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...College and with the departure of University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has in the past pledged millions of his office’s dollars toward various undergraduate social initiatives. A pub in Loker Commons, a café in Lamont Library, and renovated student space and a coffee bar in the Hilles Building are all set to open next year, and all are funded by the central administration. While we anticipate that the renovation of these spaces will greatly contribute to the undergraduate social experience, we hope that similar initiatives in the future will also be able to rely...
...Francisco and by Advanced Cell Technology, a private biotechnology company, Daley said at the conference, “no one has published a credible paper reporting the derivation of a [human embryonic stem cell] line by SCNT.”“We’re setting the bar for the rest of the country and the world,” said Leonard I. Zon, the chair of the HSCI’s Faculty Executive Committee. “We hope the advances in this field can help thousands of patients.”Melton and Harvard biologist Kevin...
...much more challenging to coordinate. Keystroke, click, send—the Harvard soundtrack.But what a liberating relief to be unreachable for a while. Friends often joke about the strange sensation that overtakes them when they suddenly drop their cell phone in the river or leave it stranded in a bar bathroom; just like that, they become a ghost for a day before reconnecting at T-Mobile. For those few pre-millennium hours, the world is a little less imposing. For a second, we are relieved of the obligation to be accounted for at every moment, to be responsive to everyone.It...
...years. He said that “consensus and comfort” should never be held above “the value of truth.” “When the airing and incorporation of diverse views becomes the end rather than the means, then we set the bar too low,” Summers said. When his speech concluded, the audience gave him a standing ovation. “It was humorous but very instructive,” Navin L. Kumar ’06 said after the service. Aaron K. Harris ’06 said that...
...Events Board to help with planning and scheduling. New student social space will also be constructed over the summer. In October, a café will open in the reference room of Lamont Library, and three floors of student organization and meeting space in Hilles (along with the Penthouse Coffee Bar on the top floor) will be ready for the start of the fall term. Loker Commons is also being reinvented with music practice rooms and a pub. The pub, named the Cambridge Queen’s Head after a 17th century Inn which enjoyed John Harvard’s custom...