■Senator Kennedy started a full day of campaigning in this area at 7 a.m. when he met with Dr. Thomas F. Corriden, nurses and staff members of Cooley Dickinson Hospital. The senator and his party, led by Northampton Mayor Sean M. Dunphy, met workers as they went to their jobs at the Florence Casket Company, and visited the city’s Public Works Department.
■University and college presidents in the five-college area have responded approvingly to the recently issued report from the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest. Calling it “a well-reasoned, balanced and courageous report,” Chancellor Oswald Tippo of UMass joined the other high officials in echoing the report’s call to President Nixon to reconcile the division in the country.
■In what is being described as a “history-making moment,” Smith College President Ruth Simmons will be installed this weekend in an event drawing attention and attendance from far and wide. Simmons, formerly vice provost at Princeton University, is Smith’s ninth president, and the first black woman to lead one of the Seven Sisters schools.
■A researcher says the discovery that a Springfield baby has eastern equine encephalitis only deepens the puzzles clouding the rare mosquito-borne disease that has plagued coastal areas of the state for generations. “It’s a complete mystery” said John Edman, who teaches entomology at the University of Massachusetts and has conducted a variety of research projects on the mosquitoes linked to the disease.