More than 30 white and minority Law School students formed an affirmative action coalition last week to address low representation of minorities and women on the Law School's faculty.

The group may file a federal complaint charging the Law School with discriminatory hiring practices, as part of its attempt to develop new strategies for affirmative action policies, members said.

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The old wisdom that "you don't go into teaching for the money" may still be true, but as at least one Harvard professor can attest, comparatively low salaries in the academic world are no longer a blanket rule.

Sheldon Glashow, the Nobel prizewinning Higgins Professor of Physics, said last week he is weighing a tentative offer to join Texas A&M University's faculty. Glashow said the school suggested matching the salary they now offer football Coach Jackie Sherrill--about $1.6 million in cash and perquisites over seven years.

If the informal offer is concluded, Glashow's salary would tie the record for the largest financial package at any American college or university.

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Harvard's longest-standing labor dispute came to an end last week, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upheld an April 1981 unionization election that labor organizers said the University had unfairly influenced.

The board's 3-2 ruling concluded 19 months of conflict between Harvard and the United Auto Worker affiliate District 65, which has sought unsuccessfully for the past eight years to organize Medical Area clerical and technical workers.

District 65 has already lost two elections--by 436-346 in 1977 and 390-328 in the controversial balloting in April 1981. But union organizers said the union has already begun to organize for a new election.

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With the announcement last week of this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients. President Bok's family now has more Nobel Prize a Inset than many universities.

Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms.

Sissela Bok's father, noted economist-sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, shared the economics prize in 1974.

As President Bok quipped last week, "This puts new pressure on my wife to win the prize."