September

17 Watching a Lampoon event honoring comedian Billy Crystal, Lowell House sophomore Theodore P. Klupinski '95, falls from a Claverty Hall fire escape and is seriously injured. Klupinski missed the first semester of the school year but returned healthy for the spring term.

18 MIT undergraduate Yngve K. Raustein, 21, from Os, Norway, is stabbed to death on Memorial Drive after being robbed of $30. Three East Cambridge youths are arrested and charged in the crime.

24 Harvard officials announce they have received a $7 million gift to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The money, from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, will help the larger project of converting Memorial Hall into a first-year dining hall that is also a Commons, home to rehearsal space and social space. The gift is heralded by deans, but some students and house masters have concerns about how the new commons, expected to open in September 1995, will affect the house system.

25 The Coop announces that its rebate to members will be 1.1 percent of their total purchases--the lowest rebate since records have been kept.

October

1 City Councillor William H. Walsh is indicted on 59 charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and malting false statement to a federally insured bank, Walsh was one of 19 people indicted for allegedly defrauding Dime Savings Bank of New York of about $8 million for condominium developments in Massachusetts.

14 Responding to persistent allegations of discrimination and on-the-job harassment in the University security guard unit. President Nell L. Rudenstine says "he will ask new General Council Margaret H. Marshall to take a second look" at the charges. Marshall later hires former FBI agent James A. Ring, who works for Marshall's former employer Choate, Hall & Stewart to conduct the independent probe.

16 At an emergency meeting, the Harvard Law Review's Board of Trustees decides to appoint an investigator to probe charges of racism, sexism and the abuse of power leveled against the Review's president. Emily R. Schulman '85. The investigation eventually clears Schulman of the charges.

30 Less than a week after surviving an impeachment attempt. Maya G. Prabhu '94 resigns from her post as vice chair of the Undergraduate Council and assumes responsibility for the invalid results of a social committee election she conducted. Privately, she admitted to rigging the election, council members said.

November

9 The Crimson reports that the 11.8 percent rate of return on Harvard's $5 billion endowment in fiscal 1992 was lower than that of 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. Documents filed with the internal Revenue Service several months later reveal that several of Harvard's top money managers received hefty compensation packages for their work over the same year. One senior vice president of Harvard Management Company earned more than $1.2 million in salary and bonuses.

21 The Harvard football team pitches its first shutout against. Yale since 1966, defeating the Elis 14-0. in May, Head Coach Joseph Restic announces that he would retire at the end of the 1993 season.

December

1 The Rev. Jesse I. Jackson brings a message of hope, morality and togetherness to Harvard, speaking at a rally in support of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and talking with President Neil L. Rudenstine.