But at least good entertainment is available for everyone, as both The Band and Ray Charles perform at the Harvard football stadium that summer.

Four riots result in the use of tear gas by Cambridge police and cause more than $10,000 worth of damages to local stores.

After the speedy shutdown of an August 7 riot, Cambridge police step up their late-night drug arrests and confiscations in the Square. Needless to say, store owners look forward to the return of the Harvard student--rather than a nomad--population in September.

September 1970

When students arrived on campus in 1970, they are greeted by coeducational housing in the River Houses for the first time.

The Afro-American Studies Department, in its second year, claims 22 concentrators and 160 other students.

Students also return to campus amid speculation about who will become Harvard's 25th president. Nixon administration official John W. Gardner and Stanford President S. I. Hayawaka top the 600-person list.

October 1970

As the House Internal Security Committee identifies the college campus speaking circuit as a major source of funds "for promoters of...revolutionary activity among students," Harvard becomes the site of increasing protests against the role of the CFIA in American foreign policy.

On October 14, a bomb goes off on the third-floor library of the CFIA building, but no one is injured. The next day, a women's group called the Proud Eagle Tribe, whose members are unaffiliated with the College, claims responsibility for the bombing, but police are unable to make any arrests. Police believe that other conspirators are involved in the bombing because the bomb is too sophisticated a device for women to construct, according to investigating Cambridge Police Sergeant James A. Roscoe.

October 19 also sees the first recorded rape in Harvard University history, when a Radcliffe student is assaulted at gun point in her dorm room.

November 1970

The Faculty Committee on the Status of Women begins meeting at the end of October, discussing such issues as the lack of women professors at Harvard. At November 7 hearings, the committee listens to criticisms of University Health Services and demands for more daycare services on campus for students and faculty.

November also sees the National Organization for Women demand the resignation of Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy Von Slade '38, who had written a letter opposing the admission of more women into the University.

December 1970