Legal Leader THE UNIVERSITY to restrict academic honors and Thanksgiving week, Robert adopt a new four-point grading C. Clark, a corporate-law scale (see “Study Abroad, Hon- scholar who has been dean of ors at Home,” July-August 2002, Harvard Law School (HLS) page 78), dean of Harvard Col- since 1989, announced that he BREVIA lege Harry R. Lewis proposed will step down at the end of in October and the faculty the academic year. Clark cited agreed on November 12 to the length of his service (he is deflate pumped-up honors now the senior dean) and the conferred on students before benefit of having a fresh leader graduation. Lewis noted that at the outset the nonstipendiary honors of of a new capi- “John Harvard Scholar” and tal campaign. “Harvard College Scholar” had In the course been conferred of late on 19 of his tenure, percent and 48 percent of up- the HLS per- perclassmen for having a grade- STEPHANIE MITCHELL/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE manent fac- point average of A- or better, or Robert C. ulty increased less than A- but better than B+, Clark by more than for the prior year, respectively. a quarter, to 81 tenured and In keeping with the new Latin tenure-track professors. A honors scheme, the distinc- capital campaign concluded in tions will now be given only to 1995 raised $183 million and the top 5 percent and the next 5 the endowment rose more percent of each sophomore, ju- than fourfold, to $840 million. nior, and senior class—in The size of first-year sections essence, those with averages of was reduced significantly last 3.8 or above. The Dean’s List— year. Clark’s successor will established in 1914, and for face two pressing priorities. which 92 percent of students The new fundraising cam- beyond the freshman year now paign kicks o≠ on June 13, and qualify—was abolished, too. In plans for Harvard’s future All- making the latter move, Har- AIMING AT ALLSTON: To focus efforts to plan for the academic ston campus (in which several use and physical redevelopment of its landholdings in Allston, vard joins Princeton, Yale, Stan- professional schools may fig- Harvard has appointed Kathy A. Spiegelman chief University plan- ford, and MIT. ure) will be nearing decision. ner and director of the Allston Initiative. Spiegelman’s office will be located in Allston, across the Charles River from Cambridge. A more complete review of Spiegelman has served as associate vice president for planning and Near Nobelists Clark’s deanship will appear real estate, directing a unified Harvard Planning and Real Estate No current faculty members in the next issue. organization since 1995. Her appointment reflects a division of won a Nobel Prize this year, HPRE into a planning component (including local regulatory com- but several of the new laure- pliance), which she will run, and a separate real-estate division to Death of a Gentle Giant manage Harvard properties, including leased apartments ates do have a Harvard con- Conant University Professor and construction projects. Sara Oseasohn, HPRE’s chief financial nection. For emeritus John Rawls, LL.D. officer, will direct those operations during the search for a his work on ’97, acclaimed as the preemi- permanent successor. genes respon- nent political philosopher of sible for regu- the twentieth century, and vember 24, at age 81. He joined vitalizing political thought lating natur- recalled by a Harvard’s philosophy depart- and provoking broad reexam- al cell death, colleague as ment in 1962, and in 1971 pub- inations of social order, im- MIT biology COURTESY MIT “sweetly de- lished A Theory of Justice, a pelled by Rawls’s conception professor H. H. Robert cent,” died at seminal work reconciling the of “justice as fairness.” Robert Hor- Horvitz his home in claims of liberty with those of vitz, Ph.D. ’74, shared the prize Lexington, equality. The book, now trans- Dean’s List Defunct in physiology or medicine. Ver- JANE REED/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE Massachu- lated into nearly two dozen Following the Faculty of Arts non L. Smith, Ph. D. ’55, co- John Rawls setts, on No- languages, is credited with re- and Sciences votes last spring winner in economics, was rec- Photograph by Stu Rosner Harvard Magazine 69 95-5746. print information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-4 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For copyright and re JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL ognized for eliminated binding early deci- though students objected, Counting-house chief. The applying ex- sion for college applicants. Henry Wechsler, a lecturer at University’s new recording perimental Citing stress on high-school the School of Public Health secretary—who is responsible techniques to students, pressure to decide who studies binge drinking for receiving all gifts, grants, the