Part of the impetus for the proposal was a study conducted by the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, which found that achievement scores best predicted the way students would perform at Harvard. No word in yet on when the proposed change might be implemented.

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"SoHo. So there," the long-time motto of many Quad residents, was finally laid to rest this year, when South House was renamed Cabot House.

The house was named in honor of two long time Harvard benefactors--Thomas D. Cabot '19 and Virginia Cabot--whose gifts have included more than a million dollars to upgrade the Quad facilities.

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There will probably be a number of Jewish seniors not in attendance at Commencement today. Not because they don't want to, either Commencement this year was scheduled to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

Students throughout the year tried to get the University to change the date, writing 3 petition to President Bok, among other actions--but to no avail Harvard officials said that Jewish legal authorities had told them that it is acceptable for stu- dents to attend Commencement ceremonies after attending morning holiday services. They did promise, though, to make every effort to make sure such a conflict did not arise in the future.

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Citizens of Woburn have been concerned for over a decade about the hazards of toxic waste stored in a city dump site. Their worst fears were confirmed this February by the release of the results of a two-year study carried out by two researchers from the School of Public Health.

The study--undertaken by Associate Professor of Biostatistics Stephen W. Lagakes and Professor of Statistical Science Martin Zelen--showed that contaminated well water was responsible for the unusually high rate of childhood leukemia and birth defects in the town's population.

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Membership in the Harvard Law Review is usually a sure-five stepping stone to prestigious clerkships or fancy positions in corporate law firms, but getting past the tough selection standard is skin to crossing the Ohio State goalline--it doesn't happen often. But this may change now, in light of new pressure placed on the Law Review this year to reform its ways and open up its selection process.

Both students and some faculty challenged the review's practice of picking some of its editors solely on the basis of grades--a standard they charged was far too arbitrary. The pressure seemed to work. In February, the review editors voted to eliminate the practice of solely counting grades for some students, making selection contingent on both grades and a writing competition.

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For several years, members of the United Automobile Workers union have waged a bitter campaign to organize clerical and technical workers in the Harvard Medical Area. It has fought and lost two close campaigns to win the right to represent these workers.