However, you won't find administrator at Harvard who is as responsive to student e-mails as Lewis. If you send him a note, he typically responds within the day.
Yardlings are led by Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth "Ibby" Studley Nathans. The former Duke University administrator has begun efforts to reform orientation week and first-year advising so that students take better advantage of the resources available.
But watch out: Nathans is a stickler for rules--and for starting her workdays at the crack of dawn. Rule-breaking first-years often find themselves summoned to Nathan's Prescott Street office for 7 a.m. "meetings."
Radcliffe
Drew Gilpin Faust, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will take over as the Institute's first dean in January. She replaces Acting Dean Mary Maples Dunn who has provided leadership for the nascent Institute.
Dunn took over last October when former Radcliffe College president Linda S. Wilson stepped down as part of the Radcliffe merger agreement, which was announced in April of 1999 after months of secret negotiations.
The division of the University is now on par with the nine faculties.
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