Volume 23, Issue 24 13 March 2000 Lowell House News http://lowell.student.harvard.edu lohonews@fas

From the Desk of Gene McAfee, should be receiving your fall term Board. (Instructors do not always give Allston Burr Senior Tutor grades and the reports of your spring permission, and they often expect a term courses soon. longer or somewhat different paper Room A-22, 5-2283 when they do give permission.) If you (lowell-abst@fas) COURSE REPORT WEB SITE: have any questions, please see me. DO YOUR OWN WORK The Admin- Monday 1-3 istrative Board of Harvard and Wednesday 9-11 SPECIAL CONCENTRATIONS Radcliffe Colleges asks me to remind Friday 3-5 APPLICATION DEADLINE you that the buying or selling of pa- The next deadline for Special Con- pers is strictly prohibited. In keeping centrations is Thursday, April 20, with the principle that all material sub- 2000, 5:00 p.m., University Hall mitted to a course should be the Asst. Senior Tutors' Office Hours B2B. student's own work, any undergradu- Andrew and Christine Rudalevige, ate who makes use of the services of a Room D-12, 3-2922 (rudalev@fas, DUAL SUBMISSIONS If you commercial tutoring school or term [email protected]) would like to turn in the same or sub- paper company is liable to disciplin- Tues. 7 pm to 9 pm stantially the same paper to more ary action. Students who sell lecture than one course, you must get or reading notes, papers or translations PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION or who are employed by a tutoring GRADE AND COURSE RE- of the instructors involved. Since school or term paper company are simi- PORTS. The mailing of fall grade each paper you turn in is expected to larly liable and may be required to and spring course reports has been be written specifically for the assign- withdraw. If a student wishes to ac- delayed because of changes in the ment, failure to get prior written per- cept compensation for private tutoring Registrar's office. The Registrar mission is deceptive and students in Harvard courses, prior written per- hoped to have the reports in the mail who do it are ordinarily required to mission of the Dean of the College is by the end of last week and you withdraw by the Administrative required.

below for more details.) ACADEMIC AND HOUSE - MARCH 16, Thursday: TEA at the CALENDAR - MARCH 23, Thursday: TEA at the Masters' Residence 5-6 p.m. Masters' Residence 5-6 p.m. Announce- - MARCH 17, Friday: Lowell House - MARCH 13, Monday: Makeup ment of the results of the Freshman Lot- Opera 8:30 p.m. tery. examinations for 1999-2000 fall term The Lowell House Film Society will begin. Students leaving College by - MARCH 25, Saturday through APRIL be showing "Guinevere", starring Sa- 2, Sunday: Spring Recess. The dining this date are charged one-quarter of rah Polley and Stephen Rea, at 6pm, tuition and the Student Services Fee. halls at Quincy, Eliot and Cabot Houses and "Outside Providence", starring will close after dinner on Thursday, After this date, students will be Alec Baldwin, at 8pm. Lowell House charged one-half of those costs. See March 23, 2000. The dining halls at JCR--and it's free! Adams, Dunster, Mather, Kirkland, chart on page 372 for details of room - MARCH 18, Saturday: Lowell and board charges. Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop, Currier and House Opera 8:30 p.m. LAST PER- Pforzheimer Houses and Annenberg Hall - MARCH 14, Tuesday: COM- FORMANCE! PUTER SCIENCE STUDY GROUP, will close after dinner on Friday, March - MARCH 21, Tuesday: COMPUTER 24. Adams, Quincy, Dunster, Mather, 8:00 until 9:00 in the dining room. SCIENCE STUDY GROUP, 8:00 un- - MARCH 15, Wednesday: PAINT Eliot Pforzheimer and Currier Houses as til 9:00 in the dining room. well as Annenberg Hall will re-open for WITH MARY ALICE COPP, our art- - MARCH 22, Wednesday: PAINT ist in residence. 7-9 p.m. in the Art dinner on Sunday, April 2. Kirkland, WITH MARY ALICE COPP, our art- Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop and Cabot Room, basement of L entry. PO- ist in residence. 7-9 p.m. in the Art ETRY at 9 p.m. in Jim and Meg's Houses wil re-open for breakfast on Room, basement of L entry. POETRY Monday April 3. A Spring Break Meal room, F-11. Help BAKE FOR TEA EVENING at 9 p.m. in Jim and Meg's in the Masters' Residence - 9 p.m. Plan for lunch and dinner can be pur- room, F-11. Help BAKE FOR TEA chased for the Dudley Cafe. Applica- Scrumptious recipes, lots of fun! in the Masters' Residence - 9 p.m. (See below for more details.) tions will be available at the checker's Scrumptious recipes, lots of fun! (See desk. FROM THE FELLOWSHIPS TUTOR: hands. Whatever he sees, if he sees it clear, he can put down. The putting of it down COME SEE "THE BEGGAR'S The Fellowships section of the Lowell House requires, perhaps, much care and labor, but OPERA"! web site (lowell.student.harvard .edu/ no more muscular agility than it takes for fellowships.htm/) is fully updated. You should him to write his name. Seeing clear is the consult the calendar there for important thing." (Maurice Grosser, The The 1999-2000 Lowell House Opera all deadlines and news regarding fellowships. Painter's Eye, 1951) proudly presents its 62nd production, My office hours are Tuesday and Thurs- Learn to see in a new way. Look at the world John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera," day from 2-4 p.m. You should sign-up outside through artists' eyes. Paint in the Art Room, with score by Benjamin Britten. my office in D-21. You may phone me for an basement, L-entry, on Wednesdays, 7 to 9 "The Beggar's Opera" is a humor- appointment at another mutually convenient p.m., with Mary Alice Copp. ous tale of the darker side of human time. Please do not e-mail me. Thanks. Your Fellowships Tutor, THESIS-WRITING SENIORS!! nature. All performances are in the Andrew C. Blume Got data to analyze and not quite sure how? Lowell House Dining Hall, and tick- 3-6582 (office) 3-2978 (home) Drop me a line, and we can set up a time to ets are currently on sale at the discuss it. Daniel Lowen, Stats Tutor Holyoke Center Box Office. Perfor- FROM THE HOUSE LIBRARIAN: mance times are: CHEMISTRY HELP!! Wednesday, March 15 at 8:30 A reminder to all that the Lowell House Library Are you working on a problem set for a Friday, March 17 at 8:30 (D-entry) is open 1:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. every chem course, preparing for yet an hourly, day, except Fridays when it opens at 2:30 p.m. or pondering your concentration in chem- Saturday, March 18 at 8:30 . If you need a quiet place to study before or af- istry? I can help! Drop by B-14 on Wednes- For more information about the pro- ter hours, the all-night study room is D-31. days from 7:30 - 9:30 pm. If that doesn't duction of "The Beggar's Opera," Jacalyn Blume (3-6582) work for you, email me (Janelle Anderson) please see our website, http:// at janders@fas or call me at 5-2895 so we hcs.harvard.edu/~lho. FROM THE PRE-LAW TUTOR can find another time.

-- The next LSAT test administration will be CS STUDY GROUP light Vigil in remembrance of Amadou given on June 12. The regular registration dead- The Lowell House Computer Science Study Diallo, a West African immigrant whose line is May 12 (postmark deadline). Check Group, hosted by Dan and Penny Ellard, death came at the hands of four New York the LSAC webpage for will meet on Tuesday nights 8-9pm in the police officers. The vigil is a time for us more information. Lowell House Dining Hall this semester. to come together as a community to -- THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION COUN- CS students of all levels are invited; CS50 mourn the loss of this young man and oth- CIL (LSAC) is now providing law school ap- students are especially encouraged to at- ers who have fallen victim to excessive plicants with an online means of checking the tend. Contact Dan Ellard (3-3076 or police force. It will be held Wednesday, status of their LSAC file. Go to http:// [email protected]) for more information. March 15, 2000 at 7:00pm on the steps of www.lsac.org, click "Online Services," and then Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. If you "Your LSAC file." You will be asked to enter a POETRY and COOKING AT THE MAS- are interested in speaking at the vigil, user ID and a PIN. TERS' return to routine operation this week please call Eboni Cohen at (617) 628- -- delectation of the mind and of the tongue, 5727. LOWELL HOUSE NEWS Wednesday 9-12, in F-11 and the Masters' kitchen respectively. Please come! HAR'D CORPS (Harvard Community LOWELL HOUSE SOCIAL SCIENCE Outreach and Public Service) TABLE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS Join thousands of students at Harvard and Faculty Dinner: Thomas Friedman across the Ivy League in a campus-wide The LOWELL HOUSE SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Summer Opportunities -- community service day on Saturday, April TABLE has arranged for a faculty dinner with 8th! The day will include breakfast, Thomas Friedman, the guest lecturer for Gov- SUMMER JOB IN THE ARTS speakers, a barbecue lunch, a volunteer ernment 1800: Globalization and its Discon- The Radcliffe Research Partner will pro- fair, a benefit dance, and lots of different tents on Monday, March 20th. Mr. Friedman duce "Practice and Performance: The Guide service projects that you can take part in! is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning foreign affairs col- to the Arts at Harvard," while mentoring in Sign up as an individual volunteer or get umnist of the New York Times and author of our busy arts administration office . a team of your friends together to join the "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding TO APPLY: Please view the proposal binder fun! Proceeds will go to the President's Globalization." He is a visiting scholar in the at the Office of Career Service or the RRP Public Service Fund. Look for registra- government department this year. Dinner will program office in the Cronkhite Center (6 tion tables in your dining hall soon! begin at 5:30pm in the Coolidge room and will Ash Street). For more information, please be followed by a short talk by Friedman and contact Sharon Crandall, 495-8600 or e- What is this "GRAD PLEDGE 2000" that discussion. If you would like to reserve a place mail [email protected]. The applica- everybody's talking about? at the dinner or have any questions, please e- tion deadline is March 17, 2000 at 9 a.m. *The Grad Pledge is Seniors' pledge to mail [email protected]. Reservation be socially and environmentally respon- is essential to guaranteeing a spot at the dinner. -- Community -- sible in their lives after graduation. The Looking forward to seeing you there! GRAD PLEDGE 2000, is a new, dynamic DIALLO VIGIL pledge through which Harvard Seniors PAINTING IN THE ART ROOM On behalf of the Black Law Students' As- will learn about ways that they can put BEYOND STICK FIGURES sociation at Harvard Law School, it gives the words of the pledge into ACTION, and "The painter draws with his eyes, not with his me great pleasure to invite you to a Candle- even begin this action before graduation! *There will be panels events, booklets, and other events and drives during the The Lowell House Newsletter is produced for Monday distribution spring semester. Learn how you can and can also be found at http://lowell.student. harvard.edu; submis- MAKE A DIFFERENCE in your every- sions should be brief, and should be e-mailed to lohonews@fas by day life after graduation no matter what Saturday at noon. Phone contact: Jim von der Heydt, 493-2940. profession we're going into. --Cultural-- * From Adrienne McLaughlin House Administrator VOLUNTEER FOR ARTS FIRST! Do you love a parade? Would you like to march in the world's Room A-22, 5-2283 shortest parade, alongside Grand Marshal John Lithgow '67 (mclaugh@fas) ("Third Rock from the Sun"), the Harvard Band, four prancing horses, and the Harvard Juggling Club? Parade crew needed - US AIRWAYS PLANS TO SHUT DOWN OPERATIONS for Saturday, May 6. Contact Julie Hennrikus at Memorial Hall, MARCH 25 possibly jeopardizing some of our students' Spring 6-6391, jhennrik@fas. Break plans. The Freshman Dean's office received a letter from the President of US Airways Masters Executive Council explain- Can you get hundreds of people to sit down at once? Stage ing some of the details: "US Airways flight attendants have been managers, greeters, and crew needed for the ARTS FIRST Per- in negotiations with US airways for well over three years. Earlier formance Fair on Saturday, May 6. Venues and performing this month the National Mediation Boared (NMB) announced a groups large and small, from the Kuumba Singers at Sanders 30-day cooling-off period at the end of which it would be legal Theater to solo piano at Holden Chapel. Contact Ingrid Schorr for the flight attendants to strike US Airways. This announce- at Office for the Arts, 5-8699, [email protected] ment follows the NMB's declaration that negotiations are at an Volunteers receive an ARTS FIRST t-shirt and an invita- impasse. In response, US Airways Chairman Stephen Wolf stated tion to the President's Reception. Be a vital part of Harvard's that he intends to shut down the airline's operations on March 25, ninth annual celebration of the arts! 2000, if no agreement is reached. We believe the airline's course CAMPUS THEATER of action will inconvenience travelers up and down the East Coast Pick up an HRDC Theater Bulletin in the mail room distribu- and have a negative effect on cities like Boston." tion bin in the F-entry to see what theatrical productions are going up this semester. - JUNE DEGREE CANDIDATES - WALKERS It's going to be a fantastic season! June degree candidates, please look over the list that will be at the checker's desk in the dining hall this week. If you are on it, TAIWANESE CULTURE FESTIVAL the Registrar