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Harvard Sexual Assault Report Calls for Training, Culture Change
A University task force charged with making recommendations for the prevention of sexual assault at Harvard issued its final report today. It calls for changing the campus culture (including such fixtures as single-sex undergraduate final clubs) and for …
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released …
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and chicken bones--mute castoffs--can say quite a lot about this aspect of a culture when interpreted by a …
The Urban Jobs Crisis
Editor’s note: Background information on the charts accompanying this article (Figures 1 , 2 , and 3 ) appears in the text below. In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity …
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Issue: May-June 2013
What They Earned
As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service each year. The fiscal year 2018 documents for the University and for the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the endowment, were released …
Hypervelocity Stars
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a crowded, busy neighborhood: clusters upon clusters of pulsating young stars, giant clouds of gas, dying stars exploding, and, in the middle of it all, a massive black hole. So powerful is the gravitational pull of …
Issue: November-December 2010
Corporation Member James F. Rothenberg Dies
Bloomberg reported on July 21 that James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70—a member of the Harvard Corporation and past University treasurer , and chair of the board of Harvard Management Company , which oversees the endowment—died of a heart attack at age …
Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology
Matthew Nock , previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been granted tenure and is now professor of psychology. Nock , whose study of suicidal children was featured in the 2009 Harvard Magazine article " Helping Those Most in Need …
Chasing History
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On a wintry day in 1946, more than 15,000 spectators crowded into the old Boston Garden to watch Harvard and Yale compete in one of the most important college basketball games of the season. For one …
Fashion Forward
Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright Hockey Center, gaping as my fellow Harvard students parade above me in blazers with no shirts underneath, and …
Issue: March-April 2006
From Corporate Lawyer to Waffle Entrepreneur
By the time Emily Cole Groden, J.D. ’15, was 10 years old, she knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: practice corporate law. She didn’t know exactly what that entailed, but she was resolute in her decision. “My dad was a corporate lawyer, …
Lapp Letter
Note to readers: this is an accessible version of an original letter February 23, 2022 Dear Mayor Wu, Councilor Breadon, Representative Moran, Representative Honan, and Harvard Allston Task Force Members, In his letter to the Harvard …
The GOP’s Return to Ideas?
At the 2020 Republican National Convention, the GOP did not release a platform, instead saying that it “enthusiastically supports President Trump.” The quadrennial presidential nominating conventions typically serve as a chance for Republicans and …
Three Cheers
We warmly welcome a bumper crop of new colleagues who joined Harvard Magazine this autumn. Natalie A. Vinard—an experienced print and digital media and marketing manager and strategist—became publisher on November 6. A veteran of Boston Globe Media for …
Issue: January-February 2024
Self-Definition
From the book Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths. “In theater, things move very slowly and it’s difficult to get anything done,” says Joel Derfner ’95 . That’s why the song writer and author calls his decision to produce a book largely …
Issue: September-October 2008