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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 26 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019

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Trance legend discusses music, education, and the meaning of life.

Graduate students criticize Harvard’s reimbursement practices.

Harvard women’s swimming and diving defends Ivy League title.

Securitas Fires Harvard Will Not Drop Sackler Name HSPH Employee

By JONAH S. BERGER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By JAMES S. BIKALES and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Former Harvard School of Public Health security guard Joseph G. Bartuah — who alleged last week that Securitas, his employer, started a retaliatory investigation into him after he reported a supervisor’s behavior — received a letter of termination from Securitas Wednesday.

The letter, signed by Alonzo B. Herring, an area manager for Securitas North America, states that Bartuah engaged in “serious misconduct” while on duty at the Shattuck International House, a residential building at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It further states that the School of Public Health requested Bartauh’s removal.

“The Senior Client of the Harvard Chan School requested your immediate removal from the International House,” Herring wrote in the letter, which was provided by Bartuah. “You were reported to frequently abandon the designated Security post located within the ground floor lobby.” ­

Bartuah said his union, 32BJ Service Employees International Union, has filed a grievance on his behalf.

The letter claims that Bartuah’s behavior violated several company policies, including leaving his post without “proper relief,” falsifying company records, and engaging in “carelessness or negligence in the performance of an assigned duty,” as well as other violations.

Bartuah said the termination was “expected,” but he did not think it was warranted.

“The only charge I would agree with is that I was leaving my post without proper relief,” Bartuah said, but added that this is a “common practice for overnight workers.”

He alleged last week that managers opened the investigation into him leaving his desk only because he sent an email to his supervisors Feb. 5 stating that one of them made “unprofessional” remarks that damaged Bartuah’s reputation among his colleagues.

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Dozens of mothers who lost their children to opioid overdoses are calling on Harvard to remove the Sackler family’s name from its campus, in light of recent allegations that the family was deeply involved in perpetrating the national opioid crisis.

The women, many of whom are members of Team Sharing, a grief group for parents of opioid victims, have written letters to University President Lawrence S. Bacow in the past few weeks, urging Harvard to cut ties with the Sacklers and refuse future funding from them. The letter-writers also helped promote a petition calling for the same objectives, which has garnered more than 14,500 signatures as of Thursday evening.

The mothers’ efforts to pressure the University come at a time when other prestigious institutions that have received donations from the Sacklers are grappling with similar entreaties from activists.

Members of the Sackler family have served as executives at Purdue Pharma, the Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company that produces OxyContin, ­

The Harvard Art Museums, comprised of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, are located on Quincy Street, across from Harvard Yard. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

a painkiller that has been widely condemned for its role in the opioid crisis.

In the 1980s, Arthur M. Sackler helped fund the construction of a namesake mu-

seum on Harvard’s campus, which currently holds the University’s collection of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean art.

In interviews with multiple

letter-writers, many pressed the University to take a zero-tolerance approach when it comes to reconciling past

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Sleep 101, Sleep Matters Initiatives Educate Students SEAS Pursues Industry Partners

By BRIE K. BUCHANAN and JANE Z. LI CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

MARGOT E. SHANG—CRIMSON DESIGNER

A.R.T. Receives Donation for New Allston Space

By PETER E. O’KEEFE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Hedge-fund manager David E. Goel ’93 and Stacey L. Goel donated $100 million to Harvard for an arts research and performance space in Allston, the University announced Thursday.

The gift begins Harvard’s fundraising initiative to build a new “state of the art” center and provide a “future home” for the American Repertory Theatre, which currently operates out of Loeb Drama Center, according to a press release about the donation.

“There is something almost metaphorically perfect about the architectural license to build a center for the arts at the nucleus of Harvard’s expanding campus,” David Goel said in the press release.

Goel said he hopes the cen­

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ter will become “a physical representation of the idea that each set of academic disciplines is strengthened by proximity, dialogue, and contribution to the same tapestry of human understanding.”

A.R.T. creative director Diane M. Paulus ’88 said in the press release that the gift will allow the the group to take more creative risks.

“We are excited by the transformative possibilities that come with the Goels’ astoundingly generous gift,” she said. “It will allow us to envision a sustainably designed center that encourages creative risk-taking in open, democratic spaces that will feel welcoming and porous to the city.

The gift follows a precarious situtaion at the A.R.T. two years ago: in 2017, the Department of

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As students and professors have become more aware of the irregular sleep habits of Harvard undergraduates in recent years, some groups have taken initiative to better educate College students on the benefits of proper sleep.

Programs like the Sleep 101 training module — which was made mandatory for the Class of 2022 — and the Sleep Matters Initiative are sparking conversations about these issues and shedding light on why researchers believe sleep should be prioritized on college campuses.

Although Sleep 101 made its Harvard debut last semester, its development began around ten years ago with a presentation to undergraduates on the health benefits of sleep, according to Charles A. Czeisler ’74, Director of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Czeisler said after the talk that he was approached by students who were upset that this had been their first comprehensive lesson on how sleep impacts edu-

cational performance.

“They said to me, how can we have the largest division of sleep medicine in the world here, over 100 faculty, and nobody tells us that sleep is important to our education,” Czeisler said. “And I said, ‘Well that’s a fair point, so maybe we should do something.’”

Czeisler set out to create a program for Harvard students that eventually evolved into Sleep 101. After some initial setbacks, a combination of sufficient funding and student advocacy aided its approval by the Undergraduate Council within the past year.

Raymond J. So ’21 — who became concerned about students’ sleep patterns after taking Czeisler’s freshman seminar on sleep deficiency — spearheaded the student advocacy efforts for the module.

“After the seminar had concluded, I sent an email to the Undergraduate Council, proposing that the church bells ring later in the morning,” So wrote in an emailed statement.

“For obvious reasons, such a proposal was rejected.”

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Jesus A. Estrada ’22 reads a poem in English and Spanish that narrates a mother-son relationship through gardening work and immigration at the Signet Society Thursday evening. CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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TODAY’S FORECAST

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By RUTH A. HAILU and AMY L. JIA CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

In her first year and a half as Director of Corporate Partnerships at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Ellie G. Carlough has implemented a number of measures with fellow administrators to strengthen SEAS’s connections with the private sector.

In a February interview, SEAS Dean Francis J. Doyle III said these efforts to create corporate partnerships continues to be one of his top priorities.

He said Harvard has historically lagged behind its peer institutions in these efforts and stressed the numerous benefits these industry relationships could bring.

“It’s not just to get funding for the faculty,” Doyle said.

“There are great academic reasons to bring experience to the classroom, to bring case studies to the classroom, to inspire both faculty and students.”

Carlough, who joined the SEAS staff as part of Doyle’s effort to implement better mechanisms for interacting with the private sector, said much of her first year’s work has been focused on building pathways for direct engagement between students and industry, and providing a clear contact point for companies looking to partner with SEAS. Together with Keith R. Karasek, the Director of Experiential and Career Development at SEAS, Carlough said she has been working to make recruiting efforts at the school more robust and accessible to students.

These efforts are meant to supplement, rather than replace, existing job and internship opportunities offered by the University’s Office of Career Services through centralized resources such as Crimson Careers.

“We are working on developing an online corporate catalog so that students can see what companies are coming to SEAS ­

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HARVARD TODAY

For Lunch Chicken Vindaloo Red’s Fresh Best Catch Roasted Vegetable Panini

For Dinner Citrus & Cilantro Marinated Pork Turkey Burger Vegetable Pot Pie with Biscuits

TODAY’S EVENTS Welfare Regimes in Cuba: Women and Inequalities 12-3:45 p.m.

IN THE REAL WORLD Richard Plepler, HBO Chairman and CEO, To Leave Network

The Cuba Studies Program is hosting speaker Ailynn Torres Santana to analyze Cuban reform from 2006 to 2018. Through the lens of welfare regimes, this seminar will explore the effects of these reforms on gender orders and, consequently, inequalities.

Richard Plepler, the top executive at HBO, has stepped down from his position as CEO and Chairman of the network. This sudden move comes just eight months after AT&T merged with Time Warner, HBO’s corporate parent company.

