of Veteran Affairs has unlawfully turned away nearly half a million veterans seeking health care.

The report — titled “Turned Away: How VA Unlawfully Denies Health Care to Veterans with Bad Paper Discharges” — found that more than 400,000 veterans risk being rejected or dissuaded from applying to receive health care due to a lack of guidance, oversight, and adequate training within the VA. “Many frontline staff at VA health care facilities have improperly turned away former servicemembers seeking health care, telling them that they are ineligible due to their military discharge statuses—without even allowing them to apply,” the report reads.

Those veterans, who have received less-than-honorable discharges, known as “bad paper discharges,” should in theory receive an individualized review by the VA to determine their eligibility for benefits.

“It puts them in a ‘limbo’ category that requires VA to conduct an individualized eligibility determination to decide whether the veteran was discharged under ‘dishonorable conditions’ or ‘other than dishonorable conditions,’” the report reads.

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Harvard Holds Indirect Shares in Tobacco Companies Developed Markets ETF. In May 1990, Harvard divested from the tobacco industry and adopted a policy that prohibits the University from owning shares of tobacco companies in the future.

At a forum last April about divestment, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said the decision to divest from tobacco included barring the product from campus and prohibiting research funded by tobacco companies.

Asked about the holdings, HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan referred to HMC’s sustainable investment policies.

If the University instructs HMC to divest, HMC would restrict direct holdings of related stocks by internal portfolio managers and outside investment advisors trading in Harvard’s name, according to its sustainable investment policy.

The restriction, however, is not extended to “investment advisers of commingled funds where Harvard is not the sole investor” — which is the case for the three ETFs with tobacco in-

vestments.

Over the past year, Bacow has consistently opposed divestment from the fossil fuel and prison industry amid protest from students and faculty.

Bacow argued at the April forum that the University could never divest fully from fossil fuels, as they did with the tobacco industry.

“The day after, if we were to divest, we’re still going to turn on the lights,” Bacow said in April. “We would still be dependent on fossil fuels.”

Each of the ETFs allocate a certain percentage of their investments to tobacco companies.iShares Core S&P 500 ETF allocates 0.32 percent and 0.55 percent of its fund to Altria Group and Philip Morris International, and iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF allocates 0.19 percent of its fund to Universal Corporation as of last Friday, according to iShare’s website.

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF allocates 0.50 percent of its fund to British American Tobacco as of January, per Vanguard’s website.

The values of the University’s holdings in the three ETFs total around $41 million at the time of the University’s filing.

In total, Harvard roughly puts an estimated $98,265.08 into tobacco companies through the three ETFs. Harvard’s investments in ETFs comprise roughly 6.5 percent of its total U.S. securities holdings.

Only about 2 percent of Harvard’s $40.9 billion endowment is publicly available through quarterly disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Harvard only divests in “very rare” occasions when companies engage in “deeply repugnant and ethically unjustifiable” conducts, according to the University’s sustainable investment policy.

In addition to tobacco, Harvard divested from companies involved in South African apartheid in 1986 and a company tied to Sudanese government after the Darfur genocide in 2005. ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

In practice, though, VA staff frequently tell veterans with bad papers they are categorically ineligible to receive health care benefits, according to the report, which blames this discrepancy on incorrect information provided to staff in VA enrollment manuals, handbooks, and trainings.

“By law, every person—regardless of military discharge status—has the right to apply for VA health care, to have VA consider that application on the merits, and to receive a written decision,” Veterans Legal Clinic Instructor Dana Montalto wrote in the press release.

“We heard from veterans and veterans advocates from across the country that instead, when a veteran with bad paper attempts to apply for health care, the front-desk staffer denies the veteran on the spot, without due process, merely by looking at the veteran’s DD 214 discharge papers,” she added.

The VA did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday evening.

OUTVETS — an advocacy organization that supports LGBTQ veterans and their families — commissioned the report, which noted that many of the “bad paper” discharges resulted from discrimination by the military.

Those past decisions, the report argues, should not prevent veterans from seeking support.

“In many cases, veterans re-

ceived ‘bad paper’ discharges because they were gay or lesbian, or because they have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or another mental health condition caused by their military service that led to actions resulting in their separation from the military,” the press release reads.

While there should be consequences for military misconduct, those consequences should not include being denied healthcare — especially if you have a service related disability, are experiencing homelessness, or are dealing with the impact of MST. Report from the Veterans Legal Clinic at HLS

The report recommends the VA take three immediate steps to address the issue, including improvements in training, guidance, oversight of employees, and increased communication

between the agency and veterans.

It also calls for outreach to veterans who the agency wrongfully turned away in the past.

Montalto said in an interview that she anticipates an increase in oversight of VA practices from Congress following the release of the report, noting that some have already begun to take action in the days since its release.

“After we issued the report, a number of senators like Senator [Richard] Blumenthal of Connecticut submitted a letter to VA, asking for a response to the report,” she said.

The report acknowledges that veterans who received less-than-honorable discharges from the military may have transgressed, but states that all veterans deserve the opportunity to apply for benefits.

