Red roses appeared on desk tops and smiles lit up faces at the Fogg Art Museum earlier this week as a three-wek "cliff-hanger" over the fare of the Museum's proposed extension ended happily. On Saturday President Bok announced he would approve plans for the $16.5 million building, if officials could raise $3 million by March 15, and an additional $3 million over the next three years. The Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Fogg, which will be responsible for raising the funds is confident they will have no trouble meeting Bok's deadlines. Since the president cancelled the plans for the much-needed addition earlier this month, they have quietly collected pledges for an additional $1.5 million.

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Subways have always been noisy and dirty, but by last week even the rats had had enough. Area residents have repeatedly complained that rats and mice fleeing the MBTA construction project have invaded their homes and businesses. On Wednesday, the Cambridge City Council got into the act, demanding that the MBTA immediately provide free extermination services for about 100 Porter Square families. As old sailors used to say, rats would always leave a doomed ship just before it foundered...

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After five months of negotiations, proposals and counter-proposals, the Faculty this week gave preliminary approval to a constitution for the new Undergraduate Council. The Faculty had previously refused to accept a constitution that reserved a certain member of student council seats for minorities, and the final draft did not contain a guaranteed minority representation clause.

For the new constitution to be ratified. It must be approved by two-thirds of the students in a special election next month--provided that 50 percent of all students cast ballots.

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People who know that Professor Emily D. T. Vermeule specializes in classical archaeology not American political theory may have been surprised last week when they heard she was selected to deliver the 11th annual Jefferson Lecture.

Actually, the award--which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and carries a $10,000 stipend--is the most prestigious honor given by the federal government for academic achievement.

Vermeule, who is widely known for her excavations in Greece. Turkey and Cyprus, will speak on "Greeks and Barbarism: the Classical Experience in the Larger World" in Washington on May 5.

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Harvard's only women's center may lose all University financial support as well as its space in Lehman Hall at the end of this term. Harvard officials have said they always considered their preliminary support of the Women's Clearinghouse only as "starting up" funds and expected the center to be financially independent by June.

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The Sundance Kid came to Harvard last week and was greeted by flowers, love notes and an anxious crowd of more than 400. After visiting a film class attending a student-faculty luncheon Robert Redford discussed movies, politics and environmentalism with fans in the Science Center.