Opposing Stories on Trump-Kim Talks

Strengthening Democratic Institutions 5-6:16 p.m.

This is a ticketed event. Stop by the Institute of Politics to hear a conversation with the Honorable Jeff Flake, United States Senator for Arizona (2013-2019). Leah Wright Rigeaur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate the conversation.

Bach Society Orchestra Presents: Spotlights 8-9:15 p.m Tonight at Paine Hall, the Bach Society Orchestra presents its spring concert, “Spotlights.” This concert will highlight three student musicians.

Tickets are free and available to reserve on the event’s Facebook page.

The snowfall overnight left Harvard Yard covered in powdery snow Thursday morning.

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The two-day summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been cut short, and there is no clear indication that any agreements were made. Both Trump and North Korea’s representatives offered differing explanations as to why no deals were made.

Cohen’s Claims Confirmed by Fordham University

DAILY BRIEFING Former Harvard School of Public Health security guard Joseph G. Bartuah — who alleged last week that Securitas, his employer, started a retaliatory investigation into him after he reported a supervisor’s behavior — received a letter of termination from Securitas Wednesday. The letter, signed by Alonzo B. Herring, a Securitas area manager, states that Bartuah engaged in “serious misconduct” while on duty at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In other news, Dozens of mothers who lost their children to opioid overdoses are calling on Harvard to remove the Sackler family’s name from its campus, in light of recent allegations that the family was deeply involved in perpetrating the national opioid crisis.

Amid Michael Cohen’s testimony about working with President Trump, Fordham University has now confirmed that Cohen did, as he stated, threaten the university with legal action should they release Trump’s academic records.

AROUND THE IVIES PRINCETON

According to the Daily Princetonian, the school’s former chair of biology John Bonner has died at the age of 98. Bonner, who worked at the university for 42 years, served three terms as chairperson. His work focuses primarily upon molecular biology and evolutionary biology. Bonner was known for his fascination with slime molds — a collection of organisms he spent over 70 years researching.

His work showed that simple organisms could be altruistic and shed light on evolutionary cooperation. Bonner wrote 20 books and over 150 papers about slime molds and evolution.

UPENN

According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the cost of attendance at the University of Pennsylvania will increase by 3.9 percent for the 2019-2020 academic year. The cost of attendance will be about $74,000, marking a $3,000 increase. To supplement the increase in tuition price, the University Board of Trustees also approved a 4.5 percent increase to the undergraduate financial aid budget. This new budget of $247 million will be a record high for the University.

BROWN

According to the Brown Daily Herald, student group Brown Divest gave a presentation to the Undergraduate Council of Students urging for a referendum to be added to the ballot for the upcoming UCS elections. Brown Divest is a student group dedicated to raising awareness for what it calls the mistreatment of Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian border disputes. Their proposed referendum calls for Brown to divest from companies profiting from Israeli abuses against Palestinians. The referendum also includes a vote for increased financial transparency from the University.

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CORRECTIONS The Feb. 28 article “Harvard Affiliates Condemn Saudi Ties” incorrectly referred to the event “Whose University is It?” as “Whose University is This?”

The Feb. 28 article “Cox to Speak for Gender Equity” incorrectly referred to Harvard’s gender equity summit as a gender equality summit.

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Reimbursement Policy Criticized by Students

By JULIET E. ISSELBACHER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard graduate students have long bristled at the expectation that they must pay necessary academic conference expenses up front and wait months to receive reimbursements.

The discussion surrounding reimbursement issues was refreshed after Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Ph.D. candidate Jessica E. Sagers published an op-ed in Science Magazine, detailing how she and her peers have suffered under Harvard’s current reimbursement policies.

The article, entitled “Reimbursement policies make academia less inclusive,” was published Feb. 14, and has since amassed nearly 500 Facebook shares.

Harvard protocol is to reimburse students for conference expenses — including registration, air travel, and lodging — only after they attend, according to Sagers. The policy requires students to pay significant sums up front that can infringe upon their modest stipends.

“Registration is usually happening three to six months before you go to the conference. So even if you win a travel grant or have a fellowship that supports travel, you are expected to front that money, which can be one to two thousand dollars,” Sagers said in an interview.

“You’re just out that money until the conference happens because you’re not allowed to submit reimbursement forms until after the conference. Even then, you submit forms after the conference, and the reimbursement times are interminable, something like two to three months,” she added. “There was one time when I was out $4,000 for an entire year.”

The problem is pervasive, according to Dana L. Boebinger, who is also a Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Ph.D. candidate. Boebinger said that a few days after Science ­

Magazine published Sagers’s article, she overheard someone lament they had been waiting months for a reimbursement.

“There was a group of people standing next to me. And one of them said to the group of friends, ‘Well, I can’t order the takeout for us or call the Uber because I applied for this conference a couple of months ago and I still haven’t been paid back,’” Boebinger said.

Sagers said these reimbursement policies preclude her financially disadvantaged peers from attending conferences and advancing their careers.

“If somebody looks at a CV of [a student] who is applying for a postdoc position and they don’t see any conference presentations or any conference talks, that’s a red flag. You’re expected to participate in the ecosystem of science, and if you don’t, that does hurt your career,” Sagers said.

Jeanne Gallée, also a SHBT Ph.D. candidate, wrote in an email that conferences are integral to furthering scientific careers.

“Even beyond boosting your resume, scientific conferences are essential in that they allow you to connect with peers and established researchers, and perhaps more importantly, provide the perfect space to receive feedback on your own ideas,” she wrote.

The Harvard Graduate Student Union has been working to address the issue, according to Madeleine F. Jennewein, a member of the group’s bargaining committee. She said the problem “spans all students,” and the union has sought to include the issue in their bargaining goals.

“We have been very aware of the difficulties of reimbursement within our bargaining unit, and have included in our bargaining goals and our proposals to the university ways to reduce the upfront financial burden on student workers as they travel for conferences and make work-related expenses,” she wrote in an email.

Sagers said she has voiced her concerns to the administra-

tion before. In November, she wrote to Accounting Administrator Danny Cho that it was “really painful” to be denied reimbursement until after she attended her conference in February.

He replied that “these are federal funds and DMS cannot change the policy,” according to an email obtained by The Crimson.

Director of Finance and Administration Will Carter wrote in an emailed statement that the University is required to abide by the Office of Management and Budget’s Uniform Administrative Requirements because Harvard receives federal funding.

“Non-compliance carries a significant risk to the entire institution’s portfolio of federal awards,” Carter wrote.

The OMB did not respond to a request for comment.

Sagers said she has confronted University officials about delayed reimbursements in the past, and administrators usually cite the OMB’s standards.

“That’s essentially the line we receive,” Sagers said. “And I have had many, many conversations with administrators, and it doesn’t push any farther than that.”

Both Sagers and Boebinger suggested that students be given departmental credit cards to pay for upfront conference fees.

The Graduate Student Council has already taken steps to address the issue, according to GSC President Blakey B. O’Connor.

“The GSC changed its policy for awarding Conference and Summer Research Grants two years ago,” O’Connor wrote in an emailed statement. “With the new policy in place, students may receive their awards before they attend a conference, instead of having to submit receipts for reimbursements.”

Sagers said she will continue to speak out about the issue.

“If I don’t advocate for myself in this process, I know no one will advocate for me.” juliet.isselbacher@thecrimson.com

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Bacow Refuses Petition to Remove Sackler Building Name donations from the Sackler family, even from members not directly connected to the manufacturing and sale of OxyContin.

“They don’t need to be recognized in any way,” said DeAnna Ashby-Shultz, who leads the North Carolina chapter of Team Sharing. “Their money is dirty money.”

Though Arthur Sackler passed away roughly a decade before the drug came to market, many activists blame him for the aggressive advertising tactics he helped pioneer, which they say Purdue sales representatives later used to push OxyContin.

Dame Jillian Sackler, the widow of Arthur Sackler, wrote in an emailed statement that her husband had “nothing to do” with OxyContin and that his estate is not named in “any lawsuit” against Purdue.

“It is a gross injustice to blame my late husband, Arthur Sackler, for the public health crisis surrounding opioids,” she wrote. “Arthur was never involved in Purdue Pharma, a company owned by his brothers Mortimer and Raymond and their families.”

