Office Hours

"THE OFFICER AND THE OFFICE, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other." So wrote English clergyman and essayist Sydney Smith in 1849. Had he visited Dartmouth 150 years later he would have found that professors and their offices are often made for each other. A professor's office is more than a workplace. A personal space in the ivory tower, a faculty office exists as an extension of an academic persona. Not an ordinary room but a library, museum, shrine, and seventeenth-century wonder room assembled behind a single door. Or a spare, serious refuge stripped of all distractions. And the door is only open to undergrads during office hours.

MARGARET SPICER PROFESSOR OF DRAMA 11 HOPKINS CENTER OFFICE HOURS: BY APPOINTMENT "You never know what you're going to find in this office: WorldWar I maps, a beautiful nineteenth-century shawl, books, historical costume posters, wigs I'm working on. It's ever changing."

PRISCILLA SEARS PROFESSOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 1058 WENTWORTH OFFICE HOURS: WEDNESDAY 3PM-5PM "It's an office of goddesses. I find my goddesses throughscholarship and 'cries in the blood.'As for the office appearance: Chaos gives birth to adancing star."

XIAHONG FENG PROFESSOR OF EARTH SCIENCES 206 FAIRCHILD OFFICE HOURS: 10AM-10PM, BY CHANCE OR APPOINTMENT "I want to clean my office. But once I putsomething away, I lose it."

DAVID LEMAL PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY 213 BURKE OFFICE HOURS: A COUPLE OF AFTERNOONS A WEEK "That's not a soccer ball on my shelf. It 's Carbon 60.I just use it as a teaching tool."

WILLIAM SPENGEMANN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH 215 SANBORN HOUSE OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 9 AM TO 5 PM "I live in here. I would retire, but then I'dhave to leave this office."