Campus & Community

Do government values such as equality and freedom of speech accompany government duties when services are farmed out to private organizations, or should the government leave values out of it and award contracts on the basis of who can do the best job?

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is in a particularly tough spot right now.

The Chinese Yo-yo Club is no humdrum affair. Their spinning, vibrating, flying toy sings a tune to its own colorful movement. The barbell-shaped, hollow instrument is manipulated on a string tied to two sticks, each one held by a player. By spinning the yo-yo fast enough a humming sound is created. Unlike the yo-yos most Westerners are familiar with, the Chinese yo-yo is not attached to the string, which allows it to be tossed, resulting in a dazzle of yo-yo trickery. In its second year, the Chinese Yo-yo Club is always on the lookout for new members – and new yo-yo routines.

Medical investigators have begun to see some light at the end of a long tunnel that may lead to a vaccine against lung cancer.

March 9, 1857 – The faculty adopts the recommendation of a joint faculty/Overseers committee that annual examinations of each Class in each subject before an Overseers Visiting Committee be in…

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 Music Christopher Hasty embodies contradiction. A music theorist who specializes in 20th century music, his work is far less concerned with the traditional categories of music theory – the separate studies of harmony, counterpoint, rhythm – than with the fleeting, mysterious, sometimes messy way in which we experience music.

Mentors sought for Project Success Harvard Medical School faculty members are needed to serve as research advisers/mentors for this summer’s “Project Success: Opening the Door to Biomedical Careers.” A research…

In 1994, Nepal reported that 1,600 girls had been lured into the sex trade, largely in brothels in nearby India. Maiti Nepal, an organization founded to fight the trafficking of young Nepali girls, estimates the actual figure was 100 times higher.

The Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) has awarded Harvard University its most prestigious award, the Institutional Excellence in Telecommunications Award. The University was selected in the large-school category this year. The award will be presented to Harvards UIS Network Operations Team for its support of regional high-performance networking.

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the 2003 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards to three Harvard faculty members. This years recipients are Max H. Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Ann Rowland, assistant professor of English and American Literature and Language and Joan Ruderman, Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year. The fellowship, open to any student in good standing in a Harvard doctoral or advanced-degree program, is designed to provide the successful applicant the opportunity to complete and/or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation. Generally, the recipient will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered. The application deadline is April 4.

Frank Batten, a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class of 1952 and a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Norfolk, Va.-based Landmark Communications, Inc., into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications, several television stations, and The Weather Channel, has donated $32 million to the School.

By the time the dignified gent in top hat and coattails strolled forward to greet the crowd, nearly 100 people had packed into the Gutman Conference Center. Good evening, senators, and welcome to the session of the Massachusetts State Legislature.

On a fundraising trip to southern Florida last week, President Lawrence H. Summers dropped into Hialeah High School, an urban, mostly Latino public school in Miami-Dade County that, until recently, was sending just over half its graduates to college.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 11, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Mozambique was once a world power in the cashew industry, but today it is a bit player, and there is apparently nothing the World Bank can do to change that.

At its 11th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report from Professor Jennifer Leaning (medicine and public health) on the work of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard that she chairs. Present for this discussion were three members of the committee: Professor Everett Mendelsohn (history of science and Master emeritus of Dudley House) Dean Elizabeth Nathans (freshmen) and Professor Katharine Park (history of science and womens studies). Also present were two members of the staff for the committee: Julia Fox (Harvard College) and Susan Marine (Harvard College and Provosts Office).

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 1. 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:

Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…

Samantha Power has been a bit overwhelmed by the attention she has been getting lately. A typical day for her includes one or more speaking engagements, an interview or two, and an inbox crammed with hundreds of e-mail messages. And all this on top of her teaching and research commitments.

Building on preliminary data, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have documented that high folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-6 levels may improve a womans chances of preventing breast cancer. Additionally, researchers observed that adequate folate levels may be particularly important for women who are at higher risk of breast cancer due to higher alcohol consumption. The new findings are the latest results from the landmark BWH-based Nurses Health Study, and appear in the March 5 issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

After chasing the Columbia Lions for 40 minutes this past Saturday night (March 1) at Lavietes Pavilion, an exhausted – and victorious – Harvard womens basketball team calmly took to center court, and proceeded to party like animals. Considering the past 24 hours, who could blame them?

A faulty protein that interferes with the heart muscles ability to relax is one cause of congestive heart failure, Harvard geneticists found in a discovery that promises more precise treatment of a disease that afflicts 4.7 million Americans.

The Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF) will present the 2003 Woman of the Year Award to actress Phylicia A. Rashad, best known for her portrayal of a loving mother of five and high-powered attorney Claire Huxtable on televisions The Cosby Show. The award to Rashad is the highlight of the BMFs Ninth Annual Celebration of Black Women: Redefining the Face of Excellence! to be held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on Friday (March 7) at 7 p.m.

Does jazz belong to Louis Armstrong or Benny Goodman? Does Dr. Dre have more of a claim on hip-hop than Eminem?

At one end of Lowell Houses stately dining room, as servers clear away the last vestiges of the nights meal, students are still arriving, shedding coats and changing shoes and studying musical scores. Beneath a truss hung with theatrical lights that surrounds the rooms awe-inspiring chandelier, they assemble on a plywood platform stage.

Harold Amos, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died Feb. 26. He was 84.

The executive committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded $220,000 this past December to a research team comprising four University faculty members to commence a long-term research project on International Human Capital Flows and their Effects on Developing Countries. This decision marked the centers fourth annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation.