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Harvard Dining Services

Dining Service Manager Ardolino Retires

After 42 years of service, Manager Gerald Ardolino retired last month from University Dining Services.

Ardolino started as a general service employee at Harkness Commons at the Law School in 1955. After that, he served as a pantry steward and assistant manager at Quincy House Dining Hall. In 1969, Ardolino moved to Dunster House to serve as assistant manager there. In 1985, he was promoted to manager of the Dunster and Mather dining halls.

On March 26, a retirement party was held for Ardolino at the Cronkhite Graduate Center. Nearly 150 family members, friends, and colleagues were in attendance.

GSD Recognizes Three Employees at Reward and Recognition Event

The Graduate School of Design recognized three employees for their contributions to the School during the first GSD Employee Reward and Recognition Event held last month. Peter Rowe, Dean of the School, presented the award recipients with plaques, cash awards for trips, and time off from work to enjoy their awards. Carl Salminen received $800 and two vacation days for job performance. Margaret Moore de Chicojay and Elizabeth Murphy each received $200 and a vacation day for their community service to the GSD.

Recipients were selected from a pool of nominations submitted by co-workers and supervisors. The Reward and Recognition program is part of an initiative by the Dean's Office to encourage and reward employees for excellence in their jobs and for their support of the School and community. Nominations for awards are accepted both in the spring and fall and are evaluated by a committee comprised of GSD staff.

Broadway Market and Murray's Liquors donated supplies for the event.

First-Ever Harvard Dance Day Event to be Held at Lowell Lecture Hall

Harvard Dance Day, a new undergraduate organization, will hold its first dance event on Friday, April 18. Performances will be given by Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, Gumboots, the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Team, the Crimson Dance Team, the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, Expressions, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company, the Israeli Dance Troupe, Mainly Jazz, and the South Asian Association, as well as independent tap and flamenco dancers.

Dance Day will be presented at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall. Tickets can be purchased at Sanders Theatre Box Office (496-2222) or at the door. General tickets are $7; for students, $5.

After the show, ticketholders can present their tickets for free admission to a dance party at Eliot House.

NOW President Patricia Ireland to Speak on Women, Politics, and Justice in the Year 2000

Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), will speak on "Women, Politics, and Justice in the Year 2000," on Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at Askwith Lecture Hall in Longfellow Hall, Appian Way. The talk is free and open to the public.

Her address, sponsored by Radcliffe College, will be followed by a panel discussion led by three members of the Radcliffe College community: Lisa Dodson, a fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute; Eileen McDonagh, a visiting scholar at the Murray Research Center; and Kerrien Rollins '98, a Radcliffe undergraduate who is active in African-American and women's leadership programs.

Ireland will focus on the challenges facing American women on the threshold of the 21st century; particularly, equal economic opportunity, the protection of abortion rights, and the role of feminism.

Works by Conceptual Artist on Display at Bunting Institute

"Forecast," a sculpture installation by conceptual artist Julia Scher, will be on display in the Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery at Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute from April 4 through May 2.

The display explores various forms of social control as seen through the eyes of the artist. The exhibit incorporates live surveillance and security equipment, voice soundtrack, design graphics, and two Web sights, "Securityland" and "Wonderland," to create images and an artistic impression.

Scher has been working with electronic surveillance equipment since 1985 and now uses audio CD, catalogue texts, and electronic interactive installations in public space. She has been published in Artforum International, The New Yorker, and on the World Wide Web. She has been the recipient of awards from Art Matters Inc. and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Rwandan Tribunal Justice to Deliver 1997 Rothschild Lecture

Navanethem Pillay, justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), will deliver Radcliffe College's sixth annual Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave. Her lecture, "International Criminal Tribunals: The Views of a Female Judge," is sponsored by the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in collaboration with the Human Rights Program at the Law School.

The ICTR, based in Arusha, Tanzania, was created by the United Nations Security Council in 1994 in the wake of Rwanda's genocide in which more than 500,000 Rwandan Tutsi and moderate Hutu died. The tribunal consists of a panel of six judges from Bangladesh, Russia, Senegal, Sweden, Tanzania, and South Africa.

Pillay, the first black woman to be appointed to the South African Supreme Court, signed the original indictments issued by the international panel investigating the 1994 massacres in Rwanda. A lawyer from Natal Province, she has spent decades representing defendants in political trials, including activists held on Robben Island and other prisons. She created the South African commission to investigate political crimes during apartheid and believes that Rwandans should have the same opportunity for justice.

In her lecture, Pillay will address many of the issues and challenges faced by the ICTR, including the designation of rape as a war crime, locating indicted Rwandans, finding survivors willing to testify, and dealing with government mismanagement.

The Rothschild lectureship was established at the Schlesinger Library by alumna and former trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild '40 and her husband Robert F. Rothschild '39 to provide a series of annual lectures by distinguished women in history, library science, women's studies, and related fields.

Harvard Institute for International Development Holds Conference

The Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Council on Foreign Relations held a conference on the politics and economics of contemporary China on April 23 in New York. HIID director Jeffrey Sachs and HIID fellow Theo Panayotou both chaired conference sessions.

Conference participants, including business leaders, academics, and senior government officials from the U.S. and China, explored issues and reform priorities in post-Deng China, including macroeconomic trends, the development of financial markets, and a range of issues related to investment, trade, and technology. Following the conference, a delegation of Chinese government officials came to Harvard and visited HIID and the Fairbank Center for a briefing session and seminar. The group was joined for dinner at the Loeb House by Governor William Weld and his wife, Susan Weld, a research fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School.