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The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CXLVII NO. 29 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020

EDITORIAL PAGE 6

NEWS PAGE 4

SPORTS PAGE 7

We believe the Dean of Students Office should enforce its policies

Harvard faculty discuss coronavirus and simultaneous enrollment

Track and Field places second at Ivy League Heptagonal Championship

Mass. Voters Cast Ballots on Super Tuesday Bacow In Favor Voters Head to the Polls of Police Across Mass.

Review

By JOSHUA C. FANG, JASPER G. GOODMAN, TAYLOR C. PETERMAN, and CHARLES XU

By MICHELLE G. KURILLA and RUOQI ZHANG

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Variously expressing enthusiasm, confusion, and resignation, Massachusetts voters took their pick of the Democratic presidential hopefuls in primary elections Tuesday.

Two polling locations on Harvard’s campus opened at 7 a.m. — one at Quincy House and one at Gund Hall. Across the river, voters in Allston cast their ballots at the Honan-Allston Public Library.

After exiting the voting booths, several voters said they have changed their minds multiple times over the past several weeks, with some making their decisions as late as Tuesday morning.

Elydia S. Riley, an Allston resident, said deciding who to vote for was “very, very difficult.” She ultimately opted for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (IVt.).

“Originally I was planning on voting for Biden, even though I love Elizabeth Warren, but I don’t think she can win,” Riley said.

“I feel like he’s the only one who can take on Donald Trump,” she added. “And I feel like crazy needs to go against crazy.”

Adam S. Park ’22 said he has supported three different candidates throughout the primary process, eventually landing on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Park originally backed entrepreneur Andrew M. Yang’s longshot presidential bid before he dropped out on Feb. 11.

He then threw his support behind United States Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who suspended her campaign and endorsed Biden Sunday.

“I think it’s a little concerning to see what things look like — how fragmented things are,” Park said. “I’m happy to see the more moderate-leaning candidates coalescing around Biden.”

Cambridge resident Maggie Brown also referenced the series of recent dropouts. She said that she is “very disappointed”

Day in Cambridge!” Warren joked to supporters after voting.

Warren was delivered a stinging third-place finish in Tuesday’s state primary by Massachusetts voters. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pulled off a surprise victory in the state and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) finished in second.

Asked by a reporter after her speech whether she was worried about Sanders winning her home state, Warren said she is unfazed by her competition, instead turning toward her time teaching at the Law

­ ollowing reports of racism, F sexism, and alleged favoritism within Harvard University Police Department, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in an interview Monday that he supports the review of the department by outside experts.

The allegations, reported

by The Crimson in late January, centered around longtime department chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley.

In Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination filings, lawsuits, internal documents, meetings with prominent Harvard administrators, and interviews, 21 current and former employees identified Riley as the source of instances of racism and sexism in the department.

Riley, according to employees, favored employees loyal to him and retaliated against those who had voiced concerns about the department.

In the wake of The Crimson’s investigation, Riley announcedin a February 5 email to HUPD employees that he will lead an internal review of the department. This review marks the fourth formal assessment of HUPD during Riley’s tenure.

As part of the review, law enforcement experts will examine the internal climate of Harvard’s police department as well as its dealings with the University more broadly.

Bacow said Monday that the police department is “committed” to the internal review process and affirmed the inclusion of outside experts in the review.

“It has brought in some outside experts to do a review, and I think it’s a good move on the part of the department,” Bacow said.

“We’re looking forward to seeing what the review produces,” he added.

After the findings of the Crimson investigation became public, student activists called for the resignation of Riley and

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Cambridge community members gathered to support U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren as she voted at a local polling center at Graham and Parks School.

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Left: Resident Fellows at the Institute of Politics shared reflections on the 2020 race during a Super Tuesday watch event. Right: Local community members went to Quincy House to vote in the primary elections on Super Tuesday. RYAN N. GAJARAWALA AND SARA KOMATSU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHERS

In Super Tuesday Surprise, Biden Wins Mass. Primary

By JOSHUA C. FANG and JASPER G. GOODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pulled off a shocking victory in the Massachusetts Democratic primary Tuesday, where he finished ahead of United States Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Tuesday.

Biden’s win came despite the fact that he did not campaign in the state. Sanders finished in second place and — in a blow to her presidential bid — Warren finished third in the state she represents.

“This is almost fully a story of Biden’s momentum over the ­

Senator Warren Comes Home to Cambridge to Vote

last couple of days,” Harvard Government Professor Jon C. Rogowski said Tuesday night as results rolled in.

Super Tuesday breathed new life into the Biden campaign more broadly, which appeared feeble less than one week ago.

Biden won big in several southern states including Alabama and Arkansas. He also pulled off a victory in Minnesota shortly after receiving an endorsement from U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

Tuesday’s results come just days after Klobuchar and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04 both

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By JASPER G. GOODMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ undreds of supporters lined H the streets outside of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) house in Cambridge Tuesday morning to greet her as she walked to her polling location at the Graham and Parks School.

Warren — a former Harvard Law School professor — hugged and took selfies with supporters as her onlookers chanted “I believe that she can win” while she inched her way down the street with her husband, Law School Professor Bruce H. Mann.

“It’s just a typical Election

Religious Freedom Clinic Faces Backlash City Officials Pledge Affordable Housing

By KELSEY J. GRIFFIN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

Harvard Law School designed a legal clinic to support the rights of clients in practicing their religion. STEVE S. LI—

­ arvard Law School students H allege administrators have been insufficiently transparent regarding the development of its new Religious Freedom Clinic, expressing concerns about its potential to enable BGLTQ discrimination.

The Law School announced plans to open the clinic on Feb. 26. At the time, administrators said they plan to model it after the Religious Liberty Clinic at Stanford Law School, offering students the opportunity to represent clients who face limits on the free exercise of their religion.

Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 first discussed the idea of the clinic with students at a Law School Curriculum Committee open house in Oct. 2019.

Law School students and Lambda Co-Presidents Youzhihang Deng and Matthew P. Shields and Campus Advocacy

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News 3

Editorial 6

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By TAYLOR C. PETERMAN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ s a paucity of available afA fordable housing continues to plague the Cambridge area, the city government’s Housing Committee gathered Tuesday to assess the current outlook and discuss looming challenges.

City housing officials and representatives from local housing corporations outlined steps they have taken to increase investment in Cambridge, pledging more development in the near future.

City Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler said the city has a “responsibility” to provide affordable housing, citing its dynamic economy.

“Cambridge has a lot of resources, and I think with a lot of resources comes a lot of responsibility,” he said. “Cambridge is a city known for innovation, and I think we also can apply that to housing.”

Members of the housing committee include multiple city councilors, as well as representatives from the city’s housing authority and affordable housing organizations.

Carl Nagy-Koechlin, executive director of Just-A-Start, a local development corporation, said that his organization has attempted to serve the “people side of housing.”

“No matter how many apartments we develop, it’s really only going to serve a fraction of the needs,” he said. “So we also provide a number of housing services: court mediation to prevent evictions, rapid rehousing for families that have been evicted.”

For decades, Cambridge has grappled with the effects of gentrification, including ballooning housing costs. From 2005-2014, for instance, Cambridge experienced the largest

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TODAY’S EVENTS Spring Undergraduate Research Spotlight Cabot Library, 12-1:30 p.m.

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Join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Education and Harvard Library at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar for an event highlighting the research work of fellow undergraduates across various scientific disciplines. Students will present their past and ongoing projects in three-minute slots. Pizza and drinks will be served while supplies last.

Meet & Greet with Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj CGIS Tsai Auditorium, 6-8 p.m.

The Massachusetts Albanian American Society “Besa” and Harvard Albanian Students Association are hosting a fireside chat with Mayor Erion Veliaj of Tirana, capital of Albania, in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium.

Mayor Veliaj will discuss his past work with international organizations, the Albanian Parliament, and his current role as mayor. A reception with light refreshments will follow the event.

Split Supreme Court Grants States More Freedom to Prosecute Undocumented Immigrants

In a 5-4 decision led by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court sided with state prosecutors in Kansas v. Garcia, reinstating their convictions of undocumented immigrants who used false Social Security numbers on job applications. The question of jurisdiction over identity theft proved a contentious one for liberal and conservative wings of the Court.

Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra performed Sunday afternoon for Beethoven’s 250th birthday.

Additionally, the orchestra celebrated the 11th season of Federico Cortese as Music Director. of the orchestra. ALLISON G. LEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

DAILY BRIEFING Hundreds of supporters lined the streets outside of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) house in Cambridge Tuesday morning to greet her as she walked to her polling location at the Graham and Parks School. Warren — a former Harvard Law School professor who took third place in Tuesday’s state primary — hugged and took selfies with supporters as onlookers chanted “I believe that she can win” while she inched her way down the street with her husband, Law School Professor Bruce H. Mann. In other news, following reports of racism, sexism, and alleged favoritism within Harvard University Police Department, University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in an interview Monday that he supports the review of the department by outside

People Take to Social Media to Mourn Death of Trader Joe’s Founder

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam released a statement on Tuesday regarding his support of Virgina HB 386, which will prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from being subjected to the practice of conversion therapy. In passing this law, which officially takes effect on July 1st, Virgina becomes the first Southern and 20th overall state to ban conversion therapy for minors in the U.S.

AROUND THE IVIES UPENN The University of Pennsylvania is suspending University-affiliated travel to four countries due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. In an email sent to students on Monday, UPenn officials announced that the school is recommending faculty and students avoid personal travel to China, Iran, Italy, and South Korea. The email also announced the school is creating a task force to review and update procedures regarding pandemics. UPenn is also advising students studying abroad to return home.

DARTMOUTH

Two Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees have tested positive for coronavirus, The Dartmouth reported on Tuesday. A hospital employee who recently returned from Italy was the first reported case in New Hampshire. The second individual was said to be in close contact with the first individual at an event at Dartmouth’s business school. The first individual with the virus attended the event despite being directed by health officials to self-isolate. Dartmouth said it still plans to hold its spring term on campus.

YALE

New Haven, Conn., Mayor Justin Elicker called on Yale University to increase its contributions to the city at his annual budget address Monday, according to the Yale Daily News. Elicker said that existing revenue sources won’t meet the city’s goals. The city is requesting a $50 million contribution from Yale. The city is also asking for a contribution from the Yale New Haven Hospital.

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Activist Speaks at Design School ‘Womxn’s Week’

By ELIZABETH H, GELLERT and RAQUEL CORONELL URIBE CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Dr. Vandana Shiva, an Indian scholar and environmental activist, spoke at the 2020 International Womxn’s Day Lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. JONATHAN G. YUAN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

New ‘HouseCall’ App to Tackle Spread of Disease

By VIRGINIA L. MA CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ embers of Global Alliance M for Medical Innovation, a student-run organization, are working to develop a mobile application for symptom reporting to Harvard University Health Services in collaboration with Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Pardis C. Sabeti.

The application, called HouseCall, would allow students to report symptoms remotely and receive consultation and treatment in their rooms, rather than going to HUHS. The developers hope this will minimize the spread of infectious diseases on campus.

The application was inspired by recent discoveries by Sabeti’s lab group regarding the 20162017 mumps outbreak on Harvard’s campus. With over 60 confirmed cases, the outbreak served as a reminder of the many spots on campus vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases, including the HUHS waiting room, Sabeti said.

Global Alliance for Medical Innovation founder Sreekar Mantena ’22 said the goal of the application is to minimize spread of infectious diseases,

such as mumps, influenza, and coronavirus.

“Coronavirus, as a respiratory pathogen, is passed on by droplet-based transmission, so being able to limit such an infectious disease pathogen would be really powerful in improving our ability for public health response,” Mantena said.

“With infectious diseases, obviously, once you leave the room you’re in contact with a bunch of peers, students, HUHS members, faculty and that leads to a lot of spread on campus,” he added.

HouseCall would give students a way to report illnesses and receive care, all from the comfort of their bed. After reporting symptoms, a member of HUHS or someone in the House system would receive the report and go to the student’s room to perform a rapid diagnostic test and provide the necessary treatment for the diagnosed illness, Mantena said.

Sabeti said this reporting process would not diminish the amount of information health care practitioners get from a patient.

“Instead of going to the pharmacy to get your medicine, why don’t we bring it to you?

And when we bring it to you,

why don’t we get more information about your symptoms?” Sabeti said.

Mantena said the group hopes to have the app ready for rollout in three to four weeks.

While the short-term goal is to implement the app in the the Houses, the group hopes to eventually take the framework of HouseCall to other parts of the world, such as West Africa.

“When someone feels sick, they can report their symptoms and then a community health worker could come to their house to do a rapid diagnostic test and ensure everything’s okay, give treatment, and especially on a larger scale like on a country scale, being able to track specific cases with geospatial and also diagnostic test data would be really powerful,” Mantena said.

Mantena said the group hopes the implementation of HouseCall on Harvard’s campus can serve as a test run for such broader implementation.

“Being able to do a field trial of a system like this at Harvard would be really credible because we have a really great, controlled environment to work in,” he said. virguinia.ma@thecrimson.com

­ hysicist and environmental acP tivist Vandana Shiva cautioned against globalization and industrial agriculture while delivering the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s annual International Womxn’s Day keynote lecture Tuesday evening.

The talk featured an introduction by the co-chairs of the Design School’s Womxn in Design group followed by Shiva’s lecture, which was focused on her environmental activism and advocacy.

“If the whole world farmed through biodiversity, if the whole world farmed organically, we could actually reverse climate change,” Shiva said during the talk.

The talk was part of an annual series of International Womxn’s Week events hosted by Womxn in Design. “It’s just a week of celebration,” organizer Vaissnavi Shukl said. “This time we are focusing on kinship and not just limiting kinship to relationships between humans but also relationships between women and

ple of color and marginalized groups.

Womxn in Design wrote in an emailed statement that it invited Shiva to elevate a dialogue about “relationship between womxn and nature, and between the patriarchy and environmental degradation.”

“This discourse is grossly under-explored at the GSD—but critical in light of womxn’s historical under-representation and marginalization in/through the design fields,” Womxn in Design’s statement reads.

Some attendees of the Harvard talk said they were skeptical of Shiva’s remarks.

“What worries me about her position is that it, and I understand for ideological and political objectives, just over simplifies the situation,” Design School student Nicolas Delgado Alcega said.

In response to Delgado Alcega, Shiva wrote in an emailed statement that she “differentiated between fossil fuel based societies, and societies that function as part of nature’s systems, cycles and biodiversity.” elizabeth.gellert@thecrimson.com

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Voters Head to the Polls Across Cambridge, Allston that former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Peter P.M. Buttigieg ’04 exited the presidential race Sunday night.

