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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVII NO. 13 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley must step down

Shareholder responsibility committee voted on Facebook company norms

Women’s Basketball tops previouslyundefeated Yale in home win

Student Protest Urges Abolition of HUPD

By EMA R. SCHUMER and CHARLES XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Roughly 50 Harvard students called for Harvard University Police Department Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley to resign at a rally in front of the John Harvard Statue Saturday afternoon.

Co-hosted by the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign and the Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, the event featured speakers from the two student groups as well as representatives of Divest Harvard, Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee, and Harvard Student Labor Action Movement.

A week before the protest, The Crimson published an investigation into Harvard’s police force that found repeated instances of racism and sexism in the department over the span of nearly three decades.

Lawsuits, discrimination complaints, and interviews with current and former officers painted a picture of a department divided over instances of racism and sexism and alleged favoritism and retaliation.

Those who voiced their concerns in the department held Riley — who has headed Harvard’s police force for a quarter of a century — responsible for what they described as a toxic culture in the department.

Brandishing signs that read “Abolish HUPD, End Discrimination,” “White Supremacy Kills. We Will Defend Ourselves,” and “Policing is Violent,” protesters chanted slogans such as “No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” ­

Protestors demanded an end to the alleged harassment they said they have experienced by Harvard police officers and called for Riley’s removal.

HPDC member Zoe L. Hopkins ’22, who helped organize the protest, condemned Harvard’s police department in her opening remarks.

“We are here today to say to the Harvard University Police Department that we’ve had enough of their racism, enough of their sexism, enough of their harassment, enough of their xenophobia, enough is enough,” Hopkins said.

HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano wrote in an email that the department treats all University affiliates equally.

“The Harvard University Police Department is committed to providing a safe and secure campus through quality policing and treats all persons with dignity and respect,” he wrote.

Hopkins told the crowd that The Crimson’s investigation was not news to her. She alleged that there was a connection between the instances of racism and sexism found within the department’s walls and the way HUPD polices students on campus.

“The Crimson article that was released last week only confirmed our suspicions of the racism, sexism, xenophobia and prejudice that is embedded within HUPD,” she said. “We are here because we are tired of the harassment. Tired of the tension in our chest when we

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HSPH Admin Grusby Resigns Grusby to step down from three posts after faculty cited toxic culture

By CAMILLE G. CALDERA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

port by a federal judge and was placed on indefinite paid leave

by Harvard as he awaits trial.

The charges against Lieber form the latest development in a months-long federal crackdown against “academic espionage,” the process by which scientists pass academic research from American universities to foreign governments. Stubbs announced in November that the University and FAS have formed new oversight committees to review sensitive research projects and examine FAS’s policies for compliance with federal funding guidelines.

Stubbs said Friday that the committees’ efforts have aided

Harvard School of Public Health professor Michael J. Grusby will step down from the three top administrative posts he holds at the school this month, Dean Michelle A. Williams announced in an email to School of Public Health affiliates Friday.

Grusby currently serves as the Executive Dean for Administration, acting dean for academic Affairs, and Senior Vice Dean for Institutional Planning and Policy. His departure from all three roles comes after a Crimson investigation last month found that faculty repeatedly weighed voting no confidence in Williams, citing a toxic culture perpetuated by her and Grusby.

Grusby will take a sabbatical starting this month, according to Williams’s email. He remains a professor of molecular immunology at the school.

Professor of Health Decision Science Jane J. Kim will take over permanently as Dean of Academic Affairs, effective Monday, per the announcement. Kim has served as a cochair of the Faculty Council and of the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty.

She has also been a member of the school’s Committee on Education Policy and the steering committee of the Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention. Katherine A. “Katie” Hope — the school’s chief financial officer since 2011 — will fill the role of Executive Dean for Administration.

The announcement makes no mention of a new Senior Vice Dean for Institutional Planning and Policy — a position created under Williams’s deanship.

In February 2018, Williams announced that Grusby would serve as acting Dean for Academic Affairs in an “interim period” as she sought a permanent dean. He served in the role for nearly two years.

In his three administrative roles, Grusby concurrently

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Protesters called for HUPD Police Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley’s removal, whom several current and former HUPD officers have blamed for the department’s toxic culture. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Students brandished signs that read “Abolish HUPD, End Discrimination” and “Policing is Violent” at a Saturday protest. Zoe L. Hopkins ‘22 (bottom right) helped organize the rally. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Stubbs Talks Research Oversight

By ETHAN LEE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Chemistry Department Chair Charles M. Lieber was arrested on January 28th for making false statements to the U.S. government about receiving research funds from China. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Dean of Science Christopher W. Stubbs said in an interview Friday that Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is “limited” in its ability to track whether its faculty members engage in illicit or unauthorized research collaborations.

Stubbs’s comments come in the wake of federal charges against Chemistry Department Chair Charles M. Lieber, who was arrested last month for making false statements about funding he received from the Chinese government. Lieber, an acclaimed nanoscientist and University professor, was required to surrender his pass-

Harvard Harvard Donor Implicated in Report Dems Flock

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Major University donor Leslie H. Wexner failed to address inappropriate conduct and a culture of misogyny inside L Brands, the company he runs, a New York Times investigation found earlier this month.

Wexner — whose ties to another Harvard donor, convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, came under scrutiny last year — provided the University and some of its affiliate organizations multiple multimillion-dollar donations over the span of several years.

Former employees of Wexner’s company told the Times that it had a persistent misogynistic culture, raising complaints about inappropriate conduct by his deputy, Edward INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Razek.

Executives said employees brought these complaints to Wexner to no avail.

Wexner himself was also heard making demeaning comments about women in the workplace, according to the Times.

Wexner did not respond to a request for comment.

Wexner and his wife, Abigail S. Wexner, are the founding benefactors of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

They also sponsor the Wexner Israel Fellowship, which supports up to ten Israeli public service officials to pursue a oneyear mid-career public administration degree.

Wexner donated more than $42 million to the Kennedy

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to New Hampshire

By JASPER G. GOODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

M ANCHESTER, N.H. — Dozens of Harvard undergraduates braved sub-freezing temperatures over the weekend to campaign for Democratic presidential candidates in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday.

Groups of supporters for United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., ex-South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04, and ­

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Musician and actor Ben Platt received this year’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year Award, a recognition offered since 1967. ALLISON G. LEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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For Lunch BBQ Chicken French Bread Cuban Pizza Grilled Chickpea Cakes

For Dinner Chicken Vindaloo Shrimp Fettucini Spicy Tofu with Green Beans

TODAY’S EVENTS Sayed Kashua at the Harvard Book Store Harvard Book Store, 7-8 p.m.

IN THE REAL WORLD After Ambiguous Iowa Caucus Results, New Hampshire Voters Confused Ahead of Democratic Primary

Swing by the Harvard Book Store to meet Sayed Kashua, an PalestinianIsraeli author, and discuss his latest book, Track Changes. The book chronicles the journey of a nameless Arab-Israeli protagonist whose trip back to the Middle East brings up buried memories and trauma.

Since the Iowa caucus revealed no clear frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination, about half of New Hampshire voters remain confused about who they want to vote for in their Tuesday primary. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04 and United States Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) essentially tied in the Iowa caucus and are leading neck-and-neck in New Hampshire polls.

Moral Leadership in Foreign PolicyFDR to Trump Harvard Kennedy School, 6-7:15 p.m.

Show off your pipes and audition for the Harvard University Choir in the Choir Room of Memorial Church. You can sing anything from Happy Birthday to your favorite solo work, so anybody can give auditions a whirl. (the Faculty Dining Room) if you’re interested.

