Harvard Today: April 20, 2015

Happy Monday, Harvard! It’s the beginning of an exciting week -- Visitas! Get ready for all the prefrosh. For those who are hosting, here are some tips:

1. Clean your room. If a prefrosh is sleeping on a futon of some sort, try to make it Cheeto dust-free before offering it as a bed substitute. And if the prefrosh is sleeping on the floor, definitely clean the floor. Nobody wants to accidentally inhale a giant dust bunny in the middle of the night.
2. Don’t force your prefrosh to study with you, that is, assuming they don’t want to. If you’re studying for a test or working on an essay, chances are your prefrosh won’t be too enamoured by the Harvard experience if they spend an entire night with you in Lamont. But if your prefrosh also wants to get some work done, why not show them how it’s done, college-style?
3. Work something out with your friends who are also hosting. Let’s be real, you’re hardly able to feed yourself, let alone take care of another human being or two. Why not let all the prefrosh get together and take care of each other? Talk to your friends who’re also hosting prefrosh, and get them to all hang out, become lifelong friends, and go off and do prefrosh-y stuff together. Trust us, they’ll have a blast without you.

IN THE ATMOSPHERE

Get out your umbrella -- it’s going to be raining all day today! But with highs of 51 degrees and lows of 49 degrees, the temperature really won’t be changing too much throughout the day, so don’t anticipate running back to your dorm to change.

IN THE D-HALL

Lunch:

Chicken Fingers

Philly Cheese Steak Sub

Multigrain Rotini Primavera with Kidney Beans

Dinner:

Beef Pot Pie

Honey Stung Fried Chicken

Vegetable Lo Mein with Tofu

IN FLYBY

1) Ways to Get a Date for Formal: Formal season is here! But how do you ask out that special someone?

2) Something is Rotten in the State of Cambridge: One brave soul investigates the source of the unpleasant smell emanating from the Yard.  

IN THE NEWS

1) Public Health School Dean Named University of Miami President: “After six years as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Julio Frenk will leave Harvard to serve as president of the University of Miami.”

2) UC Votes Down Act To Publicize Divest Harvard Events: “The Undergraduate Council at its general meeting on Sunday voted down a piece of legislation that would have allowed activist group Divest Harvard to publicize its “Heat Week” events scheduled for this week through the UC’s email list.”

3) Calling for Divestment, Protesters Blockade Mass. Hall: “Members and supporters of the activist group Divest Harvard began a planned blockade of three entrances to Massachusetts Hall on Sunday and were still rallying outside the building in protest of Harvard’s investment in fossil fuel companies late that evening.”

4) Ed School Has Raised $145 Million in Capital Campaign: “The Harvard Graduate School of Education has raised $145 million in its capital campaign, amounting to 58 percent of its goal of $250 million, according to Daphne Layton, the Ed School's senior associate dean for development and alumni relations.”

EVENTS

Today the American Repertory Theater is hosting the John Harvard Projection, a large-scale projection installation by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts. The public projection animates the John Harvard statue with faces, voices, words and gestures of Harvard University students based on a series of recorded video interviews conducted by the artist.

Today IOP SPEV is hosting Design Your Solution to the Ukraine Crisis: Workshop with Graham Allison, a workshop led by HKS professor Graham Allison, the Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where students can actively discuss possible solutions and be a policymaker for an hour. This event will be at Littauer 166 at the HKS at 5 p.m.