The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 7 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2019
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Sullivan’s decision to defend Weinstein protects the law but lets students down.
Cambridge residents discussed redesign plans for Square kiosk.
Harvard will take on Boston College in the Beanpot semifinal Monday.
HPT Honors Bryce Dallas Howard Union, Univ. Talk Membership By JAMES S. BIKALES and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
The Hasty Pudding named actor Bryce Dallas Howard as the group’s 68th Woman of the Year. Howard paraded down Massachusetts Avenue Thursday alongside the Pudding’s first mixed-gender cast since it began putting on an annual production in 1844. QUINN G. PERINI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER By ISABEL L. ISSELBACHER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Keeping with decades of tradition, the Hasty Pudding paraded, roasted, and honored Bryce Dallas Howard, its 2019 Woman of the Year, Thursday afternoon. But for the first time in the group’s history, six women stood among the colorfully costumed Hasty Pudding Theatricals performers as they — and Howard — made their way down Massachusetts Avenue and into Farkas Hall. The theater troupe made headlines at last year’s festivities when it announced that it would begin accepting women into its cast. Since 1844, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals has put on a drag show every year with only male actors. Women were allowed to hold positions on the group’s business, tech, and design boards, but until this year were never given the opportunity to perform onstage. Asked for her thoughts on
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the historic nature of this year’s co-ed production at a press conference Thursday, Howard said, “It’s about time.” “I’m really, really grateful to be here, in general, and especially this year — it’s a huge honor,” she said. The events kicked off with a parade that wound its way through the streets around Harvard Square. Undeterred by the 14 degree cold, the lively procession featured Howard waving and smiling atop a Black Bentley, flanked by Hasty Pudding President Grace C. Ramsey ’19 and Cast Vice President David J. Lynch ’20. Pudding members dressed in eccentric attire — including a Shakespearean doublet, a cactus suit, and an inflatable dinosaur costume — danced alongside the car. Parade onlooker John L. Nugent ’21 called the parade “amazing” and said he is glad “we’re celebrating talented and accomplished women.” Preceding the roast in Farkas Hall, Chairman of the
Hasty Pudding Institute Andrew L. Farkas ’82 made a short speech reflecting on the historic nature of the occasion. “How fun to be here on what is the most important day, perhaps, of our 200-year history,” he said. “I want to congratulate all 200 years, all the alunni members of this organization — alive, past, and all those to come — for having done what it is that every organization should do, which is welcoming women into our cast and turning the entirety of Hasty Pudding 100 percent co-ed.” Following Farkas’s introduction, Ramsey and Lynch led the celebratory roast of Howard. Before receiving the Pudding Pot — the award given to the organization’s Woman of the Year and Man of the Year honorees — the actress was made to face off against a dinosaur in a game of basketball, produce fake tears before the audience, and pie a student in
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In Photos: Bryce Dallas Howard, Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
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By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and TAMAR SARIG
Harvard Medical School faculty and staff collaborated with the American Federation of Teachers to release an online course earlier this month that aims to educate the union’s more than 1.7 million affiliates on the opioid crisis. The course, called “Combating the Opioid Crisis: AFT Responds,” is an updated version of “OpioidX,” an e-learning course initially created by the Harvard Medical School in 2017 as a free public educational tool. Catherine Finn, the deputy editor of Harvard Health Publishing and executive producer of OpioidX, said the original version of the course featured a wide range of expertise, with personal stories from Harvard faculty members, patients, and members of law enforcement. She said the class is a “novel course” because it is largely a video-based narrative course. “I chose that because I am very interested in health literacy,” Finn said. “I think people’s stories and video-based materials really impact people
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Harvard negotiators proposed that student workers retain the right to choose whether they join the University’s newest union and pay union dues in a bargaining session with Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Automobile Workers Wednesday, a provision that would be unique among Harvard’s union contracts. The proposal drew fierce criticism from union organizers, while the University maintained the provision was meant to protect Harvard’s educational mission and its students. Former National Labor Relations Board Chairman William B. Gould IV characterized the University’s position as an “open shop” proposal and the union’s position as an “agency shop” proposal. An agency shop arrangement — which is typically achieved by including a provision known as a “union-security clause” — would require all student workers to pay dues to cover the cost of bargaining, according to Gould. An open shop arrangement would give student workers the choice of whether or not to pay dues. “On balance, I think union-security clauses make a lot of sense because of the free rider problem,” Gould said. “Everyone should pay their way.” All of Harvard’s other union contracts follow the agency shop model, as do contracts between other private universities — including New York University, Brandeis University, and Tufts University — and their graduate student unions. HGSU-UAW proposed a union-security clause during its first bargaining session with the University in October, according to Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash ’15, an HGSU-UAW bargaining committee member.
