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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 28 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019

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Harvard hears us on gender equity, but isn’t listening.

The Smith Center’s newest restaurant, The Heights, opened Monday.

Harvard women’s lacrosse starts its season at .500.

Transfers Limit Students Join Immigrants’ Day Lobby Security Guards

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

By JAMIE S. BIKALES and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

When Arlene Yarde, a full-time Securitas guard at Harvard Medical School, was called into her supervisor’s office two years ago to discuss a tweet she had posted, she could not anticipate the upheaval that would follow their conversation.

At that meeting, Steve Barkowski — her supervisor — told her she was being suspended after working for the company for 18 years and asked her never to disclose what was said during their discussion, in particular the contents of the tweet, Yarde said. A few days later, she learned from Christopher Connolly, an area director for Securitas, that she was being transferred out of her Longwood campus post at the request of its client, a Medical School administrator.

Yarde was told her transfer was non-disciplinary, meaning the client did not have to provide a reason for its request, according to provisions of a 2016 contract guards negotiated with Securitas through their union, 32BJ Service Employees International Union. Harvard contracts Securitas North America to handle most of its security guard operations, and the company has significant say over hiring, disciplinary action, and firing.

In the two years since Yarde was transferred, she said she ­

has only been able to find work on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for a few weeks each year and has gone unpaid the rest of the time. She now plans to file for bankruptcy.

“From that time on, I really have not worked,” Yarde said.

Barkowski did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Connolly declined to comment on Yarde’s case, calling it inappropriate to comment on personnel matters.

“Non disciplinary transfers and other types of transfers, employment actions, management rights and other terms and conditions of employment are all matters which have been collectively bargained between the Company and the Union,” Connolly wrote.

She is not alone in alleging retaliation from Securitas supervisors — last week, Joseph G. Bartuah, a Securitas guard at Harvard’School of Public Health was terminated following allegations of retaliation.

Bartuah said that managers began investigating him for leaving his desk because he sent an email to his supervisors stating that one of them made “unprofessional” remarks that damaged his reputation among his colleagues.

In the case of Yarde and fellow Medical School Securitas guard Susan C. Castignetti, who was also subject to a non-disciplinary transfer

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Eight Harvard students travelled through snowy weather to the Massachusetts State House Monday to participate in the annual Immigrants’ Day lobbying event.

Now in its 23rd year, Immigrants’ Day is the “biggest lobbying day of the year” for immigrants, refugees and allies, according to a Facebook page for the event. The event was organized by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, as well as more than 50 co-sponsors.

Liza Ryan, the organizing director for MIRA, said she hopes the Massachusetts State Legislature will offer more support for immigrants going forward.

“We want to remind the legislature that under the current federal administration, despite all of the words that they have said, they still have continued to do nothing to support the immigrant and refugee community in this really terrible time,” she said in an interview before the event. “We expect more from them.”

This year’s lobbying efforts follow the state legislature’s exclusions of an amendment in this year’s budget protecting immigrants from police questions concerning their immigration status.

Filing into the State House at roughly 10 a.m., Harvard students from organizations including Act on a Dream, the ­

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Harvard students visit state legislators at the State House on Monday to lobby for a new Safe Communities Act. AMANDA Y. SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

A crowd of people attended Immigrants’ Day, which was organized by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. AMANDA Y. SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

BGLTQ Office, HUHS Create Mental Health Working Group

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By ISABEL L. ISSELBACHER, MICHELLE G. KURILLA, and TAMAR SARIG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Following the results of last year’s student health survey, Harvard University Health Services and the Office of BGLTQ Student Life have partnered to create a working group to address the mental health needs of BGLTQ students.

The group will be comprised of undergraduates who identify as BGLTQ, according to the ap­

The Heights Restaurant opened on the tenth floor of the Smith Campus Center on Monday. AMANDA M. LAST—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

plication for students seeking to participate. HUHS and the Office of BGLTQ Student Life have tasked the group, which will meet three times over the next several weeks, with recommending initiatives to promote students’ mental health. The application closed on March 1, and the meetings are expected to begin before spring break.

“The purpose of this working group is to gain a deeper understanding of the data and to develop data-driven interventions to improve the emotional

wellbeing of BGLTQ students,” the application reads.

Fourteen students — ranging from freshmen to seniors — responded to the Google Form application expressing their interest in participating in the group, according to Scarborough.

HUHS Director Paul J. Barreira and other HUHS administrators decided to form the group after reviewing data from the biannual undergraduate health survey, which

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Mankiw Harvard Launches Pilot Pulse Survey on Diversity and Inclusion To Leave Ec10 Course

By ALEXANDRA A. CHAIDEZ and AIDAN F. RYAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Office of Institutional Research is conducting a pilot “Pulse Survey” of approximately 50,000 Harvard affiliates — the first-ever University-wide survey of its kind.

The survey comes after a University-wide Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion — originally convened by former University President Drew G. Faust in 2016 — released its final report last spring. The report outlined several recommendations from the 55-member presidential task force, including a survey that evaluates participants’ perspectives from the “bottom-up”.

Open from Tuesday to March 22, the pilot survey consists of ten questions — nine of which are quantitative and one that is open-ended. The survey will be administered to all Harvard faculty, staff, and degree-seeking students.

Professor of Education Andrew Ho, one of the initiative’s leaders, said the first question asks whether or not participants feel like they belong at ­

By MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

After more than a decade at the helm of one of Harvard’s largest courses, Economics Professor N. Gregory Mankiw announced in an email to graduate students Monday that he will step down from teaching Economics 10: “Principles of Economics” at the end of this semester.

The Economics Department has not yet found a replacement for Mankiw, who has taught Ec 10 — the department’s year-long flagship introductory course — for 14 years. Both the fall and spring iterations of the course consistently rank among the College’s most popular offerings, coming in at 585 students and the College’s top-enrolled class this spring.

Mankiw wrote in an email

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John S. Wilson Jr., left, serves as senior advisor to President Lawrence S. Bacow on diversity and inclusion; he and Professor Andrew Ho, right, are involved with a survey responding to recommendations from the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. DELANO R. FRANKLIN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Harvard, the central theme of the survey as a whole.

“It is the utmost interest to us given the work that we do across faculty, staff and students across 50,000 different people to know the extent to which people feel that way because that underlies good learn-

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ing, good work, good teaching, good research,” Ho said.

Ho — who served on the University-wide task force — said the survey was created with input from the faculty, students, and staff within the task force.

He also administered and “talked through” the survey to his

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class at the Graduate School of Education.

“This pilot is yet another opportunity to continue to improve the items to make sure that whatever we do in the future will be at the high quality that we expect at this university,” Ho said.

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The survey is confidential and responses will never be matched with the names and titles of the participants, he said. The survey will also follow standard protocol as laid out by the Office of Institutional

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HARVARD TODAY

For Lunch Chicken Tikka Masala Pork Dumplings Hummus Florentine Sandwich

For Dinner Herb Roasted Chicken Seared Honey-Ginger Salmon Penne with Roasted Cauliflower, Kale and White Beans

TODAY’S EVENTS Gallery Talk: Intro to the Dark Arts: Ancient Egyptian Magic 12:30-1 p.m.

IN THE REAL WORLD Second Patient with HIV Reportedly Cured

Have a magical afternoon in the Harvard Art Museum learning about ancient Egyptian magic. Not sure what kind of magic, but maybe it’ll help you to pass your midterms. Either way, you’ll get to see some cool ancient Egyptian art.

Nearly 12 years after the first known cure, a second person has been declared in long-term remission of HIV. In both cases, the cure arrived after a bone marrow treatment that was not intended to cure HIV. A report with details on the case will be published on Tuesday.

The Business of Spirituality: A Panel 6-7:30 p.m.

For all the business snakes who want to shed their snakey skin, the Harvard Divinity School is hosting a panel on business, branding, entrepreneurship, and doing good. Slither to the Sperry Room in Andover Hall to hear from founders and authors about their businesses.

Beyond Crazy, Rich and Asian: Exploring the Singapore Identity 7-9 p.m.

The Singapore Policy Journal is hosting a conversation about the Singapore identity — from infrastructure, to food and culture — in the Briggs room in Cabot House. Yes, we know the Quad is far, but there will be snacks.

White House Does Little to Dissuade Senate Block

Students head to class near the Harvard Museum of Natural History on a snowy Monday morning. ANYA X. ZHANG—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

President Donald Trump has done little to rebuke GOP members who are breaking ranks to vote for a resolution blocking his declaration of a national emergency over the U.S.-Mexico border.

The resolution is expected to pass the Senate, and Trump is likely to issue the first veto of his presidency.

DAILY BRIEFING Some Harvard Medical School Securitas guards that have undergone nondisciplinary transfers from the University’s Longwood campus to Cambridge were subsequently offered positions that were incompatible with noted personal accommodations. As a result, they are without work and pay even while still employed. Non-disciplinary transfers have been a topic of conversations in recent contract negotiations between Securitas and its workers’ union, but some workers have said recent changes have not brought transparency to their cases. In other news, eight Harvard students traveled through snowy weather to the Massachusetts State House to participate in the annual Immigrants’ Day lobbying event.

Luke Perry Passes Away

Actor Luke Perry died Monday after being hospitalized for a stroke last week. He played a leading role in “Beverly Hills, 90210” as Dylan McKay. More recently, Perry was on the show “Riverdale” as Archie’s dad. He was 52.

AROUND THE IVIES COLUMBIA

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several leaders from the Time’s Up movement attended Barnard College’s ninth annual Athena Film Festival, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. The four-day festival featured documentaries — including “Knock Down the House,” which follows Ocasio-Cortez’s and three other congressional hopefuls’ campaigns — and feature films focused on female leadership.

Speakers discussed the role of the Time’s Up movement and other gender-related activism in film, in line with the mission of the film festival.

CORNELL

The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Cornell University has temporarily revoked all of Reverend Carsten Martensen’s chaplain privileges after an allegation emerged that he sexually abused a minor in the 1970s. Martensen has served as a chaplain at both Cornell University and Ithaca College since 2007 but has now stepped down from his assignments. Father Daniel McMullin informed churchgoers that there was an allegation against a priest — later named as Martensen — during the Sunday Mass.

BROWN

Brown University scientists have accidentally discovered a new crystalline structure, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The researchers originally set out to discover what happens when tetrahedral nanoparticles are tightly packed together, but did not expect to find an entirely new quasicrystalline structure. Quasicrystals, which have non-repeating five-, ten-, or twelvefold symmetries, are used in glass designs and cookware; in this experiment, ten-sided quasicrystalline lattices self-assembled.

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ARTS

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MFA’s ‘Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular’ Asks a Radical Question: What Inspired Her?

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The name and face of Frida Kahlo have become a brand of their own, coming to represent a feminist icon, a survivor of tragic illness, and a political revolutionary. “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular,” an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston until June 16, is not just another homage to her storied life and iconography, but rather a much needed and deserved look into her inspirations — namely, Mexican folk art, or “arte popular.”

In a poignant link between art and politics in the years following the Mexican Revolution, government officials and artists alike strove to unite the divided Mexican people. Kahlo and other urban intellectuals passionately collected handmade objects made in rural communities, from ceramics to children’s toys, which came to represent a shared and distinctly Mexican history. Though the exhibit only features eight of Kahlo’s own pieces, it comprehensively contextualizes them with arte popular objects similar to those in her own collection, demonstrating the many unequivocal, shared strands between her work and the movement at large.

The exhibit is divided into five thematic sections, each of which features at least one of Kahlo’s works. The first section, “Art of the People,” opens with two portraits: “Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibrí” (“Self-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace”) and the MFA’s recent acquisition, “Dos hermanas (Salvadora y Herminia)” (“Two sisters”). Because Kahlo is perhaps most known for her self-portraits, this introduction seems expected. Further scrutiny, however, reveals that the organic backgrounds of her portraits emulate the leafy, floral patterns from the two burnished vases on display nearby. Moreover, Kahlo’s choice to use the European form of portraiture is a commentary in itself, as she harkens back to her own German roots from her father’s side while honoring the Spanish and indigenous heritage of her mother.

Another section, “Aesthetics of Childhood,” highlights Kahlo’s fascination with the world of children, an interest she shared with many of her contemporaries. As many art critics saw children’s artwork as “spontaneous,” it — along with handmade children’s toys — served as a source of inspiration for arte popular. In “Niña con máscara de muerte (Ella juega sola)” [“Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone)”], Kahlo hides her face under a skeleton mask and holds a marigold in a reference to “Día de los muertos,” or Day of the Dead. Here she juxtaposes youth and death, blurring the distinction that would usually keep them in separate spheres. Similarly, arte popular also fused the inanimate with the animate, life with death, and things

with beings, making skeletons smile and pitchers sprout plants.

In perhaps one of the most effective curatorial placements, a glass case of arte popular objects sits directly in front three of Kahlo’s still lifes. Out of context, Kahlo’s propensity to animate her still lifes by giving fruits humanlike qualities may seem arbitrary. But here, the inspiration is clear: “Cocos gimientes” (“Weeping Coconuts”), for example, is paired with carved coconuts with eyes and teeth, just a sampling of Mexican artists’ experimentation with coconuts.

Unfortunately, the two adjacent galleries that are intended to complement the main exhibit detract from the central purpose. On one side is “Modernism and Folk Art in the United States,” which features a generous supply of folk art from Kahlo’s “modernist colleges in the United States,” according to the gallery’s description. While it does serve as contextualization for the contemporary American folk movement, this addition feels unnecessary given the already established focus on Kahlo and arte popular.

The other gallery is an emotional amalgamation of other Kahlo-related works not by Kahlo herself. “Frida’s Bathroom,” an intimate photograph series by Graciela Iturbide, captures various of her possessions that her husband, Diego Rivera, locked away in her bathroom after her passing.

Under Iturbide’s direction, these possessions come to represent different aspects of Kahlo’s suffering and turmoil: prosthetic legs, back braces, pain medications, and posters of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, whom she admired as she was a staunch member of the Mexican Communist Party. The rest of the works featured in this gallery are similarly intriguing — but granting them a space just as large as the main exhibit’s ultimately distracts from Kahlo’s own work.

Paradoxically, “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” transcends oversimplifications of Kahlo’s life by asking a radically simple question: What inspired her? Kahlo is far more than her eyebrows or moustache, as popular and commercial conception has come to maintain, and her art encapsulates more than a tumultuous marriage or a life of illness and injury. As “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” shows, Kahlo was an ambitious and accomplished painter — one who contributed powerfully to a national artistic movement in the years after a nation-altering revolution.

Wednesday ANDREW RIDKER AT THE HARVARD BOOK STORE Andrew Ridker visits the Harvard Book Store for a discussion on his novel “The Altruists” followed by a book signing.

“The Altruists” is Ridker’s first novel, but his work has been featured in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Boston Review among other renowned publications.

Harvard Bookstore. March 6. Free.

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Staff Writer Kaylee S. Kim can be reached at kaylee.kim@ thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @kayleeskim.

ENDLINGS PLAY Celine Song’s new play at the A.R.T. The story follows three elderly women on the Korean island Man-Jae on land and water.

These “sea women” harvest seafood—it is a millenia-old way of life, but it may be the end with these women.

Loeb Drama Center, American Repertory Theatre. Feb 26-March 17. Tickets from $25.

Thursday

COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON

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Tuesday

STOUT MEMORIAL LECTURE AT ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM Take a deeper dive into paintings by Sandro Botticelli and Giovanni Bellini. The audience will be pushed to consider the techniques of each painting and challenge the common ideas surrounding the training of artists in Venice and Florence.

Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Tickets $10-$15, $12 for students.

CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON/STORM LARGE Musician, actor, playwright, and author Storm Large has performed with people like k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, and punk rocker John Doe. She performs live at Sanders Theatre this month.

Sanders Theatre. March 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets from $45.

Saturday

HOW WE SEE: PHOTOBOOKS BY WOMEN Pop-up room viewing of contemporary women’s books. Visitors can flip through numerous books by female photographers such as Olivia Arthur, Yurie Nagashima, Lieko Shiga, Carrie Mae Weems to name a few.

Museum of Fine Arts. 15-minute talks over the afternoon. Free with Museum Admission.

Sunday

GALLERY TALK: ELLEN TANI ON NINA ABNEY Ellen Tani will give a gallery talk on Nina Chanel Abney’s work at the museum. In the discussion of iconography, symbols, and emojis featured in Abney’s work, Tani will lead a talk on what these images mean in terms of art history, social justice, and the technological information age.

The Institute of Contemporary Art. March 10 at 2 p.m. Free.

Monday ROBYN CONCERT Swedish singer and songwriter Robyn, who released her most recent album “Honey” in 2018, performs at the House of Blues Boston. Adele attended her show in Los Angeles and raved that “I’ve never danced so much.”

House of Blues Boston. March 11 at 6 p.m.

Tickets from $65.

5 march 2019 | Vol CXLVI, ISSUE IV Arts Chairs Kaylee S. Kim ‘20 Caroline A. Tsai ’20

Editor Associates Liana E. Chow ‘21 Aline G. Damas ’20 Danielle L. Eisenman ‘21

Iris M. Lewis ‘21 Claire N. Park ‘20 Isabel C. Ruehl ‘20 Allison J. Scharmann ‘21 Caroline E. Tew ’20 Shruthi Venkata ‘22 Lucy Wang ’20

Executive Designer Mireya C. Arango ‘20

Design Associates Amanda Stetz ‘22

Executive Photographers Kathryn S. Kuhar ‘20 Zennie L. Wey ‘20

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BOOKS

‘Cat Person’ Author Kristen Roupenian Discusses New Book at Harvard Book Store ANGELA F. HUI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

read books and think about them,” Roupenian said. “But I could not really do creative writing while I was doing that… it felt impossible because I was too attuned to what could go wrong. I was too self-conscious. I feel that, for anyone moving between both worlds, my advice is to do fully the one thing and trust that maybe in the future it will pay off.”

When asked whether “Cat Person” was written in response to #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment, Roupenian explained that it was not. “I wrote [‘Cat Person’] around April of 2017, which puts it… before the #MeToo movement had really taken off,” she said.

“But I do think, in retrospect, that some of the same energy that fed the #MeToo movement fed… my story as I was writing it and then the conversation around the story,” she continued. “When I remember that April, what I remember is the news just feeling poisonous all the time.”

“All conversations about gender and dating had this kind of ugly bite to them,” she said.

For some members of the audience, like Boston Globe writer Amy J. Pedulla, this revelation was highly unexpected. “I was surprised that she wasn’t reacting to #MeToo, but she was… unconsciously responding to it in her work without trying to make a response to the movement,” Pedulla said. “That was actually shocking.”

Other attendees simply expressed their admiration for Roupenian’s work. Meredith B. Johns ‘22 came to the event because she appreciated reading “Cat Person” when it first went viral. “I came out today because… when I read the story, I hugely identified with it and was taken with her ability to explain a situation that often feels indescribable,” she said. “I haven’t read any other of her stories but was super impressed with her ability to speak about them and liked the excerpt she read as well.”

