Nancy Sommers, Expos Director Emerita, fled Harvard's campus last month at the prospect of directing the freshman writing program for another year.

Sommers allegedly tried to sneak out in the dead of night, but as she descended the Expos Building's notoriously creaky stairs, baggage in hand, she awoke her many colleagues, the glamorous preceptors of the expos program, who, when not grading papers, train in the ninja arts by night on their Prescott Street headquarters.  They chased her as far as Cambridge Common, where she had a getaway vehicle waiting.

She hasn't been seen since.

Thomas R. Jehn, a writing instructor at Harvard since 1997, will take over as interim director.

Poor soul.