May 2000
3 - After 15 months of forceful student pressure, Rudenstine announced that the University plans to extend health care and job training benefits to virtually all Harvard employees, but will stop short of enacting a living wage.
6 - Academy Award winners and native Cantabrigians Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Class of 1992, speak out at a living wage rally.
15 - After a Cambridge city board found fault with much of the University's plan, Harvard decides to rethink its most recent proposal for the Knafel Center for Government and International Study.
22 - President Neil L. Rudenstine announces that he will leave Harvard at the end of June 2001. His resignation comes at the conclusion of a six-year capital campaign that has marked his tenure.