6 Alice K. Wolf finishes first in balloting for the Cambridge City Council. Wolf recieved 2000 more "number one" votes than her nearest rival, Walter J. Sullivan. With the victory of Wolf and four other incumbents, the Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed councillors are able to hold onto their slim majority for the second year in row.

7 Associate Professor of History James Hankins is granted a lifetime appointment at Harvard, the first internal promotion in European History two years.

12 A special issue of Peninsula focusing on homosexuality is distributed on campus and prompts a firestorm of protest. The conservative student magazine devotes most of the issue's 56 pages to articles on what its writers call "a badalternative" to heterosexuality.

20 Albert Carnesale, Littauer professors of public policy and administration, replaces Price Professor of Politics Robert D. Putnam as dean of the Kennedy School of Government.

23 Hurt by an erratic offense and shoddy tackling on defense, the Harvard football team falls to Yale, 23-13. Two blocked punts, four delay-of-game penalties and an anemic 19 yards passing overshadow shining individual performances from sophomore quarterback Mike Giardi and junior runing back Robb Hirsch.

DECEMBER

8 Richard A. Smith '46, chair of the General Cinema Corporation and a member of Several University governing committees, is appointed to the Harvard Corporation.

14 The Institute of Politics (IOP) begins to consider inviting David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard who at the time had just announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, to speak at an IOP forum. Duke did not appear on campus this year.

15 The Undergraduate Council votes to recommend that Harvard maintain its current ties whit Reserve Officer Training Corps. Under the proposal, which passed 29-24 with three abstentions, Harvard will continue to accept scholarship funds from the military, despite the armed forces' policy of discrimination against gays and lesbians.

19 Presidents of Ivy League universities vote to allow first-year students to play varsity football, likely dealing to death blow to most Ivy school's first-year football programs. Harvard and Yale oppose the action.

JANUARY

5 The Cambridge City Council unanimously elects Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 as its 54th mayor. Reeves is the first Black mayor in Cambridge since the city's chartering in 1846. The Council also elects Councillor Edward N. Cyr vice mayor.

29 Federal investigators charge to a Congressional hearing that Harvard Medical School inappropriately billed the government almost one million dollars last year.

31 Spike Lee delivers the first lecture of his course, Afro-American Studies 182, "Contemporary African-American Cineman," to an audience that pack Sanders Theatre.

FEBRUARY