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Along with the rain, March brought some good news for financial aid students. R. Jerrold Gibson, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, softened the blow of the tuition increase by announcing that Harvard students will receive significantly more federal aid in the 1979-80 school year. Many Harvard students weren't waiting around for that aid, however. Lawrence E. McGuire, director of student employment, announced that undergraduates were working harder than ever before at University-financed jobs in 1977-78, raising their earnings from $2.3 billion to over $3.1 billion...
Forty years ago, a few students weren't thinking about working. March marked the anniversary of the national goldfish swallowing fad, begun at Harvard by Lothrop Worthington '42. Worthington said eating goldfish is "just a question of mind over matter, a conditioning thing. Like eating oysters...
...March, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted a new trial to the three men convicted of the 1976 killing of Andrew P. Puopolo '77. The presiding judge said prosecution abuses in the jury selection prompted the retrial. Puopolo died Dec. 17, 1976, of stabbing wounds sustained in Boston's Combat Zone while celebrating the end of the football season with the team...
...face yet another controversy in March over the issue of the University's investments in corporations operating in South Africa. Ninety-three Faculty members signed a petition calling on the University to divest of its South Africa-related investments, and many spoke out against University policy at a Faculty meeting. Kenneth J. Arrow, departing Conant University Professor, said in a letter to the Faculty Council that the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last year overestimated the cost of divestiture of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The ACSR said the costs of divestiture would range from...
Kilbridge's resignation overshadows the latest controversy surrounding the GSD. In March, an official of the American Planning Association (APA) said the organization had rejected Harvard's application for renewal of APA recognition of its degree program. Soon the APA clarified its position--they just needed more information, and Harvard officials expect to pass despite APA's initial disapproval. But the APA's initial criticisms of the department's emphasis on economics at the expense of a traditional planning curriculum highlights the basic conflict inside and outside of the department...