Students returning to school look to party but are disappointed with a new state law prohibiting possession of alcohol. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 later expressed his disappointment in the decision.

21 Harvard announces it will pay $260,000 to settle a Sex discrimination suit filed six years ago by former Law School professor Clare Dalton. Dalton claimed she wasn't tenured because of her gender, but Harvard still denies any wrongdoing.

23 The Harvard Cooperative Society announces the lowest patronage rebate in the cooperative's 111-year history. Coop members receive checks totaling a paltry 1 percent of their purchases.

OCTOBER

5 Linguistics concentrators get a scare after faculty members announce that the Department of Linguistics will soon assume committee status, potentially eliminating any formal linguistics degree programs. Students succesfully fight the decision and University officials rescind their ruling in May.

7The Department of Athletics announces a major, three-year initiative to expand and improve the womens' athletic program. The move will increase the budget for women's sport by $200,000, or about 20 percent.

15 Vincent W. Li '87, an embattled tutor in Dunster House charged with ethical misconduct in hiring other tutors, caps off a tumultuous month at Dunster House by claiming he is constantly harassed and "live[s] in fear." Li later leaves Harvard to marry the woman for whom tutors claimed he abused his influence to bring into the House.

18 Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. MansfieldJr. '53 testifies in a Denver, Colorado court that homosexuality is "shameful" and "undermines civilization." The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association held a 40-person rally to protest the statements.

27 The alumni board of the Fly Club votes unanimously to allow its undergraduates to begin admitting women into the social club next fall. The vote overturns a 157-year-old policy which had been the target of protest for more than a decade.

NOVEMBER

2 Cantabridgians cast their ballots for city council members. The progressive Cambridge Civic Assiciation wins a majority of the vote, and Kenneth E. Reeves'72 is re-elcted mayor in January.

9 Cornel R. West '74, a prominent Afro-American studies professor who directed the Afro-American program at Princeton, accepts a tenured professorship at the Harvard Divinity School and the Afro-American Studies Department. West will begin teaching in the fall of 1995.

18 Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles lays off eight staff members at Harvard's Semitic Museum in an attempt to curb the musuem's $1 million deficit. The layoffs set off a string of attacks by staff members and financial supporters of the museum against the administration and museum director Dorot Professor of Archaeology Lawrence E. Stager. A staff of two is later rehired.

20 Joe Restic loses his last game as Harvard's football coach when the Crimson dropped The Game to Yale 33-31. Tim Murphy, coach at the University of Cincinnati, is hired to replace Restic in December.

DECEMBER