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Following the success of September’s “Celebration of Black Alumni,” Harvard Law School will hold its Latino Alumni Conference in San Antonio, on Dec. 1. The three-day conference is sponsored by the Harvard Law School Association’s (HLSA’s) Latino Committee and will recognize and honor the accomplishments of Latino alumni around the world. “Our upcoming meeting in…

Ruth Wisse hesitates to compare her latest work to the Bible, but she admits there may be some similarities. In “The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture” (The Free Press, 2000), Wisse writes about the works of prose fiction that, in her opinion, define the Jewish experience in the 20th century. It…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday Nov. 4. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Oct. 30: A bicycle was reported stolen from Aldrich Hall. A breaking and entering report was filed at HUPD Headquarters. Oct. 31: A…

According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a sexual assault occurred in an undergraduate residence hall in Harvard Yard on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4:30 a.m. The case is under active investigation by the HUPD.

She was the only one to survive the horrible car crash that killed her parents and siblings. The teenager was inconsolable. Shipped from her home in Oregon to the East Coast to live with an uncle, she suffered from depression and thoughts of suicide. Annie (not her real name) was enrolled in a special high…

At its fifth meeting of the year, the Council discussed parking issues arising from the Faculty’s continued growth with the Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser, and the Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services Tom Vautin. The Council also heard a report from Professors Stuart Shieber (DEAS) and Werner Sollors (English and Afro-American…

There will be a memorial service for David Elliott Bell on Friday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. Bell, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and International Health Emeritus, died Sept. 6 after a brief illness. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations be sent to the AIDS…

With the outcome of the 2000 presidential election very much in doubt, American voters are left grappling with the prospect of having elected a chief executive without a popular mandate. The dilemma arises amid the possibility of Texas Gov. George W. Bush taking office with a plurality of Electoral College votes while amassing fewer popular…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 28. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Oct. 22: A suspect was apprehended in connection with throwing a brick through a window at Canaday Hall. A wallet was reported stolen…

Rapidly rising from his chair, and leaving a full plate of warm food, Patrol Officer Charles Marren of Harvard University’s Police Department (HUPD) grabs his cap from above the buffet line at Annenberg Hall and radios back to the University dispatcher, “52 to control, I have that.” Going “code,” with blue strobes pulsing and headlights…

In September 2001, about 18 senior public officials from Southeast Asia and China will exchange the summerlike days of Singapore for seven weeks of autumn at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and one week in Washington, D.C. These officials are the members of the first class in the new master in public management (MPM)…

Given the consensus among scientists, economists, and world governments on the devastating consequences of resource depletion, why is it that colleges and universities don’t put the environmental crisis front and center in their curricula and policies? Four hundred and twenty-four students, faculty, and administrators from 35 campuses convened last weekend at the Campus Environmental Leadership…

Tumors were eliminated in 25 percent of patients with widespread kidney and lethal skin cancers who received a new cancer vaccine. Another 25 percent showed encouraging shrinkage of large and small tumors. Some of the 75 people who have received the vaccine saw their tumors melt away within weeks and remain gone for two to…

President, provost offer office hours for students Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7. Provost Harvey V. Fineberg will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 3. Office…

There’s nothing more “real life” than this: a notice to appear in court for nonpayment of rent. It’s an eviction notice, in effect, and there’s not much time to act on it. Frantz Marcelin is shaking as he holds the letter. He could have paid the rent, he explains, but he is waiting for his…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on April 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. James Luther Adams – “JLA,” as he came to be affectionately known – was born in Ritzville, Wash., in 1901, the son of James Carey Adams, an itinerant Baptist preacher and farmer, and Leila Mae…

Female basketball players in knee-length bloomers and high socks, field hockey players in skirts that touch the grass, the cast of an all-female “Merchant of Venice” decked in doublets, capes, and beards – these are the images of a new exhibition on Harvard Women’s History at the Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center Arcade.…

One of television’s most respected and familiar figures revealed some of the person behind the persona during an appearance at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night. ABC News “Nightline” host Ted Koppel touched on an array of sensitive topics ranging from journalistic integrity to presidential politics to spirituality while discussing his new…

November 2, 2000 The sixth annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium was held on Friday, Oct. 13, at the Kodansha/Reischauer House in Belmont, Mass. In attendance were representatives from Kodansha; the Consul General of Japan in Boston, Tadamichi Yamamoto; and members of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, including faculty, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows,…

November 2, 2000 Ten children from Cambridge and greater Boston will be able to attend camp next summer thanks to a donation from approximately 300 Harvard Business School (HBS) Master of Business Administration (MBA) students. Over this past summer, in an effort to contribute to the community beyond HBS, the students held an auction raising…

The Boston Area Student Environmental Leadership Conference at Harvard Oct. 27-28 served more than 1,000 meals to the 400 participants but generated only three bags of trash because of extensive planning with Crimson Catering. This number of people would normally have generated 80 to 100 bags of trash. Student planners asked for cloth napkins instead…

After winning three straight contests in mid-October, a run that included the season’s first Ivy League victory over a tough Yale squad, the Harvard men’s soccer team has dropped three straight including an Oct. 21 shut-out by host Princeton. Things weren’t quite so grim for the Crimson, 7-6-1, 1-4 Ivy (at press time), in their…

Harvard’s annual tradition of giving back to the community is reaching out further than ever this year. Faculty and staff are being asked to open up their hearts and their wallets by participating in the Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign 2000, with the fundraising goal set at $915,000. The campaign was launched at a kick-off…

A giant computer screen, flanked by smaller monitors, dominates the basement room on Cambridge Street, giving the impression you’re in Harvard’s version of Mission Control. You’re not. You’re in the control room for Harvard’s computer network and one of the control centers for a new Internet that’s abroad in the land – or at least…

Gazette Staff Robert W. Iuliano ’83 has been named the University’s deputy general counsel. He replaces Robert Donin who left Harvard in August to take a position at Dartmouth. An attorney in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) since 1994, Iuliano has handled a broad range of legal matters including student affairs, tenure issues,…

Precariously perched on a tiny scaffold 170 feet in the air over the Nevada desert last summer, Jeremy Stein anxiously contemplated an awe-inspiring feat – a bungee jump into a 13-foot-deep swimming pool in Las Vegas. Stepping off the ledge, Stein began his free fall, only slightly splashing the water as the cord whipped him…