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Honor Roll
The end of the academic year brings awards for alumni and faculty alike. Winners of Pulitzer Prizes this year included four Harvardians. Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell '58, M.Arch. '67, won for criticism. (His comments on the Harvard Union's renovation were quoted in the May-June issue, page 76.) Jack Miles, Ph.D. '71, won the biography prize for God: A Biography (reviewed in the September-October 1995 issue, page 107). Alix M. Freedman '79, of the Wall Street Journal, won the national reporting prize for coverage of the tobacco industry. And Rick Bragg, a 1993 Nieman Fellow now at the New York Times, was recognized for feature writing about the American South. One of his stories was a moving portrait of the 87-year-old Oseola McCarty ("She is 5 feet tall and would weigh 100 pounds with rocks in her pockets"), a washerwoman who managed to save up $150,000 that she donated to the University of Southern Mississippi for scholarships for African-American students. McCarty's selflessness was recognized at Commencement with an honorary degree-filling out a formal education which ended in sixth grade.

Victoria L. Purcell-Gates, associate professor of education, and Ivan A. Tcherepnin '64, A.M. '69, director of Harvard's electronic music studio, won the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Awards, which recognize outstanding ideas that can "help make the world a better place." Purcell-Gates was recognized in education for her book, Other People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy. Tcherepnin won in music composition for Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra.

At the Graduate School of Design, Jos� Rafael Moneo, Sert professor in architecture and former chair of the architecture department, won the 1996 Pritzker Prize, considered the foremost international award in architecture. Moneo is currently working on an addition to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

M.B.A.s Go GMAT
After an 11-year hiatus, the Harvard Business School will again require applicants to its master's program in business administration to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test. In explaining the decision to use the standardized test for applicants entering in September 1997 and beyond, Jill Fadule, M.B.A. '89, director of admissions at the school, cited "significant improvements" in its structure, including the addition of a graded writing sample. And for convenience, beginning in October 1997, the test will be offered primarily by computer, on dates that applicants arrange by telephone.

College Convictions
Gleanings from a spring telephone poll of 312 undergraduates this spring show that some 53 percent of the respondents think the United States spends too much on defense; 39 percent support a "moment of silence" in public schools; 72 percent believe that affirmative action is "good in principle but needs to be reformed"; and 75 percent oppose curbs on distributing pornography over the Internet. About 80 percent of the students considered themselves moderate to liberal on social issues (huge majorities support abortion rights, immigration, and civil rights protections for gays and lesbians), but slightly more than half ranked themselves moderate to conservative on economic questions (84 percent said free trade promotes economic growth and strengthens American businesses). The poll, directed by Serena K. Mayeri '97, assistant managing editor of the Harvard Political Review, was conducted by HPR staffers and student associates of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. For views from an older generation, see "The College Pump" on page 94.

Retiring Types
Along with Richard Pipes, Ph.D. '50, Baird professor of history, and Jurij Striedter, Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and literatures (May-June, page 83), the following members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have also become emeritus: Charles W. Burnham, professor of mineralogy; Kwang-Chih Chang, Ph.D. '60, Hudson professor of archaeology; Arthur E. Lilley, Ph.D. '56, professor of astronomy; and Muhsin S. Mahdi, Jewett professor of Arabic. Also, Sally Falk Moore, professor of anthropology; Masatoshi Nagatomi, Ph.D. '57, professor of Buddhist studies; Ulrich Petersen, Ph.D. '63, Dudley professor of economic geology; Henry Rosovsky, Ph.D. '59, Geyser University professor; Abdelhamid I. Sabra, professor of the history of Arabic science; and Albert Szabo, M.Arch. '52, professor of architecture.

Endowed
A new University professorship has been created by Alphonse Fletcher Jr. '87, chairman and chief executive officer of Fletcher Asset Management Inc. President Neil L. Rudenstine said Fletcher hopes the chair will be held by a professional school faculty member "devoted to teaching and research about contemporary moral, religious, and social values, and whose interests include undergraduate education."

Deceased
On May 17, Frances L. Loeb, who together with her husband, John L. Loeb '24, LL.D. '71, made many contributions to the University over the years, most magnificently in 1995, when they pledged $70.5 million as part of the University Campaign.

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