The Harvard Crimson - Volume CXLVI, No. 13

The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVI, NO. 13 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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New Uber feature promises physical safety, but contains data risks.

A Tufts lecturer was arrested for “peeping and spying” in a locker room.

Harvard Men’s Hockey increases its winning streak to six games.

Abramson Faces HPT Celebrates Milo Ventimiglia Plagiarism Charges

By ISABEL L. ISSELBACHER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

By EMA R. SCHUMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A llegations of plagiarism embroiled former New York Times Executive Editor and Harvard lecturer Jill E. Abramson ’76, whose latest book, “Merchants of Truth,” came under scrutiny from journalists Wednesday.

In a series of tweets published Wednesday evening, Vice News correspondent Michael C. Moynihan accused Abramson of plagiarizing portions of her book, released Tuesday, which covers the volatile climate of journalism in the last decade.

Moynihan wrote on Twitter that he became conscious of instances of alleged plagiarism while reviewing claims Abramson made about Vice within the book.

News organizations from which Moynihan explicitly accused Abramson of plagiarizing include the New Yorker, Time Out Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and Ryerson Review of Journalism. He also cited a master’s thesis from ­

Ryerson University and York University, which he alleges Abramson copied.

On Twitter, Moynihan juxtaposed the passages in question from Abramson’s book with passages from previously published articles, revealing uncanny similarities — including specific details, phrases, and nearly identical sentences.

Abramson did not include footnotes to these passages.

Abramson acknowledged in an email to The Crimson that she made citation errors in the book but that the errors were “completely unintentional.”

“I did not have citations for seven short passages that contain factual information. These should have been either quoted in the text or footnoted,” she wrote.

She noted that she had included more than 70 pages worth of footnotes covering hundreds of interviews.

“I did properly credit these sources, some repeatedly, for other passages and material in

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The Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored actor, director, and producer Milo Ventimiglia, the group’s 2019 Man of the Year, before the premiere of its newest production Friday evening. AMANDA Y. SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Students Rally for Ethnic Studies

By AMANDA Y. SU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

More than 50 Harvard students gathered outside the Charles Hotel Friday afternoon to demand the University create a formalized ethnic studies program.

The Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, which comprises affiliates across the University, organized the event, dubbed “The 47-Year Fight: Student Rally for Ethnic Studies.” Students spe­

College students staged a rally at the Charles Hotel Friday arguing for the establishment of an Ethnic Studies program at Harvard. AMANDA Y.SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

cifically chose to congregate at noon to attract the attention of alumni and administrators — including University President Lawrence S. Bacow — attending the Alumni Leadership Conference luncheon which took place in the Charles Hotel at the same time.

Jeannie Park ’83, a Coalition member and president of the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, said she hoped

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Sally Chen ‘19 spoke with President Bacow at the rally in favor establishing of an ethnic studies program. AMANDA Y.SU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

UC Elects Thirteen Reps in Midterms

By LAURA C. ESPINOZA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER ­

The Undergraduate Council elected 13 new representatives across eight upperclassmen houses in midterm elections held last week, according to UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20.

Thirty-four candidates ran for 14 open positions on the Council, but some students who won elections were writein candidates on the ballot.

The Council was not able to declare a winner in one contest, in Cabot House, because the election ended in a tie.

Nine students — excluding write-in candidates — originally ran for positions in seven houses. Only the Lowell House midterm election, which had two students running for one open position, was competitive.

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day and saw 154 students cast ballots — marked the lowest voter turnout in midterm elections in recent years. 371 undergraduates voted in the 2018 UC midterms, and 402 students cast votes in 2017.

Brandon M. Martinez ’20, a write-in candidate selected to represent Cabot House, said he feels a responsibility to serve after his election.

“Ultimately, I thought it was only right for me, one, to recognize that people thought I should step into the position and serve and not take that lightly, and two, that I could move with some of my ideas on through this semester,” he said.

Martinez was not the only write-in candidate chosen for the Council. After Delaney E. Tevis ’19 and Humza I. Jilani ’21 tied in an election and both declined to participate in a runoff

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The Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored actor, director, and producer Milo Ventimiglia, the group’s 2019 Man of the Year, before the premiere of its newest production Friday evening.

The Man of the Year festivities included a celebratory roast of Ventimiglia and the presentation of the Pudding Pot — the award given to Man of the Year and Woman of the Year honorees — on the Farkas Hall Stage.

Each year, the Pudding bestows the title of Man of the Year and Woman of the Year on “performers who have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.”

Bryce Dallas Howard, the 2019 Woman of the Year recipient, was honored with a parade and celebratory roast last week.

After a press conference, Ventimiglia attended the first performance of “France!

France! Revolution,” the Pudding’s 2019 musical production.

That first performance marked a historic moment for the 171-year-old theater troupe.

After more than 150 years of ­

WIDENER IN WINTER

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Snow blankets the ground surrounding the gate in front of Widener Library. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

TODAY’S FORECAST

PARTLY CLOUDY High: 35 Low: 17

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Harvard Counters Sanctions Lawsuits

By SANJANA L. NARAYANAN and SAMUEL W. ZWICKEL CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Lawyers for Harvard argued that state and federal judges should dismiss a pair of ongoing lawsuits alleging the College’s social group sanctions are discriminatory Friday evening.

Two motions to dismiss the complaints filed by the University argue that the social group penalties do not disadvantage either sex and do not limit undergraduates’ freedom of association.

The motions mark the latest development in two lawsuits filed in December 2018 – one in federal court and the other in Massachusetts — that challenge the legality of Harvard’s controversial social group sanctions, alleging the penalties are coercive and illegal.

Plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case are the international parent group of sorority Alpha Phi, Harvard’s newly reinstated chapter of Alpha Phi, and a management company for chapters of sorority Delta Gamma. Their federal counterparts are the international organizations for two sororities, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma; the parent groups for two fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi; Harvard’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon; and three current Harvard students — not named in the suit — who are also members of all-male social clubs.

The College’s sanctions, which took effect with the Class of 2021, bar members of single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations from holding athletic team captaincies, leadership positions in campus organizations, and from receiving College endorsement for certain prestigious fellowships.

In a memorandum accompanying Harvard’s motion to dismiss the federal suit, lawyers for the University argued that the sanctions policy does not contribute to sex-based discrimination “because the challenged policy treats men and women equally.”

The University also

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TODAY’S EVENTS

IN THE REAL WORLD

Carving a Career Path OCS, 3 p.m.

Grammy Awards 2019

Explore the ins and outs of careers and job changes at this OCS workshop. Led by speaker, author and entrepreneur Laura Ottig, discover how your time commitments can help you become what you want to be.

The 61st Grammy Awards, hosted by 15-time winner Alicia Keys, with the Song of the Year Award going to “This is America” by Donald Glover and Ludwig Goranssone, Best New Artist going to Dua Lipa, and Best Vocal Pop Album going to Ariana Grande’s “Sweetner.” Though the Recording Academy has often faced flak for its gender and race skew, Michelle Obama, Cardi B, and Camila Cabello publically made the affair a ladies’ night.

The Mathematics of Cooperation Science Center D, 5:30 p.m.

The problem of cooperation is one explored in many disciplines, and tonight you have the opportunity to hear about it from a mathematical perspective. At this talk, Harvard professor Martin Nowak will discuss questions such as “why should you help a competitor?”

Brexit: What’s Next?

Harvard Kennedy School, 6 p.m.

Head on over to the IOP for a discussion about the future of the UK and EU, with the British Consul General to New England Harriet Cross and other experts.

Entrepreneur and 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang spoke about the Asian American experience at a Friday event. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

DAILY BRIEFING Harvard Lecturer and former New York Times Executive Editor Jill E. Abramson ’76 is facing accusations that her most recent book contains plagiarized passages. She later admitted that she had made citation errors and would work to correct them. In other news, Harvard filed motions to dismiss the two lawsuits it faces alleging the University’s single-gender social group policies are discriminatory.

Democrat Amy Klobuchar Enters the Presidential Race Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar put forth her candidacy for the 2020 presidential elections.

Known for taking on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during confirmation hearings, Klobuchar is the latest Democrat to announce her bid. She is the 4th woman to enter the race for party nomination, and the 2020 elections mark the first time more than one woman has joined the race.

Border Negotiations Reach an Impasse As Government Shutdown Looms Ahead The point of contention this weekend was not President Trump’s demands for a border wall, but the Democrats pushing for a limit on the number of unauthoraized immigrants the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency can detain. The government shutdown will resume in 5 days if the talks fail.

AROUND THE IVIES PRINCETON According to the Daily Princetonian, a 276-page eating club document filled with rankings of students was leaked on Facebook in early February.

