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April 20, 2000Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lecture Series BeginsNationally eminent constitutional scholar and Dean of the Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan will deliver an address on "The Constitution in the Twenty-first Century" in Longfellow Hall on Appian Way on April 28 at 4 p.m. Crimson Dedicates Itself to Ivy Victories Under threatening skies and windy conditions, over 300 Harvard tennis fans and alumni joined in the celebration to dedicate the new Beren Tennis Center. The ceremony, held on center court, featured comments by Harvard Dean of Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Harvard Director of Athletics William J. Cleary, Men’s Tennis Head Coach David Fish ’75 and Robert M. Beren ’47. The Harvard University Band, the Harvard University Police Honor Guard, and the Harvard Din & Tonics also joined the crowd in the festivities and ribbon cutting ceremony. Notes Harvard Happenings WIRED WOMAN RAISES FUNDS FOR JIMMY FUND -- FEELING A DRAFT -- WOMEN LEADERS -- PRESENT AND FUTURE With a Goal In Mind Name tags might have been necessary the first few weeks, with all the young faces assembled on Harvard's women's lacrosse team. Of the 25 players on the roster this spring, only seven (five juniors and two seniors) have more than one season of varsity experience. And although a winning season is eluding them, the lacrosse team is putting a lot of fresh energy out onto the field. Alex S. Jones Named New Director of the Shorenstein Center Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of PBS’ Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced Wednesday. Terry Murphy Named Gazette Managing Editor Terry L. Murphy of Boston has been named managing editor of the Harvard University Gazette. Office for the Arts Announces ARTS FIRST Grants The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) supports direct student involvement in the arts to integrate creative thinking and expression into the undergraduate educational experience. With A Song In Their Heads -- Birth of new brain cells induced in birds Brain cells that make it possible for zebra finches to sing were forced to die then brought back to life by researchers at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. In a major biological first, quiescent stem cells naturally present in the birds’ brains were induced to replace the lost cells and restore the finches’ ability to sing their distinctive song. HMS Financial Aid Director Sharon Clayborne Dies at 47 Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, died on Thursday, April 13, at the age of 47. Sen To Speak At Graduation -- Seamus Heaney to deliver special poetry reading Nobel laureate, economist, and moral philosopher Amartya K. Sen, Harvard’s Lamont University Professor Emeritus and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of the University’s 349th Commencement on Thursday, June 8. Harvard Defenders Celebrates 50 Years of Free Legal Assistance The Harvard Defenders, a Harvard Law School student organization that provides legal representation to low-income persons accused of crimes, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, April 29. Medical School Sponsors High School Science Competition "If you have ever experienced intolerable delays downloading a program or page, you understand the pitfalls of Internet congestion," said Nathaniel Duca before a panel of science judges at the Medical School (HMS), sounding more like a new economy devotee at an upstart "dot.com" than a teen competing at a regional science fair. Internet Lottery Opens Up 100 Spaces Members of the Harvard community will have a chance to participate in the third International Conference on Internet & Society. The University is providing a forum for leading scholars, practitioners, and futurists to freely discuss and debate how the Internet will restructure and transform society in the 21st century. The Conference offers an interdisciplinary look at the vast reach of the Internet. Cataloging Terror -- Makiya and team lead effort to index Iraqi atrocities It was one of the most horrific episodes in recent world history. Almost 400 villages in Northern Iraq were eliminated in 1987 and ’88 – with thousands of inhabitants allegedly murdered – and much of it is documented in top-secret military and security papers pilfered from the Iraqi government in the closing days of the Gulf War. Young Lawyers Hold Court -- Local students try mock cases at Law School More than 150 students from four local junior high schools shed their bookbags and tennis shoes in favor of suits and ties last week during a series of mock trials at the Law School (HLS). Levin Memorial Service April 28 A memorial service in honor of Murray B. Levin ’48, a retired political science professor who taught at Boston University and the Harvard Extension School, will be held on Friday, April 28, at 3 p.m. at Boston University’s Photonics Laboratory Building, Room 226, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston. Jets and Sharks Battle Again in Longwood Players Production By day, they hit the books and the labs, making the rounds in their academic pursuits. But by night, a talented coterie of School of Public Health (SPH), Medical School (HMS), and Dental School (HDS) students, known as the Longwood Players, take to the stage to rehearse for their upcoming production of West Side Story. Bailing Out the Mail Jail -- Harvard Mail Services' sleuths ensure mail gets where it's going It’s the Mail Jail – Harvard’s Dead Letter Office– and into it go letters and packages that are undeliverable because of incomplete addresses that often consist of just a name and "Harvard University." Blessed are the Peacemakers A group of Harvard undergraduates met in Athens, Greece, during spring break, March 25-29, to coordinate the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN). The diplomatic simulation allowed students, representing United Nations member-states, to draft resolutions on issues ranging from capital punishment to the situation in Kashmir. Newsmakers Gary Bellow, Legal Education Programs Founder, Dies at 64 Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the School’s Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. He was a resident of Boston. Abram Chayes, International Law Specialist, Dies at 77 Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administration’s chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard Law School (HLS) for more than four decades, died on Sunday, April 16, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was a resident of Cambridge, Mass. Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Vorenberg, Ninth Dean of Law School, Dies Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest. Provost Announces Domain Name Policy Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new set of guidelines relating to the use of Harvard’s name and insignia in electronic contexts such as Web pages, e-mail addresses and Internet addresses. The guidelines spell out that such uses by members of the Harvard community need advance permission of the Provost or a Dean in the same way that other uses do, and that Internet addresses using the name must be registered to and owned by the University, as is the case with other trademarks. Raiffa Receives Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its $50,000 Dickson Prize in Science to Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor in Managerial Economics, Emeritus, a pioneer in the field of decision analysis. Large Turnout Sparks 'Take Back the Night' Vigil and March On a still spring night in Cambridge, more than 100 people gathered at Harvard Yard for a candlelight vigil and march to draw attention to the issue of violence against women.
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