November 20, 1971

Harvard beats Yale 35-16 in The Game after quarterback Eric Crone throws two touchdown passes in the first quarter.

November 30, 1971

Coleman P. Harrison '74 receives a one-year suspended sentence and a three-year parole after being found guilty of armed robbery and assault and battery of a Boston police officer during a welfare demonstration.

December 1971

Twenty students organize the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association, Harvard's first undergraduate gay rights group.

December 20, 1971

Mexican authorities deport Richard E. Hyland '69-'70. He is to be tried in absentia for charges connecting him to two Mexican revolutionary groups. "At no time was I a member of any of those groups," Hyland says.

December 27, 1971

Two Harvard social psychologists present a study that shows that more than half of the American people, if given orders to shoot all inhabitants of a Vietnamese village suspected of aiding the enemy, would follow those orders.

January 15, 1972

The Harvard Club of New York announces its intention to admit women.

January 19, 1972

The Faculty Council unanimously passes a resolution that condemns the federal government's interrogation of scholars in the Pentagon Papers case.

January 27, 1972