Looking Back: What Happened in 1992-93

September

17 Watching a Lampoon event honoring comedian Billy Crystal, Lowell House sophomore Theodore P. Klupinski '95, falls from a Claverty Hall fire escape and is seriously injured. Klupinski missed the first semester of the school year but returned healthy for the spring term.

18 MIT undergraduate Yngve K. Raustein, 21, from Os, Norway, is stabbed to death on Memorial Drive after being robbed of $30. Three East Cambridge youths are arrested and charged in the crime.

24 Harvard officials announce they have received a $7 million gift to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The money, from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, will help the larger project of converting Memorial Hall into a first-year dining hall that is also a Commons, home to rehearsal space and social space. The gift is heralded by deans, but some students and house masters have concerns about how the new commons, expected to open in September 1995, will affect the house system.

25 The Coop announces that its rebate to members will be 1.1 percent of their total purchases--the lowest rebate since records have been kept.

October

1 City Councillor William H. Walsh is indicted on 59 charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and malting false statement to a federally insured bank, Walsh was one of 19 people indicted for allegedly defrauding Dime Savings Bank of New York of about $8 million for condominium developments in Massachusetts.

14 Responding to persistent allegations of discrimination and on-the-job harassment in the University security guard unit. President Nell L. Rudenstine says "he will ask new General Council Margaret H. Marshall to take a second look" at the charges. Marshall later hires former FBI agent James A. Ring, who works for Marshall's former employer Choate, Hall & Stewart to conduct the independent probe.

16 At an emergency meeting, the Harvard Law Review's Board of Trustees decides to appoint an investigator to probe charges of racism, sexism and the abuse of power leveled against the Review's president. Emily R. Schulman '85. The investigation eventually clears Schulman of the charges.

30 Less than a week after surviving an impeachment attempt. Maya G. Prabhu '94 resigns from her post as vice chair of the Undergraduate Council and assumes responsibility for the invalid results of a social committee election she conducted. Privately, she admitted to rigging the election, council members said.

November

9 The Crimson reports that the 11.8 percent rate of return on Harvard's $5 billion endowment in fiscal 1992 was lower than that of 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. Documents filed with the internal Revenue Service several months later reveal that several of Harvard's top money managers received hefty compensation packages for their work over the same year. One senior vice president of Harvard Management Company earned more than $1.2 million in salary and bonuses.

21 The Harvard football team pitches its first shutout against. Yale since 1966, defeating the Elis 14-0. in May, Head Coach Joseph Restic announces that he would retire at the end of the 1993 season.

December

1 The Rev. Jesse I. Jackson brings a message of hope, morality and togetherness to Harvard, speaking at a rally in support of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and talking with President Neil L. Rudenstine.

8 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote unanimously to approve the Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard's first new concentration in six years. The birth of the concentration ends the nearly 18-month long process that began last year with the appointment of Rotch professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy, as the chair of a University wide committee on the environment.

11 President Clinton announces the nomination of Kennedy School Lecturer Robert B. Reich as secretary of labor. In the ensuing months, roughly dozen more Harvard professors and administrators, notably Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, follow Reich to Washington to serve in the Clinton administration.

January

7 Negotiation for the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers agree on the terms of a new contract. Under the plan, workers will receive annual wage increases of about 4 percent, 5 percent and 5 percent over the next three years, respectively.

29 University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit testifies in court that he did not suppress evidence in the denaturalization and extradition trials of Cleveland autoworker John Demlanjuk. Ryan is being investigated as part of a probe by Tennessee Judge Thomas A. Wiseman of the unit's conduct in prosecuting Demlanjuk, who was tagged by the unit as the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the terrible and arts today on death now in Israel.

February

16 Rapper Ice T specks at Harvard Law School about his controversial album Cop Killer." He said, "I thought everybody hated the police." Later in the week, Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn writes a chiding letter to Harvard President Nell L. Rudenstine, Flynn wrote that by inviting ice T to speak, Harvard University has done a great disservice to police officers and law abiding citizens everywhere.

23 Department of Athletics report obtained by The Crimson reveals that the university spent more than twice as much moneyon men's sports as it, did women's during the 1991-92 academic year. The report also indicates other discrepancies between the men's and women's athletic programs at Harvard, ranging from alumni donations to practice time at Bright Hookey Center.

March

5Nine minority campus organization join together to form the Coalition for Diversity to protest the lack of minority representation on a junior Parents Weekend panel.

The coalition issues a flyer titled. "The Peculiar Institution," with a list of demands: an apology from Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for remarks linking grade inflation to the influx of Black enrollment in the early '70s; the creation of a minority student resource center; the establishment of an ethnic studies program; an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism," a town meeting with President Nell L. Rudenstine and other administrators; and greater faculty diversity.

24After a frantic search lasting more than a decade, harvard Medical School researchers report that they have located the elushe genetic defect responsible for Huntington's disease." The Key to the defect is a short repeated sequence of DNA, Just three base pairs of the millions which make up each Human chromosome. With the finding, a quicker and more inexpensive test for the degenerative disease of the central network system, and eventually a better understanding of the disease mechanism, may feed to a cure.

April

7 A 72-year-old self-made millionaire and Harvard Business School graduate contributes $20 million to the Medical School. The donation from New York entrepreneur Warren Alpert, constitutes the largest single gift in the school's history and one of the largest donations ever from a Business School graduate to another division of the University.

8 Harvard announces that Ben. Colin L. Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the primary speaker at Commencement. The decision sparks protests--including a Harvard Yard rally that drawn more than about 300 students--because Powell supports the ben on gays in the military.

The Crimson later discovers that Rudenstine, though publicly prasing Powell's credentials, raised, some concerns about the invitation at a closed-door meeting with the Board of Overseers in February.

8 A former cook and labor union shop steward in the Harvard Union dining hall says he was fired after complaining of racial harassment and on-the-job declination. Students and fellow shop stewards rally to the fired cook's support. Other Harvard Dining Services employees later charge that they are often forced to work while they are sick. Director Micheel P.Berry denies the charges but says he will institute sensitivity training for his workers.

May

3 Eight tutors in Dunster House charge that a house official influenced House Master Karel F. Liem in the hiring of the official's brother, girlfriend and longtime friend as resident tutors. "The official the hired tutors, and Liem all deny any impropriety. Two tutors resign during the turmoil. Dean of the College Fred Jewett '57 eventually leaves any investigation of the matter to Liem.

12 Harvard police recover between $50,000 and $100,000 in gems stolen from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum at the apartment of Extension School student and convicted felon James Arthur Hogue. Hogue, who defrauded Princeton University but of $22,000 in financial aid, has compiled a long arrest record and several aliases.

16 The Faculty approves the recommendations of the 1992 report on the status of ROTC. The vote may prevent Harvard students from participates in ROTC, as one of the report's recommendations calls for the university to "stop paying the MIT fee" for Harvard students to enroll in the program.