Harvard Today: May 13, 2015

Parents and relatives help students move out of Eliot House. Underclassmen must be moved out by Sunday, May 17th, while seniors must be moved out by Friday, May 29th. By Anneli L. Tostar

Happy Wednesday, Harvard! The end is so close– that is the end to this semester, your sleep-deprived self, having to walk through a sea of tourists just to get anywhere lately, and everything else Harvard-related!

IN THE ATMOSPHERE

It’s going to be a bit chillier today, and by chillier we mean around 65 degrees! It’s also going to be partly cloudy and windy.

IN THE D-HALL

Lunch

Beef Fajita Fettuccine

Spicy Buffalo Chicken Sub

Spicy Tofu with Green Bean

Dinner

Baby Shells with Ham and Peas

Mesquite Rotisserie Chicken

Vegetable Pot Pie with Biscuits

IN THE NEWS

1) Homeless Man Assaulted in Harvard Square: “Officers from the Cambridge Police Department responded to an assault in progress in Harvard Square at about 11 p.m. last Saturday night, according to a CPD report. The victim, a homeless man who normally stays at the Boston emergency shelter Pine Street Inn, was kicked and punched by several other homeless men who fled the scene before police could arrive, according to the report.”

2) Darnton, University Librarian, Will Depart This Summer: “Robert C. Darnton ’60, the Harvard University librarian and a University professor, will step down from his post in Wadsworth House on June 30 after an eight-year tenure at the helm of Harvard’s library system, which recently saw a move toward digitization.”

3) Junior Faculty Win Abramson Award for Teaching: “Associate professors Ruth Bielfeldt and Sarah S. Richardson were awarded the annual Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching last week.”

ON ARTS

1) Lowell Holds Annual May Day Poetry Reading: The Lowell House Poemical Society held its annual May Day Poetry Reading in Lowell’s Senior Common Room on the evening of May 1. A group of about 30 masters, deans, and other affiliates of Lowell House, as well as College and graduate students, gathered for about 20 recitations, ranging from Sanskrit verse to e.e. cummings, from Keats to student compositions.

EVENTS

There’s a Wellness on the Plaza Boot Camp at 7 a.m. today in the Science Center Plaza.

There’s a Bike to Work Breakfast today from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Mt. Auburn Street across from the Smith Center. Bring your helmet to show for free food and giveaways.