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...First-year Arts Program (FAP) has joined the tongue twister of first-year orientation programs which greet over a quarter of the entering class every year. This fall, 40 members of the class of 1999 will have the opportunity to participate in a pilot arts program which seeks to introduce incoming students to the arts resources available at Harvard...
Like the other programs, FAP's main goal is to introduce first-years to one another in a more intimate setting before the deluge of Freshman Week and the pressures of the academic year. Organizers say, this program's specific focus is to explore the arts at Harvard and the surrounding community by having students participate in a variety of activities...
...Harvard than classes. Arts are central to the Harvard experience. Most undergrads do dance, theater, singing or studio arts. We want to strengthen that experience at the beginning so that it will be much better in the long run," said Alan P. Symonds '69, the founder and creator of FAP and Co-Technical Director for College Theater Programs in the Houses and the Freshman Yard...
...classic instance of personnel shaping policy was President Richard ^ Nixon's embrace, in his first term, of the Family Assistance Plan, a form of guaranteed income for poor families. FAP was largely a Democratic proposal. The first draft was submitted by two Democratic holdovers in the upper bureaucracy who were so skeptical of getting a hearing that they referred to it as the Christian Working Man's Anti-Communist National Defense Rivers and Harbors Act of 1969. But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential...
...FAP accounts for less than 1% of the 170,000 new cases of colorectal cancerdiagnosed in the U.S. and Britain each year. That led Bodmer to ask, "Could the same gene be involved in the normal run of colon cancers?" The researchers analyzed tumors removed from 45 patients with common colorectal cancer. Result: the section of chromosome 5 that contains the FAP gene was missing in more than 25% of the cases. The finding suggested that such cancers occur only after one protective gene is lost and the other is inactivated. Says Gastroenterologist Sidney Winawer, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering...