The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 132

The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 132 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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At this year’s edition of The Game, divest wins the day

Women’s basketball tops Hartford at home 53-44

A divestment protest interrupted and delayed The Game

Yale Beats Harvard After Divest Protest Halts Game Yale Makes A Late-Game Comeback, Wins 50-43

Divestment Protesters Storm Field, Delay Game

By CADE PALMER

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

N EW HAVEN, Conn. — In a double-overtime thriller, Yale defeated Harvard in the 136th rendition of The Game, 50-43.

With the victory, the Bulldogs claim a half-share of the Ivy League title, sharing the honor with Dartmouth.

En route to earn the victory, Yale (9-1, 6-1 Ivy) overcame a 19-point deficit, with 17 consecutive points in the fourth quarter alone.

With 1:28 to play, the Bulldogs recovered an onside kick down only seven points, setting up a game-tying drive. Yale quarterback Kurt Rawlings, the division leader in passing efficiency, touchdowns, yardage, and average yards per game, led the Bulldogs to an Ivy League championship on Saturday afternoon.

He threw two passes for 15 and 14 yards to Mason Tipton and Reed Klubnick, respectively, before rushing for 13 himself.

With only 18 seconds to play, the senior found JP Shohfi at the one, who fell into the endzone.

With the PAT from Sam Tuckerman, Yale tied the contest at 36.

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N EW HAVEN, Conn. — The 136th edition of The Game came to a halt Saturday when hundreds of people stormed the field during halftime, calling on Harvard and Yale to divest their endowments from fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt.

Dozens of protesters started running on the field roughly three minutes before halftime ended and unfurled banners calling for divestment. Several hundred spectators jointed the protesters as they staged a sit-in and chanted “Divest.”

The demonstration continued for about half an hour on the field until police officers arrested some protesters — who insisted they would not leave the field — and charged them with disorderly conduct. Protesters continued their chants off the field near an entrance gate to the stadium.

While some protesters stayed in the stands to hold up signs bearing slogans like “Yalies for Climate Justice,” some spectators booed the disruption. At one point, Yale and Harvard administrators including Dean of the College ­

Top: Protesters called directly on Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow and Yale University President Peter Salovey with a “Presidents Bacow and Salovey: Our Future Demands Action Now” banner. Bottom Left: Police confront Harvard protester Andrés de Loera-Brust ‘20. Bottom Right: Yale quarterback Kurt Rawlings led the team to victory Sunday afternoon. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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No Contract for Grad Union, Rename Ext. School Harvard Strike To Start in A Week Degree, Dean Says to Create

By JAMIE S. BIKALES and RUOQI ZHANG

By LUCY LIU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

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University President Lawrence S. Bacow works out of Massachusetts Hall, a building in Harvard Yard. JOSHUA A. NG—CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Harvard and its graduate students union could not reach agreements on compensation, health benefits, and grievance procedures during a bargaining session Friday, with just over a week remaining before the union plans to strike if no agreement is reached.

Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers brought a new compensation proposal to the table, while Harvard presented revised versions of its compensation and health benefits proposals. Neither side offered changes to their sexual harassment and discrimination grievance procedure proposal. The two

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Dean of the Division of Continuing Education Huntington D. Lambert said in an interview Friday that he agrees with student complaints that degrees awarded by the Harvard Extension School should be rephrased to more accurately reflect students’ programs of study.

Currently, all degrees conferred at the school are said to be in “Extension Studies” rather than a student’s specific concentration. The Extension School grants Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies and Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degrees.

Lambert said that these degree names are inaccurate and that he has previously spoken to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest gov­

erning body, about the issue. He said, however, that his efforts have thus far been unsuccessful. Lambert, who announced earlier this semester his plans to retire at the end of the calendar year, called on his successor to continue calling for this change.

“I told the Corporation that I believe our degree names are academically wrong, and that’s the metric I look at. A different name might market better, but that’s not really a factor for Harvard. The issue is, are the degree names academically right?”

Lambert said.

“I would like to — and have supported all our efforts unsuccessfully — to make the degree names academically correct.

And I hope whoever follows me succeeds in getting that done,” he added.

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Seven Seniors Awarded Rhodes Scholarship

By JAMIE S. BIKALES CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Seven members of Harvard’s Class of 2020 have won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the American and Canadian secretaries of the Rhodes Trust announced Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

The seven Harvard students — five Americans and two Canadians — will join 100 Rhodes scholars from across the world to begin their studies at Oxford in October 2020.

Harvard College boasted the most American Rhodes recipients of any university, and tied with University of Calgary for the most Canadian recipients.

369 Harvard students have now been named American Rhodes Scholars since the award was ­

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established in 1902. This year, College students made up five of the 32 American winners and two of the 11 Canadian winners.

Though the Canadian Rhodes Trust has yet to publicly report this year’s winners, Canadian Rhodes Trust Secretary Richard Pan confirmed that Sai Shanthanand S. Rajagopal ’20 and Constance M. Bourguignon ’20 are among those selected.

American Secretary Elliot F. Gerson called the scholarship “arguably the most famous academic award available to American college graduates” in a press release.

Lauren D. Spohn ’20 — one of the American recipients — said Oxford has long captured her imagination because of its

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Neil B. Band ‘20 was one of five Harvard seniors selected as a 2020 American Rhodes scholar on Saturday.

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Boston Nonprofit

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and LUCY LIU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A group of academic, biotech, biopharma, and healthcare leaders at Harvard and across Massachusetts plan to create a new center for innovation and manufacturing next-generation medicines, according to a Monday press release.

The center, which is estimated to cost $50 million dollars, will be an independent non-profit located in the Greater Boston area. The board of directors of the new center includes leaders from Harvard, MIT, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Multiple area medical institutes — including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital — will also contribute, as will biotech company MilliporeSigma and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in the press release that the collaboration embodies world-class expertise in multiple disciplines.

“We are privileged to be part of this collaborative initiative,” he said. “It will advance scientific discovery, reaffirm the region’s global leadership in the life sciences, and bring forward life-saving and life-changing therapies that will make a difference for people around the world.”

The center’s work will focus on cell manipulation, gene ­

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For Lunch Smoked Turkey Panini Steak & Guinness Stew Spicy Potato Pierogies

For Dinner Chicken Francais Fried Calamari RI Style Farfalle Pasta

Today’s Events American Factory: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion Klarman Hall, 1:25-4 p.m.

in The Real World Navy Secretary Forced to Resign

Head over to the Harvard Business School for a screening of the 2019 documentary “American Factory.”

Directors Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar will host a discussion following the screening.

This Sunday, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was fired after it was discovered that he was trying to negotiate a deal with the White House to make a decision on the case of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher without President Donald Trump’s interference.

Public Security and the Fate of Brazil’s Democracy CGIS South S030, 12 p.m.

Show off your pipes and audition for the Harvard University Choir in the Choir Room of Memorial Church.

You can sing anything from Happy Birthday to your favorite solo work, so anybody can give auditions a whirl. (the Faculty Dining Room) if you’re interested.

For Colored Girls Screening Sever 107, 7 p.m.

In the second round of their movie series, Indigo Peer Counseling Group will be hosting a screening of “For Colored Girls.” A movie, quality snacks, and discussion surrounding mental health? What more could you ask for?

Hong Kong Voters Support Pro-Democracy Parties

Rain in Cambridge on Sunday washed away stray fall leaves in Harvard Yard. JOSHUA A. NG—CONTRIBUTING photographer

Daily Briefing In a double-overtime thriller, Yale defeated Harvard in the 136th rendition of The Game, 50-43. En route to their victory, Yale (9-1, 6-1 Ivy) overcame a 19-point deficit, with 17 consecutive points in the fourth quarter alone. Play came to a halt, however, when hundreds of protesters and spectators streamed onto the field during halftime to call on Harvard and Yale to divest their endowments from the fossil fuel industry and Puerto Rican debt.

District council elections were held in Hong Kong this past Sunday, resulting in major support for pro-democracy candidates and the removal of many pro-government figures. After six months of protests, the election had a record-breaking turnout and represents a clear victory for supporters of democracy in Hong Kong.

Around the Ivies COLUMBIA Of all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has received the highest total amount of donations from Columbia University affiliates, the Columbia Spectator reported Saturday. Though Booker raised the most money from Columbia affiliates — a term that encompasses students, professors, staff, and administrators — Senator Bernie Sanders (DVt.) saw the most individual donations, totaling 275 affiliates. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) fell close behind him at 179 affiliate donations.

CORNELL

Climate Justice Cornell filed a complaint to New York Attorney General Letitia James last Friday, calling for an investigation into Cornell University’s continued investment in fossil fuels, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The complaint comes seven years after students began encouraging Cornell’s Board of Trustees to divest from fossil fuels. The 42 signatories include several undergraduate students, one graduate student, and two faculty members.

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More than 200 Yale undergraduates have taken a pledge in honor of Climate Action Month, promising to take steps to reduce their own individual impact on the environment, according to the Yale Daily News. Earlier this month, the Yale College Council, Yale Student Environmental Coalition, and the Yale Office of Sustainability released the pledge to inspire students to live more sustainable lifestyles. The pledge is the first in a monthly series of pledges from the environmental coalition featuring new commitments onto which students can sign.

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UC to Provide Laundry No Contract for Grad Union, Detergent, Postal Stamps Strike Date in Two Weeks uNION From Page 1

By Kevin R. Chen

Crimson Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Council voted to launch pilot programs to provide free laundry detergent and postage stamps to students in the spring semester.

The UC will place 115 bottles of laundry detergent in the Stoughton Hall laundry room — which services five freshman dorms — over the course of the spring semester, according to the Council’s legislation. Representatives said they plan to track usage of the free laundry detergent and will use the data to gauge the potential for future expansion of the program.

Adams House Representative Alexa C. Jordan ’22; Quincy House Representative Phiroze K. Parasnis ’21; Crimson Yard Representative Janna E. Ramadan ’23; and Ivy Yard Representatives David Y. Zhang ’23, Pallas Chou ’23, and Chloe E. V. Koulefianou ’23 co-sponsored the legislation.

The UC received the bottles of ECOS laundry detergent from their manufacturer — Earth Friendly Products — for free, according to Ramadan.

Parasnis said the Council decided to launch the program in the Stoughton laundry room because of its central location on ­

campus.

The UC also voted to allocate $400 to provide postage stamps to students starting in the spring. Undergraduates will be able to receive free stamps at the Harvard Yard Mail Center in the Science Center and some of the upperclassman House mail centers. Dunster House Representative Noah Harris ’22, who sponsored the legislation, said he estimates the funding will cover the costs of roughly 700 stamps and last several semesters.

Harris said he sponsored the legislation because sending mail is important for many activities, and stamps are not currently available at Harvard mail centers. “Our country relies on stamps and the mailing of paper mail for the electoral as well as a lot of financial processes,” Harris said.

The UC also voted in favor of another bill sponsored by Harris, which prohibits students groups from spending UC funding on plastic foodware, including single-use plastic cutlery, cups, and plates.

Harris, who serves as chair of the UC’s finance committee, said the committee noticed that many student groups use funding to purchase plastic foodware, even though there are bio-

degradable alternatives available at a comparable price.

“We are doing this to be environmentally friendly and be the best possible stewards of this money that the University gives us,” Harris said.

The UC receives its money from the student activities fee that undergraduates pay annually. During the 2018-2019 academic year, the fee increased from $75 to $200, prompting more students to opt out.

Eliot House Representative Rukmini “Mini” Ganesh ’22 said that though she originally wrote the legislation, she now opposes it because she does not think the Council should tell students how to spend the funding.

“I don’t think that telling people not to buy plastic because we don’t trust them to dispose of it properly is our job,” Ganesh said. “They can make that choice on their own.”

Other representatives, including UC Treasurer Jack M. Swanson ’22, said the council’s finance committee is expressly charged with the task of deciding how to allocate student funding. Swanson noted that the committee’s guidelines prohibit the funding of alcohol, among other items. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com

committees did agree on one provision — job postings.

Under the agreement, the University would create a central website for open positions included in the bargaining unit.

The postings would include the pay rate, expected work schedule, and disclose that the position is covered by HGSU’s contract.

The next bargaining session is scheduled for Tuesday and is the last scheduled bargaining session before the union’s Dec. 3 strike deadline. HGSU has vowed to initiate a strike if a contract is not reached by then.

The union indicated it would strike indefinitely in a tweet last Wednesday. In the meantime, the union has called for scheduling additional bargaining dates.

“We’re ready to bargain any time between now and December 3. It’s up to them to join us,” wrote union bargaining committee member Justin Bloesch in an email update to HGSU members.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on whether University negotiators would schedule additional bargaining sessions.

On Friday, HGSU also offered counterproposals on union security and tuition and fees, ac-

cording to Bloesch. The union had not updated their proposals on their website as of Sunday evening.

