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...vision he hoped to make the hallmark of his tenure. As evidenced in his annual letters to the community, his primary motivation to invest in Allston was to ensure the continued strength of the sciences at Harvard, which he said would soon suffer from a crippling insufficiency of space. Alyssa A. Goodman, an astronomy professor who served on the Provost’s Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says...
...Post-Graduate Fellowship—a prize that comes with $25,000—only one student received the award. Katherine A. Carroll ’09, who was awarded the fellowship, will continue her work as a coordinator at a youth center in Dorchester after graduation. In addition, Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 and Valonda J. Harris ’09 received the Stride Rite Senior Recognition Prize, a cash award given to students who have demonstrated consistent contributions to public service in their undergraduate careers. Last year, seven of these awards were...
...Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote in an e-mail in February that Harvard would consider renewing its contract with Russell if the company followed recommendations of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a global workers’ rights group of which Harvard is a member. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading to the FLA’s recommendations were flawed. In response, SLAM brought Salma Mirza, a member of the national staff of the United Students Against Sweatshops...
...added that the event was intended to attract both new and old customers. While most of the faces in Beer School were familiar to the staff of Queen’s Head, this session was a first-time experience for many students, but not their last. Alyssa H. Devlin ’11 and Anna R. Schulz ’09 said that they thoroughly enjoyed their first experience at Beer School. “I found out on my house list, and wanted to try it,” Schultz said. While most students at the session showed...
...secret weapon” and seek to use it to call attention to the workers’ plight. “[The workers] don’t have the same access to people that can make changes at Harvard as the students do,” Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 says. “We want to help get the stories of workers out.”In order to accomplish this, SLAM hosted a panel, composed of workers, that aimed to give Harvard employees a chance to speak. SLAM also staged...