By ZACHARY M. SEWARDCRIMSON STAFF WRITER

After 131 years of staid blacks and musty grays, The Harvard Crimson features ac-tual crimson—and the full spectrum of col-ors—on its front page today, marking a new era for the University’s daily newspaper.

The Crimson also unveils a complete redesign in today’s issue to accompany the changeover.

Press units installed in the newspaper’s basement over winter break enable the

broadsheet to publish up to four pages in full-color—in-t r o d u c i n g cyan, magenta and yellow to The Crimson’s presses for the

fi rst time since in-house printing began in 1895.

Leaning over test copies pouring out of the presses last week, Crimson Presi-dent Amit R. Paley ’04 and press operator Brian M. Byrne sported hands stained with ink and newsprint as Byrne tweaked contrast levels and discussed the logistics of color publication.

“Monday’s going to be a big test,” Byrne said in advance of today’s inaugural color issue.

Paley, whose tenure has been marked by a year-long effort to imbue the newspaper with color, hailed the change as vital for The Crimson’s readership.

“It was just pretty clear that it’s an im-portant service to provide to our readers,” Paley said.

All told, The Crimson has devoted roughly $400,000 to the project, includ-ing the purchase and installation of the new Goss Community presses which now print the fi rst two and last two pages of the newspaper.

The Crimson’s ongoing capital cam-paign is expected to cover the expenses of the changeover to color and redesign, Paley said.

Crimson Graduate Board Chair William

THE CRIMSON’S NEW FACELearn more about The Crimson’s new design on page A5.

By BARI M. SCHWARTZCRIMSON STAFF WRITER

The Undergraduate Council heard a proposal to increase the size of block-ing groups from eight to 12 and hashed out potential changes to the College’s academic calendar in a two-hour meeting last night.

The council took no vote on the blocking group proposition, but plan co-drafter Sheila R. Adams ’05 said that Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 would bring up the pro-posal at a meeting of the House Masters

next Monday.In a Sever Hall classroom so frigid

that council members could see their own breath, about 30 non-council members joined the student representatives to discuss recent proposals to move exams before winter break and create a month-long term in January.

Most of the students said they sup-ported the proposal, and a suggestion that the College should extend Thanksgiving break met approval from the crowd.

But the idea of a January term, or “J-

See COUNCIL Page A3

One Eliot House resident couldn’t fi nish his term papers because of depression and severe anxiety. An-other missed three fi nal exams because of a personal meltdown. A third stopped submitting work for his tutorial and skipped a fi nal exam because of what Eliot Senior Tutor Oona B. Ceder called, “some kind

of failure across the board.”“I am swamped,” Ceder wrote in an e-mail to Eliot

House Master Lino Pertile last May about these and the 20 other Eliot residents she called “our troubled students.”

The next morning, a concerned Per-tile forwarded the e-mail to University President Lawrence H. Summers.

“This blows my mind,” Summers responded to Pertile. “Is this typical?”

It is. A six-month investigation by The Crimson has

found that the College faces a pervasive mental health crisis and that, because of systemic problems with

its mental health resources, Harvard is failing to ad-equately treat its students.

An overwhelming majority of Harvard undergrad-uates struggle with mental health problems, a recent Crimson poll found.

“The breadth of the problem we are having with the mental health of our undergraduates struck me as reaching such serious proportions that I felt I wanted to share it with you,” Pertile wrote in his original e-mail to Summers. “The trouble that is brewing under the apparently calm surface is a cause for concern.”

Summers asked if the number of problems in Eliot

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ASSAULT IN YARDHarvard is struck by fifth assault in four months as another student is groped. A3

UNDERCOVER AS AN ANTI-SEMITEAnti-war group discovers that anti-Semitic weblog posts came from Israel activist. A3

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College Faces Mental Health Crisis

SARAH M.J. WELCH—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

Caitlin E. Stork ’04, who has bipolar disorder, is one of 80 percent of Harvard students who have faced mental health problems in the last year.

