Campus & Community

The interests of the developed world are closely associated with the success of the developing world, asserted Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers as this years Edward L. Godkin lecturer. Summers drew a standing-room-only crowd at Mondays forum (April 7), where he delivered an almost-hour-long talk on Globalization and American Interests.

Maria Schweinburg Grossmann, a specialist in 16th century European history who began her career at the Divinity School library in 1956 as a member of the acquisitions staff, died on March 30.

In his 1970s lament for lost innocence, American Pie, Don McLean sang about the day the music died.

The Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that the Savitz Fellowship has been conferred to Lori Snyder, a Ph.D. student in public policy at KSG. The fellowship, granted to the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy during 2002, is open to doctoral students from throughout Harvard. According to Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at KSG and chair of ENRFG, this years competition featured the best set of submissions yet received.

Web site offers information about emergency preparedness at Harvard

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:

Blooming on the banks of the Charles – perhaps in lieu of more seasonal blossoms – are bunches of poems about spring. Leverett House tutors worked along with students to post lyrically laminated signs along the riverbed. While they were at it, they picked up trash, despite Sapphos ancient warning: If you are squeamish,/Dont prod the/beach rubble.

Robert Zinck has nothing against movies that tell stories, movies with characters and dialogue and dramatic arcs and plot points. If people want to make films like that, thats fine with him. But he has other interests.

Thursday, June 5, 2003 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…

A boldly worded title – Do the Right Thing: Why Harvard Supports Affirmative Action and Why Every College Should – left little room for doubt about the positions of the panelists at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Forum Tuesday (April 8). Indeed, it was by explicit design that the panel, co-sponsored by the GSEs office of student affairs, assembled some of the Universitys loudest cheerleaders for affirmative action but none of its critics.

A few years back, an editor from Harvard Magazine called Harvey Mansfield and asked if he would contribute a short quote for a profile of a fellow faculty member. Mansfield replied that the quality that had always impressed him about this colleague was his manliness.

The mystery ailment known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has the potential to spread rapidly in Bostons unexposed population, but the biggest public health danger now may be fear, experts told U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday (April 4) at a briefing at Harvards Countway Medical Library.

War talk and pictures are everywhere and adults are wondering what to tell their children about it.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress.

Sabrina Peck 84 never thought that the combination of dance theater, public service, and education that seemed so specific to her would appeal to generations of Harvard students. It follows that she never imagined that such a combination could propel her program, CityStep, to the ranks of the campus most popular, enduring civic activities.

For the first time, a total of more than 20,000 students applied for undergraduate admission, making the Class of 2007 the most competitive in Harvards history. The 2,056 admitted students were selected from a pool of 20,986, an admission rate of 9.8 percent. Students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday (April 2).

What would Ralph Waldo Emerson say about the events planned to commemorate his 200th birthday?

What would Ralph Waldo Emerson say about the events planned to commemorate his 200th birthday?

Harvard has bid $75 million to purchase 91 acres of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority land located south of Cambridge Street in Allston. Harvards bid has been referred to the MTA Board, which will vote to select the highest responsible bidder no later than (Friday) April 4. Harvard sees the purchase as a long-term investment and expects that the lands current uses will continue in the foreseeable future.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institutes Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Elizabeth Alexander and Suzan-Lori Parks. View the latest entry at http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/forum.php?organization=Harvard+%2F+Du+Bois+Institute. For more information, or to access the latest entry, visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/.

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…

Charles Langmuir sailed to the top of the world to study the bottom of the ocean.

In the song, they paved paradise, put up a parking lot.

Be Bright – Use a Light is the new message that representatives of the Cambridge Bicycle Committee and the Cambridge Police Departments (CPDs) Bike Patrol want to deliver to area cyclists. Since nearly half of all cycling deaths occur at night without lights – even with only 3 percent of bike riding occurring after dark – the two groups are co-sponsoring a focused, weeklong campaign to increase nighttime visibility among bicyclists.

A renowned gathering of women poets, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Emerging Artist honorees, and state poets laureate, will gather on April 12 to celebrate the spoken word and their common bond as fellows-in-residence at Radcliffe.

To the stars through difficulties – the state motto of Kansas – took on some real meaning for the Kansas State womens basketball team this past Friday (March 22) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Up by 19 points in the second half, the No. 3 Wildcats were forced to hold off a defiant Crimson team in the final four minutes, before taking a 79-69 win in front of nearly 11,000 anxious fans in Manhattan, Kan.

This past weeks spring break provided little in the way of rest or relaxation for the Harvard mens and womens hockey teams. In fact, given the Crimsons recent string of heartbreakers in high-stakes tournament play, it seems that both squads – and their fans – have been treated to some rather cruel and unusual punishment instead.

In a survey of attitudes toward risks for children, respondents cite drugs and sexual abuse among the top 10. Theyre not.

Caroline Elam, currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., has been named the I Tatti Mongan Prize winner. The I Tatti Mongan Prize is given to a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, French art, drawings, and connoisseurship.

While it may lack the poetry of reading, writing, rithmetic or the hot-button relevance of high-stakes testing and school reform, Scaling Up Success – the subject of a conference March 20 and 21 at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) – is, its organizers say, a central conundrum of contemporary education.