Inside This Issue

THE INDOCHINA WAR may be over, and the Harvard campus has become relatively quiet again. Dan Swanson explores the connection between these two phenomena Page 3.

IN 1969, HARVARD students occupied University Hall and staged a week-long strike demanding that the University drop its ROTC program. The famous 1969 strike made the covers of all the national newsmagazines; a few of the red strike fist tee-shirts are still in the vicinity. President Bok in June hinted that ROTC might be coming back to Harvard. Peter Shane tries to figure out what Bok has up his sleeve. Page 6.

RADCLIFFE COLLEGE has gone through some changes recently. Some people think the advent of co-residential living and the non-merger merger arrangement means that Radcliffe has been submerged as a separate institution. Are they right? Robin Freedberg has some answers on page 7.

DEREK BOK has been at Harvard's helm for two full years now. When he was first tabbed for the post, skeptics scoffed. Another glad-handing Kingman Brewster type, they predicted. Is this view of Bok borne out by the evidence of the past two years? Steve Luxenberg has some answers on page 7.

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE is just outside Harvard's gates, but most students spend four years here without bothering to learn about their neighbors. How is the City run and what are its problems? Why does City Councillor Al Vellucci want to pave over the Yard and turn it into a parking lot? Why don't the other Councillors think this is such a bizarre idea? Travis Dungan looks at Cambridge on page 9.

THE HARVARD CRIMSON has the reputation of being one of the most left-wing college newspapers in the country. But this was not always so. During the Depression, for example, The Crimson paid more attention to football games than breadlines, even though one of its former presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, was in the White House. Steve Luxenberg examines The Crimson's first 100 years and the present state of the paper on page 11.

Section 2

FRAN SCHUMER didn't like Harvard much her freshman year. It wasn't at all like her Brooklyn neighborhood. She's still not sure why she came here, but she has a few more answers than she did then. Page 13.

DAN SWANSON didn't like Harvard much either. There was this woman, you see, who he fell madly in love with and who didn't want to have anything to do with him. He tried dumping water on her, but that didn't work, so he just suffered. It didn't even work out in the end. Page 13.

THEY WANT to wine you and dine you and make you over until you are just like they are. Andy Corty let's you know what to expect and how to fight it. Page 14.

THEY FED the goldfish some LSD to see what would happen, provoking an earnest discussion among a group of freshmen. They also worried about the cat and applauded the Spring demonstration. Seth Kupferberg relates tales of freshman year on page 15.

YOU THOUGHT you had left high school far behind, that they would treat you like an adult once you got to Cambridge. Surprise. You still have to raise your hand in class--and they don't always like it. Peter Shane remembers on page 16.

EMILY FISHER didn't like getting called up 20 times a day by strange men. She talks about it on page 17.

THEY WILL TRY to sell you everything but the statue of John Harvard when you get here. Robin Freedberg tells you what to buy and what to stay away from. Page 19.

YOU MISSED them, some of the most bizarre figures in Harvard's athletic history. The quarterback who ran into his own endzone and the basket ball coach who ranted and raved. Page 21.