January 1971

NIXON divorces Pat, starts to date Jill St. John. Kissinger returns to Harvard in a huff. "I want to be alone," he tells a University Gazette reporter before sequestering himself in his Littauer laboratories. Dean May says the Harvard Administration welcomes Kissinger back, and immediately appoints him to five committees, including the newly created and already popular Faculty-Student Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnamization and Curriculum Reform. May announces election procedures for the new committee are being hammered out by the Faculty Council Temporary Subcommittee on Election Procedures for All Committees Beginning With A-M. Shown at right is DEAN MAY (with pointer) explaining new Faculty organization chart with KISSINGER (left, demonstrating letters A through M).

Oscar Handlin resigns tenure to devote full time to his column. Other literary notes: Archie Epps returns to Commentary. Best of the Harvard University Gazette published by Harper and Row, edited with Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Called by Book World, "A Congressional Record for our time."

February

VIVA SUPERSTAR to play Cliffie in new Godard film with screenplay by Hilary Putnam. Plot concerns preppy jock from Winthrop House who falls in love with poor Cliffie on music scholarship who later dies in shootout with the pigs. With Mick Jagger and Joseph Rhodes Jr. Dean May announces Bernard Bailyn and Roger Rosenblatt to head Committee on Filmmaking and Curriculum Reform. Bailyn announces interim subcommittee for procedures to hammer out students. At extreme left is still from movie, showing SUPERSTAR (smiling) and F. SKIDDY von STADE JR. dedicating Mather House (center) as a day care facility.

Mrs. Patricia Nixon Niarchos announces her forthcoming book, Sex Crises. Other literary notes: In his new book, The City Really Stinks, Edward Banfield asserts: "What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god." In Cambridge, Dean May rejects Banfield's thesis that the Faculty is infinite. "Our Faculty is badly overworked," claims May tartly as he releases to the press the names of five new interim committees.

The University Gazette announces that President and Mrs. Pusey will be At Home March 1, and will welcome Faculty members and their wives for tea.

March

MRS. PUSEY welcomes Faculty members and Black Panthers to fundraising tea. Tea a great success, raising $15,000 for the new science center.

Pusey announces additional retirement plans. Will take continuing role in Sesame Street, playing a lovable old neighborhood college president.

The New York Times criticizes President Nixon editorially for his "disappointing response to complex phenomena," adding that "this whole society controlled by the rutting clique is parasitic, vulturistic, and cannibalistic, and is sucking and destroying the life of the workers," The Times concludes "Nevertheless, more needs to be done."

In a pique after three White House screenings of Love Story, Nixon orders "protective reaction nuclear elimination" of Latin America and Communist China. "Genocide means never having to say you're sorry," he explains. In response, SDS calls for a demonstration demanding: 1.) pro-rata exclusionary rebates for all scab lettuce; 2.) no reprisals against workers with overdue library books; 3.) restoration of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians. "We will not leave these steps until Racist Boss Wiggins [known to his close personal friends as "Administrative Vice President L. Gard Wiggins"-Ed.] accedes to all our demands," SDS says.

Federal agents arrest 150,000 student radic-libs and place them in detention centers. Boston Globe runs series on "The New Quiet Mood on College Campuses."

April

DEAN MAY announces creation of new Committee on Roger Rosenblatt and Curriculum Reform. "Curriculum Reform is a dead issue but Roger isn't yet," May is reported to have said around the pool at the Belmont Community Center. Shown above is Professor JAMES Q. WILSON, demonstrating the swan dive he has perfected while on sabbatical, as Dean MAY and his predecessor FRED GLIMP, now a member of the Belmont School Board, discuss ways of revitalizing Harvard College.

J. Edgar Hoover tenders his resignation to President Nixon, commenting with disgust, "the President has exterminated one third of the human race, without consulting me."

May

CHASE N. PETERSON '52, dean of Admissions, announces that the incoming class of 1975, "while not the brightest in Harvard history, demonstrate a terrific versatility of talents-from middle linebacker to shortstop." He thanks the Ohio State Republican Club for helping to find "1200 healthy males not currently enrolled in detention centers."

University Registrar Robert Shenton announces that all students who have taken leaves of absence without permission to enter detention centers will be permitted to re-enroll upon their release "to the extent they can be accommodated by this Faculty without disrupting Faculty members' research." Shenton says such students will be permitted to take make-up exams "provided they have not signed up for a fifth course-excluding tutorial-on or before the third week following the full moon after the first of the year, whichever comes last, subject to the approval of the Faculty Council." Outraged at such lenience, David Landes, professor of History, announces that his course next Fall will contain an hour exam every day "in case events overtake us halfway through the term again, because these guys are getting away with murder just because there's a war on."

Professor Landes is arrested for publicly claiming that there's a war on.