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Faculty Voices, Round Two
… On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on Harvard-wide issues. …
Are Immigration Authorities' Efforts to Curb Gangs Backfiring?
… In this month's Atlantic, Matthew Quirk ’03, a staff writer at the magazine, explains how deportation of Latino gang members by U.S. immigration authorities may … story here . … Matthew Quirk ’03 explains how deportation of Latino gang members by U.S. immigration authorities may …
Commencement 2012: Past, Present, Future
… seemed urgent. Memories remained painfully fresh of last October 14, when a near-monsoon gate-crashed the University’s 375th-anniversary bash. (Sodden revelry … or the “cow yard” the newborn College fronted in 1636. Much of the slop had to be resodded.) As a damp Monday segued …
Issue: July-August 2012
Undergraduate English Oration: "Perfect Imperfection"
… by Alicia Menendez '05 Four years ago many of us received letters inviting us to be part of a seemingly perfect world. We all knew the response that the quasi-mythical idea of Harvard …
That Very Mad Affair
… Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. '86, is a stylishly written, authoritative retelling of the opening of the first permanent English settlement in …
Issue: November-December 2003
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on upcoming programs, contact …
Issue: November-December 2009
Debating Diversity
… The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) lawsuit alleging … bias against Asian-American applicants is now in the hands of federal judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston; final … • The closing arguments . In their pre-Valentine’s Day reprise of their arguments before Burroughs, counsel for SFFA …
Issue: May-June 2019
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September … a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers. Given that “There is no …
Issue: November-December 2005
"Noble Exertions": Law and Public Service
… As celebrants gathered in a huge tent on Holmes Field on October 23 to toast … a $400-million goal; 23,000 participating donors; 118 gifts of $1 million or more, including eight of $10 million or more), President Drew Faust used the …
Identity Seeker
… ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border. But cold weather was not the only aspect of undergraduate life he was unprepared for. “I literally …
Issue: May-June 2008
Another Museum Proposed
… Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined … to the job in 1998 and who has high ambitions for the enterprise. "Harvard is world class in teaching and research by …
Chapter & Verse
… Alon Ferency requests the source of a quotation that runs, roughly, “Oh life! That … attribution, by a New York State probate judge: Estate of A.B., 1Tucker 249 (N.Y. Surrogate, 1866). Frank …
Issue: May-June 2005
Business School’s Guiding Light
… expert in finance and investment management, was named dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)—the ninth since its founding in 1908—by President Lawrence … been acting dean since August 1, 2005, after the departure of Kim Clark, who left to head Brigham Young …
Issue: July-August 2006
Winter Champions
… Wrestling Jantzen (left) and Harkness in St. Louis Courtesy of Jesse Jantzen At the NCAA tournament in March, Jesse Jantzen '04 (left) … in St. Louis.) Jantzen's dominance earned him the title of Most Outstanding Wrestler for the tourney. Ice Hockey For …
Issue: May-June 2004
Life's Speed Limit
… Mutation is the engine of evolution: organisms would not be able to … survival. And because this “speed limit” on genetic change arises from fundamental properties of molecules, the limit is …
Issue: March-April 2008