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Last week, an ad hoc committee of Harvard students began a campaign to break the apathy of the community. The group set as its goal raising enough money to buy a truck full of relief supplies for besieged Sarajevo. The cost would...
Several Harvard students have formed an ad hoc fundraising group, the Harvard Coalition Against Atrocities in Bosnia, organized under the auspices of Harvard Human Crisis Watch, which hopes to alleviate the suffering in Bosnia. The group will attempt to collect donations from every undergraduate, and will then turn these funds over to the Joint Distribution Committee, a relief organization which has played a crucial role in the humanitarian effort in Bosnia...
Provost Jerry R. Green this week put together an hoc committee of high-ranking university officials and experts to investigate Harvard's link to experiments conducted on human subjects between the 1940s and 1970s...
Professor of Medicine Emeritus Walter H. Abelmann will chair the ad hoc committee. Experts in fields such as clinical investigation, biomedical ethics, human rights, radiation and mental health have been gathered from across the University to serve on the panel, according to the News Office statement...
...professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions to ancient Rome and the Old West, any zany kind of skin-deep picturesqueness. And a decade later, the fringe tendency became a full-fledged movement: Post-Modernism...