Princeton’s elite eating clubs admit new members through a process called Bicker, and an anonymous poster posted cards from the 2017 Bicker proceedings after Bicker was digitized. The cards included comments about “bickerees’” appearance, ethnicity, and race, as well as a score out of five. The poster ended his comment with an excerpt from an Emily Dickinson poem — and the Ivy Club, which oversees Princeton’s eating clubs, said that they regret the incident.

BROWN Brown University’s Corporation approved a five percent tuition increase for FY20, raising annual undergraduate charges from $54,320 to $57,112, Brown Daily Herald reported Sunday.

This increase is part of a planned $1.2 billion operating budget, $143.1 million of which will go toward undergraduate financial aid. The budget also includes support for Brown Promise, which aims to eliminate student loans from financial aid packages. Since Brown’s acceptance is on a need-blind basis, the budget for financial aid is an estimate of expected aid for this upcoming year.

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The Feb. 8 article “Petsi Pies Bakery Replaced by Darwin’s” incorrectly stated that the new Darwin’s is the chain’s third location. In fact, it is the fourth DarCORRECTIONS win’s location.

The Feb. 8 article “Bacow Maintains Lobbying Priorities in D.C.” incorrectly stated Bacow had made two lobbying trips during his presidency. In fact, he has made four lobbying trips.

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Abramson Accused of Plagiarism HPT Celebrates Milo Ventimiglia the book. This makes clear that my errors were completely unintentional,” she wrote.

“Anyone who knows or has worked with me knows that I would never intentionally use any other journalist’s work without giving them credit,” she added.

One of the authors whom Abramson allegedly plagiarized, former Time Out Senior Editor Jake Malooley, directed The Crimson to his statement made via Twitter.

“In a pretty brazen violation of journalism 101 ethics, Jill Abramson cribbed a passage from an article I wrote in 2010 and passed it off as her own,” the tweet reads.

The article in question, published in Time Out Magazine, spotlighted a Vice correspondent and his experience reporting in the Middle East. Another writer whom Abramson allegedly plagiarized, Matthew Ingram, published an article Thursday in the Columbia Jour-

nalism Review affirming his belief that Abramson plagiarized his work.

One of the passages under scrutiny from Abramson’s book is almost identical to an excerpt of Ingram’s 2018 article that cites the most popular news sources circulating on Facebook. Ingram wrote that he does not feel as though Abramson stole his ideas — the passage did not contain his ideas, but rather facts, he points out.

Ingram, however, wrote that Abramson’s actions conform to what many would consider plagiarism, and he cited a past statement from Abramson in which she put forth a concurring definition. Shortly after the New York Times was accused of plagiarizing two sentences in a 2008 article, Abramson — the Times’s then-managing editor — told Slate magazine, “When you take material almost wordfor-word and don’t credit it, it is [plagiarism].”

An hour after Moynihan publicly accused Abramson of plagiarism Wednesday evening, she unequivocally denied on live television during “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that she committed any citation errors in her book.

“I certainly didn’t plagiarize in my book,” Abramson told the show’s host MacCallum.

Abramson then suggested that Moynihan accused her of plagiarism because Vice was unhappy with Abramson’s portrayal of the news organization in her book. Moynihan did not respond to a request for comment. Only three hours later, Abramson tweeted that she was looking into the accusations.

The following day, in a statement she provided to various news publications, Abramson admitted error and wrote that she would work to correct the mistakes. She added all of the ideas expressed in the book are “original.”

“She seems sincere ... that

she cares about this and she wants to fix what went wrong.

She described them as unintentional errors, and I have no reason to believe that that’s not the case,” Ingram said in an interview with The Crimson.

Moynihan’s Wednesday Twitter thread is not the first time Abramson’s book has come under fire for inaccuracies. The book first faced scrutiny last month when a copy was provided to journalists for review in advance of publication.

Images of passages from the copy allegedly containing factual errors circulated on Twitter. Responding at the time, Abramson wrote in a Twitter post that the book was unfinished. Abramson spent 17 years at the Times, where she was the first woman to lead the news organization as executive editor starting in 2011. She was fired from that role in 2014 due to disagreements with the Times’ ema.schumer@thecrimson.com

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Students Advocate for Ethnic Studies that holding the event at the same time as the alumni conference would encourage alumni to help publicize the need for a formalized ethnic studies program.

“When I tell other alumni who aren’t paying as close attention, people are honestly stunned. ‘Really? There’s no ethnic studies at Harvard?’ It kind of blows their mind,” Park said. “It’s so important for the administration to hear from all constituencies, not just students, not just alumni, not just faculty.”

Prior to his speech at the conference and the start of the rally, Bacow paused outside the Charles Hotel to converse with students.

James L. Walkingstick ’21 opened the rally with a prayer in his traditional language of Cherokee to bless the cause.

Several students read passages from University and Crimson archives, including letters penned by activists dating back to 1985.

They also read past Crimson articles about historical developments in the fight for a formalized ethnic studies program.

Speakers also shared per-

sonal stories about grappling with their ethnic identities and the mentorship they have received from Harvard faculty members who teach ethnic studies courses.

Sally Chen ’19 spoke about her thesis advisor, Assistant History Professor Genevieve A. Clutario, praising Clutario’s course HIST 1013: “Introduction to Asian American History” specifically.

“Asian-American Studies was like taking a breath for the first time,” Chen said.

Clutario, who researches Asian-American history from a transnational perspective, recently accepted a position at Wellesley College. Her impending departure, along with the University’s decision not to put Associate Professor of Education Natasha K. Warikoo up for tenure, attracted sharp criticism last week.

The Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, and the Coalition For A Diverse Harvard each penned letters to Bacow denouncing the imminent loss of Clutario and Warikoo, who constituted two of three Harvard professors who study Asian-American studies.

Rally participants pointed out that many of Harvard’s peer universities — including Stanford University and Yale University — have already established their own ethnic studies programs.

Harvard currently offers an Ethnicity, Migration, Rights secondary and an Ethnic Studies field of study within the History and Literature concentration. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay said in an October interview that FAS is conducting searches for faculty specializing in ethnic studies and that she plans to meet with advocates this semester.

Chen said at the rally that Harvard must demonstrate its commitment to diverse curricula now, especially as the University faces a lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asian-American applicants to the College.

“It’s imperative that we defend diversity in admissions, but it’s not enough to worry about who the school admits,” said Chen, who was one of several students to testify in court on behalf of Harvard in October. “We have to ensure also that students are supported and well-equipped to thrive when

they arrive on campus.”

Several rally attendees said the push for a formalized ethnic studies program had deep personal importance to them.

“Having ethnic studies symbolizes that our histories are important. They are valid, and they are worth learning,” Tajrean Rahman ’20 said in an interview.

“I feel that if our history, if it’s not learned by everybody, then who are we?” Walkingstick said in an interview. “It’s been erased for the past 400 years for Native Americans, and it’s going to continue to be underrepresented if Harvard’s not doing its part.”

As students chanted “Out of the Courtroom! Into the Class!” outside of the hotel, several alumni joined the group to show their support or just to listen.

“I’ve had deep ties to the university since I’ve been an undergrad — over 30 years. I remember even back then that this was an issue,” Douglas H. Chin ’88 said. “It surprises me that although we’ve made progress, we still don’t have an ethnic studies department.” amanda.su@thecrimson.com

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putting on shows with all-male casts, the Pudding announced last winter that it would start including female students in its productions come 2019. Women were previously limited the troupe’s business, tech, and design boards.

Ventimiglia praised the Pudding in a press conference Friday for admitting women to its cast.

“It’s absolutely the right thing to do, it’s the greatest thing to do, because the heart of the artist isn’t only in one person, one type of person, one way of being — it’s really in all of us,” he said.

He said the Pudding made the correct choice to “really just stand up and say, ‘Hey we’re doing this regardless of tradition or history or anything.’”

Before the roast, Chairman of the Hasty Pudding Institute Andrew L. Farkas ’82 welcomed University President Lawrence S. Bacow, who attended the performance with his wife Adele.

Bacow is the first University president to attend the premiere of a Pudding production.

Farkas said in his speech that Sunday’s performance would make history.

“First and foremost I want to acknowledge everything that you all have acknowledged, that

we are going to enjoy for the very first time women in our cast,” he said. “Let me try that one more time — women in our cast!”

His comments about female cast members drew cheers from the audience.

Pudding producers Elizabeth C. Mann ’20 and Mariana C. Sanchez ’20 led the celebratory roast of Ventimiglia.

Three of the six women cast in this year’s production also participated as characters in the roast.

Jokes ranged from comments on the actor’s early career roles to his status as the sexiest vegetarian alive, as determined by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Before he received his award, members of the Pudding made him sing “Big Girls Don’t Cry” — an allusion to his role in Fergie’s music video for the song — and rap the entire theme song of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” Ventimiglia said in the press conference that he feels “overwhelmed” and “a little speechless” to receive the award.