Cheryl A. Juaire and Rhonda ­

Lotti, leaders of the Massachusetts chapter of Team Sharing, wrote in a letter to Bacow that leaving the Sackler name on its campus was “reprehensible.”

“It clearly implies that Harvard University stands with Purdue and the Sacklers in the belief that money matters more than lives. We don’t believe that is the image you want to portray of such an institution that you are now the President of,” they wrote.

Bacow wrote in response that the “stories and photographs” he received from the mothers “deeply moved” him, but that the University did not plan to strip Arthur Sackler’s name from the museum.

“Your assertions that the construction of the original building that housed the Arthur M. Sackler Museum was paid for by a donation from Dr. Sackler and that he died before OxyContin was developed and marketed are correct,” Bacow wrote.

“Given these circumstances and legal and contractual considerations, we do not have plans to remove Dr. Sackler’s name from the Museum.”

He added that Harvard researchers are “earnestly addressing” the opioid crisis to

prevent other mothers from having to experience the loss of a child.

Jeremy Cohen, a Cambridge activist who spearheaded the petition, said he believes the recent revelations arising from a lawsuit brought by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey ’92 against members of the Sackler family have given him and other activists significant momentum in their efforts.

Healey’s lawsuit alleges that Sackler family members who served on Purdue’s board of directors, deceptively marketed OxyContin and attempted to shift blame onto opioid users for their addiction, all while raking in billions of dollars from their addictive painkiller.

“It’s kind of front of mind for everyone right now,” Cohen said. “Two or three years ago, it might not have gotten the same traction.”

The group of mothers writing to Harvard say their next target is likely Tufts University, which received donations from Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, former executives at Purdue, to construct a biomedical school building. jonah.berger@thecrimson.com

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Undergraduates Use Urgent Care

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

Undergraduate students make up more than 80 percent of the patients seen in Harvard University Health Services’ Urgent Care, Harvard University Senior Director of Nursing and Health Promotion Maria Francesconi said in an interview last week.

In its current model, HUHS treats undergraduates primarily through its Primary Care and Urgent Care services. Students seeking to use Primary Care must schedule an appointment in advance, but Urgent Care sees students without appointments 24/7.

Though undergraduates make up approximately 32.8 percent of total students enrolled at Harvard — 6,766 out of 20,604 — an overwhelming majority of the patients treated at Urgent Care are College students, according to Francesconi and HUHS Director Paul J. Barreira.

Both Barreira and Francesconi said potential reasons for the statistic include confusion over the assignment of Primary Care providers and busy schedules preventing students from making formal appointments.

“For the people who actually do try to use Primary Care, Primary Care may not have the availability that you can get when you get seen in Urgent Care,” Francesconi said. “You can walk into Urgent Care and somebody will see you, right?

Where if you try to use Primary Care, it’s most often appointment based, and they’ll say, ‘Well we don’t have an appointment today, but we might have one tomorrow,’ and sometimes that doesn’t work with schedules.”

Barreira and Francesconi said HUHS is seeking direct feedback from students, which could help HUHS improve its services. HUHS is also looking into telehealth and other online chat formats to increase accessibility. Barreira added

that a patient advisory council currently aids him in handling “general UHS stuff.”

Though all students have the opportunity to connect with an HUHS Primary Care provider prior to arriving on campus in the fall of their first year, only a small percentage of freshmen

You can walk into Urgent Care and somebody will see you, right? Where if you try to use Primary Care, it’s most often appointment based, and they’ll say, ‘Well we don’t have an appointment today, but we might have one tomorrow,’ and sometimes that doesn’t work.

Maria Francesconi Harvard University Senior Director of Nursing and Health Promotion

reach out beforehand, according to Barreira.

“About 10 percent of people contact us ahead of time because they have existing medical conditions and they want to be connected to us so it’s sort of various autoimmune diseases, and asthma, and diabetes, and stuff like that,” Barreira said.

Despite his concerns, Barreira said he recognizes that some issues concerning the College student body must be addressed

by Urgent Care.

“It’s kind of hard to see a primary care doctor and say, ‘You’re gonna throw up in a week, so let’s do something about it,’” Barriera said. michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com

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GUARD FROM PAGE 1

Securitas Fires Security Guard Three days later, on Feb. 8, Bartuah received a call from Herring telling him not to come to work. The termination letter arrived Wednesday stating that Bartuah’s firing was a “Client Requested Removal,” referring to Harvard, which contracts Securitas.

Bartuah, however, said that based on the “experience of co-workers that have gone through this,” he thinks Securitas was behind the termination.

“Securitas will always say that the client requested that we should remove you and almost always there’s no evidence of whether the client actually requested that,” Bartuah said.

Bartuah alleged that Securitas took advantage of a provision in the contract that allows the client to request employees’ removal without cause.

“In our union contract once the client says that you should be removed, you are to be removed,” Bartuah said. “They always stand by that to justify their decisions, so I kind of expected that the reason will go that way.”

Securitas’ Boston office did not respond to a request for comment.

“It is inappropriate for Securitas to comment on specific employment related matters and matters possibly to be addressed in the grievance process,” Herring, the Securitas area manager, wrote in an email.

The University declined to comment on whether it requested the removal.

“As a matter of practice, the School does not comment on personnel matters,” School of Public Health spokesperson Todd Datz wrote in an emailed statement.

As part of union grievance procedures, Bartuah and 32BJ SEIU representatives will meet with a Securitas human resources manager, Bartuah said.

“Grievance arbitration procedures provide for certain preliminary intermediate steps where the parties, usually the union, will sit down with employer representatives,” William B. Gould IV, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, said. “They will try to resolve the matter themselves in some way. And if they’re unable to resolve it, then and only then, would the matter be referred to arbitration.”

Unions usually have the discretion to invoke arbitration processes. The case’s merit and feasibility before an arbitrator are the primary factors when unions decide whether to bring a grievance to an arbitration process, according to Gould.

32BJ SEIU spokesperson Amanda Torres Price referred to a previous statement, and declined to comment on Bartuah’s individual case.

“We take allegations of unjust termination seriously and follow a strict protocol to process any grievance accordingly,” she wrote when Bartuah was first being investigated. james.bikales@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

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SLEEP FROM PAGE 1

Sleep Initiatives Promote Health “I still wanted to create some policy-based change regarding sleep at the College, and thus, I tempered down my proposal into a sleep education initiative, one component of which was to implement Sleep 101 at the College,” So added.

Pallas S. Ziporyn ’10, the project manager for Sleep 101 who oversaw the team that developed the module, said her Harvard experience was a “creative driver” for the training program.

“I still felt that there was somewhat of a toxic sleep culture at Harvard,” Ziporyn said.

“I think it was my [Peer Advising Fellow] who said people say that there are three S’s — sleep, social life and studying — and you can only have two; you can’t have all three.”

Ziporyn added that, during her time as an undergraduate, a competitive mindset surrounding sleep deficiency ultimately lead to adverse effects on her own health.

“We would be envious of people who could sleep just five or six hours,” she said. “At one point I went through a long stretch of forcing my body to sleep five or six hours a night because I knew that’s what some of my friends were doing and for me personally I had really bad results — I ended up at UHS.” In addition to the educational benefits, Ziporyn said she believes the module lets students know that the College administrators care about their sleep.

“I thought that my professors did not want me to sleep, that I would be showing that I was a good student by not sleeping,” she said. “And I think having someone just say, ‘We want you to sleep, it’s good for you to sleep, life will be better for you if you sleep,’ has a lot of value.”

Ziporyn is also responsible for managing the program’s partnerships with other institutions. The module was piloted at over a dozen schools

including Lehigh University, Loyola University of Maryland, and the University of St. Thomas, according to Ziporyn.

In conjunction with the Sleep 101 module, the student-led group Sleep Matters Initiative has played an active role in raising awareness about sleep and emphasizing the importance of sleep health on campus.

“The Sleep Matters Initiative is a collaboration between some undergraduate students at the College and Brigham sleep team,” said Mark E. Czeisler ’19, a leader of the organization and Charles Czeisler’s son.

The initiative took off in

I still felt that there was somewhat of a toxic sleep culture at Harvard.

Pallas S. Ziporyn ’10 Sleep 101 Project Manager

spring of 2016 after a group of students recognized the problem of undergraduate sleep deficiency and inconsistency.

“It all started a few years back when some of us just kind of stepped back and looked and we hear all the stories about the all-nighters in Lamont,” Sean F. Gibney ’19, another leader in the Sleep Matters Initiative, said.

“Personal experience made us all realize that there was a problem that we could maybe try to address.”

One of the Sleep Matters Initiative’s main projects is conducting a research study on undergraduate sleep routines.

Data collection took place last year with students in Quincy House and Adams House.

When first approached about the idea, Faculty Dean of Quincy House Deborah J. Gehrke said there was hesitation to approving the study “because it’s

a little labor intensive” on the part of the participants. Despite initial reservations toward the proposal, it was ultimately approved about two years ago.

The randomized, voluntary study began with a basic background questionnaire for students that intended to participate. Then, students were asked to fill out a daily journal logging information about the quality and quantity of their sleep that night.

In addition to filling out the number of hours of sleep, students were asked if things prevented them from going to sleep on time and about different factors that impacted people’s environement and allowed them to get sleep or to not get sleep,” Gibney said.

The study also provided incentives such as Amazon gift cards to keep up consistent engagement with the daily sleep logs.

To evaluate the effects of sleep education, students of one house received informational materials in concurrence with the daily journal, whereas the second house did not receive any supplemental materials.

The study’s goal centered around creating awareness for sleep health and collecting data on undergraduate sleep.

“It can be difficult to prioritize sleep,” Mark Czeisler said.

“Another goal is definitely to educate students and give them a sense of little tools or tips that can help them maximize sleep time in this environment.

Over the duration of the study, 391 students participated in the study with 7,390 days of diary data collected, he wrote in an email. The study took place throughout the 2018 spring semester.

The sleep study was intended to evaluate several factors, including sleep time preferences, sleep habits as linked to graduating class, and consistency of sleep among students.

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After the conclusion of the study, many students cited positive feelings about the study, according to Gibney. Participants also received a personalized data report that compared a summary of their data to the rest of the participants in the study. Gibney said many of the students “appreciated” having that data.

Faculty Deans of Quincy also agreed with the positive outcomes of the sleep study.

It can be difficult to prioritize sleep.

Mark E. Czeisler ’19 Sleep Matters Initiative Leader

“The students rose to the occasion and they filled out the journal so it was great,” Gehrke said.

The sleep study also caused a change in attitudes toward sleep, Quincy’s other Faculty Dean, Lee Gehrke, added.

“It’s just raised awareness and made it easier for conversations about the importance of sleep to happen,” Lee Gehrke said. “People realize that it’s an important issue to be aware of.”

The analysis of the study results is still ongoing, but researchers have already noted that students’ sleep needs did not align with their actual sleep patterns, Gibney said.

The study’s complete findings will be presented in June at the 33rd annual meeting of the Sleep Research Society, “SLEEP 2019.” Two posters will be showcased at the conference with one focusing on sleep habits of undergraduates and the other highlighting research strategies for future long-term projects, according to Mark Czeisler. brie.buchanan@thecrimson.com jane.li@thecrimson.com

ALLSTON FROM PAGE 1

A.R.T. to Open Allston Space Education found that the A.R.T. Institute — which offered twoyear graduate programs in acting, dramaturgy, and voice pedagogy — was saddling students with high levels of debt, leading to an admissions freeze. Later that year, the A.R.T. decided to shutter its Institute program for three years to “work on a strategic plan,” according to an email to affiliates at the time.

The Goels’ gift is intended to honor David Goel’s parents, according to the release. Universi­

Students Attend Open Mic Night

By ELIZABETH X. GUO and AMANDA Y. SU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Dozens of students gathered on wooden chairs and sofas for an open mic night focused on issues of immigration and blackness at the Signet Society Thursday evening.

The event, titled “Issa Open Mic Night,” was organized in the wake of rapper 21 Savage’s United States Immigration Customs Enforcement detainment, the impending end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants, and the conclusion of Black History Month.

The event’s sponsors — Act on a Dream, a student immigration advocacy group; the Black Students Association; Harvard African Students Association; the Harvard Caribbean Club, the Signet Society; KeyChange, an a capella group that performs songs by black artists; and the Institute of Politics — sought to create a space for intersectional dialogue about migration, blackness, and policing. ­

It’s a beautiful audience, a diverse audience.

Lauren A. Tucker ’22 Student performer

“I hope people come to this event and learn that immigration is more than just a Latinx issue, it’s an issue that transcends races,” Diego Navarrete ’21, co-director of Act on a Dream and a Crimson Editorial board member, said in an interview before the event. “It crosses a lot of different communities.”

HCC Vice President Char Deslandes ’21, who is an international student from the United Kingdom, discussed the importance of the event in recognizing the “incredibly terrifying” experience of being a black immigrant in the United States.

“You’re constantly on edge especially as a black person, if I’m being real. I never know will a police officer stop me, will I have a terrible interaction that escalates and causes me to not be able to stay at school?” Delandes said.

Act on a Dream’s Intersectionality Co-Chairs Leo A. Garcia ’21 and Farah M. Afify ’22 emceed the open mic night.

“We care about black immigrant narratives,” Afify said when introducing the event with Garcia. “They matter, and they’re something that must be discussed.”

Diane M. Paulus ’88 A.R.T. Creative Director

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ty President Lawrence S. Bacow said the gift will draw more support for projects concerning the arts at Harvard.

“David and Stacey have given us a gift that will undoubtedly inspire support for one of our most exciting projects to advance the arts at Harvard,” Bacow said in the press release.

“The new space we envision will be a magnet for artists and audiences, as well as students, faculty, and staff.

David Goel is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Goels endowed the Goel Center for Theater and Dance at Phillips Exeter Academy which opened its doors in 2018. peter..o’keefe@thecrimson.com

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SEAS Seeks Industry Partnerships looking for internships or jobs, looking for students,” Carlough said.

“I think there is great value in students working with industry and interacting with industry on a variety of levels, particularly for those students who want to go to industry jobs after they graduate,” she added.

Carlough said she is also looking into ways industry partners can potentially sponsor students’ final projects in courses like Engineering Sciences 100: “Engineering Design Projects.”

“It seems like a place where we can integrate industry partners who have projects that would be interesting to students and can mentor them,” she said.

“We want to make sure the student is supported and is able to excel in the course.”

Last March, Carlough and Applied Math Professor Lakshminarayanan “L.” Mahadevan launched the inaugural Dean’s Industry Lecture — a series of talks that brings industry leaders to SEAS to educate students about issues at the intersection of science, society, and technology.

Previous lecturers have included Henri Seydoux, the founder and CEO of civil drone company Parrot, and John C.C. Fan, the president and CEO of Kopin Corporation, which specializes in wearable virtual and artificial reality devices.

Carlough said that part of her role is to serve as a point of contact with companies in­

We are excited by the transformative possibilities that come with the Goels’ astoundingly generous gift. It will allow us to envision a sustainably designed center that encourages creative risk-taking in open, democratic spaces.

More than a dozen students performed at the open mic evening. Acts included songs, original poems, and recitations from a Facebook post and Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.”

Lauren A. Tucker ’22 performed an original spoken word poem entitled “Black History, My History,” which she called a product of personal “frustration and reflection.” Tucker said she attended the event because of her desire to remind audience members of black history.

“Black history cannot just be confined in pages 248 to 256 in your American history textbook. Today is black history,” she recited in her poem. “We are black history.”

Tucker said in an interview after her performance that she appreciated the welcoming space that “Issa Open Mic Night” provided for personal creative expression.

“It’s a beautiful audience, a diverse audience,” Tucker said.

“It was really nice, just with the vibe and people who are sharing vulnerable pieces.”

In between student performances, students enjoyed drinks and food while mingling with each other. During intermissions, students who wanted to perform next notified Garcia and Afify, who then introduced them to the room.

Ilham A. T. Ali ’21 also performed at the event, sharing both a poem on behalf of an anonymous student and her own original poem that was inspired by her mother, who is a Sudanese activist.