The union security agreement was meant to ensure that “all student workers who work under and benefit from the contract share the cost of representation fairly and equally,” Sandalow-Ash wrote in an emailed statement. “The administration’s proposal would limit the union’s resources and hurt student workers’ ability to effectively assert our rights and support each other,” she wrote. University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an email that, under the University’s proposal, student workers would “continue to have the choice they currently have, which is whether or not to join the union.” The union’s proposal, Swain wrote, would require all students to join the union and pay dues, or be subject to a fee equivalent to the dues. Otherwise, they may face consequences. “If they did not do so, they would be subject to termination, which for some student workers would make it impossible to complete their academic program,” Swain wrote. University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 previously articulated the University’s intention to separate academic and labor matters in union negotiations in an email sent to Harvard affiliates prior to the start of bargaining sessions. “We will not agree to terms that will compromise our educational mission,” Garber wrote in the October email. Carrie Barbash, the president of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, wrote in an email that while she is not familiar with the details of the University’s proposal, she is “strongly opposed” to an open shop arrangement. “Harvard has never proposed an open shop to any other unions, so I don’t understand why they would do it now with
Cambridge residents viewed sketches of the Harvard Square Kiosk in the Smith Campus Center Thursday. AMANDA Y. SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
The Association of Black Harvard Women held a discussion Thursday to address sexual assault and its impact on black women in the wake of the release of “Surviving R. Kelly” and news that Harvard Law School professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. will serve on Harvey Weinstein’s legal team. More than 50 students packed into Ticknor Lounge for the event, called “Black Girls
Matter,” and some were forced to find seats on the floor as the room filled with attendees. Law School student Katherine Mateo moderated the discussion, the contents of which were off the record to the press. In an email publicizing the event, organizers wrote they believe it is “imperative” to discuss how issues of sexual assault specifically affect black women. “In the wake of ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ and most recently, the report that the Winthrop House
Dean—a Black man—has joined the defense of Harvey Weinstein, we think it is imperative to come together and discuss sexual assault, abuse and harassment as they impact Black women,” the invitation read. The documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly,” released in early January, publicized years of abuse allegations against the R&B singer. ABHW President Kacey E. Gill ’20 said the group wanted
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‘Beloved Streets’ Panel Covers Race, Transformative Justice By ELIZABETH X. GUO and AMANDA Y. SU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Harvard affiliates and community leaders gathered Thursday evening for an event called “Beloved Streets: Race & Justice in America,” which marked the culmination of a winter-term course at Harvard Graduate School of Education of the same name. Founded by Melvin White, the non-profit organization Beloved Streets of America seeks to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his envisioned “beloved community” by revitalizing streets bearing King’s name. Many of these regions are disproportionately under-resourced and comprise mostly
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African-Americans. Panelists at the event, who span a variety of careers and disciplines, discussed topics on race and transformative justice. They also spoke about ways in which people can dismantle systems that perpetuate intergenerational poverty. David J. Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and one of the course leaders, said the course attempted to create some spaces and places in a curriculum, fostering transparent conversations about important societal issues. School of Education adjunct lecturer Aysha Upchurch opened the event with an interpretive hip hop dance while
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sharing stories of her childhood and inviting audience members to wonder about the “beloved streets” that raised them. Tracie D. Jones, assistant director of diversity and inclusion programs at the School of Education and a course instructor, said the course heads deliberately chose panelists who would best reflect the voices of Harvard. The event brought together a diverse group of people including students and staff members — from employees at Harvard University Health Services to instructors at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “It’s important to emphasize that the conversation we’re
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Graduate School of Education panelists discussed streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Thursday. AMANDA Y. SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
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