Rodin to visit U. tomorrow

President-elect Judith Rodin will arrive on campus tomorrow for another round of high level talks designed to ease her transition to the University. Rodin will meet with deans, senior administrators and a select group of student leaders at meetings and meals scheduled throughout Thursday and Friday, Staff Coordinator for the Transition Sherrill Rosoff said yesterday. Rosoff added that the transition team is working very hard to make sure Rodin is not overloaded with information and can make a gradual and smooth transition to the University. She said that because of this concern and the time limitations on Rodin's visit, only a select group of people are able to meet with her while she is here. "We need to remember what the transition is about and that is to provide [Rodin] with information the best we can," Rosoff said. "We need to summarize it for her so that it is digestible." Not everyone who wants to meet with Rodin before she arrives in July will be able do so, Rosoff said. Rodin's Thursday night dinner with student leaders has created a minor tiff among current Undergraduate Assembly Chairperson Seth Hamalian and UA member Dan Schorr, who, as of now, is running unopposed for the UA chair. Schorr is arguing that he should be allowed to attend the dinner instead of Hamalian because the new leadership of the UA will be elected next week. He is also alleging that Hamalian purposely delayed the elections in order to be the UA representative at Thursday's dinner. Aside from her scheduled meetings, Rodin will also attend several photography sessions which will allow University officials to update admissions materials, Rosoff said. Rodin, a University graduate and current provost of Yale University, was named the University's next president in December. When she assumes office this summer, she will become the first permanent female president in the Ivy League. During her last campus visit in January, Rodin met with Interim President Claire Fagin, Interim Provost Marvin Lazerson, the Provost's Search Committee, deans of the University's 12 schools and Faculty Senate leadership.