Reporter's Notebook

"It's not enough to say we're worried about the policy. We're got to act right now...I think we felt that the issue is so urgent that it could not wait until the next Faculty meeting."

--Margaret B. Alexiou, Seferis professor of modern Greek studies, on the Faculty Council's decision to issue a formal statement condemning the military's policy of excluding gays and lesbians.

"It's one thing to sit there and table and it's one thing to make an announcement. But continually interrupting my meal and my conversation was just excessive and wrong. I think what I did was just a very civilized and quiet form of protest...I thought it was just kind of a joke that a group that was formed to promote a minority opinion is allowed to make announcements in the dining hall and the majority is not allowed to express its opinion."

--Michale J. D'Amato '90, a Kirkland House senior who coughed loudly when a student last week stood up on a dining hall table to make an announcement for the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA).

Former Cambridge Mayor and longtime Lampoon rival Alfred E. Vellucci said yesterday that the group has not caused the city excessive trouble in the past. Vellucci has had a long and not always friendly rivalry with the Lampoon; Cambridge lore has it that he is reponsible for the tree which spoils the view of Mt. Auburn St. from the confines of 44 Bow St.

But in spite of past differences, Vellucci said he was inclined to overlook the Lampoon's recent misbehavior.

"I don't think they have been in too much trouble in the 40 or 50 years I've been watching them," he said. "They were just fun-making. The word Lampoon means fun-making. It being springtime and the temperature being near 80 maybe they were just feeling for spring."

"I've been out of that building for six years, and I never thought I would come back into it in any other capacity than as a professor...I want to see that business moves forward."

--Geyser University Professor Henry Rosvosky, on President Derek C. Bok's decision to make him acting dean of the Faculty.

He will fit very easily into the office. He will be very much taking up the reigns not quite where he left off, but obviously...he will know all the problems."

--Roderick MacFarquhar, professor of government and member of the new dean search committee, on Rosovsky's selection.

Will's Free: Yippee!--Crimson photographer William H. Bachman '92 got more than he bargained for when he went to shoot pictures of arrests outside the Lampoon Castle early yesterday morning. While Cambridge police were busy rounding up 'poonies at 3 a.m., Bachman was snapping away with his camera--until an officer saw him. When the officer told Bachman he had to leave, and then pushed him to make the point clear, Bachman says he said "Excuse me officer, but I believe that is a violation of my Massachusetts civil rights." With that, the officer handcuffed Bachman and took him to the Cambridge police station, where the other arrestees were being held. Luckily, the Cambridge district judge presiding yesterday morning decided the First Amendment was on Bachman's side, and had charges against the photographer dropped.