Designed to get more news from around the University into the Gazette, "News Across Harvard" provides a forum for each department's happenings as they concern the University community at-large. Tell us about newsworthy events in your office: awards won, new appointments in your department, major organizational changes or initiatives, retirements, and so forth.

Submissions must be written in newspaper style (third-person rather than first) and be 150 words or less. Please include a phone number in case there are questions. The Gazette reserves the right to edit all items, and regrets that it cannot publish items regarding personal milestones, such as births, engagements, and weddings.

Submissions must be e-mailed to hunews@harvard.edu, and will run on a space available basis.

The Harvard Association for Law and Business

HALB Announces New Leadership

The Harvard Association for Law and Business held a special reception for its new officers this week in Hauser Hall. The new president is Belinda Juran, HLS, JD 1998, Gregory Shadid, HLS, JD 1999, is the new vice president and treasurer, and Chak Gude, HLS JD 1999, is the new community relations coordinator.

President-elect Juran first came to Harvard Law School after a successful 15-year career in high tech management and consulting in such companies as Cadence Design, Bull HN Information Systems, and Design Automaton. Juran also has an M.B.A. from Boston University.

Vice President- and Treasurer-elect Shadid graduated from Brown University in 1993. He spent the last few years living abroad and traveling around the world. His potential career paths include investment banking and corporate law in the U.S. or overseas.

Community Relations Coordinator-elect Gude is interested in improving the interactions among business-minded people at Harvard Law School and those of other Harvard faculties and departments and M.I.T. His interests include corporate law and entrepreneurial management.

For more information about HALB, check out their Web site at http://law.harvard.edu/home/halb/

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology

Blood, Guts, and the Internet

There's something for everyone at the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Symposium on "Crime & Technology" on Saturday, March 15, in the Ames Courtroom. The morning panel on "Search, Seizure, and Surveillance Technology" will discuss both the searching of technology and the technology of searching. The afternoon panel will focus on "The Risks of Electronic Banking and Commerce," including content security and payment security.

Admission is free to all Harvard students but preregistration is required to ensure a place. Box lunches will be provided. To register: e-mail Belinda Juran (juran@law.harvard.edu). Tickets will be available at the door on the day of the Symposium on a first-come, first-served basis for those who have not preregistered.

For more information, consult the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Web page at http://www.law.harvard.edu/home/jolt/

Harvard University Libraries

Lawrence Dowler Edits Book

Lawrence Dowler, associate librarian of Harvard College for public services, is editor of the new book Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Researching. The book contains 15 essays by scholars, librarians, and academic administrators which are based on presentations made at the College Library's conference "Gateways to Knowledge: The Changing Role of Academic Libraries in Learning, Teaching, and Research," held in November 1993. Dowler wrote an introduction to each of the six sections of the book, and one of the essays: "Gateways to Knowledge: A New Direction for the Harvard College Library."

Battista New Library Assistant

Emiliano Battista has taken a position as a library assistant in the Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese section of the Collection Development Department, Widener Library. Battista is a recent graduate of Grinnell College, where he received a B.A. in English. At Grinnell, he tutored Spanish and Portugese.

Kennedy School of Government

Gates Leads Discussion on "Africa and Black Identity"

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, moderated the discussion on "Out of America: A Panel Discussion on Africa and Black Identity" this week at the Kennedy School of Government.

The panel included Florence Ladd, director of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College; Les Payne, assistant managing editor of Newsday and author of Heroin Trail; Keith Richburg, author of Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa and Hong Kong bureau chief of the Washington Post; and Mathatha Tsedu, political editor of Sowetan and fellow at the Nieman Foundation.

Education Experts Discuss Public School Reform

"An Open Discussion on Public School Reform" was the topic of discussion last week at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum.

The panel included Cheryl Brown Henderson, executive director of the Brown Foundation for Education Excellence and Research; Maria de los Angeles Montes, principal of the Lucy Stone Elementary School; Harry Spence, deputy chancellor for operations on the New York City Board of Education, and the Rev. Charles Stith, national president of the Organization for a New Equality.

Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy

HACIA Democracy Sponsors Expo '97

Economic development, cultural survival, environmental tradeoffs, human rights, AIDS, women's health, and national security were among the issues addressed by the 300 high school students who gathered in Panama City, Panama, Jan. 24-28 for Expo 1997, of the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy.

Participants in the conference, from Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and the U.S., played the roles of legislators, constitution writers, national representatives, and international negotiators while participating in simulations of the Organization of American States, a human rights court, a trilateral treaty committee, the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly, and a constitutional convention. Harvard undergraduates served as committee chairs.

HACIA Democracy is a three year-old organization comprised of Harvard undergraduates which was created to provide high school students from Latin America with an opportunity to discuss, critically analyze, and experience democracy in its many institutional forms. In so doing, HACIA Democracy seeks to promote cultural exchange and strengthen civil society in Latin America. For information, visit HACIA Democracy's Web site at http://hcs.harvard.edu/~haciadem or write to HACIA Democracy, P.O. Box 381803, Cambridge, MA 02138, or to haciadem@hcs.harvard.edu.

Information Technology

Maple Site License Contact

Two weeks ago, the Harvard Maple site license group announced the availability of Maple V release 4 for the following platforms: Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Macintosh (68000 and Power Mac), OS/2, Sun Solaris, SGI, IBM, and DEC. For more information, contact Nicholas Horton by phone at 432-1056 or by e-mail at horton@hsph.harvard.edu.