Brighton resident Jose M. Martinez shared similar sentiments. “I loved [‘Cat Person’] when it came out,” he said. “It made such an impact then and when I read it again recently… that I wanted to come here and listen to [Roupenian] talk about her craft, talk about writing, talk about really anything.”

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On Feb. 28, Kristen Roupenian visited the Harvard Book Store to discuss her debut short story collection, “You Know You Want This,” with Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein. Roupenian is best known for her short story “Cat Person,” which was published in the New Yorker in December 2017 and went viral in a feat that publishing executives have called “unusual if not unprecedented” for a work of short fiction.

Much of the evening’s conversation centered on Roupenian’s attempts to navigate her story’s unexpected fame. Although Roupenian had been working on the “You Know You Want This” for several years before the publication of “Cat Person,” she still found herself having to consider the popularity of “Cat Person” while preparing her collection for publication.

The other stories in her collection, she explained, are tonally very different from “Cat Person,” whose depiction of an ambiguous sexual encounter resonated with many readers because of its uncanny familiarity. “A lot of the stories in the book are horror-inflected, are very dark,” Roupenian said. “‘Cat Person,’ thematically, is as dark as any of them… but in terms of what actually happens [in the collection], things get much more extreme in terms of murder and monsters and whatnot.”

Before “You Know You Want This” was published, Roupenian considered changing the order of the short stories to accommodate readers of “Cat Person.” She said that among editors there was “a split set of opinions whether we should start…[the collection] with ‘Cat Person’ and then lead people into this other space where things might be more extreme or there would be more genre elements.”

Ultimately, Roupenian decided to open her collection with “Bad Boy,” a horror story. “It felt better to me to… keep the collection in the form it had been before ‘Cat Person’ went viral… and to lead with a story that was a fairly clear signpost of where things were going,” she explained.

The last 25 minutes of the hour-long event were reserved for an audience Q&A. In response to a question about her transition from critical to creative writing — Roupenian graduated from Harvard in 2014 with a Ph.D. in English — she reflected that it was difficult to write fiction while remaining in a literary-critical mindset for her Ph.D. studies. “I am glad now that I had [time] to

Staff writer Angela F. Hui can be reached at angela.hui@ thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @angelafhui.

THEATER

Harvard Alumni Dive Into Work on ‘Endlings’ COURTESY OF JOHNATHAN CARR

Several Harvard alumni have come together at the American Repertory Theater to contribute their perspectives to — and learn lessons from — the production of Celine Song’s new play “Endlings,” which runs from Feb. 26 to March 17 at the Loeb Drama Center. The alumni working to bring this story to life are director Sammi R. Cannold (who graduated the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2016 and is A.R.T.’s youngest ever female director), assistant director Brian J. Ge ’18, actors Mark J. Mauriello ’15 and Matt J. DaSilva ’12, and Kevin H. Lin ’12, who is Song’s agent.

The play follows two distinct stories in two distinct settings: The last three Korean sea women, known as “haenyeos,” harvest seafood in Man Jae, while a Korean-Canadian playwright grapples with her writing in Manhattan.

Other than Mauriello, all the Harvard alumni working on the play interned for the A.R.T. while attending Harvard, and a few of their paths intertwined in ways that eventually led to their collaboration on “Endlings.” Lin and Cannold met through the A.R.T., where Cannold was a Hasty Pudding Artistic Fellow, and later, Lin sent her the script of “Endlings.”

In turn, Cannold brought Ge onto “Endlings” and encouraged him to assistant direct, a job he had not done before. “She always gets me to do the craziest jobs,” Ge said.

Cannold and Ge have collaborated on multiple A.R.T. productions, including “The Pirate Princess,” through which they met in 2015, feminist poetry readings, and “Violet” in 2017, a show that traveled around Harvard Square on a shuttle.

Now, in their work on “Endlings,” these alumni have drawn a range of new understandings about education, American theater, and how to address their own racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as unfamiliar ones, in personal and theatrical contexts.

“Most people didn’t know much about the haenyeos, who are the heroines of the play,” Cannold said. “Because of that, there was a large learning curve in terms of the culture.”

For Ge, the ability to see similarities between the play and his own life came with its own lessons.

“As an Asian Canadian myself, it’s just so rewarding to see a story unfold on stage and in

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a rehearsal room that’s so incredibly relatable, that I feel I’ve lived or my parents have lived or my ancestors have lived, even though I’m not Korean,” Ge said. “I think that’s been the biggest learning experience — that there’s so much more to learn from people like yourself, and not necessarily always from the university education, from the ways that people tell you to learn.”

DaSilva and Mauriello portray white stage managers in the “Endlings” cast, and they reflected on their responsibilities as cast members of a play focusing on women of Korean descent.

“This show is not about us,” DaSilva said. “If we try at all to make it about us, then we’re just de-servicing the story and taking away from the intention of the playwright and kind of disrespecting it in a way. My role is to not be thought about.”

Mauriello said he has found acting in “Endlings” to be invigorating. “It’s a really remarkable and exciting thing, as a white male, to see this show that is about four Asian women, and to watch the way they are sharing stories and unraveling identity, and doing it in a way that also pokes fun at the kinds of theater we’ve been seeing on stages for decades and decades, especially in America,” he said.

Cannold said she believes “Endlings” disrupts the status quo of American theater both by introducing the untold story of the haenyeos and, more broadly, by confronting racism in theater.

“Celine has written a play that is so bold, that says so much that I think so many of us are afraid to say or afraid to wrestle with,” Cannold said. “It confronts what it means for artists of color to tell certain stories or not tell certain stories.”

The play holds an expansive meaning for Ge, too. “At the end of the day, it’s not just a story about the haenyeos. It’s a story about immigration. It’s a story about real estate. It’s a story about how much you have to give up to go somewhere where the life is better,” he said.

“So many of us here in this country have that story in our blood,” Ge said. “It’s just impossible for me, as an immigrant, to look at this play and not want to call my grandmother.”

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MUSIC

Lil Pump Visits Harvard, Gives ‘Commencement Speech’ at WHRB

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Decked out in bright garb, colorful dreadlocks, and a Harvard beanie, rapper Lil Pump promoted his latest album “Harverd Dropout” in an appearance at Harvard’s student-run radio station, WHRB, on Feb. 28.

In an intimate setup in Studio B, WHRB member Griffin R. Andres ’21 conducted a live interview with the 18-year-old musician. After the interview, members of the Harvard community who were eager to gain some insider knowledge about Lil Pump participated in a direct Q&A session with the artist himself.

A pop-up shop selling “Harverd Dropout”-themed merchandise set up prior to the live interview and Q&A allowed students to get their hands on their own piece of Lil Pump. The merchandise included sweaters and shirts with a skeletal rendering of the artist in graduation regalia emblazoned on the front.

Students sought to gain some insight on the intersection between Lil Pump, who dropped out of high school, and Harvard. “I hope I just hear him talk about why he named it ‘Harverd Dropout,’ and get some meaning behind the lyrics,” said Madison R. Conklin ’21.

Lil Pump entered the room just after 9 p.m. to jubilant cheers and cries of his signature catchphrase, “Eskeetit,” a condensed version of “let’s get it.” He delivered a mock

commencement speech, a follow-up to his initial — but since disputed — claim that he was named as Harvard’s official speaker for Commencement 2019.

Lil Pump employed the style and sentiments of a commencement speech to discuss his ascent to stardom.

“It was by no means easy; there were many times when I thought I would not reach this finish line,” Lil Pump stated.

“But those struggles have only made this moment even sweeter.”

An interview followed the speech, in which Lil Pump answered specific questions regarding his background and his songwriting process. As a child, Lil Pump explained that his parents did not have much influence on his musical stylings and preferences. “I ain’t listening to any of their music, I listen to my shit!” he said.

The artist also discussed his collaboration with Kanye West on the 2018 hit “I Love It.” Lil Pump attributed the music video costume design to West. “He, like, sent me a text message… and it was like some fucking stick figures in a box,” Pump said. “He’s like yo, I want this to be the costume! They drew it up, and that’s what it came out like.”

Lil Pump addressed a variety of questions posed during the Q&A session that aligned with his persona as a fictitious Harvard dropout. When asked his favorite city

to perform in, Lil Pump responded with “Harvard.” The rapper at no point admitted that he did not attend Harvard University. When questioned as to why he chose to “drop out” of Harvard, Lil Pump said, “I dropped out of Harvard to save the fucking rap game!”

The collaboration with WHRB was intentional, according to WHRB President Kiran O. Hampton ’20.

Hampton explained that Lil Pump’s team reached out to WHRB looking for a college-associated venue with an underground vibe to align with the style of Lil Pump’s newest album. “I told them WHRB is pretty underground — we’re literally in a basement. I also told them that beyond that, everyone in WHRB is really nice, and we include and welcome everyone,” Hampton said. “He liked that a lot — he’s a pretty inclusive guy and thought it was a good match.”

To an audience of eager Harvard students, Lil Pump’s presence kicked off the weekend. Some students were diehard supporters of Pump, not just by virtue of his current fame, but because of his music. “I was a big fan of Pump’s work before he was signed,” Nicholas S. Brown ’22 said.

“I came out because I thought it was pretty cool that Harvard’s integrated into the hip-hop culture,” David M. Gonzalez ’22 said.

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How We Make Eating Alone Our Own JESS L. ENG CONTRIBUTING WRITER Looking around the dining room, I meet the gaze of a stranger. Within seconds of our eyes locking, I reach for my phone and start scrolling incessantly. As a solo diner, I hope my phone will make me appear occupied in a flurry of dining hall conversations. But moments later, I feel embarrassed for recoiling.