Men’s Volleyball cruised to a 3-0 victory over Mount Olive Saturday for an overall 7-2 record this season. OWEN A. BERGER—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

DAILY BRIEFING Roughly 50 Harvard students called for Harvard University Police Department Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley to resign at a rally in front of the John Harvard Statue Saturday afternoon. A week before the protest, The Crimson published an investigation into Harvard’s police force that found repeated instances of racism and sexism in the department over the span of nearly three decades. In other news, Harvard School of Public Health professor Michael J. Grusby will step down from the three top administrative posts he holds at the school this month, Dean Michelle A. Williams announced in an email to School of Public Health affiliates Friday.

Coronavirus Death Toll Rises, Partly Due to Complete Quarantine of Wuhan Province

While the Chinese government has isolated most cases of coronavirus in Wuhan through quarantine measures, the health facilities available within the province are insufficient, with many forced to stay at home as hospitals fill. The worldwide death toll hovers around 810, with the highest daily toll so far of 89 on Saturday.

Strong Winds Shorten NYC-London Flight Time to Record Time of Under 5 Hours

In the midst of Storm Ciara, a British Airways aircraft has made the record for a conventional flight from New York to London by making the journey in the record-time 4 hours and 56 minutes, on a segment that usually takes 7 hours.

AROUND THE IVIES UPENN In light of the coronavirus outbreak, Penn Global — which provides strategic direction for the University of Pennsylvania’s global endeavors — will move two research and internship program cohorts from China to Seoul, South Korea, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported Sunday. The University of Pennsylvania has also cancelled all spring semester study abroad programs in China.

Penn Global has yet to find alternative locations for students accepted to direct placement programs, which places students in internships at specific companies.

COLUMBIA

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger urged students to collaborate with the university’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing in regard to fossil fuel divestment in his semesterly Fireside Chat Thursday, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported Friday. His comments came in response to student groups’ demands and repeated demonstrations for divestment. One group, Sunrise Columbia, released a video campaign entitled “#NobodyWins” in collaboration with 17 other universities last December, in which they called for fossil fuel divestment.

YALE

Yale University President Peter Salovey awarded University President Lawrence S. Bacow the Legend in Leadership Award at the fifth annual Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit on Jan. 29, the Yale Daily News reported Friday.

The presidents of Wellesley College, New York University, and Dartmouth College joined Salovey in presenting Bacow the award, which is given to chief operating officers that have made significant contributions to their organizations.

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Committee Voted on Company Practices

By CAMILLE G. CALDERA and ELLEN M. BURSTEIN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which is tasked with handling issues of corporate social responsibility, voted on four resolutions presented to Facebook shareholders during the last fiscal year, according to a Friday report.

Though the Harvard Management Company increasingly turns to external money managers to invest its $40.9 billion endowment, it still retains shares in some publicly traded companies.

Facebook is “one of the few publicly traded companies in which HMC directly held voting shares as of the relevant date in 2019,” per the report.The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility — which consists of several members of the Harvard Corporation and is chaired by Senior Fellow William F. Lee ’72 — is responsible for all final decisions on shareholder resolutions.

Two of the resolutions — which the committee opposed — were related to conservative political ideology at Facebook.

Several American conservative politicians have accused Facebook, founded by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, of political bias as the company faces scrutiny for its role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential election.

The first of the two resolutions was based on “concerns that the company’s board lacks ­

ideological diversity and that conservative views cannot safely be expressed in some American boardrooms,” per the report.

The resolution requested that a minimum qualification for board nominees be set, and requested that all nominees’ skills, ideological perspectives, and experience be presented in a chart or matrix form.

The report said that, in voting against the resolution, committee members reflected upon substantive differences between categories such as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity, which are not a matter of personal choice, and “ideological perspectives,” which are.

The second resolution sought information on “affirmative action and protection for conservatives” at Facebook, asserting that there is a “dominant political ideology” at Facebook that makes it an unwelcome work environment for some employees. It also requested a report on programs to protect and support employees who “do not share all or part of Silicon Valley’s dominant political ideology,” and to recruit employees from “free-market, conservative and libertarian think tanks, political organizations and job banks.”

The committee voted against the resolutions, based on “reservations” about using ideology as a criterion for affirmative action and the existence of discrimination against employees with conservative views at Facebook.

The committee voted in favor of

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a proposal introduced in 2018 that asked Facebook to publish a report evaluating “content governance,” with regard to the dissemination of hate speech, misinformation, and images or videos of extreme violence and cruelty.

They also voted in favor of a 2019 resolution that requested Facebook report its global median gender pay gap.

The report also contained “subject-specific proxy voting guidelines” drafted throughout the year to match the changing nature of HMC’s investment strategy, which involves less direct investment in individual companies and relies more on outside money managers.

Three of the eight guidelines focused on the environmental impact of businesses that Harvard invests in by proxy. They included support for reporting and reducing methane emissions, reporting on business risks and climate change, and reducing waste of plastic/polystyrene products.

Harvard has faced calls from students and faculty to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

University administrators, including University President Lawrence S. Bacow, have resisted calls for divestment.

The proxy guidelines also addressed topics such as lobbying and political spending, anti-genocide policies, and gender-, race-, and ethnicity-based pay disparities. camille.caldera@thecrimson.com ellen.burstein@thecrimson.com

By JASPER G. GOODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Democratic presidential hopeful Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04 fended off rivals’ recent criticisms at a New Hampshire Democratic Party event attended by nearly all the major Democratic primary candidates Sunday.

Buttigieg, a former Crimson editorial editor, faced criticism over the weekend from former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., as well as United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

Biden — who came in fourthplace in in the Iowa caucuses last week and is lagging in the polls in New Hampshire, which will hold its primary on Tuesday — released an ad criticizing Buttigieg’s work as the mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Sunday.

Though he did not name Biden, Buttigieg responded to criticisms in the ad Sunday night at the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner — an annual fundraiser for the New Hampshire Democratic party held at the 11,000-seat Southern New Hampshire University Arena.

“I know some are asking: What business does a South Bend Mayor have seeking the highest office in the land?”

Buttigieg said. “You don’t have an office in Washington. You don’t have decades of experience in the establishment. The city you’re the mayor of isn’t even the biggest city in the country — it’s more like Man-

chester, New Hampshire.”

“To which I say, that is very much the point. Because Americans in small rural towns, in industrial communities — and yes, in pockets of our country’s biggest cities — are tired of being reduced to a punchline by Washington politicians and ready for somebody to take their voice to the American capital,” he added.

Diego A. Garcia ’20, the co-founder of Harvard College Democrats for Biden, said in an interview that the former vice president’s record “speaks for itself” in contrast to Buttigieg’s.

“I think that Vice President Biden has the utmost respect for our mayors and local government across the country,” Garcia said.

“But at the end of the day, what matters in a presidential primary cycle — in a presidential election — is what you’ve accomplished in life,” he added.

Sanders, a former Harvard Institute of Politics resident fellow, also sharpened his criticisms of Buttigieg over the weekend by painting him as wealthy donors’ candidate of choice at campaign events and on Twitter.

Buttigieg responded Sunday night at the event by rebuking Sanders’ call for a “political revolution.”

“With a president this divisive, we cannot risk dividing Americans further, saying that you must either be for a revolution or you must be for the status quo,” Buttigeig said, drawing boos from Sanders support-

ers in the crowd.

Garcia said he thinks Sanders supporters booing other candidates is unhelpful for party unity.

“I just don’t think it’s healthy for the party for us to be trying to sow this type of discord,” he

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Harvard College Democrats for Andrew Yang President Michael Zhu ’22, who attended Sunday’s McIntyre-Shaheen dinner, said in an interview that after hearing from every major Democratic presidential hopeful except for Michael R. Bloomberg — who is not on the ballot in the Granite State — he feels comfortable pledging support to the eventual nominee.

“Regardless of anything else, I still consider myself a lifelong Democrat,” Zhu said.

“Even before I could actually vote, I’d still stand behind my party, of course.” jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com

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Harvard Dems Flock to New Hampshire businessman Andrew M. Yang trekked to the Granite State to take part in canvassing and campaign events.

