Lawyer Johnnie Cochran was part of the Saturday School Program at the Law School recently. The program was created in 1988 to give authors and activists an opportunity to present controversial works-in-progress to law students.
Between Feb. 8 and 12, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) filed three reports of street robbery occurring in the area of the Quadrangle. The first incident occurred on Feb. 8 at approximately 6:23 p.m. at 65 Martin St., when the suspect attacked the victim with a folding knife. The second incident occurred on Feb. 12 at approximately 6:51 p.m. at 14-16 Holly Ave. In this incident, the victim was walking his dog when the suspect lunged at him with a folding knife. In both incidents, the victims suffered stab wounds.
Feb. 27, 1971 – At Currier House, Radcliffe sponsors its first annual prelaw conference. February 1972 – Harvard purchases the 180-room Hotel Continental (Garden St. and Concord Ave., Cambridge) for…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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:
Sylvio Castiglioni announced to a group of students that they would start off with the oldest game in the world: I do, you repeat. The 35 minutes that followed looked like the movement-based equivalent of a gospel choir face-off as the pack imitated Castiglioni, then alternate leaders, in a succession of lunges, squats, stomps, tumbles, and contortions.
Around the world toil remarkable people whose unique skills and extraordinary enthusiasm put them at the center of difficult challenges. They bring people together who need to meet, create organizations where none existed, and are sometimes the lone force behind the search for solutions to daunting social problems.
In a demonstration of vaccine therapys potential for treating lung cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists and their associates report that a prototype vaccine boosted the natural immune response to tumors in a small group of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Moreover, the vaccine was found to be nontoxic and well-tolerated.
Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has proposed a 0 percent rent increase for the majority of current Affiliated Housing residents who live in the approximately 2,500 Harvard Affiliated Housing apartments.…
At its 10th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council considered a proposal from the student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to move the deadline for dropping courses from the fifth to the seventh week of term. Rohit Chopra 04, Oluseyi Fayanju 04, Omolola Kassim 04, and Alexander Patterson 03, all members of CUE, were present for this discussion.
Oscar nominee and Grammy Award winner Queen Latifah has been selected the 2003 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Latifah will be awarded the foundation tribute at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival on Saturday (Feb. 22).
Martin Scorsese has never been the sort of filmmaker to milk his successes by creating endless sequels to his movies. There is no Taxi Driver 2, Raging Bull, the Comeback, or Son of Goodfellas.
Harvard University, together with Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Duke University, has filed an amicus brief in the Michigan cases pending before the United States Supreme Court.
Harvard University, together with Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Duke University, has filed an amicus brief in the Michigan cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. The brief supports the right of institutions of higher education to consider race as one factor in a careful and individualized admissions system.
A good-natured Whitney – er, Anjelica – Huston took a ribbing as well as a faux beating Thursday (Feb. 6) to earn her pudding pot as this years Woman of the Year for the nations oldest collegiate drama troupe, Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Feb. 9, 1970 – About 100 individuals take part in an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) demonstration protesting the presence of a U.S. Army recruiter at the Office of…
A memorial service for Donald OHara, lecturer on biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Department of Medicine, will be held Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Gordon Hall, Harvard Medical School. University faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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:
Professor of History Ann Blair 84 tells of a 17th century German scholar who created a portable cabinet in which to store his notes. Hed jot notes on cards and hang them on alphabetical hooks in the cabinet, then rearrange them as he accumulated additional information.
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2003 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 11 at the Kennedy School.
Anton wants into the act as his mother, first-time quilter Melanie Stoehr, puts the finishingtouches on a quilt, one of her Harvard Neighbors Quilting Bee group projects. The Valentine Quilt, along with more than a dozen others, will go to a local hospital.
Lisa Simpson designs and makes costumes for the Gold Dust Orphans, a theater company that puts on plays with titles such as Joan of Arkansas, Scarrie (with apologies to Stephen King), Joan Crawfords Christmas on the Pole, and the groups newest offering, The Ebonic Woman.
Geoff Nyarota, a journalist forced to flee Zimbabwe after he was removed as the editor of the nations only independent newspaper, has been appointed a Nieman Fellow.
After 20 minutes of hockey in the Beanpot title game this past Tuesday (Feb. 11), it looked as if the visiting Boston College womens hockey team – down just two goals against the nations No.1 team – had recovered from its 17-2 spanking delivered by the Crimson just two weeks prior. That is, until freshman Julie Chu, a mere 38 seconds into the second frame, chipped a shot past B.C. netminder Lisa Davis to put Harvard ahead 3-0. And then the flashbacks began for the Eagles, as Harvard cruised to a 7-0 win for their fifth straight Beanpot championship.
With the Feb. 2 meet fresh on their minds – a 179-175 loss to Princeton – the Harvard menrs swimming and diving team left plenty of breathing room between themselves and visiting Cornell and Dartmouth this past Saturday (Feb. 8). So much, in fact, that the Crimson managed a pair of sweeps against their Ivy brethren: downing the Big Red, 168-74, and the Big Green, 148-92. All told, Harvard took nine out of 13 events, to improve to 6-1 (5-1 Ivy).
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