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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVII NO. 9 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020

NEWS PAGE 3

EDITORIAL PAGE 6

SPORTS PAGE 8

Weekend burglars target jackets, laptops, and gold jewelry

Staff Ed: Harvard must balance open cultural exchange and safety

Men’s hockey falls to Northeastern in Beanpot semifinal

Iranian Student Lieber Arrest Signals Fed. Crackdown Files Complaint

By KEVIN R. CHEN and JAMIE S. BIKALES CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

By MATTEO N. WONG and LUKE A. WILLIAMS CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Lna Emami Arandi — an Iranian citizen deported from Logan International Airport last fall while trying to attend Harvard Divinity School — filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office on Thursday.

After being accepted to the Master of Theological Studies program at HDS in May 2019, Arandi submitted an application for a student visa.

She subsequently participated in an in-person clearance interview at the United States Consulate in Dubai, underwent a full review, screening, security checks, and approximately 90 days of additional administrative processing.

Arandi received her visa in mid-September and traveled to the U.S. on Sep. 18, roughly one week later.

Just after landing at Logan, Customs and Border Protection ­

detained and questioned Arandi for over eight hours, according to court documents her lawyers filed in December.

By 10:00 p.m. that night, the officers determined Arandi had “immigrant intent,” revoked her visa, and issued an expedited removal order with an additional five-year ban from entering the United States.

Arandi was denied the option to withdraw her petition to enter the U.S. and reapply, which would have avoided the five-year ban, Corral said.

On the night of Arandi’s detainment, the Harvard International Office received several calls on its 24-hour emergency line, according to University spokesperson Jason A. Newton.

The officer notified attorneys at HIRC, who agreed to represent Arandi alongside Susan Church, a Cambridge-based attorney.

The filing comes amid reports that an apparent memo has circulated U.S. CBP

Last week, Charles M. Lieber, an acclaimed nanoscientist and chair of Harvard’s Chemistry department, appeared in handcuffs in federal court, charged with concealing funding from the Chinese government and lying to American agencies about his alleged ties to China’s Thousand Talents Plan.

Lieber’s arrest, however, marked merely the latest development in an ongoing crackdown by the United States government and American universities on “academic espionage,” the process by which scientists pass academic research at American universities to foreign governments.

Experts say the recent federal crackdown on academic espionage — particularly connected to the Chinese government — could have negative effects on collaboration between universities.

The Chinese government established the Thousand Talents Plan in 2008, hoping to

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Iowa Caucus Results Delayed

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Charles M. Lieber, Harvard’s Chemistry department chair, was recently charged by the federal government for allegedly failing to disclose funding from the Chinese government. CAMILLE G. CALDERA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Harvard’s Institute of Politics hosted a viewing party to watch the coverage of the Iowa Caucus, the first major nomination contest of the 2020 presidential election cycle. ALLISON G. LEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The results of the highly anticipated Iowa Democratic caucuses were not released on Monday night due to “inconsistencies” found by the Iowa Democratic Party in caucus data.

The results are expected to be released Tuesday, according to CNN. Iowa, the first state to weigh in on presidential primaries, does not account for a significant share of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention, where the party nominee is officially selected. However, the Iowa caucuses are important for candidates to gain momentum going into later primaries, according to Harvard Government Professor Ryan D. Enos.

“The literal significance in terms of the delegates is pretty

minor because it’s a small state and there’s not many delegates awarded,” Enos said. “There’s an idea that [a win] can build momentum for a candidate and can make a candidate either look a lot more viable by exceeding expectations or look not as viable if they don’t hold up to the expectations that people have for them.”

Enos noted that the results of the Iowa caucuses and the next Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary can influence the results of states with bigger delegate counts, such as California.

“There’s people in California still that probably haven’t made up their minds and when they look at these results in New Hampshire and Iowa, those are things that affect the way they’re ultimately going to vote,” he said. “So people in California can still be swayed by

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Dominguez Accusers Criticize External Review During Panel

By JAMIE S. BIKALES and KEVIN R. CHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Four women who have accused former Government professor Jorge I. Domínguez of sexual misconduct criticized Harvard’s external review of the circumstances that enabled the misconduct during a panel Monday.

The women — former Government assistant professor Terry L. Karl, former Government Ph.D. candidate Suzanna E. Challen, former Government concentrator Nienke C. Grossman ’99, and former Government concentrator Charna E. Sherman ’80 — shared their experiences in a Government Department auditorium filled with more than 100 people.

They were joined by Harvard Law School student Sejal Singh and civil rights attorney Debra S. Katz, who represented Christine Blasey Ford after Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018.

In 2018, 18 women — including the four panelists — brought allegations of sexual misconduct against Domínguez spanning four decades. ­

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Karl — whose allegations prompted the Chronicle of Higher Education investigation that first made public Domínguez’s misconduct public — said the panel marked her first return to Harvard’s campus in three and a half decades.

She requested an “apology” from Harvard and a “confession” that the University failed to protect her and other women harassed by Domínguez.

Multiple panelists criticized Harvard’s continued promotion of Domínguez even as multiple people brought complaints about his behavior to its attention over the years.

Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay stripped Domínguez of his emeritus status and banned from campus following the conclusion of the Title IX investigation in May 2019.

The same day, University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that the University would initiate an external review of the circumstances that led to a failure to provide a safe work environment for Government department affiliates — a measure the women and

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Editorial 6

The Government Graduate Student Association Working Group hosted a panel called “Making #MeToo Count: Achieving Institutional Change at Harvard” on Monday. RYAN A. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Sports 8

TODAY’S FORECAST

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UC to Hold First Meeting Sunday

By SHARON XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard’s Undergraduate Council is scheduled to hold its first general meeting of the semester on Sunday, Feb. 9 — later into the spring semester than in the past few years.

UC representative Alexa C. Jordan ’22 and secretary Nicholas J. Brennan ’23 said they raised questions about the scheduling of the first meeting with newly elected UC president James A. Mathew ’21 and vice president Ifeoma “Ify” E. White-Thorpe ’21.

