30 - Harvard hosts an international education summit featuring meetings between seven presidents from China's leading universities and five from American universities.

November 1999
10 - The Crimson reported that for the past two months, Edward Francis Meinert, Jr., an Extension School student, posed as a transfer student in the College class of 2002. Meinert joined a variety of extracurriculars, never disclosing the fact that he was a former student at George Washington University and was facing a federal prison sentence for fraud.

24 - B.J. Averell '02 sneaks onto a Delta Express jet in a futile attempt to get home in time for Thanksgiving, after he learns that the airline had given his seat away.

Averell is arrested by Logan Airport security officials, and his story makes national headlines. All charges are eventually dropped but Averell remains a campus celebrity.

December 1999
13 - After his Mather House room had been targeted repeatedly in acts of homophobic vandalism this fall, K. Kyriell Muhammad announced he would resign as resident tutor at the end of the term.

15 - Fentrice D. Driskell '01 wins the Undergraduate Council's top spot, along with her running mate John A. Burton '01. The election also decreases the Council to nearly half its current size and defeats efforts to increase the $20 student termbill fee, proceeds of which go directly to the council.

University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 takes a temporary leave to undergo surgery for what appears to be an early stage of prostate cancer. Fineberg returned to his normal duties gradually over the winter.

2000

January 2000

4 - The troubled history of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) comes to an end after a University task force recommends its dissolution.