The Undergraduate Council on January 9 devoted most of its last first-semester session to approving grant applications totalling more than $6000 for upcoming campus activities.

Over the course of the semester, the Council allocated more than $9000 for 21 separate undergraduate projects.

The grants mark the first time a Harvard student government has given money to undergraduate organizations.

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Gov. Michael S. Dukakis tapped a third Kennedy School of Government affiliate for his senior staff as Associate Dean Ira K. Jackson '70 became state Commissioner of Revenue on January 8.

Jackson will join Director of Human Services Manuel Carballo and Director of Personnel Nicholas T. Mitropoulos, former assistant director of the Institute of Politics.

The departures add to some uncertainty about the emphasis the K-School's curriculum and faculty have been placing on state and local affairs.

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Government also beckoned to a University administrator, when President Reagan's new Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.), tapped George W. Siguler, Harvard's associate treasurer, to head her transition team.

Reagan nominated Heckler on January 12 to replace Richard S. Schweiker.

Siguler's duties are unclear but will be in a "managerial capacity," he said January 23. He will take an "indefinite" leave of absence.

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) January 13 outlawed personal recruiting by alumni or team "booster" associations. The rule changed designed to prevent major universities from illegally recruiting, effectively cripples Harvard's varsity athletic recruiting program, coaches and officials said.

On January 11, the NCAA approved a set of sweeping changes aimed at raising academic standards for college athletes. The changes, recommended by a committee headed by President Bok, include a minimum SAT score of 700 combined and a 2.0 high school grade-point average.

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