Three Anthropology graduate stu dents — Margaret G. Czerwienski, Lilia M. Kilburn, and Amulya Mandava — filed a federal lawsuit against the University in February for allegedly ignoring years of sexual harassment by Comaroff and filed an amended suit in May.
“Someone who is a leader within a ho mophobic or any sort of discriminatory organization like HCFA, and who contin ues to defend it and assert that there’s no discrimination present when there clear ly is, should not be in such a position of power,” Chawla said in an interview.
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co-presidents Katherine Wang ’23 and Felix D. Perez Diener ’23 wrote that the organization is “striving to love all people while honoring the Scriptures and our own“Weconscience.”opposeunjust discrimination and hate in all its forms, especially against queer students,” the leaders wrote. “It grieves us that many queer people have experienced hurt from faith communi ties, and we desire to work toward heal ing.”Still, Chawla and other students said Estabine’s defense of the organization poses concerns.
In count two of the amended suit, the plaintiffs allege Harvard violated Title IX “through its deliberate indifference to
process from retaliation and respond ef fectively to known retaliatory acts of their employees.”Inresponse to the brief, Czerwienski, Kilburn, and Mandava wrote in an email that Harvard “failed to provide” protec tions against retaliation from Comaroff, preventing them from seeking recourse for sex discrimination at the school.
TitleInIX.”the brief submitted by the DOJ on Wednesday, however, the department counters Harvard’s argument, claiming the University is not “immunized from liability for the retaliatory acts of its own faculty members” based on relevant case law.The DOJ explained that an institution receiving federal funding is liable for the retaliatory actions of not just the institu tion itself but also of its own employees in two scenarios: when employees’ conduct “amounts to an official act or policy” by the institution or when the institution knowingly ignores retaliation perpetrat ed by“Underemployees.Title IX, students have the right to report sex discrimination, includ ing sexual harassment, to their schools without fear of reprisal,” the brief stated. “For that to happen, schools must protect students who participate in the Title IX
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“I personally do not tolerate homopho bia or discrimination of any kind,” Es tabine wrote in the email. “The bottom line: all are welcome at HCFA Doxa, Bible Course, and all other Events, regardless of their sexual orientation, race, or religious identity. Always. Guaranteed by me and theInCollege.”aSaturday email to Lowell residents, the house’s faculty deans, David I. Laib son ’88 and Nina Zipser, wrote to affirm “strong support” for both LGBTQ+ stu dents and religious students who practice faith “in ways that are non-discriminato ry.” The faculty deans also invited Lowell residents to discuss the email thread at a Saturday meeting.
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In an emailed statement to The Crim son, Estabine said the HUA “condemns any and all forms of hate” toward LGBTQ+
he United States Department of Justice filed an amicus brief Wednesday stating Harvard may still be liable for allegations that Anthro pology and African and African American Studies professor John L. Comaroff retali ated against students who warned others about his alleged sexual harassment.
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Huang, previously the execu tive director of clinical operations at Boston Medical Center, said he will act with greater urgency on issues such as climate change, transit, and housing. He took of fice Tuesday morning virtually after testing positive for Covid-19.
arvard Undergraduate Associa tion co-president LyLena D. Esta bine ’24 has drawn criticism from some students for her public defense of Harvard College Faith and Action, a Chris tian campus group that was previously sanctioned for pushing out a leader who was in a same-sex relationship.
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the retaliatory acts of its employees.” The plaintiffs state that Comaroff told Czer wienski and Mandava that they would have “trouble getting jobs” if they contin ued to tell others about his alleged behav ior.Over the summer, Harvard asked U.S. District Court Judge Judith G. Dein to dis miss counts one through nine of the suit. In particular, the University argues that count two should not hold Harvard liable for the retaliatory actions of any of its em ployees involved in the case.
After Lowell resident Sarika Chawla ’23 replied all to the invitation and called HCFA “homophobic,” Estabine, an HCFA student leader, replied all to deny “any kind of discrimination” in the group.
In another reply to the Lowell email chain, Chawla quoted the recall clause of the HUA constitution, which states that an officer can be removed from office fol lowing a student petition and vote.
But some undergraduates claim the group continues to discriminate against queer students — four years after it was put on a one-year probation by the College for pressuring a female leader to resign af ter she began dating a woman.
an interview that she was “irritated” by Estabine’s email and that she had been previously warned by an HCFA Bible study leader that theologically HCFA “did not condone homosexuality.”
“We cannot exercise our Title IX rights without meaningful protections against retaliation,” they wrote. “This Amicus Brief by the DOJ reaffirms that retaliation against those who experience, report, and/or stand up against sex discrimina tion is an injustice, one Harvard and other schools are obligated to correct.”
Joy C. Ashford ’22-’23, who joined HCFA as a freshman, said they found the organization to be “disingenuous” about its beliefs. The group adheres to a version of Christianity that is “extremely self-de structive to queer people,” Ashford said.
“The fact that we have as our student leader somebody who believes that gay people should be celibate, I think shows just how dysfunctional [the HUA] is,” said Ashford, a former Crimson Arts chair.
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Cambridge’s new city manager, Yi-An Huang ’05, pledged trans parency and collaboration with the City Council during a Tuesday interview with The Crimson.
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The University also maintains in its motion that the alleged conduct described in the suit does not constitute retaliation.
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“This Count should be dismissed be cause Plaintiffs do not allege that Harvard retaliated against them, but rather seek to hold Harvard strictly liable for the pur ported retaliation of Comaroff and oth ers,” the University stated in the motion. “There is no such cause of action under
THE SEARCH IS ON This summer, Harvard Univerity President Lawrence S. Bacow announced he would step down in June 2023. As Harvard gears up to select Bacow’s successor, the University’s 30th president, here’s what you need to know about the search process, timing, and criteria. SEE PAGE 6
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The Harvard College Pakistani Students Association has taken to dining halls and public gath ering areas in recent days to raise awareness and funds for flood victims in the wake of devastating natural disasters that have rav agedThePakistan.group’s efforts come as more than one-third of Pakistan is under water. More than 1,300 people have died and millions more have been displaced due to theTheflooding.HCPSA, founded in 2011, has been tabling at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center, placing flyers around campus, and asking other clubs to publicly support its efforts. But leaders of the group say their campaign has received insufficient support from Har vard“Overadministrators.thecourseof this entire fundraiser, we’ve heard nothing from the administration,” said Asmer Asrar Safi ’23-’24, a HCP SA board member. “It’s genuinely been disheartening, disillusion ing on so many fronts.”
Tensions flared on Lowell House’s un moderated student email list last week when an HCFA leader publicized a group worship meeting. Several students re plied to the invitation criticizing HCFA for alleged discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.Estabine came to the defense of HCFA over the email list, rejecting allegations that the group actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ students. Her email drew backlash, with one student publicly suggesting that she be recalled from the HUAHCFA’sco-presidency.websitesays the group “wel comes students from all backgrounds.”
“It’s one thing to be receiving emails for an organization that I don’t like, and it’s another thing to see somebody telling a lie on the email list,” Barr said. “At that point, I decided I wanted to actually intervene and say, ‘I can personally guarantee that there is homophobia in this organization because I’ve experienced it.’”
Members of the group asked nearly every set of Harvard fac ulty deans — who preside over the College’s 12 upperclassman
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University spokesperson Rachael Dane declined to comment. Comaroff did not respond immediately to a request for comment Wednesday evening.
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Gerald Lewis Jr. was appointed Columbia’s next vice president for public safety, the school an nounced Thursday. The Columbia Spectator reported that Lewis will replace James McShane, who retired nine months ago. Since 2021, Lewis has served as the University of Connecticut’s po lice chief. “Gerald brings to Columbia a relentless focus on safety and an unwavering commitment to diversity, inclusion, and community partner ships,” Executive Vice President for University Facilities and Operations David Greenberg wrote, according to the Spectator.
ORGANIZING FOR PAKISTAN. The Harvard College Pakistani Students Asso ciation launched initiatives to support flood victims in Pakistan, which has been ravaged by natural disasters in recent weeks. Students took to dining halls and public gathering areas to raise awareness and funds for victims. Organizers have also criticized Harvard administrators for not doing more to publicly acknowledge the devestation. JOEY HUANG — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER COMAROFF PROTEST. Har vard graduate student protest ed professor John L. Comaroff’s return to the classroom follow ing sexual harassment allega tions. Students yelled “Profes sors who harass shouldn’t be in class!” CORY K. GORCZYCKI — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER BEATING BRYANT. The Har vard men’s soccer team beat Bryant, 2-1, on Tuesday. Senior Nico Garcia-Morillo scored the game-winning goal with 2.5 seconds remaining. DYLAN J. GOOD MAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
HONORING RODRIGO. Activists around the world have held gatherings in honor of Harvard Kennedy School student Rodrigo Ventocilla, who died in Bali last month. In Boston, activists laid flowers at a memorial set up for Ventocilla, whose family alleges he was the victim of police mistreatment and violence. MILES J. HERSZENHORN
LONGSTANDING DEMAND. Members of Harvard’s gradu ate student union called for the school to allow for third-party arbitration in sexual miscon duct cases, a longstanding demand from the union. ADDISON Y. LIU — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
Thirty-five first-year students were displaced from their dorms at Brown University after heavy rain on Monday caused floods on campus. The Brown Daily Herald reported that freshmen students said water poured in through the doors and windows of their dorms, causing chaos that escalated when the storm’s severity increased. Students reported facing difficulty as they con tacted the ResLife and Facilities Management office but said they eventually were able to receive assistance after calling 911, according to the Herald.
SEEKING JUSTICE. Protesters rallied outside of the Peruvian consulate in Boston to hon or Kennedy School student Rodrigo Ventocilla, who died in police custody in Indonesia last month. MILES J. HERSZENHORN
After being fired for objecting to Princeton’s Covid-19 guidelines, a former school employee filed a lawsuit against against the university for religious discrimination. She hopes to get compensated for damages to her reputation and well-being. A Princeton University spokes person, Ayana Okoya, told the Daily Princetonian that the school “handled this former employee’s accommodation request fairly” and “in accor dance with the applicable laws and internal policies.”
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NEW GRAD STUDENT MEAL PLAN. A Harvard University Dining Services rolled out a new meal plan for graduate stu dents this fall, which features an expanded offering of campus cafe locations and extends to Harvard Extension School students. The new program, which is called GradPlus, allows students to purchase a declining balance meal plan with $400 allotted for the fall semester and $500 allotted for the spring semester.
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CAMPAIGNING ON CAMPUS. Massachusetts State Senator State Senator Eric P. Lesser ’07 campaigned at Harvard last weekend ahead of the state primary. Lesser, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, lost a primary race for lieutenant governor to Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll on Tues day. Undergraduates with the Harvard College Democrats canvassed for both the candidates the group endorsed, Lesser and Tanisha Sullivan, lost in her primary for secratary of state.
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THE COMEBACK. Crimson Jam, a Harvard Yard concert or ganized by the College Events Board, returned to Harvard Yard last Friday. The event was headlined by Social House, a duo known for their 2018 debut single “Magic in the Hamp tons” and collaborations with Ariana Grande. It also featured performances from student groups.
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CRIMSON JAM RETURNS. The Musical Duo Social House performed at the first in-person Crimson Jam since 2019. The event was not held in person since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Michael “Mikey” Foster and Charles “Scoo tie” Anderson, who compose the duo, are most known for their 2018 debut, “Magic in the Hamptons” featuring rapper Lil Yachty and their 2019 hit “Boyfriend” with Ariana Grande. Students at the event watched performances by other stu
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A lawsuit filed by psychiatrist and former Yale professor Bandy Lee accusing the university claiming unlawful termination was dismissed last week by a federal judge, the Yale Daily News reported. Lee alleged that her termina tion — which she claimed to be tied to a tweet she wrote saying those associated with former President Donald J. Trump had “shared psy chosis” — violated her freedom of speech. U.S. District Judge Sarah Merriam ruled against Lee, writing that Lee’s “vague assertion that some unspecified provision in the Faculty Handbook creates a right to ‘academic freedom’ is plainly insufficient,” according to the YDN.
CRIMSON JAMMING. Student performers took the stage at Crimson Jam for the first time in three years last weekend. JULIAN J. GIORDANO — CRIMSON PHOTOG RAPHER
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Liz Truss, who served as foreign sec retary during former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s term, succeeded him as Britain’s prime minister on Tues day. Truss is expected to announce gov ernment plans to counter rising energy costs in Britain, according to the New York Times. Truss met the late Queen Eliza beth for the transfer of power at Balmoral Castle, as opposed to the traditional back drop of Buckingham Palace. A member of the Conservative Party, Truss appointed her cabinet Tuesday evening — Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor of the Exchequer, James Cleverly as foreign secretary, Suella Braverman as home secretary, and Thérèse Coffey as health and social care secretary and deputy prime minister.
BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA UNVEIL THEIR OFFI CIAL PORTRAITS IN A WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY Associate Managing Editors Kelsey J. Griffin ’23 Taylor C. Peterman ’23-’24 Associate Business Managers Taia M.Y. Cheng ’23-’24 Isabelle L. Guillaume ’24 Editorial Chairs Guillermo S. Hava ’23-24 Eleanor V. Wikstrom ’24 Arts Chairs Sofia Andrade ’23-’24 Jaden S. Thompson ’23 Magazine Chairs Maliya V. Ellis ’23-’24 Sophia S. Liang ’23 Blog Chairs Ellen S. Deng ’23-’24 Janani Sekar ’23-’24 Sports Chairs Alexandra N. Wilson ’23-’24 Griffin H. Wong ’24 Design Chairs Yuen Ting Chow ’23 Madison A. Shirazi ’23 Multimedia Chairs Aiyana G. White ’23 Pei Chao Zhuo ’23 Technology Chairs Ziyong Cui ’24 Justin Y. Ye ’24 STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE Night Editors Virginia L. Ma ’23 Benjamin L. Fu ’24 Assistant Night Editors Audrey M. Apollon ’24 Christie K. Choi ’24 Katerina V. Corr ’25 Miles J. Herszenhorn ’25 Lucas J. Walsh ’24 Vivi E. Lu ’24 Charlotte P. Ritz-Jack ’25 Story Editors Jasper G. Goodman ’23 Kelsey J. Griffin ’23 CRIMSONHARVARDTHE Natalie L. Kahn ’23 Taylor C. Peterman ’23-’24 Design Editors Nayeli Cardozo ’25 Yuen Ting Chow ’23 Julia B. Freitag ’25 Toby R. Ma ’24 Ashley R. Masci ’24 Madison A. Shirazi ’23 Sami E. Turner ’25 Photo Editors Julian J. Giordano ’25 Cory K. Gorczycki ’24 Editorial Editors Guillermo S. Hava ’23-24 Eleanor V. Wikstrom ’24 Sports Editors Alexandra N. Wilson ’23-’24 Griffin H. Wong ’24 Arts Editors Sofia Andrade ’23-’24 Jaden S. Thompson ’23 Copyright 2022, The Harvard Crimson (USPS 236-560). No articles, editorials, cartoons or any part thereof appearing in The Crimson may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the President. The Associated Press holds the right to reprint any materials published in The Crim son. The Crimson is a non-profit, independent corporation, founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967. Second-class postage paid in Boston, Massachusetts. Published Monday through Friday except holidays and during vacations, three times weekly during reading and exam periods by The Harvard Crimson Inc., 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 The Harvard Crimson is committed to accuracy in its reporting. Factual errors are corrected promptly on this page. Readers with information about errors are asked to e-mail the managing editor at managingeditor@thecrimson.com.