At the polls Tuesday, she said she voted for Biden but was not “excited about him.”

“He’s the safest,” she said.

“I know pundits that I hear on TV — people who are really staunch republicans — that would vote for Joe Biden.”

At City Hall, voters stirred and made small talk as volunteers dealt with a jammed ballot box.

Cambridge residents from a wide age range don small oval “I Voted!” stickers.

At one point, a woman with a baby strapped to her chest placed a sticker on the baby’s shirt and posed for a selfie.

Maureen C. Ryan, who has lived in Massachusetts for over 30 years, said she voted for U.S. Senator and former Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) because she was the most “qualified” person for the job.

Warren cast her own ballot in Cambridge Tuesday morning, her dog Bailey and husband and Law School professor Bruce H. Mann in tow.

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the environment, women and soil, women and seeds, and to kind of humanity and other species.”

In her lecture, Shiva encouraged audience members to “celebrate the earth.”

“It’s time to put away the arrogance that some humans are above other humans and that those other humans are superior to other species,” she said.

“That’s anthropocentrism. Let’s say bye bye to racism, to sexism, to anthropocentrism, and celebrate the earth.”

Shiva’s talk comes in light of recent controversy after she delivered a different environmental lecture at Stanford on January 23. A letter published in European Scientist condemned Stanford’s decision to invite Shiva because of her use of “anti-scientific rhetoric to support unethical positions.”

An op-ed written by Students for a Sustainable Stanford and published in The Stanford Daily shortly after Shiva’s Stanford talk defended the decision to invite her to speak. The letter cited Shiva’s global recognition and Students for a Sustainable Stanford’s mission to represent peo-

tening to her all along her campaign trail,” Ryan said about Warren.

Cambridge resident Kathy R. Weller offered a blunter assessment of the Bay State senator.

It’s amazing to me that starting off with a diversity of candidates we had, we ended up with all these people in their 70s.

Maggie Brown Cambridge Resident

“She’s a badass,” Weller said. “She just cuts through the crap and I really trust her.”

As lines at various polling locations ebbed and flowed Tuesday afternoon, several voters had their eye on the general election.

Sanika S. Mahajan ’21 said she entered a voting booth in Quincy House as a Warren supporter.

After voting, she described

the senator as the progressive candidate with the “most actionable plans.”

Mahajan said she thinks voter turnout among youth and minorities is particularly important.

“Young voters and people of color and women showing that they’re going to vote for the Democratic nominee — no matter who it is — in November is so important, even beginning now,” she said.

Eli B. Frankel ’22 said he voted for Sanders with his eye on November turnout.

“I think that the excitement that he energized in people is sufficient to beat Trump in the general election,” Frankel said.

Despite bubbling in Biden’s name, Brown said she walked away from the booth with a hint of disillusionment over the remaining Democratic nominees.

“It’s amazing to me that starting off with a diversity of candidates we had, we ended up with all these people in their 70s,” she said. joshua.fang@thecrimson.com jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com taylor,peterman@thecrimson.com charles.xu@thecrimson.com

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Coronavirus, Enrollment Warren Casts Her Bacow Discussed with Faculty Vote in Cambridge Supports WARREN FROM PAGE 1

By JAMES S. BIKALES and KEVIN R. CHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

Harvard administrators advised professors to prepare contingency plans for teaching and research in response to the continued spread of the novel coronavirus at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ monthly meeting Tuesday.

Harvard University Health Services Director Giang T. Nguyen and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay both addressed the virus at the meeting.

Nguyen said HUHS is working with administrators, health authorities, and experts across Harvard’s schools to prepare the University for a potential outbreak.

He added that the current situation is “very fluid” and asked faculty to plan for unexpected changes.

Gay asked faculty members to plan solutions to allow teaching and research to continue with minimal interruptions.

She suggested that faculty learn to teach using Zoom, a video communication platform.

Harvard restricted all University-related travel to China in early February after the first case of coronavirus in Boston was reported.

Later, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Level 3 travel warnings for coronavirus in South Korea, Italy, and Iran, prompting Harvard to add the three countries to its restricted travel list.

Later in the meeting, the faculty discussed a motion to simplify rules for simultaneous course enrollment. Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda J. Claybaugh submitted the motion on behalf of the Standing Committee on Undergraduate Educational Policy following its review of simultaneous enrollment policies. ­

Currently, FAS allows simultaneous enrollment in one of three circumstances: when one of the course heads agrees to provide “hour-for-hour direct and personal compensatory instruction” for missed class time; when lectures are available on videotape, and a student will miss no more than one-third of them; or when a senior needs both courses to fulfill graduation requirements.

Under all three circumstances, students must submit a petition to the Administrative Board to enroll.

In the same way it took more than one meeting for this group to discuss the issues, it’s likely to take more than one month for the Corproation to respond as well.

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Claybaugh said sorting through the hundreds of petitions submitted each semester takes around “300 hours of labor,” causing delays that can prove “stressful” for students.

Under the proposed revision, the Standing Committee will grant waivers to courses that meet certain criteria, allowing students to simultaneously enroll in them without petitioning.

In other cases, students still must receive permission from the heads of both courses and petition the Ad Board.

Claybaugh said current procedures do not make sense for courses that upload online lectures and provide other oppor-

tunities for in-person instruction.

“I hope these changes will empower faculty to try new, creative teaching methods,” Computer Science professor Stuart M. Shieber, who presented the proposal, said.

Some courses have already been granted waivers from normal simultaneous enrollment rules.

FAS has exempted Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science” from simultaneous enrollment rules since 2014, while Economics 10: “Principles of Economics” and Statistics 110: “Introduction to Probability” received similar exemptions in 2019.

Also during the meeting, Philosophy chair Edward J. Hall requested an update from University President Lawrence S. Bacow on the Harvard Corporation’s response to fossil fuel divestment. During its February meeting, the faculty voted 179-20 to call on the Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — to divest.

“We anticipate that the Corporation, however it responds — we hope positively, given the clarity of the community-wide call for leadership — does so in such a way as to make its reasoning public,” Hall said.

Bacow responded that the Corporation is “aware” of the resolution, but did not have time to substantively consider it in its last meeting, which happened just after the February faculty meeting.

“In the same way it took more than one meeting for this group to discuss the issues, it’s likely to take more than one month for the Corporation to respond as well,” Bacow said.

Bacow pledged to report back to the faculty before the semester’s end. james.bikales@thecrimson.com kevin.chen@thecrimson.com

School.

“I’m not worried,” she said.

“I am happy to be part of this democratic process. You know, ten years ago, I was walking here to vote — I was a teacher. I was not any part of this electoral process, other than as a voter.”

Dozens of Harvard students attended Tuesday’s event to rally for Warren. Justin Y. Tseng ’22 said he is “realistic” about Warren’s standing in the race, but added he is still excited about her candidacy.

“She’s the candidate who I trust the most in the White House,” Tseng said.

Attendee Peter L. Laskin ’23 said he was also skeptical of Warren’s ability to make a serious run at the Democratic nomination, but said he preferred her to the other candidates nevertheless.

“I think Biden has more of a lock on the moderate vote and I think Sanders has more of a lock on the progressive vote,” Laskin added. “I think she’s sort of splitting the difference, but it’s not going to be a recipe for success.”

