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...work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver...
...announced yesterday that she has accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School beginning this fall.Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken has garnered praise for both her teaching ability—she was the first junior professor to win the prestigious Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence—as well as her scholarship on voting law, diversity, and the role of groups in the democratic process. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan Law School, Gerken, who is currently on a visiting professorship at Yale, said that her decision to leave...
...anti-discrimination policy. Despite two attempts to consider the legislation, Greenfield failed to bring the proposal to a vote. In the past, the UC has traditionally denied funding to student groups that impose restrictions on its membership. Last November, the council voted to suspend its bylaws and award a grant to the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, despite the group’s constitution which stipulates that its executive board members be Christian. The UC’s current policy is to grant funding to student groups that comply with the council’s anti-discrimination guidelines. According...
...year for J. Lorand Matory ’82, a professor of African and African-American studies. Over the last year he has received national media attention as a leading critic of University President Lawrence H. Summers, released two well-received books, and this past weekend garnered the faculty award at the “Tribute to Black Men” sponsored by the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). Matory entered the spotlight early last year when he wrote a motion stating that “the Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers...
...live radio variety show.“My character’s supposed to be a kind of a half-assed singer, so the mistakes were ok,” Streep says at a press conference at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, hours before receiving the Coolidge award. “That’s how I rationalized it, anyway.” According to Altman, those off-key imperfections color the film: “I was looking for mistakes to improve the script,” he explains. The climax of a month-long Streep celebration...