Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the School, declined to comment yesterday on Bane's appointment, noting the school's "elaborate process of approvals and consents" and calling any official announcement "premature and inappropriate for me, especially in the dean's absence. "Hale Champion, executive dean of the school, also declined to comment yesterday on Bane's status.

Richard J. Zeckhauser '62, professor of Political Economy and a member of the six-person appointments committee with Carnesale and Hogan, decined to comment on Bane's appointment, calling the announcement of incomplete appointments "bad for her and bad for us."

The committee's other three members--Edith M. Stokey, lecturer on Public Policy and secretary to the faculty, Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government, and John F. Kain, professor of City Planning--were unavailable for comment yesterday.

Telephone

Bane, who leaves the Department of Education January 16, said she negotiated with K-School administrators by telephone, though she added that "I can't remember" who initiated the conversations. "I know a lot of people at the Kennedy School and I was talking with them. It came up in the course of one of those conversations," she recalled.

In addition to her course on federal policy toward women, Bane said she will teach a "quantitative methods course" to the K-School's City and Regional Planning students, and a course on education policy open to all K-School students