March

2 Harvard says it will more than double the funds available for faculty and staff childcare. It will also increase the number of "emergency care hours" offered to faculty and staff members for care of children or elderly family members.

2 More than 30 student activists evade Harvard University Police Department officers and stage three consecutive teach-ins to argue for a living wage, disrupting administrators in Mass. Hall, the Harvard Office of Labor Relations and the University Development Office.

12 The Undergraduate Council passes a bill condemning police brutality and supporting student efforts to call attention the Amadou Diallo verdict. Representatives debate whether the council should be discussing national issues like police brutality in the first place.

14 Frequent binge drinking is on the rise at colleges across the country, according to a study released by the Harvard School of Public Health.

21 The Kennedy School of Government says it will open a new center in the fall of 2000 devoted to the study of public leadership. The center, which Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. cites as one of the major accomplishments of his tenure, will be led by Public Service Professor David R. Gergen, a former White House adviser, and by Ronald A. Heifetz, a lecturer in public policy.

23 Two conservative, religious groups sue Cambridge over an ordinance that extends rights and benefits usually reserved for married couples to domestic partners of gay and lesbian city employees, claiming that the 1992 ordinance is both inconsistent with state law and unconstitutional.

April

2 Drew Gilpin Faust of the University of Pennsylvania is named the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, starting January 1, 2001. Faust is Annenberg professor of history at Penn and has served as director of the Women's Studies there program since 1996.