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Harvard will be having its first football home game of the season. Residential Programs and Harvard Athletics will be hosting a tailgate. Registration is required for free tickets to the game.
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With temperatures hitting record highs, California turned to natural gas to generate electricity and com bat the heat, coming in conflict with the state’s efforts to cut down fossil fuel consumption. During this heat wave, California’s Governor Gavin New som encouraged people to reduce their energy consumption. Despite this, the state still had to turn on generators that run on natural gas to meet the state’s energy demand and prevent power out ages. This prompted concerns regarding the feasibility of Newsom’s goals and the condition of the state’s fossil-fuel plants, according to the Associated Press. New som also drew criticism for his handling of the heat wave and his electric vehicle policies from both environmental groups and political critics.
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The women’s volleyball team will square off against Utah Valley University at the Harvard Invitational this weekend. They face University of Georgia and Iona University on Saturday.
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The suspect in a Sept. 4 stabbing that left 10 dead and 18 injured in Saskatchewan, Canada has died of self-inflictive wounds after a police chase. The death of 32-year-old Myles Sanderson, a suspect for Sept. 4 stab bings, comes two days after the death of his brother, 30-year-old Damien Sander son. A motive for the attacks has yet to be established, according to the Associated Press. Myles Sanderson had been wanted by the police since May due to a violation of his February release by the parole board. The conditions of his violation re main unclear.
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Harvard research professor William Granara will lead a discussion with Grewal about democratiza tion in Tunisia..
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Sharan Grewal, a government professor from the College of William & Mary, will be hosting a seminar on Tunisian politics as part of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Center for Mid dle Eastern Studies’s Middle East Seminar Series.
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Share feedback with the Office of the Provost about its draft policies regarding dicsrimination and sex ual misconduct. This feedback will help the Office of the Provost make revisions to their drafts. Light refreshments will be provided.
Dock, 12 p.m. The Dean of Students Office is giving out free ferry tickets and a tour of Spectacle Island of Boston Harbor. Students who win tickets will meet at Long Wharf Dock near the New England Aquarium and can do either a guided tour or a self-guided tour.
Harvard Art Museums is hosting a screening of coming-of-age teen comedy Clueluess, directed by Amy Heckerling, in Menschell Hall, Lower Lev el. The movie will be followed by a conversation with faculty from Cambridge Ringe and Latin School.
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and first lady Jill Biden hosted a White House cer emony to unveil official portraits of Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Their por traits were painted by Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung, respectively. Biden and Barack Obama each spoke at the cer emony, praising one other for their service to the country. The ceremony is a tradition dating back to when Jimmy Carter invited his predecessor Gerald Ford back to the White House. Donald Trump refused to hold the Obama portrait unveiling event, which would have traditionally been held during his tenure.
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Some students living in sum mer and bridge housing de scribed their residential experi ence as stressful, citing anxieties over food availability and repeat ed relocations across campus.
The deans of Pforzheimer House, Anne Harrington and John Du rant, declined to send the note but offered to assist in spreading awareness and suggested send ing the announcement over the house’s open email list.
The Pakistani Student Association asked students dining in Lowell House to support efforts to provide disaster relief in the country following floods. JOEY HUANG — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
issue, saying it is a double stan dard for the school to publicly re spond to the invasion of Ukraine, but not be more vocal about di sasters affecting people of color internationally.“There’sadouble standard,” he said. “When there’s stuff hap pening in Ukraine or something that’s aligned with the West or Harvard’s interests, everyone’s on their feet, everyone’s campaign ing, everyone’s fundraising, ev eryone’s holding talks.”
“These double standards ex ist in Harvard’s community,” he added. “Our people aren’t made
South Asian solidarity or cohe sion is sometimes missing.”
Jeremy C. Hendley, a first-year student at Harvard Law School, has died by suicide, according to an announcement by the Har vard Law School sent to affiliates on Sunday.Hewas35.Hisdeath marks at least the third student suicide in five years at Harvard Law School.
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At the end of June, HMC — the entity responsible for the Univer sity’s $53.2 billion endowment — held $263 million in Alpha bet stock, representing the en dowment’s largest direct invest ment and more than 30 percent of its $864 million public securi ties portfolio. HMC is required to disclose its direct public holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission each quarter be cause it manages more than $100 million in assets.
John M. Longo, a professor at Rutgers Business School and the Chief Investment Officer of Bea con Trust, wrote that it is “proba bly not a coincidence” that HMC’s increased investments in semi conductor companies occurred as the federal bill made its way to Biden’s desk.
Julia Welsh ’23, a summer and bridge housing resident, urged top Harvard administrators to better support low-income stu dents during their transition to bridge housing in a letter sent to school officials including Uni versity President Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay.In the letter, Welsh wrote that the relocation from summer to bridge housing imposed a finan cial burden on her low-income peers, leaving some of them with out the means to eat. Many stu dents were unaware they would not be allowed to eat in the dining halls during their bridge lodging, sheThoughsaid.
It will hold an event on Sept. 17 with the Harvard Advocate and Ghungroo.“It’scountries like these, who don’t contribute to the climate di saster, that are affected the most,” said Aseelah Salman Ashraf ’24, co-president of HCPSA. “It’s our responsibility and our preroga tive to help.”
summer due to her participation in a summer program, she sent the email on behalf of her peers.
The Harvard Management Com pany shored up its investments in the technology industry last quarter, boosting its shares of Al phabet — the parent company of Google — by nearly 40 percent while also increasing its holdings in the semiconductor companies.
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Adubofour ’24, a member of the football team, said Harvard could have implement ed “more efficient” ways to man age bridge housing for athletes.
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Safi also called on Harvard’s top administrators to address the
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The deans of Cabot, Dunster, and Currier House wrote in re spective emails to The Crimson that they plan to support student efforts in the weeks ahead. The faculty deans of Quincy House were not contacted by the group.
Students in bridge housing were provided access to commu nal kitchens in Eliot House and Leverett House. After initially re stricting access to undergraduate dining halls, the Harvard College Housing Office notified bridge residents on Aug. 16 that they would receive a $75 stipend and have access to dining halls begin ning Aug. 18. Students had access to kitchens — either in-suite or communal — throughout the du ration of the summer, per a Har vardJennyspokesperson.H.Lé’24, a first-gener ation, low-income student, said she was unexpectedly relocated to different housing in July, forc ing her to take off work to move her“Webelongings.wereall in shock because we were all working 40-plus hours a week — like more than full-time jobs,” she said. “So we just didn’t know when we would find the time to move.”
The endowment’s second largest stock holding is in Meta Platforms — formerly known as Facebook — though HMC liqui dated eight percent of its shares in the tech giant during the sec ond quarter. HMC now holds $183 million in Meta, down from $274 million at the end of March. The University’s investment arm also bolstered its holdings in sever al semiconductor companies, in cluding Intel, NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. ASML Holding, the only company HMC added to its public portfolio last quarter, also produces semiconductor chips.
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“I just wish the school would figure out some way to help their athletes move into their housing in a more smooth manner that factored in the rigor of playing sports in pre-season and the rig or of moving in,” he onwouldcausethat,summerinofhaveshefrustrating,”[like]ingissummer,inanddents’declinedspokespersonby-caseanddentsmarkeding,quiredingStudent-athletessaid.participatinfallpre-seasonwerenotretoapplyforbridgehousastheCollegeautomaticallythemeligible.Otherstuhadtoindividuallyapplywereapprovedonacase-basis.HarvardCollegeAaronGoldmantocommentonstucriticismsaboutsummerbridgehousing.JamesC.Glaser’25,wholivedWinthropHouseduringthesaidHarvard’shousing“suchahotcommodity,”makorganizationdifficult.“Itendsupfeelingalittlebitpatchwork,whichcanbehesaid.Despitechallenges,Lésaidwas“extremelygrateful”tosummerhousing.“Iknowthatthereareabunchpeoplethathadjobsoverherethesummerbutweren’tgivenhousing,”shesaid.“ForI’mextremelygratefulbeIdon’tknowwhereelseIliveifIdidn’thavehousingcampus.”
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To date, the HCPSA has raised about $14,500, exceeding an ini tial goal, Safi said.
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HMC spokesperson Patrick S. McKiernan declined to comment on the filings.
Amiel Bakshi ’23 described a lack of communication from ad ministrators regarding move out from summer and bridge hous ing.“In terms of support and re sources during the move-out and move-in process, there was no resource,” he said. “I was on the verge of tears trying to find out how to literally move all my stuff from one place to the next, to the next.”Bakshi said one of his profes sors helped him move his boxes in between his summer, bridge, and term housing. Lé said she also recruited a professor to help
“It’s clear that HMC’s manag ers are optimistic about the pros pects for semiconductor manu facturers,” Longo wrote.
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Harvard students who lived on campus over the summer report ed poor communication and a lack of support regarding hous ing logistics from administrators.
quarters, the vast majority of HMC’s direct stock holdings lie in the technology, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries. The latest disclosure also marked the third consecutive quarter in which HMC did not invest in any exchange-traded funds, or ETFs — managed funds that offer ex posure to many underlying secu rities.The University has previous ly come under fire for its ETF holdings from campus activist groups such as the Harvard Pris on Divestment Campaign, which alleged that the investments amounted to indirect support for the private prison industry. HMC liquidated all of its ETF holdings in the final quarter of 2021.
Some other student groups have supported the HCPSA’s ef forts. Shraddha Joshi ’24, co-di rector of Harvard Ghungroo, said members of her group have helped fundraise and raise awareness for the campaign with events and “Ghungroooutreach.hasthe respon sibility of forming a pan-South Asian space,” she said. “At times, it feels like, at Harvard, pan-
“No words can convey the depth of this loss to his family and friends,” Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 wrote in an announcement sent to Har vard Law School affiliates Sunday morning.“Itfeels especially import ant, in this sad time, for all of us to care for and support one an other,” Manning added in the an nouncement.TheHarvard Law School is working to provide “opportuni ties to gather in remembrance and mutual support in the days ahead,” Manning wrote in the announcement to Harvard Law SchoolHendleyaffiliates.graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2015 and was an employee of the Chickasaw Nation for more than 16 years, according to his Linke dIn“Weprofile.will soon come together as a community to remember Jer emy and celebrate his life,” Man ning wrote.
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Select students were eligible to live on campus during the summer from May 15 to Aug. 14. The College also provided “bridge” housing to certain students — including those with “extenuating personal cir cumstances” — for the week lead ing up to the fall semester.
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to rot. That’s not what we want for our people, and that’s the idea that we’ve been given.” Universi ty spokesperson Jason A. Newton declined to comment.
The increased investments in semiconductor companies
come as the federal government is pledging significant support for the industry, which it views as critical to national defense and technology sectors. Early last month, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which will pro vide over $50 billion for domes tic semiconductor research, de velopment, manufacturing, and workforce development.
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Faculty deans from seven other houses initially did not respond or declined the group’s request, Safi said, though they eventual ly replied to the HCPSA follow ing a Crimson inquiry about the group’s complaints. The faculty deans of Kirkland House and Le verett House had not replied to
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On Aug. 21, the search com mittee named 32 affiliates to its faculty and staff advisory com mittees. The advisory commit tees are a relatively recent addi tion to Harvard’s search process, having debuted during the 2006 presidential search following calls for more opportunities for student and faculty involvement.
Not a Theton.initial stage of a presiden tial search centers around con sulting alumni, students, faculty, staff, donors, and experts, ac cording to former Harvard Pro vost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, who was reportedly a presidential candidate in the searches that ul timately selected Summers and Faust.InJuly, Pritzker invited Har vard affiliates to submit sugges tions and nominations to the committee. Past search commit tees sent out hundreds of thou sands of letters and emails to Har vard affiliates eliciting input and dispatched members across the country to speak to alumni.
But as he exits Massachusetts Hall, some challenges remain un resolved.Harvard awaits a decision from the Supreme Court on a high-stakes affirmative action lawsuit. The University’s devel opment in Allston continues in the face of local resistance, and its commitment to addressing the legacy of slavery on campus is newlyWhileunderway.Bacow’s successor will face distinct trials, past searches have often mirrored each other in timing and process. The searches that produced Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers, Drew G. Faust, and Bacow himself pro vide hints about what the hunt for the 30th president will entail. Here’s what you need to know as the search ramps up.
What qualities have past presidents shared?
“I think they’ll want to ap point the new president with a few months before President Ba cow steps down, so that there’ll be some overlap,” Harvard donor and former Board of Overseers President Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60 said.
the start of the 2006 search that put Faust into office, the commit tee considered approximately 750Shortlistscandidates.of a couple dozen candidates historically emerge by winter and are then pared down through intensive inter views. The 2017 committee that would eventually choose Bacow narrowed down its list of names to fewer than 20 by December, consistent with the timelines of the 1990 and 2000 search com mittees.Once a list of finalists has been assembled, the search committee members will work to differen tiate the strengths of each of the qualified candidates, according to Fineberg.“Here’swhere it can get in teresting within a search pro cess because different members of a search committee might put weight on different attributes,” he wrote. “Some will gain insight by talking with those who know and have worked with the can didates or reading what the can didates have written. Others will get the most out of conversation with the candidates themselves.”
“Also, they may want some body who has to quit another job to take this position,” he added. “So they can’t wait until May to tell somebody that he or she’s got to quit what is probably a pretty important job.”
Coalition for a Diverse Har vard member Lisa M. Brown ’88 said she hopes the committee takes the interests of a diversi fying alumni into consideration when selecting Bacow’s succes sor.“As the alumni base shifts, they just have to appeal to at least somewhat different values,” Brown said, in reference to the growing numbers of first gener ation graduates and graduates of color. “I don’t expect this to hap pen overnight, but I think it’s at least worth pouting out there now.”Former Harvard administra tors and higher education ex perts expect a consideration of candidate diversity to feature in the search, but not as a determi nativeFinebergfactor.wrote that he antici pates the search committee “will likely be attentive” to candidates from underrepresented back grounds.Still,“the committee will not be making any ‘symbolic social statement’ with its decision: it will seek the best candidate for the job, and that person’s sex, race or ethnicity will be whatever it is,” Fineberg wrote.