field. For- on a school too soon, and bias on campuses (see “The Booze and bequests and assuring merly a pro- that might hurt students News,” March-April 1995, that they are properly ac- COURTESY GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY fessor at Pur- needing financial aid, both page 20), noted that the pres- knowledged and put to their Vernon L. due and the schools will instead move to- ence of kegs encourages queu- intended use—is Brook New- Smith Universities ward “early action,” under ing up for repeated rounds. comb, M.B.A. ’80. He succeeds of Massachusetts and Arizona, which students can apply and John Hanselman, who retired he is now professor of econom- be admitted in December, but Medical milestone. Four in 2002 after serving 17 years. ics and law at George Mason defer committing to attend members of the medical and University. Riccardo Giacconi until the following spring. public-health faculties were Stopping assaults. As an advi- shared the prize in physics Harvard College had been among the 65 scholars elected sory committee studies ways with two other researchers. He alone among the Ivies in to the Institute of Medicine, to reduce the incidence of sex- was recognized for pioneering o≠ering early action. Unlike part of the National Acade- ual assault on campus and to X-ray astronomy; part of that Harvard, however, Yale and mies, in October: Stanley J. assist victims (see “Brevia,” work was conducted during Stanford will prohibit early- Korsmeyer, Farber professor November-December 2002, Giacconi’s stint as professor of action applicants from filing of pathology and professor of page 69), the College hired astronomy, from 1973 to 1981. for early admission at other medicine; Stephen W. Laga- Susan B. Marine as coordina- Today he presides over Associ- schools (see “Early-Action Ac- kos, Walcott professor of bio- tor for sexual-assault preven- ated Universities Inc., the tion,” September-October statistics; professor of public tion services. Marine, who has Washington, D.C.-based con- 2002, page 73.) health prac- done similar work at Colorado sortium that runs the National tice Deborah College and Dartmouth and Radio Astronomy Observatory. Nota Bene B. Prothrow- for the City of Cambridge, International move. Under- Stith,M.D. aims to make students aware Shop Before You Drop scoring the priority he places ’79; and pro- of available services, and to in- “Shopping period,” during on encouraging undergradu- fessor of radi- crease alcohol education. which students kick the tires ates to study abroad, Arts and ation oncol- COURTESY HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH of various courses before get- Sciences dean William C. Kir- ogy Nancy J. Deborah B. Tiger trustee. President emer- ting their study cards signed by has moved the renamed Of- Tarbell. Prothrow-Stith itus Neil L. Rudenstine—a each semester, is about to take fice of International Programs 1956 Princeton graduate, and on a new meaning. Beginning from Harvard’s career-services Marshal’s office remolded. As former provost there—has next year, the College will test center to the jurisdiction of Harvard seeks a successor for been elected to a four-year a nonbinding preregistration the dean of undergraduate ed- retired University Marshal term on Princeton’s Board of plan: students will fill out ucation, and authorized hiring Richard M. Hunt, the o∞ce Trustees. study cards at the end of the a full-time director. In the has been reorganized. The previous semester, but may spring, the o∞ce will be sited Commencement O∞ce, di- still shop for classes. The in- at University Hall, the center rected by Grace Scheib- tent is to secure better esti- of College a≠airs. ner, now reports to the mates of enrollment so faculty Harvard Alumni Associa- members can do a better job of Kegs kicked out. The ban on tion. And the Internation- hiring qualified teaching fel- kegs during tailgating at the al O∞ce, led by Sharon lows and ordering course ma- Harvard-Yale football game R. Ladd, now reports to terials, and to improve advis- now applies to all home the O∞ce of the General ing about course selection. games. In addition, the ban Counsel—perhaps reflect- Classroom space—an increas- was extended by House mas- ing the much more com- ingly scarce commodity— ters to Game weekend parties plex legal environment for could also be assigned more ef- in the undergraduate resi- visiting fellows and stu- ficiently. dences. Student safety was dents from other nations cited in both instances. Al- in the wake of 9/11. Doing in Early Decision LEGAL QUEEN: Erika Harold’s decision to defer attending In early November, Yale, fol- the Law School until next year to compete in a beauty pageant lowed promptly by Stanford, paid off when she was crowned Miss America. 70 January - February 2003 Photograph by Brian Branch-Price/Associated Press 95-5746.