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10.19.18 The Indy is sharing Out of the your stories. 10.19.2018 Courthouse Photo by Segan Helle ‘20 Cover design by Vol. L, No. 4 Inside: Defenses, Don'ts, and Dreams Isabelle Blair ‘21

CONTENTS STAFF 3 At the Heart of President Jilly Cronin ’21 Harvard’s Defense Editor-in-Chief Tushar Dwivedi ’20 7 What Not to Do to News Editor Segan Helle ’20 Forum Editor Alaya Ayala ’21 Prepare for Midterms Arts Editor Abigail Koerner ’21 Poems Sports Editor Jasper Fu ’21 9 Podcast Editor Marissa Garcia ’21 10 Women Hard at Work at Weld Design Editor Isabelle Blair ’21 11 Sports Briefs Photography Editor Francesca Cornero ’19 Staff Writers Claire Park ’20 Malcolm Reid ’21 As Harvard College's weekly undergraduate Daniel Um ‘19 newsmagazine, the Harvard Independent provides in- depth, critical coverage of issues and events of interest to the Harvard College community. The Independent has no political affiliation, instead offering diverse commentary on news, arts, sports, and student life. For publication information, email subscriptions, and general inquiries, contact President Jilly Cronin ([email protected]). Letters to the Editor and comments regarding the content of the publication should be addressed to Editor-in-Chief Tushar Dwivedi ([email protected]). The Harvard Independent is published weekly during the academic year, except during vacations, by The Harvard Independent, Inc., Student Organization Center at Hilles, Find us online! @HarvardIndy Box 201, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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2 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 INDY NEWS At the Heart of Harvard’s Defense A look into the perspectives of Asian-American activists in defense of Harvard

By SEGAN HELLE ang Lee sits in the basement of the the school grew up in the same environment, Phillips Brooks House. A senior in so I think coming here to such a diverse JDunster House concentrating in place— it’s been an incredible experience for Civil Rights laws over the years, including Psychology, Lee spends a lot of time me. I think that’s why Harvard has been this race-conscious admissions policies. grappling with issues of racial and social really big growth experience,” Lee said. “I At the center of the legal debate, lies a justice as an officer for PBHA. Lee, like think there’s a lot of misconceptions going stark divide within the Asian-American many of the students directly involved in around about the personal score that a lot community. The lawsuit centers around a Harvard’s current court case, began talking of Asian-Americans are buying into. I just series of 2013 reports made public in June of to attorneys roughly a year ago, connected really want to stand up and show that what last year alleging that the College’s admissions by another peer involved in both PBHA and Edward Blum is doing is really messed up. policies produce “negative effects” for the trial. Since then, he has become heavily It’s not right that he’s trying to use us as a Asian-American applicants, who tend to be involved in activism surrounding protecting racial wedge.” ranked lower in “personal ratings” assigned affirmative action policies and garnering On Monday, October 15, trial began over by admissions officers and require higher support for Harvard’s legal defense team. the 2014 lawsuit alleging that Harvard’s test score averages than peers of other racial I was born in Korea. I moved to Texas admission process is discriminatory against backgrounds to be admitted. Allegations when I was like, five. The town I grew Asian-American applicants. The lawsuit was of discrimination against Asian-American up in was very white. I grew up without filed by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), applicants have resultantly produced mixed much diversity. We had a handful of Asian a group created by Edward Blum, a right- feelings within the community when put students, but even then the Asian students at wing activist known for challenging several within the context of a court case that works

