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Nearly 80 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2004 have chosen to enroll, the highest yield since the early 1970s, according to the Undergraduate Admissions Office. Yield, the percentage of admitted candidates who decide to accept an offer of admission, is considered a measure of a school’s competitiveness. Harvard’s yield is again, by…

The Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture has been endowed by the parents of Navin Narayan ’99, a Rhodes Scholar and summa cum laude graduate in social studies who died of cancer this past March. Kalman and Kusuma Narayan’s gift will bring a speaker to Harvard each March “to lecture on topics including social problems and service…

It just gets better and better for Crimson softball as close in on an Ivy League Title. On Tuesday (May 2), freshman Monica Montijo hit a single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Harvard softball team to a 1-0 extra-inning win over the University of Rhode Island.…

Having a job schedule that allows for family time is more important to young men than money, power, or prestige, according to a new study released today by the Radcliffe Public Policy Center. Eighty-two percent of men ages 20-39 put family time at the top of their list, keeping pace with 85 percent of women…

 Andrew Tache, 19, of the Mescalero tribe, dances at the Sixth Annual Harvard University Powwow at the Quadrangle Athletic Facility on Saturday.  Tache combs his hair before braiding it. Prior to leading the dancers, Eric Valle spreads the feathers used to decorate a friend’s headdress.

Remment Koolhaas, professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2000. The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award, will present Koolhaas with the prize and its $100,000 grant on May 17 in Jerusalem. The Pritzker Prize has been considered…

Anyone who has ever visited Beijing in winter knows that air pollution is one of the city’s biggest problems. Homes, schools, offices all heat with coal – which also is the major source of electrical energy. The result is a pall of black soot that settles into people’s lungs and bronchial tubes, and produces an…

Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Robert C. Clark has announced an extensive expansion of the School’s loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country. The School’s Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP), the oldest program of its kind in the country, forgives loans for HLS graduates who…

Approximately 200 Harvard middle managers got together at the Charles Hotel this past Friday, April 28, to discuss obstacles to staff diversity. The conference, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the President and the Office of Human Resources/Workforce Initiatives, focused on the roadblocks to achieving staff diversity and how middle management can help…

Former Harvard Varsity Club Director Charles “Chuck” Coulson died on April 11, 2000, in Johnstown, Penn., where he was visiting family. He was 69. Coulson was a devoted long-time supporter of Harvard Athetics. A fixture at the University and a consummate host at both the Varsity Club and Harvard Faculty Club, Coulson was known for…

Sack-like sea squirts living on the sea floor make a complex anti-tumor drug hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than any cancer potion now in use. For the past six years, chemists have been trying to do the same thing more efficiently and without the ecological mayhem involved in scraping the squirts off Caribbean…

Good luck keeping a straight face during ARTS FIRST 2000. Actor John Lithgow ’67 and comedian Al Franken ’73 will light up the marquee at the Pan-Harvard Comedy Carnival that kicks off tonight (May 4) at Radcliffe Yard. The humor continues through the weekend with several shows at five different venues. The carnival is an…

I received today (May 3) a copy of the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies — a committee composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, which I appointed last spring to study issues relating to the contingent workforce on campus. I intend to study the report thoroughly and…

Annual Cost: $2.44 million Workers affected: About 2,000 Harvard Bridge Program: What: On-site, free literacy and basic skills training Who: Unionized staff, casuals or employees of outside service contractors How Many: 1,100 eligible, 500 annually Cost: $1.4 million Health Benefits: What: Extend same health benefits as full-time employees Who: Harvard service employees who work 16…

D. Quinn Mills, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, chaired the eight-member Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies that for the last year has been examining issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers. The Gazette recently discussed the Committee’s recommendations and the process that led…

After more than a year of studying issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies released a report yesterday (May 3) recommending a groundbreaking program of greatly expanded worker education, an expansion of health benefits for service workers, and the adoption of University-wide guidelines on service contractor…

In an innovative move to bridge the gap between workers in low-paying jobs and those enjoying the nation’s booming new economy, Harvard University will launch a new workplace education program providing basic literacy and language skills and/or courses leading to a high school equivalency degree. The new “Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy,” which will…

Harvard offers a generous package of benefits and perks – including liberal time off, tuition assistance, a wide range of health plans and special perks like discount theater and movie tickets. Generous Paid Time Off • 1-4 weeks of vacation to start • Sick leave • 11 1/2 paid holidays • 3 personal days per…

A memorial service will be held for Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, a former Harvard Law School dean, on Wednesday, May 10, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Vorenberg died on April 12.

Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology emerita, died Sunday in Meadow Green Nursing Home in Waltham at the age of 85. Turner was curator of malacology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She was a world-renowned expert on teredos, sharp-shelled mollusks that bore through wood and are popularly known as “shipworms.” For this reason she…

Mayor Thomas Menino joined hundreds of local youths, student athletes, and coaches last Friday (April 28) to kick off the annual Sports Festival held at Harvard. Designed to celebrate the culmination of this year’s Youth and Student-Athlete Collaborative program, the festival drew 1,200 local youngsters to learn from varsity student-athletes and coaches from Harvard, Boston…

A memorial service for Harvard Law School professor Gary Bellow will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The service will be followed with a reception in the Ropes-Gray Room in Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave. Bellow died on April 13.

When the Heinz Endowments of Pittsburgh, Pa., embarked on a mission two years ago to invigorate its Arts and Culture program, it turned to the Mind of the Market Laboratory (MML) at the Harvard Business School (HBS). What emerged from the lab was a multifaceted advertising campaign built around a series of energetic and colorful…

Eat, drink, and be merry — thousands showed off their spring fever during Springfest 2000 at the MAC Quad, coming out to support student bands, eat, compete, and enjoy the weather.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. April 23: An act of vandalism was discovered in the Agassiz Theatre. April 24: Several parts were stolen from a bicycle in the Medical School…

Aaron Copland. Leonard Bernstein. Igor Stravinsky. John Knowles Paine. These four eminences were among 25 composers, musicians, and educators inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1998. The names of most of the inductees for that year are familiar ones, but how many people could guess which category – composer, musician, or…

Organizers sought for next Ig Nobel event Organizers are sought to help produce the 10th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which honors individuals whose achievements “cannot or should not be reproduced.” Likely the world’s largest science-humor celebration, the event will be held at Sanders Theatre in early October and will be broadcast live over the…

If a war had broken out somewhere last weekend, there’s a possibility the rest of the world might have missed it. That’s because more than 400 of the most heralded journalists from around the world set aside their notepads and laptops to gather at Harvard for the Nieman Fellows Reunion 2000. “It was pretty exciting,”…