“I really enjoy canvassing,” Harvard College Democrats for Biden co-founder Amelia M. Apgar ’20 said. “I think it’s one of the most important parts of running a campaign because you actually are face-toface speaking to the people who matter.”

Apgar traveled to volunteer in the Manchester area with three other Harvard students who support Biden.

Diego A. Garcia ’20, who founded Harvard College Democrats for Biden alongside Apgar, said the former vice president’s disappointing performance in the Iowa caucuses last Monday has sparked interest in the Biden group on campus. After technical problems delayed the results from being reported last Monday, Biden finished in a distant fourth place with support from just under 16 percent of caucusgoers. The Associated Press eventually decided it could not declare a winner after significant errors in the results were found.

“I think that our Harvard for Biden membership, in addition to a lot of traditional Harvard College Democrats members, [has] really appealed to other demographics within Harvard — other groups within Harvard who have not necessarily canvassed before,” Garcia said. “And they realize with the disappointing result — the gut punch that we received in Iowa — that it was not the time to be sitting on the sidelines.”

The Biden group’s canvassing efforts focused mostly on voter turnout during the final weekend before the election.

“At this point, I’m not trying to turn a Warren voter over to Biden or anything like that,” said Garcia, who previously canvassed in both Iowa and New Hampshire for Biden.

Some students knocking doors for other Democratic hopefuls took a different tack, however.

Harvard College Democrats for Andrew Yang volunteers Michael Zhu ’22 and J. Alexander White III ’23, who doorknocked for much of the day on Saturday, engaged in sometimes lengthy conversations

with voters at the door.

Zhu, a Social Studies concentrator who founded Harvard College Democrats for Andrew Yang, said canvassing helps to “put a face” on the Yang campaign.

“If I can even get some people to see both Andrew Yang, but also just a guy wearing a blue hat that says MATH knocking on their door and telling them about health care or about education reform — I think putting a face on the campaign is so much of what canvassing is about,” Zhu said.

The Yang canvassers ran into some New Hampshire residents who were skeptical of the former start-up executive’s ability to pay for his signature proposal — a universal basic income program that would provide American adults with a $1,000-permonth “Freedom Dividend.”

Zhu directed one voter who expressed reservations about the policy toward a New York Times op-ed written by longtime Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who called Yang’s plan “practical.”

“It’s definitely something backed up by plenty of re-

search,” Zhu said.

Despite some voters’ concerns about paying for universal basic income, White said he thinks Yang is electable and could win some voters who supported President Donald J. Trump in 2016.

“You have a guy who in a Democratic primary is actually willing to say that Donald Trump did not create all the evil in the world, and that, you know, some of the problems in the world actually created Donald Trump,” White said.

Roderick P. Emley ’23, who canvassed for Warren in Rochester, N.H., on Saturday, said voters can sometimes get “really honest with you on the doors in kind of an emotional way.”

“On one level it makes me so angry because when you’re talking to people who have these stories, you realize how much injustice there is and that the deck is so stacked against so many people,” Emley said.

“But then you can be optimistic about it too, because it feels like doing work like that can actually make a difference.”

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New Program Succeeds Advising Fortnight

By KEVIN R. CHEN and JULIET E. ISSELBACHER CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Advising Programs Office has reimagined its first-year concentration advising this academic year with the launch of the Exploring Fields of Study program, which will replace its predecessor Advising Fortnight.

The pioneer program will preserve the Fields of Study Fair — the focal event of its forebear — while also introducing Fields of Study Sessions, hosted by each concentration.

As in past years, the fair will offer first-year students the opportunity to discuss potential fields of study with advisors from all 50 of Harvard’s undergraduate concentrations over a buffet dinner served in Annenberg, the freshman dining hall.

At subsequent Fields of Study Sessions throughout the semester, students will connect with faculty, advisors, and peers from their prospective concentrations to learn about the structure and character of each program.

Under the previous system, most first-year concentration advising events took place during a two-week period known as Advising Fortnight.

Now, individual concentrations will have the latitude to host information sessions and

other events at any time during the spring term.

Lauren Bimmler, the English Department’s undergraduate program administrator, wrote in an email that she is “pleased” that the new program will give freshmen more time to explore potential concentrations.

“Since the Fields of Study Sessions will be available to students throughout the semester – rather than just during a two-week stretch in April – first-years will have more time and freedom to explore all the College has to offer,” Bimmler wrote. “Moving toward a model where first-years and advisors meet early on and where subsequent advising events are more numerous and spread out seems like the most productive way forward.”

Other advising staff, however, acknowledged both merits and drawbacks of the new model.

Anne N. Le Brun, a lecturer and advisor in the Economics Department, wrote in an email that though the program’s lengthened schedule could impede opportunities to directly compare concentrations, it would likely ease students’ time pressures.

“I suppose it’s possible that if students have a compressed timeline to explore all potential concentrations, they can make a more direct compari-

son of apples and oranges than if they extend their exploration over the course of the whole semester,” she wrote. “But one could also make the argument that a longer time frame might be useful to students who are cramped for time.”

“So I think there are arguments on both sides, which I imagine the APO considered carefully before making their decision,” she added.

Christina Zaldana, the manager for advising programs and diversity outreach at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, agreed with Le Brun on the effects of the timeline change.

“The semester long schedule just helps us spread out events, which is helpful for students comparing similar concentrations — like [Applied Math] and [Computer Science] — that might not be able to sacrifice two days of the week for this type of exploring,” she wrote in an email. “The only drawback I see is that some students might be more nervous about the open-ended style of the event that lasts all semester rather than just two weeks.”

The Exploring Fields of Study program will kick off with the Fields of Study Fair Monday night. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com juliet.isselbacher@thecrimson.com

GRUSBY FROM PAGE 1

HSPH Administrator Grusby to Resign from Three Posts managed finances, administrative offices like human resources, and academic affairs. Some senior faculty said they found his large portfolio concerning because they believe the role of the academic dean should be to serve as a check and balance to the school’s dean on behalf of the faculty.

Additionally, current and former faculty, staff, and administrators told The Crimson that they did not feel comfortable bringing complaints to human resources because Grusby oversaw it, and that they had broader concerns about his treatment of faculty and staff, which they perceived as de-

meaning and disrespectful.

In November 2019, a group of nine anonymous junior faculty emailed a letter to former University of Michigan Public Health Dean Kenneth E. Warner, who chairs the Harvard School of Public Health’s visiting committee, expressing concerns about Grusby’s behavior, management style, and “large amounts of power.”

They added that they believed a vote of no confidence in Williams — who they said had failed to address perceived issues — may have been the “only recourse” to address their concerns.In her email to affiliates, Williams praised Grusby’s “sig-

nificant contributions to the leadership of the Dean’s office,” citing “multimillion dollar cost savings” he brought about by reducing compliance risks, his launch of the “groundbreaking” Apple Women’s Health Study, and his efforts to reduce food insecurity among School of Public Health affiliates.

“Michael has been a valued colleague, offering knowledgeable insights, wise counsel, and successful, effective implementation strategies as we support and advance Harvard Chan’s research, teaching, and communication,” Williams wrote.

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FAS ‘Limited’ In Its Ability to Keep Tabs on Illicit Research members of FAS’s Sciences division in understanding their responsibilities as researchers.

He said the group has trained both faculty and staff to ensure affiliates are “fastidious” in record-keeping, tracking funding and effort, and disclosing “financial and intellectual entanglements.”

“What we try to do is to track that in real time and identify, early on, instances where we’re headed towards a discrepancy and take corrective action,” he said.

Stubbs said he expects the Chinese government — as well as other researchers and government officials across the world — to follow codes of conduct that govern global re­

ly for a long time.”

In the future, Stubbs said he plans to make new efforts to educate faculty in his division on research regulations and procedures as needed.

“We’re continually reviewing our internal policies and procedures and communicating our expectations to colleagues and trying to be proactive in educating the Harvard science community about ethical behavior, norms, and expectations,” Stubbs said.

