Contents for October 19, 2000

News and Features

Delaney-Smith carries on fight against cancer
In December 1999, Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer. In March 2000, the Gazette chronicled Delaney-Smith's fight. Today, we revisit her to see how she's fared.

Water power: American women in rowing
If you had been walking along Memorial Drive early one particular morning during the summer of 1975, you might have seen a group of strapping young women expertly lowering a long eight-seat shell into the water from the dock of Newell boathouse. A common enough sight, except that in a short while these women would do something that had never been done before, something that would have a huge impact on American women's athletics.

Female monogamy is fiction, not fact, Hrdy says
Women are naturally monogamous. Men tend to rove. That assumption is not only part of popular belief, it has also been enshrined by science. It's not true, says Sarah Hrdy, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of California.

A neighborly place for families
It takes a village to raise a child, but if there's no village handy, try Harvard Neighbors.

Community service is key: Ebert Awards recognize the commitment of eight
Eight medical professionals were recently recognized for extraordinary service - locally and globally - by the Medical School/School of Dental Medicine.

Mongan Center: Collection behind the collections
There's considerably more than meets the eye at the Fogg Art Museum. One window onto this vast collection of hidden surprises can be found in the Fogg's pioneering Agnes Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

Butterflies, beetles, and bugs, oh my!
One of the many classes offered by the Museum of Natural History (HMNH) took flight last Saturday morning in a burst of color and light. Led by Ann Ambiel, a veteran museum educator, Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies entranced a variety of second- and third-graders.

Ravitch slams school reform: Ed School forum shows the failures of progressive education
From "social efficiency" to "curriculum integration" to "open classrooms," the history of American education is littered with failed school reform efforts that mobilized support and generated momentum for fits and starts, only to be displaced in short order by even newer ideals.

New marshals guide Class of '01
Eight Harvard seniors were elected class marshals this month, taking over a post that will have them guiding their class not only through its senior year, but also after graduation.

Former administrator Gillespie, 72, dies
Joan Marie (Colllins) Gillespie, a former Harvard administrator, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 72.

Faculty

Konrad Bloch, Nobel winner, dies at 88
Konrad Emil Bloch, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964, died Sunday, Oct. 15, at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. He died of complications from congestive heart failure at age 88.

Fellows

Administrative fellows named
Eleven new fellows have been selected for the 2000-01 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the 11, six are visiting fellows and five are resident fellows.

Sports

Police

Police Log

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