8 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote unanimously to approve the Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard's first new concentration in six years. The birth of the concentration ends the nearly 18-month long process that began last year with the appointment of Rotch professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy, as the chair of a University wide committee on the environment.

11 President Clinton announces the nomination of Kennedy School Lecturer Robert B. Reich as secretary of labor. In the ensuing months, roughly dozen more Harvard professors and administrators, notably Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, follow Reich to Washington to serve in the Clinton administration.

January

7 Negotiation for the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers agree on the terms of a new contract. Under the plan, workers will receive annual wage increases of about 4 percent, 5 percent and 5 percent over the next three years, respectively.

29 University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit testifies in court that he did not suppress evidence in the denaturalization and extradition trials of Cleveland autoworker John Demlanjuk. Ryan is being investigated as part of a probe by Tennessee Judge Thomas A. Wiseman of the unit's conduct in prosecuting Demlanjuk, who was tagged by the unit as the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the terrible and arts today on death now in Israel.

February

16 Rapper Ice T specks at Harvard Law School about his controversial album Cop Killer." He said, "I thought everybody hated the police." Later in the week, Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn writes a chiding letter to Harvard President Nell L. Rudenstine, Flynn wrote that by inviting ice T to speak, Harvard University has done a great disservice to police officers and law abiding citizens everywhere.

23 Department of Athletics report obtained by The Crimson reveals that the university spent more than twice as much moneyon men's sports as it, did women's during the 1991-92 academic year. The report also indicates other discrepancies between the men's and women's athletic programs at Harvard, ranging from alumni donations to practice time at Bright Hookey Center.

March

5Nine minority campus organization join together to form the Coalition for Diversity to protest the lack of minority representation on a junior Parents Weekend panel.

The coalition issues a flyer titled. "The Peculiar Institution," with a list of demands: an apology from Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for remarks linking grade inflation to the influx of Black enrollment in the early '70s; the creation of a minority student resource center; the establishment of an ethnic studies program; an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism," a town meeting with President Nell L. Rudenstine and other administrators; and greater faculty diversity.

24After a frantic search lasting more than a decade, harvard Medical School researchers report that they have located the elushe genetic defect responsible for Huntington's disease." The Key to the defect is a short repeated sequence of DNA, Just three base pairs of the millions which make up each Human chromosome. With the finding, a quicker and more inexpensive test for the degenerative disease of the central network system, and eventually a better understanding of the disease mechanism, may feed to a cure.

April

7 A 72-year-old self-made millionaire and Harvard Business School graduate contributes $20 million to the Medical School. The donation from New York entrepreneur Warren Alpert, constitutes the largest single gift in the school's history and one of the largest donations ever from a Business School graduate to another division of the University.

8 Harvard announces that Ben. Colin L. Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the primary speaker at Commencement. The decision sparks protests--including a Harvard Yard rally that drawn more than about 300 students--because Powell supports the ben on gays in the military.