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When the now-defunct Student Assembly met to disband last spring, the meeting didn't even draw a quorum, and the group had to vote itself out of existence by phone.

But, as election began last week for the Undergraduate Council, the new student government seemed to have gotten off to a better start.

More than 200 students signed up to vie for 89 seats on the council, and, despite several balloting mishaps Thursday, voting turnout during the first two days of the election was relatively heavy, Voting will continue through Saturday, with results to be announced Monday.

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Harvard has challenged a federal civil rights agency over the validity of a recent sweeping charge of recent in the Faculty.

Harvard is contending that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge--filed last March by a coalition of women sociologists--was filed after the commission's 300-day deadline, and thus is invalid.

The charge accuses Harvard of discriminating against all women who have ever been Faculty members.

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Edward J. Hasbrouck, a 22-year-old resident of Wellesley, was arraigned in federal district court in Boston last week for failing to register for the draft.

Hasbrouck, a former student in government at the University of Chicago, is the 13th man to he prosecuted for noncompliance, and the only Massachusetts resident so far.

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It was an ending even a movie director would have envied.

For more than two hours last Thursday, rain fell on the crowd of 2000 assembled to witness the grand finale of the Medical School's week-long Bicentennial celebration. But as the assemblage of deans, faculty members and representatives from 69 world medical schools rose to begin the recessional, the sun peaked through the clouds.

"As we leave here to march into our third century." Dean Daniel D. Federman '49 declared. "It I am not mistaken, the sun is shining."

The ceremony--which included addresses, recitation of a Bicentennial Ode, and presentation of honary degrees and commemorative medals--brought to a close a four-day celebration that has drawn doctors and scientists from around the world.

Med School officials said last week the series of parties, speeches and scientific symposia should help to bolster fundraising efforts and strengthen Harvard's position as a leader in medical education.

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