"What's to keep them from nominating Fidel Castro next year?"--John P. Reardon, Jr. '60, outgoing athletic director and new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, according to an Alumni Association committee member who asked not to be identified. Reardon was referring to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) campaign for the Board of Overseers, whose slate of candidates this year includes South African Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond M. Tutu.

"Wolff is doing what Joseph McCarthy did. He is creating a banner under which he can float his own social agenda. He is exploiting Bishop Tutu to achieve his own ends...Governance of the University is the real objective there." Charles J. Egan '54, the new president of the Alumni Association, referring last week to the Overseers campaign run by HRAAA Executive Director Robert P. Wolff '54.

"When you get hysterical and phobic behavior, it tends to focus on a particular obsessive object, and I appear to have become such an object for Mr. Egan."--Wolff, in response to Egan's remarks.

Number crunching: At a press conference last Monday announcing his resignation as athletic director after 12 years, Reardon said the expansion of women's athletic programs was one of his top achievements. When a reporter asked how many new women's programs were added during his tenure, Reardon said he did not know. From the back of the room, outgoing Director of Sports Information Frank M. Cicero called out "four."

"I'm kind of disappointed because this is probably the worst thing that could happen to the club at this point."--Harvard Rugby club President Bruce S. Miller '90 after the club's cookout on May 7 was mistaken by Lynn, Mass. police for a satanic ritual.

"Harvard Sucks."--Yale President Benno C. Schmidt, from a table-top in in Naples Pizzeria in New Haven, Conn.

"Don't you see that affirmative action makes you dependent on the good will of whites rather than on your own actions?"--Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 addressing minority faculty members at a highly charged faculty discussion of the Verba Report on hiring minority and women faculty on Tuesday.

"Teaching is not the priority here, nor working with students. I have spent far more of my time than was healthy for my academic advancement working with students. If I had been more clear what a small role those things play, I might have made some things different."--Assistant Professor of Anthropology Terrence Deacon, discussing the small consideration Harvard gives to teaching and other administrative service when considering a junior faculty member for promotion.

Losing track of time: During an interview with The Crimson Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence forget that he had a subsequent meeting with President Derek C. Bok. Bok finally called Spank in his office. "Yes Mr. Bok, I'll be right over," Spence said, pulling on his jacket, grabbing a file and running out the door.

"If we had to do it over again, we wouldn't."--Undergraduate Council Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90, referring to a council sponsored concert by pop star Suzanne Vega on May 6. The council reportedly last between $20,000 and $25,000 on the concert.

"It's the right job, but the wrong time."--Farmer Arizona Gov. Brace Babbit's response when Hole Champion, the chair of the Kennedy School's search committee for a new director of the Institute of Politics, discussed the post with him, according to Babbit's secretary.

"As long as I have a room to live in, have a library to study in, and have my classes moved to places I can go, they're meeting my needs. That's their interpretation of the law."--Kamryn S. Gustafson '90, who travels in a wheelchair.

"It's a very different group of buildings, the oldest set of buildings of any university, and the costs of renovation are phenomenal. Other things could be done, but we're doing as much as we can."--Associate Dean for Physical Resources Philip J. Parsons.