The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVII, No. 22

The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVII NO. 22 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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Panelists at the Kennedy School make the case for reparations

Harvard should remain open to accepting foreign funding

Women’s squash wins sixth consecutive national championship

Univ., China Study Virus

Activists Interrupt Family Weekend

By CAMILLE G. CALDERA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and RUOQI ZHANG CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

A team of Harvard scientists will collaborate with a Chinese research institute in a five-year effort to study the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 78 thousand people worldwide, according to a University press release Monday.

Co-led by Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley and Zhong Nanshan — the head of an expert team within China’s National Health Commission that is investigating the outbreak — the partnership will focus on creating more accurate diagnostic tests and designing vaccines, antiviral therapies, and treatments.

Members of the group have held two video chats since its formation to begin the partnership, according to University spokesperson Jason A. Newton.

According to the press release, Daley said that the Medical School is “uniquely positioned” to bring together experts in virology, infectious diseases, structural biology, pathology, vaccine development, epidemiology, and public health for the project.

“Harnessing our science to tackle global health challenges is at the very heart of our mission as an institution dedicated to improving human health and well-being worldwide,” he said in the release.

The two research partners will share $115 million in funding from China Evergrande Group, a real estate giant and Fortune Global 500 company.

Zhong gained international recognition for his work combatting the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak. He was also the first scientist to publicly confirm human-to-human transmissibility during 2019’s n-Cov epidemic.

“We are extremely encouraged by the generous gesture from Evergrande to coordinate and support the collaboration and by the overwhelmingly positive response from our colleagues,” Zhong said in the press release.

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Students protesting on the steps of Widener Library demand that Harvard creates an Ethnic studies department and multicultural center. Allison G. Lee —CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Dropping banners during events and marching through Harvard Yard, multiple student activist organizations held demonstrations throughout Junior Family Weekend, advocating for causes from a contract for Harvard’s graduate student union to the establishment of a formalized ethnic studies program.

On Friday, dozens of students interrupted University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s welcoming remarks to families at Sanders Theatre, per a video posted to the Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies’s Facebook page.

Protestors stood in front of the stage and hoisted banners that read “Justice for Palestine,” “Contract Now,” and “Ethnic Studies Now” as Bacow spoke. Students in the balconies draped additional banners, including one that read, “Nobody

By JASPER G. GOODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Of the seven Massachusetts politicians who have run for president since 1960, none have lost their home state in the primary.

For U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the pressure is on to continue that trend.

Thirty-three percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention are up for grabs next Tuesday — the largest haul of any single day to date.

In Massachusetts, 91 pledged delegates are up for grabs — the fifth most of the any of the 14 Super Tuesday states.

Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor who has served in the Senate since 2012, has finished below 15 percent — the threshold to receive a delegate — in two of the three states that have voted. After receiving a bump in national polling following a strong debate performance last week, the Warren campaign is counting on Super

Tuesday to rebound.

Super Tuesday will also serve as an important test for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who struggled in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, while providing an opportunity for former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P.M. Buttigieg ’04.

For the past several weeks, billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg has loomed large over the Democratic race as he has spent large sums of money and campaigned across the country — but has not appeared on the ballot in the states that have voted. Super Tuesday will serve as Bloomberg’s effective debut.

Warren has been mobilizing her campaign infrastructure in Massachusetts ahead of Super Tuesday, when Bay State voters will go to the polls along with 13 other states. “We feel like Senator Warren has had the most touchpoints with resentative Andres X. Vargas said.

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By JULIET E. ISSELBACHER and AMANDA Y. SU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Law school professor Randall L. Kennedy and Kennedy school professor Cornell Brooks spoke Friday at the IOP forum about the need for reparations. ALLISON G. LEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Candidates Prepare for MA Primary

Khurana Defends HUPD at Events

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The banners appeared to represent causes taken up by a variety of student activist organizations, including Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign, Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, and Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine.

At the end of his five-minute speech, as Bacow thanked parents, the students began chanting, “Bacow, Bacow, you can’t hide. We’ve got history on our side.” They chanted for about three minutes before walking out of the auditorium to shouts of, “We’ll be back, we’ll be back!”

University spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote in an emailed statement that Bacow was “pleased” to be able to speak to families.

“President Bacow was pleased to have the

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Editorial 6

Sports 7

Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in a Feb. 18 interview that police presence at campus events is intended to ensure protesters’ safety.

Khurana said he believes activism is an important part of “democratic life” on campus and that Harvard police’s responsibility is to ensure “safe” and “peaceful” protests.

“The role of police and campus authorities from my observation point has been essentially be there to protect the community and to protect the protesters just as much as it is also to ensure just non-disruption of everyday activities of the institution,” he said.

He also cited the Department’s focus on implementing “community policing” by engaging Harvard affiliates in their work.

“That philosophy depends on healthy relationships between the police force and the community that is protecting,”

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Khurana said. “Each of us plays a role in building those healthy relationships. And I think it’s particularly important to ensure that there’s lots of communication going back and forth in those areas.”

HUPD has come under fire this semester for its allegedly discriminatory conduct and culture after The Crimson published an investigation that identified patterns of racism and sexism in the police force spanning nearly three decades.

Current and former officers said the department’s culture is replete with alleged favoritism and retaliation. Earlier this month, a rally called for the resignation of Harvard University Police Department Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley.

At the rally, protesters cited alleged harassment and called for Riley’s removal. Some held signs that read “Abolish HUPD, End Discrimination,” and “White Supremacy Kills. We Will Defend Ourselves.” Protesters accused HUPD and the

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Sixteen Students Elected to Council

By SHARON XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Sixteen students were elected to the Undergraduate Council in the recent midterm elections, according to UC election commission chair Perry M. Arrasmith ’20.

Thirty-seven students ran for 16 open seats on the Council. Five candidates ultimately withdrew from the race.

One of those who withdrew was Dhilan Ramaprasad ’21, who earned the highest amount of votes in the election for Mather House — despite the fact that he didn’t plan to run in the first place.

Ramaprasad wrote in an email that he ended up on the ballot because his friends submitted his name for the Council midterm elections.

Ramaprasad wished the ­

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HARVARD TODAY

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For Dinner Beef Fajita with Fettucine Tomato Basil Cod Filet Quinoa and Vegetable Jambalaya

TODAY’S EVENTS Study Group with Gov. Bill Walker Institute of Politics, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

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Join Governor Walker and Charlie Wheelan as they discuss plurality voting, gerrymandering, the influence of money on politics, the deterioration of social discourse, and the role of Independents in electoral politics.

Bernie Sanders Moving Forward with Strong Showings in Early Caucuses

After a close second-place finish in Iowa and convincing wins in New Hampshire and Nevada, Bernie Sanders is heading into South Carolina on Saturday with quite some momentum. He will have to prepare for his doubters and enemies as he attempts to take on a state that did not favor him in the 2016 Democratic primaries.

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White House Expected to Solicit Coronavirus Funds From Congress

A sign in the Smith Campus Center welcomes families to campus for Junior Family Weekend.

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DAILY BRIEFING A team of Harvard scientists will collaborate with a Chinese research institute in a five-year effort to study the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 78 thousand people worldwide, according to a University press release Monday. In other news, multiple student activist organizations held demonstrations throughout Junior Family Weekend, advocating for causes from a contract for Harvard’s graduate student union to the establishment of a formalized ethnic studies program.

White House officials are expected to request emergency funding from Congress to battle the coronavirus, according to two officials familiar with the pending request. New coronavirus cases stemming from US passengers on the luxury cruise ship, Diamond Princess, have prompted this action.

