THE HARVARD CRIMSON THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873
| VOLUME CL, NO. 6 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
DENAMING
CLUB CONFLICT
OBITUARY
SQUARE BIZ
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| FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023
Winthrop Denaming Efforts Continue DHALL PROTEST. Organizers read out statements detailing the house namesakes’ ties to slavery ahead of submitting an official denaming request to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 1. SEE PAGE 5
SAYED FAISAL
Protestors Gather at Cambridge City Hall CALLS REITERATED. Protesters condemned the Cambridger City Manager and the city government as they continued to press for the release of the names of officers involved with Sayed Faisal’s killing. SEE PAGE 11
HUFPI’s $30,000 Dispute ‘STILL UNRESOLVED’. The Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative has been embroiled in a dispute with its former president, Sama E.N. Kubba ’24, over club funds. Following the leadership transition, Kubba transferred roughly $30,000 to a personal account. In the two months since, HUFPI has tried and failed to recuperate the full amount. SEE PAGE 6 JOEY HUANG — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER, SAMI E. TURNER — CRIMSON DESIGNER
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Harvard President Bacow to Visit Middle East in Spring Break Trip BY MILES J. HERSZENHORN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
FULBRIGHT
Harvard Among Top Fulbright Producers STATE DEPT LIST. The State Department recognized Harvard for producing 29 awardees of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, of whom 17 accepted. Eighteen other schools were on the list. SEE PAGE 8
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arvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow will travel to Jordan, Israel, and Palestine later this month in one of his last international trips before leaving office later this year. Bacow is scheduled to meet with Harvard alumni throughout the trip. `He will speak to affiliates at the fivestar Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amman, Jordan, on March 11. Two days later, Bacow will attend a similar event at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, before meeting with Palestinian alumni on March 16 at a restaurant in Ramallah, a city in the West Bank. A Harvard spokesperson confirmed Bacow’s travel plans in a statement on
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Simmons Appointed Adviser on HBCUs
Quarter of HUHS Visits Virtual in FY 2022
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LAW SCHOOL
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and students — and to all of your loved ones,” Bacow wrote. Bacow’s trip to the Middle East comes two months after Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf faced backlash for allegedly denying former Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth a fellowship at the school over his criticism of Israel. Elmendorf later reversed his decision and apologized, a move Bacow praised. Undergraduates had mixed reactions to Bacow’s Middle East trip. Shraddha Joshi ’24, a spokesperson for the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, wrote in a statement that the group expects Bacow to “performatively mention the importance of peace and dignity while denying the crime of apartheid
HUHS
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HLS TALK. Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed his “fundamental” support for Israel Tuesday, also expressing his faith in a two-state solution to the conflict.
cover from several recent earthquakes, according to the spokesperson. Bacow drew criticism from Harvard affiliates last month because, at the time, he had not issued a public statement about the earthquakes, which left more than 50,000 people dead in Turkey and Syria. More than 650 Harvard affiliates signed an open letter addressed to Bacow that called on the University to raise awareness about the crisis. On Feb. 15, one day after The Crimson reported on the open letter, Bacow sent a note to Cemal Kafadar — the director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies — to express his “utter disbelief” at the devastation caused by the earthquakes. “Though words fall short at a moment such as this, I want to offer my deepest condolences to you and your colleagues
RUTH SIMMONS
BY MILES J. HERSZENHORN
De Blasio Backs Israel, Two-State Solution
Thursday. In addition to meeting with Harvard alumni, Bacow will visit a number of universities and meet with higher education leaders at each stop, according to the spokesperson. In particular, Bacow will visit the University of Haifa and tour its new downtown campus during his time in Israel, according to the spokesperson. The University of Haifa awarded Bacow an honorary degree two years ago in a ceremony that took place virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Haifa, Bacow will meet with university affiliates in-person, the spokesperson confirmed. Bacow’s trip initially included a stop in Istanbul, Turkey, to meet with Harvard alumni and higher education leaders, but Bacow canceled the trip in consideration of the country’s continued efforts to re-
Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow will appoint outgoing Prairie View A&M University President Ruth J. Simmons as a senior adviser to the president of Harvard on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities, the school announced Monday morning. Simmons will officially assume her role as senior advisor to the president on June 1, just one month before Bacow departs office. Bacow will announce the appointment — a part-time role — at an event with Simmons on Monday during his visit to Prairie View A&M University. Simmons, who is also president emerita of Smith College and Brown University, announced in March 2022 that she would step down from her role as president of Prairie View A&M University. Simmons initially planned to remain in office until
June 1, but she unexpectedly announced on Feb. 10 that she would resign at the end of the month. Simmons’s sudden resignation from Prairie View stemmed from a dispute with university leadership over her limited presidential authority to appoint senior staffers and deans as outgoing president. Bacow said in a press release that Harvard is “indebted” to Simmons for the work she has done to reckon with the complicated history of slavery in American higher education, referencing Simmons’s creation of Brown’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice in 2003. The committee published a groundbreaking report detailing the connections between Brown and the transatlantic slave trade. “Her leadership in that moment created new a path toward understanding and reckoning, and she has been walking that path ever since, urging all of us in higher education to follow her so that we might
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BY ALEXANDER I. FUNG AND TARAH D. GILLES CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Harvard University Health Services received more than 25,000 virtual visits in its 2022 fiscal year, following students’ full return to campus in fall 2021, according to the healthcare provider’s annual report. Of the roughly 116,000 patient visits to HUHS throughout the fiscal year, 23 percent were conducted virtually, the report said. Since 2020, HUHS has offered telemedicine services across 10 departments to increase accessibility during the Covid-19 pandemic. Last October, HUHS added TimelyCare — a telehealth counseling platform — to its digital offerings. The report, which highlights HUHS’ activities from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, covers initiatives that span Harvard’s Cambridge and Longwood campuses, as well as satellite clinics at the Law School and Dillon Field House for Sports Med-
icine. The report, released last month, is the first in several years to be published and the first to be released digitally, according to HUHS spokesperson Tiffanie A. Green. The report also reviewed public health measures implemented during the return to on-campus learning in fall 2021. During that time, Harvard required all affiliates to be vaccinated and boosted for Covid-19, participate in regular testing, and follow self-isolation procedures if positive. In total, Harvard administered 1.4 million Covid-19 tests and 3,900 Covid-19 vaccines in the fiscal year. Covid-19 vaccination rates among students reached 97 percent, while 93 percent of employees were vaccinated, according to the report. In spring 2022, HUHS retired mandatory Covid-19 testing, dissolved its contact tracing programs, and adopted a mask-optional policy. Over the report’s period, HUHS saw
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