“We hold ourselves to a high intellectual standard. That’s been true forever and isn’t going to change in the future,” he added. ethan.lee@thecrimson.com

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He added that Harvard will continue to welcome any foreign researchers who receive visas from the federal government.

“I think that the challenge that we face is the relationship between the government, the military, and institutions of higher education in China is structured differently than it is in this country,” Stubbs said. “I think there are unwritten norms and expectations of conduct, and we undertake our scholarship here in the expectation that our competitors and collaborators follow the same norms and codes of conduct that have led to increases in prosperity and wellbeing international-

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Black Health Expo Talks Racial Disparities

By JESSICA LEE and CHRISTINA T. PHAM CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard’s Black Health Matters Conference hosted its third annual conference this weekend with a series of keynote speakers, panels, and workshops discussing racial disparities in public health outcomes for black Americans.

A team of undergraduates plans and organizes the conference each year at Harvard.

Two undergraduate students founded the organization three years ago after they felt frustrated by lower health outcomes in marginalized communities, according to conference co-director Yoseph D. Boku ’21.

Boku said the purpose of the conference is both to shed light on social determinants of health and to discuss possible interventions with students and faculty at Harvard.

Boku said the theme guiding this year’s conference was “community empowerment,” or encouraging individual participation in the public health decision-making process.

“If you could make community members agents of social change, and if you make every community member responsible for improving not only

their own health, but also their neighbor’s health, then you can drastically decrease social determinants,” Boku said.

Keynote speakers, panelists, and workshops met in the Northwest Building to examine social determinants of health that are particularly relevant to black Americans.

Discussions on the first day of the conference included covered topics like black maternal mortality, racial barriers to accessing medications, black mental health care, and spirituality.

Harvard School of Public Health Professor Nancy J. Krieger ’80 spoke about the importance of considering history and context in empirical research when analyzing racial and health inequity.

“Again, the point of such research is not to — quote unquote — prove that racism is bad. It is to understand and prevent its adverse health impacts and spark imagination and action to bring about health equity,” she said.

The conference’s second day dealt with the issues of HIV/ AIDS, mental health stigma, food and housing inequality, sexuality, drug use, and sleep health among black Americans.

“I think these spaces are a

great place for people who are all in the same mission to come together and be like, ‘This is something that’s real, and what are we going to do about it?’” attendee and public health worker Andrea C. Royo said.

“It’s good to kind of convene and speak truth to what’s going on,” she added.

Attendee Sergine Cindy M. Zeufack ’20 said she appreciated the platform that the conference offers because she thinks learning about these matters in public health classes often feels too “abstract.”

“Being able to attend a conference like this really takes the abstract and makes it really concrete, because you have all these panelists of variety, of different backgrounds, giving you all this information, whether it’s empirical data or personal experiences,” Zeufack said.

Boku said he hopes the conference will mobilize student attendees to address the social determinants of health.

“We think that the only way we’re going to solve social determinants of health is by mobilizing youth and making youth key members in the fight for health equity,” Boku said. jessica.lee@thecrimson.com christina.pham@thecrimson.com

HUPD FROM PAGE 1

Student Activists Call for Abolition of HUPD at Rally see an armed officer. Tired of having to defend ourselves. Today we demand disarmament and an end to the tireless harassment of students of color.

We are demanding that Francis Riley resign.”

In a speech also given on Saturday afternoon, Ethnic Studies Coalition member Cecilia A. J. Nuñez ’20 alleged that HUPD officers and officers from the Cambridge Police Department discriminate against students of color.

She said that police from both departments have increased their presence on campus to monitor student activists, many of whom are people of color. Nuñez alleged that she has seen an increase in plainclothes HUPD officers monitoring events and said she has also noticed CPD officers “called in at alarming rates.”

CPD spokesperson Jeremy Warnick wrote in an email that the basis of CPD’s presence at rallies is to keep both protestors and the public safe.

“In the event that we become aware of or are requested to assist with any planned or formed rally or protest, our primary goals are two-fold: to ensure protestors are able to safely ­

UC Funds ‘Meet the Black Caucus’

By SHARON XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard’s Undergraduate Council voted to fund an event to promote student engagement with the Council’s Black Caucus in its first general meeting of the semester Sunday.

The $300 allocation from the UC’s discretionary “Burst Fund” will pay for food and publicity for the “Meet the Black Caucus” event.

UC treasurer Noah Harris ’22 and Ivy Yard representative Chloe E. V. Koulefianou ’23, the new co-chairs of the Black Caucus, said they hope the event will allow undergraduates to meet UC members and discuss concerns or recommendations.

“I’m really hoping to get this off the ground and make it a more regular thing because I feel like right now we’re a little bit disjointed,” Koulefianou said. “I really want for there to

be more of a sense of togetherness in the communities.”

The caucus system has been a source of controversy since the Council established it in early 2017.

While the UC almost scrapped the system last year, current UC president James A. Mathew ’21 and vice president Ifeoma “Ify” E. White-Thorpe ’21 discussed revamping it during their campaign for Council leadership.

Lowell House representative M. Thorwald “Thor” Larson ’21 proposed an amendment to the legislation that would require event organizers to record the number of attendees.

Larson argued that recording attendance figures would provide transparency and help the Council ensure it funds only well-attended events.

“I would say the UC historically has not kept good records of its events,” Larson said. “This

means that we funded a number of things that have had low attendance.”

Eliot House representative Rukmini “Mini” Ganesh ’22 and Crimson Yard representative Yousuf Bakshi ’23 opposed the amendment. Ganesh argued that it would pose an “undue burden” on representatives tasked with tracking attendance figures at the Black Caucus event and future events.

“This sets a precedent for anything moving forward,” Ganesh said.

Mathew and White-Thorpe, who ran on a platform centered on diversity and improving student life on campus, said their proposed Unity Caucus would allow students from outside the UC to collaborate with representatives on projects.

The duo also discussed applications for their executive committee, which advises the UC president and vice presi-

dent on various aspects of student life.

Prospective members do not have to be Council representatives and can also apply to become project directors. Project directors would carry out specific programs from Mathew and White-Thorpe’s campaign platform.

The UC also unanimously approved legislation that would publicize the faculty nomination form for the Board of FirstYear Advisors. The form allows students to nominate professors they would like to see become First-Year Advisors, who support freshmen in their transition to college.

The Council will hold midterm elections next week to fill sixteen vacancies on the body, the largest number of open spots by the time of the February elections since at least 2015. sharon.xu@thecrimson.com

exercise their first amendments rights and that public safety is maintained,” he wrote.

To Nuñez, this alleged increase in police presence evinces Harvard’s belief that minority students are “a threat.”

“The University sees its students of color as a threat and a population to be controlled. It is no coincidence that the heightened police presence comes at a time of increased activism and public visibility of students of color on campus,” she said.

Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment for this article. Fraught relationships between students of color and police on campus are neither new nor unique to Harvard, Nuñez said.

She related interactions between Harvard affiliates and HUPD and CPD officers to the broader relationship between police and minorities across America.

“At the same time that we are seeing an increase in the policing of Harvard students of color, black and brown communities across the country are facing police brutality, surveillance, and fear,” she said.

Nuñez also spoke about CPD’s arrest of a black Harvard

student in 2018, which touched off allegations of police brutality at the time.

“Students at Harvard are still reeling from the violent attack of a black student by Cambridge Police Department in 2018 and the recent reports of sexism and racism currently taking place in the Harvard University Police Department,” she said.

Asked to respond to allegations regarding the 2018 arrest, Warnick referred to the independent review of the arrest, led by former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Roderick L. Ireland and released in May of 2019, which found that the officers involved did not use excessive force.

In an email sent to HUPD employees on Tuesday, Riley wrote that he “will be moving forward in the near future” with an internal review of his department following the recent report of racism, sexism, and alleged favoritism in the department.