Sotomayer Blasts Republican-Appointed Supreme Court Justices

In response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Illinois to approve the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, which limits visa obtainment by certain non-citizens, Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing rebuke discussing the court’s behavior of siding with the government when the administration seeks emergency stays of rulings against them.

AROUND THE IVIES YALE According to the Yale Daily News, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale held a meeting to discuss the ethics behind Yale’s investments for the first time last week after several student protests demanded that Yale divest all fossil fuel-related holdings. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate invited student activists and experts on ethical investing to the meeting, where attendees debated the relevance of the Investment Office’s manual for ethical investing. By the end of the meeting, a consensus on the scope of divestment was not reached and FAS Senate Chair John Geanakoplos said the topic of investment ethics may be reconsidered in future meetings.

DARTMOUTH

A new “equivalent social space” called Bar One debuted at Dartmouth to offer students an alternative space for socializing, according to The Dartmouth. The new campus offering will be open weekly and serve as an “informal bar space” where students can interact on a regular basis. Nearly 140 students attended the grand opening of Bar One, which was created by the Palaeopitus Senior Society and funded by the Office of the President.

One of the organizers of Bar One cited a lack of social spaces on campus as one of the main reasons for creating the space.

CORNELL

A panel at a Cornell Student Assembly Meeting held last Thursday called on the university administration to abolish the student contribution fee, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. The student panel argued that the fee — which can range from $2,700 to $3,700 — poses a significant financial barrier to low-income students. Students from the People’s Organizing Collective backed the resolution arguing for the introduction of a pilot program to waive the fee. The resolution passed unanimously in the Student Assembly.

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Harvard Law School Hosts Forum on Free Speech

By CHARLES XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A panel of speakers discussed the role and limits of free speech on college campuses at the inaugural Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum on Friday. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, and Jonathan Haidt, an ethical leadership professor at New York University, discussed the definition of violent speech and how the parameters of free speech have changed on college campuses with the advent of the internet.

The Law School launched the Rappaport Forum to promote discussion on current affairs. The Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation funded the series to honor Jerry L. Rappaport ’47, who founded the HLS Forum in 1946 to invite speakers to address issues in the world post-World War II. “In a society that is badly divided, this forum was served as a reminder of how important it is, and how much can be learned from the respectful clash of ideas,” Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 said at the beginning of the event.

Haidt has previously commented extensively on the role of free speech on college campuses.

In 2018, he co-wrote “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas

Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure,” arguing against trigger warnings and safe spaces. At the Law School event, Haidt drew a distinction between the idea of free speech in public spaces and free speech on college campuses. He argued universities should follow a different set of parameters regarding free speech than other public spaces.

“You can’t just come here and say, you know, the Newtown shootings never happened,” Haidt said. “There’s no point in having that on a college campus. And so I think we all agree that a scholar who had presented work that some people find horrible, hateful, or upsetting if still playing by the rules and should be allowed — is a legitimate person to invite.”

Barrett said educators should be mindful of students’ backgrounds and tolerance for stress when engaging in difficult topics and conversation.

“The truth is honestly that some of us are better equipped just because of our life circumstances to deal with than others,” she said. “It doesn’t mean that they are off the hook for any responsibility, but he does mean that there’s a context here. And we do well as educators to pay attention to that context where we won’t actually meet the goal that we have.”

She added that she believes campus speech policies should

have a basis in science.

“We have evolved as a species to have socially dependent nervous systems,” Barrett said. “That means I can text three words to someone halfway around the world, who can’t hear my voice and can’t see my face, and I can make their heart rate go up.”

“If we all do that — which we do — we regulate each other’s nervous systems, that means we are more responsible actually, for people, then we might like,” she added. Law School student Nathan Wexler said he thought both speakers’ discussion on the parameters of speaker invitations at colleges was productive, adding that he believes universities should have a “clear set of morals about what should be allowed and what shouldn’t be.”

Rappaport said in an interview with The Crimson that he hopes both Friday’s event and future forums will engage with “important and frequently divisive public policy issues with opposing sides.”

“It’s in some ways a kind of return to a period of time when you have some bipartisan solutions to problems,” he said.

“The middle area is a very lonely place at the present time, so I hope that the dean’s program keeps focusing on issues that are extraordinarily important to the Continental world.” charles.xu@thecrimson.com

Lisa Feldman Barrett discussed campus speech at the inaugural event of the Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum Friday with Jonathan Haidt . STEVE S. LI—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

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Undergraduate Council Discusses Activists Protest During Student Organization Funding Junior Family Weekend

By KEVIN A. SIMAUCHI and SHARON XU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

The Harvard Undergraduate Council discussed funding options for student organizations under executive session — a private, off-the-record session of the Council, whose meetings are normally open to the public — at Sunday’s meeting.

Eliot House representative and UC Finance Committee Chair Rukmini “Mini” Ganesh ’22 motioned for the Council to be brought into executive session — where only UC representatives are allowed — twice; once in order to deliver routine committee updates, and again to discuss legislation for funding for student organizations.

According to the meeting’s agenda, during the executive session, the UC discussed a Finance Committee-sponsored act in response to the committee not having enough money in its checking account to cover this semester’s grants.

The act would allocate $21,000 from the Burst Pack, which is for discretionary spending purposes, to the Finance Committee. This would allow the committee access to additional funds for student organizations’ semester grants.

After the meeting, Currier

House representative Jack M. Swanson ’22 expressed confusion over why the Council needed to go into executive session twice.

“There is nothing we’re going to discuss that should be fully confidential,” Swanson said.

The meeting also established more ties to the campus’s theatre community, unanimously passing a block grant of $9,000 to the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatics Club. The grant, which would be used for productions put on by the HRDC, would come out of the Council’s Burst Pack, which is budgeted at more than $49,000.

Ganesh clarified her reasons for the proposal.

“We normally fund theater out of the Finance Committee, but what we’re trying to do here is to have an expressed line item in our budget for theater like we do for PHBA,” Ganesh said.

The UC also unanimously voted to restructure its Finance Committee. Ganesh and Kirkland House representative Carter H. Nakamoto ’21 co-sponsored the legislation.

Previously, the vice chair and secretary position of the Finance Committee were two separate positions but were functionally treated as a single position. With this new amendment to the bylaws of the Council, the vice chair and secretary were

merged into a single position.

“It’s a one person job,” Ganesh said. The Council also unanimously approved an act to publicize the College X Change program — which UC treasurer Noah Harris ’22 described as “Ebay for students” — to Harvard undergraduates.

The UC continued to promote outreach between the Council and the students through funding caucus events. Last week, the UC unanimously approved legislation that expanded the power of the caucus system.

At Sunday’s meeting, the body also voted to allocate $300 for a “Meet the International Caucus” event and another $300 for a “Meet the Asian American Caucus” event.

Sunday’s meeting was also the first for newly elected representatives, who won seats in last week’s midterm elections.

Elm Yard representative Emilio J. De Leon ’23 expressed excitement over his first meeting.

“I feel like as a representative, I’d be able to really contribute input, and it will be directly heard by the executive board,” De Leon said. “So as you can tell, it was a pretty productive climate, and a lot got done in the two hours that I was here. I really enjoyed it.” sharon.xu@thecrimson.com

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opportunity to speak with parents during their visit to Harvard,” Newton. Larry D. Kruguer – a parent who attended the remarks — said he was “not 100 percent sure” that he felt the speech was an appropriate venue for the protest.