Ali’s poem, named for her mother, shared stories about her participation in protests erupting across Sudan in opposition of the country’s authoritarian government and violent raids by the government and secret police on civilian homes.

At the event’s end, Garcia and Afify thanked the audience, performers, and organizers.

“Our main focus is to create a forum for everybody, creating an intersectional community that will welcome people to the community who may not have felt as welcomed before,” Garcia said.

“We’re very proud to have had this event in this place,” Abraham E. Rebollo ’20, a Signet member, said. “We are trying to open the space up more to artists of color and activists groups to use this space and to be able to have a platform to speak about their experiences.”

terested in working with SEAS students and faculty.

“This is the first time, recently, that there’s been a staff position to act as a connecting point, so what I’ve been doing is meeting with companies who are coming to SEAS to partner,” Carlough said.

Industry partnerships also provide an opportunity to connect with students in the class-

It’s a great opportunity to bring in world experience.

Francis J. Doyle III SEAS Dean

room, Doyle said. When discussing ways to increase faculty numbers, he pointed toward industry as a potential source of lecturers. Currently, guest lecturers from corporations are brought into classes through faculty connections, but in the future, those hired from industry would hold positions similar to Professors of the Practice, who are non-tenured faculty at Harvard.

“We need to do quality control and make sure these are reasonable people who understand our pedagogy, understand our culture of working with students on the campus,” Doyle said. “It’s a great opportunity to bring in world experience.” ruth.hailu@thecrimson.com amy.jia@thecrimson.com

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BOOKS

‘THE NIGHT TIGER’: A SPECTACULAR AND HAUNTING MURDER MYSTERY KELSEY CHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The world of colonial Malaysia is a pulsing, dynamic land.

In Yangsze Choo’s “The Night Tiger,” it is augmented in unimaginable ways, filled with exponentially heightened colors, dreams, and emotions in a quivering, hallucinatory mystery where local and diasporic mythologies come to life. This scintillating world that Choo weaves is a world hopelessly entangled in threads of fate and death, ordered along rules of ritual and folklore.

The quick-witted Ji Lin is working at a dance hall to pay off her mother’s mahjong debts when she unexpectedly picks up a gruesome souvenir from a client — a severed finger, mummified and preserved in a specimen bottle. Ren, a Chinese houseboy whose master died after suffering prolonged and torturous fevers from malaria, is tasked with retrieving his master’s lost finger. Ren must find the finger and bury it with his master before the 49th day after his passing, or risk that his master’s soul will forever wander the earth. But misfortune and death seem to follow Ren on his journey to seek out the finger — tigers pick dogs off the streets and strange killings are happening. There are whispers of men turning into tigers with deformed paws, whispers that make Ren shiver and determined to bury the finger as soon as he can. He wonders, “If his old master is in fact doomed to roam this vast green expanse forever, trapped in the form of a tiger.” Ji Lin and Ren’s lives collide, colossally and momentously, in her mission to return the finger to its rightful owner and his mission to save his master’s soul. Even the greatest literary thrill-seeker will not want for intrigue — there are murders, theft, an illicit human body-part trade, conspiracy, mythology, and ghosts.

But what truly makes the novel so haunting and stunning is not the physical landscape, the bodies, nor the string of dazzling plot points — instead, the beauty of “The Night Tiger” lies in the cobwebs that string all these together: legend. Myth, folklore, oral histories and tradition, ritual, fate, the unstoppable current of what is meant to be — all of this comes to coalesce in an undeniably spectacular world of Choo’s creation. There is an unspoken natural order, “An invisible shroud or cocoon, those fine filaments spun out of nothing,” created through eons of tradition — and the most perverse violations of it. There are rules that everyone knows, that govern all existence and death

— and punishments doled out for failing to observe them. The sheer intensity of Choo’s world-building is striking.

No matter how striking the plot and world of “The Night Tiger,” it is important to consider the implications of playing with mythology in the way that Choo does. In the imagination of the West, the “Orient” is frequently imagined as an exotic place of intrigue and passion. Notice that each of these descriptive words has been previously used to describe the landscape that Choo creates in the novel. Undoubtedly, the striking and folkloric world of “The Night Tiger” comes at the cost of playing into and reifying larger narratives of orientalism that fetishize and exotify Eastern culture and ritual. Each element of Malay and Chinese mythology is exaggerated beyond proportion — each Chinese character is shockingly superstitious, placing a disproportionate amount of faith on lucky and unlucky numbers. The idea of the matched set of five, the importance of couplets of items, the ominousness of the number 49, and the luckiness of six and eight appear so frequently that it edges on ludicrosity. Beyond the hyperbolic superstitiousness of Chinese characters and their obsession with numbers, mythological aspects and the faith of Asian characters in it is a systemic problem of the book.

This exaggeration is necessary for the fluidity of the plot and to create the hallucinatory and spectral effect that makes the novel so compelling. It also does, however, risk reinforcing geopolitical and cultural narratives of Asia as superstitious, irrational, and exotic. In a moment of startling self-awareness, “The Night Tiger” comments of its British characters, “This is what they have come East for: adventures like tigers in the garden, Oriental dancing girls, and cobras in their beds.” And what about the readers of “The Night Tiger”? What have they come to the novel for? The same things: stories about tigers in the garden, Oriental dancing girls, and ghosts.

Undeniably, however, embedded in Choo’s novel is a criticism of colonialism, albeit not as harsh as deserved. References to the darker, unseen forces that silently govern the everyday existence of Malaysian locals seem to hint at a critique of imperialist ventures and underlying currents of uneven geopolitical power dynamics. Underneath its sparkling, somewhat romantic exterior, there are dark things brewing in this world.

But despite the possible implications of playing into mainstream orientalist representations of Eastern culture and tradition, it is irrefutable that Yangsze Choo’s “The Night Tiger” is a stunning combination of romance, mystery and tragedy.

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MUSIC

Trance Legend Paul van Dyk Discusses Music, Education, and the Meaning of Life TADHG G. LARABEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER Dozens of electronic music fans from Harvard and the Greater Boston Area filed into the Adams Lower Common Room on Feb. 20 to hear a talk from German trance music legend Paul van Dyk. Hosted by the Harvard College Electronic Music Collective, van Dyk discussed his life, his music, and his groundbreaking career.

The DJ and producer grew up in East Germany, unable to listen to his favorite music except by tuning in to illegal radio stations. He would eventually become the first electronic artist to be nominated for a Grammy. Today, van Dyk is best known for pioneering the sub-genre of trance and for his hit songs “For An Angel” and “Nothing But You.” During the event, van Dyk shared his unique personal story and offered advice for young musicians, particularly those in college. Asked how he got his start in the music industry, van Dyk said, “I started making mixtapes for myself and some friends, and one of my friends actually passed on my mixtape to the guy at the door of Tresor… There were a few things where I was in a lucky position, but the thing is as well to take your chance; make this real.”

Van Dyk emphasized the power of resilience and love in the face of adversity. The artist suffered a brain injury in 2016 after falling 33 feet through a stage during the “A State of Trance” festival in Utrecht. It took several years for him to return to touring. “In the first few days, when I was still in a coma… I was connected to all the machines, so there was no brain function, and I was not aware of anything,” the musician said. “But when [my wife] came and asked me to grab her hand, I did. So there was something inside of me that was not my brain that knew this is my girl. And that’s the meaning of life: That’s the soul, that’s love, that’s connection.”

Van Dyk also stressed the importance of pursuing an education, even if it means delaying musical dreams. “At the end of the day, I believe in education,” he said. “If you have the chance to actually study, to learn, if you are given the great gift of knowledge in a place like Harvard — take that gift, learn as much as you can. And then, with what you learn, make your dreams come true.”

The crowd was a mix of college students and Cambridge residents. Many attendees were long-time fans of van Dyk’s work: One woman said she had attended 80 of his shows, and another said she had been a fan for more than 20 years. Other guests included producers and DJs living and working in the Boston area.

Cambridge resident Alex J. Birch attended the event. “Paul van Dyk has been doing this since as long as I’ve been alive. He’s been DJing, and he’s a huge initial part of the German trance scene,” Birch said.

“So just to hear some of his background, how he got into the whole scene, and I’m also very interested in how he’s interested in politics as well.”

According to Fay Huo ’20, co-president of the Harvard College Electronic Music Collective, this diverse audience is typical for her organization. “We invite people from the greater Boston area, not only just Harvard students. We are very inclusive, actually,” Huo said. “This is something we’re proud of. We strive to be a platform, a community, that can collect all the musicians, producers, and DJs that are interested in electronic music to come to our events.”

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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Student Groups and HCFA on Campus: A Year in Review

Negligent Forms of Academic Life

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year ago last week, we forcefully condemned Harvard College Faith and Action’s decision to host a controversial speaker who identified as “ex-gay” and urged queer Christians to deny their sexuality in the service of God at one of its Friday night “Doxa” forums. Just a week later, HCFA was found to have pressured one of its student leaders to resign in September 2017 after details of her same-sex relationship had emerged.

In response to that decision, the Office of Student Life, now restructured as the Dean of Students Office, placed HCFA on “administrative probation” — a term whose meaning the administration had repeatedly refused to clarify. When HCFA was placed on probation, the administration said that HCFA would need to sever ties with its parent organization — Christian Union — in order to regain recognized status from the College.

But this requirement — and other typical probationary requirements like the inability of organizations to use University spaces — have dismayingly not been enforced by the University.

Despite the administration’s inability or unwillingness to define standards for probation or hold HCFA accountable for them, Associate Dean for Student Engagement Alexander R. Miller nonetheless wrote in an email that the probationary period is “scheduled to conclude next month.”

We hope the Harvard community, es-

pecially the transitioning DSO, still remembers — and takes seriously — HCFA’s deeply problematic behavior of last year.

The inability of the College to enforce the punishments leveled against HCFA is not just disappointing, but more broadly indicative of Harvard’s failure to hold fast to some of its punitive efforts — including sanctions against the final clubs.

We hope that new DSO reinvigorates efforts to bring actual, meaningful sanctions against HCFA, to clarify the terms of and subsequently enforce the organi-

We believe that failure to clarify the University’s position and bring HCFA’s status into accordance with stated University procedure represents a lack of consistency on the part of the administration.

text, and recognize how crucial it is that Harvard not alienate people of faith.

However, we believe that failure to clarify the University’s position and bring HCFA’s status into accordance with stated University procedure represents a lack of consistency on the part of the administration.

Student groups of all kinds deserve and receive support from the University to facilitate their operations. These groups are often united on the basis of shared interest, such as faith in the case of HCFA. But the University cannot privilege one kind of unifying interest — even one as central to the lives of its adherents as religion — over others in administering consequences for policy violations.

To that end, the administration must reconsider its approach to dealing with HCFA as the organization moves towards coming off its “administrative probation.” The College must clarify its policies to the community at large and put them into practice equally for all student organizations — including HCFA.

zation’s probation, and to ensure that it severs contact with Christian Union.

In private comments, former Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Roland S. Davis expressed concern about punishing HCFA, fearing that Harvard could be seen as attacking Christianity.

We are sympathetic to these concerns, particularly in the modern political con-

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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Student Workers Need A Contract Now Because #TimesUp

By A. VAIL KOHNERT-YOUNT, SEJAL S. SINGH and IVY Z. YAN

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his week marks the one-year anniversary since the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that Harvard University Government Professor Emeritus Jorge I. Dominguez sexually harassed at least 18 students and colleagues over the course of nearly four decades. That’s longer than we have been alive.

The first reported incident occurred in 1979, and the University’s own investigation determined that Dominguez committed “serious misconduct” as early as 1983. Nevertheless, Dominguez was kept on University payroll without significant consequences. In fact, he was rewarded. Not only did the University promote him to Vice Provost and other powerful gatekeeping roles, but he was even assigned to teach a freshman seminar in fall 2017. Through these decisions, Harvard knowingly and at best carelessly put hundreds of students and colleagues at personal and professional risk over and over again.

After being finally shamed to act by community concern in response to the media reports, Harvard announced that it was considering a neutral, external investigation. But a year later — despite repeated inquiries from students in the Government Department, where Dominguez taught — we haven’t heard a single update on the promised external investigation since. No wonder nearly half of Harvard graduate women (and more than half of female undergraduates) don’t trust that the system will take sexual misconduct seriously if they come forward.

Harvard’s processes are supposed to protect students’ and employees’ civil rights, but instead, the University has used the process to protect itself.

When will the University protect its student workers the way it protects its reputation? That is, when will we have real redress to protect us from the pervasive harassment, abuse, and discrimination that happens here at Harvard? It is clearer now than ever before that we cannot simply trust the University’s own in-

ternal processes to eradicate harassment on campus — especially as the federal government turns a blind eye to schools that sweep sexual harassment under the rug. It was only after last year’s media reports and subsequent public outrage that the University gave Dominguez a gentleman’s exit from teaching by allowing him to retire. The Law School afforded Brett M. Kavanaugh the same courtesy, without opening any known investigation into the allegations against him. All the while, new allegations against faculty members such as Economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and others Harvard has kept below the radar continue to mount.

Harvard’s processes are supposed to protect students’ and employees’ civil rights, but instead, the University has used the process to protect itself. It comes then as no surprise that the University has not heeded Government graduate and undergraduate students’ call for an external review. The University repeatedly asks students and workers to trust that the administration does right by us, even though the University has so flagrantly and chronically failed to protect its students and workers.

This is why it’s so critically important that student workers are bargaining for strong protections against discrimination and harassment in our first union contract. Specifically, we are bargaining for a voluntary, neutral grievance procedure, which means that if we as student workers have our rights violated — for example, if we experience wage theft, unsafe working conditions, or harassment — we can choose to take our claim to a neutral, third-party arbitrator with no conflict of interest. Thus, student workers who have experienced discrimination or harassment would have the option of seeking help through the grievance procedure, the University’s internal offices, or both, based on their individual needs and goals. This is especially important for students who experience discrimination based on their race or disability status, who cannot use the Title IX process available for gender-based claims.

Third-party grievance procedures are standard parts of a union contract, and they help insulate student workers like us from arbitrary or biased decisions by our employers about pay, discipline, and remedying discrimination at work. But in contract negotiations with our Harvard Graduate Students Union-

UAW, the University administration is insisting that harassment and discrimination based on race, gender, disability or other protected categories should be carved out of the protections in the contract.

Students would be able to use a fair, neutral grievance procedure for all other workplace contract violations — but people of color, women, BGLTQ people, immigrants, and disabled students who are discriminated against would have to rely on the University’s internal “dispute resolution” processes.

Under the University’s internal processes, we believe a Harvard administrator always has the final say — and Harvard protects itself, not students or workers.

Harvard has fought our student union every step of the way, from illegally excluding over 500 student workers from the voter rolls in our first election, to using our tuition money to hire expensive union-busting law firms, to blasting our mailboxes with anti-union emails and mailings.

When will we have real redress to protect us from the pervasive harassment, abuse, and discrimination that happens here at Harvard?

Now the University is dragging its feet on bargaining and fighting to deny us a fair, neutral grievance procedure for harassment and discrimination. Under no circumstances should student workers agree to a contract in which we cannot vindicate our rights not to be harassed or discriminated against at work.

The last we heard, Dominguez retained his faculty emeritus privileges, and the internal “investigation” into the allegations against him has no clear end date. We’re not willing to wait any longer. Every day our union doesn’t have a contract with a fair and neutral grievance procedure is another day we don’t have adequate protections against harassment and discrimination.

Harvard, time’s up.

—A. Vail Kohnert-Yount is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Sejal S. Singh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Ivy Z. Yan ’15 is a second-year student at Harvard Law School.

Anwar Omeish THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS

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f you took Social Studies 10: Introduction to Social Theory, you, like me, may have been told that Durkheim’s use of “primitive” was simply an “objective” descriptor of aboriginal religion. You may have questioned Jefferson’s slavery, only to be told that although these failings were regrettable, they should not “impede” scholarly engagement.

Such qualms were likely deemed tragic yet forgone facts, immaterial to theoretical production.

