Year: 2003

Rinde Eckert respects the classics, but he isnt afraid of them. In his theatrical productions and performance pieces, he has radically reinterpreted classic texts by Dante, Shakespeare, Herman Melville, and many others.

The Harvard University Art Museums has announced the appointment of Susan von Salis as the associate curator of archives.

Jane Edwards, well known for her work in international education, has been named director of International Programs. In making the announcement, William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said the appointment is one of the first steps in his efforts to increase opportunities for Harvard students to include significant international experience…

John D. Spengler, the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Faculty of the School of Public Health (SPH), has been named a co-recipient of the ninth annual Heinz Award for the Environment. Together with 1995 Nobel Prize-winner Mario J. Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is being recognized…

One of Harvard and Bostons most appealing summer activities for adults and kids alike, The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), will be starting its 13th season June 9 at the Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

The No. 1 ranked Harvard womens hockey team clinched both the ECAC regular season and Ivy League title with a 4-3 win over visiting Brown this past Tuesday night (Feb. 25). Seniors Kalen Ingram and Jennifer Botterill each notched a goal and an assist in the win, which improved the Crimson to 24-1-1, 13-0-1 Ivy.…

Note to readers The Big Picture will resume next week. French cinema (cheap) at Film Archive The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Boston, in conjunction with the Harvard…

Citing the Constitutions function as establishing a minimum floor beneath which no American or state law can fall, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) made the case at the ARCO Forum Monday night (Feb. 24) for two new constitutional amendments to guarantee equal quality education and basic health care for all Americans.

If she had it all to do over again, former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell said shed address the issue of gender bias in political coverage head on, instead of being blindsided by it, as she was in the 1993 election that forced her out of office.

Harvard faculty huddled with business, government, and nonprofit representatives last week at the Kennedy School of Government in an effort to forge new partnerships in the global fight against AIDS.

A memorial service for John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, will be held at Sanders Theatre today (Feb. 27) at 3 p.m. A reception will immediately follow in Loeb House, 17 Quincy St.

The University has received inquiries regarding its level of emergency preparedness as a result of the federal governments elevation of the Homeland Security threat level. It is important to emphasize that no threats have been made against the University. University police are in regular, coordinated contact with city, state, and federal authorities, and will notify…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A beautiful young actress and a teen magazine with articles like Get cute hair in minutes put a fresh, surprising face on the subject of eating disorders at a panel discussion Monday night (Feb. 24) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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.

What is a building?

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.

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).

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…

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.…

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.

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.

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,…

Jantzen lands EIWA honor

Alan Berger has been called the anti-Ansel Adams.

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:

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.

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…