Most professors in the various departments wereout of town and could not be reached for comment.
Several departments did not have any tenuredprofessors around last week or this week, whilemany professors did not return phone calls.
But the consensus among professors, accordingto Wolff and to professors interviewed last week,is that the quad is a good step to take.
The Afro-American Studies Department isparticularly pleased with the move, Wolff says,since it will move from a cramped commerciallocation into spacious new quarters.
Reunited departments, such as Romance Languagesand English, are also happy with the new quad,Wolff says.
But not everyone is perfectly happy with themove. Wolff acknowledges.
The Department of Literature, for one, washesitant at first because it was happy with itscurrent quarters atop Emerson Hall, Wolff says.
Still, "they will have to move and we are aboutto offer them very attractive space," Wolff says.
Women's Studies was also unhappy about themove, Wolff says, because they feel they are asmuch a social science as a part of the humanities.
But Wolff says Women's Studies' isolated homeon Kirkland Street results in its "ghettoization."
And the only other options, inclusion in alarge social science building, are not feasiblebecause of a lack of space.
Wolff says many of the social sciences havedeep connections to the humanities and thatWomen's Studies will thrive in the new HumanitiesQuad.
Besides, he says the moniker Humanities Quad isa "categorization for the sake of convenience, notideology."