Harvard’s updated compensation proposal — posted to a website devoted to union negotiations — clarified pay rates for student teaching fellows, but did not commit to increased pay compared to previous versions.

The University also raised its pool funds supporting health insurance premiums, dental health plan, and child care by $25,000 each.

Ahead of the meeting, bargaining committee member Cole M. Meisenhelder wrote that others planned to attend to “pressure the administration to agree to a fair contract” in an email update to members last Wednesday.

Swain wrote in an emailed statement that roughly 30 union members attended the session Friday. The bargaining committee has 10 members.

“The University and HGSU continue to engage on the key issues that are the focus of these negotiations and we look forward to continued progress,” Swain wrote.

HGSU did not respond to a request for comment.

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bargaining session, HGSU members also delivered letters from politicians supporting their cause to University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s office.

Among the letters was one from all 11 members of Massachusetts’ Democratic congressional delegation including Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), as well as United States Representatives Ayanna S. Pressley (D-Mass.), Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Mass.), and Seth W. Moulton ’01 (D-Mass.).

“We believe this strike would be detrimental to students, workers, and community members and we therefore urge you to engage in good faith effort to reach a fair agreement before the strike deadline,” they wrote.

“Your decision to bargain has set Harvard apart from many other institutions of higher education, and we ask that you continue to set the bar by negotiating a first contract that will ensure fair treatment and strong workplace protections for workers, as well as uninterrupted education for your students.”

Bacow plans to respond to the letter, according to Swain. james.bikales@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

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Divinity School Seeks to Improve Financial Aid

By Matteo n. wong Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard Divinity School announced earlier this fall that, in an effort to improve financial support for low-income students, all donations to the Divinity School Fund in fiscal year 2020 will go toward strengthening the school’s financial aid program.

Additionally, the Divinity School restructured its financial aid program beginning this academic year to cover more of students’ tuition overall, said Timothy Whelsky, who serves as the Divinity School’s associate dean for Student Enrollment and Services.

The minimum amount of need-based financial aid provided to students was increased from 50 to 75 percent of tuition.

To increase the amount of need-based aid available, the Divinity School has decided to decrease the amount of merit-based scholarships it offers annually.

“We’re offering more needbased packages, proportionally to merit packages, than there were previously,” Whelsky said.

Whereas merit-based aid used to make up approximate­

ly 20 percent of scholarships, it now makes up closer to 10 percent.

The revamped financial aid program has also allowed the Divinity School to provide living stipends to students on need-based financial aid.

Previously stipends were only provided in the merit-based program, Whelsky said.

The decision to restructure financial aid packages and to use all donations to improve the Divinity School’s financial aid program comes after more than two years of research and discussions.

“We had a town hall with students two years ago, where we discussed financial need amongst students,” Whelsky explained.

“I think we got affirmation that we needed to take a new look at our programs and modernize them.”

At the town hall, Divinity School students — roughly 90 percent of whom receive some sort of scholarship — shared concerns about living costs and tuition.

Living expenses are especially high in and near Cambridge.

The Divinity School estimates total living costs for the 2019-2020 academic year to be $24,146.

The Divinity School’s own analysis, Whelsky said, found that costs of living and attendance were increasing, and as a result the school decided to place more emphasis on needbased financial aid.

Whelsky added that he believes the Divinity School is distinct from its peers in offering both merit- and need-based scholarships, but has had to grapple with how to distribute the available funds between the two.

“We have a merit-based program because other schools have merit-based programs,” Whelsky said.

“And we have a need-based program because we need to [in order] to meet the needs of our students.”

Whelsky said he hopes the restructuring will help decrease students’ reliance on federal loans.

“One of the hopes was that we would reduce the debt burden of some of our most vulnerable students,” he said. matteo.wong@thecrimson.com

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Seven Seniors Awarded Rhodes Scholarship history.

“I grew up an intense fan of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and so Oxford is always sort of like existed in my imagination as like a magical home of the inklings,” Spohn said. “Oxford just seems like an amazing place to kind of take the next step.”

Spohn, an English concentrator with a secondary in History, said she plans to pursue a master’s in 19th century literature and another master’s in intellectual history at Oxford.

“These two years I’m really seeing as a chance to explore, and to just kind of dive in and see if academia is something that I can see myself going into,” she said.

American Rhodes Scholar Kristine E. Guillaume ’20 — who currently serves as President of The Crimson — said she also hopes studying in England will help her “refine” her research interests for an eventual career in academia.

“Studying at Oxford will allow me both a personal and professional space to sort of grow as an academic and grow as a writer, and as a storyteller,” Guillaume said.

Several of the recipients said they hope to expand upon the research they have pursued at Harvard across the Atlantic.

Rajagopal — a Biomedical Engineering and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies joint concentrator — said he was conducting interviews with transgender people in South India for this thesis when he realized he wanted to explore the topic further.

“I realized it was kind of outside the scope of my thesis to do an archival research project, where I would look more at the history of trans medicine and trans folks in South India and other parts of the Commonwealth,” Rajagopal said.

He said access to archives in London and instruction at Oxford will allow him to explore the topic further as he pursues a D.Phil. there, the British equivalent of a Ph.D. American recipient Luke G. Melas-Kyriazi ’20, a Mathematics and Computer Science joint concentrator, said he plans to continue his machine learning research at Oxford.

“Going to Oxford and doing machine learning research, they

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have an incredibly strong group that I’m, you know, I feel really lucky to be joining,” Melas-Kyriazi said.

Neil B. Band ’20 — another American Rhodes scholar — said he hopes his education at Oxford will help him solve the “problem of drug discovery.” A Computer Science concentrator with a secondary in Economics, Band hopes to develop algorithms and virtual representations of molecules that will speed up the process of developing medicines.

Several of the recipients said they appreciate the support of friends, family, and fellowships tutors in their Houses.

“I really want to stress that like this takes a sea of people and that I am so, so fortunate to have been so well-supported,” recipient Olivia J. McGinnis ’20 said.

“Being in my house and the dining hall workers and everybody who’s in there, the staff that like, keep our dorms, like clean and safe and warm and like give me the time to focus on my academics, like everybody is a part of this.” james.bikales@thecrimson.com

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Divestment Protesters Storm Field, Delay The Game Rakesh Khurana walked onto the field to speak to protesters.

Officials made announcements throughout the protest calling on the activists to return to the stands out of respect for players.

