Campus & Community

At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on February 24, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Elegant facts await me. Small things in this world are mine, recited Elizabeth Alexander as she spoke her poem about the Venus Hottentot. If language is a currency that grants acquisition, then Alexander and her fellow reader, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, have joint ownership of small things and large insights.

It was like finding a four-leaf clover. This year’s Daffodil Day bloomed on St. Patrick’s Day and was rewarded with the biggest yield ever.

Due to an increase in homeland security alert status, which was recently raised to code orange, or high, because of the heightened probability of war in Iraq, Harvard has increased visible security on campus and urges faculty and students to check travel advisories, especially students who plan to travel over spring break and particularly those who plan to travel outside the United States.

DePinho selected AACR award recipient The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has named Professor of Medicine and Genetics Ronald A. DePinho as the recipient of its 43rd annual AACR-G.H.A.…

Online Du Bois series adds Dove, Wideman The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Rita Dove and John Wideman. View the…

Nearly a century ago, bicycle racing was the most popular spectator sport in the nation. Velodromes were as common as shopping malls, early 20th century writers penned rabid reviews of bike races, and in 1903, “across the pond,” a handful of anxious race promoters waited to see if their race – named simply the “Tour de France” – would be a success.

Amidst a four-game non-losing streak (three wins and one tie since Feb. 21), the Harvard mens hockey team (21-8-2) picked up two of its biggest victories of the season this past weekend with a two-game sweep of Vermont in the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals. With the wins, a 4-2 decision on Friday (March 14) and a 5-1 conquest on Saturday (March 15), the Crimson advances to the semifinals in Albany, N.Y. where theyll face Dartmouth on Friday (March 21). If all goes well against the Big Green, the icers will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

A 10-kiloton nuclear bomb exploding at New Yorks Grand Central Station is a prospect that is all-too real today and one that would kill 500,000 people and cause an estimated $1 trillion in economic damage, according to a new report from Harvards Project on Managing the Atom.

To some, engaged Buddhism may seem like a contradiction in terms. Traditionally, Buddhists have sought to avoid suffering by disengaging from desire, training themselves through meditation to look past the world of illusion to the spiritual reality beneath.

Controversial Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg was challenged by a U.S. environmental leader in a spirited debate over the global environment held in the Kennedy Schools Forum Thursday night (March 13). Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been condemned by some in the scientific community, argued that the world is not faced with imminent deterioration [environmentally]. We can stop acting in desperation.

More intrepid than Sir Ernest Shackleton and his Endurance team … staring down icebergs with the swagger and bravado of the Titanic … its the Harvard crew coaches and their effort to free the Charles River from its icy winter stillness.

Teacher Cynthia Abatt of Cambridge waits by the Morpho Magic exhibit for her students to arrive for their visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Harvard and seven other Greater Boston research universities took center stage this week in their role as the areas special economic advantage: magnets for talent and investment that infuse more than $7 billion into the regional economy each year. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, leaders from the universities, including President Lawrence H. Summers, President Charles M. Vest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President Lawrence S. Bacow of Tufts, joined more than 250 leaders in business, community, and local government to mark the release of a new collective economic study and called for a renewed spirit of cooperation for the region and its world-class research institutions.

On Wednesday (March 12) at approximately 2:12 a.m., a male not affiliated with the University was walking down DeWolfe Street when two young males approached him. One of the suspects said empty your pockets while one of the suspects put a handgun to the victims head. The victim struggled with the suspects before he was struck with the gun and knocked to the ground. The suspects then took money and personal objects from the victim and fled.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

At a Wednesday (March 12) anti-war demonstration taking place in front of the Science Center, Susan McGregor 05 (right), a member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, holds a microphone for musician Martha Older as she plays to the crowd of about 300 protesters.

Gates elected to Academy of Cultures Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, has been elected to the Universal Academy of Cultures. Inaugurated by the late…

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, has announced the formation of four working groups charged with examining areas related to the review of undergraduate education at Harvard. He also announced co-chairs for each of the groups. They are expected to report the results of their work in spring 2004.

A contingent of Davids, the severed heads of their Goliaths displayed triumphantly at their feet, were at the Kennedy Schools ARCO Forum Tuesday night (March 11) to be honored for their courage, their persistence, and their devastating aim.

Houghton Library and snow-covered trees are reflected in the glass windows of Lamont Library.

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame visited last week with President Lawrence H. Summers.

In a lecture at the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum Friday (March 7), activist and intellectual Angela Davis advocated for the abolition of prisons, casting the issue in human rights terms and urging a broader vision of justice.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that high-protein diets may be associated with kidney function decline in women who already have mildly reduced kidney function. On further analysis, the risk was only significant for animal proteins, indicating that the source of protein may be an important factor. Researchers observed no association between high protein intake and decline in kidney function in women with normally functioning kidneys. These findings appear in the March 18 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have determined that a large percentage of elderly outpatients take their medications improperly, and that in many circumstances the medication-related mistakes they make are easily preventable. The study appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner issued a call for a new force in global health care last Thursday (March 6) in the form of global health insurance that would ensure access to basic health-care services for the worlds poor.

Students stroll through a tunnel prettily plastered with performance announcements.

In the landscape of dating and relationships, the terrain between no means no and baby, Im yours is expansive and treacherous, marked by the high peaks of gender-role expectations, the shifting sands of personal boundaries, and the boggy quagmires of mixed messages.

Cambridge city employees joined top faculty from Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE) on Wednesday (March 12) for a daylong professional development session that united town and gown in the common goal of improving education for the citys youth and families.