Harvard Today: March 26, 2015

By Sam Danello

Congratulations, it's Thursday! You’re almost done with the first week back from break and the weekend is at last in sight. I’d say this calls for celebration, don’t you? Well, turns out President Faust agrees too! Spend your Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. snacking on s’mores and sipping hot chocolate in the Science Center Plaza to celebrate the snowiest winter this city has ever seen. Looks like we have ourselves a thirsty Thursday in the realest sense.

IN THE ATMOSPHERE
With temperatures reaching the 50s for the first time in about as long as I can remember, it seems like Spring has finally sprung! Unfortunately, this lovely high of 54 degrees is also accompanied by 72% humidity and an 80% chance of rainfall that's expected to accumulate to a quarter of an inch. On the plus side, maybe the rain will wash away the remaining snow? Here’s to wishful thinking.

IN THE D-HALL

Lunch

Meat Lasagna

Southern Style Pulled Pork Sandwich

Tomato Basil Ravioli Soup

Curly Fries

Dinner

Chicken Francais

Emerald Beef and Vegetable Stir Fry

Curry Noodle Stirfry

Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes

ON FLYBY

1) Study Guide: Jessie J’s Music: We got you covered on the music you need to know to look like you know what you’re bobbing your head to at Yardfest!

2) PSA: Malia Obama Tours Harvard: Malia Obama was here and we got a selfie!

3) Around The Ivies: The Academic Rigor, Protests, and exposed lead: Read up on flyby’s latest edition to the Around the Ivies series!

4) Marking a Historic Moment - Your Chance to Make S’mores with President Faust: Analyze President Faust’s recent email and get excited for hot chocolate this afternoon!

IN THE NEWS

1) Jessie J to Headline Yardfest: “British pop artist Jessie J will headline this year’s Yardfest, the College’s outdoor music festival scheduled for April 24.”

2) Film ‘The Hunting Ground’ Misrepresents Harvard Sexual Assault Statistics: "'The Hunting Ground,' a documentary that scrutinizes how sexual assault is handled on college campuses and heavily features Harvard, misrepresents statistics on instances of reported sexual assault at Harvard, calling the rigor of the film’s fact-checking process into question."

3) Honor Council Begins Training Undergraduate Members: "As the College readies for a fall rollout of its first honor code, undergraduates on the student-faculty body that will hear cases of academic integrity have begun their training, which included signing a confidentiality agreement."

4) Winter Weather Forces Athletes To Train Longer Indoors: "Due to severe weather conditions that University President Drew G. Faust described as “the snowiest winter on record,” athletic teams have been forced to remain inside longer than usual for practice and conditioning this season."

ON FM

1) Beyond Boston: Regional Diversity at Harvard: "While enhanced recruiting efforts and financial aid initiatives in recent years have created the most diverse student body in the school’s history, Harvard’s geographic numbers are still unrepresentative of the United States as a whole."

2) Cry Me a (Charles) River: "If you think about it, there are really two states a Harvard student can be in: crying and not crying. Did you think we were going to say Massachusetts and New York? If so, you should start crying from shame."

EVENTS

Courtesy of President Faust, the Science Center Plaza will be serving hot chocolate and s’mores from 3-5 p.m. It should be a great way to celebrate this record breaking winter, and hopefully say goodbye to the Winter weather once and for all.

The Harvard Divinity School is presenting “Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-First Century”, a talk presented by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the head of the school of Tibetan Buddhism. While all available tickets have been distributed at this point, the event will be live streamed on the HDS website and a standby line will begin starting at 3:30 p.m. The event will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. in Memorial Church.

For all you procrastinators, myself included, swing by OCS between 4-5 p.m. this afternoon at 54 Dunster Street for their It’s Not Too Late to Plan for Summer event. Here they will remind you that there are plenty of opportunities available for this summer. Representatives from OCS, the IOP, the Student Employment Office, and more will be at your disposal to help with last minute summer plans.

Screening of the semi-historic movie Panther in Larsen hall from 4:30-7 p.m. The movie tells the story of the Black Panther Party (BPP) for Self-Defense of the 1960’s, and will be followed by a discussion with Cesar A. Cruz from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Tonight, the second annual SKETCH show is being put on in the Adams Pool Theater at 8 p.m. Modeled after SNL, SKETCH features both live on stage comedy  sketches and digital shorts. Performances will be opened by groups such as the IGP, On Thin Ice, On Harvard Time, and the Harvard University Stand-UP Comic Society.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

After falling just short of claiming a national championship, the Crimson women's hockey team must look forward to what appears to be a bright future.