The Crimson publishes an affirmative-action plan submitted by the University to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in February. The plan commits Harvard to employ only a slightly higher number of women and minorities, but predicts an increase in the percentage of women and minorities due to an anticipated drop in overall employment.

October 5, 1971

President Bok calls for the ratio of men to women in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges to fall from 4 to 1 to about 2.5 to 1 over the next four years. He proposes a decrease in the number of incoming male students from slightly over 1,200 to about 1,150 and an increase in the number of incoming female students from just over 300 to about 450. He dismisses the implementation of a one-to-one ratio as economically risky at the time.

October 6, 1971

Cambridge Election Commission clerks turn away about 30 college students who attempts to register at a "register-in." Despite the recent passage of the 26th Amendment, the clerks give varying reasons reasons for denying the students' effort.

October 15, 1971

Simon S. Kuznets, Baker professor of economics, emeritus, wins the Nobel Prize for work done in the 1930s on national income accounting, including that of the gross national product.

October 26 1971

Presidential candiate George McGovern says at the Harvard Law Forum, "If I am elected president, I would not only bring an end to the war in Vietnam, but I would also declare a general amnesty for all those who have stood up against it."

November 1, 1971

U.S. Magistrate Willie J. Davis rules in favor of most of the Harvard students who brought suit against the Cambridge Board of Election Commission, deciding that in the case of 21 of 24 plaintiffs, the board had not produced adequate evidence to deny them their right to vote in the city.

November 4, 1971

With the final tally from the Nov. 2 election finally in Lawrence S. DiCara '71 wins a seat on the Boston City Council, after spending $16,000 on a shoe-string campaign. Romagna loses in his bid for the Cambridge City Council.

November 17, 1971

Daniel Ellsberg '52, the self-acknowledged source of the Pentagon Papers, dissects Harvard's war role in a speech at Lowell Lecture Hall. He cities President Pusey's outrage at the October 1970 Center for International Affairs bombing, saying: "I had missed it if Pusey had ever spoken out against the most massive bombing campaign in history--initiated by the former dean of the Harvard Faculty and extended to Cambodia and Laos by the former associate director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs," referring to National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50, respectively.