The House of Representatives approved a 60 percent cut in university research sponsored by the Department of Defense as a part of wide-scale cuts in defense spending.

The Senate restored some of the funding later in the summer, and a conference committee will likely cut less than was originally anticipated.

Harvard would have lost nearly $7 million in research funding if the bill went through. The Division of Applied Sciences would have been especially hurt by the cuts, according to division members. If the bill went through, applied sciences would have lost up to 20 percent of its research budget.

"It would be a disaster for the division," said Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics Paul C. Martin, who is dean of the division, after the house vote.

Crib Dies

The Crib, a Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) convenience store located in the Freshman Union, shut its doors forever on August 19.

Unable to compete with several local 24-hour stores, the Crib was long the most unprofitable of HSA's agencies, said HSA President Shani D. Lester '95.

On the former site of the Crib, a Freshman Dean's Office service will help first-years who want to connect to the computer network, according to store manager Nancy L. Williams '96.