K-School Partiers Designate Drivers

In an effort to boost attendence at its weekly "Attitude Adjustment Hour," the Kennedy School's student government has arranged to pay for half of every student's beer, reducing the cost to 75 cents.

And that's not all the K-school student government has been up to lately, either. As part of its deal with Soupcon--the catering company that runs the happy hours--the student government has also started a designated driver program, so students who overindulge on cheap beer can get a safe ride home.

"We set up a schedule so that there's a driver available at each of our weekly happy hours," said Ian Dickinson, chairman of the student government's Events Committee. "That way people who don't feel able to drive can tell a [student government] rep who will find them a ride home."

Now that's student government.

Tsongas Predicts Yale Will Divest

While members of the Harvard Corporation have refused to meet with pro-divestment activists this fall, a prominent member of Yale's governing body said Saturday that anti-apartheid pressure will eventually force the New Haven school to sell its $400 million of investments in companies that do business in South Africa.

"We don't have a majority and probably won't for some time. But because of outside events, eventually I think we're going to prevail," former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas, a member of the Yale Corporation, told Yale students and the Associated Press after the body's most recent meeting.

Tsongas and three other corporation members signed a statement calling for divestment last year.

Before Tsongas spoke, about 200 anti-apartheid protesters peacefully demonstrated for divestment outside the Yale Corporation meeting, and the body was presented a pro-divestment petition signed by 172 Yale faculty members.

Munching for Dollars

Peter E. Scherr '88, of Winthrop House, is a gamblin' kinda guy. When a friend bet him $20 Saturday that he couldn't consume eight chickwiches before the end of lunch at 2 p.m., the Psychology concentrator didn't bat an eyelash.

Surrounded by a crowd of more than 50 students chanting "Scher he's hungry, Scher he's hungry," Scher ate steadily for an hour and a half, finishing the last chicken sandwich just as the dining hall clock read two. "The man's a miracle," said his roommate Adam H. Wolman '88.

Lobbying for Loan Forgiveness

A group of Kennedy School students concerned about the high costs of their education have organized a letter campaign for a loan forgiveness program.

The group sent out a memo Friday to all K-School students urging them to write to Dean Graham T. Allison '62 to express their support for a program which would reduce the amount of loan money K-school graduates would have to repay if they enter public service upon graduation.

The five second-year MPP's said they organized the campaign because they had heard K-School administrators were thinking about instituting a loan forgiveness program. "We just wanted to make the issue a little more public, and put a little pressure on," said one organizer Martin J. Letourneau, a second year grad student.

Why Irish Eyes Are Smilin'...

Harvard's only female vice president, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has something in store for her husband (former Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.) and her father-in-law (Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill): she's expecting a baby.

But there's still better news for Boston's most prominent Irish family: the baby's due on St. Patrick's Day, this March 17.

Three Wise Men

They're playing a game of musical chairs over at the Divinity School these days. Endowed chairs, that is.

Until a permanent occupant can be found for the Stillman Professorship of Catholic Studies, three visiting professors, Francis S. Fiorenza, Rev. John W. O'Malley, S.J., and Rev. J. Bryan Hehir will share the spot this fall and spring. The chair was most recently held by the late Dean of the Divinity School, Rev. George McCade, S.J., who died last year.