Year: 2002

Is nature good or evil?

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?

Oct. 16, 1948 – The World War II Memorial Committee formally presents its report to the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The Committee makes a similar presentation for the…

Most of the beginners in the Ninth Annual Beginners competition, hosted by the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, looked like anything but as they expertly swirled and strutted their hour upon the dance floor last Saturday (Oct. 26). The competition began as the Harvard-Yale Challenge in 1992, when the Yale team would come and dance against…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 15, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Gerda Lerner, the Robinson-Edwards Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and past president of the Organization of American Historians, will discuss and sign her new book, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Critical Perspectives on the Past) [Temple University Press, 2002], on Monday (Nov. 4). Sponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe…

First-years get started on their pumpkins during their study break at the Freshman Pumpkin Carving Contest, hosted by the Prefect Program. The resulting jack-o-lanterns will be judged on Halloween. Free pizza will be awarded to individual entries for most original, most Harvard, funniest, scariest, and best overall. At Weld Hall, Tasha Bartch 06 (left) carves…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the School of Public Health (SPH) have shown that regular, frequent consumption of painkillers containing acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like ibuprofen, increased the risk of hypertension in a large group of women studied.

When Nietzsche said, “What does not destroy me makes me stronger,” he might have been speaking about bonsai trees.

Brian D. Farrell is a man with many props. He bounds around his sunny corner office at the Museum of Comparative Zoology showing off his finds: a pile of 60-year-old lantern slides of Cuba, an ancient projector, the dog-eared 1938 field journal of P.J. Darlington Jr., a well-known zoogeographer and one of Farrells predecessors at…

Women who have lived through economic hardship as a child or adult are likely to start perimenopause (the period leading up to menopause) earlier than affluent women, suggests research in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The idea that history has something valuable and useful to teach us has been seriously questioned by academic historians in recent years, and a new and often bewildering set of theories justifying the historical enterprise has been proposed in its stead.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and reigning Miss America Erika Harold joined Harvard School of Public Health faculty and students from Bostons Mission Hill School to mark a National Day of Concern about youth gun violence Thursday (Oct. 24).

Susan Clancys research has taken her into alien territory.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and intrastate conflict prevention and resolution studies.

FAS curriculum crux of upcoming symposia As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education will be sponsoring two public…

A host of athletes from the East Coast wrapped up play at the Omni Hotels Intercollegiate Tennis Associations Eastern Region Tournament this past Tuesday (Oct. 29) at the Murr Tennis Center. The four-day tournament is the qualifying event for the foremost indoor tournament in the nation – the National Indoor Championships – to be held…

With two highly capable quarterbacks in the Crimson mix, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy has been in a bit of a bind over the past few Saturdays. But given the big playmaking going on between senior captain Neil Rose and sophomore marvel Ryan Fitzpatrick, the coachs conundrum has become Harvards blessing. And in a somewhat…

Tim Garvin, vice president and executive director of the Central Branch of the YMCA of Greater Boston, describes a childs life as a triangle. The child is in the middle of the triangle, Garvin says, surrounded and supported by the childs school, family, and larger community.

To complement its museum exhibit Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gathered scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the intellectual, political, and cultural context of Women, Money, and Power Oct. 24 and 25.

Susan B. Marine has been named Harvard Colleges first coordinator of Sexual Assault Prevention Services, a position jointly created by the College and the Office of the Provost. Marine, who brings impressive experience from the private and public sectors, will oversee all student education related to sexual assault, its prevention, and resources for victims of…

The Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH) was created in May 2002, under the joint auspices of Harvard College and the Office of the Provost, to help ensure that students have access to the most effective range of educational programming, preventive measures, and support services related to sexual violence on campus. This 11-member…

Prior to the recent football game against Northeastern, President Lawrence H. Summers joined more than 500 Allston-Brighton residents for a pre-game lunch. Summers (center) is pictured with several local residents, including Barbara and Gus OBrien (far left), Barbara Pecci (next to Summers), John Bruno, Paul Berkeley, and Kevin McCluskey (far right), Harvards director of Community…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Dennis Thompson’s timely book on elections published Professor of Government and the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson’s new book “Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral…

Eva Laier 04 studied the roars of monkeys in Ugandas rainforest. Peter Hopkins 04 chatted up Serena Williams at Wimbledon. In Costa Rica, Jesse Rokicki 03 went for a week without a shower.

She is the reason my heart beats.