I wasn’t the only solo diner — in fact, I was surrounded by many solo diners. Why did I feel particularly ashamed about eating alone?

It’s common for us to frequent dining halls, alone, at weird hours — we’re college students with unpredictable schedules. Unfortunately, phrases such as “eating alone” and “table for one” strike universal fear not only in the minds of college students anticipating the next meal but also adults around the world.

These fears, while perfectly natural, can be partially overcome through reading. The internet, for instance, provides a rich, historic record of articles and blogs that empower the solo diner.

Headlines range from personal stories such as “The Best Way To Dine Alone” to “Table for One: The Art of Dining Alone,” which both portray dining alone as an inherent fear we can conquer and even master. People tend to agree that there is nothing wrong about eating alone once in a while.

In fact, seasoned solo diners such as Nevin Martell tell us that we should learn to embrace this aloneness, center ourselves in the act of eating, and enjoy the food more as a result. Martell assures diners that they can “be as talkative or as quiet as [we] like” and not “let people make [us] feel like a social outcast.”

We should not be ashamed of eating alone. Other cultures, in fact, have made eating alone a custom, depending on the cuisine, country, and size of the dining room. People can learn tips for eating alone by reading online articles, but these fears can only be conquered through the real experience of solo dining through different cultural contexts.

When I think about eating alone, I try to conjure images from my recent first trip to Japan. I thrived on solitude there. I wandered the streets, read silently on my commute to work, and feasted often as a single diner. I never felt the anxious rush of averted eyes or being an island amid raucous conversations. Most notably, my phone rarely surfaced during dinner.

Ichiran, a famous ramen chain I often visited, epitomizes low interaction dining by constructing “flavor concentration booths” for diners. Single booths feature foldable frames that can cover adjacent seating areas. A server will also hand diners their bowl through the drape in the private booth. According to Ichiran, they want to “encourage guests to dine alone and focus solely on the bowl of noodles in front of them.”

Japan prizes these methodically curated dining experiences. During the Shogun period (16391853), when Japan was virtually cut off from the world, it fostered a culture rooted in isolation and intense self-reflection. With a nod to their history and desire to destigmatize isolation, appreciation for solo food experiences has developed over time. Japan’s eating culture — ramen counters and sushi bar conveyor belts — embraced my singleness. For the first time, I felt at peace as a solo diner.

In other countries, eating alone carries more negative connotations, but solo dining continues to galvanize fans. In South Korea, technology, music, and media offer acceptable and mainstream ways of coping with lonely meals. Mukbang, a cultural phenomenon originating in Korea, features videos of people eating visually appealing foods and interacting with viewers through a live stream. According to cultural critic Jeff Yang, mukbang can attribute its beginnings to unmarried couples and Korea’s communal dining culture. It’s no surprise then that millions of Koreans tune into daily mukbang for virtual companionship during meals.

More recently, mukbang has spread to other countries in Asia such as China and Japan as well as the USA. However, tuning into mukbang in the USA is seen as a private activity, not to be shared and discussed with others. Korea is a prime example of how some practices associated with eating alone may not be fully understood across cultural boundaries.

Similarly, in many Chinese and Chinese-American restaurants, eating alone retains a certain stigmatization. From rotating lazy susans to the lack of bar space, Chinese restaurants make it explicit that they expect more than just a single diner. While emerging technologies, cookbooks, and internet videos have ushered in more acceptance for solo diners in Chinese culture, it is impossible to fully eliminate cultural dining rituals meant for more than one person. Nonetheless, eating alone anywhere, even in Chinese restaurants, can be made into an enjoyable dining experience.

Dining alone encompasses many factors — both controllable and uncontrollable. Our perspectives on dining alone can change after examining various restaurant cultures, the people around us, and the dining rooms environment. My perspective has certainly changed. Equipped with new dining experiences, I don’t feel a sense of shame in pulling out my phone or even making eye contact with a stranger. This is how I eat alone.

Contributing writer Jess L. Eng’s column, “Takeaways From Chinese America,” wrestles with the possibilities and boundaries of food culture from a third-generation Chinese Amer-

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FILM

Netflix’s ‘Paris Is Us’ Takes You Down the Rabbit Hole

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GABRIELLA M. LOMBARDO CONTRIBUTING WRITER Netflix’s French arthouse film “Paris Is Us,” directed by Elisabeth Vogler, is a dazzling but ultimately garbled millennial manifesto on the formation of identity in a trauma-stricken world. The first few minutes are deceptively straightforward: The protagonist, Anna (played by the enchanting Noémie Schmidt) meets Greg (Grégoire Isvarine) at a rave. He asks to touch her hair. They kiss. Suddenly, the music ceases and the two lovers engage in a voiceover dialogue about life being a simulation. Wait, what? This trippy duet signals the film’s wayward dive into the tension between illusion and reality that is thematically central to the story, but that Vogler never fully develops.

An abrupt jump in time lands us in the midst of their troubled relationship. Greg announces that he’s moving to Barcelona, but Anna refuses to go with him — after all, she likes her job at the little Parisian coffee shop. Luckily, she doesn’t get on that flight and it crashes en route to Barcelona. Or maybe she was on that flight. Was Greg on that flight? Did the crash even happen? Reality is now completely up for grabs. Once the plane crashes, any hope for a linear narrative is lost. The remainder of the film is a highly impressionistic collage of memories, dreams, and alternative timelines punctuated by many, many monologues in voiceover.

With the crash, the image spins out of control into a whirling picture of an empty theatre, with Anna now a bewigged and

bewildered platinum blonde audience member. Cut to a serene shot of Anna and Greg nuzzling each other on a sun-soaked beach, evidently in the happier, early days of their romance. But who can say? It’s really anyone’s guess whether each scene is a memory from bygone days, a leap into the future, or a glimpse of an alternate reality in which Anna and Greg live happily ever after.

Each of the vignettes is exquisite — evocative or surreal or, just plain pretty. But, alas, there is little connective tissue between them. One begins to wonder if there is a through line (which, admittedly, would be a welcome reprieve) or if yet another artsy film has fallen to queasy self-indulgence. There may be some glue that is holding together, however loosely, this assemblage of disparate images: The film’s fragmented structure is perhaps meant to mirror the fragmenting world it depicts. This much is evidenced by its title: “Paris Is Us” is reminiscent of the “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) solidarity movement in response to the 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, the Paris-based satirical magazine.

Indeed, the November 2015 Paris attacks figure prominently in the latter half of the film. Vogler shows Anna at vigils honoring the victims, with supporters carrying “Je suis Charlie” signs in the background. She runs through the police-lined streets of Paris as bombs go off and birds take flight around her. For a plot that doesn’t bother to unfold through a linear time progression, nightmarish visions certainly progressively become the norm.

Anna becomes the terror and trauma that surrounds her. She is

Paris. Paris is her.

Throughout the majority of the film, Vogler maintains the intense close-ups and dizzying camerawork of the opening scene at the rave, suggesting that everyday reality is as chaotic as a drugged-up night of clubbing. Remarkably, Vogler, who doubles as the film’s cinematographer, limits the gaze to Anna’s body throughout much of the film. The effect is one of mildly claustrophobic, titillating voyeurism. The close-ups of her freckled shoulder, her hair resting on her collarbone, her calves, and her left eye are enthralling. Her head bobs in and out of the frame like a buoy, and it’s clear that she’s but a fragile little vessel wracked by the tumult of the terrifying world around her.

However stunning the film’s cinematography, Vogler severely dilutes it with a mélange of incomprehensible monologues.

Touching upon everything from simulation theory to burn-itto-the-ground anarchism, Anna’s feverish voiceovers fizzle out quickly. At one moment she’s slamming herself against a concrete wall; at the next, she’s drowning in a flooded, but oh-so-chic Paris.

The whiplash is nauseating.

One thing, at least, is certain: In her wandering, Anna embodies the hopelessness that a politically fraught, terrorized Paris sustains. Hers is the resignation of an entire generation that knows it cannot change the world. In the final montage, the platinum blonde Anna passes through the curtain from the stage to the rave, from illusion to reality — or, what seems to be reality.

And it’s back to techno-fuelled hedonistic romping.

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‘The Enemy Within’ Delivers Fast-Paced High Stakes JENNA X. BAO CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Crime thrillers are never in short supply in the world of network television, but NBC’s “The Enemy Within” is off to an engaging start. The show’s premiere is full of action and suspense, with high production value to back up its ambitious stakes.

The most compelling part of “The Enemy Within” is its protagonist, Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter), a former top CIA operative who is arrested for treason within the thrilling first two minutes of the premier. Erica becomes “the most hated woman in America” for assisting terrorist Mikhail Tal in killing four CIA operatives, including FBI Agent Will Keaton’s (Morris Chestnut) fiancee, Laine Heffron. Three years later, Tal is actively committing acts of terror once again. The renewed hunt for Tal forces Will to work with Erica to prevent more deaths. There is nothing ingenious about this premise: NBC’s own “The Blacklist” revolves around the same notion of working with the enemy, and tragic personal connections to the target are essentially cliché for the genre. Yet the premiere blazes through the set up to get into the action, and the confident execution of the premiere promises a riveting ride.

By the end of the first episode, Erica’s character is easily the most developed. A myriad of tight close-ups on Carpenter’s face and eyes captures every microexpression and nuance, and she delivers a detailed performance that rapidly humanizes the protagonist, a national traitor. Erica’s dual personas of a cold and calculating CIA operative and a loving mother ground her character while also leaving plenty of opportunities for deception — a definite asset for a show of this nature. Erica reveals the reasoning behind her treason by the end of the first episode, which writers may have mistakenly believed was necessary to win over viewer support for the character, as the mystery around the protagonist was one of the most compelling questions of the premise. That being said, every other character on the show is a constant reminder that Erica may be lying, so the possibility

for another reveal is certainly still open.

