While Lim declines to specify when the guide will be published, guide designer Alice N. Lewis ’01 says she expects the book to be completed in the near future, barring further unexpected delays. Lewis says she is designing the last of the guide’s five chapters.

“I hope it’ll be done by the end of the month and sent to the printer by the end of the month,” Lewis says. “We should be very close to almost done, but we thought in August last year that we were maybe done.”

Shifting ownership of the project may have contributed to the guide’s protracted creation—editorship has been handed down repeatedly.

Former Undergraduate Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond ’00 came up with the idea for the guide in the spring of 1999 in response to what she said was the weak voice of women on campus. She teamed up with Lim, then co-chair of the WLP, to start work on the guide.

But Redmond and subsequent editors, with the exception of Lim, washed their hands of responsibility for the guide upon graduating.

Several undergraduates who wrote for or edited part of the book lost track of its progress as the guide slowly disappeared off their radar.

“I didn’t even know it would be published,” says Colleen M. Gargan ’02, who edited a section. “I would love to see it before I graduate.”

Regardless of the guide’s delay, several students says they are anticipating its publication.

“It would be nice, considering I’ve been hearing about it since I was a pre-frosh,” says Chanda S. Prescod-Weinstein ’03, co-chair of Girlspot. “It’s especially important now, with the dissolution of Radcliffe...it’s incredibly important that people be able to have information at their fingertips.”

Richey says the guide will offer information about resources and activities that other publications do not highlight.

“There was a lot that as a freshman I didn’t really know about,” Richey says. “I didn’t know there were sororities and the Seneca and the Bee before coming to this school...it would have been nice to know, and I think the guide will do that.”

—Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu.