September 25
Harvard Law School faculty rejects a proposed pass-fail system designed to increase student satisfaction. The proposal was prompted after a McKinsey consulting group study last year described student dissatisfaction with the grading system.
September 27
The U.S. government files a $120 million suit against Harvard University over allegedly defrauding the government of $40 million in a Harvard administered federal foreign aid program in Russia. After a three year investigation, the government charges that the Harvard failed to provide adequate supervision to the program administered by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Harvard denies that administrators were aware of abuses.
September 28
Harvard announces that it will not block access to Napster. The Crimson learned that Daniel D. Moriarty, assistant provost for information technology, will send a letter to Dr. Dre and Mettallica attorney Howard E. King informing him that Harvard has refused his request to restrict access to Napster.
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