Jordan said she and her colleagues found the process of scheduling the meeting confusing.

“We were all a little bit confused about what was going on. Of course, we want to back James and Ify on their timeline,” Jordan said. “But, we also are concerned about ensuring that we’re able to support the students on campus with our elected positions as well.”

Mathew and White-Thorpe held a meeting with the UC’s executive board on Sunday. The UC executive board consists of the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and all committee chairs.

UC Finance Committee chair Rukmini “Mini” Ganesh ’22, who attended the executive council meeting, said attendees discussed plans for a general, council-wide meeting, as well as the UC’s overall goals for the semester. Ganesh said she is looking forward to this semester on the UC, but added that she would like to see more open communication from Mathew and White-Thorpe to the council in the future.

“It would be helpful, I think, if we were informed of things a little bit beforehand sometimes,” Ganesh said. “But, I think there’s always a learning curve, and I’m sure that they’ll be wonderful once they settle into their roles.”

Mathew and White-Thorpe did not respond to requests for comment.

Some representatives said

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Harvard Today

For Lunch Chicken Tikka Masala Macaroni and Cheese Hummus Florentine Sandwich

For Dinner Herb Roasted Chicken Honey-Ginger Salmon Penne with Kale and White Bean

Today’s Events China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights with Samantha Power Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, 4:30-6 p.m.

in The Real World How Coronavirus Has Affected China

Although the death toll of the coronavirus has already exceeded that of the SARS outbreak back in 2002 and 2003 in mainland China, there has been an increase in the number of recoveries recently. A new hospital, promised to be built in 10 days, has been built specifically for those infected with the virus.

Join Ambassador Samantha Power for a talk on China, the UN, and the future of human rights in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Power was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2013-2017, a member of former President Obama’s cabinet, and the author of Pulitzer Prize winning book “A Problem from Hell”.

Iowa Caucus Results in Delays

State of the Union Watch Party John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 9-11 p.m.

On Monday afternoon, a man looks out the window as he plays chess in the Smith Campus Center. Aiyana G. white—Crimson photographer

Get political and head to the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School for a watch party featuring the 2020 State of the Union address by President Donald J. Trump. See history in the making!

Daily Briefing Lawyers representing Reihana Emami Arandi — an Iranian citizen deported from Logan International Airport last fall while trying to attend Harvard Divinity School — filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office on Thursday.

Arandi’s lawyers have also filed a mandamus petition in the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts requesting the Court require CBP to quickly adjudicate her case. In other news, a panel of women who accused former Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez of sexual misconduct spoke to more than 100 audience members. In other news, experts say the recent federal crackdown on academic espionage — particularly connected to the Chinese government — could have negative effects on collaboration between universities.

Efforts at “quality control” delayed the results of the 2020 Iowa Caucus, where seven Democratic candidates have mounted competitive campaigns.

Strategists have pointed to high turnout numbers as a potential boon to candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.)

Big Tech Companies Continue to Grow, Despite Regulations

Despite the regulations in place, companies such as Apple and Google continue to grow at rapid speeds, leaving smaller companies unable to keep up. One of the implications of this effect is the increasing gap between the “haves” and “have nots.”

Around the Ivies Princeton

Princeton University is requiring all mediumrisk and high-risk students, faculty, and staff who have traveled to mainland China within the last two weeks self-isolate for at least 14 days due to coronavirus, the Daily Princetonian reported on Sunday. As of Sunday, a total of 108 students — 94 graduate students and 14 undergraduates — had entered into self isolation, in addition to a “smaller number” of faculty, postdocs, and staff. Princeton also banned all students, faculty, and staff from travelling to mainland on sponsored programs or business trips.

COLUMBIA

Columbia University announced that it will not provide funding or credit opportunities abroad in China until coronavirus has “run its course,” the Columbia Spectator reported on Sunday. Columbia will also not grant student group permission to visit China. Columbia, which has almost 6,000 Chinese students, advised those who have traveled in mainland China within the last two weeks to reach out for assistance and recommendations.

yale

The Yale College Council has joined the Endowment Justice Coalition in support of transparent and ethical investment practices, the Yale Daily News reported on Sunday. The Endowment Justice Coalition has two central demands: that Yale divest from fossil fuels and cancel its holdings in Puerto Rican debt. The resolution to join the coalition unanimously passed the Yale College Council Senate on Jan. 25.

Yale’s council announced that it will act as “formal partners” with the coalition to “[tackle] the climate crisis through divestment-related activism.”

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Burglars Target Laptops, Jackets, and Gold Jewelry

By Charles Xu Crimson Staff Writer

The Harvard University Police Department is investigating a series of thefts that occurred in River Houses and Yard dorms over the weekend, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano announced in an email to University affiliates Monday.

HUPD officers responded to three separate reports of theft in Leverett House, 20 DeWolfe St., and Quincy House in the early hours of the Saturday morning, according to HUPD police logs.

On Sunday, Harvard affiliates in Wigglesworth Hall reported three more incidents of overnight theft. The stolen items included Apple laptops, Canada Goose jackets, and several gold necklaces valued at more than a thousand dollars.

In three of the incidents, the burglar or burglars entered an occupied room, but residents “did not observe or have any

contact with the offender(s),” Catalano wrote.

HUPD has not determined if the six incidents are connected, but detectives are actively investigating the situation, according to Catalano. He wrote that anyone with information about the thefts should contact the department.

Catalano and HUPD reminded students that while burglaries in occupied rooms are “very rare,” residents should take certain precautions to prevent theft.

“Residents should not prop interior or exterior doors at any time, hold an outside door open for strangers or allow strangers to ‘piggyback’ on their access card,” Catalano wrote. “Residents should keep their room doors locked at all times even when in the room or when going down the hall for only a few minutes.”

