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Sabrina Peck 84 never thought that the combination of dance theater, public service, and education that seemed so specific to her would appeal to generations of Harvard students. It follows that she never imagined that such a combination could propel her program, CityStep, to the ranks of the campus most popular, enduring civic activities.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress.

War talk and pictures are everywhere and adults are wondering what to tell their children about it.

The mystery ailment known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has the potential to spread rapidly in Bostons unexposed population, but the biggest public health danger now may be fear, experts told U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday (April 4) at a briefing at Harvards Countway Medical Library.

A few years back, an editor from Harvard Magazine called Harvey Mansfield and asked if he would contribute a short quote for a profile of a fellow faculty member. Mansfield replied that the quality that had always impressed him about this colleague was his manliness.

A boldly worded title – Do the Right Thing: Why Harvard Supports Affirmative Action and Why Every College Should – left little room for doubt about the positions of the panelists at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Forum Tuesday (April 8). Indeed, it was by explicit design that the panel, co-sponsored by the…

Thursday, June 5, 2003 Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre…

Robert Zinck has nothing against movies that tell stories, movies with characters and dialogue and dramatic arcs and plot points. If people want to make films like that, thats fine with him. But he has other interests.

Blooming on the banks of the Charles – perhaps in lieu of more seasonal blossoms – are bunches of poems about spring. Leverett House tutors worked along with students to post lyrically laminated signs along the riverbed. While they were at it, they picked up trash, despite Sapphos ancient warning: If you are squeamish,/Dont prod…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Web site offers information about emergency preparedness at Harvard

The Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that the Savitz Fellowship has been conferred to Lori Snyder, a Ph.D. student in public policy at KSG. The fellowship, granted to the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy during 2002,…

In his 1970s lament for lost innocence, American Pie, Don McLean sang about the day the music died.

Maria Schweinburg Grossmann, a specialist in 16th century European history who began her career at the Divinity School library in 1956 as a member of the acquisitions staff, died on March 30.

The interests of the developed world are closely associated with the success of the developing world, asserted Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers as this years Edward L. Godkin lecturer. Summers drew a standing-room-only crowd at Mondays forum (April 7), where he delivered an almost-hour-long talk on Globalization and American Interests.

Visitors to and employees in Harvards Holyoke Center cant help but notice that the way they access their offices has changed over the past few weeks. The issuing of neck ribbons for Harvard University IDs (HUIDs), the firm but friendly requests by security personnel to see those IDs, and even those mysterious gray boxes are…

Its Friday night, HMV Record Store in Harvard Square. The shock of electric guitar vibrates the CD shelf near a group of spectators who stand in front of a makeshift stage. In the center of that stage, Monique Ortiz is dressed in a black shirt and jeans. She takes the mike into a tight fist…

Three Harvard Library staff members have been named recipients of this years Bryant Fellowship Award. Kathryn Jacob, Michael P. Olson, and Irene Tarsis will be presented with the fellowship at an awards luncheon in May.

The best part of Cambridge seventh-grader Vassia Vaneus Friday last week (April 4) was seeing all the animals and birds during a tour of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Vaneus, who wants to be a doctor or a scientist, said she learned a lot about college Friday.

The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, which covered the sexual-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and made an outstanding effort to examine charges and accusations from all sides and sources, is the winner of the second annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of the Boston Globe and…

More than 200 Cambridge public school students have joined the ranks of Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and other artists whose work is on display at Harvards Fogg Museum.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2003 on June 17 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many…

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who after six years in office oversaw Mexicos first peaceful transfer of power after 71 years of single-party rule, will be Harvards 2003 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises.

Mira Nair 79, internationally acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding and other feature films and documentaries, will receive the ninth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

No one in her right mind would associate a lot of TV watching with a healthy lifestyle. Now a new study of more than 50,000 women over a period of six years backs common sense with scientific support.

Two former White House economic advisers engaged in a spirited debate on the merits of President Bushs tax-cut plan Thursday night (April 3) at the Kennedy School Forum.

Coming off a bumpy 5-9 road trip and a rained out home opener against Rhode Island (a 3-0 five-inning loss), the Harvard baseball team opened the Ivy League portion of its season this past weekend with some promising spring in its step. The visiting Crimson split a pair of doubleheaders against Pennsylvania and Columbia to…

On Monday (April 14), the main entrance and first floor of Widener Library will reopen – renovated and refurbished.

After more than 12 years of service, Murray Forbes Somerville will depart from his office as Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, and Curator of the University Organs in the Memorial Church and take up a new appointment as director of music at St. Georges Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tenn.

Kevin Cullen, a member of the current Nieman class, was one of the team of reporters for the Boston Globe that won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its coverage of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Cullen had been an international correspondent for the Globe, based in England and Ireland, until he…