Campus & Community

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 16.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students and employees in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today.

The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading under the Morris Gray Lectureship. All faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision.

Friends and colleagues of Janet Viggiani, former assistant dean for coeducation at Harvard College, are invited to attend a memorial service and reception at 3 p.m. on Dec. 8 at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Parking is available at the rear of the building.

To explore the political visions and behavior of African Americans, Professor of Government Michael Dawson looks to history and asks questions about the present. He goes to church and the voting booth, workplaces and the unemployment line.

Robert R. Barker 36, an investment executive and former Harvard Overseer whose gifts to the University enabled Harvard to create a new humanities center, died on Nov. 8.

A team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), led by Gökhan Hotamisligil of the Department of Nutrition, has identified the gene JNK (c-Jun amino-terminal kinases) as the key component in interfering with insulin sensitivity in the metabolic pathway for obesity, obesity-induced insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. The discovery identifies a new target for therapeutic drugs for both obesity and diabetes. The research findings appear in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal Nature.

Penn staked its claim to the Ivy League football championship, defeating Harvard, 44-9, at Franklin Field this past Saturday (Nov. 16). The victory clinches at least a share of the crown for the Quakers (7-1, 6-0 Ivy), while the Crimson (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) – whose three losses of the season all came at the hands of nationally-ranked teams – concentrate on Saturdays (Nov. 23) 119th playing of The Game. Seniors Neil Rose and Carl Morris, donning their Harvard helmets one last time, will look to defeat Yale (and pray that Cornell tips Penn) to earn a piece of the title. Kick off is 12:30 p.m.

Harvards mens and womens hockey programs received dual honors last week when seniors Dominic Moore and Jennifer Botterill were each named ECAC Player of the Week. Team captain Moore tallied a pair of goals for the Crimson (4-1,1-1 Ivy) in a 5-2 win over Dartmouth on Nov. 8. He recorded his 100th career point in a 4-2 upset of Vermont the following day. Botterill recorded 12 points in a two-game road sweep by the No. 2 ranked womens team (3-1, 1-0 Ivy).

Despite the gusty winds and driving rain of a seasonal Noreaster, 21 young people with disabilities recently made their way from all over Massachusetts to the Charles Hotel to attend the Youth Leadership Forum (YLF), where they served as delegates. The Nov. 16 event was sponsored by the Office of the University Disability Coordinator, Office of the Assistant to the President at Harvard, and the organization Partners for Youth With Disabilities (PYD) in Boston.

As the music swelled, dozens of dancers arched and twisted, contracted and spiraled their arms raised heavenward, feet planted in a wide, earthy stance.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that adults who have tonsillectomies to treat their chronic, recurring tonsillitis take fewer sick days and less medication than those who opt to leave their tonsils in and repeatedly treat the condition with antibiotics.

Every evening this past summer, after returning from her job at the Baltimore City Health Department, Laura Perry 04 read and re-read Shakespeares play The Merchant of Venice. When she was not doing that, she was either reading criticism about the play or developing her own ideas about what it means and how it should be staged.

Is there a moral distinction between procedures carried out daily at fertility clinics across the nation and the cloning of human embryos for research purposes? Michael Sandel does not think so.

Women from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations recently joined the women of Latinas Unidas, the Association of Black Harvard Women, and the South Asian Womens Collective in sponsoring the Road to Success, a panel discussion on the career paths of successful minority women. Saru Jayarama (from left), executive director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, responds to a question as Laura Lancaster, former managing editor of Ebony Magazine, Marisa Demeo, regional counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Jennifer Hawkins 04, panel moderator, listen.

At a modest Victorian home on the Somerville-Cambridge border, Harvard graduate student Kermit Cole is cooking a spinach frittata for dinner.

The toilet runs, theres graffiti on the windows, and a former resident left behind some belongings.

They dont do the duckwalk like Chuck Berry or the moonwalk like Michael Jackson. They dont strut around the stage like Mick Jagger. They dont play guitar with their tongues like Jimi Hendrix, and they dont smash their instruments like The Who. What kind of musicians are they?

Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the media’s role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.

Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. ‘I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me,’ she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation of the affordable rental units. ‘This means a lot to me.’

I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.

An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 23), to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of

From the failed promise of flying vehicles to the very real presence of virtual tours on the Internet, Harvard administrators, faculty, and information technology professionals examined the impact of technology on Harvards digital identity at a Harvard Law School conference last week.

Before the Harvard-Yale game this Saturday (Nov. 23), the Arthur M. Sackler Museum invites families to attend its final Sackler Saturday event of the fall: Ancient Entertainment: Music, Games, and Dance in Art. Children can listen to ancient Chinese bells, see Indian dancers, play games that the ancient Greeks and Romans once enjoyed, and take in the treasures of ancient art in the galleries. Other activities will include sketching, storytelling, and self-guided activities families can do together. Free and open to the public, the program will run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on a drop-in basis.

As a student at Harvard Law School (HLS), Earl Martin Phalen did much of his learning and career building in elementary school.

His Olympic dream began decades ago, at the knee of his dad, watching the Olympics together on television. It might have been 1988, or 1992, Harvard junior Jesse Jantzen isnt sure. What he is sure of is that even at age 6, when the 1988 games occurred, he had already been wrestling in tournaments for a year or two.

For a discussion on labor negotiations, this past Fridays (Nov. 15) forum at Langdell Hall on Major League Baseballs (MLB) latest round of collective bargaining was as cordial as they come. So cordial, in fact, that panelist Andrew Zimbalist, a leading sports economist at Smith College and author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime (Basic Books, 1992), couldnt resist dubbing the resounding goodwill among the panels union representatives a love fest.

In a recent, lively discussion in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, three professors from Yale, Brown, and Columbia universities described how their schools educate their undergraduates. Their philosophies of education ran the gamut, representing different worldviews on what a college education is all about.

Thalidomide, DES (stilbsestrol), the Dalkon shield, hormone replacement therapy. The names of these high-profile medical blunders were enough to make the point. ABC News analyst Cokie Roberts in a few seconds captured a central factor in the erosion of trust in the health care system.

The coming expansion of the European Union to include 10 Eastern and Central European countries will fulfill an age-old dream of European unification and add vitality and energy to the organization, the ambassadors of four candidate nations said last week.