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UIS Renegotiates Corporate Account

In order to bring Harvard faculty and staff extensive savings as well as added services on cellular phone service, University Information Systems has recently renegotiated its corporate account with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Communications. For more information, call 495-0332.

Procurement Management Dept. Sponsors Fair

On Thursday, April 17, the Procurement Management Department sponsored a Vendor Partner Fair in the Chemical Labs --Mallinckrodt Building on Oxford Street. The vendor partners represented were Harvard's scientific supply partner, VWRSP, Staples Business Advantage, and FEDEX. Also on hand were representatives of Mallinckrodt Baker Chemicals, and Alfa-Aesar.

Alcorn Reading Rescheduled

A reading of Alfred Alcorn's new novel, Murder in the Museum of Man, has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, at Romer Hall, 26 Oxford St. The Museum of Cultural and Natural History, where Alcorn has worked since 1987, is sponsoring the event. A reception will follow the reading. For more information, please call 496-6972.

Women's Studies Research Fellows Named

Five scholars whose research has advanced the field of women's studies in religion have been named 1997-98 visiting lecturers and research associates in the Women's Studies in Religion Program at the Divinity School. Each scholar will conduct an individual research project, teach a course related to her project, and deliver a public lecture.

The scholars are Katherine French, Carol Karlsen, Rebecca Krawiec, Susan Shapiro, and Amina Wadud. French will study the role of women in the late medieval and Reformation English parish. Karlsen's project is a social and cultural history of gender discourse in light of the civilizing practices of missionaries and government officials in several Iroquois communities in central and western New York from 1750 to 1850. Krawiec will study women's experience of monasticism in its formative period, based on the letters of Shenute, abbot of the famous White Monastery in Egypt during the fourth and fifth centuries. Shapiro's project is an examination of how Jewish philosophy has marginalized rhetoric about gender, the body, and the feminine. Wadud will study alternative notions of the family that challenge current Muslim personal and family law codes and inequitable judgments made against women in Muslim courts.

Harvard Law and Business Students to Debate the Role of Ethics in Business and Society

The Harvard Graduate School Leadership & Ethics Forum and the Harvard Business School Leadership & Ethics Forum, in conjunction with the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, hosted the first annual Harvard Graduate Schools debate this week at the Law School.

Teams consisting of students and faculty from the Business and Law schools debated the topic, "What is good for the company is good for the country."

Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci moderated the debate.

Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck to Deliver Annual Lowell Lecture

John Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in the Clinton Administration, will deliver the annual Lowell Lecture on "Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War World." The lecture, sponsored jointly by the Extension School and the Lowell Institute of Boston, will take place on Tuesday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in Lowell Hall, corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets.

Shattuck is well known to the Harvard community -- he served as Vice President for Government, Community, and Public Affairs at the University from 1984 until 1992, when he was called to Washington to assume his role in the State Department. While at Harvard he also served as a lecturer at the Law School and as a senior associate in the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.

A 1965 honors graduate of Yale College, Shattuck earned an M.A. degree from Cambridge University in 1967 before returning to Yale for an LL.B. from the Law School in 1970. He was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Shattuck's interest in civil liberties and human rights is evident

throughout his distinguished career. He served as national counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union from 1971 to 1976, and as executive director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1984. He has been awarded both the Roger Baldwin Medal for outstanding national contributions to civil liberties by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, and the President's Medal by the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union.

Shattuck's Lowell Lecture will deal with his experiences as assistant secretary of state in resolving international conflicts and improving human rights.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, call 495-4024.

Former Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick to Deliver Atherton Lecture

Deval Patrick, former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Clinton, will deliver this year's Atherton Lecture on Friday, May 2, at 4 p.m. in Lowell Hall, corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. His lecture, "Perspectives on Civil Rights: Have Americans Forgotten Who They Are?," will address civil rights and American society.

Patrick, a 1978 honors graduate of Harvard College, received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982. He was a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City until 1986, when he joined a Boston law firm. In his capacity as assistant attorney general, Patrick dedicated his efforts

to enforcing civil rights legislation, especially as they applied to equal opportunities for all Americans.

In 1996 President Clinton appointed him co-chair of the National Church Arson Task Force that investigated the burning of black churches in the South. Patrick coordinated the investigation and prosecution of cases related to the church burnings. He also was instrumental in the success of the President's Affirmative Action Review.

The Atherton Lecture, which rotates among the Harvard Houses, is sponsored this year by Quincy House. It is free and open to the public.

Bolivian President to Speak

On Wednesday, April 30, the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Kennedy School, the Mason Program, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Boston University will co-host a conference with Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who will speak on "The Problems of Change." The event will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Starr Auditorium in Belfer Hall.