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Harvard Monthly

An electronic newsletter for Harvard alumni
November 2004
(© 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College)

We hope you enjoy this edition of Harvard Monthly, an online newsletter from the Harvard Alumni Association. It provides current news and information about the University, alumni activities, and Web-based resources.

HARVARD AT HOME

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Brown v. Board: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Harvard University celebrates the 50th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education, with panel discussions sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This celebration presents opportunities to hear discussions with several of the 1954 attorneys who argued the case before the Supreme Court, and to hear their reflections on the impact of the decision 50 years later. Also featured are distinguished educators and lawyers, concerned with equal justice, discussing the impact of desegregation.
To view the program, visit http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/bvb.html

ALUMNI BENEFITS

Alumni IBM Discount Expanded to Three Laptop Models
Three ThinkPad models are now available through a special agreement between Harvard and IBM. Alumni who take advantage of the offer can save up to 32 percent. For each purchase, the Harvard Alumni Association will also make a contribution in the purchaser's honor to the University Fund for Graduate Student Aid.

Check out the latest models at http://www.post.harvard.edu/ibm/ for full details about this exclusive offer.

The Harvard Chair: a Tradition for Generations of Alumni
The Harvard Chair has been enjoyed by generations of students and alumni. Choose from three styles, each of which can be personalized with your name and a School or House seal. A portion of each sale by the COOP benefits the HAA, and COOP members receive a 10 percent discount.
http://store.thecoop.com/coopstore/servlet/com.bst.servlets.EStoreWebControlServlet?object=EstoreGenTreeLib&method=GetProductList&categoryuno=408&refresh=true

The Only Game That Matters: The Harvard/Yale Rivalry
A new book about the Harvard/Yale football rivalry recounts the 2002 season through the eyes of coaches and players. A perfect read for Crimson fans, The Only Game That Matters is available from the COOP online store.
http://store.thecoop.com/harv_athleticstore/servlet/com.bst.servlets.EStoreWebControlServlet?object=EStoreProductSelection&method=getProductInfo&productuno=15108

HAA ANNOUNCEMENTS

Harvard Alumni Association Winter Alumni College Programs
Harvard is the steward of some of the most extraordinary collections in the world. This winter, we are presenting two unique Alumni College programs to highlight two of them -- the Islamic and Near Eastern collections at the Sackler Museum on December 11 and the ornithological, herpetological, and entomological collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on January 22. https://www.aad.harvard.edu/alumni/html/jalumnicollege.html

Alumni Education
Africa Challenged: an investigation into the political, socioeconomic, and environmental concerns of contemporary southern Africa with Robert Rotberg of the Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict, March 15-30, 2005. Designed in association with Robert Rotberg, this unique program travels through South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia, exploring the beauty of the southern African region while also investigating issues confronting the region.
http://www.haa.harvard.edu/alumni/html/ts_africapolicy_mar_2005.html

Clubs and Programs
Provost Steven Hyman, Steven Pinker, Carla Shatz, and Joshua Sanes will be participating in a Neuroscience Videoconference at the Harvard Club of New York City on December 1. For more information, please call 617-496-7000.

Dean Benedict Gross, Elizabeth Warren, Gregory Nagy, John Stilgoe, and Stephen Marks will be part of a Saturday of Symposia at the Harvard Club of Boston on December 4. For more information, please call 617-496-7000.

UNIVERSITY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kennedy School Faculty in the News
From mid-September to November 3, approximately 40 network television interviews with KSG faculty on election-related topics were conducted in the Kennedy School television studio. Faculty participants included David Gergen, David King, Elaine Kamarck, Phil Sharp, Tom Patterson, Steve Kelman, Alex Jones, and Alex Keyssar. Networks included CNN, CNN Financial News, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Reuters Television, CNN International, Swedish Television, CBC (Canada), and Alhurra Television (Middle East).

Desert Soundings Design Tour
Join the Graduate School of Design for a Desert Soundings Design Tour on April 6-10, 2005, in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Tour highlights include Taliesin West by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Paolo Soleri's Cosanti, the Desert Botanical Garden, and more.
Details are available at: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/inside/dev_alumni/Events/arizona_tour.htm

WIDE World's Professional Development
The early bird deadline for WIDE World's Professional Development courses is fast approaching. If you are interested in registering for any of WIDE's online professional development for the Winter/Spring 2005 semester, please be sure to register by December 7, 2004, and you will save $50 off the course registration price. Winter/Spring course offerings include: Math, Reading and Writing, Differentiated Instruction, Technology Integration, and Instructional Strategy. For more information about any of these courses, please visit WIDE World at: http://learnweb.harvard.edu/wide/

Trust, Transparency, Democracy
Radcliffe Fellow Rebecca Mercuri explains why electronic voting is problematic.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/10.28/09-mercuri.html

Right of Eminent Domain Challenged
This past September, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by Susette Kelo and six of her fellow homeowners in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Connecticut, challenging the right of municipal authorities to take their houses by eminent domain.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.18/11-domain.html

RESEARCH

First-Time Voters Propelled to Polls by Personal Contact
Tom Patterson's research on voter turnout in the 2004 election. He finds that voter turnout rose sharply in the 2004 election, reaching its highest level since 1968. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/press%20releases/2004/shorenstein_vanishing_voter_111604.htm

Running Paced Human Evolution
Anthropologists conclude running may have helped build a bigger brain.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.18/01-running.html

Kennedy School Study Examines How Political Freedom Affects Terrorism Risks
Alberto Abadie's research on political freedom and terrorism. He finds that the terrorism risk in individual nations across the world is impacted directly by the level of political freedom in those countries.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/press%20releases/2004/abadie_terrorism_research_102504.htm

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