dudley-pubserv April 2005

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by Dudley Public Service

Reminder: Your Dudley Public Service Fellows Invite You to Join Team Dudley for *** THE 6TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY CHARLES RIVER CLEAN-UP!! *** Saturday, April 30 (TOMORROW), 9AM � 12PM Meet on the Dudley Steps at 9AM for free breakfast and t-shirts! We'll be picking up trash and making sure the Charles is at its most beautiful! Work gloves, bags, and other supplies will be provided. Join us when you can, even if you are unable to volunteer for the entire session. The cleanup goes from 9 AM to 12 PM, and will be followed by a post-cleanup picnic with live music and free refreshments at the Public Theater in Herter Park (on Soldiers Field Road) sponsored by the Charles River Conservancy & Massachusetts Community Water Watch. ** Important Note about Location. Please take note of this in case you miss the group at Dudley House. ** We will be working on the Cambridge side of the river. We will start the clean-up from the Weeks Bridge (where DeWolfe St. meets Memorial Drive, near Leverett House) and then move towards the Larz Anderson Bridge (where JFK St. crosses the river, right at the Weld Boathouse). Come when you can! Everyone is welcome! Bring a friend or ten! Please let your Public Service Fellows know you�re coming by emailing dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com! --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

19 years

River Clean-Up THIS SATURDAY * Child CPR Class * Get a New Vibe in 2005 * Walk for Hunger

by Dudley Public Service

Upcoming Dudley Public Service Events! All details below! Hope to see you there! 1. Join Team Dudley for the Charles River Clean-Up, THIS SATURDAY, 9AM-12PM 2. Infant and Child CPR Certification Class, Sunday, May 1, 2-5PM 3. Walk for Hunger, Sunday, May 1 (Harvard will match the funds you raise!) 4. Get a New Vibe in 2005 Makeover Event, Thursday, May 5, 7-8:30PM ******************************* CHARLES RIVER CLEAN-UP Join Team Dudley for the 6th Annual Earth Day Charles River Clean-Up! Saturday, April 30, 9AM � 12PM Meet on the Dudley Steps at 9AM for free breakfast and t-shirts! The cleanup goes from 9 AM to 12 PM, and will be followed by a post-cleanup picnic with live music and free refreshments sponsored by the Charles River Conservancy & Massachusetts Community Water Watch. Join us when you can, even if you are unable to volunteer for the entire session. Team Dudley will be working along the river between the Anderson (JFK) and River Street Bridges. Work gloves, bags, and other supplies will be provided. Please let your Public Service Fellows know you�re coming by emailing dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com! ******************************* INFANT AND CHILD CPR CLASS Sunday, May 1, 2-5 PM Shepherd Room, Phillips Brooks House (2nd floor) In conjunction with Harvard Emergency Services, your Dudley Public Service Fellows invite you to earn your certification in child and infant CPR. The class will be taught by an expert instructor from HEMS who is certified by the American Heart Association. To ensure personal attention, each class is limited to ten students. To reserve a space, please sign up in the house office on the 3rd floor of Dudley House and bring your $10 course fee in cash or as a check made out to Phillips Brooks House. (If you are unable to sign up in the house office please contact Chad Conlan at 617 496 5459 or conlan(a)fas.harvard.edu to make other arrangements.) Questions? Please email Maria at dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com ****************************** WALK FOR HUNGER Sunday, May 1 Harvard has long supported Project Bread's Walk for Hunger and provides matching funds for Harvard walkers through the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs. This year the University is also sponsoring a complimentary refreshment stand for walkers at Weeks Bridge. In addition to coordinating the refreshments, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is providing sign-up materials for the Walk in all dining halls and leading a Walk team. This team, though organized by HUDS, will be university-wide, including faculty, staff and students. Sign up online today to walk and/ or pledge a donation for the team, or call our team captain, Jessica Zdeb ('04) at 617-496-6201 to volunteer at the refreshment stand. By putting the strength of the University community behind a team, we can make a difference! If you'd like to sign up for the walk online as a member of the Harvard University team (and be eligible for matching funds!!), please visit http://www.projectbread.org/teampage.asp?t=1429 Linda Liang (one of our awesome Public Service Fellows in 05-06) will be walking with a group from Dudley House! To join her, please email lliang(a)fas.harvard.edu As many of you know, the Harvard Square Homeless Meals Program where Dudley volunteers help out each week is one of the many amazing programs supported by the Walk for Hunger. Many of us have seen first-hand what a huge difference this support makes! The Walk for Hunger both begins and ends on Boston Common. Registration on the Common is between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m.. While you can start your Walk later than this, most Walkers like to get an early start, as the entire 20-mile route is a leisurely 6-7 hour walk. Checkpoints start closing at 12:30 p.m. and events on Boston Common conclude around 7:00 p.m. The walk is 20 miles but you may walk only as far as you like. There are shuttle buses at each of the eight checkpoints to take you back to the Boston Common whenever you want. The important thing to remember is that whether you walk one mile or all 20, you are helping feed hungry families throughout Massachusetts. ****************************** GET A NEW VIBE IN 2005 Thursday, May 5 7-8:30PM, Dudley House Common Room Your suggested donation of $7 will go directly to Casa Nueva Vida, a women�s shelter in Jamaica Plain Please sign-up and bring your suggested $7 donation to Orquidea Martinez in the Dudley Undergrads office on the 3rd floor of Dudley House. This event is limited to 20 students. (If you are unable to sign up in person please contact Orquidea at 617 495 2256 or omartin(a)fas.harvard.edu to make other arrangements.) Orquidea Martinez, our own Dudley House Undergraduate Coordinator and makeover expert extraordinaire will share tips on keeping your skin healthy and looking your best. All Dudley students are welcome! We�ll have lots of wonderful make-up and skincare products to try! As you try out your new look, Orquidea will share some reflections on her experiences working with Casa Nueva Vida. --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

