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Most students don't realize that the Inn at Harvard--that mainstay of parental habitation during commencement--actually belongs to Harvard University. If students had known the Inn was Harvard-owned, perhaps they wouldn't have deposited pennies for a student center on the steps of Mass. Hall, as the Undergraduate Council did last year. Instead, they might have handed their piggy-bank to the Inn concierge as a down payment on a student center...
According to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' annual letter to the Faculty, the University is considering eventually repossessing the Inn for academic purposes. In fact, half of the current profits of the Inn go into a fund for faculty recruitment; the other half go to pay off the construction costs of the hotel...
...about 13 years, according to Knowles, the Inn at Harvard will be out of the red and in Harvard's hands. Technically, the University could take control of the Inn at any time, but it probably would not do so before the debt were paid in full. These revelations beg the question: What should be done with this prime real estate if it ceases to be lodging for proud parents of graduating seniors...
Knowles has suggested that the Inn might be converted to offices for humanities professors. But savvy students should begin lobbying now for the student center they have been longing...
...recreational activity that could help unify an increasingly socially fragmented student body. However, Harvard seems unlikely to build such a center on campus in the near future, or to buy or renovate another building for this purpose. Yet if the University is already considering a substantial renovation of the Inn at Harvard, it would be foolish for the students not to seize this opportunity...