Dozens of officers from the Yale and New Haven police departments also took to the field to ask protesters to leave. After some protesters gathered outside the stadium, they continued to chant, “Disclose, divest, or this will be our death.”

The protest delayed The Game, which Yale eventually won 50-43, by more than half an hour. Forty-two protesters were arrested, according to Yale spokesperson Karen N. Peart.

Officers from the Yale and New Haven Police Departments declined to comment on the scene.

Yale sophomore Sam A. Gallen, who was not detained, said he participated in the protest because he is angered by Yale’s investment in Puerto Rican debt and fossil fuels.

“I was most motivated by essentially anger that Yale — which is a place that I call home — is still invested in Puerto Rican debt and fossil fuels, which is antithetical to what I believe in,” Gallen said. “And that if

they were to ever divest, we’d have to do something to motivate that such as walking onto the field.”

Divest Harvard, one of the divestment groups who planned the protest, declined to comment on the sit-in.

Peart wrote in an emailed statement that though Yale supports the right to free expression, they do not allow disruption of university events.

“We are grateful to the staff members and police officers who ensured the peaceful departure of students from the field,” she wrote. “The exercise of free expression on campus is subject to general conditions, and we do not allow disruption of university events.”

Ivy League spokesperson Matthew J. Planto wrote in an emailed statement that the conference also supports the right to demonstrate but that they found it “regrettable” that the protest took place during The Game.

“It is regrettable that the orchestrated protest came during a time when fellow students were participating in a collegiate career defining contest and an annual tradition when thousands gather from around the world to enjoy and celebrate

the storied traditions of both football programs and universities,” Planto wrote.

Fossil Free Yale, a co-organizer of the protest, announced in a tweet Saturday that they are raising money through GoFundMe for legal fees for arrested protestors. They currently have a set goal of $20,000.

According to their page, many activists were charged with disorderly conduct, the maximum fine for which is $500. They wrote that they plan to use the money raised to help pay for Harvard students to attend their court dates in New Haven.

“We are raising money to pay for our legal representation, to pay any fines we receive, and to pay for the costs of organizing the action,” Fossil Free Yale wrote on their GoFundMe page.

“Many of the amazing activists who were arrested rely on financial aid for tuition, and we do not wish for any student to suffer financial repercussions for participating in direct action against climate injustice.”

Multiple 2020 Presidential Democratic candidates took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to support the protesters.

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sor emerita Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted that climate change is an “existential threat” demanding more action.

“I support the students, organizers, and activists demanding accountability on climate action and more at #HarvardYale,” Warren wrote.

“Climate change is an existential threat, and we must take bold action to fight this crisis.”

United States Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also tweeted that he stands with the students in their “fight” for climate justice.

“When people come together to stand up for justice, we win,” Sanders wrote. “Congratulations to the young people demanding a sustainable future for our planet. We are with you in this fight.”

Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro wrote on Twitter that he is impressed by the students’ efforts to hold their universities to a high standard.

“From the March for Our Lives, to worldwide Climate Strikes, students and young people are leading the charge to protect their futures,” Castro wrote. “I’m inspired by their efforts to hold their universities to

a higher standard.”

Several alumni at The Game said they are supportive of divestment from fossil fuels.

“As an alum, I think climate change is huge,” attendee Claudio L. Phillips said. “I’m so excited about the young people that are finally taking the point of this.”

He said that he did not mind the delay in The Game.

“I mean there’s so many more important things than The Game,” he said. “It’s about global climate change.”

The protest comes after months of divestment activism at both universities. Students, faculty, and alumni have repeatedly called on Harvard to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry, though administrators have refused to do so stating that the University does not use its endowment for political purposes.

Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote in an emailed statement that the University does not believe divestment is the best way to confront the “global challenge” of climate change.

“While we agree on the urgency of this global challenge, we respectfully disagree with divestment activists on the

means by which a university should confront it,” Dane wrote.

“Universities like Harvard have a crucial role to play in tackling climate change and Harvard is fully committed to leadership in this area through research, education, community engagement, dramatically reducing its own carbon footprint, and using our campus as a test bed for piloting and proving solutions.”

Similarly, at Yale, divestment activists have staged multiple protests to compel the university to take action.

Last year, students staged a five-hour sit-in at the Yale Investments Office to urge the university to cancel its holdings in Puerto Rico’s debt and to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

Yale Police Department officers arrested 48 people at the sit-in.

Fossil Free Yale press liaison Josephine Steuer Ingall said Saturday that the group is committed to continuing its activism.

“We’re really committed to making this a long term action strategy,” Ingall said. “There’s more stuff in the works.” michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com

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Degree Name Inaccurate, Harvard, MIT to Create Center Per Extension School Dean for Innovation in Medicine University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on calls for the degree name change.

Extension School students have shared dissatisfaction with the degree names for years, protesting for a change outside University Hall in 2016. Many have claimed that “Extension Studies” does not reflect their academic work.

“It doesn’t sound like anything that makes sense,” said Michael A. Rosero, a former board member of the Harvard Extension Student Association.

“What are you ‘extending’?”

Lambert echoed Rosero’s issue with the degree name “There is no such thing as ‘in Extension Studies’ in an academic definition, unless you’re a land grant school training people for the agricultural extension service,” he said. “We don’t do that.”

Sam D. Carroll, who has taken Extension School courses

and is considering pursuing a degree, said the names diminished the work that students put into completing them. He said that while the degree programs are described as being in specific subjects, those distinctions are not reflected on degrees.

“When you get your diploma after two years of really hard work, including oftentimes being a full time employee somewhere while pursuing your studies, you get a degree that does not say, you know, ‘Master of Arts in Software Engineering, Harvard University’, or even Harvard Extension School,” Carroll said. “It says Master of Arts or ALM in Extension Studies.”

Carroll added, however, that “most people don’t see the actual diploma on your wall,” so he believes there is more freedom in how it’s described to others.

According to the Extension School website, students may list degrees on their resumes as

either “Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Extension School” or “Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Extension Studies, Harvard University”.

But including the term “Extension” at all can negatively affect students’ professional pursuits, Rosero said.

“I do think it leads to more questions than needed on a person’s resume, and it can be harmful,” he said.

Rosero said he knows peers who earned “a side eye” or were otherwise affected by having to pause job interviews and explain what “Extension” means.

Beyond getting the Extension School degree names changed, he said he hopes there will eventually be an overall program name change to help distinguish admitted Extension School degree candidates from students “just taking classes.” lucy.liu@thecrimson.com

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editing, and other therapies that use living cells as treatment, including CAR-T cell therapy — wherein a patient’s own T cells are modified to identify and attack cancer cells — and stem cell therapy.

