12--A Harvard senior and his woman friend are assaulted walking between Grays and Weld Halls on Harvard Yard. The confrontation with Cambridge youths takes place in a dimly lighted segment of the Yard pointed out to College officials as unsafe only weeks earlier.
A second attack by the same group of youths is reported, this time in front of Widener Library. The student, who is taken to UHS and released, says a special police telephone on the Yard failed to work properly and may have led to the escape of the perpetrators.
15--Two Black students, in an affair which ignites the Black community at Harvard, charge racial harassment by Cambridge police after being ordered off a University shuttle bus and searched without explanation or apology. Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91 say they were singled out because of their color. Police say they mistook the pair running to catch the bus for a white suspect in a nearby convenience story robbery.
21--About 250 people protest the shuttle bus incident on Harvard Yard. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and Dean Epps apologize to the students and issue messages to Cambridge and Harvard police.
April
1--The Harvard hockey team wins the University's second NCAA title and first since 1904 with a 4-3 overtime victory over Minnesota at St. Paul.
2--Cochrane and Williams, after an apology and concessions by City Manager Robert Healey, agree to drop their harassment complaint.
9--More than 900 undergraduates travel to the March on Washington for abortion rights, joining between 300,000 and 600,000 demonstrators on the eve of the Supreme Court reconsideration of Roe v. Wade.
22--Police recordings requested by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information Act show that the police who searched the two Black students on the shuttle in March were told twice beforehand the suspect was a single white male.
23--In a move that shocks the campus and freezes virtually all other activity, the Undergraduate Council votes 41-24 to ask Harvard to reinstitute ROTC.
24--A new activist group--the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC)--forms and plans a week of protest. Within the council, the liberal Services Committee suggests the ROTC resolution is unconstitutional because of the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians, and urges a re-vote.
26--About 300 people rally against ROTC in Harvard Yard.
28--Black students Cochrane and Williams decide to file a formal harassment complaint against Cambridge police, citing dissatisfaction with Healey, who they say failed to follow through with his promises.
30--The council repeals its resolution on ROTC, 43-39, but discussion on conditions for ROTC's return turn into chaos when Ken Lee cuts off debate.
May
7--The council votes to table further ROTC discussion to the fall.
7--The council discloses that its spring concert, featuring Suzanne Vega, lost $20,000 because it failed to sell out 3000-seat Bright Arena. Council officials blame the ROTC crisis for cutting short advertising.
12--Arnold Brown '89 is arrested for allegedly kicking a man with his foot after being hit by his car. Brown, who is Black, charges racial harassment and says officers preferentially interviewed white witnesses and made racist remarks during his arrest.
18--Harvard announces its yield for the Class of '93 to be 71 percent, 1 percent off last year's level. Asian-American students amount to over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about a point and a half above earlier levels. Hispanic students also were admitted at record highs, and reached about 6 percent of the class. Black student representation, however, remains set at about 8 percent.