A month after Bacow announced his departure, the Universi ty named the search commit
How Harvard Picks its Presidents
After the search committee has selected a final candidate, the 30-member Harvard Board of Overseers — the University’s sec ond-highest governing board — must meet to approve the pick, per the school’s 1650 charter. How long will the search take?
How prominently will diversity factor in the search?
Harvard has never been led by a person of color and only one pres ident, Faust, has been a woman. Many alumni say it’s time for that to change.“Iwould love to see the Uni versity consider diverse voices in picking its new president,” said Coalition for a Diverse Harvard member Joseph J. Barretto ’97, adding that the diversity of alum ni has increased in recent years.
Despite the opacity that shrouds the presidential search, longtime observers said they believe the committee will make its final recommendation to the Board of Overseers in January or February of 2023 to ensure a smooth tran sition at the end of the academic year.Bacow and Faust were named University president on Feb. 11 of 2018 and 2007, respectively. Sum mers was confirmed on March 11, 2001, and Rudenstine was select ed March 24, 1991.
Past search committees have nev er been explicit about what mem bers were looking for in presiden tial candidates — likely because searchers do not set out with a clear vision of Harvard’s next leader, according to higher edu cation expert Thomas D. Parker
Who will lead the search?presidential
Still, all of the past four presi dents have shared some key char acteristics.Everypresident in the past 30 years has had a Harvard degree — though none graduated from the College. Before ascending to the presidency, Rudenstine, Sum mers, Faust, and Bacow all also held other positions at Harvard: Rudenstine and Summers were professors, Faust served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute, and Ba cow sat on the Corporation.
’64.While there is no shortage of qualified candidates for the job, Parker said, the difficult task ahead for the committee is “to narrow the criteria about what they’re looking for.”
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What other criteria might the search committee consider?
What comes next?
In past searches, formal and in formal nominations from ex perts and Harvard affiliates have given rise to candidate pools spanning hundreds of names: At
The selection of Harvard’s president requires “a judgment on the part of the search com mittee that this individual knows enough firsthand about scholar ship, research, and teaching to be president of an institution who’s in the business of scholarship, re search, and teaching,” Chait said.
tee charged with finding Har vard’s next leader. Comprised of 15 members, the committee pulls from the University’s top lead ership bodies, with 12 members of the Harvard Corporation and three from the Board of Over seers.As the senior fellow of the Corporation — “the first among equals” on Harvard’s most pow erful governing body — Chicago billionaire Penny S. Pritzker ’81 will spearhead the presidential search. Bacow, as the outgoing president, will not join the com mittee seeking his successor, con sistent with previous searches.
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What has the search committee done so far?
“The search committee will formulate and refine its own set of criteria and generate a prelimi nary list of candidates in conjunc tion with getting this array of in put,” Fineberg wrote in an email.
The top presidential candi dates tend to have an understand ing of the University and higher education at large, some track re cord as an executive or adminis trator, and academic credentials equivalent to a tenured profes sor’s, said Harvard professor and education governance expert RichardChaitChait.saidhe believes the abil ity to qualify for tenure at Har vard is the criterion which “has the greatest effect,” even if it is a restriction “the public at large doesn’t quite appreciate.”
57 The average age of the past four Harvard presi dents: Lawrence S. Bacow, Drew G. Faust, Lawrence H. Summers, and Neil L. Rudens tine. Though the past four University.degreesundergraduatereceivedtenures,precedingwithsomepresidentsHarvardhadaffiliationHarvardtheirnonetheirfromtheThe number of Harvard faculty and staff who have been elect ed to successor.huntcommitteethetogroupsadvisorydesignedcounselsearchinitsforBacow’s 132 The number of Harvard Universi ty presidents who were not white and male.
“The kind of person I want is not the kind of person who wants to lead Harvard,” said Brown, who added that she believes most top candidates intend to preserve the institutional status quo by “following” instead of truly “lead ing.”
In the summer of 2017, Law rence S. Bacow was gearing up to help search for the Uni versity’s 29th president, not re alizing he would later become a candidate.Fiveyears later, Harvard is once again embarking on a presi dential search — this time for Ba cow’sThesuccessor.announcement that Ba cow will step down in June 2023 set off a global operation to find Harvard’s 30th leader. The search will likely involve Harvard fac ulty, students, and administra tors — past and present — as well higher education experts, among others.During his tenure, Bacow steered Harvard through the Covid-19 pandemic and braved the political headwinds of the Trump administration, at turns lobbying and suing the federal government.“Thereisnever a good time to leave a job like this one, but now seems right to me,” Bacow wrote in a June email to affiliates an nouncing his departure.
One potential job for the 30th president that looms over the search process: running a mas sive capital campaign.
the candidates are, will have very quickly a very small pool,” said Lewis, adding that “some of the people you most want to consid er will refuse to be considered be cause they don’t want to deal with the problems that would result at their home institution or the in stitution that they’re now lead ing.”
mers resigned from his post in February 2006 following a vote of no confidence from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and strained relations with the Harvard Cor poration.“They knew getting into it that Summers could be a difficult per sonality, but they also knew he had tremendous ability and cre dentials,” Parker said. “And they said, ‘Okay, let’s go for it. We know there’s a risk here, but let’s do it.’ And that risk didn’t quite work out so Butwell.”the caution spurred by Summers’ tenure may have since worn off, Parker said.
think transparency is the highest value for a presiden tial search,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, a former dean of Harvard Col lege. “I don’t think you can argue that a transparent process pro
Lewis said full disclosure of the search process to the faculty and staff advisory groups would increase the risk of a candidate’s name“Theleaking.problem is that it’s very hard to share much about the list of finalists with a group that large, because it will certainly leak,” he said. “I can’t imagine they’re actu ally planning to run the list of fi nalists by those groups and ask for their reaction.”
“Iiterations.suspectthat they didn’t want to have somebody who was going to be like a finger in the eye of the right wing,” he said of Bacow’s se lection in Harvard2018.donor and Black
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Why is the search so secretive?
After he was revealed by The Crimson to be a frontrunner in the 2006 presidential search, for mer Howard Hughes Medical In stitute President Thomas R. Cech bowed out of the race. Cech cited his presidency at the institute and his professorship at the Universi ty of Colorado at Boulder as fac tors in this decision.
“I already have a great job,” Cech said in a phone call to The Crimson confirming his with drawal.Fulltransparency would like ly jeopardize the candidacy of high-profile contenders, Lewis added.“Afully-transparent process, where everybody knows who all
But Chait said that Harvard tends to maintain a steady course, regardless of who is in Massachu setts
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Since fundraising is a key part of the Harvard presidency, Chait ex pects the search committee will consider “proven ability” or at least “demonstrable potential to raise money and attract philan thropy.”“One of the things that a new president always gives you is a new face, and people like that,” he said. “All the major institutions now have to have capital cam paigns really at least once every 10 years — and probably more of ten than Faustthat.”—who launched the University’s last capital cam paign in 2013 — helped Harvard raise $9.6 billion, smashing re cords and surpassing the school’s original goal by more than $3 bil lion.Given how the next president will be a personal colleague, the search committee will also con sider how well they themselves would work with each of the can didates, according to Fineberg.
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“IfHall.you look at Harvard and its peers, probably what’s re markable is this general degree of consistency in the culture and priorities and character of the University,” he said. “What’s less critical has been the personalities and even styles of the leader.”
Though outgoing Universi ty presidents have traditionally avoided formally participating in the search committee, they have indirectly shaped the criteria for potentialFormercandidates.Harvard administra tors and higher education ex perts said search committees seem to keep in mind the lega cies of outgoing presidents when selecting the new chief. Both Ba cow and Faust, who both avoided high-profile personal controver sies during their time in Massa chusetts Hall, were likely reac tions to the tumultuous tenure of Summers, Parker said.
duces better results than a less transparent process.”
Will the next president main tain the status quo, or break from convention?
“That made them more riskaverse in their next couple of searches,” he said. “That may be over now. They may be willing to think outside the box a little bit more by Buttenwiesernow.” said reserva tions about a candidate’s political divisiveness may also play less of a role in this search than in previ ous
The kind of person I want is not the kind of person who wants to lead
Harvard’s presidential search process is famously opaque. The search committee itself disclos es little publicly about its process, an intentional move by the com mittee that is said to protect the privacy of the process for candi dates.“Idon’t
Entrenched in multiple scan dals throughout his term, Sum
stone Group Vice Chairman By ron R. Wien ’54 said the commit tee may have to adopt a “more open-minded” stance and more of “a risk-taking mode” than in previous searches.
“Harvard
Besides searching for a leader with “unquestioned personal in tegrity, a calm and confident tem perament, a capacity to commu nicate and ability to listen,” the search committee will likely seek out candidates who can serve at
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least a decade in Massachusetts Hall, Fineberg said.
“Other things equal, it’s an advantage to have that degree of continuity in leadership,” he wrote.
CONVENED IN JULY, the 15-member presidential search committee that will select Harvard’s 30th chief is comprised of a dozen members of the Harvard Corporation — all excluding outgoing University President Lawrence S. Bacow — and three members from the Harvard Board of Overseers. The cohort will likely convene in the historic Loeb House over the coming months to whittle down the list of candidates.
“The next president may be somebody from far afield,” he said. “Somebody who has been a president or provost at a universi ty on the West Coast, for example, rather than the East Coast. Some body they’ve had no contact with previous to the search.”
“Presidents do move the in stitution, but they don’t move the institution 180 degrees,” Chait added. “There is a stability and continuity that’s very, very valu able to have.”
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Aidan Scully is a prospective Classics and Compara tive Religion joint concentrator in Adams House. His column seeks to provide a snapshot of the nonreli gious experience in an America where religion and politics are increasingly intertwined through the lenses of important Supreme Court precedents in the separation of church and state.
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Spencer Glassman is a junior concentrating in His tory and Government affiliated to Leverett House. While he was raised in a very secular household, Glassman became an Orthodox Jew since enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 2019. His column will explore what it is like to become very religious in a very sec ular environment,
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Aden Barton is a Junior in Eliot House studying Eco nomics and History. He is writing a column on using data at Harvard to gain insights about our campus and higher education more broadly. Outside of The Crimson, he is co-captain of the Fed Challenge Team and debates for the Harvard Debate Council.
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Clyve Lawrence, from Adams House, is a Govern ment concentrator with a particular interest in trans portation. His column will seek to answer one crucial question: What are the problems with Greater Bos ton’s transportation, and how are advocacy groups, politicians, and residents working to improve it?
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A Winthrop resident concentrating in Physics and Education, Sanchez’s interests span both pageants and environmental activism. Her column will be fo cused on the latter, serving as the the average per son’s guide to taking action against climate change, for people who don’t care but know they should and those who do care but don’t know what to do.
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Julie Heng is a junior studying Integrative Biology and Philosophy who finds it incredible that Cleopat ra lived closer to the iPhone launch than to the build ing of the Great Pyramids. Her reported column, “Fu ture in Progress,” will examine how thinkers from wildly different disciplines imagine what our world will look like in 10, 100, or even a million years.
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ON OUR COLUMNISTS: The Editorial Board is pleased to announce its columnists for the upcoming fall semester. Columnists will publish on a bi-weekly basis, each focusing on a theme of their choice. We are also proud to continue our reported columns initiative, pilot ed in 2020, which incorporates both journalistic research and interviews, as well as editorial commentary.
Born in Seoul and a long-time resident of Sydney, Australia, Lina Cho is a senior in Dunster House con centrating in Comparative Literature with a second ary in East Asian Studies. Her column, ‘Bad Art,’ is an exploration of the aspects of art that are traditionally sniffed at: popular culture and content, “trashy” films and TV, and other so-called guilty pleasures.
Harold Klapper is a sophomore in Eliot house study ing Economics and Philosophy. He grew up in Cam bridge and has been surrounded by the city’s pro gressive initiatives for his entire life. His column will explore our commitment to affordable housing, so cioeconomic diversity, and phenomenal public edu cation, to name a few examples.
Elizabeth Ling, a Harvard Design Collective Co-Di rector, is a Computer Science student at Eliot House. Her column will wrestle with the varied, sometimes destructive roles that social media plays in our lives, including the hidden yet pervasive effects of social media on our personal lives to relationships with others and broader societal connectivity trends.
Ben Elwy is a returning Crimson columnist, and a Classics and Linguistics concentrator who resides in Quincy House. Following his last column about be ing a disabled student at Harvard, this term Elwy will explore his personal experiences as a physically dis abled queer person at Harvard with mental health issues.
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Jacob Miller is a Crimson Editorial Board editor liv ing in Lowell House. Originally from Chicago, Miller is planning on pursuing a double concentration in Mathematics and Economics and is interested in pol itics and foreign affairs. Miller’s column examines the problems with political discourse at Harvard and in America.
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ALONE TOGETHER
But as more and more people turned to art for comfort, hustle culture sank its teeth into a new target. And we’re now seeing the ugly results: art
Of course, wanting attention on social media is not new. Bragging, certainly, is not new. But the danger of marrying artistic hobbies with hustle culture is not about narcissism at all. It’s about the fact that the locus of our quotidian creative expression has become twisted away from our selves: the artists. Ironically, in a period of un precedented isolation, the significance behind our artistic creation has become external, rath er than internal.
The Death of the Hobby
his past summer, Harvard University Presi dent Lawrence S. Bacow announced that he will be stepping down from his role by June 2023, marking the end of an uncharacteristically short and tumultuous five-year stint as Harvard’s top leader. Before the next academic year, we will lose the crimson devil we knew: the omnipresent and familiar, if frequently frustrating, face of our university.Withalmost two full terms to go, Bacow’s lega cy is not quite set in stone. Yet there is little doubt that his tenure as president of Harvard will be re membered for the amount and difficulty of the ex traordinary challenges he faced, and for his partial success in confronting them.
That much made our rhetorical dynamic con tentious. It is also, for the most part, the way things are supposed to run: Students across campus push for radical reform, administrators refuse but even tually tend to cave and accept a compromise of sorts. Sometimes the progress made is substan
— Lina H. R. Cho ’23 is a Comparative Literature concentrator in Dunster House. Her column “Bad Art” appears on alternate Mondays.
Pre-Med in a Post-Roe Era
So as we face an ongoing pandemic, a tur bulent professional landscape, and a bleak eco nomic reality, let’s try to take a second before we snap that picture of our newest project and mine for likes. Because if we don’t, the humble hobby as we know it will draw its last breath.
of the leaked draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson during last semester’s finals season will forever be stained on my frontal lobe. Hunched over my laptop, I paused from editing my final project, speechless as my heart sank and my tired eyes drooped with a different, more pro found exhaustion.