“As it became more prolonged, I think to some degree it may have had a reverse effect, in the sense that it may have been a little bit overkill to some people in the audience not knowing what it was all about,” Kruguer said.

“It could be looked upon as not appropriate of the occasion, versus doing it as people are walking out, or providing the opportunity for more one-on-

one discussion.”

Still, Kruguer said he understood why students wanted to protest. He added that he saw student activists at other events during Junior Families Weekend.

“It was a little surprising, but I get it, they’re obviously trying to get maximum exposure and try to create awareness for their cause,” he said.

On Sunday, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard also held an “oil spill” demonstration in the Smith Campus Center, per a post the group made to its Facebook. In the post, the group encouraged parents to send letters to President Bacow about divestment.

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Undergraduate Council Elects Sixteen Students to Body new Mather UC reps, Zachary A. Zimmer ’22 and Jinyuan “Ryan” Zhang ’21, a successful semester.

“They’re great people, and I know they’ll do good work,” Ramaprasad wrote in an email to The Crimson.

Two write-in candidates won seats on the Council — Maximilian “Max” J. Wang ’20 of Pforzheimer House and Shlomo T. Zach Cahlon ’21 of Winthrop House. The voting period for the election lasted from Tuesday at noon and concluded Friday at noon. More students voted in the midterm election this year than in previous years, with a total of 736 votes cast this year. In comparison, just 154 students voted in the UC midterm elections last year,

and 371 students voted in 2018.

Voter turnout was highest in Quincy House with 142 voters, followed by Elm Yard with 123.

Winthrop House had the fewest students voting, with only 29 votes cast in the election.

The Council held its first meeting with its new representatives on Sunday. The newly elected representatives for the Undergraduate Council are as follows: Adams House Ilan M. Goldberg ’20 Cabot House Daniel R. Brunnick ’22 Kirkland House Jacqueline F. Tubbs ’22 Davis J. Tyler-Dudley ’21 Leverett House

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parents how it’s educating their children to be the world’s next citizen leaders, we made sure to talk with parents highlight the unethical investments in the fossil fuel industry that make Harvard anything but a leader on the climate crisis,” the post reads.The Harvard Ethic Studies Coalition, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, and the Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies did not respond to requests for comment.

John “Jake” E. Leary III ’22 Benjamin S. Rabinowitz ’21 Lowell House Oliver S. York ’21 Mather House Zachary A. Zimmer ’22 Jinyuan “Ryan” Zhang ’21 Pforzheimer House Analli C. Torres ’21 Maximilian “Max” J. Wang ’20 Advertisement Quincy House Matthew S. Miller ’21 Benjamin M. Simon ’22 Winthrop House Angel U. Onuoha-Onyekuru ’20 Schlomo T. Zach Cahlon ’21 Elm Yard Emilio J. De Leon ’23 sharon.xu@thecrimson.com

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Panelists Make Case for Harvard Scientists, Admin.

Reparations at IOP Event Collaborate on Coronavirus VIRUS FROM PAGE 1

By KEVIN A. SIMAUCHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Panelists at a Harvard Kennedy School event Friday urged the U.S. government to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, calling it a moral responsibility.

Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy and Cornell W. Brooks, the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke to a crowd of roughly 100 at the event.

There are a good many people in the United States, who when they hear the word reparations, they’re against it.

Randall L. Kennedy Law School Professor

The talk touched on the viability of reparations and the form they could take.

Brooks referenced past instances of the United States making amends for harms inflicted on marginalized groups, noting that the idea of reparations is not novel.

“We talk about reparations historically speaking, as a standalone, something that is unique as though we don’t have precedent in American history,” Brooks said. “Japanese Americans who were compensated to the tune of $20,000

form a piece of our history where Americans have come to grips with an ugly past and made some kind of attempt of repairing and restoring and making whole.”

Multiple 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have brought the issue into the spotlight by recently coming out in support of exploring the feasibility of reparations.

But Kennedy noted that even mentioning the term ‘reparations’ provokes a “visceral” reaction from many voters.

“There are a good many people in the United States, who when they hear the word reparations, they’re against it,” Kennedy said. “If you ask them, you know, “What is it?”, they might not even be able to tell you what it is.”

“This very term triggers a visceral reaction, negative reaction,” Kennedy added. “Not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of people.”

Friday’s panel — moderated

by David J. Harris, director of a racial justice initiative at Harvard Law School — was the Institute of Politics’ third installation in honor of Black History Month.

The IOP’s slate of February events seek to examine the influence of black political movements on students and faculty.

Mari Jones ’21, president of the IOP, said she was delighted that Friday’s event had finally “come to fruition.”

“I think the overall event was impactful and insightful and that everything that the speakers said carried a lot of weight and inspired a lot of thoughts,” Jones said.

In response to a question about how biracial individuals should factor into the conversation about reparations, Brooks acknowledged such

The ways in which we have been robbed are tangible, measurable, quantifiable and ultimately immoral.

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questions are “hotly debated.”

“With respect to who are the legitimate moral claimants to reparations, I think that should be understood broadly, it should be understood historically, it should not be reduced to the degree of the color one has or does not, or hair texture,” Brooks said.

“In other words, we don’t need to, in the name of reparatory justice, replicate the very thing that has put us in a place where we are today,” Brooks added, Brooks sought to frame the debate around reparations in terms of the country’s obligation to African Americans, rather than feeding into a narrative of “white guilt” that he called “debilitating,” eliciting applause and shouts of approval from the audience.

“The ways in which we have been robbed are tangible, measurable, quantifiable and ultimately immoral,” he said. “I like the word [responsibility] ’cause it implies action, commitment.”

“We look forward to leveraging each of our respective strengths to address the immediate and longer-term challenges and a fruitful collaboration to advance the global well-being of all people,” he added.

Hui Ka Yan, who chairs China Evergrande Group, said in the press release that the company is “honored” to work to stop the outbreak. The group’s CEO, Xia Haijun, visited University President Lawrence S. Bacow in Cambridge last Wednesday, according to a statement from the company.

“Evergrande is honored to have the opportunity to contribute to the fight against this global public health threat,” Hui Ka Yan said in Harvard’s press re-

lease. “We thank all the scientists who responded so swiftly and enthusiastically from the Harvard community and are deeply moved by Harvard and Dr. Zhong’s team’s dedication and commitment to this humanitarian cause. We have the utmost confidence in this global collaborative team to reach impactful discoveries against the outbreak soon.”

Bacow said in the release that the collaborators are “confident” that their work will “contribute valuable discoveries” to broader global efforts to combat coronavirus. “We are grateful for Evergrande’s leadership and generosity in facilitating this collaboration and for all the scientists and clinicians rising to the call of

action in combating this emerging threat to global well-being,” he said.

Harvard affiliates participating in the effort include Daley; Medical School Dean for Research Operations and Global Programs David E. Golan; Immunology department chair Arlene H. Sharpe; Medicine professor Bruce D. Walker; Harvard School of Public Health Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics director Marc Lipsitch; and Lindsey R. Baden, the director of clinical research in Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases. michelle.kurilla@thecrimson.com ruoqi.zhang@thecrimson.com

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Khurana Discusses HUPD’s Role at Campus Protests, Events Cambridge Police Department of discriminating against students of color and claimed that both departments have increased their presence on campus to monitor student activists.

They said they have observed an increase in plainclothes HUPD officers monitoring events — particularly those organized by students of color — and noticed CPD officers being “called in at alarming rates.”HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano wrote that the department treats all Uni-

versity 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.”.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay commissioned a report to investigate an Oct. 24 interaction between Harvard police and students of color attempting to install an art exhibition in the Harvard Yard.

