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...Harvard further asserted its Ivy dominance by completely flattening traditional Ivy power Princeton in a Sunday doubleheader. The sweep was a day to remember for freshman Tiffany Whitton, who pitched the Crimson to a 6-2 win in the first game and hit her first career home run to lead off the scoring in Harvard's 9-1 win in the second...
...Harvard roared into first place at the start of the season, winning four of its first five games, including a whopping weekend home sweep over Dartmouth and soon-to-be-disgraced Vermont, 7-2 and 6-3, respectively...
...After winter break and a week-long training trip, the team faced Navy in early January. While one might expect the Naval Academy to dominate a water-based sport, the opposite was true, as Harvard won, 161-82. The Crimson won nine of 13 events, including a sweep of the top three spots in the mile, the 200 butterfly and the 200 backstroke. However, the team did lose the 200 freestyle relay, as it had the year before, and Murphy was not happy...
...Anti-war demonstrators march to the Center for International Affairs building in Cambridge, breaking windows and causing $20,000 in damages. Fifty police officers equipped with riot gear and tear gas sweep the Square to control the disturbance. 20 - Black students from the Pan-African Liberation Committee and other groups take over Mass. Hall, demanding that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. Students form picket lines around the building, and the protestors begin a hunger strike. After 153 hours of occupation, the students voluntarily leave...
...Michael S. Dukakis wings the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, leading a Democratic sweep of statewide posts. 15 - Birth of a Nation is shown in Science Center A after its initial October 5 screening was cancelled. Fifty students had protested showing the film, citing its portrayal of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. 20 - Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Dana L. Farnworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and former Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, criticizes current drug laws making marijuana users liable for punishment and recommends that possessing less than one ounce of marijuana...