Unfortunately, all the other characters fall short in the premiere. The only other character given a chance at development is Will, but he falls into the archetype of the driven and competent FBI agent. He only shines in his antagonistic interactions with Erica, since it is the layered power dynamics of their relationship that fuel the premiere’s stand-out scenes. Writer Ken Woodruff tries to develop empathy for Will as he continues to mourn his fiancee, but if anything, Will’s constant loss-fueled aggression and furniture-tossing make him appear one-dimensional.

Furthermore, the fact that everyone working on this case seems to have conflicts of interest is slightly concerning. No one else on the team has enough personality to be memorable, but perhaps the ensemble will be fleshed out as the season continues.

The show shines in its cinematography and direction. To build suspense as the characters pursue Tal, short scenes and rapid cuts maintain a constant sense of pursuit that propels the narrative forward and demands the viewer’s attention. This also makes the slow-motion used in the premiere’s most emotional scene particularly effective. While it does build up intensity, the prevalence of close-ups on faces begins to feel a tad unnecessary after some time.

The show pulls no punches with the action, featuring an explosion and several assassinations right after its opening sequence, and raw scenes of violence back up the premise’s high stakes. Suspense mounts throughout the episode and does not let up, which one can only hope will continue throughout the season’s 12 episodes. With a relatively unoriginal premise and longway to go for its characters’ development, the premiere of “The Enemy Within” is far from perfect, but it is a thrilling ride with a strong dynamic between the main characters and capable visual direction that reveals serious potential for the adventure about to unfold.

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SECURITAS FROM PAGE 1

Longwood Security Guards Face Transfers in November 2018, they have not been terminated, but Securitas managers offered positions in Cambridge that were incompatible with noted personal accommodations. As a result, they are without work and pay even while still employed.

In Yarde’s case, Connolly offered her late night shifts, which she said could not take because she has young children, according to emails Yarde provided to The Crimson. In further communications, Connolly also offered Yarde various other shifts like weekends and afternoons, but she turned them down because of childcare and religious commitments. Since being transferred, Yarde said she has had to work elsewhere part time.

Last September, Connolly reached out to her and informed her of a “long term turning permanent” opportunity, according to text messages provided by Yarde. She said that after Connolly’s offer, she quit a nursing home job she had taken in the interim, but about a month after assuming the new Securitas position, the post was eliminated.

Castignetti, the other Medical School guard, said she worked overnight shifts for Securitas for six years to eventually earn a daytime shift at the school’s Warren Alpert Building. But after four years in her new position, the client — an unnamed Medical School administrator — requested a non-disciplinary transfer for Castignetti to the Cambridge campus.

Castignetti alleged her transfer was orchestrated by Securitas management as retaliation for requesting time off for a medical condition, and that Harvard administrators simply went along with Securitas’ request.

AirPods Students Participate Stolen in Annual Lobby Day Near Thayer STATE HOUSE FROM PAGE 1

She said Barkowski, Securitas’ account manager at the Medical School, was unhappy with the amount of time Castignetti requested to take off because she has fibromyalgia, a disorder that causes patients to feel chronic musculoskeletal pain and fatigue.

After Securitas management refused to give her Fridays off, Castignetti said she secured the extra day off through the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows workers up to twelve weeks off each year for medical and family reasons.

“I had tried to get Friday’s off with just a doctor’s note and they refused me and then I went through FMLA and got it that way,” she said. “So [Barkowski] wasn’t happy that I was getting the Fridays off.”

She alleges that Barkowski asked Robert A. Dickson, director of campus services at Harvard Medical School, to request Castignetti’s transfer. She says Securitas management were aware that there were no open daytime slots in Cambridge despite knowing that she could no longer take overnight shifts because of her condition.

Dickson declined to comment, writing in an email that “this is a Securitas employment related matter.”

Gina Vild, a Harvard Medical School spokesperson, declined to comment on all the allegations against the school, referring to Dickson’s response.

Castignetti technically remains an employee of Securitas and collects health benefits, but said she has only worked four days since November, covering a short detail during winter recess. When she is not assigned to shifts, she said she does not receive a salary, and does not expect to find a new long-term

assignment at Harvard at this point.

“They transferred me knowing that there’s no day jobs in Cambridge because Arlene [Yarde]’s been waiting for two years. How am I going to get a position if she’s been waiting two years?” Castignetti said.

Non-disciplinary transfers have been a topic of conversation in recent contract negotiations between Securitas and its workers’ union. Before 2016, Securitas was not required to make any effort to understand why its clients asked for these transfers. As of 2016, Securitas employees can still be put under non-disciplinary transfer with or without cause when the University requests so, but Securitas must now make a “good faith effort” to understand why, according to the contracts.

“We were proud to win improvements in our language about non-disciplinary transfers when we negotiated with Securitas in 2016,” Roxana Rivera, the vice president of 32BJ SEIU, wrote in an emailed statement.

Castignetti, however, said the “good faith effort” provision has not brought transparency to her case.

Rivera wrote that the union represents its members in non-disciplinary transfers on a case by case basis, and tries to ensure they can remain employed at Harvard.

“We work hard to help our members secure the schedules and job accommodations they need to maintain this employment, while facilitating a positive working relationship between the employer and the worker,” she wrote. jamie.bikales@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

Phillips Brooks House Association, and the Harvard College Democrats joined hundreds of other Mass. community activists advocating for immigrant rights.

“It was really empowering to see a lot of different community organizations from the Boston area come together and push for immigrant issues at the state level,” said Diego Navarrete ’21, co-director of Act on a Dream and a Crimson Editorial board member.

“There’s a lot of emphasis on national immigration reform and national immigration policy.” ​​​The day’s programming began with a training session entitled “Lobbying 101,” where participants learned how to lobby legislators.

At 11 a.m., local and national political advocates — including Carol Rose, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Massachusetts, and U.S. Representative Ayanna S. Pressley (D-Mass.) — took to the stage to speak to Immigrants’ Day attendees.

Pressley focused on the need for Massachusetts to prioritize the “humanity of immigrants.”

“We have 6,000 Salvadorans and 5,000 Haitians living with temporary status,” she said. “And let me be clear, there is nothing temporary about the contributions of the people and the lives that they have built here and the families that are rooted here and their contributions for decades.”

Doris Landaverde, a Harvard custodian with Temporary Protected Status, shared her story about being an immigrant in the U.S. over the past 18 years during the event.

She said she hopes Mass. legislators passes the Work and

Family Mobility Act, a bill that would allow undocumented people to apply for a driver’s license.

“A license is very important to me. I work in Harvard University, and I have to drive one hour every day. My schedule is 6 in the morning, and I have no commuter rail to help me to bring me in the morning,” she said in an interview after her speech.

“We are workers. We are the people who clean the university. Like today, it snowed, but we had still had to be here in the morning to clean.”

During the remainder of the event, participants joined thematic break-out groups designed for them to learn about specific pieces of legislation in the Mass. State House, including the Work and Family Mobility Act. Several Harvard students visited the offices of State Representative Harold P. Naughton, Jr. and State Senator Michael O. Moore to specifically lobby for the Safe Communities Act, which would restrict federal immigration intervention within the state and its municipalities.

Jeremy A. Stepansky ’21, the legislative director of the Harvard Democrats who attended the event, talked about the importance of student lobbying efforts.

“It’s incredibly important as Harvard students and as members of the Massachusetts community, who are both allies and people directly affected by state and federal immigration policies,” Stepansky said. “This is just an issue that really needs all of our voices.” elizabeth.guo@thecrimson.com amanda.su@thecrimson.com

HUHS FROM PAGE 1

HUHS, BGLTQ Office Look at Mental Health showed that BGLTQ students were more likely to face mental health issues, according to Chief of Counseling and Mental Health Services Barbara Lewis.

“He [Barreira] had noticed that the BGLTQ community — it wasn’t surprising — was at higher risk. Maybe had needs that weren’t being met,” Lewis said.

HUHS then passed on the data to the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, where Director Sheehan D. Scarborough ’07 joined forces with Lewis and Barrei-

ra to create a student group that would review the survey data and design an intervention, Lewis said.

“We want students to come with ideas and make suggestions,” Lewis said. “I know that I have met with a couple of students who are actually interns with Sheehan, and I think they have had some great ideas, so we’re just trying to formalize that.”

Scarborough said he believes gathering student input is cru-

cial, referencing productive conversations he has had with

Our interns are amazing.

Sheehan D. Scarborough ’07 Office of BGLTQ Student Life Director

Office of BGLTQ Student Life interns.

“Our interns are amazing,

they’re fantastic advocates,” Scarborough said.

“So a lot of these conversations that I have been having have been informed by what I’ve been hearing from students and wanting to make sure that the concerns that they’re bringing up get the visibility that they deserve.”

“I’m most looking forward to partnering with students in thinking about their own experiences and how they can really inform those experiences to

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make them better — to improve them not only for themselves, but for the entire student body,” he said.

“Students — you all have such innovative ideas about your experiences here on campus, and to be able to incorporate those directly into the services that are provided for mental health — that’s exciting.” isabel.isselbacher@thecrimson.com michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com tamar.sarig@thecrimson.com

By EMA R. SCHUMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard University Police Department is investigating a male Harvard undergraduate’s allegation that he was robbed of his Apple AirPods in Harvard Yard on Sunday, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano wrote in an email to Harvard affiliates Monday.

