Cuomo To Address K-School

The Democratic Party's favorite non-candidate, Mario M. Cuomo, will speak at the Kennedy School of Government next Wednesday, and the rumor mill is turning again.

The campus is abuzz with speculation that the New York Governor, who opted last year not to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, will announce in next week's speech that he has changed his mind and decided to enter the campaign.

Ross Garon '92-'93, the chair of the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, said he has heard these rumors and other rumblings which say Cuomo will endorse a Democratic candidate. Garon dismissed them as "idle speculation."

"I have no idea where they [the rumors] are coming from," Garon said.

Discussion of a late Cuomo entrance came to the forefront last month when Vice President J. Danforth Quayle told reporters he had "a hunch" that Cuomo would re-enter the race and become the Democratic nominee. Cuomo said at the time he had no plans to seek the nomination.

Quayle repeated his hunch in a news conference Tuesday, but Mac McKay,Quayle's assistant press secretary, said thevice-president's prediction did not involveCuomo's Harvard speech.

"We don't have any special information onthat," McKay said yesterday.

Cuomo's press secretary said the New YorkGovernor has no plans of entering the presidentialrace, citing, as Cuomo did last year, New York'sbudget difficulties.

"I think the governor made his position clearon December 20," said Chuck Porcari, Cuomo'sspokesperson. "One hundred percent of thegovernor's energy is devoted to [balancing thestate] budget. That certainly hasn't changed."

Porcari said the speech will instead address arange of economic issues. He declined to givespecific details.

The Institute of Politics, the Taubman Centerfor State and Local Government and the HarvardItalian Club are jointly sponsoring the address.

Representatives of the Taubman Center and theItalian Club could not be reached for commentyesterday.

The 800 tickets for viewing the address in theARCO Forum ran out Tuesday. Other students andcommunity members can view the speech by closedcircuit television in Science Center Lecture HallB

"We don't have any special information onthat," McKay said yesterday.

Cuomo's press secretary said the New YorkGovernor has no plans of entering the presidentialrace, citing, as Cuomo did last year, New York'sbudget difficulties.

"I think the governor made his position clearon December 20," said Chuck Porcari, Cuomo'sspokesperson. "One hundred percent of thegovernor's energy is devoted to [balancing thestate] budget. That certainly hasn't changed."

Porcari said the speech will instead address arange of economic issues. He declined to givespecific details.

The Institute of Politics, the Taubman Centerfor State and Local Government and the HarvardItalian Club are jointly sponsoring the address.

Representatives of the Taubman Center and theItalian Club could not be reached for commentyesterday.

The 800 tickets for viewing the address in theARCO Forum ran out Tuesday. Other students andcommunity members can view the speech by closedcircuit television in Science Center Lecture HallB