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February 17, 2000Letter to the Faculty of Arts and SciencesIn his annual letter, Dean Jeremy Knowles nods to the past and looks to the future. Artist Melanie Yazzie To Lecture at GSE The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled "Holding the Truth: The Personal and Political in Art\0xD3 on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library. Sounding Your Os and Rs One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for convenience? Truckin' Toward a Degree in Natural Sciences Fifteen years ago, Bob Burns attended "Public Night" at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "Once I discovered the brilliant sky and the cold-looking stars through the telescope, I didn’t miss a lecture for three years," he said. "At one of the lectures, [Astronomy Lecturer] Sam Palmer gave a one-hour talk . . . He mentioned that he taught a class in astronomy at the Harvard Extension School. After some serious thought I got a catalog and enrolled in his class." Crimson Women Bring Home the Beanpot Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women's Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. What's It Like To Be President of Harvard? Inquiring seventh-graders want to know At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to meet with President Neil L. Rudenstine. From Our Hearts To Yours It's a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children's ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine's Day. Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Notes
Spong To Give Noble Lectures At Memorial Church
More Than 2,000 To Convene in Boston for Harvard Model United Nations Conference Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvard’s National Model United Nations conference (HNMUN). The annual event simulates the hard work and diplomacy that characterizes the real United Nations. Memorial Service Planned for Perry Townsend Rathbone A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone '33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Making the World Feel at Home In 1979, Harvard’s 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. Imagitas Fellowship Established at KSG The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen KSG students who will work for the federal government over the summer. Arts Event Set at HMS Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all to be a part of the celebration of black arts at an event called FABRIC at 5 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the MEC Atrium at the Medical School. This show will sample different mediums of artistic expression within the black diaspora in honor of Black History Month. Any staff members who would like to showcase their talents should e-mail bridgette_wallace@hms.harvard.edu. Harvard AIDS Institute Opens HIV Laboratory in Botswana
Jamie Lee Curtis is regal, relaxed, and charming as Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year. Kennedy School Executive Dean Burke Accepts Post at Smithsonian Institution Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Study: Most Still Undecided On Presidential Candidate The front-runner in this year’s presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
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