“While there should be consequences for military misconduct, those consequences should not include being denied health care—especially if you have a service-related disability, are experiencing homelessness, or are dealing with the impact of MST, as so many veterans with bad paper are,” the report reads.

“It is time for VA to stop this cycle of misinformation and stigma and to honor that every person who has served in the military has a right to apply for VA care.” kelsey.griffin@thecrimson.com

As Candidates Drop From Dem. Race, Campus Orgs. Fizzle Out By joshua c. fang Crimson Staff Writer

J. Alexander White ’23 was sitting in class last week when he learned U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I heard my phone go off in class and somebody said, ‘Amy just dropped out.’ I said, ‘Oh damn.’ And then I checked my phone,” White said. “We were all just laughing about it, and I was like, ‘You know what’s tough? I’m the chairman of Harvard for Amy.’” As candidates vied for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination amid the most crowded field in modern history, an array of student-run groups at Harvard sprang up to support various candidates.

Over the past several months, many of the groups — Harvard for Amy included — knocked on doors, called potential voters, and organized campaign events to rally around their candidate of choice.

Now that the Democratic field has narrowed to a race with

only a few candidates, most of the campus groups have shuttered. In several cases, the leaders of the groups wrote sign-off letters to their supporters via email, echoing the group’s vision one last time and calling for members to stay active in political advocacy.

“We were so proud to watch so many of you attend your first rally, make your first phone call, knock your first door, or convince your first family member to vote for an underdog who you believed in,” wrote Michael B. Baick ’22 and Riley S. Hoffman ’23, co-chairs of Harvard College Democrats for Pete, the group backing former South Bend, Ind. mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04. “You will never forget your firsts, but we know they will not be your last.”

“We know this result isn’t what we wanted, and it’s going to hurt for a couple of days.

Right now, it is so easy to be discouraged, and to feel like all of our tireless work didn’t matter.

That couldn’t be farther from the truth,” wrote Kate Travis ’22, who led a group supporting Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Damian L. Richardson ’20, the founder of Harvard College Democrats for Kamala, said Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) led a campaign that brought a “new kind of racial diversity” into the Democratic race. He specifically pointed to a September trip to the New Hampshire Democratic convention as a highlight for the group.

“It was one of the most exciting things I’ve been on. It was a bus full of black and brown — mostly women — going to New Hampshire to support the candidate we really loved,” he said.

Richardson, who worked for Harris’s campaign last summer, said Harvard for Kamala gave many students their first experience with political advocacy.

“Most of them knocked on their first door in New Hampshire and made their first phone call in our first phone bank back in September. That initial foot in the door inspired by Kamala Harris is what’s going to bring them back, regardless of who the nominee is, to fight for the ideals that we all know are so important,” he said.

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Editorial The Crimson Editorial board

Op-Ed

Outlining Harvard’s Obligations During Pandemics

After So Many Disappointments, a Case For Joe

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andemics are scary and fear can bring out the worst in us, as the spread of xenophobia and racism around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak demonstrates. In the face of this public health challenge, we hope that everyone in our community will stay mentally and physically well.

Still, we urge our campus community to be prepared, be courageous, and be there for one another in these challenging times. Only when we are united can we persevere in the face of this global threat.

As coronavirus continues to spread globally, schools and universities have begun to shut down, affecting almost 300 million students worldwide as of Wednesday In the United States, at least ten states have now declared states of emergencies and, as of Monday, coronavirus cases in Massachusetts number over 40, with at least 32 cases linked to a conference held by Biogen, a biotech company headquartered in Cambridge.

Harvard has revealed new policies in response to this growing pandemic including prohibiting official international travel and non-essential domestic travel, postponing gatherings of more than 100 people such as Housing Day, and canceling Visitas — the College’s admitted students weekend.

While we are aware that Harvard has likely considered different measures of responding to the threat of coronavirus on campus, we urge the University to prioritize the most vulnerable members of our community while it continues to develop its policies. The spread of coronavirus will be especially harmful for international students, those from heavily-af-

fected regions, those from low-income households, and those with pre-existing conditions. We urge Harvard to seriously consider the implications of their policies on these students and maintain sufficient and timely communications with them about what special accommodations, if any, they will provide or consider providing.

We hope that staff who play a critical and often under-recognized role in our community — not least maintenance and facilities, dining hall, and security staff — will be considered in all decision-making, such that they will not be put in unsafe conditions and will not be compelled to work while sick for lack of sick-leave compensation.

Students should also not feel compelled to attend classes and activities if they wish to self-isolate, and the University should specify the academic implications of doing so.

The University must ensure transparency to allow students to plan ahead. That shouldn’t merely be a matter of keeping the University apprised of current working policy, but the potential policies that may ultimately be invoked, the criteria the University is using to make those decisions, and the likely implications for all University affiliates. Transparency, in that sense, should be proactive.

Still, we acknowledge that these are difficult decisions for University leadership with few clear or certain answers.

They’re no doubt working hard to make the best possible choices they can with respect to both prioritizing the well-being of Harvard affiliates and promoting public health broadly, in light of flu-

id, perilous circumstances. Whatever course of action the University decides to take should be grounded in the specific circumstances we at Harvard find ourselves in. Again, proactive, not reactive, might be the operative mantra. While it should learn from the choices of other universities — like Princeton University, Columbia University, and Stanford University canceling classes — the University should not simply mimic their actions.

As we opined last week, we expect the University to fight against the perpetuation of xenophobia as anti-Asian racism has spread with coronavirus. But in light of federal mismanagement of the crisis and dissemination of “alternative facts” on the threat coronavirus poses, we believe the University can go a step further. In addition to its own internal and collaborative research efforts, given the wealth of public health and immunological expertise at the University, it makes for Harvard to be a leader in providing accurate, accessible information on coronavirus to the public.

No doubt, these obligations are not small, but with courage, clarity, and compassion, Harvard can prove itself a leader in this time of global crisis.

fied “resume padding”, in which teachers don’t even fulfill those responsibilities that they put on their resume in the first place.

Where the neo-Kantians see dereliction of duty or the moral degradation of service, I see opportunity. Partnerships with Goldman Sachs are not what is wrong with Teach for America, but its greatest potential asset.

The necessary accompaniment of the pursuit of self-interest is competition — we can’t all get what we want. Teach for America’s problem is not the intrusion of self-interest, but its unwillingness to harness this self-interest and the productive fruits of competition for the students that it serves.

Teach for America should expand its partnerships with Goldman and other prestigious companies in the private sector, so much so that it almost becomes a backdoor to them.

However, it should make offers contingent upon so many objective teaching metrics — test scores, student reviews and peer reviews — that the only way for corps members to get these jobs is to be good teachers. The best part about this suggestion is that the competition will spur other teachers to new heights.

Shame from failure to live up to an impossible ideal is one thing, but shame from potentially performing worse at one’s own vocation than future investment bankers is another.

The competition induced by self-interest doesn’t cheapen service, it revitalizes it.

Service should be for the people whom we serve, not for ourselves, because we can’t always live up to the best of our intentions, and it doesn’t make sense to hold ourselves to an unattainable ideal.

Instead, if service is about impacting others, we should be willing, and even obligated, to use every incentive we have to improve the quality of service that is provided.

A year ago, the candidates running for the Democratic nomination were the most diverse ever to run for a major party’s nomination. This diversity reflected the party itself — a party that’s increasingly uplifting the voices of minorities, working-class Americans, and those suffering through historic inequality. That diversity made me proud.

I was proud because I thought I’d be casting my first vote in a primary election for a candidate that looked like me and that supported many of the ideas I care about. But my candidate would drop out in early January, and over a few weeks, the field would whittle down from the most diverse ever to one whose front-runners have all the diversity of a 77-year-old white man and a 78-year-old white man.

I don’t mean to minimize the ideological differences between these candidates — though they’ve often voted together in the Senate, more than a handful of differences set them apart.

These differences give their supporters ammunition to use against the other candidate, but this infighting will only hurt the party as it struggles to find its leader.

The soul-searching of finding another candidate to support over and over has taken a toll on my enthusiasm and has left me only mildly energized, to say the least. From my conversations with others, I think that’s how many of us young Democrats feel — especially those from minority backgrounds.

But on Super Tuesday, while the latest of my chosen candidates underperformed, another overwhelmingly won over crucial minority voters. For all the talk of increasing turnout among young voters and minorities, my then-candidate demonstrated an inability to do so. We cannot extend this primary and risk a repeat of 2016. I want to make the case for Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is a dedicated, passionate public servant, a proven leader, and more than qualified to be the next President of the United States.

He’s been endorsed by more local, state, and national leaders than any other candidate, and has demonstrated an ability to build a winning coalition.

He is not the perfect candidate. He has made mistakes and is more centrist than many young voters would like, but now is the time for unity because the alternative is too dangerous. I believe these are the calculations that other candidates made before dropping out of the race, and they might also be why a plurality of them now support Biden.

We’ve already seen what can happen when a primary battle goes on for too long. In 2016, the election was decided by a total of 77,700 voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. In all of these states, turnout for Democrats decreased from the last election by more than or approximately this amount. No one can know whether this was because Democratic voters didn’t like their candidate or because the lengthy primary race had disillusioned them, but we should not risk the same outcome again. We cannot repeat the mistake of fracturing the party and frustrating its voters.

Over the last four years, we’ve gotten a taste of what’s at stake when Democrats are unable to successfully rally around a candidate. Economic gains and tax cuts have disproportionately benefited the wealthy. On civil rights, we’ve watched this administration fail to stand up for those at risk. At the border, we’ve watched this administration commit human rights violations against children. We have no plan for the climate, no end in sight to a costly trade war. Now a dangerous disease’s global spread has been fueled by this administration’s empty statements and lack of action.

It’s on all Democrats to rally behind the frontrunner and to make sure we extoll his virtues — and there are many. He wrote one of the first climate change bills, has been a leader in the Senate, has taken on the National Rifle Association, spoke up about gay rights before many others, and has remained in the public eye for most of his life. He’s been vetted, he’s experienced, and I trust him to lead this country.

When my home state of Florida votes on March 17, I will cast my ballot for Joe Biden. He wasn’t my first choice, but he is a good man and a good candidate. Come November, he will provide a clear contrast to our current leader for voters around the country.

What’s at stake here are the lives of migrants, health insurance for millions of Americans, the economic stability of farmers, workers, and businessmen alike, the future of our climate, and the sanctity of our democratic institutions. This election is too important to lose in the primaries, again.

To echo the slogan of the 2016 Democratic nominee, we are stronger together. As Democrats, we must recognize this truth and cast aside internal differences.

Instead, we must work together to put this country back on track. While the words of a New York Times opinion columnist say that to choose Joe Biden is “to choose the past over the future,” really it’s to choose a past we can build upon and one that I believe a majority of Americans would prefer to the present. In Joe Biden, I might be voting for a lesser evil, but I’m also voting for the chance at a greater good.

­ Eric Yang ’22, is a History concentrator — in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

—Patrick C. Barham Quesada ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government concentrator in Pforzheimer House.

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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fter your stint at Teach for America, a two-year post-undergraduate teaching program, you decided to leave the academic world behind and work in New York. Where are you most likely to be employed? Goldman Sachs.

But we will get back to that.

We need to change the pernicious idea that public service is on a separate moral level of “goodness” because it is undertaken purely for selfless reasons.

This piece of philosophical fiction is at odds with reality, so much so that it only entrenches the reality it seeks to deny. It is only by acknowledging and appealing to the selfish instincts of people that we can fulfill the goal that should be at the heart of service — serving others.

The selfless ethic of service has many intellectual sources, but I suspect that it finds its purest expression in Kantian moral philosophy. Kant viewed moral action as a dispassionate adherence to moral law.

Through enlightened reason we freely choose to do the right thing only because it’s objectively the right thing to do, not because of any personal benefits.

In fact, Kant says if we act for any selfish reasons we can no longer claim to have acted “morally” since the good result of our actions are only the by-product of our self-interest.

These days few people are as Kantian as Kant, but his insights are embedded in our perception of public service. Public service is noble because it involves a sacrifice of self-interest. Public servants transcend self-interest because they cast it aside.

Yet this praise of the selfless public career path presumes and only confirms the domination of the private, for-profit career. Only 17 percent of the 2019 class had finalized careers in nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, or governments at the time of graduation. This statistic is actually quite impressive. Only about a quarter of Harvard students volunteer with the Phillips Brooks House Association in a given year, and about the same percentage of my class volunteered for the Day of Ser-

vice.

The problem with public service is that this neo-Kantian ethic of service only has two ways of persuasion: praise and shame, both of which are clearly incapable of motivating a majority of talented students.

I contend that self-interest is what consistently causes college students to wake up at early hours and be on their peak mental game for an entire day. An affinity and passion for the demanding workload is necessary for success in both the private and public spheres, but that passion doesn’t last forever. Sometimes people wake up in the mornings because of the work they do, but other times they wake up in spite of the work they must do, and just try and get through the day. It is during these moments of apathy that the private sector has its greatest allure. Economic self-interest works better to motivate than any praise and shame associated with moral duty. Even if the ideal of selfless service attracts some to the public sphere, it has no way of guaranteeing continued dedication, except through praise and shame.

Where the neo-Kantians see dereliction of duty or the moral degradation of service, I see opportunity Which brings us back to Teach for America. Teach for America critics, both within and outside the organization, view the program’s own preparation as inadequate to produce quality teachers. Teachers report feeling ashamed for being unable to teach at the level which they aspired to, and burnout is a real concern for corps members. Some members do develop lifetime passions for teaching and continue on in different advisory contexts, but others, disillusioned by their time as teachers, leave the academic world behind for more lucrative pastures. As such, critics come to view the program on the whole as glori-

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College Pilots New Pre-O Program Multiple Thefts in River Houses incorporate leadership skills in their own way, but LIFE will focus on naming those skills,” Colleran wrote.

The DSO will administer pre- and post-assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program. Beyond the fiveday pilot, Colleran wrote that she hopes LIFE will encourage a new focus on leadership-oriented opportunities for undergraduates at the College.

“Long-term, the hope is that this kicks off for first-years a desire to be more reflective on their leadership practices,” Colleran wrote. “It could fit into the larger sphere of leadership programming a student can participate in during their time at Harvard.”

Colleran wrote that the College will wait before making the program permanent.

“For now, we’re going to see how the first year goes,” Colleran added. ­

The Dean of Students Office is piloting a new pre-orientation program in Fall 2020 to teach incoming freshmen about leadership on Harvard’s campus. aiyana g. white—Crimson photographer

juliet.isselbacher@thecrimson.com simon.levien@thecrimson.com

Up the street in Adams House’s Hampden building, HUPD officers responded to a report of unlawful entry and theft. The stolen items include two Macbooks valued at $1,500 and $1,200, Airpods, a backpack and a wallet, according to the police log.