“I’m grateful and honored to be given this by the future of entertainment — really the future of the world,” he said. isabel.isselbacher@thecrimson.com

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UC Elects 13 Reps in Midterms Elections the UC offered Jingjing Z. Zhu ’19 a spot to represent Winthrop House.

Zhu wrote in email that she declined the spot because she did not choose to run for the UC and won because she received one write-in vote from a friend.

The position will remain vacant unless the Council holds a runoff election, according to Palaniappan and UC Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20.

“I do not intend on nor have I ever intended on pursuing a UC position,” Zhu wrote.

Samyra C. Miller ’21, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for UC vice president along with Daniel “Danny” K. Ragheb ’20 last year, secured a vacant seat to represent Lowell House. Though she did not win the vice presidency, she said she still “wanted to make change” in the UC. “As an electoral representative, I really do hope to not only work with the current UC initiatives, but also push for better access to social spaces on campus,” Miller said.

Jakob L. Gilbert ’21 — an Eliot House representative who worked on Ragheb and Miller’s campaign last year — said he wants to change the perception of the UC he had encountered during the fall elections.

Gilbert is one of the nine candidates elected who were not write-ins.

“I saw how it was generally accepted that the UC is not ca-

pable of much and the student body generally viewed the UC as a joke, and I thought that was pretty depressing,” Gilbert said.

Palaniappan wrote that she acknowledges “this is a common sentiment shared by individuals on our campus.”

“From my perspective as a member of the UC over the past three years, I have directly witnessed the impact of the UC on improving various elements of student life,” she wrote. “For me, the UC has felt like an effective body and outlet for representatives to advocate on behalf of students and create meaningful change.”

She wrote that the UC’s restructuring is designed to “help the UC function in the most effective and representative way possible.”

The election commission has yet to decide the date of the runoff election for the vacancy in Cabot House.

The newly elected Council members are as follows: Nicholas Beasley ’20 Allison S. Chang ’19 Daniel J. Inge ’20 Brandon M. Martinez ’20 Christopher M. Fechisin ’21 Jakob L. Gilbert ’21 Kanishk A. Mittal ’20 Isaac A. Walker ’19 Samyra C. Miller ’21 Clifford S. Courvoisier ’20 Athena W. Kan ’19 Shivani R. Aggarwal ’21 laura.espinoza@thecrimson.com

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Alumni Discuss IOP Participants Talk Civic Interest Gender, Media

By JENNA X. BAO

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By ANISSA R. MEDINA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

About 45 alumni, students, and community members gathered inside the Phillips Brooks House parlor room on Saturday to discuss the polarization of the media during a roundtable event hosted by the Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Empowerment.

Harvard GlobalWE, a shared interest group of the Harvard Alumni Association, raises awareness of issues concerning women’s rights and freedoms worldwide.

Sajida H. Shroff — the discussion facilitator and president of Harvard GlobalWE — said the annual event began last year in response to the #MeToo movement, a social movement in which women have shared their experiences in dealing with sexual harassment. This year’s theme focused on how women are reshaping a divided media.

“The goal, for today, was to get people to understand that you have to look beyond the surface of when you get some information and you have to think about where it’s coming from, who it’s coming from, why it’s coming from them,” Shroff said in an interview after the event.

The event’s guest speaker, Annafi Wahed, co-founded the Flip Side, which curates a daily newsletter for subscribers featuring articles from both left- and right-leaning sources.

Wahed was joined by Allison L. Pillinger Choi ’06 and Angela Cho, both Flip Side board members. Shroff said in the interview that Harvard GlobalWE chose to feature the Flip Side because the company presents “both sides of an argument in a way that lets you then make the educated decision.”

Pillinger Choi said during the discussion that she experienced the effect of political polarization as a conservative undergraduate on Harvard’s campus.

“I learned very quickly that it was not good, not cool, to

be right of center on campus,” Pillinger Choi said.

“I laid low, I did not join the IOP, I did other things, but I think that that is part of the reason why… we are at this place we are today in the world.”

“I think I was part of the problem by not speaking out,” she added.

The roundtable conversation stressed the importance of considering the way media outlets may write stories to fit a desired framework.

Wahed said this was particularly the case with women’s issues.

“First of all, women are 52 percent of the global population. When we talk about women’s issues — healthcare is a women’s issue, affordable housing is a women’s issue, taxes are a women’s issue,” Wahed said. “The way we frame the issue matters.”

Pillinger Choi added that there is a “big opportunity for women to get involved” in the media, especially at the grassroots level. Attendees said they enjoyed hearing about the importance of bipartisanship understanding in advancing political change.

“I found that it was very enriching to hear the bipartisan perspective and lean about how there are active steps that are being made to engage both sides of the spectrum and working towards a rich and fulfilling future, really,” Skye R. Regan, an attendee, said in an interview after the event.

Participants were given handouts from the speakers detailing statistics on media polarization and recommended resources to continue the conversation.

“I think directly after the talk, I was a little bit confused because ultimately each news organization has to make a profit they have to sort of like target people and advertise to them, but then ultimately I think the mission of Flip Side is moving in the right direction,” Sofia M. Zoullas ’19 said. anissa.medina@thecrimson.com.

Students and administrators representing 35 colleges and universities from across the country convened at Harvard Kennedy School this past weekend to attend the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement hosted by the Institute of Politics.

The conference featured several speakers who have worked to increase voting and political mobilization among young people, including March for Our Lives organizers Edna Chavez, Ryan Deitsch, David Hogg, and Tyah Roberts, who were awarded the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award at the conference on Friday.

The award honors “Americans under the age of 40 who are changing their communities and the country with their commitment to public service,” according to the John F. Kennedy Library website.

Chair of the National Campaign Committee Kenneth ‘Taylor” Whitsell ’21 said this

year’s conference was aimed at looking at patterns and results from the 2018 election and possible applications for 2020.

“We have panels, town hall sessions, time for students to work on different projects related to voter engagement,” he said.

“This year our main focus is figuring out what worked in 2018 on our campus, that involves the Harvard Votes challenge, how we’re tackling barriers to democracy across the nation, and steps we can take to ensure students turn out to vote in 2020.”

The IOP also partnered with When We All Vote, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization launched in July 2018

by Michelle Obama and six cochairs: Chris Paul, Tom Hanks, Janelle Monae, Faith Hill, Tim Mcgraw, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. When We All Vote CEO Kyle Lierman said in an interview at the conference that the organization looked at voting trends among historically underrepresented groups including African Americans, Latinx,

and young Americans.

“They just don’t vote at the same rate as older Americans, so we put extra time and effort into making sure they knew how to register, knew the process of voting, and understood the value and importance of their vote,” Lierman said.

Members of National Campaign Committee and When We All Vote stressed the importance of maintaining energy and mobilization, even in offyears like 2019.

“One inspiration for the conference was thinking about how we engage voters all the time, not just in election years,” Whitsell said.

Throughout the weekend, When We All Vote led workshops on addressing barriers to voting on campus during the conference. One panel included Stevie Valles, executive director of Chicago Votes, and a group of students who had led initiatives to address structural barriers to voting, like gerrymandering and voter suppression on their campuses.

Lierman said the benefit of

an intercollegiate conference is to highlight and exchange ideas of students across the country.

He pointed to Northwestern University, where 97 percent of students are registered to vote and voter turnout reached over 64 percent in 2016.

“How can everyone else steal those ideas and plans that Northwestern did, and other campuses that have been doing a good job, and continue to organize more and more campuses to take those best practices and implement them across the country?” Lierman said.

Lierman said this exchange of insights is what attracted students from other schools to come to the conference.

“We came in looking for constructive ideas to help bolster our infrastructure in accomplishing these goals and learning about ways to reach higher and do better in our mission, and that’s exactly what we found,” Stephen A. Cromwell, a representative from the University of Oklahoma, said. jenna.bao@thecrimson.com

Man Arrested for Filming in Showers

By EMA R. SCHUMER CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Tufts lecturer and Harvard Business School graduate Kaiser K. Fung, 45, was arrested for surreptitiously photographing a Harvard affiliate in the men’s locker room showers at Blodgett Pool last week.

At about 6 p.m. last Tuesday, the alleged victim saw Fung “walking laps” around the open showering area of the locker room, behavior he described to Harvard University Police Department responders as “suspicious,” according to the incident report.

As the affiliate showered, Fung “stood under” a nearby shower and held a phone “pointing directly” at him, according to the report. Once Fung noticed the affiliate had seen him, the affiliate said Fung turned the phone away, and the affiliate could see the “screen of the

phone was clearly on the camera’s feature.”

Andrea M. Lapointe, Harvard’s Assistant Director of Athletics, said the University is committed to safety in its athletics facilities and responded quickly to the incident.

“The safety of our members and guests is the number one priority at all of our recreational facilities. Upon learning of this incident at Blodgett Pool, per protocol the Harvard University Police Department was contacted immediately,” she wrote in an emailed statement.

