According to Nicole N. Rekant '97, a Parents Weekend Committee member from Winthrop House, meeting the parents of Winthrop juniors is providing great sport for house residents.

"The first thing you look for is who they look more like, their mother or their father," she said. "It's really funny to see how similar they are in mannerisms."

While many juniors worked into the wee hours yesterday to prepare for the arrival of their parents, for others the cleaning operation was just getting underway last night.

"We have to [clean] right now," Leverett House's Christopher J. Mutrie '97 said last night. "We have to get the bikes out of the common room. And I guess this box of oranges can go."

Closets are crucial in a pinch, Mutrie said.

"The empty beer, bottles are in the closet, so hopefully no one will want to hang up their coat," he said.

Other juniors, however, said the benefits of cleaning prior to parental arrival are overrated.

"These are your parents anyway, so they know what you're like," said Chuong D. Nguyen '97, a Currier House resident and member of the Parent's Weekend Committee.

Today's Schedule

The Junior Parents Weekend schedule continues in earnest today, beginning with a morning assembly on students' perspectives on undergraduate life.

Julia Garrett Fox, the new director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Association, will moderate the panel. Kevin C. Scott '97 and Jennifer Tye '97, co-chairs of the Junior Parents Weekend Committee, will also participate, and Professor of Education Richard J. Light will round out the panel.

The Sanders Theatre assembly will also feature a performance by the Radcliffe Pitches.

Later this morning, three professors will deliver short lectures in the Science Center.

Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez will speak about how to apply children's stories to business styles. Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin will speak about quarks. And Associate Professor of History and of Social Studies James Goodman will give a speech titled "Stories of Scottsboro and Other Stories."

After lunch in the dining halls, the parents are invited to watch another panel discussion, this one on the Harvard house system.

Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 joins three house tutors and two College juniors for the discussion in Science Center B.

The weekend will conclude with a reception for the Class of '97 at Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard.