Freshman Dean’s Office Volume 2021 Issue XXV Yard Bulletin March 23, 2018 You may view the Yard Bulletin on the FDO Website (www.fdo.fas.harvard.edu). Upcoming Events  March 23-April 1—The Yeomen of the Guard;  Thursday, March 29, 6-8PM— Asmarina: or, The Merryman and His Maid. The Harvard- Film and Discussion with Angela Davis, Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ Spring Medhin Paolos, and Lorgia García Peña. 2018 production tells the story of Phoebe This documentary film about the habesha (Eritrean/ Meryll, who pines for Colonel Fairfax. Fairfax Ethiopian community) of Milan, Italy, engages in historical who has been unjustly sentenced to death. disruption of the relationship between colonialism and Phoebe and her father, Sergeant Meryll, devise diaspora. Interweaving testimonies of first- and second- a plan to save the young man’s life by disguising him as her generation habesha immigrants in Milan, archival research, brother, Leonard. When a duo of entertainers arrive on the photography, and music, the film brings to light Italian post- scene, Meryll’s plans go awry. Romance, comedy, and colonial heritage and its effects on the present-day place of drama ensue in The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman Italians of color, immigrants, and refugees. After the and His Maid! For show times and tickets, please visit: screening, Angela Davis, professor emerita at the University boxoffice.harvard.edu. Agassiz Theatre. of California, Santa Cruz, will introduce the film and participate in a discussion with filmmaker Medhin Paolos  Saturday, March 24, 2PM— Men’s Lacrosse and Lorgia García Peña, Associate Professor in the vs. Dartmouth. Come cheer on your Harvard Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Free Men’s Lacrosse team in their featured game this tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, Saturday! Admission is free for all Harvard undergrads, and beginning at noon on Tuesday, March 20, at the Harvard students will also receive a free Harvard Lacrosse t-shirt Box Office. Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall. when they arrive. Check-in on the CrimZone Rewards App for 25 rewards points, and a bonus 25 rewards points will be  Thursday, March 29, 9:15-10:45PM— available at halftime. Harvard Stadium. Enhanced Brain Break: March Madness. Feeling the energy from March Madness? Need  Wednesday, March 28, 6-7:30PM— some extra fuel? Stop by Brain Break for Pigs in Productive Disorder: Music, Film, and Art a Blanket with dipping sauce, and a savory trio in Postwar Germany. Cultural production of chicken fingers. Annenberg. in postwar Germany was shaped by variety of oppositions: memories of the  Thursday, March 29 & Saturday, March 31, 8PM—Harvard war’s horrors competed with fragile optimism for the future; Ballet Company and the Harvard Pops Orchestra Present: renewed artistic freedoms came up against material scarcity Out of Orbit. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…the and widespread destruction; and a growing appetite for Pops Orchestra and Harvard Ballet Company combined experimentation and invention met with a lingering Nazi- forces to produce a collaboration of astronomical inflected suspicion of anything too modern. On the occasion proportions. Featuring iconic space-inspired music spanning of the special exhibition Inventur–Art in Germany, 1943–55, the classical, film, and popular musical canons, and starring this program will consider an expanded field of aesthetic some of this campus’s most talented dancers and musicians, production in Germany between the years 1943 and 1955, we have created a multi-media performance bringing together three scholars to consider the cultural that will blow you out of this world. For $8 resurgence that took place in a wide array of media amid tickets, visit the Loeb Box Office or the these tensions. Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets Harvard Box Office. Opening night only: free will be distributed beginning at 5:30PM at the Broadway with HUID. Loeb Drama Center Mainstage. entrance. Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall.  Friday, March 30, 9PM—The Boston  Thursday, March 29, 6PM—Artist Talk: Dara Cypher. Witness history by attending The Birnbaum. Dara Birnbaum presents an artist talk, Boston Cypher! In Hip-Hop music a followed by a moderated conversation with the cypher is when a group of rappers come artist and Benjamin Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon together and take turns freestyling over Professor of Modern Art, Department of History instrumentals. This inter-collegiate cypher will include of Art and Architecture. Birnbaum’s pioneering artists from Harvard, Boston University, Berklee College of video, media, and installation work has, over the Music, and the greater Boston area. The first half of the past four decades, addressed the ideological and the event will include a showcase of artists' individual work, aesthetic character of mass media imagery and has been and the second half will turn into a cypher. Anybody can considered fundamental to our understanding of the history come watch the cypher, and if you are interested in of media art. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 participating, please email Marcelo Hanta-Davis: Quincy St., Level 0, Lecture Hall. mhantadavis@college. Leverett Library Theater. Freshman Dean’s Office Advising Fortnight

Morton Prince House Advising Fortnight 2018: March 26 – April 6. Advising Fortnight is 6 Prescott St. two weeks of concentration events, panels, departmental open houses, Cambridge, MA 02138 and advising sessions designed to help you think about and begin planning for your choice of concentration next fall. Fortnight will kick Phone: 617-495-1574 off with a buffet dinner and concentration fair in Annenberg on Fax: 617-496-1624 Monday, March 26, 5-7PM. You’ll have the chance to speak with E-mail: [email protected] advisers from all 49 concentrations, as well as the nine unaffiliated Hours: Mon. - Fri., 9AM-5PM secondary fields. This is your gateway to the 49! Meet faculty, staff, current concentrators, alumni; go to lots of events; ask lots of questions; and plan how to Submissions choose your concentration next fall. For details and a full listing of events, visit: apo.college.harvard.edu/advising-fortnight. Please send submissions by Tuesday at 9:00AM to: [email protected] Annenberg First-Year Faculty Dinner Published Fridays. Announcement

Safety Notice Monday, March 26, To contact an FDO representative in Advising the event of a serious, non-academic Fortnight emergency, please call your proctor, or kicks off the Harvard University Police at (617) with a special buffet dinner and 495-1212, or, on campus, 5-1212. concentration fair in Annenberg. Safety and other emergency messages Please note that Annenberg will be are displayed as soon as possible on the closed between lunch and dinner that News and Notices section of the College home page at day in order to accommodate the event setup. The Class of 2021 enjoyed getting to know their professors, TFs, preceptors, and www.college.harvard.edu. others at a special dinner in Annenberg on Wednesday, February 28.

Opportunities for Freshmen Join the First-Ever Israel Summit at Harvard on Sunday, April 8! The Israel Summit at Harvard is a university-wide conference aimed at broadening all students’ horizons on Israel. In addition to hosting prominent Israeli and American entrepreneurs and change-makers, the Summit will include an Israel Career and Special Opportunities Fair where students can engage with representatives from top Israeli companies and discover a multitude of trips to Israel for people of all backgrounds. Confirmed speakers include Lawrence H. Summers, Israel’s Former Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor, Amar’e Stoudemire, David Gergen, Provost Alan Garber, Sivan Ya'ari, Mohamed Darawshe, Chloe Valdary, and many other distinguished guests. Learn more, and register for free at: israelsummitatharvard.com. Sunday, April 8, 10AM-4PM, The Charles Hotel. Call for Applications: ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence 2018–2019. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is accepting applications for the 2018–2019 Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence, a program designed to introduce undergraduate students from historically underrepresented ethnic and racial groups to the library and information science discipline. The program offers a paid internship with a focus on digital stewardship in a partner ARL library or archive, participation in the ARL Annual Leadership Symposium, formal mentorship, financial support for student membership in a professional organization, and attendance at a capstone institute. Participants will develop leadership skills and will receive training in topics related to diversity, equity, and social justice. The Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Submission deadline: Thursday, April 12. For more information about the program and the application process, visit the Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence website: arl.org/focus-areas/diversity-and-inclusion/fellowship-digital-inclusive-excellence. Work in Lamont This Summer. Will you be in Cambridge this summer and like to earn some extra money? The Language Resource Center in Lamont Library is looking for students to join our User Service Team during the Summer School term: June 23–August 11. We need friendly, helpful people who can staff our front desk, greet students and faculty, and help them locate their materials. Pay is $12.00 per hour to start, and most students work 6–30 hours per week. Preference given to those eligible for the Federal Work Study Program. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Allison Aitken at: [email protected]. To apply, please fill out the brief application at: lrc.fas.harvard.edu/legacy/application.php.