“Do I think she will be the nominee? Probably not, but I like her better than any of the others,” he said.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gathered a crowd as she went to vote Tuesday.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gathered a

BACOW FROM PAGE 1

crowd as she went to vote Tuesday. By Camille G. Caldera Biden’s campaign has been bolstered in recent days by three high-profile endorsements from ex-rivals. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Peter P. M. Buttigieg ’04, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and former U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke have all thrown their support behind Biden as he tries to match Sanders.

“I think that that’s what their politics were all along,” Warren said of the endorsements. “I don’t think there’s anything surprising here, but I do believe the Democratic Party is a progressive party.”

Sarah Katz, a Boston resident who volunteered for Warren’s campaign in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, said it was “insane” to meet her for the first time on Tuesday.

“It was incredible,” she said.

“She’s making time for all of us, even though she’s clearly very tired.”

Mann — Warren’s husband of 38 years who walked to vote with her Tuesday alongside their dog, Bailey — said the turnout for Tuesday’s event was “very humbling.”

“We’ve been married a long time and it’s always been an adventure,” he said. “The adventures just keep getting bigger and better.”

HUPD Review

and the abolition of the University’s police department at a rally in Harvard Yard.

The protesters demanded an end to the alleged harassment they said they have experienced

by Harvard police officers.

When asked about current and former HUPD employees’ lawsuits and filings with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Bacow said he believes the filings occurred before his tenure.

“I believe most of those filings, or maybe all of them, occurred well before I became president,” Bacow said.

“I haven’t seen anything that’s been filed recently — or any decisions recently,” he added.

Bacow deferred further questions about the internal review to Executive Vice President Katherine Lapp, who oversees HUPD. “Katie has a tremendous amount of experience in public safety based upon her experience previously in NYC city government, where the Police and the Fire Department reported to her, and Katie is deeply involved in these issues,” he said.

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HKS Students Criticize Dean’s Response to Letter

By SIXIAO YU CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

­ tudents at the Harvard KenS nedy School criticized their dean’s response to an open letter sent by the HKS Equity Coalition earlier this month advocating for a commitment from the school to “creating a culture and environment built on the principles of anti-racism.”

The original letter sent by the coalition contains three demands: a mandatory course on the history of race and inequality, mandatory diversity training for all Kennedy School affiliates, and cluster hiring of faculty of color who “critically study the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and power.”

The letter was signed by multiple affinity groups and 375 Kennedy School affiliates.

In an emailed response to members of the equity coalition, Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf wrote the school is working with the advocacy group Community Change, Inc. to develop anti-racism workshops this spring.

If the process is successful, these workshops will be implemented during new student orientation in the fall, according to Elmendorf’s email.

He wrote that although he and his colleagues are “committed” to adding more courses on race and inequality, they are not yet “convinced” that a “mandatory, standalone course is the best approach.” He also wrote that the school has been

working on faculty cluster hiring focused on the stated topics for “several years.”

Several students criticized Elmendorf’s response to the coalition letter in interviews with The Crimson.

Elmendorf did not respond to a request for comment on any of the criticisms.

Nneka O. Onwuzurike, one of the original authors of the coalition letter, called the dean’s response to the three demands “lackluster.”

She cited the absence of student involvement in creating the anti-racism workshops.

“We are not involved in the process of creating solutions to the problems that we, ourselves, have identified to the organization,” she said.

Mike Yepes, a first year at Kennedy School, said he feels Elmendorf misinterpreted what the students meant by a mandatory course focusing on the history of race and inequality.

“We requested a class that catered to talking about oppression and systemic violence across a global context,” Yepes said.

The course did not address this topic, according to Yepes.

In response to Elmendorf’s comment on the process of attracting faculty, Abhinaya Narayanan — another author of the original coalition letter — said while she “recognizes that’s a challenge,” she believes the administration needs to do more to promote an inclusive culture.

“If the administration is taking steps to make sure that there are courses in place, that they are recruiting students of color here — we need to make sure that the environment here is one that faculty of color can come to and thrive,” she said.

This has not historically not “been the case,” according to Narayanan.

Sophie P. Dover said the culture at the Kennedy School contributes to its difficulty in attracting faculty.

“What does it say to an applicant when we only have — formerly one, now two — black individuals on tenured faculty?

What does it mean or signal to applicants when there is no focus on racist structures within the public policy realm, or the role of colonialism in international affairs?” Dover asked.

“That’s sending clear signaling and messaging to excellent potential faculty who are of Harvard caliber and are going to other schools that are our competitors,” she said.

Onwuzurike cited a simulation that took place in the fall as an example of why she believes the school needs workshops and faculty of color who focus on issues related to diversity and inequality. The simulation was run by white moderators and required first year Masters in Public Policy students to assume roles in a case about police brutality, according to Onwuzurike and three other students interviewed.

“These white teachers and TAs wrote out a fictionalization

The Equity Coalition at Harvard Kennedy School drafted a letter advocating for increased diversity within the school’s culture and environment. PEI CHAO ZHUO—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

of a black man being murdered by the police,” Onwuzurike said.

Onwuzurike was given the role of a “white PhD student who had a lot of racist ideologies in her language,” which made her uncomfortable.

The simulation led several students of color to leave the

class, according to Yepes.

“Immediately — like within 10 seconds of reading the prompt — several students of color walked out,” he said.

“Multiple others were very uncomfortable and just none of us can fathom how this managed to make it through rounds of reviews to faculty to be giv-

en as an assignment for 250 students.”

Course instructors held a “check-in” about the simulation afterwards, according to Yepes.

Elmendorf did not respond to a request for comment on the situation. sixiao.yu@thecrimson.com

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PRIMARY FROM PAGE 1

HLS Criticized by BGLTQ Group Over New Clinic

Biden Wins While Warren Takes Third in Mass. Primary

Co-Chair Mia Gettenberg said the school did not consult students before that open house.

“As it turned out, HLS had decided to form this clinic primarily in the dark, with no formal process to solicit input from the broader student body or a coalition of student groups,” Deng, Shields, and Gettenberg wrote in a letter to the editor of the Harvard Law Record on Monday.

Students from Lambda — an organization dedicated to serving BGLTQ students on campus — asked Manning at the October open house whether the clinic would avoid cases that abridge the rights of BGTLQ individuals.

The Monday letter to the Harvard Law Record claimed that, at the time, Manning did not provide a clear answer to that question.

“Citing the principle of academic freedom, Dean Manning refused to directly respond to the question,” they wrote in the letter to the editor.

The Law School’s student government passed a resolution unanimously on Nov. 20 calling for increased transparency from Manning regarding the clinic’s scope and whether it would commit to nondiscrimination. The resolution noted the clinic may conduct “important and meaningful work” in support of religious minorities, adding that the Law School should take care to prevent violations of its nondiscrimination policy.

“We believe that if, on the other hand, this clinic takes on cases that impinge on the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, it would significantly alienate such identifying students of our student body, deter talented individuals from considering Harvard Law, and be a smear on the Harvard Law name nationwide,” the resolution reads.

Also on Nov. 21, Lambda submitted a letter to Manning

and the Curriculum Committee in November expressing concerns about the proposed clinic.

The letter, co-signed by 25 other Law School student organizations, asked whether the clinic would work in support of conversion therapy or against abortion clinics.

Students also asked for additional information about the funding and leadership of the clinic.

“Without the guarantee that such a Religious Freedom Clinic would not provide legal services in support of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-reproductive justice causes, we do not understand how such a clinic could be housed at HLS,” the letter reads. “We are also concerned by the lack of transparency and student engagement surrounding the development of the Religious Freedom Clinic.”