The victim and another student were walking in the Yard near Thayer Hall when two unidentified males approached the students, according to Catalano.

Catalano’s email stated that one of the unidentified men allegedly asked to see one of the student’s AirPods “in order to determine if his charger was working properly.” Upon request, the victim handed one AirPod to the man, who then demanded the second AirPod. The victim repeatedly declined and then asked for the first one back.

The other unidentified man allegedly “purposely and physically” stepped in between the student and the man holding his AirPod to prevent the student from retrieving his property. Out of concern for what may happen if he did not comply, the student handed over his second AirPod to the men, who then fled the scene, Catalano wrote.

The incident comes months after a series of burglaries were reported in first floor rooms in Wigglesworth and Holworthy Halls — two freshman dorms located in Harvard Yard. In these earlier thefts, the offender or offenders climbed through windows and stole laptops, wallets, and various other Apple products.

In addition to Sunday’s robbery, two incidents of AirPods theft were reported to HUPD in the month of February, according to HUPD crime logs.

In the email, Catalano encouraged University affiliates to take precautions when navigating Harvard’s campus, which is located in an urban setting that he said shares many of the crimes and safety issues existent in other cities.

“Persons should avoid talking on cell phones, listening to music, or walking too close to persons unnecessarily,” he wrote. ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

OP-ED

Harvard Hears Us, But is it Really Listening?

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he University recently announced that on April 2 — the first day undergraduates will be able to access the 2019 Association of American Universities’ sexual conduct climate survey — Harvard will also hold its first ever gender equity summit. Entitled “Harvard Hears You: The 2019 Summit for Gender Equality,” the summit brings together the University’s Title IX Office and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs to host events around gender equality.

The summit is a laudable and important effort, especially as it convenes influential public figures, such as Laverne Cox, and administrators together to discuss this issue. Gender inequality continues to trouble our campus, as it negotiates a number of allegations, investigations, and climate-improvement initiatives related to sexual misconduct and gender inclusivity; this is a significant step in bringing attention to this conversation.

Nevertheless, we cannot ignore several problems with this in its initial stages. As described in the announcement, the summit purports to address not only campus issues, but national and global gender equity as well. While such large scale issues are important to discuss, we feel it is more pressing for the University to address the vast and varied instances of gender inequality on our campus. The conference threatens to become less effective if it stretches its focus on the glob-

al implications of gender equity.

Instead, it should seek to discuss localized issues and actionable methods to combat gender inequality here at Harvard.

In addition, we feel the intentional alignment of the summit and the second iteration of the AAU’s sexual conduct climate survey seem too convenient for comfort. Such a concurrence may undermine the genuine intentions of the University in spearheading this inaugural event. The University should continue to pursue discussion and action against

The University, both in its organization of this summit and in general, needs to do a considerable amount of work before they can truthfully claim that they not only hear us, but are really listening too. gender inequality, even when there exists no impending campus climate evaluation.

As administrators continue to plan and organize this event, we hope to see women of color from the administration included in the available list of speakers.

The summit offers an enormous opportunity to address the intersectionality of gender by including speakers and topics

that address the theme from diverse perspectives.

Laverne Cox’s participation demonstrates the University’s commitment to thinking about gender in a broad and nuanced way. One speaker, however, is not enough. To avoid tokenism and over-simplification, the University should involve a more diverse group of its own faculty and staff in this event. Actively bringing diverse voices to the table and podium should continue to be a priority of the University, both in its more public events — like the summit — and in other less-visible initiatives.

Overall, we commend the University in its work to further discussion of gender equity. Holding large scale conversations is an important first step, and we look forward to further information on the summit as it is planned.

Still, the University, both in its organization of this summit and in general, needs to do a considerable amount of work before they can truthfully claim that they not only hear us, but are really listening too.

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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Breaking Latinx Gender Roles Zoe D. Ortiz and Ruben E. Reyes Jr. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA

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uben: Bad Bunny sits on the screen in front of me, in a robe, his ears pierced, a stud on his nose.

He’s getting his nails done, a dark black shade painted over his cuticles, and he seems absolutely unbothered as it happens. Suddenly, Bad Bunny is a girl. Suddenly, Bad Bunny is himself again and he’s being kissed on the cheeks by men and women.

I sit there, wondering how he makes it so easy to be comfortable with his body, how he’s able to release a music video like that knowing that a deluge of questions will follow: Is Bad Bunny gay or bisexual? Why would he paint his nails, wear that outfit, act so out of line with what a man should be?

I wonder how he handles the nonstop barrage of questions, how he finds comfort when the queries and assumptions do not stop.

Zoe: On the other side of reggaeton, is the Latina. She is fierce, she is powerful, she is beautiful, and she is talented.

From Becky G to Natti Natasha, she is represented by successful women. She produces catchy, hip-shaking songs and has a curvy body to go along with it. She is comfortable in her own skin and she is the antithesis of what I grew up thinking I could be.

For me, sexuality has always been a sort of forbidden fruit. I was meant to act

I sit there, wondering how he makes it so easy to be comfortable with his body, how he’s able to release a music video like that knowing that a deluge of questions will follow: Is Bad Bunny gay or bisexual? Why would he paint his nails, wear that outfit, act so out of line with what a man should be? like a lady, to wear tops that weren’t too revealing, and to hide my body from prying gazes.

Even more, my body wasn’t the curvaceous replica of Becky G and Natti Natasha.

So, in a family of beautiful, curvy, yet slender Latinas, baggy clothes given to

me at Christmas were usually the most “flattering.”

R: When it comes to understanding my masculinity, Harvard is worlds apart from my life in California. Latinx culture is still obsessed with gender roles.

There’s limited versions of what a man can look and act like. Here, at college, I can imagine new versions of my masculinity, news way of understanding myself and my gender.

This is not to say that homophobia or transphobia do not exist on this campus.

People’s gender presentation, their bodies, and sexuality are constantly policed here. The “liberal bubble” does not protect us from bigotry. But compared to a community so invested in familiar labels and gender norms, college has offered some freedom to begin shedding my shame, to no longer feel insecure about my choices or the way I understand my masculinity.

Z: The first time I wore a crop-top at Thanksgiving, my grandma pulled it down so quickly, I was immediately filled with shame. In college, I was free of familial expectations for the first time and financial independence allowed me to dress myself in what made me feel beautiful.

Yet, in that moment at Christmas, I felt like too much and not enough. I wasn’t the girl that was meant to wear that shirt. I was showing too much, when I was taught less was more.

Without the right clothes, I was failing to be the young “lady” in modest clothing my grandma wanted me to be.

Without the curvy body, I was failing to be the “sexy woman” society deemed to be inherently Latina.

In that moment, I didn’t feel beautiful. Swallowed by my own insecurity, I felt lost between two molds I never completely fit into.

R: Feelings of insecurity, low selfworth, and stomach-churning self hatred do come out of the the unnecessary policing of people’s sexuality.

Yet our adherence and unquestioned adoration of gender roles also come with corporeal consequences.

Women in El Salvador are facing lifetime sentences for miscarriages because of the country’s total ban on abortions.

Young BGLTQ folks are taking their own lives after their peers harass them for how they choose to express themselves.

Lives, not just emotions, are at stake.

Z: But a Latina is not only policed by her body or physical sexuality.

She is policed in who she can love and who she is. It’s the way family members ask, “¿y tú novio?” at Christmas, assuming a Latina is half of a heterosexual pair.

Bad Bunny is not some savior.

He’s not rewriting the book on gender and sexuality, and has gotten oddly defensive after people implied he might not be straight. The revolution will not happen in reggaeton.

Or how the contributions of trans-Latinas are ignored.

The Latinx community is machista, heteronormative, and homophobic.

In order to change it we must constantly push back against the ways our community attempts to fit everyone into molds that should have never been created.

I can only hope that the next time I wear a crop top I won’t feel the weight of two opposing expectations on my shoulders.

I can only hope that one day, I’ll just be Zoe, a Latina who wears crop tops sometimes, because they make her feel beautiful.

R: Bad Bunny is not some savior. He’s not rewriting the book on gender and sexuality, and has gotten oddly defensive after people implied he might not be straight. The revolution will not happen in reggaeton.

Yet any time I scroll past a picture of Bad Bunny in an outfit that would’ve gotten me bullied as a child, I feel some hope.

Watching his seemingly unhinged joy, I allow myself to imagine a future where Latinx families will abandon everything we’ve internalized about gender and sexuality.

I hear a ringing in my ear of a day when we all sing together, “no hay nada mal, estamos bien, estamos bien.”

—Ruben E. Reyes Jr. ’19, a former Crimson Editorial Chair, is a History & Literature concentrator in Leverett House. Zoe D. Ortiz ’19, a former Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House.

By PATRICK C. BARHAM

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arvard men’s basketball team started off this year by heading down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to play a game against the University of North Carolina. That same UNC team would go on to rank in the top ten for most of the season so far, and played top-ranked Duke University last month. The rivalry between these two schools, whose campuses are only a few miles from each other, is historic and dates back almost 100 years. It’s such an important rivalry that even former President Barack Obama was in attendance at the game.

Even though coaches for these teams are paid handsomely, those on the field and on the court are not. Rules governing college sports dictate that none of the student-athletes can receive any compensation, but given the amount of time that students dedicate to their passions, this has to change. If schools are going to require that their athletes put in the equivalent of a full time job in the practice room and in games, we must compensate our athletes accordingly.

Given the popularity of the Duke-UNC game, Obama-level connections might be needed in order to watch in person. Hours before tip-off, the lowest resale prices of tickets shot up into the thousands of dollars. If someone wanted to buy the tickets at face value, though, they’d be out of luck since those sold out swiftly after being posted online.