Catalano did not respond to a request for comment. This inci-

dent comes a week after HUPD reported that more than $6,000 worth of electronics were stolen from the Dillon Fieldhouse in Allston, home to many varsity sports teams’ locker rooms, facilities, and coaches’ offices.

Numerous burglaries have been reported in freshman dorms and upperclassmen residences in recent years. Over a weekend in September 2016, ten laptops disappeared from Yard and River dorms. In September 2018, students reported that a suspect climbed through a firstfloor window in Holworthy Hall and took laptops, wallets, and an iPad. The Undergraduate Council’s Student Life Committee voted unanimously 11-0 in favor of installing security cameras outside dorms in 2016.

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

City Council Approves Petition to Lower Voting Age to 16

By Maria G. Gonzalez Crimson Staff Writer

The Cambridge City Council approved an order Monday night that could potentially lower the voting age for Cambridge’s municipal elections.

The council voted 7-2 in favor of forwarding home rule legislation to the Massachusetts State Legislature that would allow citizens aged 16 and older to vote in Cambridge elections for city council, school committee, and local ballot measures.

Currently, under Massachusetts state law, individuals must be 18 and older to vote in municipal elections.

The approval of the home rule petition Monday night marks the third time Cambridge has considered lowering the voting age for its municipal elections.

Although the council struck down a 2001 effort to lower the voting age to 16 and 17, it passed two similar measures in 2002 and 2006.

Both the 2002 and 2006 petitions, however, were not ultimately approved by the state legislature.

Vice Mayor Alanna M. Mallon acknowledged the petition’s unsuccessful past during Monday’s city council meeting.

“This isn’t the first time this home rule legislation has left

this building with a positive recommendation to the state legislature and not — unfortunately — gone anywhere,” Mallon said.

“But I do think that the tide is turning,” she added.

Mallon also said that over the past year a new civics curriculum in Massachusetts has encouraged high school students in Cambridge to engage with municipal elections.

“They held mock debates, they looked at all of our platforms, they wrote op-eds, they invited members in to have debates. They asked some really hard questions,” she said.

“I would say that our young people were actually more in-

volved and understood more who was running and what they stood for than a lot of people.”

Councilor Timothy J. Toomey said he was concerned the new legislation would present too drastic of a change to the current voting age.

“I certainly appreciate the activism and the passion of our young people and getting involved with this is so extremely important,” Toomey said. “But I do strongly feel that the minimum age to be able to cast a vote should be 17 and I will continue to support that.”

Councilor Toomey and Councilor Patricia M. Nolan ’80 both voted against the petition,

while Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, Vice Mayor Mallon, Councilor Marc C. McGovern, Councilor E. Denise Simmons, Councilor Dennis J. Carlone, Councilor Quinton Y. Zondervan, and Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler voted in favor.

Students who spoke during the meeting said the city needs to be more inclusive of youth voices.

Sydney Down, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin student and member of the Cambridge Youth Council, said the voting preferences of students — as demonstrated in her school’s mock election — did not line up with the actual results of the city’s recent school committee

election.

“Through this and the subsequent unrest within the entirety of the community, it is evident that youth voice is not reflected enough,” Down said.

At the end of her comment, Down emphasized the benefits of including younger voices in city decisions.

“Lowering the voting age will only further support young people in being civically engaged and responsible citizens as they gain the ability to contribute to making our towns, cities, and states equitable and sustainable communities,” she said. maria.gonzalez@thecrimson.com

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Proposed Bill Protects Grad Student Workers

By Davit Antonyan Crimson Staff Writer

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has introduced a new bill which — if passed — could protect graduate student workers’ employee rights from a proposed National Labor Relations Board rule that would classify graduate student workers as non-employees, experts say.

Sanders introduced the bill to the Senate on Jan. 22. He said it would prohibit the NLRB from “enacting a proposed rule which would strip graduate student workers’ right to unionize” in a press release.

Sanders’s bill represents the continuation of H.R.5104 — the Respect Graduate Student Workers Act, which was initially proposed by United States Representative Mark W. Pocan (D-Wisc.) in Nov. 2019.

The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers won the right to unionize in 2018, but if the NLRB’s proposed rule were to be passed, there would be no legal requirement that the University should recognize that right.

William A. Herbert, the executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College, City University of New York, said the proposed rule would leave it to the University to decide whether or not to honor the union’s status.

“If there’s no contract in place at Harvard with the graduate assistants, and the NLRB issues a rule that says that graduate systems are not covered

under the National Labor Relations Act, then the university would have the discretion to say that they’re not going to continue to recognize the union,” Herbert said.

He said regardless of the decision that the NLRB makes, whether a university chooses to honor its students’ right to unionize or not speaks to its moral values.

“Institutions that understand collective bargaining to be a form of workplace democracy probably will be more likely to engage in voluntary recognition,” Herbert added.

University of Oregon associate professor Gordon Lafer, who formerly served as a senior labor policy advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, wrote in an email to The Crimson that he believes the bill Sanders and Pocan have introduced is an appropriate response to the actions of the current NLRB. “What Sanders’ bill does is stop this ongoing game of political football with the labor rights of graduate students, by putting into law what every other authority has recognized, and what is the palpable reality of university life,” Lafer wrote in the email.

Former NLRB Chairman William B. Gould IV said that the NLRB has generally used rulemaking sparingly, and usually to “clarify ambiguity that exists in the current wall.”

“This would be the first instance of doctrinal reversal through rulemaking,” Gould said. “I think it’s inappropri-

ate and I think Senator Sanders and others are wise to attempt to stop this.”

Though the NLRB is likely to adopt this proposed rule, according to Gould, he said he thought that the Respect Graduate Student Workers Act is an effective response to how the NLRB has handled graduate students’ right to collective bargaining in the past.

“It would clearly give graduate students the right to organize and to bargain collectively — something that has been provided for by the National Labor Relations Act, but for which we have every indication that this board will try to take away from graduate students,” Gould said University spokesperson Jonathan Swain declined to comment on what effects the proposed NLRB rule would have on union negotiations.