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As an American uterus-owner, the repercus sions of a decision made by five Supreme Court Justices do not leave my mind.
This attitude isn’t new — it’s a lifestyle craze that’s consistently waxed and waned over the years. As the Covid-19 hellscape continued, it seemed for a while that one possible benefit of the pandemic was a quiet, but definite, push back against hustle culture. With spiking rates of burnout and poor mental health during the pandemic, the anti-work movement popped its welcome head over the horizon, and relaxation, meditation, and hobbies took center stage.
Whether in the form of sketches, short sto ries, or cupcakes, if we stop viewing our art as ours, the activity of creative expression starts to lose meaning. If we’re chasing followers, views, or purchases in return for our art, we’re not re membering to be imaginative, reflective, or inno vative.Ifwe try to productize every minute of our time, there comes a point where we’re being obe dient, not creative.
Thatfaced.might seem at odds with our standard critical opinions on the administration. But it isn’t.
One thing I’ve learned from the pandem ic: My friends are incredibly talented peo Aloneple.in my room, I’ve spent hours scrolling through their social media accounts, which dis play indisputable proof of their artistic skill. One friend runs an Instagram account that features everything from amazingly detailed, lifelike paintings, to emotionally raw animated shorts. Another has gone viral again and again on Tik Tok for their funny skits and sketches. A third posts captivating travel vlogs and lifestyle con tent on AndYouTube.another thing the pandemic so far has taught me: The hobby as we know it is about to die out. And hustle culture is to blame.
Harvard Presidents must walk a tight line be tween administrator and academic, satisfying an array of political, educational, and institutional responsibilities. If his predecessors showcased an
— Haley A. Lifrieri ’24, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Computer Science concentrator in Winthrop House.
The real problem lies in the fact that, on a more fundamental level, the “hustle” mentali ty isn’t rooted in monetary return. Instead, it’s a craving for a specifically curated social media presence, which is ultimately about one thing, and one thing only: external validation. All of a sudden, it’s not enough to sketch privately in your notebook, or try out a new recipe; it just doesn’t seem worthwhile unless you’re posting about it online, and getting your followers to see you in a specific way.
But Bacow’s administration wasn’t always so responsive. When it came to campus’ various di vest movements, Bacow failed to provide time ly or even post facto support to some of Harvard’s most notable student organizers. When the Uni versity, under his tenure, finally agreed to divest from fossil fuels and withdrew its investments in the externally traded funds that concentrated our private prison assets, President Bacow had an un paralleled opportunity to earn our peers’ respect. Instead, his controversial past statements and re fusal to acknowledge the student activists he had decried when announcing the change of policy un necessarily antagonized advocates. By refusing to recognize divestment’s activism even amidst what was objectively good news for the group’s base, Ba cow transformed a proud high point of campus ac tivism into an under-celebrated, bittersweet event.
That kind of decisive adherence to certain ide als, even ideals we don’t necessarily profess in the same terms — like his strict, purist understanding of free speech or his gradual approach to change — is rare and worth praising. It represents a sort of remarkable ideological coherence that we might, someday, come to miss.
am the daughter of a nurse. Growing up, I spent dinners listening to the visceral rundown on my mother’s patients — procedures they’d undergone, updates on their diagnoses, treatment plans, and anticipated re coveries. To this, my brother and my dad often reacted with hands-over-ears squeamishness, plates pushed away in disgust. On those eve nings in our one-bedroom apartment, teeming with questions and grinning widely, I leaned in to hearAgainstmore.all the caution of my mother’s stories, I wanted to go into medicine.
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Bacow’s defense of the student body did not end with Covid: When the State Department initially refused to issue visas for international students taking courses online due to the pandemic, Bacow staunchly and vocally opposed the decision and played a large role in the policy being overturned. By doing so he kept the student body whole and protected some of its most vulnerable members, and we are particularly appreciative of this use of his personal advocacy. Bacow also oversaw an un paralleled expansion into STEM with the opening of the SEC, a $1 billion investment that is sure to broaden and enrich academic life at Harvard.
As a future doctor, I am preoccupied not just with thoughts of being in their shoes but of one day encountering them as patients in whichev er specialty I choose. In this post-Roe world, a long list of additional questions about my future in medicine eats away precious minutes of my sleep each night.
In this post-Roe world, a long list of additional questions about my future in medicine eats away at precious minutes of my sleep each night. My worry is that we will lend our hands to the destruction of lives by failing to treat abortion as essential healthcare. “
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Farewell, President Bacow.
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For the uninitiated, hustle culture is loosely defined by the philosophy that every minute of our lives can be spent being more “productive.” We should be waking up earlier. We should be hacking our passive “dead time” to be actively improving ourselves. We should be pushing our selves at our jobs — and hey, why just stop at one? With the internet and the rise of informal busi ness models and selling platforms, it’s now pos sible — and even encouraged — to have one, two, or three side gigs.
While learning about anatomy and medi cal terminology are certainly perks of having a nurse as a mother, the most valuable lessons my mother gave me at dinner were not strictly medi cal in nature. They were about values: humanity, compassion, and empathy. She spoke not just of her patients’ physical suffering but of their home countries, cultures, jobs, and dreams.
Should I prepare to be targeted like Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who saved the life of a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio and now faces threats of inves tigation despite doing her job? Could I have my medical license revoked, after working tirelessly for years on end and taking on hundreds of thou sands of dollars in debt, for providing life-saving reproductive care? And the question that trou bles me most of all: How will my peers and I re spond when expected to deny patients the right to their own bodies?
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At Harvard it isn’t. Or at least, for far too many, being on the pre-medical track isn’t about up holding the values my mother instilled in me. Many of my pre-med peers chose this path for its hefty salary or prestige and not (as one would hope) out of selflessness.
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But none of those issues are quite as disap pointing as the setbacks to diversity on campus that we might yet experience under Bacow’s pres idency. An unfavorable Supreme Court decision in the anti-affirmative action Students for Fair Ad mission lawsuit against the University is likely only months away.
But Bacow’s approach had its own silver lin ings. The president’s commitment to free speech never excluded our criticisms of his missteps — criticisms we will continue to engage in during the last year of his tenure. It also extended, re markably, to commentary that he vehemently dis agreed with. Last year, at a point of intense scruti ny on our own board — at a time when our critics ranged from sitting senators to former University presidents — and despite public pressure on him to the contrary, President Bacow reaffirmed his commitment to the free press and our own editori al independence. That he did so while expressing disappointment at “the quality of discourse” on campus was nothing but another example of his endearingly predictable personal style.
What haunts me most is a newfound sense of my precarity — the realization that just a few differences separate my circumstances from the dire realities of victims of rape and incest, preg nant people with health complications, and those simply uninterested, unfit, or unprepared for parenthood. As a member of this last group, I can now sense that my station in society is the only thing preventing my government from re garding me as reproductive livestock.
While the case did not begin under his ten ure, it will likely be linked to his name by nature of the press coverage the case received while he was president. Despite having a limited role, we deem it likely that his name will become inextricably linked to the reversal of decades’ worth of affirma tive action admissions at top-tier U.S. universities.
And their actions reflect this: rushing to slap their name on as many PubMed articles as pos sible, concerning themselves primarily with the health of their precious GPAs, and most likely numbering among those who partied maskless during a Whilepandemic.atHarvard, the overturning of Roe v. Wade sent a second tectonic shock through my pre-med world. The moment my roommate burst through my bedroom door to inform me
My worry is that we will lend our hands to the destruction of lives impacted by sexual assault, ectopic pregnancy, and unprotected sex by fail ing to treat abortion as essential healthcare. My hope is that we, America’s pre-meds, won’t shy away from specialties like OB-GYN for fear of fu ture legal battles. Where it already runs too thin, I say to all the pre-meds post-Roe: the medical field needs a higher dose of our compassion.
This staff editorial solely represents the majori ty 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 re porting of articles on similar topics.
While it’s had — and continues to have — hor rific consequences for public health and global wellbeing, the pandemic appeared to present a small silver lining: the renaissance of art in our daily lives. We consumed art more than ever be fore, but we produced it, too. In small, personal ways, many of us blossomed as artists — whether that meant finally starting that screenplay, learn ing how to make sourdough, or building a back yard vegetable garden.
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THAT KIND OF DECISIVE ADHERENCE TO CERTAIN IDEALS, EVEN THOSE WE DON’T PROFESS IN THE SAME TERMS — like his purist understanding of free speech or his gradual approach to change — is rare and worth praising. It represents a sort of remarkable ideological coherence that we might, someday, come to miss.
Although the Legacy of Slavery report that he piloted was a step in the right direction towards justice and an uncharacteristic acknowledgment of Harvard’s role in historical oppression, we found it lacking in concrete ambitions, and were frustrated that it failed to recognize the potential that a project of its scope has. We are similarly dis appointed by his lack of response to student calls for other issues on campus such as the long-de sired multicultural center.
Only halfway through Bacow’s term, a dead ly global pandemic shut the world down. Har vard was forced into crisis mode: Campus evacua tions, online schooling, and employee status with the backdrop of a physically empty campus be came hot button issues. With the benefit of hind sight, the University’s response to covid could have been much better. At the time, however, little infor mation was available to administrators and lead ers, who were largely forced to fly blindly through the proverbial storm. We stand by our precedents in support of Harvard’s decisions that we feel pro tected and prioritized faculty, staff, and students, and we are grateful for the tough decisions that Ba cow undoubtedly made at the time in our interest.
becoming content, creativity becoming produc tion, and the slow extinction of the simple, cre ativeAshobby.anuncertain future collides with the gig economy and a sudden work-from-home culture that may be here to stay, the temptation to “hus tle” our hobbies is more present than ever be fore. There are more and more help guides, both in print and online, promising to teach you how to sell your art. Baking, sewing, and craft content racks up millions of monetizable views on Tik Tok and YouTube. Thousands of successful art accounts on Instagram direct followers to Etsy shops and merch websites.
As an editorial board, we have an idiosyncrat ically adversarial relationship with Harvard’s ad ministrators. They find themselves repeatedly in our crosshairs, subject to attacks for lackluster re sponses to sexual assault, poor messaging on cru cial issues, and irresponsible investment deci sions. President Bacow, as the most public-facing university administrator, rarely escaped our scru tinyThat dynamic is not wrong per se, nor is it new. Our editors are young students with little actual power over University policy; we are idealists who offer, at the best of times, noble, ambitious policy goals of varied feasibility. University administra tors, including Harvard University Presidents, ac tually control the levers of our institutional policy and know their seemingly paralyzing complexity — proving, in our eyes, too content with an unsat isfactory status quo.
tial, sometimes it isn’t. The tug of war for a better campusBacow’scontinues.tenurewill perhaps be remembered as that of an old-school president on a new-age cam pus. He was enamored with the artistry of nuanced moderation, sometimes seeming more enthusias tic about policy constraints than their possibili ties. His student body, present company included, was increasingly unsatisfied with that approach — unsatisfied with the lackluster response to a glob al reckoning on police violence, unsatisfied with the departure of top-tier Black faculty, unsatis fied with a personal brand that appeared built on a condescending demeanor towards deep reform.
Through my mother’s work on the floor and at the table, she showed the real purpose of medicine — to return humility and agency lost. That’s what I thought it m eant to be pre-med.
We are not perfect reckoners, nor are we always right. We’ve defended some positions that people disagree fiercely with, and some that we ourselves no longer agree with.
excessive lean towards either of the extremes, Ba cow charted a tight and steady course through the middle, offering few if any explicit glimpses of his personal views (free speech! support Ukraine!), while proving a shockingly competent adminis trator.Overall, Bacow’s track record was hardly bad, given the havoc — global pandemic, protests against racial injustice, decaying democracy, at tacks on our admissions system — his administra tion
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My mother carried with her the twinkle that sparkled in her patients’ eyes as they looked adoringly at their partners and children spend ing hours with them despite the plasticky dis comfort of the hospital waiting-room chairs. In the ridges of my mother’s tired hands, I could feel her extraordinary efforts to prioritize her pa tients’ dignity and comfort and, before they were discharged, to teach them how to care for them selves.Through her work on the floor and at the ta ble, she showed the real purpose of medicine — to return humility and agency lost. That’s what I thought it meant to be pre-med.
You might stop me at this point and argue: Hasn’t art kind of always been about external val idation? What’s the good of a film that no one will watch, or a book that no one will read? Actually, there’s a lot of good. Producing art in the form of the thoroughly unproductive hobby is the core of what makes us human. Our creative leisure ac tivities, through which we process our emotions and express ourselves — aren’t they the essence of the human experience?
Larry Bacow’s presidency perfectly embodies that old-school approach. We deem it likely that, at times, he thought of our editorial board as preten tious and excessively rightful, a handful of spoiled, naively ideological students with little experience and an excessively large microphone. We certain ly didn’t always regard him as a steadfast keeper of our peers’ best interests.
One thing to be clear on: I’m not saying all of this to condemn the artists in question. In fact, there is nothing at all objectively wrong with wanting to make a bit of extra income, especially in times like these.
“That really drew me into the idea that we have so much ability to potentially make a difference in the world,” Huang said. Huang connected his passion
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Driscoll said she was “hum bled” to join Healey on the Dem ocratic ticket, writing in a tweet Tuesday evening that Massachu setts will “elect our 1st all-woman executive team” in November.
functions and prepares the near ly-billion-dollar city budget goals laid out by the democrati cally elected City Council.
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“My hope is that I’m also able to work to find voices that are not traditionally at City Hall and where we can incorporate those feelings,” Huang said.
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After two people became ill from West Nile virus in Au gust after exposure in Suffolk County, Cambridge has been deemed high risk for the virus, according to Cambridge Day. The city’s risk was increased to moderate from low in early August. Cambridge joins sev eral nearby areas — including Boston and Somerville — with a high-risk designation.
Healey immediately went on the offensive against Diehl, say ing in a statement Tuesday night that the Republican wants to “bring Trumpism to Massachu setts.”“Idon’t know about you, but I am tired of the anger, the vitriol, the division,” she said to support ers at a victory party in Boston. “That’s not who we are.”
In a Tuesday webinar, the Charles River Watershed Association urged Allston-Brighton residents to advocate for a review of flood risks in the Massachusetts De partment of Transportation’s All ston Multimodal I-90 Project.
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Galvin will face conservative radio host Rayla Campbell, who ran unopposed in the Republican primary.Inthe Democratic primary for state auditor, state Senator Diana DiZoglio beat Chris Dempsey.
The Massachusetts Depart ment of Transportation launched the Allston Multimodal I-90 Proj ect in 2014 with the vision of re placing the Allston Interchange and improving the “livability, connectivity, and open space” in Allston, per the project’s website. The project has not yet under gone a complete state and feder al environmental review.
global HIV/AIDS pandemic from then-Harvard professor Jeffrey D. Sachs. He is the first Harvard College alumni to serve as city manager since the 1960s.