Segan Helle '20

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to challenge policies generally thought to help minority groups. These divides came to a head on the Sunday prior to the beginning of the trial, when two opposing rallies were hosted within the Boston area. One was in Copley Square, where hundreds of demonstrators, many of whom came from Asian-American backgrounds, protested against Harvard’s action and how I should be having these for the adoption of race-blind admissions admissions practices in support of SFFA. types of conversations with my classmates, processes. Both sides of the case are likely The other was in Harvard Square, held in and my community back home, and my to appeal, meaning there is a possibility for defense of affirmative action policies like family,” Chen said. matters to reach the Supreme Court, which, Harvard’s, and was hosted by students and After those initial conversations, Chen given the predicted right-wing slant after community organizers like Lee. took it upon herself to learn more. As a co- Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s coordinator for the Task Force on Asian and appointment, could have serious implications Pacific American Studies (TAPAS), officer for the existence of affirmative action policies What’s at stake for PBHA, and a member of the Harvard as they currently stand. Sally Chen, a senior in Winthrop House Ethnic Studies Coalition, Chen became “This case in the long term is going to have concentrating in History and Literature with heavily involved in activist efforts garnering a much bigger impact than just on universities a joint in Women and Gender Studies, is one support for Harvard’s position in the case. like Harvard. It will have impact on our of four undergraduates who has been called Called the Solidarity Rally for Opportunity community colleges and our workplaces. It to testify in court for Harvard’s defense. and Equality, the protest last Sunday capped will set a precedent with a much farther reach Like Lee, Chen first got involved in the case off a week of action for the Defend Diversity than necessarily this. To think that taking the roughly a year ago, after being contacted movement—a series of events ranging side of SFFA here is going to benefit you in by lawyers working for Asian Americans from teach-ins to photography campaigns the short run is probably wrong, and even if Advancing Justice (AAAJ). organized by a coalition formed by members it does, it is very short sighted,” Chen said. “I “We went to Dumpling House and [the of various Harvard community groups and think affirmative action is important because lawyer] treated us to brunch. That was very national civil-rights organizations with the it is a way of structuring our admissions kind of her. The lawyer who reached out purpose of consolidating support for race- processes or our hiring standards in a way to us was a Harvard undergraduate. She conscious policies in schools and workplaces. that emphasizes seeing a person as a whole was an alum, and so she was talking about Within this coalition lies a group of college person. That includes affirmative action for what her experiences on campus were like students who have been called upon to write thinking about different kinds of diversity and what was kind of different then versus declarations in support of Harvard’s defense, as well: geographic diversity, socioeconomic now, especially in terms of the increasing like Lee, and an even smaller group who diversity, gender and sexuality. I think that diversity on Harvard’s campus. I think that have been called upon to testify, like Chen. there is a lot of ways in which affirmative first conversation was illuminating. I think action can be a way of structuring how we The case is admittedly high-stakes. Blum it really started conversations in my mind. It can cultivate these different spaces and value and the SFFA are attempting to challenge really started the process of me reflecting on someone for more than their scores.” affirmative action policies and advocating race-conscious admissions and affirmative The fear over the outcome of this case for

4 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 INDY NEWS At the Heart of Harvard’s Defense, continued. voice was heard,” Lu said. At first glance, it is difficult for some to Student advocates like Lu, Chen, and Lee see why members of the Asian-American activists like Chen and Lee is sourced in the community who are alleged victims of racial understanding that Harvard’s trial is more seem to diverge from the attitudes of those within the Asian-American community who discrimination from the University may be than just an issue for the Asian-American on Harvard’s side of the court case. However, community. It is an issue that affects all support the SFFA in two major ways. First, they disagree with the idea that discrimination for students like Lee, whose declarations and racial minority groups on and off Harvard’s testimonies are being used to bring student campus. If Harvard loses the trial this month, against Asian-American applicants has been definitively proven. Second, and more perspective into the courtroom, it is apparent activists fear that affirmative action policies that activists on Harvard’s side often view will be put in danger, and consequently, importantly, they disagree with the idea that Edward Blum’s court case is the solution the question of potential discrimination so will levels of diversity on campuses like against Asian-American applicants as Harvard. to any potential racial discrimination the Asian-American community has faced in fundamentally different from the question the hands of Harvard admissions officers. Blum has put at the center of the court case: are race-conscious admissions policies Understanding Harvard’s activists Instead, they fear that Blum’s court case is using Asian-Americans as a “wedge” against justified? Daniel Lu, a junior in Lowell House and other minorities—weaponizing the stories “There was an internal review that came a director of TAPAS, is one of the students of how the Asian-American community out that showed that Asian-Americans were who was called upon to write a declaration engages with the higher educational system receiving lower personal scores, and so what for Harvard’s defense. In a bright blue in order to take down affirmative action Edward Blum is proposing is that because of shirt emblazoned with Harvard’s crest and policies that ultimately work in the favor of this discrimination, what we should be doing the words “Defend Diversity,” Lu stands communities of color. is implementing a race blind admission parallel to the nearby T station hub at the process. But, if you really think about it and top of the steps by the Harvard Square pit, “I don't think Harvard's internal report you think about the purpose of affirmative as the group 21 Colorful Crimson delivers a or subsequent analyses have definitively action, its part of a holistic admissions performance to the crowd at Sunday’s rally. proven discrimination, and even if there are process. It’s about saying, ‘yes, race is still a Lu initially became involved with Harvard’s discrepancies between Asian-Americans and thing in America that affects how we live,’” case last spring, after senior Thang Diep, other groups, I think we have to be really Lee said. “Dismantling affirmative action is who alongside Chen is another of the four careful about what we attribute as the cause not a solution for the problem, if there is a undergraduates being called to testify in of that potential, alleged discrimination. It problem. I think first, if we really are trying court, reached out to him through TAPAS. seems much more likely based on the data that ALDC programs (athletic recruitment, to establish if Asian-Americans are being “I decided to get involved since affirmative legacy, dean's list, children of faculty) actually discriminated against, there needs to be a action has always felt like a really personal bias admissions against Asian-Americans in more thorough investigation conducted, and issue. It matters to me how Asian-Americans favor of white applicants if anything, while if it does happen, there are other solutions. are represented and how all people of color are affirmative action only has a very small effect For example, [Harvard could be] making being treated in the admissions process and if anything and definitely helps increase sure admissions officers are going through in college life. I wanted to make sure that all representation of other students of color,” more rigorous training on identifying explicit our voices were being heard and that Asian- Lu said. “I don't think there's any definitive or implicit biases.” Americans were not being misrepresented proof yet, and if there is, it's not what the Consequently, activists on Harvard’s as all opposing affirmative action, since the plaintiffs say it is. If discrimination exists it's side often view their project as one of majority of Asian-Americans do support certainly not primarily caused by affirmative working to protect diversity in institutions affirmative action. I wanted to guarantee our action.” like Harvard—a goal they feel is especially