Swain referred to an earlier comment on the status of the HGSU-UAW negotiations, which said that the University is “currently reviewing the proposed rule to assess its implications.”

The proposed rule is open for a public comment period until Feb. 28, after which the NLRB will review comments and ultimately decide whether or not to adopt the proposed rule as a final rule.

Still, Gould said it’s “quite likely” that the NLRB will have a sufficient majority to adopt the rule.

“They’re entirely predictable along ideological lines,” he said. davit.antonyan@thecrimson.com

COMPLAINT From page 1

Deported Iranian Student Files Civil Rights Complaint offices mandating officers to vet “all individuals” born between 1961 and 2001 with any “link” to Iran or Lebanon, according to POLITICO. “We’re starting to see a pattern of these expedited removals at Logan Airport,” Jason Corral, , an attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and one of Arandi’s lawyers, said.

Corral said he sees no basis for CBP to conclude that Arandi intended to stay in the U.S. permanently. Arandi has no friends or family in the United States, and the Divinity School is the only program in the United States she applied to, he said.

“We weren’t given any information as to why she had been detained,” Corral said.

Arandi flew home to Iran that night, having given up her employment at home and forfeited the opportunity to study at Harvard last fall.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Arandi’s lawyers subsequently filed a motion with CBP to reopen and rescind the expedited removal order on Oct. 18, asking that CBP to come to a decision by Oct. 25 so Arandi could still attend the Harvard Divinity School this academic year, according to December’s court filing.

CBP did not come to a decision on the motion within the timeframe, so Church filed a mandamus petition in the U.S. District Court in the District

Reihana Emami Arandi is an Iranian citizen deported from Logan International Airport last fall. Joshua A. ng—Crimson photographer

of Massachusetts on November 14, requesting the Court require CBP to quickly adjudicate the motion.

On Nov. 26, CBP denied the motion to rescind the expedited removal order without providing more information. Arandi’s lawyers revised the petition and refiled it on Dec. 16.

The revised petition is currently pending before court.

“It’s a serious problem when our government allows a student to have three to four months of vetting and allows a single CBP officer, with the approval of a supervisor, to take that away,” Church said.

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about international travel and CBP inspections at the border, Harvard’s Vice Provost for International Affairs Mark C. Elliott wrote a letter to the school’s Iranian community on Jan. 15. The letter included a link to an ACLU document regarding the rights of people entering the U.S. at the border, as well as information about handling CBP secondary inspections. Newton wrote in an email that “while HIRC is handling all aspects of the legal case, HIO continues to be in regular contact with Reihana.” luke.williams@thecrimson.com matteo.wong@thecrimson.com

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Lieber Arrest Part of Crackdown

Accusers Criticize External Review

attract scholars from across the world to contribute to Chinese development. The U.S. government has since said the program poses a danger to national security.

The FBI and National Institutes of Health have contacted colleges and universities nationwide warning of espionage and intellectual property theft, Dean of Science Christopher W. Stubbs announced at a November meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard formed two new oversight committees this fall in response to those inquiries.

Earlier in January, Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped Zaoseng Zheng, a researcher affiliated with Harvard Medical School, as he attempted to smuggle biological research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to China. Zheng was charged in connection to academic espionage alongside Lieber last week.

History professor William C. Kirby — who conducts research on contemporary China — wrote in an email that instances of espionage against the U.S. in decades past may have informed the current federal investigations. Kirby also wrote that a deterioration in U.S.-China relations over the past three years may have prompted the increase in investigations.

Stephanie Segal, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said she hopes the recent push will not have the effect of “dividing” the global research community.

“The outcome of this will hopefully not be erecting barriers to scientific collaboration,” Segal said. “Rather, that the integrity of those collaborations and kind of respect for the find­

ings of the research collaboration are ones that the entire global community can benefit from.”

Segal added that China should not be held to a different standard than other countries, but regulators should ensure that research can benefit everyone.

“Foreign research collaboration can benefit the United States,” Segal said. “When there are foreign research collaborations with China, the priority needs to be on making sure that the benefits and the results of that research are ones that are shared broadly across the scientific community.”

Claude E. Barfield, a former consultant to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, used the recent coronavirus epidemic — which originated in China — as an example of a pressing issue that demands the two countries maintain research ties.

“The Chinese scientists are right there on the scene, and the U.S. scientists, we are picking up from the cases here,” Barfield said. “There’s some areas that you certainly don’t want to cut off scientific collaboration.”

Ross E. McKinney, Jr., the Chief Scientific Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, wrote in an emailed statement that U.S. and Chinese researchers have shared a “fruitful and constructive collaboration that has advanced science and discovery.”

McKinney warned that the recent enforcement could spark suspicions about Chinese researchers in American labs.

“The fact that the Chinese government recruited faculty then told them to lie to their US employers and the federal government is problematic because

it could raise suspicions about anyone with a collaboration with China, whether warranted or not,” McKinney wrote. “This is not about targeting individuals who are ethnically Chinese — it’s about the systematic actions of a foreign government.”

Several experts said China’s efforts to recruit scholars in other countries are not unusual.

Kirby wrote in an email that the efforts are “quite natural.”

“China is investing more than any country in higher education, and as it expands its universities, it seeks talent from all sources,” he wrote. “It is, to be sure, a major effort, but we need to remember that every major research university seeks to recruit the best talent available, and if that talent is elsewhere, to bring them here. Certainly Harvard does that.”

Multiple Thousands Talents members said they did not interact directly with the national Chinese government during their time as members.

Tim Byrnes, an assistant professor of physics at NYU Shanghai and a member of the Thousand Talents program, said the program bears similarities to talent-attracting programs offered in other countries.

“I’m from Australia, which has its sort of equivalent kind of startup grant funded by the government,” Byrnes said. “Unfortunately, it got these connotations of somehow being connected to espionage. From what I can see, it’s really no different to any other types of talent-attracting grant.”

Byrnes said he has never been required to submit information to the Chinese government since he was awarded his grant four years ago.

