Radcliffe officials offered a new picture of the search for a Radcliffe president this week. Although they admit that Yale Professor of Psychology Judith Rodin removed her name from the list of candidates late in the search process, they now say she was never actually offered the post. Their rationale: Until the Board of Trustees votes to approve an offer, it is not official. Of course, the Board doesn't vote until a candidate has said she will accept the post.

"If you go to work for the governor, you are a resource person, but since you are coming to work for me, you're a crony."

--State Senate President William M. Bulger, talking to a soon-to-be-hired State House employee.

When a reporter called Board of Overseers member Frances Fitzgerald '62 to confirm the governing board's choice of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 as this year's Commencement speaker, Fitzgerald said with surprise, "I thought that was supposed to be sacrosanct."

"At Harvard, activism is incredibly nebulous and incoherent. We have a huge variety of little tiny groups that don't get together. If you have a general interest in all the groups, you have to go to 28 meetings a week and get nothing done."

--Rosa Ehrenreich '91, a member of the Phillips Brooks House Committee for Economic Change, at a forum on student activism at Harvard.

It's not Anti-Harvard to be Pro-Activist: Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was seen singing "Lift Up Your Voice and Sing," a Black spiritual, with the students in front of University Hall at the Black Students Association rally held on Tuesday to protest police harrassment of minorities on campus.

"We seem to have a reasonable idea of what happened, and as of now, it seems as though the students were not treated properly."

--Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, apologizing to two students who allege they were harrassed by Cambridge police last week.

"We find that the officers acted in a proper manner. They acted professionally."

--Lt. Donald Carney, spokesperson for the Cambridge police, on charges that the city police harrassed two minority students last week.

President Derek C. Bok ate dinner with residents of Stoughton North this week. He had only praise for the Union food, but the dinner was not without trauma. As he bent down to pick up a salad bowl on the floor, he bumped his tray, spilling milk all over." As is so often the case," he said, "In trying to do good in the world, I only succeeded in making things worse."

"I always enjoy my meals over there. I have nothing but praise. Of course I don't have to eat 21 meals there a week."

--President Derek C. Bok, after eating hamburger extravaganza at the Union with residents of Stoughton North this week.

Vacation Watch: Associate Dean for Academic Planning Phyllis Keller will spend part of Spring Break in Cape Cod, where she says she will be opening her house earlier in the season than she ever has before.

At the celebration party for newly-tenured Law School professors Randall Kennedy and Kathleen M. Sullivan, a professor offered a Crimson reporter a glass of champagne. When the professor learned that he was talking to a reporter he put the bottle down quickly.

"What we would like to have is as open and frank a discussion as possible and not be concerned it will end up in the paper the next day."

--Kris Rondeau, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers on the union's contract negotiations with the University.

At an Irish brunch hosted by Massachusetts Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston), Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Murphy, one of the predicted front runners in the upcoming gubernatorial race. tried to clear up confusion about who the candidates for governor will be. "No matter who enters the race, no matter who withdraws, I want this to be made clear--in 1990 I will not be a candidate for the office of lieutenant governor."