Campus & Community

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf reaffirmed Pakistans support for the U.S.-led war on terror during a Sept. 8 speech at the Kennedy School of Government, but drew the line at aiding a U.S.-led war on Iraq, saying Pakistan already has its hands full.

As the Class of 2006 anxiously looked ahead to the start of classes this week, they were able this weekend to get a bit to eat and meet the man at the head of it all, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers.

More than 10,000 members of the Harvard University community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre at noon today (Sept. 11) to mark the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. With words, music, and prayer, students, religious leaders, and President Lawrence H. Summers honored the day’s tragic events and offered messages of peace and hope.

Rob Odilon, who is working this summer at the Fogg Museum, scorns temperatures in the upper 90s as he scales the Harvard Stadium steps during the recent heat wave. Odilon plays football for Dean College in Franklin.

Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced on Aug. 12 that he has appointed William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and professor of the history of religion, as the next dean of the Harvard Divinity School, effective immediately. Graham has served as acting dean of the School since January.

A memorial service for Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, will be held on Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. All members of the Harvard Community are invited to attend. Gould died on May 20 at the age of 60.

During the month of August:

Elizabeth Beppie Huidekoper, Harvards vice president for finance since 1996, has accepted the position of executive vice president for finance and administration at Brown University. She will begin her new duties at Brown on Oct. 15.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning July 14 and ending Aug. 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Richard M. Hunt, a Harvard faculty member for 42 years and its University marshal since 1982, has announced that he will retire Aug. 30. He also will retire from his position as Senior Lecturer on Social Studies.

In 25 years as a locksmith with Harvards Facilities Maintenance Operations, Dan Hilly has seen it all.

On the last afternoon in July, on the steps of the Memorial Church, Harvard Band director Thomas Everett led a rebellion of sorts.

Arthur Lee Loeb, a senior lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Visual and Environmental studies, died July 19 at Brigham and Womens Hospital. He was 79.

Russell Mills, who was fired as publisher of the Ottawa Citizen following publication of a story critical of Prime Minister Jean Chr&eacutetien and an editorial calling for his resignation, has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship.

Even before the World Trade Center towers fell, respected news sources and e-mail chain letters alike decried the state of education for girls under Afghanistans Taliban regime. For some, the news forged a link: Islam equals no education for women and girls.

Francine Benes receives national award

World-class ice show to benefit Jimmy Fund

Seventy-six years ago today (Aug. 22, 1926), Charles William Eliot, Harvards longest-serving president, died at his summer home in Maine at the age of 92.

With breakthroughs like the human genome project, the fundamentals of biology dont seem so fundamental anymore. Yesterdays textbook might be obsolete by the time its bound and distributed.

Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced the appointment of Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Fogg Art Museum, to serve as acting director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) until a permanent successor to James Cuno is determined and installed. Cuno, director since 1991, will be leaving at the end of December to head Londons Courtauld Institute of Art.

The notorious inaccuracy of weather forecasts has been the stuff of countless jokes, comic strips, and sitcom disasters, such as the recent New Yorker cartoon that shows a weather reporter in a rain jacket, holding an umbrella. At this point, its still not classified as a hurricane, he says into the camera. Its still being called a raindrop.

Meenakashi Gupta 03, who has worked with Project HEALTH Girls Fitness and Nutrition Program for several years, knew that helping inner-city girls steer clear of obesity involved healthy eating and plenty of exercise.

This fall, students in Deb Harmons advanced placement English class will be getting involved in politics in their hometown of Defiance, Ohio.

Ah, summer. Hanging out by the swimmin hole, paddling lazily with friends, splashing cannonballs and double-dog-dares off the highest dives.

Joan Busquets has been appointed the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design, effective July 1, the Graduate School of Designs Dean Peter G. Rowe announced in July. Busquets comes to the Faculty of Design from a position at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, where he has been Professor of Town Planning in the School of Architecture since 1979.

Nelda Pierre, a rising senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, fielded questions from tourists (Wheres the Coop? Whens the next tour?) on Tuesday (Aug. 20), one of her final days as a summer employee in the Harvard Events and Information Center. Harvards Summer Teen Employment Program (STEP) filled 92 summer positions around Harvard – including Pierres – with teens from Cambridge and Boston public schools. STEP eased the students way into the world of work with seminars and social events.

Mental health professionals call it the anniversary reaction – the triggering of negative feelings as the date of a past traumatic event makes its annual appearance on the calendar.

Why is Amelia Nickles scampering about on all fours? Because shes a dog, of course. Not just any dog, but a lean brown greyhound that loves to lean against her mistress knee and rest its head on her lap.

Giuseppe Andres, visiting professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, died in Marina Di Pietrasanta, Italy, on July 28. He was 78.

In recognition of their outstanding achievements in governance, eight American Indian tribal government programs were awarded $10,000 each from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) at a June ceremony held in Bismarck, N.D. The event was attended by hundreds of American Indians from across the country who gathered for a session of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).