W. Martin de Jong, a busi-

ness professor at Erasmus University and former Thousand Talents participant, said he was appointed by the Shanghai government, rather than the national Chinese government, to serve as a part-time professor at Fudan University.

Segal and Barfield both said that, ultimately, they believe universities have the onus to police their own researchers’ connections to China.

“A lot of this is going to get back to the universities, to Harvard in this case — it should know what its scientists are doing and what impact that has, if any, on Harvard’s own goals and Harvard’s own standards,” Barfield said.

In the wake of Lieber’s arrest, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain announced Harvard was launching an internal investigation into Lieber’s case, though he declined to specify the scope of the probe.

Segal said that because universities have “pushed back” against heavy-handed enforcement measures taken by the federal government, such as restricting work with specific individuals, academic institutions will bear the responsibility for enforcement.

“There’s a lot more attention being paid as to whether or not the universities are making sure that laboratories and researchers in those laboratories are complying with disclosure policies,” Segal said. “And so inevitably, I think, unless the universities want the government to be taking a much more heavy-handed approach, it’s going to fall to the universities to demonstrate compliance.” kevin.chen@thecrimson.com james.bikales@thecrimson.com

graduate students in the department had called for since the allegations first became public.

The four women met with the external review committee before Monday’s discussion.

Grossman said during the panel that she feels there is a “worrisome lack of transparency” about the committee’s method and goals.

“Who are they meeting with? Are they considering best practices or research in designing their approach? What form will the findings take? Will they be public? Has Harvard committed to responding to these recommendations?” Grossman said.

“Today we met with the external review committee, and they did not answer these questions,” she added.

In a Sept. 6 email to Government professor Steven R. Levitsky, Bacow wrote that he charged the committee with using the Domínguez case to “frame the review,” rather than conducting a “re-investigation of the allegations” against Domínguez.

Sherman wrote in an email after the panel that, in her meeting with the external review committee, she “directly challenged” the premise that it would be able to accomplish its mission without a “full record of the past,” including re-examining complaints against Domínguez.

“I think it’s fair to say the Committee disagreed,” Sherman wrote.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an

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emailed statement that the external review is “ongoing” and is working to collect information through conversations in person and over the phone as well as in writing.

“The committee and the University are committed to ensuring this review is a robust examination of factors that may undermine the ability to prevent or address incidents of sexual harassment and assault,” Swain wrote.

At the end of the panel, the women called on Harvard to adopt a third-party grievance procedure for sexual harassment and discrimination complaints.

The panel was co-hosted by the Government Graduate Student Association and Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers, which has made sexual harassment protections a central goal in its contract negotiations with the University.

In those negotiations, the union has proposed that student workers be given an option to raise complaints through a union grievance procedure — a dispute resolution mechanism outside of internal Harvard channels that could eventually lead to third-party arbitration in some cases.

The University, on the other hand, has insisted that these complaints be handled through Title IX and its Office for Dispute Resolution, and through internal discrimination procedures. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com james.bikales@thecrimson.com

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Op-Ed

Beyond the Lieber Allegations

The Rigged Electoral System

L

ast week, University Professor Charles M. Lieber was charged in federal court for “making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to U.S. government agencies. The lawsuit filed by the federal government claims that Lieber, who has since been placed on “indefinite” paid administrative leave, signed contracts beginning in 2011 to participate in China’s Thousand Talents Plan for personal financial gain.

But the issue at stake is larger than a professor hiding funding or personally receiving illegal payments for research — the TTP isn’t any old foreign entity. Established in 2008 by the Chinese government to bring in scientists from around the world, it has been deemed by the U.S. government to be a danger to national security.

It’s not an isolated incident either. The Chinese government has been conducting a broader program of academic espionage against the U.S. and its research institutions.

This espionage has most notably included attempts to insert Chinese scholars into research programs dealing with sensitive information.

Supplying sensitive information in this context is an especially grave offense given the Chinese government’s past record as an unethical actor.

It’s not just intellectual property theft; the Chinese government has displayed political and military recklessness in the South China Sea and has gone so far as to perpetrate the internment and “re-education” of the Uighur ethnic group.

Lieber’s alleged acts run contrary to the spirit of our University and warrant

clear denunciation — something Harvard has not explicitly or publicly offered.

He not only undermines his own academic and civic integrity, but draws into question that of the University and scientific research more broadly. But given this broader context, Lieber’s case must be the beginning of a broader process of reflection.

Harvard must seek to carefully balance its first principles of open cultural exchange and the pursuit of knowledge, while also making sure that it has adequately safeguarded against similar cases.

To that end and in response to the FBI and NIH launching national investigations into academic espionage this past year, Harvard has established two new oversight committees dedicated to reviewing sensitive research projects. But we ask still more.

Harvard must not only address the actions and susceptibilities of its affiliates but its own institutional ties to a regime whose abuses go far beyond intellectual property theft.

As we have previously opined, in cases where Harvard holds financial ties to ethically dubious regimes, the University must seriously consider the extent to which it serves to legitimize these actors and their abuses.

Yet still more broadly, we must ask what systemic factors have allowed the Chinese government to take advantage of American research institutions.

After all, as of November, more than 70 research institutions were investigating potential cases of academic espionage, almost all of which involved Chi-

nese researchers and scholars.

It would seem that the increasing presence of Chinese researchers and funding at U.S. institutions is partially being driven by the insufficient number of American-born scientists the U.S. produces.

Perhaps one silver lining of the Lieber case will be increased consciousness about our own national deficiencies in this field.

While Harvard must condemn and combat China’s academic espionage, it is critical that the rhetoric denouncing the Chinese state and its actions does not devolve into blanket criticism or stereotyping of Chinese people.

Chinese citizens are neither personally responsible for their government’s actions, nor do these individuals necessarily support them. Any totalizing Cold War rhetoric that attempts to erase this distinction would be not only morally reprehensible, but would also undermine the open pursuit of knowledge and innovation Harvard is supposed to champion.

