Knowles says he prefers students to makeappointments and does not hold open office hours.
"I prefer to see representatives or groups thanto try to distill the concerns of 6,600 studentsby random sampling," he says. "I do ,of course,see quite a lot of the Dean of the College[Jewett] and the Dean of the UndergraduateEducation [Buell], who routinely see more studentsthan I do."
Knowles was unable to speak to The Crimson forthis story, but wrote out answers to questions,including artistic of skiers on his letter.
Knowles says that while he does meet withundergraduates, such appointments have to be atodd times.
"My horrible calendar will often mean meetingon a Saturday, or on a couple of occasions,Sunday," he says. "I see students on as ad hocbasis who are not happy for one or another reason.Often I have to schedule these on a Saturdaymorning or 'just for lunch."'
THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY COMES TOSTUDENT-ADMINISTRATION RELATIONS
For those really dedicated to getting in touchwith an administrators, there are severalunorthodox methods.
Green has an e-mail account which he checksseveral times a day.
"I have not had any e-mail from anyundergraduates this year," he says. "If youpublish my e-mail address maybe they will send memessages, and I will be happy to respond." In arare effort to foster student-administrationfriendliness, The Crimson informs its readers thatGreen can be reached over the Internet atjgreen@harvard.edu" or at "green@nocmsmgw."
He says he has several topics he would like todiscuss with interested undergraduates.
"From my point of view, since my role asprovost is to increase the cooperation amongHarvard's nine schools, I would like to know thatthings undergraduates would most like to haveaccess to in the schools other than FAS," Greensays.