Lewis, a New York lawyer, heads the largest Black-owned corporation in the country, TLC Beatrice Holdings. The international law center to be renamed for him will be the first building at Harvard to be named for an African-American.

But Law School critics, including former Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, say they worry that Law School Dean Robert C. Clark may get the wrong idea from the gift. A sizable gift from a Black donor might foster a sense of complacency among administrators, causing them to recruit minority professors less vigorously, according to Bell and others.

HOLE IN THE THEORY

Those hoping for McDonald's in the Square shouldn't hold their breath; stringent area regulations won't even let a Dunkin' Donuts franchise slip through the cracks.

The Board of Zoning Appeals voted to prohibit owners from opening a doughnut shop at the former site of TCBY. City law requires fast food businesses to receive special permits before opening shop in the Square.

The Harvard Square Defense Fund, a citizens' action group, argued at several heated hearings that they wanted to keep the Square distinct from "Everywhere, America." They said ice cream shops and doughnut shops are different from other fast food establishments.

Doughnut advocates blasted Defense Fund members' fear of fast food, insisting that the Square needs reasonably-priced food.