These technologies have applications in treating a variety of health issues, including type 1 diabetes and neurodegeneration.

The space will include an Innovation Center and a Manufacturing Center, designed to allow research that needs refinement and research ready to be scaled up to be discussed in the same space.

Because biomanufacturing services tend to become backlogged, research and clinical trials requiring custom cells or viral vectors can face delays of up to 18 months.

By housing both research and the production of raw materials in one facility, the center aims to ameliorate the biomanufacturing bottleneck and accel-

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erate the development and introduction of new medications, according to the release.

University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 conceived the idea for the project more than two years ago and has helped guide it along since then, the release states.

We are privileged to be part of this collaborative initiative.

Lawence S. Bacow University President

“The broad question that we were trying to address was, ‘How can we best position our region to be preeminent in the life sciences in the decades to come?’” Garber said in the press release.

“We have a vibrant life sciences community, with some of

the world’s greatest hospitals, universities, and life sciences companies of all kinds. We also have a strong financial sector that helps to spawn and support new companies.”

The Boston area has all of the elements needed to improve production, according to Garber.

“So the elements for rapid progress in the life sciences — particularly in the application of the life sciences to human health — are all here,” he said in the release. “But with such a rapid pace of innovation, it’s easy to fall behind. We wanted to make sure that would not happen here.”

The center will be named in 2020. The team is hoping to complete the next phase of work — finding a location, designing the space, and hiring staff — in 2021 or 2022, according to Harvard spokesperson Kevin Casey. michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com lucy.liu@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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At This Year’s Harvard-Yale, Divest Wins

Meritocracy and the Harvard Admissions Trial

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t this year’s edition of The Game, hundreds of protesters flooded the field during halftime to demand both universities divest from fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt.

The protests began with a small number of demonstrators walking onto the field, but soon hundreds of spectators joined them, causing a game delay of nearly an hour.

We commend our peers that both participated in and helped organize the protest.

At its best, protest challenges the status quo, drawing increased attention to injustice.

Protest, in that sense, is meant to be disruptive. By that metric, this protest was highly effective.

To students who participated in divestment activism for the first time, we encourage you to follow up on this protest with further efforts towards important change on your respective campuses.

We appreciate the planning and investment that Divest Harvard and Fossil Fuel Yale have put into the fossil fuel divestment movement at large and here specifically.

To students who participated in di-

vestment activism for the first time, we encourage you to follow up on this protest with further efforts towards important change on your respective campuses.

We’ve expressed our support in the past for divesting from fossil fuels, and we are supportive of these protests as part of an effort to achieve that goal.

We also want to recognize the risk, passion, and labor of those protesting for divestment of Puerto Rican debt.

We have previously made it clear that the standard for divestment from a particular set of funds should be extremely high. That said, these activists have done enormous work toward raising awareness around the issue of Puerto Rican debt investment.

As we have opined in the past, divestment as a symbolic statement of principles matters, and these protesters have made a powerful claim for public attention.

Some in the stadium booed the protesters for holding up the game, and officials called for protesters to leave the field out of respect for the athletes.

We emphatically disagree with claims that the protests constituted an act of disrespect for the players.

We recognize that this protest impacted The Game, and we recognize and respect the impressive effort student athletes put into preparing for it.

However, we do not think a recognition of their effort is inconsistent with supporting broader calls for climate jus-

tice and divestment.

Statements of support from members of both teams emphasize that this protest was not out of place but well-fit for

We are hopeful that Divest’s important work will continue, and, ultimately, win out.

attention rightfully given to diversity and inclusivity, we’d all be emphasizing our individuality and celebrating our differences. So why are groupthink and the desire for a monolithic community so desirable? College is the time to figure ourselves out, but why are so many people convinced they’ve already got it all figured out?

They might say the answers are obvious and that the mere fact of one’s existence as something ostensibly neutral as an “Asian American” is so political it necessitates that one thinks, says, and does certain things.

Don’t believe it. The answers aren’t obvious. There isn’t just one way to be anything. To use the language of the woke nowadays, reclaim your identity. It is, after all, yours.

—Michelle I. Gao ’21, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Government concentrator in Adams House.

—William A. McConnell ’21 is a Mathematics concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Mondays.

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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Asian Americans, Speak for Yourself

I

am an Asian American by virtue of being Asian and being born and raised in America.

I make this clarification because in certain circles, this identity is not as neutral as it may sound. No, some would have you believe that existing as an Asian American is inherently political — and only a certain type of ultra-progressive political at that.

In today’s climate, that rhetoric probably doesn’t sound too unrealistic, but here’s the latest evidence: “An Open Letter to the Asian American Community,” written by members of some Asian affinity groups at Harvard to condemn other Asian affinity groups for not co-sponsoring a walkout in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

And these groups can talk a big game about being inclusive, but get on their bad side and then talk is cheap.

This letter expressed more general grievances than just the DACA walkout, though. It is the latest attempt by supposedly enlightened Asian Americans to dictate to other Asian Americans what they should think, say, and do.

At the very least these writers are acknowledging the fact, not acknowledged enough, that cultural groups are not monoliths.

But if you expect them to bring this up to celebrate the diversity in Asian America, you’d be wrong. No, they’re lamenting the actual diversity. They wish that Asian Americans could form a monolith in their image of an inherently political community with an extremely left-wing agenda.

Forgive me for wanting a way out.

The movement’s big gotcha argument is that the political origins of the term “Asian American” necessitate an extremely left-wing advocacy and ideology. But I think you can acknowledge the term’s history and agree with many of the causes originally championed without jumping to the same conclusion.

I, for example, am just using “Asian

American” because it literally describes me. If there were a logical alternative, I would almost happily use it to shut down this line of argument — but, of course, I would find being pushed out of using “Asian American” completely ridiculous. Nevertheless, the underlying problem here isn’t the label; it’s the broader argument about the intersection of politics and culture.

The letter declares, “An apolitical cultural community is a pernicious lie.”

I’m not even a member of any cultural community at Harvard, but I will stand up for the right of hypothetical cultural communities to exist without needing to wade into other matters.

One could call it naïve to try to create such a social community. But that’s the problem with too many tribes today, on all sides of the spectrum. They don’t even try.

Sure, I can see why such a community might not be appealing to everyone. But at least let other people make that choice for themselves.

I still believe — and in a time as divided as this, I feel I must believe, to have hope about a way out — that trying to create a social community that can overcome political differences is not a futile or unworthy ideal.

The letter also tries to assure other Asian Americans, “We are not asking you to become the ‘wokest’ in the room or for you to unconditionally defend every leftist agenda.”

Yet without accepting the ideology of “the woke,” you will not be able to comprehend the letter.

Consider this sentence: “It is literally impossible to live as a person of color on the stolen land that is the United States without either being political or being politically instrumentalized by oppressive structures.” Phrases like “politically instrumentalized by oppressive structures” make no sense to people outside the wokest circles. By the way, don’t let the claims fool you — they’re not facts, they’re ideologies.

It’s one thing to try to make people more politically aware. That’s the admirable and necessary work that the student-run Harvard Votes Challenge is doing, for example, by registering people to vote no matter their political affiliation.

But from their language, these Asian

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he Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case was widely seen as a testing ground for the American concept of equal opportunity, and the American principles of justice and fairness therein.

By ruling in favor of Harvard and its race-conscious admissions policies, Judge Allison D. Burroughs and our legal system seem to have emphatically affirmed these principles.

But if the meritocracy is working, why does it still feel as if the system is not?

The tensions surfacing in the SFFA lawsuit are merely part of a larger frustration with the role of college admissions in our society. To many people, the justice proclaimed in the verdict feels illusory.

The disconnect lies in a cultural confusion of the notions of fairness and merit.

In a meritocracy, power and privilege are awarded on the basis of performance and ability.

But performance and ability are always qualified by a predetermined set of goals.

A doctor merits a role as a doctor because she can effectively advance the goal of health, and a quarterback earns a starting position because he can effectively advance the football down the field.

In college admissions, Harvard’s predetermined goals can be read off its mission statement: to “educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society...through our commitment to the transformative power of a liberal arts and sciences education.”

An applicant merits admission based on their ability to advance these goals — for instance, through their race as it pertains to Harvard’s interest in developing a diverse learning environment.

Harvard’s admissions process asks whether an applicant will further its educational goals. It does not ask, at a more basic level, if students deserve admission in the sense of whether or not, given their inherited circumstances, they have made the most of the hand they were dealt.

The justice promoted by a meritocracy is only in service of the ends for which the meritocracy works.

Colleges in one sense work towards their own educational aims. Yet as hall passes to the upper echelons of the job market, colleges, including Harvard, also work for the implicit aims of our society.

A Harvard acceptance signals merit for the role of a Harvard student, but will also be the first thing on the resume of every student here for the rest of their life.

Thus colleges are unwilling mediators in the translation of natal luck into future well-being. Through the admissions process, differences caused by social and natural luck are solidified into significant social stratifications.

Your parents’ income and education, along with your race and your legacy status, will play major causal roles in determining whether or not you get into Harvard. So will your genetic aptitude, athletic ability, and inherited personality traits.

If we are to take the concerns manifested in the SFFA lawsuit seriously (distancing these concerns, for a moment, from institutional concerns with SFFA itself), we need to take another look at college admissions not under the limiting gaze of meritocracy, but under the more comprehensive focus of fairness.

Something is wrong with a system, meritocratic or otherwise, where we funnel 18 year old kids into different walks of life largely on the basis of innumerable factors out of their control.

How do we approach this broken system? For a start, we can dramatically reduce the differences in social luck over the first 18 years of children’s lives.

We can prioritize closing the gap between public and private education so that less privileged upbringings do not render applicants less deserving of higher education. We can listen to the mounting body of research suggesting the importance of early child care and make it more accessible and effective. We can support higher education institutions moving away from legacy admissions. We can continue to identify and remedy racial injustices throughout society.

We also need to remove colleges from their current role as gatekeepers of economic mobility.

For one, this isn’t even efficient.

Many jobs don’t require a liberal arts education.

Bolstering the prevalence of vocational schools and other career-preparatory programs would direct traffic to the job market in a way that more efficiently selects and prepares people for their future roles. Alongside better policies on income inequality, it would also go a long way towards restoring fairness in our system.

People would feel like they could find some career calling that both highlights their personal strengths and provides them with a decent standard of living — so that, no matter their natural born abilities, they would have ample opportunities to make the most, or least, of those circumstances as they could. The mania of college admissions and all the pressure on students therein would also dissolve.

The word “meritocracy” was originally used to describe a dystopian society based on the ideals of rewarding intelligence and ability, where power and privilege end up concentrated in the hands of a meritorious elite. It’s time we stop limiting ourselves to thinking about how we can purify such a system and start working to create a just and fair one instead.

the context and moment.

In fact, the timing and nature of this event exemplify the kind of disruptive protest that will hopefully lead to meaningful institutional change.

Noting Harvard’s seeming indifference to forms of protest it could easily ignore, we called for further discussion as to what sorts of protest might be be more impactful without risking the silencing of other groups or events. A demonstration of admirable strategic thinking, the protest at the Game appears to have accomplished just that.

We are hopeful that Divest’s important work will continue, and, ultimately, win out.

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American proselytizers who claim to want to bring about my political awakening wouldn’t be happy if I were awakened to a different ideology. There’s only one correct epiphany — that of these enlightened Asian Americans who learned to cast off the chains of the oppressors and overcome the brainwashing to which our white-loving forebears so easily succumbed.

The wokest groups claim to make the safest spaces. I don’t doubt it, but I wonder at what price that safety comes.

These groups become “safe” by artificially excluding other viewpoints, and sometimes whole topics of debate, from “acceptable” discourse — viewpoints and topics that are certainly discussed and embraced elsewhere. And these groups can talk a big game about being inclusive, but get on their bad side and then talk is cheap.

Here’s the fundamental disconnect.

You’d think in this new world, with more

There isn’t just one way to be anything. To use the language of the woke nowadays, reclaim your identity. It is, after all, yours.

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Sports

this weekend’s

Scores

Men’s water polo vs. Princeton W, 8-7 ___________________________________________________________

men’s basketball vs. holy cross w, 82-74 ___________________________________________________________

woMen’s ICE HOCKEY Vs. New hampshire L, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

women’s basketball Vs. hartford W, 53-44 ___________________________________________________________

Football vs. yale L, 50-43 ___________________________________________________________

men’s squash vs. mit L, 8-1 ___________________________________________________________

men’s ice hockey vs. Rensselaer W, 6-3 ___________________________________________________________

Women’s Basketball Tops Hartford at Home, 53-44 By henry zhu Crimson Staff Writer ­

A breakout performance from first-year guard Annie Stritzel propelled the Crimson to a 5344 victory over winless Hartford on Friday night as Harvard preserved its undefeated home record.

