Campus & Community

Four activists who helped the poorest citizens of Africa, India, and other developing regions gain empowerment and self-sufficiency were given the 2003 International Activist Award Monday (April 14) at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government.

If there is one thing people are likely to know about King James II of England, it is the year his reign ended – 1688.

It was another in a seemingly endless series of gray, rainy, cold April days, but Nancy Mitchnick was having none of it.

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.

Comedian Will Ferrell, a seven-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, is the 2003 Class Day speaker, announced the Harvard College Class of 2003 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association on Tuesday (April 15). Ferrell was selected after months of secret negotiations.

Was it a dream? For two days this week spring dropped in for a short visit, and trailed in its wake the usual attendants – flower-strewing fairies, sleeping students, sunbathers on the Memorial Church steps, and barefooted rhinos. Then, just as suddenly, spring sprung a leak, leaving us once again overcoated, frowning, yet eternally hopeful.

Terrorists secretly released smallpox viruses at several locations in Boston. The highly contagious infection silently began to spread.

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council continued its review of a draft of the Report of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault of Harvard. Professor Jennifer Leaning (Medical School and School of Public Health), and other members of the committee, as well as Robert Iuliano, acting general counsel and David Fithian, assistant dean of Harvard College and secretary to the Administrative Board, were present for this conversation.

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. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Geoffrey Nyarota knew something was wrong last December when an acquaintance called to tell him the government-owned radio was reporting that he had been dismissed as editor-in-chief of the Daily News, Zimbabwes largest independent newspaper.

Abdelal wins Shulman Prize

A small serological study that is published in the April 14 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology shows, for the first time, that the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae), a common bacteria that can cause respiratory infections, is associated with age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the United States.

Toward the beginning of his three-year term as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Enrique Penalosa was nearly impeached.

The Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC) and President Lawrence H. Summers have announced that they will co-host Springfest 2003 on Sunday (April 27) from noon to 4 p.m. in the area of the MAC Quad.

Stuart Eizenstat calls it the greatest robbery in world history – the Nazis theft of money, valuables, artworks, and property from Jews, Catholics, and others during World War II.

Author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen described a life seeking the mystery within nature Sunday (April 13). He told of traveling to the Icelandic coast where the last great auk died, chasing great white sharks in the southern ocean, and traversing todays environmental battleground in Alaskas oil fields.

Masturbation. Female orgasm. Viagra. Bestiality.

Twelve Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2003 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for up to two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress. Kids adore ogres and beheadings as much as princesses and obedient little children. The moral to the story might…

Since the fall of 2001, Pedro Noguera, who is the Judith K. Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools at the Graduate School of Education, and a team of research assistants…

Professor of Law Elena Kagan will be the next dean of Harvard Law School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced last week.

April 1910 – The Andover-Harvard Theological Library formally comes into existence. Owen S. Gates, former Librarian of the Andover Theological Seminary, becomes the first librarian of the combined collections. April…

The Harvard Medical School flag is at half-staff this morning in memory of Brian A. McGovern, assistant professor of medicine, who was killed in his Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) office on April 8.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has appointed Benedict H. Gross, dean for Undergraduate Education at Harvard, as dean of Harvard College. Gross will head the consolidated offices of the dean of Harvard College and the dean for Undergraduate Education, effective July 1.

Co-authors claim Samuelson Award Assistant Professor of Business Administration Luis M. Viceira and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell have been named co-winners of the seventh annual…

Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which examines U.S. foreign policy toward genocide in the 20th century.

Beginning next fall, Harvard College will return to its longstanding policy of requiring that early action applicants not apply early elsewhere. As always, early admission at Harvard will remain nonbinding, meaning that students admitted early to Harvard are free to apply to other institutions during the regular admissions cycle and need only reply to a Harvard offer of admission by May 1. The change applies to next years high school seniors and reverses a policy adopted last year that allowed students to apply simultaneously to an unlimited number of nonbinding, early action colleges (such as Harvard) even if they also had applied to another college with a binding early decision policy.

Inner Jerk vs. Mr. Sparkle Mr. Sparkle, CW, and Inner Jerk – three rock bands from Harvard’s graduate schools – will battle it out this evening (April 10) at the…