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February 03, 2000Women Priests, Vegetarianism - An Early Christian Manuscript Holds Some SurprisesFrançois Bovon has spent many years peering into the mists that shroud the early history of Christianity. His investigations have shown him something that might surprise nonscholars – that even in the religion’s infancy, when the first generation of Christians were spreading the faith, diversity of belief was already the norm rather than the exception. Women's Basketball Round-Up The Harvard women’s basketball team has jumped out to a 10—5 record on the season, and as of Feb. 1, sits atop the Ivy League standings with a perfect 3—0 record. The team has rebounded from an injury-filled 1998-99 season (in which it finished with an uncharacteristic 10—15 mark) to find itself as one of the early favorites to capture another Ivy title, which would be its fourth in five seasons. Learning the Boogie-Woogie A picture once wasn’t good enough for abstract artist Piet Mondrian, who spent much of his career in Paris but who died in February 1944 in New York. Cabot Fellowship Awarded to Four in FAS Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has named this year’s Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. New Cancer Risk Website Logs Record-breaking Launch More than 13,000 visits were logged on to a new Website of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention within the first week of its launch in mid-January, making it the most successful site launched at the Harvard School of Public Health. Study: Children With Cancer Suffer Needlessly Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say experts at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital. The Logical Choice Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. A Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham to be Held The People’s Lawyer: A Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham" will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will include film clips of Judge Higginbotham and a roundtable discussion by friends and colleagues, among whom will be Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, Anita Hill of Brandeis University, and Deval Patrick, former U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights. Delivering History What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Institute of Politics Announces Fellows for Spring 2000 The Fellows for Spring 2000 at the Institute of Politics will discuss their personal perspectives on politics in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Two Professors Receive Fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities Two professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Joan Shorenstein Center Announces Fellows for Spring 2000 While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, advances in East Asian press freedom since the 1997 financial and political crisis, and media legislation in Central Europe. Memorial Service for Professor Benjamin Schwartz to be Held The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. A reception will follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street. Police Log Memories of Pain Can Come Back To Hurt Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Candidates for Overseer and for HAA Elected Director 2000 Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s nominations for this year’s election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new members of the HAA Board. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced on Commencement Day, June 8, 2000. Hasty Pudding Names Woman and Man of Year The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 "Woman and Man of the Year" awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. Notes The KSG Goes To 'Primary School' in N.H. More than a few Texas twangs could be heard in the sign-waving crowd gathered to see George W. Bush outside the Loaf and Ladle in Exeter, N.H., last Monday. And there among them, holding her own blue and white "Bush 2000" sign and smiling for a picture, was Maxine Isaacs, adjunct lecturer from the Kennedy School of Government and a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who served as Walter Mondale’s press secretary during his presidential bid in the early ’80s. Newsmakers New Doctoral Program Joins DEAS, Business School At the intersection of computers and business, rapid change is a way of life.
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