President-elect Lawrence H. Summers will want to know the cost of adding one more student to each of Harvard's various programs. Expect enlargement of schools with the lowest marginal costs.
Undergraduates will be newly empowered to vote with their feet. Additional resources will be available to departments with large class enrollments and with numerous majors. Under-enrolled departments will be hung out to dry. You will find your professor in the office, with the door open, and happy to talk with you.
Good luck with your new president. Maybe the Princeton search committee will find us a scholar, one like Neil L. Rudenstine.
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Princeton, N.J.
March 12, 2001
The writer is emeritus professor of geology at Princeton University.