According to Shields, Lambda never received a response from Manning about the letter.

Instead, other deans at the Law School reached out to the students to discuss the clinic.

“They were very, very great, but they did not know anything about the clinic, and it just was a conversation of them saying, ‘we don’t know that’ or ‘we don’t know whether we can tell you that,’” Shields said in an interview Monday.

Shields noted Lambda sent a follow-up email asking to meet with Manning, an invitation they said he declined.

On Feb. 26 — the same day the Law School formally announced plans for the clinic — Lambda hosted a public rally and hand-delivered signs protesting the clinic to Manning’s office.

Law School spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in an emailed statement that Manning has engaged with Lambda students about their concerns, both at the Curriculum Committee open house and in emails with

Lambda leadership. He also referenced the Law School’s invitations for Lambda students to meet with various other deans, including Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education Daniel Nagin and Assistant Dean for Clinical and Pro Bono Program Lisa P. Dealy.

“In keeping with the core principles of clinical education at HLS, the new Religious Freedom Clinic will represent underserved and vulnerable clients,” Neal wrote. “It will be designed to be pluralistic and inclusive, and to attract students from across political, ideological, and philosophical perspectives.”

In response to concerns about the clinic’s potential work for discriminatory organizations, Neal wrote that the curriculum would not be at the discretion of the administration.

“The dean does not dictate the case selection of any of the School’s clinical professors or it’s 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations,” he wrote.

The Law School branch of the American Civil Liberties Union — which co-signed the November letter to Manning — reaffirmed its support for Lambda in an emailed statement Tuesday.

“We are troubled by Dean Manning’s refusal to ensure that the clinic will not undermine the rights of the LGBTQ+ community,” Law School student Sara R. Fitzpatrick wrote on behalf of the Harvard Law ACLU. “Religious freedom is a fundamental American right, and it should not be used as a pretext for discriminatory and harmful practices.”

“We are proud to stand with our friends at Lambda to demand that Harvard commit to a clinic that will work for, and not against, civil rights,” she added .­ kelsey.griffin@thecrimson.com

suspended their campaigns and announced they would back the former vice president.

“I think there’s this sense of wanting to — if the number one task is to defeat Donald Trump — coalesce around a candidate,” Massachusetts Democratic strategist Scott Ferson said.

Noah A. Harris ’22, a student from Mississippi who initially supported U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), said he voted for Biden because he had the “best combination of alignment” with his personal political stance.

“Who I think could beat Donald Trump, that’s what it came down to,” he said.

Rajvir Batra ’22, who also supported Biden, said he was pleasantly surprised by Biden’s success in primaries nationwide.

“I was not expecting this at all,” he said.

Massachusetts voters delivered Warren, a former Har-

vard Law School professor who has represented the state in the Senate since 2012, a stinging defeat.

Ferson said he thinks the lackluster finish on home turf will likely be “fatal” for Warren.

Warren held her only Super Tuesday campaign event in Massachusetts Tuesday morning. Hundreds of enthused supporters lined the streets outside her house in Cambridge to greet her as she went to go cast her ballot at the Graham & Parks School.

“I think it’s very hard for her to go to the next state and make the case for being the strongest candidate to beat Donald Trump,” Ferson said.

Ferson added, though, that he does not view the result as a judgement on Warren’s performance as a senator.

“People like her,” he said.

“But when you have a multi-candidate choice, you have to pick one. And I don’t think people

viewed this in Massachusetts as a referendum on Warren.”

Before Super Tuesday, polls showed Warren and Sanders in a tight deadlock, with Biden polling far below both progressives. Warren supporters at various Cambridge polling locations pointed to her intellect and policy plans as decisive factors.

“I voted for Elizabeth Warren because I think she’d be the best president,” said Caitlin A. Koseck, a 2016 Harvard Law School graduate. “I’ve really liked her since law school.”

In the Bay State Republican primary, President Donald J. Trump trounced former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld ’66. Weld — who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997 — received less than 10 percent of the vote early Wednesday morning. joshua.fang@thecrimson.com jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com

HOUSING FROM PAGE 1

Cambridge City Developers Pledge More Affordable Housing i­ ncrease — 79.8 percent — in median single-family home prices in all of Massachusetts, according to the Warren Group, which compiles real estate and financial data.

Christopher Cotter, housing director for the Affordable Trust Fund, said that the Trust Fund is currently looking at new sites and will have more projects to announce in the coming months.

“We are talking with developers about moving into the permitting phase of their development timeframe,” he said.

Despite the promises proffered by housing organizations at the meeting, the reception

from local residents did not appear universally positive. Valerie A. Bonds, a longtime Cambridge denizen, said she was disheartened by the lack of representation of tenants living in affordable housing Tuesday “I’m disappointed that there weren’t more representation from the tenant councils, tenant associations, and tenant committees of members who live in affordable housing, whose leadership should be here to speak for us,” she said.

Bonds said she would like to see a representative from those that oversee her building at the tenant council meetings.

Michael J. Johnston, executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority, said his agency has worked to move its portfolio into a Section Eight “project-based portfolio,” referring to the government program that provides housing subsidies to low-income individuals. In the past decade, he said his agency has conducted roughly $500 million worth of work in Cambridge.

“A new world means we have investors,” he said. “We’ve had investors come in and provide us money to basically do the work.” taylor.peterman@thecrimson.com

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EDITORIAL THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD

COLUMN

DSO’s Conviction Problem

Unpacking Our Definition of ‘Black’

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wo years have passed since Harvard College Faith and Action was put on administrative probation after its leadership was found to have pressured a bisexual assistant Bible course leader to resign after discovering her same-sex relationship. Soon after, the College stated that HCFA would have to sever its ties from its parent group Christian Union in order to regain its status as a recognized social organization on campus.

As it turns out, HCFA did not sever such ties. It was recently reported that HCFA continues to receive Christian Union funding in the form of staff salaries, office space, food, and scholarships for retreats. It was also reported that Christian Union gave the student group $796,180 between July 2017 and June 2018 while its year-long probation period was still underway.

This isn’t a new problem.

A year ago we strongly criticized how the College’s poor enforcement of HCFA’s probation. It appears that not much — read: nothing — has changed since then. The fact that HCFA has still not severed its ties to Christian Union underscores the broadly felt impotence of the Dean of Students Office as an enforcing body.

We reaffirm our judgment that HCFA was wrong to discriminate against its membership on the basis of sexual orientation and that they should accordingly face the stated punishment. But it’s the

College’s, and in particular the DSO’s, job to enforce these sanctions. At the point where HCFA has carried on without issue for two years, it’s hard to see such a lack of punishment as anything

The fact that HCFA has still not severed its ties to Christian Union underscores the broadly felt impotence of the Dean of Students Office as an enforcing body. but Harvard’s fault.

As we have written before, it is ludicrous to believe that the sanctions against unrecognized single-gender social group members — spread out across all of the many recognized organizations on campus — would be enforced effectively (or at all) given how the probation of HCFA has been conducted by the DSO. In order to gain necessary credibility, the College must hold itself accountable for its incompetence in enforcing its probations and ensure that any violation of rules meets its stated consequences.

The College’s failure to enforce its probation of HCFA is likely connected to a statement made by Roland S. Davis, who then served as Associate Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion, that the College is hesitant to punish HCFA because it does not want to be seen

as waging war on Christianity. While we recognize that Harvard does not want to be seen as an enemy of religion on campus, the College must apply its rules evenly and fairly, and we maintain that the freedom of one group on campus cannot come at the expense of another’s.