Traditionally, it’s love for the game and a tradition of good performance by both UNC and Duke basketball that drives demand for seats. But this year, one of the players is driving much of the interest: Zion L. Williamson.

Williamson, a “freshman phenom” at Duke, is leading stat sheets and driving up ticket sales.

Despite this, he will receive no financial compensation for the time that he remains a college athlete because of rules governing collegiate competition.

Other teams are also raking in profits with regular sellouts, merchandise licensing agreements, and conference television deals that go well into the hundreds of millions of dollars. That money is used by schools to compete and stay relevant.

Across the country, there’s an active arms race of coaching contracts that’s pushing coaches’ salaries up into nearly the tens of millions of dollars.

These college coaching contracts now rival the contracts extended to coaches for professional teams. In fact, Duke’s coach, Michael W. Krzyzewski, is getting almost $9 million this year alone for his services.

With coaching contracts in the six and seven digits, the college sports world is looking less like an amateur or friendly arena for college students to also engage in athletics and more like a training ground for professional teams, especially in the big-ticket sports of football and men’s basketball.

Yet despite the professionally-comparable sums paid to coaches, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body for collegiate sports, does not view its student athletes as professional athletes and therefore restricts them from receiving any monetary compensation whatsoever. The NCAA argues that athletes cannot be paid because “maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority.”

The NCAA, of which Harvard is a member, essentially expects players to physically exert themselves at a full time job and carry on their obligations as a full time student simultaneously. And since these student-athletes are often putting in 40-hour weeks between lifts, practices, and games, little time is left for problem sets, papers, office hours, and other academic tasks at the College. In order to make up for this, some colleges help their athletes skate by on little work.

A few years ago at UNC, news of “one of the worst academic fraud schemes in college sports history” detailed that the school offered a “shadow curriculum” with fake classes and easy grades to make sure student-athletes were receiving the grades necessary to remain academically eligible to compete for their schools. After the scandal came to light, the school received no punishment and lost no funds or scholarships; the real losers were the student-athletes who were promised and denied an education so that they could continue their professional level of athletics on the field. This point becomes doubly apparent upon considering that athletes are often putting their bodies — and therefore their livelihood — on the line, every game. Early in the game, that same star player that attracted so much attention before the game, Williamson, went down with an injury and did not return for the rest of the game.

The NCAA’s stated goal is to “emphasize academic opportunities and responsibilities of student-athletes in their college experience” and to “encourage student-athletes to enrich the experience of being a student-athlete by applying what is learned in athletics to their course of study and ultimately, to their career development,” but in these respects the governing body is badly failing their athletes and schools are failing their students. Our own school is a member of the NCAA, and as such, Harvard needs to take an active role in advocating for the governing body to establish real limits and definitions to what it means to be a student-athlete. More importantly, we need to make sure that the NCAA is enforcing these limits, ensuring that each member school is prioritizing academics. While I am confident that student-athletes at Harvard are not having their educations adversely affected by their athletic participation, this must also be the case around the country.

If we don’t change this system then the NCAA is nothing but a pipeline to professional sports.

And if that’s the case, then we should compensate our athletes accordingly and ensure that student-athletes are respected, not exploited, by the colleges they compete for.

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

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Mankiw to Leave Economics 10

Harvard Conducts Pulse Survey

to The Crimson that he chose to step back from Ec 10 to pursue “new pedagogical challenges.”

He also wrote that he plans to take a sabbatical next year and return to teach in 2020.

“After 14 years as ec 10 course head, as well as one year long ago as a section leader, I decided it was time to pass the baton,” he wrote.

“Teaching ec 10 has been a wonderful experience, but I am looking forward to new pedagogical challenges.”

“Looking ahead, I would like to have smaller discussion-based classes, such as the freshman seminar I have been teaching,” he added.

Economics lecturer Thomas H. Baranga, who serves as head section leader for the class, said Mankiw has had an “enormous influence” over the structure of

Ec 10 and “frames” the course around his textbook. Students are required to purchase Mankiw’s textbook for $132.

“Ec 10 in many ways reflects his missions of the principles of economics that people should

I decided it was time to pass the baton.

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be exposed to in their preliminary class,” Baranga said.

Baranga added that the department has not made any concrete plans to alter the structure of the course after Mankiw’s departure, but that the new course head will likely have some liberty to change the course as they

see fit — with the department’s approval.

“Whoever is ultimately going to be course head will have their own opinion about pedagogy and the most effective way to teach undergraduate introductory economics,” Baranga said. “They will be given a lot of support and free range to shape the course that way.”

Mankiw wrote in his email to The Crimson that he told Economics Chair Jeremy C. Stein and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeffrey A. Miron he intended to leave Ec 10 around a month ago.

A committee of senior faculty members in the department began the hunt for Mankiw’s replacement immediately afterwards, according to Miron.

Miron wrote in an email that the committee is working “in

consultation with the appropriate Deans” to choose a new head

Ec 10 is very much one of the flagship courses of the department.

Thomas H. Baranga Economics Lecturer

and hopes to make a selection “within a few weeks.”

Baranga said the department is taking the search for a replacement “very seriously.”

“Ec 10 is very much one of the flagship courses of the department,” Baranga said. “They’re concerned to find the best possible people to take the course on for the next 14 or 15 years.”

Research.

John S. Wilson, Jr. — senior advisor and strategist to the president on diversity and inclusion initiatives — noted that the survey will allow leaders across Harvard’s various schools to understand perspectives on di­

There is in this process a healthy respect for the “every tub culture” at Harvard University.

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versity for those under their jurisdiction and amend their leadership approaches to address points raised by respondents.

“There is in this process a healthy respect for the ‘every tub culture’ at Harvard University and we believe that this approach respects that appropriately,” Wilson said, referrring to 19th-century University President John T. Kirkland’s famous saying, “It is our rule here for every tub to stand on its own bottom.”

Faust created the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force in 2016 to evaluate Harvard’s efforts to create an inclusive environment and recommend

improvements to existing programming. The group focused on four topics: demographics of faculty, staff, and students across the University, the “fabric of the institution” and its culture, academic resources available to students, and diversity organizations on campus.

Wilson — a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing body — said the legacy of Faust’s initiative on inclusion and belonging lives on with current University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

Wilson also said he believes that the survey will foster a “new set of conversations” on campus and is optimistic that it will lead to an improvement for Harvard students, faculty, and staff.

“I think minimally and thankfully, this effort is going to lead to a new set of conversations at Harvard University,” Wilson said. “And I believe amazing things can happen when you stimulate a new set of conversations, especially about a matter like this and that’s what we’re most hopeful about.”

Administrators began publicizing the survey with flyers posted around campus this week that read “10 questions.

3 minutes. Your Voice” and included a link to the online form. alexandra.chaidez@thecrimson.com aidan.ryan@thecrimson.com

The Heights Opens in Smith Center

By ELLEN M. BURNSTEIN and SYDNIE M. COBB CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Excitement peaked at the Smith Campus Center on Monday afternoon as Harvard affiliates celebrated the grand opening of the building’s newest restaurant, The Heights.

Located on the top floor of the Smith Center — which serves as a study space for Harvard ID-holders — The Heights allows University affiliates and their guests to dine on an Asian and European- inspired menu while admiring sweeping views of Cambridge and Boston. ­

Our goal is to deliver an elevated food experience, and I don’t mean that because we’re on the top floor.

Joe Santos Executive Chef, The Heights

The Heights adds to a plethora of ground-floor offerings, including Bon Me, Whole Heart Provisions, and Saloniki, which are accessible to the broader Cambridge community.

Joe Santos and Rolando Abaquin — executive chefs of The Heights — said in a press release they were drawn to the Smith Campus Center as a prime restaurant location because it represents a “new and innovative chapter for the University.”

“Our goal is to deliver an elevated food experience, and I don’t mean that because we’re on the top floor,” Santos said in the release. “We want to take familiar favorites to a new level.”

Director of Common Spaces Julie Crites encouraged Har-

vard students and affiliates to visit the new restaurant and experience its variety of food options in the press release.

“We hope students, faculty, staff, and alumni will appreciate this new space as both a quick and relaxing lunch spot as well as a unique destination for evening drinks, snacks, and dinner,” Crites said.

Santos said in an interview that the eclectic menu helps foster a “relaxing” environment.

“The menu is contemporary American, or a mix of what America is now. I’m Asian-American, but I also grew up up with a lot of Latin Americans and Caribbeans,” Santos said. “It’s very comforting food with a twist here and there.”

Santos also said the opening event had a good turnout despite the snowstorm that hit the Boston area overnight. Although Cambridge Public Schools were closed, the University remained open for normal operations on Monday.

Fatema H. Elbakoury, a student at the Harvard Divinity School, said she will be a returning patron at The Heights.

“I saw they had sandwiches, but I wasn’t hungry enough,” Elbakoury said. “Then I saw the fries, and they were really good.

They had the perfect amount of spice.”

“You [won’t] be able to find anything like it on campus,” she added.

The Heights operates from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

On March 26, the restaurant will introduce a cocktail menu Tuesday’s through Friday’s from 5:00-11:30 p.m. with dinner service to come in the near future. ellen.burnstein@thecrimson.com sydnie.cobb@thecrimson.com

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Despite two losses this weekend, Harvard is all but guaranteed a spot in the Ivy League Tournament two weeks from now, as either a No. 3 or No.4 seed.

Harvard elevated itself to be tied for first place after sweeping Princeton-Penn and seeing Yale lose to Columbia on Saturday.