Western modernity’s underside was presumably extraneous to Tocqueville and Locke, germane only for Fanon or Chakrabarty.

Questions of global significance were probably dismissed in favor of the West’s grand narrative of self-constitution, its great myth that its so-called progress was the product of truth-discerning rationality rather than historically-specific (and undeniably limited) approaches to the world.

In truth, these dismissals belie complicated realities: Kant’s racial hierarchies would guide race science — and fuel Euro-American capitalism — for centuries. Locke emphasized the extent of his religious tolerance by including even “Mahometans.” Tocqueville, meanwhile, championed brutal French colonization of Algeria. Rather than seeing these truths as they are — consequence and concomitant of theory — we push them aside, failing to acknowledge the assumptions and limitations of our own intellectual tradition.

This is not to argue that we discard our tradition, nor to indict it wholesale. But it is to say that Western self-definition has never been solitary, never separable from centuries of global south exploitation casually dismissed in our classrooms.

Only by recognizing these linkages as fundamental can we understand the Western tradition as it is — limited and historically-mediated — and appreciate it as only one of many ways of interpreting the world.

Only then can we destabilize our claims to universality, weaken the theoretical and political monopoly we self-impose on a world repeatedly signaling its insufficiency.

But we continually fail to do so at Harvard and beyond, instead divorcing social theory from impetus and impact. Moten and Harvey describe this failure as “negligence” endemic to academic professionalization in the modern university.

In becoming modern scholars, they argue, we are trained into “negligence that disavows the possibility of a thought of an outside.” We accept our bounded fields, our limited language, and it alienates us, destroys the sociality essential to transformative work. Rather than theorizing “a movement against the possibility of a country,” for example, we find ourselves theorizing “just a people’s history of the same country.” Put simply, we run in different directions within a given circle, but our negligence keeps the circle itself intact — presuppositions, limits, and all.

In attempts to diversify and “decolonize,” Social Studies — like academia broadly— has failed to leave this circle, or even identify its existence.

Responding to complaints about Western-centrism, we parade faculty of color, critical or not, as excuses to avoid instituting programs that reveal the circle’s existence.

To really try, we add theorists of color to syllabi and sit back, as though slavery is Jacobs’ story and not Jefferson’s, or as if Muslim women’s agential rationality in Mahmood isn’t tied to a Weberian capitalism rational precisely in its opposition to the Orient. But just as it has failed in the White House and on Wall Street, this politics of representation will not solve our inability to understand global south histories as fundamental rather than contingent to the Western tradition.

It will not allow us to escape our circles of negligence, to disrupt our presuppositions and find courage to build anew.

Recognizing this, some have argued for deeper engagement with non-Western traditions in hopes that comparison may unveil our own negligences.

They are certainly not wrong; in my own work, engagement across traditions has been incomparably generative. But the truth is that if we hope to learn from others, we must first cultivate an understanding of our own limits. Otherwise, we risk sampling writers from non-Western traditions as nothing more than interesting but antiquated curios (or, as this year’s SS10a lecturer said of Douglass, as a “break” from theory).

If we want to create generative, transgressive scholarship that pushes the bounds of the possible and breaks us out of theoretical and political quagmires — scholarship worthy of the universities we want to inhabit — we must identify our negligences and challenge them. And we must do so not only as academic endeavor but also as expression of our “concern for sociality,” as recognition of interlinked histories and responsibilities we collectively bear.

Jefferson is not disconnected from slavery, nor is Hegel from African colonization. Algeria continues to suffer from Tocqueville’s imperatives, just as the Muslim world does from Lockean characterizations. Our world is dying of catastrophes we ourselves have sown, and our self-satisfied asociality — from classroom to public square — can no longer sustain us.

To recognize this, to recognize limitations and consequences of our modes of thought and to consider what it may mean to learn from those of others — this must be our scholarly project.

To do otherwise is at best deluded and at worst complicit, and, regardless, produces irresponsible scholarship that fails to give us insight into our past and our present while also keeping us from our possible futures.

—Anwar Omeish ’19 is a Social Studies Concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays.

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Men’s Swimming and Diving Ivy League Championships 11 a.m.

Men’s Basketball v. Princeton 7 p.m.

Women’s Water Polo v. No. 11 UC Davis 9:15 a.m.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Harvard Defends Ivy Title, Setting Several Records

By WILLIAM CONNAUGHTON CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard Women’s Swimming and Diving defended their Ivy League title and took home records in the process. Over the weekend the Harvard Swimming and Diving team captured the lead early and never looked back, remaining in front from the first day to the fourth.

After a successful season in which Harvard Women’s Swimming and Diving went 7-2 overall and 7-1 within the Ivy League, last week’s Ivy League Championship was the perfect proving grounds for a talented Crimson team. Harvard suffered their only conference loss earlier this year against Yale (70) in a dual meet and has been hungry to have another shot.

This time around, the Crimson secured the win, scoring 1,500 points to beat out second place Yale with 1,390.50.

The Harvard women got their shot this weekend and ran with it. HWSD swam their best in the most important meet of the season, tallying up points and records along the way. Senior tri-captain Valerie Yoshimura commented on the importance of team chemistry and cohesion in a sport many consider to be mainly individual: “Swimming and Diving are largely considered individual sports. However, the women of HWSD approach challenges collaboratively, hold each other accountable in practice, and support one another outside of the pool,” Yoshimura said. “The cohesion and love of this team enables us to overcome obstacles, compete with heart, and rise to incredible heights.’

These strong words embody how the Crimson team has worked throughout the season, capturing the highest prize in

the process. The results speak for themselves. Within the incredible team accomplishments were many season bests and school records.

Day one of the Championship saw the team put together some of their most impressive individual efforts of the season.

In the very first race of the day, Harvard set the tone be with Junior Mei Lynn Colby, sophomore Ingrid Wall, senior Brittany Usinger, and sophomore Kennidy Quist breaking the previous school record of 1:39.48, set in 2013 with a time of 1:39.34 in the 200 medley relay. This performance was not enough to win the race, but, beating the previous season’s best by three seconds was a good representation of what was to come.

“I am so proud of my team for winning Ivies for the second year in a row. It has been such an honor to be a part of the Ivy team for two years now.

The 50 breaststroke is my specialty which is why I am always psyched to swim it on the 200 medley relay. This really was the first event of the meet, so it was awesome to start off on such a high note. I was so happy to contribute to the team and beat a historic school record,” commented sophomore Ingrid Wall on the opportunity to compete in the championship and beat a school record. “The team set our goals high and we performed very well throughout the whole meet.”

Later on in day one, the four-women team of junior Miki Dahlke, freshmen Samantha Shelton and Helena Moreno, and senior Sonia Wang defended their 800 free relay title from last year’s championship with a blistering time of 7:06.98, beating their season’s best by three seconds as well. This performance only trailed one race from last year, coming in second

all time for the Crimson. Dahlke herself broke the school record in the first 200 of the relay with a time of 1:44.26, edging out her own previous record of 1:45.00 she set in 2018.

Day two saw more of the same for Harvard. Dahlke continued her dominant showing by winning the 500 freestyle with a pool and school record of 4:40.26. Helena Moreno finished third in the same race posting a quality time. Samantha Shelton turned in a personal best performance in the 200 medley with a time of 1:58.45, ranking third all time in the program and extending the Crimson streak of winning the event for five years in a row.

Fellow Harvard swimmer Sonia Wang placed second in the 200 medley, giving Harvard the top two spots in the event.

Mei Lynn Colby continued her strong performance by placing second in the 50 yard freestyle, breaking her PR with a time 22.52, and ranking second all time in Crimson history and qualifying for an NCAA B Standard.

Harvard also had three divers finish among the top six on the one meter board, with Senior Mikaela Thompson, Freshman Morgane Herculano, and senior Katie Russ finishing back to back to back in fourth, fifth, and sixth.

By the time the dust had cleared on day two, the Harvard women were in the lead with 526.50 points, 30 points clear of second place Yale who had been the only Ivy League team to defeat the Crimson in the regular season.