The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 harvardindependent.com 5 INDY NEWS At the Heart of Harvard’s Defense, continued. Moreover, Chen, Lu and Lee all urge others to and have the power to speak about why within the Asian-American community to race cannot be redacted or isolated from the important in a nation contextualized by a evaluate where they stand and who they rest of our experiences and how we value historic lack of opportunity for communities stand with in regards to Harvard’s trial. diversity on our campuses.” of color. “For any Asian-Americans that support Chen will be called to testify in the “Affirmative action is important to me Students for Fair Admissions, I would ask courtroom for Harvard’s defense later this because it's one of the few things that works them what they really care about. Do they month. Chen’s ability to testify in the trial to rectify the pervasive racial injustice in the care about fairness for Asian-Americans? comes from a pretrial hearing that happened U.S. We need affirmative action to allow Do they care about the disproportionate on Oct. 3 of this year, when U.S. District communities of color to work against the rates at which Asian-American students Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled many historical and current challenges and consider and attempt suicide? Do they care against SFFA objections, allowing a small affirmative action & diversity also increase about the deportations facing the Southeast- number of Harvard students and alums to be tolerance and acceptance for people like Asian-American community? Do they care heard by the court. us. When I think about what a good life for about the fact that Asian-Americans are Surrounding the upcoming court dates Asian-Americans means in this country, I still the least likely race to be promoted know that we need affirmative action so that and trial sessions, Chen, Lu and Lee urge to management across a huge range of those in support of affirmative action, and we can work against the racism that hurts so professions?,” Lu said. “If they care about many of us,” Lu said. especially students at Harvard and other giving Asian-Americans like ourselves a institutions of higher education to get However, those in favor of Harvard’s side good life in this country, they have to care involved in whatever level that they can. in the court case have also made it clear that about all those things, and if they do, then we their support does not mean they are entirely need to work together against the racism that “Show up to the courtroom. We have a lot uncritical of university admission processes. treats Asian-Americans as inferior and hurts of Coalition for a Diverse Harvard t-shirts us in all these other spheres. Affirmative from the rally if you can wear if you choose “We are on Harvard’s side, but we are action fights that exact racism by promoting to. That’s one way that we can keep everyone not saying that Harvard’s perfect and that diversity and acceptance for people of all in the room accountable to what is being said its admissions process is perfect,” Lee said. races. I would also question whether they on behalf of students or about students,” “There are so many other shitty admissions truly believe that Edward Blum, a white Chen said. “Another thing is just to keep processes going on that benefit white conservative activist and founder & president having these conversations with people. The students that aren’t being challenged, like of SFFA, is on their side and actually cares more we engage with this, the more we see the Z-list. Predominantly wealthy, white about Asian-Americans beyond using us as a how this has a broader impact and how this students, and obviously legacy students, and tool for his political ends.” case has fairly high stakes on the shape of student athletes who have an admissions our schools, our workplaces. Read up. Share rate of like 80%, and if you look at their on social media. Make some noise. And demographic, [they are] mostly wealthy, What comes next don’t let big institutions speak for you.” mostly white. There’s definitely this question of ‘why aren’t these admissions policies being “I think the belief that my story and students’ stories matters has really come as challenged?’ Why is it that Asian-Americans Segan Helle '20 ([email protected]. a part of this process of seeing students’ left are being used as a racial wedge? Why are edu) is an Asian-American student at Harvard out of the conversation. Both sides, SFFA communities of color being pitted against College who will provide updates as the court and Harvard, are debating about a topic each other, when really, I think it’s like a zero case unfolds. sum game in which no one community loses that ultimately will affect students. It is so and the other one wins.” important that students are being allowed

