Lately, Kelsey A. Beck ’14 has been in training. She is preparing not for a sports game but for a beauty pageant—the Miss Boston 2012 competition which she will enter in two weeks.

Speaking before a crowd Sunday afternoon at the city of Cambridge’s 37th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds recalled an experience in which she and a professor overcame their differences in pursuit of science.

For six months, the students of the Harvard Ceramics Program constructed a nine-piece mural to decorate the bare walls of a local hospital. On Wednesday night, the artists and their friends gathered to admire the recently-installed work.

After an Allentown city councilman resigned mid-term, Harvard graduate Brad M. Paraszczak ’11 has applied for the vacant seat in his Pennsylvania hometown.

The Cambridge Historical Commission, a city department that oversees significant sites in Cambridge including Harvard Yard, notified Harvard administrators last week that the long-term presence of a weather-proof dome erected by Occupy Harvard protesters violated a city code.

Workers at the Harvard Club of Boston lodged a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last week alleging that the Club threatened workers to prevent them from participating in union activities and illegally surveilled workers participating in such activities.

Boston police closed in on the Occupy Boston encampment in the wee hours of Saturday morning, ending the more than 70-day-long occupation of Dewey Square.

A recent Facebook poll has generated interest from the Harvard community in what could be the opening of Harvard Square’s only all-kosher restaurant.

University representatives and government officials gathered yesterday morning to celebrate the placing of the final steel beam on the structure of Massachusetts’s latest state-of-the-art research computing initiative.

Rather than fly home to Saudi Arabia to spend Thanksgiving with his family, Ghassan S. Gammoh ’14 spent his Thanksgiving at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter.