Harvard Today: February 20, 2015

By Dominic C. Glover

Happy Friday! It’s the weekend...again! Wasn’t it just the weekend like, a couple days ago? Amazing how quickly time is flying by, but no one's complaining that it's Friday.

By Daniel N. Yue

IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Get ready for sun! Put on some sunglasses and slather on sunscreen to get ready for the day. The only downside to this fantastic light-filled day is that it’s going to be one of the coldest yet. With chilly highs of 17 degrees and arctic lows of -1 degrees, you better rethink tanning in the Yard.

IN THE D-HALL
Lunch:
Catch of the Day
Chicken Parmesan Sub
Tofu and Broccoli with Peanut Sauce

Dinner:
Honey BBQ Pulled Chicken
Meat Lasagna
Yosenabe Japanese Fish Stew
Quinoa and Vegetable Jamalaya

ON FLYBY:
1) 50 Shades of Grey: Worth the Watch?: Considering watching it this weekend? Check out this review before you go.

2) The Noshoes Verdict: Disney’s Frozen is Based On My Life: Elsa. Kristoff. And our staff writer Betty "Noshoes" Richardson.

IN THE NEWS
1) Campus Calendar Application Opens to Undergrads: “The smartphone calendar application Ventfull is now open for Harvard undergraduates to use after the Undergraduate Council paid to bring the service to campus for the semester.”

2) New Civil War Course Finds its Footing Among Various Disciplines, Venues: “Four theatrical productions, visits to Harvard archives, and an array of literary texts comprise the curriculum for a History and Literature offering, taught by lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. The new course, “Staging the Civil War—From the Archive to the A.R.T.,” bridges disparate disciplines and methodologies, bringing a novel perspective to a 150-year-old war.”

3) Faculty for Divestment Support Goals of Student Sit-In: “Members of Harvard Faculty for Divestment praised the goals of a student sit-in staged last Thursday in Massachusetts Hall, home to the office of University President Drew G. Faust, arguing that the protest returned attention to demands that the University withdraw its investments in fossil fuel companies.”

4) Law Profs Challenge Title IX Policy’s Protection of Academic Freedom: “As Harvard Law School moves to depart from Harvard’s newly centralized procedures for investigating cases of alleged sexual misconduct, a group of Law professors continue to criticize the University-wide policy that defines sexual harassment, claiming that it offers lackluster protections of academic freedom.”

IN SPORTS
1) Men’s Basketball to Host Struggling Tigers, Quakers: “After tying a season high with its sixth consecutive win Saturday, the Harvard men’s basketball team (17-5, 7-1 Ivy) will try to complete a perfect 4-0 homestand when it welcomes conference foes Penn (7-14, 2-5) and Princeton (11-12, 4-3) to Lavietes Pavilion this weekend. Dating back to the 2012-2013 season, Harvard has won 15 of its last 17 conference home games.”

2) Skiing Earns Fifth Consecutive Top-10 Finish: “The Harvard skiing team extended its streak of top-10 finishes to five this weekend with a 10th place finish at the Middlebury Carnival. The Crimson had a strong performance overall, coming in the top 10 as a team in six of the eight events.”

EVENTS: WEEKEND EDITION
The IOP is having an event today featuring two recent Harvard grads who are now working for the public sector in New York City and Washington D.C. It is at 12 p.m. in the IOP 2nd Floor Common Room.

There will be a talk about debunking fad diets today at 4 p.m. in Emerson 108. Everyone who attends will have a chance to win a cookbook!

The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum is hosting Women in Power: The Impact of “Critical Mass” today at 4:30 p.m., a panel of influential female speakers moderated by Jay Newton-Small, spring 2015 IOP resident fellow.

Come out to IDENTITIES 2015 Fashion Show Auditions this weekend at Emerson 105: today from 7-10 p.m., tomorrow from 5-10 p.m., and Sunday from 12-5 p.m.

IGP is having a free show today with IGP's Player of the Year, Keegan-Michael Key from Key & Peele! It will be at 8 p.m. in Science Center C.

Join the Harvard Foundation for its 30th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival honoring Eva Longoria and featuring performances from student groups on campus this Saturday at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Buy tickets now!

The Harvard Foundation is also having a Cultural Rhythms 30 Food Festival on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Science Center, featuring 20 menu items from all over the world!

PHOTO OF THE DAY
Freshmen brave freezing temperatures at the Class of 2018 Ice Skating Party on Thursday evening in the Science Center Plaza. The event was put on by the Freshman Dean's Office with free skate rentals, hot chocolate and s'mores.