Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Margaret Alexiou is listed in last year's course guide as a member of the Classics, Folklore and Mythology, Comparative Study of Religion and Women's Studies departments.

If Alexiou wanted offices in each of those departments, she would have offices at Classics Boylston Hall area, Folklore and Mythology's Dunster St. residence and Women's Studies Kirkland St. home.

That's a lot of walking.

But this example illustrates a general problem for the humanities at Harvard, according to administrators and professors--respective departments are so spread out that little interaction occurs.

But such problems of physical and intellectual proximity are expected to be greatly alleviated two years from this month, when departments start moving into the University's new Humanities Quad in July, 1996.

The quad is still in its planning stages, but details are starting to emerge as the remodeling dates approach.

Recent Changes: Boylston

Just last month, according to Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Christoph Wolff, the planning committee began contemplating a significant change in the spacing arrangements of the quad.

The committee, as of last month, is seriously considering inclusion of Boylston Hall in the humanities arc, to join Burr Hall, the Freshman Union and Warren House.

Under the revised arrangement, 6 and 8 Prescott St. would retain their present offices and not be included in the quad, as was originally planned.

The quad would thus keep all its buildings on the Yard side of Prescott Street which, coupled with Boylston, creates "a pillar on either side of Widener," accord ing to Wolff.

Had it not been included in the quad, Boylstonwould have been used to house various studentorganizations, as well as the Freshman Dean'sOffice and perhaps the Expository Writing program.Wolff says.

Wolff, who is chair of the quad's planningcommittee, says the change was made to accommodatethe space needs of the faculty, requirements hesays could not have been met under the originalarrangement.

"It will result in a net loss for thedepartments if everything were squeezed into theHumanities Quad," Wolff says.

The guiding principle of the quad, Wolff says,is that every faculty member should have an officein his or her department. Additionally, thecommittee wanted to ensure that Teaching Fellowsand tutorials had sufficient space and thatdepartments had room for administrative duties.

With the added space, Wolff says, those idealswill be realized.