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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...