“I am as unhappy about student sloth as I am about faculty greed,” Lewis added.

In response, Hammonds said that “I think there’s value to students taking their time off... [and] we should continue to think hard about what we would really like students to do over winter break.”

A SPECIAL WELCOME

Newly appointed Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor William “Ned” Friedman received a special welcome from faculty members in the meeting yesterday.

Friedman, who recently took charge of the Arnold Arboretum, was accidentally forgotten as Faust gave out honorary degrees to other candidates.

But as the meeting drew to an end, Faust brought up the matter and apologized.

“I hope we can compensate with rousing applause,” Faust said. “Soon we’ll have lilacs [in the arboretum,]” she added, to the laughter of faculty members.

—Staff writer Gautam S. Kumar can be reached at gkumar@college.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Sirui Li can be reached sli@college.harvard.edu.