Campus & Community

There were cockroaches perched on little kids fingers, cockroaches cupped in kids hands, cockroaches crawling on the table – and 9-year-old faces screwed up in an odd mixture of excitement, disgust, and delight.

After last months 3-1 loss against Ivy rival Dartmouth in the ECAC Championship game, and a 6-3 upset in the first ever NCAA Womens Championship Semifinal in Minneapolis versus the eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, this seasons brilliant Crimson squad found its post-season solace wherever it could, and not surprisingly, in a number of ways.

Harvey V. Fineberg has announced his intention to conclude his service as the Universitys provost, effective June 30.

President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…

Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…

Botterill named Ivy player of the year Harvard University women’s hockey forward Jennifer Botterill ’02, was unanimously named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey Player of the Year. Botterill finished the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Dan Schrag tells a good story.

Babies come into the world with musical preferences. They begin to respond to music while still in the womb. At the age of 4 months, dissonant notes at the end of a melody will cause them to squirm and turn away. If they like a tune, they may coo.

His first professional job took him into Bostons Combat Zone.

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

Darell Fields does not see in black and white, but in “blackness.” The term, according to the associate professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), refers not…

Mark J. Roe, a Columbia Law School professor and current visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been named professor of law at Harvard – a tenured appointment. A 1975 Harvard Law graduate, Roe has written extensively on corporate law and new methods of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. At Harvard, he has taught corporate finance and reorganization, as well as a seminar on advanced issues in corporate law.

While politicians argue, polar bears slowly starve.

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

Home style maven Martha Stewart touted the “power of a single idea” at Sanders Theatre last week and told students that anyone can head their own company if they set…

The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American battlefield, and it was acted out on the stage of the Littauer Penthouse at the Kennedy School by Dorchester high school students.

His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.

During some of the nastier months of a New England winter, junior Amy Chang – the director and instructor of Harvards recreational ice skating classes – leads a group metamorphosis in the quiet confines of the Bright Hockey Center. From early February through March, this veteran skater of nearly 10 years eases novice students into a comfortable and confident place on the ice, while fostering the balletlike precision and speed of the more seasoned skaters. Not only are the classes varied in their level of skill – they also include a diverse crowd ranging from freshmen to staff. I like that its not just undergraduates, Chang says.

Back in the mid-20th century, kids came streaming out of school at 3 p.m. into the gloriously unstructured portion of their day, the part between sitting upright at their desks and sitting upright at the dinner table. It was a time for stickball, tag, ringalevio, for riding a bike, strapping on roller skates, or earning pocket money at a part-time job. It was a time that kids everywhere looked forward to, and somehow instinctively knew how to use to their best advantage.

March 21, 1953 – Responding to the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, educational radio station WGBH-FM broadcasts two and a half hours of taped reflections from 12 Harvard professors…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am writing to let you know that I will be concluding my service as Provost as of June 30, 2001. Serving in this role these…

Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director of international student programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy announced.

It doesnt have a pull-out keyboard drawer, full-extension hanging files, or a built-in surge protector, but theres probably no other desk like it in all of Harvard.

Peter Sellars ’80 – director of theater, opera, and film, and professor of world arts and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles – is returning to his alma…

William H. Sweet, professor of surgery emeritus, Harvard Medical School, and former chief of the neurosurgical service, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died of complications of Parkinsons disease on Jan. 22 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 90.

Theres a movie star in our midst. Her day job happens at a small desk inside the Harvard University Employment Office, but Ashley Wolfe is also a bona fide movie star.

Until a few days ago, yellow caution tape, the kind that might delineate a crime scene in a John Grisham novel – or perhaps an unavoidable Cambridge road project – was strung throughout the lobby of Gund Hall at the Harvard Design School. Metal rods hung low from the ceilings, and students scuffled around the obstacles, their senses on high alert in order to avoid injury. Since this lobby is a space that is forever in flux, it was not so unusual to find a crew working diligently at an installation. On most occasions, however, the chaos comes to a climax during this stage of the work, and a certain calm is restored when the exhibit is in place. Not this time.

An Indian agricultural expert has called for an Evergreen Revolution in growing food crops that would combine science, economics, and sociology to boost production in a way that can be maintained for decades to come.

Theater, dance, music, and film will converge at the University this weekend for the Fourth Annual Harvard Black Arts Festival. The three-day event kicks off tomorrow (Friday, March 16), at 4 p.m., at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, with a panel discussion featuring Tony-nominated actor Obba Babatunde and Urbanworld Entertainment CEO Stacey Spikes. A reception to celebrate the commencement of this years festival will take place at the Institute of Politics Penthouse. Interested parties may RSVP to duru@fas.harvard.edu.