*Harvard Budget Office Director Ann S. Ram say announced that she was leaving her post to work for a multinational computer company as a government liaison. With her departure, the financial office will complete its reorganization and break into four divisions: internal audits, sponsored research, financial systems, and budgets.
*President Bok issued a broad attack on the American legal system, calling it inequitable and inefficient, and blaming it for draining too many fine minds from productive fields. The report received wide publicity, including praise from several newspapers, and harsh criticism from many lawyers.
*The Law School added a second woman to its tenured faculty. Elizabeth Bartholet '62 became the third tenured woman in the school's history.
*Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky released a broad new policy statement of sexual harassment that, for the first time, put the Faculty on record as opposing certain "amorous" relationships between students and teachers. It also offered to change grades which are found to have been biased due to sexual harassment.
*Twenty years after they were kicked out for their experiments with LSD. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert returned to Harvard to reminisce. They were greeted by a packed Sanders Theater audience, which cheered at such statements as "I think it's possible that you might damage your mind, but I don't think LSD does."
*Two speeches drew an unusually high level of protest and heckling--one by the Rev. Jerry Falwell at the Kennedy School, the other by the leading American official of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The Moral Majority leader attracted a crowd of students--some dressed in drag and some in Falwell costumes--who protested his positions against the nuclear freeze and women's issues. Abdul Rahman, director of the PLO Information Office drew more serious protests for his statements that Israel was responsible for genocide in the Middle East.
*The Government Department provoked student protest by refusing to promote Assistant Professor Ethel Klein, one of the leading women's studies scholars at Harvard.
*Five Harvard specialists on nuclear weapons policy published a book supporting a partial nuclear freeze, backing deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe and opposing the B1-bomber but it reached no conclusion on the proposed MX. The study, "Living With Nuclear Weapons" culminated a year long projecting that began the previous June when President Bok announced at Commencement that the University should help to educate the public by providing an objective report on nuclear issues.
*The Undergraduate Council presented its first batch of teaching awards. The winners were Cheryl Wites a government tutor Joseph J. Hetcher '57 professor of Chinese History and Marshall Hyatt, assistant professor of Afro American studies.
*More than 300 people assembled for a rally in support of food service workers in their negotiations with Harvard. The union is asking for a one year contract with a dollar-an-hour, across the board wage hike, free medical insurance, and a dental plan for union members. The current contract runs out June 19.
*More than 500 law students mobbed the dean's office to protest the faculty's decision to consider class participation when grading certain classes. The protests forced an open meeting and a decision by the faculty to delay implementation of the policy.
*The percentage of Black students accepting Harvard's offer of admissions plummeted for the second straight year, despite intensified recruiting efforts. The yields of all other minorities, including Hispanics and Chicanos, rose.
*Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky announced that he would step down effective June, 1984. He will have served 11 years, longer than any recent dean. During his tenure, he is credited with conceiving and implementing the Core Curriculum. (For a look at Rosovsky's decade as dean, see page B-1).