19 years

Charity Run this Sunday; non-profit opportunity

by Dudley Public Service

Hi Dudley Volunteers, Great to see so many of you at the homeless meals program tonight! Just a couple quick announcements! 1. HGC 5k Charity Run THIS SUNDAY 2. Opportunity to be involved in a nonprofit launch Hope you'll have a great weekend! Maria ****************************** On Sunday, April 24th, the Harvard Graduate Council will be hosting its second annual 5K run/walk for charity, to benefit the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Check-in will start at 8:30 am and the race will begin at 10am in the courtyard of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. There's be a $20 sign-up fee before April 24th, or $25 on the day of the race. The first 350 participants will get a tee-shirt with the race logo. Students, faculty, and staff from all Boston-area schools are invited to participate, as are any members of the community. Go to www.hgc.harvard.edu to sign-up online using Paypal or join us bright and early on Sunday, April 24th to register the day-of. Questions? Send an email to the harvard grad council at hgc(a)harvard.edu with subject: 5K question. ************************************ Subject: Recruiting volunteers for nonprofit launch in Boston Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:14:46 -0400 From: "Enage, Danielle" <Danielle.Enage(a)Bain.com> To Whom It May Concern: I am a significant other of a MIT Sloan student and wanted to pass on this opportunity to your university group as well. I have recently become involved with an organization called On Your Feet Project. I am helping launch its Boston chapter and will serve as its Chapter Director. The national directors and I are currently in the process of recruiting the rest of the executive team. If you or any of your friends in the Boston area are interested, please let me know. We are open to all levels of interest and involvement. Thank you!! Danielle ************************************************************************************** Dear friends, I am writing to tell you about an exciting volunteer opportunity in the Boston area. On Your Feet Project is launching its Boston chapter this summer and is looking to recruit several executive team members who can help build and manage the local organization. Additionally, we are interested in bringing aboard anyone who is excited about OYFP's mission and would like to be involved in other ways. Below is a brief description of the national organization as well as the list of roles we are trying to fill: On Your Feet Project (OYFP) is a national nonprofit organization engaging people in community service and activism by educating them about diverse nonprofit organizations and creating opportunities for direct community involvement by building partnerships with other nonprofit organizations and creating accessible, event-based outreach programs on their behalf that harness the power of popular culture and volunteerism. Specifically, OYFP develops and executes events such as concerts, art and photography shows, comedy jams, one day volunteer events, and volunteer orientation sessions, all of which focus on helping nonprofits educate young adults about their programs in addition to recruiting new volunteers. Presently, OYFP Boston is looking to fill the following roles: I. Treasurer The Treasurer will be responsible for drafting, maintaining and regulating the chapter budget. This individual will likely have a strong financial skills and be able to learn the specific procedures for a 501(c)3 recognized nonprofit organization. II. Public Relations Director This individual will handle all relevant media communications and be responsible for generating buzz leading up to events. Ideally, the PR lead will work for and/or have direct contacts with potential media partners for OYFP. III. Event Planning Director Though the entire executive team will rotate responsibilities for initiating events, the event planning leader will create and manage the timeline for each event. Specifically this role will involve setting milestones as well as completing and compiling the relevant paperwork and event data. IV. Volunteer Program Director This individual will be the main point of contact between OYFP and its partner nonprofits. Additionally the volunteer program leader will maintain an ongoing list of potential partner organizations and, where relevant, compile data about the impact of OYFP�s events. V. Membership Director The Membership Director will lead OYFP�s team building and outreach efforts. Responsibilities include developing creative and aggressive recruiting efforts for the chapter that both encourage broad interest in OYFP and target specific chapter needs. The Membership Director will also plan internal team social activities. VI. Sponsorship Director The Sponsorship Director can turn good events into great events. Responsibilities include leading OYFP�s efforts to seek out relevant sponsors for both benefit and volunteer events that boost attendance, defray event expenses and raise additional funds for our partner nonprofits. Attached is a more detailed description of the organization and its executive team openings. If you or any of your friends are interested in being involved in the launch or in any other way, please contact me at danielle.enage(a)oyfp.org. Thank you for your time. We hope to hear from you! Danielle Enage Bain & Company, Inc. | 3 Times Square | 25th Floor | USA tel: (1) 646-562-8324 fax: (1) 646-562-8080 mailto:danielle.enage@bain.com | web: www.bain.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