An incident was also reported in Mather House, where $60 in unattended cash went missing. According to HUPD police logs, all four thefts are still under investigation.

In an email to University affiliates last Wednesday, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano and HUPD reminded residents that burglaries into occupied rooms are “rare,” but students should still take proper precautions to prevent theft.

Catalano and HUPD advised students to lock their doors at all times and be aware of other building entrants.

“Residents should not prop interior or exterior doors at any

time, hold an outside door open for strangers, or allow strangers to ‘piggyback’ on their access card,” Catalano wrote.

Catalano also encouraged students to call the department immediately if they observe someone acting suspiciously or attempting to enter a dorm.

“Suspicious behavior may include a stranger knocking on your door and asking an out-ofplace question, such as ‘did you lose these keys,’ or making an excuse for being found in your room,” he wrote.

Catalano did not respond to a request for comment.

In a bid to reduce thefts, the Undergraduate Council’s Student Life Committee expressed support for external security cameras outside dorms in 2016.

Roughly 90 laptops are stolen annually at the University, according to the HUPD website. charles.xu@thecrimson.com

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By Sydnie m. cobb and declan j. knieriem Crimson Staff Writers

H arvard University officials have approved a new shield for Kirkland House after a redesign process ran into trademark concerns.

House Administrator Katherine J. Drizos Cavell presented the new shield in an Friday email to House affiliates on behalf of Kirkland Faculty Deans Verena A. Conley and Tom C. Conley.

“Verena and Tom Conley are happy to announce that Kirkland has a new shield!” she wrote. “Verena and Tom thank those who shared their thoughts, stories, time, experiences, and preferences in this process.”

The announcement caps a redesign process that came in response to student concerns that the house’s former emblem bore a resemblance to the Confederate flag.

Cavell also noted that students can “immediately” begin using the new shield — which bears a design featuring three white stars arranged horizontally on a black strip with a crimson background — and that Kirkland’s Housing Day festivities would incorporate the new design.

However, University news has put a wrinkle in that plan.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar Michael P. Burke announced in an email Monday that Housing Day — an annual tradition in which the College assigns each freshman to one of the 12 houses for upperclassmen — will be postponed indefinitely due to concerns over the ongoing spread of coronavirus.

Verena Conley said in a Monday interview that the University approved the second design faster than she anticipated.

She also said she thinks the change is a “great” moment for the students who worked on the redesign.

“I think it’s wonderful because the students have been waiting for a long time,” she said.

The official approval for the new design comes several days after the Harvard Trademark Program rejected the initial redesign proposal for the shield over concerns that that design ­

would infringe on an existing trademark.

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana previously gave preliminary approval for its initial redesign.

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national politics and the University administration, respectively. This third installment examines the views of the faculty on Harvard’s climate and culture, and on Title IX issues within the FAS.

There really is some sense of relief since it’s really going through and really working this time around. It’s been a really long journey, and we’re thankful to everyone at the House who contributed to this amazing process.

The majority of faculty who responded to the survey — 58 percent — felt their department creates an environment where students, faculty, and staff feel “comfortable coming forward” about sexual harassment. Fifty-four percent of women and 61 percent of men agreed with the statement.

Still, 43 percent of respondents indicated that they believed their department needs to conduct a survey of departmental climate.

In the wake of nearly 20 women accusing former Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual harassment in 2018, the Government department launched a departmental climate review. That committee ultimately concluded that “prolonged institutional failure” facilitated Dominguez’s abuse.

Twenty-four percent of respondents indicated that their work has been limited by gender. Only 11 percent said that they faced barriers at Harvard because of their “racial or ethnic background.”

Fifty-eight percent of respondents reported that they felt their department was “doing enough to promote faculty diversity.” Only 42 percent of respondents, however, said the same about the FAS administration.

While 55 percent of men felt that the FAS administration appropriately promoted diversity, only 21 percent of women felt the same. Answers to the question on departmental diversity also diverged on gender lines, with 67 percent of men in agreement, but 44 percent of women responded affirmatively.

Answers to the questions on diversity also varied between FAS members of different ranks.

A slight majority of tenured faculty — 52 percent — felt the FAS administration’s efforts to support diversity were sufficient — but less than 26 percent of lecturers, associate professors and preceptors agreed.

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mark for the first redesign, which featured three stars in an inverted triangle on a black shield with a crimson border, according to the Conleys.

Kirkland House Committee Co-Chair Andrea J. Zhang ’22 said she believes Kirkland residents felt relieved after the University approved the new design.

“There is a sense of relief since it’s really going through and really working this time around,” Zhang said. “It’s been a really long journey, and we’re thankful to everyone at the House who contributed to this amazing process.”

