"Harvard, like everybody else, is in a time ofscarce resources," Rudenstine says. "To make themost of what we have, we have to join togetheracross schools."

The idea of building bridges across differentparts of the University is hardly new. Forexample, the seven-year-old Program in Ethics andthe Professions, which was started by Bok, issupported by money from various schools andsources.

The campaign is raising money to supportsimilar programs in the environment, publichealth, schooling and children, and a categoryofficials vaguely call "mind, brain and behavior."

While the University encourages suchcooperation between disciplines, Harvard has donelittle to discourage duplication of experts indifferent fields. And that fact is puzzling tosome observers of the University.

"It seems you have economics everywhere," saysa professor at another university who spoke oncondition of anonymity. "I don't understand howthey're divided. There are some at the BusinessSchool, some at the Kennedy School, some in theeconomics [department] and it seems like there areeven some others around."

B-school

Of all the University's many parts, theBusiness School may best represent the internalcontradictions of the capital campaign.

The dean there, John H. McArthur, says hisschool won't have to step up its usual fundraisingefforts to meet a $220 million goal, the largestof any graduate school. The school has no capitalneeds, and the fund drive goal represents whatwould be raised "if we go to sleep," McArthursays.

At the same time, however, the Business Schoolis the only piece of the University activelydiverting its alumni resources to help out itspoorer companions.

Fund drives at the Divinity School, GraduateSchool of Education and School of Public Healthare all being led by Business Schoolalumni--Ernest E. Monard '51, John H. Hobbs '60and Menshel, respectively.

Campaign officials say the influence andconnections of the Business School alumni havebeen a boon for these smaller schools. The Schoolof Public Health, for example, has already raised$50 million of its $125 million goal, according toFineberg.

"The School of Public Health doesn't have a bigalumni donor base, so we hope to broaden thatbase." Menshel says. "So, far things are goingwell."

"The School of Education, which has the mostambitions goals relative to its normalfundraising, also appears to be meeting with earlysuccess.

"Things are going well," Murphy says. "We'rereaching out beyond our usual pool of donors totake advantage of new opportunities."

Murphy says a strong fund drive will allow theschool to offer better financial aid packages andto endow more chairs.