10--Associate Vice President for State and Community Relations Jacqueline O'Neill confirms rumors that she will leave her post in June.
14--Police order two Black students--Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91--off a University shuttle bus and search them, having mistaken one of them for the perpetrator of a nearby shoplifting. A police spokesperson defends the officers' action.
April
5--The University announces that it paid between $3 and $7 million for the St. Paul's lot and unveils a plan to build 80 units of affiliated housing and a day care center on the land.
10--Hundreds of thousands of people converge on Washington to support women's legal right to an abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. Harvard sends one of the largest contingents of any college campus.
18--Noah M. Berger '89 is named executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association, a local "good government" political party. Members of the group hope he will help them regain a majority on the council.
22--Transcripts of a radio conversation on the night of March 14 reveal that the police who searched Cochrane and Williams were twice told to look for a white suspect.
29--The two Black students removed from a University shuttle bus by Cambridge police file a complaint with the city's Police Review and Advisory Board. They claim that they were singled out by the police because of their race.
May
3--Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announces that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will acquire the Gulf station site from Harvard Real Estate.
8--The City Council orders the preparation of a home-rule petition backed by some owners of rent-controlled buildings to decontrol certain apartments as they become vacant. Small property owners in the city say the move will give them protection from wealthier tenants, but rent-control activists say the move would, if passed, cripple the city's affordable housing supply.
16--Prosecutors drop all charges against the Moran's, saying they do not want to emotionally scar the children involved.
22--The city council amends a petition to rezone the eastern end of Harvard Square to include only the Gulf site. Several councillors express support for the new petition.
June
5--The City Council rezones the Gulf site, severely curtailing Harvard's development rights. Harvard threatens to sue.