November

In an effort to circumvent a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that allows clerical workers in the Medical Area to unionize, Harvard announces plans to move the Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools and all of Harvard's teaching hospitals to Louisiana. "If that isn't a separate bargaining area, nothing is," Daniel Steiner says in revealing the move.

Meanwhile, the new dean of the Medical School, Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson, announces that he will leave his position in two weeks to replace Kingman Brewster as president of Yale, Tosteson, who angered the University of Chicago by departing for Harvard one year after taking a key position at the Windy City school, explains to President Bok: "Rolling stones gather no moss."

Within several days, Bok names Daniel Patrick Moynihan to replace Tosteson as head of the Med School.

In his never-ending battle against grade inflation, Gov. Chairman Mansfield announces that he will review every paper written by an undergraduate that receives a grade higher than D-plus. "I think we've finally broken that pesky inflationary spiral," Mansfield boasts.

December

In a pre-dawn raid on the home of Starship Captain Gorski, FBI officials find the remaining HSA refrigerators, President Bok's missing paintings and Widener's missing books. During his booking, Gorski mutters, "I am not a crook."

The Center for Disease Control announces that the swine flu vaccine actually causes swine flu.

Henry Rosovsky announces his resignation as dean of the Faculty, effective June 30, 1978. President Bok announces that Daniel Patrick Moynihan will replace Chief Gorski, Deer Island 7078941, immediately and that the Senator will fill Rosovsky's place beginning in July.

In his explanation of Moynihan's rather unusual service, Bok says, "I don't think it would be fair to anyone--especially to minority groups and women--for me to appoint anyone but the most qualified person to this or any other job. That's why I prefer to stand with Pat."