Keeping Track is an occasional feature of The Harvard Crimson containing short items of interest about the city and the University. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

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The youngest person ever to serve as a trustee at Brandeis University University is Michael J. Sandel, assistant professor of Government, who was recently elected to a five-year term at the ripe young age of 28.

The 1975 summa cum laude graduate of Brandeis and former Rhodes scholar sees no conflict between his new duties with the Waltham, Mass., school and his teaching responsibilities at Harvard.

"As a trustee," he said recently, "seeing the university whole will give a better understanding of the role of the faculty. The two responsibilities will be mutually supporting."

Sandel, a former journalist who teaches Gov 1070, "Ideas and Institutions in American Politics," also believes his youth Americal Politics," also believes his youth will help rather than hinder him as a trustee. Young people, he said, "remember more acutely the experiences of students."

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Well, it seems that Bobby Ray Inman, that good ole boy who became America's second-ranking intelligence official, isn't coming to Harvard so soon after all. The former head of the National Security Agency and current deputy director for Central Intelligence, has sent his regrets to planners of a joint Center for International Affairs/Center for Science and International Affairs seminar scheduled for this Wednesday at Coolidge Hall.

Inman's reason: his boss, William Casey, will be out of town, and Inman has to mind the store.

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Flattery Will Get You Nowhere Dept.: Dean Fox, speaking to a biennial admissions conference last week, noted that Harvard hasn't really changed that much over the years--'The Crimson still puts out the same miserably misleading newspaper every day."

Expect Sundays, that is.

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Stephen Drury '77, a non-resident music tutor in Adams House, recently won $3000 and a third-place finish in an international piano contest in New York City.

A native of Spokane, Washington, Drury, 26 years old, captured the show position in the Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored "International American Music Competitions" by surviving three months of preliminary contests and outlasting 70 other aspirants to reach the three-man finals before an audience of 700 at Carnegie Hall on September 27.