This review would mark the fourth formal assessment of HUPD during Riley’s tenure. ema.schumer@thecrimson.com charles.xu@thecrimson.com

WEXNER FROM PAGE 1

Harvard Donor Implicated in Report School before 2012, and one of the school’s six main buildings is named for him.

Epstein — a New York financier who died last August while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges — served as Wexner’s financial advisor for decades. He facilitated, but did not contribute money to, a donation from Wexner that funded the construction of Harvard Hillel.

Wexner was one of Epstein’s only known clients.

The Wall Street Journal reported last July that Epstein also attempted to participate in the process of selecting models for Victoria’s Secret, the flagship subsidiary company of L Brands.

Another Harvard affiliate —

Patricia S. Bellinger ’83, University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s chief of staff — sits on L Brands’ Board of Directors alongside Wexner. As Bacow’s chief of staff, Bellinger oversees activities of the Office of the President, assists with key University initiatives, and helps promote Bacow’s agenda.

Bellinger previously served as a senior fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Bellinger’s behalf, directing the request to L Brands spokesperson Tammy R. Myers. Myers did not respond to a request for comment. michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

OP-ED

Riley Must Go

What Comes Next?

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ast week, a Crimson investigation revealed an extremely troubling culture of discrimination and favoritism within the Harvard University Police Department. Twenty-one current and former HUPD officers attested — via interviews, multiple lawsuits, formal discrimination complaints, and meetings with University administrators among other means — to a work environment that can only be described as toxic. They allege, for instance, that HUPD officers have used racial slurs with little consequence, that female officers are passed over for promotions and face increased scrutiny, and that HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley, at the center of these allegations, “rewards members of his inner circle while passing over officers who voice concerns.”

Condemning the alleged toxic, discriminatory culture these officers paint is necessary, but not nearly sufficient.

These allegations are alarming to say the least, and they inevitably reframe how we think about past HUPD-related incidents, including the interaction between students of color in Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Lorgia García Peña’s course.

The University cannot reasonably expect its student body, and minority students in particular, to trust HUPD under Chief Riley — a man consistently identified as either creating or enabling this culture. Not only for this urgent practical reason, but also out of clear moral obligation, we call for his immediate resignation.

These events represent an egregious wrong that demands accountability.

We extend our sympathy and support

to those HUPD officers who have experienced (and may still be experiencing) acts of harassment and discrimination, particularly those who were forced to remain silent out of fear of retaliation and economic need.

Only with Riley’s departure can HUPD begin to mend the evident rifts within the department and its relationship with the student body.

Failing to ensure a good relationship between Harvard affiliates and HUPD threatens the safety of everyone on cam-

Failing to ensure a good relationship between Harvard affiliates and HUPD threatens the safety of everyone on campus by making effective communication with individual officers less likely. pus by making effective communication with individual officers less likely. Indeed, Riley’s presence at the top of the department stains the public’s perception of the many fair-minded, conscientious officers that keep our campus safe, actively hurting both his force and the student body more broadly.

While Chief’s Riley’s resignation is vital, it is not, however, sufficient. Beyond Riley himself, the university bears significant responsibility for the events.

Prior to Crimson’s reporting, top Harvard officials appear to have consistently ignored numerous signs that pointed at the problematic dynamics at play in the

department. From filings with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, to settled lawsuits and unfruitful meetings, Harvard remained unfazed despite multiple red flags.

The University did not act in the students’ best interest by withholding information about many of these incidents and continuing to allow officers who had allegedly committed racist and sexist acts to continue interacting with students on a daily basis.

We condemn the top Harvard officials who were allegedly informed of the department’s culture and failed to take action, including Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay, Senior Advisor to the President John S. Wilson, ombudsman Lydia L. Cummings, and Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp, as well as any others not revealed by the Crimson’s reporting. We call for an investigation into the alleged negligence displayed by top leadership that reveals why so many complaints fell on deaf ears, and an appropriate response to its findings.

Harvard can’t erase the pain allegedly inflicted by Riley during his time as the head of the department. But we can — we must — strive to do better. That work starts with Riley’s resignation.

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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Oh, the Places You Should Go!

Reshini Premaratne PLAYING DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

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any people told me to cherish every semester at Harvard and not let a single one go. Yet — much to the dismay of my friends, family, and even thesis advisor — I instead made the unpopular decision to do exactly the opposite: to pack up my books, let go of Harvard, and fly overseas for a semester.

And, you should, too.

I want to begin by expressing my rather unobjectionable support for the slim minority of Harvard undergraduates— in 2015, the Harvard Political Review reported the figure as less than 4.5 percent — studying abroad during any given semester. Despite study abroad being one of the highlights of many college students’ experiences across universities in the United States, it remains an extremely uncommon choice for Harvard students.

You may regret not studying abroad, but I doubt you will regret actually taking the plunge and doing it. Indeed, some iteration of this sentence has been whispered to me by many a former study abroad student who then proceeded to retell the whimsical travels, relief of academic stress, and forged friendships from their time in a foreign country, most often during their junior spring semester.

Since it is so uncommon for Harvard students, I think study abroad alumni try their best to avoid discussing the downsides of it. While I do think that all students should study abroad, I find it important to also mention the less glorious parts of the experience: loneliness, discomfort, unfamiliarity, and fear of missing out. I am studying abroad at the Jesus College of the University of Cambridge this semester.

Though it has only been a few weeks, there have definitely been some incredibly hard moments. I have felt completely lost and overwhelmed by being thrown into an entirely new environment in the middle of their academic year as well as mine; I have felt estranged from my closest friends and most comforting confidantes; I have honestly sobbed myself to sleep and begged to return home. And from casual conversations with oth-

er study abroad students, these kinds of experiences do not seem to be entirely unique.

The bigger picture, though, is that these tough moments, and the many more incredible ones that accompany them, have pushed me to grow in immeasurable ways academically, socially, and personally.

My experience thus far is entirely different than it has been for the past two and a half years at Harvard, and it prepares me well for life after graduation.

I am living pretty much entirely on my

I have felt completely lost and overwhelmed by being thrown into an entirely new environment in the middle of their academic year as well as mine. own, including grocery shopping and cooking for myself. I am taking one-onone supervisions here at Cambridge, which means I don’t interact with any other students intellectually. Instead, I am spending an extremely personalized and tailored time with leading scholars in their respective fields. I have the unique opportunity to travel the world easily, seeing different cultures and peoples all across Europe on literally a weekly basis.

In my experience, the social life here is much more centered around pubs than it is clubs, or Final Clubs for that matter, making it foreign but much more accessible.

In fact, my experience at Harvard will be so much richer because of the time I spent away from it, not in spite of that.

My academic experience will be stronger because I have had to read and write at the level and in the style that Cambridge requires, while also participating in classes held that very much challenge my established rhythm.

I will be stronger socially and more appreciative of the close-knit community that Harvard offers. I will also be more

independent because studying abroad inherently forces an uncomfortable, but meaningful degree of solitude. Lastly, I will be re-energized to return to Harvard after spending six months focusing on personal and academic growth, with the comfort of also knowing that classes are pass/fail.

Despite all of the hard moments that there have been, I have never once regretted my decision to leap across the pond for my junior spring semester. Harvard, in all its glory and in all its stumbles, is fairly consistent. Incremental change and progress are indeed always happening, but nonetheless it is a predictable place. Over the course of a fouryear undergraduate experience, the difference between having seven or eight semesters living in the Houses and going to class in the Yard does seem rather negligible.

In fact, I feel better suited to return to Harvard for my senior year, with a newfound appreciation of all that Harvard provides that other esteemed institutions like Cambridge do not.

Indeed, I will be armed with the knowledge and reflection that six months of being away from the Harvard bubble has given me.

I will be ready to come back and fully take advantage of Harvard, as a re-energized senior who missed the sense of home elicited by Harvard, but grew immensely because of that. While many people will tell you to not let go of a single semester at Harvard, I believe that studying abroad is not only a valuable experience in and of itself, but also makes every other semester at Harvard so much better.

