One of the sharpest debates occured in early June, when the union discovered the contract--which they were then on the verge of signing--called for biannual physical examinations for policemen. The Police Association argued that the twice-yearly checkups were an effort to force older patrolmen off the force, while University administrators claimed the once-every-two-years checkups were a routine precaution. It all boiled down to semantics (biannual can mean twice a year or once every two years, depending on your dictionary), but the contract still hasn't been signed.

The Oranging of Cambridge

The Midget Deli, a favorite student retreat made famous in "Love Story" as the meeting place for Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw, closed down this summer. It will be replaced by a representative of that well-known chain, Howard Johnson's.

Jensen Takes a New Line

Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen, who caused an academic furor in 1969 when he declared blacks are genetically inclined to lower I.Q.s than whites, moderated his position this summer.

Jensen's study of blacks' and whites' I.Q. scores in a small town in rural Georgia revealed a 30-point decline in blacks' scores between the ages of five and 18 relative to whites' scores between the same ages--suggesting, he said, that "blacks in the rural South must be exposed to environmental effects that lower I.Q. scores."

Ukrainian Students Protest Soviet Arrests

Remember those 160 students who came here to study Ukranian? Thirty-seven of them staged a well-publicized hunger strike for 24 hours this summer, in protest of the Soviet Union's arrest of several prominent Ukrainians. More than 100 others joined them demonstration in the Yard, gathering signatures on a petition the students sent to President Carter.

Bok in Court

Well, almost. President Bok and several other Harvard officials were summoned to appear in court in July, to testify in a suit prompted by the University's refusal to release papers of former president A. Lawrence Lowell about the 1920s trial of Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Bok and company did not have to testify, as the judge ruled the University did not have to release the papers until the date Lowell's will executor set when he gave the papers to Harvard.

The judge ruled that the Cambridge researcher who wanted the paper will have to wait the full 50 years--which end this December--to discover whether Lowell can light on the anarchists murder trial.

Tufts Comes to Cambridge

Because more people accepted places at Tufts than the University expected to do so, about 200 undergraduates will live this year at the Sheraton Commander, right in between the Yard and the Quad.

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