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Program From Page 1 College Pilots New Pre-O Program

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

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-ori ented 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,” Col leran wrote. “It could fit into the larger sphere of leadership pro gramming a student can participate in during their time at Harvard.”

Colleran wrote that the Col lege will wait before making the program permanent.

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

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Multiple Thefts in River Houses Thef s From Page 1

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

An incident was also report ed in Mather House, where $60 in unattended cash went miss ing. According to HUPD police logs, all four thefts are still un der investigation.

In an email to University af filiates last Wednesday, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Cata lano 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 strang ers 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 Stu dent Life Committee expressed support for external security cameras outside dorms in 2016. Roughly 90 laptops are stolen annually at the University, ac cording to the HUPD website.

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Kirkland Finalizes Second New Shield

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Faculty Survey Indicates Gender Inequality

By Sy nie m. cobb and eclan j. knieriem Crimson St aff Writ ers

Harvard University officials have approved a new shield for Kirkland House after a re design process ran into trademark concerns.

House Administrator Kath erine J. Drizos Cavell presented the new shield in an Friday email to House affiliates on be half 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, expe riences, and preferences in this process.”

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

Cavell also noted that stu dents can “immediately” begin using the new shield — which bears a design featuring three white stars arranged hori zontally 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 an nounced in an email Monday that Housing Day — an annual tradition in which the College assigns each freshman to one of the 12 houses for upperclass men — 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 sec ond 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 be cause 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 re design proposal for the shield over concerns that that design national politics and the University administration, respectively. This third installment examines the views of the fac ulty on Harvard’s climate and culture, and on Title IX issues within the FAS. De ar men al an FAS -Wi e Clima e 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. Fif ty-four percent of women and 61 percent of men agreed with the statement.

Still, 43 percent of respon dents indicated that they believed their department needs to conduct a survey of departmen tal climate.

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

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

Fifty-eight percent of re spondents reported that they felt their department was “do ing enough to promote faculty diversity.” Only 42 percent of respondents, however, said the same about the FAS administra tion.

While 55 percent of men felt that the FAS administration ap propriately 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 fac ulty — 52 percent — felt the FAS administration’s efforts to sup port diversity were sufficient — but less than 26 percent of lec turers, associate professors and preceptors agreed. Sixty-nine percent of ten ured respondents felt that their department was doing enough, but only 32 percent of preceptors agreed.

In response to The Crim son’s survey results, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain pointed to a question Harvard’s 2019 Pulse Survey, in which 65 percent of academ ics and faculty members “somewhat agreed, agreed or strongly agreed” that Harvard’s leaders would take “appropriate action in response to incidents of ha rassment and discrimination.” Additionally, a write-in ques tion on The Crimson’s survey asked respondents to identify “specific aspects” of their de partment or division’s culture that they believed needed to change. The most common an swer was improving working conditions for non-tenure-track faculty — in particular, reconsid ering placing time caps on their employment contracts. In addi tion, several respondents called for increased faculty diversity and a wider variety of pedagog ical perspectives.

FAS spokesperson Anna G. Cowenhoven declined to com ment on the survey results. Sanc ions for Sexual Harassmen The survey also inquired about faculty’s opinions on punish ments levied against two prominent FAS faculty last year over allegations of seuxal harass ment.

In May 2019, after a year-long investigation into Title IX com plaints 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 re spondents 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 nei ther agreed nor disagreed.

Dominguez did not respond to requests for comment.

After the allegations became public, graduate students, facul ty 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 mis conduct. University President Lawrence S. Bacow ultimate ly agreed to the demand in May, and the review began in Septem ber 2019.

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

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

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

Sixty-six percent of respon dents agreed with Gay’s sanctions against Fryer, including 33 percent who “strongly agreed.” Five percent disagreed, and 29 percent neither agreed nor dis agreed.

Fryer did not respond to re quests for comment.

The majority of survey re spondents — 62 percent — agreed that the Harvard Corporation should revoke tenure if a facul ty 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 pun ishment, just 49 percent of men agreed. Likewise, more than 90 percent of assistant professors and preceptors, and more than 70 percent of associate profes sors 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 fac ulty 65 and older, meanwhile, only 36 percent agreed. Me ho ology For its 2020 Faculty Survey, The Crimson collected elec tronic responses through Qualtrics, an online survey platform, from Feb. 20 to 27, 2020. A link to the anonymous survey was sent to 1,341 FAS and SEAS fac ulty members through emails sourced in October 2019 from Harvard directory informa tion. 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 sur vey more than once, The Crimson enabled Qualtrics’ browser cookie functionality to register unique survey sessions on each device. This device data is con trolled by Qualtrics, and The Crimson does not retain infor mation that could identify devices accessing the survey with anonymous responses.

In an effort to check for re sponse bias, The Crimson compared respondent demo graphics with publicly available information on faculty demographics provided by the University — information re garding gender, minority background, SEAS affiliation, and ladder versus non-ladder sta tus. Overall, respondent demographics tracked with faculty demographics.

Of survey respondents, 41 percent identified themselves as women and 20 percent iden tified themselves as minorities. Based on data in the 2019 FAS Dean’s Annual report, women and minorities make up 39 per cent and 24 percent of FAS ladder faculty, respectively.

According to the Dean’s re port, 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 fac ulty.

Of faculty who were sent the link to the survey, 127 — or 9 per cent — are affiliated with SEAS. In comparison, of respondents who indicated their divisional affiliation on the survey, 7 per cent reported an affiliation with SEAS. would infringe on an existing trademark.

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

The Trademark Program identified an existing trade 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 Commit tee 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 eas ier.

“Even when we hit the bump, I already knew that Kirkland was going to fight un til 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 james.bikales@thecrimson.com 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. Andrea J. Zhang ‘22 Kirkland House Committee

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w tling Harvard Secures 12th Place at EIWA Championships

By Ni h la dal y Cr imson staff wr iter

After a year marked by exciting triumphs and frustrating set backs, Harvard wrestling took the mats at the EIWA Champi onships 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 Na tional Championships. But the Crimson could not crack the top 10 as a team, finishing 12th out of 17 squads.

On the first day of compe tition, 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 inju ry - 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 rejoin ing 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 drop ping 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, los ing a painfully close 3-2 match to Navy’s Cody Trybus, the eventual 141-pound champi on, 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, fresh man Michael Jaffe entered the tournament as the 10th seed but began his day by upset ting 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 en tered the 157 bracket with high hopes after a season of im pressive results, including being one controversial challenge call away from beating top-seeded Quincy Monday last month against Princeton. The 6th-seeded wrestler from Har vard started off the tournament by majoring Jack Stanton-Tad deo 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 busi ness on day one. Conigliaro, on a first round bye, secured a major in round two and an 8-4 deci sion in the quarters to take him to the semifinals, while Slavik ouski 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 Knigh ton-Ward. Down 1-0 going into the 3rd period, an escape from bottom position was the win dow Slavikouski needed to gain the upper hand over his oppo nent, riding a 3-1 victory into the finals.

There, he met returning All-American Jordan Wood of Lehigh. The native of Belar us kept it close before a sudden takedown allowed Wood to pull away with a 9-2 win. Runner-up status gave Slavikouski an auto matic 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 fresh man Conigliaro was next on the mat for the Crimson, star ing down Zachary Hartman of Bucknell in the semifinals. Af ter losing an 8-7 heartbreaker in overtime, Conigliaro rebound ed 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 Sla vikouski in securing a trip to Minnesota next week to com pete 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 col lege 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 disappoint ment as several tight matches went against the Crimson, the squad left Lehigh’s cam pus 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.”

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BASKETBALL Harvard Falls Short Against Brown on Senior Night

By Le v h n Cr imson Staff Wr iter

On Harvard’s senior night, it was Brown’s senior sharpshoot er Zach Hunsaker who stole the show at Lavietes Pavilion Fri day, scoring 20 points and hitting a dagger three pointer with four minutes left to extend the lead to 11 and shock the Crim son 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 of fensive performance, hitting four triples in the first half for a team that had connected on just 26.5 percent of its long range ef forts 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 perfor mance from deep.

“Hunsaker was the dif ference,” 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 dif ference 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 consec utive 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 min utes as it suffered its first home

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 ca reer-high 11 apiece.

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

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

Hunsaker was joined in dou ble 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 for ward Tamenang Choh, the hero of the first meeting between these teams.

The Crimson was playing its second full game without se nior 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 tour nament, something that cannot be said about fellow injured se nior 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 talk ed about.”

The loss put a bit of a damp er 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 con secutive 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 se cure an elusive spot in the Big Dance.

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

Brown, which won a nail biter 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 Colum bia, losers of 12 straight league games, sees off Penn in Phila delphia.

While Harvard’s game against Yale Saturday night will be meaningless as far as tour nament 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 com ing 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.”