The primary divided Massa chusetts’ Democratic establish ment, with the state’s two U.S. senators on opposite sides.
The modified at-grade option eliminates the current I-90 via duct to have virtually all traffic level with the surrounding area and contains the pedestrian and bike path as a 20-foot wide board walk over the Charles River. This option also adds roughly 3.6 acres of parkland.
Owners and partners of be loved Cambridge music venue and bar Middle East filed plans to tear it down and replace it with a hotel that includes a venue. Plans were submitted to replace the Central Square bar and venue with a six-story hotel. The proposal includes music venues on the ground floor and basement. The plan is part of other recent efforts to revitalize the area and will be discussed at a meeting with the Cambridge Historical Commission.
Brian McGrory is set to step down as editor of the Boston Globe after 10 years in the role. He will join Boston Uni versity as the chair of the jour nalism department. McGrory led the newspaper through a consequential ownership change, in which it was bought by Boston Red Sox Owner John W. Henry from the New York Times Company.
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She would be the first Black woman elected statewide in Mas sachusetts.
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In his victory speech, Diehl attacked Healey as a Democrat “who will put big government be fore individual freedom.”
BRIAN MCGRORY TO LEAVE BOSTON GLOBE MassachusettsGubernatorialRepublicanPrimary Geoff Diehl Chris Doughty 55.5% 44.5% Source: Associated Press Yi-An Huang ‘05 City Manager There is room for us to be working through how we organize, how we get aligned, how we communicate, and that’s a conversation that we’ve already started having with city leaders and with councilors. “
for service with his faith — some thing he said is closely tied to his identity.“It’sa deep part of feeling like we are put here to serve especially those who are most vulnerable,” Huang said.
council.“There is room for us to be working through how we orga nize, how we get aligned, how we communicate, and that’s a con versation that we’ve already start ed having with city leaders and with councilors,” Huang said.
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The modified at-grade and SFR hybrid options additional ly leave the I-90 open to flooding, she“Ifsaid.you run, bike, walk, or even drive along the river, this is really your time to tell MassDOT what kind of resilient transportation system this area needs,” Johan if said.MassDOT did not respond to a request for comment.
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Campbell will face Republi can James McMahon in the gen eral election. He was unopposed in the GOP primary.
In November 2021, Cam bridge residents voted to create an ad hoc committee to review and propose changes to the city’s Plan E Charter, which details the city’s form of government. The committee held its first meeting lastHuangmonth.recognized that dis agreement and mismatched pri orities between the council and the manager could be “challeng ing.”“Over time, I think there was a lot of authority that got con centrated in the city manager,” Huang said.
The meeting included a pre sentation of a climate impact re view, which detailed flooding risks associated with the project’s design.Dira Johanif, an urban resil ience advocate at CRWA, began the presentation by calling atten tion to “climate vulnerable” pop ulations within Allston-Brigh ton, such as those of low-income backgrounds and people with disabilities.Johanifsaid the current proj ect site faces many challenges — bank erosion, trash and pollu tion, low connectivity for walkers and bikers, and a lack of storm water
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The relationship between the city manager and the council has been a source of tension in years past, with some councilors say ing the position holds too much power and the Council should have more sway in areas such as the budget process.
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Yi-An Huang ‘05 was sworn in as Cambridge’s city manager on Tuesday.
“I do feel like there’s a relation ship that we can establish that will make this a really strong and working form of government,” he added.Huang was appointed to the post by the City Council in June, following a monthslong search to replace former city manager Louis A. DePasquale.
options for the project currently under review by MassDOT. The three proposed designs to modi fy I-90 include either a modified highway viaduct option, a modi fied at-grade option, or a Soldier’s Field Road hybrid option.
one of the most closely-watched primary contests in the state go ing into Tuesday, with polling showing it to be a dead heat.
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“Thistreatment.neighborhood currently lives with the construction of the Mass Pike and the Soldier’s Field Road that have disconnected the community from the river,” Jo hanif said. “Improving connec tivity is and should be an import ant conversation in this project.”
Andrea J. Campbell became the first Black woman to clinch a Democratic nomination for statewide office in Massachusetts on Tuesday, beating labor attor ney Shannon E. Liss-Riordan ’90 in the party’s primary for attor neyThegeneral.attorney general race was
Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll de feated state Senator Eric P. Less er ’07 and state Representative Tami L. Gouveia in the Democrat ic primary for Lieutenant Gover nor.Lesser, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School who was seen as an up-and-com ing figure in the state party, con ceded to Driscoll via Twitter at 10:22 p.m. Tuesday evening, offer ing his “full support” for the gen
“Under her leadership, Mas sachusetts will be more expen sive, more excessive, and more restrictive,” he told supporters at a party in Weymouth.
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Huang, a graduate of Har vard College and Harvard Busi ness School, said that he was in spired to pursue public service as a freshman undergraduate stu dent after hearing a talk about the
Dempsey is a Harvard Busi ness School alum who former ly served as assistant secretary of Transportation. She will face Anthony Amore, who was unop posed in the GOP primary.
A. SHIRAZI — CRIMSON DESIGNER ‘HUANG’ FROM PAGE 1 City Manager Begins Term, Pledges Collaboration Massachusetts Democratic Attorney General Primary Andrea Campbell Shannon E. Liss-Riordan ’90 Quentin Palfrey ’96* 50.4% 34% 15.7% Source: Associated Press * Dropped out of race
The final option — the Sol dier’s Field Road hybrid option — would contain a 10-foot wide pedestrian path as well as a sep arate 10-foot wide bike path. It would also stack Soldier’s Field Road above a four-lane section of I-90. This option would open up 6.1 acres of parkland.
The modified highway viaduct option would include a 10-foot wide section along the Charles River to be used as a pedestrian and bike path. It would also open up 4.5 acres of new parkland.
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He said he would increase transparency and try to “deep en that relationship and cre ate greater alignment” with the
Owen O’Ri ordan, commissioner of the De partment of Public Works, served as acting city manager over the summer.Huang said he prepared to take office through conversations with O’Riordan, DePasquale, and former city manager Richard C. Rossi, who spent 45 years in Cam bridge city government — the last three years of which he served as city“Itmanager.isahistory of people in the city who have been so dedicated and committed to making this a better place,” Huang said. “I feel very grateful for my predeces sors.”Huang said he hopes to be ac tively engaged with residents, in cluding those who are typically less involved in city politics.
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Geoffrey G. Diehl won the GOP nomination for Mas sachusetts governor over a more moderate opponent on Tuesday, setting the stage for the Trump-backed candidate to face Maura T. Healey ’92, a Democrat who gained national prominence for challenging the former presi dent, in the general election.
But Campbell, who lost a bid for mayor of Boston last year, opened up a wide lead as results trickled in after polls closed on Tuesday.Liss-Riordan, who has nev er held public office, spent more than $9 million of her own mon ey on the race.
Healey, the state’s attorney general, coasted to the Demo cratic nomination in Tuesday’s primary. Her two former prima ry opponents, state Senator Sonia R. Chang-Díaz and Harvard pro fessor Danielle S. Allen, both sus pended their campaigns months ago.Diehl, who campaigned with former President Donald J. Trump, defeated businessman Chris Doughty in the GOP prima ry.
eralDespiteelection.an early fundraising advantage, Lesser trailed Driscoll in polls leading up to the primary.
Gouveia conceded the race in remarks to supporters in May nard.Driscoll will face either Re publican Kate D. Campanale or Leah C. Allen, whose primary
Slate of candidates elected in Massachusetts primary races Tuesday to contin ue to general elections in November.
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Longtime incumbent William F. Galvin won the Democratic pri mary for secretary of state, hand ily beating a progressive chal lenger for the second cycle in a row.Galvin, who has served as sec retary of state since 1995, beat Tanisha Sullivan, president of the NAACP of Boston, who ran as a progressive.
Renee Bourdeau, a civil engi neer, discussed the three design
was too close to call as of early Wednesday morning.
All three options leave the pe destrian and bike path and Sol dier’s Field Road vulnerable to predicted flooding in 2050 and 2070, according to Bourdeau.
“We encourage all students to, you know, have patience and un derstanding with us as we contin ue to refine the system,” he added.
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She added that Five Star Mov ers complained to the HUA when “too many students” subsequently showed up to pick their boxes up at the company’s warehouse, and after negotiations, the company
Lowell House is one of 12 upperclassmen houses at Harvard. ADDISON Y. LIU — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
The display utilizes post ers, photographs, and newspa per clippings to tell the story of American drag through the de cades.These artifacts showcase sev eral drag queens and include posters from a Hasty Pudding drag performance, offering a lo cal viewpoint on American drag through the twentieth century.
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interest in gender and perfor mance,” said Wittmann. “One of the clearest ways that is played with and popularized in con temporary American culture is
oughton Library opened on Tuesday an exhibi tion on the history of drag in America, organized by Matthew Wittmann, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection.
But he acknowledged in an in terview that drag “is not without controversy” and can sometimes be viewed as “an act of appropri ation.”“Often in performing an ex aggerated version of gender, you can reinforce gender binaries,” Wittmann said. “A lot of this is in flux, and it depends on context and who the performer is and who the audience is.”
HUA Co-President LyLena D. Estabine ’24 blamed the moving company for sowing confusion about when students who missed their assigned pick-up day could receive their boxes.
At the start of his first class Tuesday afternoon, students walked out of his room in protest, and Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Work ers held a protest outside the Sci ence Center.
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But employees at the ware house sent her back to campus.
Wittmann hopes visitors will gain an appreciation for the his torical ties between gender and entertainment through the ex hibit.“What this really illumi nates is how gender and enter tainment intersect in different ways,” said HoughtonWittmann.Library will host three guided tours of the exhib it in late September, mid-Novem ber, and early December.
“Drag performances real ly flourished because of prohi bition,” Wittmann said. “These underground clubs that spring up — they are more receptive to
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agreed to bring all remaining box es to campus on Aug. 31.
“The driving force here was scholarly student and faculty
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different kinds of entertainment than previously-existing clubs, and so you see a greater range of types of entertainers.”
Johnson wrote that he and
Talia G. Levitt ’25 said compli cations picking up boxes from the storage company meant she was not able to retrieve all her belong ings until the first day of classes.
The exhibit demonstrates the link between drag and the Amer ican prohibition in the early twentieth century.
Estabine plan to convene a working group to address issues affecting LGBTQ+ students on campus.“Asan organization, we are committed to ensuring that Har vard College is a welcoming and open space for everyone, espe cially those who come from mar ginalized backgrounds,” John sonButsaid.Ashford said HCFA — not the HUA — should be the focus of reform.“Idon’t want people to get caught up in the HUA drama and ignore the queer people whose lives are harmed and perma nently damaged by some of this toxic theology,” Ashford said.
through drag performance.”
things for people to focus on.” Zhang, who previously led the program for the UC, said the in creased size of the program add ed to the difficulties in organiz ing storage this year. According to Zhang, 1,623 undergraduates signed up for the program this summer, up from 526 in 2021.
AN EXHIBIT on the history of drag in the United States opened at Houghton Library this week.
Five Star Movers spokesperson Gilberto Ayala attributed the con fusion to a “miscommunication” from the HUA in an emailed state ment to The Crimson.
Wittmann said he chose to center the exhibit around Amer ican drag primarily because
students on campus.
The Harvard Undergraduate As sociation undertook its first ma jor task since its formation in May by organizing the summer storage program, but some participants said the program was marred by confusion and disorganization.
The exhibit also contrasts the stories and experiences of fa mous drag queens Sir Lady Java and Burma WittmannTaylor.said the two had “very differential experiences” despite being near contempo raries due to the racial discrim ination Sir Lady Java faced as a Black activist and performer.
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Harvard students and faculty had demonstrated enthusiasm in related topics.
“I think it was handled real ly badly because I had to literally drive to the warehouse to go get my stuff, and they also had no idea about it,” Singh said.
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HUA Co-President Travis A. Johnson ’24 acknowledged the shortcomings of the program but defended its benefits for the stu dent body, saying that “the pro gram wasn’t perfect, but it was amazing.”“Ithink it’s really important to highlight that this program was beneficial to the students,” John son said. “It resulted in thousands of dollars — their personal hard earned money — being saved be cause they didn’t have to go to an alternative storage unit.”
“I am only one of the nine stu dent officers of the HUA, some of which are themselves members of the LGBTQIA+ community, all of which are working hard to organize and support all stu dents at Harvard College,” Esta bine wrote.
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The exhibit also spotlights ac tivists, such as Marsha P. John son, who were involved in the Stonewall riots.
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Comaroff was placed on unpaid administrative leave in January after two University investiga tions found that he had violated the school’s sexual harassment and professional conduct poli cies.After being placed on paid leave in August 2020 and unpaid administrative leave in January 2021 following allegations of sex ual harassment, Comaroff re turned to teaching this fall.
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“We couldn’t just fully focus on working on the storage program,” HUA Residential Life Officer Da vid Y. Zhang ’24 said. “There was reelection, all sorts of different
When students who participat ed in the program picked up their belongings in August, some raised concerns about a lack of commu nication between the HUA and Five Star Movers, the storage com pany employed by the HUA.
“I think it is unfair to them and to Harvard College as a whole to conflate my own per sonal religious sexual frame work with the functionality of our new student government, which has been in full effect for less than two weeks,” she wrote.
HUA co-president Travis A. Johnson ’24 wrote in a statement to The Crimson that he does not think Estabine “has done any thing to warrant a recall.”
Taruna Singh ’24 said Five Star Movers employees running the box pick-up on campus referred her to the company’s warehouse to retrieve her boxes.
this mistake after the email had been sent out and it left us scram bling to try to correct it. This left a lot of extra work for both us and students, to the point that we had to get one more day to deliver the rest of the boxes.”
“We later found out by some miscommunication an email had been sent out that stated we would have all the boxes from every stu dent at Harvard for all four days and anyone would be able to come get their items at anytime,” Ayala wrote. “We were made aware of
“We are incredibly sorry for the inconvenience, and I know how terrible it is to expect your things and to not be able to receive them,” Estabine said. “I just issue my tru ly heartfelt apologies. But all I can say is that we tried our very best, and that sometimes companies go back on their word, unfortunate ly.”
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“The moving company had taken it upon themselves with out communicating with us to tell students that they were simply out of manpower — that they sim ply were refusing to bring back any more boxes and that students could either pick up their boxes directly from the storage compa ny or they could wait until Satur day,” Estabine said.
The company originally planned to deliver boxes in batch es across four days, he wrote.
Launched 2019 by the Under graduate Council, the summer storage program offers students an affordable option for storing their belongings between aca demic years. The bill that brought this year’s iteration of the program to life came as the student body re placed its existing student govern ment with the HUA, leaving the implementation of the program under new leadership.