While being questioned by HUPD officers, Fung misidentified himself and repeatedly apologized, but did not directly acknowledge he had photographed the affiliate. Fung told officers that “he likes to take pictures, but he hadn’t taken any pictures today,” according to the report.

“He kept stating that he was

sorry and that he ‘wouldn’t do it again’,” the incident report reads. “Mr. Fung further stated, ‘I promise to delete everything’, while stating he was sorry over and over again.”

HUPD spokesperson Steven

“The safety of our members and guests is the number one priority.”

Andrea M. Lapointe Assistant Director of Athletics

G. Catalano declined to comment about the incident, citing HUPD’s policy not to discuss ongoing criminal trials.

Fung was placed under arrest for “photographing, videotaping, or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude

person,” a violation of Chapter 272 Section 105 B of Massachusetts’ general laws, according to the incident report.

If found guilty, Fung could face up to two and a half years in prison, a fine of no more than $5,000, or both.

Fung did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Fung is a lecturer at the Gordon Institute, Tufts University’s engineering school. He previously taught courses at Columbia University and New York University.

At an arraignment Wednesday, Fung was released from police custody on personal recognizance to await trial. A hearing is scheduled for Mar. 28. Fung was issued a trespassing warning for all Harvard property as part of the terms of his release, according to the criminal docket. ema.schumer@thecrimson.com.

Sen. Markey Talks UC Votes to Change Committee Structure ‘Green New Deal’

By JANIA J. TUMEY CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Senator Edward J. Markey (DMA) answered questions about the “Green New Deal” — a plan he introduced in Congress with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) to combat economic inequality and climate change — at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Friday. In a talk with Caroline B. Kennedy ‘80, who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017, Markey discussed his proposal to transition the United States to a sustainable environment and equitable economy.

“What Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and I decided to do is we would put together a 10year plan to mobilize this country to be able to deal with the issue and to call for a goal of 100 percent renewable clean energy,” Markey said.

The Green New Deal faces criticism from Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who mocked the proposal on Twitter Saturday. Markey said garnering nationwide support for the legislation will require a grassroots approach.

“Our goal is to create a national movement in every city and town across this country

to pass the laws in the House and Senate signed by president Trump in 2019 and 2020,” Markey said. “If not, we’re going to turn this into a voting issue in the 2020 elections.”

Markey said he is confident opponents of the Green New Deal will be voted out of office in upcoming elections.

“Either they change the legislation — which is highly unlikely — or we change them, and they’re out of office,” he said.

When asked about the prospective role of nuclear energy in the Green New Deal, Markey said that though nuclear energy could meet environmental guidelines, it is unlikely to play a large role from an economic standpoint.

“If there is a fully competitive marketplace then I believe wind and solar efficiency — and geothermal — are going to win,” Markey said.

Among the audience were student representatives from colleges and universities across the country who were partaking in the IOP’s annual National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement conference.

“I hope everyone will go back to your campuses and share the Senator’s plan,” Kennedy said. jania.tumey@thecrimson.com

By KEVIN R. CHEN

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Undergraduate Council voted unanimously to alter its committee system at its general meeting Sunday, changing some of the organizational structures that have governed the body since its establishment.

The Council’s changes, enacted through one constitutional amendment and one change to the group’s bylaws, will reshape how the UC determines which members work on various issues.

The UC has historically comprised an executive board and six standing committees, each given a different set of responsibilities.

UC President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 proposed changes to the Council’s rules in order to dissolve the Student Life, Student Initiatives, and Student Relations committees.

The newly established Health, Safety, and Wellness Committee; Social and Residential Life Committee; and communications team will take over most of the dissolved groups’ responsibilities.

“A lot of these changes have to do with things that have never been changed in the Consti-

tution since the UC was created in 1982,” Palaniappan said.

“This is one of the biggest changes that we’ve ever seen on the UC, because it changes fundamentally how we are operating and what are the structures that we have in place to facilitate the work that we are doing.”

Palaniappan and Huesa proposed the changes in order to clarify the roles of each committee and to allow the UC to run more effectively, they said.

“Some of the committee titles have been overly broad, so we were really hoping to create committees that have defined names specific to the initiatives that we are seeking to work on,” Palaniappan said.

Under the new system, the Health, Safety, and Wellness Committee will oversee the UC’s work relating to physical and mental health, sexual violence prevention and response, student safety, and spiritual life. The Social and Residential Life Committee will strive to improve aspects of students’ experiences in dorms and the upperclassmen houses, and will oversee the Council’s work on social spaces, dining services, transportation, and storage, according to Palaniappan.

Sunday’s changes to the UC’s rules also established a group of

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communications directors who will serve on the communications team in addition to their primary roles on other committees.

Previously, UC representatives on the Student Relations Committee — the communication team’s predecessor — typically did not hold other positions.

“If you were a Student Relations Committee member, you wouldn’t necessarily have to be a member of another committee, and that didn’t really make sense because we were supposed to be publicizing the work that other committees were doing,” Huesa said.

Many UC representatives said they hope the new committee structure will allow them to take on projects more effectively.

“I think having these committees that are entirely focused on exactly what students want to do is going to be a way for the UC to achieve a lot more good publicity and for us to do a lot more,” UC Secretary Cade S. Palmer ’20, a former sports chair of The Crimson, said.

Palaniappan and Huesa’s amendment retained the Finance, Education, and FirstYear Class committees, though Dunster House Representative Gevin B. Reynolds ’19 proposed

an amendment during Sunday’s meeting to rebrand the Education Committee as the Academic Life Committee.

He said he believes the committee’s current name is too broad.

“The title ‘Education Committee’ encapsulates everything that goes into your experience here at Harvard,” Reynolds said. “Changing it to ‘Academic Life Committee’ is more narrow and more specific to what sets the committee apart from the other ones.”

The UC unanimously accepted Reynold’s amendment.

The Council will hold internal elections for the chairs of the Health, Safety, and Wellness Committee and the Social and Residential Life Committee in the coming weeks.

Current representatives will be eligible to apply for the communications directors positions, and Palaniappan and Huesa will select five communications directors from the pool of applicants.

“We hope that this will be one of the most significant changes to the Council structure that will really allow a sustainable way for the Council to effectively run for decades,” Palaniappan said. kevin.chen@thecrimson.com

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SANCTIONS FROM PAGE 1

Harvard Counters Sanctions Lawsuit addressed allegations made by the plaintiffs in their original complaints that the policies infringe upon students’ freedom of association. Harvard’s Massachusetts filing argues that student social groups are not the kinds of “intimate associations and expressive associations” legally protected by the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act and that the sanctions policy “places no burden” on the organizations’ activities.

“The policy does not regulate the sororities in any way,” the state filing reads. “It does not, for example, bar sororities from continuing to meet and hold social events for other students on campus. It does not tell them what they can or cannot say or express.”

Harvard’s filings in both cases also argue that not all plain-

tiffs have standing to bring the suits because the Greek organizations, which allege that the sanctions illegally discriminate against students in fraternities and sororities, are speaking on behalf of their members.

The federal motion also argues that John Doe 3 — one of the anonymous student plaintiffs who, as an upperclassman, is not subject to the sanctions — also does not have standing because the penalties do not apply to him.

Lawyers for the University addressed in their filings the plaintiffs’ allegations that the College employed “threats, intimidation or coercion” when debuting the sanctions.

The motions to dismiss the suits argue students had full knowledge of the sanctions policy when they decided to attend

the College.

“Plaintiffs concede that Harvard’s policy applied only prospectively to students who had not yet chosen even to apply, let alone matriculate at the time the policy was enacted. And Plaintiffs certainly do not allege that any student was intimidated or coerced into attending Harvard,” the federal motion reads. “Therefore, all of the students subject to the policy voluntarily accepted it when, fully on notice, they elected to attend Harvard.”

Harvard spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote in a press release that single-gender social groups are not consistent with the values and goals the College tries to promote.

“Harvard should not have to change its commitment to non-discrimination and edu-

cational philosophy for outside organizations that are not aligned with our long-standing mission,” Dane wrote.

Emma Quinn-Judge, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the state suit, wrote in an email that the plaintiffs “believe Harvard’s motion will be legally meritless.”

“It appears that in particular Harvard has nothing to say about the impact of the policy on single-sex women’s groups,” Quinn-Judge wrote.

The plaintiffs in both the state and federal lawsuits will officially respond to Harvard’s motions over the next several weeks. Harvard has requested court hearings to discuss both complaints.

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New Uber Feature Promises Physical Safety, Data Risks

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partnership between Uber and emergency response-focused startup RapidSOS has led to the recent implementation of a “911 Assistance” feature on the popular ride-sharing app. This feature, included in the app’s new Safety Toolkit, enables users in Cambridge to contact police without exiting the app, giving emergency responders earlier warning in the event of any security issues.

