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Pound, On the Record
… With only a couple of hours to go before the opening reception for Damon Krukowski: NOT TO BE … on an analog phone, why pop singers’ voices now seem to arise out of nowhere, erupting out of a “digital black” …
Handling Harassment
… Reviewing the e volution and enforcement of a sexual harassment policy … dean for coeducation's belief that "the continuing rise in these numbers does not reflect an increase in …
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
… On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President … briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless students at Harvard.” He was talking about Jack …
Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below). For further information, contact … gathers to learn about “Petroleum, Putin, Power, and the Rise of the New Russia” from Marshall Goldman, Davis …
Issue: May-June 2008
Are Noncitizens’ Speech Rights Protected?
… A Harvard professor who is in the U.S. on a green card testified in court this week that … student pushed him to stop speaking out in support of Palestine because he fears reprisals. “I actually just …
Harvard TPS Workers at Risk
… In September 2019, when their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is terminated, … Julio Perez, a custodian at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Monday afternoon at “The Impact of the TPS Repeal on Campus: Harvard Workers’ Stories,” a …
How the Ivy Tournaments Began
… The original decision to create post-season basketball … in the 1970s and 1980s—wanted the tournaments as well. Some of the league’s ADs, however, were unconvinced. Penn’s Steve … Beckett, Yale’s former AD. “…Are 14 exams the best measure of the best team, or is it who is playing the best at this …
Baseball by the Numbers
… resumes, with all its oddities: no time limit to play, the defense controlling the ball, and so on. Its long and … statistical analyst for the New York Mets, now a teacher of statistics and mathematics at Smith College, and Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, Woods professor of economics there (and a prominent analyst of the …
Issue: May-June 2014
“Harvard Belongs to All of Us”
… While crisscrossing continents during the past few decades, the new Harvard Alumni Association … has always found her Harvard “home.” “I’ve been a member of Harvard clubs everywhere I’ve lived—Washington, D.C., … urged her to join efforts to reinvigorate the Harvard Club of Victoria, which Hill gladly did, ultimately helping to …
Issue: September-October 2019
“The Man Thinking Club”
… Anne Fadiman '74, who becomes editor of The American Scholar at the end of this year, was the 1997 Phi Beta Kappa orator. She spoke …
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
… Hu and Kentucky Fried Chicken arrived in Beijing around the same time. Hu, a recent graduate of Tongji Medical University, in Wuhan, had never seen a … less than 1 percent of the population. In 2001, that had risen to 5.5 percent. Now, with an estimated 116 million …
Issue: March-April 2020
Values and Voting Patterns
… In an era of growing political polarization, new research moves beyond typical economic explanations, such as the loss of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, to offer a fresh … worry about the plight of a small Pacific island as oceans rise. “When politicians communicate about environmental …
Issue: January-February 2024
Still Serving
… Restaurants come and go, in the Square as elsewhere, but, happily, some standbys endure. … a dark and smoky basement watering hole that drew crowds of artists and intellectuals, along with everybody else who … In 1972 there was a popular disco upstairs. But in a sign of the often unpredictable times, the club’s co-owner was …
Issue: September-October 2011
Rethinking the American High School
… When Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine embarked on a six-year study of 30 of the most effective public high schools in the United States, …
Issue: May-June 2019
Unbuttoned Up
… B eau McCall: Buttons On! at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, until … Spinnin’ on a 45 (B-Side). The nearly three-foot replica of a 45-rpm spindle adapter (that plastic disk inside a single-song record) was hand-sewn with hundreds of yellow buttons, then topped with a hundred more shaped …
Issue: September-October 2024