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."

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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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