Campus & Community

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:

Even as Harvards picture-pretty offense made for another noteworthy performance against Columbia (1-7, 0-5 Ivy) this past Saturday (Nov. 9) at the stadium, it was the Crimsons less glamorous defensive game that really stole the show – and the 28-7 win – from the cagey Lions.

At a Nov. 6 lecture, Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor (seated front row), spoke on the image of Greece in the poetry of James Merrill. Vendler explored the polyvalent presence of modern Greece in the poetry of one of the most influential contemporary American poets. This lecture continues the series of lectures by eminent scholars and intellectuals organized by the Modern Greek Studies Program in the Department of the Classics. The series, organized by Professor Panagiotis Roilos, was inaugurated two years ago with the Homage to Seferis by Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate in literature in 1995), followed, among others, by Nanos Valaoritiss The Irish Connections of George Seferis, and a two-day international conference on Ritual in Greece: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Harvard faculty and students gathered recently for a candid discussion of the Core Curriculum: its strengths, weaknesses, and areas for potential change. The symposium, held Nov. 6, was the first of two community conversations this month. The discussions are part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirbys widespread efforts to examine all aspects of the undergraduate curriculum, the first such major review in almost 30 years. (See http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/10.17/01-fas.html.)

China Keitetsis autobiography is currently number two on Germanys best-seller list. Its title is They Took Away My Mother and Gave Me a Gun, and that is literally what happened to her.

Women from conflict-ravaged nations around the world gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last week for a colloquium focused on how to empower women worldwide to work for peace.

It’s easy to think humankind is above nature in this age of genetically engineered corn, superdrugs, microsurgery, and all the man-made comforts that insulate us from nature’s harshness.

His wiry body clad in tight-fitting black, Robert Woodruff hunches over his coffee cup struggling to express his thoughts about the job he has taken on, artistic director of Harvards American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.).

Earlier this week, the Science Center lawn became a dumping ground for about 500 bags of Harvard-generated trash. And if the heaps of soggy newspapers, candy wrappers, used coffee cups, and banana peels were unsightly and a little smelly, that was the point.

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

A bird¹s-eye view from the Maxwell-Dworkin building shows the warmly colored carpetlike patterns of its plaza contrasting with the slash of a rough stone bench, evoking ancient textiles, ancient structures.

Its been known for a while that babies enjoy a dramatic increase in their ability to remember people and things between 8 and 12 months of age. But this is short-term memory, the kind that loses a telephone number in a minute or less if you dont write it down.

Nov. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 2. 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:

A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, passed away on May 10, 2002.

Friends and colleagues of Costas Papaliolios, professor of physics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Faculty Club on Sunday (Nov. 10) at 2 p.m.

Missy Holbrooks sunlit office is dominated by a large Boston fern, bursting with life, its exploratory tendrils shooting far up the walls and drooping, beardlike, to the floor. Nearby, a sweet potato vine twines gently around the vertical slats of the window blinds, squeezing them in its progress toward the ceiling.

Associate Vice President for Planning and Real Estate Kathy Spiegelman has been named chief University planner and director of the Allston Initiative. Spiegelman will start in the new position Jan. 1, 2003. Spiegelman will report directly to Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, and the position has close ties to the provosts office as well.

Holly Neufer knew working with clay was the thing for her the first time she tried it. She walked through the door of the Radcliffe Ceramics Program in 1984 and liked the feel of the place. She liked the dustiness, the studios airy, garagelike space.

The 400th anniversary of the refounding of the University of Oxfords Bodleian Library was a moment in history that colleagues across the sea at Harvard could not let pass unrecognized. Finding a gift that was both a meaningful addition to the Bodleians collection and a symbol of the relationship between the scholarly communities of the Old and New Worlds was not an easy task, as Bodleys collection is vast and deep.

When simply breaking school records no longer cut it, senior quarterback Neil Rose and Payton Award candidate Carl Morris 03 took to shattering them this past weekend in Hanover. And against a tenacious Dartmouth team – extra fiery from a three-game win streak (not to mention the previous evenings homecoming bonfire and rally) – the Crimson needed every bit of record-busting energy it could muster up in wearing out the Big Green, 31-26.

Despite some heavy-duty protection by the aptly named Katie Shields 06, Dartmouth womens soccer (15-2-1, 5-1 Ivy) slipped by a visiting Harvard team this past weekend to take a 1-0 victory. The win marked a league-leading 11 straight for the Big Green, which can secure a share of the championship with a win over Pennsylvania on Nov. 9.

Italian government honors Wilson E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus, was one of nine scholars given the Presidential Medal of the Republic of Italy at the annual conference…

Symposium to explore curriculum As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education will be sponsoring its second symposium –…

Following a string of nine straight wins, including seven road victories, Harvard mens water polo team dropped a heartbreaking 7-6 decision in their own backyard to Brown on Nov. 2. At the opening round of the Northern Championships this past weekend at Blodgett Pool, the defeat couldnt have been more costly for the No. 15 Crimson, who managed a fifth-place finish in the tournament after going 20-7 on the season. The unranked Brown Bears will advance to the Eastern Championships on Nov. 16 and 17, while Harvards season comes to a close.

Its been almost 30 years since buses of black students were pelted with rocks and tomatoes in South Boston. More than a decade has lapsed since Charles Stuart shot his wife in Mission Hill and sparked a veritable witch hunt for a black killer who never existed.

Listeria and certain strains of E. coli are the scourge of picnics, but researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Londons Hammersmith Hospital show in the November Gene Therapy that combining bacterial components of these bad bugs can create a powerful vector against melanoma-challenged mice. A vector is a kind of delivery vehicle that can transport vaccines.

Imagine easing the blues of people who suffer from depression, the most common mental illness in the world, with a simple skin patch. Alexander Bodkin, a Harvard psychiatrist, did. Now, after years of setbacks, he and his colleagues have successfully tested an antidepressant patch that works without the side effects of the most popular pill forms, which include headaches, nausea, and loss of sexual appetite.

Wondering whether to choose a bridge or an implant to fill that unsightly gap in your pearly whites? If youre willing to wait a few years, you may have another option – growing your own.