*The Kennedy School of Government announced the formation of a scholarship which would bring West German students to study public policy. The program was named after John J. McCloy, high commissioner to Germany and assistant secretary of war during World War II. The announcement sparked protests from Jewish and Asian students, who faulted McCloy for overseeing Japanese internment, derailing plans to bomb the railroad to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the war and commuting the sentences of several Nazi leaders after the war.

*The Glee Club celebrated its 125th anniversary with an elaborate two-day program of concerts, banquets and speeches, highlighted by a special composition in the group's honor by composer comedian Peter Schickcle (a.k.a. PDQ Bach) Among the club's distinguished alums are Leonard Bernstein '39, and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun '29.

*It was made public that late playwright Tennessee Williams empowered a member of the Faculty to administer the both of his estimated $10 million estate as a fund to promote creative writing, though it remains unclear whether Harvard will spend any The gift leaves most of the estate to create a special writing fund at the University of the South in Tennessee.

April

*The College moved closer to the computer age by installing coin operated word processors in three Houses and the Freshman Union.

*The Graduate School of Education planned a sweeping series of budget cuts for next year, the most severe in recent memory. The slashes, totalling $275,000 will result in laying off nine faculty members and administrators and reducing hours for 15 others, as well as cutting back library hours. The reasons cited for the move included a low endowment, the declining economy, and the decision to hold down a tuition increase to 8.4 percent. The cuts angered several students, who felt they were not sufficiently consulted on the decision.

*Iconoclastic I F. Stone, who grained fame in the 60s for his newsletter investigating U S involvement in Vietnam spent two weeks at Harvard, meeting with students and delivering a three-part lecture series on Plato Speaking matter-of-faculty, sitting down with no notes. Stone filled the Kennedy School Forum all three nights.

*Student protests over University investments in firms doing business in South Africa took a new twist from the rallies that have taken place in previous springs. A group of seniors set up, and the Undergraduate Council agreed to administer an Endowment for Divestiture, an escrow account which will be turned over to Harvard on the condition that it divests within the next 20 years. Another band of students held a week-long hunger strike as a symbolic protest of Harvard's policies. (For a comprehensive look at South Africa and its connections with Harvard, see Section F).

*Exiled Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung announced that he will come to Harvard as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs next year. A former South Korean presidential candidate and a long-time opponent of the Korean martial law government, Kim came to the United States last December after years of imprisonment and harassment. (For a look at Harvard as a haven for international refuges, see page C-8).

*University officials announced that Polish labor leader Lech Walesa had accepted an invitation to speak at this year's Commencement exercises. An acceptance would have marked the dissident's first trip out of Poland since the crackdown on Solidarity in December 1981, and his first trip to the United States ever. But the University's hopes were dashed when later that same day. UPI reported that Walesa could not make it, a fact it confirmed later in the month through secret intermediaries. (For a detailed account of the Walesa invitation, see page 15).

*The Division of Applied Sciences recommended Associate Professor Phillip A. Bernstein for tenure, but President Bok overturned the proposal, a move which apparently cost the University an advanced computer system worth $200,000. Bok turns down 10 to 15 percent of all departmental tenure nominations a year.

*Diana Gargon of the Graduate School of Education sponsored a research project on "video game-playing and spatial perception," and as part of the project gave students five hours of free playing time for one week. The project will discover" a whole new type of literacy," Gargon said.

*Sixty Harvard undergraduates kicked off a $250,000 fundraising drive as part of a project to fight world hunger. The drive will culminate in a "Ride for Life" over the summer, a transcontinental bicycle expedition. Thirty-nine Harvard students committed themselves to ride the entire 3800 miles in eight weeks.

*The full Faculty approved the continuation of the Core Curriculum, capping off a lengthy review of the four year-old program that produced no major changes in it. Some issues that will probably be addressed in the near future include the expansion of Moral Reasoning offerings, and the inclusion of more survey and departmental courses

May