Only hours after the Faculty vote, a Harvard-affiliated woman is raped in Byerly Hall. The building's security system is discovered to have been broken for over a year.

27 - The Harvard women's hockey team defeats the University of New Hampshire 6-5 in overtime in the AWCHA national championship game. The win gives the team its fist national title.

April 1999
5 - Two professors of pediatric medicine, Judith S. Palfrey '67 and John G. "Sean" Palfrey '67, are named the new masters of Adams House, replacing long-time supporters of randomization, Robert J. Kiley '60 and his wife Jana.

8 - Longtime Cambridge political fixture and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announces that he will retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and the City Council. During his career, Duehay dealt with a variety of problems including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s and the housing tumult following the 1994 end to rent control.

The Undergraduate Council endorses the return of ROTC to campus in a close vote. BGLTSA protests. Lewis later says the College is not considering bringing ROTC back to campus.

The murky Charles River gets a B- grade from the EPA, up from a D in 1996 and a C in 1997.

20 - Harvard and Radcliffe officials announce that Radcliffe will be absorbed under the University's umbrella as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 120 years after it gave women access to a Harvard education. Under the proposed agreement, Radcliffe would be placed on an equal administrative footing with the University's nine faculties. Linda S. Wilson, Radcliffe's seventh and final president, announced that she would step down from her post in June. Radcliffe-affiliated student groups express concern over their future and Harvard's commitment to female undergraduates.

Springfest finally lives up to its name after disappointments in past years. Students laud the Council-sponsored celebration with good weather, music by the Violent Femmes and inflatable playgrounds.