We must make a conscious effort to combat rhetoric and attitudes that generalize along racial or ethnic lines and which impede vital intellectual exchange.

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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I Want To Think Less About Food

By Rebecca E.J. Cadenhead

H

ere’s the moment I began to hate my body: I am twelve years old, standing next to one of my friends in front of the mirror in the locker room after track practice. She, like the other girls in our school who were routinely called beautiful, was stick-thin.

Comparing the size of our thighs, I realized that I was not.

Suddenly, I became convinced that my physical form was inferior to hers; my legs began to seem like a personal failing.

From there, I undertook the project of correcting what I saw as wrong with my body; mainly, that I wasn’t medically underweight.

Food, instead of something to enjoy, became a collection of macronutrients.

In some ways, this line of thinking had already been drilled into me by my mother, a registered dietician.

However, her well-meaning advice about eating a balanced diet had been twisted by my own self-loathing into something much more sinister; a bowl of chocolate ice cream was now reduced to 30 grams of sugar, 14 grams of fat, and more calories than I wanted to think about.

These narratives pretend to promote a “healthy lifestyle”, but are almost always actually about weighing less.

And if I ate that bowl of ice cream, it would mean almost overwhelming guilt; I had poisoned my body, and there would be consequences.

By the time I had entered high school, this way of viewing food had been reinforced by years of exposure to online di-

eting culture.

My Instagram feed was filled with references to “clean eating”, my YouTube recommendations were filled with videos titled “what I eat in a day”, and “how I lost 20 pounds in 6 months”. I was obsessed with eating a diet free from any “unclean” foods, convinced that if I were just a little skinnier, I would finally be worthy.

For the most part, my efforts were applauded. After all, there’s nothing visibly wrong with someone who regularly eats salad, so it took me too long to realize the truth: I had an unhealthy relationship with food.

At the time, “unhealthy” was probably the last word people would have used to describe me; I was known for eating healthily.

This image was heavily reinforced by the presence of my mother, who frequently gave nutrition talks at my high school.

Outwardly, I was a role-model. Internally, I felt awful, all the time. When I was particularly stressed, I starved myself.

Eating disorders are a disease; to be afflicted with one is to have caught a contagion, and the virus is everywhere. Current media messaging tells us eating a balanced diet is the way to nirvana; our supermarket checkout aisles are stocked with magazines filled with tips for eating better (read: losing weight) from beautiful (read: skinny) celebrities.

I see the symptoms of the illness in my friends all the time: passing out after eating only half a salad the entire day, or taking punishingly long runs in order to lose an invisible amount of weight.

Ironically, if divorced from context, a lot of the things these girls do would be viewed positively, perhaps even as selfcare.

This only underscores that our ideas

of what being “healthy” looks like can obscure what is actually self-harm.

These narratives pretend to promote a “healthy lifestyle”, but are almost always actually about weighing less. Behaviors that are clearly harmful (drug addiction, intermittent fasting that borders on starvation, bizarre “cleanses”)

I would like to think about what I eat a little less, and I encourage others to do the same. are tolerated, so long as the person doing them fits a physical mold. Case in point: The periods when I was most unkind to my body — and when, as a result, I was the thinnest — were also the times when I received the most compliments. My physical and mental health were always secondary to how I looked.

I wish I could tell you that I educated myself on the body-positivity movement, or went to see a therapist, or did some other kind of personal work, and that’s how I got better.

But that wouldn’t be true. I no longer skip meals, and for the most part, I’m much happier with my body. Still, I think there might always be a part of me ready to punish myself.

We are often encouraged to think about the food we eat. Americans, after all, have a junk food problem, and maybe a little more mindful eating would improve our health outcomes.

But I would like to think about what I eat a little less, and I encourage others to do the same.

—Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead ‘23 lives in Canaday Hall. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays.

By Jacob A. Fortinsky

W

e are now fully immersed in election season with the 2020 presidential election just a few short months away and primaries fully underway. It is, thus, an apt time to revisit one of the great injustices of the American electoral system, which is the mistreatment and disenfranchisement of the massive prison population in our country.

Senator Bernie Sanders is currently the only presidential candidate calling for granting all incarcerated Americans the right to vote. Yet, not only do incarcerated Americans lack the right to vote but their bodies are often used to further the agendas of those responsible for the growth of the modern carceral state.

Either prisoners should be granted the right to vote — which I believe is the right thing to do — or they should not be counted for apportionment.

Incarcerated Americans are counted in the districts where they are imprisoned and not in the districts where they are registered to vote.

This fundamentally undemocratic policy has detrimental consequences on those whose votes are exploited.

Either prisoners should be granted the right to vote — which I believe is the right thing to do — or they should not be counted for apportionment. It is immoral and undemocratic to count those who are denied the right to vote as citizens for district apportionment.

Elected officials are meant to serve their constituents and the public. The only mechanism by which constituents are able to ensure that their representatives are truly serving their interests is by voting them out.

However, individuals who are counted in districts where they cannot vote do not have this ability. In fact, they are often served by representatives who advocate positions diametrically opposed to their own.

Imagine a district that includes a massive prison system run by a for-profit private prison corporation. In such a district the only voters would be the employees of the prison and of the corporation imprisoning the overwhelming majority of the district’s residents. The profiteers of the prisons would elect someone intended to represent the prisoners themselves.

Yet clearly those voting would have drastically different interests to those whom the representative is meant to represent.

This is not just a hypothetical; in smaller districts, this is reality. In Anamosa, Iowa, a district with a massive prisoner population, only 58 people vote, despite there being 1,400 census-recorded residents.

This means each voter in Anamosa has about 25 times more political clout than the typical American voter.

Allowing these districts with large prison populations to count their prisoners for political representation is the modern-day equivalent of the Three-Fifths Compromise. Though it is often rightfully lamented that slaves were only counted as three-fifths of a person, it is important to recall that it was the abolitionists who argued that slaves should not be counted in congressional apportionment and it was the slaveholders who pushed to count them.