6 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 INDY FORUM What Not to Do to Prepare for Midterms Because what kind of insane creature would even contemplate self-care at a time like this?

By ALAYA AYALA 1. Sleep 2. Eat Enough Food Sleeping is for the weak and you know Who has time to grab lunch in between your body is a temple of knowledge and it. Tired after having classes all day and classes when you could be working on that you are a lean, mean, learning machine. studying all night? Don’t even think about take home that you were assigned a week You will subsist off of half-done review taking that nap, you could be using that ago and just started last night? Certainly guides and caffeine, nutrition be damned. time to study, and you know it. not you. Thinking about going to bed at a You’d better suck it up and make do with reasonable hour? Absolutely not. You that granola bar that’s been sitting in the 3. Exercise shouldn’t even be considering going to bed dreaded mystery pocket in your backpack You don’t need to worry about until at least 1 a.m. Oh, but you have a 9 since the start of the term. You put it there strengthening your core when it’s your a.m. tomorrow? Sucks to suck. You were thinking you’d have plenty of reason for an mind muscle that you should be flexing. the one who didn’t do the readings last emergency snack, but completely forgot it Have you been sitting in that chair for hours week, and your midterm is tomorrow. was there about two seconds after you put in front of a glaring computer screen? Are If anyone asks you about sleep your it there. Now you’re out of Board Plus, out your legs numb with lack of blood flow, immediate response should be: “Sleep? of time, and out of options. your back aching from sitting still for so Sorry, I don’t know her.” So go ahead and cram, just not food, long? Don’t even contemplate taking a break to stretch your legs. You’re on the last leg...of your essay. If you can hold out without going for a walk, you’ll be done in time for the MAC to close and you to walk past it in the dead of night with a not-even-slightly guilty conscience. Why? Because you finally finished the conclusion of your essay and uploaded it to Canvas without so much as a proofread. You made it to the finish line, kid.

Isabelle Blair '21

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What Not to Do to Prepare for Midterms, continued. 5. Socialise with Friends, Family, or 6. Be a Normal Human Being with Partners Human Feelings. 4. Use Social Media Unless they’re helping you study, they’re Just no. Emotions are a luxury for Social Media and your phone are not worth your time. You can only rely on people who’ve been studiously keeping UNHOLY distractions. You don’t need someone as much as they can help you up with class content since the start of the them, you’re a lone wolf who has been sent figure out the last question on your Pset. semester. You certainly haven’t, and you on a quest to memorize the most material You’ve got 99 problems and loneliness ain’t don’t have enough room in your head for in the hour before your exam. Your friends one when you’ve got your lecture notes to pesky things like joy or anxiety when all and family will only bog you down with keep you company. you can think about are the philosophical their “concerns” about your “unhealthy musings of some great mind from the turn study habits.” You don’t need that kind of The love of your family is nothing of the century. energy right now, the only good energy is compared to the warm glow you’ll get in the energy that goes into making a Quizlet your belly when you take that initial glance You, like the code you’ve been writing for all the terms you’ve forgotten since last at your midterm and realize you know the since last Tuesday, feel nothing and have month. answers to all of the questions on the first no sympathy for any living being. page. Better delete your social media until Your brain is a sponge ready to absorb, exam period is over. You don’t WANT The only date you’ll be going on this not to process the mushy gushy feels those notifications to pop up and take your weekend is with your laptop to the library, brought on by that poster of a sad-looking mind off of the optional readings that where you’ll be stuck in the passionate small child that you just walked past in the you’re suddenly convinced will be on the throes of delight brought on by the hallway. exam in two days. ramblings of some long dead white man whose theories you have to have down by And no, you absolutely cannot take any Monday. Alaya Ayala ‘21 (alaya_ayala@college. time to get your mind off of testing with harvard.edu) wants to make sure everyone a mindlessly entertaining YouTube video. knows that this article was written in jest, and If you’re enjoying yourself at any point remind her fellow Harvard students to take over the next few weeks, you will fail. Is care of themselves during midterms. that what you want? To fail because you decided you needed a laugh? Unacceptable.

