October

1 Radcliffe College and Harvard University officially merge at one minute after midnight. As most of the campus goes to bed, Radcliffe College quietly ends its 120-year history as an independent women's college and becomes the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

6 President Neil L. Rudenstine announces at the Harvard Club of New York that the University's capital campaign has raised $2.325 billion--three months before its scheduled end and $225 million in excess of the goal the University set for itself more than five years earlier.

6 Trailed at all times by a gaggle of media, a spirited Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura makes a series of campus appearances. Ventura's visit to Harvard culminates in an appearance on the CNBC program "Hardball," which broadcasts live from the Kennedy School of Government.

12 The University signs an agreement with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers to provide greater compensation for nominally part-time or "casual" employees who worked full-time hours. Over 400 employees are affected.

17 A late-night prank that results in a declaration of war by some Adams House residents on their Pforzheimer House rivals ends in the final battle between the two Houses, a series of intramural competitions. After prevailing in the final battle, Pfoho residents win a special dispensation to eat in Adams for the rest of the year--and both Houses applaud a new spirit of House community.

22 Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) capture the suspected "Yard burglar," in a dramatic daytime arrest. HUPD officers arrest Andre Stuckey, 20, who say is responsible for a dozen break-ins, predominately in Matthews Hall. Stuckey later pled guilty to crimes stemming from the incidents.

26 Six Harvard Medical School researchers receive letters containing razor blades from an animal rights activist group, condemning their non-human, primate-based research. Police suspect a group known as "Justice Department."