Southerners wanted slaves to count so that they could inflate their representation in Congress. It was deemed unfair to count them as full people so they were only considered three-fifths of their white counterparts. We consider this to be incredibly heinous yet say nothing about the apportionment of the incarcerated who count as full people for purposes of allotting representation.

In 1790, there were 700,000 slaves in America. None of them had the right to vote, yet threefifths of them also had their votes stolen a second time because they were still counted in district apportionment.

As of 2013, there were 2,220,300 incarcerated adults. Similarly, they do not have the right to vote, yet every single one of them has their vote stolen when they are counted in district apportionment.

Just as the slaves were then represented by their slaveholders, prisoners today are often represented by the authors of the policies responsible for sending them to prison.

A manifestation of this problem that hits closer to home, albeit much less seriously, is that college students, too, are counted in districts in which they largely do not vote and often are served by politicians with interests very different from their own. We may take advantage of the incredibly progressive Cambridge, yet some schools with just as large a liberal student body are surrounded by conservative voters and politicians. And by counting the students as residents of those districts, they are exploited to advance an agenda that they do not have the power to resist.

Issues of district apportionment and who counts as being represented might not be as exciting as prison divestment or sentencing reform, but they are nonetheless critical to treating incarcerated people fairly and for our democracy to function properly. As we progress into election season and people continue to debate whom to vote for, it is important to remember that the system is rigged against those behind bars; they are unfairly barred from voting and deliberately misrepresented.

—Jacob A. Fortinsky ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House.

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UC to Meet Sunday for First Time

Harvard Affiliates Caucus in Iowa

The Harvard Undergraduate Council in the past has held their meetings in the Isaacson Room in the Smith Campus Center. Since the start of the semester, there have been no meetings. AIYANA G. WHITE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

they want to improve the council’s communication with students and its “legitimacy” in the eyes of the student body.

“We should focus on trying to make sure we’re really connecting with people and having some kind of sense of legitimacy among the students,” UC representative Jack M. Swanson ’22 said.

Jordan said she believes students often do not notice some

of the UC’s projects. “I think that a lot of the student body doesn’t completely know — and it’s not their fault — all the functions and benefits that the UC provides weekly for, and the services that the UC provides for the students,” Jordan said.

Brennan agreed and said he wants the council to be more responsive to student concerns. “I think that everybody on the UC tries their hardest to make sure

that people are well represented, and that we are hearing the voices of the people, and we’re trying to respond to that as best as possible,” Brennan said.

During their campaign, Mathew and White-Thorpe proposed creating a new “Unity Caucus” that would allow students from outside the UC to collaborate with representatives on projects.

UC treasurer Noah Har-

ris ’22, co-chair of the council’s Black Caucus this semester, said he is excited about the possibility of working with other members of the student body.

“We’re going to see if we can bring in different voices than the ones that are normally heard, and then, use those to give students a voice,” Harris said. sharon.xu@thecrimson.com

what happens in the early states.”

Recent polling showed United States Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) running in a close four-way race in Iowa.

U.S. Senator Amy J. Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also picked up traction among Iowans in recent weeks, according to an Emerson College poll.

Iowa is one of only six states that uses caucuses — as opposed to voting in traditional primaries — to determine how its delegates at the national party conventions will vote. In caucuses, which are run by state parties, voters congregate in groups and lobby undecided attendees to to support their prefered candidates at precincts around the state.

A number of Harvard affiliates participated in this year’s caucus process.

Nina B. Elkadi ’22, a lifelong Iowa City resident, is taking a leave of absence from Harvard this spring in order to participate in the Democratic primary process. In addition to working as a full-time organizing intern for the Elizabeth Warren campaign, Elkadi was selected as a precinct captain for an Iowa City precinct.

As precinct captain, Elkadi — a member of the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard for Warren — was responsible for speaking on behalf of the Warren campaign at her precinct and convincing caucus goers to support her candidacy.

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Elkadi said. “Being on Harvard’s campus, I can do almost nothing as close to what I can do at home on the field, talking to people I grew up with.”

For the first time in its history, the Iowa Democratic Party also held satellite caucus events around the country where Iowans outside the state could still vote.

At a remote event at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square Monday, Sanders topped other primary candidates with 22 votes from out-ofstate Iowans. He was awarded two delegates.

Warren finished in second place at the Cambridge event with 20 voters and two delegates, Buttigieg finished third with eight votes and one delegate, and Andrew Yang had one voter and received no delegates.

Lottie Gidaul — a Wesleyan University freshman who hails from Iowa City — traveled to Cambridge to participate in the remote caucus. Gidal said she was persuaded to support Warren by other caucus goers.

“I make up a lot of my decisions by hearing other people’s perspectives and hearing what they’re excited about,” Gidal said. “My family is very much excited about Warren and a lot of my friends are excited about Warren. Understanding the passion that they have — just getting to feel that — I think that won me over.”spectives and hearing what they’re excited about,” Gidal said. “My family is very much excited about Warren and a lot of my friends are excited about Warren. Understanding the passion that they have — just getting to feel that — I think that won me over.” joshua,fang@thecrimson.com jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Harvard Ice Hockey Falls in Beanpot Semifinal

By STUTI R. TELIDEVARA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The No. 17 Harvard men’s hockey team began its 68th Beanpot tournament run against No. 12 Northeastern, a matchup that tends to feel more like a Huskies home game than one played on neutral ice. The last time these two teams faced off, in 2017, the Crimson overcame a late Northeastern push to secure a championship game bid, which it then won.

Harvard fans watching for a repeat occurrence would look in vain, however. The Huskies (15-7-2, 8-6-1 HEA) shut down the Crimson (10-7-4, 8-4-3 ECAC) and its powerplay for a 3-1 win. Northeastern will head to the finals looking to capture a third straight Beanpot title next week. Harvard’s lone goal-scorer was sophomore forward Jack Drury; his 14th of the year will be cold comfort as the Crimson heads to the consolation game instead.

“Obviously, it was a hardfought game,” head coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “Ultimately, they made one more play than we did. We had our chances… I thought [Northeastern graduate-student net-minder Craig] Pantano made some big saves in the second half of the game.

I thought our execution wasn’t great.”

Not long into the first, Harvard had its first powerplay opportunity, touching off a battle of the special teams giants. Entering into Monday’s game, the Huskies had the nation’s fourth-ranked penalty kill (89.2%), while the Crimson brought the country’s top powerplay unit (30.7%). Northeastern’s unit kept the Harvard skaters to the perimeter for the start of the penalty, disrupting passes in key areas.

Then freshman forward Nick Abruzzese found sophomore linemate Jack Drury at the goal mouth. Rather than continuing to cycle the puck, Drury spun around and roofed it over the right shoulder of graduate student net-minder Craig Pantano.

Drury’s tally is the latest in a nine-game scoring streak, over the course of which he has 18 points to his name. The score also marked the first time the Crimson has broken the ice in its Beanpot semifinal since its 2017 championship run.

Harvard held onto its early lead for less than seven minutes.

ICING THE GAME Northeastern celebrates the 3­-1 victory after finishing the game with a long-range empty-netter in the final minute to end the Harvard run in the Beanpot. OWEN .A BERGER—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The special teams statistics weren’t nearly as impressive the other way — the Huskies came in with a 21.2 percent strike rate on the man-advantage, while the Crimson held a penalty-kill efficiency of 80.8%. 22 seconds into the penalty, Northeastern captain Ryan Shea fired a shot from the blue line, and junior forward Zach Solow tipped it past Harvard rookie goaltender Mitchell Gibson to tie the contest.

“We had a bend, don’t break mentality, and it served us well,” said Northeastern head coach Jim Madigan.

The teams continued to trade chances through the opening frame; the score, however, remained a 1-1 stalemate.

Though the Huskies had outshot the Crimson, 13-6, in the period, Harvard had seen a sol-

id offensive push towards the end of the first.

In the middle frame, Harvard managed more zone time and more possession. Indeed, the squad would end up outshooting Northeastern, 8-4, in those 20 minutes, bringing the overall shot differential much closer. At the same time, the Huskies’ fewer shots were high-quality chances; Gibson had to remain sharp to keep the same even. In a game with few whistles overall, Harvard incurred two penalties in the second — infractions that would cost the team before the second intermission.

Harvard’s first second-period penalty kill went far better than its earlier man-down play.

The Huskies had little time and space in the offensive zone, and critical clears allowed Harvard

to escape unscathed. A late-period penalty, however, undid the effects of that kill and Harvard’s own offensive time.

With time nearly expiring on the powerplay, Northeastern rookie forward Riley Hughes collected the puck behind the goal line and tossed it in front of Gibson. While the net-minder stopped senior forward Grant Jozefek’s stuff attempt, senior Brendan van Riemsdyk picked up the change and found the back of the net.

“We should’ve had [the goal mouth] covered,” coach Donato said. “It was the end of the powerplay, but we’d got our fifth guy on the ice, so we really had no reason not to have the front of the net covered. We weren’t in penalty-killing mode.”

Van Riemsdyk’s second goal of the season put his team up 2-1

with only 30 seconds left in the frame. A last-second powerplay for Harvard was poor consolation. When the teams returned to the ice, though, the refs whistled the Huskies for hitting from behind, giving Harvard a golden 5-on-3 opportunity.

But the NCAA’s best man-advantage unit was overcome here

by Northeastern’s shutdown penalty kill. To the delight of the raucous Huskies student section, Harvard could not capitalize on its chances — much as the story had been in the second.

“We had some hesitancy to shoot the puck,” said captain Nathan Krusko of the powerplay. “I felt like as the game went on we were very reluctant to take pucks to the hard areas…. We had some good looks [and] we can tip our hats to the

POINT STREAK CONTINUES Sophomore center Jack Drury continued his stretch of impactful play, extending his point streak to nine games with a powerplay goal to put Harvard on the scoresheet for the game. OWEN A. BERGER—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

goalie, but we have to find ways to cash in if we want to win those big games.”

Around the halfway mark of the period, Harvard’s desperation spiked, and the team threw everything and the kitchen sink at Pantano’s net. Harvard attempted 31 shots in that frame, half of which were on target and gobbled up by the net-minder. In contrast, the Huskies attempted just 11, preferring to crowd their own zone to protect their lead.

Several of those Harvard chances were a hair’s breadth away from goals — sophomore Casey Dornbach shot into a defenseman’s skates at the side of the cage, and, on another occasion, threw the puck behind Pantano through the blue paint.

Sophomore Jack Rathbone, returning from injury, beat Pantano on a wrap-around try but once again, the puck did not cross the goal line.

The action wasn’t only at the Northeastern end of the ice.

The Huskies had some grade-A opportunities of their own, but Gibson turned away all the pucks he faced in the final frame, giving his team another boost in its quest for a comeback.

With two minutes left in regulation, Harvard pulled Gibson in favor of rookie forward John Farinacci in the hopes of finding that elusive tying goal. As with the 5-on-3, however, Northeastern broke up plays in key areas and largely neutralized Harvard’s offensive threats.

The dagger came with less than a minute left. Blocking a shot in his own zone, Shea flipped the puck towards Harvard’s empty net. The rolling biscuit only just made it into the cage, padding the Huskies’ lead and effectively ending Harvard’s chances.

“Honestly, I wasn’t shooting for the net,” Shea said. “I kind of just flipped it out just to...regroup, but it caught [an] edge a little bit… Once it went in, I was like, ‘Here we go, we’re going back to the championship.’”

Harvard had played 10 of the previous 11 Beanpot consolation games heading into Monday’s matchup — and, unfortunately for the team, it will play another come next week. The last Harvard class that has won a Beanpot title will graduate this spring, and fans will have to set their sights on next year’s Boston hockey classic. stuti.telidevara@thecrimson.com