We welcome this feature to make ride-sharing more secure for Cambridge residents and college students across the city, and we hope that it will serve as a deterrent for potential safety issues raised while using the app. The ability to establish a direct line of communication with Cambridge authorities during the course of an Uber ride is a vital move in the direction of greater safety. Both deterrence of crime and increased response time to a safety concern will make Cambridge a safer place.

We have previously encouraged the improvement of safety and the prioritization of user protection in ride-sharing applications, and we are heartened that Uber has incorporated such measures into its interface.

This decision demonstrates the company’s commitment to improve user security.

While the “911 Assistance” feature represents solid progress on ensuring security for Uber riders, the infrastructure surrounding data privacy associated with the feature must be a top priority for its creators.

As it is currently designed, the feature allows riders to share medical information and emergency contacts with the app, which exposes this sensitive information to potentially damaging leaks.

Such a security breach would not be unprecedented, as Uber recently had to pay a $148 million settlement in the aftermath of a data breach that exposed the

The physical safety of users must certainly be a priority for Uber, but so should their safety on the web and the privacy of their data. information of 57 million of its drivers and riders.

In that case, Uber’s approach to the incident — covering up the breach by paying off the hacker, which led to the firing of two employees a year later — was concerning to say the least, and does not bode well for the company’s behavior

in the event of future breaches.

In order for this feature to be effective, Uber must win riders’ trust enough for them to provide this sensitive data.

That requires that they be diligent in working for better security, along with being transparent about and willing to take responsibility for any breaches that may arise.

The physical safety of users must certainly be a priority for Uber, but so should their safety on the web and the privacy of their data.

One cannot be sacrificed for the other, and ride sharing companies have the obligation to ensure both realms of safety.

Finally, if the implementation of this feature in Cambridge is successful, Uber and other local police departments should expand the feature both to different ride-sharing apps and to other cities so that as many people as possible can enjoy safer rides.

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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Include Exclusivity

By Noah D. Dasanaike

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transformational college experience… [is] rooted in the ideal of intellectual exploration, in the pursuit of connecting with people who are different from you and learning from them, and in the process of reflecting on what you’ve learned and deciding what kind of person you want to be.”

So spoke then-newly-appointed Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana in Sept.

2014, as he sought to establish guiding principles upon which to base his coming deanship. But since proclaiming his mission as such, Khurana has continuously failed to uphold this promise of individual freedom to grow, to reflect, and most importantly, to decide. The sanctions policy regarding single-gender social organizations, which restricts the autonomy of students in choosing their associations, is evidence of just that.

Now, as Harvard struggles to define itself in a new social age, exemplified by the Stand Up to Harvard movement, the dissonance of Rakesh Khurana and his fellow administrators regarding the single-gender social group policy must come to an end. By moving to phase out social organizations which for centuries have had a formidable presence on Harvard’s campus, the University strikes out against the very principles which it claims to herald.

No longer may sororities serve as safe spaces for the women within; no longer may a diversity of thought differing from the Cambridge norm prosper; no longer may bonds of camaraderie and friendship develop without the interfering hands of those fearful of personal freedoms.

To claim that single-gender organizations are wholly free of harm would

be foolish. Yet the same issues which the University claims to address through the shuttering of these groups will exist regardless of these measures.

Proponents of the phasing out of socalled discriminatory social clubs cite problems which prevail across society, seeking to pinpoint blame on these select institutions. Sexual assault is a real, threatening issue, but restricting all single-gender social organizations is not the solution. In reality, all-male final clubs and fraternities simply suffer from the same issues of assault as do all campuses nationwide. Forcing change does naught but eliminate the opportunity to address those problems head-on.

By punishing women seeking safe spaces in Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, or Kappa Kappa Gamma, Harvard makes evident discrepancy in and failure of reasoning. Can sexual assault be the justification for a forced closure of sororities? Alternatively, does a policy that forces the closure of female-only spaces really combat sexual assault?

The answer is no, and the notion that such a conclusion may be defended is ridiculous. This facade of progressiveness put forth by Khurana thus collapses when scrutinized more deeply. In reality, the policy doesn’t help women at all.

Finally, such radical action against those participating in organizations external from the University, restricting fellowship availability and forbidding club officership, runs counter to higher education’s purpose: the free exploration of thought. By restricting students’ right to freedom of association, Harvard is limiting their ability to truly choose their transformative experience.

Where does it end? There’s a fine line once individual freedoms begin to

be suppressed. Why should Harvard, which claims to curate the highest caliber of students, dictate their lives outside campus?

In 2016, former University President Drew G. Faust declared to then-graduating seniors that “telling your own story, a fresh story, full of possibility and a new order of things, is the task of every generation, and the task before you,” echoing promises of intellectual exploration

by Khurana.

This promised liberty of choosing one’s own path is made hollow by such obstructions to individual actions. And the ability of students to craft their own narratives freely could only become more limited should Harvard act similarly in related situations. This abstraction of discrimination can be made applicable to any comping process, to any niche student group, to any non-fully-inclusive student gatherings. And that’s frightening.

Although the debate over single-gender social organizations may seem to have subsided, the actions of the University continue to threaten the individual freedoms of the student body and must be countered with an equally fair argument. To stand idly as the promises of higher education, of the enrichment of the mind and of thought, are violated, constitutes a disservice. Students must continue to speak out.

And if Harvard is to remain at the forefront of higher education, the University must respond by changing the policy and choosing to uphold the underlying principles of Veritas abandoned by Khurana — of truth and student freedom of self-determination.

—Noah D. Dasanaike ’22, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Canaday Hall.

Laura S. Veira-Ramirez a wild tongue

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have distinct memories from my childhood of resolutions to speak up in class and social settings. Most years, I failed. My shyness kept me tame as I got all my work done in silence. Each year I tried to increase my volume, but found myself closing back into myself when people talked over me, or even took credit for my work.

Gloria Anzaldúa speaks on her own experiences as people tried to stifle her voice as a lesbian Chicana. They tried to tame her wild tongue. The pressures around me did the same. I found it was too much effort to try to speak up. If I didn’t say anything, I couldn’t be ignored. My shyness stuck with me as part of my personality as I limited my words to close friends and need-based situations.

Writing is scary, but it has also become a form of resistance. Spots at the table are not handed to me. I must keep pushing for my voice to be heard.

I knew I had things to share in my head, but it took me a while to arrive to the point where I could bring those thoughts out into the open. The impetus to do so presented itself in small instances, mainly in predominantly white classes in high school. I remember a white classmate claiming racism wasn’t prevalent because she didn’t see accounts in the news. That day I felt a need to speak up, even though my voice quaked the entire time.

Because of instances like this, I found that if you put the tongue in places where it has to speak up for the identities of its owner, a duty to speak arises.

As the years went by, I found more need for my voice as I got involved in matters I cared about.

I got involved in organizations at my school and in my community, building up knowledge and forming connections. It was in those spaces that I found I had unique experiences that needed to be shared. I learned that others were going through similar struggles.

Bit by bit, I took leadership positions that pushed me out of my comfort zone and surprised me. I spoke, and people listened. I found the things I had to say mattered. More importantly, I saw people who looked like me speaking up, teaching me that I, too, deserved to take up space.

As I trained my wild tongue, I learned that being ignored was only one of many responses to what I had to say. There was also praise and appreciation. But there was also criticism that stemmed from ignorance. I learned this after I came out as a proud undocumented and unafraid Latina in my high school graduation speech and presented my resilience alongside my struggles. I was bombarded by media sources trying to report on my story.

Through that experience, I learned that my voice carried power. I learned that my voice could be threatening. The negative comments that came from strangers and people I had grown up with sent the message, loud and clear, that they didn’t want me speaking. I had internalized my silence for so long as something that was wrong with me, not a result of various factors out of my control. I had to learn that my voice is tied to my humanity.

In the midst of the political tide that was taking over America, I felt the need for my voice more than ever because my humanity was being brought into question. I spoke out because I had to. I felt the urgency and got involved in new ways once I got to Harvard. I joined The Crimson because of this urgency. During my first editorial board meeting, we voted against making Harvard a sanctuary campus. The majority opinion felt like a direct attack after I introduced myself as the only undocumented student in the room.

That day, I wrote my first dissent with two other students. Several more have followed since then.

Writing became a new way for me to share my voice that I hadn’t known in high school. I pub-

In the midst of the political tide that was taking over America, I felt the need for my voice more than ever because my humanity was being brought into question. I spoke out because I had to. I felt urgency and got involved in new ways once I got to Harvard. lished more pieces and took on a column my sophomore spring. Writing became empowering and allowed me to share my voice openly.

But writing comes with its own set of difficulties when done in such a public setting. With writing comes a lot of vulnerability as you put yourself out there and open yourself up to criticism or negativity from the comments section. Writing also requires motivation to begin the process.

