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Taurus and Tea Leaves

. Following a ghastly wave of terrorist attacks, all air traffic between the United States and Great Britain is halted. Men's soccer Coach Jape Shattuck scrambles to arrange boat passage for his team, most of which is now stranded across the Atlantic. Crimson goalkeeper Chad Reilly, a native of Needham, MA, offers to play all 11 positions until his teammates arrive.

. Thousands of cheering students greet Bok and welcome him back from his sabbatical. Oh, no, wait a minute....

SEPTEMBER

. The CRR is abolished. "The New and Improved, Totally Without Ill-will Tribunal" (NITWIT) is established in its place. Despite student criticism, the new body will employ the same procedures as the CRR. Explains Dean L. Fred "Solomon" Jewett '57: "The procedures aren't written down anywhere, so how do students know they aren't any good? Besides, I'll decide the procedures as soon as we need them so I'm sure they'll be fair."

. The Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) issues a report claiming that several Harvard students have been working in white boarding schools in South Africa since late January on internships funded by the New York-based Liberal Arts Education Foundation.

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. Acting President Rosovsky denies any knowledge of Harvard students on internships in South Africa, adding: "Why bother with getting to know students? They're only around for four years. I'm here for life, and the University pension fund will be here at least that long." In response to similar queries, Steiner says, "I don't know anything about that, but if such internships did exist they would be a legitimate expression of free speech."

OCTOBER

. When SASC activists pay an impromtu visit to the Manhattan offices of the Liberal Arts Education Foundation, they are confronted by Adminstrative Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences John B. Fox '59. Fox tells the activists that he thinks it would be a good idea to turn over their bursars cards and informs them that if they do not leave they will be violating the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities.

. B-Schoolers and Law students waiting for the Wellesley bus organize a protest. Chanting "Men unite, let's keep the night," they march to Response headquarters and try to "pick up chicks."

. A Harvard student interning in South Africa is abducted by SWAPO rebels while on a field trip to Namibia. The rebels turn the hapless student over to the Angolan government, which publicizes him as an example of U.S. educational imperialism. Among the student's personal effects is Melendez's business card, bearing the name of the Liberal Arts Education Foundation. On the back of the card is what appears to be the number of a bank account and a telex address in Geneva. The telex address and account are at Landesbank S.K.

NOVEMBER

. Modeling a new program on the Burger King "find Herb" promotion, the University sends Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to all the dining halls with promises of prizes for the first students to recognize him. No one does, and Spence uses the prize money to endow a junior professorship in communications. The one-time award will fund research for a young scholar who will be prohibitted from teaching classes or even speaking to students. The dean declares, "This may be my most lasting contribution to Harvard."

. In testimony before the COI, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III calls Melendez "a real Harvard hero."

. In the first series of cases before the new disciplinary body, NITWIT, several new punishments are revealed. Two students are ordered to take Organic Chemistry, three are exiled to North House and the five charged with the most serious infractions are suspended until they can invent a plausible explanation for the $25,000 price tag of the guardhouse at Johnston Gate before they will be readmitted.

DECEMBER

. Harvard announces the formation of a million dollar fund to help educate needy Angolans.

. The Angolan government releases the captive Harvard intern as a gesture of goodwill.

. University Treasurer Roderick M. MacDougall '51 tells reporters that the new Angolan scholarship fund has absolutely nothing to do with the release of a Harvard student the day before. As an example of the University's longstanding tradition of helping Africans, MacDougall points out the million dollar fund to help educate Black South Africans--which, he adds, also had absolutely nothing to do with pressure on the University.

. Claiming that the University diverted proceeds from secret sales of books to Iran to fund South African internships through a front organization, anti-apartheid activists erect a large book in the center of Harvard Yard.

. The Harvard Clerical and Technical Workers are set for a certification election. The University administration, fearing that the workers will decide to go union, pull a last-minute name change to try to avert the election. At a press conference from the Office of Political and Educational Affairs in the basement of Mass Hall, Steiner declares, "I'm in charge," and announces that the University is now officially renamed "the Academy of Rights and Responsibilities."

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