January

jan, 15 -H-R X holds University Hall for 12 hours demanding "a new style of leadership amongst the father figures of our administration." They call Dean May "a marine, a Texan, and a cultural hangover from the macabre fifties."

Jan. 19- The Beatles' Get Back album is released in stores in this country. It includes cuts called "Blue Suede Shoes." "Silly Sister Celina." and "Groovy. If You Can Dig h." It sells 5,648,355 copies in the first six days. Reviewer Andy Klein, writing in the CRIMSON, calls it "the most remarkable musical innovation of the decade." While BAD rock critie Ken Emerson co-reviewing the album with releases by the Gratcfui Dead and Terry Reid, says "the Beaules have dropped to a point of musical insignificance."

February

Feb. 14 -The Committee of Rights and Responsibilities suspends 17 students in five categories and warns 27 others in three categories for their roles in the 11-R X demonstration. The severed students are found to have "severely hassled" Dean May.

Feb 15-65 per cent of the students don't attend classes in seeming support for the "Valentine's Day 17" The University News Office releases a statement saying attendance at classes was normal. H-R X issues a press release confirming that that was the normal attendance.

Feb. 24 -A small, new record company. The Family Jam Inc., releases a double album set of "soul-folk" songs by Charlie Manson, alleged ritual murderer of Sharon Tate and five others. Advance orders have already made if a gold record. Manson signs a new contract with Columbia Records in the afternoon.

March

Mar. 19 -Sales of Cupid's Quiver five flavors of douche continue to rise.

Mar. 23 -H-R YAF (Young Americans for Freedom) and H-R YPSI. (Young People's Socialist League) each muster their entire numbers on the turf over the Mem Hall underpass at dawn for a duel to settle their differences. Laszlo Pasztor, the Hungarian refugee who founded YAF, and Steven Kelman, the middle class Jew who created YPSL, fire simultaneously and kill each other. Their memberships cut in half, both organizations dissolve.

Mar. 27 -Carbon dating tests discover the Pyramids of Egypt to be only 1100 years old-mere fakes thrown up by capricious monarchs during the idleness of the Dark Ages.

April

Apr. 12 -The first issue of The National Lampoon hits the newsstands. Every living Harvard alumnus buys a copy. Every living Harvard alumnus in a position of corporate power has had his corporation put an ad in it. There are ads for General Dynamics, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Aircraft, Raytheon, and many other companies. The cover story is a "lampoon" of defense industries.

Apr. 17 -Khrushchev's birthday.

Apr. 24 -The engines of a giant 747 jet flying over Manhattan fail when they are unable to carry on combustion due to lack of oxygen. All 360 passengers and crewmen are killed along with the 143 residents of the apartments it hits in Brooklyn.

Apr. 25 -The Commonwealth of Massachusetts takes Harvard Stadium by eminent domain and refuses to lease it to Harvard on the weekends when the Boston Patriots play home games. Harvard, having given tacit support to the principle of eminent domain in the famous Cambridge NASA Center fiasco, is in no position to object. The Harvard Varsity Club, the second largest independent corporation in Massachusetts, lets it be known that unless Harvard provides the football team with a stadium by the fall of 1970, they will move elsewhere.

May

May 8 -An impromptu coalition of ecology groups, New College people, and so-called existentialists inaugurates for the second year a plan for the mass refusal to take final exams. If 2000 of the 6000 undergraduates sign the statement, they will refuse to take finals in all of their essay-oriented courses, and will offer to write papers instead. The Dean of the College says he is dismayed.

May 18 -WSA liberates University Hall for the last-and final time. They give it to Mayor Vellucci' as a gesture of friendship towards the working people of Cambridge.

May 26 -Andy Warhol dies in his sleep.

June