Divinity School Featured on 'Today'

A five-part series on NBC's "Today" show this week includes several segments featuring class discussions and interviews with faculty members and students from Harvard Divinity School, according to a Divinity School spokesperson.

NBC officials decided to shoot segments for the show at Harvard because of the Divinity School's work on issues relating to women and religion, public policy and progressive attitudes towards the study of religion, according to "Today" show producer Marlo Bendau.

Gardner said that NBC's "Religion in America" series, which first aired on Monday, focuses on religion in the 1990s the roles of women, Blacks and Native Americans in religious organizations and the relationship between religion and public policy.

Therese Amott, a visiting professor at Harvard whose class was taped for the show, said the Divinity School "is well known for its women's studies program and for the level of action coming out of the school. Filming here suggests that the show is interested in looking at cutting edge issues."

New HSA Organization To Entertain Harvard

A new organization formed by Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) will provide Harvard student entertainers with a hiring and job placement service beginning next semester, HSA organizers said yesterday.

The new agency will hire student bands, string quartets, clowns, mimes and musicians to perform at social functions at Harvard and throughout the Boston area, said President of HSA Vivian Y. Hunt '89.

The new agency, scheduled to begin operating on February 1, will take over some of the functions of Harvard Student Resources, an HSA-run organization which manages catering and moving businesses, operates a bartending school and occasionally hires entertainers, Hunt said. The new agency will direct the bartending school and entertainment management.

"Plenty of people out there want to use their talents to make some money. It's just a matter of getting a central body," said Edward J. Larkin '90, founder of the new agency.

HSA is in the process of hiring a manager for its new organization, Hunt said.

Anti-Abortion Protests

A nationwide anti-abortion group plans to protest at unspecified abortion clinics in Brookline this Saturday, and several pro-choice groups are also planning counter-demonstrations in the area.

Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., has proclaimed Saturday "National Rescue Day," and has organized protests around the country to prevent women from entering abortions clinics.

The group, which staged well-publicized protests in Atlanta over the summer, demonstrated at a clinic in Brookline last week.

An Operation Rescue spokesperson said that the protestors will "peacefully sit down and block the way to the killing centers," adding that the group's protestors are all required to attend "non-violent training sessions before demonstrations at the killing centers."

Two pro-choice groups, the Coalition to Defend Abortion Rights (CDAR), which includes several Harvard students, and the Coalition for Choice (CFC), have organized counter-protests in the Boston area for Saturday.