It may be unpopular, but study abroad is worth it. And, while there is no certainty that it will be easy — indeed, it probably won’t be — the one thing anyone who has gone abroad can guarantee is that you will never regret it.

—Reshini Premaratne ’21 is a joint concentrator in Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Currier House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.

By JAMES M. ROGERS

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early two years ago, when I first arrived on the campus I now call home, I faced the daunting question that meets everyone who walks through Harvard’s gates: What comes next?

For the first time in my life, I had a place to start, but no finish line in sight. When I was young, the finish line was clear: the top of the tree in the backyard (or, in hindsight, a branch no more than 5 feet off the ground). I grew a bit older, and the finish line shifted: get straight A’s, make the team.

High school came and the finish line grew more distant: top of the class, good college. After four long years, I crossed that finish line and enjoyed the victory lap that is senior summer. Since then, while I have wondered about the next big finish line, I have not truly sought it.

Freshman year at Harvard is too much of a whirlwind to deeply ponder your next great goal;

Freshman year at Harvard is too much of a whirlwind to deeply ponder your next great goal; you make new friends, move into a new home, and experience new challenges and triumphs on a daily basis. you make new friends, move into a new home, and experience new challenges and triumphs on a daily basis. Eventually, the newness of it all settles down, and it is somehow sophomore fall: time to pick a concentration! Advisors and peers alike tell you it’s no big deal, it’s not a binding contract, and it’s not a lifelong commitment. And yet you cannot help but feel the gravity of picking a direction.

Of course you can change your concentration down the line, but it is suddenly more difficult to explore. You see the sheer number of classes you must take to complete the requirements, and wonder how there is any possible way to start down one path and then reach the finish line of another.

When it was time for me to pick, I questioned everything. I loved computer science, but was it truly my favorite field of study? I can’t even an-

Of course you can change your concentration down the line, but it is suddenly more difficult to explore. You see the sheer number of classes you must take to complete the requirements, and wonder how there is any possible way to start down one path and then reach the finish line of another. swer when asked my favorite movie or book.

There are so many stories I love; how can I choose between Harry Potter and the Avengers? And yet, like everyone else, I made a decision, and I am now quite comfortable with it.

Even with my concentration settled, the next big finish line is utterly unclear. Do I want to go to graduate school or go straight to work? Am I studying computer science to program forever or to hone it as a technical skill for a different field?

In the short time since I started this piece, I have already decided to switch out of a computer science class I thought for sure I must take this semester.

Indeed, everyone around me is taking different paths, made clear by summer plans already settled in January — high caliber internships to pad

When I share my uncertainty with my closest friends, I realize that only a lucky few know where their next finish line is. The majority, however, are stepping blindly. The myriad of paths taken by students at Harvard can be intimidating, but it should be viewed as a manifestation of the petrifying perplexity everyone feels. the resume, jobs at the grocery store to pay tuition and save for the future, more classes to get credits out of the way. I find it difficult to pick which path to tread, knowing not what my future holds.

After all, I have always taken my steps with a specific goal in mind. Now it seems each step is into an abyss of uncertainty, hoping the light of clarity and purpose is on the other side.

When I share my uncertainty with my closest friends, I realize that only a lucky few know where their next finish line is. The majority, however, are stepping blindly. The myriad of paths taken by students at Harvard can be intimidating, but it should be viewed as a manifestation of the petrifying perplexity everyone feels. If there was a clear finish line of success and happiness and an obvious path to get there, we would all walk it together.

Instead, we wander about, hoping to stumble into a path that suits us. So perhaps it is time to stop fretting about this uncertainty. For now, all we can do is embrace not knowing what comes next.

—James M. Rogers ’22, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Computer Science concentrator in Mather House.

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SPORTS

THIS WEEKEND’S

SCORES

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. CORNELL W, 4-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. BARTON W, 3-1 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. CORNELL L, 1-4 ___________________________________________________________

SKIING BATES CARNIVAL 8TH ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S SQUASH VS. BROWN W, 9-0 ___________________________________________________________

TRACK & FIELD HYP 2ND (W), 3RD (M) ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SQUASH VS. BROWN W, 8-1 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Powers Through Late Foul, Beats Yale 78-77

HAVE FAITH Christian Juzang considers his options against Yale on Saturday. The senior helped the Crimson to a season-high 23 assists against the Bulldogs, contributing nine of his own. ZING GEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

By LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The free throw seemed a formality, the next blow in what felt destined to become a crushing Harvard loss. Azar Swain had just done the impossible: with his Yale Bulldogs down by four points with a few ticks shy of six seconds to go and inbounding the ball from under their own basket, he raced up the court, threw his body into the defending Rio Haskett to draw a foul, and launched a prayer — a prayer that, with an assist from the backboard, was somehow answered.

All Swain — who had converted his first eight attempts from the charity stripe — had to do to complete the four-point play and send the game to overtime was make a free throw. But the Crimson’s streak of heartbreaking losses would not reach three, as Swain’s free throw clanged off the front of the rim and out, stunning what seconds before had been a raucous Yale crowd and allowing Harvard to escape Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a 78-77 victory on Friday evening.

In many ways, this game was the mirror image of last weekend’s near-comebacks against Penn and Princeton. Then, the Crimson (14-7, 3-3 Ivy) fought back valiantly from two daunting deficits and fell just short.

Friday, Yale (17-5, 5-1) never led but clawed back from two separate double-digit deficits, including a 13-point chasm with five minutes to play. The Bulldogs came ever so close to tying the game, but this time it was Harvard who would earn a crucial victory.

“We are putting ourselves in these 50-50 positions,” senior guard Christian Juzang said. “If [Swain] makes that free throw, we’re going to overtime and it’s a 50-50 game. We just have to work on closing games, especially on the road, and building toward that full 40 [minutes]. I’m proud of how we fought. I think we were deserving for most of the game, but I think we’re a step closer. I think that’s a mistake we won’t make again going down the stretch so I’d rather knock it out now than in the tournament.”

Swain nearly robbed the Crimson of its big win. It was bombs away in the second half ­

for the diminutive junior guard, who is capable of scoring a lot of points in a hurry. He scored Yale’s first eight points of the second half, punctuated by a deep step-back three to cut Harvard’s lead to eight. And he was not done, either.

Time after time, Harvard threatened to put the game away, and the Brockton, Mass., native always had an answer.

Swain’s 27 second-half points came on 11 shots, and his four made threes in the period ranged from difficult to — most obviously when Haskett gave him that bump — seemingly impossible.

Before the unthinkable, nearly four-point play, it appeared that the Crimson had done just enough to lock up a win against the Ivy League’s leaders.

Twice in the last 1:10, the Bulldogs sent Juzang to the

line with Harvard up by two.

Juzang had missed a few free throws late in a tight win over Dartmouth a few weeks ago and then had stayed in the gym after that game working on his stroke from the charity stripe.

The work paid off, as Juzang hit all four free throws, twice extending the Crimson’s lead back to four.

“In my mind, there are very few people I’d choose over [Juzang], if any, in a pressure free throw situation,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “He was dialed in, and I had all the confidence in the world that he was going to bury them.”

But Juzang’s clutch free throws sandwiched two misses from the line from sophomore guard Noah Kirkwood, including one on the front end of a oneand-one, giving Yale just the slightest chance to get back on level terms.

Kirkwood was otherwise exceptional again, following up his efficient 21-point performance against Princeton last Saturday with a team-leading 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting.

In the absence of senior guard Bryce Aiken, who remains out with an ankle injury and did not travel with the team this weekend, Kirkwood has continued to look like Harvard’s best offensive option and the one the Crimson goes to for a bucket when it needs one.

Against a defense that coming in was statistically best in the Ivy League, Harvard’s offense was humming for most of the game’s first 35 minutes, especially at the end of the first half, when a scalding seven minute stretch in which it connected on 10 of its 12 attempts, including four of its five from long range, and scored 24 points, stretching the lead to 13

at halftime.

