Month: December 2002

  • Campus & Community

    The big picture:

    He has a room named after him. And a cajun-spiced burger in the cafeteria. But Ronnie Levesque isnt a movie star, a rock singer, or any other kind of celebrity. Hes the superintendent of Quincy House.

  • Campus & Community

    John Rawls, influential political philosopher, dead at 81 :

    John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, whose 1971 book, A Theory of Justice argued persuasively for a society based on equality and individual rights, died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.

  • Campus & Community

    President Summers and Provost Hyman set office hours

    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:

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard History

    Dec. 6-7, 1941 – Harvard faculty, government officials, and labor delegates convene at the Business School for a conference on Labor and National Defense. It is believed to be the first meeting of its kind in the nation.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Disparities in Minority Healthcare’ is topic

    The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will present a daylong conference on Saturday (Dec. 7) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall, Room 202, titled Disparities in Minority Healthcare: Reaching Out to the Community. The student-directed conference will address a wide range of health-care issues facing impoverished American communities, including Native…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council notice for Dec. 4

    At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed recent free speech issues in the faculty. The dean of the Faculty, Professor William Kirby (history), and the dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor Benedict Gross (mathematics), also updated the council on the Curricular Review. Additionally the dean of the College, Professor Harry Lewis (DEAS),…

  • Campus & Community

    Clarification

    The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading, under the Morris Gray Lectureship. The faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision with no opposing votes. There were two abstentions.

  • Campus & Community

    Yes, Virginia:

    Stenciled graffiti on Mt. Auburn Street is clearly designed to ease the nagging doubts in this strollers mind.

  • Science & Tech

    Geographical information systems conference showcases the future

    Begun as a mapping software decades ago, geographical information systems, known as GIS, today functions to manage different time- and place-dependent data and allows different variables to be projected together,…

  • Health

    Bottle-feeding before bed time may increase risk of childhood asthma

    Nearly one in 13 children in America has asthma. The National Institutes of Health reports that the prevalence of asthma around the world has doubled in the last 15 years,…

  • Health

    Study predicts risk of prostate cancer death

    Researchers followed 381 people to “identify predictors of time to prostate specific death following external radiation therapy.” “The results of this study give us a better understanding of what form…