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Harvard sophomore catcher Brian Lentz has been selected to the All-Ivy League First Team for baseball. The team is voted on by the league’s eight head coaches. Lentz, who is 6-foot-1, 210 pounds, and 20 years old, is in his first season of varsity collegiate baseball and was the Crimson’s lone selection to the First…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. May 7: A wallet was stolen at Quincy House. A caller reported that someone broke into a room at Pennypacker Hall. A wallet was stolen…

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the NeighborWorks Network of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation have named Sarah Karlinsky and Madeleine Pill as the two Harvard recipients of the Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development Fellowship program. Karlinsky, a master of public policy and urban planning candidate at the Kennedy School of Government…

Twelve U.S. journalists have been appointed to the 63rd class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. They will be joined by approximately 12 international journalists to be named later this month. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest mid-career fellowship program for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists…

The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) has awarded its first-ever Public Service Fellowship to Anna Baldwin ’00. The HGLC Public Service Fellowship is a one-time grant of $3,000 made to a full-time student of any school of Harvard University to educate, organize, or otherwise benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community during the…

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An interior view of the new British Library at St. Pancras, London. An exhibition, “Building the British Library: an architectural exhibition,” on display in the Corridor Gallery of Pusey Library through Friday, May 26, features original drawings, architectural models, and photographs that chronicle the building from conception through opening. The new British Library at St.…

If Woody Allen had been directing the scene, chances are he wouldn’t have left any of it on the cutting room floor. The legendary actor/director/comedian cracked a few jokes, told a few stories, and dispensed several nuggets of valuable advice as he answered questions from Harvard film students last week during an appearance at Loews…

One hundred forty-four people, from dining service workers to deans, will be honored on Thursday, May 18, 2000, for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 46th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony – a unique event in that it recognized both faculty and staff from across the entire University – will…

An unprecedented four Harvard seniors won the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2000. Pictured are (left to right) Rosylyn Rhee, Luke Fischbeck, and Maxie Blue Rogers. Not pictured is Alexander Olch, who graduated in March. The Gardner Fellowship is available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the departments of Visual…

Hedley-Whyte named to German Society of Anesthesiology John Hedley-Whyte, the David S. Sheridan Professor of Anesthesia and Respiratory Therapy at Harvard Medical School, was elected as an honorary life member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine on Saturday, May 6. Hedley-Whyte was cited for his research into the mechanisms and treatment…

This isn’t your ordinary student concert. Not that any of Harvard’s talented undergraduate musicians can be called ordinary, but even in such brilliant company the star of this event shines with a unique luster. Joseph Lin ’00, a concentrator in the Study of Religion and a resident of Mather House, also happens to be one…

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles (center) speaks with Tim Cross (left) associate dean for finance and administration at the Divinity School, and Leonard Solomon, research program manager in DEAS. Solomon was among four recipients of the FAS Administrative/Professional Prize. Every two years, FAS honors up to four members of the exempt…

Professor of History and African-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is among 12 women who will be inducted into the YWCA Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers Class of 2000 in a special ceremony on Tuesday, June 6. The Academy was founded six years ago by Marti Wilson-Taylor, YWCA Boston’s president and CEO, to recognize women who…

University Information Systems (UIS) is still working to assess the damage from last week’s pesky ILOVE YOU virus that struck e-mail systems worldwide. Disguised as an e-mail attachment, the virus apparently emanated from the Philippines, and spread primarily through Microsoft’s Outlook Express e-mail program, by sending copies of itself to others in the victims’ address…

While many Harvard graduates will seek their fortunes around the world, three of their classmates will remain in Boston next year living on $25,000 fellowships and pursuing community-based public service work. The three graduating seniors – Joseph Garland of Deer Isle, Maine; Amy Leung of Quincy; and Ari Lipman of Chevy Chase, Md. – received…

Former Harvard student Matt Damon and Cambridge native Ben Affleck added their voices – and drawing power – Saturday to the chorus of Harvard students, Cambridge City Councilors, and others calling on the University to adopt a $10.25 per hour living wage. The pair was the highlight of a two-hour rally on the steps of…

Harrison E. Radford, a molecular spectroscopist who conducted research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (formerly the Harvard College Observatory) from 1969 until his retirement in 1992, died on May 5, 2000, after a long struggle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). A memorial service for Radford will be held on Saturday, May 13, at 11…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 6. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. April 30: An individual was arrested at North Hall for assault and battery and malicious destruction. A bicycle was stolen from Gund Hall. A bicycle…

Twenty-four juniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Their names and houses are as follows: Andreea Simona Balan, Currier; Jennifer Belli, Winthrop; Emma Richardson Burbank-Schmitt, Quincy; Nadarajan Chetty, Pforzheimer; Peter Ciganik, Kirkland; Eli Louis Diamond, Cabot; Andrew James Heckerling, Eliot; Angie Deborah Heo, Cabot; Andrew Ja-way Kin, Cabot; William Henry Kitchens, Currier; David Evan…

Much has been said and written about Men’s Heavyweight Crew Coach Harry Parker over the course of the near half-century he has been involved in crew. He is one of a select few living legends here at Harvard who can still be seen day in and day out just doing his job. Arguably the best-known…

Rabbi Whiman to preach ninth Judaic-Christian Dialogue Rabbi David A. Whiman, senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, will give this year’s Judaic-Christian Dialogue at the Memorial Church on Sunday, May 14, at 11 a.m. Whiman was ordained from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1979 and served Congregation Beth Israel in Houston…

A virus that had never been seen in the Western Hemisphere until it killed seven people last fall in New York has re-emerged, and researchers from the School of Public Health (SPH) are working with Massachusetts officials to guard against an outbreak here. Last August, birds began dying in New York City, and tests identified…

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They are bright and beautiful, aromatic, and full of life. For five weeks every spring, colorful lilacs dominate New England gardens, with a span of hues ranging from rich reds to deep blues to festive pinks to majestic whites. Perhaps the most impressive display around can be found at the Arnold Arboretum, where more than…

Ira A. Jackson ’70, former executive vice president of BankBoston Corporation, has been named director of the Center for Business an Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye announced on Monday, May 8. “It is a pleasure to welcome Ira Jackson back to the Kennedy School where he began his illustrious…

Hey, Mister Cabdriver Said, where the hell are you taking me? I know this ain’t the way back to my home Cuz I sleep alone And I know I always leave my light on Just to show my way back home When they started jammin’ together two years ago, Al Bennett, a Harvard senior concentrating…