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...instead of spontaneous outpourings of agape in the spiritual centers of our new community--the cafes of Barker, Loker and the Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate the pages of this newspaper and raise the ire of our nascent activist community, as the administrators appear slow to adopt the changes many feel are necessary to unite the disaffected factions of the campus. Despite our pleadings, we have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there...
Major Henry Higginson must be lonely. One of the all-time best friends of undergraduates is stuck presiding over the central stairway of the Barker Center, watching students dash in and out while faculty members toil in quiet offices. The man who chose central heating over lavish furnishings to create a common space that would make all undergrads feel comfortable has been forced to watch his club be converted into an office building for professors...
...used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Institute of Politics' room for undergraduate officers reveals a lived-in disorder; at Hillel's student lounge, final clubs and the Advocate, undergraduates while away the hours. These spaces often look more disheveled than dignified, something those designing the Barker Center and Loker tried very hard to avoid. Students choose to spend their time in spaces set up for students--spaces with a design that demonstrates the value placed on undergraduate input...
However, when accommodating the interests of Faculty members, administrative attitudes differ--as the Barker Center shows. The administration does not believe Faculty communities are forged by splintering existing groups into smaller and smaller clusters. Knowles rejoiced when the Barker Center brought together the humanities departments. He extolled the virtues of having scholars of diverse disciplines come together in a common space to learn and share. So why should undergraduates be any different...
After moving around Cambridge since itsfounding, a successful financial campaign broughtThe Crimson out of the basement of the FreshmanUnion (now the Barker Center for the Humanities)to rest at 14 Plympton...