The exhibit highlights the long history of drag as a part of American culture and points to its roots in Shakespearean En gland, where male actors fre quently cross-dressed in theatri cal “There’sperformances.alonger history and a greater range of gender expres sions,” Wittmann said. “People were doing these sorts of things for a long, long “Cross-dressingtime.”in the theater has existed for forever,” he add ed.
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guitar, there was a sense of ease they had with each other. Ross’s fun, floppy allure balanced by his brothers’ cool exterior made for a magnetizing stage presence. Their vibe was such a paradoxical mix of laid back smoothness and hyper-inten sity — somehow, it just worked to their ad vantage. Their unique flair enthralled the crowd at the Roadrunner, leaving behind sparks of an unforgettably mesmerizing
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These euphoric scenes are ex pertly contrasted with descrip tions of the deep sadness that comes with losing a loved one. This juxtaposition, coupled with the novel’s manipulation of time, ensures that the plot is dynamic andHartengaging.alternates between the past and present to reveal more about Mallory’s family history, namely her mother’s battle with cancer. She captures the protag
wonderfully relat able element of Hart’s novel is her portrayal of the college ex perience. While not every col lege graduate may share the ex perience of having an affair with a professor twice their age, they can certainly commiserate with Mallory’s struggle to find a sense of belonging on campus.
Hart’smust-read.novelexcels in its depic tions of sexual intimacy between women. These moments are of ten brief but do not shy away from the intensity of sexual gratifica tion. Hart writes in a way that is both straightforward and incred ibly sensual: She avoids unnec essary abstraction, demystifying queer intimacy with detailed ac counts of how Mallory pleasures herself and other women.
ear-piercing shrieks – which seemed to reverberate outside the walls of Roadrun ner and into the streets of Brighton. Ross himself was blown away by the crowd’s energy, quickly apologizing with a “I’m sorry, I should’ve said plug your ears!” He started to tease-sing the lyrics “It’s getting hot in here…” under his breath and the crowd went wild. Indeed, he had tak en his black shirt off earlier in the night,
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when they first arrive on campus, as well as the disappointing real ization that finding the right peo ple is a challenging task. It is only over time that Mallory expands her social circle beyond her roommate and discovers a feel ing of security — a comforting arc which many upperclassmen and college graduates can attest to.
She dreams of following in the woman’s footsteps, thinks about her constantly, and is concerned with her whereabouts long after the affair comes to an end. Con versely, readers have little access to the other half of the affair. The woman’s name is kept a secret and she exhibits an unsettling coldness when she doesn’t ex press her affection with the same enthusiasm as Mallory. Their re lationship is supposed to serve as the novel’s foundation, but with one character giving so much and the other giving so little, the end product is an underwhelm ing and confusing romance.
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On Aug. 3, a line of hundreds of concert-go ers wrapped around the Roadrunner in Boston, the city’s newly minted venu. It was there that the California-made indie pop trio almost monday gave the crowd an unforgettable experience. Consisting of twenty-somethings Dawson Daugh erty, Luke Fabry, and Cole Clisby, almost monday, along with veteran indie rock group Summer Salt, is joining The Driver Era for their U.S. Tour through the begin ning of September. Having accrued most of their notoriety during the pandemic, this is almost monday’s first tour.
At the beginning of the nov el, Hart adopts the quintessential first-year mindset, flawlessly ar ticulating the exciting potential for social growth that one feels
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During the song, there was a brief musical interlude where the boys did a salsa-esque twirl around the stage, as the lights switched over to a sultry green, matching the vibe of the moment. By the end of the song, the boys were panting along with the crowd, which had been jumping and shouting as if performing in tandem with the band. Ross yelled out, “Y’all having a good time tonight? I see that!” — and his cocky smile charmed a smile onto each face in the crowd.
“Sorry, I’m nervous,” said frontman Daugherty, tongue-tied over the num ber of people in the crowd. Despite the momentary stage fright, almost mon day went on to execute an impressively charismatic performance for an up-andcoming act. Their set opened with two yet-to-be-released songs — “distance” and “only wanna dance” — before mov ing into more familiar territory for their audience. Playfully peppered with adlibs from the band’s instrumentalists, “parking lot view” and “live forever” are candid and carefree takes on youth and a perfect introduction to almost monday’s available discography.
onist’s complicated grief bril liantly, in a manner that anyone who has gone through a similar situation will find familiar. Mal lory remembers her mother’s illness, but more importantly, re members her resilience and her
The plot of “We Do What We Do in the Dark” is driven primar ily by character interactions and relationships. Hart devotes little time to worldbuilding, but what she lacks in setting description she makes up for with a sharp fo cus on her characters’ person al and private struggles. Most of the relationships in the novel are captivating and have a clear pur pose, such as Mallory’s moving friendship with the mother of her childhood best friend. Alas, the relationship upon which the nar rative most heavily relies — Mal lory’s romance with the professor — falls
Although they didn’t take the stage un til five past nine, their entrance instantly sent a buzz through the room: Amidst a flourishing dramatic drum solo, the crowd chanted something unintelligible, something like a throbbing mass of an ticipation. Purple strobe lights pierced through the darkness, and the silhouette of the brothers appeared onstage. It was an unforgettable entrance, visually and sonically.Thebrothers’ raw energy was palpable — Rocky immediately started jumping to the beat as Ross shredded on his guitar, diving right into the music of the night.
leaving him in just a white muscle tank — mesmerized, the crowd cheered him on to pick up where he had left off. Ever the charismatic performer, he break-danced during an instrumental break, reminding everyone just how deadly of a triple threat he is.The chemistry shared by the brothers was electric — whether they were sharing a mic or facing each other while playing
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Roadrunner, New England’s largest in door general admission venue and Brigh ton’s newest concert spot, opened its doors on Aug. 2 to pop-funk duo The Driv er Era. The group is comprised of broth ers Ross and Rocky Lynch, with another Lynch brother, Riker, currently joining them on tour. The Lynch brothers had previously performed as the band R5, and Ross is beloved by older Gen Z-ers for star ring on the Disney Channel show “Austin and Ally” earlier in his career.
The band’s performance stumbled only when it came to their shyness in connecting with the audience, likely a re sult of their unfamiliarity with touring. With sunglasses and an unwillingness to explore the stage, Daughtery’s perfor mance lost some of its steam. Regardless, it was not enough to hurt the band’s im pression on the audience, as Daugherty’s vocals ring clearly throughout the ven ue, and Fabry and Clisby’s instrumental mastery is unquestionable. Given this is only their second stop on a national tour, the trio’s stage presence and undeniable chemistry are sure to improve and their performance will continue to leave a last ing impression on future audiences.
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The hall lit up red as Ross dropped his guitar, thrusting his hips — à la the iconic Austin Butler move from Elvis — and throwing his hair back to the beat, crooning out “You keep it natural, natu ral / Turn it up, strip it down / Clothes on the ground / Don’t you make me wait too long.” Rocky danced around, donning a pair of red shades, matching the lights. “One more time!” he shouted, inviting the crowd to join in on the fun by singing the pre-chorus.Themusical diversity of the concert was fascinating; their song “Take Me Away,” for example, crescendoed from a croon accompanied by just drums to an octave higher shout supplemented by gui tar and vocal harmony. Later, under the backdrop of pure white lighting, Ross’s a capella falsetto soared through the air, a brief but memorable vocal highlight of the night. There was even a sprinkling of a cover of Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” — smooth and effortless. At one point, the boys encouraged the crowd to sing along to the ad libs as an intro to “Preacher Man,” their iconically edgy de but“Howsingle. all my ladies doin’?” Ross cheekily said later on, and was met with
The general admission layout of the Road runner lent itself well to the Driver Era’s performance style — their energy seemed to radiate as waves into the crowd of lis teners who were just as enthusiastic to be there, filling the space with a charged air.
Nevertheless, each relation ship in the novel yields growth for Mallory and her partners. Hart creates a space for Mallory to explore her queerness and ex perience intimacy with different genders without shame. Even at a young age, after kissing a woman she knew in high school, Mallory feels “giddy and electric.”
The strobelights eased the transitions for the first few songs, changing from deep purple to red to sunset yellow and blue on cue with the beat. The first word spoken that night was “BOSTON!” shout ed by Ross before the beat dropped to their latest release, “Malibu.”
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Michelle Hart’s debut novel “We Do What We Do in the Dark” fol lows Mallory, a first-year in col lege, as she navigates an affair with an older married woman who teaches at her universi ty. Tactfully written with keen insights into loneliness, lust, and loss, the narrative is a Pride Month
The band matched the infectious energy of their tracks with their bubbly and cute delivery, catering to the young demographic in the crowd. After deliver ing a feel-good, rhythmic performance of “sun keeps on shining” for example, Dougherty shyly asked to take a picture of the Boston crowd, gathering cheers from the swooning fans. The band’s southern California background and classic rock influence are clear, from the sunny themes behind tracks like “sun burn” to the groovy, upbeat guitar chord progressions in “sun keeps on shining.”
THE CONCERT. The chemistry shared by The Driver Era was electric — whether they were sharing a mic or facing each other while playing guitar, there was a sense of ease they had with each other.
Their songwriting also reflects re latable coming-of-age themes, like the anxieties of not being “cool enough” for a crush or potential partner, juxtaposed by lively Cali-inspired riffs and na-nana’s the audience can’t help but echo. The crowd interaction in “cough drops,” an other unreleased track previously teased on TikTok, also had the whole stadium chanting along to the rhythmic guitar bit. While heavy on unreleased material, the selection was the perfectly concocted combination of almost monday’s current discography and what’s yet to come.
Thisshort.relationship feels incred ibly one-sided and difficult to be come invested in. Although the novel is written from a third-per son point of view, it might as well be a first-person narrative. Read ers are granted unlimited access to Mallory’s complete and utter infatuation with the older wom an; just as much as Mallory wants to be with her, she wants to be her.
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Hart wisely refuses to let ho mophobia intrude upon the nar rative, normalizing queer love and attraction in both public and private settings. Her debut novel is an undeniable success, an ele gant coming of age story that gets to the core of what it means to be human.
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Staff writer Julia J. Hynek sat down with best-selling Har vard alum Elif Batuman to talk about her newest novel, “Ei ther/Or,” and her 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist (and smash hit) “The Idiot.” The recurring themes visible in Batuman’s work — a university setting, Russian literature, Turkish identity — come from a place familiar to the author. It is not difficult to connect “The Idiot” and sequel “Either/Or”’s protagonist Selin to Batu man herself, the only child of Turkish immigrants in New Jersey and an alumna of both Harvard College and Stanford University. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Batuman recalled that though she had always wanted to write a novel, her early creative experiences were “kind of contingent on what the pub lishing landscape was and what the writing landscape was.” This is sure to be only the beginning of Batuman’s success.
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I adore Jennifer Beals’s Bette Porter from “The L Word” (20042009) for her ambition, determi nation, confidence, and assertive ness. She sometimes discussed her intersectional Black and les bian identity, a rare topic for tele vision of its time. When I first streamed “The L Word,” I was nearing the end of high school and had grown comfortable with being openly queer but struggled to envision a future for myself be cause I had not seen it for any one else like me. Bette, a self-as sured Black lesbian character with a successful, exciting ca reer and a daughter, was the one to demonstrate that future. In middle school, when I was fig uring out my identity, I watched Lena Adams Foster (portrayed by Sherri Saum) of “The Fosters” (2013-2018) raise kids and have a career, but she was somewhat in the background, while Bette was in the center. Bette, thank you for allowing me to construct my own when-I-grow-up dreams.
with Yorkie (portrayed by Mack enzie Davis), a quiet, bookish young woman. Midway through the episode, the audience learns that Kelly and Yorkie are not young; they are elderly wom en undergoing an experience similar to a kind of virtual real ity nostalgia therapy. As a kid in high school, I was touched and inspired to see an elderly Black woman in a romantic relation ship with another woman, and I realized how rare it is to find BGLTQ characters older than their thirties. I began to imag ine myself growing old while liv ing a pleasant and authentic life. Moreover, the show does not fo cus on Kelly’s and Yorkie’s races, gender, or sexualities; it focus es on their relationship’s beau ty, challenges, and vulnerability, thus rejecting the potential no tion that it could be considered unusual. Kelly, thank you for nor malizing the possibilities of hap piness as an elderly Black queer woman.Asachild, I was obsessed with Uniqua, the pink spotted char acter portrayed by LaShawn Tináh Jefferies on “The Backyar digans” (2004-2013). Unlike the other characters (a kangaroo, a penguin, a moose, and a hip po), Uniqua is her own species. And compared to Tasha, the oth er girl character, Uniqua is more of a tomboy. She is arguably a BGLTQ-coded character, and I al ways sensed that her identity was unique. Uniqua was inspiring to me; I appreciated her inability to fit a mold and her confidence in herself. Also, she was portrayed by Black actors (speaking voice and singing voices). As a child, I was surprised that she and Ty rone, the moose, were both por trayed by Black actors, because I could not recall examples of more than one Black person in
a non-familial setting, such as a friend group or classroom. Uni qua showed me that there is no need to limit the amount of space Black people fill. I identified with Uniqua from a young age, even though our shared identities were coded and implied. Hopefully in the future, children’s characters will display intersectional mar ginalized identities in more ex plicit ways. Uniqua, thank you for being the first character to whom I trulyGoingconnected.forward, I want even more representation of Black BGLTQ women. I want to see not only young characters, but also middle-aged and elderly ones; not only characters who exist to send a message about injus tice, but also characters who ex ist to be themselves; and not only BGLTQ-coded children’s char acters, but also characters who are canonically BGLTQ. All of the characters I mentioned (ex cept Uniqua) were in mixed-race relationships, but I also want to see relationships between Black women. They were also mostly in mature-rated series — I can not remember any Black BGLTQ women from teen-oriented se ries, not even “Degrassi: The Next Generation” (2001-2015) or “Glee” (2009-2015). Additionally, I want to see more transgender, non-binary, and gender noncon forming characters, which were glaringly absent from this piece.
For the Black BGLTQ Women I Grew Up With on TV
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BO SEO
When Lowell House resident tutor Bo Seo ’17 HLS ’24 joined an interview with The Harvard Crimson on an early Tues day morning last month, his Zoom screen featured a Har vard-issued wooden bookcase adorned with his debut novel, “Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard.” Part memoir, part compendium on competitive debate, and part call to action, “Good Arguments” traces Seo’s life from young child to young professional, interweaving this biography with commentary on the urgent need for better arguments in public discourse and actionable advice for the reader to facili tate better arguments in their own life. “I don’t take that time for granted, I don’t take that attention for granted, and when I choose to speak I want it to be as impactful as possible,” he said of his book. As one might expect from a champion debater, Seo’s own arguments throughout are carefully constructed and read as impenetrable scraps of wisdom. It does not take him long to make a relevant and sound point.
