Campus & Community

Foster McCrum Palmer, associate University librarian from 1966 until 1974, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Watertown. He was 87 years old. Palmers career in the Harvard libraries began in 1938 under the late Keyes Metcalf. In 1941, Palmer began his long service as senior reference librarian in Widener Library. He is acknowledged as an early proponent of the application of computers to libraries. Following his retirement in 1974, Palmer was called back into Harvard service from 1975 to 1977 as acting director of the Countway Library of Medicine.

Poor Figaro! All he wants to do is marry his beloved Susanna and settle down, but look what he has to put up with – a lusty count with the hots for his wife-to-be, an older woman wholl forgive the money he owes her if hell marry her instead, a goofy young page whos infatuated with women in general, and an assortment of other characters who insist on impersonating one another and adding to the confusion.

Third-year Suffolk University Law School student Peter Brown wants to help eradicate employment discrimination. Thanks in large measure to a Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation internship, which brought him this past summer to the Attorney Generals (AG) office in Boston, Brown is well on his way to his dream job with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Progress has been made in the worldwide fight against hunger but action is still needed to help the 777 million people who still dont have enough to eat, Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said Thursday (Feb. 7).

The Environmental Information Center, a unit of the Harvard College Library, is mounting a special exhibition in preparation for the upcoming 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development – a United Nations conference called to examine the first 30 years of environmental policy and to chart future strategies. People and the Planet: Forging International Environmental Policy, 1972-2002, displayed on the first floor of Cabot Science Library, traces the development of environmental awareness from the 1972 UN conference that first addressed environmental issues to the forthcoming summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August.

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, better known as Harvards famed Glass Flowers, is back on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after a two-month absence while the gallery housing the treasures was remodeled.

The Environmental Information Center (EIC) embarks on its seventh year with a new librarian, plans for influential collection expansion, and an intense commitment to interdisciplinary research.

On his Feb. 11 visit to Harvard, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán (center) is greeted by President Lawrence H. Summers at Massachusetts Hall. Later, Orbán signed the guest book with University Marshal Rick Hunt (far left) at Wadsworth House and then dined at the Faculty Club.

Swapping New York cool for wide-eyed gushing, Sex and the City star and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker arrived at Harvard Thursday (Feb. 7) to collect the Hasty Pudding Theatricals annual Woman of the Year award.

Harvard hockey stars assured of Olympic gold

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

As the search begins for a successor to Robert G. Stone Jr., who earlier announced plans to step down as a Fellow of Harvard College on June 30, 2002, members of the University community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the selection of a new member of the Harvard Corporation.

When little Dutch master Jan Vermeer painted The Astronomer in the 1660s, Johannes Kepler had already discovered the laws of planetary motion, Galileo had tangled with the church over his heliocentric convictions, and Isaac Newton was crashing at his parents house (to dodge the plague) and formulating the laws of gravitation and motion.

Performance artist Karen Finley has smeared herself with chocolate, painted with her own breast milk, put Winnie the Pooh in S&M gear, and locked horns with conservative Sen. Jesse Helms.

In a review of the nations public drinking water systems, researchers from the water and health program at the School of Public Health (SPH) say that reliable and safe water is available to nearly all 270 million U.S. residents. But, they also find that maintenance and repair of the public water infrastructure has been severely neglected and that at least $151 billion must be spent over the next two decades to guarantee the continued high quality of U.S. water. Additionally, the researchers predict that global warming could significantly harm water availability and quality.

For senior goalie Alison Kuusisto 02, Tuesday nights Beanpot victory over B.C. must have tasted extra sweet. The Crimson netminder, who made 20 saves in the 7-2 winning effort at Northeasterns Matthews Arena, is the only Harvard player to have been part of each of the teams last four consecutive Beanpot championship outings. Whats more, she received the tournaments Most Valuable Goalie Award.

One of Harvards and Bostons most popular summer activities, The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

Four Harvard College sophomores will investigate the status of women at the University through fellowships awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. The four recipients, all members of The Harvard Crimson staff, are Lauren Dorgan, Anne Kofol, Kathryn Rakoczy, and Catherine Shoichet.

Anyone who knows Brooke Ellison wont be surprised that since her news-making graduation from Harvard College in 2000, she has written a book, kept a busy schedule of speaking engagements, and made plans to attend graduate school.

May receives top AHA Award

Houghton Library, the rare book and manuscript repository of the Harvard College Library, recently acquired the papers of author Gore Vidal. These papers together with the near-complete set of Vidal printed materials, collected over the years by Houghtons retired keeper of printed books James Walsh, make Houghton Library the center of Vidal studies.

Books may be accumulated and guarded, and the result is sometimes called a library but if the books are made to help and spur men and women on in their own daily work, the library becomes a vital influence, the prison is turned into a workshop, said Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard College from 1877 to 1897.

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as Dean and to return to the Faculty at the end of this academic year.

School of Public Health professor visits Taliban prisoners

GSD technical services staff joined 1.25 million other New England fans to celebrate the Patriots Superbowl win at a parade in downtown Boston. Standing on Tremont Street are (from left) Alix Rieskind, assistant head, visual resources Dave Ware, bindery assistant Janet Rutan, department head and Maria Tina da Rosa, serials assistant.

In Catherine Dulacs laboratory, male mice are acting strangely. They do not attack other males that invade their territory. They will even try to mate with the invaders.

Emaciated, bearded men stare with hollow eyes through the prison bars. Wrapped in blankets against the winter cold, they look, to a doctors trained eye, like men whose bodies are steadily weakening under the onslaught of cold and hunger, dysentery, and hepatitis.

At the ninth Faculty Council meeting of the year, Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis (Computer Science) presented his 2000-2001 Report on Harvard College for discussion by the Council. Lewis also proposed a change in the Facultys definition of rape, to bring it into accord with Massachusetts law.

Feb. 10, 1853 – Jared Sparks steps down as President James Walker, Class of 1814, immediately succeeds him to become Harvards 18th President. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison describes Walker as stone deaf. Ironically, in the fall of 1856, music becomes the only new subject added to the curriculum during his presidency.

Papers for German conference sought The Eastern German Studies Association (EGSA) – an international network of scholars with research interests in the former German Democratic Republic and the new, eastern…