April 14, 1985--The strike ends when several organizers are caught studying in Hilles Library.

May

After a student referendum that showed overwhelming support for a Greatful Dead concert, the Undergraduate Council hosts a spring concert by the group Husker Du. The event loses more than $2000. A subsequent investigation reveals no fraud or thefts.

President Bok makes an appearance at the Quad for the ground breaking of the scheduled North House renovations. The ceremony is cancelled when organizers report that the construction equipment and crews have not yet arrived.

June

June 7, 1985--The Harvest restaurant reports record profits.

July

Interior Secretary Burford selects the rock group Cheap Trick to play at the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall. The decision is overruled by First Lady Nancy Reagan who calls for the return of the Beach Boys. Soviet Westernophilc Michael Gorbachev praises the selection of the Beach, Boys, calling the group "my favorite musicians."

Gorbachev successfully negotiates a trade deal with the U.S. including previously embargoed technological equipment.

August

Skocpol announces that she has given herself a five-year deadline to decide whether to join the Harvard Faculty.

The University's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) receives a final green light from the state despite evidence that the plant's deisel emissions will corrode its own smokestacks within months.

September

September 3, 1985--Derek Bok makes an appearance at the Quad for the groundbreaking of the scheduled North House renovations.

The first week of classes are cancelled when record red-dotting--a full two-thirds of the student body fail to meet tuition payments--plays havoc with normally well oiled registration machinery. Holyoke Center officials attribute the unprecedented number of late payments to steeper tuition costs and "the spirit of lawlessness rampant among this country's young."