This past semester, I’ve found little motivation to write because of my mental health and another wave of imposter syndrome as I look to academia for my future path.

Keeping in mind all the work I’ve done to train my tongue, here is the reason I am writing this column: Writing is scary, but it has also become a form of resistance. Spots at the table are not handed to me. I must keep pushing for my voice to be heard.

—Laura S. Veira-Ramirez ’20, a Crimson editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in History and Literature and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays.

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MEN’S FENCING

WOMEN’S SQUASH

At the Ivy League Championships, both Eli Dershwitz and Geoffrey Tourette captured individual titles in their respective divisions.

Harvard defeated Brown 9-0 to complete another unbeaten season and capture sole possession of the Ivy League title.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Harvard Prolongs Six-Game Unbeaten Streak ­By WILLIAM BOGGS and CONNOR J. WAGAMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS ­

Harvard entered the weekend riding a four-game unbeaten streak and playing its best hockey of the season. After cruising to victory against Union (4-242, 2-15-1 ECAC), the Crimson had to grind out a tight game against Rensselaer (12-13-5, 9-8-1) who, by at least one metric, has one of the best goalkeepers of all time. During the game against the Crimson, senior RPI goalie Lovisa Selander would set an NCAA Division I record 3,853 career saves.

By the end of the weekend, Harvard (10-11-3, 8-8-2) extended its unbeaten streak to six games, including five consecutive wins (5-0-1 since Jan. 26), to head into Tuesday’s Beanpot Championship to face the Boston University Terriers (16-6-7, 13-5-5 WHEA), who are running on a ten-game unbeaten streak of their own.

HARVARD 2, RPI 1 Harvard closed out pre-Beanpot Championship play with a grueling 2-1 win over Rensselaer that felt substantially closer than the 56-24 shot line. Considering freshman goalie Lindsay Reed and Selander both own a top-five save percentage in the country, though, the tight score made sense. A late-season game against an ECAC team that sits just ahead of the Crimson in the conference standings meant coming out on top was an even higher priority than usual.

“This is a must-win game,” sophomore forward Becca Gilmore said. “We all knew RPI is ahead of us in the standings [and that] a win on Saturday would just go toward our goal in improving ourselves in the ECAC standings heading into playoffs.”

Harvard took to the ice against the Engineers with the same fire that has accompanied every game on the way to five consecutive wins. Ten minutes into the first, though, a penalty was called on the Crimson.

Down a player, Harvard battled fiercely, but offensive pressure from RPI brought a faceoff, a rebounding shot, a follow through, and a goal by the Engineers.

“Sometimes they’re going to get one, and they got one early on a powerplay,” Gilmore said.

“You’ve just got to stay calm.”

After that initial goal, the Crimson’s defense buckled down. The score would remain 1-0 entering the second, but Harvard was on a net-peppering tear. Even the best goalies can only save so many.

“One thing we’ve emphasized, especially this past month, is just getting pucks to the net,” co-captain Kate Hallett said. “All shots are good shots, and the team has also been focused on having bodies in front of the net, screening their goalie, and looking for second chances on each shot.”

Seven minutes into the second, Gilmore found the puck on the RPI side of the ice.

“The puck was in the corner.

Coach [Katey Stone] always says establish your lane, gain control of the puck,” Gilmore said.

“Emma Buckles made a nice call for it, I slid it over to her, and the rest was just really good puck work by Buckles, and Jovo’s had the finishing touch lately, and just buried down.”

The score now knotted at one after sophomore forward Brooke Jovanovich’s fourth goal in three games, the Crimson refused to relax. Seven minutes later, Harvard struck again. An initial attempt rebounded and was quickly followed through by senior defender Kaitlin Tse, but Selander attempted to cover the puck.

Co-captain Lexie Laing was next to join in on the action.

Suddenly, the puck squeezed out to the largely undefended backside of the net. Hallet was there for the shot, but it bounced off Selander’s skate.

Another swipe by freshman forward Kristin Della Rovere, and the puck struck true.

The whole ordeal elapsed without a whistle-blow from the referee behind the net, but

the Crimson’s dedication to ugly shots had paid off. By the time the puck found the net, at least four Engineers aside from Selander had passed through the crease, and more than ten seconds had elapsed since the initial shot.

The rest of the match saw more shots, solid defense, and no score change. Harvard’s relentless, determined play had worked.

“Not every goal is going to be really pretty,” Hallett said. “If we work harder than the other team in front of the net, ultimately we’re going to end up with more pucks in the net.”

HARVARD 5, UNION 1 The Crimson would show perhaps its most balanced scoring attack of the season against Union College, as 12 different players found the score sheet.

Not only did Harvard score often, but the squad would find the back of the net early as well, netting three goals in the first and a fourth early in the second to the put game out of reach for the Dutchwomen.

“In the past, we have struggled to score, [but] in the last few games, everyone is on their game and burying pucks,” Gilmore said. “To have 12 different people score is definitely a confidence builder to show we have that depth…. That newly found confidence is going to be huge for us going forward.”

Capitalizing on the momentum of an exhilarating Beanpot semifinal win against No. 7/7 Boston College, the Crimson found the back of the net in the first half of the opening period as Della Rovere continued a knack for timely goals.

After receiving passes from junior forward Kat Hughes and freshman defender Maryna Macdonald, Della Rovere had earned a two-on-two rush. Despite the pass option to the slot, with Union junior goalie Kate Spooner off-angle, Della Rovere managed to sneak the puck inside the near post.

Wasting no time, the Crimson returned to the offensive.

Sophomore defender Kate Glov-

BACK OF THE NET Freshman attacker Dominique Petrie earned a goal against Union, her seventh this season.

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er centered the puck to Gilmore, who snapped a shot on net from between the faceoff dots.

Spooner came up with the save and then another on the follow from Gilmore, but the third time was the charm for Harvard. Off the second Gilmore rebound, Jovanovich gained inside position before chipping a shot over Spooner’s pad for the 2-0 lead.

Continuing the scoring press, just over three minutes later, freshman defender Kyra Willoughby blasted a point shot wide. Collecting the carom off the end points, senior forward Bradley Fusco deftly slotted a backhand centering pass across the crease, which was deposited into the goal by freshman forward Anne Bloomer.

After closing the first with three goals in just over seven-minute, the Crimson quashed any hopes of a Union comeback with a short-handed tally from freshman forward Dominique Petrie. After the puck was pushed out into the neutral zone by Gilmore, Petrie grabbed the bouncing puck to

spur herself on a breakaway, deking to the backhand side and sliding the puck five-hole.

Since coming together on the Feb. 1 matchup against Yale, the Harvard line that features Gilmore along with Petrie and Jovanovich has been on a tear.

The combination has accounted for 21 points since the Yale game, with each player adding seven points apiece.

Over the span, Gilmore seems to be the facilitator with seven assists, Jovanovich looks to be the finisher with five goals, and Petrie adds elements of both with three goals and four assists.

“We just had chemistry right off the bat,” said Gilmore. “I don’t think it matters whether it’s the Union defensemen, BC defensemen, or BU defensemen, or whatever. If you have chemistry, it’s going to click…. It’s so fun playing with Dom and Jovo, and I’m looking forward to what we can do Tuesday.”

Before the second intermission, sophomore forward Keely Moy would tip home a point shot from sophomore defender

Sydney Sorkin to add a fifth for the Crimson. By the start of the third, Harvard’s scoring had come to an end, but the Dutchwomen would find the back of the net in the final frame with freshman forward Maia Martinez’s first career goal, setting the final at 5-1. In her fourth non-exhibition start of the season, junior goalie Beth Larcom contributed 22 saves with only one goal against. Despite the limited amount of starts, Larcom has now posted 108 saves on the 112 shots she’s faced.

Freshman goalie Lindsay Reed, who has played the majority of the games, ranks top-five nationally in save percentage, giving Harvard one of the deepest goaltending cores in all of Division I. “We know that each point right now matters,” Gilmore said. “It [was] a must-win on Friday, so I think there’s just a lot of energy and motivation just coming from the fact that we need these points.” william.boggs@thecrimson.com connor.wagaman@thecrimson.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Defeats Cornell After Friday Loss to Columbia ­B ­ y LEV COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard earned its second consecutive road split this weekend, falling to Columbia in disappointing fashion before outlasting Cornell the following night. Each game was defined by its first quarter. The Crimson was outscored 22-2 and shot 1-of-17 in a brutal opening stanza in Morningside Heights and then hit five threes in a dominant 25-13 opening period in Ithaca, N.Y.,.

HARVARD 68, CORNELL 61 After a tough loss to Columbia, Harvard (11-8, 4-2 Ivy) knew it would have to come out strong against a scrappy Cornell (7-10, 1-5) team if it wanted to remain within shouting distance of Ivy League leading Penn. And it did just that, turning the Big Red over six times in the first quarter and jumping out to an early 13-2 lead before using its sizable height advantage to wear down Cornell late.

