HELLO, RUDY TUESDAY

On July 1, shortly before noon, Neil L. Rudenstine showed up for the first day of work as the University's 26th president. His new colleagues say that Rudenstine has spent much of his first few months in office meeting people at Harvard and in the surrounding community. They add that daily life in Mass Hall has gone on for the most part as it was under former President Derek C. Bok, and that the new president has work habits--arrive early, stay late--similar to those of his predecessor.

RAINES REIGNS

In June, Franklin D. Raines '71 took over as president of the alumni-elected Board of Overseers. A former Rhodes scholar, Raines worked for the Carter administration and later for the investment banking firm of Lazard Freres. He currently serves as a financial consultant to Sharon Pratt Dixon, the new mayor of Washington, D.C.

AIDS CONFERENCE TO BE MOVED

An international AIDS conference originally to be held in Boston in May of 1992 will be relocated to another country, officials at the Harvard AIDS Institute announced in August. The move comes in reaction to a controversial federal ban on immigration of people affected with the AIDS virus. Harvard has already spent $1.5 million in organizing the conference.

HE HAS A DREAM

Ronald Quincy, former presidential assistant for affirmative action, left Harvard this summer to become the first executive director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, in Atlanta.

SPOTS AND NOTS

Anna Chave received a finding of no discrimination in response to her complaint that she was unfairly denied tenure. Chave, a popular teacher and controversial modern art scholar, had taken the unusual step of filing a complaint over her tenure case with the University's governing boards.

THE OTHER SHOE DROPS

K. Anthony Appia accepted a tenured position in the Afro-American Studies Department. Appia, whose scholarship is in philosophy and literature, has been a faithful right-hand person to new Afro-Am chair Henry L. Gates, Jr. He and Gates were friends in college and have since taught together at Yale, Cornell and Duke.

Afro-American Studies at Harvard is on the move--literally. The department is now occupying new quarters at 1430 Mass Ave.

SO IT'S NOT A CEDAR-LINED CLOSET...

When Harvard conducted an independent audit and voluntarily withdrew $500,000 in overhead reimbursements from the government last spring, it avoided much of the bad publicity over indirect costs received by Stanford University that led to the resignation of Stanford president Donald Kennedy '52.