On Campus
Atul Gawande Criticizes Supermax Prisons
Supermax prisons, which are designed to hold prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, are ineffective, expensive, and detrimental to mental health, surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande said during a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday.
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash poses for a picture after a performance, and discussion about her creative process and her career as a composer and musician. Cash spoke about the release of her top-selling recording “Seven Year Ache” and touring with her father, the legendary Johnny Cash.
iop trumka
AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney introduces current AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the IOP forum yesterday evening.
Science and Music
Physicist Lisa Randall and science journalist Marcia Bartusiak spoke at the First Parish Church about how creativity bridges the gap between scientific theories and artistic expressions.
"I'm with Stupid"
Helen Molesworth gives a lecture about Rachel Harrison's sculpture "I'm with Stupid" on Wednesday night at Harvard's Sackler Museum.
THE RIGHT THING TO DO
Michael Sandel fields 20 questions from Jane Mansbridge, Harvey Mansfield, Jeannie Suk, Tu Weiming, and audience members as a part of the Harvard Humanities Center's "20 Questions" series.
Proletariart
Theater and visual art on campus problematize our perspective on the American laborer.
Zachary Sifuentes, the head of the freshman seminar, guides his students on how to use the printing presses. The freshman seminar consists of a total of 12 students, but the class is split up in half due to the lack of printing presses. The presses are used so that the students could complete their final projects.
The students of Freshman Seminar 34z: "Pressing the Page," use lead type to create visual mediums, ranging from extraction of poems to alphabet books. This student uses one of the machines in the Bow & Arrow Press, a letterpress studio located in Adams House, to experiment with different prints of the word "slight."
Take Back the Night
Take Back the Night featured readings from Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard, free t-shirts proclaiming Consent is Sexy, and free massages from the Center for Wellness Stressbusters. The kick-off event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the event aims to raise awareness about on-campus rape and sexual assault.
Feeling Tense?
The Harvard Stressbusters give free massages to students at the kickoff event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month held in Ticknor Lounge last night.
Community Awareness
Last night's kickoff event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month aimed to raise awareness about sexual health on campus as well as sexual assault.
Musical Celebrates 'Working' Class
Perched atop a ladder, his hardhat glinting under the spotlight, steel worker Mike Dillard (Michael A. Barron ’11) confesses, “Non-recognition ...
Dissecting the Debate
Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC news, Ezra Klein, a blogger and columnist, and Julie Rovner, a correspondent for National Public Radio, discussed how the media covered the healthcare debate at the Shorenstein Center’s panel on healthcare reform and new media last night.
Cultural Exchange
Ashlee N. Adams '12 and Keara D. Cormier '12 from the Black Students Association talked to students from China yesterday about American culture and life in an event organized by the Harvard College Association for US-China Relations.
The Cheese Nun
Food at 24 frames per second holds a film screening of "The Cheese Nun" followed by a cheese tasting led by Ihsan Gurdal, owner of Formaggio Kitchen yesterday in William James Hall.
Take Back the Night
Attendees of last night’s kickoff event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month mingled in Ticknor Lounge.
Proletariart
Campus art productions throw into sharp relief the inability of art to embody labor, particularly on a campus where so few are involved in manual labor.