“I think we just had the mindset of coming out really aggressive,” co-captain guard Madeline Raster said. “We went down 22-2 in the first quarter of the Columbia game so we felt like we had to make up for that by coming back really strong in the first quarter and playing really well in the Cornell game.”

As she so often has this season, junior guard Katie Benzan set the tone for the Crimson early, scoring eight of her teamhigh 20 points in the first quarter and spearheading a tremendous passing quarter in which Harvard assisted on eight of its

nine baskets.

“We realized that if we want to reach our goal of an Ivy League championship then we have to take care of business against Cornell,” Benzan said. “We lost that opportunity to take care of business against Columbia and that was disappointing, frustrating, but our goals are still in reach so we left that disappointment behind and we just went out on the court against Cornell hungry for a win.”

After its quick start, the Crimson struggled to maintain its ball movement and the free-flowing offense that spurred the first quarter production. Harvard managed just five total assists and 43 points in the last three quarters and lost all three quarters to the hometown Big Red. It appeared late in the game that — as it so often does — the nearly four hour bus ride from New York City had taken a toll on the Crimson. In the fourth quarter, Harvard shot just 3-of14 and 1-of-8 from three point range. But the Crimson played well enough defensively to hold Cornell at arm’s length and led by at least eight points until just five seconds remained.

“Shooting better [against Cornell] definitely helped,” Benzan said, “but I think it was more of a mentality thing that we weren’t going to accept anything but a win that night and so we went out there and just threw the first punch and then kept throwing the punch and just never took our foot off the peddle. We were very relentless.”

Three Harvard starters, sophomore forward Jadyn Bush, junior forward Jeannie Boehm, and Raster, fouled out Saturday. But none of the three was in much foul trouble until the fourth quarter, when the game was all but decided. They entered the fourth with three, two, and two fouls respectively, and all three played their normal allotment of minutes for the Crimson.

Junior forward Laura Bagwell-Katalinich paced the Big Red with a career-high 25 points. Junior guard Samantha Widmann added 14 and was the only player in the game to play the full 40 minutes.

Also notable Saturday was that head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith chose to shuffle Harvard’s starting lineup in the aftermath of the disappointing defeat at Columbia. Senior guard Nani Redford, who had been one of the few bright spots for the Crimson on Friday, joined the lineup in place of co-captain Sydney Skinner, who played 15 minutes off the bench against Cornell.

COLUMBIA 75, HARVARD 65 Very rarely does a team lose a game in which it is as dominant on the boards as Harvard was against Columbia (6-13, 2-4) on Friday. The Crimson gobbled up 27 offensive rebounds and held the Lions to just eight, allowing Harvard to take 35 more shots than its opponents.

That is exactly what happened in Manhattan, though, as the Crimson fell behind early on and shot poorly enough (28%) to squander its rebounding dom-

TONIGHT WE BOUNCE BACK Junior guard Nani Redford started Saturday night against Cornell. TIMOTHY O’MEARA - CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

inance and the efforts of forwards Boehm and Bush, who both posted double-doubles and combined for 26 rebounds (16 of them offensive).

The shooting struggles Friday night were pervasive.

Benzan, normally such a reliable shooter, scored just three points, making it her worst performance since the bloodbath at then-No. 1 Notre Dame that opened Harvard’s season.

She combined with Raster and Skinner to shoot 6-of-38 from the field.

“They [Columbia] played a zone and they pressed us and they played really good defense,” Benzan said. “They made everyone’s shots difficult and they really strove to make everyone uncomfortable in what they usually do.”

The Crimson’s problems went beyond poor shooting.

Harvard also got crushed at the free throw line, where it earned just seven free throw attempts on the night, of which it made three. Columbia, meanwhile, finished 24-of-27 from the line and set the tone early by going 9-of-9 from the charity stripe in the first quarter.

The Lions came into the weekend with three players averaging double-digit points per game.

All three played very well against the Crimson, with sophomore guard Riley Casey leading the way with 23 points, freshman forward Sienna Durr contributing 22, and junior guard Janiya Clemmons adding 21.

“We just didn’t play our normal game and we have to focus more on coming back and playing great defense,” Raster said. “That’s something that’s

key that we need to work on in terms of starting games strong.

Just getting energy from our defense and not necessarily from our offense.”

After three straight road weekends in which Harvard went 3-2, the Crimson will finally return to Cambridge next week for its crucial homestand against conference favorites Penn and Princeton.

Harvard will look to extend its eight game home winning streak in Ivy League play, a streak that extends back to the beginning of last year’s conference season.

“We love playing at home,” Benzan said, “and we feel that we play better at home with our home fans and all of that jazz so we are just very excited to be home.” lev.cohen@thecrimson.com

SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP

SCORES

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. CORNELL L, 61-67 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. RPI W, 2-1 ___________________________________________________________

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL @ CORNELL W, 68-61 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S TENNIS VS. W. MICHIGAN W, 5-2 ___________________________________________________________

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

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

WOMEN’S WATER POLO VS. WAGNER W, 11-10 ___________________________________________________________

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Harvard Bests Columbia in Triple-Overtime Classic ­By AMIR MAMDANI ­ and HENRY ZHU CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

“It was the luckiest shot of my career,” said Bryce Aiken.

Every so often, an individual performance dazzles and stuns an audience, leading a team to victory seemingly beyond all obstacles. On Friday night, Aiken’s 44-point performance, one of the most incredible efforts seen in Harvard history, helped the Crimson cling to a 98-96 victory over Columbia in 3OT, in one of the greatest games ever played at Lavietes Pavilion.

“There is something to say about having the will just to keeping fighting and the will to win,” said Coach Tommy Amaker, on a game that was so compelling that it led the 11:00pm edition of ESPN’s Friday night SportsCenter. “It was just a sensational performance certainly

by Aiken at the start. He put us on his back and carried us to the finish line.”

Columbia all but had it at the tail end of the first overtime, too. After sprinting out to a 77-71 lead with fewer than 50 seconds remaining, the Crimson (11-7, 4-1 Ivy) pulled off an incredible rally back to extend the contest for five more minutes. Accurate free throw shooting left Harvard down three with 4.3 seconds left. Aiken paced the ball up the court, as the Lions tried to foul intentionally, and was met by towering 6-foot-10 Lions junior Patrick Tapé. With only 1.6 seconds left, Aiken desperately heaved an off-balance, double-clutch shot and miraculously, it swished in as the buzzer sounded, to send the game to double overtime.

Double overtime once again came down to the wire, with the Crimson up three heading into the final 27 seconds. However, Columbia (6-13, 1-4) was not ready to throw in the towel. Junior guard Jake Killingsworth knocked down a triple of his own to even the contest at 89-89. Aiken had the ball in his hands once again and held for the last shot, but his fadeaway jumper was no good.

When Columbia’s sophomore guard Gabe Stefanini drilled a fall-away triple at the buzzer in regulation to send the game to overtime, some might have felt the momentum was with the Lions. But a charged Crimson bench showed no signs of nerves, clapping their hands, expecting the next five minutes to determine the winner — it turns out, it would take 15.

Harvard’s triple-overtime victory was the first contest to enter a third extra period since a 2009 victory over William and Mary. The game featured an astonishing 16 lead changes, and came down to the very last seconds of triple overtime. Aiken drilled two free throws, part of a 16-of-18 effort from the line, to give the Crimson a three-point lead.

Stefanini had one more chance to tie the contest with a triple, but was met by the extended reach of junior forward Rob Baker — who swiftly denied his attempt from the corner. However, the game was not over, just yet. Columbia recovered the ball in the waning seconds and it landed in the hands of the Lions’ Quinton Adlesh.

There was just 0.5 ticks left on the clock, but Adlesh was fouled in the act of shooting a three by Christian Juzang. With the Lavietes crowd roaring, on its feet, Adlesh front-rimmed the first free-throw, all but sealing the victory for Harvard.

The Crimson defense clamped down during the final few minutes, holding the Lions to a field-goal-less final 3:12 of the game. The final buzzer left players and coaches alike shaking their heads, in disbelief over the 55-minute marathon that was finally complete.

“This was the definitely one of the best games I’ve ever been a part of or seen,” said Justin Bassey. “Just got to enjoy it, enjoy the moment and everything that comes with it.”

Bassey, who finished with 10 boards — only two fewer than team leader Baker — had a critical inbounds save in that final overtime frame. Juzang rimmed out on a three-point at-

tempt with the Crimson clinging to a 96-95 lead, and the ball sailed towards the out-ofbounds line at the corner. But the Denver, Colo., native rushed towards the bench and recovered the ball — in an incredible show of hustle — shepherding it into the hands of Aiken for two critical free throws. “[Bassey] definitely had the biggest rebound of the game at the end,” Aiken said. “After the missed shot, that [rebound] was ridiculous. We needed it.”

