Chelsea V. Clinton tours the campus, but ultimately decides to go West to Stanford.

24 - Tom (Scott) and Tom (First) of Nantucket Nectars rent the former D.U. final club building with big plans to move their multi-million dollar headquarters and to open a juice bar at the 45 Dunster St. site. But after heavy lobbying from the Harvard Square Defense Fund, Cambridge's zoning board allows the juice guys to only set up their corporate shop in the Square, denying them a license for selling their fruity concoctions.

25 - In a rare use of his bully pulpit, Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of 62 university presidents calling for diversity in higher education, following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admission.

30 - Fifteen female senior Faculty members send a letter to Rudenstine protesting the denial of tenure to Bonnie Honig, associate professor of government. Their letter sparks widespread criticism of Harvard's secretive tenure process and of the administration's stated commitment to faculty diversity. The decision is never reversed and Honig and her husband, Professor of Economics Michael Whinston, leave Harvard for Northwestern University.

May 1997
4 - Arts First weekend is highlighted by controversy surrounding a performance by Marc R. Talusan '97, the "Dancing Deviant." Due to the -show's sexually explicit content, the Office for the Arts denies Talusan funding.

Following a highly publicized custody case, Gina M. Ocon '98-'00 wins the right to move with her young daughter to Cambridge and resume her Harvard education.

Filming for Good Will Hunting begins in Harvard Square. Matt Damon, Class of 1992, and Ben Affleck, both native Cantabrigians, later win a "Best Screenplay" Oscar for the film.

Federal officials suspend a $14 million contract with the Harvard Institute of International Development after discovering possible improprieties in HIID projects in Russia. Accusations focus on Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer '82, who allegedly "abused the trust of the United States government by using personal relationships...for private gain," officials say.