Campus & Community

Heaney wins Capote Award Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence Seamus Heaney has received the 2003 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for his work “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001”…

Shortly after Iran fell to Islamic revolutionaries in 1979, a book dealer sending volumes to Harvards libraries cut out pictures of the deposed Shah so that the books would not be confiscated.

As part of the Harvard House intramural crew races held May 7, Kirkland House coxswain Kate Riggs 03 of the winning mens A team pays the price for victory with the obligatory dunk in the Charles. The annual spring passage pits boats from Harvards undergraduate houses against one another in a series of races.

As cool as a cucumber, sophomore Courtney Bergman upset the nations fifth-ranked womens tennis player in high-stakes NCAA tournament action this past Saturday (May 10) at the Beren Tennis Center. Down 15-40 and tied at three games apiece in the third and deciding set, Bergman, who captured the first set, 6-3, before falling in the second by the same score, held firm against Arizonas Emilie Scribot to take three straight games and the 6-3 win.

Harvards African students have created a new network that seeks to link disparate African organizations across the University and become a resource for African students, faculty, and other members of the Harvard community.

Offering students a unique opportunity for presenting their research, the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) held a poster competition during the annual symposium for the Working Interdisciplinary Students for the Environment (WISE). A panel of judges evaluated the posters and selected two award recipients: Ethan Yeh 03, who examined the effect of indoor air pollution on mortality rates in developing countries and Anne Riederer, School of Public Health, who explored methods for assessing health risks to communities living near hazardous waste sites in the Philippines. Both Yeh and Riederer received a $400 prize.

David Lewin, a composer, musician, and music theorist known for his analysis of music of the 19th and 20th centuries, died May 5 from heart disease. He was 69.

Puberty isnt easy. Nor is filmmaking. Playing House, a documentary film about five adolescent girls at Fay School in Southboro, Mass., takes on both. The film, shot over three years at the prestigious and venerable boarding school, fairly pulsates with pubescent angst. On May 5, at the Carpenter Centers Harvard Film Archive, Playing House director Jane Gray discussed the twin challenges of her past several years – adolescence and artistry.

Ninety-six Prescott, a house that has lodged Cambridge students for 115 years, turned the corner this weekend to assume a new location at 18 Sumner Road as a hundred neighbors, Harvard students, faculty, and staff, and city officials looked on.

Pierre Boulez, one of the great masters of 20th century music, was at Harvard last Friday (May 9), regaling an overflow crowd at the Center for European Studies with fascinating glimpses into his career as a composer and conductor.

Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers presided over the 20th anniversary of The Stride Rite Community Service Program Thursday evening (May 8), presenting three seniors with $25,000 postgraduate fellowships to fund yearlong service projects that will ideally launch lifetime dedication to public service.

Early last week (May 6), a new generation of scientists from Cambridge public schools – more than 250 of them – descended on the Yard to take part in this years annual Science Day, a daylong exploration of the human body sponsored by Harvard ExperiMentors, a Phillips Brooks House Association service program. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, ExperiMentors is a yearlong program that sends about 50 Harvard volunteers to teach weekly hands-on science lessons in classrooms throughout Cambridge.

Marie McBrown was invited to test whether or not hypnosis would help heal the scars from her breast surgery. Marie (not her real name) and 17 other women underwent surgery to reduce their breast size.

The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2003 Harvard Medal: Robert J. Glaser S.B. 40, M.D. 43, L. Fred Jewett A.B. 57, M.B.A. 60, and Franklin D. Raines A.B. 71, J.D. 76. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers will present the medals during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement, June 5.

In a spectacular and indisputably arty kickoff to Arts First, Manuela Zoninsein 05 processes very slowly through Harvard Yard as choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi 03. More photos, page 32.

Richard H. Meadow, director of the Zooarchaeology Lab at the Peabody Museum, was incorrectly identified in a caption on page 13 of the May 1 Gazette. The Gazette regrets the error.

May 3, 1943 – The Harvard Corporation hosts an informal dinner for the heads of Cambridge government in the Eliot House rooms of the Society of Fellows. The results are so successful that it is unanimously voted to make it an annual event.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Annemarie Schimmel, professor of Indo-Muslim culture emerita, will be held May 23 at 2:30 p.m. at the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center. All members of the Harvard community are invited to attend.

Robert Tonis, former chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has passed away at the age of 94 at Hospice House on Cape Cod.

Rich with nearly a century of collected wisdom on art, activism, and finding a purpose in life, the talk by dance legend and anthropologist Katherine Dunham at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Wednesday night (April 30) felt more like a cozy chat with Grandma than a formal academic lecture.

Daniels named director of international student programs Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director…

It was the beat that lured Allison Stamiris in from the street: the hypnotic, propulsive drumbeat emanating from the second story of The Dance Complex in Central Square.

At its May 6 Faculty Meeting, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) discussed recommendations made by the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH) for improving educational and support services related to sexual violence. Faculty members consistently praised the rigor and care of the committees report and further discussed the importance of alcohol education, communal responsibility for a campus culture intolerant of sexual violence, the effectiveness of the College disciplinary process, and gender roles.

Harvard soccer players Katie Hodel 04 (left to right), Emily Colvin 05, Liza Barber 05, Julia James 06, and Katie Shields 06 dodge a slew of balls delivered by a group of middle-school girls who visited the campus this past Friday (May 2) as part of the City Kicks program. Over 40 young women from Dorchester participated in the afternoon clinic, which included drills, soccer tips, and the chance to hang with some cool Harvard student-athletes. City Kicks is a nonprofit organization that provides after-school soccer activities for public school girls in Greater Boston.

With their backs against the wall, the Harvard baseball team came out swinging against Dartmouth this past Sunday (May 4) at ODonnell Field. Nineteen hits later, the Crimson had defeated a dangerous Big Green team, 5-3 and 14-10, to clinch its second-straight Red Rolfe Division title. The previous afternoon in Hanover, Harvard dropped a key doubleheader, 2-1 and 18-5, setting up Sundays must-win scenario in the hunt for the division title.

Title IX discussion at HBS The Department of Athletics will hold the final installment of its four-part discussion series celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of intercollegiate athletics on Friday (May 9).…

The American Philosophical Society (APS) – the countrys oldest learned society – has elected seven Harvard faculty members among its most recent class of inductees.

Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Director-General C.K. Liu of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston, representing the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, signed a memorandum of understanding in Cambridge on April 29 to affirm their intention to develop and conduct an executive training program for senior officials of the Republic of China government who are involved in Taiwans participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO).

A standing-room-only crowd of graduates, professors, and students packed Ames Courtroom last Saturday (May 3) to listen to their distinguished colleagues discuss the experience of women at Harvard Law School (HLS) over the past five decades. The gathering was part of Celebration 50, the Law Schools commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its first female graduates.