19 years

special olympics, this Sunday!

by Dudley Public Service

Dear All, Special Olympics Aquatics Qualifier for the state of Massachusetts is THIS Sunday at Simmons College. Interested? Please email Ernesto at martin2(a)fas.harvard.edu. Or, meet at the steps of Dudley House at 10:45am on Sunday. -The Public Service Team --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

19 years

Public Service Events

by Dudley Public Service

We'd like to be sure you've heard about all these upcoming public service events and opportunities around campus! 1. Harvard Graduate Council Charity Run 2. Harvard Blood Drive 3. Volunteer Opportunity in Romania this Summer 4. Forum: Should Lifesaving Drugs Be Free? Also, don't forget that Team Dudley will be doing the Charles River Clean-Up on April 30 and the Walk for Hunger on May ! ************************************* ***less than two weeks away*** On Sunday, April 24th, the Harvard Graduate Council will be hosting the second annual 5K run for charity, to benefit the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. The run will begin at 10am in the KSG courtyard. There will be a $20 sign-up fee, or $25 on the day of the race. The frist 350 participants will get a shirt with the race logo shown at www.hgc.harvard.edu Look for HGC reps tabling in your common areas in April to sign up, or sign up online and pre-register at www.hgc.harvard.edu If you want to volunteer, or you have questions, contact John Bayliss at jbayliss(a)mba2005.hbs.edu ****************************** From: Harvard Blood Drive [mailto:hbd@hcs.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:19 PM To: Harvard Blood Drive Subject: Blood Drive Next Week! Hi Friends of the Harvard Blood Drive! We're emailing to ask you to please stop by the Blood Drive next week to donate and/or volunteer your time. We have a brand new signup form on our website (http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hbd/) and there's new information about eligibility, especially regarding European travel, so please check it out and come on by! Hope to see you all next week at the drive! Sincerely, Harvard Blood Drive The Harvard Blood Drive & The Harvard Bone Marrow Drive would like to present The April Blood Donor of the Game Blood Drive! On... | Wednesday, April 20th, from 11 AM to 5 PM| | Thursday, April 21st, from 11 AM to 5 PM | | Friday, April 22nd, from 10 AM to 4 PM | in **LOKER COMMONS** The Harvard Bone Marrow Drive will also be holding a registration for those who would like to donate in the future on *Friday, April 22nd*. We will be raffling off: 2 TICKETS for a *RED SOX GAME*, complete with *RECOGNITION* at the game and a *COMMEMORATIVE SOUVENIR*! We will be giving away *FREE T-SHIRTS* designed by Jamie Ciocco, the contest winner from February. If you would like to DONATE or VOLUNTEER, please head to our website: www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hbd or call 1-800-GIVE LIFE *********************** To: dudley-list(a)fas.harvard.edu Subject: [Dudley House] Volunteer Opportunity in Romania this summer One of our Dudley undergraduates, Lia Costiner, is working in this program this summer and they are in need of more volunteers. If any of you are interested please check out the website and contact Lia directly. The program will take place in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains in Romania this summer between August 19-29. Volunteers will help in a Romanian orphan village, interacting and doing numerous activities with the children ranging from arts-and-crafts projects, to making pottery and to teaching the children English. There is also the possibility of embarking on a guided tour of the Romanian countryside, cities and monasteries. Room, board, and local transportation for the volunteers will be included in the program cost. I speak Romanian fluently and will serve as a translator and a guide during the August 19-29 trip, although people can choose to volunteer independently at this location any time during the summer. More information about the trip can be found at: http://www.unitedplanet.org/quest/quests/romania.htm Also, for questions please contact: costiner(a)fas.harvard.edu Sincerely, Lia Costiner ****************************************************** Life, Death and Property Rights: Should Lifesaving Drugs be Free? Paul Farmer, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School; Debora Spar (Moderator), Spangler Family Professor, Harvard Business School April 19, 2005 4:00pm Zero Arrow Street Theatre, Cambridge Mass. Third in a three-part series of debates this spring sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Co-sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

