The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume CXLVII, No. 14 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
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A conservative case for Harvard’s divestment from fossil fuels
HUHS assures its pharmacy services are safe and accurate
Harvard men’s hockey team loses to Boston College in consolation matchup
Harvard, HGSU Reach New Agreements By DaviT Antonyan and Callia A. Chuang Crimson Staff Writers
Harvard and its graduate student union reached three new tentative contract provisions — including agreements on holidays, employee assistance, and parking and transportation benefits — in their most recent mediated bargaining session last week. Since union members returned to work on Jan. 1 after a four-week strike, the University and Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers have engaged in four bargaining sessions, all aided by a federal mediator. Despite the new agreements, the two parties have not yet reached a first contract and remain in contention over key issues such as compensation and discrimination and harassment proceedings. In an update emailed to union members on Feb. 7, HGSU-UAW bargaining committee member Cory W. McCartan announced the union had secured days off on federal holi-
days and over winter recess. Student workers will also be able to take religious holidays, one personal day per semester for teaching fellows, and 10 vacation days and three personal days for research assistants on a full-year salary. McCartan also wrote in the update that the two sides reached an agreement guaranteeing access to the University’s Employee Assistance Program to all salaried student workers. The program — which is available to Harvard employees and their families — offers free, confidential help with both personal and work-related problems, including legal and financial assistance, mental healthcare, and grief counseling. Medical Sciences Ph.D. candidate Louis R. Hollingsworth IV said he thinks the EAP agreement is “fantastic.” He added he believes mental health care and grief counseling are much-needed resources because graduate school can be a stressful, “punishing” experience.
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Students Begin Pro-BDS Group By Juliet E. ISselbacher and Amanda Y. Su Crimson Staff Writers
ed Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where she received a master’s degree in management. Nelson served as the chair of Carlson Inc., a hospitality company, and is involved in a variety of education and art-related organizations, including Teach for America and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Nelson, who previously served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers from 2010 to 2016, is “known for her strong commitment to education and wide ranging governance experience,” according to a press release. While on the Board, she served as the vice-chair of the Board’s Executive Committee and as co-chair of the Harvard Campaign, which ended in 2018. She also served as chair of the Board’s Subcommittee on Visitation, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Alumni Affairs and Development, and chair of the Committee on Finance,
A group of undergraduates formed the Harvard Jewish Coalition for Peace, an “anti-Zionist” group that aims to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and combat anti-Semitism. The coalition bills itself as an “anti-Zionist Jewish organization” focused on countering anti-Semitism through supporting marginalized groups and creating spaces and events for Jewish students outside of Harvard Hillel, according to a public statement on the organization’s Facebook page. “Harvard Jewish Coalition for Peace is a new organization founded in the idea that Jewish liberation is inextricably bound up with the liberation of all people,” the statement reads. The coalition was founded after debates over human rights for Palestinians during “Israeli Apartheid Week” — organized by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee — in spring 2019. “We build on a long history of Jewish anti-Zionism which teaches us that Jewish safety or liberation will never come at the expense of other people’s lives and land, and are committed to following the leadership of Palestinians in supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on and off Harvard’s campus,” the organization’s statement reads. BDS is an international movement that works to “end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law,” according to its website. An announcement for the coalition’s inaugural event — titled “The Jewish Case for BDS” — over the Hillel email list quickly drew criticisms on Saturday. Caleb J. Esrig ’20 replied over the email list that he found it “immensely disappointing” to see the message sent during Shabbat, a time during which some Jewish people refrain from using technology.
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The Harvard Graduate Students Union reached tentative new agreements with the University regarding holidays and transit benefits, among other provisions. Aiyana G. White—Crimson photographer
Nelson Named to Univ. Corporation By Michelle G. Kurilla Crimson Staff Writer
Loeb House, the former home of Harvard Presidents, houses the University’s highest Governing Boards and their administrative offices. Ryan N. Gajarawala—Crimson photographer
Diana L. Nelson ’84 will join the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — in July, the University announced Monday. Nelson will replace James W. Breyer, who stepped down from the Corporation in May. Nelson said in a press release that she is honored to join the Corporation and carry out the school’s mission. “I am deeply honored to join President Bacow and my future Corporation colleagues in serving to support and advance Harvard’s mission,” Nelson said in the press release. “Harvard is a powerful engine of opportunity for students, the broader community, and society at large. Thanks to its capacity for constant renewal, and the creativity and dedication of its people, I’m confident the University will meet new challenges and be an ongoing force for good,” she said. Nelson graduated from the College and then attend-
Oxford Must Divest, Athletics Director Search Solicits Student Input Harvard Faculty Say By Ema R. Schumer Crimson Staff Writer
By Jamie S. Bikales and Michelle G. Kurilla Crimson Staff Writers
Fourteen Harvard professors penned a letter to Oxford faculty Saturday calling on the faculty at the prestigious English university to support student calls to divest from fossil fuels. The letter comes after students at St. John’s College — Oxford’s most richly endowed college — occupied the school’s quadrangle in late January, refusing to leave until the college divested its endowment from oil-company shares. In response, St. John’s College Principal Bursar Andrew Parker — who manages assets for the college — declined to divest the school’s endowment from fossil fuels “at short notice” and wrote that the protesting students were unwilling to make “personal sacrifices,” instead only “request[ing] others to do things that carry no personal cost.” Inside this issue
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To illustrate his point, Parker also offered to turn off the college’s gas central heating immediately, according to The Times of London. The demonstration caught the attention of Harvard Faculty for Divestment, a group of faculty members calling on Harvard to divest from fossil fuel investments. The 14 faculty then wrote the letter asking that Oxford’s faculty publicly recognize that Parker’s response was “wrong.” “The Oxford community, and Oxford faculty in particular, should work to ensure that their debate on the merits of divestment cedes no ground to those who would mire us in endless rhetorical distraction,” the letter reads. “Faculty members can do so in part by adding their legitimacy to the voices of students.” The University of Oxford did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment. Medical School professor
A group of Harvard College athletes told members of the search advisory committee for the next Athletics Director they hope the committee’s pick will be responsive to athletes’ concerns and set high standards for the program in a meeting at the end of last month. In October of 2019, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise announced he would step down from his post at the end of the academic year after heading the department for nearly two decades. In November, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay launched a search advisory committee comprised of six administrators across the University to select Scalise’s successor. On Jan. 29, more than two dozen student-athletes — including captains and members of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee across an array of sports teams — sat down
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Co-President of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee Matthew Thomas ‘21 is involved with the search for Harvard’s new Athletic Director, in the Winthrop dining hall early Saturday. Aiyana G. White—Crimson photographer
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