8 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 INDY ARTS Overnight Dreaming A Poem By REMEDY & ABIGAIL

Your arms feel like a long-lost sweater Untitled I knew I would find A Poem I am not any kind of perfect By JOSE ESPINEL But I am warm and I am alive and so are you So many nights “Tu tump” is Italian and my heart hits boom I’d branded myself Mycenaean I said I don’t use onomatopoeia And wondered in silence But sometimes don’t is also do Whether Helen might visit my dreams If I walked down Allenby Street You turn nouns to verbs And continued into the sea. And my brain doesn’t quite work When I’m thinking about you I swore I’d stay there, Devoting my days on Elba My name is a word too To studying the taxonomy of stones And other enlightened arts But it still can’t fix the mirror Of great men who never bathed I’m naked in a glassy field Until with labored certainty I’d say: This is grey. My desire cuts into me You stroke the wound And so much toil would make me a rational man. And it feels right And rational men do not weep at her memory. And rational men find beauty in numbers and stones. Pleasant thoughts of fleeting moments Always on my mind But if a letter from Josephine Spoke of her living – But thoughts of what’s waiting for us By some miracle returned to Paris, I’d be a rational man, Take my heart and make it hard to find Abandon the stones, I’m running! Searching Forgive myself. Where could it be? Maybe I left it where we were Jose Espinel '20 ([email protected]) When we were you and me continues to drift, abandoning stones.

You have a piano on your back I play the keys down your spine But my fingers trip over themselves I haven’t done this in so long Remedy Ryan '21 ([email protected]) & Abigail I step on the wrong pedal Koerner '21 ([email protected]) created this poem together, No one can learn a duet overnight with Remedy's voice in BOLD and Abigail's voice in REGULAR.

The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 harvardindependent.com 9 INDY SPORTS Women Hard at Work at Weld The History of Weld Boathouse By ABIGAIL JADE KOERNER Tucker, described the transition in Radcliffe the Harvard-Radcliffe Varsity Lightweight rowing towards female leadership that team (RVL) operate out of Weld Boathouse very October, the Boston area allowed the team to flourish. She writes at the corner of John F. Kennedy Street becomes a haven for rowers from that, “… beginning with the appointment and Memorial Drive. The women’s rowing Earound the world, of all ages, to of Carrie Graves in 1978, Radcliffe had teams train exclusively out of Weld gather, race, and celebrate rowing. Today, women as coaches and models, women boathouse while the men’s teams train rowing is available to both men and who were exceptional rowers. Weld must across the river at Newell boathouse. women. However, on Harvard’s campus, have offered a respite from the sexual rowing was not always as inclusive. The old mindset and energy to prove politics that female students and rowers oneself on the water in a world where Rowing was the first popular faced inside and outside of the classroom female athletes are reprimanded for the intercollegiate sport. In the 1840s, Harvard in the 70’s and 80’s — a nurturing work they do each day remains central to men’s rowing was established and in 1852, environment for women’s rowing to grow the culture of Weld boathouse. the first Harvard-Yale Regatta, and first and thrive.” intercollegiate competition ever, was held. When Radcliffe college became a part Centuries later, in 1972, Radcliffe rowing of Harvard University, the women’s team Abigail Koerner '21 (ajkoerner@college. was established as the first women’s rowing chose to maintain the Radcliffe name. harvard.edu) looks forward to the Head of program in the Ivy League. Today, both the Harvard-Radcliffe Varsity the Charles after looking back at the history As the institution of Radcliffe rowing Heavyweight women’s team (RVH) and of the Weld boathouse. grew and flourished, issues of gender discrimination surfaced as men’s coaches would not allow Radcliffe women to use their equipment. Women were givenshorter racing distances, less racing opportunities, and faced cruel commentary by male rowers on campus for their participation in the sport. Still, Radcliffe rowers persevered. Soon, women’s rowing at Harvard ventured past recreational sculling to form distinct and successful teams. Weld boathouse became a sanctuary for Radcliffe women as the lightweight and heavyweight teams developed under female coaches including Carrie Graves. Radcliffe alum and former coach of the lightweight team, Cecile