19 years

Public Intellectual Event TODAY and Dudley Raises $1240 for MS

by Dudley Public Service

Hi Everyone! We have two announcements: 1. Team Dudley rocks! AND raises $1240 for the National MS Society at Sunday's Boston MS Walk!! Way to go Team Dudley! Check out the attached pics of Team Dudley raring to go before the walk! Thanks to everyone who walked and to everyone who supported our team! 2. Don't forget about our "What Is a Public Intellectual?" panel 4:30-6:30PM TODAY (Monday). This panel is for all of you who care about making a difference outside the ivory tower! Hard to believe, but we've managed to get four academic superstars who are also inspiring public intellectuals to talk about the many cool things they've done to connect with public audiences, be activists, and take (often quite controversial) stands on issues that matter to all of us like racism, war, and human rights. We hope to see you there!! Mendelsohn-Anderson Forum: WHAT IS A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL? Monday, April 11 4:30-6:30PM Common Room, Dudley House (Lehman Hall in Harvard Yard) JON BECKWITH, American Cancer Society Professor, Harvard Medical School MERLE GOLDMAN, Professor of History, Emerita, Boston University ORLANDO PATTERSON, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Moderated by EVERETT MENDELSOHN, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Panelists will reflect on their experiences as scholars involved in public debates, reaching out to the public in non-academic fora, and balancing their academic and more public pursuits. An open and informal discussion will follow. Bring your questions! Refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend. * A Dudley House Public Service and Intellectual/Cultural Event * ABOUT THE PANELISTS JON BECKWITH is American Cancer Society Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of a memoir, Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science (2002) and coeditor of The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society (2002). A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Beckwith is the author of over 230 scientific publications and over 70 publications on science and social issues. He has been active in public discussions of issues of the social impact of genetics since 1969. He devoted many years to Science for the People, an organization dedicated to describing the social and political influences on scientific research and its uses. Professor Beckwith has analyzed biological determinist thinking, launching critiques of such areas as sociobiology, IQ and genetic studies, �the criminal chromosome,� and claims that women are inferior to men in their mathematical ability for biological reasons. Professor Beckwith was appointed to the first Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project at the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health. MERLE GOLDMAN is Professor of History, Emerita of Boston University and a member of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. Professor Goldman is the author of China�s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Decade (1994). She is the co-author with John Fairbank of China: A New History (1998). Her forthcoming book From Comrade To Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, will be published by Harvard University Press in the fall of 2005. Professor Goldman has been a member of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights and is Adjunct Professor in the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. Her articles have appeared in the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and many other newspapers and magazines. ORLANDO PATTERSON is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His book Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991) won the National Book Award. He is presently completing the a second volume of Freedom which deals with the modern world. He has published the first two volumes of a trilogy addressing the intersecting problems of race, immigration, and multiculturalism in contemporary America, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis (1997) and Rituals of Blood: The Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (1998). Professor Patterson has published three novels, a number of anthologized short stories, and numerous reviews and critical essays. Patterson was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association in 1983 (The Sorokin Prize), and was co-winner of the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. Professor Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has appeared frequently in major newspapers and magazines, most recently in an influential commentary in The New York Times on the concepts of freedom, terrorism, and tyranny and their current uses in American politics. ABOUT THE MODERATOR EVERETT MENDELSOHN is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is also the former Master of Dudley House. He has worked extensively on the history of the life sciences as well as on aspects of the social and sociological history of science and the relations of science and modern societies. He is past president of the International Council for Science Policy Studies and has been deeply involved in the relations between science and modern war as a founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, and the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies. He was a founder and first president of the Cambridge based Institute for Peace and International Security. He was awarded the Gregor Mendel Medal of the reorganized Czechoslovak Academy of Science in 1991. He received recognition for his teaching when awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1996. Among recent publications are the jointly edited volumes, The Practices of Human Genetics (1999), Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors (1994), Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism (1993), and Science, Technology, and the Military (1988). For more information about the event, please contact Lee Mack (mack(a)fas.harvard.edu). --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

