Campus & Community

On Wednesday (March 12) at approximately 2:12 a.m., a male not affiliated with the University was walking down DeWolfe Street when two young males approached him. One of the suspects said empty your pockets while one of the suspects put a handgun to the victims head. The victim struggled with the suspects before he was struck with the gun and knocked to the ground. The suspects then took money and personal objects from the victim and fled.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

At a Wednesday (March 12) anti-war demonstration taking place in front of the Science Center, Susan McGregor 05 (right), a member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, holds a microphone for musician Martha Older as she plays to the crowd of about 300 protesters.

Gates elected to Academy of Cultures Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, has been elected to the Universal Academy of Cultures. Inaugurated by the late…

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, has announced the formation of four working groups charged with examining areas related to the review of undergraduate education at Harvard. He also announced co-chairs for each of the groups. They are expected to report the results of their work in spring 2004.

A contingent of Davids, the severed heads of their Goliaths displayed triumphantly at their feet, were at the Kennedy Schools ARCO Forum Tuesday night (March 11) to be honored for their courage, their persistence, and their devastating aim.

Houghton Library and snow-covered trees are reflected in the glass windows of Lamont Library.

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame visited last week with President Lawrence H. Summers.

In a lecture at the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum Friday (March 7), activist and intellectual Angela Davis advocated for the abolition of prisons, casting the issue in human rights terms and urging a broader vision of justice.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that high-protein diets may be associated with kidney function decline in women who already have mildly reduced kidney function. On further analysis, the risk was only significant for animal proteins, indicating that the source of protein may be an important factor. Researchers observed no association between high protein intake and decline in kidney function in women with normally functioning kidneys. These findings appear in the March 18 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have determined that a large percentage of elderly outpatients take their medications improperly, and that in many circumstances the medication-related mistakes they make are easily preventable. The study appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner issued a call for a new force in global health care last Thursday (March 6) in the form of global health insurance that would ensure access to basic health-care services for the worlds poor.

Students stroll through a tunnel prettily plastered with performance announcements.

In the landscape of dating and relationships, the terrain between no means no and baby, Im yours is expansive and treacherous, marked by the high peaks of gender-role expectations, the shifting sands of personal boundaries, and the boggy quagmires of mixed messages.

Cambridge city employees joined top faculty from Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE) on Wednesday (March 12) for a daylong professional development session that united town and gown in the common goal of improving education for the citys youth and families.

The Kennedy School of Government took a long look at what constitutes good public leadership last week and began pondering better ways to teach, foster, and promote that quality in its students.

Dancer/choreographer Mark Morris spoke about his life and career Monday (March 10) as part of the Office for the Arts Learning From Performers program.

Do government values such as equality and freedom of speech accompany government duties when services are farmed out to private organizations, or should the government leave values out of it and award contracts on the basis of who can do the best job?

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is in a particularly tough spot right now.

The Chinese Yo-yo Club is no humdrum affair. Their spinning, vibrating, flying toy sings a tune to its own colorful movement. The barbell-shaped, hollow instrument is manipulated on a string tied to two sticks, each one held by a player. By spinning the yo-yo fast enough a humming sound is created. Unlike the yo-yos most Westerners are familiar with, the Chinese yo-yo is not attached to the string, which allows it to be tossed, resulting in a dazzle of yo-yo trickery. In its second year, the Chinese Yo-yo Club is always on the lookout for new members – and new yo-yo routines.

Medical investigators have begun to see some light at the end of a long tunnel that may lead to a vaccine against lung cancer.

March 9, 1857 – The faculty adopts the recommendation of a joint faculty/Overseers committee that annual examinations of each Class in each subject before an Overseers Visiting Committee be in…

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:

Professor of Music Christopher Hasty embodies contradiction. A music theorist who specializes in 20th century music, his work is far less concerned with the traditional categories of music theory – the separate studies of harmony, counterpoint, rhythm – than with the fleeting, mysterious, sometimes messy way in which we experience music.

Mentors sought for Project Success Harvard Medical School faculty members are needed to serve as research advisers/mentors for this summer’s “Project Success: Opening the Door to Biomedical Careers.” A research…

In 1994, Nepal reported that 1,600 girls had been lured into the sex trade, largely in brothels in nearby India. Maiti Nepal, an organization founded to fight the trafficking of young Nepali girls, estimates the actual figure was 100 times higher.

The Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) has awarded Harvard University its most prestigious award, the Institutional Excellence in Telecommunications Award. The University was selected in the large-school category this year. The award will be presented to Harvards UIS Network Operations Team for its support of regional high-performance networking.

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the 2003 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards to three Harvard faculty members. This years recipients are Max H. Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Ann Rowland, assistant professor of English and American Literature and Language and Joan Ruderman, Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year. The fellowship, open to any student in good standing in a Harvard doctoral or advanced-degree program, is designed to provide the successful applicant the opportunity to complete and/or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation. Generally, the recipient will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered. The application deadline is April 4.