Maranda Ngue ’22, co-chair with Zhang, said that, despite seeing the initial rejection as a “bump in the road,” she found Kirkland residents’ support made the second attempt easier.

“Even when we hit the bump, I already knew that Kirkland was going to fight until we got our shield, and it’s been a very supportive process from everyone in Kirkland,” she said.

“Whatever the outcome was, we knew Kirkland would be very proud of it,” she added. sydnie.cobb@thecrimson.com declan.knieriem@thecrimson.com

Departmental and FAS-Wide Climate

Sixty-nine percent of tenured respondents felt that their department was doing enough, but only 32 percent of preceptors agreed.

In response to The Crimson’s survey results, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain pointed to a question Harvard’s 2019 Pulse Survey, in which 65 percent of academics and faculty members “somewhat agreed, agreed or strongly agreed” that Harvard’s leaders would take “appropriate action in response to incidents of harassment and discrimination.”

Additionally, a write-in question on The Crimson’s survey asked respondents to identify “specific aspects” of their department or division’s culture that they believed needed to change. The most common answer was improving working conditions for non-tenure-track faculty — in particular, reconsidering placing time caps on their employment contracts. In addition, several respondents called for increased faculty diversity and a wider variety of pedagogical perspectives.

FAS spokesperson Anna G. Cowenhoven declined to comment on the survey results.

Sanctions for Sexual Harassment The survey also inquired about faculty’s opinions on punishments levied against two prominent FAS faculty last year over allegations of seuxal harassment.

In May 2019, after a year-long investigation into Title IX complaints against Dominguez, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay stripped him of his emeritus status and barred him from campus.

Eighty-five percent of respondents agreed with the sanctions against Dominguez, including 59 percent who “strongly agreed.” Ninety-four percent of survey-takers from the Social Sciences, Dominguez’s division, supported the sanctions. Just one percent of all respondents disagreed, and 14 percent neither agreed nor disagreed.

Dominguez did not respond to requests for comment.

After the allegations became public, graduate students, faculty and some of the women who accused Dominguez repeatedly called on Harvard to initiate an

independent, external review of the circumstances that allowed Dominguez to perpetrate misconduct. University President Lawrence S. Bacow ultimately agreed to the demand in May, and the review began in September 2019.

Three percent of respondents indicated that they had been contacted by the external review committee.

A slightly smaller majority of survey-takers, meanwhile, supported the sanctions against star Economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr., who Harvard and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts began investigating in 2018 for verbal sexual harassment towards employees at his lab.

FAS Dean Claudine Gay placed Fryer on a two-year administrative leave in July 2019 for violating University sexual harassment policies, and also permanently closed his lab.

Sixty-six percent of respondents agreed with Gay’s sanctions against Fryer, including 33 percent who “strongly agreed.”

Five percent disagreed, and 29 percent neither agreed nor disagreed.

Fryer did not respond to requests for comment.

The majority of survey respondents — 62 percent — agreed that the Harvard Corporation should revoke tenure if a faculty member is found guilty of sexual misconduct by the Office for Dispute Resolution. Opinions diverged, however, along lines of gender and position.

While 80 percent of women believed a guilty faculty member should receive the severe punishment, just 49 percent of men agreed. Likewise, more than 90 percent of assistant professors and preceptors, and more than 70 percent of associate professors and lectures, supported the sanctions, but only 42 percent of tenured faculty agreed.

Responses between the youngest and oldest age groups surveyed starkly differed.

Among respondents who were 25 to 35 years old, 81 percent agreed with the sanctions. Among faculty 65 and older, meanwhile, only 36 percent agreed.

Methodology For its 2020 Faculty Survey, The Crimson collected electronic responses through Qualtrics, an online survey platform,

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from Feb. 20 to 27, 2020. A link to the anonymous survey was sent to 1,341 FAS and SEAS faculty members through emails sourced in October 2019 from Harvard directory information. The pool included individuals on Harvard’s Connections database with FAS titles, including emeritus, tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenuretrack faculty.

Of those faculty, 476 accessed the link to the survey. A total of 416 participants answered at least one question, while 263 participants completed every question in the survey.

To prevent participants from accidentally taking the survey more than once, The Crimson enabled Qualtrics’ browser cookie functionality to register unique survey sessions on each device. This device data is controlled by Qualtrics, and The Crimson does not retain information that could identify devices accessing the survey with anonymous responses.

In an effort to check for response bias, The Crimson compared respondent demographics with publicly available information on faculty demographics provided by the University — information regarding gender, minority background, SEAS affiliation, and ladder versus non-ladder status. Overall, respondent demographics tracked with faculty demographics.

Of survey respondents, 41 percent identified themselves as women and 20 percent identified themselves as minorities.

Based on data in the 2019 FAS Dean’s Annual report, women and minorities make up 39 percent and 24 percent of FAS ladder faculty, respectively.

According to the Dean’s report, 41 percent of the FAS were non-ladder faculty — a term synonymous with non-tenuretrack faculty. By contrast, 39 percent of respondents to The Crimson’s survey identified themselves as non-ladder faculty.