19 years

Monday, 4/11: WHAT IS A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL?

by Maria Edmonds Stalford

Hi Dudley Volunteers, We hope many of you can join us for this star-studded event. Our panelists have a lot of amazing experience to share on a topic that concerns us all. Please help us get the word out by circulating to your friends and anyone else who might be interested! Also, don't forget about the Walk for Hunger info session 12-3 today in Holyoke Arcade and the MS Walk on Sunday! Happy spring! --Maria, Dudley Public Service ************************* Mendelsohn-Anderson Forum: WHAT IS A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL? Monday, April 11 4:30-6:30PM Graduate Student Lounge, Dudley House (Lehman Hall in Harvard Yard) JON BECKWITH, American Cancer Society Professor, Harvard Medical School MERLE GOLDMAN, Professor of History, Emerita, Boston University ORLANDO PATTERSON, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Moderated by EVERETT MENDELSOHN, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Panelists will reflect on their experiences as scholars involved in public debates, reaching out to the public in non-academic fora, and balancing their academic and more public pursuits. An open and informal discussion will follow. Bring your questions! Refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend. * A Dudley House Public Service and Intellectual/Cultural Event * ABOUT THE PANELISTS JON BECKWITH is American Cancer Society Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of a memoir, Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science (2002) and coeditor of The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society (2002). A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Beckwith is the author of over 230 scientific publications and over 70 publications on science and social issues. He has been active in public discussions of issues of the social impact of genetics since 1969. He devoted many years to Science for the People, an organization dedicated to describing the social and political influences on scientific research and its uses. Professor Beckwith has analyzed biological determinist thinking, launching critiques of such areas as sociobiology, IQ and genetic studies, the criminal chromosome, and claims that women are inferior to men in their mathematical ability for biological reasons. Professor Beckwith was appointed to the first Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project at the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health. MERLE GOLDMAN is Professor of History, Emerita of Boston University and a member of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. Professor Goldman is the author of Chinas Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Decade (1994). She is the co-author with John Fairbank of China: A New History (1998). Her forthcoming book From Comrade To Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, will be published by Harvard University Press in the fall of 2005. Professor Goldman has been a member of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights and is Adjunct Professor in the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. Her articles have appeared in the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and many other newspapers and magazines. ORLANDO PATTERSON is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His book Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991) won the National Book Award. He is presently completing the a second volume of Freedom which deals with the modern world. He has published the first two volumes of a trilogy addressing the intersecting problems of race, immigration, and multiculturalism in contemporary America, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis (1997) and Rituals of Blood: The Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (1998). Professor Patterson has published three novels, a number of anthologized short stories, and numerous reviews and critical essays. Patterson was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association in 1983 (The Sorokin Prize), and was co-winner of the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. Professor Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has appeared frequently in major newspapers and magazines, most recently in an influential commentary in The New York Times on the concepts of freedom, terrorism, and tyranny and their current uses in American politics. ABOUT THE MODERATOR EVERETT MENDELSOHN is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is also the former Master of Dudley House. He has worked extensively on the history of the life sciences as well as on aspects of the social and sociological history of science and the relations of science and modern societies. He is past president of the International Council for Science Policy Studies and has been deeply involved in the relations between science and modern war as a founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, and the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies. He was a founder and first president of the Cambridge based Institute for Peace and International Security. He was awarded the Gregor Mendel Medal of the reorganized Czechoslovak Academy of Science in 1991. He received recognition for his teaching when awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1996. Among recent publications are the jointly edited volumes, The Practices of Human Genetics (1999), Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors (1994), Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism (1993), and Science, Technology, and the Military (1988). For more information about the event, please contact Lee Mack (mack(a)fas.harvard.edu).