The last two days of the championship were the coming out party for the team. Dahlke won another race in the 100 butterfly. Shelton tasted victory again in the 200 freestyle, good for second best all time and pro-

4-DAY LEADERSThe Harvard women’s swimming & diving went wire-to-wire to win the Ivy championships.

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ceeded to win again in the 200 backstroke, setting the Harvard and Ivy League Championship record with a time of 1:54.01.

Dahlke, Colby, and Quist placed second, third, and fourth in the 100 freestyle with Dahlke breaking the school record.

While first year Marcella Ruppert-Gomez ranked second all time for the Crimson with her effort in the 1,600 freestyle.

Harvard ended the night with their first victory in the 400 freestyle relay since 2008 with Colby, Shelton, Quist and Dahlke setting a pool and school record with a time of 3:15.47, just missing the qualifications for the NCAA A-Standard in the event. This final event was a fitting conclusion to the weekend, as the Crimson team, crushed school records on their way to

incredible team achievement.

The Women’s Swimming and Diving team captured back to back titles for the first time since 1991-1992 proving the amount of hard work and effort this team put in throughout the year. Yoshimura echoed a strong team sentiment that proves the value of hardwork and team chemistry towards a successful season.

“It has been an incredible season,” said Yoshimura. “[we] have worked tremendously hard this entire year. Each athlete’s consistency and dedication to the sport and to each other enabled us to win the Ivy League Championship. Every single women on this team, whether she competed in the meet or not, played a critical role in our victory.”

To wrap up the individual awards, first-year Samantha Shelton shared the Ivy League High Point Award after winning three events, and senior tri-captain Mikaela Thompson won the Ivy League’s Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver award for her consistent performance over her career at Harvard.

Looking forward, the Harvard Women’s Swimming and Diving will be competing again in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships in Annapolis Maryland starting March 10.

They will hope to carry the incredible momentum from this record-breaking performance forward throughout the final stretch of their season. william.connaughton@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Harvard Ties Its Final Two Regular Season Games

By WILLIAM BOGGS and CONNOR J. WAGAMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

­ or the first time since the 2005F 06 season, Harvard tied both games in a single weekend, staging a comeback against Brown to equalize the Bears 3-3 and holding Yale to a 2-2 draw. The pair of ties more than a decade ago also came in February against Yale and Brown. Saturday’s Yale game marked the third consecutive game - and fourth time in the last five - that the Crimson has taken to overtime.

HARVARD 2, YALE 2 (OT)

After coming off a tie at Brown on Friday, Harvard traveled to New Haven to face age-old rival Yale. To open the second period, an offensive flurry saw the Crimson net one and the Bulldogs two, locking the score at two. 39:02 would elapse from the

second Yale goal until the end of the overtime period, but neither team would find the back of the net again as the scoreline settled with a 2-2 draw.

Having jumped out to a 5-0 against the Bulldogs the last time the two teams met, Harvard would look to start Saturday’s contest with the same intensity. The Crimson did, in fact, score first. Receiving a D-to-D pass from freshman defender Kyra Willoughby, senior defender Kaitlin Tse rifled a shot along the ice and towards the net front. On the puck’s path to the net, sophomore forward Becca Gilmore managed to deflect it past Yale senior goalie Kyra O’Brien.

Although the rest of the first did not see any more scoring, the first six minutes of the second featured 75% of the tallies on the day. Evening the game at one apiece, Bulldog junior de-

fender Saroya Tinker converted off of passes from senior defender Julia Yetman and junior forward Sophie Veronneau.

Taking its final lead of the day, Harvard would strike again 4:36 into the middle frame.

From the point, sophomore defender Emma Buckles launched the puck wide and off the end boards, but co-captain and forward Lexie Laing would opportunistically seize the loose puck for a centering pass to junior forward Kat Hughes, who made no mistake on the finish.

The Harvard lead, however, would only last for 1:22 as Yale would knot the game at two with Bulldog freshman defender Emma Seitz beating the Crimson freshman goalie Lindsay Reed. Little did the two teams know that scoring would be done for the day.

A large reason that the scoring subsided was indeed Reed,

A CHALLENGE AHEAD The Crimson will travel to upstate New York this weekend to face Colgate in the ECAC playoffs. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

who turned away 37 of 39 shots on goal. Harvard only pieced together 16 shots on the frame, finding itself in a shot deficit in another game this year. Nonetheless, the offensive efficiency of scoring twice on just 16 shots while also staying penalty-free for the game could be building blocks for Harvard as it looks forward to its playoff matchup against the Colgate Raiders next weekend.

“We really wanted to come out with two wins as opposed to two ties, but going into playoffs, I think it was kind of a good reality check, and it shed some light on some things that we can really work on this week,” Hughes said. “Even though it’s unfortunate we didn’t come out with two wins, we learned a lot this weekend, and I think we’ll be able to translate against Colgate on Friday.”

HARVARD 3, BROWN 3 (OT)

After shutting down Brown 4-0 earlier in the month, the Crimson trekked to Providence for its penultimate match of the season. The Bears would prove hungrier for points at home.

A flurry of action in the third defined what would be an overtime tie. Entering the final frame of regulation trailing 2-1 and coming off a period that saw Brown outshoot Harvard by 123, the Crimson needed a rapid response to emerge with points and secure a solid ECAC standing to enter the playoffs.

Twenty-two seconds into the third, Hughes delivered. Collecting a pass at the right side of the crease from Laing, Hughes went for the net, squeaking it by the goalie.

“Frustration is never the best thing, but I think we were a little disappointed with how we had been playing and how the game was going,” Hughes said. “After

the second period, in the locker room when we were all talking, everybody made a conscious effort to do their best individually to turn it around, and as a team we were able to do so because of that.”

Less than a minute later, the Crimson struck again. After dropping the post-goal faceoff, Harvard regained control of the puck. Senior forward Bradley Fusco dished a puck to co-captain Kate Hallett, who put another in for the Crimson to give Harvard a brief 3-2 lead.

Then, for the third time in 1:56 of play, another goal - this time from the Bears. Senior forward Abby Niewchas captured her own rebound, bopping it in for a score to knot the game at three, the score at which it would remain.

The final five of regulation saw four power plays - another tie with two apiece - but no scoring, as both team’s penalty kill units went perfect on the night. For the second time in two games, the Crimson headed to overtime.

“We always talk about a defense-first mentality in that type of situation,” Hughes said.

“Obviously, when the opportunity arises, we want to score and get the win, but it’s really important that our defense doesn’t pitch on the forecheck, and we always have a person high in the offensive zone.”

Harvard’s defense-oriented strategy worked, and the Crimson emerged with a point to continue with forward progress toward the playoffs.

The game had opened with a level of energy upstaged only by the third period’s start. After evenly-matched play for the first few minutes of the game, Harvard found Brown ice. Laing went to the faceoff circle and as has been her modus operandi this season - won, sending the

puck straight back to freshman defender Kyra Willoughby.

Crimson clustered around the crease, perfectly positioned to capture a rebound.

There was no rebound necessary. A wicked Willoughby wrist-shot from the point zipped along the ice, through a lunging goalie, and into the back of the net for the freshman’s first collegiate goal.

Harvard dominated the remainder of the period, outshooting the Bears 13-6. Then, with 15 seconds left before heading to the locker room, a shot by Brown sophomore Kaitijane Blumberg bounced off junior goalie Beth Larcom. Junior Sena Hanson collected the puck and tapped it past with 12.7 seconds left on the clock.

The parity would continue.

A diving save by Larcom eight minutes into the second, followed closely by a tumbling stop that nearly sent her into the net, would keep the line even. The Bears would score again to take the lead in the second before the Crimson responded with two of its own to open the third. The Bears tied it up just over a minute later.

One, two, two, one. The mirror image complete, no more goals were needed, and the game finished in a reflection.

Harvard returns to action on March 1 at No. 9/9 Colgate (21-8-5, 15-4-3 ECAC) for the ECAC Quarterfinals at 6 p.m.

This marks the third time in four years that Harvard faces the Raiders in the ECAC Quarterfinals. The best-of-three series continues on March 2 and if necessary - March 3. Harvard dropped both regular season games to Colgate, going down 1-0 in October and 4-2 in January. william.boggs@thecrimson.com connor.wagaman@thecrimson.com