With two New York Times Bestsellers already under their belt, author Casey McQuiston’s latest book released to much anticipation. In “I Kissed Shara Wheeler,” McQuiston’s latest foray into the world of young adult romance, readers meet another set of couples grappling with much of the same challenges as those in “One Last Stop” (2021) and “Red, White & Royal Blue” (2019). In between all the laughs, high school cliques, master plans, teenage antics, crawling through vents, and fall ing off of yachts that happens in “I Kissed Shara Wheeler,” Ana iah B. Thomas writes, readers experience two characters falling in love and grappling with what it means to be in love and what some of their first sexual experiences are supposed to look like. That, in itself, deserves applause.
I was happy to see a Black woman who was out as gay, loved by her friends, and in a healthy relationship.
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Today, the situation has vastly improved from when I was grow ing up — but there is still more to be done for positive, diverse, nu anced representation. I want to see more Black BGLTQ women’s stories. They were critical to my youth, so I know they will con tinue to matter for generations to come.
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As a Black queer woman, I would like to thank the Black BGLTQ female and femme television characters who I watched growing up.
friends, and in a healthy relation ship — a relationship like one that I hoped to have someday, even though I had not before seen it between two women of color. My heart crushed when Poussey was murdered by a correctional offi cer at the end of the season. I grew to identify with this character, only to watch her die at the hands of a reckless white man, a harsh reminder of a sad reality always present in my mind as a Black woman. While I understand that the writers wanted to send a mes sage about Black Lives Matter, I still wish they did not dispose of my beloved Poussey just to make a point. There is power in Black joy, too. Poussey, thank you for being there for me as a 15-yearold on my way out of the closet.
by Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an out going, fun-loving, presumably bi sexual young woman, falls in love
Going forward, I want even more representation of Black BGLTQ women. I want to see not only young characters, but also middle-aged and elderly“ones.
iversity in media is crit ical for young people. It helps shape how they per ceive themselves and others. Moreover, media represen tation holds a unique position regarding sexual orientation and gender identity: while most young people have close relation ships with other people who have the same racial, ethnic, or reli gious identity in their families or communities, it is less common for BGLTQ youth to personally know other people in their fami lies or communities who openly have the same sexuality or gender identity. Because of this, charac ters in television, books, movies, and other media play a huge role in understanding BGLTQ identity andWhileculture.Iwas growing up, the vast majority of BGLTQ char acters were white and male. Ev ery character with overlapping marginalized identities, then, carried significant weight. As a Black queer woman, I would like to thank the Black BGLTQ female and femme television characters who I watched growing up and continue to love today. I write this piece as an homage to these fic tional characters, as celebration and critique, and as an opportu nity for reflection on past televi sion representation to consider what to maintain and what to im prove in present and future tele visionPousseyrepresentation.Washington (por trayed by Samira Wiley) from “Orange is the New Black” (20132019) is a compassionate, light hearted inmate. When I watched the fourth season of the show, I was in the ninth grade and in the process of coming out as queer. I was happy to see a Black woman who was out as gay, loved by her
Sure, it’s a problem. It would be good if I could get more liber als. And I think about what I could say that would attract them that wouldn’t spoil my message or force me to say things that I don’t think are correct.
home.But I think that the way in which women live and the way they think remains different. With their career, they’re always thinking about being a moth er, too. And that’s the difficulty of it, because they require oppo site traits. To be good at a career, you have to focus. To be good as a mother, you have to be open.
In fact, the first manly person that I mentioned in my book is Mar garet Thatcher, just to show my goodButfaith.something like that prevails
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ty. And they’re beautiful books be cause every word in them counts. They’re, in some ways, easy to read, because it’s not crazy or irrational or confused.Butthey’re thought-provoking, so it can take a very long time to read a page, or you can go through quickly. It’s good to do both. And, of course, they’re beauties of style. Beauty of form and expression and thought. And it’s just the intelligence that makes a book worth reading long after you’ve died.
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as a problem.
HCM: This will probably be my last year, [but] I haven’t declared it or decided. I just turned 90. That’s pretty old.
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So I was less interested in the domestic aspects of conserva tism, and actually, that’s still the case with me. I’m mainly interest ed in foreign policy and keeping America strong and vigilant.
HCM: It would be easy to simply have the president or the deans in vite conservative speakers, have a lecture series. You should just con front the objectors and the protest ers. You should take them on.
No, they haven’t. They’ve been confirmed, in my view. I think we should profit from the virtues of each of the two sexes. There’s a lot of overlap, so if I start listing these things, you can immediately think of many exceptions, like manliness.
That women have something like a maternal instinct I think is quite true and obvious and should be accepted. But to be a good mother is to be different from a man or a father, in many ways. You shouldn’t think of the two as just substitutable, or that the virtues of either can be dis missed as useless or harmful.
HCM: I went to England on a Ful bright after I graduated. I loved the way the Englishmen dressed, so I got sort of an appetite for an American version, to dress up a little and also to wear a hat. It keeps you cool in summer and warm in winter, and it looks classy and sets you apart.
FM: How did you first become interested in political philoso HCM:phy?
A little bit. I want to keep the parameters of free speech, so I try to test the borders some times. Certainly I am sexist. I say that plainly. I think there are dif ferences in the sexes, and I think they ought to be respected, and to some extent laughed about. It’s good for men and women to tease each other. And it’s very bad for students as they do today to take offense so easily.
FM: What do you think Harvard could do to try to improve ideo logical diversity on campus?
FM: Do you think your political views impact what type of stu dents take your class?
HCM: Yes, they smoke me out. It’s funny. A few years ago, I gave a fresh man seminar on Gulliver’s Travels, and it was given in the fall, so this was the first course they were taking at Harvard.Gradually it turned out, as the weeks passed on, that this was a pretty conservative bunch. They had somehow located me as a friendly voice before they got here, or as soon as they got here. Just talking about Gulliver’s Travels, why would that be conservative? It isn’t, really.
Harvey C. Mansfield re ceived his undergrad uate and PhD degrees in Government from Harvard. He has taught political philosophy since 1969.
FM: Your 2006 book, “Manliness,” defended biological differences between the sexes and received a lot of pushback. Have your views on those differences changed
FM: For all your criticism of Harvard, you’ve been here since 1969. What do you like about Harvard that has stayed consistent throughout your time
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HCM: My political views shift ed just about the time I graduat ed. I was a liberal through my un dergraduate time, voted for Adlai Stevenson. I think that’s pret ty much the last Democrat I vot ed for as president. The issue on which I changed was commu nism. I thought that the liberals were too weak on communism, in opposing it.
FM: What’s the story behind your signature fedora?
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Certainly I am sexist. I say that plainly. I think there are differences in the sexes, and I think they ought to be respected, and to some extent laughed about.
I think most people are in favor of free speech, and it isn’t free if you’ve got only one side. So that’s some thing which could be done imme diately, starting right now. Where as hiring, that would take a very long time to Andcorrect.theycould change the Com mencement. One year you could have a liberal, and the next year a conservative. That would improve things mightily. I’ve said that to several presidents, and they usu ally respond, ‘Well, we want Com mencement to be fun, and not to be a protest.’ But if you say that you sur render to the protesters.
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FM: What do you like to do on a day HCM:off?
Harvey C. Mansfield: I don’t know. My father was teaching there at the time. I can’t give a good reason. But having chosen Harvard, I’m strictly deep-dyed crimson.
FM: In 2012, you told our maga zine that you didn’t have plans to retire just yet. Is retirement on the horizon now?
FM: Today, you’re one of the most visible conservative fac ulty members on campus. Were you always a conser vative, or have your political views shifted over time?
FM: I know you are conservative, but are you a Trump supporter?
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FM: On that subject, a recent survey in the Crimson found that 80 percent of surveyed fac ulty identify as liberal. Do you see that ideological imbalance as an issue on campus?
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But then, the January 6 thing, I crossed him off my list totally. I nev er want to see him again. Because that was what I feared and a lot of other people feared would happen during his presidency, but didn’t quite. I think he’s had a very bad in fluence on America and on the Re publicans, and they need to get rid of him.
HCM:here?
THE GOVERNMENT PROFESSOR, one of the University’s most prominent conservative faculty mem bers, sat down to discuss political polarization on campus. “The Harvard Commencement is something like the Democratic National Convention,” he says. “And that’s a hell of a way to run a university.”
Fifteen Minutes: You’re origi nally from New Haven. So why didn’t you go to Yale?
HCM: Yes, it’s a terrific issue. It’s an issue which is not accepted as an issue by most of my colleagues and by the university, general ly. They don’t think it’s a problem that Harvard is mocked by half the country for the things which it does gratuitously, to provoke them.The Harvard Commencement is something like the Democratic National Convention. And that’s a hell of a way to run a university, to maintain its impartiality and its devotion to veritas, to truth, just to go out of your way to provoke people who happen to have dif ferent politics, instead of inviting them to come and even just give a talk. How can that be in Harvard’s interest?Asto hiring, I don’t think a conservative has been hired in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the last decade. And it’s prob ably been going on longer than that.Maybe there’s one or two, but if so, they stay hidden. Because if you’re conservative and want to get on with your colleagues, you have to indulge in self-censor ship, and I think a number of stu dents do that as well. But I can’t get my colleagues to think of this
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I was a Gov major and I took Government courses. The first political philosophy was not until I was a junior. I wanted to be a Soviet expert. That was my first thought. So as a freshman, I took Russian.Andthen I figured out that I didn’t want to spend my life read ing Communist propaganda or memos or whatever, [and that] archives and political philosophy would be much more interesting, and I guess I found that to be the case.
FM: In the description for your Democracy and Inequality course this semester, you describe books like Plato’s “Republic” and Toc queville’s “Democracy in Ameri ca” as “beautiful books.” Why are these books still relevant, and how do you evaluate a work to know if it’s a classic?
HCM: Well, a classic book is a book that treats permanent problems, not passing ones. Permanent prob lems like democracy and inequali
FM: Do you see that self-selection as a HCM:problem?
more in the male sex than with women. I think that’s important. We’ve seen since the women’s movement that women do a per fectly good job as doctors, law yers, professors, and so on. And so it’s good to exploit that kind of intellectual talent, which other wise gets overlooked, not devel oped, when women just stay at
FM: I don’t know if you’re on Twitter, but some students on Twitter have complained about some off-color com ments you’ve made in class that could be offensive. Is that something you try to do inten
The one thing that’s stayed pretty constant is the students I get in my courses. High quality and interested and lively, intel ligent. The students are still that way despite the changes in sex and race. You know, if I couldn’t see, I wouldn’t notice a difference. That’s been a kind of success I would say of Harvard and Har vard admissions, the ability to at tract the best students.
I’m a most ardent fan of Harvard and Boston teams, and pretty much all the sports. I’m at every Harvard football game at home. Away, I only go to New Ha ven.
HCM: No. I voted for him in 2020. I’m definitely not a Democrat. He did some things that Republicans like, and some things that they don’t — all his boorishness. So for the Democrats, they put those togeth er. Whereas to a Republican like me, there were some good things that I liked, like his Supreme Court ap pointments, tax cut, the turn against China, things like that.
As of Sept. 6, FAS class en rollment data shows two stu dents — one undergraduate and one graduate — are currently en rolled in Comaroff’s class.
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The petition also called on Harvard to take “active and pub lic steps towards” restoring trust in theTheUniversity.petition,which has more than 250 signatures, stipulated that the union and its support ers would “commit to collective action” should the University fail to respond to their demands be fore the start of the fall semester.
Max G. Ehrenfreund, an HG SU-UAW member and a Ph.D. candidate in History of Science, said Comaroff’s continued em ployment at Harvard demon strates a need for structural change at the University.
Clare T. Canavan, another co-chair of the union’s feminist working group, said she felt the rally showed survivors that there are people willing to fight for their safety on campus.
west Building and stopped to chant outside of the room where Comaroff was teaching.
Comaroff Return to Teaching Met by Protest
“We’ve all been fighting this fight for a long time against Co maroff and just for better protec tions, and justice for survivors in general at Harvard,” she said. “And this is just one stepping stone in that fight.”
“It’s Harvard’s job to pro tect us from faculty when they do wrong,” she shouted to the crowd. “We should not have to rely on the whisper network to take care of ourselves as students on this Tuesday’scampus.”protest comes roughly eight months after Fac ulty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay placed Comaroff
“Professorspolicies.who harass shouldn’t be in class!” shouted students in unison at the rally or ganized by members of Harvard Graduate Students Union-Unit ed Automobile Workers.
Jaswal added that Harvard’s Title IX process is inadequate to stop serial Followingabuse.speeches from stu dents in the plaza, dozens of at tendees marched to the North
Students sign petitions organized by the Harvard graduate student union outside the Science Center at a pro test rallying against professor John L. Comaroff’s return to the classroom. ADDISON Y. LIU — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
HGSU-UAW member and Phi losophy Ph.D. candidate Denish K. Jaswal argued for the union’s longstanding demand for “real recourse” — defined by the union as third-party arbitration of sexbased discrimination and sexual harassment grievances.
R eturning from two years of administrative leave for allegations of sexual and professional misconduct, Har vard professor John L. Comaroff stood up to start teaching his first class back on campus Tuesday afternoon.Then,five graduate students stood up and walked out of the classroom in Meanwhile,protest.dozens of stu dents congregated in the Science Center Plaza to decry Comaroff’s continued employment at Har vard on the first day of his course, African and African American Studies 190X: “The Anthropolo gy of Law: classical, contempo rary, comparative, and critical perspectives.” This week, Coma roff resumed teaching for the first time since University inves tigations found he violated sexu al harassment and professional misconduct
In a speech during the rally, organizer Courtney M. Whilden, a co-chair of the union’s feminist working group, said University administrators should hold fac ulty accountable for misconduct.
Harvard affiliates walked out of class on Tuesday afternoon to rally for stronger protections again harassment and discrimination. CORY K. GORCZYCKI — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
on unpaid leave and barred him from teaching required courses this academic year after a pair of University investigations found him to be in violation of its pol icies. Gay previously placed Co maroff on paid administrative leave in August 2020 after allega tions that he sexual harassed stu dents first emerged earlier that year.After students learned Co maroff would resume teaching in the fall, HGSU-UAW circulat ed a petition demanding Har vard clarify its process for decid ing what sanctions to impose on professors who violate sexual harassment policies, “up to and including the revocation of ten ure.”“Tenure exists to protect the academic freedom of scholars to cultivate a rich and vibrant aca demic community, not to protect the freedom of tenured individu als to erode the very conditions of mutual respect and safety re quired for such a community to exist,” the petition states.
