Reporter's Notebook

When a reporter asked to speak to Yale Professor of Psychology Judith Rodin, who was offered the Radcliffe presidency, her secretary answered, "You want to write a story about her right now?" Rodin has not yet responded to the job offer, and at least one source told The Crimson that the Yale professor had expressed serious reservations about taking the post.

"Negotiations with top-level people, the kind of people we want to present to the board, can get awfully sticky sometimes in terms of home campuses and other positions."

--Radcliffe Board of Trustees Vice President Nancy-Beth Sheerr '71 on the search for a new Radcliffe president

Stanford Daily reporter Jock Friedly presented The Crimson with his theory of the outcome of the Kennedy School dean search: Jeane L. Kirkpatrick will be appointed dean, and outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 will head the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank at Stanford. Kirkpatrick could not be reached for comment.

"To the best of my knowledge, no decision has been arrived at."

--Dean Graham T. Allison '62 on the Kennedy School dean search

Outgoing Associate Vice President for State and Community Relations Jacqueline O'Neill gave her assessment of Harvard's discussions with St. Paul's Church over the purchase of the church's parking lot. "Whenever you get Harvard University negotiating with the Boston archdiocese, you're sure to have a very long, protracted bureaucratic discussion."

"I think this is the year when they will finally see the light."

--Robert P. Wolff '54, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, on the nomination of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu as a candidate for the Board of Overseers

Law School students really do eat, sleep and breathe legal studies. The student-run Law School Drama Society's letterhead stationary contains the following footnote: "The Harvard Law School Drama Society is a non-profit organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. All contributions may be deducted as provided in section 170 of the Code."

"It does not happen often that you lose two people in one department in one season. Harvard won this one, and maybe soon we'll take some people from Harvard."

--Columbia's Associate Dean of the College Michael Rosenthal '58 on the news that Harvard has hired two of Columbia's philosophy professors.

Vacation Watch: Law School professors were southward-bound this month. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, who headed the faculty dean search committee, was sunning in Mexico when the appointment of Professor of Law Robert C. Clark was revealed. This month, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell is in his third week of a Jamaican holiday.

"Even with your $6000, you don't show us anything."

--An uninvited guest at an Adams House party, as he was being led out by police for disruptive behavior, referring to the Harvard tuition fee.

St. Patrick's Day is approaching fast, and Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velucci has his theory about the story behind the holiday. "He chased the snakes out of Ireland, but he ought to send them up to Harvard University."

"Our goal is not to recruit any particular group of the freshman class at all."

--Kirkland House Committee Chair Daniel T. Dougherty '90, after the house committee placed an ad in The Crimson refuting its stereotype of athleticism.

Middlesex Assistant District Attorney George Murphy must have felt left out. Cambridge District Court Judge Lawrence P. Feloney '43-'46 told him that unless Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 arraigned an alleged murder suspect soon, Feloney would dismiss the charges. Murphy's response: "I don't want to get caught between two Harvard men."