People get tired of professors "who seem to play the same record over and over again," one Faculty member said. Senators have built in safeguards against these people: they can go to the john, read their mail, or write form letters to constituents. The Harvard Faculty cannot.

Professors also are tired of continually mopping up after student crises. Although the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities was overwhelmingly passed, the selection of members for the committee was open to just about anyone who would sacrifice his time.

"The Faculty is pooped, but not down-hearted," Hughes said last week. And the best evidence of this is his own speech before the Faculty at its last meeting in May.

"We are sick and tired of picking up the burden, of sacrificing each time there is a crisis," Hughes told a lethargic end-of-the-year crowd. "The Faculty is already overburdened, already our research and writing time has been corded to the vanishing point."

"The Faculty was forced into a quick decision about grades this Spring," he continued. "Now a majority of students are neither taking exams nor doing political work. I hope we learn from our sad experience not to make a similar mistake again." As Hughes sat down, he was greeted with a standing ovation.