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Harvard Starts Season at .500 After Four Contests

By EDWARD W. CARR CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Harvard women’s lacrosse team kicked off its season with a 14-6 win against the University of New Hampshire on Feb. 16, followed by a 17-6 loss to Boston College last Saturday and an 1812 win against the University of Massachusetts last Wednesday.

In the victory over UNH, the Crimson’s sophomore goalkeeper, Grace Rotundo, made six saves on the night, keeping the Wildcats’ lively offense at bay. To complement the team’s stellar defense, senior attacker Nicole Baiocco matched her career-high, scoring three goals.

The midfield also chipped in on offense with sophomore Tessa Queri, freshman Grace Hulslander, and senior Caroline Garrity tacking on two scores apiece. Senior attacker Keeley MacAfee pitched in as well, scoring her 100th career-goal in the contest.

The win is not without precedent. With the two teams meeting on the field once a season since 2016, the win represents Harvard’s fourth consecutive in the series.

While Harvard won this season’s rendition of the game, the first goal of the Crimson’s season went to the Wildcats. Harvard was not deterred though as it responded with four of its own, one of which was Huslander’s first career point.

The Wildcats soon followed with another goal, but Garrity, Baiocco, and junior attacker Hannah Keating were quick to counter, cementing the Crimson’s lead with a goal each, expanding the point margin to five and the score to 7-2 in Harvard’s favor.

The second half began with MacAfee and Baiocco each scoring a goal to give Harvard additional breathing room.

UNH still had life and began to lay the foundations of a come-

back rally. Three quick, consecutive goals stole the momentum only to be reclaimed by the visitors who rocketed five more of their to clinch the game. Of these, Queri scored two, while MacAfee, Hulslander, and Garrity each tallied one, with MacAfee’s being her fourth of the game.

Harvard set the bar high in their first game of the season, and the team is ready for the challenge.

“We will be playing top-tier opponents all spring, so opening with a win was great for team morale,” MacAfee said. “I think we won because our coaches prepped us all week leading up to the game. They kept reminding us that we’re now in the fullswing of season, and we need to be ready to compete with other teams.”

MacAfee was the star of the game, scoring four of the fourteen goals and earning her 100th career-goal.

“In all honesty, it’s a testament to my teammates and coaches pushing me to improve every day,” MacAfee said. “I couldn’t ask for a better, more selfless group of teammates or more dedicated coaches.”

Harvard wasn’t so fortunate in the next game. The team played at BC this past Saturday, who were 3-0 going into the game. Although Harvard had momentum from the win against UNH, the Crimson faltered by a 17-6 margin.

BC scored six consecutive goals to start the game. Harvard fought back, with Garrity, Keating and sophomore attacker Madison Conklin each scoring a goal within fewer than seven minutes. The Eagles were still comfortably ahead, and scored six more insurance goals to end the half. With plenty of time to reverse course, Harvard entered the second half and posted three goals, two earned by Garrity and one by Katie Mul-

KEELEY-EYED Senior attacker Keeley MacAfee notched the 100th goal of her Harvard Field Hockey career in a contest against the University of New Hampshire Feb. 16. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

doon. Unfortunately, the effort was fruitless, as the game ended 17-6 favoring BC. Garrity played exceptionally, earning her fifth goal of the season and leading the team in goals. Her three scores are the most she’s ever tallied in a game, and she is on track to surpass her career-high 11 goals in a season.

Goalie Rotundo also played impressively, making eight saves in the cage against the ag-

gressive Eagles’ offense.

Harvard came back home for their next game, beating UMass 18-12 to regain their winning record.Rotundo played another great game in the cage, recording a career-high 15 saves against the Minutewomen.

Although the Crimson started the game roughly, giving up three goals, the team quickly recovered, with Garrity and Muldoon scoring two goals each and Conklin, Hulslander, and

MacAfee each scoring four.

The team played an excellent second half, outscoring UMass 8-3. Marley Jenkins, a senior who scored her first goal of the season against the Minutewomen, accredited this second half to Harvard’s defense.

“We buckled-down on defense and came up with some key draw controls that resulted in goals,” Jenkins said.

“Once we were on a run, UMass couldn’t stop us. It’s always ex-

citing to score and the game was pretty back and forth at times, so it felt great to help the team move our momentum forward with a goal.”

Jenkins said the team is looking to be more offensive in future games to create opportunities for more goals, a chance they will get in their next game on Wednesday against Boston University. edward.carr@thecrimson.com.

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Harvard Bests Penn, Clinches Ivy League Tourney Berth

By AMIR MAMDANI CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

It felt like poetic justice.

Nearly a year after Harvard men’s basketball’s 2018 campaign ended in the Palestra at the hands of Penn in the Ivy League Championship, the Crimson fed off of a sold-out crowd at Lavietes Pavilion to sweep the season series from the Quakers by a 59-53 score, clinching a spot in this season’s

Ivy League Tournament in the process.

Harvard (15-9, 8-3 Ivy) rode its depth and balance to its second win over Penn in as many weeks, as four players scored in double figures to help the Crimson secure an Ivy Madness berth, and severely damage the Quakers’ chances of qualifying in the process.

“One of the things that helps us keep pushing and keep fighting during a game is that memo-

ry of Philly last year,” said sophomore guard Rio Haskett. “Remembering how it felt, every time we see them, we just try to give it back to them.”

Although Penn (16-11, 4-7) led for much of the first half, Harvard refused to be deterred, coming up with stop after stop on the defensive side of the floor to earn one of the grittiest victories of the season. Despite AJ Brodeur’s 24 point performance, the Quakers were un-

ALL I SEE IS THREE Sophomore Reed Farley celebrates after a Crimson three. Harvard converted nine triples on the night. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

able to break through Harvard’s stout defense down the stretch, and were left to rue their missed opportunity to climb into the final spot in the top four of the Ancient Eight. Penn was held to just 34 percent shooting for the game and fell to sixth in the league standings — especially impressive for the hosts, considering they were missing star defender Justin Bassey.

“Very happy with how we defended,” Harvard Coach Tommy Amaker said. “I thought we played with a great deal of energy, and we fought them, which we needed to do.”

The Crimson played with the toughness and poise of an Ivy League contender, and were unfazed by several cold streaks on the offensive end.

On two separate occasions, Harvard went over six minutes without a field goal, but relied heavily upon the crucial performances of sophomores Danilo Djuricic and Haskett, whose play off of the bench was the difference in a game lacking much offensive rhythm.

“I thought Mario and Danilo, and the kids that came off our bench for us did a tremendous job,” Coach Amaker said. “I was really pleased with that.”

Djuricic and Haskett both drilled three triples apiece, coming up with 10 and 11 points respectively, all the more important on a night when junior guard Bryce Aiken struggled to weather waves of Penn defenders that Quakers’ coach Steve Donohue sent in his direction. Just 13 days after Aiken’s heroics carried the Crimson to a thrilling overtime win at the Palestra, Penn seemed determined to make anyone other than No. 11 beat them.

Harvard was more than willing to oblige, riding Djuricic, Haskett, and a game-high 12 points and 10 rebounds from

first-year Noah Kirkwood.

Kirkwood’s double-double was the first of his career, as the Northfield Mount Hermon product led all players on both teams in rebounding.

“That’s what we need him to do, that’s what he’s expected to do,” Haskett said. “He’s tough, he’s really coming into his own, and maturing really fast.”

With the Quakers’ Ivy League Tournament hopes hanging by a thread, Coach Donohue employed a very deep rotation, using 12 players in the hopes of wearing out Harvard’s eight-man rotation. Sparsely used center Mark Jackson saw his first action in Ivy League competition, playing for the first time since November. The 7’3 sophomore from Salt Lake City towered over Harvard’s Kale Catchings, but only played two minutes, scoring one point.

For the second straight game, Catchings saw significant run, after his career-high 16 points at Yale last Saturday.

Catchings, Kirkwood, and fellow freshman Mason Forbes all played at least 13 minutes, and demonstrated Coach Amaker’s confidence in his first-year players, choosing to ride the hot hand over the more experienced bench options of Henry Welsh and Robert Baker.

“It speaks to the team that we have, and the word sacrifice that we’ve embraced all year,” Coach Amaker said. “You know what, those guys could be ready to play possibly tomorrow.”

After a see-saw second half, the final minutes saw tense defensive stops carry the hosts to victory. One of the most understated plays of the game occured with 16 seconds, when Djuricic alertly tipped a missed free-throw back into the hands of Christian Juzang’s waiting arms, all but sealing the game and serving as a testament to

the Brampton, Ontario., native’s willingness to make the gritty play for his team.

“The biggest thing for us, we’re such a deep team that everyone has to be ready, stay positive, and when your name gets called you go out and contribute and give it your all,” Djuricic said. “We particularly try to focus in on defense first, and let the offense come to us.”

Clinching an Ivy League Tournament berth was essential for a Harvard team that will hope to undo the heartbreak of last season’s Championship.

Doing so by knocking off the very same Penn team that defeated the Crimson last March, for the second time this season, was icing on the cake. The Quakers, who hadn’t won in Cambridge since February of 2012, will enter the final three games of their season in mustwin mode.

With senior night looming tomorrow at Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard will savor the taste of a victory over a foe that has haunted them in recent years.

As the team approaches its final three games of the season, playing with the grit and toughness on display Friday night will be crucial if the Crimson hope to advance beyond the Ivy League Tournament to March Madness.

“Keeping that mindset of being desperate, that’s the big word,” Haskett said. “That’s what’s keeping us together right now, and helping us through adversity in games. We need this, we need everything.”

In just two weeks time, Harvard will be in New Haven on the eve of the Ivy League semifinal. But for tonight, the Crimson will savor the taste of revenge, a dish best served on a cold Cambridge night. amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com.