While most Harvard athletes were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since 1959.

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President Bok joined 19 other college and university presidents in urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would impose strong sanctions on the South African government. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), the presidents wrote that the U.S. must punish South Africa for its refusal to dismantle its apartheid system by "sending an unequivocal message through the imposition of official sanctions."

The letter also charged that the Reagan Administration's current policy of "constructive engagement" creates the impression among South Africans that "the American government, despite its denunciation of apartheid, has a policy of tacit acquiescence in the status quo."

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Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic [University] matters."

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Police were baffled this summer when a Harvard summer school student and a Cambridge man discovered two skulls on a north Cambridge street. The skulls, found in a plastic bag about a quarter mile from Porter Square, were partially caked with wax. After several weeks of investigation, police officials determined that the skulls were most likely part of some ritual service and unrelated to any crime.