Campus & Community

A woman looks at photographs by Charles Fletcher Lummis at the Peabody Museum. The exhibit is called Southwestern Portraits, 1888-1896.

In Beanpot action this past Wednesday (April 23), the Harvard baseball team relied on some ninth-inning heroics against the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to earn an 8-7 victory in the opening round of the 14th annual tournament at Fenway Park. The victory propelled the Crimson to its first tournament championship appearance in five years, where, despite another last-inning rally against Boston College on Thursday (April 24), the Crimson fell, 8-6.

Three senior Harvard football players have signed free agent contracts with NFL teams. Two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Carl Morris has reached an agreement with the Indianapolis Colts, offensive guard Jamil Soriano has signed with the Green Bay Packers, and offensive tackle Jack Fadule has inked a deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The ancient Egyptians carved the revered names of pharaohs in larger-than-life-size letters across their imposing pyramids. In the Royal Tombs of Ur, the Mesopotamians etched stretches of hieroglyphic-esque characters that offer evidence of their ideologies and daily regimens. But the ancient Indus people of Harappa left less comprehensible clues about themselves and therefore remain far more mysterious to modern scholars and National Geographic junkies alike. Ancient Harappa was one of the worlds first cities. This metropolis along the Ravi River, now modern Pakistan, was flourishing as its more familiar ancient neighbors were making Bronze Age advancements.

When Lee Mingwei writes a grant application, he always hesitates before filling in the section that asks what medium he works in. Most artists are able to answer, metal, stone, oils, or mixed media. Lees medium is people.

A surprise guest stole the show at Harvards annual Springfest Sunday (April 27): Spring.

As the aggressor in a war it chose to wage, the United States is being judged by high standards in its conduct of both the war and its aftermath, School of Public Health Professor Jennifer Leaning said Tuesday (April 22).

At least one magnolia blossom is unintimidated by the winterlike temperatures recently visited on the region.

After eight months of intensive review, the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH), chaired by Professor of International Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning, has released its report containing recommendations to strengthen the Colleges educational and support services related to sexual violence on campus. The report will now undergo a period of public commentary and faculty review.

April 25, 1959 – At the invitation of the Law School Forum, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro speaks before a crowd of more than 7,000 at Soldiers Field. Introduced by FAS Dean McGeorge Bundy, Castro speaks in English, with periodic assistance from Public Relations Ambassador Teresa Casuso. Earlier at noon, Castro and an entourage of 50 dine at the Faculty Club.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave, sixth floor.

Out of 37 entries, the School of Public Health (SPH) has named two winners for its 17th annual Poster and Exhibit Day. Pauline Koh-Banerjee won for her research Changes in body weight and body fat distribution as risk factors for clinical diabetes in U.S. men and Dmitri Wiederschain won for his exhibit Extreme C-terminus of ELL mediates p53 inhibition by the MLL-ELL leukemic fusion.

You pick up your cell phone, dial, and, if all goes well, you talk, say good-bye, and hang up.

The twin solar images glared from the screen in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics auditorium, green tinged with yellow, swirls of fire erupting from the surface.

Love makes it hard for Janis Forde to do what she does. Its also what keeps her at it.

Graham Burt Blaine Jr., chief of psychiatry at University Health Services (UHS) from 1964 to 1971, died April 7 from complications arising from a stroke. He was 84.

Springfest 2003 is set for this weekend Rain or shine, Springfest 2003 – Harvard’s springtime carnival for the entire University community – will be held April 27 from noon to…

Following an intensive six-month international search, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, was unanimously elected the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the 89 members of the ICCs governing Assembly of States Parties this past Tuesday (April 22).

Hey, very cool, commented more than one undergraduate entering Loker Commons recently and seeing Jeff Kosokoff, head of reference services at Lamont Library, sitting just inside the door. Kosokoff may claim these greetings were provoked by his winsome smile, but it may have had more to do with the sign on the table in front of him, announcing Roving Librarian, Research Assistance for the Undergraduate Student on the Run.

Cait Storks voice wavered as she addressed the audience in a Harvard Hall classroom, speaking clearly but cautiously about her battle with bipolar disorder and her high school suicide attempts.

Few spaces at Harvard are more burdened by symbols of the Universitys glorious past than the Barker Centers Thompson Room.

Adolescence, that betwixt-and-between age that bridges childhood and early adulthood, can be more than just awkward years of peer pressure, raging hormones, and changing identities. Those early teen years can be downright dangerous, as risk-taking behavior meets poor judgment with disastrous or even deadly outcomes.

New research from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success:

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its new group of fellows for 2003 at an April 13 ceremony in Washington, D.C. Among the group of 10 fellows, three Harvard faculty were named. They include Mary Jo Bane, Christopher Jencks, and Orlando Patterson.

Ten Harvard undergraduates will lend their hands to causes such as slavery abolition, Middle Eastern peace, and aboriginal rights in a new human rights internship that will take them across the country and around the world – as far as Australia and East Timor.

Two Harvard energy-saving initiatives were honored last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using computers more efficiently.

From inside the 10th floor of Holyoke Center, photographer Stephanie Mitchell used a piece of paper to ask window washer Paul Werra his name. He obliged by soaping the window and writing his name with his finger – backward.

Filmmaker James Toback 66 was at the Harvard Film Archive last Friday (April 18) for the screening of his 1978 film Fingers.

Celebrating its 11th year, Arts First, Harvards annual celebration of students and faculty in the arts, lights up Harvard Square with performances, exhibits, and arts activities. From May 1 through May 4, Harvard welcomes the public to more than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events (most free of charge). The festival is sponsored by the Universitys Board of Overseers.

Calling them a distinguished group of individuals who bring a broad range of talents and scholarly pursuits to the houses, Harry R. Lewis, dean of Harvard College, announced the appointment of new masters for three Harvard houses: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and his wife Patricia OBrien in Currier, Jay M. Harris and Cheryl Harris in Cabot, and Stephen Peter Rosen 74 and his wife Mandana Sassanfar in Winthrop.