The Chicago, Ill. native had previously totaled 15 points in her first five games donning the Crimson uniform. She more than doubled that mark tonight, finishing the contest with 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting.

“A goal of mine is to always bring energy no matter what,” Stritzel said. “It’s just kind of fit and flow of the offense today, I was being aggressive and the shots fell so that was nice.”

Seven of the first-year’s points came in a rejuvenating second quarter in which the Crimson (4-2) held the Hawks (0-5) to just two baskets while building up a 15-point lead.

Stritzel provided an instant lift for the team off the bench. After drawing a shooting foul and scoring her first two points from the charity stripe, the guard ensuingly broke Harvard’s curse of eight missed attempts from deep with her first triple.

Showing her tenacity on the defensive end, Stritzel also notched a steal and reciprocated with another lay-up, extending the Harvard lead to six at the halfway point of the second frame.

“She’s very selfless, and just finds a way to get things done and she will only get better now that we figured out she has a comfort zone regarding her knee,” said coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who added that Stritzel had just received positive news on her still ongoing

recovery of a knee injury.

“It’s been a little crazy, but a good crazy,” added Stritzel on her transition process. “Working out a lot, it’s much different, much stronger, much faster. But as soon as you get settled, the game starts coming to you more.”

Senior Jeannie Boehm was another bright spot in the Crimson offense, cementing her second double-double of the season with a 12-and-12 night. Holding Hartford interior anchor Lawrencia Moten to just six points, Boehm also added four rejections in the low-scoring affair.

“I’ve had a lot of long talks with Kathy [Delaney-Smith] and Mike [Roux] on really focusing on the defensive end and other areas of my game,” Boehm said. “Tonight was just like that on the floor, just really trying to impact the game in any way that I can.”

Harvard held as large as a 22-point lead heading into the final six minutes of play, but saw that margin dwindle to single-digits by the horn. Two Stritzel free throws were the only offensive points in that extended drought as the Hawks’ centerpiece scorer, Jada Lucas, broke through to finish the game with 18 points.

Delaney-Smith, outside of Stritzel and Boehm’s performance, acknowledged much work still needs to be done in the maturation of this young and untested team.

“It’s hard for young teams to distinguish between playing too fast as opposed to running fast,” Delaney-Smith said. “So we ran fast and then we weren’t able to slow ourselves down in a new system. And it’s just I’m prepared for it to be ugly for a while, so my main criticism was

in the defensive end. I thought we were a very poor marginal defensive team tonight.”

Outside of Lucas, the Hawks saw contributions offensively from sophomores Jordan McLemore Charlette Leurs, who finished with nine and seven points, respectively. Coach Morgan Valley’s side attempted only 13 shots from deep — about a third of the Crimson’s total — but similarly converted at a low 23.1 percent.

Both teams struggled from the field, with near identical results — Hartford finished the night 19-of-61 (31 percent), while Harvard did slightly worse of 19-of-63 (30 percent).

Leading team scorer Lola Mullaney had a quiet night with just six points and junior co-captain Rachel Levy, who had a career-high 20 points last weekend against La Salle, shot 1-of-6.

Levy did however snatch three of Harvard’s ten steals, matching a career-high.

From the three-point arc, the Crimson launched 35 attempts — a season-high — but converted on just five, three of which came in the second quarter divided amongst Stritzel, Mullaney, and co-captain Mackenzie Barta.

The team began to make some adjustments following a 10-point first quarter, focusing more attention on attacking the paint with greater ferocity.

14 of the Crimson’s first-half points came in the paint, led by Stritzel and sophomore guard Maggie McCarthy’s aggressiveness. Still however, it was on the defensive end and overall decision-making where Coach Delaney-Smith felt more improvement was needed.

“The whole first quarter we didn’t play very good de-

VETERAN PRESENCE Senior guard Mackenzie Barta launches a shot against Hartford. The Maple Grove, Calif., native is averaging 8.0 PPG this season. henry zhu—Crimson photographer

fense stopping the drive,” Delaney-Smith said. “I didn’t feel we were communicating very well, I didn’t think we were using our heads. I thought we were getting up in the grill when this is a team that just wants to drive.”

As the Crimson continues to mesh and improve its form heading into December, both Stritzel and Boehm noted the progress that the team has made in strengthening chemistry and building the foundations for success in Ivy League

play.

“The beauty of our team this year is that everyone is so unselfish on the floor,” Boehm said. “I think we had a different high scorer, every single game.

And no one really cares about that. There’s no focus on individual stats. We are still refining a couple things in our offense and in our game but I’m feeling really hopeful given the team mentality.”

“The relationships off the court, I think that’s where it starts,” Stritzel added. “It’s not

going to transfer to the court unless you really work at it outside the court.”

Harvard will have a quick transition in a schedule that cuts right through the Thanksgiving Break, as the BU Terriers will host the Crimson on Nov. 26 followed by a contest four days later against Quinnipiac.

Conference play will not begin until 2020, when Harvard will take on Dartmouth at home on January 11. henry.zhu@thecrimson.com

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Yale Tops Harvard, 50-43, in Stunning Double Overtime scoreboard,” Rawlings said. “I mean knowing how much time is left is important. I just tell them, ‘guys, enjoy these last moments enjoy the moments in the game, just take it all in and have fun, do your job and just have fun.’ Win or lose, I love playing the game with these guys.”

The Crimson (4-6, 2-4) received the ensuing kick and kneeled to send the contest into overtime.

As overtime began, light was scarce and the athletes were competing in near darkness.

Fans held up their phones with the flashlights on, seemingly to try and brighten the field. The game ran late due to the return from halftime being delayed as a result of divestment protests.

A group of Harvard students stormed the field, unraveling

signs calling for Harvard and Yale’s divestment from fossil fuels. After about an hour, the protestors were finally escorted from the turf. As security led people off individually, the crowd booed and chanted, “Get them off the field.”

“You just deal with the circumstances that you have and just deal with it,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “You don’t make a big issue with your team, it just is what it is.”

Taking possession first in overtime, Crimson junior quarterback Jake Smith found a wide open senior Cody Chrest for the first play from scrimmage. Harvard took a quick post-regulation lead, 43-36.

Rawlings was quick to answer, hitting Shohfi on the Crimson four. Shohfi managed

to land one toe on the green turf before flying out of bounds.