Of faculty who were sent the link to the survey, 127 — or 9 percent — are affiliated with SEAS. In comparison, of respondents who indicated their divisional affiliation on the survey, 7 percent reported an affiliation with SEAS. james.bikales@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Secures 12th Place at EIWA Championships

By Nicholas daley Crimson staff writer

After a year marked by exciting triumphs and frustrating setbacks, Harvard wrestling took the mats at the EIWA Championships last weekend. Competing in one of the best conference tournaments in the nation, Harvard placed four wrestlers in the top eight of their weight classes and saw two freshmen punch their tickets to the National Championships. But the Crimson could not crack the top 10 as a team, finishing 12th out of 17 squads.

On the first day of competition, athletes needed to go 2-1 to advance to the next day and have a chance at making the podium. Starting at 125 for the Crimson was senior Nolan Hellickson, who missed the last two weekends of the regular season after breaking his hand in practice. Though he dropped both his matches on the day, in the eyes of Head Coach Jay Weiss, the results do not tell the full story of his contribution.

“To see Nolan come out and wrestle when he had surgery 3 weeks ago on his hand to finish his last EIWA tournament, that was great to see,” said Weiss.

“This is Nolan’s fifth year. He took a year off because of injury - just talk about dedication.”

At 149, junior Zeth Dean dropped two tight decisions, each coming down to three or fewer points. At 174, first-year Pete Ferraro, who dealt with injuries all year before rejoining the starting ranks down the stretch of the season, fell to

both of his opponents, including the eventual 5th-place finisher.

First-year Mike Doggett lost his first round match at 184 in the overtime period before dropping another match in the consolations, and junior Evan Callahan fell in his first bout before bowing out of the tournament.

At 141, junior Lukus Stricker split his first two matches, losing a painfully close 3-2 match to Navy’s Cody Trybus, the eventual 141-pound champion, and beating Sacred Heart’s Gerard Daly 13-6. With a spot in the second day on the line, Stricker lost another tough match in overtime to Doug Zapf of Penn, who went on to come in fourth in the tournament.

“Lukus wrestled a gritty tournament,” Weiss said. “He didn’t place, but he wrestled well, he wrestled really hard.”

Wrestling at 133 pounds, freshman Michael Jaffe entered the tournament as the 10th seed but began his day by upsetting 7th-seeded Carmen Ferrante of Penn, 8-6. He then lost to Binghamton’s 2nd-seeded Zack Trampe but beat Brown’s Charles Faber to secure a spot on the podium.

Captain Hunter Ladnier entered the 157 bracket with high hopes after a season of impressive results, including being one controversial challenge call away from beating top-seeded Quincy Monday last month against Princeton. The 6th-seeded wrestler from Harvard started off the tournament by majoring Jack Stanton-Taddeo from Navy, who ended up placing 7th. Ladnier fell to even-

tual 157 champion Josh Humphrey from Lehigh in the quarterfinals but pinned Franklin & Marshall’s Cole Aaron to move onto Saturday.

Harvard’s freshman stars, 165-pound Phil Conigliaro and Heavyweight Yara Slavikouski, who came into the tournament with one combined loss this decade, both took care of business on day one. Conigliaro, on a first round bye, secured a major in round two and an 8-4 decision in the quarters to take him to the semifinals, while Slavikouski rested the first round before pinning his opponent in the round of 16 and grabbing a 4-1 victory in the quarters.

On day two, Slavikouski took on Hofstra’s Zachary Knighton-Ward. Down 1-0 going into the 3rd period, an escape from bottom position was the window Slavikouski needed to gain the upper hand over his opponent, riding a 3-1 victory into the finals.

There, he met returning All-American Jordan Wood of Lehigh. The native of Belarus kept it close before a sudden takedown allowed Wood to pull away with a 9-2 win. Runner-up status gave Slavikouski an automatic bid to NCAAs, where he will likely see Wood again on his road to becoming Harvard’s first All-American since 2012.

Slavikouski’s fellow freshman Conigliaro was next on the mat for the Crimson, staring down Zachary Hartman of Bucknell in the semifinals. After losing an 8-7 heartbreaker in overtime, Conigliaro rebounded in the 3rd-place match, beat-

HOLD YOUR GROUND In spite of several strong individual performances this past weekend, Harvard placed 12th out of 17 squads. Brent hugo—Crimson photographer

ing Navy’s Cael McCormic 5-4 on a tiebreaker. With the bronze, Conigliaro joined Slavikouski in securing a trip to Minnesota next week to compete for an all-American finish.

Jaffe lost to Andrew Rinne of Columbia to place eighth for the Crimson, and Ladnier, in possibly his final day as a college wrestler, split two matches to reach the fifth place match, where he took an 8-1 victory

over Cornell’s Adam Santoro.

“He wrestled so hard, he just came up short,” said Weiss.

