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May 5, 1969 – The Harvard Corporation approves the creation of a 15-member University Benefits Committee to oversee and develop faculty-staff benefit plans (for pensions, medical insurance, etc.) throughout the institution.

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A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 5). For the 15th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards Commencement Exercises.

C. Dixon (Dick) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. 56, has been elected president of the Universitys Board of Overseers for 2003-04. He will succeed Thomas S. Williamson Jr., A.B. 68, following Commencement on June 5.

Ryan Quill puts a fresh coat on the columns of the Memorial Church in preparation for Commencement.

In order to gain admittance to Harvard Yard on Commencement morning, June 5, guests must have Commencement tickets, which they will be required to show at our gates.

In a study of the possible association between phthalate exposure and human semen quality, researchers at the School of Public Healths (SPH) Occupational Health Program have found an association between select phthalates and low sperm count, low sperm motility, and an increased percent of abnormally shaped sperm among a group of men from couples seeking…

Orchestra seeks players, to hold auditions The Harvard Summer School Orchestra is holding open auditions June 24-26 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Lowell Hall (Rooms B12 and B13). Viola,…

Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that the School has received a $10 million grant from the John M. Olin Foundation. The gift is the largest foundation grant in the Law Schools 186-year history.

Representing a broad range of disciplines, from computer science to Yiddish literature, five distinguished members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Harvard College Professors.

May 1638 – The College Yard expands as the Town of Cambridge grants the College a lot of land that today includes Harvard, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy halls.

Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers President Adrienne Landau (left) and Director Bill Jaeger balloon the campus on Monday (May 19), just as it was decorated 15 years ago, when the election that led to the unions formation was held.

A barrage of editorials and letters to the editor have appeared in the press in recent weeks charging that the U.S. military ignored the advice of experts on Middle Eastern art and archaeology about what needed to be done to protect Iraqs cultural heritage after the fall of Saddam Husseins government.

Juniors Shaka Bahadu of Dunster House (left) and Shira Sivan Simon of Leverett House have been chosen by the Harvard Alumni Association to receive the 2003 David Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The award recognizes special contributions to the quality of life in the Houses and thoughtful leadership that makes the College an exciting place in which…

Although the personal relationship between George Bush and Vicente Fox may have cooled since Mexicos refusal to support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told an audience at Harvards Yenching Lecture Hall last Wednesday (May 14) that he believed the future was bright for relations between the two countries. In…

Artemas Wards troubles began one April day in 1775 when he got out of bed, and they have continued now for more than 200 years. Wards two-century-old journey from pre-eminence to obscurity has provided lessons in historical research techniques for modern-day Harvard graduate students, lessons that they in turn have passed along to undergraduates.

On April 22, the Harbus Foundation presented grants totaling $60,000 to five Boston-area nonprofit organizations. The Harbus Foundation is a student-run Harvard Business School organization whose mission is to support education, literacy, and journalism projects in Boston. This year, approximately 50 Harvard Business School students reviewed almost 100 grant applications submitted by Boston-area nonprofit organizations.…

In January 2002, former Medical School Executive Dean for Administration Paul Levy took over as president and chief executive officer of ailing Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which had been losing $50 to $60 million a year.

Three Boston educators were named Conant Fellows at a ceremony hosted by Graduate School of Education (GSE) Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Boston Superintendent Thomas Payzant at the Harvard Faculty Club on Monday (May 19). The Conant Fellowships, named for Harvard President Emeritus James Bryant Conant, were established in 1986, at Harvards 350th anniversary, to…

Nieman Foundation Fellow Ann M. Simmons, bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Johannesburg, South Africa, receives her Nieman certificate from Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at a ceremony at Massachusetts Hall on May 15. Summers told the fellows that Harvard derives great benefits from your presence, and expressed his belief that the program…

The Kennedy School of Government has announced the naming of the Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Ash Institute will build upon the Institute for Government Innovation, established in 2001 by a $50 million endowment from the Ford Foundation. A gift from Roy and Lila Ash will expand the institutes…

Purposefully, and without fanfare, 11 prominent African leaders spent last weekend at the Kennedy School diagnosing the dilemma of elected political leadership in Africa. Why, asked two former presidents, two former prime ministers, a foreign minister, and a clutch of current and former ministers, did so many promising democrats become autocrats after their first terms…

Theres new news out of Africa, said veteran journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Racial and ethnic diversity in the student population is a positive influence that helps medical students work more effectively with patients of different backgrounds, according to a study in the May issue of Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The findings were cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme…

This beats the record, said Jon Lanham, associate librarian of Lamont Library, who collects late return due date cards. One from a book due in 1967 held the record until The American Revolution, Part I, 1766-1776 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (Longman, Green, and Co., 1899) was returned this month after turning up in the…

Ever since the landmark law became a talking point for the Bush administration, Title IX – some 30 years after its passage – is big news, all over again. In the current debate surrounding the 1972 piece of legislation that bans sexual discrimination in athletic programs receiving federal aid, both critics and proponents of Title…

Women’s heavies stun Brown, capture EAWRC title The Radcliffe heavyweight crew (10-1, 4-1 Ivy) upset five-time defending champion Brown this past Sunday (May 18) on the Cooper River in Camden,…

Sophomore is named Lehrman Scholar Harvard sophomore Thomas Wolf has recently been named one of 12 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars selected from more than 400 candidates nationwide. Wolf will be…