“We played a tremendous basketball game against a tremendous team, and so we’re very proud of it, very happy with it,” Amaker said. “We recognize how devastating that could have been if that didn’t turn out the way it did, but having said that we did a lot of good things prior to that last possession.”

The Crimson, which ranks near the bottom of college basketball in assist rate, notched 23 assists, seven more than its previous season high. Juzang led the way with a season-high nine helpers, continuing what has been a remarkable midseason turn of events for the senior.

Relegated to a bit part for much of the first part of the season, Juzang has filled in as the starting point guard in Aiken’s stead admirably, no more so than Friday.

Juzang and Kirkwood were joined in double figures by junior forward Danilo Djuricic, who scored a season-high 17 points, and senior forward Robert Baker, who added 10.

Djuricic’s points came on just nine shots and always seemed to come at vital moments of the game. An assertive Djuricic drive and tough reverse layup forced Yale out of the zone it had briefly turned to in an attempt to jar Harvard out of its rhythm.

“My teammates got me in great positions to score the ball, and on back cuts, when I was driving in and would make a cut, they were looking for me tonight,” Djuricic said. “So I was just going to go in there and try and go in strong and either draw a foul or finish the bucket.

So credit to my teammates for finding me in position to score.”

As is often the case, Baker made his biggest impact on the defensive end. The Crimson outscored Yale by 13 points in the 25 minutes he played thanks largely to his three blocks and numerous contests at the rim.

His versatility became apparent when, after Swain tried to exploit what he thought to be a mismatch, Baker stayed with the speedy guard and blocked his jumper, springing Kirkwood the other way for a layup and extending Harvard’s firsthalf lead to 12 points.

Despite Baker’s defensive impact, the Bulldogs managed to stay in the game thanks largely to their two junior stars.

They got almost 80 percent of their scoring from Swain and junior big man Paul Atkinson,

who poured in 28 points on hyper-efficient 11-16 shooting. It was Atkinson who kept Yale in the game in the first half. He was the only Bulldog to score in the game’s first six minutes and ended the half with 17 of their 32 points.

The Crimson had a difficult time dealing with Yale’s 6-foot10 forward, who has nearly doubled his per game scoring from last season.

All too often, Atkinson received the ball deep in the paint and needed only to lay the ball in or, on one occasion, throw down a monstrous dunk. He got all three of the bigs tasked with defending him — Chris Lewis, Mason Forbes, and Baker — into foul trouble, and Lewis in particular was often outmatched on both ends, committing four fouls in his 23 minutes and finishing with just four points.

Atkinson’s only blemish on the night proved costly to Yale.

A decent 71 percent free throw shooter on the year, he nonetheless looked uncomfortable at the line throughout, especially in the first half.

The Florida native hit just one of his six first half free throws, and most of the misses were ugly. He steadied himself in the second half, connecting on five of his six attempts as Harvard continued to have no choice but to send him to the line, but the damage had been done.

Yale’s loss was its first at home this season. The Bulldogs entered the game as healthy favorites, having won six straight games — including their first four Ivy League games — by double-digits. But they again struggled to defeat the Crimson on their home court, losing for the eighth time in nine years.

“We just came together,” Juzang said. “I think it showed a lot about all five of us on the court and the bench still being involved. I’m really proud of the guys the way that we were able to weather those storms and bounce back with our own runs and big plays.”

The victory keeps Harvard from falling below .500 in the Ivy League for the first time since 2016. The Crimson lost a heartbreaker at Brown (118, 4-2) on Sunday by a score of 72-71, bringing Harvard back to an even record in the Ancient Eight. The Crimson returns home next weekend for its first meetings with Cornell (5-14, 2-4) and Columbia (6-16, 1-5). lev.cohen@thecrimson.com

NOAH BETTER SCORER Harvard’s Noah Kirkwood drives against Yale in Saturday’s win. The sophomore led the Crimson with 18 points in a heart-pounding rivalry match. HENRY ZHU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER’

SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

MEN’S TENNIS VS. MEMPHIS W, 4-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. PENN W, 4-1 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. COLGATE W, 4-3 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SQUASH AT NO. 4 YALE W, 9-0 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. MOUNT OLIVE W, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S WATER POLO VS. ST. FRANCIS (PA.) W , 11-5 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S SQUASH AT NO. 7 YALE W, 9-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Tops Previously-Undefeated Yale At Home

By EMA R. SCHUMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard dealt Yale its first loss in Ivy League play this season at Lavietes Pavilion Friday evening, surpassing the Bulldogs by a final score of 66-57 in a game that featured four competitive quarters of action.

Making an infrequent appearance in the starting lineup of the Crimson (13-6, 4-2 Ivy), co-captain and junior forward Rachel Levy led Harvard’s charge against Yale (15-4, 5-1) on both ends of the court. In 34 minutes of play — the most Levy has ever played in one game for the Crimson — she did it all.

Levy grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds, nine of which were on the offensive end, and notched 14 points.

Additionally, she fired up her teammates by diving on the ground for loose balls, chasing down and rejecting Yale players at the hoop, and drawing a charge.

Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith described Levy’s performance as “immense.”

“I felt she was a junior captain and she was going to carry the team, and I thought she was great [on] both ends of the floor,” Delaney-Smith said.

Levy found herself in the starting lineup after her co-captain, senior guard Mackenzie Barta, sustained an injury against Princeton last weekend that prevented her from suiting up against Yale.

“Playing without Kenzie is really hard. I think we all wanted to show up this weekend and give a little bit more just for that reason and play for her,” Levy said. “I know that’s definitely weighing heavy on my mind.

I just wanted to go out and remember the game could be taken away at any point, and it kind of just motivated me to go out and crash hard. Do everything hard. Just play because I love the sport.”

Levy said her teammates shared her sense of urgency.

“I think everybody came out really intense and ready to go,” she said. “Everybody’s ready to step up and that’s awesome.

I think we’re going to win a lot of games with a different game plan. We’re going deeper into the bench.”

Junior guard Matilda Salen also contributed meaningful minutes off of the bench for the Crimson on Friday evening.

Salen gave maximum effort in her 17 minutes of playing time against the Bulldogs, grabbing 5 rebounds, scoring a basket, and tallying a steal.

Hot off the bench in the first quarter, Salen grabbed a defensive rebound, dished the basketball to a teammate ahead of her, and sprinted down to the opposite end of the court.

Trailing the play, she cut back, caught the basketball, and layed it in off the glass. “[Salen’s] been stepping up so much this season, and it’s so great to see,” Levy said. “She comes in, and she’s a huge defensive asset for us. And there’s no question when she’s on the court. I know she’s a hustler. I know she’s a player and she’s gonna have my back if I get beat — she’s gonna have everybody’s back. And she’s gonna crash hard. She’s a really dependable player.”

Going into the game, Harvard knew that Yale would likely defend the Crimson in a high pressure woman-to-woman

defense, just as several other teams have been doing all season.

On Friday night, Harvard was ready.

The Crimson capitalized on Yale’s high pressure by attacking the paint.

Out of position, Bulldog players struggled to get between Harvard players and the hoop.

The Crimson were able to capitalize, and, as a result, Harvard staked out an 18-8 lead to finish the first quarter, scoring almost all of its points exclusively from inside the paint.

Yale made inroads in the second quarter, however.

Bulldog players offered a glimpse of how they have managed to rise to the top of the Ivy League leaderboard: they engaged Harvard players by aggressively attacking the paint and then dishing to their teammates who would catch the basketball wide open in front of the rim.

Yale’s No. 2 Camilla Emsbo, who stands at 6 feet 5 inches, laid in eight of the Bulldog’s 23 points in the second quarter.

Harvard answered with only 11 points of its own, which put the Crimson down by a basket heading into the locker room at halftime.

In the third quarter, freshman guard Lola Mullaney fueled the Crimson’s surge on offense, just as she has done on numerous occasions this season.

