20 On the last days of a week filledwith sit-ins and student strike, members of theCoalition for Civil Rights walk picket lines andhold a vigil to protest the paucity of women andminorities on the Law School faculty.
9 The annual spoof edition of theHarvard Law Review, which includes a parodyof an article by murdered feminist legal scholarMary Joe Frug, touches off a wave of protest atthe Law School.
12 The Law Review publiclyapologizes for the parody and promises toestablish a task force to examine the status ofwomen within the organization. Tyler ProfessorConstitutional Law Lawrence Tribe delivers astinging attack on the Law Review spoofissue.
12 The Undergraduate Council votes 32-22to recommend that the College adopt a definitionof rape far narrower than that proposed by theDate Rape Task Force.
16 Columbia Teacher's College professorLinda Darling-Hammond is named dean of the HarvardGraduate School of Education by President Neil L.Rudenstine. The appointment makes Darling-Hammondthe first Black dean of a Harvard graduate school.
21 Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett'57 condemns "insensitive language and innuendoes"in a flyer posted by the conservative campusmagazine Peninsula. The flyer advertises aforum entitled "Spade Kicks: A Symposium onModernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of SexualLiberation."
22 The Harvard-Radcliffe Black StudentsAssociation distributes a flyer to allundergraduates charging that Blacks are treatedlike second-class citizens on campus. The poster,titled, "On the Harvard Plantation," condemns the"hostile environment" of the campus and blames theUniversity Police, the Law School,Peninsula and The Crimson for "injusticesperpetrated against people of color."
22 More than 40 students walk out of asymposium on race sponsored by Peninsulaafter one speaker calls sexual liberation theprimary cause of the breakdown of some Blackfamilies and uses the Word "Negro" 15 times.
23 Duke University Associate DeanElizabeth S. Nathans accepts the post of dean offirst-year students. Nathans will take over fromActing Dean Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78, who hasfilled the post since Henry C. Moses stepped downlast year.
21 Harvard Foundation director S. AllenCounter comes under attack for a lettercriticizing The Crimson. One Jewish student callsfor his resignation, and Counter issues anapology. A number of campus minority groups backCounter and charge The Crimson with irresponsiblereporting of minority issues.
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2 The Undergraduate Council loses tensof thousands of dollars on a De La Soul concertbecause only a fraction of the tickets were sold.An impeachment vote on treasurer Michael P. Beys'94, who organized the events, fails.
7 A Newton, Mass, inventor andentrepreneur gives Harvard Medical School itslargest gift ever from an individual, creating afund which will provide grants to talling $550,000annually.
10 The Administrative Board of HarvardLaw School slaps the so-called Griswold Eight witha warning, declining to impose a harsherpunishment on those who held a sit-in outside theoffices of Law School Dean Robert C. Clark.
15 Former President of the Soviet UnionMikhail S. Gorbachev addresses an audience of 600at the ARCO Forum. The former Secretary General ofthe Communist Party says through a translator thatthe U.S. and the Commonwealth of IndependentStates must work together to bring about a betterfuture.
16 The Harvard women's lacrosse teamloses in the NCAA finals to Maryland, 11-10 inovertime. The Crimson held a 9-6 lead with lessthan seven minutes to go in the game before theTerrapins rallied.
19 A Harvard University security guardbecomes the third guard in a week to chargesupervisor with a harassment. A week earlier, aBlack guard said he was racially harassed morethan two dozen times by two supervisors. And aformer guard said he was fired because he isHispanic.
20 Several of Harvard's graduate schoolsface budgetary red ink as the University continuesto deal with financial hardship caused by theongoing recession.