A HUPD officer questioned

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the students and asked to see their IDs. The report ultimately concluded that the officer did not act with “malicious intent.”Khurana said he both supports HUPD’s presence at rallies and students’ right to protest.“ Diverse perspectives and points of view are critical,” he said. “And my role as Dean is to ensure that we keep a space that allows for those diverse perspectives and points of view.” juliet.isselbacher@thecrimson.com amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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Presidential Campaigns Gear Up for Mass. Primary “Being the senator from here, folks have been able to get to know here better than anybody else.” Warren holds a number of high-profile Massachusetts endorsements, including state Attorney General Maura T. Healey ’92. U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, who is running in a closely-watched primary for Massachusetts’ other Senate seat, is holding an early voting kick-off event for Warren supporters in Cambridge Tuesday.

Vargas said that any endorsement bump Warren receives in Massachusetts is likely to come from the organizing ability of her surrogates.

“If you don’t have folks to actually go out there and spread the message, spread the word, and show how well-organized the campaign is, then endorsements don’t matter as much,” Vargas said.

“All the folks that have endorsed the senator are coming with their campaign infrastructure and are coming with their volunteers and are coming with the passion that is needed to make sure the senator wins Massachusetts.”

Scott Ferson, a Democratic strategist who worked for the late U.S. Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54 (D-Mass.), said that Warren has the most robust campaign infrastructure of any presidential candidate in Massachusetts.

“There’s a very, very strong built-in infrastructure for Elizabeth Warren that existed for her first Senate race in 2012,”

Ferson said. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — Warren’s primary competitor on the progressive flank of the Democratic party — came within 2 percent of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Massachusetts presidential primary four years ago. Sanders, who has represented neighboring Vermont in Washington since 1990, has full-time staff in Massachusetts.

His campaign has been ramping up its ground game in the state since the New Hampshire primary by hosting events and recruiting organizers. “It’s a real distributed model of local captains bringing people together in their own neighborhood,” Cambridge State Representative Mike Connolly, a Sanders supporter, said.

Connolly attended a canvass kick-off event at Harvard’s Dudley Co-op Saturday where roughly 10 volunteers turned out to knock on doors.

Jason B. Kleban ’11, a Sanders volunteer who trained canvassers before they went door-knocking Saturday, said the campaign focuses on encouraging casual supporters to become more involved and volunteer.

“We’ve got a real grassroots movement here,” Kleban said.

“The strategy is really just to activate as many people as possible to plug into the campaign, and not just commit to vote but to volunteer as well.”

Bennett “Ben” Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, two longtime

Sanders supporters who founded the popular Vermont ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, held several events for Sanders over the weekend in Massachusetts. Climate change activist Varshini Prakash, a Boston native who co-founded the Sunrise Movement, also stumped for Sanders over the weekend.

Sanders blew away the Democratic field in the Nevada caucuses over the weekend, receiving support from 47 percent of caucusgoers.Biden finished in a distant second place in Nevada.

Biden is relying on several high-profile endorsements from Massachusetts politicians, as well as support from five of the state’s labor unions to build his profile in the Bay State.

The former vice president has the backing of former Secretary of State John Kerry, who represented Massachustts in the Senate from 1985 until 2013, as well as U.S. Rep. Seth W. Moulton ’01 (D-Mass.) and U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.).

“Collectively, we’ve got support throughout the Commonwealth,” State Representative Brian M. Ashe, a Biden supporter, said. “I’m hopeful if people are watching and paying attention that they know Joe Biden’s the right choice.”

Biden’s path to the nomination has been complicated by the late entrance of Michael R. Bloomberg to the race.

Bloomberg, a conservative Democrat who served as the mayor of New York for three

terms, is out-spending his Demoratic rivals by a country mile.

He has poured a staggering sum — more than $450 million — into his campaign so far.

Bloomberg has focused his spending on Super Tuesday states in particular, where he has dropped $124 million on advertising alone. He has also centered on internet advertising and has spent nearly $42 million on Facebook ads.

Ashe said he does not think Bloomberg presents a threat to Biden in Massachusetts, but cautioned that Democrats nationwide should take him seriously.

“In Massachusetts, I don’t think it’ll have much of an impact,” he said. “I think Biden’s going to do very well here and I don’t think Mike Bloomberg’s going to take away from that here in the Commonwealth.”

“However, obviously [Bloomberg’s] a big presence,” he added. “When you have that kind of money and that kind of personality, people are going to take notice.”

Bloomberg came under fire from Democratic rivals at last Tuesday’s debate for his reported treatment of female employees, as well as for stop-and-frisk policing policies he enacted in New York that disproportionately affected African Americans. He has built a large campaign infrastructure in Massachusetts, now boasting six campaign offices and 60 fulltime staff members in the state.

“The biggest thing that we’re

working on is connecting folks with a candidate who hopped in 13 weeks ago,” Bloomberg’s Massachusetts state director, Jordan Overstreet, said in an interview with The Crimson Sunday. “People see his TV ads, but I think it’s been very helpful that they’re also seeing people at their doors, too.”

Bloomberg’s campaign held several events with surrogates around Massachusetts over the weekend. Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas and former Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis III, who serves as the campaign’s state chair, stumped for Bloomberg in Lowell, Mass.

Will Keyser, a longtime Massachusetts political operative who worked for Ted Kennedy and later as a strategist on Massachusetts Governor Charles D. Baker ’79’s Republican gubernatorial campaigns, serves as a senior advisor to Bloomberg’s Massachusetts operation.

Overstreet said the campaign plans to highlight Bloomberg’s childhood growing up in Medford, Mass., to show that he is “the epitome of the American success story.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) daughter, Abigail Bessler, made a campaign stop in Harvard Square Sunday afternoon to speak at a canvass kickoff. Several Harvard students attended and knocked on doors for Klobuchar.

Buttigieg has also been working to grow his presence in Massachusetts. The former

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president of the Harvard Institute of Politics Student Advisory Council named three state co-chairs last week. “He’s making sure that the strategy is focused on delegate pickup, which means no part of any Super Tuesday state is being left behind,” Maria D. Robinson, one of the state co-chairs, said.

Buttigieg, a former Crimson columnist, had strong showings in both Iowa and New Hampshire. He finished in a distant third place in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.

“If you saw in Iowa and New Hampshire, the campaign went everywhere,” Robinson said. “It wasn’t just focused on getting a certain subset of voters. Part of Pete’s appeal overall is to get urban, rural, suburban voters, [and] all sorts of ages.”

Robinson stressed that Buttigieg is battle-tested and said he can unify the party.

“Michael Bloomberg can do really well in paid advertising, but when you actually put him up there against people who have been tested through the debate process, he’s not able to keep up with everyone who has gone through the fire,” Robinson said. “These folks, including Pete, have been campaigning for a year.”

Ferson said he expects the final week of campaigning to play a key role in determining the outcome in Massachusetts.

“It’s very much unsettled,” Ferson said of the race. jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

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Not All Foregin Money is Dirty Money

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arlier this month, the United States Department of Education opened an investigation into Harvard’s foreign funding, requesting information on gifts and contracts connected to various foreign governments, including China and Iran, as well as from a number of foreign companies.

Harvard is not alone in receiving this scrutiny; Yale, Georgetown University, Cornell University, and MIT are all part of the government’s larger campaign to crack down on “academic espionage.”

