The memo also outlined several proposals which Green made to the task force but which did not appear as part of the final changes.

Green wrote that he advocated the creation of a separate category for one adult with a child or children, an option which he said would cost noticeably less than the family benefit plan for two adults with any or no children.

"Columbia did this. It's brilliant," Green says. "Insurance companies will lower the price if they're covering one adult instead of two. Children are very cheap."

In an article this summer in Harvard Magazine, Green questioned the financial soundness of the plan. "At least $4 million a year is being wasted," he told the publication.

The Faculty Uproar

Meanwhile, back at University Hall, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has had to deal with angry faculty.

While Harvard's well-off, well-known faculty members would seem to have little in common with the people who make up its staff, the two groups do share one view: that the administration made decisions adversely affecting them without adequately making them a part of the process.

And both these groups are furious.

At last month's full Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, Rudenstine presented the changes to an indignant gathering of professors.

"There's a lot more interest in the report since October 18, than there was before," Paul says. "Rarely does the Faculty want to get this involved. I can only recall twice before, and one was the strike of 1969."

Three professors said they thought the faculty advisory committee to the University-wide task force did not adequately solicit faculty opinion.

"It was nice to see another group on campus, and especially another group that's as important and respected as the Faculty, saying some of the same things we've said all along," HUCTW's Williams says. "It was nice to see the Faculty had the same sense of betrayal our members and some of the other unionized members have had."

The criticisms of the review process and the changes became so intense that, in an unprecedented move, Knowles appointed two professors to review the review.

Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay professor of mechanical engineering and Richard E. Caves, Gund professor of economics and business, studied the benefits review process and reported their findings at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday.

In the report, released to the public last week, the professors criticized the administration for excluding faculty and for discounting the opinion of those faculty they did consult.