Pihl's shirts and ties are more colorful than Shinagel's although the traditional penny loafers grace his feet like a good Harvard administrator.

Pihl is talkative, friendly, and very interested in his job-to determine academic policy and course offerings and hire Summer School faculty. He likes it so much that he has already decided to pursue a career as an administrator-despite his academic career as an East Asian scholar specializing in Korea.

During the regular school year, Pihl works as a lecturer in East Asian Studies and the senior tutor of Quincy House.

As a senior tutor, Pihl is responsible for making sure students in Quincy keep up their grades and stay out of trouble-a task he says he is particulary suited for, having been forced to withdraw while an undergraduate.

Pihl admits that he made mistakes as an undergraduate. He now looks back philosophically and says, "I grew up; I got seasoned."

But that seasoning has been in the distinctive Harvard tradition. Before coming to Harvard as an undergraduate he prepped at Brown and Nichols, which at the time was located precisely where the building he now works in stands.

The Harvard seasoning has been softened a bit by seven years in Korea. After being forced to withdraw, he was drafted, and while in Korea wrote feature stories for armed services newspapers.

Pihl says he enjoyed writing about the Koreans he met more than writing about American soldiers. The Korean culture fascinated him, and when he reapplied to Harvard and was accepted, he decided to study East Asian civilization-one of the first undergraduates to have done so.

After earning his undergraduate degree, Pihl returned to Korea to work for a magazine of intellectual commentary.

But the oppostion magazine spoke out against the Korean government, and he had to leave that job. He received a Fulbright scholarship and used it to become the first European graduate from Seoul National University.

Pihl eventually returned to Harvard. He says he got the associate directorship of the Summer School partly because Harvard wanted continuity between the College and Summer School policies. Pihl, as a member of the College's Administrative Board, says he tries to provide this continuity.

Pihl, however, is not a compulsive, code-following administrator. "If everybody at Harvard tried to go by the rules, nothing would get done," he says. "Whenever there are rules there are loopholes."

Wayne K. Ishikawa, dean of the Summer School, is the administrator most concerned with students here, and how happy they are.

Ishikawa smiles a lot; his office has a reputation for containing baseball bats, painting easels, and other accoutrements that tend to reinforce the image Camp Harvard.

Often seen wearing a sweatshirt with a whistle around his neck, the relatively young Ishikawa has a while to go before he fits into the classic mold of the Harvard administrator.

Ishikawa resents the Summer School's reputation as Camp Harvard. "Although I understand the appellation, I think it's kind of unfair," he says. "Pre-college students are pretty well screened beforehand and the whole character of the Yard naturally becomes a bit more relaxed with the good weather."

Ishikawa, who completed his doctorate in French last spring, is returning to Harvard for his fourth year. He served as a proctor his first two years. Last year he also planned to serve as a proctor, but received an unexpected promotion when the person originally appointed to the deanship abruptly resigned last May. Pihl offered Ishikawa the job.

Ishikawa will be responsible for organizing mixers, lining up lecture series, and generally spicing up the social life of Summer School students