"We wouldn't be worried unless the class we finally select is different from other years...The class of 1993 will be at the same level of excellence."--Senior Admissions Officer Dwight D. Miller about the predicted 7 to 10 percent drop in Harvard applicants this year.

"People running for the Board of Overseers seem to be getting more and more famous. Both sides are lifting the ante each year."--Pro-divestment activist Felicia A. Kornbluh '89 on hearing that South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu would be run-ning for the alumni-elected board.

"Talcott Parsons did not go around with jack boots and a riding crop. He was a gentle scholar of the old school."--Professor of Sociology James A. Davis about allegations that the late Harvard scholar had worked with U.S. intelligence agents to smuggle Nazi collaborators into the country as Soviet Studies experts.

"Female Harvard support staff members need the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers because "the tendency is not to hear oneself in the Harvard community where the male voices are very strong and articulate."--Ed School Professor Carol Gilligan as HUCTW and Harvard enter their first week of negotiations.

"To be seen as a representative of an entire group can lead to feelings of pain, anger and frustration."--Niti Seth, a counsellor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, at an AWARE week forum.

"As a Muslim, I think it should be banned as hate-writing and slanderous in nature."--Dhrusheed Imam '90, the president of the Harvard Islamic Society, on Salman Rushdie's novel, Satanic Verses.