September

16--It becomes known that the Medical School has created a $30 million venture capital program with which to market the discoveries of its faculty to private investors.

24--This week the Law School, responding to the disruptions of speeches--including the October 1987 attack on former Contra leader Adolfo Calero by a Tufts student--introduces free speech guidelines for all controversial speeches.

26--Department of Energy officials tell The Crimson that they are working to restore funding to the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center. The center had claimed that its funding was cut off in the fall of 1987 for political reasons. The department had previously been the center's largest source of funds.

October

14--This week a Business School associate dean sends a memorandum to the school's faculty, telling them to avoid speaking to the press when the verdict in a gender discrimination suit filed against the school is finally announced. The verdict had been expected in a case filed by former associate professor of industrial marketing Barbara Bund Jackson '66. She claims she was denied tenure in 1983 because she is a woman.

19--The Boston Globe reports that former Medical School researcher Scheffer C.G. Tseng gave nearly 300 patients an unapproved drug between 1984 and 1986, while owning stock in the company producing the drug. Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson issues a statement saying "a significant conflict of interest had occurred."

21--As the search for a replacement for retiring Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 progresses, conservative law students--members of the Students' Alliance For Fairness--propose that the Law School Council be prevented from reserving seats on the student dean search committee for specific organizations. They propose an amendment to the Law School's charter that is slated for a referendum vote.

27--It is announced that committees were formed at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Miami to investigate the work of former Medical School researcher Tseng, who worked at those institutions after leaving Harvard.

November

1--The referendum proposed by the Students' Alliance For Fairness is postponed after 144 extra ballots turn up in the ballot box, invalidating the vote.

8--Law School students defeat the referendum brought by the Students' Alliance For Fairness by a more than two-to-one ratio. Opponents say the amendment would have barred some minority students from committees.

11--This week Law School scholars say that the search for Vorenberg's replacement is narrowed to nine candidates. Among the list, which does not include any women or minorities, are Professors of Law Gary Bellow, Robert C. Clark, and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Richard B. Stewart.

18--The co-chair of the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG) announces that student representatives will meet with President Derek C. Bok to discuss the selection of the K-School's new dean. KSSG members say the new dean should be committed to increased minority and women faculty hiring and become more involved with the school's internal workings.

19--In his first statement since the disclosure of former Med School researcher Tseng's unethical practices, Dean Tosteson reveals that the University knew of the opthamalogist's actions a year before the issue became public.