Harvard Today: October 20, 2014

Happy Monday! We all know that no one looks forward to Mondays, so here are a few things you can look forward to instead:

11 days until Halloween: time to start convincing yourself that Halloween deserves to be celebrated for the whole weekend by partying irresponsibly every night!

33 days until Harvard-Yale: when we pretend that we know how to tailgate football games and have lots of fun at a sporting event!

37 days until Thanksgiving break: what we look forward to while all our other friends are off this week for fall break (seriously, not fair?!).

45 days until reading period: and by reading we mean having an open tab of all the readings you need to do for your finals but actually watching TV and sleeping to your heart’s content.

61 days until winter break: time to forget about this past semester and promise yourself that you’ll do better next time (lol).

By Daniel N. Yue

IN THE ATMOSPHERE
It’s going to be a nice, crisp day today! It’ll be sunny all day, a high of 58 degrees and a zero percent chance of rain! I guess there has to be at least one thing good about Monday, right?

IN THE D-HALL
Lunch:
Coconut Curry Chicken
Baked Multigrain Penne with Mozzarella
Pepper, Tomato, Black Bean and Montery Jack Quesadillas

Dinner:
Cilantro and Lime Baked Swai Fish
Roast Turkey Breast
Spinach Ricotta Casserole

ON FLYBY
1) What Your Favorite Annenberg Cookie Says About You: I mean, we’ve obviously all thought before about fitting our personalities into HUDS cookies.

2) Lamont Café Has Some Competition: A cool café minus the stress and sadness of Lamont.

3) Autumn Daycations!: Mini trips away from the Harvard bubble, yay!

4) To Jump Off Weeks Bridge or Not To Jump Off Weeks Bridge?: That is the question.

IN THE NEWS
1) Harvard Tightens Travel Restrictions as Ebola Outbreak Worsens: “Harvard affiliates wishing to travel on University business to the countries most affected by Ebola must now obtain the approval of University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and their respective School dean, according to a new set of guidelines the University disseminated on Friday.”

2) In Keynote, Abramson Urges Women To Be Resilient: “Jill E. Abramson ’76, former executive editor of The New York Times, encouraged young women to persevere through setbacks in their personal and professional lives during her keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Business Convention at Hynes Convention Center Saturday.”

3) Teaching Campaign Gets Another Endorsement, Plans Outreach: “The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality unanimously endorsed the Harvard Teaching Campaign last Thursday, becoming the fifth department or committee to extend its support of the movement of teaching fellows that aims to improve the undergraduate educational experience by urging the University to adopt a 12-student cap on section and lab group sizes.”

ON SPORTS
1) Oarsmen Notch Podium Finishes at Head of the Charles: “Despite struggling at the start of the races, many boats from the Harvard men’s crew teams were able to improve throughout their races to end strong. No crew tallied an outright race victory, but Crimson entries earned top three finishes in the main races for heavyweight and lightweight eights.”

EVENTS
The OCS is having a free-lancing information session today at The Signet at 46 Dunster Street from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a panel of performing and visual artists talking about how they've made freelance work for them!

The Seneca and the Harvard Women's Law Association are having a Women's Faculty Reception today from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Milstein East, Wasserstein Hall at the Law School! There will be a reception and a faculty panel celebrating female faculty members of Harvard!

There's a study break tonight entitled Ebony and Ivy: Exploring Experiences of People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions at 7:30 p.m. in the Shephard Room at PBHA. There will also be a light dinner served.

PHOTO OF THE DAY
Two crew teams competing in the Men's Club Fours race pass under the Boston University bridge on Saturday afternoon.