Aiken’s 44 points were one shy of a program-record 45 point performance by Brady Merchant, in a 2003 victory over Brown. The junior guard’s jaw-dropping individual performance included 12-of-28 from the field, in an extremely taxing 46 minutes. It felt only appropriate that Aiken would be the hero, more than a year after the game against Columbia that forced him to miss the better part of a year. Aiken left the game gimpy multiple times, and was seen with a bloody knee but refused to allow his injuries to be a storyline.

“Nah, I wasn’t [in pain], I was just cramping,” Aiken said. “ Hopefully I can recover fast enough. You don’t go into these weekends thinking you are going to play a triple overtime game. So, we’ll see.”

Friday night’s game, in many respects, boiled down to Aiken versus Stefanini and Adlesh.

Stefanini, a sophomore guard, knocked down 10-of-25 field goals for 26 points, while Adlesh scored 24 points of his own in a yeoman-like 52 minutes.

Despite Aiken’s second-highest point total in program history, the two Lions’ guards thrived on the visitors’ system of cuts, curls, and motion offense, and were able to keep Columbia in the game and weather several Harvard runs.

“We didn’t switch enough, again Adlesh and Stefanini getting downhill, getting by us.”

Amaker said. “We were just a step late for whatever reason, we didn’t communicate enough on ball screens.”

Stefanini’s performance was

DOUBLE-CLUTCH Bryce Aiken forced double-overtime with a miraculous buzzer-beater. QUINN G. PERINI - CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

particularly noteworthy. In the first overtime session, the Bologna, Italy native found himself over 30 feet from the basket, with the shot-clock under three seconds. Stefanini heaved a deep triple, that banked home, giving the Lions a six point lead with just over a minute left in overtime, making the game look out of reach for the Crimson. At the time, Harvard had lower than 10 percent chance of winning, according to ESPN’s Win Probability model.

“Those two guards [Stefanini and Adlesh] were great off the ball, on the ball, and making difficult shots all game,” Aiken said. “Just keeping the pressure on us. So I think them, their en-

ergy, and the way they played really made a difference tonight. Luckily we were able to overcome that.”

Friday’s wild victory took place in front of a duo of familiar faces for the Crimson. Columbia’s assistant coach, Kenny Blakeney, a former assistant for Amaker and the Crimson, returned to Cambridge opposing Harvard. Andre Chatfield, who graduated from the College and the basketball team last season, was also in the crowd on Friday night.

“Just all the guys 1-20 are just ecstatic,” Bassey said. “Everyone is extremely happy and energetic. Just got to enjoy it and everything that comes with

it. Then Coach comes in, and making sure that we’re ready to turn the page. We got a back-toback game tomorrow [against Cornell].”

Although a date with the Big Red looms in fewer than 24 hours, the Crimson will undoubtedly have an opportunity to process the miraculous effort of Aiken and his supporting cast on Friday night. In a league that’s supposedly won on Saturdays, Harvard put forth its bid for the most compelling game of the 2018-2019 college basketball season, on a marathon of a Friday night. amir.mamdani@thecrimson.com henry.zhu@thecrimson.com

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Strong Powerplay Leads No. 17 Harvard Over Union

By SPENCER R. MORRIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In Monday’s discouraging semifinal loss in the Beanpot Tournament, the Harvard men’s hockey team came up empty on crucial powerplay opportunities and failed to claw back against eventual victor Boston College. The Crimson’s manup unit, ranked atop the nation, went a frustrating 0-for-4 as Harvard’s Beanpot hopes were squelched.

Friday, the No. 17 Crimson (12-7-3, 9-5-2 ECAC) returned to conference action against No. 20 Union (13-9-5, 6-8-1) and, ironically, rode its powerplay to victory. Harvard potted four goals with the extra-man en route to a 5-3 triumph at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

“Obviously, it was a tough one Monday,” junior defenseman Adam Fox said. “But we still have a season that we have to focus on. We have to win some games to put ourselves in good position not only in the league but in the Pairwise [rankings]….

So it was definitely a big win for us coming off that loss.”

The ECAC foes entered the third period tied at three apiece.

Six minutes into the final frame, the Crimson powerplay took the ice for the fourth time, having struck on each of its prior three opportunities. After faking a shot from his right-circle office, sophomore defenseman Reilly Walsh skated across the slot before threading a cross-ice pass to a waiting Casey Dornbach, who buried the open-goal chance.

The freshman’s fifth tal­

ly of the year proved to be the game-winner, as senior net-minder Michael Lackey (3 GA, .880 SV%) and the Harvard defense held strong for the final 14 minutes. An empty-net finisher from junior forward Frédéric Grégoire sealed the victory — the team’s fifth over a ranked opponent in 2018-2019. “[Fox] passed it up top, and I kind of made a fake and was looking to shoot,” Walsh said. “[I] just kept moving wide, and I heard [Dornbach] call for it, and I knew that that seam was going to be open…. It was a good shot by him, and [there was] a lot of space created by the other guys out there as well.”

With the powerplay firing on all cylinders, several of Harvard’s key offensive pieces put forth stellar performances. Most notably, Fox pocketed four assists, while fellow powerplay point man, Walsh, also contributed two helpers. Dornbach, in his own right, finished with a goal and a pair of apples.

In short, the Crimson’s powerplay won it the game on Friday night. The bout’s first period was no exception to this reality. After converting on its first man-up chance earlier in the frame, Harvard received another opportunity that would take it through the period horn. Assistant coach Rob Rassey’s second 5-on-4 unit, however, had other plans. From down on the ice, sophomore forward Jack Badini batted the puck out of midair, pocketing a gritty goal with just seven seconds remaining in the stanza and sending his team into the locker room after 20 minutes with the one-

score lead.

“Like we’ve said all year, our mindset is getting the puck to the net and getting those second-chance opportunities,” Fox said. “It’s not going to work every night — that’s just hockey — but it’s good when your powerplay can come through for you.”

The Crimson’s advantage held for 10 minutes in the second frame before Union forward Ryan Walker blasted a wrist shot past Lackey to even the ledger. The senior’s snipe was a direct result of linemate Cole Maier’s clean offensive-zone faceoff win.

Neither team was finished scoring in the middle period.

With four minutes to go, the Dutchmen claimed their first lead of the night courtesy of senior defenseman Greg Campbell. Two minutes later, Harvard freshman Jack Drury snuck a puck past sophomore backstop Darion Hanson (4 GA, .867 SV%) for yet another Crimson powerplay goal.

Fox achieved his 10th multipoint performance of the season with the primary assist on Drury’s nifty move down low.

The Hobey Baker candidate now ranks second in assists per game (1.09) and third in points per game (1.41) nationwide.

He also paces college hockey in powerplay points per game (0.82).

“There’s a lot of talented players out there,” coach Donato said. “Any powerplay that has 18 [Fox] on it is going to be pretty good to start. Adam Fox is just great. Everybody is sharing the puck, and I think you can probably see that by the goal scorers.

UNITED WE STAND Harvard picked up two important conference points this weekend. AMANDA M. DIMARTINI - CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

We didn’t just score on the same play.”

In need of a bounce-back performance after its Beanpot semifinal loss, the Crimson broke open the scoring at the midway point of the first period. On the team’s first powerplay of the evening, Fox fired a wrist shot through traffic that was redirected by co-captain Lewis Zerter-Gossage to give his team the 1-0 lead. With the tally, the hosts put Monday’s defeat behind them and returned to their usual potency on the man advantage — one which would reappear throughout the contest. After a robust 4-for4 outing, Harvard’s powerplay still leads the nation with its 36 percent clip.

“Sometimes when you lose

an emotional game like the Beanpot, you’re down and out,” coach Donato said. “Having a team that you know is very good coming in is necessary to get the focus you need.”

Union would go on to tie the game six minutes later, after a stint of 4-on-4 hockey opened up space on the ice for junior winger Anthony Rinaldi to sneak a wrap-around past the far-side pad of Lackey. Co-captain Michael Floodstrand was involved in the play leading to the 4-on-4: a skirmish in front of the Dutchmen net forced the officials to send both players off.

The Crimson now shifts its focus back to the Beanpot. On Monday, it will duel Boston University for third place in the annual Boston classic. And despite

the minimal appeal of a consolation game in a mostly empty National Hockey League arena, Harvard knows that each game counts toward its case for a top spot in the Pairwise rankings — the key to an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

“Last year was a little bit of a different case because at that point we kind of knew we had no shot at making an at-large bid [to the NCAA Tournament],” Walsh said. “We’ve still got plenty of games left, and we’re definitely making a run at a top13, even top-10, Pairwise [ranking]. Every game is huge for us.

Obviously, no ECAC points on Monday, but we need the win for Pairwise.” spencer.morris@thecrimson.com