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...never received a follow-up from Illingworth, despite his promise to do so, and he has since left the University. So here is my follow-up to the administration: People are paying attention to what is happening down at the Pudding, and while we may not be wealthy alums, we are students struggling to be heard about a problem that affects our college experience in a major way. Even if there are long-term plans to renovate the building, the University should open it now to any student groups that will sign a contract and treat it with as much...
...also offered to Illingworth a potential solution to these problems. The Hasty Pudding building stands tall at 12 Holyoke Street, and it lies mostly fallow. The University has owned the land under the building since 1986, but only recently did it get authority over the building itself, when it purchased it from the Institute of 1770 three years ago. Today, the Hasty Pudding Theater remains almost exactly as it was before Harvard gained control. It serves as a private practice space and clubhouse for three Harvard groups: the Harvard Krokodiloes, the Radcliffe Pitches and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). These...
...asked Illingworth why the Pudding had not been opened for student use. He told me that there were long-term plans to renovate it, but that for now the building was “falling apart” and too dangerously “dilapidated” for student use. If this is true, however, then why does the administration continue to put any Harvard students in harm’s way? Why do they allow thousands of unsuspecting theatergoers to see the HPT production every spring in such a hazardous setting? And what about the raucous, drunken, dancing...
...opposed to the current uses of the Pudding—indeed, I have attended some of those parties myself—but how dare Illingworth tell me that simply standing in a room and singing or talking would endanger the building more than vomit on its floors and beer bottles strewn from wall to wall? And how dare the University, which constantly touts the diversity of its student groups, use a building that my tuition pays for as an exclusive space for three privileged groups at the expense of the rest of the student body...
...point in our conversation, Illingworth let slip a cryptic remark that I did not fully understand until later. “A lot of people pay attention to what happens down at the Pudding,” he said. I realized later that he had unwittingly furnished me with what may be the real reason that the Pudding remains a veritable clubhouse despite Harvard ownership: alum pressure. I do not know for sure if this is the case, but there seems to be no other logical explanation for the current situation...