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May 04, 2000One powerful dayAndrew Tache, 19, of the Mescalero tribe, dances at the Sixth Annual Harvard University Powwow at the Quadrangle Athletic Facility on Saturday. Staff photo by Kris Snibbe Study: For men, family comes first Having a job schedule that allows for family time is more important to young men than money, power, or prestige, according to a new study released today by the Radcliffe Public Policy Center. Eighty-two percent of men ages 20-39 put family time at the top of their list, keeping pace with 85 percent of women in those age groups. Breaking ranks with their fathers and grandfathers on the important issue of work-family integration, 71 percent of men 21-39 said they would give up some of their pay for more time with their families. Crimson softball plays hardball It just gets better and better for Crimson softball as close in on an Ivy League Title. On Tuesday (May 2), freshman Monica Montijo hit a single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Harvard softball team to a 1-0 extra-inning win over the University of Rhode Island. Kids rule at Sports Fest Mayor Thomas Menino joined hundreds of local youths, student athletes, and coaches last Friday (April 28) to kick off the annual Sports Festival held at Harvard. Designed to celebrate the culmination of this year’s Youth and Student-Athlete Collaborative program, the festival drew 1,200 local youngsters to learn from varsity student-athletes and coaches from Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, and UMass-Boston. Amid a flurry of balls, rackets, bats, and nets, kids took part in sports skills seminars, demonstrations, and drills. Spring silliness Eat, drink, and be merry -- thousands showed off their spring fever during Springfest 2000 at the MAC Quad, coming out to support student bands, eat, compete, and enjoy the weather.
Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology, dies
A memorial service will be held for Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, a former Harvard Law School dean, on Wednesday, May 10, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Vorenberg died on April 12.
Mighty metaphors -- Zaltman's method opens the 'windows of consciousness'
It was a radical idea at the time. Five labor contracts settled last year In a recent remarkably productive period of labor relations activity, the University signed 5 new contracts with four of its unions between July and November of last year. Education key to upward mobility D. Quinn Mills, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, chaired the eight-member Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies that for the last year has been examining issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers. Committee calls for expanded training, benefits A committee of faculty and administrators studying workforce issues at Harvard has recommended several groundbreaking initiatives. Central to these recommendations is a greatly expanded free, on-site workplace education program for the university’s lowest-paid employees, including those working for contractors. Harvard Benefits Harvard offers a generous package of benefits and perks – including liberal time off, tuition assistance, a wide range of health plans and special perks like discount theater and movie tickets. Recommendations Annual Cost: $2.44 million A Bridge to literacy, learning In an innovative move to bridge the gap between workers in low-paying jobs and those enjoying the nation’s booming new economy, Harvard University will launch a new workplace education program providing basic literacy and language skills and/or courses leading to a high school equivalency degree. Rudenstine praises ‘far-reaching’ recommendations I received today (May 3) a copy of the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies — a committee composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, which I appointed last spring to study issues relating to the contingent workforce on campus. I intend to study the report thoroughly and to share it broadly with students, faculty, staff, the Deans of our Schools and Faculties, and the interested public so that we all have the benefit of its analysis and can begin to consider how to implement its recommendations. As we embark on this process of review, I would like to share some of my initial reactions to the work of the Committee. Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Celebrating John Knowles Paine's legacy Aaron Copland. Leonard Bernstein. Igor Stravinsky. John Knowles Paine. Notes Nieman reunion convenes some of world's top journalists If a war had broken out somewhere last weekend, there’s a possibility the rest of the world might have missed it. Newsmakers NAACP Retreat The National Board of Directors of the NAACP attended its third board retreat at the Business School last week. President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) met with NAACP Chairman Julian Bond during a reception for the NAACP board at the Law School. Also in attendance was NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. Staff photo by Justin Ide Law School Forgives Loans for Alumni in Public Service Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Robert C. Clark has announced an extensive expansion of the School’s loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country. Koolhaas takes the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2000 Remment Koolhaas, professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2000. The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award, will present Koolhaas with the prize and its $100,000 grant on May 17 in Jerusalem. Interfaculty Initiative helps clear the air Anyone who has ever visited Beijing in winter knows that air pollution is one of the city’s biggest problems. Homes, schools, offices all heat with coal – which also is the major source of electrical energy. The result is a pall of black soot that settles into people’s lungs and bronchial tubes, and produces an annual epidemic of respiratory disease. The problem is repeated in many of China’s industrial areas and population centers. Smashing roadblocks to diversity Approximately 200 Harvard middle managers got together at the Charles Hotel this past Friday, April 28, to discuss obstacles to staff diversity. Charles Coulson, former director of Harvard Varsity Club, dies at 69 Former Harvard Varsity Club Director Charles "Chuck" Coulson died on April 11, 2000, in Johnstown, Penn., where he was visiting family. He was 69. Memorial service for Bellow set for May 25 A memorial service for Harvard Law School professor Gary Bellow will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The service will be followed with a reception in the Ropes-Gray Room in Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave. Bellow died on April 13. Potent cancer drugs made -- Sea squirts provide recipe Sack-like sea squirts living on the sea floor make a complex anti-tumor drug hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than any cancer potion now in use. For the past six years, chemists have been trying to do the same thing more efficiently and without the ecological mayhem involved in scraping the squirts off Caribbean coral reefs in large numbers. Franken, Lithgow lead laughs at ARTS FIRST Good luck keeping a straight face during ARTS FIRST 2000. Ad Hoc report calls for expanded training, benefits, new contract guidelines After more than a year of studying issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies released a report yesterday (May 3) recommending a groundbreaking program of greatly expanded worker education, an expansion of health benefits for service workers, and the adoption of University-wide guidelines on service contractor hiring.
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