Ruth K. O’Meara-Costello ’02, one of Comaroff’s lawyers, wrote in a statement that though Co maroff recognizes the students’ rights to peacefully protest, “the protesters’ goals are incompat ible with the values of fairness and due process,” claiming that the union’s demands are based on “untested accusations.”
“The Comaroff case is illus trative because he was found by the University’s investigation to have violated these policies, but nonetheless, there is no real ac countability,” he said. “What we see is that even when there is overwhelming evidence, still the University does not act — and that shows the need for thought ful Facultyreform.”of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Rachael Dane de clined to comment.
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“It is a large step towards learning the truth and finding those responsible for Rodrigo’s death,” Arbizu wrote.
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Police in Bali say Ventocil la was arrested for possession of items containing marijuana and later died from multiple or gan failures after consuming un seized prescription drugs while in custody. But Ventocilla’s moth er, Ana Ventosilla, alleged in an
the family to “understand the di mension of the actions that con stitute serious violations against human rights.”
leged crime against humanity, in the form of torture, to the detri ment of Peruvian citizens Rodri go Ventocilla and Sebastián Mar allano,” following days of protests by LGBTQ+ rights organizations in Lima.Julio Arbizu González, a law yer representing Ventocilla’s fam ily, wrote in a statement Monday that the investigation is “very im portant” because it would allow
results have not been publicly re leased.Arbizu wrote in the state ment the autopsy was a “neces sary step for the investigation, as it always is in crimes of tor ture,” but warned that the autop sy might not tell the complete sto ry of what happened to Ventocilla in Indonesia.“Itmustbe remembered that the agent denounced for this
RODRIGO VENTOCILLA RALLY
An autopsy was conducted on Saturday, a day after Ventocilla’s body returned to Peru, according to a family representative, but the
crime can inflict cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment con sciously, with both physical and psychological violence,” Arbizu wrote. Cody J. Sanders, Harvard’s American Baptist chaplain, start ed the Sunday event by leading at tendees in a prayer honoring Ven tocilla and his legacy of activism for trans rights.
OSTON — Chanting “Jus tice for Rodrigo,”nearly 100 protestors rallied out side the Peruvian consulate in Boston on Sunday to honor Ro drigo Ventocilla Ventosilla, a Harvard Kennedy School student from Peru who died in police cus tody in Indonesia last month.
“His apartment was just one of my favorite places to be,” Ben son said. “He wasn’t a really good cook, but he was okay and he would always want to make food, and have beer, and just have ev erything everyone wanted.”
Advocates Honor Student who Died in Bali
“So I miss that place,” Benson added. “It was at Peabody — so it was awful, but he made it amaz ing.”
Attendees at the rally for Rodrigo Ventocilla Ventosilla, a Peruvian Harvard Kennedy School student who died while in police custody in Indonesia on Aug. 11, march toward the Peruvian consulate in Boston. MILES J. HERSZENHORN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
“It was important for me to honor my friend and to honor an incredible person who has be come a martyr for the trans com munity,” Poulin said. “I just want everyone to know about Rodri go and to know what was done to him and to demand justice for what was done to him.”
Rally attendees lay flowers at a memorial dedicated to Rodrigo Ventocil la, who died in Indonesia. MILES J. HERSZENHORN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
interview on Aug. 29 that her son and his spouse were tortured and suffered physical police violence at the hands of Indonesian au thorities. Stefanus Satake Bayu Setianto, head of public relations for the Bali Police, has denied alle gations of police violence against Ventocilla and Marallano. Pe ruvian prosecutors announced in a press release Thursday that they were investigating an “al
HKS student Vic Hogg speaks before rallygoers gathered near the Peru vian consulate in Boston. MILES J. HERSZENHORN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
“In your remembering of Ro drigo, may his memory be a bless ing to all he has helped to call together in community,” Sand ers said. “And may his blessing be dangerous to all who stand against justice and all who would who would wish to do wrong to queer and trans folk, to BIPOC folk, and to the good doers of jus tice.”Raquel Maldonado ’17, said they attended the rally to “de mand justice and the truth” about Ventocilla’s
Ventocilla died on Aug. 11 at a hospital in Denpasar, five days af ter he was arrested upon arrival at the airport in Bali where he was traveling on a honeymoon with his spouse, Sebastián Marallano.
Morgan K. Benson, an HKS student who graduated in 2022 and a co-organizer of the ral ly, told the crowd that Ventocil la enjoyed hosting gatherings for transgender and genderqueer graduate students Harvard.
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The rally came three days af ter Peruvian prosecutors an nounced they had opened a pre liminary investigation into the death of Ventocilla, a transgen der man whose family says he was arrested by police in Bali in an “act of racial discrimination andThetransphobia.”rallyinBoston, described as a “protest/vigil” by organizers, was held in solidarity with other events in Peru, Australia, and In donesia on Sunday. Michelle C. Poulin, who graduated from HKS in 2022, said they helped organize the rally because they wanted to share Ventocilla’s story.
“Especiallydeath.with trans expe riences and trans lives, so many people are always lying about our experiences,” Maldonado said. “Getting the truth out there is im portant to know and be able to bear witness to what happened to him, and how it should not be happening in this world.”
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Just on Friday, the Crimson beat No. 24 Miami (Ohio) 1-0 in overtime on a penalty corner kick from first-year defender Bron te-May Brough, who took anoth er three shots at Miami’s net earli er in the game as well.
Senior goalkeep er Ellie honors.FirstearnedEnglandwhenaveragegoals-againstnation-bestShahbo’sin2021,theSurrey,nativeAll-IvyTeam 0.44 Total Miamigoalgame-winningoffoundte-Maydefenderbeforeovertimeelapsedtimeinfirst-yearBronBroughthebackthenetforaagainst(Ohio). 5:54 [It’s] phenomenal to see them fitting in well and already taking some specific roles on the field, especially in defense.”
“[It’s] phenomenal to see them fitting in well and already taking some specific roles on the field, especially in defense,” van Her waardenHailedremarked.asoneofthe top defen sive teams in all of D-I field hock ey last season, Harvard’s defense should be strong once again. At the helm is All-Ivy First Teamer Ellie Shahbo, one of the best goal ies in all of Division I.
“I think that the defense will always be one of our strengths,” van Herwaarden said. “At the same time, as we cherish that and keep working on those things, we of course want to strengthen our attacking unit.”
The new challenge for the Crimson is a series of difficult games that will test its talent.
“Whenpoll. big players leave, it creates the opportunity for oth er players to step up and I think that is what is happening for our team…so that’s really great to see, it’s a natural process,” van Her waarden noted. “To see how it pans out for the whole entire sea son of course takes time.”
proach the game as dominators, with new faces to replace the old ones. This new position will stand as a challenge for the team, but one that it has already started to rally against.
“Still,”with.”headded. “Right now, we are happy to be together, ex cited, but also very focused on an other great season, which is defi nitely a lot more pressure than lastVanyear.” Herwaarden’s play ers now know what they are up against — as do their compet itors. Their consistent perfor mances under pressure have cre ated an expectation for success against top-level teams, some thing that was not present at the beginning of last season.
“Our leadership has changed quite significantly,” van Her waarden recalled. “That takes time to grow and takes time to de
Some of that offensive strength will come from the in coming class, as well as from players who experienced the breadth and depth of top-notch competition during their NCAA tournament run.
velop. It’s a process that will take us all the way into October.”
TEAM TO BEAT. Coming off an appear ance in the national semifinals in 2021, the Crimson welcomes a strong first-year class, hoping to go two wins further than last year.
Ivy League Coach of the Year. “I think that is something that will challenge us and change the ap proach to the game for us…we are ready to take it on.”
Defender Hannah Pearce (#3) has graduated, but senior goalie Ellie Shahbo looks poised to lead a strong Harvard defense in 2022. TIMOTHY R. O’MEARA — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
After its astounding run to the national semifinals, the Crim son is no longer the underdog—it is the team to beat. Perhaps that is the most considerable differ ence this year: Harvard’s capabil ity to win in major competition is not only sensed among top-level teams but has been proven over and“Inover.the past, we have normally put ourselves in an underdog po sition while we played top-level teams,” said head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden. “It is a position we really cherish and we were com fortable
Preseason training has giv en the Crimson a chance to adapt to this new mindset—how to ap
“I can confidently say we’ve gained attacking power com pared to last year,” the coach said.
Indeed, on Sunday, the Crim son’s defense was solid, but a late flurry of shots was not enough to make up the deficit against No.
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Harvard: Underdog No More
Harvard field hockey celebrates after first-year defender Bronte-May Brough’s overtime winner against Miami (Ohio) on Friday. After its stellar 2021, the Crimson are ranked seventh in the country.
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early ten months ago, the Harvard field hockey team walked off Phyllis Oocker Field in Ann Arbor, Mich. as record breakers, making it to the Final Four of the NCAA Tour nament for the first time in pro gram history. The team stood un defeated in the Ivy League, beat both No. 2 Michigan and No. 6 Louisville 1-0 in overtime bouts during the tournament, and went 17-2 overall for the entire season.
2022 graduates Hannah Pearce and Mimi Tarrant were two dominant players who played key leadership roles in the 2021 season. Pearce was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and scored the Crim son’s lone goal in the NCAA Final Four game against title-winners Northwestern. Tarrant scored one of the three goals in the pen alty shootout that sent Harvard to the semifinals for the first time in program history and played a crucial role in its offense.
But the void of these two forc es has been filled by the grace of seven incoming first-years—sev en players who have already be gun to make a sizable impact on the team. Alongside these firstyears stands the rest of the strong team who each played a role in Harvard’s nearly unvanquished season last fall. Thanks in part to the contributions of its seven new players, Harvard stands at No. 7 in the National Field Hock ey Coaches Association’s presea son
Facing more talented teams and gaining new players will, van Herwaarden hopes, allow the team to display its strength once again.“Ican tell you that everybody is really excited, especially with the strength we have in our in coming class plus the experience from last year,” he said. “Time will tell.”The gauntlet starts immedi ately, as Harvard will take on fel low national semifinalist No. 4 University of Maryland on Friday, Sept. 9 at 5 p.m., and No. 21 Ameri can at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11 in College Park, Md.
But after losing two valuable players from its NCAA tourna ment run, the Crimson still has a major question to answer: who will step up to lead?
15 University of Connecticut in a tough, 2-0 defeat at home.
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“People will come to play with a former Final Four team…they will come out to get us,” said the
The Crimson rode this wave until the 80th minute, when a foul gave the Bulldogs a chance to equalize the game. Bryant ju nior Luis Fernando Paúl took a free kick from 15 yards out, nail ing the top right of the net to tie the game
Lining up, he fired it at the
Harvard 2, Central Conn. State 0
This was the third career shutout for senior goalkeeper Oskar Nilsson, who made one save in the game. Other nota ble players included sophomore Alessandro Arlotti and junior WillemArlottiEbbinge.started the scor ing off for the Crimson at 26:34 in the game; he is coming off a stellar rookie season in which he scored nine goals and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year Ebbinge’s goal at 47:33 made the win all but assured, with Harvard riding out their lead for the win.
Goals scored by Alessandro Ar lotti, Ivy League Rookie of the Year, in the 2021 season.
Sophomore Marko Isakovic drives down the field against Bryant University. DYLAN J. GOODMAN — CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER
The Crimson opened the season against the Central Con necticut Blue Devils on Satur day, September 3rd. Harvard handily dealt with their oppo nents, shutting them out simi larly to their 2021 matchup.
The game remained score less until the 50th minute when Ebbinge broke away off an assist from junior Nik White to put Harvard up 1-0.
The Crimson will be in ac tion again on the road at Ver mont on Saturday, Sept. 10.
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2021 MEN’S SOCCER The Crimson celebrate after a victory against Bryant University on Tuesday, September 6. DYLAN J. GOODMAN — CRIMSON
he 2021 season for the Crimson (8-5-3) was one of best in recent histo ry, and they show no sign of let ting up in 2022. Two victories to begin the season over Cen tral Connecticut State Uni versity and Bryant Universi ty foretell good things to come, with Harvard showing its abil ity to work under pressure ear ly with a last-second go-ahead goal against the Bulldogs to win the game.
Several other Harvard play ers celebrated milestones in the match. Sophomore Kristjan Gunnarsson received his first college point with an assist on Arlotti’s goal, and sophomore Marko Isakovic earned his sec ond collegiate point with an as sist.
The Crimson fans erupted, with the team charging to meet them at the fence, celebrating. The bench rushed to meet them, and the game for all intents and purposes, ended there.
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players already in good form.
Crimson fans who braved the elements to watch their team play the Bryant Bulldogs were treated to a much tighter and more nerve-wracking con test on a rainy Tuesday night.
madison.barkate@thecrimson.com The recentofwhich2021Crimson’srecord,wasonethebestinhistory 8-5-3
The two games bode well for Harvard’s season, with several
ed away by a defender. Howev er, first-year Marcos Ojea Quin tana was able to keep the ball alive, sending it to senior Nico Garcia-Morillo, who scored the game winner off a left cross low with two seconds to spare.
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net but was stopped by Bryant sophomore goalkeeper Luca Marinelli. Arlotti played the re bound well for a second chance at net, but a mammoth effort by Marinelli kept the Crimson at bay.For the final six minutes, Harvard played fiercely, ag gressively charging at their at tacking end, trying to score one last goal. After a few weak looks at the net, Ebbinge played the ball into the box with less than a minute left, which was deflect
LAST YEAR’S STATS. The Crimson took 239 shots and scored 31 goals in the 2021 season, averaging 14.9 shots and 1.94 goals per game. The team also achieved 38 assists and 86 saves. PHOTOGRAPHER
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Harvard 2, Bryant 1
Ebbinge now has five points on the season with goals in two consecutive games. Arlotti is picking up right where he left off, and several Harvard de fenders, including White, Gun narsson, and sophomore Jan Riecke are seeing significant playing time.
Harvard Kicks Off Season with Back-to-Back Wins
EARLY SUCCESS. Harvard men’s soccer has a 2-0 record to kickoff the season. In their first matchup, the Crimson won 2-0 against Central Con necticut State University, and in the second regular season game they won 2-1 against Bryant University.
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It appeared as though the game would end without fur ther excitement until Arlotti was fouled in the box and was awarded a penalty kick.
Minutes1-1.later, Nilsson, Har vard’s goalkeeper, took a nasty fall and had to leave the game, though it was unclear wheth er Nilsson’s substitution was due to an injury or simply the rule against playing with blood on your jersey. The Crimson subbed in senior goalkeeper David Paquette for the final six minutes, who had a strong per formance in spite of the cold weather, and Bryant did not get another good look at the goal.
STRONG START. Harvard men’s soccer is coming off a strong 2021 season, and with eight of their eleven starters returning to the pitch, the team is hoping to carry its momentum into the fall.