Harvard has been roiled with funding scandals this year, from the arrest of Chemistry Department Chair Charles M. Lieber for lying about Chinese funding sources to the exposure of the University’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

These situations raise deep concerns about the ethics and intentions of the people that fund our institution and are given access to it.

In light of these recent events, we agree with the premise of the Department of Justice’s probe: that Harvard’s system to evaluate its funding sources is imperfect, and is in need of improvement.

However, Harvard’s relationship with the Department of Education must be understood in the context of the Department’s broader backlash against institutions of higher learning. In her 2017

speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, current Secretary of Education Betsy D. DeVos made a point of specifying that “the fight against the educational establishment” she has committed her Department to extends to colleges and universities.

DeVos went on to condemn institutions of higher learning broadly, which she characterized as places where “the faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.”

The Trump administration has also already targeted Chinese students at elite institutions of higher education, restricting student visas as part of a broad package of trade restrictions targeting Beijing.

Because of developments such as this, we are cautious of fully embracing the Department of Education’s inquiry, though we think the specific concern raised is valid in nature.

The key issue regarding accepting financial contributions must be its impact on the academic work of our institution.

Harvard should be open to accepting contributions from foreign governments so long as these contributions improve the quality of our institution. We do not believe that the foreignness of a funding source, in and of itself, should lead us to exclude donations.

If Harvard receives money from a foreign government to study specific legitimate academic inquiries, we should welcome the contributions for the knowledge or good they will help produce.

However, if the foreign government in question contributes in the hopes of propagating some self-serving political counter-narrative, or does so for some other overtly political purpose by leveraging Harvard’s credibility, then the donation becomes problematic. Contributions for the purpose of whitewashing misdeeds and exerting influence must obviously be avoided.

In short, intention is key. Harvard must keep its contributions clean to facilitate its ability to do rigorous academic work.

But ruling out donations simply because they come from another country runs deeply counter to the international, open spirit we believe the University should champion.

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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Cocktail Party Politics

By DANIEL L. AKLOG

“H

ow ‘bout that debate last night? Pretty crazy, huh?”

Last week, the Las Vegas debate outperformed both the Grammys and the Golden Globes, becoming the most-watched Democratic primary debate ever. But I doubt that nearly 20 million people tuned in because they thought listening to Elizabeth Warren explain her universal child care plan would be more intellectually stimulating than an Ariana Grande performance.

People got exactly what they came to see: some damn good entertainment.

Take a look at the headlines after the debate: “Elizabeth Warren came out swinging, and Mike Bloomberg was left battered” and “Elizabeth Warren Roasts Mike Bloomberg in Rowdy Las Vegas Debate.” Clearly the Las Vegas setting was apt for the show; if you change the names in the articles it might sound like a recap of Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather.

Opinion pieces, cable news, podcasts, debates, what is the point?

Now, many of these articles seem to be using sports language facetiously, but it’s not an unreasonable way to describe the debate. NBC, the airing network, clearly wanted to evoke a sporting event; many of the questions were designed to conjure heated one-on-one matchups.

Even the debate’s introduction looked like something they would air before Sunday Night Football.

The way many of us follow politics mirrors the way we follow sports. It’s entertaining, even a little fun — cracking jokes about the opposition, laughing with your fellow supporters, diving into the details and statistics.

There’s an emptiness to much of our political culture — a hobby masquerading as civic engagement. Opinion piec-

es, cable news, podcasts, debates, what is the point? It’s easy to have a bad relationship with politics. With so much information available, we can arm ourselves with an encyclopedia of useless political knowledge that is almost never applied to anything meaningful. As Tufts political science professor Eitan Hersh said, “What they’re actually doing is not participating themselves in any active way.

They’re really just following the news.”

Political knowledge can often be nothing more than cocktail party fodder — a way to signal your sophistication and intellect. Dinner table punditry might make you look good; after all, knowing the demographic makeup of Ohio is sure to turn a few heads. But if impressing our friends is the culmination of our efforts, then we end up looking a bit silly.

Many people do, however, go beyond the cocktail party and act in the real world, but not because they can predict how Ohio will vote. They might not know the details of how Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg differ on gun control, but they fought for a park in their town. They might not know who represents Florida’s fifth congressional district, but they volunteer at the homeless shelter. We need to do more to commend these people for the impact they have.

But I’m not talking about these people; I’m talking about the large portion that are hyper-invested and at the same time do so little. There’s a subset of people — well-educated, probably liberal — whose knowledge goes far beyond being well informed into the unnecessary (you will find many right here on this campus).

Now, I could have written this piece as a call to action. We certainly need more civic activity in local and state politics, and it would surely help the country depolarize, but I’m not convinced that being politically attentive necessarily makes one more likely to act. Reading about politics on the internet is a lot easier than going out and accomplishing something tangible, so we cannot assume that the political junkie is one step

away from civic action.

I’m not asking people to jump into local politics. Instead, I propose that some of us dial back the obsession with politics — to really reconsider the urge to consume so much politics.

Political knowledge can often be nothing more than cocktail party fodder ­­­­.

In 2018 the New York Times published “The Man Who Knew Too Little,” an article about Erik Hagerman, who in the aftermath of the 2016 election, “swore that he would avoid learning about anything that happened to America after Nov. 8, 2016,” and secluded himself in the woods to restore the land. He was met with strong criticism as people considered his vow to be another perk of rich white male privilege — he didn’t have to pay attention because he wasn’t under threat. However, Vox co-founder Ezra Klein notes, “Were those of us sending angry missives into the ether really doing more than this guy who was restoring land to gift back to his neighbors?”

Now, I’m not advocating for sticking our heads in the sand. People obviously play a crucial role in representative democracy; if everyone acted like Hagerman, the government could run amok. In fact, I would still argue that far too many people in this country are under-informed and under-engaged. A poll showed that almost 40 percent of Americans asked could not even name one right protected by the First Amendment.

But we must keep in mind that political hobbyism is not civic virtue. Our country needs a well-informed electorate, but it’s a representative democracy; we don’t all need to roleplay as senators with an important vote in the morning.

—Daniel L. Aklog ’21, a Crimson Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Leverett House

Don’t Be So Quick to Say #MeToo to Cancel Culture RESHINI PREMARATNE PLAYING DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

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am a sexual assault survivor. I am the one in five women who will be sexually assaulted during college, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. I am also a part of the 90 percent of sexual assault victims on college campuses who do not report the assault. But, it may not be for the reason you think.

Although a bit outdated now, this 2007 report by the National Institute of Justice found that the three main reasons students do not report sexual assault are: (1) they did not think it was serious enough to report, (2) it was unclear that a crime was committed or that harm was intended, (3) they did not want anyone to know about the incident.

Yet, my decision to refrain from reporting was not because of any of those listed by the NIJ. Instead, I was afraid of hostile treatment towards my perpetrator. There is no handbook on how to process trauma like sexual assault — for the victim or for those around them. That is precisely what makes the publicity of reporting such a daunting task: the unpredictability it necessarily invokes in how anyone, including the survivor, responds.

Perhaps surprisingly, more so than the fear of judgment of myself as a survivor, I was afraid of the judgment it would provoke of my perpetrator.

He had been a close friend for years — a relationship that was not without its own trials and tribulations, but still one of the closest ones I had ever forged.

The guilt he showed in our discussions of the incident was palpable, his remorse undeniable.

He apologized profusely and sincerely, and took actionable steps to ensure he never mistreated another human being again.

To me, the victim of his actions, that is all that mattered. I decided for myself that it was my prerogative as the aggrieved party to delineate when justice had been served on my behalf. While his actions satisfied my demand for justice, I must confess that a fear of “cancel culture” also contributed to my ultimate decision to not report.

