The controversy over gynecologic care at University Health Services (UHS) continued this week as it became public that the chairman of the Medical Area's women's committee that is pursuing a formal grievance against UHS Dr. Paul I. Winig '62 had herself filed a personal grievance against the same doctor several years ago. Neither the chairman, Judith Herzfeld, nor Winig commented on whether such an incident occurred.

But members of the women's committee said this week the committee's action against Winig is entirely independent of Herzfeld's complaint, and that the committee has heard from numerous women with much more serious medical grievances against Winig than Herzfeld's.

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Dan Schlesinger may only have run in two marathons before entering the New York City Marathon last weekend, but that didn't keep the first-year Law School student from finishing third, only two minutes and 26 seconds behind winner Alberto Salazar.

The Yale graduate and former Marshall scholar finished the 25-mile, 385-yard run through the city's five boroughs in a blistering 2:11.55, beating almost 16,000 other runners.

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Harvard could be in touch with intelligent life forms elsewhere in the universe within the next few months, if the dreams of one ambitious University astronomer come true.

Paul Horowitz, professor of Physics, will launch Harvard's first interstellar communication project early next year, using the University's 84-foot radio telescope, located in Harvard, Mass.

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Derek Walcott, the former Harvard visiting professor who was reprimanded last spring for sexually harassing a female freshman could lose his prestigious lecturing post at the University of Connecticut as a result of the Harvard incident.

An official at the university said a UConn committee will meet by the end of next week to decide whether to rescind its invitation to Walcott to be the university's Wallace Stevens lecturer next spring.

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The chairman of the History Department said last week the department will try to recommend a tenured specialist in Middle Eastern studies this semester, a position it has not filled for nearly 20 years.

Harvard is the only American university with a major program in Middle Eastern studies but no tenured historian in the area, specialists said.

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