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Although many luxury-goods executives say novelty is key to remaining competitive in this wear-it-all era of $2,000 handbags and $20 H&M dresses, plugging into the contemporary-art scene is also a way to stay one step ahead of another kind of artist: the knockoff artist. In a world where everything can be downloaded and copied in less than a fortnight, the thinking is that merchandise with unique craftsmanship, materials and ideas behind it will be harder to reproduce quickly...
Meanwhile, former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 expressed approval for Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam's decision to terminate the UC in-room party grant system...
...Claire M. Guehenno contributed to the reporting of this story. —Laurence H. M. Holland contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...added. Bilotti said he hopes ROTC will lead a color guard at Commencement this spring. Harvard’s relationship with ROTC, which was banned from campus in 1969 due to concerns about the military’s involvement in Vietnam, has improved in recent years. Former President Lawrence H. Summers broke with precedent and spoke at the annual ROTC ceremony every year during his presidency. Harvard and other elite universities have barred military recruiters from their campuses due to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell?...
...here, but that was never even voiced as a concern.”But even at the end of his 20-year term, Bok was not sure that Harvard College was any more economically diverse than it had been at the beginning. This was not lost on Lawrence H. Summers, who in 2001 became Harvard’s 27th president. Efforts to recruit minorities made Harvard’s undergraduate student body more racially diverse, but aside from the institution of need-blind admissions, no similar steps had been taken to diversify along economic lines—a problem...