That being said, we value and appreciate religious groups having space on campus, and it is important that the College supports their presence.

This support, however, cannot get in the way of the College’s ability to enforce prohibitions on religious groups that breach student organization policy.

HCFA should face the punishment it was given despite the time that has passed since its demonstrated discrimination and policy breach.

To make that happen and to prevent future cases like this, Harvard should take full responsibility for failing to enforce its measures against HCFA, as well as social groups on campus, and it should move to improve the efficacy and transparency of implementing such punitive measures in the future.

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. It is the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings. In order to ensure the impartiality of our journalism, Crimson editors who choose to opine and vote at these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on similar topics.

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HKS Program Change Singles Out Fellows from Developing Countries

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t comes as no big surprise to many students at Harvard University that the administration has come under increased scrutiny by the United States Department of Education for a lack of transparency with regards to funding, or now, two leading advisory board members have resigned from the Institute of Politics amid tensions within the Harvard Kennedy School.

After just one semester at Harvard, I’ve witnessed a student union strike for fair work conditions such as pay equity, health insurance, and better protections against harassment and discrimination, and protests calling for Harvard’s leadership in divesting from fossil fuel investments for climate justice. To add to this list of moral grievances, the Kennedy School is undermining a pivotal component of the Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration program, exclusively targeting students from developing countries — almost half the entire cohort.

At stake is an integral part of the MC/ MPA program, the Mason Fellows Summer Seminar. The Edward S. Mason Program, designed for students from developing countries, is a big deal; it boasts a prime minister, presidents, and leaders of multilateral institutions among its alumni. It’s the program that brought me to the Kennedy School.

The two-week Mason Fellows Seminar has been hosted upon the fellows’ arrival at Harvard and orients us before a subsequent five-week MC/MPA Summer Program, which includes the larger MC/MPA cohort, including students from developed countries. Quietly, however, the HKS Five-Year Academic Calendar has been updated — no longer showing the Mason Fellows Seminar in Summer 2020. Instead, the Seminar appears to have been swapped to a mere week-long “Fall Launch,” and relegated, like an afterthought, to the end of the summer. This is not what’s best for the integrity and excellence of Harvard’s MC/MPA program.

The Mason Fellows Seminar is an

incredibly valued period allowing students coming from some societies, where there is no freedom of speech nor right to assemble, an opportunity to find their voice. Mason Fellows can come from autocratic regimes, places where electricity and drinking water are not available 24 hours a day, and in some cases, places where having certain sexual orientations is a crime punishable by death. The opportunity for fellows to come together before the academic year begins is invaluable for both their experience and the campus community to which they contribute.

My Mason summer experience helped me cultivate relationships, exposed me to different backgrounds and experiences, and introduced me to public policy issues from leading Harvard professors. By contrast, the twice-aslong, cohort-wide MC/MPA Summer Program that followed was banal with the majority of the time spent on introductory subjects in economics and statistics, much of which could have been delivered through HarvardX, the open online learning platform. In fact, one could argue using HarvardX would allow more of the Mason Program pedagogy and benefits to be integrated into MC/MPA summer program.

In the same week that the Kennedy School announced it was searching for ways to “make progress in the areas of diversity, inclusion and belonging,” administrators signaled no interest in changing their course on the MC/MPA summer program changes. This was despite a meeting MC/MPA student leaders held with administrators, including Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf, to initiate a process of engagement to best inform how all MC/MPA summer programming could be improved.

The irony that, at a time when the Kennedy School searches for ways to make progress in belonging, inclusion, and diversity on campus, an exemplary program specifically designed to foster these values — not to mention paid for by Mason fellows themselves — has been gutted, is not lost on me.

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hat’s some real white people shit. They ain’t even black.”

How many times have you heard something like that? I have become so deeply accustomed to it. I hate it. I have heard it in South Africa. I have heard it here in America. I have heard it from my own mouth — indeed, I am guilty too. You know where I haven’t heard it from much? White people. This is black people limiting black people, and I can’t comprehend why we do it. There are as many ways to be black as there are black people. And I really don’t think I can say that enough.

“You’re black and you listen to THIS music?

Wow.” But who gave anyone the power to define what it means to be black? The black musical tradition is certainly rich.

There’s enough jazz, rap, hip-hop, and R&B to fill your ears and soul for many lifetimes. But if a black person wants to slap on some country, who are you or I to tell them that we no longer share an identity because of it?

I don’t care if you, or even most of us, don’t like the music. I don’t care if a genre has even explicitly excluded black people from itself. We still don’t get to make that statement, and let me tell

“That’s some real white people shit.

They ain’t even black.”

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Actions taken by the Kennedy School suggest what we’re hearing is just empty rhetoric. The proposed changes in MC/ MPA summer programming are actually a step backward for diversity and inclusion and demonstrate Harvard’s inability to navigate diversity settings effectively.

Such apathetic decisions towards the Mason Program which values diversity and inclusion are not those of the Harvard I had envisioned when I was writing my application. I envisaged a scholastic year under the tutelage of leading thinkers and subject matter experts in the international development and public policy space.

I envisaged myself learning new and innovative methods to analyze and propose solutions for today’s issues. I envisaged a cadre of fellow students with a strong desire to learn and who come from varied backgrounds and experiences. I did not envisage being enrolled in a scholastic enterprise that only professes the merits of transparency and open data, participatory and inclusive processes to manage change, and using information and knowledge to inform decisions, while not actually practicing them.

My time at Harvard will come to an end in May, and without action to reverse course by the Kennedy School Administration, this will be the last MC/MPA class benefiting from a Mason cohort to benefit from the two-week induction period. Established some 60 years ago, the Mason Fellowship sought to bring developing country leaders to Harvard to “address the world’s most compelling development challenges.” Halving the introductory seminar undermines that goal. Perhaps in some areas Harvard can walk-the-walk, but when it comes to issues like equity, diversity, transparency, and informed, inclusive decision-making you should only do as Harvard teaches, not as it practices.

—David A. de Bold is a Mason Fellow in the 2020 cohort of the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

you why ...

There are as many ways to be black as there are black people.

“You’re black and you can’t even speak your language? Mxm.” But who gave anyone the power to define what it means to be black? Yes, South Africa has many languages to choose from. I miss them all, some days out here I really wish I couldn’t understand everyone’s conversation. But simply because someone has dark skin and never learned their native language does not entitle us to strip them of their heritage. I don’t care if it signals a lack of respect. I don’t care if you feel like that person is trying to distance themselves from their culture. We have no right to do that, and I will tell you why ...

There are as many ways to be black as there are black people.

“A black Republican? That sounds like an oxymoron.” But who gave anyone the power to define what it means to be black? Granted, the vast majority of black Americans are not Republicans. I am definitely a part of the roughly 84 percent of us who aren’t right now.

But who gave the 84 percent of us the power to deny the identity of the rest. I don’t care if the policies that they support may hurt us or themselves.

I don’t care if they are being used as tools by other politicians to justify their racism at times. We

“A black Republican? That sounds like an oxymoron.” But who gave anyone the power to define what it means to be black? still don’t get to make that statement, and I. Will.

