12 - The days of the Bow and Arrow Pub and the Mass. Ave. Dunkin' Donuts are numbered, as they are forced out of their building which is owned by the Harvard Cooperative Society. How about them apples?

19 - The Crimson reports that Undergraduate Council Vice President John A. Burton '01 stole campaign materials from the office of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance. The council later rejects two articles of impeachment and vote not to remove Burton from office.

February 2000
15 - After a month of political wrangling, the Cambridge City Council elects Anthony D. Galluccio mayor of Cambridge.

28 - In a distinctly non-liberal-arts move, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces that they will begin assembling a program to teach undergraduates the lessons they need to become high-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

April 2000
2 - Drew Gilpin Faust of the University of Pennsylvania is named as the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, starting January 1, 2001. Faust was the Annenberg Professor of History at Penn and had served as director of the Women's Studies program since 1996.

3 - The Cambridge City Council passes an order supporting a "living wage" of $10 per hour for all Harvard employees at its meeting and threatened that town-gown relations may become strained unless the University acts soon. In May 1999, the council mandated that all city employees and employees of firms contracted by city must be paid at least $10 an hour.

5 - FAS completes negotiations with the Institute of 1770 to take ownership of the Hasty Pudding building. FAS will foot the bill for massive renovations to the dilapidated building--by some accounts, likely a $5 million undertaking.

28 - About 30 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement occupy Byerly Hall for six hours to attract the attention of visiting prospective first-years and promote their campaign for a living wage at Harvard. Members refused to heed requests by the Harvard University Police Department that they leave the building.