No Reggae, Man--Upon learning that agents for comedian Steven Wright were upping the price to bring Wright to Harvard, Undergraduate Council members promptly said "no, thank you," and began to look elsewhere. One early choice for a replacement was reggae musician Ziggy Marley. Eugene S. Kim '92, chair of the council's social committee, said "it's something the council would definitely be proud of."

But not all council members were so eager to bring a reggae artist to Harvard, given that another reggae concert--by Jimmy Cliff last year--met with mixed reviews. "I think Ziggy Marley is too expensive. The council can't afford to lose that much." Battat went on to demonstrate a keen knowledge of reggae music trivia. "there are a lot of problems [with Ziggy Marley]," Battat said. "He just fired his band a couple of months ago so things are a little shaky."

"They went out of business and they didn't tell us anything about it. They disconnected their number. They're gone. A lot of condom machine companies go bankrupt."

--Undergraduate Council member Farshid Sadeghi '90, who is spearheading the Council's effort to keep campus condom machines stocked.

"When you install the machines initially you have a lot of vandalism. They'll try to jam something up there, they'll try to stick something up there and jiggle it around and get a few condoms. I've had a few pulled off the wall."

--Richard J. Borek, the distributor of condoms for MIT's machines.

Coke is it, even for Tutu--In the United States, many college activists have urged their fellow students to boycott products of the Coca-Cola Company, because Coca-Cola still has investments in South Africa. But when a reporter went to the Charles Hotel this week to interview South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the anti-apartheid movement--Tutu was serving Coke.

"Harvard is Harvard. You know, you don't sniff at it. Things that Harvard does or doesn't do have an impact way beyond the kind of impact you'd expect from an educational institution. What Harvard does or does not do is something that would be copied by other institutions."

--South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, at a press conference Sunday at the Charles Hotel, telling why Harvard's divestment policy is important.

"We're going to watch and wait and see what develops. Depending on the changes in South Africa, there might be changes in Harvard's policy."

--Board of Overseers President John C. Whitehead, discussing the prospect of renewed discussion of divestment by the Board.

"We do not plan, to my knowledge, to discuss the question of divestment."

--President Derek C. Bok, on the same subject two days later.

"It evokes Coltrane for me because the splashes of intense color and the contrasts are reminiscient of the bursts of intensity and contrast within his music."

--Jeff S. McKinnon, a graduate student visiting Leverett House, commenting on a new eight-by-eight foot painting hanging in the dining hall there.

"We could have died by hanging, by electrocution or by lethal injection. We chose hanging and there it is...hanging on the wall."

--Eli Karsh '91, referring to the same painting.