In that quarter alone, Mullaney contributed 12 points. Her effort helped to erase Harvard’s deficit on multiple occasions by finishing at the rim, maneuvering passed her opponents and cradling the basketball to successfully get to the hoop.

In addition to scoring in the

TAMING THE BULLDOGS Junior forward Rachel Levy finished with a career game against the Crimson’s bitter rival, notching 14 points and grabbing 19 rebounds against Yale. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

paint, Mullaney knocked down two consecutive triples to give the Crimson a lead.

Mullaney finished the game with 19 points.

Harvard went into the fourth quarter ahead by one point.

However, the Crimson continued to push the pace and would not take its foot off of the pedal.

When the final buzzer sounded, the Crimson had surpassed Yale by nine points, tarnishing the Bulldogs’ perfect conference record.

Perhaps the most important moment of the game came with five minutes to play, when senior forward Jeannie Boehm rolled toward the hoop off of a screen for Mullaney and caught the basketball in the left short corner of the floor.

She immediately went to work in the paint, backing down her defender, Emsbo, who, off rhythm, stumbled to the ground. With her left hand, Boehm floated the ball into the hoop to put Harvard up by five points, sealing the victory for

the Crimson.

On Sunday, Harvard returned to the court and topped Brown (7-12, 1-5) by a score of 68-53.

The Crimson will make its next appearance on Feb. 14 at Cornell (9-9, 2-4) and then on Feb. 15 at Columbia (11-8, 2-4) for its first back-to-back Ivy League road trip of the season next weekend.

Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively. ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

MEN’S HOCKEY

No. 17 Harvard Completes Season Sweep of Dartmouth

Bouncing Back The Crimson skated past the Big Green on Friday night to earn its third and fourth points against the conference foe this season. AMANDA M. DIMARTINI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

By SPENCER R. MORRIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In Friday night’s matchup between the Harvard men’s hockey team and Dartmouth, the prettiest goal of the night turned out to be the most important one.

Five minutes into the second period, a settled offensive sequence culminated in a tic-tactoe play, nabbing the game-winner for the No. 17 Crimson (11-74, 9-4-3 ECAC).

Junior rearguard Reilly Walsh controlled the puck at the point.

The offensive defenseman worked it down low to sophomore center Jack Drury, who one-touched it across the crease to freshman Nick Abruzzese.

The winger wasted no time putting home his squad’s third of

the night.

Courtesy of Abruzzese’s tuck, the Big Green (10-9-4, 7-72) saw its winless streak progress to five games as it suffered a season sweep at the hands of its Ivy League adversary, to the tune of 6-2.

With the victory, Harvard becomes just the second team in the 2019-2020 campaign to leave Thompson Arena with two points.

“They’re an older team, they’re experienced, they’re well-coached,” sophomore blue-liner Marshall Rifai said.

“Especially coming off a Beanpot loss, the guys were really chomping at the bit to get back in games and get a win. We felt pretty confident in our group, and we knew we needed these two points.”

At the 14-minute mark of the

third stanza, Dartmouth halved its two-goal deficit.

Upperclassman forwards Collin Rutherford, Matt Baker, and Daniel Warpecha each combined to find the back of the net.

Warpecha happened to be the culprit, firing a high shot past Harvard net-minder Mitchell Gibson (2 GA, .917 SV%) to finish off an impressive transition play.

The claw-back goal made things interesting for the next ten minutes, but none other than Drury and Abruzzese combined to restore Harvard’s two-score cushion at 4-2, snuffing the Big Green’s comeback attempt.

The first forward line’s performance extended Drury’s point streak to ten games.

During this span — which

was interrupted by Drury’s stint at the IIHF World Junior Championship — the second-year forward has managed to accumulate 20 points (11–9— 20).

He has steadily climbed the Division-I ranks and is now second nationwide in points per game (1.53).

Abruzzese, meanwhile, is putting together an excellent rookie campaign, having flanked Drury for most of the season.

The Slate Hill, N.Y., native has inked the scoresheet in all but four of his 22 appearances in 2019-2020.

He currently paces all NCAA freshmen in points per game (1.36) and assists per game (0.86). “[Abruzzese] is an incredible player,” said Drury, deflecting all the credit. “His vision, his skating, his hands are all incredible. He understands how to play give-and-go hockey. He’s one of the best passers I’ve ever seen…. It’s been nice to at least find a little chemistry this year.”

An empty-net goal from freshman forward John Farinacci and a garbage-time tally — but an even-strength notch nonetheless — from captain Nathan Krusko gave the scoreboard its lopsided appearance by the final horn.

“It was a close, hard-fought game,” Drury said. “I don’t think the score really reflects how the game actually played out. It was a one-goal game until five or six minutes left…. We know we can be better, but we’re happy with how we stayed composed and stuck to our structured gameplan.”

Harvard took a 2-1 lead into the dressing room after 20 minutes.

A critical five-minute major penalty from Dartmouth captain Brendan Demler gifted an extended powerplay to the nation’s best man-up unit (30.9% effective).

Demler’s illegal hit on sophomore blue-liner Jack Rathbone

came toward the tail end of a Big Green minor penalty.

Thus, the task of outlasting a non-releasable, five-minute Crimson powerplay was made even more daunting given the fatigue of the Dartmouth penalty killers.

The Big Green held strong for the first three and a half minutes of the ensuing major.

Then, Harvard cashed in, thanks to the second man-advantage unit.

Gliding along the blue line, Rifai rung a wrist shot off the crossbar. The puck initially stayed out but lingered near the front of the net, where freshman forward Austin Wong tapped it in.

The Crimson has converted with the extra man in all but four tilts this season.

“That first [powerplay] unit gets a lot of attention because they’re so good, and we have so much talent,” said Rifai, who logged his first career multipoint performance on Friday.

“But people forget how deep our team is…. I think our staff is confident with both units. It was great to take a little pressure off that first unit, to score that goal and go ahead late [in the first period].”

Wong’s lamp-lighter ends a 10-game dry spell after the rookie potted his first collegiate goal in his debut. He was sidelined due to injury for the Crimson’s first 10 outings of 20192020.

The powerplay tally thrust Harvard back into the lead, as the frame had already seen the Ivy League rivals exchange blows.

Three minutes after the opening puck drop, junior Jack Badini kicked off the scoring with a demonstration of his speed. In the neutral zone, the centerman poked the puck around senior forward Will Graber and was off to the races, in alone on senior goaltender Adrian Clark (5 GA, .815 SV%).

Badini tucked it under the bar with a clean finish on his back-

hand.

The Anaheim Ducks prospect’s fifth of the year marks the 16th time in 22 contests that the Crimson has scored first this season, a testament to the group’s ability to impose its potent offense early.

Harvard sits second in the NCAA in first-period goals per game (1.27).

The visitors’ lead was shortlived, though.

Four minutes after Badini’s strike, sophomore forward Drew O’Connor buried a feed from junior linemate Quin Foreman to equalize.

Foreman gained possession below the goal line, found some space, and shoveled a backhand pass toward the blue paint, where O’Connor sent the puck past Gibson.

“Badini had a great individual effort there,” Rifai recalled.

“He showed his speed and got us on the board, and there was a lot of life on the bench. I feel like maybe we got a little complacent, and we paid for it. We lost a guy in front, and they scored.

But guys on the bench responded really well. We knew right away that we were going to get the next one.”

The Crimson pauses its conference slate briefly to finish off this year’s Beanpot Tournament.

Unfortunately for this group, that means playing in the dreaded “early game,” or Monday’s consolation matchup ahead of the finale which takes place later that night.

Harvard will be battling No. 4 Boston College in a rematch of early December’s 3-2 Eagles victory — despite the lack of stakes attached, both an important game for the Pairwise rankings and a measuring-stick affair for a group with postseason aspirations.

A positive result could orient the team in the right direction as it braces for the home stretch of the campaign. spencer.morris@thecrimson.com