In addition to the activity of AHA, B&G plays a major role in the nuts and bolts activity of Commencement week.

While some of the B&G work is annual maintenance, the reunions and Commencement act as a "big push" behind the $100.000 spent on sod and seeding for the grass in the Yard. Bernard K. Keohon. B&G supervisor of Grounds, said this week, adding that the University had to pay $2500 for new shrubs in the Yard, new wood stakes and "costly wire" to protect the grass in the Yard.

B&G also paid $50.000 this year in total salary for 370 dorm crew workers and supervisers to remove the debris from the Yard and House dorm rooms the alumni would live in.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) makes no special arrangements for the week preceding Commencement. However, on Commencement day, all University police will be on duty, HUPD captain Jack W. Morse said last week, adding that the University hires Cambridge police "to supplement Harvard officers." Morse declined to comment on the exact number of officers, who will be working at Commencement.

People always ask how much the combined reunions and Commencement cost the University. Victor Koivumaki '68, the co-chairman of the Commencement Planning Task Force, said last week. But because the organization of Commencement week is divided among several organizations and financially "each tub is on its own bottom," no one can estimate the total cost of all activities, he added.

Does the University have a limit on how much it would spend on Commencement? "Budgets are carefully controlled," he said, "but there is really no bottom line."