The Alcohol Beverages Control Commission ruled that the Grille knew or should have known that it was serving an underage drinker when the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC) conducted a sting last October.
The decision was the second time the bar has been cited for underage drinking. If the Grille is nabbed again, CLC Executive Director Richard V. Scali has said he will recommend that the bar's liquor license be revoked.
Suicide
Just six days after Commencement, Dmitry Valery Podkopaev, a candidate for a Ph.D. in economics, jumped out of a Holyoke Center window and plunged nine stories to his death.
Podkopaev's had been a truly inspiring story: the aspiring economist was born and raised in a small Ukrainian village, in a house without electricity, and had been hoping to use academics to save his family.
Podkopaev was known throughout the department for his zest for sports. He loved skiing, in-line skating and ballroom dancing, and used to wake up at 8 a.m. on cold winter mornings to make the trek from Child Hall to the Bright Hockey Center.
In the Outhaus
The Wursthaus, a German restaurant in the Square that had operated continuously since 1917, was shut down on July 31 by creditors.
The restaurant, which used to attract such luminaries as former Harvard president Derek C. Bok and John F. Kennedy '40, had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in 1993.
Its landlord, Cambridge Savings Bank, has been considering plans to significantly remodel the building housing the Wursthaus, and when asked if the bank's plans had anything to do with the closing, the restaurant's owner said, "Yes and no."
Four More Years...at Harvard?
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton made an unannounced visit to Harvard on August 5 as part of a college-hunting trip for the "first child."
Chelsea, 16, who will be a senior in high school this fall, had lunch in Loker Commons with her mother and about 10 other girls and women, including Harvard Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick.
"They're looking at schools this week, doing nothing different than other mothers and fathers do with their children," Neil Lattimore, Hillary Clinton's press secretary, said last month.
Salaries Up, Reputation Down
Despite what their own president termed a "somewhat disappointing" year, officials at the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which oversees Harvard's endowment, once again received astronomical compensation increases, according to documents.
For the first time in four years, the growth of the endowment failed to reach its performance benchmark, an ex post facto measure that incorporates the performance of the market.
Nevertheless, the average salary for the six highest-paid executives was more than $2.5 million in fiscal year 1995, up 57 percent from fiscal year 1994's average of $1.6 million.
The salary growths prompted articles from The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe, and a vigorous defense from President Neil L. Rudenstine, who argued that the salary increases were compensation-based and well-deserved.