The last, but in the long run certainly not the least, of Bok's immediate crew is Vice President of Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50. Having just completed Harvard's record-setting $350 million capital fund drive last winter, Glimp now has the even more difficult task of maintaining good alumni relations and supervising fund-raising efforts during the lag period after alumni have been drained.

THE FACULTY

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) represents everything that makes this University famous. Its 350 tenured professors and about 500 instructors teach 6500 undergraduates and more than 2000 graduate students in what people around the world regard as some of the best liberal arts programs in the world. With scores of libraries, faculty members, museums, research centers and a budget running upwards of $100 million annually at his fingertips, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence leads this huge, prestigious array of higher educators.

The dean, an economist considered Nobel-prize worthy, has just completed a first year in University Hall's top position, sticking to his characteristic silence and making few waves. He claims he's "getting to know people" during his twelve-hour workdays, but acknowledges that one of his major areas of concern is with the computerization of Harvard. He hopes to see an effective network of machines installed to help facilitate academic research during his tenure.

Aside from his usual budgetary and tuition concerns, Spence's plans include an analysis of the faculty, who must produce massive amounts of vestigate ways of easing the tension on junior faculty, which must produce massive amounts of research work in order to be considered for a tenured position that they will probably not receive at this stage in their lives. Spence, who reports only to Bok, must also appoint several new administrators to top positions in the College in the upcoming year.

Spence does not work alone. Two Assistant Deans, Melissa D. Gerrity and Phyllis Keller are both considered crack administrators. Gerrity, associate dean for financial affairs, is in charge of the budget, and is an important consultant on tuition and salaries. Keller, associate dean for for academic planning, helped develop the now well established Core Curriculum under former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky. She also is involved in tenure searches.

Since natural scientists tend to use a lot more hardware and generate a lot more paperwork than social scientists, there are also two scientific deans serving under Spence. Dean of the Biological Sciences John E. Dowling '57 and Dean of the Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '53 both have exercised discrete but considerable influence on an assortment of faculty issues. Dowling helped institute the first-ever University-funded undergraduate government. Martin was influential in creating a separate Computer Science concentration and is an important administrator in the computerization program.

Perhaps someone who will have more effect on your everyday classroom experience, Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment is new to his post, but, contrary to Spence, he has had no qualms about asserting himself from the start. As director of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), which puts out the CUE course guide, he has called Harvard education lacking in many respects. He has claimed that professors don't have enough contact with students, a typical criticism but one not usually voiced by top administrators. He has also said that both students and professors don't have the workload they should and that they have too much free time. Although he seems frustrated by the pace of change at Harvard, you may see some new crackdowns in education motivated by Spence's first appointment in office.

THE COLLEGE

In 1636, Harvard had one building. Now it has about 1000. In 1636, its assets consisted of a small collection of books donated by John Harvard of England. Now it owns the second largest library in the world and has monetary assets in the billions. But Harvard College is still the core of this network. It's still the one that produced five presidents and scores of Congressmen and statesmen.

As you read this piece, the Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who controls the College as well, is reviewing candidates to assume the responsibilities of the dean of the College. The current dean, John B. Fox Jr. '59, announced in February that he will step down no later than June 1986. Fox said he will look for "new challenges" at Harvard, but where and when he will go remains a mystery.

Fox, an imposing 6'9'' tall, has towering responsibilities ranging from housing to the discipline of students in the College. But his most direct contact with students is through his leadership of the Administrative Board, or the College's disciplinary body, where he enforces "conduct becoming of a Harvard student." In other words, the lumbering administrator is the curator of Harvard's past; he's the enforcer of tradition.

Every Tuesday, Fox convenes 25 tutors, administrators and deans to determine the official response to transgressions of either academic or extracurricular nature.

The dean of the College also controls the Committee on House Life and works with House Masters to improve living conditions, although the Masters technically report to Bok. Fox's greatest challenges, and undoubtedly the most pressing issues of his successor, will be alleviating over-crowding in upperclass Houses. He will work with both Masters and the admissions office to reduce the problems created when five people try to live in four-bedroom suites. In addition, the dean has overseen and must continue to oversee portions of the $250 million renovation project now centered on the Radcliffe Quadrangle Houses.

Perhaps one of Harvard's most visible administrators, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III considered a candidate for the deanship that Fox, Epps's boss, now holds, is amiable, English by environment, and available. Any student activist, politician, artist or reporter will almost certainly come into contact with Epps, who handles everything from finding rooms for press conferences after a divestment rally, to dealing with Final Club presidents who have now been disaffiliated from Harvard because they refused to allow women to join their clubs. This man is your only real link to the Harvard bureaucracy.