I was afraid of the unforgiving and seemingly arbitrary “cancel culture” that often accompanies reports of sexual assault — the public cries to “cancel” someone that commonly appends these incidents in pop culture movements like #MeToo. It represented a response that I, the victim in the incident, could not control even though my wellbeing should be the foremost priority.

Last week, I heard Tarana Burke, the founder of #MeToo, speak at The Cambridge Union.

As she recalled the journey of the movement and the tremendous role it has served in supporting survivors, she also mentioned that it was not the responsibility of the organization to account for individuals who may distort the message of the #MeToo Movement into one that advocates for “cancel culture.”

Merriam-Webster defines cancel culture as the removal “of support for public figures in response to their objectionable behavior or opinions. This can include boycotts or refusal to promote their work.”

Yet, even though the #MeToo movement founder criticized aspects of the #MeToo movement’s that latch onto juicy details and seek harsh punishments on all perpetrators, Merriam-Webster attributes, at least partially, the pervasiveness of “cancel culture” — which often prompts exactly that kind of lashing out publicly and with incomplete information — to #MeToo. Indeed, the #MeToo movement and its founder have made accountability for sexual assault more accessible by tapping into technology, like social media and digital news. But, I do not believe that the movement can take credit for those positive outcomes without also recognizing its contribution to the popularization of arbitrary cancel culture.

The online #MeToo phenomenon must also take responsibility for often doling out punishments and consequences that the survivors themselves may not have even wanted. As a movement that prides itself on prioritizing sexual assault survivors, it has to reconcile this messaging with the contingent of advocates who often adjudicate without consulting first.

However, I do understand how a sexual assault incident is not only an attack against that individual, but it is also an attack against the core values of a society and its state.

That is why criminal court cases are prosecuted by the state, by the society that has been afflicted by an individual’s actions. But, that is also why we must separate the court of law from the court of public opinion — and while pursuing a criminal route through the court of law is often the decision of the survivor, how the court of public opinion proceeds once granted the information is rarely in their control.

Individuals in any society deserve to have information that enables them to protect themselves. That is why we have a mechanisms like the sex offenders registry.

However, those kinds of public goods often require the survivor to self-report, and if we as a society do not demonstrate how the victim’s desires are our priority in the court of public opinion, then we kneecap ourselves in the court of law moving forward.

—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.

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SPORTS

THIS WEEKEND’S

SCORES

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. PRINCETON W, 61-60 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SWIMMING IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHP 2ND ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. SAINT FRANCIS W, 3-2 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. PRINCETON L, 45-66 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S LACROSSE AT COLORADO L, 9-7 ___________________________________________________________

SOFTBALL VS. UMASS LOWELL W, 2-1 ___________________________________________________________

WRESTLING VS. BROWN L, 18-19 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Earns Weekend Sweep with 69-65 Win

By HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Trailing for much of the first half to a hungry Quakers side, the Harvard men’s basketball team rallied in a second-frame offensive flurry to complete its weekend sweep. Combined with a 2-0 weekend against Columbia and Cornell last weekend, Harvard (18-7) now sits second at 7-3 in conference play and separates itself from both Penn and Brown in the Ivy standings.

Both senior forward Chris Lewis and sophomore guard Noah Kirkwood notched 19 points, but this 69-65 victory over Penn (13-10, 5-5 Ivy) was a complete team effort. Firstyears Idan Tretout and Chris Ledlum provided energetic minutes off the bench, while senior guard Justin Bassey added a dozen onto the scoring sheet.

“The theme for us going into this weekend was the little things, little things make big players and lead to big wins,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We knew Penn was wounded coming in here [after Friday’s loss to Dartmouth].

I thought our guys were up for the challenge and the big second half was a tremendous effort by our entire team.”

The contest, held over Alumni and Junior Family Weekend, was the second consecutive sell-out at Lavietes Pavilion.

Prominent Harvard Basketball alumni in attendance included Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

More importantly for Crimson fans, this marks the 10th straight home win this season, and Harvard needs just two more victories — against Brown and Yale — to cap off a perfect regular season mark at home.

“I think this weekend just meant a lot more to us, regardless [of whether] it was home or away,” Kirkwood said. “We really needed these two wins, and I think it just made it better that it was home... I think we just have a little bit of extra energy ­

as a team to really show up for our fans and supporters.”

The competition served as a potential preview to the backand-forth excitement of the postseason tournament — no team lead by more than eight points, while the two rivals jabbed for 11 total lead changes.

Collectively, the Quakers shot significantly better from deep (10-of-25 compared to Harvard’s 4-of-18), but the Crimson countered by out-rebounding Penn by 12 boards and elevating its offense in the second frame. Harvard shot 56.7 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes, pulling away to its largest margin of 8 with about four-and-a-half left to play.

Penn’s limited seven-man rotation saw double-digit performances from first-years Jordan Dingle and Max Martz as well as seniors Devon Goodman and AJ Brodeur, but no player in particular found extended success. Dingle knocked down three triples to lead the Quakers’ scoring at halftime, but was subsequently limited to just four points in the second half.

“They shot the ball incredibly well in the first half, and we just kind of mentioned to our guys and we just weren’t thinking that they could keep that up with the defensive pressure that we thought we could bring in the second half,” Amaker said.

Much like the first tilt at the Palestra, the Crimson was beleaguered by a sluggish start, converting on just one basket in its first eight field goal attempts.

A vibrant Penn crowd led by its traveling band provided an early dose of energy for the Quakers, but Harvard’s offense gradually came to life — both sides saw the lead flip-flop five times in the first 10 minutes of play.

While senior big Chris Lewis could not get anything going against Princeton’s Richmond Aririguzoh on Friday night, the Alpharetta, Ga., native benefited from a less formidable matchup against Penn junior forward Jarrod Simmons, quickly eclipsing his 2-point showing

BROOMSTICKS OUT Noah Kirkwood put up 19 points against Penn, bringing his total to 30 in the weekend sweep. OWEN A. BERGER—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

against the Tigers with an andone finish at the 8-minute mark.

Typically manned by Penn’s AJ Brodeur, Quakers coach Steve Donahue elected to match his prized senior on Harvard’s Rob Baker instead.

Lewis would finish the first half with 10 points and largely carried most of the offensive load for the Crimson in the frame.

“I think his mentality, you know, talking with him and just us rallying around him — telling him even though he didn’t have a great game on Friday that we’re still rocking with him,” Bassey said. “He’s still our guy, we are still playing inside out.”

The two sides continued to keep things knotted at 15, 17, and 22 heading into the final four minutes of the frame. But a four-point play from Dingle proved to be an important pendulum, propelling Penn to an extended 11-5 run to end the half. Penn shot at an impressive 58 percent rate from the

field in that frame — compared to Harvard’s 33 percent — as it took a 33-27 lead into halftime.

The Quakers converted on 7 of their last 9 field goals entering the break.

Both sides logged buckets at an electrifying pace to begin the second frame. A total of 18 combined points were scored by the first media timeout as Kirkwood catalyzed the Crimson with two steals and two baskets. Penn reciprocated in due fashion, maintaining its advantage to push the score to 40-38 by the five minute mark.

But the tide seemed to turn soon after, as Bassey followed up an aggressive drive to the rim with a top-of-the-arc triple to give Harvard its first lead since the six-minute mark of the first half. Kirkwood continued his early-half intensity, finishing two more opportunities at the rim.

