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Finding Rudy: Secrets of the Search

By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Joshua E. Gewolb, Crimson Staff Writerss

On Feb. 10, Rudenstine met with the search committee in Boston at the Ritz.

Following the discussion, the soon-to-be president was ushered out a back exit, hiding his face from the press.

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The meeting was first in a series of secret talks with the remaining candidates. During the week of Feb. 11, the search committee members met with Casper in search committee member Gray's mansion at the University of Chicago. As late as March 10, members of the committee members met with Feldstein at the Stanhope Hotel in Manhattan. He left in a chauffeured black Lincoln Towncar.

The Denouement

In late February there was talk that Harvard was within days of making an appointment.

But on Feb. 21, university spokesperson Costa announced that the search had been "delayed slightly" and that a decision will not be made until late February or March.

The chronology of the search committee's meetings in its final days becomes a little murky--what happened during this period will not be clear until the records of the corporation's meetings during this period are unsealed in 2071.

The group met on March 13 in New York at the midtown Manhattan office of McKinsey. They are rumored to have met again on March 15, and on subsequent occasions prior to Rudenstine's appointment.

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