One play later, Rawlings landed a strike on the slanting Caden Herring, equalizing the contest at 43.

Having defended first, the Bulldogs started with the ball in the second round of overtime.

The second play from scrimmage, Rawlings sprinted right and caught an escaping Shohfi, who had slipped behind his coverage man. The completion went for 19 yards and set up a four yard touchdown run from running back Zane Dudek.

That four-yard sprint would ice the game, as Harvard’s ensuing drive resulted in a turnover on downs. For the final play of the contest, Smith went to wide out BJ Watson on a screen pass.

Watson made some defenders

UNSTOPPABLE Freshman Aidan Borguet had a career day on Saturday, registering 269 yards and four touchdowns on 11 attempts. tImothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

miss in his four yard trudge up the field, but landed two yards short of the first down marker.

The home crowd erupted and leaked over short walls of the stadium, encircling the victorious team.

“I think these three guys right here are the three greatest to ever play at Yale,” said Yale coach Tony Reno gesturing to Rawlings, Klubnick, and Shohfi.

“There are a lot of greats, but in my opinion, in my era, they’re three of the greats. If we put the ball in the quarterback’s hands and let these two go again, good things are going to happen.”

The 50-43 final score represents the highest scoring contest between the teams ever.

The only other time the two squads played into extra time was in 2005, when the Crimson completed a triple-overtime victory at the Yale Bowl.

Rawlings, in his final contest as a Bulldog, dominated the team’s offensive performance. He threw for 417 yards and three touchdowns. The veteran also led the team in rushing with 62 yards on the turf and additional touchdown.

Coming into the contest, the Bulldogs had all the momentum. On the heels of five straight wins, and Dartmouth’s loss last week to Cornell, all Yale needed to secure a share of the Ancient Eight crown was a win over the Crimson.

Harvard, on the contrary, entered on the cusp of a fourgame skid. Playing for nothing but pride, the Crimson team registered its third most rushing yards ever, carried by a career performance from freshman Aidan Borguet. The first-year finished with four touchdowns on 10 attempts, logging 264 yards. By his fourth score, Borguet was averaging 40.3 yards a give.

As Harvard started the second half, leading 15-3, the offense stuttered and went two plays for only four yards. On the

third snap, Smith went to the middle of the field. His pass to Watson was knocked down as Kyle Ellis climbed up Watson’s back in an attempt to knock down the throw.

A delayed pass interference flag on Ellis saved the Crimson’s errant drive, resetting the downs and pushing the team 15 more yards up field.

Two plays later, Borguet was given the end-around to the left.

Outstepping two Bulldog defenders who nipped at his ankles, Borguet found the corner and subsequently shot upfield.

As several more defenders attempted to push the back out of bounds, Borguet kept his feet, tip-toeing down the visiting sideline and sprinting past the scrambling defenders into the endzone, a 59 yard run.

Two Bulldog scores later, on only his fifth run of the game, Borguet was dished the ball and simply outran the defense. Taking the end around to the right, Borguet sprinted 60 yards down the sideline to the Bulldog endzone. At this point, Borguet was averaging 35 yards a give.

Between the two Borguet touchdowns, Yale was quick to reverse the momentum back in its favor. A three-play drive falling one yard short of the fourth down led to a Bulldog punt. As freshman receiver Gavin Sharkey flagged down the ball, he mishandled it, giving possession back to the Bulldogs at the visitors’ 30.

Rawlings tossed a wheel route to Klubnick, who managed to battle his way to the Harvard four-yard line. From there, Dudek made quick work of the short field, sprinting in untouched for the score.

The Crimson failed to get anything going on offense and sent the ball back to Yale after three attempts at a first down.

On the Bulldogs’ third down, Rawlings went to his favorite receiver, finding Klubnick again on the left sideline. The

play-caller perfectly placed the pass just over the arm of the Harvard defender and Klubnick notched 40 yards on the toss.

Three incomplete passes later, Yale sent out Tuckerman who rang true from 32.

The Bulldogs scored again after the second Borguet foot race, this time on a read option run from Rawlings. The home team went for the two point conversion, hoping to bring the game within eight points.

The pass attempt was knocked down.

Borguet scored once more to start the fourth. Taking the give up the middle, Borguet looked to be swallowed up.

The players nearly stopped moving as the freshman burst from the center of the pile for the 67-yard sprint. With the touchdown, Borguet tied the record for the most rushing touchdowns in a Harvard-Yale game.

The Crimson would not break the 17-point Bulldog march to overtime.

Harvard’s defense registered four sacks for 34 lost yards while the Bulldogs managed to pull down Smith only twice.

Senior Brogan McParland led the effort, registering two sacks and three additional tackles. Junior defensive back Isaiah Wingfield led the front in tackles, pulling eight Yalies to the ground and logging the team’s only interception of Rawlings in a diving pick.

Harvard’s 4-6 overall record represents the first time the team has posted a losing record since 1998. Harvard did not drop a contest this season by more than a single score.

“Stating the obvious, the cruel ending is just so symbolic of the last half of our season,” Murphy said. “You keep thinking somehow the law of averages is somehow going to work itself out. End of the day, great effort by Yale.” cade.palmer@thecrimson.com

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In Photos: Harvard-Yale Game, Divestment Protest The Harvard and Yale football teams returned to the field to warm up as the last protesters were escorted away. Yale went on to win the game 50-43 in overtime as the sun went down.

The protest began when a group of students from Harvard and Yale’s divestment organizations ran onto the field holding signs with three minutes left of half-time. They sat down in the middle of the field and began chanting, calling on Harvard and Yale to divest. Some activists stood up in the stands holding banners as well. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Protesters on the field held banners reading “This is an Emergency,” “Yale and Harvard Students United in Climate Justice,” and “Nobody Wins: Yale & Harvard Are Complicit in Climate Injustice.” Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

As the protest continued, spectators from the stands began running onto the field to join the demonstration.

During the protest, students took group photos on the field while one couple passionately kissed in the crowd.

Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Connecticut Governor Edward Miner Lamont Jr. ’76 was among the officials who went down to the field. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

About 10 minutes after spectators began leaving the stands en-masse, a large number of police approached the crowd, leading most people to leave the center of the field. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Police then escorted protesters off the field and took them outside of the stadium, where a small protest subsequently ensued. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer

Harvard and Yale football players returned to the field to warm up as the last protesters were escorted away.

Yale went on to win the game 50-43 in overtime as the sun went down. Timothy R. O’Meara—Crimson photographer