Tell. You. Why. THERE ARE AS MANY WAYS TO BE BLACK AS THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE. “How are you gonna be black and have hair like ... that?” But who gave anyone the power to define what it means to be black?! If it is natural and curly, someone will think your hair looks “nappy.” If it is not natural and straight, someone will think that you don’t love yourself. Heck, if it is naturally straight, you know someone is still going to persecute you. If it is uncombed, someone will think you look like a “savage.” If it is combed, someone will still think that you don’t love the way God made you.

Lord knows that as a man I cannot even begin to process what it is like for black women, but I know that there is no such thing as pleasing everyone. And that is just hair. I don’t even have to bring in the light-skinned, dark-skinned dynamic or the mixed, non-mixed angle for you to get my point which is that: I don’t care what you think; no facet of appearance gives any of us the right

So who am I to define what being black is? No one. So I won’t. And who are you? No one. to strip the identity of anyone else. And do I still even need to tell you why? …

I understand the apprehension around expanding what it means to be black. I get that if we expand what we consider black, we expand that to some things or people that we may not want to consider part of the same group as ourselves. But that is not a choice we get to make.

We don’t get to limit or take away identity. Haven’t we all felt enough of what being stripped of an identity can do to a person? I certainly think we have.

So who am I to define what being black is? No one. So I won’t. And who are you? No one. But I can no longer tolerate the limiting of that definition by any individual. There are as many ways to be black as there are black people.

—Marcus B. Montague-Mfuni ’23, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Pennypacker Hall. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.

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SPORTS

UPCOMING

EVENTS

WRESTLING

MEN’S & WOMEN’S SQUASH

Harvard competes on Saturday and Sunday in the EIWA Championships in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania after a season of promising results in tournament play.

Competitors from the Harvard squash teams look to win personal accolades in this weekend’s Individual National Championships. Both squads won team titles last week.

TRACK AND FIELD

Men’s and Women’s Track & Field Place 2nd at Heps

By WILLIAM CONNAUGHTON CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

After a week of intensive preparation, the Harvard Track and Field Team was back in action at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Ithaca, New York. Both the men and the women placed in second overall, with the men gaining their highest point total since 1985.

Highlighting the day were six individual titles and two first place relay finishes. Coming into the race both teams had aspirations for finishing first, but both teams fell short due to near perfect performances from the competition.

The women missed out on first place by only seven points, finishing with 126, just behind the defending champion Penn. The men finished with 116 points, behind the perpetually dominant Princeton who finished with 173 points, winning their 6th title in a row.

“This is our best season in 35 years. And the best part about it: we are all hungry for more,” said junior co-captain Erick Duffy when prompted about this weekend’s performance.

“Each and every person on the team now knows what we are capable of. Two years ago, getting 2nd at Heps was a dream, a fantasy. Today, it is not enough.

That’s pretty special if you ask me.”

Day one of the championship saw senior standout Kieran Tuntivate pick up right where he left off from his record-breaking performance at the Valentine’s Invitational two weeks ago. Defending his title in the 3000m, Tuntivate won the event for the second year in a row. Despite not being quite as flashy as Tuntivate’s one-shoe finish covered extensively in the Crimson’s year end wrap-up last spring, Tuntivate’s 8:28.90 time was very impressive as

the Delaware product cements himself as one of the best runners in the country, continuing his incredible run dating back to the cross country season in the fall. Fellow senior Will Battershill finished just behind Tuntivate in second with an impressive time of 8:29.16. The following day, Tuntivate picked up his second individual title with a win in the 5k, crossing the finish line with a blistering time of 14:20.65. Both runners have strong momentum going into the rest of the championship season after this weekend’s events.

Most of the running events took place on day two of the championships. First-Team All Ivy League junior Jovahn Williamson took home first place in the 400m, crossing the line with a time of 47.53. Williamson defended his title in the 400m and is looking to build on his success as the championship season progresses. A pair of freshmen, Aaron Shirley and Gregory Lapit, finished in third and sixth in the event respectively, as the Crimson cleaned up in the 400m. Junior Ryan Thrush brought home another individual title on day two, winning the 500m with a time of 1:03.54. Junior Charles Lego finished behind Thrush in fifth. Predictably based on the individual performances, the 4 x 400m relay team of Shirley, Lapit, Lego, and Williamson finished in first, as Harvard sprinters simply dominated the day.

Elsewhere on the track, firstyear Samuel Bennet came .02 seconds away from moving into second all time in the 60m hurdles, placing fourth in the event.

Senior distance-runner Mike Kolor earned a fifth place finish in the 1000m run, picking up two points for the Crimson.

In the distance medley relay, first-year Acer Iverson, junior Kahlil Wassell, co-captain

Kaeo Kruse, and senior standout Battershill placed second, with Battershill having the fastest split in the field, bringing the team from sixth all the way to second. This inspiring anchor leg captured eight important points for Havard. In the other men’s group event, junior Michael Alber, Kolor, sophomore Will Crisp, and Thrush placed fourth in the 4 x 800m relay.

On the women’s side, sophomore and sprinter Katina Martin dominated on the way to two individual titles in the 60m and 200m dash, finishing with times of 7.47 and 24.05 respectively. Not to be outdone, junior Olivia Okoli finished in third and second in the same events.

Other strong performances included sophomore Sharelle Samuel’s finish in second in the 500m run with a new personal best on the day, junior cross country standout Anna Juul’s second place finish in the mile with a time of 4:46.6, and fellow junior Abbe Goldstein’s second place finish in the 800m run with a time of 2:10.13. In the 5k, a pair of seniors, Gillian Meeks and Brooke Starn placed fourth and fifth, on the way to capturing meaningful points for Harvard.

Similar to the men’s side, the women dominated the relay events. Juul, senior Karina Joiner, junior Tessa Medrano, and Goldstein cleaned up the distance medley relay, finishing in first with a strong time of 11:28.47. This performance was good enough to move into fifth all time in the Crimson record books. In the shorter relay event, the 4 x 400m relay team of Hughes, Okoli, Martin, and Samuel, all of whom had strong individual performances, continued their effective weekend, placing second.

“I’m super proud of how we came together as a team on both the women’s and men’s

NOT FINISHED YET Both Crimson teams, who came into the Championships ranked in the top two in the Northeast, will compete in the ECAC Championships at BU this weekend. ZING GEE—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

sides and stepped up to compete very well against some excellent teams,” said co-captain Martha Kebeh on the competition at Heps. “From here we just have to keep focusing on not only working hard but working smart to come back for an even stronger outdoor season.”

In the field, freshman Stephanie Ratcliffe locked up third in the women’s weight throw with a hurl of 18.54m, while fellow first year Estel Valeanu finished in sixth with a personal best in the event. Against strong competition, Duffy placed third in the men’s pole vault with a vault of 5.05m. Sophomore Kyle Murphy picked up fifth in the long jump, securing two additional points for Harvard. Senior Simi Fajemisin and sophomore Alana Carroll finished in seventh in the long jump and the pole vault, just missing out on scoring. In the pentathlon, senior Zoe Huges had a huge day, finishing in second with almost 4,000 points. This performance was highlighted by a first place finish in the long jump. The

multi-event athlete Huges garnered eight valuable points for the Crimson on day one.

On day two, Harvard had an even better day in the field.

