SEPTEMBER

Students returning to school look to party but are disappointed with a new state law prohibiting possession of alcohol. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 later expressed his disappointment in the decision.

21 Harvard announces it will pay $260,000 to settle a Sex discrimination suit filed six years ago by former Law School professor Clare Dalton. Dalton claimed she wasn't tenured because of her gender, but Harvard still denies any wrongdoing.

23 The Harvard Cooperative Society announces the lowest patronage rebate in the cooperative's 111-year history. Coop members receive checks totaling a paltry 1 percent of their purchases.

OCTOBER

5 Linguistics concentrators get a scare after faculty members announce that the Department of Linguistics will soon assume committee status, potentially eliminating any formal linguistics degree programs. Students succesfully fight the decision and University officials rescind their ruling in May.

7The Department of Athletics announces a major, three-year initiative to expand and improve the womens' athletic program. The move will increase the budget for women's sport by $200,000, or about 20 percent.

15 Vincent W. Li '87, an embattled tutor in Dunster House charged with ethical misconduct in hiring other tutors, caps off a tumultuous month at Dunster House by claiming he is constantly harassed and "live[s] in fear." Li later leaves Harvard to marry the woman for whom tutors claimed he abused his influence to bring into the House.

18 Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. MansfieldJr. '53 testifies in a Denver, Colorado court that homosexuality is "shameful" and "undermines civilization." The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association held a 40-person rally to protest the statements.

27 The alumni board of the Fly Club votes unanimously to allow its undergraduates to begin admitting women into the social club next fall. The vote overturns a 157-year-old policy which had been the target of protest for more than a decade.

NOVEMBER

2 Cantabridgians cast their ballots for city council members. The progressive Cambridge Civic Assiciation wins a majority of the vote, and Kenneth E. Reeves'72 is re-elcted mayor in January.

9 Cornel R. West '74, a prominent Afro-American studies professor who directed the Afro-American program at Princeton, accepts a tenured professorship at the Harvard Divinity School and the Afro-American Studies Department. West will begin teaching in the fall of 1995.

18 Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles lays off eight staff members at Harvard's Semitic Museum in an attempt to curb the musuem's $1 million deficit. The layoffs set off a string of attacks by staff members and financial supporters of the museum against the administration and museum director Dorot Professor of Archaeology Lawrence E. Stager. A staff of two is later rehired.

20 Joe Restic loses his last game as Harvard's football coach when the Crimson dropped The Game to Yale 33-31. Tim Murphy, coach at the University of Cincinnati, is hired to replace Restic in December.

DECEMBER

2 A bizarre suit in which University officials accused two Harvard security guards of stealing two Poland Springs water coolers goes to trial. The guards are found innocent, with the debacle costing more than $100,000.

8 Harvard's largest teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, announce they will merge. Hospital officials say they will focus more on forming primary care networks.

15 Ten Cambridge police officers arrest an accused Bank robber in dramatic fashion after chasing him through Harvard Square. The suspect is carrying a replica gun and is walking towards the same bank he had allegedly robbed two weeks earlier.

JANUARY

4 The University begins an internal investigation of radiation experiments conducted during the Cold War by Harvard faculty members on retarded students in state schools throughout Massachusetts. A state task force later determines that the rights of the test subjects were violated and that they should be compensated.

9 Richard C. Marius announces he will step down as director of Expository Writing in June. Marius' resignation comes less than three months after former and current Expos teachers criticize him publicly. Nancy Sommers, the associate director, is named head of the program in May.

11 Candles left burning overnight set fire to a bookshelf in the Dudley House Co-op, forcing 19 residents to move out. The Cambridge Fire Department estimates the damage at $40,000.

FEBRUARY

6 seven female graduate students in the archaeology wing of the Anthropology Department go public with sexual harassment charges against Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. Van der Merwe, claiming he made sexually explicit jokes. Van der Merwer denies the charges.

14 After beating Boston University in the first round of the Beanpot, Harvard Hockey loses 2-1 in overtime in the final to Boston College. The Crimson loses in the semifinals of the NCAAs in April to Lake Superior State, the eventuial national champion.

28 about 45 student leaders kicked off a Collegewide campaign to raise money to buy a truck to take victims of war out of Bosnia and supplies. The organization raised roughly $25,000 in one week.

MARCH

4 about 25 minority students protest the lack of minority professors and slow progress in the creation of ethnic studies courses at Harvard. The students rally again the next day and collect more than 500 signatures on petitions in support of their cause.

20 Members of the Undergraduate Council vote to raise the term-bill fee it charges students from $20 to $30. After the first campus-wide refernedum testing support for the measure is invalidated because of election improprieties, a second studentwide vote shows strong opposition to the fee hike.

APRIL

3 City Councillor William H. Walsh is found guilty on 41 counts of Bank fraud and making false statements after facing trial for seven weeks. Despite numerous calls from his colleagues to step down, Walsh refuses to resign his seat.

7 A Black junior charges that HarvardPolice arrested him and sent him to jail because of his skin color. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps supports the student's claim and Alvin L. Bragg '95 says the police regularaly discriminate against Blacks. Police officials deny any wrongdoing.

13 The University announces that Provost Jerry R. Green will depart as provost at the end of the academic year. Green and Rudenstine refuse to offer a full explanation. Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Albert C. Carnesale is named provost in May.

17 Officials at Harvard Management Company receive record compensation for leading Harvard's Endowment to an above average performance. Six officials earned at least $800,000 in salaries, bonuses and contributions.

MAY

1 The Undergraduate Council votes not to recall Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95, despite his own acknowledgement that he failed to enforce the council's attendance policy. The council later censures liston, but that action is later reversed.

12 The University officially kicks off its $2.1 billion Capital Campaign, the first fundraising effort ever to include all of Harvard's ten schools. The University has already raised some $650 million.

23 at least three students are arrested at an Owl Club party after a scuffle between a state trooper and an undergraduate results in both being maced. The charges against the students are later dropped.

27 Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett'57 announces he will step down at the end of 1994-95. Jewett, who will have served as dean for 10 years, says he wants to work at Harvard in a lesser capacity.