"His character was not one to just sit around as a student. He was restless, and he began to feel that Harvard was really just not right for him anymore."

--Oscar K. Hsu '93 of Harvard Students for a Democratic China, commenting on the decision by dissident Chinese student leader to Wuer Kaixi to leave Harvard.

Surprise, Surprise In one of the least shocking moves to date of his one-month tenure as athletic director, former men's hockey coach Bill Cleary '56 this week appointed Associate Coach Ronn Tomassoni as his successor. Team reactions ranged from total disinterest to utter lack of surprise.

"Weren't they going to do some search or something?" asked junior goalie Mike Francis. "Obviously they weren't going to."

"If assistant professors have no future here, they're going to look elsewhere. I don't know how the system is going to cope with this."

--Assistant Professor of English Nancy Ruttenberg, who--along with at least two other junior faculty members--plans to leave Harvard in the fall, commenting on the state of the English Department.

"You'd be stupid if you didn't [look elsewhere]. If you can't read the handwriting on the wall you really should learn."

--A junior Americanist, making a similar comment on the History department.

Creative Metaphors. Since Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announced his plans to head west for the sunny climes of Stanford University, speculation has been rampant in the local press that Bok will name Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. to succeed him. Second-guessing high-level appointments at Harvard is generally a fruitless endeavor, but Nye did prove in an interview this week that he possesses a knack for bizarre turns of phrase that might come in handy in a major administrative post.

"If you like ice cream it's fine," Nye told The Crimson, referring to his present administrative post, "but you're not sure if you want a diet of pure ice cream. And I haven't though over whether I really want that."

"By now, almost all of our important institutions and their leaders have fallen sharply in the public's estimation. Continued attacks of a careless nature could needlessly deplete society's trust even more and impair the work of organizations on which our welfare ultimately depends."

--President Derek C. Bok, lashing out at the critics of the modern research university, in his annual report released this week.

"I like administrators best when they don't make pretentious statements about the meaning of education."

--University of Chicago Professor Allan D. Bloom, on Bok.

Life is Rough Dept. An exceedingly minor tragedy struck this week, when the alumni board of the Pi Eta Speaker's Association decided to close the all-male social club down for several weeks. While life will no doubt be considerably more peaceful on Mt. Auburn St. in the Pi's absence, the move has left one or two senior members of the notoriously rowdy club a little disgruntled.

"It's really frustrating," one club member told The Crimson. "Now it's our senior year, and we don't have a club to go to."