Even the fund drive's top leadership isdecentralized. The University Campaign has threenational co-chairs L. Richard L. Menshel, WilliamF. Thompson '50 and Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, amember of the Harvard Corporation.

Of the $2.1 billion scheduled to be raised,about $1 billion will go towards buildingendowments of the various graduate schools.Approximately one-third of the remaining moneywill be used to meet capital needs and the othertwo-thirds will be devoted to current uses.

Stone is, after Rudenstine, the most importantofficial in the campaign. They share a similarvision of a unified movement to, in Stone's words,"bring Harvard into the next century." Stone ranthe University's last big fundraiser, a $350million effort that lasted throughout the early1980s.

But despite the shared vision of Stone and thepresident, some aspects of the campaign betray alack of coordination.

The process of integration is complicated bythe varying degrees of fundraising experienceamong financial officials at each of the ninegraduate schools. For some schools, it is thefirst time they have actually held a capitalcampaign.

Harvard has been building a base of funds tostart the campaign for about three years. Butdifferent schools began their find drives atdifferent times.

"Different schools have different amounts offundraising complete," says Menshel, one of thethree national co-chairs. "The School of PublicHealth started earlier so it had a high amountdone, whereas the Business School's is startinglater and therefore does not have as muchcomplete."

In a particularly noteworthy sign of theabsence of unity, the starting time for thecampaign of the high profile Law School is nearlythree years out of whack with the rest of thedrives. The Law School didn't even wait for therest of the University to kick off its effort.

Instead, the school, which had been ready to gowith the proposed Bok Campaign, officially startedits $150 million drive in 1991.

As a result, only $45 million--the amountremaining to be raised when Harvard officiallystarted the drive last month--will be creditedtowards the campaign.

The school is trying to keep up appearances ofunity, however. Spokesperson Michael Chmura saysall donors to the Law School drive will have theirnames included as contributors to the UniversityCampaign.

Coordination between the different campaigns ismade more difficult by the fact that each graduateschool has its own fundraising committee.

But there is also an overall campaign committeewith about 35 members who are ultimatelyresponsible for the entire fund drive, Glimp says.

This campaign committee is in charge ofcoordinating various fundraising requests, butexactly what that entails is unclear.

Some suggest the committee's main role is toprevent different schools from courting the samedonors, while other officials say the group plotsstrategies for how to approach the mega-rich.