Campus & Community

Continuing to enact a strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the HLS faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.

The first-ever American Indian tribally operated eagle sanctuary that helps meet a pueblos religious and ceremonial needs, an internationally recognized Native American lacrosse team whose members travel abroad using passports issued by their Indian nation, and a tribal wellness program that prevents and combats diabetes are among the 16 finalists in the Universitys American Indian tribal governance awards program for the year 2002.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year. The fellowship, designed to provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to complete, or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation, is open to any student in good standing in a Harvard University doctoral or advanced degree program. Generally, the successful applicant will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered.

Jeff Winer 04 intently watches the result of his shot during a heated pool match with his friend Victor Lee 05 inside Loker Commons.

For the 2002-03 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 4.9 percent, to $35,950. Costs include: tuition, $24,630 room rate, $4,461 board, $4,041 health services fee, $1,020 and student services fee, $1,798.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter, wrote John Keats. In the silence of the Music Buildings Early Instrument Room, the unheard melodies are practically deafening.

Tickets are sold out for a public address by Democratic New York senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is scheduled to address the Harvard community during a 3 p.m. speech at Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theater today, March 11.

When poet and author Carrie Allen McCray attended Alabamas Talladega College in the early 1930s, images of black women were everywhere: on pancake mix, on cookie jars, on salt and pepper shakers.

Lei, Zhou win Weintraub Award Graduate student Elissa P. Lei of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Zhaolan Zhou, former graduate student in the Department of Molecular and…

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these are a few of the things we know about global warming: The average land-surface temperature of the Earth has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. Precipitation has increased by about 1 percent, and the sea level has risen 6 to 8 inches, in part due to the melting of mountain glaciers.

In the good old days, intellectual property battles at the OK Corral were fair fights between evenly matched foes. When General William Westmoreland sued CBS for libel in 1982, each side had the financial heft to hire the best lawyers and state its case.

Dudley Co-op has an image problem.

The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with these qualities.

In view of campus events last spring and since, the President of the University and the Deans of the Faculties have had a series of discussions in recent months regarding the rights and responsibilities of members of the Harvard community. These discussions have resulted in a statement by the President and Deans, which follows.

Its one of the smallest things ever made but it promises to revolutionize some of the most important technologies in our lives. Its a wire as thin as 15 atoms that can make light by itself and behave as a complete electronic device. Such capabilities could lead to new ways to compute, communicate, encode, detect, and identify.

Feb 5., 1954 – At the winter meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Association in Springfield, Law School Dean Erwin Griswold discusses the soundness and landmark significance of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has lately gained much attention during congressional investigations of domestic Communist activity. The talk is broadcast over New England commercial radio stations and rebroadcast over WGBH-FM.

With negotiations between the University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ongoing, students and union members demonstrated Tuesday for custodial wages higher than those offered so far by Harvard. The

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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Like many other jazz lovers, Ingrid Monson welcomed the recent Ken Burns documentary on the history of the music. But she found that Burns gave insufficient attention to one vital aspect of this unique art form, its collaborative and socially expressive qualities.

A haunting fragility pervades Reason, the current production at the Market Theater. Throughout the evening, which is as whimsical as it is cerebral, a series of interwoven stories unfold and layers of understanding are stripped away to reveal others beneath. One perception encases the next like the peels of an onion.

Was that puff of air a collective sigh of relief? Around campus, are shoulders lower, arms swinging more freely, steps springier?

With five Harvardians divided between Team Canada and Team USA (six including U.S. coach Ben Smith 68), last Thursdays Olympic championship game in womens hockey was guaranteed gold for the Crimson hockey program. For Canadian Jennifer Botterill 03, it was also a bit of redemption. As the youngest member of the 1998 silver-medal team in Nagano, Botterills wait for gold finally ended with a 3-2 upset of the favored Americans, ending the Yanks 8-0 dominance over the Canadians (in pre-Olympic competition).

The Princeton womens swimming and diving team soaked the competition this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Feb. 21-23) at the 25th annual Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Blodgett Pool. In capturing their third straight Ivy championship, the Tigers extended their dominance to a league-leading 13 titles. Princeton commanded many of the team events, including the 800- and 1,650-yard freestyle relays, good for 706 total points. Brown took second with 691 points, while host Harvard, title victors in 1996, placed third with 655 points. Freshman Grace Coyle of Columbia University (above) completes a rotation in the 3-meter diving event in Fridays competition.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2002 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which will be awarded at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 12, at 8 p.m., at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs, Kennedy School of Government.

President Lawrence H. Summers (left) moderates the forum Healthier or wealthier … which comes first in the new global era? at the Kennedy School on Monday, Feb. 25. Panelists included Roberta Baskin (center), senior producer, ABC News 20/20 and Tim Evans, director, Health Equity, The Rockefeller Foundation.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, and spiritual leader to millions of Buddhists worldwide, will make a rare Cambridge appearance at the Memorial Church on Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m., in addition to a retreat on Saturday, March 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The events are free and open to the public, with free parking at the Broadway Garage on Felton Street.

Former Dean of the School of Public Health John C. Snyder died Tuesday, Feb. 19, in Peterborough, N.H. He was 91.

Asked to choose three words to describe his work, J Mays listed the following: lust, longing, desire.