Hasselmo's three year old daughter currently attends the Soldiers Field day care center.

As a patron of University-sponsored child care, Hasselman said he plans to push for a FAS-run day care facility.

Although his own experience at the University has been "quite positive," University has been "quite positive," Hasselmo said he also plans to call attention to ways in which junior Faculty members could be treated better.

"There's clearly a larger division between senior and junior Faculty at Harvard than at other universities," Hasselmo said. "There's a lot of additional stress associated with low rates of tenure."

Hoxby, an assistant professor of economics, said she plans to concentrate on similar issues.

Like Hasselmo, Hoxby highlighted the importance of available, affordable child care for Faculty members.

"The child care issue is a very important difficulty, especially for female Faculty, but for male Faculty as well," she said.

Thomas, who endorsed an amendment to the Core legislation which the Faculty will debate in two weeks, said he wishes students were required to take additional foreign language courses.

The classics professor, an outgoing member of the University Library Committee, said he is also committed to maintaining "the excellence of the library in all its parts."

"I see that as a very important part of the reason why Harvard is what Harvard is," Thomas said.

Knowles will appoint an alternate professor to serve in Franklin's place because Franklin, a professor of physics, will be on leave next year.

She could not be reached for comment last night.

Before the election ballots were mailed to all the professors, colleagues nominated the new council members, who represent a cross-section of tenured and junior faculty.