It took a second push, this time catapulted by a charge on Brodeur from first-year Idan

Tretout, for the Harvard lead to be more comfortable. Tretout would blaze by his defender for a lefty layup, followed by a Bassey up-and-under layup off of his own missed three that brought the Lavietes crowd to its feet with a 6-point lead at the 8:18 mark. “[Idan Tretout]’s been playing amazing and practice, and I think that’s a big part of why he’s playing so well now,” Kirkwood said. “The coaching staff knows he has been hooping.

We really believe in him, and I think it goes without saying like when you go into a game without much rhythm and you can still make an impact. It shows his kind of character and it’s testament of who he is as a player.”

The Crimson, benefiting from a fourth foul drawn on Goodman, held tight to its six-margin and handed the keys to its regular starters to close the game.

Penn cut the lead back to three with one minute left to

play, but after a Kirkwood giveaway, Dingle was unable to convert a fast-break three. The Quakers fouled Bassey, and he sank one of two for a 69-65 lead.

Penn could not score in its final possession, and the Crimson let out a collective exhale to cap off a 4-0 homestand.

Both Lewis and Kirkwood earned strong praise from Amaker in completing the much-needed weekend sweep.

“I can’t say enough about Chris Lewis, especially after a tough night last night, how he bounced back tonight and just had a tremendous game for us.

You can see what Kirkwood does for our team we just get a lot of confidence from him, as we did with Bryce in terms of [being] that kind of scoring player. You get confidence from those kinds of guys. So just a tremendous effort by our ballclub and proud of our guys for a great weekend.” henry.zhu@thecrimson.com

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

No. 20 Harvard Ousted by St. Lawrence on the Road

FALLING FLAT Just one day after a marquee win over No. 5/6 Clarkson, the Crimson suffered its most disappointing loss of the season at the hands of the saints on Satuday. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

By SPENCER R. MORRIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A head of Saturday night, the Harvard men’s hockey team had not claimed four points on its North Country road trip since 2016-2017. It had a prime chance to overwrite that fact, as it had already pocketed an impressive win against No. 5/6 Clarkson the night prior.

But the No. 20 Crimson (129-6, 10-5-5 ECAC) fell to St. Lawrence, 6-3, despite the wide disparity between the squads’ conference rankings.

With the upset victory, the Saints (4-24-4, 2-17-1) picked up ­

just their second ECAC triumph and, amazingly, their first win at Appleton Arena this season.

“The hungrier team was on the other side of the ice,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said.

“We had talked pretty extensively as to what we were going to see: a proud group of seniors on senior night…. We expected them to come out with some emotion and energy and passion, and they did. Quite frankly, we didn’t respond to it very well.”

For the Crimson, the disappointing setback ends a 10game winning streak against St. Lawrence dating back to Feb.

20, 2015.

From the opening puck drop, the Saints controlled play with their physicality and sustained offensive-zone pressure.

Fast-forward to the final five minutes of the second period, and St. Lawrence sophomore Kaden Pickering found twine for his team’s fourth tally.

Harvard failed to break the puck out of its zone cleanly, and the shifty forward took advantage, beating Crimson net-minder Mitchell Gibson (5 GA, .839 SV%) on a follow-up chance.

“I don’t think that the final score is something that we can

say we deserved better [than], because we didn’t,” coach Donato said. “We got outplayed.

They had more chances, more passion, and for us to think anything else would be foolish.”

An overwhelming first 40 minutes from the Saints, punctuated by Pickering’s game-winner, proved too much to recover from. Harvard made things interesting in the third period, though.

Down 4-0, the visitors potted a powerplay goal five minutes into the final frame, courtesy of freshman forward John Farinacci’s wrist shot from the slot.

After a quick response from St. Lawrence, the Crimson once again trimmed the deficit to three scores when junior forward Henry Bowlby slid a turnaround shot low on senior goaltender Daniel Mannella (3 GA, .900 SV%).

Harvard’s greatest sign of life in the third came after freshman defenseman Ryan Siedem’s shorthanded tuck.

Junior centerman Jack Badini found a crashing Siedem from behind the net for a tap-in.

With two and a half minutes to go in regulation, coach Donato pulled Cameron Gornet (0 GA, 1.000 SV%), who replaced Gibson after the Saints’ fifth lamp-lighter, for the extra attacker. But the comeback effort ended there.

“We knew we had to push, no matter what the scenario was,” Crimson captain Nathan Krusko said. “We were able to continue to grab some momentum. I thought our third period was resilient…. We did make a strong push, but at the end of the day, you can’t dig yourself that big of a hole and expect to get out of it.”

The Saints stung the Crimson in the first minute of the game. After a keep-in at the blue line and effective cycling along the wall, junior forward Callum Cusinato fed sophomore Andrew McIntyre from behind the net. McIntyre bumped the puck past the left pad of Gibson to stun the heavily favored visitors.

The ice-breaker was emblematic of St. Lawrence’s for-

midable performance, in which it threw both shots and bodies at the Crimson. And the Saints were not finished doing damage in the frame.

An oppressive offensive-zone shift culminated in sophomore forward David Jankowski cashing in on an exhausted five Harvard skaters.

Jankowski’s third of the season cued the roars from within Appleton Arena, as the hosts mounted an early two-goal lead on a ranked opponent despite entering the contest in dead last in the Pairwise rankings.

“We knew they were going to come out hard,” Krusko said.

“We were just hesitant and slow to get to our game. We had a lot of guys expecting someone else to make the big play…and that showed out with our tough and slow start.”

So, St. Lawrence punched the Crimson in the mouth early and continued its dominance through the second stanza.

Overall, its six goals on Saturday represent a season high.

And despite the Saints’ lackluster record in 2019-2020, the hometown crowd was raucous upon witnessing its only victory on familiar ice this year — on senior night no less.

Harvard’s loss soils the emotional high of Friday’s statement win over the Golden Knights. The program, still with its eyes on a top-four finish in the ECAC, will close out its regular-season slate at home next weekend. spencer.morris@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

MEN’S LACROSSE AT. RV W, 10-9 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AT PENN L,70-48 ________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. ST. LAWRENCE W,3-0 ___________________________________________________________

SOFTBALL AT FORDHAM L, 3-2 __________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. BU W, 5-0 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. PENN STATE L, 3-0 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S TENNIS VS. BU W,5-0 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Squash Wins Sixth Consecutive Championship

By ELIOT MIN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

After taking a commanding 2-0 game lead against her opponent, No.1 Princeton University’s Elle Ruggiero, Harvard co-captain Gina Kennedy found herself in a 7-7 deadlock in game three. However, she buckled down and attacked Ruggiero with a flurry of vicious crosscourts and tight drop shots to go up 10-7, eventually winning the game with a backhand drop to secure the critical first-seed matchup for the Crimson.

Kennedy’s strong effort was one of Harvard’s six victories in its 6-1 thumping of Princeton in the finals of the Howe Cup on Sunday. With the victory, the squad completed its sixth straight undefeated season and claimed its sixth straight national championship title.

According to Kennedy, the team’s ability to remain cool amidst high expectations was key to their eventual championship.

“I think we were expected to win,” Kennedy said. “But we’re just so humbled by the fact that [we] won. Because we’ve won the last [few] years in a row, there’s obviously a lot of pressure to make sure that we will perform our best.”

The team’s relentless work ethic and commitment to practice were also instrumental to its success, according to both Kennedy and Harvard coach Mike Way. “I’m just so proud of the team because everyone puts in so much work every single day,” Kennedy said. “And [they] always perform so well when it comes to crunch time. So yeah, just really proud and extremely happy right now.”

