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THE BEST OF 1986

A Look Back at Harvard News and Newsmakers

College officials expressed dismay last September when they discovered that a 50-year old papier-mache replica of John Harvard was destroyed after the 350th ball. "I must assume that it wasn't a Harvard student who did it," Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said about the beheading of J.H.

The Ultimate in Insider Information

Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said he would root for the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. "The Reds always win," said the noted Kremlinologist.

Did Vinny Testaverde Really Have a 3-7 Season?

When a professor rescheduled Economics 1011a "Microeconomics" from a 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. slot to 8:30 a.m. in order to accomodate student-athletes enrolled in the class, applied math major Paul L. Suh '87 was steaming mad. "What is this--the Ivy League or the University of Miami?" he asked in reference to the concession made to football players.

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My Body, Myself

One-time Playboy model Jocelyn L. Morin '87, of Mather House, on why she used her real name in the "Women of the Ivy League" issue last September: "My tits are more personal than my name. And I didn't want to waste an alias."

"Really, Your Honor--Our Computer Ate It!!"

Officials inadvertently destroyed tenure deliberation records that a U.S. District Court judge ordered Harvard to produce in a sex discrimination suit filed against the University.

"Some papers were destroyed in the routine processing of old files," explained Harvard's Deputy General Counsel Martin Michaelson, who characterized the problem as an "administrative slip-up."

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