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...Harvard received a $7 million donation from Katherine Bogdonovich Loker to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. Since its conception, the space has been used for number of purposes, including Fly-By lunches for upperclassmen and problem set study sessions, but tends to empty out in the evenings...
...story of Loker Commons is a real tragedy. In 1992, Harvard received a $7 million donation from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The plans were explicitly designed to fill a void in student social life—originally calling for a late-night coffee house as well as refreshment areas “conducive to socializing.” Loker Commons was part of a massive synchronized renovation on campus—turning what was once the Freshman Union into the humanities complex now known as the Barker Center while...
...late become a significant priority in University Hall as well. Loker Commons failed because the administration did a truly reprehensible job of eliciting student opinions about what was needed in a student center. A paternalistic “we know best” attitude squandered Katherine Bogdonovich Loker’s donation, and we worry that not enough has changed in Harvard’s decision-making practices and planning procedures to prevent this mistake from being repeated...
Funded in large part by a $7 million donation from Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, the widow of Donald P. Loker '25, Loker Commons officially opened in January, after eight years of planning...
Second, this program will help guarantee that all the money that Katherine Bogdonovich Loker has so generously donated to Harvard undergraduates will get spent. We might look at this aspect of the proposal as "making Loker broker"--only phase one, we could hope, of a larger economic process whereby this obnoxious food court is driven out of Harvard once...