lists you as having applied for a June Degree. If Interested in good, authentic Taiwanese food? Want to try a you find that you are either mistakenly with or without a J, please hand at making traditional crafts? Curious about different as- contact the Registrar immediately. This will also list your name pects of Taiwanese culture? Come to the Winter Food Festival as it will appear on your diploma, so please make any changes held this Friday, March 17 at 8 pm in Quincy Dining Hall. There now. Likewise, if by June you will be within a few courses of will be 15 authentic Taiwanese dishes along with appetizers graduating and think you might like to participate in this year's including egg rolls and dumplings. In addition, 15 other booths exercises, please make an appointment to see the Senior Tutor featuring games such as mahjongg and go, crafts such as lan- and ask to be put on our "walkers" list. We want to be sure that tern making, and other activities such as calligraphy will be set no one who should walk at Commencement gets left out! up around the dining hall. Tickets can be purchased for $5 in advance at the Harvard Box Office or at the door. For more INVITING YOUR PROFESSOR FOR A MEAL WITH YOU information,contact [email protected] . You may have seen a story in the Crimson recently about a Stu- HARVARD WIND ENSEMBLE dent-Faculty meal plan in which faculty members will be allowed The Harvard Wind Ensemble will present "The British Are to take meals in any undergraduate dining hall by simply swiping Coming!" on March 18, 2000, at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater. their card. Dean Knowles and Dean Lewis have agreed to imple- The program will consist primarily of works by British com- ment this plan on an experimental basis for the spring term. The posers. Tickets cost $5 for students and seniors and $8 for plan allows all voting members of the teaching faculty (Profes- adults and are available at the door or by calling the Box Office sor, Associate or Assistant Professor, Professor of the Practice, at 496-2222. For more information, please contact Thomas G. Senior Lecturer, or Senior Preceptor) to use their card any dining Everett at 496-2263. hall if in the company of a student. Preceptors, Lecturers, Teach- ing Fellows, or members from other Faculties may eat with you BRATTLE STREET CHAMBER PLAYERS when you obtain a chit, available at the checker's desk in the din- 5th Annual Rainforest Benefit Concert featuring the Brattle ing hall. You can obtain these chits in advance or at the time you Street Chamber Players take your meal with your Faculty guest. Please do let me know if Saturday, April 15th at 8:00PM, Paine Hall you encounter any snags with using the plan. Come hear this phenomenal chamber ensemble of Harvard undergraduates play Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence and Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 8! All proceeds will benefit the World Wildlife Fund. Presented by the Eliot House Music So- *To get on our e-mail list or find out more about how you can take the ciety. Tickets $7/$10 at the Harvard Box Office (496-2222; GRAD PLEDGE 2000, please contact Sinead, #3-3333 or swalsh@fas. open 12-6pm M-Su, Holyoke Center) *Non-seniors also welcome to get involved* *UC Update* --Opportunities-- The Undergraduate Council is hard at work for you! Among our projects: - The First Year Formal was a huge success! WORK WITH A NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE - Springfest 2000 is coming up, on Sunday, April 30th, featuring Big Bad The Arias Foundation Internship offers an extraordinary op- Voodoo Daddy! portunity for a graduating senior to work personally with Dr. - Universal Keycard Access will be activated after Spring Break Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of - UCBooks offers a great service to students who want to save money on Costa Rica as an official speechwriter (all in English). The books! (www.fas.harvard.edu/~ucbooks) internship begins in June/July 2000 and lasts 9-12 months and - A 4th meal is soon to be implemented in conjunction with HDS is located in San Jose, Costa Rica. The internship provides a - Har'd CORPS will be part of an Ivy League-wide community service day stipend to cover living costs and round trip airfare. Qualifica- on Saturday, April 8th! tions include excellent writing and research skills, proficiency in Spanish and an interest and background in international re- lations and Latin American issues. For more information, pick up a brochure and application in Room 309 Office of Career Services. The application deadline is March 20, 2000.