19 years

MS Walk THIS SUNDAY

by Dudley Public Service

Beautiful spring days are for WALKING! The forecast for this Sunday says mostly sunny, high in the 60's. What better way to celebrate spring than taking a walk along the river with friends to support a great cause! The MS Walk is THIS SUNDAY, 4/10! Meet on the Dudley House steps at 11 AM (corrected time) for bagels and juice and to receive your free Team Dudley T-Shirt! Join Team Dudley as we walk to raise funds and awareness for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society�s research, education, and support for people with MS and their loved ones. Walkers may choose to walk a scenic 3- or 6-mile route along the Charles River. Invite your friends to join you for a springtime stroll! The National Multiple Sclerosis Society devotes 85 cents of every dollar raised to MS research and to helping fund local initiatives like peer support groups, education and programs that connect people with MS to health care experts. These efforts are working. For example, just ten years ago, there were no approved treatments for MS. Now, there are six! For more information about the MS Walk, visit http://www.nationalmssociety.org/MAM/event/default.asp?g=7 If you would like to participate in the walk, please 1. Let your Dudley Public Service Fellows you�re coming by emailing Maria at dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com 2. The online registration period has now closed, so if you haven't registered online you can register at the walk site. 3. Invite friends, family, classmates, and neighbors to sponsor you or join our team! Print out a pledge sheet and contribution form from the MS Walk website to keep track of your pledges (http://www.nationalmssociety.org/MAM/event/event_page.asp?p=5512&e=6369). Be sure to bring any checks or cash you receive to the walk along with the pledge sheet and confirmation form. If you have already registered online, you can also collect donations through your personal fundraising webpage! Team Dudley hopes to raise $1000. Let's do it together! 4. Get ready, get set, walk! See you on Sunday, April 10! Go Team Dudley! --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Better first dates. More second dates. Yahoo! Personals

19 years

Walk for Hunger and Support the Homeless Meals Program

by Dudley Public Service

Hi Everyone, We'd like to let you know about Harvard University Dining Services' wonderful efforts to field a big team and provide lots of volunteer support at Project Bread's Walk for Hunger coming up on May 1! Harvard has long supported the Walk for Hunger and provides matching funds for Harvard walkers through the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs. If you'd like to get more information about the Walk for Hunger and HUDS' efforts, please drop by and visit their sign-up and pledge session THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 12-3PM Harvard Events and Information Center in the Holyoke Arcade. As many of you know, the Harvard Square Homeless Meals Program where Dudley volunteers help out each week is one of the many amazing programs supported by the Walk for Hunger. Many of us have seen first-hand what a huge difference this support makes! If you have any questions about Harvard's participation in the Walk for Hunger, please contact >>Jessica Zdeb, Administrator for the Food Literacy Project, Harvard University Dining Services >>ph. (617) 496-6201 >>jessica_zdeb(a)harvard.edu If you'd like to sign up for the walk online, visit http://www.projectbread.org/Walk/walk.html Be sure to sign up as a member of the "Harvard University" team to be eligible for Harvard matching funds! It'd be wonderful to get a Dudley contingent together, so please do let us know if you plan to participate in the walk as a walker or volunteer! All best and happy spring! --Maria, Denise, and Ernesto --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

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Special Olympics Aquatics Qualifier

by Dudley Public Service

I hope everyone is starting off to a great week! The Special Olympics Aquatics Qualifier will be at Simmons College on April 24th. As a part of the event management, there will be two Volunteer Orientations, only one of which you need to attend, the coordinators have scheduled 2 in an attempt to accomodate everyone's schedules. Simmons College is near the Longwood Medical Area, so we can use the LM2 shuttle to get to the orientations (but not the actual event...the LM2 doesn't run on Sundays). The first is this coming Saturday April 9th in quadside on the Simmons Residence campus from 11am-12pm. The second will be on Wednesday April 13 at the Simmons Main College Building from 4pm-5pm (with a room to come soon). The orientation is aimed at providing you with information about the day of the event as well as signing you up for specific tasks to be in charge of on the day of the event. I will be going to the Saturday one, so if anyone wants to wait with me at the Lamont Library LM2 shuttle stop at 9:45am, that would be great! If you have any questions, please email Ernesto at martin2(a)fas.harvard.edu or Ashley Mackes (the event management coordinator) at mackes(a)simmons.edu. Have a great week, -Ernesto --------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley Public Service Fellows Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 496-5459 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

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