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Having banished a C-Span crew who were busily setting up under the misapprehension that they would be allowed to record the proceedings, Stephen Jay Gould trudged to the podium of the Natural History Museums Geological Lecture Hall carrying a heavily laden canvas tote bag. The tote contained his latest book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory,…

AIDS is in the air in Botswana. On the airwaves, actually. They call it the radio disease, according to Harvard AIDS Institute Chairman Max Essex, because so many public service announcements urging safe sex are broadcast.

In a matter of minutes, a line of tense Harvard Medical School (HMS) seniors turned into a talkative mob outside the Medical School Registrars Office Thursday (March 21) as Match Days anxiety turned to relief with the opening of a little white envelope.

Harvard faculty to shine at Literary Lights

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

March 24, 1943: John F. Connolly – familiar to generations of students as John the Yard Cop – turns 75, still making his rounds as the dean of Crimson police. A native of Charlestown, he began working at Harvard in 1906.

Former U.S. Sen. and former Harvard Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan will be the Commencement speaker at this year’s afternoon exercises on June 6.

Robert E. Rubin ’60 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lagemann succeeds Jerome T. Murphy, who served as dean from 1992 through…

Periodically, the Harvard Administrators Forum has sponsored fairs for the Harvard community, showcasing various departments and services. This year, as we all know, was different, and as a result, the forum decided the focus of its event should be giving back to the community. Thus, the volunteer fair of Wednesday, March 27.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has awarded $220,000 to a research team involving five University faculty members to realize a project in Religion in Global Politics. This decision marked the centers third annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and…

On Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m., a service of thanksgiving for the life of Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, 24th president of Harvard College, will be held in the Memorial Church.

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend an all-white New Orleans school. Since then, Bridges has become iconized by Norman Rockwell in a painting of the girl in a white dress escorted by federal marshals, and by Robert Coles in a picture book for children…

Harvard undergraduates are notoriously extracurricular. When the books close, the lights come up on student-sponsored concerts, plays, operas, or house formals.

John M. Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, died on March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. Shlien, 83, was a leading researcher in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. He had been suffering from cancer for several months.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2002-03 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship award, named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth…

Harvard Club of NYC in Cambridge Members of the admissions committee of the Harvard Club of New York City will be at Pound Hall (Room 334) and the Murr Center’s…

College students have continued binge drinking at about the same rate over the past 10 years, despite increases in alcohol education programs and substance-free on-campus housing, and a decrease in high school binge drinking, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that financial support for short-term intellectual collaborations will be made available for exploratory and advanced seminars. These seminars are intended to offer resources for Harvard faculty and their colleagues at other universities in developing new ideas. The Radcliffe Institute will provide a meeting space, travel and hotel…

Harvards Class of 2006 has been selected from a record pool of 19,605. The 2,068 admitted students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday, April 3. The percentage of admitted students was the lowest in Harvards history (10.5 percent).

Testing, testing.

Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,300 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2002-03 rental season begins.

Harvard and the Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, have negotiated a merger agreement, to become effective later this spring. This merger aims to both strengthen and enrich the Rowlands intellectual and physical resources, building on a longstanding collaborative relationship with Harvard, and to enable Harvard to develop its research and…

Author, activist, and pastor the Rev. Anthony Campolo will be in residence at the Memorial Church as the 2002 Easter Missioner. Along with his wife, writer and editor Peggy Campolo, he will lead a series of events on the topic Jesus Is Alive: Now What? All events take place at the Memorial Church and are…

Crimson grapplers Jesse Jantzen 04 and Dawid Rechul 02 earned All-American honors by finishing in the top eight at the NCAA Championships held March 21-23 in Albany, N.Y.

Tied 3-3 at the end of regulation in NCAA regional action last month against the University of Maine, the Harvard mens hockey team was very much in their element. After pulling out three straight overtime wins in playoff action against Brown, Clarkson, and Cornell, the Crimsons last few outings have appeared preordained. Yet Harvards postseason…

Each month Harvard adds up to 100 new phone numbers to its existing records. As a result of this ongoing expansion, the University Information Systems (UIS) Telecommunications group has acquired a new exchange in the 617 area code. The new exchange, 998, was implemented for use in the telephone-dialing plan across the University.

Elliot Forbes has been attending Morning Service in Appleton Chapel since 1958, the year he became a Harvard professor. It was an older colleague, Mason Hammond, who persuaded Forbes to join the group of celebrants who gather every morning from 8:45 to 9 for prayer, music, and a short talk by a volunteer speaker.

Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in the incidence of allergies to ragweed and other plants by mid-century, according to a report by Harvard University researchers. The study, appearing in the March Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, found that ragweed grown in an atmosphere with double the…