JOHN H ARVARD'S JOURNAL by this spring. Also on April 3, the Crimson broke Yesterday’s News the news that a From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine member of the stu- dent group Our Harvard Can Do 1 9 1 4 The outbreak of World War I ping a !nial through the roof of Memo- Better had filed a GREEN MITCH traps more than 40 faculty members and rial Hall. complaint with the Mia Karvonides close to 30 traveling fellows in Europe DOE civil-rights of- and sends at least two professors with The two most popular summer-session fice on March 28, alleging that the College’s French citizenship home to !ght. courses are Professor Howard Mumford sexual-assault policies violate federal law. Jones’s “American Literature” and visiting She and another lead complainant, and tes- 1 9 3 9 President Conant prepares to author Frank O’Connor’s “The Nine- timonials from 10 other students, focused on move his of!ce from University Hall, teenth Century Novel.” the conflicting guidance they received from where Harvard’s presidents have worked House advisers about their options and on since the building opened in 1815, to 1 9 5 9 Quincy House is rushed toward the inconsistent information on changing newly refurbished Massachusetts Hall. completion for September occupancy. residences, among other issues. (Some 55 schools, including the College and the Law 1 9 4 4 The summer heat has brought 1 9 6 9 Sixteen students have been re- School, are now being investigated by the out the “whites” of the Navy V-12 stu- quired to leave Harvard because of their civil-rights o0ce for issues related to their dents; skivvies, jumpers, and bell-bottom actions during the occupation of Univer- handling of sexual assaults.) trousers hang out to dry under the wil- sity Hall on April 9-10. Twenty others At an Undergraduate Council forum lows of Eliot House. have been given a suspended requirement on April 16, Faust disclosed that Harvard to withdraw while 102 more have been had filed its proposed, updated University 1 9 5 4 Hurricane Carol strikes with placed under warning. policy on sexual assaults with the DOE of- 120-mile-per-hour winds on August 31, fice for review—potentially addressing toppling an oak and three of the oldest 1 9 7 4 Newsweek reports that B is the the legal-compliance challenges. Secur- elms in the Yard, de-roo!ng average grade in American colleges. Har- ing approval, a mandated first step the Newell Boathouse vard reports that the average grade for in improving campus condi- shed, and drop- the College as a whole is a B+. tions, is not automatic: Tufts and the government 1 9 9 4 Harvard Square landmark Out engaged in a public of Town News has been sold to an out- stando+ over whether of-town owner, Hudson County News of its revised policies New York. comply with the fed- eral standards; and the White House and DOE o0ce subse- quently issued a sample survey for investigating conditions on campuses, a checklist for sexual- misconduct policies, and other guidance—dozens of pages of new docu- mentation for law- yers to process. Each school will have to bring its poli- cies into con- formity with the University requirements, once those pass federal muster. On May 6, Dean Illustration by Mark Steele Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746.