Abigail Koerner '21

10 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18 INDY SPORTS Sports Briefs By JASPER FU Third Consecutive win for Staying Comfortably Mad For Basketball Harvard Women’s Rugby! Afloat

his past Saturday, on October 13th, espite the chill and rain on Saturday, arvard Men’s Water Polo hosted Harvard Basketball’s eighth Crimson the Harvard Women’s rugby team the Harvard Invite this weekend TMadness kicked off. For the first time Dpicked up its third consecutive home Hat Cambridge, picking up two its almost decade-long history, the annual win against Notre Dame. Harvard’s two year out of its three games. At Harvard’s own event saw Lavietes Pavilion hosting women’s old Roberto A. Mignone Field, unveiled in Blodgett Pool, the initially 13-4 and 10th basketball alongside the men’s team. After September 2016 as redeveloped to fulfil ranked Crimson team first faced off against coach and player introductions, the festivities World Rugby field certification standards, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at the kickoff of began with a dunk contest featuring Weisner saw the Harvard Crimson women’s rugby the event. Led by junior Austin Sechrest, Perez, Rio Haskett, Robert Baker, and Kale team (4 -1) continue their undefeated home scoring the first goal, followed shortly by Catchings, and was ultimately won by Baker, victory streak with a commanding 43 - 12 junior Charlie Owens, Harvard took a 2 - 0 a junior, as champion. The three-point victory against the Notre Dame Falcons (2 - lead. Although the Stags managed to pull shootout saw team captain Sydney Skinner 2). The Crimson, with a 4 - 1 overall record, out a further three points, Harvard scored win the women’s title, and junior Christian their only loss being a 13 - 55 away game five more, including a second from Sechrest Juzang win the men’s, with 23 points between at Dartmouth, dominated the field, scoring followed by shots from Bruno Snow, Jackson them. It was followed shortly by a knockout three uncontested kicks to pull out an early Enright, Grant Harvey, and Nick Bunn, as contest between fans and athletes, with a fan 21 - 0 lead that would prove impossible well as a penalty shot from Dennis Blyashov, as the last player standing, narrowly edging for the Falcons to overcome. Notre Dame to hold their lead and then some, ending the out junior forward Henry Welsh to emerge managed to score five points at the end of first half with a 7 - 3 lead. By the night’s end, victorious. the first half, but the strength of the Crimson Harvard had maintained its lead with a 12 defense proved enough to prevent any other - 8 victory, with 3 of those goals scored by The men’s team ended the event with an attempts at scoring by the Falcons as they freshman Alex Tsotadze. intra-squad scrimmage, with Crimson and built up a 35 - 5 lead just ten minutes into The second game of the invite saw an White teams facing off. Shootout champion the second half. Though a last minute try on Juzang sunk the game-tying buzzerbeater incredibly close loss against the 17th ranked Notre Dame’s part scored them seven more team Bucknell, with a 17 - 16 victory for to end the game at 41 - 41, tying it for the points, it wasn’t enough to stop the Crimson Crimson team. Bucknell against the Crimson team. After from closing the game with a confident lead. the first quarter, Bucknell had led six to The women’s team will begin their season The Crimson is undefeated at home five, and despite a valiant Harvard effort against defending national champions Notre this season, after a 24 - 21 victory against the Crimson found itself unable to close the Dame, at an away game at Joyce Center, Quinnipiac and a 28 - 17 victory against gap. The fourth quarter began with a 13 - 11 South Bend, on the 9th. The men’s team has Army West Point, and this game marks both Bucknell lead, and the two teams traded back been picked to defend their championship their largest win and their first match against and forth goals to end with a 17-16 Bucknell title in the Ivy League in the preseason Notre Dame in the program’s history. Their victory. media poll, with 12 out of the 18 first place next game will also be a home game, against votes and 137 total points going to Harvard, Harvard ended the invite with a similarly Brown, in Mignone Field, as the last regular hard-fought bout, in a 13 - 12 victory against beating out Penn, with 5 first place votes and season game before Ivy Championships and 122 points overall, and Yale, with the last No. 20 ranked Wagner. The entire game National Intercollegiate Rugby Association was neck and neck, until, with 35 seconds vote for first and 115 total points. Looking playoffs. like the strongest contender for the Ivy remaining in the last frame, senior Nick Bunn League title this year, the Crimson team will Jasper Fu '21 ([email protected]. scored the tiebreaking shot to give Harvard its 3rd victory of the invite, and 15th in the be hosting MIT on the 6th and Northeastern edu) is feeling energized after an exciting on the 9th in two home games. season. The Crimson finished the weekend weekend of Harvard Sports. with a 15 - 5 overall record.

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“Midterm Season Vibes” By ISABELLE BLAIR

12 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 10.19.18