Freshman Chet Ellis picked up a strong second place in the men’s high jump with a maximum height of 2.08m, and senior Donagh Mahon followed close behind Ellis in fourth. Fellow first-year Sarah Omoregie took home second in the shot put, with sophomore Chelsea Offiaeli just behind in fourth. On the men’s side of shot-put Firstyear Alexander Kolesnikoff threw 17.43m, good enough for third. Fajemisin and Murphy, who both competed in the long jump on day one, topped their performances on day two, as both athletes came in third in the triple jump. This finished off a strong Heps performance for the multi-event jumpers. In addition, freshman triple-jumper Mayi Huges finished in fifth in the event with a personal best, good momentum for the firstyear getting a taste of championship experience.

“We have some people competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships in two weeks so that will be exciting to see what they can do there. After that, it is time for outdoor. The mindset stays the same as indoor: put ourselves in the best position possible to challenge for the win at Outdoor Heps,” commented Duffy on the team mindset going into the spring. “If we stay healthy, work as hard as we did during indoor, and go into the season truly believing in our capabilities as a team, there is nothing that can stand in our way.”

Overall, Heps was a success for Harvard Track and Field on the team and individual. The Crimson has the ECAC championships next weekend at BU before NCAAs and eventually the start of the outdoor season. The team is looking to carry forward the momentum they earned during this weekend into the rest of their competitions this season. william.connaughton@thecrimson.com

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Men’s Hockey Defeats Union, 4-1, on Senior Night

By SPENCER R. MORRIS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

In Saturday’s regular-season finale, the Harvard men’s hockey team accomplished one of two goals on its agenda. It defeated Union, 4-1, to allow its senior class to celebrate its final home game with a victory.

But the two points over the Dutchmen (7-23-4, 5-15-2) failed to clinch a top-four conference finish for the Crimson (13-10-2, 11-6-5 ECAC). Rensselaer, the other squad vying for the final first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, shutout Harvard on Friday and earned an-

other win at Dartmouth on Saturday to oust the Crimson’s chances at fourth place.

“It’s definitely some mixed emotions, but it’s good to go out with a win,” Harvard captain Nathan Krusko said. “We still have a lot of business to take care of.”

The Crimson, ranked fifth in the conference, will host St. Lawrence in a best-of-three series in the first round of the ECAC tournament next weekend. The triumph on Saturday marks the sixth straight senior-night win for the Crimson program.

“It’s great to get a win on se-

BENT OUT OF SHAPE Reilly Walsh netted his 20th career power play goal on a first period one-timer TIMOTHY R. O’ MEARA—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

nior night,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “I think the whole group wanted to send [the seniors] off on a positive note…. It’s always bittersweet with these end-of-the-year games. You’re so excited looking toward the playoffs, but that last home game for that group of seniors that has given so much to the program is also very special.”

Early in the second period, the Crimson nabbed its first lead of the game — one that would persist until the final buzzer.

The centers tied each other up on an offensive-zone faceoff, and forward Austin Wong separated from his defender as he picked up the loose puck. The rookie briefly stick-handled before shelfing a shot from in close.

Wong’s strike was ultimately the decisive one in Saturday’s affair.

Nine minutes later, the Harvard powerplay cashed in for its second of the tilt. Freshman Nick Abruzzese regained possession of the puck in the offensive zone, preventing a Union clear. The winger found sophomore Casey Dornbach through a seam on the unsettled play, and Dornbach did not squander the open-net chance.

The Crimson man-up unit converted again before the night concluded. Sophomore Jack Drury forced home a juicy rebound produced by classmate Jack Rathbone’s point shot.

The powerplay was just one side of Harvard’s impressive special teams performance. A chippy game resulted in numerous trips to the box. As such, the Crimson faced eight Dutchmen powerplays, but killed off all of them including a five-minute major.

“All year, special teams has been a hard emphasis for us,” senior forward Justin Szeto said. “The powerplay has been near the top the entire year, and they pulled through for us today in a big way. And same thing with the kill. A lot of penalties taken, and maybe some calls we didn’t agree with, but when push came to shove, our kill was there, which was huge.”

Both teams found twine in the opening 20 minutes, but the visitors drew first blood. After Union won a puck battle in the corner, freshman Gabriel Seger found classmate Dylan Anhorn unguarded across the slot. The defenseman buried the chance before Harvard net-minder Cameron Gornet (1 GA, .958 SV%) could travel from post to post.

Then came the most pivotal moment of the incipient frame.

Drury suffered a nasty hit in the Dutchmen’s zone, and once play was whistled down, coach Donato voiced his displeasure to the officials regarding the dangerous play against his centerpiece forward.

Upon review, the referees retroactively assessed junior rearguard Joseph Campolieto a game misconduct, gifting the nation’s most lethal powerplay a five-minute, non-releasable opportunity.

Half a minute into the man advantage, junior defenseman Reilly Walsh lit the lamp on a one-timer from the point.

Rathbone teed up Walsh’s clapper, which zipped over the right shoulder of junior goaltender Darion Hanson (4 GA, .867 SV%).

The major penalty was the turning point of the first stanza, as it allowed the hosts not only to even the ledger but to

gain control of play by the period horn. Harvard finished the frame ahead, 12-9, in shots.

“I thought that the first half-dozen minutes looked eerily familiar to our last couple of games,” coach Donato said.

“Once we got on the powerplay, it looked like it kind of jumpstarted the group…. At that point, we started to invest in the game a lot more, emotionally and physically.”

Campolieto’s ejection wasn’t the only one on Saturday. With just seconds left in the middle frame, rookie John Farinacci was deemed done for the night due to an elbowing infraction.

Even prior to the line shuffling necessitated by Farinacci’s misconduct, most Crimson forwards were skating on unfamiliar triplets. Following two disappointing results, Harvard jumbled its lines up front on Saturday.

Coach Donato split the lethal top line, opting instead for Wong on the first trio and Dornbach on the second line with Farinacci as his center. Juniors Henry Bowlby and Jack Badini were also disentangled from their usual second-line pairing.

“I felt like our seniors all needed to be in the lineup tonight,” coach Donato said. “I think there’s a brotherhood in the locker room that understands that. To me, we’ll take a deep breath and figure out what we think is best moving forward.”

With Saturday’s bout, the five members of the class of 2020 bid farewell to their final regular season. Now, their careers in the crimson and white will last as long as the team’s postseason hopes.

Originally a cohort of eight, the group will graduate five

strong after the early NHL departures of blue-liners Adam Fox and John Marino, as well as the transfer to Wisconsin of centerman Ty Pelton-Byce due to academic eligibility complications.

Of the remaining members, four are forwards. Krusko heads the bunch, having logged 53 career points (18–35— 53) and earned Beanpot MVP honors as a first-year winger on the Frozen Four-bound 20162017 squad. Krusko leads this year’s iteration of the Crimson in games played, now with 129.

Colton Kerfoot has skated in 80 matchups over his career, amassing 22 points (6–16—22) in the process.

Fellow British Columbia native Szeto (23 career GP, 0–1—1) has seen his role increase as an upperclassman and, by all accounts, has been an exemplar of the Harvard program on and off the ice.

Another Canadian, Frédéric Grégoire (84 career GP, 10–14— 24), has been an important roster piece for multiple of coach Donato’s teams. As a junior, the versatile forward found chemistry on the bottom six and was voted the most improved player by his teammates after the 2018-2019 season.

Gornet has manned the pipes for the Crimson for parts of four seasons. In 27 career appearances, the St. Louis, Mo. product is 10-5-3 on the backs of a 2.56 goals against average and a .916 save percentage.

In total, these five Harvard icemen have been a part of 75 program victories. Of course, they are hoping to add several more to that tally before they officially hang up the skates. spencer.morris@thecrimson.com

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