President Bok, in a last-ditch attempt to win the Kennedy Library for Harvard, offers to trade the new Pusey Library for it. In a letter to UMass President Robert Wood, Bok writes: "Any university can do the easy and popular thing, establishing a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. But only a really interesting school would think of naming a library after Nathan Marsh Pusey."

The H-R Gay Students Association, unable to find a presidential candidate who is gay, endorses Bayh.

Art Garfunkel, Denny Doyle, George Romney, Shecky Greene, Susan Ford, Frank Fitzsimmons, Squeaky Fromme, Karen Ann Quinlan and Sonny Bono all decline invitations to speak at Class Day.

June

Class Day speaker Frank Fisher, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, tells seniors that 56 per cent of them will work as unskilled laborers after leaving Harvard. "If you want to know who you are, just drop by my office," he adds.

Spiro Pavlovich sues the Law School for defamation of characters.

The Crimson publishes a list of candidates President Bok is considering for the Deanship of the Med School. The list includes: Doc Watson, Doc Medich, E.L. Doctorow, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Doctor John, Baby Doc Duvalier, Doc Hines, Dock Ellis, Otis Redding, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Doctor Doolittle.

President Ford concedes during a televised news conference that the Alaskan pipeline is "certainly a can of worms, that's for darn sure." But he refuses to comment further, saying he prefers not to meddle in the internal affairs of a foreign country.

Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen tells an overflow crowd in Holyoke 833, "Some people say, 'America, Love It or Leave It.' Well, in this bicentennial year I say, 'America, Build It or Boot It.'"

July

E.O. Wilson tells People Magazine he has discovered it is normal to eat eight times one's body weight. He reports that his conclusion grew out of experiments involving snakes and ants.

Carl Oglesby, director of the Assassination Information Bureau in Boston, says he has proof that President Kennedy died from food poisoning. "Naturally, the culinary angle was completely covered up by the Warren Commission," he says.

The two Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner."

After his convention victory, Democratic presidential nominee Birch Bayh announces that he wants Lester J. Centennial of Pocatello, Idaho, as his running mate. "I realize he's not exactly a household name," Bayh tells reporters, "but I just couldn't resist."

August