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...Harvardwood will bring] something that the OCS doesn’t provide.”With the help of funds from the OCS and OFA, Harvardwood is slowly beginning its on-campus expansion, hoping to reach students during the school year. The organization offers at least one entertainment-oriented seminar every semester, the most recent of which was a television-writing workshop with “Alias” writer Jeffrey D. Melvoin ’75. In addition to a student-run filmmaking club organized by former 101 students, opportunities to work within Harvardwood itself are on the horizon...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking Away | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. “Chaucer wrote the first poem in English celebrating Valentine’s Day and is the earliest writer we know of to associate the day with love and romance,” said English professor Nicholas J. Watson, who teaches a freshman seminar on the poet. Chaucer’s fourteenth century poem “Parliament of Fowls,” explains “For this was on seynt Volantynys day / Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese [choose] his make [mate].” The jump from bird breeding...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amid the Hot and Heavy, A Look at History | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...winner of the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the behavioral patterns of animals, Trivers will deliver a seminar tomorrow afternoon entitled “The Logic of Self Deception and Recent Israeli Behavior...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trivers Visit To Reignite Feud | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Hunter Lovins and retired Sen. Gary Hart, are on its board. That rise culminated in a national teach-in event on Jan. 31, when teachers and students at over 1,500 campuses gathered to discuss global warming - and find a solution. It was less a protest that a nationwide seminar - albeit one that included the occasional colorful stunt, like the student from University of California, San Diego, who dressed as a polar bear and sat in a mock electric chair, to illustrate how global warming could speed extinction. The message was clear: Global warming is not a problem for tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Climate on Campus | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...year-old Japanologist Donald Keene walks in a state of intense absorption. "If he doesn't recognize you when you pass him on the sidewalk," says one of Keene's students at Columbia University, where he still teaches a seminar on Japanese literature, "it's because his head is so full of everything he's ever read." Few heads anywhere, including Japan, have taken in as much Japanese literature as Keene's. His forthcoming memoir, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, tells the unlikely story of how a boy born in Brooklyn in 1922 grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language of Love | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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