Campus & Community

Composer and performer Livingston Taylor will return to the Faith & Life Forum on Friday (Feb. 28) at 7:30 p.m. for a free concert. Open to the Harvard community, the performance will also feature special guests from Harvards Festival Choir and will be held at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 10, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

For the first time, surgeons at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) will broadcast cutting-edge surgeries over the Web, in an effort to familiarize doctors with new surgical techniques and to inform the general public about medical advances.

February 1, 2003

Theres a well-worn refrain among Harvards most dedicated student volunteers and its legions of alumni who pursue careers as public service leaders: Phillips Brooks House Association was the best course I took at Harvard.

A montage of photographs shot from the 10th floor of Holyoke Center. More snow photos, page 11.

Lawyer Johnnie Cochran was part of the Saturday School Program at the Law School recently. The program was created in 1988 to give authors and activists an opportunity to present controversial works-in-progress to law students.

Between Feb. 8 and 12, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) filed three reports of street robbery occurring in the area of the Quadrangle. The first incident occurred on Feb. 8 at approximately 6:23 p.m. at 65 Martin St., when the suspect attacked the victim with a folding knife. The second incident occurred on Feb. 12 at approximately 6:51 p.m. at 14-16 Holly Ave. In this incident, the victim was walking his dog when the suspect lunged at him with a folding knife. In both incidents, the victims suffered stab wounds.

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…

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.

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:

Alan Berger has been called the anti-Ansel Adams.

Jantzen lands EIWA honor

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, and contortions.

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.

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.

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.…

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 of CUE, were present for this discussion.

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).

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.

What is a building?

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.

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. The brief supports the right of institutions of higher education to consider race as one factor in a careful and individualized admissions system.

A good-natured Whitney – er, Anjelica – Huston took a ribbing as well as a faux beating Thursday (Feb. 6) to earn her pudding pot as this years Woman of the Year for the nations oldest collegiate drama troupe, Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

A herd of bicycles is covered by one of the innumerable snowshowers of recent weeks.

Feb. 9, 1970 – About 100 individuals take part in an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) demonstration protesting the presence of a U.S. Army recruiter at the Office of…

A memorial service for Donald OHara, lecturer on biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Department of Medicine, will be held Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Gordon Hall, Harvard Medical School. University faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.

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

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 History Ann Blair 84 tells of a 17th century German scholar who created a portable cabinet in which to store his notes. Hed jot notes on cards and hang them on alphabetical hooks in the cabinet, then rearrange them as he accumulated additional information.