“It’s been a true honor to sit in the corner with him. [He and Hellickson] mean a lot to this team and have played a huge part in the turnaround we’ve had this year.” Ladnier is now waiting to see if he can secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

Though the Championship

came with some disappointment as several tight matches went against the Crimson, the squad left Lehigh’s campus with much to be proud of.

For two of the Crimson, there is one more meet to go. “I think [Phil and Yara] both lost to guys that they can beat,” said Weiss.

“They’re capable of doing great things.” nicholas.daley@thecrimson.com

BASKETBALL

Harvard Falls Short Against Brown on Senior Night

By Lev cohen Crimson Staff Writer

On Harvard’s senior night, it was Brown’s senior sharpshooter Zach Hunsaker who stole the show at Lavietes Pavilion Friday, scoring 20 points and hitting a dagger three pointer with four minutes left to extend the lead to 11 and shock the Crimson 64-55, snapping a six game winning streak and keeping the

Bears in the hunt for their first ever Ivy League tournament berth.

Hunsaker keyed Brown’s offensive performance, hitting four triples in the first half for a team that had connected on just 26.5 percent of its long range efforts in Ancient Eight play before Friday.

The Bears (14-12, 7-6 Ivy League) led by three points at halftime in large part thanks

to their scalding 6-of-10 performance from deep.

“Hunsaker was the difference,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “On the big [three] late, we went under the screen and he nailed a big one when we were trying to get a stop there.

So I just thought he was the difference and they deserved to win tonight.”

While Harvard (20-8, 9-4) survived Brown’s first half

three point shooting barrage, it could not withstand a 7:20 scoreless drought early in the second half, a stretch in which the Crimson missed 10 consecutive shots and the Bears extended what had been just a two point lead early in the second half to 13.

Harvard managed just 25 points overall in the second half and 14 in the half’s first 16 minutes as it suffered its first home

FLYING HIGH Chris Lewis dunks for two of his 13 points. He was one of seven Harvard seniors honored on senior night, but his performance was not enough to extend the Crimson’s winning streak to seven. Quinn g.perini—Crimson photographer

loss this season.

The Crimson cut into the lead a little bit late, and a basket

by Tretout would have made it a five point affair with 30 seconds left, but the freshman guard could not convert the open layup, which was indicative of Harvard’s lackluster offensive performance.

Sophomore guard Noah Kirkwood paced the team with 14 points, while Lewis and Tretout chipped in 13 and a career-high 11 apiece.

But aside from Lewis, who had success on the rare occasions that he was single-teamed down low, hammering home three one-handed dunks, the offense was exceedingly inefficient.

The rest of the team shot just 25 percent from the field and was often sloppy with the ball, making a number of ill-advised entry passes to Lewis and racking up 15 turnovers against eight assists.

Hunsaker was joined in double figures by shifty senior point guard Brandon Anderson, who scored 14 points but forced a number of difficult shots in the second half and was held to 4-of-17 shooting, and junior forward Tamenang Choh, the hero of the first meeting between these teams.

The Crimson was playing its second full game without senior point guard Christian Juzang, who injured his ankle last weekend and has been ruled out for Saturday’s game against Yale.

Juzang has a good chance to return for next weekend’s tournament, something that cannot be said about fellow injured senior guards Seth Towns and Bryce Aiken.

“It has kind of been a point guard by collective this season,” senior guard Justin Bassey said.

“All of us have taken time there, rotating through it, seeing if we can find kind of a rhythm. That’s been a big thing that we’ve talked about.”

The loss put a bit of a damper on the senior nights of Harvard’s seven seniors, who formed the heralded Class of 2016 recruiting class and who

before this year had won consecutive Ivy League regular season championships.

“Definitely emotional,” Bassey said of senior night. “It’s crazy how fast this came up.

I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude, who we owe for things that have happened. It’s amazing to have family here supporting, friends. Definitely a tough loss for us but we have to turn the page and try to channel those into the right way to play.”

The Crimson’s senior class will have one last chance to secure an elusive spot in the Big Dance.

Harvard’s loss combined with Yale’s win at Dartmouth clinches the regular season title for the Bulldogs and locks the Crimson into the second or third seed, ensuring that Harvard will face Princeton next Saturday in the tournament’s semifinals.

Brown, which won a nailbiter in Providence in the first matchup between the teams, notched its first season sweep of the Crimson since 2008.

But for the Bears to sneak into the Ivy League tournament as the fourth seed, they will need to beat Dartmouth tomorrow night in Hanover while Columbia, losers of 12 straight league games, sees off Penn in Philadelphia.

While Harvard’s game against Yale Saturday night will be meaningless as far as tournament matchups go, Amaker stressed the importance of coming out strong in the team’s final regular season game.

“We need to find a way to win, play well and try to win,” Amaker said. “We were coming off of winning six in a row coming into this game and we’re playing Yale and it’s the final regular season home game of the year for us so there’s a ton for us to try to accomplish in this game tomorrow. They’re the best team in our league and that can give us a tremendous amount of confidence going into the conference tournament if we can find a way to find a good rhythm.” lev.cohen@thecrimson.com