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No one said Harvard would be easy. Your roommate drives you crazy, you cant master that chemistry assignment, and its been weeks since youve slept through the night. In fact, youre quite certain the admissions office made a grievous error in inviting you here in the first place.

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For more than a dozen years, Judith Gurewich has been guiding Harvard students and faculty through the intricate terrain of structuralism, post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and other daunting regions of contemporary thought.

A record 19,520 students have applied for admission to the college this year for entrance to the Class of 2006 next September. For the 11th time in the past 12 years, applications rose. Last year, 19,014 students applied for admission 10 years ago 13,029 applied.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: March 5 April 10 May 8…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

This evening (Feb. 14) the toughest movie star in America will be roasted at the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Awards. Actor Bruce Willis, who recently garnered critical raves for his work on the film Sixth Sense (and whose new movie, Harts War, will be released tomorrow), will be teased and toasted by his…

Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office.

Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as dean and to return to the faculty at the end of this academic year.

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as Dean and to return to the Faculty at the end of this academic year.

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

The race was on. With the Harvard Museum of Natural Historys (HMNH) giant Kronosaurus skeleton as a backdrop, three groups of kindergartners and first-graders began assembling their puzzles, slapping pieces onto the blue-gray carpet until they revealed: A shark, a shark, and another shark.

Race and the aesthetics of aversion, subjectivity and its discontents, and the impact of Sept. 11 on psychoanalysis are among the topics to be discussed at a one-day symposium sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Why Psychoanalysis? A Symposium on the Value of Psychoanalysis for Contemporary Life will be held on Friday, Feb.…

The Sept. 11 tragedies irretrievably changed the nature of public service and made it more important than ever that people take an active interest in their communities and in the public servants that make them work, Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift told a Kennedy School audience Tuesday (Feb. 5).

Leo P. Krall, M.D., an international leader in the field of diabetes for half a century and one of the original founders of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, died Jan. 30, at the age of 87.

Renovations at the Harvard University Police Departments former 29 Garden St. headquarters has forced a move to new offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., but police officials say their hope is that the Harvard community will barely notice the change.

More than 50 girls and young women from grade schools throughout Greater Boston packed the pools and jammed the courts of the Malkin Athletic Center this past Saturday (Feb. 2) for Harvards ninth annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event. Between the sounds of splashed water, whacked volleyballs, and the gymnasium echo…

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at approximately 8:30 p.m., a graduate school student was the victim of an armed robbery on Western Avenue near the intersection of North Harvard in front of Charlesview Apartments. The suspects, described below, confronted the victim after exiting a silver motor vehicle. One of the suspects displayed a silver handgun and…

Sarah Jessica Parker charmed Harvard as she collected the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year award

Davin Quinn, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School who loves to write, is going to Belfast next year as the recipient of a George J. Mitchell scholarship for graduate study in Northern Ireland.

William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award 2002. As part of his award, Clark will undertake a series of stays at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany beginning this July.

Mackie Dougherty 03 wants to help time-crunched Harvard students do good deeds … in their pajamas.

Woman of the Year festivities, featuring the fabulous Sarah Jessica Parker, will begin today at 2 p.m. when the starlet will lead a parade through Harvard Square. Following the parade, the president of the theatricals and the vice president of the cast will roast Parker and present her with her Pudding Pot at 2:20 p.m.…