“You won’t find a more proud coach than I am,” Way said. “Of [associate head coach Hameed Ahmed and assistant coach Luke Hammond], the captains, and the whole squad, and the fact that they put up with me and all my repetition, which is what we coaches are about.”

First-year Brittany Sun, who became aware of Harvard’s championship streak while she was in high school, described her first season on the squad — and being a part of the team’s eventual victory — as “surreal.”

“I just heard about Harvard’s amazing streak of winning nationals, year after year,” Sun said. “The feeling’s pretty surreal when you’re actually on the team [and you] experience it for yourself because you’ve always read about it and seen it, [but] for the first time you’re actually here to experience it, which is a pretty incredible experience.”

The Crimson faced stiff competition on its path to the championship. Before facing off against Princeton, Harvard had to make its way through the fourth-seed Trinity College Bantams. Although the tough semifinal matchup threatened to throw Harvard off balance, the squad played well and parlayed the momentum into an equally strong performance in the finals match, according to Way. “I think [playing against Trinity in the semifinals] gave them confidence because they played well,” Way said. “They executed the plan [and] that actually gave them a little boost of confidence for today. So it was good to have a tough match yesterday, and to be tested by Trinity — I think it helped us today.”

With a 3-0 sweep of her opponent to help Harvard claim

SQUASHING THE COMPETITION The women’s squash team ended its sixth straight undefeated season with a victory over Princeton. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

another title, Kennedy put the final touches on a glittering squash career at Harvard. With her time as a Crimson athlete coming to an end, Kennedy has taken the time to reflect on her experience as a member of the squad, especially as a captain in her final year.

“We just wanted to focus a lot on making sure everyone was clear in the game plan and preparing well,” Kennedy said.

“Like I said, everyone’s just got such a high work ethic — it was really easy to lead this team.”

This year, Kennedy led the team alongside co-captain Amelia Henley. Kennedy and Henley have been playing squash together since they were both ten years old. They end their time playing alongside each other with four championships in four years.

“We’ve both kind of been on

a huge journey with squash together,” Kennedy said. “From playing in the same county when we were younger, coming to Harvard together and then being able to co-captain the Harvard squash team together.

It just seemed right and it was the perfect way to end my time on the team.”

As the curtain falls on yet another stellar season by the Crimson, the team looks to the

Individual National Championships. In two weeks, six to eight Harvard players will make their way down to the University of Pennsylvania to compete against the nation’s top collegiate players.

Match draws and tournament information will be released the week of the tournament. eliot.min@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S SWIM AND DIVE

Harvard Breaks Program Records at Ivy Championships

By ZING GEE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Providence, R.I. — The Harvard women’s swimming and diving team finished the four-day-long Ivy League Championships this past Saturday at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center at Brown University. Many program records and several pool records were broken as the Crimson placed second with 1462 points to Princeton with 1569 in the league championship meet.

Right out of the gate, on day one of competition, first-year Felicia Pasadyn, junior Jaycee Yegher, first-year Adaline Rose

Bullock, and senior Mei Lynn Colby swam a 1:37.81 for first in the 200-yard medley relay, beating Princeton at the wall by five hundredths of a second and setting a new Harvard program record by two seconds.

Shortly after, one of the highlights of the entire competition occurred in the 800-yard freestyle relay as the Crimson squad — consisting of senior tri-captain Miki Dahlke, sophomore Samantha Shelton, junior Kennidy Quist, and Pasadyn — finished in 6:59.92, putting up the fourth-best time in the nation this season. This earned them an NCAA A-cut qualifying spot, while destroying another pro-

gram record set two years ago (7:05.06) by more than five seconds — and setting a new Ivy League meet record.

It will be the first time since 1998 that a Harvard women’s relay will compete at the NCAA Division I Championship meet.

Reflecting on how hard the quartet trained for the relay, Pasadyn said, “Watching each other come into practice every day with a goal in mind allowed us to have faith in each other when the race rolled around … the race was incredible — I had tears in my eyes seeing that determination and dedication pay off.”

Pasadyn was named one of

FLYING FAST Harvard broke multiple program records in butterfly at the Ivy League Championships.

the three High Point Swimmers of the Meet after continuing to dominate throughout the competition. After day one’s relays, she went on to win the 200-yard IM over Princeton’s Christie Chong by two seconds, setting a program and pool record of 1:55.88.

She continued her trips to the podium on day three, winning her second individual Ivy League champion honors in the 400-yard individual medley with a commanding 4:08.47, another pool and program record.

On night four, she won her third individual event with a program and Ivy League meet best 1:52.56 in the 200-yard back-

TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

stroke.

Dahlke also continued to have a fantastic meet, winning the 200-yard butterfly with a program record time of 1:55.51, and taking second in the 500yard free with a program-best 4:39.30. She then won 100-yard butterfly Ivy League champion honors — in 51.88 — for the third year in a row, beating her own program record by a hundredth of a second, setting a pool record, and earning an NCAA B-cut time.

Dahlke was named the Career High Point Swimmer at the end of the meet.

Both swimmers also competed in the 400-yard freestyle relay with Shelton and Quist, as well as in the 400-yard medley relay with Yegher and Quist.

On the fourth and final night, the 400-yard free relay registered another NCAA A-cut qualifying time of 3:14.48, setting yet another Harvard, Ivy League meet, and pool record.

The 400-yard medley relay also clinched first, with a program record of 3:32.72.

Crimson divers played a key role in the team’s success as sophomore Morgane Herculano placed first with a score of 292.05 points on the 1-meter board. First-years Evie Geier and Elizabeth Miclau also reached the podium, placing sixth and eighth, respectively. Later on, junior diver Georgina Milne won the 3-meter diving title with a season- and career-best score of 323.25.

Sophomore Esther Lawrence placed third with 309.70, and first-year Elizabeth Miclau finished fourth with 308.00.

When asked about the season so far, Herculano said, “I performed well in meets, but most of all I have had so much fun at practice every day with my teammates. As a team we’ve all been working really hard at practice, pushing and supporting each other, and I believe that our performance at Ivies reflects that dedication.”

Senior Mei Lynn Colby came 13 hundredths of a second from beating a seven-year program record in the 50-yard freestyle, swimming 22.58. Colby also swam in the 200-yard freestyle relay with Quist, first-year Darlene Fung, and Dahlke, who broke a three-year-old program record by seven hundredths of a second with a time of 1:29.80.

The barrage of program records continued when Yegher captured first in the 100-yard breastroke in 59.76, and firstyear Adaline Rose Bullock won the 100-yard backstroke in 53.55, an NCAA B-cut qualifying time. Yegher also captured first in the 200-yard breaststroke, with yet another Harvard, Ivy, and pool record of 2:08.47.

“Qualifying for NCAAs is always a challenge because every year is different,” Herculano said, referencing the different pools and competition. “The main goal was definitely to perform at Ivies, and right now I can only say that I am extremely motivated, and that I am going to continue to work hard this spring.”

While Princeton snapped Harvard’s two-year reign as Ivy League Champions, the Crimson’s future is bright, and the season continues for several swimmers.

The NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships will take place on March 18-21 at the Ramsey Center in Athens, Ga., and several divers will compete at NCAA Zones to qualify for the national meet.

“I can say that our grit and willingness to put in the work for a long term result will not cease because Ivies is over,” Pasadyn said, in reference to the meets ahead. “I am incredibly blessed to attend such a high-level meet with a group of empowering and dedicated women.” zing.gee@thecrimson.com