"It has gone remarkably smoothly," Zewinski said.

And deans were happy--at least, so far--with the finished product.

"I actually turned the heat up this morning, and it went up," said Lewis, who was once again holding meetings in his ground floor office, albeit without the accoutrements that adorned his temporary Oxford Street office for the past six months.

"My buffalo skull will go back up there," Lewis said, pointing to the spot on the now-blue wall that formerly held his favorite ornament.

Lewis said he was also excited to discover that there was a hardwood floor under the wall-to-wall carpeting that used to cover his office floor. He said he plans to keep it as it now stands.

But there is a good deal about University Hall that's clearly not quite finished--evidenced by scores of cardboard boxes around the building that bear the name of the Lynn, Mass. moving company FAS used to transport administrators' belongings from their temporary offices.

"I'm very happy with my office," said Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach, "but I'll feel a lot better about everything as soon as all of my boxes are unpacked."