THE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM FIRST IN A FIVE-PART SERIES

BY THE NUMBERSA Crimson poll found an overwhelm-ing majority of students faced mental health problems. Students reported that in the last year they had…

Students File Brief Against Pentagon

By DANIEL J. HEMELCRIMSON STAFF WRITER

A Harvard Law School (HLS) student gay rights group will submit a friend-of-the-court brief in Philadelphia today urging federal appellate judges to reject Pentagon attorneys’ arguments in a case concerning military recruitment on college campuses.

The brief argues that the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 15 law schools, has legal standing to challenge the 1996 Solomon Amendment, under which the Pentagon has threatened to block federal funding to universities that limit military recruiters’ access to students.

The student group, HLS Lambda, and fellow-signatories of the brief—which include national environmentalist and women’s organizations—claim that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the FAIR lawsuit could substantially impact the future of the First Amendment.

According to FAIR founder and Boston College Law School professor Kent Green-fi eld, four other groups will fi le friend-of-the-court briefs supporting FAIR’s argu-ments today, including the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), whose list of 164 members includes HLS.

HLS and a host of other law schools nationwide have long required that em-ployers who participate in the schools’ offi cial recruiting functions must pledge not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

The military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” pol-icy requires the discharge of openly gay ser-vicemembers, and the Pentagon has refused to sign the nondiscrimination pledges.

SPORTS

No Dice On Ice

Men’s hockey falls to ECAC foe Cornell yet again, 5-3.

SECTION B

Proposed January Term Gets Mixed Reactions

Overwhelming majority of students have felt depressed in last year

By KATHARINE A. KAPLANCRIMSON STAFF WRITER

See MENTAL HEALTH Page A8

FELT DEPRESSED

FELT SO DEPRESSED IT WAS DIFFICULT TO FUNCTION

SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED COMMITTING SUICIDE

DAVID E. STEIN—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

The new color Crimson comes off the presses during a test run earlier this month. The Crimson installed full color presses over winter break.

UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL

Lieberman in 2004, Rubins in 2020?By MAY HABIB

CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

MANCHESTER, N.H.—Rebecca E. Rubins ’05 spent last Wednesday like the ten preceding 15-hour days, frantically researching in dull light on even drabber furniture.

An hour’s drive from the carrels of Lamont Library, Rubins is more than a few mindsets removed from reading period.

The Social Studies concentrator drew a long pause before she could even name her four classes.

Here in the Manchester campaign headquarters “War Room” of Sen. Jo-seph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., Rubins’ manic energy blends in among the other two dozen staffers working to

win “Joe” the Democratic nomina-tion.

Rubins began working for the Lieberman campaign last summer in Washington, D.C., and the campaign asked her to continue through the fall term.

She attends debates in New Eng-land and transcribes Lieberman’s speeches. She founded Students for Lieberman at Harvard and has now spent almost two weeks of her winter break and reading period in New Hampshire canvassing, phone-banking and researching Lieberman’s gaggle of opponents.

“I’m involved in politics because I think it’s the most noble thing,” she said last Thursday, a few hours before returning to Cambridge. “It’s

very easy to get caught up in the minute things. The next paper, the next exam. Going back to Boston will be a shock—I go from working on a national presidential campaign to writing a lit paper.”

The War Room is hardly comfort-able, but Rubins is reluctant to leave it. The corner where she worked is dark and claustrophobic, fi lled with small televisions tuned to different news programs.

Mismatched, dilapidated sofas decorate the offi ce—some even with holes in the arms—amidst the cu-bicles of different sizes and colors, which round out the offi ce. Tacky hand-made campaign posters adorn

ELECTION 2004

Harvard junior with political aspirations hits the campaign trail

Law School gay rights group joins suit challenging military

recruiting on campus

See RUBINS Page A7

See BRIEF Page A7

Crimson Goes Color in 130th Year

See REDESIGN Page A5

Methodology: A randomly selected sample of 700 undergraduates was contacted by The Crimson between Dec. 11 and 14. The poll was administered online, via a secure, authen-ticated server, with 361 students responding. Results had a margin of error of ±6 percent-age points.

80%Once or

more

20%Never

47%Once or

more

53%Never

90%Never

10%Once or

more

CRIMSON GRAPHIC—ELLEN N. CHING